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Recently, the waters of competition law within the European Union have begun to stir. Mere days after the German Bundeskartellamt issued a press release stating that it will use its competition law powers to go after dominant companies who it suspects breach data protection rules, POLITICO ran the story that the European Commission is considering broadening its criteria for merger reviews in order to better capture data-driven companies.
The European Commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, has expressed concern that the mergers in the past such as Facebook and Whatsapp were not subject to a merger review by the EU under the general guidelines, despite in case of the example mentioned, a bid of $19 billion and the enormous user-bases involved. In fact, the Commission only reviewed (and cleared) the merger after national competition authorities requested it to do so.
Vestager stated that it is no longer just a company's turnover which makes an attractive merger partner or which influences competition. Its total assets, including its userbase and its collection of personal data on these users, may also play a significant role. This statement may mark the Commission turning over a new leaf to look more closely at the actual economic value of personal data.
However, the Commission has not always had eyes for personal data as an economic asset. Particularly in its Merger Decisions throughout the years, the Commission has been reluctant to consider personal data as a relevant factor at all, despite the increasing role personal data plays on the digital marketspace in particular. For example, the Commission has held that a large userbase and the accompanying dataset are only relevant factors for determining a company's dominance if they bar potential competitors from entering the market. In addition, the Commission has ruled that the network effects of large datasets are insignificant. They do not make it more difficult for new competitors to arise, because it is easy for consumers to switch to a different service provider. The Commission held that data-driven companies often offer their products for free, either online or as a free smartphone app. Consumers can also use multiple services at the same time, and can easily convince their friends to switch services as well, building up a new network one person at a time.
The Commission may now be considering a new approach, but what are the legal implications if it moves towards accepting personal data as asset to be considered under competition law? If one accepts that personal data has a value as an asset, that may change the overall analysis of any market which is driven by data-based business models, such as social media, Voice over IP, and search engines. For example, if the Commission accepts personal datasets as a valuable asset for a company, the next logical step would be that a consumer can also 'pay' with his personal data for access to an otherwise free product or service. Particularly in that event, the Commission's old stance that personal data and privacy protection has no place in competition law may no longer be valid for future cases. After all, if the Commission takes the view that personal data itself has an economic value, how free is a service for the use of which consumers still have to share their personal data? How likely is it that a consumer will use his personal data to pay many companies at a time for the same service, and how likely is it that he will be able to convince his friends to do the same? Indeed, it will be difficult for the Commission to stay the course set out in its previous Merger Decisions if it decides to set personal data in a different light.
The statement by Commissioner Vestager marks the first time the European Commission has indicated large sets of personal data as an economic asset to be considered in competition cases. Considering the ever increasing prominence of personal data in a wide variety of business models, it is not surprising that the Commission would choose to turn over this new leaf now. However, accepting an economic value of personal data may have far-reaching consequences for the future application of competition law to our increasingly digital economy.
Peter van de Waerdt graduated from the University of Groningen with a thesis on the relation between EU competition law and personal data protection.
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Zac Efron begs pap not to sell sex shop shot
Zac Efron, careful with his image, asks a photographer to dump a shot of the star surrounded by a rainbow of glowing dildos.
I was in the sex shop for a movie! Seriously! That's what Zac Efron's reps told the tabloids that printed pics of the High School Musical heartthrob in Manhattan's Fantasy World sex shop.
True, Efron has been filming Are We Officially Dating in and around New York City in January, and he wasn't hanging around Fantasy World alone in a raincoat — the movie crew joined him at the shop, where Efron perused the script.
That was when a photographer grabbed a shot of him, glaring right through the window with a forest of tumescent dildos, lit like a Renaissance painting, right behind him.
According to the New York Daily News, an eyewitness spotted Efron arguing with said photographer.
"Zac was begging the guy to delete the pictures," the eyewitness told the Daily News. "He kept telling him he has so many young fans and he didn't want them to see it."
Say, really? Is that so? Does Zac Efron really have a lot of young fans? Let's think about this. High School Musical came out in 2006. The third-graders who went crazy over Efron's blue eyes then are all in ninth grade now.
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Since everyone knows that kids retain the same tastes from age 9 to age 15, um, sure, we can all buy Efron has "lots" of young fans, right?
Obviously, Efron wasn't successful in suppressing the shot. On the other hand, he did get his aging mug out there, which hasn't been happening a lot of late.
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Tyla (The Dogs D'amour) and Spike (The Quireboys) have joined forces once again for the the first Hot Knives release since 'Flagrantly Yours' that was originally released in 1996.
The album was recorded in London by Alan Clayton (The Dirty Strangers) and York by Gary Pennick.
TSIOFG&JP features Simon Hanson (Squeeze) on drums, Gary Pennick (Guitars), Nick Malling (The Quireboys / bass), Mark Stanway (Magnum / keyboards) and Guy Bailey (The Quireboys – Thirsty / Guitars).
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DVD: NTSC format, Region 0 (free) Total Running Time Approx 1 hr 27 mins – Borderline, London Gig (Main Feature)
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Journey to Sea Country
Discover the story of the Yolŋu people and the Blue Mud Bay legal case.
Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country tells the powerful story of the Yolŋu people of North-East Arnhem Land, their fight for recognition of Indigenous sea rights and the Blue Mud Bay legal case. Discover how historic bark paintings were used to win Indigenous sea rights.
"…this exhibit blows away Dior, Bowie, Mapplethorpe – ALL of it.
And it's ours from the Yolŋu people – their Dreamtime on bark paintings. I'm in total awe!"
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Gapu-Monuk are words from the Yolŋu matha language, of North-East Arnhem Land. Gapu (water), monuk (salt), describes Saltwater.
The exhibition centres around 40 Yirrkala bark paintings from the Saltwater Collection, created by the Yolŋu artists who petitioned for sea rights by painting their Saltwater Countries onto bark, and revealing sacred patterns or designs known as Miny'tji.
It also includes Mokuy (spirit) carvings, Larrakitj (mortuary pole paintings on hollowed trees) and other traditional and contemporary works.
Oral histories, aerial photography and traditional and contemporary Indigenous objects help visitors delve deeper into the stories of the communities who created the paintings, revealing a richer understanding of their connection to sea country.
In 1997, 47 Yolŋu artists from fifteen clans and eighteen homelands communities in North-East Arnhem Land revealed their sacred lore and their connections to land and sea in these paintings known as the Saltwater Collection. The works were initiated by Madarrpa clan leader Djambawa Marawili AM, following his indignation at discovering an illegal poacher's camp on his sacred estate that included a decapitated crocodile.
More than a decade later, in July 2008, the High Court of Australia confirmed that the traditional owners of the Blue Mud Bay region in North-East Arnhem Land, together with the traditional owners of almost the entire Northern Territory coastline, have exclusive access rights to tidal waters overlying Aboriginal land.
The paintings were deemed the legal equivalent of title deeds to the sea rights of coastal waters.
"It is time for non-Aboriginal people to learn about this land, learn about the waters. So if we are living the way of reconciliation, you must learn about Native Title and Sea Right."
- Djambawa Marawili, AM, 1999
A contemporary Aboriginal artwork has links to the cosmology of the people of Arnhem Land and to their relationships with their Makassan neighbours from Indonesia.
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The museum store has sourced a unique range of Indigenous-made products that speak to the stories and themes in the Gapu-Monuk exhibition.
You'll find an array of inspired choices that reflect both the art and the experiences of Indigenous Australians when you shop online.
The range acknowledges the traditional land owners of Australia, and a percentage of profits are directly endowed to Indigenous communities and artists.
The Australian National Maritime Museum acknowledges the Yolngu people as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters of North-East Arnhem Land. We pay our respects to them and their elders both past and present.
The Yirrkala bark paintings are held in the ANMM collection and were purchased with the assistance of Stephen Grant of the GrantPirrie Gallery.
The museum would like to advise visitors that this exhibition may contain the names of and artwork by deceased Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
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A project or program developed specifically for Indigenous communities or by Indigenous people. May include gallery or exhibition development or interpretive programming and learning projects.
The Gapu-Monuk Saltwater exhibition is a collaboration between the traditional owners of the Blue Mud Bay Region in North-East Arnhem Land and the Australian National Maritime Museum. The exhibition's curators, designers, marketing agency and video producers are all Indigenous, inspired by the leadership of Djambawa Marawili, AM to create a powerful story that connects all Australians.
Helen Anu is a Koey-Buway, Samu Augud (Cassowary) and Sui-Baidham (Black-winged Stilt and Shark) Clan Woman of the Zei Gub (South West Winds) from the Top Western cluster of the Torres Strait Islands.
Helen has worked as a cultural practitioner in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, Culture and Media Sector for 25 years, and currently works in Indigenous Programs at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
She assists with the delivery of Indigenous-specific projects, cultural outreach, engagement and exhibitions, including highlighting the narrative of new and existing works held within the museum's Indigenous collections, and supporting the transmission of traditional and contemporary Saltwater and Freshwater stories.
Beau James is from the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh Nation from South East Queensland, with links to Stradbroke Island. Currently working as the Indigenous Programs Manager for the Australian National Maritime Museum, their responsibilities include the development of cultural programs, events and exhibitions focusing on the Museum's Indigenous collection.
Working collaboratively with communities, artists and art centres throughout Australia, Beau has curated innovative exhibitions both nationally and internationally and sourced exciting new works, intertwining the traditional with the contemporary to further highlight and explore Indigenous culture and the connection to Saltwater and Freshwater country.
Nicole Monks is a trans-disciplinary artist of Yamatji Wajarri, Dutch and English heritage. Living and practicing in Redfern, Nicole is informed by her cross-cultural identity and her work takes its focus from storytelling, as a way to connect the past with the present and future.
A designer by trade, Nicole works with furniture and objects, textiles, video, installation and performance. Nicole's practice weaves together Aboriginal history and philosophy with contemporary Western thought.
In addition to her solo practice, Nicole is the founder of blackandwhite creative. She is currently on the Design Advisory Panel for the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS).
Malinda is from Wiyabal clan, and is the founder of Wyhldfisch Productions, as well as a published author.
Her career of 34 years encompasses Logie Award-winning TV programs, international award-winning television commercials, documentaries and corporate films.
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At the fourth annual Cream awards, held on 15th September, Cogent customers were to the fore, picking up four awards in total.
The Cream Awards, which are Dairy Industry Trade Awards were created to recognise some of the brightest, and best businesses and people working across the UK dairy industry.
Sandy Mitchell, Kennetside Heads won the High Yield Farm award. Some impressive results across all key metrics meant that Kennetside Heads stood out for the judges for their solid team approach to health & welfare, impressive calving interval, strong vet support, and production metrics demonstrating stability.
Kennetside Heads are on a Precision DIY contract and are using Cogent's MooMonitor system to their advantage. They have 85 collars which are moved around once heifers are confirmed pregnant. Increased pregnancy rates have been achieved by catching bulling heifers sooner and serving them quicker. With the heifer unit being away from the main dairy unit the system has become invaluable to this farm as heats are not missed anymore.
The High Fertility Farm Award was awarded to Jack Elliott of G & J Elliott from Torrington in Devon. The judges felt there was a strong 'team' element involving the nutritionist, vet and Cogent technician which together helped to make this a highly efficient operator. Exceptional pregnancy rates in excess of 26% were achieved at the 450 cow herd which was also averaging 11,000 litres on 3 times a day milking. With all the staff focused on day-to-day fertility management and a feeling of constant information gathering and analysis, the judges felt this farm had got it cracked.
Another Cogent customer, Mark Moore of Whiteoaks Farming at
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David Craven of Grosvenor Farms collected the Health & Welfare Award. Grosvenor Farms was the first choice for all the judges who were impressed with every aspect of the business, making it, in their opinion a model farm for the industry. High technology to drive high welfare and impressive calving index helped make it a stand out farm. They were particularly impressed with the focus on getting the right people into the business with the right skills.
Grosvenor Farms have over 1,600 Cogent MooMonitor+ collars and are achieving great results for heat detection, while using the health alerts has saved cows time and the business money. Employees are dealing with problem animals much sooner. With staff on a shift basis this really is the 'Big Brother' system that is continually monitoring every single animal.
Grosvenor Farms were also awarded the evening's premier award, The Cream Award, winning the John Beckett Memorial Cup. The judges all concluded this was a 'top drawer' company showing excellence in everything they do. One judge noted Grosvenor Farms demonstrated that there was no inconsistency between modern larger scale farms and the attention to welfare.
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Travis Scott and Toronto's own Nav, collaborated for a huge banger on La Flame's Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight album. "biebs in the trap," is produced by NAV himself. The production carries through the song on its own, but when you add Nav's perfectly tuned auto-tune frequency, there's no stopping how good the song is.
Congratulations to @beatsbynav @trvisXX #BeibsInTheTrap is officially a GOLD selling record with no radio support!!! 🔥XO
— CashXO (@cashup) March 11, 2017
The Weeknd's manager Cash, took to his Twitter to announce the success of the single. It's crazy: the song reached gold status without any radio support. As we're seeing more as time roles through, artists aren't looking for success in radio play, instead, streams become the successor and ultimate bred-winning formula.
The RIAA hasn't certified the record yet and hopefully that's updated as we shift into this new week.
Also, huge congrats to Nav, because this is his first gold single. In such long but short time, Nav has maneuver his way into the industry at a quick pace, and it'll continue as we roll into the rest of the year.


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Celebrity Copycat: Rihanna's Look for Less!
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Head to toe perfection! I love how Rhianna paired a sexy cropped top with her distressed boyfriend jeans and then added metallic heels and clutch – so girly girl yet edgy – LOVE it! For those who want a more reserved version of this look check out the look beneath the copycat. These are pieces that can be worn a ton of different ways. The top can be paired with a pencil skirt for a classier look, the jeans can be worn with a blazer, tank and flats for day and the metallic heels can be worn with just about anything.
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Enter 2012 ACUVUE 1-Day Contest to meet Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Tyler Blackburn, Meaghan Martin or Allyson Felix
A few weeks back, I had the chance to interview Shawn Ferrer and Brittany Barber, winner's of the 2011 ACUVUE 1-DAY Contest. I really liked how winning the contest had a powerful and positive influence on their lives. Those teens are now pursuing their dreams.
Are you a teen who'd like a chance to pursue your dream? Or maybe your a parent who wants to encourage your teen to pursue a dream? Here's your chance with the launch of 2012 ACUVUE® 1-Day Contest!
The celebrity mentors for this year's "ACUVUE® 1-DAY Contest includes inspirational pop star Demi Lovato, musician Joe Jonas, breakout television star Tyler Blackburn, all-American actress Meaghan Martin and world champion sprinter Allyson Felix.
The contest, now in its second year, will give five winners the chance to meet and be mentored for a day by one of the five teen icons. The five lucky winners will also receive a second trip to Los Angeles to attend a teen event, and a one-year supply of 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® Brand Contact Lenses.*
To enter, now through June 7, 2012, contestants should go to the ACUVUE® Brand channel on YouTube, www.youtube.com/acuvue, and upload a thirty (30) to sixty (60) second video showcasing what they hope to achieve one day, how they find the confidence to pursue their dreams and why they should be chosen for this once-in-a-lifetime mentorship opportunity (**see rules). For inspiration, the YouTube page will feature last year's contest winners' own 1-DAY stories and videos.
Contestants also will be able to view other entries and vote for their favorite to win one of five First Prizes – $1,000 each to put towards their dream of what they will do 1-DAY.
In addition to contest entry and voting, the ACUVUE® Brand celebrity mentors' own 1-DAY stories will be on youtube.com/acuvue. These stories highlight how they found the focus and confidence to bring their dreams to life, and represent common themes in young persons' lives:
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"I'm really excited to have the opportunity to be a celebrity mentor this year," says singer Demi Lovato. "Empowering teens to reach for their dreams is important to me because having big goals will keep you focused and on the right path. In the face of challenges or pressure, having the motivation to achieve something great gives you a purpose."
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"No dream is too small," says celebrity mentor Joe Jonas. "You have to believe in yourself first and know that anything is possible. When you're young, it's a time to explore your dreams and find a way to make them a reality."
Be True to Yourself:
"I've been lucky to have a lot of support in my life from family and friends, but as an actor there's always pressure about what you look like and what you do, which can be a challenge," says celebrity mentor Tyler Blackburn. "As a mentor, I want to be able to share that throughout your journey, it's about really knowing who you are. Surround yourself with people who truly like you for you and don't compromise yourself for anyone."
Hard Work Pays Off:
"Last year I was a mentor to a fellow runner," says celebrity mentor Allyson Felix, "and I was excited to share the ups and downs of my journey with him so that he would understand how hard work pays off. He taught me a lesson as well; every up and down gives you an opportunity to improve, every grueling practice a chance to overcome. It was amazing how we both inspired each other to be better."
Confidence Comes From Within:
"Growing up in the front of the camera, I learned firsthand that confidence is found within," says celebrity mentor Meaghan Martin. "With all the successes and challenges that come with growing up, I'm inspired by all these teens out there that have such unique, wonderful dreams. I'm excited to share a message of confidence, reminding them that it is what's inside that will drive them to succeed."
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March has come to an end. What better way to round off the month than with a compilation of exceptional jewelry and accessories from a number of fashion bloggers across the globe? They never fail to surprise us with their interestingly unique jewelry! We always get excited every end of the month because we can't wait to see who will make it to our top 10 list! Without further ado, here are our favorite bloggers who wore outstanding jewelry pieces in March.
1. Priscila Diniz from Brazil
Oversized necklaces are hard to miss, especially when worn with a plain top. Priscila Diniz of Look at Me BR did exactly that. She wore a plain neutral-colored cropped top with baggy trousers, and she accessorized with an acrylic bib necklace that seemed to be the main focus of her outfit!
2. Jessie Barber from Chicago, Illinois
Jessie Barber of Mini Penny showed us three pairs of fierce and edgy earrings last month. They are all hard to ignore, especially because she got a pixie-cut hairstyle! If you're also into daring and edgy looks, you might want to visit her blog for inspiration.
3. MillyQ Chung from Taiwan
MillyQ Chung of MillyQ's Blog looked very girly and edgy at the same time in her black and floral ensemble. She's very striking in her outfit that included a braided chain necklace that seems to have fringes as well!
4. Alanna Durkovich from Vancouver, Canada
While browsing for fashion bloggers with arresting accessories or jewelry, we stumbled upon Alanna Durkovich of Xander Vintage, and we could not help but be stunned! Her necklace was just bewitching. There's something about it that seems to hypnotize! It's probably because of the cobalt blue color and of its exceptional detailing.
5. Alessandra Kamaile from Munich, Germany
Alessandra Kamaile has an eclectic fashion sense. She can dress in vintage outfits or in very girly clothes, but most of the time, she can be seen in sexy and rocking ensembles! In one of her most recent posts, she rocked a dominant black number, which she styled with a tough-looking yet dramatic pair of earrings. They definitely added style to her quite gothic look!
6. Andrea Funk from Germany
Here, we have Andrea Funk of Andy Sparkles with two different accessories that toughened up two different looks. In the first, her sexy, edgy ensemble was amped up by a necklace that features spikes, chains, and skulls! In the second, her more girly look of furry sweater dress, tights, and over-the-knee boots was toughened up with a dragon ear cuff!
7. Ruxandra Ioana from Romania
Ruxandra Ioana of From Brussels, with Love gave us a tough, sexy look by wearing just a black jacket over her bra and a pair of faux leather pants. The outfit was definitely very hot! Her accessories added both edge and sophistication to her look. She wore a chain chandelier necklace that covered her cleavage and a pair of long tasseled earrings. We simply love this look!
8. Mona K. from Germany
Mona K of Belle Melange welcomed the new season right with a pair of bright pants, a navy-and-white striped blazer, and a navy top. Completing her lovely spring look was her statement floral necklace! It surely furthered her on-trend look!
9. Shobna Renée from New Zealand
Women tend to wear gold accessories with a black outfit. Shobna Renee of Croissant de Confiture, though, would rather wear a Buddha necklace that features black beads and a neon tassel to amp up her look! She also wore a silver chain bracelet and a silver ring to set a vintage vibe!
10. Nydia Enid from Puerto Rico
Nydia Enid of A Girl Named Nydia treated us to a classic contemporary black-and-white look. She's flawless in her white cropped top, black midiskirt, and black strappy heels. Obviously, her white oversized chain necklace made her feminine look a bit edgy!


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Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is proceeding as if former Miami Central star Dalvin Cook will not be around in 2015, which means paying closer attention to the running back depth chart.
Fisher identified two candidates who could see time at tailback in an emergency: starting fullback Freddie Stevenson and receiver Kermit Whitfield.
Redshirt junior Mario Pender will step in for Cook — suspended after being charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly striking a woman outside a bar — with freshman Jacques Patrick in position to claim the backup spot.
But Stevenson, a 6-1, 241-pound junior who started seven games last season, could help ease the burden.
"Freddie looks really good," Fisher said. "He can run the football, is a big back, much like [James] Wilder and them guys did. There's different ways you can move them [fullbacks]. Freddie's a big, powerful guy. He can be a short-yardage, goal-line-type guy."
Stevenson has nine carries for 33 yards in his career. He also has caught nine passes for 90 yards and has scored one touchdown rushing and one receiving.
Whitfield, a 5-8, 184-pound speedster, is best known for his 100-yard kickoff return in the national championship game against Auburn. But the junior has dropped in the depth chart and enters camp No. 4 at the Z receiver.
Whitfield has six rushes for 150 yards and a TD in two seasons, 110 of those yards coming on three carries in 2013.
One option Fisher is not considering right now is moving Ryan Green back to tailback. Green is listed as a backup corner to Marquez White.
"I was extremely pleased with him in spring," Fisher said of Green. "I think he has the capability of being a big-time corner. If you look at his skills, he could even be a nickel guy. He could be a field corner, boundary corner. I'm really looking forward to him now really knowing what to do."
Fisher continues to praise the "demeanor" and "energy level" of his team.
Fisher spoke to the media Friday for the first time since FSU hit the field on Thursday and gushed about the first two days.
"Two good solid work days," he said following Friday's practice that was exclusively inside because of storms that rolled through the area.
"I'm very happy with their attitude and their demeanor coming to practice. Practice got really fast Friday].
"A couple of those young freshmen got used to how we practiced."
Fisher added that the team is "not doing everything right but flying around, you can see the athleticism. … The energy level of this group has got me excited."
Linebacker Reggie Northrup, who had surgery in January to repair a torn ACL, went through the entire practice Thursday before being held out of team drills Friday.
"He did some team and then pulled him and did individual work," Fisher said. "We're not going to overuse that thing early. We got a plan how to manage that."
Although cornerback Marcus Lewis was cleared academically and is at practice, the Seminoles are awaiting the final clearance for junior college linebacker Lorenzo Phillips.
"The grade is there," Fisher said. "It's the official transcripts you got to wait on. Everything is fine."
Those transcripts are coming from East Mississippi Community College. Phillips was one of the most important signees in February. He is expected to add depth to a depleted linebacker corps.


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FS4: Evolution's Use of Construction Kits
Thursday 3-5pm in Poynting Physics Room S06
Small lecture rom top floor
This will be an interactive discussion of questions partly inspired by Alan Turing's work on Morphogenesis, published two years before he died. What might Alan Turing have done if he had lived 30-40 years longer?
What sort of school/university education would enable future graduates to contribute to the research project?
What sorts of construction kits produced by biological evolution
made possible evolution of minds, especially mathematical minds?
(Such as the minds of Euclid and his predecessors.)
Could similar artificial construction kits help us build robots with human intelligence?
If we understood more about such construction kits could that help us produce better educated humans, better able to live together and to solve hard problems?
What sorts of construction-kits in brains, or minds, enable a child to assemble new information? Does a child also have to create new construction kits for new kinds of learning? How can a brain do that?
Is there a way to introduce some of these ideas and questions, and later on relevant experience in building computer models, into schools without waiting for top down syllabus changes -- giving future leaders in science, medicine, technology and education a head start, a decade or more before a lumbering "official" educational system wakes up to the opportunity?
Expanded below, in The educational aims of the session.
Presenter: Aaron Sloman
Honorary professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
This is part of the Meta-Morphogenesis project, summarised here: goo.gl/9eN8Ks
See also the CogAff talks directory:
And this 1978 book, now freely available online:
The computer revolution in philosophy: goo.gl/AJLDih
Our school system probably does not provide them any opportunity to build the new ideas formally into their teaching, but it may be relevant to informal discussions about evolution, life, mind, computing, and the future of AI, and in some cases discussions about careers. At the very least this will help to counter the mistaken impression, now being circulated widely, that learning about computing is relevant mainly for people who want to go into industry, possibly via Computing Science degree courses, or who just want to have fun building new apps.
There is a very much deeper reason for teaching computing: namely, our planet contains a very wide variety of information processing systems, including microbes and other organisms, ecosystems, social and economic systems, and perhaps most importantly for us, brains of humans and other animals. If teachers of relevant disciplines, e.g. biology, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy know nothing about forms of computation required for life, thought, perception, reproduction, and development, their pupils may not be properly prepared for research and teaching in these disciplines, just as most professionals in these disciplines have previously been unprepared, through no fault of their own. Likewise future researchers in those fields ignorant of a wide variety of forms of computation and modelling.
Increasingly, people who wish to go into areas of science that study those subjects will need to have personal experience of designing, building, testing, analysing, debugging and comparing working information processing systems, even if only fairly simple ones. Otherwise they will not know how to formulate or to evaluate and challenge new explanatory theories.
Meeting that need will, eventually, require broadening the variety of types of programming taught in schools, and integrating programming with education in several non-computing disciplines for the most able students -- the future leaders in science, industry, education, philosophy and other fields. At present the system is not ready for that, so I am merely trying to plant some seeds.
One aim of the talk will be to draw attention to capabilities of non-mathematicians that have mathematical content, insofar as they involve understanding and use of mathematical features of the environment, including partly built bird's nests, shoe-laces and children's construction kits. Even pre-verbal toddlers seem to acquire and use such mathematical knowledge, along with nest-building birds, elephants, and other intelligent animals. These competences make use of mathematical knowledge about arrangements of matter unreflectively -- not explicitly thought about or communicated. That comes later, but only (so far) in humans. What changes when a child becomes able to understand why it is that if you look past the left edge of a doorway you'll see more of the left side room if you move right, less if you move left, and can later tell someone else which way to move to see more of a hidden object. This uses mathematical reasoning about straight lines, that for most people is unconscious.
Progress in replicating such human and animal capabilities in AI and robotics, and explaining them in psychology and neuroscience has been very slow. That's partly, I think, because we don't yet understand what needs to be explained. More examples will be presented in the talk.
In 2011 I was asked to contribute to a book celebrating Turing's centenary the following year. One of the things I read was his amazing paper on The Chemical basis of Morphogenesis published in 1952, two years before he died. That led me to ask what he would have done if he had lived another 30 or 40 years. My tentative answer was the Meta-Morphogenesis (M-M) project: an attempt to understand all the important transitions in information-processing capabilities and mechanisms between the very earliest living or pre-biotic entities several billion years ago and the huge variety now on the planet, including many intelligent species, such as crows, elephants, dolphins, squirrels, orangutans and humans.
It's possible that attempting to identify intermediate forms of information processing in organisms that were distant ancestors of organisms now on earth may provide new clues about the types of information processing in current systems, that can't be found by more direct study. I'll try to explain how.
All the ideas coming out of this research are gradually being assembled on
a rather messy web site dedicated to the M-M project.
I hope to interest some broad minded teachers and others interested in
education, and discuss possible ways in which ideas like these could be
informally made available for teachers and learners who want to explore beyond
the standard disciplinary boundaries -- perhaps eventually producing some of the
leading thinkers, including scientists and engineers, of the future, who will
not get the required foundation from current syllabus structures, but who have
the abilities and motivation to go further in non-school time. I see no reason
why this should not begin in primary schools alongside the forms of programming
already being taught to some very young children. See
Studying evolved biological construction kits and information-processing mechanisms they build may help us understand evolution of minds and extend our ability to design intelligent, human-like robots.
More on the Turing-Inspired Meta-Morphogenesis project
Since Turing discussed the possibility of intelligent machines in 1950 there have been many outstanding achievements in artificial intelligence, robotics and computational cognitive science -- including logical and algebraic theorem provers and proof checkers. Yet we don't know how to give a machine visual perception and spatial reasoning abilities found in pre-verbal human toddlers, and many other animals, e.g. weaver birds, shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svAIgEnFvw
Although computers can perform logical and algebraic reasoning and can even discover new mathematical theorems and prove them, current robots and mathematical reasoning systems cannot match the forms of spatial intelligence found in many non-human animals (e.g. crows, squirrels, elephants, and many more).
These include the cognitive abilities apparently required for the discovery of the truths and proofs in Euclidean geometry leading up to Euclid's Elements, published about 2.5 thousand years ago.
Can we understand what's missing in current AI but present in human toddlers and
other animals and how it evolved? Perhaps those forms of mathematical spatial
reasoning require new forms of computation?
Some examples:
First steps towards a general theory of evolved construction kits:
Background: The Turing-Inspired Meta-Morphogenesis project
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85% of people with diabetic nerve pain say that it affects them daily, according to an online survey.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/POOL-177?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12965682#action_12965682 ] Simone Tripodi commented on POOL-177: ------------------------------------- I'd generally agree on applying this patch, but I join people saying that storing the config instance inside pools - and setting/getting values to/from it - could be malicious; my reason is, since config could be shared, immagine the same configuration instance will be used to create 2 different pools, and at runtime one of these pools configuration will be modified... the other one will start working in an undesired way :( I can apply the patch and modify it according to this generally approved thought, otherwise if you have some spare time you can commit directly and you or I can adapt the code. Does it work for you? > GenericKeyedObjectPoolFactory and GenericObjectPoolFactory to share a common superclass > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: POOL-177 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/POOL-177 > Project: Commons Pool > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: Nightly Builds > Reporter: Gary Gregory > Fix For: 2.0 > > Attachments: POOL-177.diff, POOL-177.diff > > > I see now in trunk that GenericKeyedObjectPoolConfig extends GenericObjectPoolConfig, which I like. > It seems that the next step would be for GenericKeyedObjectPoolFactory and GenericObjectPoolFactory to share a common superclass. > To see what I mean, look at the patch in this ticket. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Ellen DeGeneres Launches New Sitcom 'One Big Happy'
Ellen dished on her upcoming sitcom 'One Big Happy', an unofficial revival of her '90s sitcom 'Ellen', at the TCA winter press tour on Jan. 16, calling it 'a very funny show'. We can't wait!
As we await Ellen DeGeneres's upcoming NBC sitcom One Big Happy, the funny lady teased everything we an expect to see come its March 17 premiere! At NBC's Television Critics Association winter press tour, Ellen, the executive producer of the show, dished on the show's leading lady and her stance on lesbian leads.
'One Big Happy:' Ellen DeGeneres' Talks New Sitcom At TCA Winter Press Tour
One Big Happy is loosely based off the life of writer and comedian Liz Feldman, whose credits include 2 Broke Girls and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Elisha Cuthbert plays Liz, a single lesbian who gets pregnant by her straight male best friend, (Nick Zano), just as he meets the love of his life, according to our sister site, TV Line.
Liz cites the project to be where Ellen's character left off in her '90s sitcom Ellen, about a neurotic bookstore owner. The groundbreaking episode where she publicly came out,"The Puppy Episode", had advertisers pull out of her funny project, though it paved the way for other sitcoms featuring strong LGBT leads like Modern Family and Glee.
"This show wouldn't be possible if Ellen hadn't come out in 1997," Liz said. "We're trying to pick up where [ABC comedy Ellen] left off — except it's 18 years later and the world is ready for it on a new level."
Ellen added, "It's a very funny show — it just happens to have a lesbian character on it. What's going to be great about this show is [the characters are] people you'll love and watch, and you won't think twice about any of it being 'weird."
Ironically, during the panel, news broke out that the Supreme Court will decide whether same sex marriage will be allowed in all 50 states. Well, Ellen is surely on top of the world now, and we can't wait to watch her new sitcom!
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What to CookPassover
From the First Family of Matzo, 3 Recipes for Passover & Well Beyond
Michele "Mikie" Streit Heilburn, whose family owns Streit's Matzos, has said it once, and she'll say it again: "As a really little kid, I wished I was an Entenmann—boxes of doughnuts and coffee cakes to come home to!"
A "matzo princess" according to the New York Times, she didn't always understand "the level of meaning [her] family had to Jewish culture"—which, if you've ever attended or hosted a Passover seder in the US, you'll know is great.
This year, however, Streit Heilburn is out with a cookbook, co-authored with David Kirschner, that revolves around the family business she once took for granted. Matzo: 35 Recipes for Passover and All Year Long promises to nudge matzo into this century and assist the "bread of affliction" in shrugging off its awful reputation. (For what it's worth, we've promised that shellacking matzo with butter, sugar, and chocolate can do the same—but a meal for eight days it does not make.)
But why publish this book now? What made this year different than the rest? "It really all came down to the factory," Streit Heilburn told me, speaking about the shuttering of the original Lower East Side facility and its relocation to New Jersey. "My parents both passed away, and the factory was the last place I could see myself as a child. And I loved it."
And besides, "it wasn't like our family owned a horseradish company, where there's only so much you can do." Matzo "has such potential, so many possibilities, and I felt like my cousins and I really needed to keep reaching out and trying to recreate ourselves." The reality of the situation, as Streit Heilburn understands it, is that consumer base for kosher food is only so big—if a company does not market itself to younger generations of Jews, their customers are going to die off.
What it means to be Jewish is changing, and with it, so must matzo, Streit Heilburn explained. "It's much more part of our mainstream culture to be Jewish, so why can't matzo be? We're all grappling to hold onto the past but also make it modern."
Streit Heilburn herself grew up with traditional Passover recipes and to this day, she salvages the last remaining box of matzo post-holiday and eats it simply, with Temp Tee cream cheese and strawberry jelly. So to create innovative, sea-parting recipes, she enlisted the help of chef David Kirschner, who showed her how to approach matzo as a blank slate for creativity.
To make matzo pieces as crisp as tortilla chips, so that they won't bloat or sink in the salsa verde for his Matzo Chilaquiles, or under the weight of grated cheese in his Matzo Nachos, Kirschner briefly deep-fries them. He makes matzo croutons for panzanella by brushing the sheets with olive oil and toasting them in the oven. He treats matzo meal as dredging for crunchy fried chicken. He makes tortillas out of matzo meal, warm water, and olive oil—the perfect vehicle for leftover brisket. In other words, he makes matzo magic.
The matzo spanakopita, in particular, is so many worlds apart from the sad, soggy spinach and cheese casseroles I've cooked for myself in years past that I might just have to make it this week—and then again for my seder.
Find more recipes from the book (out now!) here:
Matzo Chilaquiles
For the salsa verde:
- 2 pounds tomatillos, husked and diced
- 2 white onions, diced
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 jalapeño pepper, halved lengthwise (remove seeds if less heat is desired)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
For the chilaquiles:
- Neutral oil, for frying
- 5 sheets matzo, broken into 2-inch pieces
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- 1 1/2 cups crumbled feta or queso fresco
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 8 eggs (optional)
- Sour cream (optional)
Matzo Spanakopita
For the sauce:
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons potato starch
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
For the spanakopita:
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1 cup sliced shallots
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 1 pound fresh spinach or one 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (from 1 lemon)
- 4 sheets matzo
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (from 1 lemon)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup matzo meal
- 1/3 cup rasins
- 1/3 cup pine nuts, toasted
- Neutral oil, for frying
- Honey, for serving (optional)
What are your favorite classic—and not so classic—matzo recipes? Tell us in the comments below.


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Pirate ships converge on US hostage at sea
Apr 10, 7:26 AM (ET)
By KATHARINE HOURELD and MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Escalating a dramatic Indian Ocean standoff, more U.S. warships - as well as pirate reinforcements with an international gallery of hostages - rushed Friday toward the spot where four Somali bandits are holding a U.S. sea captain aboard a drifting lifeboat.
The pirates apparently fear being shot or arrested if they hand over Capt. Richard Phillips - captured in a failed effort to seize the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday - and hope to link up with their colleagues who are using Russian, German, Filipino and other hostages captured in recent days as human shields.
U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus said U.S. warships also are headed to the area, more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) off Somalia's Indian Ocean coast.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Obama -- pirates aren't criminals, they are terrorists. Call off the FBI and send in Navy SEALS!
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The 5-Series sedans and wagons aren't the most practical or the best values in their class, but they're very enjoyable to drive.
The automotive experts at TheCarConnection.com perused what top critics said regarding the 2008 5-Series. Then, in order to provide you the best information to use when considering the BAM 5-Series, TheCarConnection.com's editors included their own review of the sport sedans.
The 5-Series is BMW's family of mid-size sport sedans and wagons; the 2008 BMW 5-Series gets a slightly updated look this year, with rear LED lights, a new headlight design, a new steering wheel, and revised door panels. A head-up display is newly available, and the iDrive system now has eight programmable "favorite" buttons. All engines are now fitted with the second generation of BMW's direct fuel injection for improved fuel economy.
Most notably, the 2008 BMW 5-Series now gets the stellar 300-hp, 3.0-liter twin-turbo 6-cylinder that's been offered already on the 3-Series. But in keeping with BMW's no-longer-intuitive naming practice, it's called the 535i. A 230-hp, 3.0-liter six is the base engine in the 528i. A 360-hp, 4.8-liter V-8 model is badged 550i. Either is paired with a 6-speed automatic or manual gearbox. With the available Sport Package, 535i and 550i models come with paddle shifters. All-wheel drive is also offered on six-cylinder models in the 5-Series line, called the 528xi and 535xi, respectively.
Besides the sedan, there's a single 535 xiT Sports Wagon. It brings added utility with the same feature-laden performance as the sedan. It's reviewed separately. Fold-down rear seats are optional on the sedan.
Whether you go for the base 528i or the top 550i, the 2008 BMW 5-Series models have beautiful balance between handling and ride quality. They're absorbent but firm, and impressively refined. Each of the engines is smooth and quite responsive, but there's a wide difference between them; the 528 delivers satisfying performance, especially with the manual gearbox, while the 550 feels like a sophisticated musclecar, with a more aggressive V-8 sound and plenty of torque. Both engines deliver impressive fuel economy in real-world driving.
BMW fits the 5-Series with excellent front seats, built with lots of side support across the bottom cushions and seatbacks. The back seats also are quite comfortable, but the 5-Series has less space than many cars this size. The priciest 20-way power front seats have adjustable lateral and lumbar support and an articulated backrest.
The 2008 BMW 5-Series models come well equipped. The astonishing tech on the options list sets the lineup apart from rivals. Variable-ratio steering, adaptive headlights, a head-up display, automatic high beam headlights, and a head-up display are just a few features that add effectively to the 5-Series' safety.
They're needed, because the car performs poorly in crash tests. The IIHS says it's only "marginal" at side-impact protection, while the NHTSA gave it just three stars out of five for driver protection.


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Cherub Choir Program
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The Cherub Choir provides enjoyable activities for children ages three through seven years of age, including:
- Using their voices as instruments with or without accompaniment
- Learning the exploration of a variety of instruments and art media
- Broaden Bible knowledge and social interactions
- Teach appreciation of different cultures
- Show movement as sign language, exercise and /or other art form
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Do I need to be a member of Pilgrim Lutheran Church for my child to participate?
No, we have children from the entire community that participate in the Choir.
Does my child have to audition?
Auditions are not required.
Does the Cherub Choir perform.
Yes, the cherub choir sings for select Sunday Church Services at 11 AM, the Christmas Pageant, Christmas Concert and sometimes makes special appearances in the Junior Choir Musical.
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There is no cost to join but we do appreciate donations to help fund the costs of the program.
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Moral Relativism Heart of Darkness Context Should Marlow have chosen Kurtz? Questions "White Man's Burden" Joseph Conrad Frame Narrative Right and Wrong Moral Relativism: Western Culture vs. African Culture
Kurtz vs. the Company Imperialism "...unless they swallowed the wire itself, or made
loops of it to snare the fish with, I don't see what
good their extravagant salary could be to them" (P50) "It seems he could not make
bricks without something, I don't know what – straw maybe" (P29) "[Marlow] avoided a vast, artificial hole somebody had been
digging on the slope, the purpose of which [Marlow] found it
impossible to divine... It might have been connected with the
philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do" (P19) "The cliff was not in the way of anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on" (P18) "A nigger was being beaten nearby. They said
he had caused the fire in some way; be that as
it may, he was screeching most horribly" (P28) Kurtz Eldorado
Expedition Fresleven Western Culture African Culture inferior
savage "...in the great demoralisation of the land he kept up his appearance" (P21) Social Darwinism "[Marlow] would just as soon expect restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield" (P51) Europeans "perhaps on some quite night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild – and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country" (P23) "...just the thought of their humanity – like yours – the thought of your remote kinship" (P44) Pilgrims Corruption Savagery Inefficiency Intrusion Kurtz Evil? Cruelty Efficient The Company Kurtz Inefficient "The cliff was not in the way of anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on" (P18) "Sends in as much ivory as the
others put together..." (P22) Fresleven Godlike Rebels'
Heads Attack on
Steamer His
Intended Pretence/Ignorance Honesty/Sane "whited
sepulchre" "The flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly" "'Do you know what you are doing?' [Marlow] whispered. 'Perfectly,' [Kurtz] answered, raising his voice for that single word" (P81) Were any Imperialist ideas correct? Can you justify Kurtz's actions? Who do you think were more civil - the Europeans or the natives? What is the heart of darkness?
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Q. "I tried to remove my old shower arm but it broke off inside the fitting in the wall. What do I do now?"
A. Fortunately, a tool has been made to help you in this situation. An Internal Nipple Wrench can be used that inserts inside the broken, thin walled, shower arm and when tightened allows the user to unthread the broken piece out of the fitting in the wall. Normal pipe nipple or screw extractors will not work because they are not designed to expand inside the nipple and tighten evenly like the Internal Nipple Wrench will.
Q. "Why are shower arms usually made thinner than normal brass or galvanized pipe nipples?"
A. The manufacturers of shower arms have to meet certain pressure requirements, but water pressure is only present when the shower is turned on. Water normally flows through the shower arm and out through the shower head, not putting any real constant pressure inside the shower arm. Shower head shut-off valves are designed to drip some water through them so the hot and cold water will not mix at the shower valve itself, again relieving any real pressure build-up in the shower arm. So manufacturers can meet minimal pressure requirements and save money by using less material.
Q. "How do I install a new shower arm?"
A. Determine which side of the shower arm will be threaded into the wall. Use PTFE thread sealing tape and wrap it around the threads clockwise as you are holding the shower arm in your left hand and the PTFE thread sealing tape in your right hand. Wrap the PTFE tape completely around the threads 3 or 4 times, and if your piping in the wall is galvanized then you can wrap it 5 or 6 times. (This is based on using PTFE tape thickness of 3.5 mill with density of 0.4 and the fact the shower arm is brass which is a softer metal than galvanized pipe which may not seal properly without the extra PTFE tape applied.) Make sure you wrap the PTFE tape clockwise or it will unthread off the shower arm as it is threaded into the fitting in the wall. Put the escutcheon (trim ring) on the shower arm and hand tighten the shower arm into the fitting. Be very careful to start the threads so they won't get cross-threaded. Hand tighten two or three revolutions. Using a wrench tighten the shower arm two or three more turns. The shower arm should not be tightened more than a total of six revolutions. A professional grade strap wrench or rubber strap wrench will be best to use so you don't scratch the shower arm. Sometimes you can tighten the shower arm without the use of a wrench if you can get the right amount of leverage. As the shower arm tightens up after the fourth revolution you should begin to line it up so the outlet is centered in the down position. If you feel it is too loose after the fourth revolution, and the shower arm is still turning fairly easy then continue to tighten the arm the fifth revolution and line up the arm so the outlet is centered in the down position.
Q. "Should I seal around my shower arm trim ring to prevent water from getting behind it and possibly entering into my wall?"
A. If the trim ring (escutcheon) fits snug onto your shower arm and stays in place close to the wall then you usually do not need to seal around it. Most shower heads fall below the shower arm where it exits the wall and thus maybe only an occasional water splash may come in contact with the escutcheon, and in those instances it will protect the wall opening from water. If you are using an extension type shower arm and the head is above the escutcheon then you may need to seal around the trim ring to protect the possibility of a spray of water deluging the escutcheon area. If you do wish to seal around the escutcheon then only seal the the top two-thirds of the escutcheon and leave the bottom one-third open. In this way if some water does get behind the wall escutcheon it has a way to get out.
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Friday, 31 July 2015
Karate Kid, Friday Oldie!
Thank you so much for the kind and encouraging comments on my last card, I do appreciate your time in visiting my blog.
Poor start to the morning, Teallach, brought in another bird and this time it was still alive and trying to get away, again Alistair had to come to the rescue and eventually managed to get the wee thing out, I had to take myself upstairs whilst this was going on. Thankfully, hubby hoovered up the feathers of which there was quite a few. Teallach must have been very quick, as he had just gone out the door, well the whole thing fairly put me off my boiled egg which I had just managed to cook perfectly, a rare occurrence.
My little card is for Friday Oldie, and this was one I made for Kerr about four years ago, it isn't karate he does, but some other martial art sport, but he loved the card, he still goes to it and now is a brown belt.
It's a LOTV image and coloured with Promarkers.
Friday Oldie began with Erika of Snappy Crafts showing handmade projects from an earlier time. Quite a few of us have now joined her and it's just a bit of fun looking back at what we've made when starting out in our crafting career. For me it's as much about what little I had when I started and how basic my designs were, This card is very basic.
Anyway, why not join in the fun and share an early project, we would love to see them.
Have a good day and see you soon,
16 comments:
- cotnob said...
A fabulous oldie share Kate, I love this image - I have used it often for my boys as they all participate in martial arts.
- 31 July 2015 at 08:39
- Patricia said...
Good morning Kete,
Oooo!! that naughty pussy cat!!!
Great card, I remember it, good then and still good for today.
Have a good day
Patricia xxx
- 31 July 2015 at 08:46
- meg said...
Great image Kate, my son participated in this sport too. Love the finished card.
- 31 July 2015 at 09:06
- Erika said...
A great card Kate, I love that little karate kid, just perfect for a martial arts enthusiast.
We had a couple of birds fly into our windows yesterday, what a clatter and feathers everywhere outside of course. I'm glad I didn't have to tidy it up.
As for ironing my hubby does iron and I have shown my eldest boy, both only do it if they absolutely have to. Although my hubby did complain once about his uniform so I make him do that himself now!! I hate doing work shirts. Method in my madness!
Have a super weekend and thanks for joining me in sharing an oldie today.
Hugs Erika. x
- 31 July 2015 at 09:30
- aussie aNNie said...
Gorgeous oldie Kate, love this cute image too...have a good weekend.xx
{aNNie My Personal Blog}
- 31 July 2015 at 09:54
- Jenny L said...
Hi Kate,
oooooooo! I think I remember this Oldie.
I thought it was fab when you posted it, at the time because my grandson was going to Karate, but sadly he didn't like it much so gave it up.
Now my granddaughter who is now 28, and a mother of 3 children was very much into this sport, and gained a black belt in it.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
- 31 July 2015 at 10:48
- PharmacyMichele said...
Great card for a young boy.
- 31 July 2015 at 19:58
- Carol said...
A fabulous oldie Kate, so cute. Birds...one of the reasons I don't do cats lol. Carol x
- 31 July 2015 at 20:07
- Rainey's Craft Room said...
I love those images, very sweet and a lovely 'oldie' share for today.
- 31 July 2015 at 20:52
- pam said...
Great oldie Kate, I remember this being posted..
Think I would go upstairs too, if we had a cat and it fetched a bird in..
Hugs Pam x
- 31 July 2015 at 21:35
- rachel said...
a beautiful oldie Kate - aw - naughty Teallach - my cat is getting a bit on the old side but does still catch things - funnily enough she had a baby mouse yesterday - and then today we found a baby mouse wandering around the garden - looking very out of sorts - unfortunately I found him later on without any signs of life but seemingly unmolested - I do wonder if it was the one I saw Missy playing with yesterday.... sad. Anyway - I'm rambling! Big hugs rachel xx
- 31 July 2015 at 22:57
- SARN said...
CUTE! xxx
- 1 August 2015 at 17:10
- Maarit at Violets Corner said...
Gorgeous oldie, Kate. Have a wonderful weekend, sweetie, without birds!
Love and hugs
- 1 August 2015 at 17:41
- Asha said...
Poor birdie! Our Richard hasn't shown any interest in birds...yet. Cute little card...love that image, Kate.
xxx Asha
- 2 August 2015 at 19:43
- Sandy said...
So very cute - I really love LOTV!
Sandy xx
- 2 August 2015 at 20:58
- Sue said...
Such a cute card. Since we have a second generation of little boys in our family now, I have collected quite a few sports related stamps myself. This one is really nice and your card is too. These kinds of stamps never go out of style.
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The description of data and information is a perspective based process. Anybody who has read a book on information theory could tell you that you have information that comes from data that is made up of bits. And bits are the smallest functional unit of information. We usually use this as from the perspective of an outsider looking in it works and has been instantiated as a principle for a long time (since 1954?). If we have data that begets information we can have data that describes other data too. As an example 15 gigabytes is a measurement of bits that make bytes and we measure the amount of those. We are not describing the meaning of those bits and bytes just a metric of description.
In the computer forensics world we deal a lot with metadata. Tools like Splunk and Timestomp either mine metadata or erase it. We have a tendency to talk about metadata as if it isn't important but it likely is the MOST important part of an investigation. It leaks context and content like crazy. As an example if I know two entities are communicating and one is a known felon I will reasonably assert through association the second entity is also a felon. This of course is fallacious. Even felons have brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. If the bad guy does something exceptionally heinous like saying nasty things about the FBI director they might swoop down and grab all known associates.
In legal investigations the information of a phone call might be obscured by contextual or technological means that make it meaningless. Pulling context out of a communication is an extremely difficult process. You would think reading what I'm saying is simple and listening to a phone call would be just as simple. That is less than fully true. Context, content, and such are harder to gather when the evidence of malfeasance is ambiguous. What is not hard to do is aggregate metadata into a significant product.
On Twitter I mentioned a term that I ran across awhile back at a conference on big data in the intelligence field. The term was protodata. I'm not talking about the sourceforge project by the same name or the library itself. The concept is fairly simple if a bit circular. I have never seen this concept in scholarly writing but it is really self-evident once you grasp it. We usually think of data from the stand point of information components that we describe and then record. We take interesting chunks and gather that information. Metadata is the data surrounding that gathered information. How do you describe the data you are going to describe before you have described it? How do you talk about things to gather without knowing you are going to gather it? This idea was discussed in the context of, "It would have been great to measure this element but we didn't think about until after we were done." This is the same stumbling block among so many that intelligence programs like Total Information Awareness fall down.
Taking the concept a bit further. Protodata is data before there is data. In the conference discussion I alluded to earlier we talked about how commerce is interested in that idea quite a bit. How do you predict what you will need to gather when you don't know if a product will be successful? When the product is beans and potatoes you have a great concept up front of the logistics and supply chain data. When the product is digital media and content services the data and supply chain information is significantly more dynamic.
Inherently we deal with protodata by prediction and the closer to execution the better the prediction will become. Some will say this is a silly concept and laugh it off, or worse mock the entire idea. They did much the same when we talked about data warehousing in the mid 1990s and later data mining in the late 1990s early 2000s. Now we have big data and a growing suite of tools. This isn't a concept we'll see have any kind of traction now but if you're leaning forward a bit you can start to get a glimmer of what it means. Jokes about minority report and predictive analytics aside you will see that intelligence and corporate communities would be very interested in chasing this idea. Fundamentally we're talking about breaking the barrier of past performance does not predict future results.
I don't want people to think I came up with this as some kind of fog from sea concept. Way back in the day long before things like TimeStomp existed my wife wrote a metadata editor. That is her story to tell, but when she asked her boss what kind of metadata editor she should write he said, "a good one." The idea of editing metadata is an interesting one. If you are going to edit metadata you need to know what metadata you are going to edit. That is a discovery process. What if you don't have the data currently in your possession but know you will want to edit it in the future? Now we're talking about preparing a tool for protodata.
I admit to being fuzzy on the concept but after discussing it on Twitter with a few people this little trip down geek trivia needed a response that is longer than 140 character chunks. With the recent focus of the news on metadata that means even more discussion about metadata might be important.
My example I like to use for metadata is the content of a tweet. At a 140 characters there is not a lot of content or context in a tweet that most people see. Lots of people get really upset over the idea of government reading their tweet, but the real data is behind a tweet. The date the tweet was created, the screen names, the authors user name, the biography of the author at the time of the tweet, the creation date of the account, the number of favorites the user has, the following, and followed numbers, timezone set, selected language and much more. All of this is context rich for analysis of a single tweet. All of that is metadata for a tweet. We have to realize each element on it's own is actually data and would be information found in the field of a database.
We find that in discussing metadata there are a variety of types (structural, context, typing, etc. ) and that throwing the word around is near meaningless without providing data about how we're going to use meatadata. Yes that would be metametadata. I just had to finish with that little bit of silliness. If you're interested in more look me up on twitter and let me know.


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Personalized gifts are a unique way of ensuring that the different occasions that are presented are left memorable. Seeing your name on an item that that is presented to you will, of course, make you very happy. Sometimes getting personalized gifts can be difficult before you know where and how to start getting one. There are various events that call for the presentation of personalized gifts to make the event unique and with a sense of style. Similarly, you can get personalized college care packages for your children to make them feel special. Below are some of the events that you can present a personalized gift.
Baby shower events
Babies are very cherished in everybody's life. When one is expecting a child, this is the moment one will cherish the gifts for the baby that she receives. The excitement is real that the individual has a lot of anxiety. In scenarios, the expectant mother will be very happy to see the name of her baby on a baby item when the baby comes. The gifts that can be personalized include baby shoes, bibs, and even t-shirts. This will not cost you a lot.
When going for a trip
It is significantly overwhelming when you get personalized gifts for your family when you are going for a trip. In cases where you might be visiting the beach for swimming then you can get your daughters branded bikinis with their names. This will make them remember the trip and always cherish the good times they had during the journey. You can also decide to get even t-shirts that are personalized for each member of the family.
Wedding shower function
If you attend a wedding and receive a gift that is engraved the couples names or photos then am sure that is a gift you will not want to lose. Most weddings of the time have embraced presentation of customized gifts to ensure the event is remarkable. You can also decide to present the couple with a branded item like pillows and pillowcases. These items will be highly cherished because of branding.
During graduation ceremonies
Graduation is very essential because it marks a particular transition from one stage to another. It can be from high school or college. It is important to keep such days memorable for the rest of your life. Presenting a personalized gift to someone who has graduated will help in making the day memorable because the gift will be cherished and kept well.


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This project was done using pumpkin and tree templates I found on Google. The children used the foam shapes to create Jack O'Lanterns. The feathers were used to make fall leaves on the trees. Glue sticks were used to attach the materials to the templates. We read a Fall book as well. I plan to use feathers as turkey feathers as well, but it was too early in year for this submission.
October preschool supplies courtesy of MomTrusted.com, SavvyCyberKids.org, and KodoKids.com.


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