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With Neill Holmes at the Crabtree Valley Marriott in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I was guest speaker for the Crabtree Rotary.
My presentation was titled: Nuclear Literacy for Dumb People. I talked about nuclear literacy and gave them a preview of my elementary school program.
There were NO dumb people in my audience, instead I was surrounded by one of the friendliest and most intelligent groups I have had the pleasure of meeting.


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St Michaels Hill, Christchurch, Dublin 8, Ireland, D08 V529
The Dublinia exhibition covers the formative period of Dublins history from the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in 1170 to the closure of the monasteries in the 1540s.There are many exhibits here which include videos, models and reconstructions.
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Christ Church Place, Dublin 8, Co. Dublin
Christchurch Cathedral sits in the oldest part of the city, and dates back to 1038 AD. It is one of Dublin's finest historic buildings, and is open to the public.
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St. Patrick's Close, Dublin 8, Ireland, D08 H6X3
This is Ireland's largest church, and was founded next to a well where St Patrick is said to have baptised in 450AD. Most of the building work dates back to the 13th century.
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The Tailors Hall, Back Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland, D08 X2A3
A short distance south of Christchurch on the opposite side of High Street is the Tailors Hall which dates from 1706 and is the only remaining Guild Hall in Dublin. It was the meeting place of the Guild of Merchant Tailors from 1706 to 1841. It wa...
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Thomas St, Dublin 2, Ireland, D08 X0Y0
Designed and built to world-best standards, Vicar Street opened in the autumn of 1998 pledging to give Dublin a mid-sized venue that would 'punch above its weight'. The roll-call of performers who've graced the Vicar Street stage in the past year testifie
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The Brazen Head Pub, 20 Bridge Street Lower, Dublin 8
Experience an enchanting evening of Irish folklore and storytelling while enjoying a traditional Irish candlelit dinner in Dublin's oldest pub, The Brazen Head.
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Church St, Dublin 7, Ireland, D07 FX92
This church was mostly rebuilt in 1686 on the site of an earlier 11th century church. However, the most interesting attractions are inside: carvings of violins, an organ which Handel may have played on, and caskets in the church's crypt.
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135-138 Francis Street, Christchurch, Dublin 8, Co. Dublin, D08 P5N2
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Werburgh Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, D08 V298
The original church was built in 1178 and named after the daughter of the King of Mercia. An act of 1715 which passed through the Irish Parliament appointed commissioners for building a new church. In 1719 the church was sufficiently built to permit worsh
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17A New Bride Street, Dublin 8, D08 Y80E
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BC: to be continued...
2: about us | Joshua Graham Luther | November 21st | Blue | Gaming | Silly | Adventurous | Content | Ever-changing | On Hallowed Ground | Last of the Mohicans
3: Dorea Lynn Schmidt | October 24th | Turquoise | Baking | Fun-loving | Adventurous | Caring | East of Eden | any song Josh likes | Finding Neverland
4: H O W W E M E T | In 2008 We both auditioned for the spring play and got cast opposite each other- but the first day I remember seeing him was our first day of rehearsals. He was in the corner of the room talking with a friend and wearing his flannel shirt and work boots. I spent the rest of the day trying to think of anything that would strike up a conversation. | After coming back from the summer, I saw him unpacking his car and stopped to say hello.Joanna asked who he was, and I said "Just some boy I had a crush on." We both auditioned for 3 Sisters, and again got cast opposite-but this time there was a kiss. We went away for Thanksgiving (after he asked for my number) and I spent the whole time pining. The first time he saw me after we got back, he knew he had fallen for me. We watched a movie that night in the dorm and ate the cheese dip he had made for me over break. | A N D T H E N M E T A G A I N
5: O U R F I R S T DATE | I knew he could ballroom dance, and had asked him to teach me backstage a few times. One day, while we were all working in the theatre, I told a friend how I wanted to go to a ballroom I had heard about, hoping he'd overhear. He walked over to me a few minutes later."Would you want to go?" he asked nonchalantly. "Of course!" I said. | After our second night of ballroom dancing, we drove home and in the car told each other how we felt. We went to the diner, but weren't so happy we couldn't eat, so we drove to Messiah and sat by the Yellow Breeches, feet wet from the puddles we stepped in getting out of the car. | FIRST NIGHT AS A COUPLE
6: During Christmas break, I went to Josh's house for the first time and met his parents. We got there late that night and Gray had made a fire in the living room- it was the most cozy I've ever been. We played in the snow and enjoyed many fires in the stable, as well as pizza and my first, of many, taquitos.
8: Great Falls
9: Josh took me to Great Falls that week. We left early in the morning to watch the sunrise. We climbed the rocks to a comfy place and watched the water, and then cleaned up exploded Hot Chocolate in my backpack. Josh liked dried mangoes, and then he hated them. We went back two more times while dating- it's been our spot.
10: Less than a month of dating, and Josh was off with a huge bag of Molasses cookies to Ireland for the month of January. We sent each other letters, some with presents... (Josh sent me sheep wool that he found in some field), and talked online as often as we could. I would rush to Messiah's library in hopes of catching him, and we'd chat until the internet in his hostel would crash, or the drunk man would rave about paint.
12: After three long weeks, he finally came back! And there was much catching up to do. But first, we had to dig out the new car and test its power... | Amanda and I got together most nights and counted down the days till our loves returned. We sent them a story with pictures, and Josh kept this one in his wallet until it finally fell apart a few years later.
13: ........................................... | We spent our first Valentine's Day in Harrisburg by the river with a picnic: strawberry cream cheese bread, cream soda, and cashews. A man asked to take our picture...with his own camera. Then it started to sleet, so we went home, warmed with love and wet with ice. A few weeks later, he took me to the Shenandoah Valley. "Want some soda?"
14: Later on that Spring, Gray took us to New York to audition for a summer program. We didn't get in, but we did have a good time on the swings
17: I graduated that Spring of '09, and Josh stayed in Grantham for the summer. We watched Band of Brothers and ate lots of peanut m&m's and China One, and then he left for NTI. He came to visit on his fall break and it was heaven. | In March, I moved into the most lovely apartment above the Luther's garage. Josh came home on break for Easter, and that summer we donned our blacks and worked at Ruby Tuesday.
18: Martha's Vineyard is always the highlight of the summer. Getting up early and stopping for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, riding the ferry, takingJanie's boat for the day, and sitting in the living room and feeling the ocean breeze coming through the windows at night-- there's nothing like it.
20: Harper's Ferry
21: Our date in Reston, where we feasted at Clyde's and then strolled through the plaza.
22: Fall 2010 we drove to Maine and celebrated Sarah's wedding, wearing our festive plaids most hours.
23: Later, in New York....
25: The winter break before Josh's graduation, we went shopping for rings in Leesburg. April 1, 2011, we went for a stroll along the river at McCormick, walking down to the bridge that we had visited so many times. And there, with the water dancing by, Josh got on one knee and proposed. He is the man of my dreams; of course I said yes.


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07-10: Assessing Impact of Land Reform Interventions
Baseline Findings And Evaluation Challenges For An Irrigation and Land Tenure Security Initiative in the Senegal River Valley
Mathematica Policy Research, United States of America
Improving irrigation infrastructure in the Senegal River Valley has the potential to boost agricultural productivity and the welfare of households in the region. However, unless land rights are clearly assigned and secure, investments in land may be dampened, preventing the benefits of improved irrigation from being fully realized. In addition, the potential for land conflicts could rise as land increases in value, particularly if land tenure is insecure.
With these issues in mind, between 2010 and 2015, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) invested in an initiative in the Senegal River Valley that combined irrigation infrastructure improvements with activities to improve land tenure security and governance in affected areas. Mathematica Policy Research is conducting a rigorous evaluation of the initiative.
Here, we present findings from our analysis of a baseline survey conducted by a previous evaluator between 2012 and 2013 among households targeted by the intervention and a group of comparison households. Our analysis illustrates several challenges for evaluations of land interventions, including measurement issues, identifying a credible comparison group, and isolating impacts from the effects of other contemporaneous interventions. We will present our plan for mitigating these risks, and considerations for designing our upcoming follow-up surveys.
Outcomes of land and forest tenure reform implementation in Indonesia
Center for International Forestry Researcy, Indonesia
Most of the developing countries have undergone through forest tenure reform in past two decades offering some rights to local communities over land and forest resources. About one third of world's forest is under community ownership or use. However, the actual contribution on tenure security, livelihoods and forest condition is not fully understood. This paper tries to fill that gap by analyzing outcomes of various forest tenure regimes in Indonesia based on the research from 16 forest communities under social forestry schemes, informal customary systems, and various partnership schemes.
The results show that all the communities whose rights were legally recognized under the reforms had strong perceptions of tenure security; and improved forest condition was observed in the communities with advanced reform implementation. However, these communities had low increase in income after the reform as well as have failed to take into account women's representation and voice in forest governance. Variation in outcomes within and across the formal reform types could be attributed to the disproportionate possession of extent, protection and assurance of rights, access to capital, capacity, biophysical conditions and post formation support.
Methods for Determining Land Formalization Cost-effectiveness: The Per-parcel Cost and Quality of USAID's MAST Pilot in Tanzania
1NORC at the University of Chicago, United States of America; 2Management Systems International
Technical and financial requirements for land formalization programs are substantial, prompting donor and government interest to find low-cost approaches to customary land documentation and registration. Such programs must be feasible to implement at scale, with manageable time, personnel and technical requirements, but also provide sufficiently high-quality service delivery to meet development objectives and ensure sustainability of the process beyond initial donor support. Currently there is no standard approach in the land sector for determining per-parcel costs or cost-effectiveness of such programs. Such analyses could, however, help clarify resource needs and potential efficiencies, identify how differences across approaches may contribute to overall quality and sustainability, and facilitate selection from a range of options. We draw on cost-effectiveness analyses and qualitative data collection with district land staff and program beneficiaries to estimate the cost-per-parcel and associated quality dimensions of USAID's Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST) pilot approach to map land and facilitate formal documentation of customary use rights in Tanzania. While cost data present several uncertainties, results suggest evidence of a trade-off between per-unit cost and quality, and identify advantages of the MAST system that appear to benefit overall quality, CCRO delivery time, and beneficiary trust in the process.
Land Markets, Property Rights, and Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia (1992-2015)
1Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany; 2Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain
We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on deforestation in Sumatra (Indonesia), using farm-household data for the period 1992-2015. The paper is based on a theoretical model of land acquisition for cultivation by a heterogeneous farming population, as well as micro-econometric analysis of primary data. We observe that land market development, under an institutional context of weak land tenure security, has not triggered deforestation in the study area. While the de facto property right protection provides sufficient internal tenure security for most farm-households, the sense of external tenure security is low for the land that cannot be formally titled. This results in the undervaluation of directly appropriated forest land. Clearing forest land for trading in the land market is, therefore, financially less lucrative for farmers than engaging in cultivation of plantation crops in already converted land. The study also indicates that land market development alone has been unable to deter forest appropriation by local (non-migrant) households.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's ice hockey team jumped out to a fast start in its 2013-14 home opener before a crowd of 2,121 fans at the Ewigleben Ice Arena on Friday (Oct. 18) night, but unbeaten St. Lawrence fought back for a 3-2 victory in Big Rapids.
FSU scored the first two goals of the night in the series' opener between the two non-conference opponents before the Saints responded with three-straight goals, including the game-winner with less than seven minutes to play.
With the loss, the Bulldogs fell to 2-2 overall on the yar while St. Lawrence improved to 3-0 this season.
Ferris State got on the board first at 19:13 of the opening period when forward Justin Buzzeo notched his second goal of the year at even-strength off assists from senior Garrett Thompson and junior TJ Schlueter. The assist for Thompson was his third of the year and increased his team-leading point total to five on the season.
After taking a 1-0 lead into the first intermission, the Bulldogs quickly claimed a two-goal advantage when senior Justin DeMartino registered his second marker of the year off a feed from fellow senior Cory Kane for a short-handed tally at 1:07 of the second frame.
However, the Saints pulled within a goal only two and a minutes later when Drew Smolcynski recorded his first goal of the season with assists to both Alex Hagen and Matt Carey at 3:31 of the second.
St. Lawrence tied it up at two goals apiece late in the second when Brian Ward found the back of the net for his third goal this season. Assists were credited to Gunnar Hughes and Patrick Doherty at 17:21 of the period.
After an even third period of play, the Saints pulled out the win as Smolcynski stunned the home crowd with his second goal of the game at 13:36. Hughes picked up his second assist of the night on the game-winning goal as the Saints held FSU at bay the rest of the way.
Ferris State was outshot by a 29-26 count for the night as the Saints recorded 12 shots on goal in both the second and third periods after totaling only five in the opening 20 minutes of action.
Neither team was able to capitalize on the power play as each went 0-of-5 with the man-advantage. In addition, both teams were called for six penalties totaling 12 minutes in the box.
Sophomore Charles Williams earned the start in net for the Bulldogs and made 26 saves in 59:24 of action before being pulled for the extra skater in the final minute. He had five saves in the opening frame followed by 10 in the second and 11 in the third.
On the opposite end of the ice, Matt Weninger won for the third time in as many appearances for St. Lawrence after stopping 24 Bulldog scoring chances.
The loss was only the Bulldogs' third in nine all-time meetings with the Saints, who were coming off a season-opening sweep of Maine last weekend and won 18 games a season ago.
The two teams will meet again in the series' finale on Saturday night at the Ewigleben Ice Arena with the puck drop set for 7:07 p.m. (ET). Saturday's contest will represents FSU's "Pink In the Rink" contest with the Bulldogs donning special pink jerseys for the game to help raise money for cancer research as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
A variety of promotional and informational events will take place in conjunction with the event, which benefits the Susan P. Wheatlake fund.
Tickets for Saturday's contest are on sale and can be purchased online at StarTickets.com, by calling (800) 585-3737 or in person at the FSU Athletics Ticket Office located inside the Ewigleben Sports Complex. The ticket office will open on Saturday starting at noon or call (231) 591-2888 for more information.
St. Lawrence Battles Back To Stun Bulldogs In Hockey Home Opener
|St. Lawrence (3-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC)
|Ferris State (2-2-0, 0-0-0 WCHA)
Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's ice hockey team jumped out to a fast start in its 2013-14 home opener before a crowd of 2,121 fans at the Ewigleben Ice Arena on Friday (Oct. 18) night, but unbeaten St. Lawrence fought back for a 3-2 victory in Big Rapids.


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ebay has temporarily banned the sale of items relating to the world trade center or the pentagon. the ban is effective until october 1.
after taking down postings of several offerings selling debris from the world trade center attack, ebay decided to remove more legitimate items as well, such as collectibles relating to the world trade center and the pentagon.
read more at cnet. there was no information available so far on ebay's policy announcement board.
rob's opinion
the ban of items such as chunks of debris from the world trade center is a necessity right now. the last thing rescue workers and investigators need is scavengers running around grabbing pieces of debris and putting them up for sale on the internet. not only could it impede rescue operations and the investigation, it could put the scavengers and the remaining survivors at risk.
this is really a low point of humanity in the u.s. that people would even consider offering debris for sale. i was appalled and saddened again when a friend of mine from manhattan let me know that there was some looting last night. can we no longer come together as a nation in a time of crisis?
if ebay's ban was a permanent one, i would oppose it. since it is temporary and just for this month, i think it's a good idea. even though items such as postcards and souvenirs from the world trade center will no doubt have more value in the future, it's despicable that anyone would try to profit off of them so soon after the tragedy. bodies and pieces of bodies are still being pulled out of the rubble and some are acting like they hit the lottery. terrible.
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|go ebay (2:11pm est wed sep 12 2001)
they should ban anyone trying to make a profit off this. – by patrick
|yeah! (2:40pm est wed sep 12 2001)
i think that what has happend in america is so 'sick' – now for people to sell stuff is worse, i feel that ebay have done the right thing in the intrests and feelings of the world.
i pray that this may never happen again and for the family's and people trapped also the people that did this will be brought to justice. – by a sad person
|i dunno… (2:41pm est wed sep 12 2001)
…maybe a permanent ban on items related to the disaster itself would not be soooo bad. – by feeling like 1941
|welcome to capitalism. (2:43pm est wed sep 12 2001)
this is what you get from a money driven society.
bet remember… nothing can damage america's "pride"
heh… pathetic – by godblessamerica
|poor taste (2:43pm est wed sep 12 2001)
it seems in poor taste to try to profit from this. and even poorer taste to bid on the items. – by juice
|big surprise (2:58pm est wed sep 12 2001)
that prick who calls himself "godblessamerica" is undoubtedly from canada. canada is also a capitalist society, so obviously, you are "pathetic" too. – by yomama
|hey yomama (3:08pm est wed sep 12 2001)
what does godblessamerica's post have to do with canada.
get a life – by iamcanadian!!!
|hey now (3:10pm est wed sep 12 2001)
don't go disrespecting people from canada, just because this disaster happened in america!
i htink that what everyone is saying about what happened yesterday is their own opinions, and that is exactly what they are….opinions….and we are all intitles to feel the way we feel.
i am a canadian currently living in the united states, so i get to have two different point of views in this matter, because that is my opinion. i cried as many tears yesterday as everyone else did in this world. i was affected by this as much as the next person. canadians and americans are *friends*, so why not just stick by your friends. it's not as if our country turned our back and said fix it yourself. i have friends in the canadian army who are on their way down to the us to help out, and in my *opinion*, i'm sorry, i just wouldn't call that pathetic…… – by kat
|*nods* (3:12pm est wed sep 12 2001)
i agree with iamcanadian.
well said, my friend! – by kat
|canada rocks (3:20pm est wed sep 12 2001)
think of all of the people that were on airlines that were diverted to canada. canadians have been really good to us through this crisis. just because they're not americans does not mean that they do not sympathize.
it is a shame that people are trying to profit from this tragedy. sick. but do not forget all of the other sick events that people in america exploit. all for what? a profit. just because we're trying to keep it from happening this time doesn't mean we've never done it before, if only on a smaller scale. – by naineh
|miss cleo (3:30pm est wed sep 12 2001)
where was miss cleo (and the other psychics)? did they know and didn't say anything? or are they, shall i say, fake?
for entertainment purposes only. – by crosswind
|whiskey tango foxtrot, over (4:12pm est wed sep 12 2001)
godblessamerica, not all americans are money hungry, disrespecting cretins. to anyone that generalizes, you are ignorant. on behalf of all of us proud americans, i thank canada, and every other country that is aiding in any way that they can. even castro wants to help out. and for those sick people on ebay and looters, you have as little respect for life as the terrorists. – by the grifter
|speaking of profiteering (5:02pm est wed sep 12 2001)
i heard on the news this morning that hours after the attack, several gas stations in the mid-west immediately raised their gas prices to over $5 a gallon.
they claim that their distributor told them they didn't know when the next shipment was coming, or how much it would cost, but all the major gasoline distributors have released statements to the contrary, that all prices should hold steady.
greedy, immoral pigs.
|we (5:26pm est wed sep 12 2001)
the good the bad and the ugly
we are a collection of all.. and that is to say we the people of earth, not just the usa. true, we have what it seems to be a weaker moral fiber than past generations, but then things have been rather easy and we have not had to count on anyone else..
the times.. they are a changing – by mr_ginchie
|unhuman… (5:34pm est wed sep 12 2001)
that is horrible that people would try to sell what we have worked so long for. freedom. would you sell achunk of the us for $10.00 i dont think so. think about all the people hurt in this. – by allie
|our texas governor… (5:56pm est wed sep 12 2001)
…declared this a limited disaster so that anyone who charges $5 a gallon for gas will go to jail!
i love it when they do something right! – by from texas, earth
|shoot those people.. (6:47pm est wed sep 12 2001)
who are charging 6 dollars a gallon. war profitaring is evil, and is an act of a traitor……. – by sourdough spam
|look at the big boys getting rich (7:00pm est wed sep 12 2001)
off of this. frist of all the gas went up 10 cent a gallon around here. and with over 50,000 puter killed off i sure that give the puter maker a big push. and a few sever too. not to mention they all need sothware. the clean up crew will chage prime rates to hual off the rubble. more to build them back. my point is that it ok to raise gas prices on all of the usa. but let some sickoo try to sell $5 of trash and we beat them to death. kill the sickoo on ebay hail to the big boys – by makeabuck
|re: makeabuck (7:37pm est wed sep 12 2001)
please take an english class or learn how to proof-read!! – by still-a-geek
|flight sim (7:58pm est wed sep 12 2001)
i'm sure these guys use ms flight simulator to learn how to crash into the wtc. with flight sim you can do that. just like the kids use quake type games to plan the colombin high school massacure. the family should sue micro$oft – by really smart
|ugh (8:42pm est wed sep 12 2001)
i don't know about anyone else but im sick of hearing about this. we all know what happened and it is very very sad that so many people lost their lives on that sad day. if something new happens then i would definately like to be informed but i will not let this ruin my life untill it needs to be ruined. – by anti racism
|ignorant (9:54pm est wed sep 12 2001)
let me get this straight?…? your putting blame on a friggin' game. ah.. cartoons, movies, and toys were not all tinker toys in the 1970's, or 1960's for that matter. people are messed up… deal with it… don't blame something out of blind anger or ignorance.
back on the topic… i just hope the selling/buying on ebay doesn't hurts the investigation. that would be bad.
|what about… (1:40am est thu sep 13 2001)
what about the ash? i seriously considered going to manhattan, scoopin up boxes of ash and reselling it in small clear cubes for $2.00 + s/h each…
…but upon reflection, i figured that someone, somewhere, from one of the 50000 families affected would probably burn my house down so i gave up on the whole idea…
– by what next
|flight sim (6:08am est thu sep 13 2001)
i was just using msfs2000 anhour ago to do just that just to see what it was like ….. – by fs2000
|disgusting (11:13am est thu sep 13 2001)
i am so disgusted i am physically ill.
i got spammed by poplaunch/stealthlaunch/m@ster@gents, claimign to be the american red cross, and asking for a credit card number.
war profiteering is evil, but stealing from people and pretending to help the victims like these spammers is absolutely… well, there are no words.
i'm going to go vomit again.
– by icesnake frostfyre
|it's too bad (3:19pm est thu sep 13 2001)
these "people" weren't the ones in the building. – by disgusted
|do not let a few speak for many… (8:08pm est thu sep 13 2001)
so, there are americans trying to profit from the sale of disaster debris. how low we have sunk that people would try to profit from the pain of another. i'm not surprised, of course, since this kind of thing has been happening here and there since (and probably before) the carpetbaggers after the civil war. but do not let these few sully america.
after all, many islamic countries are eagerly decrying this barbaric act. there are plenty of islamic countries and perhaps millions of followers of islam that do not hate the u.s., that are as disgusted as we are.
so, although i'm sure many are eager to say "damned greedy americans, it's what you get from a money-run society" (sounds a lot like derek), you cannot draw a conclusion on a whole people based upon the depraved actions of a few. that goes for americans and islamic nations.
and for those of you besieging mosques, temples, etc…why don't you keep your anger somewhere close…nurture it, stoke it, and wait for the day until we can find the real perpetrators. leave peaceful people alone, and have no mercy for the real criminals when they are found. – by u.s. marine


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matlabtricks.com http://matlabtricks.com/feed 2016-03-19T13:54:55+00:00 A step-by-step guide of an image segmentation task
Some weeks ago I received an e-mail from a reader pointing to an interesting task in the field of image processing. He kindly let me to publish the problem and the images we were working on, so I decided to explain the problem and write a small guide showing how such a task can be solved.
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Some weeks ago someone posted me a problem on segmenting regions of an image by using color information. She also attached a sample source code for doing this task. In this post this source code is analyzed and we also create a much better and general solution.
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Although there are some great built-in functions in MATLAB to find local maximas, in this post a simple, convolution-based approach is demonstrated to practice using this operation. This post may inspire some MATLAB users to creative ways of using convolution in daily programming tasks.
 Read more http://matlabtricks.com/post-47/find-local-maximas-of-an-1d-signal-by-convolution 2014-11-28T09:43:22+00:00 Interactive demonstration of intensity transforms
This application is based on the previous post: A tutorial on intensity transforms of images. It requires only a modern web-browser to run.
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Image processing often requires transforming the intensity values for example to turn the image easier to process or to highlight certain objects. In this post an effective way of some simple transforms are explained and an interactive demonstration is also available.
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The rand function in MATLAB returns uniformly distributed pseudorandom values, but we often need random numbers of other kind of distributions.
A great article written by John S. Denker explains a method of generating random numbers with arbitrary distribution. This post is based on his work, and shows a simple MATLAB implementation.
 Read more http://matlabtricks.com/post-44/generate-random-numbers-with-a-given-distribution 2014-10-05T18:29:47+00:00 An alternative of nchoosek for selecting all pairs
Sometimes we need to select all pairs from a set, for example to calculate the distance between all point pairs. Although the built-in function nchoosek provides a convenient way to do this, in this post an alternative method is described which runs about 188 times faster in case of 1000 elements.
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Dear MATLABtricks.com readers, I apologize for having not written to this blog for such a long time. The reason is that I was working on an image-processing related own project, called Imagatic. This is an online photo effect application, which requires only a modern web-browser to run, works on smartphones, tablets and PCs too. Hopefully it will have growing amount of effects as I am going to develop it further.
 Read more http://matlabtricks.com/post-42/matlabtricks-com-is-back 2014-08-11T20:59:43+00:00 Understanding the Hough transform #2
In a previous post the basics of the Hough transform were explained. Although we have the built-in hough function in MATLAB to do this operation, it is definitely worth to write our optimized version for study purposes. In addition this lets us to have a function meeting our needs better if needed.
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As working on a fast implementation of the Hough-transform, at a given step repeating a row-vector multiple times was needed. Because there are some methods to do this task, it was worth to measure the runtime of the different approaches and choose the best one.
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Release date: April 2, 2013
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When Drake started the night at his father's campaign fundraiser, he never imagined he'd end it being conned into buying drugs on the West Side. Losing high-stakes poker has its consequences, but he'd repeatedly face them just to hear Lacey Douglas sing. Drake sees Lacey light up the stage, and he has to have her. But his intentions for being on her side of town turn out to be the reason he can't.
Chicago native Lacey has dreams of the opera, but life has its obstacles. Lacey has come to know her hardships as part of living in the real world and accepts them fully. When Lacey meets the intense and invigorating Drake, a fire is lit inside her, unleashing those dreams again.
Two paths that should have never crossed prove to create the exact pairing the other needs. But when their worlds take time to catch up, everything they have is tested. Finding the space between the two sides that challenge them will be hard, but it's the only place that will keep them together.
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When I sat down to read The Space Between I had no idea that I wouldn't be getting up again until I had finished. I was definitely captivated by the well written and realistic characters. The plot was unique in it's own way and the writing was smooth and flowed beautifully. Fans of New Adult novels will enjoy the sexy, steamy scenes and the heartwarming romance.
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Not a surprise but Atlético Madrid have announced that Fernando Torres has signed a new one-year deal to stay at the Vicente Calderón.
Torres, an Atleti youth product, returned for a second stint at the club 18 months ago in a loan switch from Serie A side AC Milan.
The 32-year-old's fine run-in last season where he scored 10 goals in the final 20 games had a lot to do with Diego Simeone agreeing to bring the striker back for another season.
Torres, who initially spent six years in the Atlético first-team before moving to Liverpool and then Chelsea, also netted his 100th career goal for Atlético during the 2015/16 campaign.
Reacting to the news, Torres explained:
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He went on: "I've never had doubts about where I wanted to be during all this process in which we didn't know what was going to happen.
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It's no secret that franchises have become the bread and butter of Hollywood in recent years. If something's great and audiences love it, then the only logical thing to do is to give the people more of what they love. While that has been the case for numerous successful films in recent memory, it may not end up being the case for The Peanuts Movie. The family film expertly told the story of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang, but don't expect any sequels on the horizon.
While The Peanuts Movie did not win its opening weekend, it performed admirably against James Bond and Spectre – garnering a respectable $44 million at the box office. Jean Schulz – widow of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz – voiced her own satisfaction with the final product, as well as the fact that her own husband would be proud of this modern version of his iconic comic strip. That being said, The Wrap reports that she is in "no rush," to spearhead the making of a sequel. Her consent is vital to the process, as Fox only had the rights to produce one movie. Merely getting this one off the ground took the better part of a decade, so if she does voice her approval for a sequel, we could likely expect a similar time frame.
The Peanuts Movie works because it managed to get right to the core of its source material's appeal. Not every adaptation that has been released in recent months has been able to make that claim. Terminator: Genisys essentially gutted the iconic franchise – even going so far as to retcon the good elements of the series out of existence. In addition, Universal's recent failure, Jem and the Holograms, was essentially an adaptation in name only and told a generic origin story that possessed none of the charm of the original cartoon. Sometimes studios are lucky enough to accurately adapt material in a way that is faithful to what came before – such as with The Lego Movie – but if they fail they risk being unable to use that property for the foreseeable future.
If you love Peanuts, but have yet to see The Peanuts Movie, check out the trailer below and see if they got it right:
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20 Aug Bankruptcy Basics: What Does The Chapter 13 Trustee Do?
When a person files for bankruptcy, an estate is automatically created–just as if the person had died. The Bankruptcy Court appoints a trustee to administer the estate (similar to the way a probate court appoints an executor to administer the estate of a deceased person). The Trustee's job responsibilities are very similiar to those of an executor. In a Chapter 13 case, the Chapter 13 Trustee's job is to administer claims. Claims are statements regarding the debt that the creditors file with the Court. Claims are supposed to be the amount of the debts owed by the person who filed bankruptcy. The person who filed bankruptcy is known now as a Debtor. The Chapter 13 Trustee looks at the claims and pays the claims each month from money that the Debtor pays to the Trustee. The amount of money paid by the Debtor each month is determined by the Debtor's Plan. The Debtor files a Plan at the beginning of the Chapter 13 case — a Plan of Reorganization.
The Trustee meets with the Debtor and the attorney at the 341(a) Meeting, also known as the Meeting of Creditors. The Trustee questions the Debtor to make sure that the information on the Petition and Schedules is accurate.
The Trustee also appears at the Confirmation Hearing, where the Debtor's attorney and the Trustee inform the Court of the Plan, any changes in the Plan since the time the case was filed and the Trustee reports to the Court whether he/she approves of the plan or disapproves of the Plan. Once the Plan is confirmed, it becomes an Order.
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Qype: Lucky Voice in London
And to think I nearly braved going home to get some hats and tashes – private booth karaoke becomes extremely special when you have a 'thirsty' button with a useful waitress who appears in the blink of an eye and a box of dress-up paraphernalia.
Now I likes me some Karaoke, it's true. In the past I was used to seedy PA systems at restaurants, caterwauling on street corners and even whispered lullabies to sleeping babes (none of mine own). Nothing prepares you for a private session though, in luxurious surroundings, with a fully stocked and prepared cocktail bar with delightful canapés and such friendly and charming hosts.
My visit to the Islington branch of Lucky Voice was courtesy of Qype and Windows 7 Mobile and possibly I wouldn't have ventured so far north to check out this venue. After spending a roaring night of rapping, singing and laughing I have so many good memories that I really would consider dragging my pals to do it, not because the central London venue is booked. Even when I wandered away from the bar to munch on more Hoisin Duck pancakes (folded elegantly like a seaside chip wrapper cone) to find my Mohito delivered to a charming young lady, nothing bothered the bar staff. He was already making a replacement for me, rather then leave it to melt on the bar edge – a sign of good training and thoughtfulness.
Being of Mediterranean blood, I tend to generate enough heat to power a small island and I would have preferred more air-conditioning in the booths – not to say it's rubbish – but as I danced more and got even hotter, I felt the need to take the occasional mulligan in the sumptuous bar area to cool down at times. Aside from that, top times all round!
Check out my review of Lucky Voice – I am Bring_Stuff – on Qype
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EDMONTON — The father of a woman killed during a demonstration between two off-road Jeeps says organizers did a poor job of considering risk at the event.
"There was no proper risk analysis done and no opportunity for risk analysis to be done," John Green said Friday at the fatality inquiry into the 2013 death of his daughter Melinda.
"It's our family's opinion there was a deep lack of risk analysis."
The 20-year-old was crushed between two vehicles when a manoeuvre called stacking — where one Jeep climbs up the front wheel of a second Jeep — went awry.
The demonstration was during an event called Jeeps Go Topless, jointly put on by a Jeep owners group and the Edmonton office of property management company Bentall Kennedy.
The inquiry heard the demonstration came about after it was mentioned by a news cameraman, who expressed an interest in filming it if it were attempted.
Bentall Kennedy employee Haylie Thomlison, one of the organizers, said everything came together before she had a chance to think it through.
"It honestly happened so fast that that (safety) discussion didn't take place," she said.
"We didn't have a conversation whether we should or shouldn't have it. It just basically happened."
Thomlison said there had been no plans for such a demonstration.
"It should never have taken place," she said. "We should have said, 'It's not part of our schedule.'"
On the first day of testimony Thursday, Jeep driver Craig Supernault described what happened while he sat in his vehicle atop a second, stationary Jeep.
He said the parking brake was engaged, the transmission in first gear and the clutch and brake both depressed when he turned the key to restart the engine. The motor immediately revved out of control, he said, and, despite the brakes, lurched forward toward a row of parked Jeeps and onlookers.
Green was killed when Supernault struck another vehicle and flipped on his side.
But Edmonton police Const. Darren Sunley said Supernault's account was unlikely. He said the Jeep had been turned over to a mechanics instructor at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
"There was no mechanical reason or electronic reason for (the crash) to have occurred," testified Sunley.
The officer said it was much more likely that Supernault's feet simply slipped on the pedals as the Jeep was tilted. He surmised the driver's right foot had become wedged between the gas and the brake.
"It's very, very likely," said Sunley.
"He may have thought that he was perfectly in the right place but his feet were in the wrong position and the car (was) in the forward gear."
John Green said even though his own family's loss is irreparable, the accident could have been much worse.
"We lost a lot," he said. "Our life is entirely different."
He told Judge Jody Moher that such events should be required to carry specific insurance. That would force potential sponsors to consider risk to the public in advance, he suggested.
"If event insurance was in place, this impromptu demonstration would not have taken place."
Sunley said he thought the city should enact a bylaw restricting the movement of vehicles at such shows where the public has access.
"If there is going to be movement there needs to be a physical barrier in place."
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Need a new candle holder?.......no trouble!April 14th, 2009 in member junk
I found this vintage trouble light at an estate sale, half price on the second day, (I am obsessed with turning old objects into candle holders). My daughter gave me the usual look, and the usual saying, "I'm sure you have an idea for that". All I had to do was scrub it up and there you have it, a great candle holder. It has a really heavy glass that covered the light bulb, plus I put a heavy glass votive inside, so I am double safe. I discovered that it also fits inside my glass hurricane, so the possibilities are endless.
Have a good junking week-end ladies!
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Great thinking! It's very charming!
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A graduate from the University of Toronto, Nick Kuryluk is the Chief Executive Officer at ColdBlock Technologies Inc. Nick is also co-founder and Principal at Virtus Insights Inc., a strategic management firm.
Nick's career has largely focused on the bio-science industry. He helped launch Amgen Canada in 1991 where he established the Strategy and Program Management Office and New Products Commercialization function. In 2014, Nick formed ColdBlock Technologies Inc., manufacturers of a novel and innovate sample digestion technology that serves the mining, environmental, food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries.
Nick currently serves on several boards and committees in addition to serving as an alumni member of the Governing Council for the University of Toronto. Currently, he is Chair of the Campus Council at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), member of the UTM Campus Affairs Committee and Cabinet Member of UTM's Boundless Campaign. He has received several awards for his dedication and contribution to the university, including the 2016 J. Tuzo Wilson Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2009 Arbor Award for volunteerism and the 2009 Top 40 Alumni Award. He is a volunteer advisor at Mississauga's Research Innovation and Commercialization Centre (RIC), and Student Mentor at UTM's "I-Cube" incubator program.


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The U.S. military and the Afghan government have sealed an agreement on the gradual transfer of control of the main U.S. prison in the country, a last-minute breakthrough that brings the first progress in months in contentious negotiations over a long-term partnership.
The Friday compromise deal came on the day Afghan President Hamid Karzai had set as a deadline for the Americans to hand over the Parwan prison.
The agreement gives the U.S. six months to transfer Parwan's 3,000 Afghan detenus to Afghan control. However, the U.S. will also be able to block the release of prisoners, easing American fears that insurgents or members of the Taliban could be freed and return to the fight.
The deal removes a sticking point that had threatened to derail talks going on for months that would formalise the U.S.-Afghan partnership and the role of U.S. forces after NATO's scheduled transfer of security responsibility to Kabul at the end of 2014.
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama and Mr. Karzai discussed the stalled security pact talks in a video conference. White House press secretary Jay Carney said the two leaders noted progress toward completing an agreement "that reinforces Afghan sovereignty while addressing the practical requirements of transition."
Another major sticking point in the negotiations remains unresolved — night raids by international troops on the homes of suspected militants. Mr. Karzai has demanded a halt to the raids, which have caused widespread anger among Afghans.
U.S. and Afghan officials have said that they want a strategic partnership agreement signed by the time a NATO summit convenes in Chicago in May.
Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, called Friday's deal a sign of real progress toward the larger partnership accord.
"This is an important step. It is a step forward in our strategic partnership negotiations," he told reporters here before signing the agreement. alongside Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.


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Saturday 6 October, 10am, at Japanese gardens, Atawhai Drive
Meet on Saturday 6 October at Japanese gardens at 10am. The Japanese gardens are near Founders Park on Atawhai Drive (between the marae and the highway junction). Plenty of parking along the road. A guided tour will be held by Peter Coubrough. Peter designed the gardens and is supervising the construction and ongoing development of the garden. Peter has been heavily involved with TCA at the time of the olive action group. The Miyazu Gardens will have just had the Cherry Blossom Festival, so all should be looking good.
After the Japanese gardens we will drive to the newest international garden: the Chinese garden in the Queens Gardens. Entry near Suter art gallery. Again Peter will be our guide as he designed these gardens too. The Suter art gallery has a lovely cafe, which looks out onto the Queens Gardens. The tour will take about three hours in total from 10 am till approx. 1pm.


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As I'm always looking for something to keep me out of trouble during these quiet wintery days, I decided to import all of our CDs into iTunes. I've done portions of our collection previously, but this time thought I would just import the whole entire collection. Now that Nat is into using his iPod Nano I'm thinking he may want a change of songs in his Playlist sometime in the future. I began my little project and imported a few CDs each day I had a couple of hours to spare and during the evenings while Nat was watching his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. I completed the entire process within a week, but have discovered there is more to do.
A few years ago I converted all of our record album collection to digital and burned each record to a CD. I also thought I was being quite clever in attaching a copy of the actual album cover by using the CD labels you could buy at WalMart, Staples or any other such store. It took a lot of time and printer ink but I managed to at least complete a good quarter of our collection, when I finally realized that the whole process wasn't really worth it, just for the two of us. Besides, it was really getting expensive. I stopped what I was doing and from thence forward just wrote the name of the album on each CD with one of those special pens. Needless to say, the project was completed in no time.
That was then, but this is now. As a result of putting labels on each of those CD's had now become a problem in uploading the songs to our iMac. Almost 90% of those labelled CDs could not be read and I had to put them aside and think about what to do. I had managed to get a few done until one CD got stuck in the drive and kept spinning like a ferris wheel. It had become obvious that the drive was getting warm and therefore heating up the label and making it unreadable and even unremovable!! Good God, what am I going to do now, I thought. After turning the monitor around with the CD/DVD drive facing me, I noticed that the drive went through the motions of trying to read the CD and then try and eject the same, but the CD wouldn't rear it's head outside of the drive enough so that I could grab and pull it out. After a few attempts of poking and prodding (yes, that's a major no-no, but desperate times call for desperate measures), a portion of the disc would eject enough where I could see it. I tried to grab it several times , but to no avail. I ran for a pair of tweezers, but the ends were too thick for the drive slot. As Nat was watching a hockey game, I was reluctant to bother him, but after a lot of frustration and a few cuss words, I called him into the office and explained what was going on. We waited for the drive to do its rotation again, and (after a couple of tries), I was able to stop the CD from returning back into the drive with a small thin ruler (yes, dangerous I know, but desperate times …. ) while Nat grabbed the damn thing and pulled it out. God, I was so lucky no damage was done!!!!
Lesson learned, I would now stop inserting "labelled" CDs into the drive and rethink how I would recover the album songs it contained. Naturally, this little problem continued to plague me, so after getting the good CDs imported, I did some research on the net. Apparently you can remove those pesky labels by placing them on a clean cloth label side up, lay a cloth dipped into Isopropyl Alcohol (otherwise known as Rubbing Alcohol) over the CD and let it sit for 5 minutes. After a couple of minutes you can give the cloth a bit of a turn, but I found it wasn't really necessary. When ready, you can then carefully peel that label right off with no residue at all. You then wipe the disc clean and it should be ready for use again. After Nat and I had physically tried to peel off the labels without any success but a lot of tedious labour, we gave this rubbing alcohol test a try. Using a music CD we really didn't care if we ruined, we dipped a cotton cloth into the rubbing alcohol, placed it over the disc and within a few minutes carefullly peeled away the label, wiped it clean, and then inserted it into the iMac's drive. Low and behold, the damn thing appeared on the screen, iTunes popped up and I was able to retrieve the songs. With an ounce of skepticism, I was extremely happy this trick worked. It will now be possible to import some of those digitized record albums that we thought were lost due to my overly ambitious labelling. We both felt that yes, we could in fact, re-purchase some of these albums, but that would be an expensive exercise. There are some albums we wouldn't be able to buy again – long gone, and no longer available. At least now our record collection will be complete and backed-up on the iMac for Nat and i to listen to whenever the mood strikes us.
Today I was up and at 'em, down the road for routine blood work, and once home sat in my easy chair beside Nat and we both fell back asleep. Nat has spent the last few days painting new closet doors and trying to nurse his aching neck, which has been bothering him for a long time now. The Doc thinks it may be some sort of arthritis and he's been coping as best he can. I think this morning, as we were both up earlier than usual, it may have finally hit us. We both struggled to make it until lunch time, but after a bit of nourishment we're still struggling to do anything. The weather isn't as bad as some parts of Southern Ontario (only a bit of drizzle, large snow flakes and more drizzle) but it's not exactly sunshine that would put spring back into our steps. Why not, we're retired and we might as well do as our body's are telling us – relax. We'll get back to reality tomorrow.


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We arrived safely yesterday after a wonderful send off by members of our church family at 2:30 a.m. Thanks to Eric (our shuttle driver) we had a safe and uneventful ride to Logan and then an uneventful flight to JFK and onward to the Dominican Republic. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.
Michele and I are very blessed to be leading this team to the Dominican Republic this year. It has been a wonderful time of preparation and we are excited to continue to build our relationships with the people of Compassion and the DR and to participate in the work that they are doing for the children and their families here. We are all grateful for the opportunity to be part of God's plan in this way.
Today we were blessed to go back to one of the same projects that we had worked with last year. The Pastor and many of the staff remembered us and greeted us with hugs. Many of them wore the T-shirts and wrist-bands that we they gave them last year. They were thrilled to see the new faces that have come this year and welcomed us all during a service at their church. The children treated us to a time of worship through dance, singing, prayer, smiles and hugs. Once again we were blessed by the preaching of a 13 year-old young man. In the front of the church was the banner from last year. Many of the children remembered us and we remembered them. All of us were embraced by the love of these children and adults. Praise God!
After church, we helped walk the children back to the project and after some playtime, we were blessed to be able to serve the children their lunch. After we had shared a wonderful Dominican lunch with the Center's staff, we split into two groups and went to visit two of the children's homes. To our surprise, they had arranged it so that we would visit the homes of two of the children that were sponsored by members of our team. Michele and I were blessed to visit one of our sponsored children and Libby was able to visit one of the children that she and her family sponsor. I will let her tell you more about that when she blogs.
As we arrived at the house of our child, only the step father was there. He told us that he usually would be working but that he had a feeling that God wanted him to go home. He explained that his wife had to work in her mother's store to help out and that our sponsored child had had to go to school. He graciously offered to answer our questions and visit with us. He explained that his daughter was so much happier since she had been sponsored by Compassion. Suddenly the mother walked in as she had made arrangements so she could be with us. She told us how excited her daughter was that we, her sponsors, would be coming for a visit. She had hardly slept that night and pleaded not to go to school. As we sat there we saw our pictures hanging on the cabinet. Her mother brought out the letters we had written to her and explained how much they meant to her. In the meantime, dad had slipped out to bring her back from school. It was just plain wonderful when she arrived at the house and we all had a chance to visit with her.
I suppose that the reason we are sharing all of this is to help you understand the purpose for our mission. We are here to build relationships with the staff and children and to offer support, encouragement and love. We pray that God will also use us to help more people come to know Jesus as their Savior. Your prayers, encouragement, gifts, love and support have helped to make this possible and we hope that sharing our experiences will be a blessing to you as they have been for us.
Please keep our team in your prayers: Libby, Ashley, Martin, Sue, Jessica, Tina, David, Michele and Scott. Please pray for our Compassion Staff: Debbie, Jonathan, Marcell, Diana and Levi. Please, please continue to pray for the children and adults of the DR that God's work and love will permeate their lives.
God Bless You All! Love in Christ, Michele and Scott
P.S. For those of you from last year's team. The people at the Center have embraced this year's team but ask about you. They asked us to give you a kiss and that they hope to see you next year. If you would like to send them a message please feel free to send me an e-mail at email@example.com and we will be happy to share it with them on Saturday during VBS.


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Sharma has served at various level of government and in different parts of the country. He has sound knowledge, skills and expertise on agriculture economy, climate change adaptation, and formulation of policies, strategies and plans. He has been an active player in the national policy and practice shaping on policy instruments in climate change adaptation in Nepal. In the year 2016-17, he chaired the Adaptation Fund Board- a funding entity established under the UNFCCC.
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Today, Not Just Geeks published a great interview with the two directors of the Boston Festival of Indie Games, Dan Silvers and Aerjen Tamminga. It is a phenomenal interview and well worth your time to read.
In particular, Geoffrey Kleinman asked a question highlighting one of my favorite parts of the BFIG: there is a great balance between tabletop and video/mobile indie games:
What's the split between video games, mobile games and tabletop games at BFIG?
DS: I for one don't like to think there's a split between video games and mobile games, because then you also have to split off PC/Mac/Linux games and then it just gets complicated. If we're just talking digital vs. tabletop games then there are about 3 digital games to every 1 tabletop game at the show. In the past it's been as much as 5 or 6 digital to every one tabletop, so the fact that it is so close now is ridiculously exciting!
Aerjen Tamminga: Actually, I was just going over some numbers and it looks like we're coming close to 2 digital games to every one tabletop. Like Dan said, ever since the conception of the festival tabletop games have been exploding! It's a wonderful time to be a tabletop indie. Fun fact: did you know that last year tabletop and digital games raised about an equal amount of funds on Kickstarter (close to $60M)?
One of the things that I found most interesting was the discussion included in the interview about how games are selected for the showcases that are part of the festival:
How are games selected for the various showcases?
DS: Showcase games are selected by a group of curators from all walks of life in the industry: writers, designers, artists, academics, etc. We look for games that show a strong Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics core and bring something innovative to the table. Aerjen can talk more in-depth about what we look for here.
AT: Dan gave a very good synopsis of how the process for selecting games work. If we get more into detail there are some differences between tabletop and digital due to the difference in medium.
Tabletop game designers first submit their rules for review. The curation coordinator is responsible for going over these. In this stage we're only screening for completeness of the rules and clarity. Designers that pass this stage send in their prototypes which get played by a combination of curators and volunteers. The curators (professionals from the game industry) write up an elaborate feedback report based on a list of 10 criteria that have been developed by Keith Meyers.
In the end it's the curators that decide which games move on to the show, where the audience will be voting on their favorites.
For digital games we skip the step of sending in the rules and since digital games in general require less players we only work with curators. Multiple curators vote on which games should be in the festival or not and whenever it's not clear we review the games once more.
As you can see the overall curation process is an elaborate and thorough process and we haven't even talked about technical challenges. We've set up our curation process in this way make sure that games get judged as objectively as possible and to help the designers improve on their games based on the curator's feedback.
The Boston Festival of Indie Games will take place on September 13th on the Boston MIT campus. IndieHangover will be in attendance and will be sure to update you with first looks and interviews with the Indie Developers at the show.


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Land Rover Wants to Gain Some Titles
After the great winning of the title 'Best off-roader of the year' the Land Rover Company realized that they want to have some more prizes in their treasury. In such a way, the headquarters of the company have officially notifies the public that the special department, which would be looking for all the open contests will be developed in the nearest future. In addition, the task of this department will also lie in the process of preparing the cars before the competition and also digging all the information about the competition.
'From now on, we want all the awards that Land Rover deserves to be in our company', says the CEO of the Company. 'We know that Land Rover is capable of many things and thus we want to tell to our main customers, that they have done the right choice and in such a way we will tell everybody else that this is the high time for them to make the same choice'. At the same time the Company is very optimistic and wants to have at least ten new awards by the end of the next year.
Among all the awards, which Land Rover wants to obtain there are the following ones – the safest luxury car, the best SUV 2013, the most ecological off-roader, the most luxury SUV on the market and so on.


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so why don't I actually write a post about what I'm working on? genius right?
as I was grabbing my knitting basket to take pictures I noticed a few things: I don't have any socks on the needles(!), I'm using some form of plucky yarn in all my projects, and I'm using three different types of needles.
let's start with the newest project on the needles, my up north cowl. I fell in love with this pattern as soon as it came out, the chart reminding me of a kilim rug. I didn't cast on until this week because I kept waffling on colors. I almost went with a natural color for the mc and a hot pink for the cc, but instead went just a bit out of my comfort zone with a scummy yellow (yellow submarine) and a deeper purple (sweet nothings). the colors in the photo are almost accurate, the yellow is just a tad darker, not as gold as it reads in some spots. the base is oxford, a fingering weight woolen spun merino/cashmere blend that is gorgeous to work with. I keep stopping every couple of rounds to pet it.
I've seen some people call this and, it's worsted weight sibling, scholar rustic and scratchy. I can't disagree more! the yarn feels dry in the hank, this isn't an over-processed or limp yarn. I never find it scratchy and love the way it blooms and softens even more after blocking. it just feels like wooly goodness. let me say again, this is MERINO and CASHMERE. it doesn't have that shine or buttery feel of the mcn's that are popular right now and that's one of the reasons I love it. it's nice and sticky, making it perfect for this project. I'm knitting the cowl version and have just finished the first chart rep. shouldn't be long before I'm done.
next up is warren in snug worsted. I first saw this sweater at last year's rhinebeck on amy miller herself and knew I had to knit it right away. fast forward a few months and a ton of swatching later and I finally cast on last week. who knew getting 5 spi with a worsted weight yarn would be so difficult? ever since I started knitting again a couple years ago I noticed my gauge has become very loose. I keep trying out different needles hoping for some magic bullet but so far nothing. I thought I found it with the kollage square needles, but even though my swatch said one thing my gauge was different on the actual sweater. I ripped out and cast on a smaller size to get the ease I want. with my luck, my gauge will be spot on and the cardigan will be tiny. I'll talk more about needles in a later post, but I really like the tips on the kollage needles and I was able to get away with knitting on 3.75 mm needles vs the 3.25 mm I was down to in my swatching.
besides the gauge issues, this has been going pretty smoothly. I know I'll stall out when it comes time to pick up stitches for the collar, my knitting kryptonite, but for now I'll enjoy knitting through the body and working with this yarn. in real life the color, peninsula, isn't quite as yellow as the photos are reading but it's pretty close. I can tell this is going to be a soft and, well, snuggly knit with the cashmere and alpaca mixed in. the plying reminds me of the Italian yarns like karabella aurora 8 and creates a beautiful stitch definition.
lastly is my docklight, which I cast on almost two months ago though it feels like it's been years. the "single shaker rib" is a half brioche stitch and just as slow growing as 'regular' brioche. I'll totally admit I could have been further along if I didn't keep casting on other projects, but what fun is that? the one smart thing I did was knit the sleeves first since I no longer trust my gauge swatches. blocking them did show me how much this yarn, plucky cozy, grows when wet. I almost had a heart attack when I tried the first one on and my arm was swimming in it. while it was still a little damp I ran it through the dryer a few times in the gentle cycle. thankfully it shrank back to normal, but I'll be interested to see how the yarn behaves when the sweater is all done. I saw so many people mention cozy grows but they didn't specify if they meant when wet or while wearing. I chose it for this pattern specifically to help against growing. fingers crossed.
while the knitting of the body has been pretty mindless, some would say mind-numbing, the sleeve caps had some pretty cool techniques. while I was familiar with the double decreases from knitting oshima (I love the way they look in both patterns), this was the first time I had done a wrapped chain selvedge or a sloped bind off. it's these little details I love finding in the brooklyn tweed patterns. unfortunately I do have to reknit the sleeve caps since mine came out too tall. I'm going to try to tackle that this weekend so I know what to do with the armhole shaping on the body.
I have a lot of knitting to look forward to this weekend!
P.S. I wanted to thank those of you that left comments in my last post and those of you that sent me messages through ravelry. I guess I'm not the only one has had encounters with weirdos. 😉 enjoy your knitting this weekend!


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Seedsheet's Remarkable Growthcomments (9) January 11th, 2016
Last year I signed on to support a Kickstarter Campaign for a new product called Seedsheet. Apparently I wasn't the only vegetable gardener who liked the idea of rolling out a sheet of seeds, watering it and watching it grow.
Last week the company reported that after only one year, the response has been "absolutely insane."
What started as an idea to make vegetable gardening simpler, has turned into a major success. Seedsheets will be sold through The Home Depot this spring.
It's been amazing to follow the progress of a small group of vegetable gardeners who quit their full-time jobs to start a gardening company from scratch. They raised money, gathered together a loyal team, got settled in an empty factory and even built their own custom machinery.
They also received some nice publicity from PBS News Hour and Fortune Magazine.
Beginning vegetable gardeners, community gardeners, and gardeners who simply want to make gardening easier appreciate the Seedsheet approach. This product is like a paint-by-numbers kit that "makes planning and planting your garden as easy as making your bed."
For my Seedsheet experiment, I requested the herb sheet and planted it in a container on the patio. The basil and cilantro grew beautifully, and I had plenty of fresh herbs right outside my backdoor. I had an extra squash plant so I cut another hole in the fabric and added that to the pre-planted Seedsheet.
My Seedsheet growing experience was a big success. I'd like to think it played a part in the company's success, too.
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