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These devices are precision timing circuits capable of producing accurate time delays or oscillation. In the timedelay or monostable mode of operation, the timed interval is controlled by a single external resistor and capacitor network. In the astable mode of operation, the frequency and duty cycle can be controlled independently with two external resistors and a single external capacitor.
The 555 timer chip is extremely robust and stable 8-pin device that can be operated either as a very accurate Monostable, Bistable or Astable Multivibrator to produce a variety of applications such as one-shot or delay timers, pulse generation, LED and lamp flashers, alarms and tone generation, logic clocks, frequency division, power supplies and converters etc, in fact any circuit that requires some form of time control as the list is endless.
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"DeltaScan is finally a technology that benefits everyone"
– Prof. dr. B. de Mol, head Cardiothoracic Surgery AMC Heart center.
I am a patient
During my stay in hospital, I was well cared for, physically and mentally. The nurses used DeltaScan to check me 3 times per day for delirium. While lying in bed or sitting in my chair, they applied a Patch on my head. It looked like a self-adhesive strip, that reached from my crown to my forehead. I did not feel it at all. All I had to do is lie or sit still with my eyes closed for about a minute, while my brain was scanned. Without any pain or discomfort, the patch was removed after the scan. The nurses seemed to be content with the result, they read a number from the monitor. I recovered well.
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To help patients recover well, it is important to monitor their vital signs and to detect delirium as soon as it develops. To help nurses and doctors detect and monitor delirium in patients, the University Medical Center Utrecht and Prolira BV developed a practical device: DeltaScan. Delirium is acute failure of the brain. DeltaScan uses EEG (electroencephalography) technology to quickly scan the patient's brain activity for delirium features. Using DeltaScan is nearly as simple as taking a blood pressure. Nurses and doctors can apply DeltaScan for daily monitoring of the patients who are at risk of delirium, at their bedside.
Healthcare professionals can scan patients' brain activity for delirium symptoms, 3 times per day. A disposable DeltaScan Patch is applied to the patient's head. The Patch is connected to the DeltaScan Monitor via a cable. The DeltaScan Patch is self-adhesive and contains gel and electrodes for the EEG measurement. For the first measurement on a patient, it may be required to clip a little strip of hair (30 by 6 mm) on the crown (in case the patient has hair on the crown), so that the soft gel in the Patch touches the skin between the hair. A self-adhesive Hairlock provided by Prolira can be used to gently keep surrounding hair out of the way.
The nurse will instruct the patient to sit still on a chair or lie in bed with the eyes closed for a minute. The nurse presses a hand-held recording button as long as the patient complies. After successful completion of the scan, the Patch can be removed without any pain or even discomfort, and without leaving any residue. The result (delirium probability) is shown on the Monitor. Daily delirium monitoring is an important check for patient safety and recovery.
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When the Public Works Women's Leadership Council was formed in 2004, it was created to establish a network to provide mentorship and support, particularly to address women's issues. Since then, the Council has reinvented itself to strive for an overall commitment to change and leadership. The Council is comprised of employees who actively participate in working groups and committees to develop projects that encourage and empower not only women but all employees in all job classifications by providing an environment that supports their professional growth and leadership development.
Throughout the year, the Council sponsors events to provide leadership opportunities to our members by organizing lunchtime speakers series, outreach events, mentoring programs, and team building opportunities. Members organizing these events gain valuable leadership skills, and members and employees gain skills by attending these events. It's a win-win combination.
To create a broader sphere of influence, in 2010 the Women's Leadership Council launched the Public Works Women's Leadership Legacy Conference. Over 600 attendees from other County departments, outside agencies, and the general public participate in the Leadership Legacy Conference to learn from leaders in government, business, and community. This one-day conference funded entirely through corporate sponsorship has become a much anticipated County event. Our dynamic speakers share their own experiences on topics such as overcoming adversity, how to achieve goals, and what it takes to be a leader. Attendees also have the opportunity to network and participate in interactive workshops and break-out sessions to develop and encourage personal and professional growth.
Recognizing the strength of our County family, in 2015 Public Works collaborated with the Los Angeles County Departments of Fire, Animal Care and Control, Consumer Affairs, Community and Senior Services, Public Health, Child and Family Services, Treasurer and Tax Collector, Child Support Services, Public Library, Auditor-Controller, Human Resources, Parks and Recreation, Military and Veterans Affairs, Assessor, and Public Social Services to launch the Los Angeles County Women's Leadership Legacy Conference. This union of resources promises to expand the Conference and its impact.


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Jacob and Abi had their first day out in London. We decided to try a bus tour which included a boat trip. We had already planned to meet friends at Covent Garden for lunch so we thought we'd do a couple of hours on the bus, lunch and then boat trip. It generally went to plan but we needed at least 2 more hours. The kids got bored on the bus but the boat was very successful - apart from the fact that the toilet was broken! So we need to go again, spend more time on the river and definitely do the London Eye as that's all they went on about! The weather was glorious and I enjoyed seeing all the sites. Jacob was pleased he'd seen Pudding Lane as it brought back all his Fire of London stuff from school and funnily enough, when we got home, he dug out his Fire of London book and started reading it. We will go again but will plan more carefully next time. I've added a few shots from the day out.
We had to be back at Brampton to meet my cousin Albert and to go to families happy hour! Albert has made a last minute trip over from Canada so we met him at the station on the way back from our trip into London. He stayed for a couple of nights and it was nice to catch up with him. We also met up with Anne and co and Nicky at the pub on Saturday afternoon. Again another afternoon of catching up. A sociable weekend with lots of sun too.
Sunday we walked, due to no car, to the local car boot sale. We came back with a variety of 'bargains' including 2 light sabers - one for Jacob, the other for Allen. They make noises apparently, I can't wait! We did get an egg poacher and travel coffee pot along with a hair braider, a variety of top trumps and some really heavy saucepans. I'm sure we'll be visiting there again.
Off to Hastings this week on our caravan adventure, 3 of the family are excited. Will let everyone know how it goes.


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Active time: 30 minutes (you'll need to let the bread rise for at least an hour, though)
The inspiration for this was pretty straightforward: I saw a blonde lady on the Cooking Channel make something just like it! And it just so happened I had some dough that I was going to use for pizza, but a flatbread became a much better idea. After all, it's springtime! My grill was calling to me and the thought of lots of fresh greens over a creamy, springy spread sounded too good to resist.
But what's the difference, really, between a dressed up flatbread and a pizza? Not much, I suppose. I could easily call this a grilled pizza and not get too many sideways glances. But it probably comes down to this: I call something a flatbread when it's shaped all funny and the toppings are added after the dough is baked instead of before.
The end result is perfect for an evening around the picnic table, or fire escape, or wherever you may be (but definitely try to eat outdoors.) A beautiful charred bread, all aromatic and crispy outside, made especially so from a handful of cornmeal. The spread is nicely thick, creamy and garlicky, but still light and refreshing with bits of red pepper and scallion. It's a cinch to put together in the food processor! Sort of ends up like a vegetable cream cheese, so if you're in the market for something to put on your bagels, this may be your answer. And on top is a lightly dressed salad (totally casual – olive oil and lemon), making this meal perfectly seasonal, fun to eat and pretty as all hell to look at. I also threw on a few toasted walnuts because everything should have toasted walnuts.


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The Lust List: Smoking Slippers
February 12, 2014 by Cori Sue
What are you most self-conscious about? Oh, c'mon, we all have physical things—height, weight, nose, hair, freckles—that drive us crazy.
For me, it's my feet. They are disproportionately large in comparison to the rest of my body. I'm 5'4 with a petite build, while my feet are a whopping size nine. If I wear the wrong style of shoes, I'm bound to look like a small person standing on skis.
This is a sad state of affairs, as I absolutely live for shoes. I've found there are certain styles of shoes—peep toes, ballet flats, round-toe pumps—that are stylish and flattering to a large foot.
Others, like pointy toed heels, pointed flats, converse, and oxford brogues, make large feet look larger, especially on a small person. Uggs and running shoes—when not running—are totally out of the running as they're unflattering on large feet and also crimes against fashion
A few years ago, menswear-inspired fashion was all the rage, particularly in footwear. I picked up these amazing, cognac-colored Oxford brogues, which matched the toggles on my white winter coat. They were so cute and stylish with skinny pants or tights and a skirt. However, every time I put them on I was wrought with insecurity. Frankly, I felt I looked like a clown.
The brogues sit in my closet, in a very visible, prestigious spot right among some of my other favorite items. They've been worn all of three times. Pure fashion tragedy.
Today, I face a similar conundrum, as I've been lusting after a pair of chic, velvet smoking slippers, a very popular footwear trend nowadays.
I simply must have a pair of velvet smoking slippers from the original purveyor, Stubbs & Wootton, of Palm Beach. Some of my fashion idols—Olivia Palermo, the Man Repeller—rock them with all sorts of outfits, and I just can't get enough.
Personally, I'd love a velvet pair with martinis or crowns. Or, when I'm feeling cheeky I think I'll shop-click-buy a cheeky pair with hearts in honor of Valentine's Day. A Florida girl, I think Flamingos, palm trees or anchors would be cute in linen come summer.
Meanwhile, my fashionable friend Lauren, of Necessary & Proper, rocks the needlepoint leopard with a variety of ensembles.
Stubbs also has a capsule collection—for the second year in a row—with everyone's favorite preppy outfitter, J.Crew.
If you don't want to cough up four hundo for a pair of Stubbs—or you have big feet and can't bring yourself to do it—lots of designers from Dolce Vita to Tory Burch have created similar styles at varying price points.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Autism Speaks: World Autism Awarness Day Monday April 2, 2012
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. It did cross my mind to not join in today because I didn't want to be a follower. However the more I thought about it I knew I had to participate. As a Special Education Teacher I work with children with Autism almost everyday. In fact on my caseload I have had 3 students with Autism and I have been in charge of making sure that they are receiving the least restrictive education. So...to show my support for my amazing and wonderful students I am wearing blue!
First, 2 coats of Essence You Belong To Me.
For my accent nail I added 2 coats of OPI Last Friday Night. I love how this glitter looks on top of You Belong to Me.
Next, I added different stamps using Essence Let's Get Lost, BM 205 & 212 and RA109. I wanted to keep the look spring-y so my stamps reflect that.
Lastly, 2 coats of NYC.
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Yay for Autism Awareness! :) I also participated with dark blue nails and a puzzle piece accent nail. Did you stamp the designs on your nails?? I am still trying to get the hang of stamping. Awesome job! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I did stamp the design. It took me awhile to get the hang of stamping! Patience and practice are the key! :)Delete
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TIBCO Software (NASDAQ: TIBX) announced alliances with HCL Technologies and VMware to facilitate adoption and help enterprise customers realize the benefits of cloud computing with TIBCO Silver -- the industry's first platform designed from the ground up for the rapid delivery of cloud applications inside the enterprise.
HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT Services companies, will leverage TIBCO Silver to help its customers pursue and deploy their cloud strategy through outsourcing, consulting services, solutions labs and bundled services. Vikram Duvvoori, senior vice president and global head, enterprise transformation services, HCL Technologies stated, "At HCL, we believe that cloud computing could create an impact beyond IT and open up Blue Ocean opportunities for business transformation. We are long standing strategic partners with TIBCO and share a vision for transformation. We believe that TIBCO Silver is a step in the right direction, as it reduces barriers to adoption of process automation and application platforms."
VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, will work with TIBCO to enable customers who virtualize their IT environments to more easily deploy and manage application solutions and create new services so they are able to focus less on maintenance and more on innovation. "VMware vSphere(TM) 4 helps customers of all sizes dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses while providing a proven platform for running all their applications with increased flexibility and agility," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "Our new relationship with TIBCO complements the VMware vCloud Initiative to enable simplified infrastructure that will allow companies to more easily build and deploy applications for the cloud."
"We are extremely pleased to be working with HCL Technologies and VMware in helping them deliver next generation cloud computing solutions to their customers," said Jan Plutzer, senior vice president, field operations and alliances at TIBCO. By using TIBCO Silver we look forward to our joint customers developing new applications that are governable, scalable and rapidly deployable."
More Than 60 Companies Sponsored or Exhibited at Cloud Computing Expo New York April 2009
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More Than 100 Sponsors and Exhibitors Expected in Silicon Valley
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text: The District of Columbia Housing Authority outlined a strategic roadmap for fiscal year 2018 by submitting the agency's annual Moving to Work plan. DCHA is one of 39 public housing authorities selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to participate in the "Moving to Work" (MTW) demonstration program. As an MTW agency, DCHA has greater funding and regulatory flexibility to meet local needs. With this flexibility MTW agencies design and test innovative, locally designed strategies focused on achieving greater cost effectiveness, while helping customers become self-sufficient and increasing housing choices. Each year since 2003, when it first became an MTW agency, DCHA has prepared and submitted to HUD an annual plan that outlines the strategic goals of the agency for the upcoming fiscal year. To prepare the plan, DCHA staff spends a few months each spring holding meetings with stakeholders and residents to hear input on the plan. The process includes a 30-day public comment period and a public hearing. For the upcoming fiscal year, DCHA has proposed two initiatives that will offer new opportunities for DCHA customers. First, DCHA proposed an initiative that would establish a pilot program enabling voucher customers to move into market-rate rental units without needing a security deposit. Through the pilot program, DCHA would guarantee the landlord up to one month's rent to cover unit repairs beyond normal wear and tear once the customer moves out. "We always encourage our residents to seek housing in areas that best meet their family's needs—whether that is based on schools, job opportunities or other amenities important to their family thriving," said Housing Choice Voucher Program Director Ronald McCoy. "But renting in the private market is extremely expensive. Providing this guarantee in lieu of a security deposit is another step DCHA is taking in order to assist our customers in having more choices and opportunities for their families." The second initiative amends DCHA's public housing local market-based rent or flat rent policy. The intent is to allow more families to take advantage of the incentive than the agency's current approach and is a stark departure from the HUD required method. DCHA is already using its MTW flexibility to more accurately calculate the flat-rent schedule based on the customer's neighborhood instead of using HUD's metric which establishes a single flat rent by bedroom size regardless of where the public housing development is located. Based on DCHA analysis, rents vary from neighborhood to neighborhood and no two public housing developments and surrounding communities are alike. Currently, DCHA public housing customers either pay a flat rent or 30 percent of their income, whichever is lower. DCHA's local market-based rent policy separates rent from income so qualifying families can focus on increasing household income without worrying about their rent increasing. Families have an incentive to increase their earnings by keeping monthly rent payments predictable. The fiscal 2018 MTW Plan proposal adjusts DCHA's existing formula for setting the local market-based rate rent schedule to make market-based rents a viable option for more families. The annual MTW plan also explains how DCHA proposes to use it capital funds, grants, and other funds to support its mission to create and preserve affordable housing in the District during the upcoming fiscal year. During the annual plan process, DCHA reviews all of the initiatives it has permission to implement and decides if it is time to close or "retire" an initiative. For example, DCHA has received HUD approval for 40 initiatives since 2003 and is currently using and implementing more than half of them. This year, DCHA proposed one new initiative and re-proposed an initiative with slightly updated information. Since MTW is designed to test bold new ideas, not all initiatives might work as intended. Or, if something works well, HUD might change a policy and give all agencies permission to do it. This has happened with some of the initiatives DCHA implemented using its MTW authority such as biennial recertifications; triennial recertifications for persons on fixed income; and biennial HQS inspections. A draft copy of the FY2018 MTW Plan is available here and copies of plans from past years are available on the HUD website here.


text: Guess Who's Joining the Biggest Loser? ...Anna Kournikova, X17online reports By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted May 23, 2011 1:23 PM CDT 3 comments Anna Kournikova looks on during her match at the 2010 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2010 in New York City. (Getty Images) View 1 more image (Newser) – Tennis star and undeniable hottie Anna Kournikova will replace Jillian Michaels next season on the Biggest Loser, X17online reports. Kournikova, whom PopEater notes has been dating singer Enrique Iglesias for nearly 10 years, recently put her Miami mansion on the market for $9.4 million—perhaps because she's preparing a move to Los Angeles for the show. She'll join new trainers Cara Castronuova and Brett Hoebel, who made their Biggest Loser debut this season; click for more on them. Or, if you'd rather, more on Kournikova's house. (Read more Anna Kournikova stories.) View 1 more image My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results | 62% Annoying 6% Hilarious 15% Intriguing 3% Depressing 13% Brilliant 2% Scary


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Sometimes it felt as though this day would never come, but my new book The Laws of Wealth, is finally out. You can buy it here and I hope that you'll leave a review once you have completed the book. It's my belief that this book will provide investors and financial professionals with all of the tools they need to manage their behavior and their wealth. It's an audacious goal but one that I think is realized in a book of which I am very proud.
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"From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Dr Daniel Crosby, comes the behavioral finance book all investors have been waiting for.
In The Laws of Wealth, psychologist and behavioral finance expert Daniel Crosby offers an accessible and applied take on a discipline that has long tended toward theory at the expense of the practical. Readers are treated to real, actionable guidance as the promise of behavioral finance is realised and practical applications for everyday investors are delivered.
Crosby presents a framework of timeless principles for managing your behavior and your investing process. He begins by outlining ten rules that are the hallmarks of good investor behavior, including 'Forecasting is for Weathermen' and 'If You're Excited, It's Probably a Bad Idea'. He then goes on to introduce a unique new taxonomy of behavioral investment risk that will enable investors and academics alike to understand behavioral risk in a newly coherent and complete way.
From here, attention turns to the four ways in which behavioral risk can be combatted and the five equity selection methods investors should harness to take advantage of behaviorally-induced opportunities in the stock market. Throughout, readers are treated to anecdotes, research and graphics that illustrate the lessons in memorable ways. And in highly valuable 'What now?' summaries at the end of each chapter, Crosby provides clear, concise direction on what investors should think, ask and do to benefit from the behavioral research.
Dr. Crosby's training as a clinical psychologist and work as an asset manager provide a unique vantage and result in a book that breaks new ground in behavioral finance."


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Boilin' The Hides While Cruizin' For Life and Fightin' Cancer
To help support the Marian Cancer Center while benefiting the American Cancer Society, this weekend the Lucas Oil Special team towed its AA/Funny Car down the coast from Atascadero, California to downtown Santa Maria and entered the "Cruizin' For Life" fund raiser, an annual charity event featuring a car show and burnout exhibition. Moreover, driver Mendy "Nitro Kitty" Fry was graced with the honor of serving as the event's Grand Marshall.
The exhibition and car show generated a lot of local buzz and netted a respectable amount of cash for the cause. Fry's curtain closing burnout brought down the house, however. Scenes from that spectacle were captured on video and posted online by an eager, nitro-addled drag race fan (see below). Suffice it to say, applying race car time-warming procedures to city streets is somewhat of a challenge and requires a little finesse. As the video shows, Mendy and the team put on a professional display and absolutely wowed 'em with smoke, noise and nitro.
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Mendy, one day they will give the Nobel prize to somebody deserving like you! Good job on that. I hope to see you at Bakersfield in a couple weeks.


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text: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks turned decisively lower after an index of consumer confidence fell sharply in February. After touching a 16-month high, the Conference Board reported its index fell 11 points to 46 from an upwardly revised 56.5 in January. Last month's fall was sharper than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.04% fell 48.21 points to 10,335.17. The S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.20% declined 7.18 points to 1,100.83. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.13% was off 16.78 points to 2,225.23.


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A new study provides extensive evidence of Alzheimer's disease pathology in the brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives.
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"Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans," said senior author Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State. "Brain samples from great apes, particularly aged individuals, are incredibly scarce, so a study of this size is rare."Read more about this interesting research in Scientific America
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Back when I was a kid, there was this kit for a weight-driven clock. I specifically remember that the instructions specified a certain penny-weight of nails for the weights. So my dad and I trekked to the hardware store just to buy those nails. And then I had to count them and stuff them into the plastic casing for the weight. Good times. I think this was the late 70's. Surely the Intarwebz has a picture of everything, but I couldn't find a picture of this thing in several minutes of searching. If anyone finds a picture, please comment and I'll add it to the post.
Anyway, a recent post on BoingBoing reminded me of that. Clayton Boyer Clock Designs designs and sells plans for all sorts of wooden mechanical clocks and orreries. The plans are full-size on paper, which means you can stick them to the wood and cut out the pieces. You can use a CNC, a laser cutter, a jigsaw, a scrollsaw, a router, whatever works. But it's not for everyone: apparently the process is very fiddly to get right, and you have to spend a lot of time making sure the parts are true, and debugging the clock afterwards. Still, it would make a great gift for a high-skilled tinkerer.
(Update Feb 21, 2010) This plastic medieval clock kit from Japan is close, and may have evolved over three decades of being passed from company to company. I do sort of remember the pendulum thing on the top.
This kit is the closest to what I remember, but it's a set of instructions for a wooden kit. The conformation is extremely close to what I remember.
The kit (in plastic) was probably a close copy of this clock from Germany. I also remember it never quite worked right :roll:


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End of an era: America says goodbye to Edward Kennedy
ARLINGTON, Va. — America Saturday celebrated the passion and legacy of the late Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy as President Barack Obama — whom Kennedy helped propel into the nation's highest office — pledged at a funeral mass: "We carry on."
The Senate's liberal icon, scion of a political family whose style and views influenced policy-makers for half a century, died Tuesday night at age 77 after a 15-month battle with brain cancer.
He was buried Saturday just after sundown at Arlington National Cemetery near his slain brothers John and Robert. "They called him the lion of the Senate, and indeed that is what he was," said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington. "You always knew, and you were always touched, by his passion for the underdog ..."
McCarrick read from a letter Kennedy wrote to Pope Benedict XVI just before his death, a letter President Barack Obama personally delivered last month. Kennedy asked the pope to pray for him. "I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith, I have tried to right my path," Kennedy wrote.
The brief graveside service ended a day that began with a morning funeral mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston that combined a remembrance of his storied life with a vow to keep the spirit alive.
As a panorama of American political figures looked on — including three former presidents and their wives, dozens of U.S. senators past and present and three generations of Kennedys — Obama and family members recalled Kennedy's ability to overcome daunting obstacles and eagerly and good-naturedly champion the causes he cherished.
"We can still hear his voice bellowing through the Senate chamber, face reddened, fist pounding the podium, a veritable force of nature, in support of health care or workers rights or civil rights," said Obama.
Kennedy's endorsement of Obama early in the 2008 primary season was an important boost to his candidacy, and nowhere has Kennedy's bid for a legacy been more evident than Obama's struggle this year to overhaul the nation's health care system.
No one was talking hardball politics Saturday, but there was an undertone to the eulogies by family members — to pass the health care legislation. Exactly one year before he died, Kennedy told the 2008 Democratic convention that health care was "the cause of my life," and it has become the cause of the first year of Obama's presidency.
Obama and family members suggested that Ted Kennedy would have striven to avoid public displays of rancor as the health care fight got uglier.
"While his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did," said Obama. "While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that is not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw him."
He recalled Kennedy as "a product of an age when the joy and nobility of politics prevented differences of party and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect, a time when adversaries still saw each other as patriots."
The day also had the end-of-an-era feel, a time to remember the last and youngest of the Kennedy brothers, who lived under the harshest of public spotlights. Obama recalled how Kennedy survived personal tragedy — the loss of two brothers to assassin's bullets in the 1960s, the 1964 plane crash that badly injured him, two children diagnosed with cancer.
"It was a string of events that would have broken a lesser man," the president said. No one mentioned the Senator's 1969 auto accident at Chappaquiddick, in which a woman drowned and Kennedy delayed informing police.
The senator's oldest son, Ted Jr., remembered his father's frailties and his strengths.
"Although it hasn't been easy at times to live with this name, I've never been more proud of it than I am today," he said.
The senator "loved everything French — cheese, wine and women," the son chuckled. "He was not perfect, far from it. But my father believed in redemption."
But Ted Jr., 47, also reminded everyone that his father knew how to be a father. After losing a leg to bone cancer at age 12, he struggled to climb a snowy hill so he could go sledding.
"I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together, even if it takes us all day," Ted Jr. remembered his father saying. "Sure enough, he held me around my waist and we slowly made it to the top."
Choking up, he remembered how on that day, "I knew I was going to be okay. My father taught me even our most profound losses are survivable."
After the service, the funeral party flew to Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland and drove to Washington. It halted in front of the U.S. Capitol, where an estimated 2,000 people waited for hours on the steamy, hot afternoon.
"Thank you for sharing the senator and so much of his life with us," the Rev. Daniel Coughlin, the House of Representatives chaplain, told widow Vicki Kennedy.
Certain themes kept recurring among people in the crowd: Kennedy's humor, his loyalty, his political and emotional acumen.
"He is a man who could have been bent, broken, destroyed by any number of things in his life, and he wasn't," said Michael Slevin, 62, a clinical social worker who worked for Kennedy between 1984 and 1994.
Slevin said he showed up to await Kennedy's last Capitol appearance because he has "a lot to process," but he wasn't crying. No one seemed to be crying; except, perhaps, when the crowd joined in the singing of "America the Beautiful."
Watching and waiting, Nan Simpson distinguished the relatively upbeat mood from June 1968 when she, as a young Mount Holyoke College graduate, watched as Edward Kennedy's slain brother Robert was conveyed through Washington.
"There's something quite different about the death of a man who lived long enough to become a master of Congress," Simpson said.
In Boston, an estimated 60,000 people had waited, often for hours, from Thursday night until Saturday morning, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, to pay their last respects before Kennedy's coffin.
And though Saturday was rainy in Boston, hundreds gathered outside the basilica to say goodbye.
Patricia Bell, 53, took a 5:30 a.m. Greyhound bus from the Bronx to Boston. "I want to tell him 'thank you, we love you, and we appreciate your sacrifice,'" she said, standing under her umbrella, clutching her breakfast in a paper bag,
Inside the vast basilica, where Kennedy had prayed daily as his daughter Kara fought cancer, most were old enough to remember the family tragedies and triumphs: The election of the dapper young John F. Kennedy 49 years ago, his assassination a thousand days later, Bobby's brief run for the presidency in 1968, until an assassin cut him down and Ted's own tragedies and triumphs.
"The spirit of resilience and good humor would see Ted Kennedy through more pain and tragedy than most of us will ever know," Obama said.
The mood was less one of sadness than reflection.
"The Mass of Christian burial weaves together memory and hope," said the Rev. Mark Hession, a Cape Cod priest and a Kennedy family friend.
That theme was woven through the service. Kara Kennedy Allen led the audience in a recitation of Psalm 72 — "Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever." Hession cited Matthew 25:31-32A, 34-40, which talks about compassion.
Ten nieces, nephews and grandchildren recalled "Uncle Teddy" or their grandfather. Ted Junior's son, Teddy, used the occasion to remind the audience to keep up the fight for health care.
Outside, in the rain, some waved signs that read "KENNEDY THANKS," that were being passed out by Mayor Thomas Menino's staff. Others made their own signs that read "HEALTHCARE, DO IT FOR TED." Another, inked on cardboard torn from a Cheerios cereal box read "THANK YOU SENATOR KENNEDY."
Massillon Laporte came from Montreal, Canada, to play Schubert's "Ave Maria" on his trumpet for Kennedy. The doleful sound of drifted up the street through the rain.
"I came out to honor a beautiful man and to show my respect," said Lillian Bennet, 59. "He was one of a kind. We want him back." Bennet had arrived from nearby Dorchester at 6:45 a.m.
"It's the passing of history. This is the end of an era," said Bill Zoppo, who was there with his wife, Sally. "He was a father to all his brothers' children, so this is a big transition for them. Who will pick up the mantle?"
Inside, Obama added a personal touch. He recalled how he had hung a painting of a Cape Cod seascape in his personal study — "a gift to a freshman legislator who had just arrived in Washington and happened to admire it when Ted Kennedy welcomed him into his office.
"By the way," Obama chuckled, "that's my second favorite gift from Teddy and Vicki, after our dog Bo."
Obama urged the nation not to forget Ted Kennedy's dream.
Remember, he said, "the memories he gave, the good that he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single, enduring image, the image of a man on a boat, white man tousled, smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for whatever storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."
(Lightman and Doyle reported from Washington. Spring reported from Boston)


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"My life is a constant battle between my love of food and not wanting to be fat."
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I would definitely agree with that. Everyday I come home with the urge to stuff my face with the immense goodies, but the thought of another kg gained, another couple of inches lost in the jumps… it's quite a hard battle.
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Khushi was super excited to get a big water gun on Holi this time. It did not take her long to understand the complex functioning of the gun. While playing with water she inquired
Khushi: Mummy how much water can be filled in this water bag?
Mummy : Around 2-3 bottles (liters)
Khushi : How much water is required to play holi with Shivji?
Mummy : What? Play holi with whom?
Khushi : Shivji, Ganesh's Papa! Bholenath!! How much water he needs to take bath or to get wet?
Mummy : (Thinking,,,where does this question come from?? But now I need to answer,,,soo) Shivji is very very big, he needs alot of water. It needs to rain to wet him.So whenever he wants to bathe, he asks the rain God to pour!!
Khushi: OK!!
Couple of days later, we were crossing the KempFort Shiv temple. On the entrance they have made a huge Shivling where continously water is dripping from a Kalash and falling on the Shivling!
Khushi: Mummy see, Shivji is taking a bath! But where is the rain?
I could have never thought of this association of holi, shivji and rain unless we crossed Shiv temple of KempFort. She is showing me, everyday a new perspective to things!! Things I think we adults never notice (Proof is that, I couldn't get a single photo of that entrance on internet).


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The first time I saw Proust's bedroom, in the Musée Carnavalet, in Paris—a tiny tableau cordoned off by a chain, lined in cork, and crammed with undistinguished, illogically placed furniture—I was struck more than anything by the modesty of the bed. Proust famously preferred to write in bed, and, between chronic illness and predisposition, ended up spending much of his life there. "It is pleasant, when one is distraught, to lie in the warmth of one's bed, and there, with all effort and struggle at an end, even perhaps with one's head under the blankets, surrender completely to howling, like branches in the autumn wind," he wrote in "Pleasures and Regrets," his first book, a collection of prose poems, philosophical reflections, and sketches, published in 1896, when he was twenty-five.
A current exhibition at the Morgan Library, in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication, in November of 1913, of "Du Côté de Chez Swann" ("Swann's Way"), the first volume of Proust's masterwork, "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past," or, in more recent translations, "In Search of Lost Time"), is a companion of sorts to the Carnavalet room. Here we get to see the pages that once lay scattered among the blankets as Proust wrote in bed, now neatly laid out in a small, dimly lit room painted in damask rose, which itself might make for a suitable sleeping chamber. There is a trove of notebooks; a few letters; some photographs and vintage postcards; several fair copies and galley proofs of "Du Côté" in various stages of revision; and a cheap-looking, pale-yellow original edition of the finished book, published by Bernard Grasset and riddled with typos.
There is also the complete twelve-volume edition of "À la Recherche," published by the Nouvelle Revue Française between 1919 and 1927, after its initial rejection by André Gide. At the time, he considered Proust "un snob, un mondain amateur," and he never forgave himself for this error in judgment, calling his rejection of the book one of the bitterest regrets of his life. This is the first time that many of these materials have been exhibited outside the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, which owns most of them (thanks to De Gaulle, of all people, who considered them a national treasure and rescued them from private sale), and being in their presence feels significant, and not just for that reason. There is something almost uncanny about bearing witness to the silent, gestural language of Proust's actual handwriting on the actual paper he wrote on. The nuances and cadences of handwriting can be as expressive as a drawing, and immediately transport us back in time to the very moment of its execution.
Pages from the working notebooks, the "Cahiers," are written in fluid, all but illegible script, suggesting that Proust wrote quickly and easily. He wrote in lined notebooks, with double-lined red margins, where you sometimes find the absent-minded doodling of the author; at other times, he seems to be elaborating on the things he has set down. On one notebook page, he's drawn a kind of surrealist collage of portraits (Proust looks to have been a capable, imaginative draftsman) that blend into one another, and which may offer clues to the way he conceived of his novel: an amalgam of people he knew in life, dismantled and reassembled to form the characters of his fiction. Next to the collage, he has drawn a female face, which, the gallery note tells us, represents the genesis of Albertine. One wonders if it's true. If so, it's all the more enchanting to behold. On another page, he has written the heading "Swann et le Monde," followed by the words "Swann cependant n'avait pas complètement abandonné le monde" ("Nevertheless, Swann hadn't completely abandoned the world"), which offer a different kind of palpable thrill.
Among the earliest notebooks on view, the "Carnets," are three the size of pencil cases, embossed with Art Nouveau figures, from the Kirby, Beard & Cie gift shop in Paris. They were given to Proust by Geneviève Straus, George Bizet's widow, for New Year's in 1908, when he was a rather advanced thirty-six, and they look as if they were intended for keeping lists. So it's remarkable to learn that one of them contains drafts of his essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve," who Proust felt did not sufficiently appreciate Balzac (think of his having typed the essay on the Notes app on an iPhone). The same notebook also contains the astonishing question that Proust posed to himself in 1908, the year he began work on "À la Recherche": "Faut-il en faire un roman, une étude philosophique, suis-je romancier?" ("Should it be a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?").
At a lecture at the library one recent evening, Antoine Compagnon, the Proust scholar and editor of the Gallimard Folio edition of "À la Recherche," who curated the exhibit, showed a slide of the notebook page containing the question, going on to discuss other aspects of the book, including the little-known fact that "Swann's Way" was self-published—Proust paid out of pocket for everything (including advertising). This after the book had been turned down not just by the N.R.F. but also by Ollendorf, whose editor for the life of him couldn't understand why it took thirty pages to describe the process of falling asleep, and by a reader for Fasquelle, who complained that after seven hundred pages it was impossible, absolutely impossible, to say what the book was about. Facts like these give every writer, especially every late bloomer, hope. At the time of the book's publication, Proust was forty-two, an age that today does not convey the same urgency that it did when the average life expectancy in France was around fifty; Proust died at fifty-one.
Publishers weren't the only ones who were nonplussed. Once the first volume finally came out, Proust sent copies to his friends, and was bemused by their response. Compagnon spoke of the reply Proust received from his friend Louis d'Albufera, an aristocratic playboy. Had he read the book? Proust wanted to know. Oh, you've published a book? Yes, I sent you a copy. Ah, yes, well, "Si je l'ai reçu, tu peux être sûr que je l'ai lu, mais je ne suis pas certain de l'avoir reçu." ("If I received it, you can be sure that I read it, but I'm not sure I received it.") Another friend, Mme. Gaston de Caillavet, wrote to thank Proust for the book and to say how moved she was by its reference to a First Communion. Only there was no such reference in the book, prompting Proust to write back thanking her and saying that, while he didn't think he had made reference to a First Communion, of course he might be wrong.
"À la Recherche" has been largely reduced in the public imagination to a book about insomnia and dipping madeleines into cups of tea. (See Alain de Botton's hilarious account of his ill-advised pilgrimage to the madeleine capital of the world, Illiers, on which the fictional Combray was based, and now officially rechristened Illiers-Combray, in his playful, informative book "How Proust Can Change Your Life.") The madeleine serves as a vehicle for the very modern idea at the time, of expressing the relationship between an unthinking action and the capacity of such an action to unleash a torrent of memory. (It could be anything; the other day, I came upon the words "pesto cream" and was immediately transported to a dinner at one of my mother's friends in my home town in the eighties.)
Compagnon stressed other modernist aspects of the work, among them the "audacity" and the "novelty" of the title: "those two prepositions," he noted—"du" and "de"—which people at the time found "horrible." It was not something that had ever been seen before in formal written French, and its strangeness has been lost in the most common translation, "Swann's Way," which sounds elegant, even a little fusty, but does not convey the slangy vernacular of the original. It's a difficult problem to solve, as Lydia Davis explains, in the translator's note to the Penguin U.K. edition, which she translated as "The Way by Swann's." André Aciman took her to task for this in The New York Review of Books, claiming her rendition approached "monstrosity," echoing, as it did, "something along the lines of 'How's by you?' 'By me is fine.' " Well, awkwardness aside, it would appear that her rendering was closer to the author's original intent. What would Proust say?
As the editor of the Gallimard Folio edition, Compagnon has access to the book's sales, which have remained remarkably consistent over the years: between fifteen thousand and seventeen thousand copies of "Du Côté" are sold each year; that number drops to between five and six thousand for the second volume, "À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs" ("Within a Budding Grove"), to three thousand for "Le Côté de Guermantes" ("The Guermantes Way"), and so on. (Audience titters of embarrassment. Je l'avoue: I myself have made it only halfway through the second volume.) Reading Proust is daunting, and not just because of length. Compagnon described the strangeness and unfamiliarity of the opening pages, comparing them to approaching a new city at night—with no map. People read Proust for all kinds of reasons and on many different levels, he said—for its treatment of Jewishness, homosexuality, children—but he advises his students to read the "bare text," and to read "naïvely."
The bare text itself is certainly beautiful to behold, especially when you see what it looked like just before it came into being as a book. Some of the most riveting as well as the most aesthetically interesting documents at the Morgan are the fair copies and galley proofs, which testify both to Proust's fluidity as a writer and also to his dogged perfectionism: he was a serial reviser, changing isolated words and perfecting sentences and phrases right up until the very end. Even at the late galley stage, we find him still undecided about one of the most famous sentences in all of modern literature, finally settling on "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure" ("For a long time, I went to bed early"). But perhaps the most arresting page, and the most moving, is the final page of the third corrected galley proof of "Du Côté." Even though Proust was paying for the book's publication, Grasset insisted that it was too long and told him it had to be cut by a third; this is the reason that "Noms de Pays: Le Nom" ("Place Names: The Name") is a fraction of the length of the other two sections in the book. The radical cut having been made, Proust has squeezed in the final four sentences, all but indecipherable, at the bottom of the page, nearly veering off it. They are the exact words one finds in every edition published since 1913: "La réalité que j'avais connue n'existait plus.…"
The reality I had known no longer existed.…
And then, in blue pencil: "Ici finit le volume." Here ends the volume.
Cahier 12, by Marcel Proust. Courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum/Bibliothèque nationale de France/RMN-Grand Palais.


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Here comes the big month of August—and with it many of the remaining clues markets need to decide whether the Fed will actually raise rates in September.
The central bank kept the door open for a September rate hike in its post-meeting statement this week. However, it didn't provide any clarity as to whether it expects to move its fed funds target rate from zero in September, as many economists expect, or whether a December rise is more likely, as the futures markets now forecast.
The Fed also put the onus on economic data, particularly employment-related and inflation reports, as it has repeatedly emphasized its decision will be data-based. But strategists are also keeping an eye on international developments, particularly with regard to China's weakening economy and market meltdown, and to a lesser extent Greece's debt crisis.


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"I decided to do my internship in Australia because it is known to be one of the best countries to work. I met a lot of friends and I learned a lot of things. I have created a lot of good memories with my friends. This experience gave me a great impact in my whole life because it teaches me to be more mature enough to face all the trials that life might bring."
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Earlier this summer I set out a new spread of decorations on the mantel. I like to mix it up every now and then, to keep it fresh – for myself, if no one else.
The clock (a repro) was my grandmothers, the tea light cups were a gift for mothers at my church last Mother's Day, and the twine-wrapped bottle was from Mr. Pear Tree on our first anniversary (it contained a map to adventure). And the pewter lady was once my great Aunt Rex's. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a decorative ash tray or what, but it definitely adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the mix.
Anyway, I never really liked the finished product, and I don't know why. Perhaps it was a bit too mish-mash? Or too contrived? At any rate, it was just the littlest bit awkward and I couldn't put my finger on why. Until this morning.
Mr. Pear Tree had inadvertently placed a painting he needed to post, behind the tea light cups. And it was perfect. A happy accident. Unfortunately, it was destined to go out, and so its time there was short lived.
So I took it upon myself to (ahem) sort through some of his completed 100 for 100 paintings that haven't sold yet, and help myself to one that would look almost as good.
What do you think?
It's called Remembered Ruins, and is a detail from Tintern Abbey, in Wales.
I'm so excited about how a little 10×10 piece of artwork can tie a mantel scene together like that!
Of course, it's still for sale (click here to purchase), so I mustn't get attached to it.
I hope whoever buys it has just the right place waiting, too – maybe even a place they didn't realize needed a little work of art.
– Words and photos by Lori-Anne Poirier


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(Reuters) - Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ.O), maker of Cadbury chocolate and Oreo cookies, on Tuesday added activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board in a compromise agreement that ends his campaign to have PepsiCo Inc PEP.N take over the company.
Analysts now expect the influential investor to separately lobby each company to improve their results.
Last year, Peltz urged Mondelez to sell itself to the beverage and snacks giant, but PepsiCo balked at such a deal.
Trian is Mondelez's fourth-largest shareholder, with a 2.3 percent stake, according to Thomson Reuters data. Trian also owns 0.8 percent of PepsiCo.
Peltz last summer said PepsiCo was at a "strategic crossroads" due to changing consumer tastes and the rising importance of emerging markets, and outlined two scenarios for improving results.
Plan A was to merge PepsiCo with Mondelez to create a larger company with one of the most valuable brand portfolios in the world. Plan B called for Pepsi to split its snacks and beverages businesses - which would allow each to focus on operational improvements.
"Given that Pepsi's not interested in Plan A, we are encouraging them to pursue Plan B," Anne Tarbell, a spokeswoman for Peltz's Trian Fund Management, told Reuters.
Peltz, 71, also has pushed Mondelez - whose performance has fallen short of investor expectations since it was split from Kraft in October 2012 - to manage its costs better, saying it could double earnings per share by doing so.
Peltz has been instrumental in numerous food and beverages mergers and divestitures at companies he believed were underperforming - including a series of deals that led to the creation of Mondelez.
Mondelez shares fell as much as 3.7 percent in morning trade on Tuesday as hopes for a deal with PepsiCo evaporated.
The shares were down 0.8 percent at $34.42 in afternoon trade on the Nasdaq, while PepsiCo shares were up 0.8 percent at $82.98 on the New York Stock Exchange.
"While this may have been disappointing for some investors, we see this as a very amicable outcome that now allows the management team and board (at Mondelez) to focus on running the business," Bernstein Research analyst Alexia Howard wrote in a note.
Adding Peltz to the Mondelez board increased its size to 12, with 11 directors independent.
The move also eliminated the risk of an expensive and lengthy proxy battle, J.P. Morgan analyst Ken Goldman said in a note.
Peltz helped orchestrate the 2008 spinoff of Dr Pepper Snapple Group DPS.N from Cadbury, Kraft's purchase of Cadbury, and the subsequent breakup of Kraft into Mondelez and Kraft Foods Group Inc KRFT.O.
In addition to Mondelez and PepsiCo, Peltz's New York-based hedge fund's top five holdings include Wendy's Co (WEN.O), Family Dollar Stores Inc FDO.N and Ingersoll-Rand Plc (IR.N).
Reporting by Aditi Shrivastava, Martinne Geller and Lisa Baertlein; Editing by Joyjeet Das, Ted Kerr and Bernard Orr


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Colton Joshua Tooley didn't take anyone with him in the incident at UT-Austin today, but he scared to death students and parents who followed events breathlessly on the net.
Many of the stories mentioned that a speech was scheduled for tonight by a proponent of concealed weapons on college campuses, John Lott.
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Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime, will not be speaking on the UT campus tonight, but the speech will go on nearby.
"It's fortunate that the gunman took only his own life and injured nobody else, but students and faculty deserve options beyond relying on the altruism--or poor aim--of a madman," said Daniel Crocker, regional director of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, who is sponsoring Lott's speech.
Lott will instead speak at a bookstore near the UT campus, where he will no doubt make the point that if a couple of Longhorns in the library had been properly packing heat, the chances of today's incident being much worse would have been nil.
Really, if everyone has a Glock or two on them, what could go wrong?


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HOLLYWOOD, May 7 (UPI) -- May could well be named Woody Allen Month in Tinseltown ... celebrating his new 90-minute documentary and movie, plus the fallout from his first Academy Award appearance.
While much as the male population might cringe, there is a bit of Woody in most men:
Self-consciousness, self-doubt, timidity overcome by hubris, lust for beautiful women, denial of vulnerability and pipe-dreams.
Like Charlie Chaplin before him, Allen is Everyman in a small, almost insignificant package with waif-like insecurities.
Whereas Chaplin's comedy on film was largely physical, Allen's is both physical and cerebral.
They share a common plotz when it comes to their private lives.
Romances, marriages and the vicissitudes of domesticity led them both to the brink of derangement and financial ruin.
Chaplin eventually settled down with Oona O'Neill, and Allen seems to have found his haven in his current wife, Soon-Yi, Mia Farrow's adopted child.
Farrow is his embittered former lover and co-star on whom he exercised the ultimate revenge for her many demeaning charges by making her his mother-in-law, that most abominable foil in American comedy.
Among other things Chaplin and Allen rate with the funniest men in the history of the planet.
Like Pagliacci, the tearful clown, both men have the capacity to make people laugh while their own emotions are in turmoil.
Allen, who has led an almost cloistered private life, emerged from his shell this spring to reveal Woody Allen the man, as opposed to his genius as writer/actor/director.
His neuroses are legendary and, as he discloses somewhat in the new documentary, "Woody Allen: A Life in Film."
Unlike Chaplin, Allen seems compelled in this film to unburden himself of his demons, the very elements of his life that have driven him to creating the ultimate Jewish New York nebbish.
Chaplin wrapped himself in a shroud of urbanity, as does Allen to a lesser degree, but Woody's tenacity as a resident of Manhattan also enforces his image as a little guy overwhelmed by masses of humanity that instill in him a sense of gloom and doom.
Allen's terminal paranoia can be found in all his screen characterizations, producing sympathy and understanding for millions of people who see some part of themselves in this creepy little guy with the big nose, glasses and nervous twitches and tics.
Woody's proclivity for beautiful young leading ladies is apparent in "Hollywood Ending." This time around his screen ladylove is Tea Leoni.
Chaplin's little tramp, too, was successful with pretty girls who chose him over more handsome studs.
Chaplin, like Allen, also was successful off-screen with desirable young women as well as those he cast in his movies.
But what better way to lure a cutie into your romantic orbit than cast her in one of your movies. That's Pursuing Beauties 101 in the producers handbook of seducing sweet young things.
It's formulaic: get them in your picture, and you'll get them in the sack.
How else could a man of Allen's limited sex appeal wind up with girlfriends like Farrow, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Louise Lasser and numerous others.
Chaplin finally retired to his native England after the United States government kicked him out over legal problems involving his immigrant status, communist causes and moral turpitude involving young ladies.
Allen, on the other hand, continues to be productive in his movie career.
At 67 he is still making his own films wherein much younger women throw themselves at him.
Years ago he concluded, "Human Beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and metaphysics, but the body has all the fun."
Clearly that is a cornerstone of Allen's metaphysics.
If nothing else, Allen always has been more quotable than Chaplin.
He is oppressed by the idea of death, saying: "I'm not afraid of dying ... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
At another time he announced, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying."
Still, Allen must take some solace in the fact that decades from now his movies will be appreciated by generations yet unborn, just as young people today find Chaplin's antics delightful almost 30 years after his death.
Neither man, it seems, is victimized by sentiment.
Chaplin rarely spoke of his body of work and became reclusive in his declining years.
Allen is only a smidgen more outgoing than Chaplin, whose work he admires.
Asked how he felt about the dozens of movies he's made during his long career, Allen replied:
"I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers.
"I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die."
That makes Woody a minority of one.


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I have been following home automation every since returning from the 4th Annual Home Server Show Meetup. On the return trip home from the meetup, my mind was swimming with ideas of different projects to automate my townhouse. As I researched the topic and options, it became clear that home automation was in its infancy. What I mean is there is many companies that offer different products from door locks, light switches, thermostats, cameras, and other products which only worked with their products. I became aware there was no common standard of communication for the different devices to communicate with each other. I decided at the time to keep reading home automation articles and wait for the products to mature.
Fast forward to 11 months. During the July 2015 and August 2015, Concord North Carolina had some very hot temperatures. The hot weather eventually caused my air conditioner to fail. I called Christian's Heating & Air Conditioning Services and talked to Ron about my failing air conditioner who came out to my house the next day. He inspected my air conditioner and gave me the news that I expected that my air conditioner is failing. I was not surprised as the unit was 10 years old and came with the townhouse when it was built in 2005. With a fews days Ron Christian had quotes for four different air conditioners and I decided on an AIREASE. While I was having my air conditioner replaced, I decided to do some research for smart thermostats. Nest thermostats came up during the research but I wanted a smart thermostat that had sensors, generate reports, and overall easy to use. I discovered ecobee thermostat. The more I researched the thermostat the more I liked what I read. At the time, ecobee was getting ready to update their smart thermostat to support Apple HomeKit. I was able to purchase the ecobee3 Wi-Fi thermostat at a $25 discount for $222.18. This thermostat does not support Apple HomeKit but I did not see myself using it as it seemed too much of a overhead for a smart device. Ron Christian installed the devices in my townhouse.
The ecobee3 Wi-Fi thermostat was easy to setup. It consisted of following the directions on the thermostat and before I knew it, volla it was setup. I ran into a small problem with setting up the two ecobee sensors but a call to ecobee customer support resolved my issue in a matter of minutes. The ecobee customer service representative listened to me explain my issue and had a solution within minutes. It took me a few hours to program each ecobee3 Wi-Fi thermostat due to looking at all the options and getting the programed temperature just right.
I have been using the ecobee3 Wi-Fi thermostat since July 9, 2015. I have been satisfied with the performance and the different features it has to offer.
The next home automation product that I am looking at is ring.


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December 03, 2012
World-renowned cellist and Chicago Symphony Orchestra creative consultant Yo Yo Ma recently visited Chicago where he engaged in a week of activities with Chicago intitiutions designed to elevate the role of culture in everyday lives . There was a mix of performances and public appearances, including a first time appearance since 2007 by Ma and his Silk Road Project at the Symphony Center, a meeting with Mayor Emanuel and Renee Fleming to lend support for a New Arts Education Plan in Chicago Public Schools and a town hall meeting with young Chicago Civic Orchestra musicians to boost their involvement in the broader cultural world. The Chicago Tribune has the full storyon Ma's efforts.


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The Capital has got its most expensive and powerful monitoring camera ever, described as an "excellent planning and security tool".
State government officials in charge of the project say the cameras would revolutionise the security system, urban planning and infrastructure maintenance in Delhi.
And why not. Each camera - costing up to Rs 15 lakh and weighing over 25 kg - has a special, limited-range night vision, can see up to almost five km on a clear day, and can zoom up to 60X.
This means it can show a person's face or a car's number plate within its range!
"These cameras can pan, tilt, zoom and rotate 360 degrees. We have already identified 18 strategically located highrise buildings, in coordination with the police, for the cameras," a senior IT department official said.
The feed from each camera will be routed to 10 control rooms, which will be monitored by the police and government officials round the clock. One control room will be at the police headquarters.
The cameras will also be linked to a government database with detailed maps and information on a particular area's landscape.
According to the IT officials overseeing the project, each camera will be placed in such a way that it can keep an eye on markets and key roads, and even aid traffic management.
Identifying the right spot will be tricky as repetition will have to be avoided and wind speed will have to be taken into account at such heights.
The most important feature of the camera is an in-built change detection software, which is sensitive to any modification in the landscape. This will be particularly beneficial in the old city area, where there are repeated allegations of illegal constructions.
"The camera will highlight the building that is registering change," an official explained.
The device will serve as an eye for the government and security brass in case of a natural or man-made disaster.
For example, if there is a terror attack, all cameras in range can be focused on the spot for exact, real-time updates on the situation, and can even give vital clues on the culprits.
IT secretary Rajendra Kumar said the cameras will integrate into the government's ambitious Rs 100-crore-plus 3D mapping plan, better known as the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure project.
As part of the project - a magnified version of Google Earth - every square inch of almost 1,500 sq km of Delhi has been mapped. This comprises satellite images, real pictures, coordinates of every lane, street and road, as well as underground data.
This apart, 35 state and national-level departments have contributed data (such as building records and maps) relating to the Capital.
"With this secure databank in place, these cameras will not just serve security and strategic purposes, but also study changes in landscape in comparison to the existing records. Therefore, they will become a powerful tool," Kumar said.


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One of the goals of my Day Zero Project was to Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor. The catalyst was a Crowdtap challenge to create a meme and post it. I used liveluvcreate to make mine and an iPhone photo that I took in Venice on a recent trip. I am a tech nerd and a hopeless romantic, so this totally came alive for me.
"Have no regrets" is my personal mantra. This is an abridged, English-language version of what you may hear a lot around Colombia (and elsewhere in Latin America): Prefiero arrepentirme de algo que hice en vez de arrepentirme de algo que no hice (I'd rather repent for what I have done instead of what I have not done.)
See my meme below. Oh, and just a note of caution: brace yourself for dozens more cutesy, inspirational memes courtesy of yours truly. On a totally unrelated note, the water in Venice is definitely NOT that blue!


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Jim covered Congress and The White House during the George W. Bush administration for The Washington Times, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California. He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, and many local and national talk radio shows to talk politics and policy.
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Even those without degrees in the "dismal science" of economics could figure out that the Cash for Clunkers program, part of the 2009 economic "stimulus" program foisted upon the nation, was a dumb idea. The federal taxpayer — or, more accurately put, future federal taxpayers — handed over up to $4,500 to anyone who could drag in an old car to a dealership so they could buy a new vehicle.
This scheme would "stimulate" the economy, help prop up the auto industry the taxpayers just bailed out, and also help clean up the environment by taking inefficient and smoky vehicles off the road. As those subscribe to free-market economics, as opposed to the Keynesian nonsense we've seen fail the past two years, predicted: Shuffling government money around in the economy does not promote economic growth. In fact, it can retard real, long-term private-sector growth by distorting markets and discouraging the flow of capital.
But don't take my word for it. Economists Atif Mian of Berkeley University and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business have issued a new paper that explains why the Cash for Clunkers program didn't work. From the executive summary:
A key rationale for fiscal stimulus is to boost consumption when aggregate demand is perceived to be inefficiently low. We examine the ability of the government to increase consumption by evaluating the impact of the 2009 "Cash for Clunkers" program on short and medium run auto purchases. Our empirical strategy exploits variation across U.S. cities in ex-ante exposure to the program as measured by the number of "clunkers" in the city as of the summer of 2008. We find that the program induced the purchase of an additional 360,000 cars in July and August of 2009. However, almost all of the additional purchases under the program were pulled forward from the very near future; the effect of the program on auto purchases is almost completely reversed by as early as March 2010 – only seven months after the program ended. The effect of the program on auto purchases was significantly more short-lived than previously suggested. We also find no evidence of an effect on employment, house prices, or household default rates in cities with higher exposure to the program.
When we've got a $14 trillion debt, what's the big deal about throwing $3 billion down this rat hole, eh?
(HT: Veronique de Rugy at The Corner)


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Advanced Trade Marketing
Advanced Trade Marketing
by Emilio Macasaet III
How have you been doing, in terms of measuring the effectiveness of your trade marketing programs?
Have you been able to assess the impact of your programs to your bottom line?
Do you know what tools to use to measure the effectiveness of your trade marketing programs and their return to your investments?
Program Overview
Module 1: REVIEWING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF TRADE MARKETING
· The key sales drivers of Trade Marketing
· Trends and themes: What is Trade Marketing today?
· The challenges in aligning retailers and manufacturers
· The function of Trade Marketing in the Shopper Marketing framework
· How other companies are organized and why they fail
Module 2: THE TOOLS FOR SHOPPER INSIGHTING
· What is and is not a shopper insight?
· Case illustrations: How shopper insights are integrated into brand and retail strategies
· Qualitative and quantitative tools to use to generate shopper insights and formulate trade marketing strategies
Module 3: RETURN ON TRADE MARKETING INVESTMENTS (ROTMI) & REGRESSION ANALYSIS
· How to construct return on investment (ROI) as a metric
· Return On Trade Marketing Investment (ROTMI) to measure the rate at which spending on a Trade Marketing program contributes to profit
· How to construct baseline sales and promotional lift
· How to use regression analysis in Excel to compute for baseline sales (Note: participants to bring laptop computers for this exercise)
· Exercises
Module 4: THE FUTURE OF TRADE MARKETING
· Changes in market and consumers affecting Trade Marketing
· How Digital Marketing tools will change the rules of the game
· More caveats in looking at Trade Marketing
Key benefits for the participants
The participant/s will gain:
· Tools in the frameworks to approaching trade marketing activities
· How to set themselves apart from novice trade marketing practitioners
· A deeper knowledge and understanding in developing a collaborative trade marketing strategy which is aligned with marketing and sales plans
Key benefits for the company
The company will gain:
· Knowledge in formulating strategies and tactics to win at the point of purchase where a differentiated, recognized brand proposition is needed
· Competitive advantage in developing categories and improved trade relations
· Increased sales and return on trade marketing investment
Who Should Attend:
Primary audience: Trade Marketing, Brand and Sales practitioners, General and Division Managers, Sales Directors or Managers / Supervisors and Marketing Managers.
Partner and Chief Channel Marketing Strategist
Emilio C. Macasaet III is the Chairman and CEO of Field Partners Inc., and Partner and Chief Channel Marketing Strategist of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. He is the author of the best-selling, Distributor Management, the first ever book on distributor management in the Philippine Market, and the newly launched book, 6 Steps To Effective Key Account Management.
He brings with him very extensive and intensive corporate experiences gained from both local and multinational companies like Gillette, Nestle, L'Oreal, Metrolab and RFM Corporation where he was Vice President of Sales & Distribution division. He conducts various sales seminars, consulting, and training programs in most parts of Asia-Pacific and Middle East.
He obtained his MBA from Ateneo De Manila University and took his Doctor in Business Administration at De La Salle Graduate School of Business where he was a former MBA professor in Distribution Management. Bong also attended an executive program on Marketing Channels at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago; and other special programs at Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore, and Burke Institute, USA. He partly writes a column in Business World newspaper and is currently a professor of Marketing Management at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.


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Murugan, Arul N and Chandra, Prakash Jha and Yashonath, S and Ramasesha, S (2004) High Pressure Phase of Biphenyl at Room Temperature: A Monte Carlo Study. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108 (13). pp. 4178-4184.
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A new pressure-induced solid phase of biphenyl is reported at room temperature. Isothermal-isobaric ensemble variable shape simulation cell Monte Carlo calculations are reported on biphenyl at 300 K as a function of pressure between 0 and 4 GPa. The potential proposed by Williams for intermolecular and Benkert-Heine- Simmons (BHS) for intramolecular interactions have been employed. Different properties indicating changes in the crystal structure, molecular structure, distributions of inter- and intramolecular energy are reported as a function of pressure. With increase in pressure beyond 0.8 GPa, the dihedral angle distribution undergoes a change from a bimodal to an unimodal distribution. The changes in IR and Raman spectra across the transition computed from ab initio calculations are in agreement with the experimental measurements. It is shown that at pressures larger than 0.8 GPa, competition between intermolecular interactions with intramolecular terms viz., conjugation energy and the ortho-ortho repulsion favors a planar biphenyl due to better packing and consequently a predominant intermolecular term. The exact value of the transition pressure will depend on the accuracy of the inter- and intramolecular potentials employed here.
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Brother Crowley is a level 44 quest giver located in the Cathedral of Light in Cathedral Square, in the human city of Stormwind. He is affiliated with the Scarlet Crusade.
Brother Crowley appears to be a priest on a pilgrimage. He instructs adventurers of the Alliance to seek out his colleague Brother Anton in Nijel's Point, Desolace, to be of further service to the Scarlet Crusade.
Brother Crowley, despite nominally belonging to the Scarlet Crusade, is (like Brother Anton and Raleigh the Devout) of the Stormwind faction and has diplomatic immunity.
He starts the quest [39] Brother Anton.
- Brother Crowley may be named after the famous 20th-Century occultist Aleister Crowley. Brother Crowley sends you to Brother Anton: Anton LaVey was the American founder of the Church of Satan, and was influenced by Aleister Crowley.
- Though clearly unlikely to be a relative, Darius Crowley also shares his surname, perhaps pointing a Gilnean connection in his lineage, although this is purely theoretical. Darius Crowley was also introduced to the Warcraft storyline only recently in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, making a relative connection even less likely.
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