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Eating a slice of pizza is kind of like taking a shower: everyone does it, but not in exactly the same way.
I'm not going to say that I've eaten more slices of pizza than I have taken showers (because that might be gross), but the tally is probably closer than you'd think. Living in New York, slices are a huge part of life, whether they're eaten at 2:00 a.m. on Saturday night, out of the fridge at 10:00 a.m. the next morning, or in the fifteen minute window between meetings on a Tuesday afternoon. If you walk down any block in New York, you will see someone eating a slice.
Which brings me back to the procedure. The fold. The toppings. The location. The grease. The beverage. They're all handled in accordance with personal preference. And while no method is necessarily wrong, there are certainly some that are going to give you more delicious, cheesy, balanced bites, the kind that a true pizza fanatic dreams of. This is how you get there. Pizza opinions incoming.
A Quick Note About Forks and Knives
Put them down. Don't ask for them. Laugh at people who use them. You eat a slice of pizza with your hand or hands. You pick up your slice, you bite it, and you put it back down. And you keep doing that until the slice of pizza is gone. It's easy. The only exception would be a soggy Neapolitan pie, but you should keep reading, because there's an answer for that that doesn't involve utensils.
How to Fold Your Slice
The initial decision is how you hold your slice, more specifically, the way you fold it. Also, I feel like this is a good time to mention that I did not realize how exposed my chest was in this photoshoot, AND I AM TOTALLY FINE WITH IT. Here are the most common and bizarre approaches to folding a slice:
The Wide Open Plain (AKA the Non-Fold)
Some slices have a crust that's rigid enough to hold the weight of a small child, or at least the weight of the cheese and sauce on top of it. This slice doesn't want or need the help of a fold or crimp. It's completely fine with its aggressively-cooked, super-crunchy identity. The non-fold does not work with slices that contain a magnitude of toppings or slices that have a more delicate foundation.
The Flop
Speaking of more delicate slices, if you hold a slice without bending the crust, the tip will droop. In this scenario, you hold the slice higher than your face and let it fall right into your mouth like a pizza waterfall. Generally, the higher the number of drinks you've consumed, the more likely you are to go for a flop. It's not right or wrong...just appropriate for the situation.
The Full Fold
Look, I don't really want to offend anyone here, but I can't betray my personal beliefs. If you fold your pizza fully in half, you are a lawless animal. What are you doing? Do you like scratching the the roof of your mouth? Do you like covering up the topping landscape, making it impossible to properly plan out the path in which you eat your slice to achieve the best bites? Do you think this is some casual game? Do you think this is a sandwich? Do you even like pizza? Please, do not ever do this. It is a slap to the face for every single person in your vicinity, yourself included.
The Crimp
This is how you properly manage a slice, while maintaining both your dignity and the slice's. A slight bend in the crust, created with pressure from your thumb and middle finger (below the crust) and your pointer finger (above the crust) gives a partial bend in the crust, creating a structural triangle. A triangle is the strongest shape—I took geometry in 10th grade. I remember this. Look at bridges. There are lots of triangles happening on bridges—so this gives your slice more support and prohibits flopping and the dripping of grease. It also allows you to maintain eye contact with your toppings, so you can plot your course. The crimp isn't necessary, but it's guaranteed improve your slice experience.
The Crust Taco
This is the dark horse of the pizza-folding universe, and in my opinion, the most important fold you'll ever perform. Good crust is good, and bad crust is bad. But either way, crust is better with sauce and cheese on it. That's why I will always stop short of the crust when eating my slice, leaving a little strip of cheese and sauce that's equal in width to the crust. I then fold the sauce and cheese strip toward the crust, until they meet, joining the crust and the proper pizza into one glorious, collaborative experience.
The Pizza Spliff
At a late night slice pit stop, I recently saw someone roll their slice from crust to point, creating a pizza-taquito-joint type thing. I don't really know if this is something that people do or what. But if you subscribe to this philosophy, you probably don't really care what I have to say, so...carry on, I guess.
The Pizza Wallet (AKA the Neapolitan Fold)
I prefer crispy Italian-American pizza to doughy Neapolitan pizza any day of the week. The main reason is the flip-floppy center of a Neapolitan pie. It's impossible to eat without drips, renegade cheese, and a general air of depression. BUT I was recently watching the pizza episode of Netflix's Ugly Delicious, where Lucali's Mark Iacono employed the wallet fold. He folded the tip of his slice back into the center and pressed together the sides, to create a sealed pouch. This technique is prime for a super floppy slice, but not the best on your typical Italian-American slice, because the crust is less pliable. Exhibit A: The photo above.
Making a Swan or Something Stupid Like That
If you feel like there's something you need to prove to the world by folding your slice of pizza into an origami animal with wings or a tail or both, you should take a deep breath, count to three, and decide not to do that. No one has ever made progress in life by turning pizza into a swan. No one.
The Separation Anxiety
Taking the cheese off of your pizza and eating it straight-up is a nonsensical move. I'm sure the cheese is delicious, and I'm sure the tomatoey dough is fine. But there's no way that either are as good on their own as they are together. You're depriving yourself of the full experience, which you paid money to have. Sounds like a lose-lose to me.
Table Toppings
There are pizza toppings, which you order on your slice, and there are table toppings, which you add to the slice after it is served to you. These last minute additions can make or break a slice of pizza, so it's best to know what you're working with.
Red Pepper Flakes
Red pepper flakes are the Lebron James or the Serena Williams or Meryl Streep of the 11th hour pizza topping game. They are all the best in the history of their respective fields. I will put red pepper flakes on my slice 93.3% of the time. The 6.7% of the time I do not is if the slice already has a spice component. That little bit of dry heat is exactly what a plain slice is asking for.
Garlic Salt
Pizza sauce (the good stuff, at least) already has garlic and salt in it. But if you're the kind of person who walks around a museum saying things like, "I could have done this," and you neeeed to "improve" your slice, I'm not going to stop you. Garlic salt does help a cheap slice with under-seasoned or over-sweetened sauce.
Dried Oregano
Dried oregano lends an herbal, earthy, vegetal quality to a slice that can boost umami to marvelous levels, but it's all about proportion. It's just as easy to get way too much oregano and be like, "Why am I eating an old leaf?" as it is to not get enough and be like, "Oregano, what did I say? Why have you ghosted me? A text back would be nice." The professional maneuver is to shake the oregano into your hand, and sprinkle from there. It's all about control.
Parm is a fantastic cheese, but the Parm that most slice spots stock isn't. It isn't freshly grated or shaved, and there's no guarantee that the cheese is of high quality. It might not even be Parm (Shaved styrofoam? Dandruff? Wood pulp?). If you want a little diversity in the cheese flavor and are cool with an inferior Parmesan, I'll cosign a table Parm flurry.
Freshly Ground Black Pepper
"What? Another pepper option? But Alex, we already have red pepper flakes." Cool your jets, folks. Black pepper is the most underrated table topping in the game, especially when it comes to a white slice. Think about how much you love cacio e pepe. Now think about turning your pizza into cacio e pepe. That pepper needs to be freshly ground though; you're better than a bland, pre-ground, sandy table shaker situation.
Grease Management
If you didn't want to consume grease, you shouldn't have walked into a pizza joint in the first place. Room temperature mozzarella contains all of the fat that you see on your slice. Heating the cheese just changes the fat's physical form. It's an out-of-sight, out-of-mind scenario. Grease is an inherent part of the cheese experience, but if you really need to remove it, there are two ways to do so.
Blotting the Grease with a Napkin or a Paper Towel or Your Sister's Shirt
Pizza places notoriously stock inferior napkins. You're going to end up with those weird, translucent pieces of half-ply napkin all over your slice, if you try to blot that grease off. Which is great...if you like eating napkins.
Letting All the Grease Drip Down in Some Weird Grease River
This is the preferred grease removal method, if you really can't live with a delicious, fatty slice of pizza. The clear disadvantage of this method is that you take a slice with even grease distribution, and shift it all to the front, creating an extremely greasy first three to five bites. Call me crazy, but I'd rather keep that grease spread evenly across the slice.
Beer and pizza are not soul mates. I say that with a heavy heart, but it's the truth. Pizza wants carbonation, but the whole carb on carb thing is just so heavy. The two best beverages to drink with a slice are Lambrusco (which is pizza pro approved) or Coca-Cola. Diet Coke works too. You want something fizzy, sweet, and light-bodied to wash down bite after glorious bite. If you don't like Coke or Lambrusco, well, I'll widen the field to soda or juicy, light-bodied red wine or that trendy seltzer you love so much. Since I couldn't drink wine on the sidewalk (stupid law), I went with Coca-Cola here.
Location, Location, Location
This is an opinion based on zero quantifiable data, but slices usually taste better when you're standing up. Sitting down for a slice is going to inspire a nap (unless you're sitting at an open air table). There's something about the brief, casual, barely-broke-your-stride mentality that comes along with a slice which makes it special, so if you can stand up while devouring your slices, do it. Eat them at a counter, on the sidewalk, or even better, at a counter on the sidewalk. Sidewalk counters are special.
The Crust
If you employ the Crust Taco Technique, you don't need to worry about the crust. You already ate it and enjoyed it and texted someone about how great it was. But if you didn't do the fold, you're sitting there, looking at some crust. You don't need to eat it. I'm tired of people shaming others into eating the crust. If the crust is good, you'll want to eat it. If the crust is dehydrated garbage, throw it out. The crust does not care about you at all, which means you should feel no obligation to consume the crust.
The Ending You Thought Would Never Come
A slice can be a mindless, drunken snack, or a slice can be something you over-analyze, become obsessed with, and eventually convince an editor to let you write a 2,000-word article about. I guess there's some room in between those extremes, but while you're figuring out where to take a stand, do me a favor. Pass the red pepper flakes.


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The most important story in the magazine industry this year isn't the war of the men's magazines but the continued explosion of ad pages, circulation, and newsstand sales in a genre that remains, even today, relatively unknown: the hip-hop magazine.
But even if the rise to prominence of The Source -- the standard bearer -- and its competitors has been neglected in some circles, plenty of readers and advertisers are taking notice. There are more hip-hop magazines than ever before, they're more popular than ever before, and they're bristling with more ads than ever before, indicating a belief on the part of mainstream advertisers that hip-hop can no longer be seen as a niche market.
This shouldn't come as a surprise. Hip-hop-album sales were up 32 percent in 1998; more than 80 million hip-hop records were sold. MTV's music programming looks more like BET's every day, while Lauryn Hill's sweep of the Grammy Awards (and her Time cover) testified to the mainstream critical acceptance of hip-hop. Now consider these numbers: For five straight Audit Bureau reporting periods, The Source has seen its paid subscriptions, its single-copy sales, and its total circulation take double-figure jumps. Every month, The Source sells more copies on the newsstands than any other music magazine -- a remarkable 350,000 copies. In 1998, its circulation was up 13 percent (topping 400,000) and its ad pages were up 31 percent, even as the industry as a whole saw ad pages rise just 2.6 percent. Vibe, meanwhile, whose ad pages went up 11 percent in 1998, saw circulation jump almost 20 percent, to 600,650, after a 16 percent rise the year before; after Rolling Stone (circulation 1.25 million), it's the most-read music magazine in America.
These numbers are especially impressive given the fact that the hip-hop-magazine landscape has become increasingly crowded. As in any market, success breeds competition as new players smell the opportunity for profit. The two most prominent entrants are Harris Publications' XXL, which debuted in August 1997 under the editorial leadership of ex-Source editors Reginald Dennis and James Bernard, and Blaze, which Vibe Ventures (a division of parent company Miller Publishing, which also owns Spin) launched in August 1998 as a direct competitor to The Source (neither XXL nor Blaze is audited). Blaze had a booming debut, racking up by some accounts the most first-issue ad pages of any music magazine in history (though it's always hard to know what to make of ad-page counts, since magazines often discount or give away pages in debut issues). XXL, meanwhile, which is now on its third editor, began with audacious ambitions -- claiming a target circulation of 500,000 -- but currently sells a hardly dazzling, though still respectable, 175,000 copies an issue.
Robert "Scoop" Jackson, 35, the new XXL editor, points out that launching a hip-hop title is difficult because in the competition for exclusive covers, XXL will always lose out to Vibe and The Source; though Blaze presumably has a slight advantage because of its Vibe connections, the start-up is rumored to be struggling financially. (The dismissal two weeks ago of the editor-in-chief, Jesse Washington, after he wrote an editorial in support of one of the accused murderers of Jonathan Levin, puts Blaze in an even shakier position.)
While The Source's rise to prominence is something of a Horatio Alger tale, Vibe's pedigree is rather more distinguished. It was launched in September 1993 as a joint venture between Quincy Jones and Time Inc., and its production values and aesthetic reflect its origins. Vibe's design echoes that of Rolling Stone, and, in a curious sense, so does its editorial mix; its breadth -- it meanders happily from R&B artists like Mariah Carey and mainstream rappers like Will Smith to underground giants like Silkk the Shocker -- certainly separates it from The Source and its imitators, which are strictly hip-hop-focused. At a time when hip-hop and R&B are pretty much the whole story in pop music, Vibe's range gives it, if not cultural authority, then at least a serious shot at becoming the definitive pop-music magazine -- a description that would have been unthinkable just three or four years ago.
It's not surprising, then, that in Vibe Ventures CEO Keith Clinkscales's conversation, Rolling Stone is a touchstone, both as a model and as a competitor. "We don't think of ourselves as a hip-hop or R&B magazine. Vibe is a music magazine, the way Rolling Stone is a music magazine," Clinkscales says. "Our goal is to be as important as if not more important than Rolling Stone. What we want to emulate is not just their music coverage but also everything else they do."
The irony, of course, is that what Vibe has explicitly not emulated is Rolling Stone's slow awakening to the fact that rock is no longer the real music story. Rolling Stone has tried much harder to devote serious attention to urban music -- nearly everyone I talked to mentioned its Puff Daddy cover three years ago as signaling a significant change -- but its institutional vision is still driven by rock. "Vibe literally exists because Rolling Stone did not really address urban music," Clinkscales says.
I find it hard to imagine that Vibe could have a bigger hip-hop fan editing its pages than Danyel Smith -- who calls hip-hop "the most amazing thing that happened ever" -- but it's certainly true that Vibe's vibe is a long way from being hard-core. As Smith, 33, puts it, "We write about hip-hop and R&B because our readers love both. People go out and boogie to Master P and they come home and make love to Toni Braxton. And some of us corny people actually listen to Jewel." That inclusiveness makes Vibe an easier sell to advertisers than its grittier competitors, and it improves the magazine's demographics. But it also makes Vibe a harder sell to younger readers, especially the ones who think listening to anything but Juvenile or the No Limit roster means you're a sellout.
Those are the readers who gravitate toward The Source (and Blaze and XXL and Rap Pages and a host of other small magazines). Since publisher David Mays founded the magazine in 1988 as a two-page newsletter, The Source has retained a strict focus on what it describes as "hip-hop music, culture, and politics," although the magazine's editorial voice has oscillated wildly over that decade. In the early nineties, under the aegis of Reginald Dennis and James Bernard (who later ended up at XXL), The Source had a harder political edge and a more highbrow critical sensibility. But in 1994, Dennis, Bernard, and four other staff members left the magazine after Mays substituted editorial pages about Almighty RSO, a rap group in which he had a financial stake, for ad pages, and in the wake of their departure, the magazine struggled to discover a new voice. It did so just in time for its core market to blow up.
"It really took us that year, 1995 to 1996, for the magazine to get back on its feet," says editor Selwyn Hinds, who's just 26. "And it took time to shift from being a guerrilla mom-and-pop operation to being a large magazine." Although rumors of The Source's impending sale are perpetual (even Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner has come courting), Mays insists that there are no plans to take in a major outside investor. And the fact that 85 percent of each month's circulation comes from newsstand sales is both a vestige of the days when the magazine couldn't afford to do mass mailings and a testament to the fact that its core readers are teenagers and young adults who are a little too noncommittal to fill out subscription cards.
Even today, reading The Source feels a little bit like reading dispatches from the underground. That's not so much because of the articles -- though there's something truly subversive about a popular magazine describing a DMX record as selling like "two-for-fives" (meaning two crack vials for $5) -- as because of the magazine's look and, above all, its advertising. The Source underwent a redesign last year, but it still has a slightly ragged feel. And though major advertisers now include DKNY, Calvin Klein, and Perry Ellis, they're flanked by page after page of ads for clothing lines that you won't find in Macy's and records that you're unlikely to hear even on Hot 97. As you flip the pages, you can almost hear the kids saying, "I've gotta buy that and that and that . . ."
"We're going to do our share of stories about celebrities, but we're never going to be a hip-hop InStyle," Hinds says. "I don't think there's any other magazine in our category that does so many political stories or that covers so much stuff that falls below the radar of the mainstream press." In fact, The Source's editorial mix, in all its confusion, is a faithful reflection of the chaotic blend of political radicalism, cultural nationalism, multicultural openness, and unapologetic capitalism that defines hip-hop today. A critique of police brutality and a heavy-handed eulogy for former Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael are followed blithely by pieces on the hip-hop scene in Montreal, black fashion entrepreneurs, and a technology column that calls the Palm Pilot "a pretty hype piece of equipment." The most familiar complaint about The Source is that it's too gushy, and there is a fan-magazine quality to some of its profiles (thoughhow many glossy magazines can that not be said of?). But that may have more to do with how young The Source's writers are than with their stance toward the people they're covering. As Hinds points out, titles like The Source and XXL and Blaze have created opportunities for young writers -- especially young black and Latino writers -- that simply did not exist before.
"There's no way you can say that it's not different for us, because the chitlin circuit is kind of small," says Jackson, of XXL. "Because mainstream journalism still tends to look down on this kind of journalism, it's not going to be easy for people -- black people -- to leave here and move into other parts of the industry. Jonathan Van Meter and Alan Light former editors of Vibe, both white can leave Vibe and go to Time or other big magazines, but if Sheena Lester or Reginald Dennis do that, they're going to be pigeonholed."
Similar tensions pervade the relationship between these magazines and the broader hip-hop community. Although hip-hop has been a vibrant music genre for almost two decades, serious journalistic criticism remains a somewhat revolutionary concept, which is why The Source has been routinely lambasted from the stages of hip-hop clubs for the past decade. It also seems to be why Jesse Washington was involved in two well-publicized clashes with rappers in the past year. In the first, he and Wyclef Jean of the Fugees argued over a bad review of an album Jean produced. Washington claims that the producer pulled a gun to express his anger, but Jean denies it, and charges were never filed. In the second, Washington says Bad Boy producer Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie and three associates beat him badly over an article exposing Angelettie as a character named the Madd Rapper. Angelettie has been charged with assault.
The Washington incidents have lent themselves to a portrayal of hip-hop magazines in thrall to rappers who want every profile to be a puff piece. But while all of these magazines face pressures in terms of access to the industry they cover, the same is true of Vanity Fair or Esquire. You could see what happened to Washington as being on a continuum with companies' pulling advertising or P.R. agencies' cutting off access to their clients in reaction to what they perceive as unfair coverage -- just as it makes sense, as hip-hop starts to look more and more like mainstream American culture, to put Vibe and The Source on a continuum with more traditional culture bibles like Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
3 Comments:
- Annie in Austin said...
Salix, I've only seen heather as a potted plant - both Northern Illinois and Central Texas are too alkaline for it to grow well in the ground. Your white-flowered one in the photo looks so pretty, and reminds me of the old show-tune about "The Heather on The Hill."
Happy 2007!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
- GardeningJo said...
came upon your blog through DigInDirt! your pics & background colors & images are gorgeous! i take it you may be having a warm winter as well! it's after dark here in nj, usa, and it's 60 degrees! tomorrow it'll be 70 or higher! again, your pics are beautiful!
- Mrs Lifecruiser said...
OH, what are the caterpillar doing there NOW? Very strange. I think the whole worlds weather and nature has gone crazy.


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DescriptionYour boss, a clothing designer for dog clothes, has had to go on a business trip and is leaving you in charge. Find out what the customer wants to dress-up their pups.
Dress-Up Pups is a match three game with jigsaw puzzle elements. As to how you make matches, that will vary from one puzzle to the next. Some you will swap two items to create a straight line of three or more of the same item, some you will drag your mouse or finger across a series of three or more of the same item thus creating a chain of items, some you will click or tap on a group of three or more of the same item. The object of each level is always to get a puzzle piece or puzzle pieces to the bottom of the screen to collect them. You then, after you have all the puzzle pieces, assemble the puzzle to show the dog in its new clothes.
When you make larger matches, you create helpful items like bombs and dynamite. Bombs destroy the tile they are on plus the tiles adjacent to that tile. Dynamite destroys the tile it is on plus the tiles above, below, to the left and to the right of it, rather like a plus sign (+) shape. The bigger the combination, the more powerful the bomb or dynamite. As the game progresses, you get powers like the hammer that destroys any one tile or the scissors that destroy tiles in an X pattern. Later puzzles also have green and later blue tiles that must also be cleared. Green tiles need to be matched to clear them. Blue tiles, when matched, become green tiles and must be matched again to clear them.
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Challenge series hosted by sagebrushfire. Challenges start on Wednesdays.
What we often call "post processing" here is actually a small part of a completely different type of art. Photo-manipulation is deeply rooted in photography itself. There are some who look down on any kind of photo editing but it's undeniable that it has its place in society and a major foothold in the commercial art industry today. For this series I want to explore the various digital manipulation talents of our members and hopefully get help some digital artists get there work out in a photography-dominated forum. There's a whole world of possibilities in digital editing and while those talents can certainly be miss used, they can produce some amazing artwork.
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Rein Europe was super busy in London at the start of their Rein Teen Tour. Here are just a few highlights…
What's a visit to London without taking this classic photo??
Among many London highlights was a side trip to Oxford, England. Here the group saw Oxford and went punting along the River Cherwell.
Next stop, The Tower of London & London Bridge:
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After a great visit to London, the group boarded the Eurostar train and traveled through the Chunnel to Paris.
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Teaching fellow in epidemiology — Andreea Cetateanu
After her Masters Andreea decided to pursue a PhD which later led to a job as a teaching fellow in epidemiology at Imperial College in the School of Public Health
How did you get your job?
I applied for the teaching fellow job while in the last year of my PhD at the University of East Anglia, through jobs.ac.uk.
What subject did your PhD cover?
My PhD explored the relationship between socio-economic status, different measurements of exposure to the food environment and diet and weight status in children in the UK.
How relevant is your degree to your job?
It is very relevant, both in terms of content and teaching experience.
I have been a module co-leader for two modules and I have been able to undertake teaching on research skills, epidemiology, qualitative methods and statistics due to the knowledge acquired during my PhD degree.
What are your main work activities?
As a course organiser and teaching fellow I help organise the course in multiple ways; I act as a point of contact for students regarding any academic issues, I do some teaching and I help to design the content of some modules.
Do you need to have specific knowledge?
It is helpful to have statistics knowledge, as this gives me the chance to take on teaching subjects that require this knowledge. While it is not compulsory, it is preferable.
Students learn statistics in R and STATA. I am currently training myself in STATA, so knowledge of the particular software is not compulsory as it can be learnt on the job.
How has your role developed and what are your career ambitions?
I have been able to take on more teaching responsibilities (as a result of which I will also complete a PG Cert in the coming year), and I have been able to network with researchers and maintain my research profile.
My career ambitions are to stay in academia and continue teaching but also undertake more research.
What do you enjoy about your job?
I enjoy constantly learning and developing as a professional, being able to convey knowledge to students and contributing to original research.
What are the most challenging parts of your job?
Juggling multiple tasks such as administration, organisation, teaching and research can be challenging at times.
Any words of advice for someone who wants to get into this job?
Do not be afraid to ask around when you are stuck with a task or don't know what to do. There are always experienced people around who have probably been through this before and can advise you; you can save a lot of time in this way.
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- Learn more about the role of a epidemiologist.
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Along with our work on improving the GreenScreen method, we are always refining our easy-to-use GreenScreen List Translator™. The utility of the GreenScreen List Translator, and the fact that it is an automated tool allowing a quick assessment of a chemical's List Translator score, gives users a quick and easy way to screen a chemical and prioritize action. See more about our current work on GreenScreen List Translator.
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Thanks to our generous donors we raised $700 with the Extra Give. This money will help preserve valuable feeding grounds for migratory birds like the Tundra Swan and Snow Geese. Thanks for Giving Extra!
TLVC Launches Annual Appeal with honored Chairpersons Bob & Brenda Phillips. This years theme~ This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land~ " These enduring lyrics by Woodie Guthrie state simply yet profoundly the responsibility we all share as stewards of our beautiful Lebanon Valley. As honorary chairs this year, Brenda and I ask you to invest with us in support of the vital work being done for all of us to preserve and protect the land we all. love so much. Please be generous this year as we celebrate the blessings of life in Lebanon County." ~ Bob Phillips
To give to this years Annual Appeal, please use the donate button or mail donations to 770 Cumberland St. Suite A, Lebanon, PA 17042. Your donation is your membership. Our organization is 100% donor based and depends on generous donors like you!
================== Events at the Conservancy!
First Annual Tower to Town 10 Mile Trail Race
Our First Tower to Town Race was held on October 7th, 2018. This collaboration with the Community Health Council of Lebanon County raised $5000 for the John E. Wengert Memorial Park. This event kicked off with Mayor Capello welcoming the runners. First Energy presented John with a $10,000 check for the park. Then 150 racers took to the course, up the fire tower hill and down the rail trail all the way to Optimist Park in the City. It was a great event highlighting the Lebanon community, outdoor recreation and healthy lifestyles. Join us next year!
Jack Hubley Earth Day Event was a HIT!
On Sunday, April 29th, we held an Earth Day event hosting Jack Hubley. We enjoyed Jack's program "Critters beyond your Backyard" plus hikes and crafts for the kids.
Scholarship Winner announced: Claire Leedy
The Richard H. Light and Karen R. Light Memorial Scholarship was awarded to LVC student Claire Leedy at our Earth Day event. This $1000 prize is awarded to a student who continues to major in environmental studies. Claire hopes to finish her education in shark conservation. Pictured are members of the Light family, Rodney Gernert, scholarship chairperson and Claire Leedy.
Kittatinny Homestead Event -October 1, 2017 The Lebanon Valley Conservancy Inc. hosted a Kittatinny Homestead Event at the Herr Farm on Sunday, October 1st. Local landowners were invited to learn more about the Conservancy's work, our Conservation Easement Program and enjoy a day at the farm. This special event brought together, local landowners, easement property holders, donors, Board Members, and sponsors.
Quittie Phase 2 Project gets underway with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held June 23, 2016 at the Quittie Nature Park, Raymond J. Swingholm Footbridge in Annville, PA. Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce event coverage link.
Lebanon Daily News article on the Quittie Restoration Phase 2

Quittapahilla Stream Bank Restoration Project - Phase 1
Project Summary with Before & After Photos
On April 25, 2016, the Lebanon Valley Conservancy, Inc., in partnership with the Quittapahilla Watershed Association, was awarded $26,250 Growing Greener grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, for the development of a Watershed Implementation Plan for the Quittapahilla Creek and priority subwatersheds. The plan will identify and prioritize restoration projects to be implemented in Quittapahilla watershed, such as the Streambank Restoration Project in Quittie Creek Nature Park in Annville (Phase 2 of which is scheduled to begin in June and be completed by September 2016).
 A Watershed Implementation Plan formally approved by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is in most cases an essential precondition for state, federal, and private foundation grants. The Plan will be prepared by Rocky Powell of Clear Creeks Consulting, LLC.
 "We are thrilled about the award," said Dave Lasky, Co-President of the Quittapahilla Watershed Association, "It shows that our community's efforts to improve the quality of the Quittapahilla watershed continue to bear fruit, and that the Commonwealth recognizes the importance of these efforts and supports them not just in words but with the resources needed to get them done."
Kittatinny Ridge and the Lebanon Valley Conservancy's Participation in its Preservation. Thank you Lebanon Daily News and John Latimer for the great coverage.
Photo by George C. Gress
Quittie Stream Bank Restoration ~ 2014 Phase I ~ November 17 marked the date by way of a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in Annville at the Raymond J. Swingholm Footbridge in the Quittie Nature Park, for the initiation of the Quittapahilla Stream Bank Restoration Project. The Conservancy was awarded $444,126 from the PA Dept of Environmental Protection and another $80,000 from the Fish & Boat Commission. Quittapahilla Stream Bank Restoration Project
2014 Non-Profit of the Year Award ~ On October 21, 2014 the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce awarded the 2014 Non-Profit of the Year Award to the Lebanon Valley Conservancy, Inc. The Conservancy would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the Chamber of Commerce and to current Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Executive Board, Margie Yohn for the honor of being selected for this prestigious award.

FERC Comment ~ The Lebanon Valley Conservancy, Inc. has submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - FERC with regard to the Williams Partners d/b/a Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Williams) for the proposed installation of a large natural gas distribution pipeline to be known as the Atlantic Sunrise Project. The comments have been submitted in compliance with the public comment period provided. To read the entire Comment, please use this link to our Publications Pages. Action Alerts ~ FERC Comment Page
Tisha Walmer from the Lebanon Valley Conservancy spoke with us about all of the positive work they are doing in the Lebanon area. Their conservation work is done by committed volunteers who work with land owners. They also work with Quittapahilla Watershed Association, Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, Community of Lebanon Association, Land Trust Alliance, Lebanon Valley Rails to Trails and Lebanon County Historical Society. Be sure to watch the video and find out all of the great things the LVC is doing for our area. Then SHARE it with your friends. Produced by Annubis ProductionsPosted by We Are Lebanon, Pa. on Wednesday, December 6, 2017


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June 5th 2009: We understand that the race will begin at 5.30am from the Sheep Sculpture near the market following presentations to the previous day's winners. A series of events is being planned by the Town to mark the occasion and the unique Hatherleigh Tar Barrels have agreed to be involved. Expect the Carnival itself to play a role too, along with other groups from the Town
May 6th 2009: news was broken exclusively on this web site that Stage 7 of the Tour will start from Hatherleigh on September 18th 2009 and race to Yeovil. The previous day, the Tour travels from Somerset to Bideford, so we expect a big 'circus' to camp somewhere in Hatherleigh overnight on the 17th. This page will follow progress in the lead up period from the Hatherleigh point of view, and publish pictures of the event itself. To start you off, here's a link to the ToB web site for further details.
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:06 am
Post subject: Theme Park work in the current economic climate
For those of you already in the themed entertainment business-- has the current economic "meltdown" effected this industry much yet? Specifically as it relates to getting and retaining work?
I'm entering the business when I graduate in May, maybe freelance, possible full time somewhere, so I'd love to know what those already working are experienceing right now.
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Hey lightguy,
I can't speak to where I am in particular. But I will tell you that as far back as August I was hearing that shops all over town were laying people off, and that everything had slowed down. Our industry has natural ups and downs that follow the economy... maybe a bit in advance of it hitting the news. It may be difficult to get a job in the first 6 months of next year... I have a feeling it hasn't all shaken out yet in the industry, and it may get a bit worse before it gets better. The economy usually bounces back, though, and it would be good to start getting yourself out there to meet people, so that when things do pick up, they know who to call!
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The industry is usually dead in late November - January. But there is enough diverse work out there that it's almost recession proof. There's always something happening.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:14 pm
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that's good to know.
So If I purse the industry, I won't be homeless every time there's economic panic?
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It depends on what you plan on doing. I'm more of the artsy side of things entering via theatrical design and there are some "issues" becoming apparent in the current economy. Some places are cutting back, others are shutting down.
You know what though? The big guys are still around and doing well. They need people, right?
In my world there's two distinct groups of "possible employees" that are pretty easy to differentiate. There's really talented people and mildly talented people who schmooze a lot. It's probably the same in the business world and many other fields.
In my experience, being (or trying to be) the really talented person may not always get me the easy break, but it gets me kept around when the foo hits the fan. When jobs are scarce I may no be the first one called because i'm not the son of the producer's great aunt or somethin, but i'm the first person they call to "consult" when things aren't going right and it usually turns into me assuming the responsibilities and position.
I don't kiss butt and i seem to never be unemployed. So, my advice is just be god at what you do
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kingslyZISSOU, you definitely shouldn't be worried about being "homeless". Most people in the industry do fine... it's just wise to save up enough income that if you run into trouble, you can survive for a few months while looking for the next project. That's actually good advice for any industry. The veteran designers that I know are fine in this recession, it's just harder to find work... I would recommend not only being good at what you do, but to not be too picky about what you do. Doing "odds and ends" projects are not always as exciting as doing the high-profile stuff, but if you are willing to do odds and ends and you do them well, you will still have work when the big projects get put on the back burner...
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I will second that Holly...the place im working is a bit slow right now, but its just cyclical as those ive worked with have told me. And like you said, we dont always get to work on the "cool" stuff, but you just have to learn to take what you can get in order to make it to that next great project. Scenic shops like where i work do alot more than just theme park stuff, so that helps in the slow times.
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The other thing to consider is that there is much going on globally - things are taking off all over Asia (China, Singapore, Korea, Japan...) and in Dubai. There seems to be lots of money flying in some of those countries. It just means hooking up with the companies working on those projects.
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SolTrace Background
Since the late 1980s, a number of different optical design codes have been developed at NREL for designing and modeling solar concentrating systems. Each of these codes was written to model a very specific optical geometry, and each one built upon the others in an evolutionary way. Examples of such codes include: OPTDSH, a code written to model circular aperture parabolic dish concentrators; ODMF, a code based on OPTDSH that modeled multifaceted parabolic dish concentrators; and SOLFUR, a code written to model a very specific solar furnace geometry, which, in turn, was based on ODMF.
As more complex solar concentrator designs began to be realized, it was determined that a more general tool was needed. The Monte-Carlo ray trace methodology on which these prior codes were based was considered to be appropriate for accurate representation of these varied and complex systems. Other modeling codes existing at the time were limited in both geometry definition and optical surface representation. Commercial optical modeling codes were (and are) available, but the time and effort needed to learn these complex packages and apply them to solar concentrating systems is significant. They also do not easily allow the sun to be modeled as a source and are not "solar engineering friendly." As a result, SolTrace was developed. Based on its predecessors, SolTrace uses a Monte-Carlo ray trace methodology. It provides the user the benefits of a general purpose optical design tool, but from a solar engineering design point of view.


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The bar chart | May 31–June 6, 2012
DEUCE'S & THE DIAMOND CLUB The new weekly Sunday party here is called Detox. Ha, the irony. 3505 N Clark St (773-644-5554).
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THE DRINKINGBIRD Nostalgia for the 1960s informs not only the drinks but also the decor at this new lounge. 2201 N Clybourn Ave (773-472-9920).
file under: cocktailians, Don Draper syndrome
MERCER ONE THIRTEEN The owners of Moe's Cantina expand the River North scene. 113 W Hubbard St (312-396-0113).
file under: swank spots
THE MONKEY'S PAW Whiskey, craft beer, duck-confit poutine. Welcome to your newest gastropub. 2524 N Southport Ave (773-413-9314).
file under: beer geeks
ROOF AT THE WIT Now, the entirety of the 27th-floor lounge is covered with a retractable glass roof. 201 N State St (312-239-9501).
file under: bottle service, rooftop, swank spots
SOFO TAP If you thought Bear Night was crowded before, there's even more of them on the back patio. 4923 N Clark St (773-784-7636).
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TERRACE AT THE PENINSULA This summer's theme pays homage to "Shanghai's golden era of glamour." 108 E Superior St (312-573-6695).
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TERRACE AT TRUMP Speaking of themes, Trump went with "So Chic." As in: "Chic"En lollipops. Yup. 401 N Wabash Ave (312-588-8600).
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So last year this lovely pattern by Fiona Ellis came out in the fall issue of Twist Collective called Gwendolyn. It is a cabled sweater with a hood that can be either a pullover or a cardigan. I fell in love with it immediately but held off on making it because I had so many other things on the go. I still have many things on the go but a nice aran-weight sweater fills an empty niche I have in my wardrobe now that we have Frankie. And since I am going to be spending many hours a week standing outside watching her play, I need a sweater that will keep me warm and Gwendolyn fills that need beautifully while also looking stunning.
I decided on using Tanis's green label. The main colour I chose is the Shadow colourway which is nice light grey with flecks of ice blue (the yarn cake on the left) and the accent colour is the Atlantic colourway which too me looks like a richer version of blue in the first colourway (yarn cake on the right).
I am making the cardigan version and have already finished the two sleeves and am close to finishing the right front. I ended up blocking the right front on the needles a couple repeats in as I was worried it wouldn't be big enough and wanted to know before going any further. Turns out it blocks out to the measurements perfectly.
In other news…… Sean has discovered that the Pampered Chef apple slicer does a great job slicing apples into wedges (he made me come and take a picture) and then of course when reminded that it was very sharp he proceeded to cut himself on it.
And Frankie's training is coming along as she just mastered the down command today and is getting a lot of attention every time she does it.
And last but not least Piper has mastered Frankie's name and is constantly calling her. Frankie has her tuned out very well.


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Hello, welcome to Pelynt Social Club. We extend a warm welcome to all members and guests to our club.
The Club was originally formed in 1920 and has developed from its origins as a snooker hall on the village green into what is now an extensive club within the former village school premises in the heart of the village. The Club has recently undergone a complete refurbishment, now offering the very best of facilities and activities from sports and pub games to live music, quiz nights, bingo evenings and more. With our big screens and Sky Sports package, you can also share the highs and lows of the big sporting events.
We stock a large range of beers, wines and spirits at very competitive prices. In addition to the old favourites, we like to bring in some guest ales and wines to tempt our members and guests with something new.
Club Manager Deano, and his team, are here to ensure that your time at the Club is as enjoyable as possible. So whether you live in the village, in South East Cornwall or much further afield, you are welcome to join us. If you are on holiday, then why not join as a temporary member and enjoy the facilities we have to offer in the evening after a busy day holidaying.
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If the thousands of place names contained on the Replogle Premier Desktop Globe are not enough to satisfy your insatiable curiosity, worry not, because this model also comes with a world atlas! The 12 inch globe is held 18 inches high by its cherry-finish hardwood base, which also contains a shelf for a complimentary Rand McNally World Atlas. Together, these two tools harmonize to create a geographical spectacle hard to contend with. Propped up on the hardwood stand is an antique-brass full meridian, which holds the globe itself. Latitudinal markings ornament the meridian, along with a dial at the top of the globe which gives time zone information.
The world atlas sits below a beautiful antique style "Old World" political map. The parchment style oceans contain old fashioned compass roses, cartouches and ornamented legends. Tiny drawings of sailboats populate the beige colored oceans, representing the routes of early explorers. The nostalgic design of the map has been updated to include completely current 21st century cartography. The Replogle Premier Desktop Globe is a reference powerhouse, featuring an almost unparalleled amount of geographical information for a single unit. This educational tool is an ideal addition to your library, study, office or school.
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MMOFA Preserves a Piece of Stained Glass History
Lake Oconne News, August 28, 2008
Posted August 28, 2008
On a recent trip to New York City, on behalf of the Madison Museum of Fine Art, Madison residents Sean and Debbie Gallagher received the gift of eight stained-glass panels from the famed abstract mosaic facade of American Airlines Terminal 8, popularly known as "the Cathedral," designed by the late Modern stained-glass artist Robert Sowers and unveiled in 1960 at Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy) in New York, NY.. From the time of its installation until 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records proclaimed the work to be the largest stained glass window in the world, and it became a JFK airport trademark.
Widely considered America's greatest stained-glass artist of the Modern era, Robert Sowers combined artistic virtuoso with functionality in his design of the massive abstract glass installation that adorned the face of Terminal 8. Composed of over 30,000 red, sapphire and white glass tiles organized in 900 panes, the 317 foot by 23 foot translucent mosaic window provided aesthetic pleasure and much-needed insulation on the south-facing wall. The installation won Sowers worldwide fame and made a bold public statement about the expansiveness and creativity of Modern American architecture. Sowers also authored several books on the history of stained glass and how to understand the language of glass.
When American Airlines began construction of its new terminal at JFK in 2007, former American Airlines employee, Eileen Vaquilar Clifford began a national campaign to save the Sowers Window as a single work of art. Yet, the size of the work and the expense of removal and reconstruction proved prohibitive. In February 2008, museum director Michelle Bechtell learned of the iconographic window's fate, and she contacted American Airlines. Said Bechtell, "We felt strongly that a fine art history museum needed to preserve the legacy of Sower's stained glass masterpiece and its place in art history. And the Museum's sculpture garden seemed to be a perfect place to display some glass panels. American Airlines agreed."
Over the past months, the Museum worked with Don Smith, retired Facilities Manager of American Airlines, who selected 8 glass panels for the Museum. Joe Daly, current Facilities Manager, supervised the transfer of ownership. And Brian Troy, Managing Director of Operations at JFK, formally presented the panels to Sean and Debbie in New York.
Smith treated the Gallaghers to a personal tour of the new facility and the old Terminal 8 still undergoing demolition. Sean recalls, "Don explained that it took him and others a long tome to decode the ingenious system that Sowers used to attach the fragile glass panes to the framework. And the safe removal of the glass panes was a tedious and slow process. In testament to Sowers' mastery of his craft, Don noted that despite the window facing the brutal elemental punishment of a southern exposure, enduring the sometimes caustic New York air, and being subject to the constant vibration of jet engines, for half a century, the massive stained glass window never once leaked. It was amazing to see!"
American Airlines' donation has now arrived at the Museum and efforts are underway to design the structure to display this piece of American art history in the Museum's sculpture garden. The Madison Museum of Fine Art was the only art museum selected to receive a donation of glass panels from the Sowers window. Other glass panels will be displayed at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Dallas and the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York. All remaining glass panels were donated to Olde Good Things, an architectural salvage firm, where proceeds will benefit mission work in Haiti.
The Madison Museum of Fine Art is a non-profit educational institution that collects, preserves, interprets, and imaginatively displays original works of art by historically significant visual art masters for the education, edification, and spiritual nourishment of all persons living and traveling in Georgia's Lake Country. The Museum with sculpture garden is located on the courthouse square at 290 Hancock Street in Madison. For further information on the project, to make a donation toward the cost of the installation of the Sowers panels in the museum's sculpture garden, or to become a member of the museum, call 706-485-4530 or visit www.madisonmuseum.org .
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The world is full of highly creative people, who can take something that seems useless and transform it into something beautiful or highly functional. I really value people like that, and am often awestruck by the things they create. Last night, I got to meet some really creative people, and spend time in a highly creative environment. I am hoping some of it rubbed off on me.
A group of my social media pals created the idea of a Blog Mob, where are group of bloggers comes together, learns about a new organization, and goes out to spread the word. Last night we attended a Blog Mob hosted by the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse (PCCR) and Construction Junction. Let me tell you, it was pretty darn inspiring. Both of these organizations foster the idea of reusing materials that might otherwise be wasted, and putting them to use in creative ways.
PCCR is a large shop where individuals can go to purchase items at low cost. Most of these items are art or craft related, but the things you will find in the shop are amazing, and the possibilities for their use are pretty much endless. This is a wonderful resource for artists, crafters, teachers, scout troops, and anyone who likes to do creative projects. The items are reasonably priced, and the idea that you are reusing something that would have otherwise been wasted is priceless. PCCR also hosts programs and classes where you can learn to make projects and allow your creativity to flourish.
Housed in the same building as PCCR is Construction Junction, an organization which focuses on the reuse of building and home materials. Reuse purposes can be as simple as using an item in its original function in your own home, or as wild as transforming it into a completely new item with a new purpose, like turning a bathtub into a sofa.
The idea behind PCCR and Construction Junction is that instead of people throwing away perfectly good items and materials, they donate them to these groups, thereby allowing others to purchase them at a low cost and prevent waste. The programs are very green in nature, and are community focused. I found both organizations to be really unique, and the people from the organizations are incredibly kind. Often, being creative has been a little cost prohibitive for me, but with these organizations the costs are pretty affordable. As I toured both facilities last night with the Blog Mob, I was inspired to make ALL THE THINGS. And that says a lot.
As a part of our time there we had a chance to work on a project. The idea was we could take items from the PCCR shop to make a Christmas tree decoration, and the decorated tree will later be donated to a shelter. (Did I mention I am not very creative?). I really tried to let the items in the shop inspire me, and I think I did a decent job. One of the items they had was a collection of slides donated by a college who had recently digitized their collection.
I noticed many of the slides had green labels, so I fashioned them into a Christmas Tree, and decorated it with odds and ends of other materials. Not too shabby.
I noticed many of the slides had green labels, so I fashioned them into a Christmas Tree, and decorated it with odds and ends of other materials. Not too shabby.
I am really thankful for the opportunity to explore both of these incredible organizations, and I highly recommend to any creative types out there (I am talking to you Pinterest folks!!!), take some time to explore and support both these great organizations. They are supporting creative folks, and supporting the gentle treatment of the environment. I call that a win- win.
For more information on both these organizations, visit their sites, and look for them on Twitter and Facebook. More photos from the Blog Mob can be seen in my Flickr set here.


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Type a sentence into WordsEye and it creates a picture of that sentence. The image above is based upon the sentence, "Cat under the large bed."
Current ideas for use of the pictures: prepositions, adjectives, determiners and story prompts.
Prepositions - display the picture and ask children to describe the relationship between the nouns pictured.@ThisIsLiamM Yes of course and we encourage it :D— WordsEye (@wordseye) February 18, 2016
Adjectives - describe the picture to someone else.
Determiners - create a picture with a number of objects in and use determiners to pick out one or more of them.
Story prompt - create or use someone's picture and write a story based upon it.
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Ubitus Will Showcase a Total Cloud Gaming Solution at G-Star 2012 in South Korea
Taipei, Taiwan based Ubitus, which dabbles in technology for cloud gaming solutions, announced its participation at the G-Star 2012 annual trade show for the computer and video games industry in Busan, South Korea, to show off the latest streaming gaming solutions across mobile devices, STBs and Smart TVs. The demonstration will be available at J33, New Exhibition Hall of BEXCO. Visitors can try a series of hot game titles over the cloud during open hours of B2B exhibition, from 10am to 6pm, November 8th to November 10th.
Ubitus is providing on-demand cloud gaming services on multiple devices in two continents, North America and Asia. The successful service deployment and commercialization, including GameNow on Verizon, C-games on LG U+ and G CLOUD on NTT DOCOMO, have turned Ubitus into one of the biggest cloud gaming solution providers throughout the world. Its state-of-the-art streaming technology enables a powerful cloud gaming solution performance and a scalable business model to drive the brand-new market of cloud entertainment, together with top content providers, telcos and device manufacturers.
"It is exciting for Ubitus to exhibit its total cloud gaming solution publicly. Content providers will be amazed by the native-like gaming quality shown on smartphones, tablets, STBs, SmartTVs with the greatest concurrent users and lowest power consumption," said Wesley Kuo, CEO of Ubitus. "By participating in G-Star 2012, we look forward to collaborate with content providers to offer a richer library of game titles on our flagship cloud gaming services worldwide."
As it happened in the computer hardware industry with Taiwanese companies, it looks like it will also happen in the cloud gaming industry and Taiwan based cloud gaming companies like Ubitus will put up a serious challenge to established players from the US and elsewhere like OnLive, Sony's Gaikai, Playcast and G-cluster with their quality, price and scale.
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Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood rightfully boasts about the scores of legendary film stars who have walked through the front doors to attend world premieres. But contrary to popular belief, "The Wizard of Oz" wasn't first screened at the Hollywood Boulevard icon. Audience reaction screenings aside, that honor went to a small town -- not in Kansas, but in Wisconsin.
On Aug. 12, 1939 -- three days before its first showing at Grauman's -- the movie opened at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc, Wis.
At the time, Oconomowoc (pronounced oh-CON-oh-moe-wok) and its surrounding lakes were a popular vacation destination for wealthy families from Milwaukee, 35 miles east. One of the lakeside cottages was owned by Herbert Stothart, a composer who won an Oscar for the background music in "The Wizard of Oz."
"He'd come back here every summer," says local artist Paul Schultz, who owns the cottage with his wife, a relative of Stothart's.


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Bullying Awareness & Prevention Resources for Adults
National Bullying Prevention Center.org
The national non-profit organization Pacer Center developed the National Bullying Prevention Center to unite, engage and educate communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant and interactive resources. PACER offers digital-based resources for parents, schools, teens and youth. The adult-based National Bullying Prevention Center is the portal page for parents and educators to access bullying resources, which include educational tool-kits, awareness tool-kits, contest ideas, promotional products and more.


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The second in our Excel workshop series will introduce references, ranges, and dropdowns. It will cover how to create limits on data entry and format results.
The series of workshops will introduce the concepts, tools, and best practices when using Microsoft Excel. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary. Each session will include a different topic. Attend one or many.
One session every Wednesday, Jan. 24 – Feb. 21. in the DigiLab
January 24—Intro Excel
January 31—References, Ranges, Dropdowns
February 7—Conditional Formatting
February 9—=Formulas(within Formulas (etc.))
February 14—Pivot Tables & Graphs
February 21—Google Sheets – Not Just Excel Online
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People switching on to the video update from their Ellesmere Port and Neston MP had a time travelling surprise this week.
When voters sent Justin Madders to Westminster in May the former employment lawyer promised to keep in touch and since then he has provided 18 video updates chronicling his time in post.
But constituents might have thought they had found the wrong channel as a blast of the spine chilling theme music to the legendary television programme Doctor Who heralded the face of Madders in true Time Lord style.
Mr Madders eventually appeared in human form, calmly hoping people had enjoyed the sci-fi introduction. Whether anyone had dashed behind their sofas to avoid any Zygons is not known.
Undeterred the MP went on to speak on the more earthly matters of tax credits and other parliamentary business.
It later emerged the surprise had been engineered by Ellesmere Port businessman Ross Goldstein at Mr Madders' request to showcase his talents 'and just for a bit of fun' according to an assistant in the Westminster Tardis.
Last year photographer Mr Goldstein was involved with the borough council in creating views of shops on Whitby Road as the high street looked to become the first in the country to go digital.
He said at the time: "I want to see my home town really flourish again and I believe that together we can make this happen."
An early edition of Mr Madders' weekly update was filmed against a traditional arched window in the Whitby Park office of his predecessor Andrew Miller.


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Utilization of Fly Ash from Biomass and Biomass-Coal
(Biomass Power and Thermal 9-20-2011) Biomass fuel is being incorporated by some coal-based power plants as an alternative to cocombustion or cogasification with coal. This cofiring strategy has demonstrated reduced sulfur and nitrogen emissions and could be used as a strategy to reduce the net carbon dioxide (CO2) emission impact of a power plant. Some consider the combustion of biomass to be essentially CO2-neutral because although the biomass produces CO2 on combustion, CO2 is taken up by the plant during its growth.
One question that we hear a lot at the Energy & Environmental Research Center regarding cocombustion of biomass with coal is in regard to the utilization of the fly ash. Many power plants burning coal sell their fly ash particularly to the cement market. The fly ash resulting from the combustion or gasification of biomass fuels, either alone or with coal, has the potential for different characteristics than fly ash from coal alone. This can affect the salability of the ash. The elevated alkaline content in fly ash from biomass cocombustion, most notably sodium and potassium, tends to make these ashes undesirable for use in applications identified as beneficial use applications for conventional coal combustion fly ash.
According to the American Coal Ash Association, the largest utilization application of coal combustion fly ash is in concrete, concrete products and grout. ASTM International C618 "Standard Specification for Coal Fly Ash and Raw or Calcined Natural Pozzolan for Use in Concrete" is the standard used to determine whether a specific fly ash is suitable for use in concrete. Some coal-biomass fly ashes have been shown to meet the ASTM C618 standard specifications. However, currently ASTM C618 does not specifically address cocombustion fly ash. Alternatively, the European standard EN 450 "Fly Ash for Concrete— Definition, Specifications, and Quality control" allows for the use of fly ash derived from burning of pulverized coal and cocombustion materials at high enough temperature to facilitate glass formation in the fly ash. Further details are provided within the standard.
Both laboratory data and experience with fly ash from full-scale systems burning low percentages of biomass (less than 10 percent) indicate that fly ash from the coal-biomass blends has qualities similar to that produced with the coal alone. However, if the combustion fuel feed contains greater than approximately 10 percent biomass, the fly ash quality impact can be significant enough to affect utilization in cementitious applications. It is not anticipated that coal-based facilities that currently produce fly ash for the concrete market will use more than a small percentage of biomass fuels in the future.
Many biomass and cocombustion fly ashes may not meet the ASTM C618 standards or be allowed for use in concrete. This does not preclude the materials from use in other applications. These fly ashes may be suitable for use in markets such as structural fill, soil stabilization for construction, and other high-volume applications. A potential application of fly ash from biomass or coal-biomass is as a fertilizer substitute since the ash often retains the nutrients of the biomass such as potassium and phosphorus.
As with other coal combustion products, getting a good chemical, physical and/or mineralogical analysis of the biomass or coal-biomass fly ash can help determine the suitability of the specific material in various utilization applications. The EERC and other laboratories routinely provide these types of analyses.
In summary, the suitability of biomass-derived fly ash for use in cement or other salable products is a question often asked by utilities or power providers. Since there is no standard for coal-biomass fly ash yet, most combustion systems are relegated to burning low percentages of biomass. A few states have developed rules, regulations, standards, policies or guidelines regarding coal fly ash use, and perhaps if biomass becomes more prevalent as a cocombustion fuel, similar rules will be developed for biomass. For now, applications for permission to use biomass-derived ash are handled on a case-by-case basis.
To view the original article go to: http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/5803/utilization-of-fly-ash-from-biomass-and-biomass-coal/


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I would like to remind you about your forthcoming Graduation. Graduation is an extremely important event atFamilyMartial Arts Centres. It is a respected tradition of our martial art of Tang Soo Do and a vital part of the learning process. You are encouraged to do your best to attend on the day.
Your next Graduation is scheduled for :-
Saturday 8th April 2017
Venue: Bridgewater School in Worsley, Manchester, M28 2WQ
Students will Graduate according to rank.
Tiger Tots Programme
9am - 9:45am
Positive Start Programme
10am - 10:45 - White Belts
11:15am - 12pm - Yellow/Orange Stripe Belts
Leadership Programme
10am - 10:45 - Black Stripe Belt
11:15am - 12pm - Yellow/Orange/Blue Belts
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Green Belts
1:45pm - 2:30pm - Red Belts
3pm - 4pm - Midnight Blue Belts [Blackbelts] (Mid-Terms)
Spectators are more than welcome so please bring your family and friends and ask them to take photos!
Yours in Tang Soo Do.


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How to get your site on first page of Google? If you want your site appear on the first page of Google , you need to study the words and phrase that web users like to search. For example, I had written the words " Singapore general election 2011″, at that time my site appeared on the first page of Google for few months. This was the words and phrase that were popular at that time. And the People came to my site greatly increased because it appeared on the first page of Google. To know what are the popular words or trends, you can see the AdWords trend, Google AdWords can tell you what search queries users search for, how many searches are performed on those words and how much competition there is for that search phrase. Understanding these search phrases is important to learning how to get on the first page of Google.Write unique words or phrases that match the search queries exactly. If you offer a local service or business, include the regional information in the phrase – for example, "car repair Newark." The words have to be located together on the same page of the site; Google searches pages only when looking for phrases, not whole websites. They also should be in the exact order, although punctuation marks between words are acceptable. Put relevant information in title and meta tags. The contents of the title tag show up in the first line of a search result. The meta tag should be different for each page.Use descriptive and valid URLS for each page of the website. Give the pages names that tell search engines and users what they are instead of using generic names like "page1." Submit your website's URL and sitemap to Google. Google uses the sitemap to find out more about the structure of the site. An XML Sitemap can be submitted to Google through its webmaster tools section. Get linked to other sites. Google uses PageRank to determine a website's importance based on how many other pages link to it. Find websites related to yours to offer reciprocal links. Look for linkback opportunities in blogs, articles and local directories. Create a listing with a detailed business profile on Superpages.com. Google searches the business profiles on this website. Add the physical location of your business to Google maps, if applicable. Businesses listed in Google Maps are displayed first when a user enters a regional search phrase. It's easy to add a listing; simply login to the Google account and fill out the online forms. But if you willing to spend some money, you can advertise your web site on Adwords Advertising, this is the leading on line advertising format, your web site can be appeared on first page if you willing to pay the high bid. If not, you have to acquire the knowledge. For those who have attend SEO course by Google team, they are the experts on " How to get your site on first page of Google ", of course you have to pay the learning fees for that. otherwise you can just type this phrase " How to get your site on first page of Google? ", you need sometimes to absorb and digest it, so again it ready need your hard work if you ready want to be successful. Before you go further, let's have some knowledge first.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dr_Ron_Marek Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/3423821 Let's learn further…Google's search engine, www.google.com, uses a variety of methods to determine which pages are displayed first in the results. Their exact formula is a secret, but there are a few things you can do to improve your positioning. The term for this is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). These tips may not make your website the first one to appear in the list, but they just may help you move up a little. No matter what you do, make sure you make a site that you want to visit. If you're gaming the system, sooner or later Google will figure it out and change their formula. You'll end up plummeting in the search results and wonder why. Ignore spam and websites that offer to submit your website to hundreds of search engines. At best these are wastes of time or money and at worst they can actually hurt your ranking.
Keyword Phrases
Rather than focusing on a single word, try adding a few words to make a keyword phrase. You may want to read about effective Google searches to see how keyword phrases help with searches. Don't overdo it. If it looks spammy, it probably is. If you were searching for your own website, what keyword phrase would you type into Google for each page? Would you look for super fast widgets? Would you look for cooking with widgets? It may be helpful to get a different perspective. Ask someone else to read your page and suggest what they think your keyword phrase might be. You can also check Google Trends to see if one phrase is starting to gain popularity.Try to stick to one subject per page, and stick to one keyword phrase per page. That doesn't mean you should write stilted text or use odd phrases. Clear writing is both easier to search and easier to read.
One of the things Google looks for when it catalogs pages is the density of the keyword usage. In other words, how often the keyword occurs. Use natural phrasing. Don't try to trick the search engine by repeating the same word over and over or making text "invisible." It doesn't work. In fact, some of that behavior even get your website banned. Read more: Google Dont's – Bad Tips and Dirty Tricks That Will Get You Banned. Give a strong opening paragraph that says what your page is actually about. This is just good practice, but it may help search engines find your page, too.


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If you're like me, sometimes you might be a little over zealous in your fruit purchasing. And sometimes that fruit threatens to go bad. What started out as drink to use up old fruit, actually turned out to be a delicious experiment.
Ingredients for two:
1 orange
1 lime
1 lemon
6 grapes
fresh ginger zest
2 shots pear vodka
Combine the juice of the citrus fruits. Pour a shot of pear vodka into each glass over ice. Evenly distribute the citrus juice into each glass. Zest ginger directly into glass to taste, but remember a little goes a long way. Top with tonic water. Stir it all up. Then, for garnish, slice grapes lengthwise and add to cocktail. Now it's tasty and pretty!


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Leader Under 40: Wael Badawy
Wael Badawy, PhD, 38
President, IntelliView Technologies Inc., www.intelliview.ca
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
MS + PhD Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana; BS + MS Computer Science + Automatic Control Engineering, University of Alexandria
Badawy develops video technology after an academic career and now leads a technology-based company, IntelliView Technologies Inc. Badawy remains focused on research, serving on several standard boards, representing Canada in hundreds of technical meetings and research in video processing and its use in control engineering. In 2008, he was a co-author to the international video standard known as MPEG4/H.264. He also received a national award (Award of Excellence) for these contributions from the Standards Council of Canada Leadership in Review:
- 1998: Video Processing Technology developed at the University of Louisiana
- 2001: IntelliView's software solution incubated at the University of Calgary
- 2003: Spin-off from the University of Calgary with a computer vision technology
- 2004 – 2006: Developed the first product as a software for video analysis
- 2007 – 2008: Branding, three patents filed, bought the technology from University of Calgary
- 2009: Raised $3 million and shifted the company; two patents issued
- 2010: Relocated to an office adjacent to Deerfoot Trail and erected large signage.
Other awards include:
- Microsoft Canadian Innovation Program – Immigrants of Distinction Distinguished Professional Alberta Finalist
- Manning Innovation Awards
- Standards Council of Canada (SCC) Awards – Award of Excellence
- Avenue Magazine – Top 40 Under 40.
Badawy's personal contributions:
- More than 400 of Badawy's papers and presentations have been accepted for publication by the internal peer community.
- The commercialization of a Canadian Video technology through IntelliView Technologies Inc.
- Training, knowledge, and technology that Dr. Badawy transferred over the last 10 years to his students (about 2,000 undergraduate and 50 graduate) who are now contributing to the engineering field at different capacities including design, teaching, supervising, and manufacturing several electronic components.
- Named on at least nine patents applications including four as sole inventor.
- Organized and participated in more than 30 international and national technical meetings including ISO/IEC/JTC1.
The 50+ contributions to develop the ISO standards, which represent more than 75% of the hardware reference model for the H.264 compression standard. He was also the co-editor for the standards.
Badawy has demonstrated a video-coding framework that provides new concepts, algorithms, and architectures for coding and decoding video sequences. The framework is said to outperform current MPEG-2 video standards and the new MPEG-4 standards in required bandwidth, quality of the transmitted video sequences, and the required computational power. It allows transmission of video sequence for limited bandwidth and limited power consumption applications, such as wireless applications. The proposed framework was awarded the Microlyne Microsystems Design Award (previously the Alberta Microelectronic Corporation Award) on June 7, 2001, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The Microlyne Microsystems Design Award is awarded to researchers in a Canadian university who demonstrate the most novel and industrially relevant research results in MEMS Microsystems Materials research or system-related developments. Badawy is collaborating in research and development with CMC, Genumm, and Teledyne Dalsa.
Non-work-related activity
Badawy plays and coaches soccer, tennis, and chess, and he enjoys working with children on different activities.
Engineering-related activity
Badawy mentors young engineers through the Canadian Youth Business Foundation. He believes that helping and teaching the youth is a great contribution to society.
Interesting details
Leadership skills and visions are said to motivate his colleagues, employees, and researchers toward excellence. He shows that dreams come true through passion and dedication.
Began interest
"Since 1990, when I saw the textile automation process in a family-owned factory, I have been interested in the automated color extraction and mixing technology that was bought over from Germany at the time," Badawy said.
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If you don't crochet, but would like your own custom made giraffe hat and diaper cover you can order one here.
I had so much fun creating this crochet pattern. The pattern includes step by step photo's for all of the details that go into making the giraffe hat and diaper cover. You will receive the pattern for each of the following sizes: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, and 6-12 months. You can purchase the instant download here so you can start crocheting right away!
Crochet Giraffe Hat and Diaper Cover
The supplies you will need are:
*Please note: using the same brand of yarn that I used to create this pattern will ensure the best possible outcome for your project.
- 1 skein (2 skein's for size 6-12 months) Vanna's Choice 100% acrylic yarn in Mustard
- 1 skein Vanna's Choice 100% acrylic yarn in Linen
- 1 skein Vanna's Choice 100% acrylic yarn in Taupe
- 3-4 Buttons (2 for eyes and 1-2 for diaper cover, recommend 2 on diaper cover for size 6-12 months)
- Size 4mm crochet hook (5mm for size 6-12 months)
- Tapestry Needle
- Crochet Pattern
I hope you enjoy this crochet pattern as much as I loved making it!
Happy Crocheting!