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CR's culture is rooted in originality, talent, resourcefulness and fun. Our passion for what we do drives us to work hard, be the first to innovate a solution, and reach our full potential.
We carry this same passion outside of the office, striving to better our communities, not only with our designs, but with our time and actions. Whether it's through buying and wrapping holiday gifts for families in need, building structures entirely out of canned food, or biking across the state of Ohio, we value serving others as well as taking time to enjoy ourselves. Here are a few examples of how we keep perspective and have some fun:
CR hosted clients, partners & friends during the 8th Annual Charity Golf Invitational benefiting DePaul Cristo Rey High School. Through charitable donations and a live auction CR was able to raise and donate $10,000 to DePaul Cristo Rey High School.
Because everything's bigger in Texas, the CR Dallas team went BIG and planned a family picnic that didn't disappoint! Texas BBQ, Shuffleboard, Poolside Fun and a great day to let loose with co-workers and family!
Each summer, the CRazy legs set out to tackle a 328-mile journey across the state of Ohio. This long adventure raises awareness for critical programs that help to research and fight cancer. The tour starts in Cleveland, OH, winds south through Columbus, and finishes in Cincinnati. Every cent that the CRazy legs raise – often more than $10,000 – goes directly to the American Cancer Society, supporting research, education, advocacy, and cancer patient services.
Those who favor running (or bourbon!) over cycling, can opt to join CR's team that treks 200+ miles through Kentucky's Bourbon Trail. Each runner takes on a few legs of the two-day race, which culminates in a celebration at local distilleries. In past years, CR's team has included participants from its Cincinnati and Denver locations, bringing our offices together for fun and collaboration.
Each spring, CR's team competes in the CANstruction design competition. This event is an international community service project that allows us to give back to the community through our passion for design. Once built, the cansculptures are displayed as public art exhibits and judged by a local panel. In 2016, CR's 9,562-can design won the Cincinnati Canstruction Jurors' Favorite award and placed as third runner-up in the international competition. Prior to building the sculpture, CR kicks off Canstruction by hosting its annual Happy Hour Fundraiser, with past locations including Igby's and Taft's Ale House.
Spark is a monthly event that encourages employees to break away from their computers and ignite their passion for design. Past activities have included community design crawls, movie nights, and pumpkin carving – each fueled by snacks, libations, and lively discussion.
Each year, CR's five offices join under one roof for a day of team-building activities, self-development, and open discussion about vision for the upcoming year. It's an event that brings us closer together, celebrates our achievements, and refreshes us for what is to come.
Whatever excites you, there is an opportunity at CR. We enjoy professional activities such as our weekly lunch and learns and monthly vendor blenders just as much as we enjoy kicking back during new employee happy hours and intramural sports leagues. Client and consultant golf outings, attending baseball games, and flowing through poses in free yoga classes are just a few of the other activities our team partakes in. Our employees build our culture; our role is simply to empower them to do that in as many ways as possible.


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With the iPad 2 available for almost a year now, its time to say "Hello and welcome iPad 3"! Apple has already sent out invites to an event on 7th March 2012 in San Francisco, USA. The image on the invite looks like a new iPad with the statement, "We have something you really have to see. And touch" printed on it.
So, before we let CEO Tim Cook display this "new device" we thought we'd round up the rumours and expectations from the iPad 3 (or the iPad HD as some like to call it).
- Quad Core processor: With the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor already kicking ass with its amazing processing power, we feel certain that the iPad 3 will be powered by Apple's all new A6 processor that will be a Quad Core processor. Rumours on the Internet suggest that the A6 processor may be based on the ARM A15 architecture. We would be truly blown away if the processing power of the device were shown off with a stage demo of Infinity Blade 3!
- iPad Retina Display: We expected this feature with the iPad 2 and were left disappointed. Hence, we will believe the iPad's Retina Display only when we see it. It is eminent that there will be a bump in the resolution of the devices screen. What remains to be seen is whether that resolution will hit 2048x1536 as reported by the rumour mills all over the web.
- iOS 5.1: With the launch of the new device, we think Apple may show off some tweaks to iOS and may just unveil iOS 5.1 beta. We expect the additions in iOS to show of a more seamless integration in the Apple eco system and some features that will be shared with the upcoming OS Mountain Lion.
- Siri and Bluetooth 4.0: These features sound like a given but sometimes its necessary to state the obvious.
- Better camera: It's needless to say that the iPad2's camera sucked (it was better than the iPad one atleast which had none!) and Apple may just bump the resolution of both the front and rear camera. We would like to see the rear shooter be bumped up to 8MP (like the iPhone 4S) but we would be happy to see it have the 5MP camera found on the iPhone 4.
- Bigger battery: With the rumour that the iPad 3 will be 4G LTE (maybe NFC) enabled, have a faster graphics processor and that Quad Core A6 processor we are all excited to see, its evident that the iPad 3 will support a bigger battery to maintain the 10-hour battery life standard set by its predecessor. Will this make the device thicker than the iPad 2? Guess we will have to wait to find out!
- New multitouch: With the "And Touch" added to the invite, we get the feeling that there are going to be some new multitouch gestures added to Apple's arsenal. Maybe a button lessiPad where you can get back to the home screen by tickling it?
- A smaller Doc connector: If rumour mills are churning out accurate information, then the iPad 3 could be the first device to change the future of i-Devices docking. The rumours on the Internet suggest that the device will still have a 30-pin configuration but its form factor will be different. This may result in the device being incompatible with past generation Docs. Future iPods and the next gen iPhone too may incorporate the new connector. It would be great however if Apple made the new Doc connector compatible with the old one.If not, we may just end up with a lot of useless iPad Docks around the house!
- Universal band: With the iPhone 4S merging the GSM and CDMA bands in a single device, the same can be expected from the iPad 3. This feature will of course be available in the 3G/4G variants of the iPad 3.
- Higher price: Apple could maintain the $499 starting price tag for the iPad2 as the upgrade from the iPad 1 to the 2 wasn't extremely significant. But this may not be the case here. Since Apple is cramping a lot of features in this "next gen tablet device", we think the price may be bumped up anywhere from $50 to $100 for the entry-level version of the device (although we are praying to the Gods of tech this doesn't happen).


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Status of IDENT/IAFIS Integration
Report No. I-2002-003
December 7, 2001
The OIG believes that in the absence of a fully integrated IDENT/IAFIS system, the INS should continue to use IDENT. IDENT is the only fingerprint identification system in place at Border Patrol stations and ports of entry that allows a rapid check of aliens seeking entry into the United States or of aliens trying to enter the country illegally between ports of entry. Therefore, we support additional deployment of IDENT workstations and the associated training not only to additional Border Patrol locations but also to ports of entry and district offices where persons who are referred for closer examination can be checked against the IDENT lookout database.
We also believe that adding fingerprint records for outstanding wants and warrants for aliens to the IDENT lookout database must be accomplished immediately. In August 2001, the INS added the 8,600 fingerprint records of the U.S. Marshals Service federal wants and warrants for aliens to the IDENT lookout database. As of December 2001, there have been about 40 hits on these records. The INS and the FBI are also working together and hope to have added the FBI's 70,000 wants and warrants for individuals who are foreign- born, whose place of birth is unknown, and/or who have been previously arrested by the INS, to the INS's lookout database by early calendar year 2002. 13 Another necessary interim measure would be to place any ten-print records and photographs of known or suspected terrorists into the IDENT lookout database. Any alien apprehended by the Border Patrol or any alien sent to secondary inspection at a port of entry using IDENT could be searched against the lookout database to identify suspected terrorists for whom we have fingerprints.
The integration of IDENT and IAFIS, which began again in earnest in 1999 and is still early in the field-testing phase, has already taken longer to accomplish than originally envisioned. Although the effort to integrate IDENT and IAFIS has progressed, most notably in field studies, the subsequent plans for development and deployment of the first phase of an integrated IDENT/IAFIS system (a completed Version 1 workstation) has been scaled back and slowed.
JMD has taken the position that the INS's high projected costs of integration - estimated costs of $570 million from FY 2002 through FY 2007 for system design, development, and deployment costs and additional operational costs that bring the total cost to between $1.2 billion and $1.9 billion-need to be better studied through more deliberate field-testing before deploying Version 1.2 with its integrated two-print, ten-print workstation. The cost estimates do not include activities at ports of entry or the downstream costs on other DOJ components such as the USMS, the BOP, the EOIR and the U.S. Attorneys offices whose workloads would be increased. This is the reason JMD reduced its IDENT/IAFIS FY 2002 budget request from $38 million to $9 million.
In sum, as the facts in this follow-up report have indicated, the integration of IDENT and IAFIS is proceeding slowly. Even after the Resendez case spurred increased attention in 1999 to the need for such integration, the process has not gone quickly and an integrated system may still be many years away. Three studies have been conducted, beginning in the summer of 2000, which showed that integration is technically and operationally achievable using ten prints. However, because the costs of integration-including increased operational costs for INS processing and detaining aliens and additional costs for other components of the federal criminal justice system have not yet been accurately projected-DOJ has decided to take a more deliberate approach to the development and deployment of IDENT/IAFIS. The first stage of the integrated workstation will be deployed to a limited number of field sites to gather data to better gauge the operational impact and to test its performance before moving to the next stage of IDENT/IAFIS integration. The field-testing will undoubtedly provide useful information, including better cost estimates and important feedback for the next steps in developing the integrated system.
Yet, our main conclusion, similar to our conclusion in the Resendez report that we issued almost two years ago, is that the DOJ and its components should aggressively and expeditiously seek linkage of the FBI and INS biometric identification systems. In light of the events of September 11, the need for linkage is more critical than ever. While this integration is being pursued, we support the deployment of IDENT to additional sites and the adding of wants and warrants and other lookouts to the IDENT databases.


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Oklahoma man gets 40 years in prison in Kenya orphans' abuse
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former missionary from Oklahoma convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was sentenced Monday to 40 years in a federal prison.
U.S. District Judge David L. Russell handed down the sentence to Matthew Lane Durham, 21, who had faced up to 30 years on each of four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. He also ordered Durham, of Edmond, to pay restitution of $15,863.
"These were heinous crimes committed on the most vulnerable victims. He was their worst nightmare come true," Russell said.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Logan County Sheriff's Office shows Matthew Lane Durham, 21, of Edmond, Okla. Durham, who was found guilty of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya in 2014, is scheduled by be sentenced Monday, March 7, 2016, in Oklahoma City. (Logan County Sheriff's Photo via AP, File)
Durham, wearing an orange prison-issued jumpsuit, read a statement before sentencing in which he asked the court for mercy but did not express remorse for the offenses he was convicted of. Durham showed no emotion when the sentence was issued.
Prosecutors alleged Durham targeted orphans while volunteering at the Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi between April and June 2014. Durham had served as a volunteer since 2012 at the orphanage, which specializes in caring for neglected children.
"All I wanted was to follow God's plan for me," Durham told the judge. He said he will try to commit himself to serving others while he serves his prison sentence.
Although Durham claims he is innocent of the charges, he said he was sorry that the accusations against him had damaged the orphanage and those it cares for.
"The Upendo kids do not deserve this," Durham said.
In a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors said Durham's actions have had a chilling effect on the lives of dozens of foreign volunteers in Kenya and elsewhere "who must now live under the cloud of suspicion, distrust and apprehension when they volunteer their time, talent and resources for the betterment of children in East Africa and beyond."
"There is a real perception among Upendo's local Kenyan community that more pedophiles lurk among the volunteers, especially the young male volunteers," prosecutors said.
A jury convicted Durham in June on seven counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, but Russell acquitted Durham on three of the charges in January.
The same jury cleared Durham of accusations he planned to abuse the children before leaving the United States. Defense attorney Stephen Jones has said Durham plans to appeal his convictions.
The orphanage's founder, Eunice Menja, read a statement in court Monday in which she said the sexual abuse was "not only a betrayal of the Upendo mission but of the trust Upendo placed in him."
"Matthew Durham defiled the children," Menja said as she fought back tears. "Matthew has no remorse. After he got caught, he still denied."
Menja told reporters after the hearing that she hopes Durham's 40-year sentence is long enough to prevent him from being a threat to anyone else.
"We're hoping that when he comes out he will be a changed man," she said.
Federal prosecutors had asked in their sentencing memo that Russell to sentence Durham to 120 years in prison — the maximum punishment he faced. Jones had sought a sentence of just eight years, followed by probation.
Evidence produced by prosecutors included handwritten, signed confessions that Durham gave orphanage officials after he was accused of inappropriate behavior.
Jones has argued that the statements were coerced by orphanage officials who isolated Durham, took his passport and created the allegations to obtain $17,000 from the U.S. government for security cameras.
Jones has described Durham, who was 19 when he was charged in 2014, as "an emotionally vulnerable teenager" who was struggling with "sexual identity and development" while also being a devout Christian.
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The Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Frank Dellaert
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Technical Report number GIT-GVU-02-20
February 2002
This note represents my attempt at explaining the EM algorithm (Hartley, 1958; Dempster et al., 1977; McLachlan and Krishnan, 1997). This is just a slight variation on Tom Minka's tutorial (Minka, 1998), perhaps a little easier (or perhaps not). It includes a graphical example to provide some intuition. 1 Intuitive Explanation of EM
EM is an iterative optimization method to estimate some unknown parameters, given measurement data U. However, we are not given some "hidden" nuisance variables J, which need to be integrated out. In particular, we want to maximize the posterior probability of the parameters given the data U, marginalizing over J: = argmax
P(; JjU) (1)
The intuition behind EM is an old one: alternate between estimating the unknowns and the hidden variables J. This idea has been around for a long time. However, instead of finding the best J 2 J given an estimateat each iteration, EM computes a distribution over the space J . One of the earliest papers on EM is (Hartley, 1958), but the seminal reference that formalized EM and provided a proof of convergence is the "DLR" paper by Dempster, Laird, and Rubin (Dempster et al., 1977). A recent book devoted entirely to EM and applications is (McLachlan and Krishnan, 1997), whereas (Tanner, 1996) is another popular and very useful reference. One of the most insightful explanations of EM, that provides a deeper understanding of its operation than the intuition of alternating between variables, is in terms of lowerbound maximization (Neal and Hinton, 1998; Minka, 1998). In this derivation, the E-step can be interpreted as constructing a local lower-bound to the posterior distribution, whereas the M-step optimizes the bound, thereby improving the estimate for the unknowns. This is demonstrated below for a simple...
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Evaluation of Joint Africa Institute (JAI)
The JAI was established in 1999 as a partnership between the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the African Development Bank (AfDB). The aim of the JAI was to provide high-level training and develop a cadre of policymakers in Africa. Up to mid-2007, 127 training events attracting over 4,300 participants had been delivered under JAI auspices. Of these, the IMF had delivered 51% of all training events. AfDB has become increasingly important in recent years, largely because of the decision of the WB to reduce its level of commitment to the JAI. Over 80% of the training events have been held in either Abidjan or Tunis. According to JAI reports, total expenditure between 1999 and 2006 amounted to just over US$19 million.
Main Lessons
- In order to be relevant, effective, and have an impact, training has to be incorporated into the wider context of capacity building. A results-chain approach has to be adopted in which developmental objectives are defined and prioritized and clear needs assessments are elaborated.
- In order to be efficient and effective, records have to be kept in a manner that facilitates accessibility and that supports an effective monitoring, evaluation, and feedback mechanism.
- Where partnerships are established, there must be clear agreement from the outset on the objectives of the partnership. Furthermore, there needs to be a degree of autonomy and flexibility – both financial and managerial – to allow the partnership to realize its potential to be greater than the sum of the individual partners' inputs.
It is strongly recommended that the AfDB formulate a clear and comprehensive policy on capacity building (including training) before it develops further training activities. This should link capacity-building priorities with explicit development objectives, to ensure that training does not become an end in itself.
It is recommended that over the next 12 months the AfDB, in collaboration with the two partner institutions, seriously consider future options for the JAI, to include:
- Careful consideration of the plans for the JAI to be integrated with the ADI in 2010 and achieving greater clarity as to what this will involve, in both organizational and financial terms;
- Assessing the viability of a relaunched JAI with much greater autonomy to develop its own character; and
- Clearly analyzing the costs and benefits of closing the JAI at the end of 2009, with a view to maximizing potential gains and managing any negative consequences.
The policy recommended by the evaluation team is that the JAI should be closed at the end of 2009 and that the AfDB should develop its own training and capacity-building activities in support of country policies and practices.


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NOAA's report says,
"According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average. For the contiguous United States alone, the 2010 average annual temperature was above normal, resulting in the 23rd warmest year on record."
Just a reminder that if the average of something, say school buses' weights, were increasing year to year, then it is no disproof of the average weight change if you were able to point to one really skinny kid on the bus. In temperature terms, that means that the summers got hotter than any cold parts got colder.
Now let's discuss this. There you are, sitting in your chair, not thinking about the weather at the moment, and someone comes up to you and makes sure that you have information that this past winter was really cold. Then they go and mention "global warming" and "the religion of climate change". This is what happened in my reading of Frank Turk's Pyromaniacs blog. It's a blog with religious and Christian themes, not a blog about science. My view is that if you had kept up to date with the scientific data (not the theories, just the raw data), you would be questioning whatever political or religious philosophy that inspired such posturing.
What views of government and religion are threatened by the data?
- In my view, biblical Christianity, the doctrine of the church historic is not. Martin Luther, in explaining the meaning of the Seventh Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Kill), in his Large Catechism, said,
"It is just as if I saw some one navigating and laboring in deep water [and struggling against adverse winds] or one fallen into fire, and could extend to him the hand to pull him out and save him, and yet refused to do it. What else would I appear, even in the eyes of the world, than as a murderer and a criminal?So Christianity isn't threatened by worrying about people drowning. It demands it. It points to how helping those who are laboring in deep water is a way to honor the commandments. It also tells us how greed and covetousness isn't God's will.
- In my view, free market economics and a philosophy of small government is not threatened. Say, take the issue of some toxic chemical or bird flu virus strain. If I am convinced that something threatens the public, this information doesn't threaten free market economics. I could first and foremost pull the plug on all tax subsidies, and I could strive to make sure that the court system doesn't prevent those who have been damaged by the product from seeking damages. Those two things would go a long way to addressing the problem, more so than "regulation". I could also refrain from dissing those who use the public square to educate the public about the dangers. I could also refrain from publishing misinformation, spurious pieces of data.
- Humanism, per se, isn't even threatened, at least not that kind that is defined by thinking highly of humans. Humans produce poop and CO2. Our civilization long ago got used to the idea that people ought to be careful how they handle one product of their body, where they put it. What's so strange that another body product has to engender equal care?
- What is threatened?
- In my opinion, in religion, a gospel reductionism or antinomianism is surely threatened. Wordnet defines Antinomianism as: "The theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture)" In my opinion, one reason so many conservatives are upset about global warming is because it presents a place where they are being called to repentance. Their churches aren't doing it, focusing instead on choosing the correct team.
- A statist conservatism is threatened. If you got chills at the idea above of people being able to sue over pollution, I think you're a bit statist. Pollution is a subsidy. You want the state to prevent people from getting compensation for damages they suffer, because the damage-ers are politically favored, or something called "civilization" benefits.
These criticisms are not directed at the person who doesn't care about global warming. They are not directed at folks who don't understand the science, or are troubled by all the arguing, or even skeptical. My criticisms are directed at those whose philosophies are troubled by the possibility of woefully sinful behavior in your everyday actions. At those who introduce scientific topics into religious settings, and in so doing misrepresent the facts-- not the esoteric theories or predictions, but the actual facts that a fifth grader could verify, like whether 2010 was hot.


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- BohemianGirl
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Hi ladies, it's me again!
Well I am currently looking at Engagement Party Invitations. (Engagement parties are popular over in Australia). And since we are going to elope in the next couple of years we are going all out with invites, venue, outfits and flowers etc. This will be our only time to have a celebration with all of our family and friends together 🙂
So I have been looking on Etsy at invites and OMG some of them are just gorgeous. Has anyone had experience buying/creating invites online? We are able to do samples before we buy in bulk which is great!
Here is an example of my favourite so far. Keep in mind this is shown as a wedding invitation, yet the lady said she can easily make it to suit for our engagement.
Give me your advice/opinions/other invites similar.
Thanks and enjoy!!


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June ALREADY?!
It is just about the coolest thing EVER!!!! This baby will preskein six hanks of yarn at one time! Because I have a specific loop size so I can get all the colors I want onto one skein of yarn, I used to hand wind each hank one by one. As you might guess, it took a looooooooooong time to just get the yarn ready. Now, I can wind a days worth of yarn dyeing in just one afternoon.
Then after the yarn is dyed, Mr Ken has set up the 'drying room' so I don't have to spend days waiting for all the skeins to dry. After the, the wonderful Mr Ken had created the automated reskeiner...which was also something that I did by hand. Basically, what used to take me one week to complete now takes me 2 days...all thanks to the amazing Mr Ken. Did I get lucky or what when I snagged this guy?!
Anyways, I have a batch of yarn calling my name...time to get back on it! I know I haven't posted any new colors this week....still catching up on store orders...but they are coming soon :)
Happy knitting!!!


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After taking last week off to go meet with Larry Correia (yes, I am name-dropping *and* squeeing at the same time), I'll be back on The Squirrel Report tonight promptly at 9:00 PM EST (the only time zone that matters...)
Our topics will include the incidents in the Middle East, the racism inherent in PBJs, and "tin ears" in the gunnie community. Our call in question will be about wild weather you've experienced - since Weerd just survived an earthquake!
Join us at 9:00 PM EST for another exciting episode of The Squirrel Report!
That is all.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
2 comments:
- Dave H said...
9:00 PM EST (the only time zone that matters...)
Except the rest of us right-coasters are on EDT, so we'll all be there an hour early wondering where you are.
- September 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Glenn B said...
The only time that matters is time for a cold one at the peak of refreshing coldness. I think my Franziskaner Weissbiers should be ready right about 1 minute before tonight's Squirrel Report begins, give or take a couple of seconds. It is all in the timing.
Hoping to hear all of you squirrels soon.
Later 4 U,
Glenn B
- September 13, 2012 at 8:53 PM
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2012 Buick Verano: Promising preview drive
Expectations are indeed great for the all-new 2012 Buick Verano, the division's first compact sedan in over two decades and its hoped-for hook to turn younger, hipper, and primarily import-intending buyers into life-long fans of the brand. Sharing a good deal of basic platform architecture with its domestic Chevy Cruze cousin - as well as the Opel Astra and China-market Buick Excelle -- the Buick's new Verano distinguishes itself thanks to a megaload of unique styling and content upgrades, not the least of which is a comprehensive infusion of Buick's "Quiet-tuning" enhancements.
We recently got a chance to briefly evaluate several pre-production versions of this promising newcomer which goes on sale late this year. Even though our initial encounter with Buick's new small sedan was confined to a small corner of GM's sprawling Milford Proving Grounds, the impressions that came across were decidedly positive.
The third all-new sedan to join the Buick lineup in the last three years, the 2012 Verano embodies a good deal of visual commonality with its larger Regal and LaCrosse siblings. To emphasize its premium character from curbside, the Buick Verano's cleanly sculpted bodywork is set off with good deal of brightwork detailing and standard 18-inch alloy wheels wrapped in 235/45 tires. Inside, the Verano makes an even stronger upscale design statement, from its soft-touch dash, fabric-wrapped pillars and 7-inch LCD center display to supportive cloth or leather-covered seats, automatic climate control, the latest iteration of GM's OnStar, Buick's Intellilink system and available Bose audio. The Verano's extensive roster of safety elements also includes a class-leading 10 airbags.
But in this realm, it's what you can't see -- or more appropriately, don't hear -- that makes the biggest difference, all courtesy of the pervasive Quiet-tuning program.
Essentially a front-to-rear, top-to-bottom effort to eliminate, absorb or block all undesirable noise from getting into the Verano's well-appointed inner sanctum, Quiet-tuning entailed using a full measure of GM's most sophisticated sound-deadening/noise-attenuation processes and techniques to ensure the 2012 Buick Verano is one of the quietest compact sedans on the road today. That formidable arsenal includes everything from unique blanket/mat configurations on various structural body bits to thicker front/rear glass and heavier-weight carpeting, all synergistically deployed to position the Verano within a whisper of its sonic bogey, the LaCrosse.
After flogging several different early-build Buick Verano sedans over a portion of the test loop comprised of rough, broken, and otherwise distressed road surfaces, then sitting in one as a gasoline-powered leaf blower was fired up just outside, we can say with at least qualified certainty that the isolation/din-abatement mission appears to have been successfully accomplished.
While our modest wheel time demands that any dynamic conclusions be cautiously qualified, there, too, the 2012 Buick Verano seems headed in the right direction. As in the Regal, its base engine is GM's 2.4-liter naturally aspirated/direct-injected Ecotec 4-cylinder that develops 180 horsepower and 172 lb-ft of torque in this application. All of that gets sent to the front wheels via a standard six-speed automatic transmission, giving the Verano a projected 0-60-mph time of about 8.7 seconds and EPA estimated city/highwy fuel economy of 22/31 mpg. Like the rest of the package, smoothness and refinement take precedent over pure visceral feel; but the Verano -- which weighs about 300 pounds less than the Regal -- does respond smartly to throttle input and seems eminently well prepared to cope with the demands of any daily commute. Verona fans requiring an extra bit of sudden impact will have to wait until sometime later on, when the 2.0-liter turbo 4-cylinder that makes 220 horsepower in the Regal will be offered as an option.
The Verano sedan's super-rigid unit body contains over 60-percent high-strength steel, which in addition to helping ward off flex-related squeaks and creaks also serves as a remarkably solid anchor point for the car's front MacPherson strut/Z-link torsion-beam rear suspension. Although there was little opportunity to engage in serious at-the-limit maneuvering, the few moments of envelope-stretching we did manage showed the Verano's well-tuned underpinnings adroitly balanced control with compliance in a manner likely to please the majority of prospective owners. With a standard StabiliTrak stability system to further help the cause, the smallest Buick also remained surprisingly composed during various transition moves.
Given this outing was primarily intended to showcase the effectiveness of its Quiet-tuning program, a true assessment on the 2012 Buick Verano's chances of finding favor with those considering alternatives like the Audi A3, Acura TSX or Lexus IS 250 will have to wait on a final-form example. However, what we experienced at this stage of its development plus a value-oriented $23,470 starting price leaves us inclined to think there's a fairly bright future ahead for Buick's newest family member.


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- In the debates Trump will be playing with house money.
Primary turnout has been record-setting on the Republican side. Even so, much less than half the people who will end up voting for Trump in November will have voted in a primary or caucus. On the Democrat side, where turnout has been depressed everywhere, primary participants will comprise less than one-third of the general election votes received.
Most general election voters are not engaged in nomination processes of either major party. Their perception of Trump the candidate is largely based on second-hand sources, and many of them probably expect him to look like this throughout the duration of the debates. At worst, he'll come out in as good of shape as he goes into a debate in.
With a little prep work and his effortless knack for maintaining frame control, he could turn these things into two hour exposes on Hillary's rape enabling, lying, corruption, assisting homicide, destroying Europe, etc. Whenever she launches into her stock response to accusation X, Trump jumps to accusation Y. The material he has to work with is endless. It will exhaust her. And as Trump well knows, she's vulnerable to this kind of exhaustion.
Hillary, in contrast, is a known political entity. Her objective will merely be to survive the debates.
- My brother casually described himself as a Trump Republican the other day when an acquaintance asked about his political views.
He nailed it. Branding is important. That description is perfectly elegant. It's unapologetic without coming off as unnecessarily antagonistic towards Republicans whose top choice wasn't Trump. It gels well with the phrase it will be most frequently compared to.
- Trump has the potential to win the white vote even more overwhelmingly than Reagan did in '84.
Hillary's top two policy priorities are about as unpopular with working- and middle-class whites as any two could be: Gun control and amnesty.
To make this a reality, the following suggestions: Jim Webb, Jeff Sessions, or Kris Kobach as VP, a cabinet or department head position offered to Sanders, and of course continuing to vigorously stir the pot of Sanders supporters' frustration with Clintonian inevitability:
No sobriquet for Sanders, nor should there be.
- There is more egg for the pundits' faces yet. Nate Silver, who has botched the entire Republican presidential nomination process from the beginning, still can't help himself, asserting that Trump will be a probable loser in November.
Technically speaking, that's true, but Silver doesn't provide much relevant context. The markets have Trump's odds at a little better than 1:2, or about what the Broncos' were going into Super Bowl 50. A Trump triumph should be, by this calculation, about as surprising as Denver's was, which is to say not at all shocking.
Silver is an augur whose divination is determined by Big Data entrails. His readings have regularly been off the mark over the last several months.
That's bad, but at least he should be trying. When it comes to generally perspicacious people for whom this is not an area of focus, the sloppy prognostications amount to silly unforced errors. Here's Razib Khan embracing ignorance and then, well, offering it. Just ahead of New Hampshire, he wrote:
Since I don't like to spend time on useless things, I've been following the primary race very superficially (sometimes to the extent of asking my labmate every few days what's going on). But I'd say go long on Rubio. Those following closely freak out too much over debates.Rubio ended up managing just Puerto Rico, Minnesota, and Washington DC before dropping out a month later.
Razib is a polymath. He has a higher IQ than I do. But there are things he is ignorant of. Primary voters weren't going to bail on Trump or Cruz in favor of Mr. Amnesty. That was clear.


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Even though this all happened two years ago, it appears that a variety of companies are waking up to how ridiculous this is. A marketing body in the UK has now released a report detailing how draconian the law is for marketers. The one thing that's still never been explained is why governments would grant these rights -- which go well beyond traditional trademark rights -- to the Olympics, which isn't exactly hurting for sponsors. What's wrong with applying traditional trademark law to the Olympics as well?


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John Prescott's massive Pathfinder programme, the series of projects planned to 'sort out' the over-supply of housing in the North through widespread demolition, is beginning to cause big trouble for Two Jags' huge department.
Causing the most problems is a project in Liverpool's Kensington, where the local council and a housing quango plan to knock down 360 Victorian and Edwardian homes ( ajplus 15.11.05).
The Edge Lane scheme, which is currently waiting on the outcome of a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) inquiry looking into the grievances of a host of residents, has garnered opposition that not even world-weary local planners could have predicted.
The main reasons for this campaign are two-fold.
Firstly, the planners made the drastic mistake of failing to recognise that this was not some working-class area that could easily be rolled over, but a strong community with a hefty middle-class element. This is illustrated by the number of architects in the opposition.
And secondly, the council and housing quango rushed forward like headless chickens.
This week the council has even started demolishing some homes, without the result of the CPO inquiry.
While this is not illegal, because the quango - the Liverpool Land Development Company (LLDC) - already has ownership of the properties, it implies a lack of forethought.
If those backing the Pathfinder demolition proposals do not win the CPO inquiry (and everything points to it being a very close-run thing), Edge Lane could wind up looking very odd - a swathe of demolished land interrupted occasionally by the homes of those who won the inquiry.
You don't have to have an MA in masterplanning to realise that this is not the kind of starting point that makes for a successful regeneration.
And there are many other errors, the biggest of which undermines the whole concept of the Pathfinder approach.
Namely that local groups, including planning academics, architects and conservationists, do not believe most of the houses need to be demolished.
At the very heart of the Housing Market Renewal Initiatives - the official name for Pathfinder - is the argument that the vast majority of the homes to be demolished must be unsalvageable. This does not appear to be the case in Edge Lane. If the houses don't need to be knocked down and the residents don't want to leave, then what is the point of the exercise? No-one, including those in the council and LLDC press offices, seems to know.
But most significant is the failure of the Pathfinder supporters to communicate to the residents exactly what it is they are attempting to achieve through the demolition. And one wonders whether they themselves get it.
If this Edge Lane debacle is a microcosm of the Pathfinder approach in general, and empirical evidence does seem to point in this direction, then Prescott is about to find himself in some seriously hot water.
Just what this embattled government needs right now?
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Paisleys birthday requests:
Crepes for breakfast
Spaghetti with butter and salt for dinner
Ice cream for dessert
Watch mermaidia (a Barbie movie that should be used as a military tortue weapon)
Donut holes to bring to school
And she did not want to go to the beach at all... Which is our normal Labor Day thing ... But wanted to swim in a pool.
For presents she just asked for makeup and gum... Bubble tape specifically. Oh yes and press on nails (thanks Nana)
We did it all! Special thanks for the lauricellas for letting us invite ourselves over the day of and double fun having our McCoy cousins there to celebrate in the morning.
Was even better that she scored petey from preschool for the weekend too
This is me and paisley showing our makeup that she did. Wowser!
We are so glad Paisley is in our family she is a joy! She has a awesome voice and has the most beautiful big green eyes! I'm so glad I get one more year with her before she starts kindergarten...it was a good choice. How did we get such a great daughter like Paisley? Paisley loves her family and loves church and school.


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Today was one of those days where I thought it was going one way and then it just straight up went the other direction. In both good and bad ways. The morning started off with trying to be a productive day but instead I went in circles. Follow that up with what I thought was going to be meeting up for coffee with a new friend and instead turned into a tour of Sphero with a networking moment. My brain is still a bit mushy from the experience. Wasn't expecting that at all and now I'm just utterly excited.
Of course, now I need to make up for minimal productivity by waking up early and working on projects. And have a long interruption to see Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with a friend in the middle of the day. Followed up by more work and Mochat at 7 PM. Gonna be an interesting day.
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- Prof Ira said...
Thanks, Frank. Sadly, the original "Nature" paper is paywalled and, as a non-subscriber I'm not willing to pay to read it. However, the Phys.org story is available for free and I read it through.
As you know, Einstein (and Ira :^) would like to find an interpretation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle that is compatible with a more classical view of Quantum Mechanics (QM) that would make it more compatible with Relativity and a Deterministic Universe. Perhaps this approach will help get us there.
As for Post-Modernism, I've long enjoyed this site that, mocking Post-Modern philosophy, generates formal-looking academic papers (from "elsewhere") that are total nonsense. http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
Love, Ira
- July 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM
- Prof Ira said...
Every time you visit http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ you get a new and different paper. Try it!
Love, Ira
- July 30, 2017 at 5:02 PM
- Prof Ira said...
This Wikipedia link details the (in)famous Sokal Affair where a total nonsense paper was published in Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
From that link:
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax,[1] was a scholarly publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether "a leading North American journal of cultural studies – whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross – [would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions".[2]
The article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity",[3] was published in the Social Text spring/summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. It proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[4][5] On the day of its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax.[2]
The hoax sparked a debate about the scholarly merit of humanistic commentary about the physical sciences; the influence of postmodern philosophy on social disciplines in general; academic ethics, including whether Sokal was wrong to deceive the editors and readers of Social Text; and whether Social Text had exercised appropriate intellectual rigor.
Love, Ira
- July 30, 2017 at 5:08 PM


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Kristen Wiig keeps it cute and chic while attending the premiere of her latest flick The Secret Life of Walter Mitty held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Thursday (November 21) in Sydney, Australia.
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We could just do the "the Void emerges" plot on a wider scale than just how the Shadow Isles gets involved. Honestly, while these very specific what-if plots are neat, they're not really conducive to the creation of original characters. At least not ones that come from a ton of different backgrounds and races.
EDITL LadyLaothen, welcome to E, and I would love to hear some of your ideas.
perhaps we could use the first plot and the happenings in freljord and put them together. I guarantee there is a way to do so, and the same goes with character selecition/creation.what characters did you think youd like to play Lao
what characters did you think youd like to play Lao
If that is the case. Chances are I will be Volibear or an Ursine.LadyLaothen has gotten points in my book for loving Sejuani.
Well, if it is the void vs. the shadow isles, with Frelijord, then I am unsure what I want to do. Any female character, as I am not very good at male characters. If there is someone who you think needs played, just let me know and I would probably be happy to.Sejuani is my favorite champion! Do you build her HP or AP? Jungle or Top?And Volibear is pretty Awesome as well.
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text: CHAPTER XVIII: THE POPES AT AVIGNON (continued) (AD 1314-1352) Pope Clement V died a few months before Philip (April, 1314), andwas succeeded by John XXII, a Frenchman, who was seventy years oldat the time of his election, and lived to ninety. The mostremarkable thing in John's papacy was his quarrel with Lewis ofBavaria, who had been chosen emperor by some of the electors, whileothers voted for Frederick of Austria. For the choice of an emperor(or rather of a king of the Romans) had by this time fallen into thehands of seven German princes, of whom four were laymen and threewere the archbishops of Mentz, Cologne, and Treves. And hence it isthat at a later time we find that some German princes had "elector"for their title, as the Electors of Hanover and the Electors ofBrandenburg; and even that the three clerical electors were morecommonly called electors than archbishops. It is not exactly knownwhen this way of choosing the kings of the Romans came in; but, as Ihave said, it was quite settled before the time of which we are nowspeaking.There was, then, a disputed election between Lewis of Bavaria andFrederick of Austria, and Pope John was well pleased to stand by andwatch their quarrel, so long as they only weakened each otherwithout coming to any settlement of the question. But when Lewis hadgot the better of Frederick, then John stepped in and told him thatit was for the pope to judge in such a case which of the two oughtto be king of the Romans. And he forbade all people to obey Lewis asking, and declared that whatever he might have done as king shouldbe of no effect. But people had become used to such sentences, sothat they would not mind them unless they thought them just; andthus Pope John's thunder was very little heeded. Although he excommunicated Lewis, the sentence had no effect, and by this andother things (especially a quarrel which John had with a part of theFranciscan order), people were set on inquiring into the rights ofthe papacy in a way which was quite new, so that their thoughts tooka direction which was very dangerous to the power of the popes.Lewis answered the pope by setting up an antipope against him. Butthis was a thing which had never succeeded; and so it was thatJohn's rival was obliged to submit, and, in token of the humblestrepentance, appeared with a rope round his neck at Avignon, wherethe rest of his life was spent in confinement.The pope on his part set up a rival emperor, Charles of Moravia, sonof that blind King John of Bohemia whose death at the battle ofCressy is known to us from the history of England. But Charles foundlittle support in Germany so long as Lewis was alive.The next pope, Benedict XII (AD 1334-1342), although of himself hewould have wished to make peace with Lewis, found himself preventedfrom doing so by the king of France, and his successor, Clement VI.(AD 1342-1352), who had once been tutor to Charles of Moravia,strongly supported his old pupil. Lewis died excommunicate in 1347,and was the last emperor who had to bear that sentence. But,although he suffered much on account of it, he had yet kept histitle of emperor as long as he lived; and he left a strong party ofsupporters, who were able to make good terms for themselves beforeCharles was allowed to take peaceable possession of the empire.


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Maybe we should call it the JAYstride. Or the JAYadvance. So much about Ohio Wesleyan's signature JAYwalk signals positive forward movement that we're doing much more than just walking.
From expanding the JAYwalk in Phase 1 to create an attractive "front door," to adding a "formal living room" with an eye-catching fountain in Phase 2, to creating an inviting "playroom" in Phase 3 – the JAYwalk continues to grow as a destination location for the entire campus community.
Phase 3, scheduled to begin this month, will add the 1963 Commons – a basketball-court-sized lawn west of Beeghly Library, providing an attractive outdoor activity space in the center of campus. Existing seating in the area will be replaced and enhanced with movable benches, tables, and Adirondack chairs.
The carefully planned project also will preserve the two mature Linden trees and – in consultation with botany/microbiology professor David Johnson, who oversees the campus' Jane Decker Arboretum – remove two diseased trees and a few smaller trees crowded too closely together to truly thrive. All of the trees will be replaced at a ratio of at least 2 to 1 in Phase 4 of the JAYwalk renewal, using desirable plants that add to the arboretum's inventory of species.
OWU emeritus professor "Ebb" Haycock's iconic bronze sculpture, "Oracle," also will be relocated during the Phase 3 renewal. The sculpture will be moved to the northwest corner of Beeghly Library, and Haycock has been collaborating with Building and Grounds staff to plan the transition to ensure its success.
Phase 3 is scheduled to be completed by May 2013 in time for Alumni Weekend and the Class of 1963's 50th reunion. Additional work during the same period to enhance the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center Food Court will add new seating along the outdoor terrace, further enhancing the European town square feeling that has begun to permeate the area.
Over time, Phase 4 will accommodate walking paths, quiet seating areas, pergolas, and other areas that invite people to relax and reflect after they enjoy spending time in the living room and playroom. For this phase, and in consultation with his family, the tree planted in memory of 2011 alumnus Aaron Riley will be relocated to ensure its long-term viability and prominence.
"The JAYwalk renewal project is enhancing the quality of the residential experience for our students and employees," President Rock Jones said. "It is an honor that our alumni have been so involved in helping to make the project a reality.
"The 1963 Commons will continue to add to the legacy of this alumni involvement and pride," Jones concluded. "It is a living, growing testament to the affinity our graduates have for their 'home away from home' at Ohio Wesleyan."


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A White House task force called for U.S. colleges to conduct mandatory surveys to reveal the frequency of sexual assault on their campuses and student attitudes toward such misconduct.
The Obama administration will provide colleges with sample questions and other materials to develop the surveys, according to a report released today by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. Officials will seek ways to require all colleges to conduct sexual-assault surveys by 2016, the report said.
College students across the country have formed campus groups and filed federal complaints, saying that their schools, law enforcement officials and government agencies aren't responding effectively to sexual misconduct. Members of the task force, formed by President Barack Obama in January, met with more than 2,000 people to understand the problem and begin developing recommendations, senior administration officials said yesterday in a teleconference with reporters.
"We are here to tell sexual-assault survivors that they are not alone," the report said. "And we're also here to help schools live up to their obligation to protect students from sexual violence."
One in five women will be sexually assaulted during her college years, and men are also sometimes victims of sexual aggression, according to the report. Still, the extent of the campus problem and how schools respond to it remains poorly understood, and Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri and a former prosecutor, has begun surveying hundreds of schools on their policies and practices.
"Everybody needs to be all-in on this fight," McCaskill, who plans to hold hearings on campus sexual assault later this year, said in an e-mailed statement. "I look forward to working closely with the White House on legislation to better protect our students and ensure perpetrators aren't getting a free pass."
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My weakness is not that I'm still in-love with carbs but that I hate to see food go to waste. I almost cry if I have to throw perfectly good food away simply because nobody wants it. Moping up food with my mouth once in a blue moon is not the same as doing it for weeks in a row. Lesson learnt!
- Dh's gone again, leaving me frustrated in a way only a woman whose husband travels a lot while they are ttc and she's infertile can understand. Ever since we got married I don't think I've spent 6 straight months with my hubby. In the beginning I thought that was why we weren't getting pregnant before I was diagnosed with PCOS. I suppose I should stop moaning and thank God I have a husband in the first place. But that's not the point. The point is he sets me up for disappointment each time he returns just before I ov and I end up getting a bfn. I'm putting ttc on the backburner for now untill he gets a more stable job for the sake of my sanity.
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