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A one-room Carlsbad school operated by a state Senate candidate and her family does not have the authority from state regulators to award a master's degree in public health, the only degree it advertises, a state spokesman said Friday.
"They are not approved to offer the degree they say they are offering," said Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the Department of Consumer Affairs Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.
The school, Aristotle University, was founded by the family of Xanthi Gionis, a Republican running to fill a vacancy in the 40th state Senate District.
Gionis has maintained that the school originally opened as Aristotle University School of Law in 2007 does have the proper documentation.
The state's website, however, has no listing for Aristotle University and no record of any report being filed by the school.
A bureau official on Friday told state Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Carlsbad, that officials are aware of complaints against the school that caters exclusively to foreign students in the U.S. on student visas.
Laura Metune, chief of the postsecondary and vocational education bureau, told Wyland's office her agency is looking into the school and is committed to protecting students. Her comments came after Wyland asked for a probe into Aristotle.
"Beyond the immediate need to investigate and, if necessary, discipline those who are operating Aristotle University, is my concern that we take appropriate steps to ensure that this sort of situation does not happen again," Wyland wrote in a letter to the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Gionis held a news conference on Thursday to refute the concerns raised by students, most of whom are from Africa or India.
Students have complained the school is not what they were led to believe before arriving, that most of its instruction comes in videos and that operators appear more interested in collecting fees than providing education.
Gionis contends students making those complaints are being unduly pressured by politically motivated forces against her.
On Friday, she declined to talk about the state's position that Aristotle is not authorized to offer a master's degree in public health.
"As I have stated to you in our prior communications, Aristotle University School of Public Health is under new ownership and any questions regarding its licensure should be directed to the new ownership/management team," Gionis wrote in an email.
The school was sold last fall and is currently in escrow, Gionis has said. She has continued to work there, she said, assisting with the sales transition.
Gionis refuses to provide the name of the buyer, whom she said paid $100,000 for the school and its assets.
The school recently relocated from a small office near the McClellan-Palomar Airport in southeastern Carlsbad to a downtown office in the city.
A new state law passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor last year creates more stringent disclosure requirements by for-profit colleges and vocational schools.
The law that took effect Jan. 1 mandates the schools make it clear if they are accredited. Gionis has not provided any evidence that Aristotle University has any accreditation.
The new law also requires for-profit schools disclose how many of their graduates obtain jobs in the fields for which they are trained.
Heimerich of the state consumer affairs agency urged any current or former students with concerns about the school to call the bureau at (888) 370-7589, a toll-free number.
"Students that have complaints really need to contact the bureau," he said.
Gionis is seeking the Senate seat vacated by Democrat Juan Vargas, who was elected to Congress in November. The district takes in much of southern and eastern San Diego County, all of Imperial County and a portion of Riverside County.
Democratic state Assemblyman Ben Hueso is considered the front-runner. The district is heavily Democratic and he is running ground and mail operations in all three counties thanks to a campaign account of more than $130,000.
Also running is Republican Hector Gastelum and Democrat Anna Nevenic.


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A Cuyahoga Falls man was arrested Saturday after police said he attempted to buy a 10-year-old girl for sex.
Alliance police arrested Robert W. Thomas Jr., 36, of 1964 Tudor Street, about 5:15 p.m. after an undercover officer arranged a meeting with him in the 2300 block of West State Street. The arrest was the result of a one-week investigation, according to a news release from the Alliance Police Department.
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Thomas was charged with trafficking in persons, attempt to commit kidnapping, attempt to commit rape and possession of criminal tools, all felonies. He is being held in the Stark County Jail on a $2 million bond and will be arraigned Monday in Alliance Municipal Court.
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Each summer Leadville, Colorado, a city rich with mining and Wild West history, is host to a number of challenging endurance events. Endurance events are a challenge in and of themselves; but once you add altitude to the equation, the ante is increased. The town of Leadville sits at a crisp 10,152 feet above sea level.
One of the events, the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race, is so popular that racers enter a lottery in January to secure one of the 750 available starting line spots for the August race. Riders are looking for a start at a ride where the entire event is at elevations above 9,200 feet, with the highest point at the famed Columbine Mine aid station at 12,600 feet.
For some, it's the challenge of riding a mountain bike 100 miles at altitude that attracts them to send in the entry fee. For others, it's that in any given January, fitness goals are promised after a plentiful holiday. No matter the promises made in January, most riders find simply getting to the start line on race day challenge enough. Of course, once at the start line, the big challenge is to finish.
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Of the 750 entrants, about 600 made it to the start line at 6:30 am on race morning, August 13, 2005. Of those 600 riders, only 471 would be "official" finishers. The cut-off time to be an "official finisher" for Leadville is 12 hours. If a rider's finish time is between 12 and 13 hours, he or she is awarded a finisher's medal signifying completion of the distance; but not within the cut-off time.
Riders expected to finish over 13 hours are helped off the course for their own personal safety and for the safety of all the volunteers that have spent long hours on the course.
For all finishers under the 12-hour mark, riders receive a shiny silver belt buckle, women get a pendant in addition to the buckle, and there is a sweatshirt with the rider's name and finish time on the sleeve. (Yes, people stay up all night doing printing operations so the shirts can be handed out at the awards ceremony the next morning.)
Riders under the nine-hour mark receive the coveted gold and silver belt buckle, "La Plata Grande," to signify the accomplishment of this challenge. Category winners receive a mining pan filled with goodies. For the last finisher under the 12-hour mark, a small statuette of the hind end of mule is awarded. The trophy says, "Leadville Trail 100 Bike Race, LAST ASS UP THE PASS."
The Challenges
What is it that causes roughly 37 percent of the entrants to miss their goal of finishing under 12 hours? Certainly the altitude is one challenge; but this challenge doesn't stop entrants from 37 states and five countries from giving the event a shot. Athletes come from coastal areas, living at sea level. Many of the racers coming from altitude-challenged states do just fine, finishing well within the 12-hour mark. Living high is no guarantee, as some racers that live and train at altitude don't finish.
Altitude is one challenge and certainly the course itself can keep riders from reaching the finish line. It's essentially an out-and-back course, with only the last few miles to the finish that are different than the start. There are five areas of the course that seem to cause the most problems.
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First is the downhill start on pavement. Riders too eager to score the best spot in the peloton, vying for a key position when the road turns to dirt, make silly mistakes and take themselves or other riders out within minutes of the 38-degree Fahrenheit, 6:30 am start.
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Appendix 12.3: Pattern Correlation Methods
The pattern correlation methods discussed in this section are closely related to optimal detection with one signal pattern. Pattern correlation studies use either a centred statistic, R, which correlates observed and signal anomalies in space relative to their respective spatial means, or an uncentred statistic, C (Barnett and Schlesinger, 1987), that correlates these fields without removing the spatial means. It has been argued that the latter is better suited for detection, because it includes the response in the global mean, while the former is more appropriate for attribution because it better measures the similarity between spatial patterns. The similarity between the statistics is emphasised by the fact that they can be given similar matrix-vector representations. In the one pattern case, the optimal (regression) estimate of signal amplitude is given by
The uncentred statistics may be written similarly as
where I is the nn identity matrix. Similarly, the centred statistic can be written (albeit with an extra term in the denominator) as
where U is the nn matrix with elements ui,j=1/n. The matrix U removes the spatial means. Note that area, mass or volume weighting, as appropriate, is easily incorporated into these expressions. The main point is that each statistic is proportional to the inner product with respect to a matrix "kernel" between the signal pattern and the observations (Stephenson, 1997). In contrast with the pattern correlation statistics, the optimal signal amplitude estimate, which is proportional to a correlation coefficient using the so-called Mahalonobis kernel (Stephenson, 1997), maximises the signal-to-noise ratio.
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Cervelli sends it to extras, but Yanks fall in 12
NEW YORK -- A long evening of emotional swings ended on a down note for the Yankees on Thursday, sending them trudging off the diamond and to the airport after the D-backs rallied for four runs and posted a 6-2 victory in 12 innings.
Catcher Francisco Cervelli made a bid to fill the role of hero, slamming a game-tying homer off closer J.J. Putz in the ninth. Cervelli's enthusiasm was tempered by two catcher's interference calls, one of which came in the final frame as Arizona knocked around David Phelps.
"The homer right now doesn't mean anything, because we lost the game," Cervelli said. "I don't care if I hit three homers and we lost. I'm not happy. I've got to be better next time."
The Yankees suffered just their second defeat in nine games as Gerardo Parra opened the 12th by doubling off Phelps. After an out, Cervelli's glove made contact with Paul Goldschmidt's bat on an 0-2 pitch, and Phelps plunked Miguel Montero to load the bases.
Cody Ross drove home the go-ahead run with a single to left-center and former Yankee Eric Chavez cleared the bases with a three-run double to deep right-center as Phelps was handed his first loss.
"You've got to get leadoff hitters out," Phelps said. "You've got to make better pitches with no one on base, especially in an extra-inning game. They're looking to score one run. You've really got to get to making pitches right away."
Heath Bell picked up the victory after pitching a scoreless 11th inning, and the Yankees went in order against Tony Sipp in the 12th.
"We've been good in extra innings," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. "We didn't execute as good as we'd like to up to that point, but they hung in there and bonded together and we got the job done here late in the game."
For the Yanks, the discouraging ending came on a day in which they learned that captain Derek Jeter re-injured his left ankle and will not rejoin the team until after the All-Star break.
"It's tough, but we haven't had him yet," Brett Gardner said. "When you don't have guys, you can't really count on them to come back. You've just got to make do with what you've got. I feel like we've been playing pretty good baseball so far and we'll try to keep it going."
Right-hander Phil Hughes started the game and limited the D-backs to two runs and six hits over seven innings, serving up solo homers to Didi Gregorius and Martin Prado and viewing his outing as a significant step forward from his first two starts of the year.
"I felt more like myself, being aggressive, attacking hitters," said Hughes, who walked none and struck out six. "The first couple of starts I was being a little timid and felt out of sorts. I certainly felt like I was back to doing what I do."
Playing his first game for Arizona, Gregorius put the D-backs on top early as he clobbered the first pitch he saw in the big leagues this season, clearing the right-field wall off Hughes in the third inning for his first Major League homer.
Prado's blast went out to left field in the sixth, but the Yankees would happily weather a couple of solo homers every night if they could guarantee Hughes could limit the damage in other spots like he did on Thursday.
Hughes had to make big pitches to get out of trouble in a tight fifth-inning jam, striking out Cliff Pennington and inducing Parra to hit a shallow fly ball to center field to strand two men aboard.
Girardi said that he thought Hughes located his repertoire better than he had in his first two starts against the Tigers and Orioles, to whom he allowed eight earned runs in seven innings of work.
Hughes still was hanging on the hook for a loss upon his exit, because Arizona left-hander Patrick Corbin held the Yankees to one run on two hits over seven innings.
Robinson Cano accounted for the only damage against Corbin, belting his team-leading fifth homer in the sixth inning, a solo blast that struck an advertising board in the right-field bullpen.
The final innings showcased a bizarre sequence of events. Cano was hit in the leg with a bases-loaded pitch from David Hernandez in the eighth inning but was ruled to have swung for strike three, and Kevin Youkilis also struck out to leave the bases loaded.
Joba Chamberlain thought he had witnessed a double play in the ninth on a A.J. Pollock fielder's choice, but Eduardo Nunez missed a tag at third base as Ross slid in safely as Chamberlain howled and Girardi dashed out to protest.
Cervelli's first catcher's interference call of the night followed, tipping Gregorius' bat and knocking the catcher's glove off at the plate. But Chamberlain escaped the ninth, Cervelli homered and the Yanks hung in for a while longer.
"I thought our bullpen did a good job of wiggling out of some jams earlier and giving us an opportunity to win," Girardi said.


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Martha H. Vandelene, 91, Hartford City, passed away at 4:40 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne. She was born on Monday, June 12, 1922, in Hartford City.
She married Robert F. Vandelene on Saturday, Aug. 30, 1941 in Indianapolis. Martha worked at Montgomery Ward in Hartford City and Farm Bureau Co-Op in Blackford, Randolph and Jay counties for 14 years, before retiring from the Jay County Co-Op in 1982. She was a former member of the Northwest Skeigh & Carriage Association and the Blackford County Historical Society. She had been a resident of Heritage Pointe in Warren, since 2005. Martha was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Hartford City.
Survivors include: daughter- Helen R. (husband, Larry Steven) Reff, Fairmount, IN., Grandson - Charles Robert (wife, Shana) Reff, Fairmount, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her: husband - Robert F. Vandelene, Father - John Z. Williams, mother - Nellie (Armitage) Williams, sister - Mildred Holman, Brother - Merrill E. Williams, Brother - Owen Williams and brother - John Z. Williams, Jr.
Family and friends may gather to share and remember at Heritage Pointe Applegate Chapel, 801 Huntington Ave, Warren, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, July 19.
A service to celebrate Martha's life will be held at Heritage Pointe Applegate Chapel on July 19 at 1 p.m., with Rev. Ed Clark officiating. Interment will follow in the Gardens of Memory in Muncie.
Preferred memorials: Heritage Pointe-Foundation Fund 801 Huntington Ave, Warren IN 46792 OR Second Harvest Food Pantry of Blackford County P.O. Box 327 Hartford City IN 47348
Arrangements are being handled by Glancy - H. Brown & Son Funeral Home in Warren.
Online condolences may be made at www.glancyfuneralhomes.com.


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Every year, come tax season, I curse myself. I might write about all things digital, but when it comes to receipts and important documents, my record-keeping is analog amateur hour.
So this year I'm getting serious about scanning. Fortunately, there are plenty of portable scanning options out there, ranging from mobile apps to wand-like scanners.
This week, I set out to determine whether an app or a pocket-sized scanner with receipt-management software can really do the job of a larger scanner. I tested three options: The smartphone app JotNot Scanner Pro by MobiTech 3000, PlanOn's tiny SlimScan SS100 scanner and Xerox's new wand-shaped Mobile Scanner.
The JotNot Pro app uses the iPhone's camera to capture images of documents. And after five days of testing, it became apparent that the app was great on the go, but I wouldn't use it to scan tons of files. The SlimScan scanner's size was attention-grabbing, but the device and its software were problematic for me. Despite its larger size and $250 price point, the Xerox scanner was my top pick, because of its fast scanning and its wireless connectivity via an Eye-Fi card.
I began the scanner tests with JotNot Pro for iPhone, which was updated late last year and costs $1.99.
I was at a conference last week, accumulating business cards and receipts, so it was a good opportunity to test the app. After I snapped a horizontal photo of a business card, the app immediately found the edges of the card and cropped the image. Then it processed the image, and the text in the final file was clear and easy to read. I did this with receipts as well.
JotNot Pro let me enhance each file before processing it, whether it was a hard-to-read receipt or a file with lighter text; and I could also adjust the contrast or add a timestamp to the files.
Next, I shared the files. I had the option to email the files, print or fax them, open them in compatible apps, such as DropBox, or copy them to DropBox, Evernote, Box and Google Docs. JotNot Pro can also easily convert the saved files into PDFs.
I was impressed with all of the options packed into the JotNot Pro app, and would continue using a mobile app to scan when I have my phone and no other options. But for high-volume scanning, I wouldn't rely solely on an app.
I had high hopes for the SlimScan, but it didn't deliver. The SlimScan SS100 is a super-thin, credit-card-sized device that launched last month and currently lists on Amazon.com for $106. It claims to store up to 600 scanned images before you have to dump the files off of it, and its expected battery life is 200 to 300 scans per charge.
It confused me from the start. The SlimScan has five tiny unmarked buttons, and I had to read the instruction manual to figure out which one was the power button, which is never a good sign. I had to dig my nail into each button to press it down. When I removed the bottom portion of the stainless steel device to start scanning, I felt like I might break it.
I found that with the SlimScan, I had to have a slow, steady hand as I was rolling the device across a file, or the images wouldn't scan properly. The first few images I scanned were cut off or missing lines of text as a result of this.
PlanOn's software for the SlimScan, which is installed straight from the device, was confusing at first as well. The software doesn't work on Macs, so in order to test it I installed the software on a laptop running Windows 7.
I initially had some trouble transferring files from the scanner to the SlimScam file-management system. The PlanOn software on my laptop would only recognize the files when I renamed them with a JPEG extension. It turned out I needed to install an additional software component in order for SlimScan to convert the files to readable files, and PlanOn suggested I upgrade the software running on the actual scanner as well. According to SlimScan, any SlimScan software earlier than version 4.3 needs to be updated, and my SlimScan was running version 3.8.
After I managed to import images of receipts, business cards and a portion of a book cover, I had the option to move the info to Contacts and export it to Outlook, among other things. Some of the scanned data from business cards didn't transfer over to Contacts, though optical-recognition software often isn't 100 percent accurate.
The $250 Xerox Mobile Scanner launched in January, and is comparable in size to the mobile scanner made by The Neat Company, which has been making digital filing and scanning products since 2003. The Xerox scanner can be set up to wirelessly share images, too.
The scanner is 11.5 inches by 2.75 inches by two inches, and weighs 1.5 pounds. Its expected battery life is 300 scans per charge. Like the SlimScan, it isn't fully compatible with Macs, though Xerox says a Mac utility will be available soon. The Xerox scanner has ports in the back for a flash drive as well as an SD card, so you can scan directly to those, then transfer the files to your computer.
Getting set up to transfer files from the Xerox via Wi-Fi was a bit of a process. First, I inserted an Eye-Fi card, which comes with the scanner, into my laptop, and signed up for an account online. Then I moved the Eye-Fi card to the back of the scanner. I had to temporarily disable other nearby wireless networks so I could "train" my devices to use the Eye-Fi card as a wireless hotspot.
I also had to download a Xerox app for my smartphone if I wanted the files to wirelessly transfer to my phone.
But after all that, I was a scanning machine. The Xerox device scanned all of my business cards, receipts and documents well — and quickly. And files transferred seamlessly to both the Xerox mobile app on my phone and my Eye-Fi dashboard on my laptop. From there, I could email the files or share them with more than 25 productivity, social networking and picture sites.
If the Xerox app itself took photos, it would be the perfect mobile app companion to the hardware. The Xerox mobile scanner may be expensive and slightly less portable — and it probably won't make tax season any more fun — but for scanning lots of documents and easy file transfers, it gets the job done.


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Surprising Reading Facts (Infographic)
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
An infographic I posted a several months ago has produced much interest. Several websites used the graphic on their own pages which has caused large numbers of people to blow up my email wondering about my statistical sources.
First, I created the graphic because I'm a book lover and wanted to express my passion for reading through a different method. While I'm well-versed in research methodologies, my goal wasn't–and still isn't–to produce a quantitative, peer-reviewed product. I simply wanted to illustrate reading importance.
Second, I was curious to know if I could create an interesting graphic. I'll just assume I found the answer to that one.
Here's what I've discovered about the source on the original graphic:
According to a Jenkins Group Facebook post in 2011, the reading statistics are incorrectly attributed to the Jenkins Group. Apparently Jerrold Jenkins, owner and founder of the Jenkins Group, presented the observations to a group of small publishers using data from the Book Industry Study Group, American Book Sellers Institute, and US News and World Report. https://www.facebook.com/jenkinsgroup/posts/10151053968015564
A New York fundraiser who hosts a reading blog contacted the Jenkins Group to ask about their study. She discovered the company distances itself from the statistics; while they admit their owner, Jerrold Jenkins, presented the material, they never actually published the report. http://www.libereading.com/2012/04/in-which-i-execute-some-hard-hitting.html
I think it's safe to say the stats from the original graphic are questionable, and I am therefore recanting any and all connection to them.
At the same time, I still believe in the absolute viability of reading and it's ability to radically impact a person's life. In an age where our smartphones will read aloud to us, we risk watering down this life-changing skill. So here's a new graphic. The stats aren't as juicy, but it still supports my original point: reading is important.
[By the way, I'm not changing the last box from the original graphic. I like Earl Nightingale's thought. It's not research-based, but it makes me feel good–just like reading.]


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My First "Fresh Loaf" - Take 2
Was it beginner's luck?
In my previous and first post on The Fresh Loaf, I described my experience of baking the introductory loaf from Floyd's handbook. This was my first attempt at Artisan Bread, and I liked it!
Well, that was yesterday, and today I had another go to see if I had gotten lucky first time around - to my surprise it seems to have turned out even better! As mentioned in that post I wanted to make a couple of changes, and also thanks to the comments from that post I realised that the sticky consistency the dough starts off as is to be expected. If this is a 80% hydration recipe, then I'm glad I didn't know that at the time - ignorance is bliss!
I still followed Floyd's recipe closely, but this time I used 335g of Strong White Bread Flour (35g more than previously) with 240ml of warm water. Whilst it was still very sticky to start with, I didn't panic so much and only added a tablespoon of extra flour to the work surface twice to keep it manageable. In fact, by about 6 - 7 minutes of kneading I needed to add some water to my fingers to loosen things up a bit. The dough definitely was more silky and stretchy this time around and in general more manageable - plenty of practice still needed but I'm encouraged
It proved again for 2 hours, and then after shaping another rise of 1 hour. I kept the oven temperatures the same as yesterday (220C for the first 5 minutes, and then 200 for the remaining time), but added an additional 5 minutes, so a total of 25 minutes. I did the steam technique again, but this time I didn't not use boiling water, and I didn't really get a big release of steam, so I think next time I will always go with boiling.
Size does matter
At the suggestion of Simon3030 I left the loaf in the oven with it off for an additional 5 minutes to crisp up a bit. The crust certainly was more of a golden brown colour this time, and I must have done something right with the kneading as it grew much larger in the oven.
Here is my first and second attempt again showing the difference in size of the loaf. Amazing what some additional kneading can do! The second loaf crust is darker although the pictures don't really show that.
Tasty Loaf
We were good and let it cool completely this time before eating it tonight (helped by my wife having baked some Apple and Raisin Muffins!). The most important thing was it tasted great - less doughy than yesterday, so well cooked. We also toasted some of it and it made pretty good toast too! There is even a little left over for breakfast tomorrow so I'll see how it keeps overnight.
Here is a picture of the crumb texture before it headed off to the toaster - a few holes, not sure where they came from?!
Where to Next?
I obviously need to keep practising the basics on this recipe - it seems to be quite forgiving. But sadly the weekend is over, so that will have to wait until next weekend. I think I'm going to look at three variations on this unless the experts on here suggest otherwise:
- Combining regular plain flour with Strong Bread flour - what differences would that make?
- Going wholemeal (The Rustic Loaf from TFL)
- Using a Poolish - simply because its a great word to say out loud!, and its the next recipe in Floyd's book
I'm also on the look out for a good (but simple) sandwich loaf (nice and soft) that my one year old can eat instead of the supermarket sliced he currently has. Any suggestions?
Thanks again for the encouragement, comments always welcome!
- Cheers for now, Barry


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Ayhan Guneri-Sheraton Bursa Hotel
At Design Interviews
Interview with Ayhan Guneri : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Ayhan Guneri : Each space that will be animation, to show as if real, was the main principle. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Ayhan Guneri : The main purpose is that begin marketing process with prepare realistic animation for advertising of hotel during construction. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Ayhan Guneri : Our future plan is improve our animation department ''pixel a studio'' . .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Ayhan Guneri : All animation renderings were prepared in 3000 hours render time and 120 days modelling period. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Ayhan Guneri : It is an animation that supply the needs of our client. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Ayhan Guneri : The Project was opened in 2013 in Turkey. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Ayhan Guneri : We were completed the project with our knowledge and experiences of animation. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Ayhan Guneri : Customers of hotel, investor of hotel, architecture firm that design the project. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Ayhan Guneri : Spaces of behind each other include in main render space. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Ayhan Guneri : The name of the hotel. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Ayhan Guneri : As 3Ds max, AutoCad, V-Ray programs and high capacity computers. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Ayhan Guneri : Each space, stands as if alive. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Ayhan Guneri : We collaborate with supervisor of story board. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Ayhan Guneri : Existence of animation owes technology. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Ayhan Guneri : Light and shade that in real spaces and accesories which were an effect as if experiencing, were analyzed. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Ayhan Guneri : Long render times and rendering of scenes to be too full. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Ayhan Guneri : Perceive that making a precious work inclusive of lots of animation, encourage us to take part in competition. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Ayhan Guneri : Each animation scene is a new experience for us. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Ayhan Guneri : Thank you for everything. .
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Holbæk is a city in Zealand.
Holbæk is the seat of Holbæk Municipality and the second largest city of West Zealand Region with 26,000 inhabitants. The city is situated by Holbæk Inlet, which in turn is connected to the larger Ise Inlet. Holbæk is an important harbour city and a commercial and cultural center for the area.
Holbæk's history dates back to around 1200. The city expanded from around 1300 when the king built a castle here. However, the city has historically not been as important as other major cities in the area and only little from the city's early history has survived until today.
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The nearest airport is Copenhagen, and there is highway all the way from the capital (route 21)
Holbæk is a major stop on the Copenhagen-Kalundborg railway line [38] running nearly in a straight line west over Zealand with departures once or twice per hour during most of the day. It takes around 50 minutes from Copenhagen and Kalundborg, and around 30 minutes from Roskilde. Holbæk station is the interchange to the private Regionstog's [39] line to Nykøbing Sjælland, which covers nearly all of the Odsherred Peninsular.
If you are comming from West Denmark change to bus 13 in Slagelse (Intercity trains), it takes around an hour, the bus continues to Nykøbing Sjælland and gets there a bit faster than the train. Another option is catching the ferry [40] to Kalundborg from Aarhus and catch a train from there. Most of the Abildskou [41] intercity buses between Copenhagen and Jutland stops at the Q8 gas station in Tuse (Kalundborgvej 220).
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There are ten city busses all running from Holbæk Railway Station, most of them running once an hour but a few of them running two or three times every hour.
For taxis call +45 5943 4343.
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Pianist Spencer Myer will perform at Hope College on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The performance will begin with "Sonata in G Major, K. 13," "Sonata in d minor, K. 213," and "Sonata in G Major, K. 427," by Domenico Scarlatti; and "Sonata in A Major, D. 959," by Franz Schubert. In addition, Myer will perform "Three Mazurkas, Op. 59" "Barcarolle" in F-sharp Major, Op. 60, and "Polonaise-fantaisie" in A-flat Major, Op. 61, by Frédéric Chopin; and "Old Adam," "The Eternal Feminine," and "The Serpent's Kiss" from "The Garden of Eden," by William Bolcom.
Myer's orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra; the Cleveland, Dayton and Louisiana philharmonic orchestras; Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; and many others. In May 2005, his recital/orchestral tour of South Africa included a performance of the five piano concerti of Beethoven with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa; return orchestra and recital tours followed in 2010 and 2012.
An enthusiastic supporter of the education of young musicians, Myer has been a frequent guest artist at workshops for students and teachers, including Indiana's Goshen College Piano Workshop and the Texas Conservatory for Young Artists in Dallas, and has served on the faculties of the Baldwin-Wallace College and Oberlin College conservatories of music. Myer is also an advocate of contemporary music and inter-arts collaboration, and has worked with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Indianapolis' Dance Kaleidoscope, Ohio Dance Theatre and New York City's New Triad for Collaborative Arts and The Juilliard School's "Composers and Choreographers" series.
Myer is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin. Other teachers include Peter Takács, Joseph Schwartz and Christina Dahl. He spent two summers at the Music Academy of the West, studying with Jerome Lowenthal and, later, vocal accompanying with Warren Jones and Marilyn Horne. During his undergraduate studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he received numerous awards from that institution, while, in 2000, he was named a recipient of a four-year Jacob K. Javits Memorial Fellowship from the United States Department of Education. His Doctor of Musical Arts degree was conferred by Stony Brook University in 2005.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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A spin-off of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy allows players to create their own Jedi, train in the Academy under the tutelage of Luke Skywalker and Kyle Katarn and ultimately choose to follow the path of the Light Side or the Dark Side of the Force. The game is powered by the same version of the Quake III engine used in its predecessor, Jedi Outcast, containing modifications to the Quake code to give a third-person view and new lightsaber effects (Jedi Knight II had these 3rd person effects as well). Players have the ability to construct their own lightsaber by choosing the hilt style and blade color. After completing certain objectives, new saber styles become available including the ability to wield two independent sabers in a style known as Jar'Kai, once used by Anakin Skywalker during the closing fight in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, or the double-bladed lightsaber (also known as a "saber staff").
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what mod is this? to get the saber and the cool effects on the saber?
I think it's JA+ mod
what kind mod?
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Some five years after the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, both the region and the protagonist of the latest mystery novel by Dr. Albert Bell of the Hope College history faculty are still coping with the disaster.
"Death in the Ashes: A Fourth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger" has been published this month by Perseverance Press of McKinleyville, Calif.
A family friend who owns an estate still bearing the scars of the event has been charged with murder, and the friend's wife—whom Pliny had helped in the first novel in the series—begs Pliny to clear him. The story brings Pliny, a real-life character from the first century A.D., back to the desolate moonscape around Vesuvius for the first time in four years.
Bell's Pliny novels weave fact and fiction together, with Pliny's connection to the eruption being a prominent example of the former. In fact, two letters by Pliny to the historian Tacitus—who appears in the books as Pliny's friend and mystery-solving companion—are the only surviving eyewitness accounts concerning the eruption, which famously buried the town of Pompeii and killed thousands, including his uncle, Pliny the Elder.
John Maddox Roberts, author of the "SPQR" mysteries, has praised "Death in the Ashes," noting, "Bell has a fine knowledge of Roman life and he follows his characters through an intricately constructed mystery involving the classes of ancient society and the stresses between them. This is an intriguing and involving tale from a world long past yet strangely familiar."
The three earlier volumes in the Pliny series have also received acclaim. Mystery writer Barbara D'Amato called the first one, "All Roads Lead to Murder," "a wonderful book." The second, "The Blood of Caesar," was named one of the Five Best Mysteries of 2008 by "Library Journal." "Publisher's Weekly" said that the third, "The Corpus Conundrum," was a "worthy alternative to the Roman historicals by such better known authors as Steven Saylor and Lindsey Davis."
The series draws on Bell's professional interest in ancient history. His scholarly work includes the book "Exploring the New Testament World," which reviews the social, political and cultural background against which the New Testament was written, and a number of articles on topics including Pliny the Younger.
According to Bell, who is a professor of history at Hope, Pliny the Younger had held a variety of government offices in the Roman Empire, and is known through surviving letters such as his first-person account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and his investigation of the Christians in the province of Bithynia. His appellation distinguished him from his uncle, who wrote a natural history that was one of the era's largest compendiums of science. More information about Pliny the Younger, the books and the characters in them can be found on a website that Bell has developed, www.pliny-mysteries.com.
The new Pliny the Younger novel is Bell's eighth work of fiction. In addition to the four Pliny mysteries, he has also written the mystery "Death Goes Dutch," which is set in present-day Grand Rapids; "The Flute Player," available as an e-book; and the children's mystery "The Secret of the Lonely Grave," which is set in contemporary Kentucky and in 2008 won the inaugural Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award from Western Kentucky University Libraries. He also wrote the autobiographical "Perfect Game, Imperfect Lives: A Memoir Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Don Larsen's Perfect Game," which reflects on the 1956 World Series and growing up in the 1950s.
Bell has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1978. He holds a bachelor's degree from Carson Newman College, a master's from Duke University, a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina. He and his wife have four children and a grandson.
Copies of "Death in the Ashes: A Fourth case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger" are available for $15.95 at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore, which is located on the ground level of the DeWitt Center, 141 E. 12th St., and can be called at 800-946-4673 or (616) 395-7833, as well as at other area booksellers and all online booksellers. Electronic versions are available for most types of readers.
Bell will be signing copies of the book at the Barnes and Noble in Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids (3195 28th St., SE) on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 1 p.m., and at the Barnes and Noble in Holland (3050 Beeline Rd.) on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 1 p.m. He will also participate in the "Local Author Night" at Schuler Books and Music in Walker (3165 Alpine Ave.) on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m.


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Here's my first test with a keychain camera. Still working out the right angle.
little fun in the sand. all trucks on vxl 3s. paddles are sand paws.
2WD Slash
here is my slash on the double at the local track
here is the Slash on the big table top Jump
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Nitro Sport
Nitro Stampede
My slash with velineon motor and 1/8th buggy wheels at Meldrum Bar Park.
Snake Eyes Racing est. 1994 Stampede/MSC
just bashing around on a wet basketball court.
first time running the talons on the 2wd VXL.
Watch it 720p if you can.
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just playing around.
1min vid
4min vid
4x4 BL Slash 2.4ghz
w/calibers and venom 9.6v 8c
Here are some of my videos http://www.youtube.com/profile.php?do=editpassword/ElSob948.../3/0kD3lEfqIjE
Heres a short Vid of my VXL slash after I rebuilt the Shocks.. Geared 21/86 and running on 7Cell NiHM 3000mah stock Battery
Rally Red Rider I & II
Race'em RC
Snow Bashing
Boise, Idaho
Here is a video of my Traxxas Slash 2wd upgraded to brushless VXL system with chains in the snow. In the end I broke 1 front lower suspension arm
Slash 2wd upgraded to VXL
2WD Slash
Slash 2wd Raptor SVT with 35t crawler motor and 2.2 3racing rims and tires
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Traxxas Slash "Offroad Madness" Staring 'Slash Bandicoot'
One of the best rc trucks I have owned in the 23 years I have been in the hobby.
Race slash against 15 sc10's i win. this is a practice video.
if you want me to i can break your truck for free!
Here's mine on some jumps I made in the snow! Warmed up into the 20's and that's perfect jump building temps!
Slash 2wd upgraded to VXL
Check out the videos below to watch our videos of slashing and bashing!!!]
1- Traxxas Slash 2wd Greg Adler edition
This was an open practice at a local track, shot this with a pair sunglasses with a camera mounted in them.
Here is cruisin at 80km/h on highway in mountains. ONBOARD!
Rustler VXL + Slash 4X4 Ultimate = THE BEST
Video of film my dad took while at Belle Isle in Richmond
Grave Digger and Slash bashing......
Bought my first RC, which wasa Grave Digger and got hooked. I bought the Slash 2 weeks afterwards! the Slash is a 4x4 brushless running a 3S 5400 LiPo. I'm running a new body that I painted but this video is the original one that came with the car.
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Press Release: Labor Activity on Fifth Street and Gilman, specifically 1305 5th
"GMP Union Local 164B has been engaged in a labor action the last two days. The group is picketing for fair wages and healthcare benefits. Yesterday, the Union leadership told City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) personnel that they anticipated approximately 100 picketers at a time on 6 hour shifts around the clock until the issues are resolved. They have and are carrying signs but no amplified sound. (bullhorns or the like) -more-


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I thought I'd actually have time over my 5-day break to get caught up on some blogging, but that hasn't been the case, and things aren't looking all that great for the coming 8- or 9-day work week and the break following that, so I'm posting a few views from the new area.
First, an early morning view: inside the bus before it's left the parking lot for the mine.
Next, a view on the way back from work on a relatively clear day, looking off to the southeast toward the North Valmy Power Plant, Battle Mountain, and the Betty O'Neal mine near the range front below the snow-covered peaks of the Shoshone Range.
And last, a fairly typical view inside The Griddle, one place to be if you happen to be hanging around The City of Paved Streets, the starting point of the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea-Highway.
Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway posts at LFD.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A Few Views
Posted by Silver Fox at 3:35 AMLocation: Winnemucca, NV, USA
3 comments:
- Gaelyn said...
Guess you have to take the work when you can. Try not to stay too busy.
- Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 10:05:00 AM PDT
- Utemike said...
Happy to see you taking time to post. You were missed. Looks like the bus that stays on the west side of the valley. If it is tell the fellas in the red and white drill shacks to be good to you. You know people who can rearrange things....
- Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 10:25:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Gaelyn, I'm pretty busy, it's true, and days off were at a place where internet service was slow at best.
Utemike, I don't know anything about the drill shacks!
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Ultimate Dezigns 22 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Internet Income University
Welcome!!! Top Designers Wanted!!!
Online university that trains people how to go from complete newbie to experienced internet marketer--generating income online.
I am also looking to help existing small business owners market their business online as well. Looking for an empowering logo, not looking for get rich quick.
Looking to build a legitimate company / brand that teaches people how to make money online.
Primary Market: To take brand new online entrepreneurs, as well as struggling network marketers, and turn them into profitable internet network marketers. Education is done through online videos, live webinars & conference calls, blog posts, and special guest trainers. Target is typically 35-55 year old Caucasian male, married with 2 children. Full time job, home owner with mortgage, limited capital, and a little bit skeptical because he is not experienced. Looking for a legitimate resource.
Secondary Market: To also be able to help traditional small business owners generate leads and sales for their business online.
Animals/Emblems: Open to all ideas.
Eagle can be used as a sign of power, intelligence, and prosperity. Common education symbols may be used as seen fit… graduation cap, tassel, gold seal etc…
no books or chalkboard please
Money: Do not want a get rich quick feel with flashy money. It needs to be respectable but still have "pop" and be cutting edge. Our target market is worried about what the wife is going to say about this program. Looking for a legitimate option. Not looking for get rich quick but definitely wants to see results fast. Might have tried some online opportunities in the past.
Size: Should fit within a standard size banner of a webpage without being distorted due to excessive length or height. All words should be spelled out "Internet Income University", no abbreviations
The following is a rough guide to our envisioned design. Please use each set of criteria as you see fit, if you have a really good idea that differs…show it to us!!!
We are thinking of an eagle as the University mascot. Other mascot ideas are welcome.
Primary Colors: Blue, Gold, used with warm highlights to give a welcoming, trustworthy feel.
All colors are welcome, but would like to incorporate blue in some way.
One of the main uses will be inside the banner of our website.
The wordpress theme being used can be seen at:
Should convey trust such as a college, university or authority news/information source. Should not come off as overly high-tech. Strong emphasis on the word "Income", possibly through gold texture. Crisp, clean, empowering graphics. Has solid emotional appeal. Looks like a content rich website. Income is the focal point, but not in a tasteless way. Represents growth. Building wealth online over time through education. Has some "pop" to it. Looks cutting edge.
Does NOT look like: boring, dry, or get rich quick, tons of floating cash. Don't want 1's and 0's digital coding language feel but basic technology icons such as a computer mouse are cool.
Definitely want to have a mascot, such as an eagle, with the brand.
Opportunity for future business with the winning designer as well.
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shayar: teri jheel si akhon main doob jaane ko dil chahata hai
public: aray aaage toh bolo
shayar: ARAY MEREKO SWIMMING KAHAN AATA HAI
shayar: teri jheel si akhon main doob jaane ko dil chahata hai
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Pyari Sitta,
Main itthe raji khushi se han and hope ke tu v theek thaak hovengi,
Laxman tannu bahut yaad karda si.
Main is Bandar de hath tannu chitthi bhej reha haan,
Tu bilkul tension na layi main bahut jaldi tenu ravan kolochura lavanga.
Main AIRTEL da postpaid le liya si, RAVAN nu main mobile te bhot GAALIYAAN kadiya te SAALE ne katt ditta,
Chal koi ni maine aana ta hai hi. Taan KUTUNGA saale KANJAR nu.
Main tere naal bhi ek AIRTEL ka prepaid bhej riya si usme 1500 SMS free wali scheme ha, Tu roz mere ko SMS kari.
Chinta na kari, jab bhi gal karne ko ji kare, ek miss call mar diyo. Main yaha se tenu baat kar levenga.
Tu Mere bill di chinta na kariyo, Sugreev nu payment da jimma de ditta si.
Accha OK
See Uuuu.
With Luv
Dashrath da Vadda Puttar "RAM
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he is really a hard working chap...and does his work with utmost care and diligence....
total freak abt gadgets and electronic stuff and half of the time we chat abt those stuff only...and ya we also share common liking for english movies...
i can trust him with my eyes closed... except... when he is behind me...ha ha ha...jus jokin
he is a true friend and brother to me
kuldip, vineet, arun and me have been together from school days and we really get along very well (koi nazar mat lagana, kala chashma pahen ke padhna)
we all love goin to movie every sunday and enjoy ourself."
Love is Life. Love is what keeps us all alive...as the saying goes...No Love, No Life; Know Love, Know Life. So...HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! Use this day as an excuse to spread extra love & laughter around you (assuming you already do that everyday;)). Hope this day of love brings a lot of love in your lives.
Writing about your emotions can help produce clarity and calm, not just in your relationship, but in other aspects of your life as well. Write down your deepest thoughts about your career, your family, your pets, your dreams for the future -- anything. The simple act of focusing for a few minutes on those important things in your life may help you feel more enthusiastic or positive about them.
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.....
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just Love this part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed and Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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Sometimes it's not the wealth you have but what's inside you that others need.
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Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan ?
Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.
Caller: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!
Operator: Yes I understand you want to speak to anyone. You can speak to me. Who is this?
Caller: I'm Sam Wan .. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.
Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone ! But what's this urgent matter about?
Caller: Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.
Operator: Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!
Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?
Operator: I'm Saw Ree ..
Caller: Yes! You should be sorry . Now give me your name!!
Operator: That's what I said. I'm Saw Ree ..
Caller: Oh .....God.......
Good Wan! (Good One!)!!
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You should do this every few days. More often if you spend a lot of time on computer. I was shocked to see that this works!
To re-calibrate your mouse, click and hold on the Y below. Then drag the Y toward the G. If it doesn't work, you might want to clean your mouse.
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the House, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily,with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of it's own imperfection. And miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw. So I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house?
Moral : Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life.
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I'm waiting for it to get launched in India,, so tat I can grab one asap.
bahut pyaar karte hain, tum ko sanam
kasam chahe le lo, khuda ki kasam
humari ghazal hai, tasavur tumhara
tumhari bina ab na jeena gawara
yeh kahan aa gaye hum
yunhi saath saath chalte
teri baahon mein hai jaanam
mere jism-o-jaan pighalte
majboor yeh haalaat, idhar bhi hai udhar bhi
tanhai ki ek raat, idhar bhi hai udhar bhi
kehne ko bahut kuch hai, magar kisse kahe hum
kab tak yunhi khaamosh rahe aur sahe hum
dil kehta hai duniya ki har ek rasm utha de
deewar jo hum dono mein hai, aaj gira de
kyun dil mein sulagte rahe, logon ko bata de
haan humko mohabbat hai, mohabbat hai, mohabbat
ab dil mein yehi baat, idhar bhi hai udhar bhi
jab koi baat bigad jaaye jab koi mushkil pad jaaye
tum dena saath mera o humnawaaz
na koi hai na koi tha zindagi mein tumhaare siva
tum dena saath mera o humnawaaz
ho chaandni jab tak raat deta hai har koi saath
tum magar andheron mein na chhodna mera haath
wafadaari ki vo rasmein nibhayenge hum tum kasmein
ek bhi saans zindagi ki jab tak ho apne bas mein
baahon ke darmiyaan do pyaar mil rahe hain
aasmaan ko bhi yeh haseen raaz hai pasand
uljhi uljhi saanson ki aawaaz hai pasand
moti luta rahi hai saawan ki badliyaan
tere bina zindagi se koyi, shikwa, to nahi
kaash aisa ho tere qadmo se,
chun ke manzil chale aur kahi door kahi
tum gar saath ho, manzilo ki kami to nahi
jee mein aata hai, tere daaman mein,
sar jhuka ke ham rote rahe, rote rahe
teri bhi aankho mein, aansuo ki nami to nahi
tum jo keh do to aaj ki raat,
chaand doobega nahi, raat ko rok lo
raat ki baat hai, aur zindagi baaki to nahi
pal pal dil ke pass tum rehte ho
jeevan meethi pyaas yeh kehte ho
har raat yaadon ki baarat le aaye
mein saans leti hoon, teri khusboo aati hai
ek mehka mehka sa paigham laati hai
mere dil ki dhadkan bhi tere geet gaati hai..tum sochoge kyun itna mein tumse pyaar karoo
tum samjhoge deewani, mein bhi iqraar karoo
deewano ke yeh baatein, deewane jaante hain
jalne mein kya mazaa hai, parwane jaante hain
hume tum se pyaar kitna, yeh hum nahi jaanate
magar jee nahi sakate, tumhaare bina
suna gum judai ka, uthate hain log
jaane zindagi kaise, bitate hain log
din bhi yahan toh lage, baras ke samaan
tumhe koi aaur dekhe, to jalta hain dil
badi mushkilon se phir, sambhalata hain dil
yeh dil bekarar kitana, yeh hum nahin jaanate
magar jee nahin sakate, tumhare bina
O mere dil ke chain
aap ka armaan
aap ka naam
mera fasana aur nahi
in jhukti palkon ke siva
mera thikana aur nahi
Chahta hi nahi
aankhon mein koi
dil tumko he chahe toh kya kijiye
yun toh akela hi aksar
gir ke sambhal sakta hoon main
tum jo pakad lo haath mera
duniya badal sakta hoon main
maanga hain tumhe duniye ke liye
Itna khubsurat kaise muskura lete ho..
itna kaatil kaise sharma lete ho..
kitni aasani se JAAN le lete ho..
kisine sikhaya hai ya bachpan se hi stupid ho!!
We've known Each other 4 Quite a while now,
do u think we can be more than FRNDS?
Will u be my PARTNER 2 rob a BANK ?
I saw something in a shops window - it was stunning hot, cute, simply adorable.
i was supposed to buy it for u.
But then I realised it was my reflection.
so here u go...
All flowers r sweet but they have no comparison with u,
Kyun K
Gobhi K phool ki baat hi alag hai.
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This blog post is Part-2 of a series that started as the ongoing thinking after our Digital Identity Tour in June 2010. In Part-1, I developed the idea of the Unpolished Diamond.
Today, I will entertain you on the concept of a Digital Identity Tuner, which in its own is also a further evolution of the Identity Rights System 3.0 post of March 2010.
It all started coming together when – during the tour – we visited PayPal.
This visit was at the end of the tour. We were welcomed by Eve Maler, Distinguished Engineer, Identity Services at PayPal, and Andrew Nash, Senior Director Identity Services at PayPal
These folks of PayPal basically told us to forget what we had seen earlier in the week. These are probably some of the smartest identity folks around, so you pay attention.
Indeed, I was amazed how much further ahead they were, not only in their conceptual thinking, but also in the pace at which they define and rapidly test new protocol standards.
The eye-opener for me was that there is no business in identity, but there is some significant potential when flipping the discussion to sharing and managing of user data.
It is not that much about identity,
but more about digital footprint.
Happens that a couple of weeks later I read Tony Fish's book My Digital Footprint, where the author explains razor sharp that there is a difference between digital identity and digital footprint.
At about the same time, I saw appearing on the internet all sorts of semantically tagged enabled viewers, like this one from Recorded Future.
Recorded Future lets you search and find for events, based on the WHAT, the WHO/WHERE and the WHEN.
What if we could do this
for a person's digital footprint ?
Here is where my Digital Identity Tuner comes into the picture:
Remember those old radios ? You could "tune" into a radio channel, and there was a big button, and if you turned that button an arrow would move over a "map" of pre-defined radio stations.
What if we could do the same on your digital footprint ?
The spectrum above is my "Digital Persona" as generated recently by MIT's Digital Personas project. Personas shows you how the internet sees you.
Every color in the spectrum is about a certain dimension of your digital footprint: books you read, education, political preferences, musical preferences, professional attributes, etc, etc…
What if you could make that spectrum "clickable" ? Not only via a browser, but also via API's. What if you could zoom in/out that spectrum or certain aspects of it ?
So far, we have "tuned" in two dimensions:
- On the horizontal axis, hovering over the different color dimensions
- On the "depth" axis, zooming in/out to get more or less detail
Let me add the third dimension of Time.
I could tune into the past, but I could also tune into the future, as my digital footprint does not only contain past behavior, but also contains real-time data (such as devices that I may wear to beam my heartbeat-data to the Microsoft or Google or Wallgreens or whoevers Healthvault when running a couple of miles on my cloud enabled Nike shoes.
It also contains data about my future, as I keep my calendar in Google Calendar, for example. Or the event for which I bought tickets. Or even on-line streaming events for which I subscribed.
UPDATE-2: or check out this TED Video, on the Quantified Self, with Gary Wolf's intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending — just about everything in daily life you can measure — in gloriously geeky detail.
So, the third dimension is time.
What if I would have a sort of
"Remote Control"
that could let me navigate through my digital footprint on those three dimensions. It's like steering a helicopter via remote control.
Or maybe more dimensions. You would end-up with something that navigates you through a fractal or so…
Of course, we don't live alone on this planet.
We are part of tribes
of swarms
with leaders and followers
I love the metaphor of "SWARM"
Imagine that we have a similar digital tuner for navigating the swarm. For seeing links between the WHO's in the swarm.
UPDATE: just a couple of hours after my initial posting of this blog entry, I came across this great post by Greg on Digital Tonto about "The Story of Networks". At the end he refers to a great TED talk by Nicholas Christakis "How social networks predict epidemics"
In essence, it shows the "swarm" of communities, leaders and followers and their relationships. And how germs, ideas, memes, etc spread in a community based on the same S-curves as innovations happen. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist at Harvard University who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity.
So far, we looked at "navigating". But the system would also allow me to define and manage who gets access to what parts of my digital footprint in what specific contexts or constraints. Not only "access", but also "usage".
For all that to happen, we need to fundamentally rethink how we deal with digital footprint.
We have to navigate away from identity systems that mimic our brick-and-mortar world, that are still based on the metaphor of identity cards, or passports, or electronic equivalents based on PKI systems and certificates.
No, we almost need a new semantic tagging language. Not to "tag" pages or servers, but to tag my digital footprint.
And not only "tag" it but allocate and manage "usage" rights to it. And I should be the owner of those data, whether they sit on my computer, in Facebook, or distributed open source models like Diaspora.
So that I end up with a collection of different "where's" where data about me is kept. It may lead to some new form of DNS, but then a DNS of people. Not pages or servers.
Maybe all this is a bit of futuristic/iconoclastic thinking. Maybe. But when reading the book "Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently" by Dr. George Berns, I came across the following two sentences and took them a little bit out of … context.
But they are so relevant to our identity context:
There are two paths in spectrum: one for identity/categorization and the other for digital footprint / Trail / history/future (time dimension, recording, in the future,…)
The high road is concerned with extracting where objects are located and throws away the elements related to their identity. The low road, on the other hand, is concerned with identification and categorization, and less so with objects' spatial locations
As Tony Fish so well articulated in his book: we have to separate identity an footprint.
The discussion
about internet identity
has moved from identity to footprint
how we are going to manage that
with a privacy ethic
that is adapted
to our hyper-connected world
Privacy is not dead. It needs to be redefined.


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Most urban parks are intended primarily for recreation. Urban foresters must consider the needs and desires of recreational users, realizing that some uses may conflict with others. Issues such as public safety and the impact of public use on the natural resources must also be considered.
Urban forest: Trees that are growing in cities and towns collectively make up an "urban forest." These trees help to improve air and water quality, add beauty to the urban landscape, increase property values, provide food and cover for urban wildlife, and provide shade and temperature moderation. Individuals who have specialized training in the care and maintenance of this forest resource are known as "urban foresters." In addition to their knowledge of trees, urban foresters must also have some background in land use planning and be familiar with the workings of community government.
Trees are a particular concern to those who manage telephone and power lines, water lines, sewers and other utilities. To maintain a beautiful, green urban landscape without interfering with utilities is a challenge. Successfully meeting this challenge begins by consulting with an urban forester, arborist or nurseryman to select the proper trees to plant in an urban setting.
State Forests
First established in 1903, Indiana's state forest system has grown to include 13 properties that occupy about 150,000 acres. When the state acquired what is now state forestland, almost every acre was comprised of eroding farm fields, pasture, or cut-over timberland considered to have very little value to anyone. Many early management activities were aimed at stopping erosion and restoring the productive potential of the land. The techniques used to manage the forests evolved as the forests grew. Less emphasis was needed on tree planting and more emphasis was placed on managing new stands of trees. Management activities such as timber stand improvement and selective harvesting were used to upgrade the quality of the stands and increase tree growth. This emphasis on stand improvement continues today, with the goal of improving not only timber production, but all forest resources. Indiana's state forests provide many benefits, including timber production, recreation, wildlife habitat, cultural, archaeological and watershed protection. The needs of society for wood and fiber are balanced with other intangible needs, while protecting natural and cultural resources of our forests.
- Timber stand improvement (TSI): Any practice intended to improve the health and vigor of a forest stand of trees is referred to under the collective term of TSI. Examples of such practices include cutting vines, thinning over-crowded stands, and deadening cull trees that are competing with more valuable trees.
- Selective harvesting: When trees are chosen and cut individually in a forest stand (as opposed to the clearing of all trees in a given area), this is referred to as selective harvesting.
Other publically owned land
This category includes other state-owned forestland such as state parks, fish & wildlife areas, nature preserves, etc., as well as forestland owned by municipal, county and federal governments. The management objectives and public uses of these lands are very diverse. Again, foresters must balance public needs and desires while maintaining the integrity of the forest.


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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Continuous innovation and new start-ups - why radical innovation cannot work for payments
A case in point is Zunguz (Read here). Zunguz is a payment system where you can pay any other person that is registered on Facebook - merging the world of payments with the world of social networks. This is a great idea of course and probably logical. So I jumped on to Facebook and attempted to register for Zunguz. I gave up when I had to change my Facebook security profile in order to support the security requirements of payments. As an aside, I noticed that twenty people have already registered for Zunguz.
Maybe this is too a radical innovation in a world where continuous innovation is required.
2 comments:
- davidmandrews said...
Not sure I agree with the premise. I'd say that there are not enough proof points to support the premise, and you are conflating adoption and innovation.
I think there are plenty of proof points for innovation. Square which allows merchants to accept credit card payment with a smart phone or tablet without a lengthly credit card contract. Or even NFC (near field communication) which provides the simplicity of cash on a phone. And, there are plenty of others out there on the innovation side. Adoption, on the other hand, is a different story.
Adoption in payments is a complex equation that includes channel, value prop, ease of use, competition and a variety of other attributes. A strong value prop such as providing mobile financial services to the unbanked can lead to adoption despite limitations (e.g. feature phone access). mPesa is a good example. In a different field, Microsoft's tablet approach field because of a lack of a strong value prop and a high price point. Yet the iPad succeeded in the same space because it nailed both value prop and price point.
So, I would say that we are in the midst of a lot of innovation in the payments space. Some of it may go the way of betamax or one of the iPod's competitors, and some will be the next Walkman.
- Unknown said...
I agree totally with David. At the recent Global MMT/Connected World Forum in Dubai the Google Head of New Business Development in Africa Neil Ahlsten made a statement that actually sums it all up. "The fight is against cash not existing payment mechanisms". With some thinking out of the box innovative new mechanisms will always come up.
Paypal has its own version of Payment on top of Facebook already and while Zungus may be crude for now you cant deny that a platform with 850 Million active users is a massive user-base for a P2P ecosystem
The iPads of payment are on their way and I know a few of them and glad to be working closely with one of thos companies


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Ab Soul - Day In The Life
Video for Ab Soul "Day In The Life" off of "Long Term" EP coming soon.
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