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Hi Eric,
I think the trick is always check the SAVE AS box. Even when the right name is already written. I thought, the checkbox SAVE AS, is there, to create a new name and not to overwrite the choosen design. So I never checked the box, cause, I didnt want to create an new name.
But it seems, to save changes to the same design, I have to check the box, too. This is a little strange. Or am I wrong? maybe you can fix that in an update:-)
thanks for maken me doing it step by step, so I found the reason why.
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We read through the book all at once so it was a bit much to go through these review questions all in one sitting but there were some good ones in there, some including family discussion like...
Tell about a time you and another person worked together.
Tell about a time you felt frightened of something.
Have you ever heard about an animal helping a person?
The word matches I did out loud and gave the kids a few choices to pick from. They did very well with it.
* Find Tanzania and Kenya on a world map. (we actually did this at the beginning of the book so we'd know what we were reading about)
* A crossword to review, making for a fun way to review vocabulary words.
* Fun facts about animals that migrate.
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The 8.1 update to Microsoft's controversial WIndows 8 has broken cover at the Computex 2013 expo in Taipei, Taiwan, with company executives taking to the stage to show off the new stuff in the operating system refresh.
Most of the changes are to the user interface, but universal search has now been enabled, returning results from not just the local device but also the web.
The lock-screen can now show images and there are new tile sizes for the start screen; there is also a sortable screen for all applications that is easily accessible by swiping up from the start screen.
App icons can now be grouped and moved together, but those hoping for a start button with a menu or similar feature will be disappointed to find this won't be available.
The public demonstration was done by Microsoft's chief financial and marketing officer Tami Reller, along with the company's vice president for the Windows programme management, Antoine Leblond.
Windows RT tablets will also be updated to Windows 8.1, Reller said. As part of the update, WinRT tablets will get the Outlook 2013 messaging program that has been missing from the Office productivity suite bundled with the devices.
Microsoft's Windows user experience team member Jensen Harris shows off the new features and changes in the upcoming Windows 8.1 update.
A public preview of Windows 8.1 will become available June 27 Australian time, Microsoft said, but the company has yet to announce when the final version will be ready.


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Unity Launcher steals minimize app animation end point from other docks
|Assigned to
|Cairo-Dock Core
|unity (Ubuntu)
Bug Description
If I use a dock app other than Unity Launcher (e.g. Docky, AWN, Cairo Dock, Plank etc.) and use an animation for minimizing my open windows (for example, 'Magic Lamp'), the animation should be ending on my dock app's icon for that window. However, more often than not, Unity's Launcher steals that end point, so on minimizing the animation's end point goes to the Launcher instead on the other dock app as it should. Same thing with the start point for the restore animation. This is most frustrating for me, it looks disgusting.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.16.0-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
Date: Fri Nov 9 22:20:01 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac (20120425.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
There is actually nothing that can be done here. Only 1 location on the screen can be the icon region for an application. If you run more than 1 dock, then they will (at best) fight to set that region. Unity updates the region more often than say Docky, so it 'wins' in that situation. There is nothing the docks (or Unity) can do here.
|Changed in docky:
|New → Invalid
|Changed in docky:
|Invalid → New
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
Please do not change the bug status for Docky. We consider this to be an Invalid bug.
|Changed in docky:
|New → Invalid
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
Thanks a lot for the quick reply Robert, and for finally clarifying this to me. I've been trying to get any useful information about this problem for at least a year, with nobody bothering to help me.
I'm not sure I get you. Before Unity Launcher was introduced, we had panels in our Desktop Environments, and they were acting as containers for the open windows' icons. However, they weren't causing (to my knowledge) any such conflicts. I don't see how different this situation now is, except that instead of panels we have Unity's Launcher.
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
Also think about the general problem you are seeing. Your application has 2 locations on the screen that have a launcher for it: one on Unity and one on <some other dock>. How is the system supposed to know which of those 2 it should animate the minimize to?
You can solve the problem by only having ONE of the 2 contain a launcher for the program. So between Unity's launcher and <other dock> your application only appears on one of the two. In that case, it should work as expected.
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
The panels also caused the problem. It is just that the frequency with which the panels updated the icon regions was (most likely) much less, so the dock would 'win' in that situation. Unity, as far as I know, updates the regions much more frequently (at least in comparison to Docky and Plank, which I work on). Thus Unity typically 'wins' against other docks.
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
For reference, here is the standard property:
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
I just realized I tend to call it 'icon region' when its actually named 'icon geometry'. Hope that didn't confuse you more! ;-)
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
I see what you mean, here's what I think. For one thing, I hate the stupid Launcher, I don't need it, I don't want to use it and it makes my life miserable. Of course, that's my personal opinion and it differs from what Mark Shuttleworth thinks about the Launcher. That's why we now have the Launcher that can't be disabled, unfortunately. Anyway, my Launcher is always hidden (it's not showing on the screen) and I'm not using it, like, ever. I only use my dock apps (specifically Docky) and I only want them to manage my open windows.
For example, in CCSM > Animations > Effect Settings > Magic Lamp, there is a setting 'Open/Close Moving End'. As explained in Compiz Wiki (http://
Of course, I'm talking just like a mere user, without any in-depth knowledge of the code behind. But this is a behaviour that doesn't make much sense. That's why I've reported this bug primarily against Unity. I wish, if after all we can't get rid of the terrible Launcher, we were at least able to minimize its negative impact on all the other useful apps.
What I think can be done, well, where you say 'Unity updates the region more often than say Docky, so it 'wins' in that situation.', pardon my dumb question, but couldn't you in that case make Docky update the region more often (what ever that means)? If I'm not mistaking, that would make Docky win again, wouldn't it?
And where you say 'There is actually nothing that can be done here. Only 1 location on the screen can be the icon region for an application.', then can anything be done to actually change the Desktop Environment, so that more than just one location on the screen can be the icon region for a window?
My point is, if only developers realize that something *should* be done here, than there would be plenty that can be done. And I mean the Unity developers here.
Finally, it's understandable to have a conflict if more than one dock are visible on the screen. But in that case why can't we simply have an option to have an animation's start/end point move to the cursor for minimizing/
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
Also, what I can notice, and it completely responds to what you explained, is that while using Plank, this giltch occured only once in MONTHS! So once in several thousand clicks, that's actually fine. Whereas with Docky it starts after 5-10 clicks tops (sometimes even right after the first open window), and it stays forever, never getting better.
If only Docky was more like Plank in this, it would make a world of difference.
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
"If I'm not mistaking, that would make Docky win again" Maybe. Maybe not. The point here is that they are both contending to set that geometry, so if Docky starts updating more frequently then you'll probably see much more non-deterministic behavior. They will fight even more!
"can anything be done to actually change the Desktop Environment, so that more than just one location on the screen can be the icon region for a window?" This is actually part of the WM standard, changing this is a lot more involved than you probably realize.
"why can't we simply have an option to have an animation's start/end point move to the cursor for minimizing/
There is one option you seem to be missing: stop using Unity. Switch over to something else, like XFCE.
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
Of course I'm aware I could use other environments, but I like the other Unity's features, the Dash, HUD etc. I just hate the Launcher.
Thank you so much for your time, patience and explanations. What ever the cause is, I see Plank and Cairo practically never having this problem, and AWN having it to much less extent. Docky is the only dock app that "fights", as you described it, with the Launcher this much, and constantly losing. One, Docky is currently my dock app of choice, so I'd like to see this improved, and two, I'm pretty sure at least something can be done, so that Docky becomes more like Plank or Cairo, that's all.
|Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :
Docky 2.x is no longer under active development. Docky 3.0 and on will be based off Plank.
|Changed in cairo-dock-core:
|New → Invalid
|Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
|Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
|New → Confirmed
|Changed in unity:
|New → Confirmed
|Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote :
As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug.
|Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
|Confirmed → Opinion
|Changed in docky:
|Invalid → Opinion
|Changed in cairo-dock-core:
|Invalid → Opinion
|Changed in awn:
|New → Opinion
|Changed in unity:
|Confirmed → Opinion
|Томица Кораћ (tomak-delijeonline) wrote :
Alex, what difference will this change of status make? Will it help this issue get solved faster?
|Dmitry Timoshenko (whityfenix) wrote :
+1 Still the same on 16.04 LTS with Cairo-Dock 3.4.1.


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When I showed you my African Flower blanket, I stated that there was nothing much to say about it. Today I decided that I was wrong. I have more to say, that I hope might be helpful for someone.
Maybe you are new to African Flower hexagons? You can find the pattern here.
We can also talk about the join. Sometimes I sew the hexagons together, but I don't have that patience with a big piece like this. So I joined on the go, as I was doing the last round on the hexagon.
The first join takes place in a corner. Instead of just making that chain, I make a slip stitch through the corner of the hexagon I'm joining to. Then I make 3 hdc and I slip my hook from the loop. I stick the hook in between the 3rd and 4th stitches (on the left side from the joined corner) and pick up the loop and pull it through. I do this every 3rd stitch. When I join to a corner with two hexagons, I make on slip stitch in both corners.
This join isn't completely flat or invisible, but it is fast and easy.
If you want to try this join but you don't understand my instructions, just let me know and I can show you.
The thing with hexagons is that you don't get even edges. If that is what you want, you have to fix it somehow.
Below, you can see the long side of my blanket. Between the peaks of the hexagons, you get a V that you might want to build up to an even (or almost, you can tell I don't like blocking, right?) edge.
This is how I do it.
Round 1
Start in the top chain space, join the yarn and ch 1. This is your first sc. *Sc in next st, 3 hdc, 2 dc, make a dc cluster with first dc in the corner, second in the join between the hexagon, and third in the corner of the next hexagon. Continue with 2 dc (don't miss the stitch in the corner), 3 hdc, sc and sc in the corner.* Now you can repeat from * to *. When you reach the corner of your work, you make 3 sc in the corner space.
On the short side, make sc evenly across the entire side. Make 3 sc's in the corner space and repeat the pattern for the long side. Join with a slip stitch in the first sc when you have completed the round.
Round 2
Sc in the same stitch, *sc in the next 3 sts, 3 hdc, 2 dc, dc cluster in the next 3 sts, 2 dc, 3 hdc, sc*. Repeat from * to *. In the corner, make (hdc, ch 2, hdc) in the middle sc.
On the short side, hdc in each stitch. Repeat corner, long side and short side around your work. Join in first sc.
It might happen that you will have to add an extra sc or two around the corners. If you don't like my crooked style, you can always block.
I didn't mention this, but in order to get my short sides even, I made a half African Flower for each space. This gives a fairly straight edge to just work sc over.
Well then, let's move over to the actual border. I made mine in brown and beige, to calm down the blanket a bit.
Round 1 - Brown
Sc in every st. (Sc, ch 2, sc) in corner space. Join with first st and cut yarn.
Round 2 - Beige
Hdc in every st. (Hdc, ch 2, hdc) in corner space. Join with first st.
Round 3 - Beige
Make sure that you will skip the last st before the corner. If not, make sl st into next st before you start this round.
Ch 4 (this is your first dc and ch 1). *Skip next st, dc in next st, ch 1* repeat to corner. In corner space make (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1). Skip hidden st in corner and next st. Repeat * to * and corners. Join in 3rd ch in the beginning of the round. Cut yarn.
Round 4 - Brown
Join in dc with sl st and ch 3, or start with standing dc. Dc in same stitch. * Skip ch, 2 dc in dc*, repeat * to * until corner. In middle dc, make 6 dc. Repeat for every side. Join and cut yarn.
Round 5 - Beige
Dc in every st, in 4th dc in corner make (dc, ch 2, dc). Repeat for every side. Join but do not cut.
Round 6 - Beige
Ch 2 (first sc), sc in every st. 3 sc in corner space. Do not skip hidden st in corner. Repeat, join and cut yarn.
Round 7 - Brown
We will make a sc cross stitch.
Find the middle corner sc. Count two st away, join and ch 2 as your first sc. Now, go back and make a sc in the first st after the middle corner sc, over your first sc. Skip the 3rd st and sc in 4th st. Sc in 3rd st. Continue like this, skip one st, sc in next, sc in the st you skipped. When you reach the corner, 3 sc in the middle sc. Skip the next st, sc in next st, sc in the st you skipped.
It is not easy to explain without a lot of pictures, which I didn't have now. If you want a tutorial, just ask. Or search, I am sure there are videos and tutorials on this stitch out there.
Well, now I think I have said it all. Time to get some sleep, I guess.
Take care!


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Let's talk about our barn today. Oh my...the barn. Honestly, I have to post these photos periodically simply to remind myself that we've made some progress in the past year. We're slowly but surely working towards this. In the back of my mind, we're on a 3-year-plan for the barn, but even that may be a little unrealistic...unless, of course, some metal roofing company wants to sponsor our roof and some paint company- I'm looking at you, Valspar- wants to supply oodles of Forest Canopy. I'm not proud...I'll take your metal roofing materials and your beautiful paint...and then I'll also kiss you. I digress.
The photo above is the potting shed this morning and below is the potting shed one year ago. We need to replace those windows and finish the trim, but it's getting there, right?


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Media and The Assault of Man's Body
In the movie Fight Club, the character Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) boards a bus and is confronted by an advertisement depicting a model's perfectly muscled fantasy male body, sculpted by pathological obsession and posed as if natural. "Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?" he asks.
It's a common question, though not always a conscious one. Modern life takes place amidst a never-ending barrage of flesh on screens, pages, and billboards. These images convey assumptions about what is desirable in our physical selves while dispensing with reality.
Because the media have been objectifying women for so long, researchers have had time to create a body of literature on the effects of these images on women. (In short, they make women feel worse about themselves, and often cause unhealthy behaviors.)
But over the past two decades, the gender gap in media objectification has closed. Every bit as unattainable as Barbie-doll proportions and the heroin chic look are the broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, fat-free, and muscle-sheathed male physiques littering today's media.
Researchers are beginning to pay attention to what these stimuli do to the male body image. Guys, it turns out, have body issues too.
When it comes to the media and male bodies, size and shape aren't the only issues. There's also the so-called "real body": hair, sweat, blemishes, smells—all the characteristics that are noticeably absent or can't be fully conveyed in a picture or on a screen.
Twentieth-century communications guru George Gerbner said that what we see on TV and in magazines eventually becomes our standard of reality and desire; failing to meet it is perceived as deficiency. Characteristics like sweat and hair can be controlled on screen but never escaped in reality, so some men come to see these essential parts of their body as they might a rounded belly or unfirm bicep: as a gross, unfortunate flaw.
"Hair is supposed to be ugly, so men in ads have their body hair shaved off, or disappeared with Photoshop," said Michael Rich, director of the
This spring,
"People see the same images over and over and start to believe it's a version of reality," said Schooler. "If those bodies are real and that's possible, but you can't attain it, how can you not feel bad about your own body?"
For their study, which appeared in the journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity, Schooler and Ward interviewed 179 undergraduate males at the University of Michigan, first asking how often each watched prime-time television and music videos, as well as how frequently they read fitness or sports magazines. Ward and Schooler also questioned the men about their sexual experiences and how they felt about their own physiques and their "real bodies."
Twentieth-century communications guru George Gerbner said that what we see on TV and in magazines eventually becomes our standard of reality and desire; failing to meet it is perceived as deficiency.
Looking at "real bodies" in addition to muscularity is a new approach for researchers, who have traditionally focused on muscularity or thinness. Schooler and Ward used a measuring system co-developed by Ward just four years ago. It utilizes questions such as, "How comfortable are you with the quantity/thickness of your facial hair?" and "How comfortable are you with the smell of your own sweat?"
According to Schooler, she and Ward predicted that average guys would feel scrawny and inadequate in the face of pictures of sculpted, muscle-bound men. But this was, surprisingly, not the case.
The students' feelings about personal size and physique didn't seem to be affected by media.
However, students who consumed more media than average, particularly music videos and prime-time TV, were uncomfortable with one aspect of their physique—their 'real bodies'.
This discomfort correlated with the men being less likely to have healthy sexual relationships.
"If all of a sudden you're in an intimate situation and these aspects of your body are exposed, you have to deal with the fact that your body doesn't meet the ideal," said Schooler. "You're concerned with how your partner is evaluating you, how you look and smell."
This discomfort appeared to increase the chances of guys to take sexual risks, such as engaging in unprotected sex.
Schooler isn't sure exactly how being grossed out by your back hair translates into unprotected sex. She hypothesizes that men, when ashamed, detach emotionally and mentally from sexual situations—they aren't attentive to their partner's needs or open with their own. She adds that they are more likely to be careless. Such behaviors have been observed in women who are uncomfortable with their bodies.
Depression could also play a role.
According to University of North Dakota psychologist Ric Ferraro, a negative body image makes people unhappy, leading them to be alternatively less likely to speak up for themselves when pressured and more likely to take risks as a way of impressing others.
"They engage in behaviors in hopes of feeling better, and end up getting worse," said Ferraro.
Whether "real-body" discomfort in men is truly new or something that's only now being noticed is impossible to say, but sociologists and psychologists say that images of hairless, sweatless, pseudo-perfect men are more common than ever before.
Ideally, psychologists say, people should recognize that billboard bodies just aren't real, and learn to be happy with their own appearance. That, of course, is easier said than done.
Maybe an ad campaign would help.


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My organization basically amounts to a form of "organized chaos."
My desk is covered with various notebooks, each containing meeting notes, brainstorm ideas and assignments. There are sticky pads of all shapes and sizes littered throughout my space.
The walls of my "cube" are covered with quotes, reminders and checklists. And this trend continues in my apartment too--mini notepads filled with knitting designs and recipe ideas. You get the idea.
During my morning ritual of Fast Company + coffee, I came across something very valuable: an analog note-taking system for the digital world.
Why is this so amazing, you might ask? Because I'm just not one of those people who effectively uses technology to keep their life organized. Beyond a calendar and email, the only application I find useful is Pinterest (inspiration!).
I've tried and tried to task myself with using technology to maintain a sense of organization--to no avail.
I prefer analog, and that's it. There will be no changing me. I love doodling and writing lists with a paper and pen. However, I do myself no service by filling random notebooks with random ideas, never to be easily located again.
But this note-taking system, the Bullet Journal, offers an analog gal like myself a way to corral the messiest of notebooks.
Maybe you'll find it useful too?


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The Peace Warriors of Two Thousand and Three. By Carl Chiarenza. Nazraeli Press, 2005. 40 pp., illustrated throughout, 14x17". Limited edition of 500 copies. Images from here.
Book description:
" 'Everywhere confrontation reigns, conflict is chosen, resolution avoided. My world is a confused collage, a nightmare montage - a world in which, once again, humanity and inhumanity are seen, impossibly, as one and the same.' - Carl Chiarenza
We are delighted to announce the publication of our second monograph by Carl Chiarenza, whose work as artist, educator, art historian and critic has been a significant influence on the American photography scene for many years.
He made these powerful collages in 2003, a time when, he says, 'the world once again went mad'. Coming out of his sense of impotence and frustration at world events, these collages shed their abstraction and do indeed resemble warriors, but these are warriors for peace.
'Chance', says Chiarenza, 'structured these images as much as chance structured our world. But chance itself is structured by human beings'.
His photographs are represented in many important collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."


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Sometime in the 1980's Martyn suggested that we looked into taking on an allotment.
We already had a vegetable patch in our garden but we wanted to grow more of everything - vegetables and flowers - and just didn't have the space.
At that time it was fairly easy to obtain an allotment quickly and we took on a plot at Green Lane. Since then our plot has grown - in more ways than one - and our garden undergone many changes.
This blog is mainly devoted to our gardening activities and the wild life that share our gardening spaces but at times I allow non gardening posts to sneak in too.


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Free emergency preparedness training slated
The two-hour program begins at 7 pm.
The event is opened to any interested citizen and no sign-up in advance is required.
The event is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's continuing Citizen Preparedness Corps Training Program, which provides citizens with the knowledge and tools to prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond accordingly, and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions.
Working with the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) and local emergency management personnel, troops are conducting these training events across the state.
Since the program's launch in early February 2014, troops have held more than 1,520 events statewide, and taught over 100,700 citizens how to be better prepared for emergencies and disasters.
The program, designed by DHSES, covers a broad range of emergency-preparedness topics, like developing a family emergency plan, stocking up on emergency supplies, and registering for NY-Alert, the free statewide emergency alert system.
The Citizen Preparedness Corps has equipped thousands of New Yorkers to respond better to emergencies and disasters, he stressed.
Emergency preparedness is part and parcel of the New York National Guard's mission and experience, according to New York State Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Anthony German.
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"Our Soldiers and Airmen are proud to be part of Governor Cuomo's effort to help our fellow citizens prepare to cope with disasters and emergencies," German added.
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As much as I seek to inspire others, here's who inspire me:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.."
Aretha Franklin
No other woman of the 20th century has taught women more about being aware of their own power and beauty or how they deserve to be treated by men.
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James Brown, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five
As a little black boy growing up in the ghetto these public figures helped shape my integrity and self-respect. James Brown singing "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud!" was a profound statement for me and I sang it like an anthem. Muhammad Ali was the first real-life black hero I realized I had – not something in a comic book. And he didn't just have strength and a loud mouth – the man spoke sense! Wisdoms to live by.
The Jackson Five was just another ghetto boy's dream come true – you had these kids from a rough background that had grabbed onto the "American Dream." They were inspiring and their music was really good; their songs stand as classics today: "I Want You Back," "The Love You Save," "ABC," "Dancing Machine" – all good stuff.
Michael Jackson himself was a "gift" like Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, and Elon Musk. I was literally so in awe of Jackson's talent I was content to slowly build my career as I watched the juggernaut that was Michael Jackson. I am glad I was in his time
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Robin Williams
I am still reeling and perplexed about Robin Williams' suicide. I've personally had two friends who committed suicide.
The idea that someone who is also such a "gift" to this world could not find his own place and balance in this world leaves me to think he must have bought into some BS about his self-worth. Maybe some playground bully or adult in his early life convinced him he'll be nothing, no matter what he did. I can't imagine anyone with any love for themselves being able to self-murder like that. Man, woman, child or beast – whoever spoke to him like that – he should have told them to go f— themselves.


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International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2013, Article ID 713943, 10 pages
Near Field UHF RFID Antenna System Enabling the Tracking of Small Laboratory Animals
Department of Innovation Engineering, Salento University, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Received 12 April 2013; Revised 31 May 2013; Accepted 1 June 2013
Academic Editor: Iñigo Cuiñas
Copyright © 2013 Luca Catarinucci et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is more and more adopted in a wide range of applicative scenarios. In many cases, such as the tracking of small-size living animals for behaviour analysis purposes, the straightforward use of commercial solutions does not ensure adequate performance. Consequently, both RFID hardware and the control software should be tailored for the particular application. In this work, a novel RFID-based approach enabling an effective localization and tracking of small-sized laboratory animals is proposed. It is mainly based on a UHF Near Field RFID multiantenna system, to be placed under the animals' cage, and able to rigorously identify the NF RFID tags implanted in laboratory animals (e.g., mice). Once the requirements of the reader antenna have been individuated, the antenna system has been designed and realized. Moreover, an algorithm based on the measured Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) aiming at removing potential ambiguities in data captured by the multiantenna system has been developed and integrated. The animal tracking system has been largely tested on phantom mice in order to verify its ability to precisely localize each subject and to reconstruct its path. The achieved and discussed results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed tracking system.
1. Introduction
The cost-effectiveness and ease of use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band are promoting a huge diffusion of such technology in a wide range of scenarios, even quite far from the canonical ones related to logistics. Identification of goods containing liquids or metal [1–3], traceability of sensitive goods, such as pharmaceutical products [4–7], RFID-based sensor data transmission [8–10], RFID-assisted navigation of robots [11], and augmented RFID scenarios [12–15], which are only a few of the many possible examples. A peculiar case study, not yet exhaustively explored [16], consists of the tracking of small-size animals carrying a small-enough RFID tag. Indeed, animal tracking and animal behavior analysis have always had a crucial impact both in dedicated disciplines and in biomedical contexts [17], and different technologies are typically adopted depending on the application context. For instance, in most cases medium/large size animals (e.g., cows, pigs, etc.) in outdoor environment are monitored, and GPS-based or radar-based tracking solutions are adopted [18, 19]. But when groups of small laboratory animals in indoor environments are considered, a different solution is necessary. This is the most important challenge, because the behavior analysis of small laboratory animals is crucial when, for instance, the effects of new drugs or vaccines for humans must be preliminary evaluated. The literature in this field proposes solutions primarily based on Low Frequency (LF) [16] or High Frequency (HF) [10] RFID systems and, consequently, not exploiting the powerful of the EPC Class-1 Generation-2 standard, which provides, for instance, anticollision mechanisms for the concurrent identification of multiple tags. Other reported solutions, not based on RFID technology, make use of sophisticated and rather expensive vision systems [20], which, though avoiding the animal to carry or having implanted any kind of device, can be strongly inaccurate, especially when colonies of animals very similar to each other must be simultaneously localized and tracked. In such a context, it is worth highlighting that a first attempt that tries to exploit the passive RFID technology in UHF band in order to implement and validate localization and tracking systems is summarized in [21]. Moreover, a feasibility study on the use of UHF solutions for small animal tracking is reported in [22]. Both works demonstrate the appropriateness of the use of RFID technology in the addressed problem.
In this work, a novel system suitable for the tracking, in indoor environments, of laboratory animals free to move within the cage has been tackled. It relies on the use of passive Near Field (NF) UHF RFID technology. More specifically, the ground of the animal cage is virtually split into partially overlapping cells whose size is comparable with that of the animal. As the system is mainly thought for laboratory mice tracking, squared cells, with side equals to 12 cm, are considered. Under the fundamental working assumption that a passive NF UHF RFID tag is implanted in every animal, customized NF reader antennas covering the cells with a confined and uniform magnetic field are positioned right below the cage and in correspondence with each elementary cell. The individuation of the requirements of such NF antennas and their realization and characterization are the main scientific aspects of this work, as the more uniform and confined is the magnetic field of each antenna, the easier and more effective is the processing procedure of the captured data from antenna system. These requirements are satisfied by means of segmented loop techniques in order to introduce a distributed capacitance along the loop that help to lead in-phase the current distribution. In this way, a rather uniform magnetic field even for loop lengths comparable with the wavelength () can be obtained.
Once the antennas have been realized and singularly characterized, the optimum distance between each couple of antennas has been experimentally estimated, and a matrix of 32 RFID antennas has been assembled. Moreover, in order to minimize both the number of RFID readers and the power radiation, the antennas have been connected to the four ports of a single RFID reader by means of a multiplexing device. In this way, the antennas are fed in time division and, consequently, at any instant, only one of them radiates. Finally, once Far Field (FF) measurements have been performed in order to verify the absence of electromagnetic compatibility problems, a software subsystem driving the hardware components and including an effective algorithm, able to extract reliable information about the animals' position on the basis of the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), has been implemented. Finally, the whole tracking system has been validated successfully.
The paper is structured as follows. In Section 2, the description of the system architecture is given and its requirements individuated. In Section 3, the design of the NF antenna system is presented, whilst the whole system is described and characterized in Section 4. Finally, results are given in Section 5, and conclusions are drawn in Section 6.
2. System Architecture and Main Requirements
The main goal of this work is to design and realize an RFID-based tracking system suitable for the behavior analysis of groups of animals and even of each single animal belonging to a group. In particular, the system is thought for small-sized laboratory animals, usually mice, free to move within a cage. Consequently, a resolution of the order of the animal size is considered satisfactory. As for the enabling technology, passive UHF RFID typology has been chosen because, compared with other solutions usually based on vision systems, it is cheaper and guarantees better performance even in case of strong similitude among the animals and in absence of illumination. The basic idea is to firstly design and realize a particular NF antenna system suitable for UHF RFID readers to be placed below the animal cage and, then, to validate the integration with software modules developed for management, controlling, storing, and reporting. Each reader antenna should be able to generate a rather uniform magnetic field in a well-defined and confined region representing the generic elementary cell of the system. In such a way, when only one of the antennas reads an RFID tag, the animal position is promptly individuated. Vice versa, if more than one antenna read the same RFID tag, the potential ambiguity can be solved through an algorithm based on RSSI analysis. The general scheme is represented in Figure 1, where a case with 32 elementary cells is considered. As can be observed, a PC is used to control the RFID reader and to elaborate the collected data. In order to minimize the number of readers, the system cost, and the emitted power, a single 4-port RFID reader is used which powers up all the 32 antennas in time division by means of a multiplexer composed of the GPIO box and four antenna hubs. Differently from [22], in which only a preliminary and very simplified hardware system was presented (e.g., the Antenna Hubs were not used) and the focus was only on the software architecture design and implementation, in this work a more complex hardware system is presented. By using such a hardware, it is possible to monitor a larger environment and therefore a greater number of animals, reducing the costs.
It is fundamental to identify the main requirements to be satisfied by the hardware components (e.g., antenna, multiplexer, etc.) as well as by the software infrastructure in order to design an efficient animal tracking system.
As for the antenna system in the RFID UHF bandwidth (860–960 MHz), the main goal is to realize a single antenna able to generate a magnetic field as uniform as possible in a region as large as the elementary cell, which in the mice case is smaller than 12 cm × 12 cm. It is worth observing that conventional loop antennas cannot be adopted, as they would guarantee a uniform magnetic field only for loop length significantly smaller than [23], that is, for squared antennas with edges significantly smaller than 4 cm at the interested working frequency.
Based on such an antenna system, the software infrastructure should be able to pilot the system, to collect data, to resolve potential ambiguities when more antennas read the same tag, and finally to produce a report for each animal showing paths, interactions with other animals, and potential anomalous behaviors. For such goals, the proposed software architecture should be subdivided into three modules:(i)the data acquisition module, that should be able to guarantee an efficient management by exploiting the Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) [24] and should provide reading reports of each reader antenna to be stored in a relational database; (ii)the processing module, that should be able to transform the intercepted raw data into fine location data; (iii)the plotting module, that should be able to provide the end-user (i.e., animals behavioral researcher) with both a synthetic vision and a detailed vision.
3. Antenna Design
In order to obtain an effective localization, each antenna composing the animal tracking system has to be specifically designed in order to (1) irradiate a magnetic field as confined as possible in a cell, (2) ensure an inductive coupling with the RFID tag when the animal is on the cell associated to the reader antenna, and (3) guarantee a uniform magnetic field within the cell in order to minimize the localization uncertainty. Actually, even though NF UHF RFID reader antennas exhibiting good electromagnetic performance are on the market, antennas that contemporaneously cover all the mentioned requirements are not present yet and, consequently, have to be specifically designed. According to the first specification, among all the possible antenna structures [23, 25–27], the loop structure seems to be a good solution to implement NF reader antennas. Nevertheless, in the conventional loop [23, 25], when the antenna perimeter is comparable with the wavelength at the operating frequency , the antenna does not produce a uniform magnetic field because currents are not in phase along the circumference. This aspect does not satisfy the other desired properties. The problem can be overcome by modeling the structure as a segmented loop antenna.
Although segmented loop antennas for RFID applications are in the literature [26], excessive dimensions of such antennas, of about 16 cm × 18 cm, are not compatible with the size of the cells at the desired frequency. For such reason, in order to reduce the segmented loop antenna size and, at the same time, preserve the radiative properties of this type of antennas, some modifications have been introduced. In Figure 2(a), the layout of the proposed segmented loop antenna is shown. The parameters and indicate the segment length and the gap distance between each segment respectively, whilst the parameter is the width of the segment and is the distance among inner and outer segments. As can be observed, differently from the segmented loop antennas presented in [26], the proposed structure exhibits two technical improvements which guarantee, on the one hand, a considerable size reduction (even up to 50%) and, on the other hand, fine regulation and a balancing of the current flow along the loop. The former improvement consists of introducing an inner segment at the top of the antenna having size . The effect of this relatively "long" segment is to balance the current distribution, which typically tends to concentrate itself at the bottom of the antenna (near to the feed) when the overall loop dimension is reduced. Actually, the size of this segment is sufficiently small if compared with the wavelength, thus avoiding the current phase inversion, and at the same time it is long enough to favor the current flow along the top side of the antenna. The latter improvement consists of properly modifying the gap at the top of the antenna, which allows a fine tuning of the current distribution in the whole antenna.
On such basis, the antenna in Figure 2(a) has been preliminarily designed on an FR-4 board having dielectric constant , substrate thickness mm, and copper thickness mm and then optimized to work in the European dedicated UHF RFID band. Moreover, a matching network, consisting of a small loop in proximity of the feed (see Figure 2(a)), has been introduced to match the antenna impedance to the reader port impedance of 50 Ω. Table 1 summarizes the antenna parameters obtained after the simulation phase carried out by using CST Microwave Studio software [28].
More in detail, such parameters have been evaluated through a parametric optimization by using a gradient-based interpolated Quasi-Newton optimizer of CST and by setting a resonance frequency of 866 MHz as fitness function.
After such phase, size of the antenna is of 89.0 mm × 93.0 mm (becoming 100.0 mm × 115.0 mm including the support board) with a reduction in terms of occupied area of 51% with respect to the segmented loop presented in [26]. In spite of such a considerable size reduction, the current flow along the antenna is uniform as can be observed in Figure 2(b), and consequently the expected radiated magnetic field is uniform as well, and rather confined in a region slightly larger than the total area of the antenna. For a better clarification, in Figure 2(c) a slice of the simulated distribution of the radiated magnetic field at 2.5 cm of distance from the antenna is shown, confirming the actual magnetic field uniformity and the proper antenna operation.
Finally, in order to prove also the faultless impedance matching between the antenna and the reader port, in Figure 3, graphs of both simulated and measured |S11| scattering parameters related to the reference impedance of 50 Ω in the frequency band 700–1100 MHz are reported. Graphs highlight the very good agreement between the two curves with a resonance peak of −29 dB in the first case and −23 dB in the second one at 866 MHz. The || measure has been carried out by using the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) model R&S ZVL 6.
4. System Design
The system, as a whole, is designed and implemented so as to provide accurate data on the mice movements during the desired observation period. Macroscopically, the system consists of the blocks represented in Figure 4, in which it is possible to distinguish the hardware subsystem, shown in Figure 1, and the software subsystem, responsible for configuring/controlling the hardware and for processing raw data coming from the antennas.
As already stated, the area of the cage is divided into a matrix of cells and, in correspondence to each cell, one of the antennas designed in Section 3 is positioned. Each antenna sends a readings report at a very high frequency (about 250 ms), so as to detect even very fast mice movements. The hardware subsystem mainly consists of an Impinj Speedway Revolution R420 reader [29] with four antenna ports, an Impinj GPIO adapter [30], and one HD15 cable. The GPIO adapter allows to connect up to four Impinj Antenna Hubs [30], each of which accepts up to 8 reader antennas. In this way, up to 32 different antennas can be powered in time division through a single 4-port RFID reader, but no more than one of them is powered at a certain time, thus reducing potential array effects and preserving energy wasting.
Each Antenna Hub is connected to the GPIO adapter by using a straight Ethernet cable and to the reader by using an SMA-male to R-TNC-female coaxial cable, whereas each reader antenna is connected to its Antenna Hub by using an SMA-male to SMA-male coaxial cable. Finally, the reader is connected to the computer via a cross Ethernet cable. In this way the application will acquire all reader antennas reports and will store them in a relational database. However, it is worth pointing out that, apart from the research activity costs for both software and antenna design, the whole hardware costs do not exceed the amount of 3.000,00 euros. Such costs are considerably lower than costs of other and more adopted solutions based, for instance, on vision systems.
The software subsystem, instead, consists of an application that acquires the data coming from the antennas, a processing algorithm that processes these raw data, and a software module responsible for the plotting of tracking graphs. These three software modules interact with each other by means of a relational database, in which both raw readings and final positional data are stored. One of the main tasks of the acquisition application is to preliminarily configure the RFID reader by specifying some operating parameters such as the transmission power of the antennas. The interaction between this software module and the hardware subsystem is made possible by exploiting the LLRP, according to which packets are formatted. The acquisition application also allows the end-user (i.e., researcher) to preliminarily acquire the identifiers to be traced. In such a way, only the data of interest are collected and processed. The core of the software subsystem is represented by the algorithm that processes raw data. In case of ambiguities due, for instance, to potential simultaneous readings of the same tag by more than one antenna, the algorithm evaluates the RSSI value associated with each reading and, on the basis of specific considerations regarding the succession of cells in the detected path (concept of adjacency between cells based on the Chebyshev distance calculation [31]), resolves the ambiguities. Finally, the data processed and stored in the database are extracted by the plotting module and presented as space and time graphs showing the movement of mice during the observation period. Moreover, many other data, such as the average residence time in each cell, are summarized.
In order to validate the proposed tracking system several tests have been carried out by using plastic test tubes filled with saline solution and on each tube a passive RFID tag has been applied. The saline solution is able to simulate with a good approximation the attenuation caused by the animal tissue during the reading of the tag.
The tag type used in the tests is a commercial passive NF UHF RFID transponder characterized by a memory of 32 bits, whose antenna size is 15 mm × 10 mm and the mounted chip is the ImpinjMonza4D [32]. Finally, this tag has an inlay composition characterized by aluminum on the top and polyester PET as substrate.
5. Results
In this section, validation results related to both the designed antenna system as well as the whole tracking system are given.
5.1. Antenna System Results
Once a first prototype on the segmented loop antenna proposed in Section 3 has been realized, a characterization aimed at verifying the capability to effectively read a tag within a cell has been performed through the RSSI measurement of each read tag. In order to verify the proper functioning even when multiple tags are read simultaneously, the test has been performed by using a matrix of 25 NF RFID tags arranged on a 12 cm × 12 cm (the same size of a cell) paperboard substrate as illustrated in Figure 5(a). More in detail, the antenna under test has been firstly connected to the Impinj Speedway Revolution RFID reader, then the tag matrix has been placed in front of the antenna at different distances in a range from 2 cm to 5 cm, in steps of 1 cm, as shown in Figure 5(b). For each step, the average RSSI of each of the 25 tags has been evaluated through the reader by varying the reader output power between 24 dBm and 30 dBm in steps of 3 dBm for a test time of 20 seconds per point.
The goal of such study is the experimental evaluation of suitable combination of antenna distance and emitted power guaranteeing a rather uniform RSSI within a cell. Consequently, gathered RSSI values have been elaborated by using MATLAB [33], and graphs reporting a map of the RSSI distribution at different distances and different power levels have been obtained and reported in Table 2. In particular, for each RSSI map, a single cell represents in gray-scale the average RSSI value in dBm measured for each tag of the matrix. It can be observed that null values of RSSI are present in some cases, whilst in most cases a quite uniform RSSI distribution is appreciated. In particular, the best result is obtained at a distance of 5 cm and power of 27 dBm. In such case, RSSI values vary in a rather narrow range between −55.0 dBm and −65.68 dBm, and the distribution is quite uniform.
Once the proper functioning of a single antenna has been demonstrated, a second test aimed at estimating the optimum distance between two adjacent antennas has been performed in order to validate also the whole animal tracking platform. Such a test has been carried out by placing the antennas (opportunely connected to an Impinj Speedway reader) with two sides adjacent between them and by locating an NF tag along the separation line at a distance of 5 cm above the antennas surface (Antenna_I and Antenna_II in Figure 6(a)). Consequently, the distance between the two antennas has been gradually increased from 0 cm to 2 cm, in step of 1 cm, in order to evaluate the minimum distance guaranteeing the continuity in the tag identification during a transition between two different antennas. More specifically, for each step the NF tag has been unbalanced towards the Antenna_I and the ratio between the readings performed by the Antenna_I and the overall number of readings of the two antennas has been evaluated. In Table 3, results are reported. As can be observed, optimum values have been obtained for gaps of 1 cm and 2 cm, with a percentage of readings of the Antenna_I greater than 95%.
On such basis an average gap of 1.5 cm has been then set. Finally, in order to verify the proper tag localization even during diagonal transitions along two different antennas, a system of four antennas (Antenna_I, Antenna_II, Antenna_III, and Antenna_IV) placed reciprocally at 1.5 cm of distance has been arranged as shown in Figure 6(b). The previous test has been replicated unbalancing the tag on Antenna I along a diagonal (Antenna_I–Antenna_IV) and calculating the percentage ratio between the number of readings of the Antenna_I and the sum of the readings of all the antennas. The obtained reading percentage of 95% confirms that the distance of 1.5 cm among the antennas is a suitable choice.
On the basis of the obtained results, the hardware setup for the animal tracking system has been composed by adopting 32 segmented loop antennas and by setting a distance between antennas and the cage of 5 cm, the separation gap between each couple of antennas of 1.5 cm, and the output reader power of 27 dBm.
Moreover, in order to verify the absence of any electromagnetic compatibility problem potentially due to the array effect, far field measurements have been performed at different distances from the antenna platform. Thanks to the use of the multiplexer, only one antenna is powered at a certain time slot, so that even at very short measurement distances (30 cm) less than 1 V/m has been measured.
As further validation test, the effect of the tilt of a tag (mouse) with respect to the antenna system plane has been studied, so as to take into account the mice attitude to stand up on their hind legs (e.g., to drink or play). In particular, the tagged phantom mouse has been placed at a distance of 5 cm from the antenna system plane and its tilt has been varied from 0° to 90°. Performed measurements have shown negligible RSSI variations, thus guaranteeing the mice localization even in such a particular case.
5.2. System Validation
In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the whole realized system, a real scenario has been reproduced by moving a plastic tube filled with saline solution and containing an NF UHF RFID tag in a cage placed over the designed antenna system. In such a way the plastic tube emulates the mouse, and it has been moved on the cage floor in order to reproduce many predefined paths. In the meanwhile, data are acquired, interpreted, filtered, and presented thanks to the joint work of the hardware and software subsystems.
In particular, in Figure 7(a), one of the paths actually performed is shown, whereas in Figure 7(b) the sequence of raw readings detected by the proposed antenna system is given. It can be observed that the path is not perfectly reconstructed. In particular, some cells (3, 19, and 21) very close to the real path and even one cell (the number 13) distant from the path more than 30 cm (almost three cells) are erroneously considered. It is worth recalling that at this step no algorithm corrections have been performed yet. Figures 7(c) and 7(d) show, instead, the result of the data processing performed by the software system after a partial step (Figure 7(c)) and at the end of the elaboration (Figure 7(d)). In particular, after the RSSI analysis, the spurious readings performed by antennas related to cells adjacent to the performed path are corrected, and, finally, also the error associated with the cell that does not comply with specific adjacency requirements between cells is eliminated.
It is worth observing that the movement of the plastic tube is perfectly reconstructed in several different conditions, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed framework, now ready for a validation through a living animal approach. In Figure 8, a real photo of the whole system in order to clarify the experimental setup is shown.
Finally, a further test has been carried out in order to verify the capability of the proposed system to deal with multiple mice at the same time. In Figure 9, two paths are reported. They have been reproduced moving by hand two phantom mice approximately at the same speed (almost two cells per second). In such a way, both phantom mice cross simultaneously some of the cells (i.e., cells number 4, 12, 20, and 28). The paths have been reproduced several times and consequently reconstructed by the software platform. Then, the ratio between the number of erroneously detected cells and the total number of interested cells has been evaluated. Errors inferior to 1% have been calculated in both paths, thus confirming the correct working of the system also for more than an animal.
6. Conclusions
In this work, a tracking system enabling the behavior analysis of small living laboratory animals in cages has been proposed and validated. In particular, the system takes advantages from the functionalities of RFID technology in the UHF band, which guarantees reasonable costs and naturally allows the monitoring of colonies of animals—very similar to one another—and even of each single animal both during day and night time.
In particular, an antenna system composed of up to 32 NF antennas in the UHF RFID bandwidth has been realized. Each antenna guarantees a radiated magnetic field almost uniform in a confined and well-defined region as large as a small mouse and representing the generic elementary cell of the system region. The matrix of antennas has been then positioned below the animal cage floor and connected to an UHF RFID reader by means of a multiplexer. The capability of each antenna to read a tag applied on a phantom mouse (a plastic tube filled with a saline solution) in the antenna-related cell has been firstly verified. Finally, a software platform has been realized. It is able to both drive the hardware subsystem and to collect, analyze, and summarize the reading data. Both the antenna system and the whole platform have been then validated, clearly demonstrating the appropriateness of the proposed system to enable an effective animal behavior analysis based on UHF RFID technology.
This work has been supported by the University of Salento within "5per1000" project whose title is "An Innovative Small Animals RFId-Based Tracking System (SMART)." The authors thank Dr. Stefano Pieretti of the Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy, for his precious assistance, and Dr. Andrea Secco that collaborates with the IDA Lab group of the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, for his support in the algorithm implementation.
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Autumn beauty wishlist
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text: Trying to figure out the best way to get fit and stay in shape is a constant challenge, and one which is made all the more difficult by the vast array of health and nutrition information peddled to us by the media. But how much of this information should we take on board and how much of it should we disregard? Every day, top personal trainer Graeme Hilditch gives advice to his clients on the best ways to get in shape and stay fit. The questions they ask him range from whether weight training gives women big muscles to whether protein is fattening - and here, at last, he sets the record straight on 150 of the most common myths. Follow his straight-talking, light-hearted advice and you will soon be well on the way to leading a fit and healthy life.


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Do you need to get a passport, renew your passport or add more pages? Now's the time to do it; fees will rise on July 13, 2010.
The price for a first-time US passport will rise from $100 to $135 while renewals will rise from $75 to $110.
Children's passports are a little less expensive; the formerly $85 passport for kids under age 16 will now rise to $105.
The price for passport cards, used by travelers near the border, is increasing as well.
For a look at the list of updated fees:
- visit the US Department of State website


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"Connie Costa is an inspirational young woman that really knows how to make people laugh! I was at a conference where Connie presented and facilitated an hour-long Laughter Wellness class. She was very professional, knew the science behind it and communicated that well. Keep up the great work and smiles Connie!"
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Up for Discussion with Mike Smith
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
A big crowd came to join in the discussion with Mike Smith, photographer. Smith photographs Southern Appalachian terrain and has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Asheville Art Museum, among others.
His photos depict the interaction between the landscape and the humans who inhabit it. Smith directs the Photography Program at East Tennessee State University and has taught there since 1981.
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Hot warm muggy heat of summer comes to bear down in great steamy waves..... weeks pass and I don't want to sit at a computer in a city connected to electricity and synaptic emphatic digital impulses promising the world of the great things to come if you would just keep reading the emails , checking the my spacebook invites, and following the tweets to the promised land..... I don't want to insist that you hear my new songs or rather, I want you to discover them organically like presents thrown at us from the ether...... I want you to hear me around a camp fire at night as we dance naked, drums pounding, feeling the primal energy of the mother earth around us.... but sometimes it is just best to invite our friends to an air conditioned nice theater
and leave your clothes on..... or not, depending on the venue, and for you, I truly have the best of both worlds this weekend!
Tonight Friday July 17, 2009!
Want to see some clothes come off? Not mine, the flimsy frippery and finery of Pittsburgh's premiere burlesque troupe, the Bridge City Bombshells!!!!!! I do hereby officially invite you see me sing for these lovely ladies. I shall also be doing a set with Tony DePaolis, Pittsburgh's hottest bass man with fingers fueled by the liquid fire that is his soul....Also with DJ Hates You!
Doors 9 pm, showtime 10 pm. Tickets are $5 before 10 pm, and then $7
after 10 pm.
Drink specials $2 Yuenglings, $3 well drinks, 21 and over, sorry kids!
Belevedere's is located in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, PA at:
4016 Butler St
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201
Tomorrow Saturday night July 18, 2009!
Live taping! This is the second in a phabulous experiment in the Amoeba's GOING GLOBAL! Announcing the second of a three month experiment in podcasting for Phat Man Dee Productions and the New Hazlett Theater. I shall host a wonderful evening of jazz, cartoons
and dance. Featuring entertainers Patrick Arena, Miss Angelique Young aka Miss Pegasus 2009 & Joe Wos! With technical director Dave Bjornson and his crackerjack team of videographic maniacs, watch in pain or pleasure as PMD Productions re-embarks on the journey to bring
Pittsburgh to the world at large! The public is invited to sit in on these live tapings, to be later edited and made available for free to the world via the magic of the interweb! All ages and Free but for the EGRESS!
Showtime: 10:30pm
New Hazlett Theater
One Allegheny Square East
Northside, Pittsburgh, PA
phone: 412-320-4610
And Monday July 20, 2009
I am making my debut appearance with Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School at Gypsy Cafe from 8pm-11pm!
1330 Bingham St
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
Cost:$10 adv, $12 @ door
Dr. Sketchy presents: A Midsummer's Night Sketch Featuring Phat Man Dee! Ah the great bard would be proud. Provided he was an artist who drank a lot and drew scantily clad fairies. Join us for Drinking, Drawing, Dames and Games as Dr. Sketchy Takes on Shakespeare's Midsummer masterpiece! This month will feature special guest performer/ model Phat Man Dee. Your chance to sketch a true Pittsburgh icon. Mel Practice, Dollface Dani and introducing our newest model Rachel Weichbrodt! Artists and photographers are welcome, however photographers will have specific poses to shoot to allow for the artists to sketch without distraction. As always must be 18 to attend and 21 to drink. www.drsketchypgh.com for more information. Tickets only 10 dollars online, 12 dollars at the door. Students enter code aip for discount tickets. To buy tickets visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71996
Sponsored by Boyd and Blair Vodka, Gypsy Cafe, and Baby Tattoo Books.
New video of the week, check out Pittsburgh Guitars newest theme song/video!
And next week, I am going to Starwood to dance around a fire in as few clothes as humanly possible , you are all invited to join me......


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Welcome to Cub Scout Pack 325
Greater Niagara Frontier Council, Red Jacket District, Elma, NY
"It's the spirit within, not the veneer without that makes the man." - Baden Powell
Chartered by Annunciation Church - Elma, NYComprised of 1st - 5th graders from Elma Primary Elementary School and surrounding area. Contact us if interested in joining our pack or if you have any questions.
We have den and pack meetings at Annunciation School, Clinton St., Elma.
We invite your son to join the country's largest youth organization, Boy Scouts of America. Scouting is fun-filled, educational, and a program with a purpose. Scouting helps develop boys' values of duty to Family, Community, Country, and others. Scouting's aims of character building, citizenship training, conservation and fitness have remained unchanged since the program began in 1910. Boys have fun and at the same time they develop leadership skills by serving as boy leaders.
Programs by grade level:
1st Grade - Tiger Cubs. The program focuses on activities for a parent-boy team from each family; each boy must have a parent partner that attends den and pack meetings and events. Activities are based around working together as a family and exploring new things. They meet once a month as a den and once with the entire Pack.
2nd & 3rd Grade - Cub Scouts. 2nd graders are a Wolf, while 3rd graders are a Bear. They meet once a month as a den and once with the entire Pack. Cub Scouting is a family and neighborhood centered program.
4th & 5th Grade - Webelos work to become prepared to join the adventures of Boy Scouts during the spring of their 5th grade year by participating in more challenging outdoor, building and citizenship activities.
Pack 325 meets regularly at the Annunciation School gymnasium. We get out into the community and nature to make the experience more fun. We are committed to helping our school, community, and charter organization as much as possible.An application form is attached. Please feel free to fill it in and bring it to our next meeting. We meet the second Monday of the month at 6pm - 8pm.
See what the new award requirements are by reading on.
The pack can qualify for the National Summertime Pack Award certificate and streamer by planning and conducting three pack activities—one each in June, July, and August (or during other school vacations if your pack is in a year-round school).
Dens with an average attendance of at least half their members at the three summer pack events are eligible for a colorful den participation ribbon. Boys who participate in all three pack events are eligible to receive the National Summertime Pack Award pin, which they can wear on the right pocket flap of their uniform. This is an individual recognition for boys, not adults.
The World Conservation Award provides an opportunity for individual Wolf Scouts, Bear Scouts, Webelos Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers to "think globally" and "act locally" to preserve and improve our environment. This program is designed to make youth members aware that all nations are related through natural resources.
Requirements for this award must be completed in addition to any similar requirements completed for rank.
Requirements to Earn World Conservation Award
Wolf Scouts must:
Bear Scouts must:
Webelos Scouts (Including Boys Earning Arrow of Light Rank) must:
Cub Scouts can earn the Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award in each of the program years as long as the requirements are completed each year. The first time the award is earned, the boy will receive the pocket flap award, which is to be worn on the right pocket flap of the uniform shirt. Each successive time the award is earned, a Wolf Track pin may be added to the flap. Leaders should encourage boys to build on skills and experiences from previous years when working on the award for a successive year.
Requirements for Outdoor Activity AwardAll ranks must attend Cub Scout day camp or Cub Scout/Webelos Scout resident camp. Additionally, complete the rank-specific requirements as follows:
Tiger ScoutsComplete the Backyard Jungle adventure, and complete four of the outdoor activities listed below.
Wolf ScoutsComplete the Paws on the Path adventure, and complete five of the outdoor activities listed below.
Bear ScoutsComplete the "Bear Necessities" adventure, and complete six of the outdoor activities listed below.
Webelos ScoutsComplete the Webelos Walkabout adventure, and complete seven of the outdoor activities listed below.
Outdoor ActivitiesThe applicable number of any of these activities must be completed in addition to any similar activities counted toward rank advancement. These can be accomplished as a family, a den, or a pack.


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Michelle Rodriguez & Emile Hirsch Fundraise For Disadvantaged Youth!
Michelle Rodriguez shows off her street style while arriving at the 2014 Children Mending Hearts' Fundraiser 'Empathy Rocks: A Spring Into Summer Bash' on Saturday (June 14) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 35-year-old actress was joined by Emile Hirsch, Holland Roden, and Kat Graham.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Michelle Rodriguez
Children Mending Hearts is dedicated to empowering disadvantaged youth through educational and arts programs that build empathy and global citizenry.
In case you missed it, Michelle recently did a Q&A video for her fans.
FYI: Kat is wearing a Katharine Kidd top and skirt with Sophia Webster shoes.
10+ pictures inside of Michelle Rodriguez and Emile Hirsch at the Children Mending Hearts Fundraiser…


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The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
I love novels like this, when I learn about historical figures through fictionalized accounts of their lives. The Invention of Wings is based on the lives of Sarah and Angelina Grimke, abolitionists and feminists long before women's suffrage or the Emancipation Proclamation.
Sue Monk Kidd quotes Professor Julius Lester in her notes at the end of the novel, "History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own." Kidd expands beyond the facts and events to put flesh on the stories of four women.
The novel begins in the early 1800s, with Sarah Grimke turning 11 and her mother "giving" her ownership of her very own slave, Hetty, or Handful. From the beginning, Sarah is deeply uncomfortable with her family's legacy as slave owners, and she also chafes against her role as a girl and woman. All she wants in life is to study and become a lawyer and a judge, but her family throws cold water on her dreams. As a female, all she could hope to become is a wife and mother. She rebels in her own way, by teaching Handful to read and write.
The novel weaves the story of Sarah with that of Handful and her mother Charlotte. Both Handful and Charlotte are highly talented seamstresses, spunky and spirited and seeking a way out of their own lives. They are the most fascinating characters in this novel, and they are mostly made up. (Sarah's mother did "give" her a slave when she turned 11, and Sarah wanted no part of it, but that's about all that is known about the slave girl.)
While Sarah struggles to put a voice to her passionate thoughts, Handful and Charlotte have no problem expressing what's on their mind. They weave their own pains and desires in their quilts and pass on their family history through stories. They take chances for the sake of freedom, even if it might cost them their own lives.
Angelina is the sister with the gumption--probably because she'd been mostly raised by Sarah--but Sarah, too, eventually finds her own voice. I enjoyed reading about the sisters speaking out against slavery, even though their family and their own city (Charleston, South Carolina) were horrified by their actions. The schism in the early abolitionist movement between abolition and women's rights reminded me of the division in the 1960s, when women who fought for civil rights were not given their own voice in the movement.
Sarah, Angelina, Handful, and Charlotte are all trying to find their own wings and escape the prisons of their lives. Handful's and Charlotte's restraints were real, while Sarah and Angelina were bound by the cultural expectations of their time.
This novel is not an easy read--Kidd depicted the horrors of slavery without flinching. I was grateful for Kidd's notes at the end, and also for the Internet, so I could learn more about the Grimkes when I was done reading the book. Sarah and Angelina Grimke were pioneers of their time, standing up for what they believed was right, even if their voices shook.