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Showcase March 2012: Where do you think you are: A virtual environment assessment of navigation ability
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Where do you think you are: A virtual environment assessment of navigation ability
Steven Weisberg1, Russell Epstein2, Nora S. Newcombe (PI)1, Victor Schinazi3, and Thomas F. Shipley1
Temple University1, University of Chicago2, Strategic Spatial Solutions3
See the below two published articles that use the Virtual Silcton (or Ambler) paradigm:
- Weisberg, S. M., Schinazi, V. R., Newcombe, N. S., Shipley, T. F., & Epstein, R. A. (2014). Variations in cognitive maps: Understanding individual differences in navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 669-682. [DOI]
- Weisberg, S. M., & Newcombe, N. S. (in press). How do (some) people make a cognitive map? Routes, places, and working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [DOI]
Imagine travelling to a friend's house in an unfamiliar area. What would help you get there: being told the names of the roads, and which way to turn? Looking at a map? After just one trip, would you be able to find your way back? Navigating successfully requires several different pieces of information to be stored in and retrieved from memory, and relies upon several different strategies (Wolbers & Hegarty, 2010). To gain a greater understanding of individual differences in navigation ability, we assessed navigation ability objectively, in a virtual environment. We provide evidence that our assessment provides information not accessible via self-report data alone, and may be a more insightful measure of navigation ability.
Research on navigation ability has demonstrated large individual differences (e.g., Blajenkova, Motes, & Kozhevnikov, 2005; Wen, Ishikawa, & Sato, 2011), but has suffered from the lack of a rigorous, objective assessment method, relying instead upon subjective self-reports (e.g., Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale [SBSOD]). The SBSOD has demonstrated a reliable and robust relationship to myriad navigation tasks (Hegarty, Richardson, Montello, Lovelace, & Subbiah, 2002), despite its brevity; and thus has been an incredibly useful addition to the literature on navigation. However, self-report data in general, while having the advantage of aggregating recollected data from across an entire lifespan, may be biased, incomplete, or otherwise inaccurate (Kruger & Dunning, 1999). Moreover, the SBSOD may not capture variance in navigation performance accounted for by a variety of cognitive factors, due to its single-factor structure (Hegarty et al., 2002). Although self-report data correlate strongly with real- and virtual- world navigation tasks, a behavioral measure of navigation ability that is easy to administer and score could provide a complementary tool.
We created a desk-top virtual environment, based on a real-world college campus, for which we have data on spatial learning (Schinazi, Nardi, Newcombe, Shipley, & Epstein, under review; see the June 2010 Showcase for more details), and administered it to a sample of undergraduate psychology students (N = 49). In the virtual environment, participants learned the names and locations of eight buildings along two separate, non-connecting routes. (See the layout in Figure 1). Participants then learned two connecting paths between the first two routes. This design required that participants made spatial inferences about parts of the environment that were not directly visible and is based on the design of previous real-world navigation studies (Ishikawa & Montello, 2006).
Figure 1. Graphical depiction of the layout of buildings in the virtual and real world environments. The red lines indicate the routes participants followed to learn the buildings. The blue lines indicate the paths participants followed to learn how the routes were connected. Participants never saw this view of the environment. The model-building task required participants to recreate this layout of buildings.
After virtually travelling along both routes and the connecting paths, participants completed two tasks designed to test their accuracy in learning the layout. For a pointing task, participants were shown a first-person view of the virtual environment from the perspective alongside each of the eight buildings. Participants used the mouse to rotate the view, and clicked to indicate where they would point to all the other buildings. The angle of error between a participant's response and the correct angle was measured, with higher errors indicating worse performance. For a model building task, participants were shown a blank screen on the computer monitor which they were told was a blank map of the virtual environment. Participants then dragged and dropped images of the buildings around the screen to indicate where they belonged in the environment In addition to tasks in the virtual environment, participants completed a battery of spatial tasks and self-report measures including a mental rotation task, a perspective taking task, and self-report measures of navigation ability, verbal ability, and small-scale spatial ability.
Figure 2. The view of the virtual environment at the start of one of the two routes. Participants virtually travelled along the path from "Start", following the arrows, to "Finish," and back to "Start." Along the way, participants were required to learn the names and locations of four buildings per route (eight overall). Buildings to be learned were indicated by a sign alongside the route (yellow, center of the image). The pointing task required participants to point to all other buildings using the mouse from a viewpoint like the one above near one of the buildings learned.
The design of the pointing task allowed two components of navigation ability to be analyzed. For 14 trials, the building being pointed to was directly visible from the pointing location (Seen trials). For 42 trials, the building being pointed to could not be seen (Unseen trials). Seen trials tested only participant's ability to remember the names of the buildings. Unseen trials tested memory for the names of the buildings as well as for the accuracy of the participant's spatial representation of the layout of the buildings.
Figure 3 displays the distribution of participants' performance on Seen compared to Unseen trials, identified by score on the SBSOD. Immediately apparent in Figure 2 is the vacant quadrant of the graph on the upper left that would consist of participants accurate pointing to Unseen buildings, but inaccurate pointing to Seen buildings. This suggests that accuracy on Unseen trials requires meeting an accuracy threshold on Seen trials (but being accurate for Seen trials is insufficient for being accurate on Unseen trials). Accuracy on both Unseen and Seen trials was significantly correlated with SBSOD, but the variability suggested by Figure 2 shows that SBSOD score alone does not entirely predict navigation performance.
Figure 3. Average error for each participant is plotted for both unseen and seen buildings. Participants who performed well on the unseen pointing trials were unvarying accurate on seen pointing trials. However, participants who performed poorly on unseen pointing trials were split between good and poor performance on seen pointing trials.
The data suggest a broad range of performance on both the pointing task overall (M = 36.42° error, SD = 11.91) and the model building task (M = .48, SD = .27). We thus have reason to conclude that a full range of navigation performance can be captured by this assessment. Moreover, while the SBSOD is correlated with both navigational tasks, the small-scale spatial ability questionnaire, and the verbal ability questionnaire are not as strongly correlated. This supports our assertion that the virtual environment tasks primarily tap navigational ability, and are not confounded by general intelligence factors (even though all three questionnaires correlate significantly with each other).
Future work will further tease apart the individual differences in navigation that make it an easy job for some of us to find our friend's houses, while for others it can be a daunting chore. Tools, like this one, that can easily and accurately assess navigation ability, will also pave the way to determine the efficacy of interventions designed to improve spatial skills.
- ♦ Blajenkova, O., Motes, M. A., & Kozhevnikov, M. (2005). Individual differences in the representations of novel environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25(1), 97–109. [doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2004.12.003]
- ♦ Hegarty, M., Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K., & Subbiah, I. (2002). Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability. Intelligence, 30(5), 425–447.
- ♦ Ishikawa, T., & Montello, D. R. (2006). Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places. Cognitive Psychology, 52(2), 93–129. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2005.08.003
- ♦ Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121–1134. [doi: 10.1037/0022-35184.108.40.2061]
- ♦ Wen, W., Ishikawa, T., & Sato, T. (2011). Working memory in spatial knowledge acquisition: Differences in encoding processes and sense of direction. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(4), 654–662. doi: 10.1002/acp.1737
- ♦ Wolbers, T., & Hegarty, M. (2010). What determines our navigational abilities? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(3), 138–146.


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Re: Officially requested to 'Slow Down Sir' - City of Stirli
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citywomble wrote:There has been some debate over the hazards posed by the medians on West Coast Drive and the jury is about 50/50 on whether they actually make the road safer. Hopefully further improvements can be made and a request for the installation of a bike lane and reduction in motor traffic lane to empower cyclists (and slow traffic speeds) is currently with state government agencies.
Perhaps I am misreading the above, but if it indicates a full sized bike lane on West Coast Drive, that would just about make it impossible for cars to pass a cyclist without entering the bike lane. However I am in favour of anything that slows down car traffic in environments where there are a lot of vulnerable road users.
West Coast Highway should be a one-way street for cars, with the other half of the road given over to cyclists riding in both directions.


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MACON, Ga. (Feb. 26, 2012) – After putting up impressive numbers against A-Sun foes for over a month now, sophomore guard/forward Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) has finally landed Atlantic Sun Player of the Week honors, announced the league office on Sunday evening.
Mitchell – who averaged 16.8 points and 11.9 rebounds while shooting over 60 percent from the field in her final 11 A-Sun games this year – saved one of her best performances for the last game of the regular season.
The Lady Buccaneer standout became the first player in the A-Sun this season to record 20 points and 20 rebounds in a game, while also becoming the first since two-time conference player of the year, Siarre Evans, accomplished the feat back on Jan. 9, 2010. Mitchell exploded for a game-high 23 points (9-of-17 shooting) and a career-high 20 rebounds along with forcing a season-best four steals against league-leading Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday afternoon inside the MSHA Athletic Center.
Mitchell began the week with yet another double-double, finishing with a 10-point, 14-rebound effort in the 74-72 win over Stetson on Thursday night in Johnson City. The Bluffton, Ga. native – who has 10 double-doubles on the year – has registered seven double-doubles in her last nine games, including three consecutive to end the regular season.
For the week, Mitchell averaged 16.5 points and 17 rebounds, while shooting exactly 50 percent (13-26) from the field in two games.
The criminal justice major – who captured three A-Sun Newcomer of the Week and one Player of the Week honors as a freshman – picked up her first weekly award in the final selection this season.
Mitchell and the Lady Bucs now gear up for a rematch with No. 1 seed Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon in the first A-Sun Quarterfinal game. Tip is set for noon inside Mercer's University Center.
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Budding aquarium enthusiasts crop up every day. They're anxious to head to the pet store and pick out a tank, accessories and the fish they hope will thrive in a new environment.
While it's important to know which fish can cohabitate and the proper pH and temperature to keep the tank, one important lesson all people who have an aquarium should know is how to keep algae in check.
Algae is a naturally occurring plant life that creates a green film on the inside of tank walls and on plants and decorations inside the aquarium. Just like any other plant, algae requires a few things to thrive, including light, water and food.
Although a certain amount of algae in the water can be a beneficial food source for some species of fish, an overabundance can be unsightly and take over the aquarium.
There are a few reasons why algae can grow unchecked.
Algae needs light to survive. Leaving a fluorescent aquarium light on too long or placing the tank in the path of direct sunlight can cause algae to bloom. Introducing new live plants to a tank, which already may have algae spores hitching a ride on them, can introduce more algae to the tank. Overfeeding fish can provide extra food sources for algae, as can failing to frequently clean the filter. Water with a high level of nutrients will provide a lot of food for algae.
Understanding why algae forms will help you control it effectively. To start, get in the habit of cleaning the tank frequently. Once a week may be acceptable, depending on size. Scrape the walls of the aquarium down and remove the artificial plants and other accessories and routinely wash in clean water. Change the filter cartridge when it has become overly soiled.
Perform water changes. Change 10 to 15 percent of the water in the aquarium every week, which will remove toxins and algae spores. When you change the water, use a suction tube to "vacuum" out debris lodged in the gravel.
Limiting the food sources for algae can also keep it in check. Feed a scant amount of food to fish, only enough that they can eat in 5 minutes or so. If there is extra food floating around, remove it. The food contains phosphates and other nutrients that can be a delicious meal for algae. Keeping live plants in the tank is another way to limit nutrients. Live plants will use many of the nutrients that algae thrive on. Having less present means less algae and healthy aquarium plants.
Routinely test the levels in the water and know what the proper levels should be. In addition, know what your water levels are right out of the tap. Test for phosphates and nitrates. Use phosphate removers or another water source, if necessary.
Make sure to include algae-eating fish in the aquarium. Those like the Plecostomus (Pleco) will scour the tank for algae. Position the tank out of direct sunlight, which will just fuel algae growth. Also, go sparingly on the use of an aquarium light in the tank.
Algae often grow in warm temperatures, as is common with tropical aquariums. Keep the temperature of the water at the minimum level allowed for the breed of fish, and be sure the tank is not by a radiator or additional heat source.
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He scuttles and creeps, stealing from the rich to fund his life of luxury. The police keep chasing him but he is a burglar extraordinaire. He leaves no clues as he grabs his swag and heads back to his den. Jewels, gems, bank notes and priceless works of art line his straw filled nest of villainy. As he counts his pile of wealth and treasure he dances about with glee, the clever little fellow! Would make a great silent movie, piano roll style piece in addition to children's music uses
This is a fun piece of cheerful and playful music that would work well in many projects but particularly for a kids story or video game..wacky, funny and ideal for cartoons and comedy use. Another great use for this track would be for funny youtube pet videos and compilations featuring cute animals (dogs, cats, hamsters and all types of fluffy furry friends).


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Still smarting from an emotional loss in the rugged first round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bulls nine months ago, the Indiana Pacers returned to the United Center and scrapped as if they were back in the postseason.
Sure it was just another regular-season game in a schedule crammed with them following the lockout, but after the Pacers beat the Bulls 95-90 Wednesday night — ending Chicago's unbeaten streak at home — the satisfaction was evident.
Still smarting from an emotional loss in the rugged first round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bulls nine months ago, the Indiana Pacers returned to the United Center and scrapped as if they were back in the postseason.
Sure it was just another regular-season game in a schedule crammed with them following the lockout, but after the Pacers beat the Bulls 95-90 Wednesday night — ending Chicago's unbeaten streak at home — the satisfaction was evident.
"They are just thrilled to get the win here," coach Frank Vogel said. "They were crushed that we didn't beat them last year in the playoffs."
Danny Granger scored 22 points and a much-improved Roy Hibbert had 20, including a key dunk with 13 seconds to go, as the Pacers showed their progress from the five-game loss to the Bulls last April. Adding free-agent David West, who had 14 points, also has helped.
"The difference between this year's team and last year's team, we have confidence that we'll score at crunch time," Vogel said. "We'll score in the fourth quarter. We didn't have that last year."
The victory, one night after the Pacers lost by 19 at home to Orlando, was of the comeback variety as they rallied from 10 points back at half.
The Pacers limited injury-depleted Chicago to 36 second-half points and held Derrick Rose to two points in the fourth quarter. Last season's MVP finished with 24 points.
Trailing by two in the final half-minute, the Bulls had the ball in Rose's hands but when he saw his path to the basket impeded, he moved it to the corner to reserve Brian Scalabrine, whose 24-foot attempt bounded off the rim.
"Trusting my teammate," Rose said. "I think it was a good shot. At the time I thought I didn't have the shot and I think I made the right play. ... That's usually his shot. I'd give it to him again."
After the missed shot the ball started to go out of bounds, but Chicago's Joakim Noah saved it, Indiana's Darren Collison retrieved it and tried to dribble out some of the clock. The ball got away before Granger passed it to Hibbert for the clinching dunk, ending the mad scramble.
"This was a big win for us," Granger said. "Right now we expect to win. We gave them a lot of easy buckets and they kind of blew the led open in the last two minute of the first half. In the third quarter we knew we were going to make a run and we did. We turned up the defense."
The Bulls, missing injured starting forward Luol Deng (torn ligament left wrist), fell to 16-4 overall and 8-1 at home. Top sub Taj Gibson sat out his third straight game with a left ankle sprain.
Ronnie Brewer, who started for Deng, scored 20 and grabbed 10 rebounds.
"The NBA is the NBA and people are going to get injured," Rose said. "So guys got to step up. We have to step up as a team."
West had a basket and a dunk and the Pacers forged a five-point lead early in the final quarter.
Indiana kept it a five-point margin when Paul George made a nice crossover dribble and roared into the lane for a dunk with just over 6 minutes remaining. Granger's jumper increased the lead to seven with about four minutes left.
Chicago quickly sliced it to three on a tip-in by Carlos Boozer and then a dunk by Noah following an Indiana turnover. .
Brewer's two free throws with 1:33 left cut the Pacers lead to 90-88. But West made a runner across the lane before Chicago's Richard Hamilton hit two from the line with 57 seconds remaining to make it 92-90 Pacers.
Rose showed no sign of a sprained left big toe that has caused him to miss time this season. He hit a 3-pointer at the first-quarter buzzer but it was waved off after officials reviewed the video and saw that Rose didn't release the ball in time.
As the half was nearing its end, Rose blocked a shot, got the rebound and made a long pass to Hamilton for a layup and subsequent three-point play that gave the Bulls a 10-point lead as they closed the half on a 14-5 run.
But the Pacers came out flying in the third quarter. Paul George hit a 3-pointer and Granger broke free for two baskets and Indiana quickly chopped the lead to two.
The Pacers finally regained the lead on another hook by Hibbert, but Rose responded with a three-point play. West's free throw with less than a second to go put Indiana up 75-74 after three.
NOTES: Indiana's A.J. Price did not make the trip because of strep throat and neither did Jeff Foster, who is bothered by a sore lower back.


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X-Games Real snow and Street gold medalist Louif Paradis, has partenered up with THE I FOUND POSITIVE GROUP to launch new accessories & apparel brand NUCLEAR. One of the most infuencial street snowboarder of all time has created it's own movement, and want to highlight the humankind dumbness, make fun of it and open consciousness on consequences, which we are just starting to experience.
This partnership with his longtime headwear sponsor, has been on the work since march 2012, and is now ready to be sold in the core snowboard market for Fall W13.
Louif and fellow I FOUND art director Mat Laroche have been working togheter on the product designs, and the results is a great mix of casual and sober colors, great cuts , with a funky theme and fresh artworks. Brand message is clear and speaks to everyone. Products reflect a lot from Louif's personnality. He is a very humble person with lots of integrity, and wanted to spread a positive message along the way.
" Louif has always been the most picky and selective team rider when it came down to signature designs. His detailed attention to the product and very specific tastes pushed us further into the designs every year, and from there we realised it was time to gather not only Louif's design ideas, but his whole perspective of what his brand would be. The concept really suited well with our philosophy wich is all about positive messages.Nuclear is born organically after 7 years of collaboration with Louif. "
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IFOUND and Nuclear sales manager.
" The idea of Nuclear came to me while I was visiting Japan not long after the earthquake and the disaster at the Fukushima power plant. It made me think that the word Nuclear was perfect to illustrate a general idea that I've had since I was a kid. I've always tought that a part of sciences is going backward in evolution. For example, how man used to hunt and grow to eat, now we have drive thru fast foods and microwaves. We don't even have to know how to cook our food anymore. So this is kinda the idea behind Nuclear. We want to make good fitting hats, apparel and take the opportunity to share ideas about humanity vs nature, without taking ourselves too seriously. "
-Louif Paradis, Nuclear founder.
Nuclear will showcase at SIA in Denver, ISPO Munich, and Interstyle Japan and will be
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NUCLEAR will gives 2% of all sales to ON THE ROAD : FUKUSHIMA BRANCH, wich is raising funds to rebuild Ishinomaki.
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I FOUND is a headwear and outerwear company based out of Quebec city, who have been on the global market since 2005. I FOUND means the moment when you find out how you turn from negative to positive. The company, originally dedicated to headwear designs, is born from Guillaume Brochu's snowboard career ending after a bad injury, when he gathered with artist Mat Laroche, Sugarshack's movie producer Ezekiel Lebrun and his brother Jp. They have been supporting the most elite urban snowboarders since their beginnings and the brand have grown across the globe from the roots of eastcoast snowboarding. Nic Sauvé, Yale Cousino, Frank April, Louif Paradis, Jason Dubois, Alex Cantin, Will Lavigne, are just a few of the talents representing The I FOUND positive Group….


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Patiently handled by jockey Rajiv Maragh, the 4-year-old son of Smarty Jones was content to run in fifth behind favored Sliver and Onions and Percussion, who dueled through the opening quarter-mile.
With Spa City Fever joining the fray, Don Dulce hit his best stride on the turn but Maragh angled Jonesy Boy to the far outside and he was up in time to hit the wire a neck in front.
Jonesy Boy's winning time for 1 1/8 miles was 1:52.02.
"We went in with the intention of sitting back and letting him fall into his stride," said Maragh of Jonesy Boy, who is trained by Kelly Breen. "I was hoping that the speed would develop, and it sure did. Midway on the turn I saw I had a great shot to win; I only had a couple lengths to make up and it seemed like my horse was just getting into his best stride."
Sent off at 6-1, Jonesy Boy returned $15.60 for a $2 win bet and earned $60,000 for owners George and Lori Hall. It was the second victory in as many starts this year for Jonesy Boy, who on October 31 won an optional claimer at Laurel Park. Overall, he is 4-2-0 from six starts with earnings of $151,330.
Runner-up Don Dulce was four lengths in front of Spa City Fever, with Percussion and Sliver and Onions completing the order of finish. (Jenny Kellner) Moment of the Year
Will Take Charge's thrilling victory in the Grade 1, $1 million Travers and the following day's ceremony in which retired jockey Ramon Dominguez received the 2013 Mike Venezia and 2012 Eclipse Awards were selected as two of the options in the annual "NTRA Moment of the Year" poll.
There are 12 options in the poll, with the results to be announced on January 18, during the Eclipse Awards ceremony.
In the Travers on August 24 at Saratoga Race Course, Will Take Charge nipped Moreno on the wire to prevail by a nose, giving Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas his third win in the race. It was the first Travers victory for jockey Luis Saez.
Dominguez, the leading rider in New York by wins from 2009-2012, earned his third straight Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2012, but was unable to receive the prize during the ceremony on January 19, after he was seriously injured in a spill the previous day at Aqueduct Racetrack. Dominguez, who announced his retirement in June, instead received the award on August 25 at Saratoga during a special ceremony between races.


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SILC Alumni Member (former SILC Postdoc, Temple University) and member of our Spatial Network.
Dr. Andrea Frick is an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Andrea received her Ph.D. from the University of Zürich. Her current research focuses on cognitive development, with a special focus on the development of spatial cognition, mental representations, and imagery abilities.
Dr. Frick did postdoctoral work first at the University of California, Santa Cruz and then in the Department of Psychology at Temple University where she worked with Dr. Nora Newcombe.


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text: He has played basketball since he was 4-years old, and his career will continue at the Air Force Academy next fall. Joe Schneider signed his letter of intent on Nov. 13 to play for the Division I school, becoming the second Lansing player to become a Division I player. "It's a great opportunity both athletic-wise and with academics," Schneider said. "I talked it over with my family and we thought that was the best decision." Many other smaller schools came calling for the team's 2012-13 leading scorer at 13 points per game, including several area Division II and lower Division I schools, but Schneider said Air Force was a perfect fit. "They run the Princeton style offense, so they want all five players on the court to be able to shoot the ball, which suits me well," he said. Air Force is in the Mountain West conference, which includes schools that make regular NCAA Tournament appearances. "The facilities are top notch and it's high competition," Schneider said. While he said his family doesn't have a big history in the military, he's excited for the lifestyle. "I'm expecting more strict policies, but I feel like I'll enjoy it a lot," he said. Of course, basketball was the top reason for going to Air Force. "Just seeing the lifestyle of military, getting the discipline and education is always huge, but mainly basketball," Schneider said. "That's the biggest thing I'm looking forward to." Schools like Fort Hays State and Missouri Western came on early on the recruiting trail, but Schneider said Air Force made him feel wanted the most. "They kind of came on late," he said. "They saw me in the last tournament of the summer and they really kept in contact with me and they showed that they were really interested." To go along with is 13 points per game last season, Schneider shot 54 percent from the field and scored double-digits in 18 of the 24 games. He also upped his defense a season ago, recording 31 steals. He said his AAU coaches and coach Rod Briggs helped him with his defensive intensity, but he loves his offensive game. "I pride myself in shooting and I can get my teammates involved as well," Schneider said. Basketball wasn't always his only sport. He had more than 1,000 total yards and 13 touchdowns his sophomore year as quarterback on the Lions' football team, but a back injury forced him to miss more than half of the basketball season. So he decided to focus on just basketball starting his junior year. "I just didn't want to risk missing more basketball because I hate watching," he said. The basketball path has led to playoff success and a Division I scholarship. Schneider said he's not sure what he wants to do after college, but he has an idea. "Hopefully after my years of service for the Air Force, I can be a basketball coach and coach at the highest level possible," he said. "My AAU coaches and coach Briggs, especially, have taught me well. I think I can kind of feed off them if I ever go into coaching."


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Heart of Borneo report reveals new ways to pay for forest conservation and sustainable development
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A new report released today by the three Bornean governments - Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia - is a leading example of how the economic value of forests is being recognized and secured through innovative finance.A new report released today by the three Bornean governments - Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia - is a leading example of how the economic value of forests is being recognized and secured through innovative finance.
The report: 'Financing the Heart of Borneo – a partnership approach to economic sustainability', outlines three main sources of finance for conservation and sustainable development activities within the 22 million hectares of trans-boundary tropical rainforest on the island of Borneo - known as the Heart of Borneo (HoB).
Two of these sources; in-country government based (such as royalties, incentives and tax breaks s) and market based (such as payments for watershed services, REDD+ and bio-prospecting) are sustainable in the long term. The third source, the more conventional donor funding, is seen as an interim form of funding to help build the enabling conditions for the first two.
The new tri-governmental report sets out a pathway to understand the economic value of the HoB's natural capital in terms of the ecosystem services it provides, such as carbon storage, regulating water flow and providing new genetic resources for medicines.
Bio-prospecting in Brunei
Haji Saidin Salleh, from Brunei's Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, said the report is the first of its kind which demonstrates that protecting forest ecosystems in the HoB makes economic and social sense.
As an example, the Brunei government in partnership with the Japanese National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, is currently exploring the potential for 'bio-prospecting' of its rich forest and biological genetic resources.
"Brunei recognizes the tremendous value that the Heart of Borneo represents to the world, in terms of eco-system services and as yet undiscovered chemical compounds. The will to protect the area for future generations is very strong, but we need to generate additional financial support to achieve this vision – this report is our first steps to identifying where that support may come from," he said.
Watershed protection payments in Indonesia
Indonesia's HoB representative, Dr Andi Novianto from the coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs said a crucial next step in securing sustainable sources of finance is to mainstream forest and watershed services in to national and local development plans.
For example, in the conservation district of Kapuas Hulu in Kalimantan, an on-going initiative supported by WWF, CARE and the International Institute for Environment and Development seeks to reward upstream communities for their stewardship of crucial watershed areas which provide a valuable 'service' to users downstream.
"The Kapuas Hulu project is our first 'district level' pilot program. The long term aim is to encourage all ten districts in Kalimantan to maintain their forests, in return for which, they would receive financial compensation for the carbon stored, biodiversity protection and ecosystem services that these forests provide the island, country, region and ultimately the world," Dr Novianto said.
Malaysia's Malua BioBank
Malaysia too has developed innovative financial arrangements, as the report demonstrates with the Malua BioBank in the Bornean state of Sabah. Here, the Sabah government has licensed conservation rights for 50 years to the Malua BioBank, with a private investor committing up to US$10 million for the rehabilitation of the Malua forest reserve.
International support at the CBD
Speaking at the report launch, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) said multi-national and multi-lateral agencies need to continue efforts to finance conservation and sustainable development and the HoB is proving to be a sound investment.
"It is my pleasure to launch the HoB sustainable finance report. This is important for the negotiators of this Convention as it shows how the ecosystems of HoB can be a part of a sustainable future. It is a call to stop talking, and start acting!" said Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf.
Leading global conservation organization, WWF, assisted the three governments in the preparation of the report and its Director General, Jim Leape, was on hand at the launch to pay tribute to the progress that had been made in the three years since the signing of the HoB Declaration.
"All three Bornean countries should be congratulated for their commitment towards this trans-boundary conservation programme and the progress made so far."
"Finding appropriate sources of sustainable finance will be vital to tri-government conservation and development efforts for the HoB. We need to capitalize on the value of nature and mainstream it within economic development plans. It is obvious that protecting ecosystems and biodiversity makes long-term economic sense," he said.


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Who is Mike Gabbard?
|It's hard
not to like Mike Gabbard, once you meet the guy. In June, the city councilman
hosted a talk-story meeting at the Wai'anae Public Library. These get-togethers
have been monthly rituals for Gabbard since he was elected to represent the Wai'anae-to-'Ewa
district in 2002.
On this drizzly evening, Gabbard looks every bit the city councilman with aspirations for congressional office. Tan, lean, with silvered hair, he wears a navy blue blazer with an American flag pin fastened to one lapel, tan slacks, polished brown loafers and a kukui nut lei, an accessory he dons regularly on these occasions. He sits on one of a dozen plastic chairs configured into a U-shape in this otherwise empty room.
Tonight's topic of discussion: Wai'anae's ice problem. Gabbard gives an update on PA'I, People Against Ice, a community group that has organized neighborhood patrols, picketed a local store selling drug paraphernalia and worked with police to identify drug houses.
"This is a good start, but ice is a huge problem," Gabbard tells them. "Like homelessness-we have 1,500 people without homes on our coast. These problems aren't gonna be solved overnight."
Attendees are welcome to talk about other community issues, too. They do. Wai'anae's lack of affordable housing. Illegal dumping. Traffic. For two hours, Gabbard listens to their concerns, their solutions (even the not-so-practical ones) and diligently takes notes on a piece of paper propped in his lap. He gives thoughtful and articulate answers. No exaggerations, no unrealistic promises, no impassioned speeches.
This is not the Mike Gabbard most Hawai'i residents got to know in the late '90s. Many remember Gabbard best as the antagonistic leader of the movement to quash same-sex marriage in Hawai'i. As founder of the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values, a political action committee, Gabbard helped wage an expensive media campaign to convince voters that gay marriage would devastate Hawai'i.
Today, Gabbard's public persona is much mellower. Of course, for the past two years, Gabbard has only had to deal with property taxes, pot holes and police raises. Pretty tame stuff, compared with the controversy he tackled in the '90s.
Others have noticed the contrast, as well. "Before I met Mike, I thought he'd be a different person," says fellow council member Gary Okino. "I thought this would be an extreme guy who hates homosexuals, but I was flabbergasted, because he's so personable. I took a liking to him really quickly. I think he's been unfairly tagged."
After a single two-year term on the City Council, Gabbard is running for Hawai'i's 2nd Congressional District. He faces incumbent Ed Case, a Hilo-born Democrat finishing his first full term in the U.S. House. Case, a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative and social liberal, opposed the '98 amendment that would define marriage in Hawai'i as between a man and woman. He now opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have the same effect nationally.
It's a big leap from the Honolulu City Council to Washington. But don't count Gabbard out of this election, says Ira Rohter, a political science professor at the University of Hawai'i and co-chair of Hawai'i's Green Party.
"I think it's going to be a surprisingly strong race," Rohter says. "Although Gabbard is most notorious for his anti-gay activities and campaign, he covers himself by talking about a lot of other issues-education, protecting aquifers, landfills, raising money for the Bruddah Iz statue. One can ask the question, 'How come he won the council seat in Wai'anae?'"
Gabbard is one of the most intriguing, if not controversial, local candidates this election year. He's a man of contradictions.
Most candidates want media attention. But while Gabbard appeared more than accommodating at this Wai'anae get-together (he even got up to serve cookies to the group), HONOLULU Magazine had a tough time scheduling a meeting, even after he agreed to one.
We're not the only ones. In May, Gabbard's Congressional campaign announced that he would only respond to media questions via e-mail. "Mike is extremely busy juggling his campaigning with his service on the City Council as well as his small business and his personal life," the memo explained. Most people expect public officials to be, well, more public. Gabbard can't even be reached by phone.
In accordance with his memo, we e-mailed him a list of questions for the profile. Before replying, Gabbard sent several e-mails over two weeks: "What subject matters or allegations or statements about me are you asking me to respond to or are you thinking of publishing or pursuing?"
Hoping to meet Gabbard in person, we attended his two talk-story sessions in June-one in Kapolei, one in Wai'anae. He left immediately after ending the meetings, saying he had other obligations.
Gabbard has made an art out of being evasive with reporters. It's understandable that he's wary of the media. Google "Mike Gabbard," and you'll find no shortage of unflattering stories. Then again, it could be he doesn't want to answer questions he doesn't like, especially those concerning his ties to a Hare Krishna splinter group that gave rise to a number of political candidates over the past 30 years. Maybe those questions are especially touchy in an election season, when much of his political support comes from Christian conservatives.
Gabbard was born in Samoa in 1948, one of eight children in a military family. The Gabbards relocated to Hawai'i when he was a child. He received a bachelor's in English from Sonoma State University and a master's in community college administration from Oregon State.
In the late '70s, he worked as head tennis pro at Kuilima Hyatt Resort (now Turtle Bay Resort). From 1980 to 1983, he was a dean at American Samoa Community College before moving back to Hawai'i with his family. Gabbard and his wife, Carol, established a small private school in Wahiawä, which closed after five years. The couple home-schooled all their five children. In the late 1980s, the Gabbards, opened the Natural Deli, a vegetarian restaurant within Mö'ili'ili's Down to Earth Natural Food Store. Today, he distributes air and water purifying systems and nutritional supplements and owns a small confection company.
Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate really took hold in Hawai'i. In the early '90s, he founded an educational nonprofit called Stop Promoting Homosexuality and bought airtime at local radio station KGU for a show called Let's Talk Straight Hawai'i.
When HONOLULU interviewed Gabbard in 1992, he told the magazine, "Homosexuality is not normal, not healthy, morally and scripturally wrong." At the time, he also suggested that the repeal of sodomy laws across the country in the '60s and the American Psychiatric Association's decision in the '70s that homosexuality was normal and not a mental illness, led directly to the AIDS epidemic of the '80s.
Many gays considered the radio show outright gay bashing. Gabbard managed to keep the show until he said on air that, confronted with two equally qualified job applicants, one gay, one straight, he'd take the straight one. Gay rights activists picketed his deli, and Down to Earth eventually bought out Gabbard's business. The station pulled the plug on his radio program.
That didn't stop Gabbard. By the time Hawai'i residents got to vote on a constitutional amendment in 1998, he had become the face and voice of the effort to "save traditional marriage."
"Marriage between a man and a woman is the foundation of family and therefore civilization itself," Gabbard tells HONOLULU Magazine, via e-mail. "Marriage is also the foundation of so many other issues and problems we face, be they education, crime, small business, etc."
During the 1998 campaign, Gabbard gave more dire reasons to bar same-sex marriage. It would normalize homosexuality, a behavior that he argued was no more natural than marrying a house pet. It would give way to legalizing polygamy and incest. It would scare off tourists, except the gay ones, who would flock to the Islands to marry. It would hurt children.
Gabbard wasn't alone. He aligned himself with conservative groups and churches for various denominations, which donated more than $1 million toward the fight. These are the supporters Gabbard is likely to count on this congressional election, says Rohter.
"I think his win for the Wai'anae council seat had a lot do with very conservative churches," says Rohter. "In rural O'ahu and on the Neighbor Islands, churches are often the only common threads for a lot of communities. Although Gabbard lives on O'ahu, I think he's going to extend his support to these churches on the Neighbor Islands."
As nonprofits, churches cannot endorse candidates or parties. But they can distribute candidate surveys, showing where each candidate stands on certain issues, including same-sex marriage and abortion. The Hawai'i Christian Coalition, which includes about 100 member churches, publishes such voter guides each election year. The coalition's Web site, www.hi-christian.com, provides a link to Gabbard's campaign Web site. Gabbard's own Web site informs churches what political activities are acceptable for them under federal law.
"There is a lot of quiet support for Gabbard within this community," says Gary Langley, senior pastor at the Windward Worship Center, a Pentecostal church in Kane'ohe. "We're a small church, just about 100 people, but there are the megachurches-New Hope, Word of Life-with thousands of people. In Gabbard's campaign, I think people hear the same things that they are taught in church."
Understandably, the public has lumped Gabbard into America's growing number of conservative politicians. His social views do veer accordingly to the right. But is he Christian right?
Gabbard himself says he is Catholic. He attends Catholic services regularly at a church in his district. He talks about growing up Catholic and how, at age 14, he entered a seminary, intending to become a priest. He changed his mind, he says, because "I wasn't as spiritually mature as I thought I was."
Those who've worked with Gabbard assume he is Catholic. "We play golf together, and he talks about his Catholic beliefs and God a lot, more than he talks about the issue of same-sex marriage," says fellow council member Okino, who is Catholic. "I've attended mass with him, and he takes communion."
But Gabbard had strong ties to an obscure Hare Krishna splinter group that, in the late 1970s, fielded several political candidates. The splinter group was founded by a Hawai'i homegrown guru named Chris Butler. Butler was a disciple of A.C. Bahkitevedanta Swami Prabhupad, who founded the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). ISKCON is the high-visibility sect whose orange robes, shaved heads, public begging and chanting are what most people think of when they hear the term Hare Krishna.
Butler eventually broke away from ISKCON, criticizing the regimen and centralization of ISKCON life. He formed his own organization, which has had several names: Hare Name Society, Identity Institute and the Science of Identity Foundation. What started as a small religious sect on Maui in the 1970s developed a following that, according to some estimates, includes tens of thousands of people all over the world.
Butler's followers chant, practice vegetarianism and Bhakti yoga and must refrain from intoxicants and "illicit sex," or all sexual contact except between married couples at the most fertile time of the month. Unlike ISKCON members who beg publicly, Butler's "other Krishnas" tend to support themselves by creating their own businesses.
Many of Butler's associates made headlines in the 1976 election when they created a party called Independents for Godly Government. As its name implied, the group insisted on rigorous moral standards for its candidates. They could accept only half their allowed salaries and distribute the other half to the people they represented, accept no gifts from special interests, commit no crimes and abstain from intoxication and illicit sex. The party fielded several serious contenders for office, including Kathy Hoshijo, who took 17 percent of the votes in the race for Congress, and Wayne Nishiki, the current Maui councilman, who won 20 percent in a three-man race for mayor.
The party's links to Butler and Krishna went unacknowledged until 1977, when Walter Wright of The Honolulu Advertiser did an investigative report on the group, which Hoshijo labeled a "smear attempt."
In the '80s and '90s, Butler appeared in a series of locally filmed shows, titled Jagad Guru Speaks, in which he sermonized on spirituality. In one episode, titled "Is God Really Loveable?" Butler mocks the Bible and the Christian interpretation of God, calling them nonsensical. "These Christians don't know God," Butler says. His comments summon laughs and nods of agreement from the room full of listeners. Mike and Carol Gabbard are shown sitting just a few feet away from the charismatic guru, laughing along with the audience.
Gabbard's wife served as secretary/treasurer of the Science of Identity Foundation until 2000, before she successfully ran for a seat on the state Board of Education. Both Gabbard and his wife were listed as teachers at the Science of Identity Foundation in Polk's City Directory in the early 1990s.
In the late '80s and early '90s, both Gabbards worked as staffers in the office of then Maui state Sen. Rick Reed. A controversial figure himself, Reed has acknowledged Butler as his "spiritual adviser." Reed mounted short-lived campaigns for both Congress and the lieutenant governorship in 1986. He then ran for U.S. Senate against Daniel Inouye in 1992, setting off a scandal when he publicized claims that Inouye had sexually molested a Honolulu hairdresser named Lenore Kwock.
All five of Gabbard's children have Hindu names: Bhakti, Jai, Aryan, Tulsi and Vrindavan (Hinduism is the root of the Hare Krishna religion). The Gabbards' Natural Deli was housed in Down to Earth, which was then owned and managed by Butler followers.
No one questions Gabbard's right to believe as he chooses. Some may even applaud him for his religious beliefs. However, some voters may worry about his former ties to a Krishna sect. Especially when members and associates of that group have mounted repeated attempts at high public office.
When HONOLULU asked Gabbard in an e-mail to clarify his former relationship with Butler's Krishna group, Gabbard's daughter, state Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo, sent us an angry e-mail in response. "I smell a skunk," Tamayo wrote. "It's clear to me that you're acting as a conduit for The Honolulu Weekly and other homosexual extremist supporters of Ed Case."
Gabbard himself insists that he is a victim of religious bigotry, that his opponents have tried to make his religion an issue in this campaign. He maintains that he is Catholic. After nearly dying in a surfing accident at age 17, he says he realized that "my personal relationship with God was my religion. My spiritual path became more personal and less institutional. For the next several decades, I studied and explored every major religious philosophy."
His "return to active Catholicism" began during the same-sex marriage debate of the 1990s, he says, and, in 2000, he became "a fully active member of the Church." That same year, Gabbard announced he would run against Neil Abercrombie in the 1st Congressional District but withdrew shortly before the filing deadline.
"I am Catholic, but some would consider me an enigmatic Catholic," Gabbard reasons, "because I practice and sometimes teach both Christian and yoga meditation techniques and philosophy. … Although I am not a Hindu or Hare Krishna, I find great inspiration and wisdom in the ancient yoga scriptures. Although I'm not a member of the Science of Identity Foundation, I'm eternally thankful to Chris Butler, the founder of SIF, whose teachings of karma yoga (selfless service) and bhakti yoga (devotion to God) have brought me back to my Catholic roots and the fundamental teachings of Christ."
Mitch Kahle, founder of the Hawai'i Citizens for the Separation of State and Church, says: "Mike Gabbard has worked hard to distance himself from the Science of Identity Foundation. Most politicians are Christian, and, in general, Hare Krishna is still very much considered a fringe religious group. Being Catholic is better for his political career."
Because of his efforts as a gay-rights activist, Kahle has encountered Gabbard on several occasions. "Mike Gabbard has done an incredible job for his cause and he's a great spokesman, but I would be extremely disappointed in the people of Hawai'i if they sent him to Congress," Kahle says. "On the council, he's relatively harmless. They have no power over social programs whatsoever, but in Congress, he can do some real damage."
For the record, Gabbard appears to be a responsible councilman who has built substantial support in his district. Two of Gabbard's biggest achievements are environmental. With the support of his constituents, Gabbard successfully opposed the building of a landfill over the Pearl Harbor aquifer and established a related project, dubbed "Ship It Out." "I traveled to the Mainland at my own expense to study the viability of shipping Hawai'i's trash to environmentally friendly landfills on the Mainland," he says. "Taking the lead in this area has moved Hawai'i closer to the day when we will no longer be dependent on landfills."
Gabbard has also worked with the Honolulu Police Department to create a volunteer policing program for abandoned cars and drivers who park illegally in handicapped stalls. The program, which began this summer, should "get more people involved in law enforcement and free up our limited police officers to focus on more serious crimes," he says.
One of Gabbard's constituents, Lenny Farm, attests to the councilman's community involvement. For the past nine years, Farm has organized Kapolei's volunteer neighborhood patrol, which watches over the area's three school campuses.
"Not to say that we don't appreciate what other representatives have done, but council member Gabbard is really the only one who brought what we do to the attention of the council," Farm says. "He even came out with us a few times at 11 o'clock at night to patrol. He's really effective, really sincere in what he does."
Strategically speaking, Gabbard picked the perfect time to run for Congress. This fall, Gabbard faces Case, who's waging his first reelection campaign to follow a full term. In 2001, Case won a special election to serve out the remainder of the late Patsy Mink's term in Congress. About 13 percent of the district's 347,922 voters turned out for that election. In the 2002 election, Case retained his seat with 43 percent of the votes, defeating fellow Democrat Matt Matsunaga. That election, however, drew only 21.9 percent of the district's registered voters.
"I told Mike that he could do a lot more good on the city council than he can in Congress," council member Okino says. "But if he's gonna run against anybody, it's better that he run against Ed Case after his first term. It would be much more difficult if he waited till after Ed's second term."
Case has called Gabbard a "single-issue candidate," concerned mainly with the issue of same-sex marriage. "He cares only about one thing, and thus far, he has gone to great lengths not to talk about his background, his roots, what he stands for," says
Case. "That's a dangerous combination in representing the entire 2nd Congressional District. Congress is not kids' play. We face about a thousand different issues each session. This is the real thing."
Gabbard hopes voters will remember his anti-same-sex marriage efforts and dismisses speculation that his well-known activism could hurt his campaign.
"I find it quite amusing that some people are so out of touch they think my being on the side of the 70 percent of Hawai'i's people on this issue is somehow negative for me," he says. "They haven't figured out yet that my opponent is actually the one in trouble on this issue."
In many pockets, especially on the Big Island, Gabbard's activist reputation on O'ahu is still relatively unknown. That could work toward the congressional contender's advantage. "For many people, he's an unidentified character," says Rohter. "All they'll see is a good-looking, charming guy who can play the guitar."


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US judge denies Spanier bid to halt criminal case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania said Friday she will not halt the criminal case against former Penn State president Graham Spanier, who is accused of a criminal cover-up of child sex abuse complaints against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
U.S. Middle District Judge Yvette Kane dismissed the legal action brought by Spanier against state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, whose office is prosecuting him and two other former university administrators.
Spanier claimed he was the victim of selective prosecution and said the federal court should also intervene because prosecutors had improperly used testimony from a university lawyer he says was representing him when he appeared before a grand jury.
The judge's memorandum said her decision was based on a principle that federal courts should keep out of state prosecutions in all but the most extraordinary instances.
Spanier's lawyers had argued the case against him was undertaken in bad faith and without any hope of getting a valid conviction.
Judge Kane said she was "leaving to the state court an assessment of whether any impropriety in the investigation and grand jury proceeding occurred, and whether (Spanier) is entitled to any relief."
A spokesman for the attorney general and Spanier's lawyer, Liz Ainslie, both declined comment.
Spanier, who was forced out as university president a few days after Sandusky was arrested on child molestation charges in November 2011, faces charges of perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, failure to properly report suspected abuse and endangering the welfare of children.
He awaits trial in Dauphin County court in Harrisburg, along with retired vice president Gary Schultz and retired athletic director Tim Curley.
All three defendants await a judge's decision about claims their right to legal representation was violated by the actions of former Penn State general counsel Cynthia Baldwin related to their appearances before an investigative grand jury in 2011.
Sandusky, who spent decades as an assistant coach under Joe Paterno, was convicted two years ago of 45 counts of child sexual abuse and is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence.
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How about reserved, coy, ...?Originally Posted by hela
imperturtable...talk about fancy ?
Student or Learner
Hello everyone,
Would you please help me find ONE adjective (not a too common one) which might fit in the two following sentences.
Julia was a handsome, courageous, and woman.
Julia was a handsome, courageous, but woman.
If you think its impossible to find one, would you please give me two adjectives that would fit in these sentences but again adjectives that are not too common.
Many thanks.
How about reserved, coy, ...?Originally Posted by hela
imperturtable...talk about fancy ?
Imperturbable you mean?
That's an everyday word in French
Hello Natalie,
Thank you for your tips, but what does "talk about fancy" mean?
All the best.
Thanks, Francois. If I have problems writing the word, I hate to ask how it's supposed to be pronounced in French...Originally Posted by Francois
(btw. I love French, too bad I don't know any...).
I was referring to your request of something less common/fancy for your example.
the 'e' in 'imper' is pronounced more or less like 'hair'
the 'u' ... like 'student'
the 'a' ... like 'dad'.
'ble' is pronounced like in 'blame', ont 'table'.
The accent is on 'ba'.
There's the terrible 'r' too, that many English speakers can't pronounce I don't think it would prevent someone from understand the word here though.
Thanks Francois! I think this "r" is called a rolling "r"...otherwise known (between you and me) as "R" the terrible! I am sure it's more terrible for me than it is for you... But that's one thing among others that makes the language sound so pretty!Originally Posted by Francois


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Federal farm bills attract monikers. Remember Freedom to Farm/Freedom to Fail?
It may be a challenge to attach a catchy handle to the 2007 farm bill now in the embryonic stage of development. It may take a funky acronym to identify the multitude of factors -- outside of U.S. production agriculture -- influencing the drafting of new federal farm policy.
Doha, WTO, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and the federal deficit will have more influence on federal farm policy over the next five years than what American agriculture may need to protect the U.S. supply of food and fiber.
How about the "DOWOSE 2007 Farm Bill?"
World trade issues have long influenced U.S. farm policy, however, influences outside of the U.S. have become so pervasive that national farm policy expert and rice industry lobbyist Randy Russell of Washington, D.C., told the annual meeting of the California Rice Commission recently that writing a new federal farm bill may be delayed a year until the upcoming Doha round of the World Trade Organization talks is completed.
He said it may be more practical to extend the current farm bill a year and wait for WTO to make up its mind than to draft a new farm bill only to be forced to rewrite it a year or two later based on WTO rulings.
The fallout from the recent WTO ruling on Brazil's complaint against the U.S. cotton program is vivid evidence that is not too far fetched.
From WTO's ruling in favor of Brazil over the U.S., already gone is the Step 2 market enhancement program for cotton. Changes have been made to government guaranteed loans for export commodities. Soon to fall may be farm policy that precludes planting fruits and vegetables on program crop land, said Russell. All of those were cited by WTO in agreeing with Brazil that U.S. farm policy hurt Brazil's cotton industry.
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Already, Russell said, the nation's fruit and vegetable producers are counting the potential cost of the removal of program crop land ban and are getting ready to step to the plate to go after a big piece of the new farm bill cash pie. After all, fruits and vegetables represent 25 percent of the nation's agricultural income, noted Russell.
Russell also expects this segment of agriculture to be part of an agriculture department family feud to get as much as possible from a farm bill that will likely be 25 percent smaller than the current one, he said. The other elements of an "interfamily fight like you have not seen before" will be program crop producers; the nutrition/food stamp arm of USDA and the wildlife and conservation arm. While they are grabbing for the cash with the right arm, they'll be fending off with the left outsiders both domestically and internationally who want to make the pie even smaller.
One of the international lobbyists Russell identified is Oxfam International, a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find "lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice," according to its Web site.
Russell said Oxfam is spending $10 million to dismantle U.S. farm programs to enable farmers in impoverished countries to better compete in world trade.
Oxfam represents Mexico, South America, Central and East Africa, Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Maghreb and Middle East, Pacific.
Many African nations have complained that U.S. farm policy has hampered their farmers in selling commodities on the world market and they are mounting a lobbying effort through Oxfam to change U.S. farm policy.
Perfect storm?
On the domestic side, Russell describes the atmosphere in Washington as "not conducive to writing a farm bill." It is the "most partisan environment" he has seen in more than 25 years working in the nation's capitol where political haggling over a mounting federal deficit compounded by the growing price tag for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid has the two political parties widely divided. He called the farm bill debate a "perfect storm brewing in Washington."
Entitlement programs like Medicare are taking a massive chunk of the federal budget, leaving non-entitlement programs like the federal farm program vulnerable in efforts to reduce spending and the deficit.
Russell predicts federal farm program funding will fall to $10 billion to $12 billion annually from the current $20 billion.
He expects a "slight reduction" in counter-cyclical payments and attacks on payment limitations to continue.
If opponents of the federal farm program go after anything, it will be the 3-entity rule and generic certificates, said Russell. Changes in the 3-entity rule would not have as great an impact in California as in other states, said Russell. If the 3-entity rule is changed, it would not do away with the husband and wife farm ownership provision, predicted Russell.
Rice's dependency on federal support is the lowest among the major commodities. This should put rice in a better position in the farm bill debate, said Russell. Also helping rice will be its record, especially in California, of active conservation efforts tied to wildlife habitat protection.
He praised the California rice industry for its "outstanding job" of leadership in conservation areas. Support for on-farm conservation is expected to be strong even in a pared down farm program and this is where the California rice industry would benefit, said Russell.


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12th - 14th March 2019, Fokker Terminal, The Hague, The Netherlands
A handpump is to a safe water system what a propeller is to an airline: essential but not enough
We rely on complex systems, but we are "systems blind"
WASH systems that transform lives
This new brochure is a mini version of IRC's strategy framework 2017-30.
Delivering good water, sanitation and hygiene services not just to a few people for a while but to everyone forever requires a fundamental shift in the way we all think and work together.
We support national governments to lead development processes and direct funding to where it is most effective and needed.
When we stop asking how much it costs to dig a well and start asking how much it costs to provide access to drinking water forever, everything changes.
No matter how good the infrastructure is, if it isn't hygienically used and operated, people's lives and health will not be improved.
Around the world, fewer than one in three people have access to adequate sanitation. We want to change that.
Water security is about ensuring that people have sustainable access to unpolluted water to meet their needs.
It's not just what you know, it's what you do with that knowledge that matters. Doing monitoring better and making it count is our focus.


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For over a decade, Takashi Homma has turned his lens toward Tokyo's suburban environs and urban center. His vision of Tokyo has navigated a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video-game aficionados and enervated fashionistas, but also the site of cutting-edge architectural experiments and quiet rooftop gardens. Homma deftly picks up the baton from earlier Japanese photographers such as Daido Moriyama, and crafts a contemporary portrait of the modern-day metropolis that is both cinematic and complex.
As Ivan Vartanian writes of the artist's most current work, "Homma's once dispassionate eye now shows a modicum of connectivity, of personal involvement. The photographer even inserts himself into his photographs and begins to address themes that are somewhat private: his studio, his desk, his dog, and even, as in his retitling of an earlier 2001 photograph 'Myself'. The work My dog, Royce 1, 2005 chosen as the cover image for the artist's monograph, is just such an example of this connectivity."
This limited edition print coincided with the release of Takashi Homma: Tokyo (Aperture, 2008), the first Homma volume to be published for an international audience. The book compiles selections from each of his previously published titles about the city, including Tokyo Suburbia, his seminal work, now considered a contemporary classic.
Takashi Homma (born in Tokyo, 1962) studied photography at Nihon University College of Art but left in 1984 to take a job as an in-house photographer at a Tokyo advertising agency. In 1991, he moved to London to work as a photographer for i-D magazine. In 1999, he was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project Tokyo Suburbia (1998). Homma currently lives in Tokyo.
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In Italy jazz is an object of serious study and practice, aspiration and envy, emulation and celebration, creativity and commercial draw. So I found last week at the Siena Jazz Summer Workshop and Tuscia in Jazz fest in Soriano nel Cimino. At both sites there were top-notch players of several generations from the US teaching young acolytes, offering life lessons a step or two beyond the fundamental mastery of instruments. Specially convened ensembles mixing players of diverse experience from multiple countries caught the attentions of … [Read more...]
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SendGrid's Dev Relations Team Hit The Ground Running in 2012…Where Will You Find Them in 2013?Jillian Wohlfarth
SendGrid's Developer Relations team travels the globe attending hack days, conferences, startup weekends, summits, and more—all in the name of making developers' lives easier, especially when it comes to email. Our 6 community team members (Tim, Swift, Elmer, Brandon, Martyn, and Adria) covered some serious ground in 2012. They attended/organized/ sponsored/hacked/presented at 260+ events in 21 countries. They made some serious moves last year and have plans to travel even more in 2013.
To give you a better idea of what makes our Dev Relations team tick, they've highlighted some of their favorite events from 2012 and outlined where you'll find them in 2013.
So, if you see them on Twitter or run into them on the road this year, don't be a stranger. Check out their Event Calendar to see when they're headed your way and leave us a comment below to let us know where else you want to see SendGrid this year. We're listening…
TIM | @ TimFalls | Boulder
Favorite SendGrid hack of 2012
There were way too many to pick just one, but I'll highlight one of the most recent: Keep in Touch: An automated mad libs email generator to keep in touch so you don't have to. Mike Szwedo's pitch really sold it and went something like this: "We all want to keep in touch with our mothers, but sometimes we just don't have time to write an email. This app helps." …and he went on to demo the app, with an auto-generated email to his mother, which was, of course, quite entertaining in its message. Extra credit: Mike built this by himself in a matter of ~6 hours.
Best event attended in 2012
Brooklyn Beta—2012 was my second year at Brooklyn Beta, and it was just as amazing as 2011. The people make Brooklyn Beta one of the best events of the year—including the attendees, speakers, sponsors, and organizers. Standout speakers:
- Aaron Draplin, of Draplin Design Co.
- Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ
Other highlights:
- Puppy Party—Just what it sounds like—the local attendees brought their dogs to the conference one evening, and we just hung out! It was sponsored by SendGrid customer, PuppyStream.me.
- A lesson on the sport of Air Guitar and the Air Guitar World Championships from air guitarist Rob Weychert, aka Windhammer.
- Screen print your own t-shirts—a fun activity supported by Etsy.
- Homemade poptarts! YUM.
Where you'll find me in 2013
- I'll be representing SG at GOAP India.
- LessConf 2013
- SendGrid is sponsoring, though I'm not sure if I'll attend personally. This will be our 3rd year in a row sponsoring LessConf. It's always been an amazing conference, and this year looks to be better than ever before—they've moved the conference from Atlanta, GA, to Panama City Beach, FL, to be held on the beach, and this is an all-inclusive conference ticket.
That just covers the first half of 2013. Sure there will be much more to be excited about, such as Brooklyn Beta 2013!
SWIFT | @SwiftAlphaOne | NYC
I attended the first ever Hack'n Jill, which was the most gender-distributed event I've seen to date—with an even 50/50 split between men and women. At API Days in Paris, I gave a presentation about hackathons and evangelism, which was very well received and sparked some great conversations. I made lots of good connections with awesome people, and there was lots of love for SendGrid. HackNY yet again proved to be a top-notch event, and the hackers chose to build a bunch of SendGrid hacks, even though we didn't demo or sponsor. And the SendGrid powered ice cream truck was a huge hit!
Where you'll find me in 2013
Here's what's shaping up for now through June:
- Decoded Fashion Hackathon (2/2 – 2/3, 2/14)
- Developer Week (2/6)
- Apps World (2/7 – 2/8)
- ErlangDC (2/9)
- Columbia Dev Fest (2/10)
- API Strategy Conference (2/21 – 2/22)
- Tufts Hackathon (2/23 – 2/24)
- Heroku Waza (2/28)
- PyCon (3/13 – 3/17)
- DjangoCon (5/15 – 5/18)
- NodeConf (6/27 – 6/30)
ELMER | @thinkingserious | ANAHEIM
Favorite SendGrid hack of 2012
Social Jukebox, which I wrote about in this post about Hollywood Hack Day—it's a hack that allows you to have people email in a song they would like to hear, then that song appears on a playlist, which can then be voted on via email or text message. Songs with the highest votes get played.
Best event attended in 2012
SXSW—It was an amazing experience to meet so many customers and partners in one week (Twilio, Mashery, Spotify, Foursquare, SoftLayer, and Rackspace to name a few). We hosted our first SendGrid party, which was awesome, and met our future evangelists Adria and Swift. We had SendGriders from various departments attend as well, so we had the opportunity to strengthen intra-company bonds as well.
Where you'll find me in 2013
- PennApps
- Sports Hack Day
- Code Day LA
- Mobile World Congress
- PyCon
BRANDON | @BrandonMWest | Denver
Favorite SendGrid hack of 2012
OrangeSend from the Lone Star Ruby Hackathon in Austin. It's a service that allows you to forward an email to a given address, you then receive a link to that content that you can easily share with your social network or friends. It was simple, clever, and built by an amateur using technology he hadn't used before.
Best event attended in 2012
Hard to pick…the entire Geeks on a Plane Eastern Europe trip was great, with the GOAP Zagreb conference in Croatia being a highlight; tons of great companies, great turnout, awesome hosts, with a 1100HP electric car parked out front (Rimac Concept One).
MARTYN| @martynrdavies | UK
Favorite SendGrid hack of 2012
Kings of Dance, from the Kings of Code Hack Battle in Amsterdam in December. I'm a big fan of hacks that use hardware to liven up the experience and the demo. This battling dance game not only made great use of the SendGrid APIs, but pretty much every other API available that weekend too. They deservedly went home with a slew of swag.
Best event attended in 2012
After joining the Dev Relations team in September I had an amazing few months of events to choose from…but I would say that Startup Weekend in Manchester was the standout. Everything about it was a first for all involved—running the event, the venue, the teams. It was extremely exciting to see the cultural shift that a city like Manchester has taken since I last spent any real time there. It was a brilliant event where a ton of great ideas were built, many of which have now become actively used products…using SendGrid of course.
Where you'll find me in 2013
I'm really excited to be heading to Bangalore, India for the Business of APIs Hackathon in February. It'll be my first time over there and I can't fathom what my expectations should be which makes it very new and exciting. SXSW in March is another first and I'm always excited about events that bring the whole team together.
ADRIA | @adriarichards | San Francisco
Favorite SendGrid hack of 2012
I would say the best hack was built by my fellow evangelist, Brandon. His hack allows you to send an attachment with a list of people who signed up for an event or product and then it back fills their information using the FullContact API. It reduces the amount of redundant data entry and helps identify influencers.
Best event attended in 2012
- TwilioCon was one of the best startup tech conferences because of the organization, venue, layout, and variety of ethnic food. Plus, it included a great hackathon.
- Big Omaha was a very well run idea conference and the number of artifacts they create (tweets, articles, photos, video interviews, live stream) in order to promote the event is extremely valuable, and ensure that the event sells out each year.
- Microsoft Build was the best enterprise big tech conferences and had the best food. They successfully launched Windows 8 and Azure to the development community and created a great amount of buzz.
Where you'll find me in 2013
- I'm attending TED. Been dreaming of attending for years!
- SWSW, 4th time speaking and attending.
- I'd like to attend RailsConf this year for the first time.


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Cumulative radiation exposure has been shown to cause cancer. And that has the pediatric-care community more carefully weighing whether the benefits of medical imaging justify the radiation risk in children.
Cumulative radiation exposure has been shown to cause cancer. And that has the pediatric-care community more carefully weighing whether the benefits of medical imaging justify the radiation risk in children.Children are far more sensitive to radiation than adults. And they might receive too great a dose if their smaller body size isn�t factored into the scanning process, according to the National Cancer Institute.The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging was formed five years ago after a group of pediatric radiologists noted that some hospitals used adult-size doses of radiation on children, said Dr. Marilyn Goske, the alliance�s chairwoman and a radiologist at Cincinnati Children�s Hospital Medical Center.�If you can get the picture using a lower dose and still make a diagnosis, that would be best,� Goske said.
Doctors are especially concerned about CT scans. They can be valuable diagnostic tools, but their use has soared in recent decades. About 7?million CT scans are performed on children each year in the United States, and that number is increasing at a rate of 10?percent each year, according to the Alliance for Radiation Safety.
Such scans account for 12?percent of diagnostic radiological procedures in large U.S. hospitals but likely are responsible for 49?percent of the U.S. population�s collective radiation dose.
�For 20 to 30 years, it went rampant,� said Dr. Paul Casamassimo, the chief of dentistry at Nationwide Children�s Hospital, who advocates for less-frequent use of dental X-rays. As a result, � What we have is a bunch of people in our country and other countries exposed to large doses of radiation.�The risk of cancer associated with CT scans is small, resulting in one case of cancer for every 500 to 1,000 patients scanned. The alliance estimates that for any one person, the risk of death from cancer is about 1 in 5.�The risk is cumulative, however, and each subsequent CT scan will increase the risk accordingly,� the alliance said in literature for its new �Image Gently� campaign.
Following simple guidelines can minimize unnecessary CT scans, local medical and dental experts said. During the past decade, sports-medicine experts have adopted the �Ottawa Ankle Rules,� which hold that if a person can put full weight on an ankle within minutes of injuring it, there�s likely not a significant fracture, and, hence, little need for an X-ray, said Dr. Joseph Ruane, the medical director of OhioHealth�s Spine, Sport and Joint Center.Before those guidelines were put into use, about 15 percent of X-rays showed a fracture, he said.
In most cases, MRIs have replaced CT and bone scans, he said. MRIs do not expose patients to ionizing radiation but tend to be more expensive than CT scans.
Similarly, whether they�re adults or children, dental patients should not be subjected to regular or even annual X-rays unless dentists are tracking documented cases of decay, Casamassimo said. �Every family, every parent, every individual should ask their dentist, �Is this X-ray necessary?�?�
Children with sinus inflammation should not undergo CT scans if their symptoms are not chronic. A course of conservative treatments for several months should be tried first, said Dr. Evan Tobin, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Ohio ENT Physicians. Such sinus problems often are the result of allergies, viral infections or problems with the adenoids � tissue at the back of the nose in the upper part of the throat � and typically can be treated without diagnostic medical imaging, he said.
In 2010, two Ohio ENT locations began using MiniCAT machines, which Tobin said deliver as little as one-fifth the radiation delivered by a traditional CT scan. The scans integrate well with image-guided technology used during sinus surgery, reducing the need for a second CT scan in surgical patients.
Tobin estimates that less than 2?percent of Ohio ENT�s CT scans involve children and that he prescribes a pediatric CT scan about every two months.
Officials at OhioHealth say the hospital system flags CT scans in patients who have had 25 scans at OhioHealth facilities since 2003. So far, 3,155 patients have reached that threshold, according to OhioHealth.It�s also switching to a new generation of GE CT scanners, which it said will cut radiation doses across the board by 20?percent to 30?percent.
Nationwide Children�s said it has no set number of scans beyond which additional CT scans are flagged for closer review.
�Each child is treated individually based on their age, medical condition and prior medical procedures,� the hospital said in a prepared release. �In some cases, a test that involves zero radiation (such as an ultrasound) is better suited to the patient�s needs. (Hospital) pediatric radiologists are proactively involved in the referral and review process for each patient, and there is no automatic limit for tests performed.�Goske said Cincinnati Children�s evaluates each prescribed pediatric scan to see if it�s needed. For common diseases, protocols are in place to default to ultrasounds, which don�t use radiation.
Although medical malpractice considerations can influence prescribing patterns, Tobin said, �We�r e more likely to order a CT scan and make sure we don�t miss anything� than forgo a CT scan out of concern about a future radiation-exposure lawsuit. Conventional wisdom continues to evolve around the issue of radiation exposure in medical imaging, Ruane said. �It�s just like concussions: How many is too many? There�s not a lot of consensus yet.� For more information, go to imagegently.org.


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Hi all new to the website and hoping someone can help me.
My soon is almost 7 weeks old and he is exclusively breastfed and we are having a few problems. Its hard for me to compare with my Daughter as she was fed expressed milk for 6 weeks before she was able to latch on (prem baby).
Ok here goes. He only seems to feed for 10minutes at a time and the first bit of the feed he really gulps, makes a lot of noise and is swallowing really fast. Having read some of the other posts do you think this could be to do with a fast letdown? He is very sleepy when feeding and never seems to take a full feed, ive tried all sorts to stimulate him and encourage him to feed more but nothing seems to help. He feeds ver frequently through the day, sometimes only sleeping for half an hour then wanting more feed. I am finding this really frustrating, and this was very different to how my daughter was when she did eventually latch on. I'm a bit concerned that he may not be getting to the hind milk, as i always seem to be able to get milk from my breast. Sometimes his poos are yellow in colour, other times they are more green, is this normal? Could really do with some help about what I can do to try and get him to feed better and go longer spells between as at the minute I am finding this very difficult to keep up and manage a 5 year old at the same time, it's becoming very exhausting but i dont want to give up. thanks xx


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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.x -- About Maintaining Configuration Records
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.x > Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server > Configuring
When installation is complete, the worksheets linked from Planning Your Audio Server Installation serve as complete documentation of your initial Cisco Unified MeetingPlace configuration. If you change the configuration of your system, you must create new documents that reflect these changes.
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System configuration records, by creating an electronic file that lists your system configuration settings.
In the Configure tab, select any topic, then click the Write to File button.
Meeting records, by keeping a list of scheduled meetings for a specific time period or creating a record of meeting details. You can then save these records to file or print them.
In the Schedule tab, click the Print/Save button. Then choose an action from the drop-down menu.


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A list of all horror games that will be released in Q4 2012 and 2013.
Resident Evil 6 a horror game? someone needs to re-analyse.
I miss the PS1 to PS2 era of horror games.
What the heck happened to survival horror?
Where are my damn horror games!?
sick of action games taking over my favourite genre.
Makes me sad =( screw RE6.
Horror is all very subjective. RE once was a horror series and everytime time Capcom promises it will go back to it's roots but it becomes more and more an action/shooter series. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a dungeon crawler with horror influences... so this one's debatable too.
I hope the new xbox launches with a new condemned game. Loved the original.


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NEW YORK: With just five weeks to go until "Show Time," the AES continues to update the Preliminary Event Calendar. Packed with vivid abstracts, dates, times and presenter details, the AES/PEC is the culmination of an intensive year of activity. The 133rd Convention looms as the most colorful, informative, timely and far-ranging AES event ever. From Broadcast/Streaming to Education, Game Audio, Historical, Live Sound, Papers, Platinum, Product Design, Special Events, Tech Tours, Tutorials and Workshops, the 133rd AES Convention is the definitive crash course on everything audio.
"In addition to our traditional program, this Convention marks the introduction of three timely new tracks," reports Committee Co-Chair Jim McTigue. "We are extremely enthusiastic about the 3-Day Project Studio Expo developed in partnership with UK-based Sound On Sound editors and Craig Anderton to explore issues and innovations that make Project Studios a pivotal trend in today's recording environment. We are also extremely pleased with our Sound For Pictures and Networked Audio Tracks. These events epitomize the AES mandate as the industry's most authoritative platform for addressing critical issues of technical concern," McTigue says.
"As with our totally upgraded Mobile App, our Preliminary Calendar has been carefully fine-tuned to make it the most comprehensive and user-friendly edition ever," reports Committee Co-Chair Valerie Tyler. "Attendees will find it much easier to navigate. The color-coded grid provides instantly accessible drop-down abstracts. Dates and times are clearly illustrated. While we make a point of emphasizing the fact that this is a 'Preliminary' Although Calendar changes continue to be posted right up to October 26, the site will be enormously helpful to attendees in strategizing their show schedules."
Visit these links for more details:
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PHOTO: The 133rd AES Convention will be held in SF's Moscone Center Oct. 26 - 29.
The Audio Engineering Society was formed in 1948 by a group of concerned audio engineers. The AES counts over 14,000 members throughout the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Japan and the Far East. The organization serves as the pivotal force in the exchange and dissemination of technical information for the industry. For additional information visit http://www.aes.org


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Isle of Bute
The Isle of Bute[9] is an island in the Firth of Clyde, off the west coast of Scotland.
Get in
By Sea
There are 2 ferry routes to Bute from the Scottish mainland.
Caledonian MacBrayne[10] ferries run from Wemyss Bay in Inverclyde, to Rothesay, the only town on the island, and from Colintraive on the Cowal Peninsula, to Rhubodach in the north of the island.
In summer the paddle steamer Waverley[11] calls at Rothesay on excursions.
By Rail
First Scotrail[12] trains run from Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay, and connect with the ferries. Rail/ferry through tickets are available.
By Car
Wemyss Bay is just a few miles from the western end of the M8 motorway, via the A8 and A78, and so is easily accessible from the UK motorway network. Both of the ferry routes carry vehicles.
By Air
Wemyss Bay is within easy reach of both Glasgow International and Glasgow Prestwick airports.
Bute Airfield can be used by private light aircraft.
The only town on the island is Rothesay, and it is here that the majority of visitors arrive, on the ferry from Wemyss Bay. Rothesay is located mid-way along the east coast of the island.
Other villages on the island include:
Get around
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West Coast Motors[13] run bus services on the island. Tel: 01586 552319.
By Bike
Cycling is the perfect way to explore the island. Cycle hire is available from The Bike Shed[14], located just a short distance along the shoreline from the ferry terminal in Rothesay. Tel: 01700 505515.
The Kyles of Bute, the narrow straits that separate the northern end of the island from the Cowal Pensinsula, are a designated National Scenic Area.
Putting and golf. BBQ if its not raining.
Tourist information for the Isle of Bute: http://del.icio.us/RogerMortimer
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I just moved back to Vancouver and am looking to play some tennis. I have played off and on for a few years and have had some lessons, but am still learning. I am around the broadway-cambie area and would be happy to play around the city.
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Welcome back to Vancouver.I would love to play tennis as often as possible this summer. I mostly play in North Vancouver, but it will be fun to play around the city. I'll send you my contact number so that we can set fix location, date and time.
Hi Alireza,
Sounds great. I only have a bike so getting over to North Van may be a little difficult for me, but if you want to set up a time to play in the city I'd be happy to play.
i am in a similar boat.
i've been taking private lessons and am likely a 2.5-3.0 player?
definitely need practice with actual people!
i'm on Fraser st. and always up for a rally
Hi Kait,
I'm a 2.5 player living at Cambie and 16th. Would you be interested in playing sometime?
i would love to!
you would likely need a bit of patience with me though. I suck. haha.
but its coming!
i am at Fraser and 38th.
hey guys,
i've actually moved back to Halifax until January! Hopefully this thread will help some of you guys link up with eachother to play! good luck!
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I never got a chance to read the manga, but I've seen the anime. I heard a lot of "good" things about the Fruit Basket anime, but imo the anime was rather disappointing. First of all, throughtout the whole serie, the 12 animals of the zodiac was mentioned constantly. However, after watching all the episodes, I'm still unable to find 12 members of the Sohma family that can change into animals. Secondly, there is no meaning to the ending in episode 26, and there are many loose ends. Even after watching the ending, I have no idea who the heck is Akito... Anyways, does anyone know if fruit basket manga the same as the anime or is it a completely different matter? Cuz i think i might buy the manga if it's different...(I really wanna try to figure out what Fruit Basket's about)*Sorry if my opinion on the anime offended any Fruit Basket fans* Thanks
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