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An impressive façade from 1892 adorns this elegant and avant-garde boutique hotel constructed in 2005. The air-conditioned hotel, housing 67 guestrooms, completes its unbeatable offer by providing guests with a 24-hour reception and check-out service, dynamic lounges for meetings, a quaint terrace, an exclusive lobby cocktail bar, a superb restaurant and a café. The hotel also has currency exchange facilities, cloakroom, lift access, safe, WLAN Internet access, room and laundry services and a car park. Guests can also indulge in the hotel's fantastic collection of fine cigars.Parking is available for EUR 30 per night. Room service is on offer between 11 pm and 1 am (cold food).The hotel rooms, with wooden floors and furniture, complemented by claret curtains and cushions, generate a warm and intimate atmosphere. Intelligent use of space, innovative lighting and the latest technology in access controls add to the overwhelming comfort. Each room is fitted with a unique audiovisual system, offering films, games, music and Internet access. Rooms incorporate exclusive comfort, which is guaranteed through the Treca of Paris beds and the elegance of Gastón & Daniela textiles, without forgetting the Tecnal windows that assure maximum soundproofing. All rooms are fitted with en suite bathrooms including a shower, bathtub and hairdryer. Other in-room amenities include a direct dial telephone, satellite TV, minibar, double beds, safe and a balcony or terrace. In the interest of comfort and convenience, all rooms come with air conditioning and heating as standard.
From the airport there are various possibilities, and whether by taxi or by car it takes about 20 minutes to reach the hotel. The best way is to enter Barcelona on the Gran Via continuing until Aribau street, take a left and follow this street until the hotel appears on the left side. There are also trains, which connect the airport with the main train stations, with a journey time of 20 minutes. The nearest station to the hotel is Plaza Catalunya, from which the hotel is a 10-minute walk away. There is also a bus from the airport to Plaza Universitat. If arriving by train, the hotel is only 10 minutes from Sants station, which is Barcelona's main station.
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The pressure reads 20.(20 of how much per what I don't know)I don't have a way to set the pressure, only a way to read it as far as I can tell.

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The more interesting question is, whether this cooler can keep up with an HD 4890, which will suck up to 190W under full load. Of course we know now, in our case the cooler works much better when flipped, so the fan is blowing air onto the card. This is especially important because even the memory chips on the HD4890 get hot very easily. The fan remained at the lowest setting possible.
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In The Portrait Machine Project, Brooklyn-based photographer Carlo Van de Roer explores the idea that a camera can reveal hidden facets of a subject's character and the relationship between a photographer and a viewer. Van de Roer made portraits of friends and family using a Polaroid Aura Camera, which was developed by American inventor Guy Coggins. To make these photographs, the subject is connected to the camera by sensors measuring electromagnetic biofeedback. The camera generates a printed description of this information as a color Polaroid photograph. The Aura camera has undertones of pseudo-scientific authority and at the same time recalls the "spirit" photography so popular at the turn of the twentieth century. This image, titled simply The Grid (2012), collects 113 of Van de Roer's photographs to create a psychedelic swirl that itself implies alternate ways of accessing people's inner selves. The blooms of color contrast the rigidity of the grid and keep this image in a fascinating, if ever-shifting, state of tension.
Carlo Van de Roer (born in 1975, Wellington, New Zealand) received a BFA from Victoria University before working and exhibiting internationally in the United States, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and France. Van de Roer has received the ADC Young Guns Award, the APA Silver to Pixels Award for Fine Art, the PDN Pix Award, and has been named a Top 50 Photographer by Photolucida and received an honorable mention for the BMW–Paris Photo Prize. His work has drawn notice by the New York Times, New Yorker, INTERVIEW, Vogue Italia, Wired, and NPR. Van de Roer currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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The Turtelizer 2 is both a JTAG programmer/debugger for ARM microcontrollers and a virtual RS232 serial port that plugs into a PC's USB port.
This debugger's target connection is an unusual 10-pin interface used by the Ethernut 3 board. However, purchase the optional JTAG Connector 2 and it becomes compatible with nearly all JTAG connector types found on ARM-based boards. So if your target board has a JTAG interface and a chip compatible with the OpenOCD software, the combination of this debugger and that adapter most likely will be all you need to program and perform in-circuit debugging (other than possibly a connection cable; see the adapter's page for details).
All JTAG signals are buffered by LCX-type single logic gates, which are powered by the JTAG VTref line. This way, the JTAG interface is automatically adjusted to different target voltage levels from 5.5V down to 1.65V. Additional series resistors in the JTAG lines help to maintain signal integrity and even provide some limited over-voltage protection.


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Widow Is Victim of Overseas Money Wire Scam
Should banks have protected 89-year-old from losing more than $750,000?
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The Case
Marjorie Shamgochian, an 89-year-old widow, lived alone in Turlock, Calif. In May 2010, she received a notice that she had won a multimillion-dollar lottery in England. She had been entered, the letter said, because her deceased husband was born there.
In June, a scam artist, claiming to be an attorney, called to say he would help her collect her winnings. After several more calls, he persuaded her to wire money to some overseas bank accounts to pay taxes and legal fees for the prize. She did, eventually wiring or transferring $255,366 from her Wells Fargo bank account and $504,010 from her Bank of America account.
By the time she realized her mistake, the money — a total of $759,376 — was gone.
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Shamgochian then sued the banks for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. She argued that when she directed the banks to wire substantial sums of money abroad, the banks should have suspected fraud. Normally, she only withdrew a few hundred dollars per month. Bank of America and Wells Fargo, Shamgochian said, had a duty to protect an older customer with no history of transferring such large sums of money.
Shamgochian claimed that the banks each maintained their own computer database of suspected fraudulent wire transfers and transactions, including information that identified repeat scam artists. Based on these databases, the banks should have known that the wire transfers she requested were part of a scheme targeting older customers. By carrying out the wire transfers, the banks "aided and abetted" the fraud, Shamgochian said.
The banks argued that they could not be held liable for transferring money based on an authorized wire transfer order from a depositor. The banks claimed to have no duty to look into or monitor their customers' wire transfers. They told the court that Shamgochian's lawsuit had no basis.
The Verdict
In March, an appeals court reviewed a lower court's decision that sided with the banks, and found that the banks had merely accepted a wire transfer order. Banks are not ordinarily required to supervise depositors' use of their own money, or expected to prevent fraud against a customer. The court also said that it was not certain, based on Shamgochian's claim, that the banks actually knew that there was fraud in progress. It dismissed her case.
The U.S. Department of Justice is now investigating how banks may be enabling fraud against older consumers. Meanwhile, remember that telemarketers can be very convincing. Never give a caller any personal information, including your bank account, credit card, Social Security or driver's license numbers. Don't even verify your name or address. If you think the call is legitimate, hang up, look up the number and call back.
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Yesterday, shares of JC Penney (JCP) rallied 3% after the beaten-down retailer was upgraded by Citigroup. Today JC Penney is building on those gains.
JC Penney has advanced 3.1% to $8.94 at 10:50 a.m. today, even as Macy's (M) has fallen 0.2% to $58.58, Nordstrom (JWN) has dipped 0.1% to 62.24, Sears Holdings (SHLD) has fallen 1.9% to $46 and Dillard's (DDS) is unchanged at $92.55.
Sterne Agee's Charles Grom and team note signs of progress:
We recently walked some J.C. Penney stores...and came away feeling that the company has taken positive steps toward righting the ship and is close to completing the implementation of the "Ron Johnson reversal" strategies it has outlined in recent months. As a result, traffic is improving, although we see no significant inflection yet and no clear indication that Penney can achieve [mid-single digit] comp levels needed to steer well clear of liquidity issues.
Shares of J.C. Penney have enjoyed a very nice rally since the company reported EPS on February 26. With liquidity concerns on the back burner (for now), the focus has returned to fundamentals, which for the moment appear to be improving, albeit modestly. All told, while the aforementioned observations from our field work are directionally favorable, we remain sidelined on the stock and reiterate our Neutral rating.
Even more amazing: Shares of JC Penney are down just 2.4% this year, lagging Macy's 9.8% gain and Nordstrom's 0.7% rise, but well ahead of Dillard's 4.7% loss and Sears Holdings 6% decline.


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The McHenry County Board tomorrow night is scheduled to wrestle with the latest controversial idea to come from its Management Services Committee.
As I wrote last week, the committee has advanced a proposal to ask for a voter referendum to make the seat of County Board chairman popularly elected to two-year terms. The proposal that came before the committee called for four-year terms, like every other countywide elected office, but a majority of the committee amended it.
Interestingly, this debate comes two weeks before the County Board is set to vote on sweeping changes to its rules (also masterminded by Management Services), a number of which take direct aim at limiting the powers and incumbency of the chairmanship. The issue of how much power and influence the chair wields has come to a head after eight years of former Chairman Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, and issues with how new Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, handled another committee's efforts to shake up the embattled Mental Health Board.
The debate over whether the committee and referendum supporters are putting the cart before the horse is one of several that will undoubtedly arise when the referendum is put to a vote. Allow me to put some of this debate into perspective:
• THE CHOICES: The County Board has four options Tuesday night, provided it doesn't table the vote: Approve the two-year option, amend the bill back to its original form and approve the four-year option, amend the bill to create a different four-year option allowed under state law, or reject a referendum altogether.
There are some legal and political issues in play that will influence the ultimate decision.
• THE TWO-YEAR CONUNDRUM: No County Board gaggle would be complete without confusion created by the laws thought up by the same Springfield rocket scientists who brought you the $100 Billion Unfunded Pension Liability and Recovery-Strangling Tax Hike.
A county board chairman elected to a two-year term must also be a member of the board. This could mean in some elections that the candidate would appear twice on the ballot – once countywide for chairman, and once in his or her respective district. So what happens if a candidate wins the chairmanship but loses the required county board seat? Good question – the law doesn't say.
As with the state Close the McHenry County Taxpayer-Funded Special Prosecutor Feed Trough Act, we could become the test case.
• THE FOUR-YEAR OPTION: The original resolution that the committee amended asked voters if they want to popularly elect the chairman to a four-year term and not have the chairman be a member of the board for voting purposes. This essentially would mean a 25th member, who would only vote to break a tie.
State law also allows counties the option of a four-year chairman who is a member of the County Board, which means the chairman, like now, would be able to vote. However, the county would face the same election conundrum that the two-year seat offers in that the chairman-elect may end up losing his or her board seat.
We're not done in the conundrum department in this scenario. If the chairman's four-year term does not match up with his or her four-year board term (terms are staggered so half of the board's 24 seats are up in any given election), the ability for the chairman to vote could change with each election.
• THE NUCLEAR OPTION: There is, of course, the chance that the County Board could reverse course – and in many cases renege on what they promised during the 2012 election – and reject the referendum outright.
Even board members who support popular election, but oppose either the referendum as presented or the timing with the rule changes looming, could find themselves between a political rock and a hard place if they vote their conscience. For one thing, there's the perception of opposing the County Board's latest buzzwords of openness and transparency.
And there's the other little thing about reliving the political nightmare of a county executive referendum that got this whole thing started.
Voters last year mustered up the 500 signatures needed to put a referendum on the November ballot that would change to a county executive form of government like Will County has. On the downside, that form of government puts a lot of power into the hands of one person who would act like the County Board's executive branch. On the upside, the executive is up for election every four years.
As I've blogged here before, County Board members have raised fears that rejecting a referendum would mean, given the ease with which one can scrape up 500 voter signatures, that it would face a county executive referendum in each November election.
• UNLESS ... : It could be tempting for County Board members who oppose popular election of the chairman to place an onerous or confusing question ( like what happens if a candidate wins one race but loses the other) on the ballot. Voters may be more likely to reject it, and County Board members in question can pat themselves on the back for giving them the choice.
• PRO AND ANTI: The two main arguments that came out of committee on both sides of the issue amounted to accountability and money.
Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, said two-year terms for the chairmanship would "increase accountability and responsibility." But while Chairwoman Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills, voted to advance the amended referendum for the sake of full County Board debate, she argued that two-year terms could in fact limit the pool of candidates to those with the financial means to run.
And Yensen's point doesn't include the wrinkle of the rule changes should many of them be adopted. The argument could be made that no one would be willing to raise and spend the money every two years for a paper tiger position.
• TWO-YEAR ARITHMETIC: When it comes to two-year terms meaning turnover, accountability and new blood, I'm sure a County Board member tomorrow night will bring up former U.S. Reps. Phil Crane and Don Manzullo, and present state Reps. Mike Tryon and Jack Franks. Add up their two-year terms, and you'll get 79 years of elected office and counting.
• ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE: Whenever popular election of the chairmanship comes up, there is always a handful of County Board members who try to sell the idea that popular election of the chairman will inject money and influence to foul the pristine, clean waters of county government that presently have no such temptations.
I've stated it before on this blog, and I'll state it again for any County Board member who has the urge to tell this Big Fish Story tomorrow evening.
You're. Not. Fooling. Anyone.
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For historical perspective, negative inflation or deflation is rare and has occurred in only 37 months since World War II – 14 months in 1949 & 1950, 12 months in 1954 & 1955, 8 months in 2009, and 3 months in 2015. Although double-digit inflation is more common, we are fortunate that this has occurred in only 61 months since World War II – 16 months from 1946 to 1948, 15 months in 1974 & 1975, and 30 months from 1979 to 1981.
Low inflation and no inflation are generally good for most consumer households, inasmuch as it means stable prices for those who wish to plan a budget for their living expenses.
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Dividend Policy and Bank Performance in Ghana
The main thrust of this study is to find out the relationship between dividend policy and performance of banks in Ghana. The study used panel data constructed from the financial statements of 16 commercial banks in Ghana for a period of 5 years, from 1999-2003. These financial statements were obtained from the Banking Supervision department of Bank of Ghana. STATA was used for the data analysis. From the results of the study, the average dividend paid by banks over the study period was 24.65%. Also, it is apparent that banks that pay dividend increase their performance. The results also reinforce earlier findings that leverage, size of a bank and bank growth enhance the performance of banks. The age factor presents mixed results. Generally, the result is in tandem with earlier studies that dividend policy has an effect on firm value.
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Ūhei (ウーヘイ, Ūhei) is a ninken and a personal summon of Kakashi Hatake.
In the anime, some time after Ūhei and the other ninken made a contract with Kakashi, they aided him search for the fleeing Orochimaru.[1]
Ūhei greatly resembles a greyhound. He is reddish-brown in colour with a white underside and snout. Along with the standard blue vest with the heno-heno-moheji seal, and a Konoha forehead protector around his neck. He also wears bandages around his neck, head and left, front paw.
Ūhei possesses heightened senses with which he can use to track his target with ease. He has also demonstrated the ability to track his target underground through the use of the Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique as well as hold a target down, allowing Kakashi to attack them freely. He also has has exceptional teamwork with the rest of his pack, able to develop and effectively use several offensive and defensive formations in battle which make use of the manoeuvrability and powerful limbs.
Part I
Prologue — Land of Waves
Kakashi called on Ūhei and the ninken pack to track and capture the missing-nin Zabuza Momochi. They managed to bite onto the missing-nin and pin him in place. This allowed Kakashi to use Lightning Cutter without fear of a counter attack.
Sasuke Recovery Mission
Later, Ūhei and his fellow ninken were summoned by Kakashi to track down Naruto Uzumaki and his team who had gone off in pursuit of Sasuke Uchiha.
Sunagakure Support Mission
In the anime, he along with the other ninken were summoned by Kakashi to investigate the Takumi Village.
Part II
Kazekage Rescue Mission
At the start of Part II, Ūhei and the ninken pack were called upon to track down the Akatsuki member Sasori using a small piece of his clothing.
Itachi Pursuit Mission
Some weeks later, Kakashi summoned the pack to help track down Itachi Uchiha. He and Urushi were partnered with Sai and he gives Ūhei the name, Pochi as a pet name while tracking Itachi.
Five Kage Summit
In the anime, Ūhei was seen along with Akino, Shiba, Bisuke and Urushi being deployed by Kakashi each carrying scrolls with intel for the other hidden villages.
Paradise Life on a Boat
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- In his initial début, Ūhei's ears and tail were shaded a darker colour than the rest of his fur.[2] This was changed in later representations of him.
- In his anime début and again in Shippūden,[3] Ūhei was initially coloured brown. This was corrected after a coloured manga image was released with him in it, giving him a red and white fur colour.


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Lies, Great Lies, and Software Development Project Plans
In last month's agile update, and in Jon Erickson's blog, we invited you to fill the June/July 2009 edition of my "State of the IT Union" survey, one of an ongoing series of surveys which explore what IT professionals are actually doing in practice. One of the themes which this edition explored was software development project planning, particularly initial project estimating, tracking of actual results, and what strategies did teams employ when they ran into trouble.
One of the questions explored how precise initial estimates had to be, giving options such as the initial estimate needing to be within an X% range, where X was 5, 10, and so on. 21% of respondents indicated that they weren't required to provide initial estimates, and for those that did the weighted average was that their estimates have to be +/- 11%. Interestingly, 39% indicated that they didn't track the actual costs against their original budget and of those that did on average they came within +/- 19%. On the surface this difference doesn't appear so bad, until you realize that many project teams apply very questionable practices to make it appear that they come in reasonably close to plan.
The survey explored the management practices applied to either stay out of trouble or to address the problems once they were perceived. The survey found that:
- 72% indicated that their project teams will extend the schedule so as to deliver on the promised scope
- 63% descope towards the end of the project to meet the deadline
- 39% avoid "scope creep" whenever possible via a "change management" process
- 34% will ask for extra funds
- 32% have a flexible scope from the beginning of the project
- 26% have a flexible schedule from the beginning of the project
- 18% pad the budget
- 18% change the original schedule to reflect the actual results
- 13% have a flexible budget from the beginning of the project
- 12% take a stage-gate approach to funding
- 10% change the original estimate to reflect the actual results
All of these strategies are deemed to be project management best practices within the IT community -- you can easily find project management books telling you so, attend project management courses which teach you how to perform these practices, and even gain industry-recognized certification in project management. Rather than congratulating ourselves for our clever strategies for getting out of trouble, let's instead look at these practices from the point of view of our business stakeholders. When we do that, we soon begin to realize that many of these project management "best practices" are little more than euphemisms for lying, and in one case may even be unethical. Here's why.
Let's start by examining the practices which are highly questionable from the point of view of our stakeholders. Our worst behavior is encompassed by traditional change management practices which are designed to prevent scope creep. When we commit to an initial schedule and cost based on a given scope we are highly motivated to ensure that the scope doesn't change because that will very likely cause our project to be late or over budget. To avoid this problem we institute a "change management" process which makes it difficult for stakeholders to change the scope. This in effect forces them to accept a system which has been built to specification instead of a system which reflects their actual needs, or in other words we're charging them for functionality that they don't really want. I personally struggle to see how this is ethical.
Furthermore, consider the practice of extending the schedule towards the end of the project in order to deliver the promised functionality. If this is a rare occurrence, perhaps for less than 5% of projects, then I wouldn't take issue with it. However, if this is common practice within your organization then the next time you "commit" to a schedule you are likely in effect lying to your stakeholders (and doing so knowingly). Similarly, if you regularly descope towards the end of the project then any commitments to scope on future projects also run the risk of being lies in effect, and asking for extra funds on a regular basis makes your cost estimates lies. When you purposely pad the budget you're also lying about what you think the actual costs will be, although this is nowhere near as bad as going back and updating the original estimate/schedule based on the actuals after the fact.
Sadly, we likely wouldn't need to apply many of these questionable strategies if we could only choose to be more realistic in our approach to project scheduling and estimating to begin with. In The Economics of Iterative Software Development, by Royce, Bittner, and Perrow (Addison Wesley 2009), the authors report that COCOMO II, an estimation technique, is accurate 74% of the time to within 30% (the other 26% of the time the estimate can be wildly off). Other traditional estimation techniques have similar accuracy rates, typically because they're all based on the same basic strategy -- identify the requirements, identify a technical solution, put this information through an estimation formula, and thereby produce an estimate. The problem is that our stakeholders can't tell us up front what they want in detail, regardless of all of our efforts for getting better at requirements analysis, and because of that we can't even begin to hope to put together a reasonably precise estimate.
This begs the question that if our initial estimation techniques are only good to within 30%, then why are we striving to predict within an average 11%? I believe that it's a reflection of the poor relationship that many IT departments have with the business stakeholders whom we're supposed to be serving. Our business stakeholders are trying to reduce the risks associated with IT projects, and they believe that by requiring us to develop, and then commit to, precise estimates and detailed schedules that they will achieve this. This would be a reasonable strategy if stakeholders were able to accurately define what they wanted, if the underlying technology platform remained stable, and if software development was actually an engineering endeavor. Unfortunately people aren't good at defining what they want, the technology evolves rapidly, and software development appears to be far more art than it is science. When we don't deliver on our commitments our stakeholders often insist on even greater precision and detail in our initial project plans the next time, not realizing that they're very likely increasing project risk by motivating us to behave in less than professional ways. The situation is further exacerbated when we don't have honest conversations with stakeholders explaining the realities of software development, or worse yet continue to hold out the hope that we'll someday find the right magical precise estimation and detailed planning techniques.
All is not lost, however. A minority of respondents clearly indicated that they were following project management practices which were based on open and honest communication with their stakeholders. These practices include taking flexible approaches to the scope, to the budget, and to the schedule from the very beginning of the project. In other words to actively work with them to understand their changing needs throughout the project, to help them actively manage their investment in IT projects, and to provide concrete feedback as to the actual state of the project so that they can determine when the system is ready to ship. For these strategies to work you must have a healthy, respectful relationship with your business stakeholders -- something that takes years to build.
There were only 125 respondents to this survey, so to be conservative we should consider these results indicative of trends but not the final word. Having said that, none of the results seem unreasonable. For everyone who filled out the survey, thank you very much. For those who didn't fill out the survey, please consider doing so in the future. As a community we have an opportunity to find out what is actually happening in IT departments around the world, and based on this knowledge perhaps we can change things for the better. I keep these surveys as short as possible and as you can see the potential to get meaningful results is clearly there. Next month I will summarize the results of questions which were related to development governance issues.
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The July 2008 Dr. Dobb's Agile Update describes five strategies for reducing the inherent risks associated with fixed price projects. If you can't avoid fixed price then at least be smart about how you go about them.
The August 2008 Dr. Dobb's Agile Update asks the questions "Is Fixed-Price Software Development Unethical"?
The March 2003 Something's Gotta Give argues against a fixed price, fixed schedule, and fixed scope approach and describes agile strategies for avoiding this serious mistake.
The September 2007 Agile on a Fixed Budget, describes strategies for running agile projects for all combinations of fixing, or not fixing, the schedule, scope, and budget.
The NoNovember 2007 Governing Agile Software Development Projects shows how it is easier to govern agile projects compared to traditional projects.
The Surveys Exploring the Current State of Information Technology Practices page links to the results of all the Dr. Dobb's surveys which I've run over the years.
The details of this survey, including the original questions, source data, and a summary slide deck, will be posted at State of the IT Union: July 2009 in late August 2009.
My [email protected] blog discusses strategies for adopting and applying agile strategies in the complex environments.


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There are several live modes to choose from, such as graphical mode, persistent mode, without ACPI, without SWAP, or text mode. Supported languages include English (default), Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Czech, Dansk, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, and Portuguese. As mentioned, the graphical session is powered by the lightweight and minimal Openbox window manager, which is comprised of a single, transparent panel located on the bottom edge of the screen. From this bottom taskbar, users can easily and quickly access the main menu, launch applications, interact with running programs and the system tray area, as well as to switch between virtual workspaces. Default applications include the Exaile audio player, ISO Master CD/DVD image creator and editor, Whaaw! media player, Asunder Audio-CD ripper, Geany IDE, Viewnior image viewer, Claws Mail email client, Gparted, gFTP file transfer utility, and Midori web browser. In addition, it comes with Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger, Remmina remote desktop client, Transmission torrent downloader, Wicd network manager, AbiWord word processor, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor, SpaceFM file manager, and many other small, yet useful utilities.


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Students Promote Sports at Indian Orphanage
Earlier this summer a group of students from Ardingly College, England, set off to India for something a little different from your average summer vacation. The group was made up of ten year 12 students, all of whom had an interest in travel and a real enthusiasm for volunteer work.
The main objective of their trip was to build both a volleyball and badminton court at a large orphanage in Madurai. Madurai is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu and is not only known for being the Athens of the East boasting the largest temple in southern India, but also notorious for its high population of street children.
Madurai Seva Ashram cares for over 130 orphaned girls aged from 4 to 18. It is set in large grounds on the outskirts of the city, and although the children are fed and watered there is a real lack of extra curricular activities for them to get involved in.
Earlier in the year the orphanage secretary approached Projects Abroad to request our volunteers help and the Ardingly group jumped at the chance to contribute to this worthwhile project.
The courts were built with compacted soil, sand and clay, this was a grueling job of 8 hours a day, but on Friday evening the last line had been painted the nets were up and ready for the following days competition.
Although the sports day didn't show up any future volleyball stars it was great to see the courts being enjoyed, this really was a rewarding project where the group left a lasting contribution to both the orphanage and the children.
This goes to show how much of an impact a group trip can have over such a short period of time. Projects Abroad would like to thank each individual volunteer for making this program possible.
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A new J.C. Penney commercial seems to ask customers to forgive them for making unpopular changes under its last chief executive, the former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson.
In case you don't already know, the commercial is talking about changes that resulted in nearly $13 billion year-over-year decline in revenue in 2012, according to AppleInsider. Johnson, who was picked because of his successes at Apple's store chain, made major changes such as ditching discounts and axing popular brands that didn't resonate with customers.
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Under Johnson's 17-month reign, J. C. Penney sales fell 25 percent and had a net loss of $985 million. Johnson was fired last month and replaced with J. C. Penney's former CEO Mike Ullman. However, the surprise is that the commercial was made with Johnson's approval, according to Bloomberg News.
From the commercial:
It's no secret, recently JCPenney changed. Some changes you liked and some you didn't, but what matters with mistakes is what we learn. We learned a very simple thing: to listen to you, to hear what you need, to make your life more beautiful. Come back to J.C. Penney. We heard you.
Unnamed sources cited Johnson's adherence to Apple corporate ways and sarcasm didn't endear him to those at J. C. Penney. He was called "sarcastic" and didn't like product testing, according to the New York Times. He telecommuted mostly from California to the Plano, Texas headquarters, and so did the executive team he hired mostly from Abercrombie & Fitch.
In short, the views from unnamed executives were that Johnson didn't think much of J.C. Penney or its customers other than they had to dress and buy differently. Unfortunately, the customers didn't see it that way and stayed away in droves.


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Tim LaCroix, left, and Gene Barfield recite their nuptial vows in the governmental building of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Friday, March 15, 2013, in Harbor Springs, Mich. Tribal Chairman Dexter McNamara, center, officiated during the wedding after signing a measure approved by the tribal council that allows same-sex marriages on the reservation.
The head of an American Indian tribe in Michigan signed a law approving same-sex marriage on Friday, joining at least two other tribes nationwide in doing so, then immediately wed a gay couple who had been together for 30 years but never thought they would see this day come.
Dexter McNamara, chairman of the 4,600-member Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan, and a member of the tribe wed Tim LaCroix, 53, and Gene Barfield, 60, of Boyne City. McNamara read the couple's vows and led the ceremony in English, and the tribe member conducted a traditional tribal ceremony in their language before dozens of wellwishers.
"I'm proud of my tribe for doing this and I love my husband," LaCroix said. Barfield, who is not a tribe member, chimed in:"How could the world be better? … I'm just ... full of joy and happiness and I love my husband."
A maple sapling, bent into a hoop with cedar, sage, tobacco and sweetgrass tied to it, was used in the tribal ceremony. The sweetgrass was lit, and the hoop was waved up and down over the couple to ward off evil spirits and bring in good spirits.
"To have Tim's tribal community, which are an ancient people, welcome me into their midst and …that we are welcome as a married couple in a community, I'm just flabbergasted at how good this makes me feel," Barfield said, chuckling as he later added, "This goes to prove that the great American author Mark Twain was right: all things come to him who waits and doesn't die in the meantime."
It was not certain the tribe would recognize same-sex marriage: In 2012, the tribal council voted down a resolution, 5-4, to allow gays and lesbians to wed, but on March 3, the balance shifted and it was approved, 5-4. The resolution, which requires one member of the marrying couples to be a tribe member, then went to the desk of McNamara, who figured that if he vetoed it, the legislation would be unlikely to get the seven votes needed for an override.
While he was mulling his decision, McNamara said LaCroix called and asked him what he was going to do. They and Barfield had once worked together for the tribe.
"I started thinking about it, and that's when I decided that, you know, we all deserve to be happy," he said, "and everybody is happy in different ways, they show their love in different ways, and I decided to sign it."
The newlyweds said that after McNamara signed the legislation, he received a standing ovation.
"I've always felt that there's two ways to do things and look at things … you believe in equal rights or you want to discriminate," McNamara said Thursday, noting he'd received mainly positive feedback in response to the decision.
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Tim LaCroix holds a feather while hugging Gene Barfield after their marriage ceremony on Friday. Both are part of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Two other tribes -- the Coquille in Oregon and the Suquamish in Washington state -- have in recent years approved same-sex marriage. Other tribes -- perhaps from five to 10, though there could be more -- have open ordinances that don't define marriage as between a man and a woman, said Matthew Fletcher, a law professor at Michigan State University College of Law and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center.
"It's pretty remarkable," Fletcher, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, said of the tribe's action. "I mean Indian Country is mostly rural and insular and pretty conservative, so it's unusual for a rural community like this to sort of stick their necks out like this, but it gives you a sense of where I think we are as a nation in terms of being much more open toward same-sex marriage in a fairly short period of time."
However, large tribes, such as the Cherokee Nation and Navajo Nation, ban same-sex marriage. The Cherokee Nation took action when a lesbian couple sought the right to marry in tribal court. The pair was ultimately successful in 2006 though the ban was imposed, scholars said.
In smaller tribes, such as the Coquille and Suquamish, people know one another and so legally excluding same-sex couples has a more significant impact socially and politically rather than with a large tribe like the Cherokee, who have a big bureaucracy and are aiming to behave more like a nation-state, said Brian Joseph Gilley, a professor of anthropology and head of the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center at Indiana University, Bloomington.
The impact of the Little Traverse Bay decision was unclear, though Fletcher said he thought it would carry weight with other tribes. Little Traverse Bay was an influential, average-sized tribe that has been, along with some other Michigan tribes, "very much in the forefront of some good progressive tribal governance measures in the last couple decades."
"I do think it's going to be influential," he said of the decision, "and it's sort of a groundswell building in Indian Country that's a little bit slower than the rest of the country, but it's definitely building."
McNamara, who said it was an "historic" day for the tribe, agreed, saying he thought other tribes in the state might take their lead.
"We've been a role model, I think, for the federally recognized tribes of Michigan and it seems like we're out in front -- and not taking anything away from the other federally recognized tribes -- but, you know, it seems like we kind of opened the door for other tribes and I think other tribes will follow," he said.
Nine states plus the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage, while more than 30 ban it, including Michigan -- where that law will apply outside the reservation. The Supreme Court in less than two weeks will hear cases challenging California's same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, and the federal law (Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA) barring recognition of same-sex couples.
The federal law applies to tribes, too, said Melissa Tatum, director of the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program at the University of Arizona. It is up to each tribe -- there are nearly 570 -- to decide where they fall on this issue, she said.
"Some tribes have a culture and a history of accepting same-sex relationships and they don't view it as anything unusual or different and some tribes have, like many states … they don't have a culture of accepting it," she said. "Just like within the state populations you're going to get the whole spectrum of attitudes in favor and against it in tribal governments."
Whether a tribal government accepted such marriages was "not just based on changing social opinions but based on tribal culture," she added. "Tribes who take control of their own laws, who make culturally appropriate decisions about what their government policies are going to be, have far and away more successful, more stable tribal government."
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Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage
US asks Supreme Court to strike down law denying benefits to same-sex couples


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If you were having trouble logging into Google Docs & Spreadsheets on Sunday, you were not alone. A reader tipped us to a problem experienced by number of users who tried to access their documents over the weekend only to be greeted by the dreaded "403 Forbidden" error message. The one thing they all had in common is that they were using Internet Explorer at the time.
Apparently, the presence of IE was setting off some security alarms for Google Docs. "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application," the message said, according to a user who had had difficulties. "To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."
A Google employee confirmed in another support thread that the issue was confined to IE after users reported being able to access Google Docs with Safari, Firefox, and Chrome (I had no problems yesterday using Safari). That elicited an angry response from another user. "Yes, FireFox and Chrome didn't have that problem, but we (users) didn't change our IE settings, didn't change our browser, but just lost access to Google Docs for quite a long time. So to me that sure looks like 'an issue with Google', esp. after your reply."
Google has since restored full access to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. A company spokesperson told Ars that only a "small number" of users were affected by the problem, and said that, despite indications in the support threads, the problem was not confined to Internet Explorer. "Our abuse detection system unintentionally prevented some users from accessing Google Docs on Sunday," the spokesperson told us. "We fixed the problem, and we're sorry for the inconvenience."


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Off Your Back
Beware those who would surrender the shirt off their backs for friends...chances are the shirt isn't worth all that much to begin with. The sad truth is that there are good dress shirts and less-than-good dress shirts, at least as far as ready-made, or off-rack, department-store garments are concerned.
But for those with little tolerance for anything less than perfection on sartorial matters, there is the luxury of custom shirtmaking--an art, oddly enough, far from lost or dying in the modern world. Custom shirtmaking is alive and well in cities across the country, as style-conscious men insist upon having their fashion needs satisfied right down to the last detail.
If there isn't an individual shirtmaker in your city, one who adheres to the highest standards of workmanship and style, today you can get satisfaction in most major men's department stores such as Neiman Marcus, Barneys, Saks and others. And, most major names in the shirtmaking business, such as London's Turnbull and Asser or Charvet from Paris, set up shop several days a year for their clients in top stores or hotels. The road-show shirtmaker is especially popular with some Hong Kong operations like C. Takly from the Hong Kong Hilton, who visits more than 20 cities around the country every year. Shirts take anywhere from six weeks to three months to make, depending on where your appointment falls in a shirtmaker's itinerary.
The reality is that shirtmakers seek out the discriminating man with a sense of fashion and give him the opportunity to have a piece of fabric draped around his torso that takes into account the one-inch elevation in his right shoulder, a 31-inch arm (try finding that size in a men's shirt department) or the bane of every middle-aged male, the expanding midriff.
Given its history, it is not all that surprising that more men are having their dress shirts custom-made, rather than suffering through the discomfort, approximate fit and generally poor quality of ready-made. What is surprising is that while shirts have been around for more than 1,500 years, manufacturers still haven't ironed out all the kinks.
The shirt as we know it actually began as underwear--a tunic really--as long ago as 400 A.D., when it was worn as a protective layer between a man's skin and his outer clothing. Extending above the neck and past the wrists, it was a safeguard against irritation from coarse woolens. It was not until the Middle Ages that the exposed, upper portion of the shirt began to be viewed as both decorative and fashionable.
Ultimately, the shirt came to be regarded as a garment that sartorially established one's wealth and social class, eventually leading to such flawed modern-day distinctions as white-collar versus blue-collar worker. Actually, the shirt has changed very little since medieval times. But while the shape and construction are basically the same, collars aside, the modern shirt is light-years beyond its ancestors in fit, style and price. As any man who has shopped lately for a high-quality, ready-made dress shirt will attest, dress-shirt prices have risen to considerable heights. And putting out as much as $150 for an item without exact sizing or nary a chance for a try-on seems to be a less-than-equitable proposition.
Today, there's a smaller price differential between ready-made and custom, or made-to-measure, dress shirts. This new development is also fueling the custom market. By the way, the essential difference between custom-made and ready-made shirts is that the former are made from an individually cut pattern while the latter are cut from commercial patterns in various chest sizes.
Certainly there are distinct advantages to the made-to-measure option: complete assurance of proper and comfortable fit before buying; wider choice of collar and cuff styles; broader selection of fabrics, patterns and colors; elegant, hand-sewn monograms (optional). Beyond the obvious other features such as hand-tailoring and quality detailing that the majority of ready-made-shirt manufacturers overlook--split-yoke back, button-through sleeve plackets, to name just a few--there is an intense pleasure that comes from fulfilling one's personal standards of style.
Most custom shirtmakers require a four-shirt minimum before taking an order, a prerequisite of little concern to such chief executives as Henry Kravitz, who, according to Thomas Yu, general manager of Ascot Chang in New York, orders his custom-made shirts 150 at a time.
"Many people might think that's outrageous, but it isn't," says Yu, whose customers include a lion's share of various industry moguls. "When you have five residences like many of our customers, that's only 30 shirts per house."
Ascot Chang, which has been in the custom-shirtmaking business since 1948, hand sews its shirts in Hong Kong almost exclusively, except for orders from special clients such as George Bush, Richard Nixon and various politicians. All Ascot Chang shirts that are custom-made for American presidents, senators and congressmen, even a few Democrats, says Yu, are made in the United States. Naturally.
Eight years ago, Ascot Chang established its New York headquarters in an attractive brownstone on 57th Street, where Yu says he can better serve customers. (There is also a shop in Beverly Hills, California, and two in Hong Kong.) An Ascot Chang custom shirt can cost from from $80 to $390, with a four-shirt minimum. With two fittings, the process takes about five weeks from initial fitting to final product. And apart from offering the widest range of collars a man could want, Ascot Chang will duplicate any style of shirt a man may already own.
Another popular custom shirtmaker is Mark Christopher, whose Wall Street location is well suited to the brisk trade this shop does with high-powered movers and shakers of finance. Mark Christopher's shirts range from $145 to $275, with a six-shirt minimum order required.
According to Mark Lingley, president and founder of the 12-year-old company, service as well as quality have been the keys to his success. Mark Christopher is unique in that the shirtmaker sends its fitters directly to the inner sanctums of these corporate executives, who need not even get out from behind their desks for a fitting.
"Our customers are very busy, with no time on their hands for shopping, but who insist on the very best in life," says Lingley. "They know well that the intrinsic value in a custom-made shirt is that it's an investment in their appearance and executive style. They would never settle for second best."
Traditionally, the best custom shirtmakers have been British, hailing from such London style epicenters as Savile Row and Jermyn Street. Fine-haberdasher aficionados know the names well: Turnbull and Asser, Hilditch and Key, Edward Sexton, Bowring and Arundel, New and Lingwood, and H. Huntsman and Sons, all of whom make two annual trips stateside to service their customers, usually out of hotel rooms in major cities. In some cases, these shirtmakers offer their shirts made-to-measure in better American men's stores as Bergdorf Goodman Men (which also handles Paris-based Charvet), Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus.
Updated traditionalist men's clothiers such as Paul Stuart, Brooks Brothers, J. Press and Tripler also offer their own custom, made-to-measure shirts. And Robert Talbott, arguably the finest shirt manufacturer in the United States, offers shirts made-to-measure from its new Madison Avenue boutique in New York.
While store-bought dress shirts come with only two basic measurements--neck size and averaged sleeve length, a custom shirtmaker will usually take at least 10 basic measurements and in some cases as many as 30. Any man in search of a made-to-measure shirt should expect these measurements to be taken, and if they aren't, should question the quality of the shirt he's getting.
Measurements include:
Weight: Most custom shirtmakers record a man's weight for their files, so that when the client reorders, the shirtmaker will know whether new measurements need to be taken.
Shoulder Line: Shoulder shapes vary from square to rounded to sloping, which must be accounted for if the shirt is to fit comfortably and allow for easy movement without putting undue stress on the top shoulder seams.
Chest: The client is measured completely around the chest, just under the pectorals. But before the chest size is ultimately determined, another measurement is taken with the man's arms at his sides. This is because the outside chest size may be larger than the inside measurement.
Waist: The waist size is taken so that the shirtmaker will know how much fabric to cut around the waist for a comfortable fit. Depending on a man's fit preference, the fabric around the waist is cut six to seven inches above the waist size for a full fit and about four to five inches for a trimmer fit.
Hips: This measurement is taken to ensure that there is enough fabric to cover the man's hips to prevent the shirt from riding up or lifting out of the back trouser band, a measurement particularly important with a more-fitted shirt style.
Arms: The client's arms are measured from the center yoke in the back of the shirt to where the sleeve will break at the wrist. Both arms must always be measured, since many men can have as much as a one-half-inch variance in the length of each arm.
Wrists: These measurements determine the fit and room left at the cuffs. Generally, the cuff fabric will be cut one-and a-half-inches to one-and-three-quarter inches above the circumference of a man's wrist. If a man wears a thick tank-style watch, extra fabric will be added to accommodate it.
Neck: Often referred to as a skin measurement, most custom shirtmakers size to the quarter-inch, with about three-eighths of an inch added to allow for shrinkage. During this measurement, the fitter will also determine the type and shape of the collar band (high, medium-high, low) that is best suited for a particular neck shape.
Front Height: This fitting applies to the actual collar that is to be fitted to the shirt body and is usually measured visually by an experienced fitter. It relates directly to how high or low the front of the collar should stand for comfort and appearance. A heavier man will need a lower front to make him appear thinner, while an older man, who may have loose skin or wrinkles at the neck, will need a higher front to conceal them.
Back Height: A measurement that corresponds to neck length, which can be adjusted to camouflage a neck that is too long or make a shorter neck appear higher. This is a crucial measurement because it determines the proper height of the shirt collar that should peek out above the jacket collar in back.
Apart from these many and varied measurements, and if a man is so inclined, he may have his shirts custom-made of Egyptian, long staple cotton, which is silky to the touch and more than a little painful to the wallet, because it is often imported from Italy, Switzerland, France or Japan. Most shirtmakers, however, travel with a wide array of cottons and wash-and-wear blends that are popular with traveling executives. A man may choose the best mother-of-pearl buttons to be used (always cross-stitched for strength) for his shirts, although the fragile buttons may not always stand up to commercial laundering. Removable collar stays are almost always standard and are desirable because they allow for the best possible ironing of the collar.
Finally, single-needle tailoring, with as many as 25 stitches to the inch, is also standard with all custom shirtmaking. It is a tailoring technique that ensures a sturdy, well-made garment, which is properly sewn and will last a lifetime.
What you'll end up with is a shirt certainly worth taking off your back for a friend. But you won't want to. And, once you've tested the market, you won't ever want to go back to the rack.
Ralph DiGennaro is a free-lance writer who covers style and fashion.


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Life Unplugged
From its beginnings in 1951 as HoneyRock Fellowship, HoneyRock has been "a place apart" — a place where participants can go to "disconnect" from the distractions of the world. In today's electronic media culture, where entertainment and communications are ubiquitous, this is especially applicable.
Even though today people expect instant, ubiquitous "connection," the purpose of being at HoneyRock is to take a break from that reality to be present with those immediately around you. While we are not "anti-technology," we believe that taking a break from being constantly "plugged-in" for a short time can help give a healthier outlook on technology/media's place in our lives.
Most of what we perceive to be a need — constantly checking email, replying immediately to text messages, keeping up with social media, websites and other "feeds"— these are habits with addictive properties formed in today's environment of media and technology. You should expect to have significant withdrawal symptoms, especially during your first few weeks at HoneyRock. The inner struggle to "let go" and engage with activities and life at HoneyRock is normal and part of the learning and growing process.
We intentionally restrict/deny certain uses of technology for most groups and specifically for seasonal staff, students, campers and visitors. This is part of the HoneyRock experience in order to discourage defaulting to entertainment as a way to pass time. At HoneyRock, we encourage and work at building community. Whereas "social media" encourage online presence and result in physical absence, HoneyRock seeks to restore the physical presence and interpersonal interaction crucial to identity formation and community building.
Approved Uses
HoneyRock has access to the Internet for communications, administrative and academic use. This is provided only for faculty, staff, and students during class times.
Cell Phones
There is limited cell phone coverage in the area. During the summer we have designated areas for cell phone use. No personal calls are allowed on the office phones. However, we are happy to take messages and pass them along to you at 715.479.7474 x 201 during our normal summer business hours (9am-5pm).
Internet Access
We have a computer lab available to seasonal staff during off hours. There is limited (due to space in our lab) Internet access for laptops (Ethernet only). We suggest bringing a USB Flash Drive (or using cloud storage) to store files as our computers reset themselves daily.
More Resources
- Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Email Dr. Read Schuchardt


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Periodization and Planning Part 2
Vern Gambetta takes us through his thoughts regarding planning and how periodization fits into that. Filmed at the Scottish Athletics Coaching Weekend.
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Angélique Govy-Spacetime Coordinates Pendant
At Design Interviews
Interview with Angélique Govy : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Angélique Govy : This design project helps us relate to the solar system itself and find our place in the universe. We might all just be space dust in the big picture, but this project gives us a chance to grasp our own individual humanity and ephemeral time on earth. We all are part of the universe, so let's make it count! .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Angélique Govy : I wanted everyone to be able to discover the solar system on the personal human scale, using a birthdate, historical or individual achievement, by creating a memento that can be used as a necklace, bracelet or keychain. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Angélique Govy : I will soon launch a Kickstarter campaign and will start selling on my site after that. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Angélique Govy : I've always loved anything space related, there is a zen quality I find in contemplating pictures of the universe, it helps me relax when I'm anxious, helps me put things in perspective as well. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Angélique Govy : Yes, The Present by Scott Thrift was a major inspiration to this design. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottthrift/the-present .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Angélique Govy : Anyone who is interested by space, astronomy or science in general. Adults and kids. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Angélique Govy : The chain goes though the center hole which is the representation of the Sun. One face displays the orbital paths from the commonly used north pole point of view, the other face only shows the celestial objects (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) from the south pole view. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Angélique Govy : After extensive research of the subject of time and space, I came up with this name which is really is the definition of a peculiar point in time and space. So, it was just fitting. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Angélique Govy : 3D printing service, Rhino3D, Illustrator and Javascript. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Angélique Govy : The personalisation of each design, using a particular date. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Angélique Govy : I collaborated with the great developer Martin Vézina who created the script using the data from NASA to generate an Illustrator file. He created an amazing interactive Solar System. https://open.nasa.gov/data-stories/solar-system-simulator/ .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Angélique Govy : Well, this design would have been absolutely impossible without technology! From the work of NASA, to the work of individuals scientists and developers who worked on calculating the exact velocity of each planet and their orbits, and the 3D printing of course! .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?. Angélique Govy : This design is based of the data coming from NASA, in order to get the most accurate planets positions and up to date data. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Angélique Govy : To be able to fit every orbits and planets within such a small size (25 mm). I would have loved to go even smaller, but with the current 3D printing technology, this is not quite possible yet. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Angélique Govy : This 3D printed schematised design of the solar system use data from NASA's JPL. The four dimensions (x, y, z, t) are used to represent a particular location in time and space. x, y, z are set to the heliocentric north pole view used the most commonly in Astronomy. The orbital paths are engraved and their sizes as well as the distances between them are schematised in order to make all the orbits and objects visibles at this scale. .
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Big Government Wants in Your (Spare) Bedroom
It's very expensive to visit many cities in the United States. New York City is perhaps the most expensive, not only because of the finite space in such a densely populated city, but because of numerous taxes on lodging and regulations like rent control that artificially create lodging shortages.
Nevertheless, there is still high demand to visit cities like New York and the market has found a way to make those visits more affordable. AirBnB is an online service that allows members to stay in people's spare rooms, apartments, and homes in cities all over the world, often much more cheaply than the average hotel stay in the area.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, however, is challenging the entrepreneurial innovation—probably under pressure from special interests who would like the government to stifle their competition. This is crony capitalism as usual. As we've seen here in DC, established businesses like brick and mortar restaurants and taxicab drivers use their connections to government to squeeze out competition like food trucks and the Uber personal car service that challenge the status quo.
Cato has long supported free markets, entrepreneurship, and innovations to make goods and services more affordable. Government overreach like General Schneiderman's campaign punishes not only AirBnB hosts and travelers, but also the New York economy as a whole as fewer people will be able to visit New York. I was on Fox Business last night talking about this protectionist government overreach. You can watch that here:


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Below are two Hills lines in my tree, both very early New England families. The first was from Newbury, Massachusetts and the second family (in dark rose) from Hartford, Connecticut. My direct lines are in All Caps. As in the past, I'll share my sources, if you want them.
My many surnames already posted are on the right side, if you want to see them, scroll down to the Surnames.
|GEORGE HILLS. He married MARY.
|Child of GEORGE HILLS and MARY w\o GEORGE HILLS was:
|JOSEPH HILLS (GEORGE HILLS1) was born ABT 1602, and died 5 FEB 1687/8 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. He married ROSE CLARK 22 JUL 1624 in Billeericay, Essex Co., England. She died 24 MAR 1649/50. He married Hannah SMITH 24 JUN 1651 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He married Helen\Eleanor ATKINSON JAN 1655/6 in Malden / Newbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Hugh ATKINSON. She died BET 8 JAN 1660/1 AND 10 NOV 1662. He married Ann (__) 8 MAR 1664/5 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. She died 1688.
|Children of JOSEPH HILLS and ROSE CLARK were:
|ELIZABETH HILLS (JOSEPH HILLS2, GEORGE HILLS1) was born 1626 in Great Burstead, Billericay, Essex Co., England, and died 25 NOV 1674 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. She married GEORGE BLANCHARD 3 JAN 1665 in Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, son of THOMAS BLANCHARD and AGNES BENT. He was born 1622 in Penton Grafton, Hants, England, and died 18 MAR 1700 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
|Children of ELIZABETH HILLS and GEORGE BLANCHARD were:
|REBECCA HILLS (JOSEPH HILLS2, GEORGE HILLS1) was born ABT 20 APR 1634, and died 6 JUN 1674. She married THOMAS GREENE ABT 1653 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, son of THOMAS GREENE and ELIZABETH LYNDE?. He was born 1630 in of Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, and died 13 FEB 1671/2.
|Children of REBECCA HILLS and THOMAS GREENE were:
|Gershom HILLS (JOSEPH HILLS2, GEORGE HILLS1) was born 27 JUL 1639 in Charlestown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth CHADWICK 11 NOV 1667 in Malden / Charlestown. She was born 1648.


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Ulrich II, Count of East Friesland (1605-1648)
Ulrich II, Count of East Friesland (Graaf van Oost-Friesland), 1628-47, was born 6 July 1605, the youngest son of Enno III (1559-1625) and his second wife Anna of Holstein-Gottorp (1575-1625). He succeeded his brother Rudolf Christian in 1628.
Ulrich was a weak ruler of vacillating character. This trait was evident in his treatment of the Mennonites. He did not renew the letter of protection given by his brother, but continued to collect the protection fee. On 30 August 1631, he issued a new regulation that released the Mennonites from the oath, permitting in its stead the Mennisten Eid, the formula of which included a statement that untruthfulness would carry the same penalty as perjury.
Quite suddenly the count issued an edict on 10 March 1641, which on the basis of complaints raised against the Mennonites (though they were not specifically mentioned), forbade their holding private meetings in which unauthorized persons preached. The edict was enforced. On 1 February 1644, a religious meeting of the Mennonites in Oldeborg was broken up and Johann Siewerds, the preacher, was imprisoned. It was obviously a matter of extorting money from the Mennonites in order to mend Ulrich's financial status, for a note signed by the count on 23 August 1644, shows that the Mennonites gave him 6,000 Reichstaler in exchange for a certain degree of security. This event marked a change in the count's attitude.
Ulrich showed personal favor to Uco Walles, granting him and his party a letter of protection made out by him personally on 26 November 1645. About two years later the other Mennonites also received the assurance that the count would henceforth treat them with favor, in return for their making a four-year prepayment of their protection fee of 880 talers, whereas the Ukowallists paid 120 talers.
Ulrich II died 1 November 1648 and his wife Juliane von Hessen-Darmstadt (1606-1659) ruled East Friesland until their son Enno Ludwig reached the age of majority in 1651.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 379-380.
Müller, P. Die Mennoniten in Ostfriesland vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Emden and Borkum, 1887: 60, note 35.
|Christian Neff
|Richard D. Thiessen
|Date Published
|April 2007
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Starring: Mirabel Verdu, Macarena Garcia
Directed by: Pablo Berger
Running time: 104 minutes
Parental guidance: Adult themes, mild sexual situations
(Mostly silent with English intertitles)
Trend No. 1: Silent movies, which were put on hold for 85 years after Al Jolson started talking in The Jazz Singer, have reclaimed their charm. Last year, they also reclaimed an Oscar for The Artist, a French billet doux to Hollywood that was a miracle of good cheer.
Trend No. 2: Snow White is hot again, having been reconfigured (in Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman) as a feisty young heroine who has found a new home in an era of vampires, werewolves and other fairy tale fantasies.
Put them together and you have Blancanieves, a silent version of Snow White, transferred to 1920s Spain. Rather than a tribute to the magic of the movies, it's a re-creation of the silent era with all of its glorious expressionism and grand emotions. "We had faces then," said Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, recalling the silent days, and Blancanieves stands as proof of that: great, full-lipped Spanish faces, many of which look as if they belong on the front of old coins, smiling, suffering and plotting evilly.
Blancanieves — which recently won top honours at the Spanish Goya awards — is set in a world of bullfighting and flamenco. Filmmaker Pablo Berger, who worked for 10 years on the project, borrows from the mythologies to create his own: Famous matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) is gored by a bull on the same day that his beautiful wife Carmen (Inma Cuesta), a famous dancer, dies in childbirth.
The baby grows up to be spirited Carmencita (Sofia Oria), who is sent to live with the now-paralyzed Antonio and his new wife Encarna (Maribel Verdu). As in most tellings of this fable, the stepmother walks away with the show and Verdu vamps shamelessly: imperious, malevolent, transparently scheming with sideways glances and evil smiles. Addicted to attention, slinky dresses and fancy hats, she's a kind of Spanish version Cruella de Vil. She locks Antonio away and begins a relationship with her chauffeur — something involving a riding crop and a dog collar — that would have made Lady Chatterley blush.
Carmencita, meanwhile, is forced to boil the laundry, fetch the water and do other menial tasks. She's thrown into a cellar and separated from her beloved pet rooster Pepe, who appears perpetually in danger of being thrown into one of Encarna's pots and served for dinner.
Eventually, of course, the young girl (now grown to be the lovely and fabulously named Macarena Garcia) is taken away into the woods. There she is discovered by Los Enanitos Toreros, a troupe of dwarf bullfighters whose numbers include a handsome one who loves her and a jealous one who resents her. They name her Snowhite, which saves a letter on the intertitles.
Shot in the almost-square format of the form and enriched by a yearning score by Alfonso de Vilallonga, Blancanieves is made with great care and ingenuity, both in the storytelling and in the imagery (a poisoned apple is indicated with an overlay of a hypodermic needle going through the skin and a skull superimposed on the fruit.) It moves slowly at times and the strictures of its classic story keep it from expanding into the joyous sense of rediscovery we got from The Artist. In its own way, though, it's a classic.
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In Transition
The transition period from perennial ryegrass to bermudagrass in the spring is a critical time in managing turfgrasses that are overseeded. A timely transition is the key to ensure the health of the bermudagrass. Failure to remove perennial ryegrass in a timely manner will ultimately result in a decline in the bermudagrass stand. Unfortunately, over the past few years, there has been a trend to hold bermudagrass in as long as possible in the spring/summer (often too long), and in the fall overseed too early. The reason for this is to lengthen the perennial ryegrass season, yet if it is lengthened too long, bermudagrass will disappear over time. Bermudagrass is also not tolerant to shade. In addition, bermudagrass cannot grow into areas that are being occupied by perennial ryegrass. The objective should be to remove the perennial ryegrass in a timely manner that will allow a full bermudagrass recovery in time for overseeding in the fall. A full recovery includes not only 100 percent ground cover, but also rhizome and stolon growth. Previous research and observations indicate that bermudagrass needs approximately 100 days of growth in the absence of perennial ryegrass competition. Failure to provide growth conditions without perennial ryegrass competition can result in significant shading of the bermudagrass canopy and lead to substantial bermudagrass stand loss.
In some areas, perennial ryegrass will transition out without herbicides, particularly when you use management practices that promote bermudagrass growth and discourage ryegrass growth in the spring. This is true in areas such as Florida or south Texas and other areas with a similar climate. However, in most areas, you need to use herbicides to kill the ryegrass in order to provide 100 days of bermudagrass growth free of ryegrass competition. Fortunately, in recent years, several new herbicides have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use that can help tremendously with transition. These new herbicides all belong to the sulfonylurea herbicide family. They include Revolver (foramsulfuron), Monument (trifloxysulfuron) Tranxit (rimsulfuron), and Manor or Blade (metsulfuron), which has been around for several years. Monument is the newest product, having just been labeled at the end of 2003, while Revolver was labeled in the spring of 2003. Tranxit has been labeled for a couple of years.
There are five herbicides labeled for removing perennial ryegrass from bermudagrass. This list includes Manor/Blade, Monument, Revolver, Tranxit, and Kerb (not a sulfonylurea herbicide). All five of these are effective, but the speed at which they kill perennial ryegrass differs. You should note that the speed at which herbicides kill ryegrass is not inherently considered a negative or a positive. The differences in speed let you customize your program and determine the speed at which you want to kill ryegrass. For instance, Kerb is effective for removing perennial ryegrass, but it is also the slowest of all available products for doing so. Some turfgrass managers like the fact that it kills ryegrass slowly because the activity is so gradual that there is seldom the appearance of dying turf. Other turfgrass managers prefer a very rapid kill. The main difference in products that remove ryegrass is the speed at which they remove perennial ryegrass. The order of kill of perennial ryegrass (from slowest to fastest) is the following: Kerb is slower than Manor/Blade, and Manor/Blade is slower than Revolver, Tranxit and Monument.
The speed at which Revolver, Tranxit and Monument kill perennial ryegrass provides insight into when you should use it. Because Revolver, Tranxit and Monument kill ryegrass very rapidly, you should use these products as late transition aids. The underlying bermudagrass must be actively growing before you use these products. If you use Revolver, Monument or Tranxit too early (before the bermudagrass is actively growing), then the ryegrass will die before the bermudagrass is able to fill in the voids left from the perennial ryegrass. The resulting overall turf quality will be poor.
To determine when you should remove perennial ryegrass from bermudagrass, consider these two issues:
First, when does bermudagrass reach its summer growth pattern in your area?
Second, how long is the period of removal in spring/summer to overseeding in the fall?
Your answers should add up to at least 100 days. Because most turf managers prefer to leave perennial ryegrass in as long as possible, Revolver, Tranxit and Monument fit well for transition aids because they allow them to hold the ryegrass longer and remove it more quickly.
Revolver was first introduced in the spring of 2003. Revolver is sold as a suspension concentrate (0.19 SC formulation) and the rates range from 0.2 to 0.6 fluid ounces per 1000 ft
Another important use for Revolver is to control clumpy perennial ryegrass. When ryegrass escapes the overseeding area, such in roughs when only fairways are overseeded or areas around greens, the ryegrass can get clumpy because it is growing at a low density. The clumps become even larger when the plant survives the summer. When this occurs, it can be very difficult to control the clumpy ryegrass. Because of widespread overseeding, clumpy perennial ryegrass has become one of the major weeds throughout areas that utilize overseeding of bermudagrass. Revolver is highly effective in controlling clumpy ryegrass when applied at 0.4 ounces/1000 ft
Monument is the most recently registered herbicide with the EPA granting full registration in late 2003. It will be available for use during the spring transition period this year. Monument will be sold as a 75 percent water-dispersible granule (75 WG) and the rates will range from 0.1 to 0.56 ounces/acre. The rates for removing perennial ryegrass from bermudagrass range from 0.1 to 0.3 ounces/acre. In my research, 0.3 ounces/acre has been more consistent in the complete removal of perennial ryegrass from bermudagrass. Like Revolver, Monument controls Poa annua but also is highly effective on perennial sedges such as yellow and purple nutsedge and the perennial kyllingas (green and false green kyllinga). Monument is not approved for use on bermudagrass putting greens.
Tranxit has been labeled for use in bermudagrass for a couple of years. It is sold as a 25 percent water-dispersible granule (25 WG) and the rates range from 1 to 2 ounces/acre for turfgrass use. Removal of perennial ryegrass can easily be obtained with 1 ounce/acre. As with Revolver, Tranxit can be used on bermudagrass putting greens.
In most areas that are overseeded with perennial ryegrass, removal with herbicides is necessary in order to provide adequate bermudagrass recovery in summer. Failure to provide approximately 100 days of bermudagrass growth in the absence of perennial ryegrass competition is necessary for complete bermudagrass recovery. If bermudagrass does not have adequate time to recover, decline in the bermudagrass stand will occur over time. In many cases, a total loss of bermudagrass can occur. New sulfonylurea herbicides such as Revolver, Tranxit and Monument offer you effective tools for the removal of perennial ryegrass. Transition with these products is fast, so proper timing is critical for successful use.
Fred Yelverton, Ph. D. is a professor of turfgrass science at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).
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