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The best thing about raising a bountiful garden is being able to enjoy all the fresh produce. The second best thing is being able to preserve some of that produce for the winter months. For years, folks have made use of root cellars for this very reason.
A root cellar is any storage location that uses the natural cooling, insulating and humidifying properties of the earth. They keep food from freezing during the winter and cool in the summer. Before refrigeration, root cellars were essential for storing root crops and keeping them fresh through the winter months. If you live where there are snowy, wintry conditions, this time-tested storage method still makes sense today.
Most of these structures are either totally or partially underground and must maintain temperatures between 32* and 40*F and have humidity between 85% and 95%. Cool temperatures slow the release of ethylene gas and stop the growth of microorganisms that cause decomposition. High humidity levels prevent the loss of moisture through evaporation and the withering look that accompanies it. Root vegetables, jars of pickled vegetables, and bulbs and rhizomes of perennial flowers do well in a root cellar.
There are three basic types of root cellars. The most common is the basement variety. They are often attached to houses for easy access or created in a corner of a basement. It takes very little work to create one. It is best to use the foundation walls in the northeast corner of the basement for two sides of the root cellar. Build the other two sides with studs and boards, making sure to insulate the interior walls, ceiling, door, and all ducts and pipes to keep the heat out. Be sure to have a ventilation system that allows cool, fresh air from outside to be brought in and stale air to be exhausted outside. This helps prevent mold and mildew.
The next type is the hole-in-the-ground type, which entails digging a hole in the ground or horizontally into a hillside. This type requires good drainage, so sandy soil works great. The elevated slope is good because water will run away from the pit as it moves downward. If winter temperatures go below -25*F, dig a pit deep enough so all crops are under the soil's surface. Flare the sides to prevent cave-ins and line the hole with straw and dry leaves. It should be covered with a thick, wooden lid, and the lid should have a layer of soil on top.
The third kind is the garbage can type. Using a metal garbage can or barrel in your hole-in-the-ground cellar helps keep water out. To start, dig a hole slightly larger than the diameter of the garbage can and deep enough so that the can's lid will sit 4 inches below the soil level. Place straw inside with the vegetables, then heap dirt around the circumference. Cover the lid with straw or mulch and a sheet of plastic to keep everything dry.
Root vegetables will store well over the coldest weather. The biggest factor is keeping the right temperature, and the best temperature stability is reached at 10 feet. Wooden shelving, which is more adaptable to indoor root cellars, helps organize the produce and allows for rotation. Shelves or platforms should be one to three feet away from outside walls. Wood is usually the best material for the shelving, as it does not conduct heat and cold as rapidly as metal does. Air circulation is crucial to help minimize airborne mold and shelving aids in this function.
For outdoor root cellars, packed earth is the preferred flooring. Concrete works well and is practical for indoor storage.
The two things that every root cellar needs are a thermometer and a hygrometer to measure the temperature and humidity, respectively. These should be checked daily if possible. Heat is usually regulated using ventilation to the outside or an exhaust pipe. These allow cold air to enter, often in the fall, to get the temperature down.
Here are a few tips to help your root vegetables last as long as possible in your root cellar:
- Some crops like potatoes, winter squash, pumpkins, and onions need to be "cured" for a few days in warm temperatures before going into storage. Shake off the loose dirt and allow to dry for a few days. Do not wet them or you will risk them rotting, even if they appear to be dry. Many vegetables need this transition period.
- Handle vegetables with care, because even slight bruising can start them to spoil.
- Cabbage and turnips are best stored in a separate place, like in a smaller detached root cellar if possible, so that their odor does not permeate other vegetables.
- Remember that the warmest and driest air is near the ceiling while the more humid air is lower and furthest from the door. Know which vegetables prefer which and store accordingly.
- Making a root cellar in the garage or using pressure treated wood is not advisable.
- Vegetables piled together generate heat which leads to spoiling. If at all possible, spread them out on shelves close to the floor and rotate occasionally.
- Check the produce regularly and dispose of any that shows signs of rot or mold. This is where the saying "One rotten apple can spoil the bunch" comes from.
- If you do not have a root cellar, you can use a closet on an outside wall, section of the coolest corner of the cellar or attic, or use part of a mudroom.
- Most fruit "breathes" and for some, like apples that give off ethylene gas, it is best to wrap them in paper because the gas can cause the other vegetables to spoil.
I have space under my front porch that is sectioned off from the rest of the basement. It is all cemented, and I have put shelves in there where I keep my root vegetables and apples. The temperature is right, and normally my vegetables will keep until late March. This is also an excellent place for my canned goods.
Root cellars are an inexpensive and versatile way to preserve the bounty of the garden and let you eat what you raised all year long. Like anything else, they can be fashioned as elaborate or as plain as you desire. However you go, they make an indispensable addition to any home.
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[First the Rebuttal and the Rejoinder... and then the original critique.]
Govt more open in sharing data
Dec 15 2015
The commentary last Friday ("S'pore can afford to be more open in sharing data") cited data from the Global Open Data Index, which attempts to benchmark openness of data internationally.
In the latest 2015 rankings, Singapore ranks a joint 23rd out of 122 places, and not 63rd, ahead of places such as Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong. In the government spending category, Singapore scored the same as countries such as Australia, Denmark and the United States.
We are surprised that the commentary writers, Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley, who are academics, relied on an outdated version of a single index to conclude that the Singapore Government has not been transparent and open in sharing its data.
Had they checked with us, we would have pointed out the flaws on the measurement for Singapore in the old index and advised them to refer to the latest version.
They could also have looked up the "Revenue and Expenditure Estimates" information on the Singapore Budget website (www.singaporebudget.gov.sg) for details of government spending. It is regrettable that they had drawn the wrong conclusions without exercising the care and rigour one expects of academics from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
The Government now makes available more than 12,000 data sets on the Government's open data portal (www.data.gov.sg).
We have recently revamped the portal to make data accessible in more machine-readable and useful formats.
This has enabled users to access more real-time data via application programming interfaces.
We are continually enhancing the portal, currently a beta version, based on public feedback, and we welcome further inputs on ways to improve.
Many government agencies have organised hackathons and made data available for the public to create useful solutions. For example, transport-related data from the Land Transport Authority has enabled the creation of journey planner apps that provide bus arrival times and carpark locations.
Many companies and non-profit organisations have built interesting apps and business models off the OneMap geospatial platform. As part of our Smart Nation journey, we continue to share data to improve services to citizens, create economic value, and promote research and the co-creation of solutions between government and society.
We will continue to make more data available in ways that are consistent with the need to protect individuals, enterprises and the public interest.
Lim Yuin Chien
Corporate Communications
Ministry of Finance
THE WRITERS REPLY:Our analysis was based on the Global Open Data Index (GODI) for last year.
The 2015 analysis came out well after we did our analysis and after we submitted our piece to The Straits Times for publication. Thus, the insinuation that academics like us used outdated data is not only unwarranted but is demonstrably unfair and erroneous.
Singapore has indeed improved its ranking this year, based on the data set released only last Wednesday. While GODI's data shows that Singapore's spending is 10 per cent transparent (up from 0 per cent last year), it is difficult to understand why most developing countries share such low scores.
Methodological errors are GODI's and not ours. Equally, no one indicator can give a full picture for different countries. We are considering an academic paper assessing their methodologies.
For any country to advance, data should be readily available to the public and academics for independent scrutiny and research. In recent years, we have seen perceptible improvements in data availability.
We believe open discussions can only facilitate more and more availability of data that academics need for research. This will enable us to put forward regularly new and innovative policy alternatives for public consideration and discussion. Hopefully, many of these can eventually become government policies.
Singapore can afford to be more open in sharing data
Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley
Mars sounds like an exciting place. Scouring daily images from Nasa's Curiosity rover, some amateur astronomers are convinced that the Red Planet is home to mice, iguanas and humanlike gods. Regardless of whether these are valid claims or just cosmic pareidolia, it is noteworthy that Nasa publicly releases images.
Although the information can harmlessly find its way to untrained observers, it is a potentially valuable tool for crowdsourcing low-level analysis, and has revived public interest in space exploration.
Data openness - from space images to government budgets - sounds like a defensible cause. In the information age, citizens expect transparency, and degree of openness is an increasingly common benchmarking metric.
However, not all governments are so forthcoming, and Singapore is one example. Rarely outshone in the world of performance indexes, Singapore is ranked in the global top 10 for per capita gross domestic product (GDP), national competitiveness, ease of doing business, personal safety, and lack of corruption, among many other metrics.
However, Singapore's Government has never been accused of being overly transparent, and the recently released Global Open Data Index underscores this.
Indeed, governments possess sensitive data that should not be publicly released, but access is increasingly seen as a public right rather than a privilege. The global proliferation of social media has empowered policy advocates to mobilise groups for a variety of purposes, including rallies and voter turnout.
One force increasingly transforming national politics and geopolitics is the democratisation of information, and the connection between transparency and political legitimacy probably explains some countries' reluctance to share information. Indeed, governments possess sensitive data that should not be publicly released, but access is increasingly seen as a public right rather than a privilege. The global proliferation of social media has empowered policy advocates to mobilise groups for a variety of purposes, including rallies and voter turnout.
The same enabling platforms have provided infrastructure for information-sharing, just as curiosity is rising among citizens in countries with historically secretive governments. For example, in Russia and China, technology-enabled data exchange among citizens is growing despite crackdowns.
The Global Open Data Index, administered by the global non-profit Open Knowledge, "measures and benchmarks the openness of data around the world". Each country is assigned a score broadly reflecting degree of openness derived from a weighted average of two factors: technical (data updated, in digital form, and machine-readable, etc) and legal (data free, publicly available, and openly licensed).
Among the 97 countries studied, the United Kingdom is the most "open" (97 per cent) and Guinea the least (10 per cent). Singapore ranks 63rd (34 per cent open), having the same score as Bangladesh, Bermuda, Nepal, Senegal and Tunisia. For a highly developed country, this is not good company.
Singapore ranks lowest on government spending: 0 per cent transparency, 86th and tied for last place with 11 countries that otherwise have little in common with the 20th century's greatest economic miracle.
Singapore ranks highest on transport timetables (45 per cent and 24th), and is 55 per cent transparent (59th) in "national statistics" that measure GDP, employment, population, etc. The percentages of these and other sub-metrics are derived under the same methodology used for overall scores, described above.
Notable is the transparency gap between government spending and government budget (0 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively). In the index metrics, spending is highly detailed at the transaction level (monthly items under US$1 million - S$1. 4 million at the current exchange rate), while budget is "high-level" data by department and sector.
Most countries are more transparent in the latter than the former, but, for Singapore, the difference is notably large. The reasons are largely a matter of speculation, but may include reluctance to release details about defence, security and wealth-fund activities, and the data requirements of particular budget and accounting processes.
Singapore joins the likes of Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Zimbabwe, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia in being among the 12 least open for government spending.
Cyprus is an offshore tax haven and tourist destination, Saudi Arabia is almost entirely resource-dependent, and Cambodia is working mightily to outrun the shadow of a tragic history.
Besides Indonesia and China, the remaining countries with the least open data on government spending include Guinea, Mali and Benin, and can be viewed as dysfunctional laggards sodden with corruption. This is strange company for Singapore indeed. Given its global openness and pragmatic attitude, Singapore should strive to do much better than the above countries in any aspect of governance, including transparency.
One strategy for a government to maintain legitimacy is to provide more avenues for information access. There are three reasons why improving transparency is a good strategy. First, transparency shifts discussions about policy and governance away from supposition and innuendo, and towards facts. If a government truly has much to credit its efforts, evidence denies emotion-laden opposition any credibility.
Second, transparency invites creative policy solutions from society, including non-profit and private sectors. This allows proposals to tap non-government analytical and intellectual capacity.
Finally, more transparency enables a country to be internationally compared on a broader variety of metrics. If the country has proven itself a global leader on numerous levels, withholding information is unnecessary and arguably counterproductive.
Throughout Singapore's decades of fiercely ambitious developmentalism and historically unprecedented growth, pragmatism has become the Government's brand image.
In the eyes of many in Singapore and around the world, Mr Lee Kuan Yew is the anti-ideologue. In a 2007 New York Times interview, he stated of the Government: "We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and, if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one." Such earthy honesty is refreshing in a world of paranoid dictators and image-minded populist opportunists. Transparent pragmatism is the enemy of ideology.
If any country has nothing to hide, it is Singapore. Aside from national security, there should be little concern about the sensitivity of government data. Good governance and data openness are not mutually exclusive; indeed, they are fundamentally complementary. It is no imperative to sacrifice freedom of information at the altar of political stability. If an analyst or curious citizen finds an opportunity to improve policy, a country should embrace the process that made it possible.
Like Mars, Singapore has exciting but undiscovered facts: mice and iguanas - and, some could say, even humanlike gods. Why keep that a secret?
Asit K. Biswas is Distinguished Visiting Professor and Kris Hartley is a doctoral candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.


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We love clay mockups, that's why we created the iPhone 8 Clay Mockup Bundle. It is by far one of the most used designs in our presentations.
As you know by now, each bundle we release has between 20 and 27 colors for each mockup.
These are made to quickly used them when prototyping a presentation.
The colors are based on Google's Material Design guidelines and it works great for most situations. If not, just throw a gradient map on the mockup and you'll be fine.
Since the iPhone 8 Clay Mockup Bundle comes with a lot of colors, here are the hex values in case you might need them on hand:
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Attunity Ltd (ATTU) is in focus today as we drill down into the near-term signals for the stock. We note that the current 7-day average directional indicator is Buy.
This signal may be used to determine the market trend. The 7-day directional strength is Weak . This trend strength indicator measures the signal based on historical performance where minimum would represent the weakest, and maximum would indicate the strongest. The 7-day average directional direction is currently Weakening. This signal indicates whether the Buy or Sell signal is getting stronger or weakening, or whether the Hold is heading towards a Buy or Sell.
Shifting gears, we can see that the 10-day moving average Hilo channel is currently Hold. This indicator calculates the moving average based on highs/lows rather than the closing price. The direction of the signal is currently Bearish.
Looking at some other short-term indicators, Attunity Ltd (ATTU) has a 20-day moving average vs price of Buy. This is the signal from the 20-day MA which is used to monitor changes in stock price. The current signal strength is Minimum and the direction has been noted as Weakest. The 20-50 day MACD Oscillator signal is presently Sell. The strength is presently Minimum and the direction is Weakest.
Focusing in on the 20-Day Bollinger Bands signal for Attunity Ltd (ATTU), the current reading is Hold. This short-term indicator may be used to help spot oversold and overbought conditions.


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Samsung unveiled its keenly-anticipated smartwatch on Wednesday, heralding a new era in tech devices.
The Galaxy Gear smartwatch can make and receive calls, take pictures, run its own apps and has a voice control function that allows users to perform tasks by speaking to the device.
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Something was amiss after the hack, but Twitter told the AP what it takes for followers to return.
Do publishers have the right to control the ads that appear on their websites? A controversial company doesn't think so and has been injecting billions of unauthorized ads into websites like AOL, the BBC and the New York Times.
Who has more clout in spreading the news: the New York Times, the Guardian or Wired? Such questions have been the stuff of cocktail chatter but now, thanks to the rise of Twitter and big data analytics, we have some hard evidence.
Jon Miller, the well-respected Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, is on the way out after presiding over the company's sprawling digital properties. The move comes at a time that News Corp is splitting into distinct entertainment and publishing companies.
Google cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a "fair use" under copyright law. The arguments, set out in court filings submitted on Friday, come as Google's long-running dispute with the Authors Guild heads toward an end game.
For centuries, some insults have been considered so offensive that a plaintiff didn't have to prove harm in a defamation lawsuit—"gay" included.
Image-sharing site Pinterest has been in negotiations for months with photo service Getty. A breakthrough could dispel some of the copyright questions hanging over the hot startup — but one expert says not to hold your breath.
A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post.
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Writers: Kieron Gillen and Si Spurrier
Artist: Emilio Laiso
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Action. Laughs. And more crazy action. That's Doctor Aphra #18. Every wild, bizarre thing thrown into a freezer and then unleashed, with Aphra's back to the wall. Throw in Hera and you've got an insanely fun issue.
It kicks off on Aphra's ship as her and her team head toward the Tarkin Initiative secret facility Hivebase-1. These quiet moments before the storm allow for some character development, some plot seeds, and some humor. Then the storm begins as Aphra's plan kicks into motion, allowing her an entry vector into the secret Imperial base. Inside, they find a treasure trove of weird creatures, monsters and droids, many a mixture of all three. As the heist progresses, things of course go wrong, and all those frozen monsters gets thawed out. Now on one hand, the writers are having fun naming off all these strange creations. On the other hand, they're giving artist Emilio Laiso the opportunity to bring some of these things to life. A Wookiee with a blaster cannon for a head. A spider version of K-2SO. Things with tentacles, brains, bug bodies, cyborg bodies, it's a chaotic and imaginative pool of nightmare creatures. Or course, some are just plain humorous looking. Either way, it adds to the fun of it all.
In the end, Aphra and team get caught by some very weird Imperials. There's Deathtroopers, some kind of augmented Hutt troopers, and an Imperial guy in a big metal tube construct. It leaves the readers wondering how Aphra will get out of this one.
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Remember last week, when Rick Reilly tried to pass off this stupid poem as a sports column? Since he's an adult who gets paid an exorbitant amount of money to write about sports, Reilly was rightly lambasted by most everyone who saw his poem. But we wanted to give Reilly's poetic skills a chance to stand on their own merits, so we went to someone who knows a thing or two about judging simplistic poetry.
We gave Reilly's poem to a friend of Deadspin who teaches English to seventh graders in the Bronx. We did not tell her the identity or age of the poem's author. We simply asked her to grade it as if the work was done by one of her students. So what did she think? Well, Rick Reilly is a pretty good poet for a seventh grader!
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The death of Helmut Schmidt is a profound moment for all post-war Germans.
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Before Periodontal Treatment
The answer is no. It is natural to think about what can go
wrong. These procedures are very safe and side effects are minimal.
Drs. Wunderlich & Chang have completed well over 4,000 of these procedures and are very
confident in the techniques. Most patients anticipate severe discomfort
after surgery, which is generally not true. We will give you the
medications necessary to reduce swelling, pain, prevent infection, and
help keep things clean. Our patients routinely comment that the procedure was not
nearly as bad as they imagined. Remember, the benefits of keeping
your own teeth are extensive and although they need some work now, the
end result will be well worth it!
Expect to have some sensitivity of the teeth after surgery.
The procedure will remove all plaque and tartar (calculus) from the root
surfaces, which may increase your sensitivity to extremes of hot, cold,
and/or sweets. Our recommendation is to avoid very hot or very cold
foods/beverages for a couple of weeks after surgery. In most cases, the
sensitivity will subside and return to normal after a few months.
Sensitive toothpaste can help during these phases. Our office can also
prescribe various medications that can help with long-term sensitivity.
After surgery, the teeth may feel a little loose due to minor
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Our experience shows that there is a low risk of infection
associated with periodontal surgery. If bone grafts are part of your
treatment plan then antibiotics will be prescribed as a preventive
measure. Routine periodontal surgery does not require antibiotic
coverage. If you notice an elevation in temperature, drainage or
significant swelling, please call the office. Remember, swelling after
the procedure is normal and usually peaks about 4 days after surgery.
This usually resolves in a week or so.
If surgery is planned for your front teeth to correct damage
due to your gum disease, shrinkage in the gum tissue may occur when the
swelling goes down. This may leave dark spaces between the teeth and
the teeth may look somewhat longer. Rest assured, Drs. Wunderlich & Chang will do their best to minimize these changes, and protect your smile. In some cases,
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Besides all the long-term health effects that smoking can have
on your body, it can dramatically impact on the stability of your
teeth. Study after study has shown that patients who smoke can end up
with significantly less teeth than non-smokers. Post operative
sensitivity is also higher in smokers and healing is slower. Do what
you can to kick the habit. We can start you on a smoking cessation
programs too.
There is a very, very low risk of permanent numbness to the gum
tissues or skin surface after periodontal surgery. In most cases, this
is a temporary phenomenon and has a very low incidence. We will do
everything possible to limit the possibility of this happening.
It is important that you return for the following post-surgery
This visit is usually two weeks following surgery unless
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long. In many cases the sutures dissolve on their own. Loose sutures
may be trimmed at home if they are bothering you.
This visit takes place 3 months weeks following surgery. Drs. Wunderlich & Chang will re-chart the treated area, and confirm that you are stable.
Since personal oral hygiene is compromised while the sutures are in
place, a professional cleaning will aid in the healing process by
keeping bacteria from getting back under the gums. This is usually a
one-hour visit and may be in addition to your normal cleaning schedule.
Then it is up to you!
Because periodontal disease is a chronic condition our goal is
to control the disease; we can't cure it. Your body has demonstrated
that it needs help in keeping destructive bacteria from getting back
into your gums. Once you are stable, professional dental cleaning and
examination at regular intervals is critical.
Some patients have questioned why they need to return to our
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When I first started my blog in 2013, one of the main focuses of it was to take clothes that I had that no longer fit me (due to weight loss) and upcycle them in ways that would benefit my wardrobe. This was before I actually knew what a pattern was or even how to buy fabric. Once I got a taste of the ability to make things from scratch, I basically fell off of the upcycle train. I think that last thing that I transformed or updated was December of 2013. I've been on a roll since then.
At the beginning of January, I really went through my bags and boxes of old clothes that I had plans for and did a REAL purge to decide what things I am really going to do something with and what things just needed to go into the donation pile. I am making a dedicated effort this year to at least FINISH what I started with the pieces that I had plans for at the inception of the blog with while I continue to make new and shiny things.
With that said, I revisited a transformation that I had actually STARTED in 2013 but left as a UFO for 2.5 years lol smh. Back in this post I introduced you to this dress that I had had since sophomore or junior year of high school (circa 2005).
It had turned very matrix-esque and it definitely was not my style anymore. Back in '13 I had removed the lining with my seam ripper and just had it sitting like that for this long. ALL I HAD TO DO was separate that top part near the neck that joined together. Yes, it took me almost 3 YEARS to rip a 1 inch seam! *blank stare* I feel you judging.
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v1.2 And The Internet
So almost 2 weeks has passed since we last gave you an update, and the reason for that is simple. In switching to Naked DSL I foolishly didn't realise that the nice people at my ISP would yank my internet connection for over 2 weeks!
Anyway enough about me, 1.2 is almost ready, and so far features some very snazzy things:
- Much improved radar loading and display (including local time display and play/pause next and back
- Sunrise & Sunset times, you asked for them, and you bet your sweet little bippy that we added them
- Improved handling for no connection or bad connections, ten points if you can guess what made us implement that
- Find weather details for your GPS location
- Edit existing locations
- Indexed locations lists for extra finger scrolling goodness
- Doppler wind radar where it's available
- Expanded weather coverage for Victoria to include 7 day detailed forecasts in a lot of locations
- Many under the hood changes, and one or two cool things we're keeping mum on until release date.
At this stage it looks like going out in about a week or so, providing my ISP hooks me back up with that sweet, sweet internets. I hope you're listening Adam?
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Paterson, NJ – A worldwide audience attended drupa 2016, which concluded on June 10 but continues to pay dividends for Colter & Peterson. North America's largest independent distributor of paper cutters and paper handling equipment experienced the most successful drupa event in its history, and expectations are high for the carryover effect to continue into the third business quarter.
"Drupa lit the fuse for what has been a crazy last two months. We've been exhibiting at drupa since 1990 and it was our most successful trip there ever," exclaimed Bruce Peterson, President of Colter & Peterson. Prior to the event, he had expected the company's machines and Microcut® retrofits to be in high demand, in part stemming from a cooperative effort with HP Indigo for Direct-to-Finish finishing automation for digital print operations. The announcement was made at the Dscoop conference in April.
"We enjoyed a substantial amount of booth traffic throughout the show and spent time with people we had spoken with prior to drupa. We also met with dealers from around the world and that led to strong international representation in our booth. Combine that with our HP customer meetings, it led to us selling many Microcut retrofits and some large format paper cutters. In the last two weeks, we have also closed many deals for new and rebuilt machines, and we continue to have a dialogue with numerous other customers."
At drupa, C&P displayed various Microcut control systems, the automated and highly productive back gauge system with more than 30,000 worldwide installations. The company also demonstrated a CHM precision sheeter in partnership with Shanghai Eureka Machinery.
"We demonstrated the Microcut PLUS WS retrofit system and it attracted a good amount of attention," said Peterson. "Five of the six cutters we sold to large format customers are at least 126" in size and will have the 15" version of our Microcut PLUS WS installed on them."
C&P unveiled a next generation static display electrical control package at drupa. In addition to new benefits and options, the Microcut Cutter Control System will be more standardized, with reduced components for easier ordering and installation. It can be installed on nearly any brand guillotine paper cutter between 20 and 150 inches in size to bring machines in line with modern electrical standards. Besides updating safety controls, this new system allows printers and converters to experience productivity spikes of 50% or more with Microcut, which memorizes and recalls cut sequences and produces highly accurate cuts within 1/64th of an inch.
Peterson said having C&P's print finishing equipment integrated and certified by HP Indigo at Dscoop led to positive developments at drupa.
"As an HP authorized vendor, we have worked very hard on our end of the relationship. So has HP and it was very evident at drupa. Many of their sales people had customers visit our booth to learn more about the many new features we offer. They understand how a cutting program can be created through HP as a CIP job file and it can be further referenced by the bar code reader. It saves a tremendous amount of make-ready time and that's a very attractive benefit for printers who do digital short-run work."
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ANI | New Delhi:Singer, music composer, Anu Malik will no longer judge the reality show 'Indian Idol' owing to sexual harassment allegations levelled against him, said Sony TV in a statement.
Sony Entertainment Television released an official statement saying that -'Anu Mallik is no longer a part of the Indian Idol jury panel. The show will continue according to its planned schedule and we will invite some of the biggest names in Indian music as guests to join Vishal Dadlani and Neha Kakkar to judge the extraordinary talent of Indian Idol season 10.'
Following the #MeToo movement, Anu Malik was recently accused of sexual harassment by Shweta Pandit and Sona Mohapatra following which two more survivors opened up on their horrific experiences with the Bollywood singer.
The movement gained momentum in India after Bollywood actor Tanushree Dutta accused Nata Patekar of allegedly misbehaving with her during a film shoot in 2008.
Since then, scores of women have come out to speak about their ordeals on social media, including actors, musicians, journalists, and politicians.
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Get Excited for Wedding Season with Graphic 45!
Are weddings coming up for you? They are for us, so what better way to get ready than with beautiful handmade ideas from our Design Team! Elena Olinevich and Aneta Matuszewska have two gorgeous ideas for cards and more to get ready for those upcoming special days!
First, Elena has the most gorgeous card set for us using A Ladies' Diary!
"I love creating cards. When it comes to creating them, I have noticed recently, that I can not stop and narrow it to only one. So it seems that I've got used to create two or even 3 of them at once.
However I would like to share some tips how you can save your time and products, if you try to do it in a row.
- If you are using the die to cut out the shape , it's a good chance to recycle the leftover and use it as a frame for your other card. The silhouette will frame it perfectly.
- Choose 3-4 patterned papers and mix the different ones for your background and for the embellishments. Try to combine different shapes. It will make them look different but matchable at teh same time.
- While doing fussy cutting, don't skip the large elements if you are creating the cards. You can split one piece into several parts and use one for one card, the second for another one." ~Elena
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Now, Aneta shares a beautiful album using Gilded Lily and she has a perfect Save the Date card tutorial below in her great video. See the tour of the album in the video below as well. How fun!
"Description: Handmade romantic wedding album and card based on Gilded Lily and Precious Memories is a perfect gift for a newlyweds. Lot of embellishments and tags makes this piece a very elegant and delicate piece.
Tip 1: TO ADD AN EXTRA PAGE TO YOUR ALBUM USE A EPHERMA CARD AND GLUE IT TO YOUR BASE WITH A SMALL PIECE OF CARDSTOCK.
Tip 2: CUTTING YOUR TAGS IN 2 WILL GIVE YOU MORE OF PERFECT MATCHING EMBELLISHMENTS.
Tip 3: USE A POCKET AS A CONNECTION TO YOUR EXTRA PAGE." ~Aneta
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text: Background: Chemotherapy is among the antitumor therapies used worldwide regardless of its serious unwanted effects and unsatisfactory outcomes. this mixture using ChouCTalalay evaluation. AZD6244 Outcomes: NDV was synergistic with 5-FU at low dosages when used being a mixture therapy on different tumor cells, and there have been very mild results on non-cancer cells. Bottom line: AZD6244 The mix of a virulent, nonpathogenic NDVCLaSota stress with a typical chemotherapeutic agent, 5-FU, includes a synergistic influence on different tumor cells virotherapy, by itself, using ChouCTalalay evaluation. 2.2. Cell Lines and Lifestyle The individual Hep-2 (larynx carcinoma), RD (Rhabdomyosarcoma), and Vero cell lines were obtained from the Iraqi Center for Malignancy and Medical Genetic Research (ICCMGR) Cell Lender Unit and managed in minimum essential media (MEM) (Sigma-Aldrich, Taufkirchen, Germany) supplemented with 5% calf bovine serum (Sigma-Aldrich, Taufkirchen, Germany), 100 models/mL penicillin, and 100 g/mL streptomycin. The AMN3 (murine mammary adenocarcinoma) cell collection was managed in RPMI-1640 (Sigma-Aldrich, Taufkirchen, Germany) supplemented with 5% calf bovine serum, 100 models/mL penicillin, and AZD6244 100 g/mL streptomycin. Cells were passaged using Trypsin-EDTA (USbiological, Salem, MA, USA), reseeded at 50% confluence twice a week, and incubated at 37 C. 2.3. Computer virus The lentogenic virulent strain of NDV (LaSota) was from Al-Kindy Organization for veterinarian vaccines (Baghdad, Iraq). A stock of infectious computer virus was propagated in embryonated chicken eggs, harvested from allantoic fluid, and purified from debris by centrifugation (3000 rpm, 30 min, 4 C). NDV was quantified using a hemagglutination test in which one hemagglutination unit (HAU) is defined as the smallest computer virus concentration leading to visible poultry erythrocyte agglutination. 2.4. Chemotherapeutic Agent 5-FU (5-Fluorouracil)-SP Pharmaceuticals (Albuquerque, NM, USA) were purchased from the Radiation and Atomic Medicine Hospital (Baghdad, Iraq). This agent was diluted having a medium without calf bovine serum just before use for studies. 2.5. Combination Cytotoxicity Assays To determine the cytotoxic effect of NDV and 5-FU in combination treatment, the MTT cell viability assay was carried out on 96-well plates (Becton, Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA). Hep-2, RD, AMN3, and Vero cells were seeded at 1 104 cells/well. After 24 h. or perhaps a confluent monolayer was accomplished, cells were treated with the computer virus only (infected with NDV at 128 HAU with two-fold serial dilutions), the drug only (the chemotherapeutic agent 5-FU at 5 g in two-fold serial dilutions to 0.039 g/mL), or a combination of the two (computer virus + 5-FU in two-fold serial dilutions). The procedure of adding these restorative agents involved addition of the computer virus for 2 h at space temperature to allow for viral attachment and penetration. Later on, cells were KLK3 washed with PBS and serial dilutions of the drug were added to the infected and non-infected cells. Cell viability was measured after 72 h of illness by removing the medium, adding 28 L of 2 mg/mL answer of MTT (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) and incubating the cells for 1.5 h at 37 C. After eliminating the MTT answer, the crystals remaining in the wells were solubilized by the addition of 130 L of DMSO (Dimethyl Sulphoxide) (BDH, London, UK) followed by 37 C incubation for 15 min with shaking [20]. The absorbency was identified on a microplate reader (Organon Teknika Reader 230S, Salzburg, Austria) at 492 nm (test wavelength); the assay was performed in triplicate. The inhibition rate of cell growth (the percentage of cytotoxicity) was determined as (A ? B)/A 100, where A is the imply optical denseness of untreated wells, and B is the optical denseness of treated wells. The LC50 is the least expensive concentration that kills 50% of the cells [21]. Each experiment was repeated at least three times in triplicate. 2.6. ChouCTalalay Analysis The median effect doses (ED50) were determined for the drug and NDV for each cell collection. For synergism dedication, NDV and 5-FU were studied like a nonconstant ratio. To analyze the combination of NDV and 5-FU, ChouCTalalay combination indices (CI) were determined using CompuSyn software (Combo Syn, Inc., Paramus, NJ, USA). Non-fixed ratios of NDV and chemotherapeutics, as well as unique equations mutually, had been used to look for the CIs. A between 0.9 and 1.1 is known as additive, whereas < 0.9 AZD6244 and > 1.1 indicate antagonism and synergism, [22 respectively,23]. 3. Outcomes Mixture Viral and Chemotherapy Cytotoxicity in Vitro To review the connections between NDV and chemotherapy < 0.9 is known as synergistic, between 0.9 and.


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Chief's hat (botolo)
- Ekonda peoples and neighboring groups
- Early 20th century
General Description
The botolo is a coiled basketry hat composed of several horizontal brims that increase in size from top to bottom. Made of plant fibers and often colored with camwood powder mixed with oil, the botolo is adorned with precious brass or copper disks. During the 19th to early 20th century, these metals were used as currency. The metal discs signify wealth and prestige.
Village chiefs (nkumu) among the Ekonda and neighboring groups wear the botolo as an insignia of office. It associates them with the powers of the ancestors, important ritual functions, and divination. A chief who is the first in his line must buy the hat. If he is descended from a chief, he inherits it from his predecessor.
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Five years ago, a friend (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) recommended that I read a fantasy series called A Song of Ice and Fire. Being a fantasy lover anyway, it looked like it was right up my alley. He also suggested I watch Game of Thrones, so I proceeded to devour all five books and then binge watch season one.
I was hooked from the start. My first read through was an emotional roller coaster I never wanted to end. A Song of Ice and Fire is beautiful, terrible, compelling, and complex. I have since read it several times, and every time there are new details I've missed on previous reads. Never before have I read a series that never gets old, no matter how many times I pick it up.
Game of Thrones pulled me in as well. Although it's impossible to pack the incredible richness of Martin's novels into a 10 hour per season television show, the creators have done a remarkable job of creating his world for the small screen. Game of Thrones isn't perfect, and I don't always agree with the decisions they make, but it is still unlike anything else on television.
Through the past five years, I have read all the related works (Dunk and Egg tales, the novellas set during the Dance of the Dragons, A World of Ice and Fire) and have spent a considerable amount of time researching on forums like asoiaf.westeros.org and reddit.com. I started this blog as an outlet to share my ideas, likes, dislikes and news about the books and the show.
As season 6 approaches, I will be sharing spoilery information here. I know there are book readers who will not be watching Game of Thrones until the Winds of Winter is released, so I will always indicate if spoilers are included in a post.
I hope you enjoy this site, and please contact me or comment if you have anything interesting you'd like me to include in future posts. I want to hear from you and will be happy to share your contributions. Valar dohaeris!


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Apple might release next Tuesday or Wednesday an iOS update, according to BGR from its own sources. From Macrumors, iOS 8.1.3 release could also be explained .
BGR itself has no information on whether it is a public or a beta version for developers during the upgrade. Because much more iPhones and iPads with iOS 8.3.1 accessed in the past few days on Macrumors, suspects the website that a release of version could be imminent. Minor updates of this type are typically free Apple without prior beta for developers.
On Wednesday, Apple iOS 8.1.3 was apparently distributed to selected Apple Store employees. They made it in the days of "hundreds" visits with the new software. In December there were only "dozens" have been written by Macrumors. For the first time retail employees have thus obtained a preliminary iOS version for testing purposes. Previously this was only true for the desktop system OS X. The new iOS firmware will bring only minor fixes.
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suvin, metamorphoses of science fiction
(I've decided, partially inspired by this post, that I'm going to start writing up mini-reviews of most everything that I read on here. I'm doing this because far too much good reading time dribbles away into blog reading, email writing etc. I'm at a point in my life where 1) I have no time to read anything that's not course / writing related but where 2) I really do need to get a huge amount and eclectic variety of reading done away from course and writing prep… Maybe doing this will help me along…)
Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979)
Only read the preface and the chapters that directly deal with Wells (who I'm working on right at the moment). Most of the material here seems both foundational and somewhat dated. I enjoyed the short description of the context in which most of this was conceived – the dual "anti-capitalist and anti-Stalinist struggle" of 1950s-1960s Yugoslav literary academia (x-xi). When I read stuff like this, I can't help but think of how different it must have been to live and do humanities work in a world in which there was actually-existing bipolarity – a world in which Marxism would be something other than a perversely nostalgic mode of preservation.
Interesting thought about the relationship between literary morphology and social change, and the sense that the twentieth-century suffers from a form of blockage that has to do with the potential, though not yet actualized, possibility of proletarian dominance. Science Fiction, and other "low" forms, simly can't become properly hegemonic because of geopolitical rigidites.
The Wells's sections do a decent job contextualizing his utopian work and then reading The Time Machine quite closely, with an eye to the clash between Wells's fictional form (dependent as it is upon the dramatization of what the Traveller sees) and Victorian / Bourgeois faith in progress, Social-Darwinism, etc.
There are moments when Suvin deploys provocative questions – such as, for instance, the sense that that "principle of a Wellsian structure of science fiction is mutation of scientific into aesthetic cognition" (232-3) – without adequately following up on the question itself.
In sum, not all that helpful for me. But an excellent general resource for the exploration of Wellsian and pre-Wellsian utopia. The bibliography itself is worth the price of admission.
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I read a fair bit of Suvin for some work I did on Morris and utopian fiction, and I had a similar feeling. He made what seemed to me a very strange argument that the utopias of utopian fiction have to be possible, which to my mind only begs the question.
I do have this nice little quote from Lewis Mumford on Time Machine–the premise being that the book is about the dissociation of work and play, and generically about the dissociation between industrial and country house fiction: "Mr. Wells in the Time Machine has given a picture of Coketown which is perhaps a little exuberant in some of its details—the picture of a happy and careless Country House population, living on the surface of the earth, mid all the graces of a jolly weekend, and that of the factory population, the Morlocks, living in the bowels of the earth and performing the necessary industrial functions."
Oy – I need to copyedit the above.
I like the Coketown idea – that sounds right.
And you're absolutely right about the strangeness of his initial definition of utopian or science fiction. When I read this –
"it should be defined as a fictional tale determined by the hegemonic literary device of a locus and / or dramatis personae that (1) are radically or at least significantly different from the empirical times, places, and characters of 'mimetic' or 'naturalist' fiction, but (2) are nonetheless – to the extent that SF differs from other 'fantastic' genres, that is, ensembles of fictional tales without empirical validation – simultaneously perceived as not impossible within the cognitive (cosmological and anthropological) norms of the author's epoch"
I wrote in my notes: "How exactly would this not apply to standard realism?" Not empirically true, yet still believable?
That's pretty much what I recall. And the peculiar thing is that I think it's quite easy to rectify. Number (2) should read something like: and–to the extent that SF differ…–calls into question the very notion of possibility, existing in a domain where what is possible or impossible cannot be easily determined.
Nicely done. I like that new definition.


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United Way Worldwide Restructures, With A Focus On Global Reach And Getting Involved
"Business strategy and social impact are a powerful combination, especially when companies fully align and integrate the two," says Barry Salzberg, the newly named chairman of the board of United Way Worldwide (UWW) and global chief executive officer at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL).
If you're as surprised as I was to hear United Way described as a global NGO, this is actually recent and big news. In the past couple of months, UWW has been raising the volume on its new identity which had been in the works since 2009 when UW restructured the organization. They flipped United Way's international agency from being an affiliate of United Way of America to being the parent corporation, as UWW. The plan was to build a major global presence in order to partner with international corporations seeking to establish and implement worldwide corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.
Today, nearly 120 corporations are part of UWW's Global Corporate Leadership (GCL) program. Approximately 60% of GCL companies are on the global Fortune 500 list. UWW has 1,800 community-based organizations throughout the world; 1,200 are in the U.S. and 600 are in 41 countries around the globe.
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Senior Executive (Digital Experience)
Looking for somebody who can fulfill two roles. First, we're looking for someone who can be a Project Executive for key digital experience projects. Experience with Adobe Experience Manager would be a big plus. Secondly, we're looking for somebody who can also play an Operations Specialist role, for critical public websites. You'll be coordinating with application management and support vendors (AMS).
This position is a 1 year contract to start, but the opportunity for growth and progression into project management/operations leadership is there over the course of a few years. The salary range is $4000-4900.
The Responsibilities
- Play the role of Project Executive in digital experience projects, developing and upgrading new digital channels and applications
- Build deep technical skills in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and sharpen skills in this area proactively and continuously, through involvement in related projects
- Ensure quality of deliverables through sound technical design, adherence to best practices, and stringent testing
- Collaborate widely across all participating countries, teams, and stakeholders in projects
- Assist project or product managers in project governance activities (e.g. Group Technology Panel process)
- Comply with internal audit requirements for projects
- Play the role of Operations Specialist for critical public websites and mobile apps (i.e. digital channels) within the CapitaLand Group (i.e. capitaland.com and the-ascott.com)
- Develop strong operations mindset and attitude to maximize the availability and performance of the 24/7 digital channels under your care
- Manage and coordinate with application maintenance and support (AMS) vendors in fulfilling the operational objectives of availability, stability, performance, and continuous improvement
- Analyze data, prioritize, and maintain situational awareness at all times to optimize service delivery outcomes of AMS vendors of digital channels
- Apply creative thinking, design thinking, and outcome-driven approaches to problem solving
The Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computing, or Software Engineering
- Possess knowledge or experience in application support in the capacity of ticket management, platform operations and/or application support engineering
- Possess significant knowledge or experience in one or more programming languages
- Possess experience in administration or website development on any content management system (CMS)
- Excellent team player, interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fastpaced environment
- Willingness to travel overseas for short business trips
The following requirements are optional but will be advantageous:
- Experience in agile project methodology
- Functional experience in real estate, hospitality, travel, bookings, payments, digital marketing, or UI/UX design
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin - you may be required to work closely with Mandarin speaking IT teams and vendors in the region
Please send your resume in WORD format by clicking the apply button below or contact Ronald Cheung on +65 6701 1521 for a confidential discussion. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.CEI Reg. Number R2090722 (Cheung Ronald).


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Forums can be great for your website depending on what you do. An active forum with hundreds of users who come back daily or many times more than once a day. When this happens you develop a community of people who come back often but your hits to your site also skyrocket.
When working with a site or company that depends on advertisers, a forum is a great way to get a lot of activity on your site, recurring activity, and lots of users. All things that advertisers love. So how do you get people to start using your forum?
1. Have a contest. If you have a Facebook page and have a lot of followers have a contest. Tell your Facebook fans to signup for your forum, and make legit posts. For every post they make they get an entry into the drawing for a free…. Ideally they will then start using it, lots of people, and go back to make more posts/get more entries and eventually realize it's a good forum and continue using it after the contest.
2. Be active on the forum yourself. Answer questions, ask questions, keep the discussions going. Be active on it multiple times a day just like you should with Facebook.
3. Use Facebook and social media to drive people to your site. Give them a little tidbit and tell them to goto your site to continue the discussion and read more about the topic.
Forums can be great, but take time to get going. If you don't stay on top of it you'll have a dated forum that no one will use because it is obvious from the dates on the threads that no one visits the site.


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Intranet and team work
Solutions for team work and communications with Office 365 tools
Responsive and easy-to-use intranet with SharePoint
Team work
We build team workspaces always according to your needs.
Intranet and team work
Thanks to Microsoft O365 services we have ready tools available for communication as well as for project and team work. Applying only slight modifications to them life of office workers can be made so much easier and so much more efficient.
Functional workspaces have:
- Space and tools for discussion and social interaction
- Informative section for news and releases, instructions and descriptions of processes in use
- Team workspaces for collaboration
- Storage space for common documentation and materials
- Considered also mobile users by offering mobile workspaces
Using applications from Office 365 environment, such as SharePoint, Teams and Yammer we set up workspaces serving the whole community easy and straightforward.
What are your needs for workspaces? Get further details and contact us for our references on how to end email overflow as information is available in intranet, team work in Teams and discussions in Yammer!
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Card Making with Sue Slowey
Over the winter months, Bay Club members will have the opportunity to work on their drawing skills with Artist Susan Slowey. Whether a first timer or a seasoned artist, Sue will encourage her students while walking them through the process.
In November, Sue will help students to create a work of art using watercolor paint and paper along with permanent ink pens that will be printed and turned into the perfect thank you note or seasonal greeting card. And in January, Sue returns to the club for a five week Pen and Ink Drawing Course. She will encourage students in achieving great results with just a pen and paper. The course is limited in number to allow for individualized attention. Regardless of member's personal perception of their artistic talent, Sue's gentle encouragement will guide them in both courses.
Sue is a member of the Cape Cod Art Association as well as the Plymouth Art Guild and studies with Robert Mesrop at CCAA. Members had the opportunity to work with Sue last winter when she taught a popular Pen and Ink Drawing Class at the Bay Club.
The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.  To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via email or phone, 508-758-9543.


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Electronic component
An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields. Electronic components are mostly industrial products, available in a singular form and are not to be confused with electrical elements, which are conceptual abstractions representing idealized electronic components.
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Idaho Solar
Notable Solar Installations in Idaho
- Grandview PV Solar Two is among the largest solar projects in Idaho. Installed in 2016, this 108 MW projects generates enough electricity to power nearly 18,000 homes.5
- Solar photovoltaic projects American Falls Solar I and II were completed in 2017. Combined, the projects have a capacity of 52 MW and will generate enough electricity to power over 7,000 homes.6
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Today I'd like to share with you my family's love for the Kiki & Coco in Paris book. You've probably heard or seen the images floating around the web already, but since we recently purchased the book and the fact that my whole family really enjoys it, I wanted to tell you about it!
Kiki & Coco in Paris is a sweet story about the strong bond and friendship between a girl and her doll while visiting Paris. What had me and my husband interested, was how the story was told through photography and we hardly had any books illustrated in that way. Stephanie Rausser was able to bring Kiki & Coco to life with her unique photographic style; she has a way of bringing humor and vivacity to all her photos. I think the kids feel a certain connection to the characters because of that.
We originally got the book for my daughter's birthday but I have to say my son loves it just as much if not more. It helps that the story is happening in Paris and both my kids dream of going there one day to visit our family, which we hardly ever get to see. My daughter dreams of getting her hair cut in a Parisian salon and my son can't wait to have a drink in a café. They both talk about how they are going to climb the stairs of the Eiffel tower.
Another reason why I was compelled to buying this book is Coco the doll. I can't express how much I, yes I, love this doll. I've been a big fan of the Jess Brown dolls for a while now, I'm not sure I quite have the right vocabulary to express how amazing these handmade dolls truly are, they are perfect in every way!
I recently got to see a few and hold one in my hands while I was at the Gift Fair in New York City, and I was blown away by the craftsmanship and all the details that go into making one. Now, I'm pretty sure I've passed on this love to my daughter, as she would like a Coco of her own. I think I might save up some money and surprise her for Christmas. If only I could win the lottery, I would fly the kids to Paris, now that would be insanely cool: the kids, a Jess Brown doll and Paris.
p.s. To buy the book there is a list of all the suppliers on the Jess Brown Blog. To see some the photos from the book as well as others that didn't make the book, but are just at sweet, check out Stephanie Rausser Kiki & Coco's slide show:
And if you'd like to see more Jess Brown Dolls and perhaps purchase one visit the website!
I love the dolls too! I got a beautiful Raplapla doll (made in Montreal) for my daughter and now I will be dreaming of getting her Jess Brown doll!
Hello – love your blog and a big fan of kiki and coco – the pictures are so sweet, I love to read with my little girl – I am in search of that polka dot rain jacket – anyone knows who makes or where I can buy? I live in Atlanta and travel to NYC very often.
Thanks! Blanca


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Meet the Clearinghouse Staff at 2018 NACAC National Conference, September 27-29, to Find the Right Data for Your Counseling and Admission Needs
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Come meet our staff in booth #1017 to learn how we can help you with your counseling and admission needs.
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NACE/CARS to Make Detroit Return in 2015
Sept. 15, 2014—The Automotive Service Association (ASA) recently announced that its 2015 NACE/CARS Expo & Conference will return to Detroit for the second straight year.
The event will take place July 23–25, and will, once again, be held concurrently with a number of other association meetings for Industry Week.
The ASA board and management considered feedback from attendees, exhibitors, and other industry constituents before making the decision, and ASA release said.
"The response for Detroit was overwhelmingly positive," ASA executive director Dan Risley said. "Many said this was the best event in recent memory. Attendees were pleased with the education and training, and numerous exhibitors made significant sales on the show floor. There were many requests for the exhibition to continue through Saturday, and we will incorporate that for 2015."
Although I-CAR announced last week that it will not hold a conference during the week, the training organization will return with a "center stage" training area at the NACE/CARS show.
The Collision Industry Conference, National Auto Body Council, Collision Repair Education Foundation, Motor Equipment Remanufacturers Association, and the Canadian Collision Industry Forum will all hold meetings that week, beginning on July 20.
"On behalf of the ASA members, the board of directors, and our team, we are pleased to be working with I-CAR, CIC, CRES, CCIF, MERA, NABC, and others for the benefit of the automotive repair industry," said Darrell Amberson, ASA chairman. "With our organizations working together we can provide the most current education and training in the market. We look forward to seeing everyone in Detroit the week of July 20, 2015."
For all the post-show details, pictures and video about the 2014 NACE/CARS Expo & Conference, visit NACEexpo.com.


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The Embedded Curator: Reexamining the Documentation Strategy of Archival Acquisitions in a Web 2.0 Environment
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AN EMBEDDED CURATOR uses his or her physical and virtual presence within a selected community to document that community while simultaneously serving as a resource to it. While the "embedded curator" term may be relatively ...
Applying the Framework for Information Literacy to the Developmental Education Classroom
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Translating the new Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (ACRL November 2014) into learning outcomes, instructional content, and assessments might appear to be an overwhelming task; however, in many cases ...
A New Order of Things: St. Louis, Chicago, and the Struggle for Western Commercial Supremacy
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St. Louis leadership during the Gilded Age was nothing if not confident, even suggesting that the nation's capital be moved to the St. Louis region.
Threshold Concepts as Metaphors for the Creative Process: Adapting the Framework for Information Literacy to Studio Art Classes
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Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century
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Article describes resources available online via Mark Twain's Mississippi Project web site (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain) and argues that they represent an important means by which non-specialist users may imagine and ...
Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905-1927
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In 1927 the National Association of Life Underwriters collaborated with Professor Solomon Huebner of the University of Pennsylvania to found the American College of Life Underwriters, an institution devoted to establishing ...
Donor Relations 2.0: Using Web 2.0 to Connect with Donors
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Manufactured Landscapes (2007)
Critic Consensus: Manufactured Landscapes leaves the work of drawing conclusions mostly to the viewer, although the imagery makes director Jennifer Baichwal's arguments well enough on its own.
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Critic Reviews for Manufactured Landscapes
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An astonishing visual indictment of man's inhumanity to Mother Earth, as seen through the documentary prism of Jennifer Baichwal.
What the film does well is to make us part of the problem: After all we demand the lowest prices in everything we buy and that probably means it was made in China.
My first question: What kind of nefarious events had to occur so that I could purchase the computer with which I write this review?
Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
Burtynsky calls for "a whole new way of thinking" about the world's economy and ecology, though he never says what's wrong with the old way.
Audience Reviews for Manufactured Landscapes
A worthy effort and the creation of artificial ugly landscapes is something worth viewing if not quite enjoyable. Baichwal however has a history of taking an interesting topic and adding a layer of dullness in ultimate presentation.
Super Reviewer
"Manufactured Landscapes" is a moderately interesting documentary about Edward Burtynsky who specializes in taking photographs of industry and manufacturing in an attempt to warn against the environmental depletion of the planet. The film itself is mainly focused on China which is in the process of transforming itself from an agrarian society to an industrial power. There are consequences to this course of action, especially in the displacement of the population and increased pollution. As urgent as "Manufactured Landscapes" might try to be, there is little here that we have not seen before.(The exception being the shipwreck beach in Bangladesh which itself could have been the setting for an entire documentary.) Yes, that's a truly awesome trackintg shot that opens the movie but it does little to capture the scale of a factory(and I've been in buildings that large, anyway) and actually becomes a game of seeing which workers notice the camera. Likewise, there have been other films that have covered the Three Gorges Dam in greater detail.
Super Reviewer
One of the better documentaries I have seen. It manages to be both socially relevant and provogative, and also very artistic. That seems like quite an accomblishment to me. It did drag on a bit though.
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Can Smartphones Get Virus/Viruses and Malware? iPhone / Android Phone Only as Smart as Their Users in Malware Detection
As smartphones become more and more popular, and their connectivity and processing power increase, they are attracting more attention from malware writers around the world.
"A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe."
-- English proverb
Computer security experts have predicted since 2009 that viruses (actually "malware", which describes all types of malicious software) will hit smartphones. It appears that 2011 will be the year of smartphone viruses. This hub will go into some detail on how do you get smartphone viruses, what sort of damages can a smartphone virus do, and what you can do to protect yourself.
What Can Happen With a Smartphone Virus / Malware / Trojan
First of all, the proper term is "malware" which describes all sorts of malicious software, not just a virus, or trojan, or logic bomb. Malware describes everything malicious.
Any way, malware can do the following (all are actual cases):
- Send messages to "premium service" SMS numbers that cost extra money, similar to calling 1-900 or 976 numbers
- Send your personal information to unknown parties
- Turn your phone into a part of a botnet so others can execute commands remotely for nefarious purposes, such as spam, DDOS attack, and more.
- Give others ability to monitor your phone calls and text messages
- Open you to blackmail, if something embarrassing can be found and sent elsewhere
- Trick you into entering financial information, such as account number, birth date, and more
- Even stuff on your PC... if you connect your PC to your smartphone
- and more...
This is a threat you need to take seriously. And here are some examples.
Android Hacked App Turns Your Phone into a Botnet Zombie
Symantec, a world leader in malware detection and computer security, reports that Android malware is on the rise, and they have just detected a hacked version of the popular "Steamy Window" (February 2011) available through Chinese websites that turns your phone into a botnet zombie. Once your phone had been zombified, hackers can remotely control your phone to:
- send premium text messages
- block text messages,
- add bookmarks,
- force your browser to visit certain websites
- and more
iPhone Worm Hacks Jailbroken iPhones into Botnet Zombie
You think only Android phones can be zombified? Sorry, Apple iPhone was first targeted. Symantec reported on this worm in June 2010. If you jailbroke your iPhone, but did not change your default SSH password (easily found on Google) this worm, known as the Ikee Worm, will allow someone to remotely control your phone from afar.
HTC Phone In Europe Was Loaded With Botnet Virus
In March 2010, Panda Research, maker of Panda Anti-virus, found that some HTC phones sold in Spain by Vodafone, was infected with a variant of the Mariposa Botnet. As soon as you connect the phone to a PC, the payload attempts to drop the botnet software onto your PC.
If you do not have an anti-virus on your PC, you may be infected just like that.
iPhones are Vulnerable to Scareware
Intego, the Mac Security Blog, found a Dutch Hacker sending ransomware to iPhones back in November 2009! Technically it's not ransomware, as your phone will work fine. However, this Dutch hacker can remotely scan your phone, reveal your vulnerability, and will send you instructions on how to fix it if you send him $5 Euros. So it's technically scareware, but it's a real threat.
If he can see your phone by remote, what ELSE can he see, one wonders?
Phishing Bank App Steals Account Information
Sophos Internet Security, in January 2010, found that some malware writers were releasing fake bank apps targeting smaller credit unions into Android Marketplace. The clear intent is to steal account information from those customers. Fortunately for the customer she called the credit union for assistance, and the credit union quickly realized they have a phishing scam on their hands, as they do NOT have an Android app!
Stolen Apps Steals Info, Roots Your Phone
Android Police got a tip-off from a reader... There are trojan apps in Android Market that was taken, repackaged with malware droppers, then released into Android Market under a slightly different name. Dozens of such apps were released by this "developer".
The trojan will steal your phone's unique ID and other information, and even execute system-level code through a root-exploit.
This super-trojan has been dubbed "DroidDream", and Google has already pulled all the apps by the developer. Android Police reported that XDA has a special patch that should disable the vulnerability.
iPhone Password Can be Hacked in Six Minutes
Let's say you lost your smartphone. That would be a disaster, as it has all your contact information. If you bank with your phone, even worse! It may have personal information in there!
Okay, you locked it with a password. It's safe, right?
Not quite. Some German researchers broke an iPhone's password (with a computer's help) in six minutes.
Scary, isn't it?
Chinese Phone Tapper/Tracker Arrives as Virus
NetQin Security of China reported that "X Undercover", a cellphone surveillance app that can be spread as an attachment, has infected over 150,000 phones in China. The app can reveal GPS coordinates, turn your 2-way call into 3-way call (i.e. tap your phone call), and more. It is being sold as a way for parents to track their child, boss checking up on subordinates, or jealous husband checking on wife (and vice versa).
Okay, okay, what do I do now?
Did I scare you enough? it is actually not that difficult to secure your phone.
Set a Password or Lock Pattern
While passwords and lock patterns can be hacked, it takes time to hack it. Setting a password will give you time to do some other security measures... such as remote wipe.
Use a Password Manager
LastPass or KeePass can be cross platform and give you security without affecting usability too much. Use a different password for every login would give you far better security.
Do NOT Lend Your Phone to Any One
Someone can install malware into your phone, whether intentionally or not, while it is in their possession. Yes, that includes your children.
Load a Security Package that includes Scan, Phone Tracker and/or Remote Wipe
If you lost your phone, you need to be able to locate it, and/or remotely wipe it clean so nothing from you can be stolen. (And those apps cost $$$, no way around it). Remember, if they have the phone in their possession, they can hack it.
The Security Package should also update itself and scan for malware threats upon every install.
Do NOT Click on Mail Attachments or Links (unless you're sure)
This is same as PC... Do NOT trust attachments or links, even if they appear to be from legitimate sources, unless you are sure.
Do NOT Download / Install Apps from Unknown Sources
By default iPhones only get apps from iTunes Store, and Android only get apps from Android Marketplace. You have to explicitly bypass those restrictions, and that opens you to vulnerability. There are a LOT of pirated stuff out there, promising free apps, but how do you know what are really in those apps?
(ANDROID) Even if it came from legit sources, have some common sense!
Just because it's on Android Marketplace does NOT mean it's automatically safe and legit. Google does NOT inspect all apps.
The fake apps were distributed through Android Marketplace, but they come from unknown developers. Look for reviews and direct links to Android Market or Appbrain instead of downloading sound-alike apps.
(ANDROID) Check those app permissions!
When you install an app on Android, it asks you for certain permissions. When an app asks for more permissions than it should (the fake Steamy Windows app asks permission for "sending and receiving SMS") you should abort the install.
Beware of Abnormal Phone Behavior
- Does your phone seem far more sluggish than usual?
- Did you notice strange charges in your phone bill?
- Does your battery not last as long as before?
- Does your internet data usage seem much higher than usual?
Make Backups!
Make backup of all information so you can restore them if you have to.
If you do NOT have a security package loaded, you should get one immediately, and set a password on your smartphone. You may not get hit by smartphone malware, but there is no point in taking chances, is there?
For Android, the big names are already on the Scene
- Norton Mobile Security
- Lookout Mobile Security
- AVG / DroidSecurity Pro
- Webroot Security
- Trend Micro Mobile Security
For iPhone security, please refer to this guide from eSecurity.
Be safe out there.
kschang (author) from San Francisco, CA, USA on December 23, 2013:
Really, and how do you know this?
Mandababy on December 19, 2013:
Yeah right. All someone needs is to know the right things. I haven't downloaded an app or created an Apple ID and right now my phone is compromised again by using certificates and VPN servers all different kinds of ways. I'm locked out of 4 iPhones right now
clydedean on March 27, 2013:
i think virus comes from the most of the free apps or games we download cos we click on agree before we install them it might have gave already access to the virus or malware atm i m using appriva cloud antivirus which is antispyware too i kinda like it and was hoping that you guys give some suggestions too.
kschang (author) from San Francisco, CA, USA on December 15, 2012:
Trojans or malware are usually specific to the platform, i.e. a PC virus can't infect and Android phone.
Furthermore, a phone generally don't try to run any apps on the SD card. Unlike a PC, phones don't have "autoexec" option. :)
Sky on December 15, 2012:
So let's say you put music onto an SD card and use that SD card on your phone. If there is an infected file, will your phone also be affected by it, or does it only apply for computers? Especially Trojans.
coolnikka on August 16, 2012:
This is very interesting
kschang (author) from San Francisco, CA, USA on June 25, 2012:
99.5% (my estimate) of malware are spread through fake apps. There are very rare ones that can bypass the OS restrictions through holes that are patched as they are found.
Alden L. on June 25, 2012:
so basically the only way to get hit with malware is through "apps" and whatever you download(manually) in your emails ie: attachments...am i right?
iain-mars from United Kingdom on October 30, 2011:
Great article. I think the danger to smartphone users is even worse than PC users as people are less aware of viruses on their phones! Also with the advent of QR codes sending people to dodgy websites will become more and more common.
kschang (author) from San Francisco, CA, USA on October 23, 2011:
@vinner -- that's because the field's still young. Smartphones only gotten popular in the last few years. It can only get WORSE.
vinner from India on October 23, 2011:
Very useful article friend. But I think virus attack is comparatively less in phones