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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded in 1951 and incorporated on 30 April 1952. There had been a considerable increase in the number of mathematicians working in industry in the United States following World War II, in part a consequence of the numbers who had applied mathematics to military research as part of the war effort. The increasing use of computers in solving industrial research problems was a major reason why the need for applied mathematicians rose so sharply. Discussions took place at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Atlantic City on 30 November 1951 concerning the setting up of a society to represent the interests of industrial applied mathematicians. I Edward Block, a consulting mathematician at the Philco Corporation, and George Patterson III, a mathematical logician at the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, were two who were most in favour of founding a new society.
In December 1951 an organizing committee which included I Edward Block, Donald B Houghton, Samuel S McNeary, Cletus O Oakley, George Patterson III and George Sonneman met at an engineering lab at the Drexel Institute of Technology. They decided to found the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at this meeting and it was incorporated in April of the following year. The aims of the Society, as set out at the time, were:-
- to further the application of mathematics to industry and science;
- to promote basic research in mathematics leading to new methods and techniques useful to industry and science;
- to provide media for the exchange of information and ideas between mathematicians and other technical and scientific personnel.
The first meeting of the Society took place before the Society was incorporated. This first meeting at the Drexel Institute of Technology was held on 17 March 1952 with W F G Swan speaking on Mathematics, the backbone of science. The second meeting on 28 April 1952 was address by Mina Rees speaking on The role of mathematics in government. The rules setting out how the Society would operate were in place by June 1952 and it was proposed that the first publication of the Society, the Bulletin, was made the responsibility of a Council, but its running devolved to a subcommittee, namely the Publications Committee. A Program Committee was also set up to run meetings of the Society. The first annual business meeting of the Society was held in October 1952 at the University of Pennsylvania and was addressed by Grace Hopper on Elementary training of a computer. At this meeting elections were held for the officers of the Society:
President: William E Bradley
Vice President: Grace M Hopper
Vice President: George W Patterson
Treasurer: Emil Amelotti
Secretary: I Edward Block.
The first Council was also appointed at this time.
By November 1952 the new Society had 130 members. The first president soon indicated his wish to resign due to pressure of work and he was formally replaced in May 1953 by Donald Houghton. He was also editor of the SIAM Newsletter which began publication in February 1953.
The Society was originally based in Philadelphia but it soon widened its coverage. A Boston/Cambridge section was established and the first SIAM meeting outside Philadelphia was held in Cambridge on 20 May 1953, addressed by Norbert Wiener. Further sections throughout the United States were quickly established. The first national meeting of the Society was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 28 December 1954.
The Council in its earliest meetings decided that publications would be named "journals" rather than "bulletins". The first issue of the Journal appeared in September 1943. The SIAM Review began publication in 1959. After this, journals were founded to cover special areas: Control (1962), Numerical Analysis (1964), Applied Mathematics (1966), Mathematical Analysis (1970), Computing (1972), Scientific and Statistical Computing (1980), Algebraic and Discrete Methods (1980), Matrix Analysis (1988), Discrete Mathematics (1988), Optimization (1991), Applied Dynamical Systems (2002), and Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (2003). In addition a book publishing programme began in 1961 with the Series in Applied Mathematics. It was followed by: Proceedings in Applied Mathematics (1969), Regional Conferences in Applied Mathematics (1972), Studies in Applied and Numerical Mathematics (1979), Frontiers of Applied Mathematics (1983), Classics in Applied Mathematics (1988), and eight further series since then.
Membership of the Society grew rapidly from its small beginnings in 1952. By the end of 1952 there were 130 member, by 1953 there were 350, by 1954 there were 500, by 1955 there were 1000, by 1958 there were 2000, and by 1980 there were 5000. It was in the 1980s that the Society began to consider International Sections with the first set up in 1986. The United Kingdom section was set up in 1996.
The first activity group of the Society was founded on 19 July 1982; it was the Linear Algebra group. Further groups followed: Discrete Mathematics (1984), Supercomputing (1984), Optimisation (1985), Control and System Theory (1986), Dynamical Systems (1989), Geometric Design (1989), and Orthogonal Polynomials and Special functions (1990). Four further groups have been set up since 1990.
The Society has inaugurated Prizes and established prestigious lecture series. The first was the John von Neumann Lecture (1959). There followed: the Theodore von Karman Prize (1968), the George Polya Prize (1969), and the James H Wilkinson Prize (1979). Many further prizes have been established.
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A narrative account of the leadership of Superintendent Cobel from 1989-1993
Griffin, Josephine F.
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This study attempts to examine administrative programs and events in the tenure of Superintendent Dr. Larry D. Coble, who served the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina from 1989-1993. The central focus of this investigation addresses four basic questions. First, were the goals set by the superintendent achieved? Specifically, were his goals of offering new leadership, providing openness in the administration, ensuring quality education for a neglected population, and addressing teachers major concerns achieved? Second, did reorganizing the system (a) enhance decision-making I and (b) improve students' test scores? Third, did the superintendent successfully deal with the controversial issues of (a) site-based management, and (b) tracking. And fourth, was the superintendent's interaction with subordinates effective?
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Lucan Harriers fit4life section was set up in January 2014 by four senior members of Lucan Harrier & Athletics Club to provide a fun environment for those who wanted to start a regular running programme for general fitness and health.
GloHealth Fit4life is a programme for all runners whether you are a complete beginner or a regular jogging/runner. The programme will help you to achieve improved levels of fitness and wellness within the club structure in a fun, sociable environment - Athletics Ireland website
In Lucan there is a wide range of abilities from complete beginners to social runners and those who are now regularly running 5km, 10km and up to the Half-Marathon distance. Some have progressed to the senior level of the Club and gone on to compete and medal in the Irish National Masters competition.
The fun element of fit4life is important in Lucan with regular social events organised by the members from supporting new members running their first 5km race to nights out.
Training is on Monday and Thursday nights from 7pm to 8pm meeting at the Clubhouse on the Newcastle Road, Lucan (opposite Supervalu).


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|this picture right here... is one of my happy memories.
I have been having the most insane flashbacks of my life. Dreams of distant memories, of good times and the bad times. Its funny how life is never what it may seem; its just another concept that is to be perceived by all. The picture below is from 2007 when I was back in college living in what my mother deemed a, "frat house" yet it was only a house with 4 bedrooms. I had no idea what she was talking about...
But what is crazy is the emotions, and the memories that come back to you when you dream and begin to think about past times.
Sometimes even seeing a sunset can trigger something deep down inside. Feelings of sadness or happiness.
Then there are those memories that I have that made me feel like a super hero. The confidence and surge of courage will surge thru me from time to time when I think about great moments like the picture above, when I finally made it to Los Angeles, California :)
Pictures like this above give me the most amazingly eerie creeps ever. There is this one dream I've always had since I was a young child... an evil, alien, futuristic dream where I always end up dying...I found a scene from my dream and that is pictured above. That is creepy.
|The Basement of Pleasant Place was the go to spot for parties and lil midnight rendevousx


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Rio, the new Angry Birds game developed in conjunction with Twentieth Century Fox, will debut exclusively on the Amazon Appstore.
The deal hints that Rovio, the developer of the insanely popular Angry Birds, is confident that Amazon can help monetize games on the Google platform.
When the Appstore launches, Rovio will also launch free and paid versions of Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons, which have already been out on the iPhone for some time.
With the launch of the paid applications on Amazon, it will mark the first time that Rovio has charged money for apps on the Android platform.
Android has notoriously been difficult to monetize because it relies primarily on Google's own payment platform, which not all Android users have signed up for.
Amazon has not yet said when the Amazon Appstore will launch, only that it will be sometime soon. Over the past few months, it has been drumming up support among developers for the upcoming launch.
Developers are now hopeful that Amazon's deep expertise in retail will help with discovery and monetization on the smartphone platform, which is rapidly gaining market share with 30 million users.
Rovio, which recently raised $42 million in capital, will have high expectations.
In all, it has been able to generate 100 million downloads across all mobile platforms.
Rio will feature the animated stars of the studio's upcoming motion picture, "Rio." In the game, the Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the city of Rio, where they have to escape their captors. The game will launch with 60 levels, and more will be available in following updates. The movie, which was created by the same people behind "Ice Age," will debut worldwide April 15.
"The Android platform has seen phenomenal growth, and it's great that new avenues for app distribution are opening up," said Rovio's CEO Mikael Hed in a release.


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Microsoft Skims the Surface
At a much-anticipated press event in Los Angeles yesterday, Microsoft unveiled a major piece of its product strategy. But it left out an awful lot of crucial details. As a result, no one knows what to make of the whole thing.
Here's what we do know: Microsoft announced and showed off two new Surface tablets that will showcase the company's next-generation Windows 8 operating system. The consumer model is like an iPad or Android tablet; it packs an Nvidia Tegra CPU and runs Windows RT, Microsoft's ARM-based version of Windows 8. The professional model is aimed at content creators instead of just consumers, and features a Intel Core i5 processor and an x86-optimized version of Windows 8.
Make no mistake: These things look slick. I have an affinity for the Logitech Ultrathin, the iPad cover that doubles as a built-in Bluetooth keyboard. It really enhances the iPad's functionality and lets you treat it like a laptop. Microsoft is building that idea right into the Surface with the Touch Cover and the Type Cover, which is great.
Meanwhile, Windows Phone already demonstrates that at least the concept of the Metro interface is sound, and will translate well to tablets, however bizarre it is on desktop PCs. I've said this before, but it's a shining example of how you don't have to copy Apple to make a successful user interface. And while I know Apple would shun a built-in kickstand, having one is incredibly useful. It's already obvious Surface won't be as thin or minimalistic as the iPad, but not everyone sees "ultra thin at all costs" as the best way to go.
As many tech enthusiasts know, Microsoft has a rocky history with tablets, even though Bill Gates was one of the original cheerleaders for the concept. The Associated Press's Peter Svensson has a sharp, tightly written overview of all this. The irony of Microsoft pushing the idea for years, only to lose out to Apple with the iPad in 2010, was widely covered at the time. Suffice to say that Microsoft is well aware of this problem, and Surface is the company's best answer yet.
Plus, the fact that Microsoft is actually making the hardware itself is key. Most people in the tech industry think of Microsoft as a software company, but it has plenty of hardware chops—as is evidenced by the Xbox 360, the Kinect, the stunning original Surface table, and a highly successful computer peripherals business. But the pair of Surface tablets signal the first time Microsoft has ever gone straight up head-to-head with Apple with an entirely self-contained computing platform. The closest it had ever come before this was with the original Zune in 2006, a decent if unspectacular MP3 player aimed at toppling the iPod.
Where's the Beef?
Unfortunately, many crucial details about the Surface are missing. Microsoft left out the price and the release date—arguably the two biggest factors in whether the Surface lineup succeeds, or even has any impact at all. It's impossible to put the products in context without these two things. Let's take the lower-end, ARM-based one as an example. Promise it at $399—undercutting the iPad by $100—but don't release it until next March, a month before Apple would normally be expected to release the iPad 4, and you can bet most consumers will wait. Release the ARM-based Surface tablet next month, but at $699, and it will die a quick death next to the new iPad with the Retina display.
And the screen thing is important, because Microsoft left that part out, too. It only said that the ARM-based tablet would be in "HD" and that the Pro would be "full HD" (1080p), and that both would be 10.6-inch displays. The current $499 iPad is beyond full HD already, at 2,048-by-1,536-pixel resolution. Meanwhile, plain "HD" could mean 720p, which the first iPad had over two years ago.
What about battery life? The built-in software bundle? Third-party app compatibility? All of these things are big question marks, too. Reporters were barely allowed to touch the things, as our own Mark Hachman found out yesterday at the event in LA, so no one has any idea.
I'd love to tell you that the Surface will succeed. Or even that it's okay and probably won't succeed—anything, really. But if Microsoft believes that a little mystery is good, it doesn't know how to go about generating that mystery. Tease all you want ahead of a major release. But once you unveil the actual products at a dedicated company event, you should at least announce prices, release dates, and if not all the specs, then at least a clear inkling of what makes the products superior to existing ones. We didn't get any of that yesterday.
That doesn't intrigue me; it worries me. It shows Microsoft is hedging far too many of its bets.
Priming the Pump Is Fine If it's Full
Microsoft executives almost seemed to embrace that idea. The company wants to "prime the pump," as CEO Steve Ballmer put it in an interview with The Verge. Depending on how successful these tablets are—and they're key to the company's Windows 8 strategy—Microsoft will revise and expand the lineup through 2013 and beyond. That's the thing, though. Microsoft primes the pump all the time, thanks to endless cash reserves and a willingness to iterate. But it leads to products that are just class-competitive, or near class-competitive. By the time they get it right, the market has usually spoken.
We've seen this get-it-out-then-iterate-rinse-repeat strategy from Microsoft many times before, with PDAs, tablet PCs, Windows Mobile, and currently with Windows Phone devices. And that's not counting the dozens of times Microsoft has done this with software products and Internet services, most of which ultimately fail, or at least end up not mattering much (Windows Live and Bing are just the latest examples).
Microsoft is full of brilliant people, from engineers and designers to security specialists and product managers. But a number of things seem to keep holding it back. For one, dogged insistence on maintaining the Windows brand—no matter what it entails, or how tenuous the connection. Microsoft also remains beholden to enterprise and corporate interests looking to maintain backward compatibility for 10 years or more. And Microsoft also needs to work with so many hardware vendors and retailers to bring products to market. All of this baggage seems to enable the sort of half-assed approach and confused message we've seen time and time again.
Here's hoping they can sharpen the focus with the Surface tablet. The original Surface table was one of the company's coolest products ever, as it showed during its technology demo design in 2007. I've written about Surface numerous times, and always wondered why Microsoft didn't bring more of that magic down to consumers. This is Microsoft's big chance.
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Liev Schreiber is getting ready to enter the ring in a biopic of Chuck 'The Bayonne Bleeder' Wepner.
Chuck's a heavyweight boxer from New Jersey who is credited with inspiring Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky . Schreiber calls his a "hilarious and remarkable" story, and wants to fast track a movie version of his life.
And Schreiber seems to know what he's doing. While talking to MTV , he revealed that he's nabbed director Jeff Feuerzeig for the project. Feuerzeig's last directing gig was 2005's The Devil And Daniel Johnson , which makes him a very interesting left-field choice for the actor.
Wepner made America (and, importantly, Stallone) sit up when he fought Muhammad Ali in 1975 (Ali was paid $1.5m, Wepner received just $100,000). "I've been a survivor my whole life... If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali," the boxer said.
Despite facing the boxing titan, Wepner survived through 15 rounds. During his career, he totalled 35 wins (of which 17 were knockouts), and just 14 loses.
Interesting stuff. And a post- Wolverine Schreiber definitely has a head start on the muscle. More when we get it.
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Long before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were inhabiting the sewers of NY, the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D.) were walking under the city. There are plenty of actors you will probably recognize in this 80's horror flick. John Heard plays a photographer & Daniel Stern runs a local soup kitchen. Just by looking at the movie poster & reading the taglines, you should get some idea of what kind of film is in store for you.
The plot is a pretty simple one. Disappearances start occurring more frequently in The Big Apple. A police captain's wife goes missing and he becomes determined to find out what is happening in the streets of New York City. It's pretty obvious just from the film's artwork that the C.H.U.D. are wrecking all the havoc in NY.
The 1st time I viewed this I found it a tad too cheesy, but I still enjoyed it & had a few laughs in the process. After recently watching it again, I enjoyed it a little more this time around. The movie is still cheesy at times, but with a title like 'C.H.U.D.', what can you really expect? The script has it's problems & the scenes that show the C.H.U.D. monsters are done in a typical 80's horror fashion. I can't imagine anyone watching this and actually being scared.
The acting is actually pretty decent for a B-movie type of script like this one. I do recommend giving this film a try if you've never seen it. It isn't the best horror flick out there, but if you are looking for a campy horror film & fun viewing experience, go ahead & give C.H.U.D. a try.


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Tool Chest Update
Well, even though the voting for the color was mostly in favor of the red (2/3 in favor), I just couldn't take it. Even more reason for me to never ask questions like that, I always end up doing whatever I want anyways. Thanks for all those that voted, its just a personal choice to go with the satin black.
When I sanded the red paint down I did go through to the primer here and there. This was intentional. My main reason for the red paint is to have a color change when the black starts to wear through in areas over time. I didn't want a build up of many coats of paint. So, now that the chest has been sanded down and cleaned I will start the process of putting two coats of black on before I install my hardware.
Stay tuned for information on my hardware. It did arrive the other day from Horton Brass. They were a little delayed in my shipment because the mortise lock had to come from England. But, the hardware is well worth the little extra money and the wait. Never chince out on hardware, that's just stupid.
More updates this weekend.
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Ryde Architecture
This building was opened as a pub in 1868 and it closed in 1963.
1871 Census shows Harry Withington at the Atlantic "Public" High Street, Ryde, he was a 43-year-old tea merchant, born in Lancashire. He died in 1899. The exploits of this rather unusual character can be read at the link below:
1901 Census shows Thomas Wilkes at the Atlantic Inn, High Street, Ryde, he was a 50-year-old Licenced Victualler, born in Manchester. He died in 1924. He was living with his wife and son. Further details at the link below:
1953-1958 According to memories kindly written by Colin Shaw, and which can be viewed in the Ryde Social Heritage Archives, Colin moved into the Atlantic with his parents, three sisters and a brother in 1953, which his parents ran as a hotel until 1958.
A brief description he gave states "The Atlantic Hotel as a building was on 3 stories. Comprising of a cellar, public bar and kitchen. Above that on the top floor, was our living area, and 4 bedrooms. To the rear of the hotel building we had a large garden and at the top a garage. Running up beside Bank Gardens." (There is a great deal more about the people and close vicinity in the RSHG Archives.)
At some point later, it was used as a Hairdressers, and now converted to private accommodation.
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Academic Affairs encompasses services to faculty, staff, academic administrators, and councils; all of who share a commitment to bring Goddard's unique learning experience to students.
The mission of the Academic Affairs Office is to support faculty and staff in actualizing and maintaining a high quality learning experience for Goddard students as their programs engage the College's mission and strategic goals. The Academic Affairs office is responsible for the College's academic policies and procedures, institutional accreditation and accountability, program reviews, academic personnel (evaluations, appointments, and reappointments), processes for assessments and student learning outcomes, supporting new academic initiatives, curricular development, College IRB, and special academic projects; residency planning and publication of schedules, student academic resources, and development and publication of the academic calendar.
The Academic Affairs Office collaborates with the Registrar's Office, the Library to promote information literacy and WGDR community radio station to engage the local high school students in a new dual enrollment program.
The Chief Academic Officer and Dean is a core participant in the College's budget development and strategic planning. The CAO/Dean collaborates closely with Program Directors and Faculty Council in a broad array of academic policy and strategic planning issues.
Contact us at:
Academic Affairs Office
- Steven James, Academic Dean and Chief Academic Officer
- Liz Medina, Academic Affairs Coordinator
- Jennifer Tripp Mead, Senior Academic Affairs Administrator


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Silver drop and seeded eucalyptus sprigs make this a favorite for your table. Screen printed on 100% flour sack cotton, these napkins are extremely soft and absorbent, meaning they work just like you want your napkins to. Plus they are machine washable and safe to bleach making them perfect on spaghetti nights.
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This man-size creature appears to be a turtle with spikes jutting from its shell. The head sports sharp teeth but its many eyes are instead dotted across the creature's shell. Its front legs end in wicked claws and the rear legs end in black-tinted fins.
Tojanida CR 5
N Medium outsider (extraplanar, water)
Init +1; Senses all-around vision, darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +18
AC 22, touch 11, flat-footed 21 (+1 Dex, +11 natural)
hp 52 (7d10+14)
Fort +4, Ref +6, Will +6
Immune acid, cold; Resist electricity 10, fire 10
Speed 10 ft., swim 90 ft.
Melee bite +10 (1d8+3 plus grab), 2 claws +10 (1d6+3 plus grab)
Special Attacks ink cloud
Underwater, a tojanida can tow a grabbed victim of its own size or smaller at its swim speed (but it cannot run). A favorite tactic is to grab a single opponent, then withdraw, hauling the opponent away from its allies. They have also been known to grab drowning creatures and take them to safety.
Str 16, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 9
Base Atk +7; CMB +10 (+14 grapple); CMD 21 (25 vs. trip)
Feats Endurance, Improved Natural Attack (bite), Skill Focus (Perception), Swim-By Attack
Skills Diplomacy +9, Knowledge (planes) +10, Perception +18, Sense Motive +11, Stealth +11, Swim +21
Languages Aquan, Common
Ink Cloud (Ex)
A tojanida can emit a 30-ft. radius cloud of ink once per minute as a free action. This cloud provides total concealment. The ink persists for one minute. On land, the tojanida can spray ink at an opponent to blind them for five rounds. A DC 15 Reflex save negates this effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Environment any (Plane of Water)
Organization solitary or clutch (2-4)
Treasure standard
Tojanida consider themselves to be the ambassadors of the Plane of Water. They swim through depths of the watery plane visiting with planar travelers, elemental creatures and lost souls. They will often provide protection to peaceful travelers and help them reach air or land pockets within the plane.
Tojanida get along well with water elementals, ice elementals and bronze dragons. Tojanida will attack black dragons on sight because of the corruption they cause. They also find black dragon eggs to be delicious. Tojanida are not without enemies, however. At one time, the tritons of the Plane of Water sought to subjugate the tojanida but found the creatures too independent to bend to their will.
Tritons regularly hunt the tojanida for their hides and their meat.
Forgotten Foes © 2010 Tricky Owlbear Publishing, Inc.; Authors Mark Gedak and Stefen Styrsky.


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Observation Tower
Rossall Point Observation Tower is located on the promenade in Fleetwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
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To purchase this photo by Alan Duggan please click the Buy Now button below. Please note you will redirected to redbubble.com. On the following page you will be able to customize the frame, inset card & size of the print.
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Dear OTS, i was refused Asylum in November 2000 and my passport has been at home office ever since. in 2004 l got married to british citizen and applied for leave to remain got response for a 3 yr discretionary in 2008, in 2011 l applied for further leave and got a reply in January 2016 about applying using form FLR(O) and to do biometrics. We now have 2 children and one has severe learning difficulties. What is my position after 15yrs in UK
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Your case raises certain complex matters which our specialist Immigration solicitors, who are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority would be confident to advise you on. We would be able to offer you assistance as part of a one-off consultation or otherwise as part of our full representation service. Your query relating to your leave to remain in the UK, and residence requirements in the UK has been forwarded to the relevant department and our Immigration lawyers will be in touch with you within 24 hours to explain how to proceed for the best outcome in your Immigration case.
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So, I've been meaning to post about about a great day off I had a little while ago. It went a little something like this:
- Go to the Saatchi Gallery – the exhibition on Korean art was amazing!
- Prune & stake tomatoes in the garden (and nibble on a few raspberries too!)
- Relax in the park while listening to my favourite podcast, This American Life
- Make some Roasted Strawberry & Rosemary "ice cream." …and the best part (well two things really): it's made with coconut milk, so it's dairy free, and no ice cream machines are necessary!
Lately, I've been pinning a lot of ice cream recipes that use coconut milk; in the past year or so, I've cut down a lot on the amount of dairy I eat, plus coconut milk is so creamy, delicious and healthy that it seems like the perfect base for a dairy free ice cream. Unfortunately, I do not have an ice cream maker – which tends to make it difficult to make ice cream. Katie, over at KatieDid, has just the same sentiments about the dreaded step in an ice cream recipe – the one that says "freeze according to manufacturer's instructions." What about those of us who don't have an ice cream machine? Luckily, Katie figured out a way for us frozen desert lovers to overcome the ice cream maker conundrum – use your food processor!
Another hurdle for me in this recipe is the canned coconut milk; because I have some tin poisoning, I need to avoid eating canned food. I must admit, when I first spotted this recipe, it was too tempting (and easy) to take the time to make my own coconut milk, so I bought a can instead. In the future, however, I'd love to make my own coconut milk, which you can either do with fresh coconut (if you're feeling strong!), or with frozen or desiccated coconut.
Head on over to KatieDid to find the recipe for Roasted Strawberry and Rosemary Ice Cream. It's perfect to eat on a sunny day off (even if the temperature is starting to drop as Fall arrives); if you want a frozen-themed podcast to listen to while eating your homemade strawberry ice cream, my I suggest my favourite-ever This American Life episode about cryonics gone wrong: Mistakes were Made. (Seriously the craziest story ever!)
A couple notes on how I altered the recipe:
- I made 1.5 times the amount, so I could use a whole can of coconut milk, and added a few more strawberries in at the end (about 450g total, which would be roughly 2 small pints).
- I also added a large drizzle of agave nectar to sweeten it slightly.
- My blender did not like crushing up the ice cream, so a food processor may be necessary unless you have a beast like the Vitamix!
- For eating the leftovers, I find it best to defrost the ice cream slightly and then give it a good stir to make it soft and creamy again.
- For another ice cream machine-free technique to make ice cream, check out this great vegan Rosemary & Plum Ice Cream recipe


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Many spectroscopic applications of femtosecond laser pulses require properly-shaped spectral phase profiles. The optimal phase profile can be programmed on the pulse by adaptive pulse shaping. A promising optimization algorithm for such adaptive experiments is evolution strategy (ES). Here, we report a four fold increase in the rate of convergence and ten percent increase in the final yield of the optimization, compared to the direct parameterization approach, by using a new version of ES in combination with Legendre polynomials and frequency-resolved detection. Such a fast learning rate is of paramount importance in spectroscopy for reducing the artifacts of laser drift, optical degradation, and precipitation.
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After you read these two recent articles about the top book industry stories and happenings of 2012 (and some predictions/hopes for 2013 from some industry gurus):
A Year in Digital Publishing and What To Expect in 2013, from The Literary Platform
Notables of 2012, from Publishers Weekly
you might agree with me that it's been a mind-bogglingly crazy year of transmogrification, change and upheaval (and excitement!) in the publishing world over the past twelve months. The continued meteoric growth of ebook sales, the [real and imagined] Big Six mergers, the price-fixing collusion debacle, the arrival of gads of new devices like the iPad Mini and Kindle Paperwhite are just a few things that went down/broke loose this year.
So it got me wondering about what will happen in 2013. What will be destroyed? What will be born? What will change? What will rise? What will diminish? What will happen that NONE of us can predict?
Personally, it is my hope that this is the year of Big Data for books…that books actually become data (literally relational databases), that book metadata gets better and more standardized, that book content and reading habit data becomes more pervasive and open and that links between ebooks and ebookcases and ebook readers becomes better and better such that soon we'll have one, awesome, global neural net of booky goodness.
But what do you look forward to (or fear) for the world of books in 2013? Please sound off in the comments!


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My name is Jenna Kandyce Linch and I am a child abuse and domestic violence survivor. When I was younger, my dream was to one day become an author. I followed my heart and pursued my dream of becoming a writer, turning that dream into a reality. Writing is the way in which I am able to heal from the abuse I went through in my past. It allows me to release all those feelings and emotions that I have kept locked inside for so long.
It is my sincere hope that through my writing, other survivors and victims of abuse out there may find inspiration and encouragement. I know that it is tough to get out there and share our stories with the world because those who have not gone through abuse in their lives don't always understand what we have endured and suffered. My style of writing is poetry mixed with essays I write based on my experiences and issues that we survivors face every single day. Most of my books are available through major bookstores such as Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, Amazon.com, Waldenbooks, Borders, Lulu.com, etc. I also created an Ezine, Rising Above Magazine, that gives survivors and victims an opportunity to share their stories, poetry, etc. and have their voices be heard. You can visit Rising Above's official site at www.risingabovemagazine.com.
I want to be able to give survivors a chance to be heard because I know that there are many voices who have gone unheard and there are many stories out there that have never had the chance to be heard. I believe that we survivors need to take that step forward in sharing our stories to not only help other victims and survivors but also to shed light on the truth about how damaging abuse is and spread awareness as well as educate those who don't realize what we survivors and victims have had to endure.
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founder and editor of Rising Above Magazine
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being creative
Books I Have Out:
Taking My Life Back: Poems From The Healing Heart of an Abuse Survivor
Still Standing Strong: Surviving the Storms of Abuse
From One Survivor To Another: Poetry for the Abuse Survivor's Heart
Heart and Soul of a Survivor
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Mariah Carey's performance during Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve With Ryan Seacrest went haywire when the vocal track malfunctioned and thew off the singer's lip syncing onstage. The audio malfunction occurred
'Kong: Skull Island' Almost Took Place In A Different Time Period, Opens In March And See Exciting Concept Art, (VIDEO)
It is the most highly anticipated film release of early 2017, and one of the coolest reveals in the first trailer for Kong: Skull Island was that director Jordan Vogt-Robert would be
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"1209 BC is the earliest recording of the name "Israel" as a place or group of people occupying a place. In contrast, the earliest recording of the name "Palestine" as a place comes from Herodotus' Histories, written 750 years later."
Last week Newt Gingrich ("Ingrinch" will be his joke name should he become president*, to join the ranks of Billy Boy, Capital Bush, and Zero) said in an interview with The Jewish Channel that the Palestinians are an "invented people." Gingrich, a student of history, is the first politician in living memory to have the balls to state the truth. Every single word in that one minute clip is historically accurate. There never were a Palestinian people. There never was a Palestinian state. Watch the clip below:
The British defeated the Ottoman Empire and as part of the peace treaty recieved the land that would become Israel, Jordan, and Iraq. This was a legitimate territorial acquisition as decided in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne. Prior to this time the area of greater Syria (the area in question) was ruled by the Ottoman Empire for five hundred years.
Prior to that the region was controlled by the Mamluks, Turkish slaves who revolted against their Egyptian rulers. Prior to that the Arab Caliphate conquered part of the Roman Empire. The Romans conquered the Jewish state of Judea around the turn of the calendar and kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem after the Bar Kokhba revolt in 136 AD, merging Judea with the province of Syria to create Syria-Palestine.
The Jews ran the place before the Romans came in, for about 100 years, after serving as clients under the Greeks who took over everything in 323 with Alexander the Great, who loved the Jews and was a great champion of Jewish culture. Alexander beat the Persians, who were in charge before. The Persians were also champions of the Jews, so much so that Cyrus the Great, who freed the Jews from Babylon, is the only Gentile/Goy to be named Messiah in the Bible.
The Babylonians/Chaldeans crushed the Jewish kingdom of Judah and ruled from 597 to 539 BC under Nebuchadnezzar II (not to be confused with Morpheus' ship, Nebuchadnezzar Mark III, No. 11). He's the one that made the famous Ishtar Gate, now in Berlin, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the World until the Colossus of Rhodes was built.
Judah was the southern kingdom, comprising two of the twelve tribes, Judah and Benjamin. The northern ten tribes were united as the kingdom of Israel. The two kingdoms used to be united, and also named Israel, but the northern tribes were wicked so the Assyrians conquered them and spread them out to the far corners of the world, thus creating the ten lost tribes. Some of those lost tribes may have been sent to Africa as DNA tests show, as well as Afghanistan, where Alexander (see above) encountered a small community of Jews living isolated from the world. The kingdom of Judah remained a client of the Assyrians.
The original, united, kingdom of Israel included territory on both sides of the Jordan river, comprising large parts of the modern states of Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Israel was established, probably, by Joshua. We can't know for certain. What we do know is that a stone inscription called the Merneptha Stele, located in the Cairo Museum (probably, if the Egyptian protesters didn't destroy it), carved probably in 1209 BC, mentions the kingdom of Israel as an independent entity that the Egyptians had their eye on. This document is the earliest recording of the name "Israel" as a place or group of people occupying a place. In contrast, the earliest recording of the name "Palestine" as a place comes from Herodotus' Histories, written 750 years later.
Before that the land was called Canaan. Major Canaanite cities such as Jericho and Hazor were destroyed in the 16th or 15th century BC, before the scholars place the Exodus, the so called "late" dating, which happened AFTER the Merneptha Stele records the existence of an established Israel. The conquest of Canaan couldn't have happened over night, and it couldn't have happened after Israel existed, so the late date of the Exodus is wrong. Can we place the Exodus around the time of the destruction of the Canaanite cities? Yes. The grain at the city of Jericho and other sites was burned along with the cities, not plundered, just as Joshua told his army to do. Any invading army would plunder the cities they sack, but Joshua told his men not to plunder the sites. The goods of the city belong to God, not the Israelites, so they have to burn, not plunder them. This is exactly what we find, and exactly what would be expected if Joshua destroyed the city, not some fictional people hundreds of years prior. The dates of the destruction of the cities is based on hard evidence, the dates of the Exodus is based on speculation from texts. Speculation is far from evidence. Speculation can be wrong, and the Exodus can be a 16th century event.
Before that? The Canaanites were some semi-nomadic pastoralist people living between the Egyptians and Hittites. They seem to have been there forever. Who were the Canaanites? No one knows. Abraham, the first Jew, came from Ur, near the Mesopotamian marshes, and died in Canaan. Canaan became his adopted home. His descendents lived in Canaan. The Canaanites and the descendents of Abraham comingled and became one, save for the difference of one group being monotheists. The Israelites were Canaanites when the Egyptians enslaved them. They returned to Canaan after the Exodus as it was their home. Why the destruction of Canaanite cities if they were kin? Probably to route out all the non-believers. It was a revolution, a civil war; one that the Israelites won.
What about the modern day Palestinians? Where do they fit in? Well, the British decieded to give the land of Israel to the Jews and the land of Jordan to the Arabs, but the Arabs want everything "from the river to the sea" and refuse to except their lot. Both the Jordanians and the Egyptians took "Palestinian" refugees after the 1967 Six-Day War. For decades the Jordanians and Egyptians did nothing. They didn't give the Palestinians their own state. When Israel gave back Jordanian and Egyptian land the Palestinians rushed back and demanded everything "from the river to the sea." The Egyptians and Jordanians bitched about how the Israelis won't give the Palestinians what they themselves would not give. The Arabs are hypocrites and liars. They hated the Jews since the Jews wouldn't accept Muhammad as a prophet. The Arabs took Syria-Palestine from the Romans and told the Jews to submit, but the Jews wouldn't. Jewish belief says that there have been no prophets since Malachi. They weren't about to accept that another prophet arose in the centuries since so the Arabs got pissed off and decided to hate the Jews forever.
There you have it, the history of the land of Israel going back to before the bronze age as well as the history of antisemitism. Newt Gingrich is the only candidate with balls enough to acknowledge this history, and that's why I support him.
*You don't get honoured with a joke name until you're elected.
15 December 2011
The Palestinians Are Fake or Why I Like Newt Gingrich
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noun, plural: leukocytes
Any of the nucleated blood cells that lack hemoglobin, and whose main function involves the body's immune system, protecting the body against invading microorganisms and foreign particles
Blood is the circulating fluid in the body of eukaryotic animals. It is primarily composed of plasma and cellular elements (blood cells and platelets). The blood cells with nuclei and lacking in hemoglobin are the white blood cells, as opposed to other blood cell types such as red blood cells. They are called white blood cells because when whole blood is centrifuged, these cells separate into a thin layer that is typically white in color. Similar to red blood cells, the white blood cells (also called leukocytes) originate from a hematopoietic stem cell (hemocytoblast). The hemocytoblast gives rise to progenitor cells of both the myeloid series and the lymphoid series. Leukocytes from the myeloid series include the granulocytes and the monocytes whereas those from the lymphoid series include the lymphocytes and the lymphoid dendritic cells.
Different methods of classifying leukocytes:
- Based on the presence of granules in the cytoplasm (present or absent, or more precisely, visible on light microscopy or not thus visible): granulocytes (with distinctive cytoplasmic granules, e.g. neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, and mast cells) vs. agranulocytes (apparently lacking granules, e.g. lymphocytes, monocytes and macrophages)
- Based on the nuclear lobes: polymorphonuclear (i.e. a nucleus with more than one lobe) leukocytes vs. mononuclear (i.e. a nucleus with only one lobe) leukocytes
Leukocyte count above the normal range indicates inflammation or infection. In adult humans, the normal range is between 4500 and 11 000 per mm3.
Word origin: Greek leukos - white, and kytos - cell.
Related forms: leukocytic (adjective)
- leucocyte (British)
- white blood cell (or WBC)
- White blood corpuscle
- white corpuscle
- white cell
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Related term(s):
- Agranular leukocyte
- Automated differential leukocyte counter
- Basophilic leukocyte
- Eosinophilic leukocyte
- Granular leukocyte
- Human leukocyte antigen
- Human leukocyte-associated antigens
- Leukocyte inclusion
- Leukocyte interferon
- Leukocyte migration-inhibitory factors
- Leukocyte transfusion
- Leukocyte-adhesion deficiency syndrome
- Mast leukocyte
- Motile leukocyte
- Polymorphonuclear leukocyte
- Receptors leukocyte-adhesion
- Turks leukocyte
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Geospatial modeling at NREL often produces the foundational information for other modeling efforts, including grid-planning modeling (ReEDS), grid operations modeling (PLEXOS), distributed generation market demand modeling (dGen), and modeling of specific systems.
The Renewable Energy Potential (reV) model is an example of geospatial modeling. The reV model enables detailed techno-economic assessment of renewable energy resources under a variety of regulatory, sociopolitical, and environmental factors. reV also serves as a pipeline for coupling energy models (e.g., ReEDS and PLEXOS) to ensure model scenarios are seeded with synchronous data. Running on NREL's Peregrine supercomputer and developed in modular and adaptable code, reV will form the basis of many modeling activities in the future.


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BOSTON, Mass.—Plymouth State University women's basketball held UMass Boston to 23.3 percent shooting in the second half to snap a 21-game Little East Conference losing streak Tuesday evening, with a 46-42 victory over the Beacons at the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium.
After trailing by six at halftime, the Panthers used a 22-5 run midway through the second half to take control of the game, and used their suffocating defense to move to 1-3 in Little East Conference play and 2-10 overall. UMass Boston, which was playing without their second leading scorer, dropped their third-straight game, falling to 8-5 and 1-3 in Little East play.
The Beacons' leading scorer Olivia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) managed 13 points and nine rebounds despite struggling mightily with an illness. Freshman forward Katrina Edwards (Springfield, Mass.) added eight points and five rebounds, while Andrea Suffredini (Milford, Mass.) led UMB's starting five with six points, six rebounds, four assists and five steals.
Little East Conference Rookie of the Week DeAsia Lawrence led all Panthers players with 12 points on 5-of-17 shooting, while Kait Deering and Bry Bennett chipped in with nine and eight points respectively.
The Panthers backcourt of Savannah Miller and Krystin Corliss proved to be the difference in game, despite accounting for a combined nine points. Miller facilitated the Panthers' offense all night long and recorded a game-high 11 rebounds, while Corliss took a back seat offensively, finishing with eight rebounds and a game-high seven assists.
Despite giving up a couple of inches inside all night long, the much smaller Panthers managed to keep the rebounding battle close at 44-42. The Panthers used that same hustle and grit defensively, as they forced 13 UMass Boston second-half turnovers to keep the Beacons to just 20 points for the half.
The first half got off to an extremely slow start with Plymouth State edging out to an 8-0 after six minutes of play. UMass Boston responded with a 9-0 run of their own over the next five minutes, behind three points each from Brittany Moore (Billerica, Mass.), Shelby Buck (Greenfield, Ohio) and Edwards.
The two teams would trade the lead nine times over the next five minutes, before UMass Boston closed the half on a 9-2 run behind two layups and a converted-and-one from Murphy. Those three layups were enough for UMB to go into the break with a 22-16 lead.
UMass Boston extended the lead to 26-18 on a Murphy layup with 16:57 to go in regulation, but that's when Plymouth State turned things around.
Plymouth State used a 22-5 run to grab a 40-31 lead as the Panthers limited UMass Boston to just one made field goal over the next 8:27. During the span, Plymouth State forced seven Beacons' turnovers and UMB knocked down just 1-of-10 field goal attempts.
Murphy and the Beacons used a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to two (42-40) with 2:49 to play, but the Panthers had one more run in them.
Tiffany Lewis knocked down one of two free throws to push the lead 43-40 with 2:04 to go and Lawrence made the biggest basket of her collegiate career to push the lead to 45-40 with 62 ticks left. The freshman guard used a backdoor cut to get wide open on the block, and she managed to kiss her layup high off the glass and in to push the lead to five.
Suffredini cut the deficit to 45-42 with under a minute to play, but the Beacons' last second three-point look was off the mark and Lewis added one more free throw with eight seconds to play to put the game out of reach.
UMass Boston will look to right the ship Thursday night when they travel to Bridgewater State University at 5:30 p.m.


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- Title
- A comparison of bidding strategies for online auctions using fuzzy reasoning and negotiation decision functions
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- Kaur, Preetinder; Goyal, Madhu; Lu, Jie
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- 2017
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- Text; Journal article
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- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/159259
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- vital:11953
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2016.2598297
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- Abstract
- Bidders often feel challenged when looking for the best bidding strategies to excel in the competitive environment of multiple and simultaneous online auctions for same or similar items. Bidders face complicated issues for deciding which auction to participate in, whether to bid early or late, and how much to bid. In this paper, we present the design of bidding strategies, which aim to forecast the bid amounts for buyers at a particular moment in time based on their bidding behavior and their valuation of an auctioned item. The agent develops a comprehensive methodology for final price estimation, which designs bidding strategies to address buyers' different bidding behaviors using two approaches: Mamdani method with regression analysis and negotiation decision functions. The experimental results show that the agents who follow fuzzy reasoning with a regression approach outperform other existing agents in most settings in terms of their success rate and expected utility.
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- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Vol. 25, no. 2 (2017), p. 425-438
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- Copyright © 2016 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.
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- Open Access
- Subject
- 0102 Applied Mathematics; 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing; 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering; E-commerce; Fuzzy reasoning; Multiple linear regression; Negotiation decision functions (NDFs); Online auctions; Software agents
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Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi after more than 20 years in exile, as he eyed a political future for his Ennahda movement after the fall of Tunisia's regime.
"God is great!" Ghannouchi cried out, raising his arms in triumph as he walked into the arrivals hall of Tunis airport, with thousands of cheering supporters crowding around him before driving off to visit his family.
The crowd intoned a religious song in honour of the Prophet Mohammed, as supporters held up olive branches, flowers and copies of the Koran.
"I am so happy to be bringing him back home. I never thought I would see my brother again alive in Tunisia," his sister, Jamila, told AFP.
There were also dozens of people protesting his arrival at the airport, holding up placards that warned against Islamic fundamentalism. But they are in the minority!
The 69-year-old said he was elated as he checked in for his historic flight at London's Gatwick airport, where he posed with a Tunisian flag and embraced relatives before boarding for a country that he has not seen since 1989.
"When I return home today I am returning to the Arab world as a whole," he told reporters, adding that Ennahda (Awakening) now planned to register as a political party and take part in the country's first democratic elections.
The interim government installed in the north African state after the fall of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14 has granted unprecedented freedoms and allowed key exiles to return despite bans from the old regime.
Ghannouchi, a former radical preacher who says he now espouses moderate ideals similar to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was persecuted in Tunisia ever since founding his Islamist movement in 1981.
He still officially has a life sentence hanging over his head for plotting against the president, although the new government has drawn up an amnesty law for convicted activists like Ghannouchi that now has to go before parliament.
"There is still confusion regarding the political situation.... The interim government is changing its ministers every day, it's not stable yet and its powers are not clear yet," Ghannouchi told reporters before leaving on today.
In contrast to his preachings from the 1970s in which he condemned the rise of secular ideas in his homeland and the advances in women's rights, Ghannouchi also said that Sharia Islamic law now had "no place in Tunisia". But that's exactly what Khomeiny said on a question of a French journalist in 1979 just before heading to Tehran, what kind of republic Iran will be in one year: 'exactly the same kind of republic as France!
Therefore, people tell different things such as Najwa, a teacher who said she was imprisoned for wearing an Islamic veil, said: "Everything that's said about him are lies... He's a moderate Islamist."
Mohammed Mahfoud, 37, a trade unionist, said: "I have come to pay homage."
But the views on the streets of Tunis were far more critical of Ghannouchi.
"He has not said what he plans to do. He could cause trouble and destabilise the upcoming elections," said Amenallah Darwish, a 29-year-old lawyer.
Naima, who wore a veil, said: "Many people were imprisoned because of him, young people lost their future. No-one is happy about his return. He lived the good life in London while others paid a heavy price."
Some feminist groups are worried that Ghannouchi's return may signal a rise in political Islam that could endanger their hard-won rights.
Hundreds of women rallied in the centre of Tunis on the eve of Ghannouchi's arrival, saying they would defend their rigths against conservatives.
Asked about some of this concern on today, Ghannouchi was dismissive.
"This fear is only based on ignorance," he said, because Ben Ali's regime had "worked to distort all its opponents, described them as terrorists or being against modernity. All of these allegations have no basis in reality."
Ghannouchi fled Tunisia two years after Ben Ali came to power in a bloodless coup in 1987. In elections in 1989, which were heavily falsified, an Islamist-backed coalition still managed to win 17 percent of the vote.
Shortly after that, persecution of leading Islamists began and Ghannouchi went first to Algeria and then to Britain in 1991. Hundreds of Islamist activists who stayed behind were thrown into prison, often on flimsy charges.
İnteresting is to see what's happening today in Egypt. Last night some 34 key members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood escaped from prison and today the Muslim Brotherhood there asked the independent Mohamed El Baradei to 'negotiate' with Mubarak on their behalf. Mohamed El Baradei is seen as close to Iran and can be the 'usefully idiot' for the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power and dictate Egypt. What will happen with the Suez canal and what will happen with Gaza. Will the later be armed by an Egypt ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood? And what will happen with Israel when all surrounding countries are ruled by religious fanatics? Isllamo-facists?
The Iranian uprising had many of the hallmarks of today's Egypt. The Shah of Iran was the corrupt despot. He had lined his pockets, was ruthless against political opposition, and was perceived by his subjects to be a puppet for the West.
When the young took to the streets 32 years ago they thought they were signing up for a new era where they would be able to determine their own future.
But those idealists were superseded by another group: the clerics. Just as the shah had kept the clerics in check, it is Hosni Mubarak today who keeps the Muslim Brotherhood – the radical side of the Muslim faith – under control. Within months the Iranian revolution unleashed the Islamic Republic.
Faith is never a bad thing and it has a simple appeal. Ordinary people who are tired of poverty and the opulent lifestyles of the old guard can be easily swayed by the wholesome values of religion.
It is a miserable fate in the Muslim world that the choice has to be between self-enriching despots and controlling clerics who covet power over every aspect of life
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Headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers, we work in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Grounded in Computer Science, we develop and study new interaction theories, techniques, and systems in areas like personal digital fabrication and personal design, tangible, mobile, and wearable user interfaces, interactive textiles, multitouch tables and interactive surfaces, augmented reality, and visual coding environments. Our goal is to make the Brave New World of interactive technologies useful by making it usable. Since starting in October 2003, we have become one of Germany's best-published research groups at CHI, the premier international academic conference in the field.
We're part of the Computer Science Department and the HCI Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany's top-ranked University of Technology and one of Germany's Excellence Universities. Our group is an Endowed Chair of the German B-IT Foundation.
Our presentations at ACM CHI 2019
This year, we presented three full papers, two late-breaking works, and two demos at ACM CHI, the world's premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction:
|FLApp, our mobile Future Lab Aachen App for iOS and Android that launched in 2017, takes you on a walking tour through Aachen's inner city. But instead of historical facts, you'll find out about the latest discoveries and inventions made by engineers and scientists at each location, some using Augmented Reality.
Usability for Everybody in 18 Minutes: Prof. Borchers' TEDx Talk
News & Events
- This September, we are hosting the 'Dankeschöntag' with which the Protestant church of Aachen thanks its volunteers for their help throughout the year. Here a report of the day. (Aug 07, 2019)
- For the press conference to announce the upcoming 150th anniversary of RWTH Aachen University, we created a 3D printed triangle based on a design by the RWTH Press and Communications Team that was revealed at the event. The object took about 26 hours to print, finishing live during the press conference. (Jul 15, 2019)
Left photo (from left to right): Senate Chair Professor Stefan Kowalewski, Rector Professor Ulrich Rüdiger, Chancellor Manfred Nettekoven, and Aachen City Mayor Marcel Philipp. Photos by Andreas Schmitter/RWTH Aachen University.
- Three of our students Leon Wittwer, Rene Niewianda, and Christian Schmidt successfully graduated from Fab Academy. Congratulations! (Jul 15, 2019)
- Flowboard, our learning platform for embedded programming, gets an article on the Arduino blog. (Jun 10, 2019)
- Honorable Mention Award for our paper on Springlets at CHI 2019! This award goes to the top 5% of all submissions to CHI, and CHI is the top conference in our field. (Mar 15, 2019)
- Earlier news & events...
Interested in HCI?
- Jan's Top Ten list of HCI books
- What makes a good PhD student? (Jan, Jan 25, 2006)
- HCI Journals and their Impact Factors (Jan, Jan 30, 2006)
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- Join our low-traffic HCI Announcements list to be informed about HCI-related events at our chair, at RWTH Aachen University and in the area.
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A Hot Live in Fukui …
from this 盛り上げ上手な福井県での熱いライブ! post on The Official Blog
After 『Shangri-la』 Meeting on the previous day, the Live in Fukui was held on October 30th, 2013 in Fukui City Cultural Center. Before this, Acid Black Cherry came to Fukui City in Secret Live 2007.
Thanks to the good excitement from fans, this Live in Fukui for the 1st time after six years became a very hot stuff ..
Like a little melancholy for the day, rain was fall on the Live day, and this one was waiting when they arrived on the venue ..
Sauce Katsu
Sauce Katsu, Fukui Cityy's soul food that now become a gourmet which represent Fukui like 「"越前が」/「Echizen-gani」/「Echizen crab」 or shrimp.
they said it's very delicious because yasu even wanted to eat that katsu yesterday and today before Live. After such a delighted time, yasu's back to backstage smiling continuously
while reading messages from everyone (via Janne Official Mobile and twitter) chatting with other members.
Last time in Fukui, it was with no audience and now six years again there were so many audience. Lots of people are feel and waiting for Acid Black Cherry.
Question selected for the question corner is
「Memories of Surrounding Scent」
and yasu's answer is
I do like variety of smells. But I always say, I really like the scent of shampoo called 「SALA」
while the Set List for Fukui is
1. Re:birth
2. 少女の祈り
3. Kuroi Taiyo
4. Nemuri Hime
5. Black Cherry
6. Yubiwa Manogatari
7. Aishitenai
8. Cherry Cherry
9. I'm not a Ghost
10.Shangri La
1. Yes (request)
2. Fuyu no Maboroshi (request)
3. Greed Greed Greed
the finally there you are the Kewpie …
that's Echizen crab, that Fukui is famous about.
aaand ….
i suppose we have to back to Halloween Party talk again ne. I thought i already closed my Halloween Party post since it's already November, but it seems like the After Party for us is not end yet ..
now from BARKS 【photo-gallery】 and Natalie, there you are Acid Black Halloween on stage
~ yasu on vocal
~ Hiro on Guitar
~ Leda (Deluhi) on guitar
actually my knowledge about this Leda for the 1st time was from FanFic.
Yeah, as i always say i am not into FanFic division but i remember there was a time when one of my mutual friend in Ameblo and Facebook is a BIG fan of Deluhi.
She is also a FanFic writer, so everyday my home both Ameblo and Facebook was full with her post/status/notes of her FanFics about Leda in so many various things Leda did with other VK's band member that i didn't even know who they are ..
now i think she is already stop her cyber fangirl or writing FanFic activties because i didn't see her around my Ameblo and Facebook again. For me she was a good writer, i mean how she made me read all of it and even asked her .
hee, did he (Leda) really do/say that?
and ignored the fact that what i was reading a FanFic. I just got Lost inside her way thinking of Leda. Reading too much FanFic might get you lost between reality and fiction ne ..
yasu : what about me …
noi : you mean a FanFic about you ..?, i never read
yasu : uso
noi : i even avoid to read it ..
yasu : why ..
noi : hmm you tell me why ..
and thanks to her my knowledge about VK Bands added even a little bit by reading her FanFics, including how i know this …
~ Shinya (Dir en Grey) on Drum
and …
~ Ju-ken on bass
Since the bass position was announced the last, i think i was not the only who asked for IKUO to be there, as the bassist for Acid Black Halloween. Because i think it's not gonna be so easy for my askin leader_sama TETSUYA to be there ne.
Banana on Halloween Party …. !!!
noi : is that possible?
HYDE : hmmm i think she is hungry now ..
noi : not that banana, but BANANA ..
yasu : ehmmmm …
noi : i really want to see him live on stage again …
then i think yasu might ask IKUO since ther last work together on Greed Greed Greed single. But in the end they decided for Ju-ken on the bass
Okay, not far from VAMPS and just like what HYDE said because he is one of VAMPS he can get all the materials n a short time after spent some more times in London …
Now let's talk about yasu's costume on the 4th day of Halloween Party. I am talking about this Supposed o be a BLACK CAT outfit
DAIGO via his twitter tell everybody if yasu is a mouse . Even i know that's correct but i never read i still say (even wanted to reply DAIGO) with
what kind of mouse is that …?
Blimey, but i got dragged to this Kuroneko ~ Adult Black Cat euphoria and thanks to how sexited i am now to see the PV this midnight then i still think it was a BLACK CAT.
Yeah for me it yasu was a BLACK CAT on that day costume. The funniest was i read how someone said/wrote yasu is a Phanter ….xD
now i am givin up and OK, that's a mouse. Then i remember won won's mouse/rat Mr. Scrabber.
i am sure you all who watch and forever in love to this cute Ron Weasley a.k.a won won know about that. Ron and his little rat Mr. Scrabber that actually he is Peter Pettigrew a.k.a Wormtail friend of Harry's father James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.
He was the one who sold out his friend James together with his wive Lily and their new born child Harry to The Dark Lord . Unlike the werewolf Remus Lupin, he is an animagus so he can change as human or animal as he want.
Just like what Hermione Granger explained, that's the main different between and a werewolf and animagus. Animagus has a control for their self changing while for werewolf it's all about the moon, The Full Moon. That's why now i say :
OK, he was a mouse that day
looks weird ..?
let' just say because he is an animagus but not perfectly transformed.
OK, now what time is it, ah it's just 13:30 PM. Time is so slow ne and all things at office goes in slow motion today. There's another long 4 hours till 17:30 PM. I just wanna go home now, get shome hot water shower and relax a litttle bit before join this 【TEAM ABC】's Secret Meeting tonight.
See no more BATMAN Trap because they already posted the invitation on their Official Facebook Page in English ..!!!
I better go home now ne, but this week just a pretty hard week for me ne, things went wrong and i ended on the HOT SEAT and had to fix all of that ..
yasu : don't ask me …
noi : i know i am HOT but that HOT SEAT …?
yasu : you what ? OK, i'll pretend i didn't see that … *put a strikethrough*
noi : is not my division …
yasu : just end this post now …
well the, let's end this post with this …
Janne Da Arc Fan Club finally is on twitter now.
As what they posted on their twitter profile, that's the Official twitter for 「Mademiselle Anatatachi」, Janne da Arc Official Fan Club. With that twitter account they will inform us the latest information from Fan Club staff.
for example how they tweet_ed links for you's HPの「Diary」. he wrote lots of diary with his phone ne and of course you have to be a Fan Club member to read that, because it is password protected. But they also retweet_ed the not password protected like 【TEAM ABC】's blog post tweet ..
suppose you can use your twitter and follow them in here
I posted that link on team_yasu then as i predicted, i got the same hope comments about how they miss Janne to come back, and some even say maybe they will do a plan for 20th (or 15th ..?) Anniversary Live … etc etc …
i mean, am i the only one that didn't responded that way, regardless for how not into Janne i am. For me, because i am a Fan Club member and sometimes i ….
ah i don't have to write it complete here, suppose you all know what i mean. My respond for that Janne FC is on twitter now was …
OMG Police FC now is on twitter,
noi : they will catch some bad/naughy fans …
yasu : like you ,…?
noi : i didn't say that …
yasu : well i said that ..
noi : then don't say that …


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3 / History and Memory
|Artist / Origin
Peter Eisenman (American, b. 1932)
Region: Europe
Period: 1900 CE - 2010 CE
Medium: Sculpture
|(Total) Covers 5 ½ acres; (Blocks) H: 0-13.1 ft. (0–4 m.), W: 37.4 in. (95 cm.), L: 7.79 ft. (2.375 m.) (each)
|Berlin, Germany
|Photo courtesy of Simon Sinek
expert perspective
|Lisa SaltzmanProfessor of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Additional Resources
Achinger, Christine. "Evoking and Revoking Auschwitz." In Re-presenting the Shoah for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ronit Lentin, 237-242. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.
Davies, Marion. Absence and Loss: Holocaust Memorials in Berlin and Beyond. London: David Paul, 2007.
Rauterberg, Hanno, Hélène Binet, and Lukas Wassmann. Holocaust Memorial Berlin: Eisenman Architects. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2005.
Young, James E. "Peter Eisenman's Design for Berlin's Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe: A Juror's Report in Three Parts." In (Re)visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium, edited by Robin Ostow, 200-214. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Young, James. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
In 1999, a decade after the Berlin Wall had come down, Berlin was re-established as the capital of a unified Germany.
That same year, the German legislature approved Jewish American architect Peter Eisenman's design for a Holocaust memorial to be installed in the capital city. Known as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the completed work was opened to the public in 2005.
Eisenman's memorial is a complex arrangement consisting of 2,711 concrete pillars of varying heights. The slabs are kept to a human scale, and visitors are able to walk among them. The experience, however, is intentionally disorienting. Despite the fact that the pillars are laid out in a regular grid, they are oriented slightly off the vertical. As a result, they appear to lean over the narrow walkways. In addition, the ground on which the memorial sits is uneven. Thus, visitors can find their view blocked or their bodies completely enveloped by the columns rising above their heads in certain areas.
Although the monument has been likened to a cemetery, Eisenman resists this interpretation. Unlike a cemetery, the memorial, he insists, is not a sacred space. Nor is the memorial intended as a sentimental place. The abstract nature of the work, moreover, does not offer resolution to the horrors of the past; rather, it facilitates reflection on those events. In the same vein, the location of the memorial—lying along the former path of the Berlin Wall and in proximity to the Reichstag, as well as the site of Hitler's now-demolished Chancellery—represents a self-conscious acknowledgement of Berlin's painful history.


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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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A very inquisitive unknown narrator tells the story of his voyage, where one of the passengers brings a mysterious extra baggage, an oblong box to the board. Our narrator is quite sure about the content of the box…
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Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday. We started the day with a weak and intermittent internet signal which gradually got worse until it was non existent by late afternoon. At least we had a TV signal (Yes Judith [nb Serena], we went out and had a look. We were moored on the blue mark!)
The large timber products factory In Chirk certainly makes its presence known by dominating the skyline. We were moored sufficiently far away to avoid the noise.
Oh, and yes Favourite Mother In Law…….. I know it's a mangle rather than a washing machine!
I remember mum had one along with a 'copper' when we lived in Waiouru. The copper was a very large deep round tub made of copper. It would be filled with water and a fire lit underneath. The dirty laundry would be boiled in the copper and then once clean, rung out by passing it through the mangle. If I recall correctly it didn't take long before she had an electric washing machine!
The poor internet coverage outside Chirk Marina accelerated our plans and we decided to move. The first task was to go into the marina and have a pump out. We made an error during the preliminary discussion about the pump out and told the staff we had a macerating toilet. As a consequence they didn't do a rinse. Lesson learned, next time I will tell the boatyard we have a dump through system! The pump out wasn't essential, but we considered it a good idea as we will be going up through the 'narrows' on the final approach to Llangollen and have read that it Is shallow.
The canal now clings to the side of the valley with the River Dee below. The area is rather attractive, although the leaf soup at this time of year can make the going slow.
This part of the canal follows Offa's Dyke. The construction of the dyke was ordered by King Offa of Mercia. It's a linear earthwork which roughly follows the Welsh/English boundary. The dyke consists of a ditch and rampart constructed with the ditch on the Welsh-facing side, and appears to have been carefully aligned to present an open view into Wales from along its length. Wkipedia states the reasons for constructing the dyke are unknown. It might have been Offa's way of defining the border with Wales or a first line of defence against the Welsh.
The canal takes a 90 deg turn at Froncysyllte to cut across the Dee Valley. The large canary yellow building at Froncysyllte is The Aqueduct Inn. Originally built as a coaching inn in the 17th century it looks like there may be great views from the beer garden, although the colour scheme might put us off our food.
When last this way in 2001 we think the pub was white. Lemon… Yuk!
A decision was made to moor before the bend only to discover the internet signal was even worse than yesterday. I took the phone for a walk further along the towpath and discovered it could get four bars signal strength 200 metres further on, so we moved. There's now good internet coverage, but the dot in the sky has been lost along with most of the terrestrial TV channels.