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Stephannie Tallent's new book, California Revival Knits, was released by Cooperative Press last week. Hooray! It features fourteen different patterns. Each item is based on the architecture and design of the California Revival period in the 1920s.
The book itself is just gorgeous. It begins with a wonderful walk-through of Stephannie's obsession with the period and the craftsmanship of the California Revival period, with beautiful photography detailing the mosaics still being made by hand in south central Los Angeles.
From there, the books moves into Stephannie's design process. I love when a designer takes the time to talk about their process; learning how an artist works is always fascinating, and I've been a huge fan of Stephannie's work ever since I first saw her designs. When I first met Stephannie in real life, I completely embarrassed myself by having a total fangirl moment. I think there was even some jumping up and down involved, and I'm pretty sure I just kept saying, "I am such a fan of your work," over and over again, but honestly, it's sort of a shameful blur for me. Ever since I saw Zylphia, I've been a lost cause.
Stephannie writes wonderfully about her process here- it's engaging and down- to- earth. It's a great essay on how she came to select her colors, patterns and materials in order to reflect her passion for the California Revival style.
After this, we come to the patterns. And oh, the patterns! They're fantastic. I was lucky enough to see some of them in the flesh (or should that be, "in the wool"?) at Rhinebeck last year, and they are just amazing.
Stephannie's patterns have always excelled in the fine details. There is lavish beading in the Tiles sweater, the Peacock Cowl, and the Peacock Mitts. There's architectural lace work in the Peacock Shawl (which is going on my needles next week!) and the UnderSea Garden Cowl. Of course, there is intriguing color work in the Stair Steps Tam and the Stairsteps Mitts set, as well as the ridiculously clever Fringe Socks (which come in three sizes, hooray!). The Peacock Mitts and the Peacock Cowl also incorporate color via intarsia and duplicate stitch! There is a quick home project in the Catalina Star Pillow, worked in worsted weight yarn, but my favorite pattern must be the Wrought Iron Cardi.
I've always been a sucker for a cardigan, but this one has it all: twisted stitches add depth and dimension, a shawl collar to snuggle down into on chilly evenings, and a pattern with seven different sizes and a full schematic. Absolutely perfect!
The entire Wrought Iron collection grabs my heart, though. The Wrought Mitts are more of the same in the best way- twisted, traveling stitches on the small scale, perfect for last- minute gifts, if I can stand to part with them. The Wrought Iron Beret is stunning, and then there is also a pair of Wrought Socks, too- perfect in their simplicity.
The Quatrefoil Mitts (which are followed by a full mitten version, for those of you in colder climates) are another of my favorites from this book. I love a good, simple colorwork project, and the picot hem sold me on this pattern; again, here is one of those perfect little details that Stephannie does so well.
I'm thrilled to see this book come out; I've been waiting for it with baited breath ever since Stephannie told me it was coming.
To celebrate the arrival of this awesome book, I'd like to give away one free digital copy! Just leave me a comment below, telling me which pattern you'd knit first if you won this book- and why- to be entered to win a digital copy of the book! I'll pick a winner using the Random Number Generator at 12 pm Eastern, on Wednesday, the 2nd of May.
Good luck, everyone!


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Nantifan Barn is easily found from the A40 when travelling west from Brecon and Sennybridge by turning left at Trecastle and taking the picturesque route across the mountain road. Continue on the mountain road past the first chapel and telephone box for 10 miles until you reach the village sign of Twynllanan then turn left after chapel and telephone box and then immediate left by sign post "Llyn y Fan" and "Youth Hostel". Turn next left (1/2 mile) at no through road sign and this road will take you up to Nanteinon Farm on the right hand side. Alternatively follow the A40 to LLangadog, turn left into the village centre then right following the A4069. Turn left over bridge towards Twynllanan and Trecastle opposite house on right (was the Three Horse Shoes Pub). Travel 2 1/2 miles and turn right at the village just before chapel and telephone box. Turn immediate left, sign posted Llyn y Fan/Youth Hostel and take next left (1/2 mile) at no through road sign. This road will take you up to Nanteinon Farm on the right hand side.You will be greeted and shown to Nantifan Barn which is a further 1/2 mile.
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This WWW-site has been created by the Group of "Logic in Informatics". This is a research group based in the Faculty of Cybernetics of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
Group Organization Committee
- Mykola (Nikolaj) S. Nikitchenko (Chairman of the Group)
- Alexander V. Lyaletski (Vice-Chairman)
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The aim of the Group is to conduct research in those areas of logic, which find their applications in Informatics (Computer Science).
Particular interests include:
- Methodological foundations of mathematical logic, computability theory and theory of programming
- Abstractness, compositionality and nominativity in logic and programming
- Automated theorem proving in the Evidence Algorithm (EA) Program
- Integration of symbolic (analytical) computation and mechanized reasoning
- Partial logics
- Modal and temporal logics
- Semantics of logical and specification languages
- Formal methods of program development
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Table Of Contents
- Improvement of Fundamentals
- Synthesis
- Formal Verification
- Programming environment
Our research activities focus primarily on the following topics.
Improvement of Fundamentals
The dual areas of Verification and Synthesis share common foundations in how logic functions are stored and manipulated on the computer. Logic functions and relations can be stored in one of basically four different ways: as a circuit, as a binary decision diagram, as a truth table, or as set of satisfiability clauses. Improvements in these capabilities enable everything else, synthesis, optimization, model checking, equivalence checking, bug finding, etc. It is therefore a fundamental tenet of the Berkeley Verification and Synthesis Research Center (BVSRC), that work on improving these capabilities should be a continuous and ongoing research and development effort. Improvements come in the form of improved memory footprints, smaller cache misses, exploring alternate methods, such as clause-based versus circuit-based satisfiability (SAT) solvers, and specializing methods to a particular applications, to name a few. The improvements can combine to make an algorithm sometimes orders of magnitude faster, thus enabling its use in an application or enabling its iteration many times.
1. AIG Packages
And-Inverter Graphs (AIGs) are networks of two-input AND gates and inverters. In ABC, AIGs are used as the data-structure of choice for solving almost all problems in synthesis as well as verification. AIGs as implemented in ABC are quite different from two-input gate networks, such as those produced in SIS by command "tech_decomp -a 2 -o 2". Several key differences from other logic representations are:
- Inverters are not separate nodes but complemented attributes on the edges
- Uniform representation of both ANDs and ORs (as ANDs) using the de Morgan rule
- Two-input ANDs are structurally hashed on-the-fly to remove structural redundancies
- The AND nodes are always topologically ordered (and therefore ready to be traversed)
- Constants are always propagated (only POs can have constant fanins)
- Dangling nodes are not allowed (this simplifies many logic manipulation procedures)
- Efficient memory management (due to all nodes having the same size)
- Efficient on-demand fanout representation (constant-time addition and deletion of fanouts without memory reallocation)
In applications with large AIGs, the performance of AIG-based code in several algorithms greatly depends on the amount of memory used. For example, sequential AIG simulation is 100x faster when programmed with several principles in mind:
- DFS ordering of the AIG nodes from primary inputs
- Minimalist representation of AIGs using 8 bytes per AIG node (only two fanins are stored)
- Recycling simulation memory when nodes are added/removed to/from the traversal frontier
- Modifying the AIG representation to be more CPU-cache friendly, by going from an absolute representation (each node stores its fanin locations) to the relative one (each node stores the relative position of its fanins in the traversal frontier)
These observations led to the rethinking of the foundations of AIG manipulation. Our earlier AIG package requires 32 bytes of memory per AIG node, not counting the optional fanout representation and structural hashing table. In contrast, much faster and more scalable AIG-based computations have been developed using a package with only 8 bytes per node, while adding temporary data-members (such as reference counter, level counter, cuts, fanout, etc) on demand and freeing them as soon as possible. These speedups are only achieved for AIGs with millions of AIG nodes, while the performance on smaller AIGs (around 10K-50K nodes) is about 1-2x faster.
2. SAT Methods
SAT has grown to become the dominating technique for formal verification, largely replacing BDD-based engines as the scalable alternative that can conquer industrial sized designs. It has also become the work horse of many logic synthesis algorithm, such as clock gating and redundancy removal.
A main theme in the application of modern SAT-solvers is incrementality: how to best craft the SAT-based algorithm to reuse the information derived during one problem to improve the performance of successive and related SAT-queries. It is also important to keep an eye on the overhead generated, going from one query to the next. E.g., equivalence checking typically generates hundreds of thousands of very easy and highly related SAT queries, mixed together with a few thousand really hard problems. The solver must have minimal overhead for the easy problems, but still work efficiently on the few hard ones.
Part of our research relates to improving this interaction between the top-level algorithm and the underlying SAT solver. This may require reformulating algorithms to take full advantage of the incremental SAT interface of a modern solver, but may also require extensions and improvements to the SAT-solver itself.
We are also looking into new ways of integrating an AIG representation with a SAT-solver natively to avoid the overhead of translating circuits into clauses. To truly reap the benefit of this approach, the SAT-solver has to support some circuit specific operations, such as transfering the fanouts of one node to another equivalent node, or restricting the boolean propagation to the transitive fanin cones of a set of nodes. By working out the details of how to do this and other things efficiently, we hope to get a significant speedup in this application domain of SAT.
3. BDD package
BDDs are one of only a few ways in which a final definitive answer can be given to a model checking or equivalence checking question. They can answer SAT, UNSAT, or run out of a memory or time bound. Alternate methods are interpolation, induction, bounded model checking (BMC), and synthesis, each of which have their areas of strength. Often a problem can be trimmed down to a reasonable size, say a few hundred flip-flops and inputs, in which case BDDs are a good choice to try. New and more powerful abstraction methods combined with synthesis and retiming have been developed in the past few years. These are capable of reducing a problem significantly, while spending less time on this. It is therefore well motivated to continue to invest in improved BDD techniques even though much has been done in the past. We aim to put together the best BDD package we can, exploring the best methods from past research, and to explore further improvements based on experience with industrial applications.
4. Technology-Independent Combinational Synthesis
Combinational logic synthesis restructures and optimizes a technology-independent representation of a logic network. Traditionally, logic functions of the nodes have been represented using sums-of-products (SOPs) [33]. In ABC, the networks are represented as And-Inverter-Graphs (AIGs). AIGs can be stored compactly in files or in memory, taking 3.5 bytes per node on average [4]. AIGs have no fixed node boundaries [7] allowing optimization algorithms to scan though all boundaries choosing the ones that lead to the largest improvement during synthesis.
In the last few years, we developed several efficient AIG optimization algorithms. The main workhorse has been AIG rewriting [5][22], which looks at all 4-input cuts of each AND-node, compares its structure with a set of pre-computed AIG subgraphs, and chooses the subgraph with the fewest AIG nodes, possibly subject to constraints, such as on AIG levels. Other algorithms for AIG minimization have been developed such as redundancy removal and resubstitution [24] using SAT to compute and use local don.t cares. Synthesis with structural choices [10] records and stores multiple snapshots of the same design. This improves the quality of technology mapping [23] and can lead to scalable verification, which also extends into the sequential domain [28].
Clock-gating had become of great interest recently. It method prevents unnecessary switching of registers and reduces dynamic power consumption. Based on a simulation and satisfiability paradigm [20], we have developed a method [13] that can be made scalable and can save, on average, 14% of all register clock transitions. Further, the extraction of a gating cover from pre-existing signals allows don.t cares to be exploited to reduce logic size by 7%. Even more power can be saved using sequential methods. However, this often leads to extremely hard sequential equivalence checking problems. In some cases, we have shown how these problems can be solved much more easily by reducing the problem to a combinational equivalence checking problem.
Often logic synthesis methods do not do well on XOR-rich circuits, such as cryptographic applications and cyclic redundancy checkers. This motivates the development of special methods for such circuits, detecting these and implementing synthesis methods which take advantage of the existence of XORs.
One method that has been very successful in the last few years has been sequential signal correspondence where two or more signals are identified as being equivalent on the set of states that can be reached from the initial state. Such state equivalence classes occur quite often and are not always obvious to the designer, since their equivalence depends on the set of reachable states. One saving grace is that often there are large subsets of these that form an inductive invariant. When equivalence classes have been identified and proved, they can be used to simplify the circuit by eliminating all but one and transferring all the fanouts to the class representative. On the other hand, many equivalences are true but can.t be proved inductively. One way of enhancing this method is to find other invariants and prove them all at once. Another way is to speculate on equivalences and prove them by formal verification techniques.
Signal correspondence is one application where a specialized SAT solver can be employed. This is because during the induction proving process, many small problems are proved using SAT. We found the use of a circuit-based solver in this application can speed up the computation several times as well as allowing it to be applied to much larger circuits not only because it is faster but also requires less memory. This is a good example where an algorithm can be specialized to an application yielding significant speedups.
5. Technology mapping
Technology mapping transforms an AIG into a network of logic nodes. In standard-cell mapping, each node is represented by a gate from a given library. In FPGA mapping, each logic node is represented using a K-input look-up table (LUT) implementing any Boolean function up to K inputs. The target and goals for a mapper can vary; standard cells, various styles of FPGAs, minimization of delay, area, power, and wires. Mappers can be cut-based, structurebased, or Boolean machers.
A recent development was for standard cells based on structural matching and disjoint-support decomposition. The approach uses of structural choices, uniform handling of XORs and MUXes, improved phase assignment, reduced runtime and memory of structural matching using priority matches, similar to priority cuts [25]. It was motivated by requests from industrial collaborators who wanted one that gave small area, leaving the problem of meeting timing requirements mostly to resizing and buffering algorithms. However, we also developed a new timing-aware resynthesis method that can be in conjunction to this to improve the delay if required [30]. The method uses mapping with choices developed earlier as a regular part of any of our mappers. Unlike previous methods, the algorithm is fast, is applicable to very large networks, and incurs little area penalty.
6. Resynthesis
Resynthesis works on mapped networks and tries to improve the results by re-decomposing groups of mapped cells or by rewiring or resubstitution. Recent techniques, [26] and [27], are used for re-synthesizing a mapped circuit to further minimize the number of gates or LUTs. The first is based on resubstitution using don.t cares and the second does gate or LUT packing. By iterating these two Boolean techniques, it is not uncommon to reduce the LUT count by 10% or more, compared to a mapping produced by a highly optimized structural mapper.
7. Use of boxes
In many applications, the user does not want synthesis to touch designated parts of a design. This feature is extensively used in FPGA companies where boxes represent parts where there is a known highly optimal implementation, or a box may designate a specialized type of memory element. In the past, these have been dealt with by making them .black. where their outputs become primary inputs to the rest of the logic and their inputs become primary outputs of the logic. We have just completed an extensive development which elevates all the algorithms of ABC to use .white-boxes. and .black-boxes.. This allows application to industrial designs with internal memories, DSP blocks, and arithmetic circuits [15]. White boxes are logic components (combinational or sequential blocks) which are not to be touched, but contain information about their delays and logic structures, which can be very useful for synthesizing the logic outside the boxes or even for deciding how some of the boxes or hierarchy can be collapsed to improve synthesis. As opposed to black boxes, white boxes expose all their logic to synthesis, but synthesis is only constrained to not change the interior of the boxes.
8. Sequential synthesis
Sequential synthesis is still rarely used in commercial software. In contrast to combinational synthesis, sequential synthesis can arbitrarily modify circuit behavior on the unreachable states. Since it is common that reachable states constitute a small fraction of all states, sequential synthesis can produce vastly superior results over combinational synthesis. Sequential synthesis may involve the following optimizations: retiming, re-encoding, minimization with sequential don.t-cares, merging sequentially equivalent nodes [11], etc. Some of these are quite scalable and still produce impressive results. Sequential AIGs are used to extend combinational AIGs by including memory elements [1].
One scalable sequential synthesis method uses induction to detect and merge sequentially-equivalent nodes, that is, nodes that are equivalent on reachable states, but possibly not equivalent otherwise [28]. We have developed an inductive prover that is extremely fast, using a number of new techniques, including speculative reduction [31][17], circuit-based SAT, etc. This type of sequential synthesis is not only scalable, but also is much more acceptable to industry because state-encoding, scan chains, and test vectors are preserved. Moreover, the synthesis results are guaranteed to be sequentially verifiable using an independent inductive prover similar to that used for synthesis. Experiments show impressive effectiveness; when applied to a set of 20 industrial benchmarks ranging up to 26K registers and up to 53K 6-LUTs, the average reductions in the number of registers and LUT count were 12.9% and 13.1% respectively while delay was reduced by 1.4%. These improvements were done on logic after it was synthesized by a commercial FPGA tool.
9. Synthesis with placement metrics
Especially in FPGAs, connecting wires becomes the most critical factor in determining chip area, critical path length, switching power consumption, and so on. It is therefore important to consider connection costs early within a design flow. However, design tools for logic synthesis and technology mapping do not accurately estimate the connect cost, which is available only after placement and routing. A unit delay model that does not reflect wire delay is commonly used in stages prior to placement and routing. Consequently, results are suboptimal and biased. A better way is to initially do synthesis using the best estimates one can get for the wire delays and then apply incremental methods which alternate between placement and synthesis. The idea is that placement feeds actual wire delays for a synthesized, placed and routed design. Then synthesis uses these to re-synthesize critical parts of a design, trying to keep the changes small. Incremental layout is then invoked which works only on the changed logic, leaving the rest of the placement and routing undisturbed. This can be iterated for improved results. This technique was recently implemented using retiming as the synthesis technique.
Formal Verification
10. Sequential equivalence checking
Sequential equivalence checking (SEC) tests the correctness of designs after sequential synthesis (SS). Efficient SEC is important because it enables wider adoption of innovative SS methods. Recently we developed an integrated engine for general-case SEC based on structural analysis, simulation, combinational synthesis, retiming, and other types of transforms [28]. In particular, our induction-based sequential synthesis, which merges sequentially equivalent registers and nodes, is used to reduce the size of the problem. This was tested on industrial benchmarks and found capable of proving equivalence of the original design to that obtained by using most of the synthesis scenarios involving sequential transforms, particularly retiming and signal correspondence
11. Model checking
Model checking (MC) attempts to prove properties for one copy of a design. It subsumes SEC where the property is the equivalence to the original circuit. SEC often benefits from structural similarities among the two copies of the miter produced; this is not available for MC. Since k-step induction is one of the most widely used but incomplete proof methods in MC [32], several techniques were developed (for example, [6]) to strengthen induction so that MC can be converged for those problems where induction fails without any strengthening of it. In the past, we explored several ways of strengthening induction as a proof method for the target property in model checking by developing efficient frameworks for considering implications as candidate invariants [8] and by selecting invariants using counter-examples [9]. The latter method systematically explores the space of candidate inductive invariants, which allows us to find and prove invariants that are few in number and immediately help the problem at hand. This method is applied to interpolation where invariants are used to refute an error trace and help discard spurious counterexamples. This work of finding additional invariants and using them continues since induction is one of the key methods available for proving properties.
We have implemented and experimented with three sophisticated abstraction/refinement algorithms in ABC. .abstract. starts by replacing all registers by primary inputs and executing BMC procedure. This abstraction is then refined using counter-examples, reintroducing some of the registers. This is called counter-example based abstraction. Another method is .proof-based. abstraction. We have recently combined CBA and PBA into a single method for abstraction which additionally uses techniques where a single instance of a SAT problem is used during the entire abstraction process. This speeds up the process greatly and the combination of CBA/PBA seems to be able to produce smaller abstractions on average. The method is very scalable and can solve hard industrial benchmarks with several million AIG nodes, well beyond the scope of other verification methods.
Speculative reduction starts by deriving and refining as many speculated equivalences as it can within a certain resource limit. At that point it assumes the remaining equivalences and creates an abstracted model to which other verification transformations can be applied. If UNSAT is proved on the speculative reduced model, then the original problem has been proved; else, a counterexample is produced, which can be used to refine the remaining equivalence classes. This method has been shown to be effective in some hard verification problems by reducing the model to a manageable size, allowing other methods, like BDD reachability to succeed.
Programming environment
R&D of new CAD algorithms is very limited without prototyping them in a software system and rigorously testing the prototypes on industrial designs. In addition, an efficient and well-structured software source code is necessary to enable others to experiment with new ideas and adapt to their own environments and problems. ABC is a growing CAD tool for synthesis and verification of binary sequential logic circuits appearing in synchronous hardware designs. It combines scalable logic optimization based on And-Inverter Graphs (AIGs), optimal-delay DAG-based technology mapping for look-up tables and standard cells, and innovative algorithms for sequential synthesis and verification. ABC provides a base of very efficient and scalable algorithms and implementations of fundamental algorithms in synthesis and verification, including SAT, AIG packages, BMC, retiming, induction, etc. It provides experimental implementations of verification and synthesis algorithms and a programming environment for building new applications. The full source code and documentation on the use of ABC is publicly available [3].
Recently we saw the need for a more sophisticated scripting language to be tied into ABC. We chose PYTHON and now have a set of python functions that can better control a sequence of verification commands. The basis of this is to try something based on the current size of the circuit, interrogate the results and use this to decide on the next thing to try. We have incorporated all of our ideas for verification into a single python function called prove. It uses sequtntial synthesis via signal correspondence and retiming, phase abstraction, trimming and reparameterization, all the abstraction methods (CBA/PBA and speculative reduction), induction, reachability via interpolation or BDDs, extraction of implicit constraints and using them in signal correspondence. All of these techniques are being continually refined and improved via better and/or specialized SAT and AIG packages, improved memory use and fewer cache misses, etc. By applying prove to real industrial examples that we have access to through our industrial partners, we can experience where are the bottle-necks and which methods need more work. This allows to set our priorities for new research based on real applications.


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Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, so naturally you want to look your very best from top to toe. Whilst we can't help with all the elements, we are here to support you with your bridal hairstyle choice.
So you've bagged the perfect partner, and you've picked the date, location and maybe even your dress. One of the next steps to make is deciding how you want to wear your hair. You may think that this can be done just a few weeks before your wedding, but we believe its worth considering your desired style early on, so you have time to prep your tresses and ensure they're going to be glossy and gorgeous.
To help with the decision making process, we've pulled together a quick quiz which considers your natural hair type and current hair length, your go-to style, the neckline or your dress, and your desired adornment. Simply select the options that most appeal to you and we'll present you with a potential option, based on your choices.
Once we've helped you determine a style that may work for you, you can discover how to achieve that look via a dedicated Great Lengths step-by-step video guide.
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Neutral colored kitchens are trendy nowadays and the completely-white-ones are the kings of jazzy kitchen decor trends. Though a one-color kitchen decor stays the classic and timeless form, you can always experiment with some bright color pops here and there to add creativity. One of the best ways to do this is 'backsplash'. It is the most important part of your neutral kitchen decor as it sets the focal point. Backsplashes can be done in stones, mirror, glass or tiles.
Tiles are the most economical ways of giving a unique look to your kitchen. Whether you want to go traditional with floral patterns or modern with the sassy geometric patterns, tiles continue to be the most flexible objects of decorating kitchen backsplashes.
Let us talk about how to show some creativity on kitchen backsplashes with these different types of tiles:
Large Patterned Tiles- Tiles with large, bold patterns have always been the essence of a traditional Indian kitchen and they are again in vogue nowadays. These tiles give the look of a wallpaper with outrageous patterns. It is something that would immediately catch the eyes of the visitors. You have to be careful about the start and end of the area to be covered so that the patterns do not look incomplete.
Laser Cut Tiles- These tiles are comparatively costly and showcase intricate patterns. These puzzle like designs are carved out with laser which gives these tiles a modern look. Laser cut tiles are also made with quartz, marble or even silver backing. So beware of the high-priced tag before you buy.
3D Look Tiles- Also known as the specialty-shaped tiles, these give your backsplash a 3D look. Manufacturers offer different shapes of tiles according to your need and requirement. These custom made tiles will give the latest decor touch to your kitchen.
Mirror Tiles- These may sound pretty unusual to lay down for a kitchen backsplash. But it will look the best when used at special corners of your kitchen. It is an ensemble of small mirrors put together as tile pieces.
Subway Tiles- The brick look of subway tiles is the most preferred tile design for the kitchen. Like the bold patterned ones, these are also classic and stay timeless even when you change the decor theme of your home.
Diagonal Tiles- A creative twist in the placement of tiles will add glamour to your kitchen backsplash. For example- Place the tiles diagonally.
Choosing the right kind of tiles to give a jazzy look to your kitchen and mesmerize the visitors with your sheer creativity.
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Zonegran is a drug that is approved for use with other seizure medications to control partial seizures. It works by stopping seizure activity from starting and preventing it from spreading to other parts of the brain. The drug comes in capsule form and is generally taken once or twice a day. Common side effects of Zonegran include drowsiness, nausea, and headaches.
What Is Zonegran?Zonegran® (zonisamide) is a prescription medication used to treat partial seizures, a specific type of epileptic seizure. Seizures are divided into two major categories: partial seizures (sometimes called focal seizures) and generalized seizures. Partial seizures occur in just one part of the brain, while generalized seizures affect both sides of the brain. Zonegran is approved to be used together with other seizure medications to control partial seizures.
(Click Zonegran Uses for more information, including possible off-label uses.)
How Does Zonegran Work?Epilepsy is a brain disorder caused by recurring, brief changes in the brain's electrical system. These changes in brain activity can lead to a seizure (see Epilepsy Symptoms).
It is not known exactly how Zonegran works to prevent partial seizures in people with epilepsy. It may work by blocking sodium channels in the brain, which could decrease activity of nerve cells, preventing them from firing abnormally. The medication may also affect calcium in the brain. Evidence suggests that the medication works to stop seizure activity from starting and preventing it from spreading to other parts of the brain.
Zonegran Drug Information
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Zonegran [package insert]. Woodcliff Lake, NJ: Eisai, Inc.;2010 March.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: Approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed June 18, 2007.
Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffe SJ. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation. 7th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;2005.
National Library of Medicine (US). Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMED). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. Accessed June 18, 2007.
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Applicants from countries covered by the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) will need to visit https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/esta.html for more information and to apply for authorization to travel to the United States.
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The closest airport to MIT is Boston's Logan Airport. Plan your visit to MIT with online resources including Directions to MIT and the MIT campus map. Participants receive an email including the registration location 2-3 weeks before the course start date.
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Boston has excellent public transportation (http://www.mbta.com). The closest subway stop to MIT is Kendall Square on the Red Line. The commute to the MIT campus by public transportation from Logan Airport is about an hour. A taxi ride from the airport or train station to MIT is about $30 without tip and takes about 25 minutes depending on traffic.
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Packing for your trip
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Computer Access
We recommend that you bring a laptop or tablet if you will need a computer during your stay. You will not have access to MIT computers except for classroom use if required for the course. Wireless access is available throughout the MIT campus. International students will need to make sure they bring the appropriate adaptors in order to plug in their laptops. The outlets are 3 pronged (two flat with one polarized side, and one round ground prong) and run on AC 110v. Visitors to MIT can access the free wireless network MIT GUEST (no login required).
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Tourist Information
The greater Boston area offers world-class music, art, literary, sports, recreation, shopping, restaurants, and history resources to explore. For example:
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- The Swan Boats
- The North End dining experience
- Museums (Science, Fine Arts, Children's, Aquarium, universities)
- Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market shopping and dining experience
For information about these opportunities and other interesting things to do in the Boston/Cambridge area, and for information on what's happening around town during your stay, visit Cambridge Office of Tourism, Cambridge Arts Council, Boston USA, City of Boston Things to Do, Visit Boston, Boston.com, and Time Out Boston.
For activities on the MIT campus visit events.mit.edu and http://web.mit.edu/visit/do.html.


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An acknowledged lecturer and author in the industry, Dr. Yarus earned the distinction of 13-year Adjunct Faculty Member for the University of Houston Department Of Petroleum Engineering and Senior Contributing Editor of the Stochastic Modeling volumes in AAPG's Computer Applications Series. Yarus was recently featured in an industry publication for his leading-edge teaching style. In his upper-level course, University of Houston's engineering students learn how to generate earth models and design well plans by using actual subsurface data and powerful software accessed through a cloud and typically found only at oil and gas companies.
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Angelina Jolie as the Louis Vuittton girl in Cambodia
As we mentioned on April ( http://doitlikecoco.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-louis-vuitton-girl-angelina-jolie.html) , Angelina Jolie is the new Louis Vuitton girl for this autumn/winter 2011 2012 collection. The first high-awaited campaign took place in idyllic green Cambodia.... It is reported that the Core Values campaign was photographed by Annie Leibovitz. She photographed the barefoot actress on a floating boat surrounded by lush green grass.
Louis Vuitton, the master of art of travel, comments on the campaign that "A journey is an emotional experience, a process of self-discovery. It tempers the spirit and broaden the mind.To inspire the next generation of adventures, LV has chosen to showcase the journeys of many extraordinary personalities"
Angelina's interview about the journey and the campaign
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Hey folks,Hopefully I'm off to the states today, if the ash cloud behaves itself that is!
Any orders placed in my shop between May 17th - June 4th wont be able to get shipped until June 5th.
Over the last few weeks Ive been working on an Illustration for the swell Uppercase magazine, Keep your eyes peeled for the summer issue which will also feature a interview by yours truly...in the meantime here's a recent illustration inspired by vintage luggage labels.
Seeing as my Pop is such a big inspiration to me and as it's coming up to fathers day, I thought I'd share a little bit about him and what he does...
Pop was born in Brooklyn, he loves Twinkies, Devil Dogs and Ring Dings, he makes the BEST pasta with a recipe that hasn't changed in over 20 years, he rides a Harley and has worn converse his whole life, he also makes the most amazing jewellery...
Here are some photos from my last trip home. They show my dad making a bracelet from oil shale. The Shale used is over a 100 million years old and was found at Dorset's Jurassic coast.
The Top photo shows the shale in its original and raw form which is home to a little fossil! the last photo is the finished bracelet...the whole making process took about 3-4 hours and the end result is truly unique and beautiful.
Heres to a happy weekend!
Spring/Summer 2010 Jamie Oliver products are here! I stared working on these designs last year and now the first pieces are available to buy direct on the Jme website, more pics on my website!
Saturday saw a new illustration in the Financial Times, a ride on my dad's Harley and the best macaroni cheese dinner...Happy weekend folks!
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
More Privacy
"Privacy" comes from the Latin privare, "to deprive" -- and it is crucial to grasp the relation of privacy to privation even now: the necessity I mentioned in the last post/tweet that we disentangle privacy politics from privatization politics is very much a matter of determining just what manner of deprivation yields the dignity and freedom to which privacy advocacy is presumably devoted. Of course, I wrote a whole dissertation on the topic of privacy -- much of which no longer impresses me very much I'll admit, and some of which actively embarrasses me. Frankly, this twitter stunt-treatise on the topic strikes me as more commendable really. Anyway, the point I keep insisting on that never seems to catch on with anybody (hell, maybe I'm wrong to think I'm right?), is that privacy is not a matter of securing control over how one appears -- which, after all, isn't compatible with political freedom on my Arendtian construal of it and also, too, isn't even possible really -- but a matter of rendering insecure any interested interpretation of how I appear that threatens to be misread as exhaustive or final. Only in objecting is the object made subject.
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The q-deformed algebras su(n)q and their applications
Permanent Linkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/8112
Thesis DisciplinePhysics
Degree GrantorUniversity of Canterbury
Degree LevelDoctoral
Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy
Since its beginning in the early 1980's, the subject of q-deformed algebras has expanded rapidly. Many of the techniques and structures of Lie algebras carry over to the q-deformations of Lie algebras. This thesis develops the Racah-Wigner algebra for q-deformations of Lie algebras and looks at some applications. Knowing the Racah-Wigner algebra, it was clear the recursive techniques developed by Butler and others for calculating coupling coefficients and 6j-symbols could be extended to q-deformed algebras. This allows a more general approach to finding coefficients for any q-deformation of a Lie algebra than the approaches previously known. This was the subject of a paper published in 1992 (Lienert and Butler, 1992a). The R-matrices are special elements appearing in q-deformed algebras and form the basis of many of the applications of q-deformed algebras. The symmetries and relations of R-matrices are tied in with those of the coupling coefficients and 6j-symbols. One of the relations satisfied by the coupling coefficients and R-matrices, the pentagonal equation, can be used as a recursion relation. The R-matrices can thus be calculated by a building up method similar to that used for the coupling coefficients. This new method allows R-matrices to be calculated far more efficiently. This work has been published (Lienert and Butler, 1992b). One of the applications of q-deformed algebras is to finding polynomials to describe knots. Based on the Racah-Wigner algebra of q-deformed algebras the diagrammatic approach of Guadagnini (1992) has been extended. Skein relations were known for knot polynomials based on q-deformed algebras but these are insufficient in most cases for calculating the polynomial of a knot. The diagrammatic techniques based on the Racah-Wigner algebra allowed new relations to be found and hence the calculation of two classes of knot polynomials. One class is equivalent to those already known, the other class it was hoped would be more powerful, allowing more knots to be distinguished. However little difference was found. This work has been prepared for publication. q-deformed algebras are the algebraic structure satisfied by solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation. The solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation are known as R-matrices, mentioned above. The Yang-Baxter equation is found in various guises in several areas of physics. One such appearance is as the factorization equation of 1+1 dimensional quantum field theory. Yang in 1967 gave this as the necessary equation to find solutions to a problem in many-body scattering in 1+1 dimensions (Yang, 1967). A similar equation arose in exactly solvable models of 2 dimensional statistical mechanics. Baxter was the first to find such a model and give the equation such a model satisfies (Baxter, 1972, 1982). Both the quantum field theory and statistical mechanics models are exactly solvable or integrable. Classical integrable models, such as those found in soliton theory, have long been known. A key equation in these is the classical Yang-Baxter equation which is related to the Jacobi identity of Lie algebras. The structure and representations of Lie algebras have been of much assistance in the study of integrable models. Faddeev, Sklyanin and others recognized the common equation in the work of Yang, Baxter and others and applied the techniques of the classical inverse method from integrable models to form the quantum inverse scattering method (Sklyanin et al, 1979; Kulish and Sklyanin, 1980). Sklyanin uncovered an algebraic structure satisfied by Baxter's known solution to the Yang-Baxter equation (Sklyanin, 1982). The structure was a one-parameter deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra su(2). In studying further this structure and generalizing to other algebras, new solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation without spectral parameter have been found. The q-deformations of other algebras were defined by Drinfel'd (1985). They are 'quasi-triangular Hopf algebras'. The 'quasi-triangular' refers to their having a special element, the universal R-matrix, which satisfies the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. For ordinary Lie algebras, the R-matrix is simply the identity so that the q-deformed algebras are indeed a generalization of Lie algebras. The q-deformed algebras have a similar representation theory to Lie algebras because of their common structure (Rosso, 1988; Lusztig, 1988). The Racah-Wigner algebra also has similarities, but there is additional structure due to the deformation parameter q. The Racah-Wigner algebra has been studied in great detail for su(2)q by Nomura and others (Nomura, 1989; Hou et al, 1990a; Kirillov and Reshetikhin, 1988; Vaksman, 1989). The coupling coefficients and 6j-symbols are well known. For other groups, Reshetikhin (1987) covers some of the Racah-Wigner algebra. Very few coupling coefficients are known for other groups. Ma (1990a, 1990b) gives tables of some su(3)q coefficients. The Racah-Wigner algebra and in particular the coupling coefficients and 6jsymbols are important in the applications of both Lie algebras and q-deformed algebras. The algebra su(2)q, like its q = 1 equivalent, has found application in the study of atomic and molecular structure and spectra beginning from the work of Biedenharn (1989) and Macfarlane (1989) on the q-equivalent of harmonic oscillators. Since then many systems have been studied (Bonatsos et al, 1990; Chang and Yan, 1991; Iwao, 1990a, 1990b; Raychev et al, 1990; Celeghini et al, 1992). A better understanding of the structure of q-deformed algebra and knowledge of coupling coefficients will assist progress in these and other applications. The operator form of the universal R-matrix has long been known for many algebras (Burroughs, 1990; Reshetikhin, 1987). R-matrix can be expressed in matrix form by the way it acts on representations of su(n)q. This explicit matrix form has only been calculated for a few groups. It is known for all representations of su(2)q (Nomura, 1989; Kirillov and Reshetikhin, 1988), for a few of su(3)q (Ma, 1990a, 1990b) and the fundamental representation of other Lie groups (Reshetikhin, 1987). R-matrices find applications, both because they are solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation, and also because the Yang-Baxter equation without spectral parameter is related to the braid group relation. Knowing the explicit form of R-matrices can lead to new exactly solvable models. New matrix representations of braid groups can also be found. R-matrices have further properties that allow knot polynomials to be obtained. While R-matrices known from exactly solvable models give some knot polynomials, those found from the study of q-deformed algebras give a new hierarchy of knot polynomials. The Racah-Wigner algebra of q-deformed algebras needs to be well understood in order to apply q-deformed algebras in the areas mentioned above. R-matrices need to be explicitly calculated to find solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation or to find new matrix representations for braids. We address these problems in this thesis. In addition, we study one application in detail, that of finding knot invariants. In Chapter 2 we define the q-deformed algebras. The concept of Hopf algebras is introduced. The properties of the special element, the universal R-matrix, are given. The representation theory of q-deformed algebras is reviewed. The Racah-Wigner algebra for su(n)q is developed in Chapter 3. Vector coupling coefficients, recoupling coefficients and R-matrices are introduced. Equations relating the coefficients are proved. A recursive method is developed for calculating each type of matrix. Those for the vector coupling coefficients and recoupling coefficients are similar to those developed for the non-deformed case by Butler and Wybourne (Butler and Wybourne, 1976; Butler, 1976). A new recursive method for calculating R-matrices is described using the pentagonal relation as a recursion relation. This work has been published in two papers (Lienert and Butler, 1992a, 1992b). In Chapters 4 and 5 we give explicit examples of the recursive methods. The vector coupling coefficients, recoupling coefficients and R-matrices of su(2)q are calculated in Chapter 4. While all of these were previously known, the method used here is easily generalizable. This is illustrated in Chapter 5 where the primitive coupling coefficient and a large class of R-matrices are calculated for su(3)q. Chapter 6 is a review of knot theory and knot invariants. The braid group is defined and the process of obtaining knot polynomials from matrix representations of braid groups is outlined. The process of obtaining knot invariants from the q-deformed algebras su(n)q is described in Chapter 7. Explicit calculations of invariants based on the {1} and {2} representations are presented and their properties discussed. Having calculated the {2} polynomials for over 200 knots, we are able to draw some conclusions about the {2} polynomial. The {2}su(n)q polynomial is better than the {1}su(n)q polynomial at detecting the handedness or lack of handedness of knots with no exceptions being found. However, while it distinguished all knots having the same {1}su(n)q polynomial, it had as many pairs.


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Add a touch of glamour and elegance to your gifts with these paper bows that are oh-so-simple to make!
1. Select a sheet of paper from the Papermania Modern Deco 6 x 6'' Paper Pad. Trim three strips measuring 0.5 x 6'', two strips at 0.5 x 5'' and another at 0.5 x 2.5''.
2. With all the strips except the smallest, mark the centre, then fold one end towards the centre to create a loop and secure with a little adhesive.
3. Adhere the pieces one on top of the other, starting with the 0.5 x 6'' strips and then the 0.5 x 5'' strips. Turn the smallest strip into one circular loop and fix in the centre to fill out the bow.
Project and how-to instructions by Project Design Team member Laura Roman.


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I finally got around to finishing AFAR contributing writer Abend's splendidly reported and absorbingly written book (out now in paperback, Free Press) about the unpaid stagiares in the world's most famous (and now-closed) restaurant. If you've never been able to get your head around avant-garde cooking (or "molecular cuisine," as no one in these pages likes to call it), with its foams and gels and masquerades and hifalutin equipment, chapter five, "October, or Expression," brings it down to earth. Abend weaves the personal story of French chef/apprentice Gaël Vuilloud into a clear, level-headed—and remarkably accessible—explanation of the passion that impels these cooks to create "magic." You can practically taste it. —Derk Richardson
"Micronation Master: Prince Leonard of Hutt River," Bloomberg Businessweek
A great read about Leonard Casley, aka Prince Leonard, who rules over the "micronation" of Hutt River, in western Australia. —Laura Simkins
"British Museum Gets the Manga Treatment," New Scientist
I was just in London and visited the British Museum. While there, I picked up a copy of Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure, a graphic novel about a plot to steal artifacts from the museum. —Ji Kim
"Obama's Way," Vanity Fair
From the basketball court to the Situation Room, author Michael Lewis takes readers into the life of President Barack Obama, revealing how one compelling man approaches what has to be one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Some interesting post-debate reading perhaps? —Serena Renner
"The Throne of Zion," The Believer
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This GMS Flash Alert reports on Norway's budget measures – e.g., personal tax rates and the step tax, single parents deduction, and net wealth tax – that were amended prior to legislation being enacted.
Amended budget measures were enacted in legislation that was published on 17 December 2015 in Norsk Lovtidend, Norway's official gazette.1 The key measures include reformed personal tax rates and bands as the current surtax is effectively replaced with a so-called "step tax," an increase in the standard deduction for single parents, and revisions to the scope of the net wealth tax regime.
For prior coverage, see GMS Flash Alert 2015-132, 4 November 2015.
In spite of the amendments to the budget that we describe in this newsletter, international assignment-related costs could still diminish slightly, as employees on assignment subject to tax in Norway may see a slight reduction in their marginal tax rates. Also, the higher exemption under the net wealth tax regime should help keep some individuals from being caught in the wealth tax net. The overall impact of the tax changes in the approved budget as enacted, however, will depend on each person's particular circumstances.
Where appropriate, adjustments by payroll administrators to withholdings should be made, if they haven't done so already.
The newly introduced four-bracket tax system replacing the current surtax system has been modified slightly – and is now called the "trinskatt" – and was approved in such form by Parliament.
For 2016, the following brackets are applicable.
|Tax Rate
|Income Brackets
|Ordinary income (uncapped)
|Up to NOK 159,800
|Over NOK 159,800 to NOK 224 900
|Over 224,900 to NOK 565,400
|Over 565,400 to NOK 909,500
|Over NOK 909,500
Source: KPMG, Norway
Due to the new tax rate brackets, the overall marginal tax rate will be lowered from 47.2 percent to 46.9 percent (38.7 percent tax plus 8.2 percent employee social security charges), though higher than indicated in the original budget, due to the decision to amend the budget and impose a .1-percentage point increase to the rates (for prior coverage, see GMS Flash Alert 2015-135, 10 November 2015).
The government decided on increasing the standard deduction for single parents from NOK 48,804 (2015) to NOK 51,804 (2016), slightly more than originally proposed in the budget.
The government held steady the net wealth tax rate at 0.85 percent. Although, as enacted, there is an increase to the basic allowance for wealth tax from NOK 1.2 million to NOK 1.4 million (NOK 2.8 million for married couples).
The approved final budget measure stipulated that the taxable value of second dwellings (sekundærbolig) and commercial property will be left unchanged from the current 70 percent (it had been proposed in the original budget to raise it to 80 percent) of estimated market value. However, the taxable value for an additional second home, in 2016, will be set at 80 percent of the market value.
1 For the published legislation (in Norwegian), see Norsk Lovtidend
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Heroes – Batgirl 12, DC Comics
August 15, 2012 § Leave a comment
Book Review: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey
July 27, 2012 § Leave a comment
"There was one person. One person who understood. Who could see. Who knew. And that person would share what they had, and it'd just spread 'cause everybody touched by that person would be sharing it." – Mariaangeles
As Mother Theresa said, "Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person"
This book is an interesting fiction of how a man changes all. This man, however, is white, presumably just to emphasize that he needs to be Jew to fulfil his requirement as the messiah.
The book moved from touching, to heartbreaking, towards being loose and unfortunately rather annoying in the end. In the beginning it was about connecting and loving, but it somehow unavoidably leading to plenty of orgies (and not so much more) towards the end.
My opinion on Ben, the main character, therefore, had gone from appreciative to being boring and underwhelming. As the sexual behaviour takes more space in the story, Ben becomes less and less special and turns into an ordinary delusional man who started a cult (eerily reminding me of the movie Martha Marcy May Marlene).
The book moves strong from the beginning up to the middle part, but lost its way somewhere in the middle. However, kudos for the biblical structured storytelling. I wasn't so impressed because I have read The War of The End of The World by Mario Vargas Llosa about the similar prophet figure, but then again, this is a contemporary fantasy world Frey is telling.
Nice, but not so special. This for me is a "nice to experience" kind of book and will never be read twice.
– ajengmd
Nothing and Everything
May 16, 2012 § Leave a comment
A conversation with my friend nearly brought me to tears, out of pity. Here we are, two 27 year old young women, burgeoning with passion for career and life, or so I thought. It turned out, this is a personal sentiment I could and would never share with her.
We grew up -sort of – together, with different sets of parents but within more or less the same extended family. We'd seen each other naked running around in the house as toddlers, we played dangerous games involving body twisting and free-falling like we'd live forever, we literally walked across rooftops that could've collapsed any time. We'd do nothing and everything and that didn't make any difference. We marched on with our toddlerhood, deviating further from each other as we went along. From infancy to adolescence, we'd talk about our friends, our parents, our miserable existance and failures as teenagers.
We started the conversation light, we hadn't seen each other for a long time. We asked each other how we're doing. She works in a fancy office, most of the time only when she feels like it, and seems to be getting by. It's a job not easily attainable for most people with her age and qualifications, but she had her way in. The way I see it, she feels she's entitled to this job, money, easy breezy life. Even with this seemingly fancy job, she comes and goes to work whenever she likes it.
"How are you doing?"
"When are you leaving for the Netherlands?"
The usual questions for me.
Then one statement shocked me. She said, "Look at us, still like the old times, nothing has changed. We're still this way."
What the hell does that supposed to mean? Still this way? I had one of the roughest moments of my career 2 years ago, had struglled through one crazy year full of pressure and intimidation towards me, and eventually overcoming that and starting to live my dream career this year, with the hope of making it, or starting to make it by the time I'm 27. I did all that. Everything for me, the abyss, the drowning, the suffocating, has led up and culminated in what for me is "living the dream". I appreciate the good with the bad, the happy with the sad, and realized that it's built me. Even with those happening, for me this is the beginning of the beginning. I'd jumpstarted my career, on my path upward, starting the biggest international project of my life yet in a completely different continent.
And to her, we're "still this way". I have come a long, long way, and for my childhood friend to call "our lives", collectively, still the way that it was as a toddler is one hell of an irony, considering that she saw me as if my life were just like hers. I've worked hard, blood sweat tears to it all, and she barely works, and she thinks we're the same.
That point of conversation put our relationship now from distant to perhaps ignorant. For me here lies all the difference the 27 years has made. I grow up, she doesn't.
RNT. 16 May 2012.
The Gender Neutral Hunger Games – Oh yeah, the feminists will love this movie
April 2, 2012 § 2 Comments
After a disappointing run with the character of Bella Swan in Twilight (read my past post here), I was delighted to be introduced to a positive female role model in fiction world, Katniss in Hunger Games.
First of all, I'm really glad that Katniss looks like a healthy girl. Seriously. No anorexic tint whatsoever. Just normal body size for a girl. Thank you!!!
And for the first time in my life of movie-watching, I was certain that Katniss, along with the rest of the female characters, had no intention at all to meet and be with a guy for the duration of the movie, and voila, she's the hero.
And it has nothing to do with her being against men, it has nothing to do with her wanting to be with one. She's simply battling a sick system, and deserves all the glory for being who she is. Regardless of her brief "hook-up" with Peeta the nice boy, at the end of the game she's still as independent as how she started it.
Brilliant, for once.
Below is a nice article on the gender neutrality in the book and movie: From Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/26/Hunger-Games-Gender/
The Gender-Neutral Games
This Friday marked the theatrical release of "The Hunger Games," the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' popular young adult novel.The franchise's move to the silver screen places it among the legions of vampires, wizards, and singing and dancing teens that often leave middle school girls swooning and feminist critics groaning. The Hunger Games, however, is different: The female protagonist is a highly skilled hunter, while the primary male character's greatest talent is frosting cakes. As a result, the series has earned acclaim for its tone of female empowerment. However, in praising the lead female's characteristically masculine traits, critics undermine The Hunger Games' decidedly gender-neutral political agenda.
Teenage readers and middle-aged reviewers alike agree that Katniss, the protagonist of the franchise, is "a strong feminist role model: independent, skilled, fierce." Katniss may be a strong woman, but The Hunger Games ultimately cautions against the very strengths that its main character upholds and critics exhort. With independence comes the temptation of apathy: At a strategic high and moral low during the Games, Katniss recognizes the ease with which she could survive if she left weaker, injured allies behind. Her sharp intellect and hunting skills brand her as a poster-child of survival of the fittest, the harsh world order against which the books elaborately protest. Her fierceness faintly echoes the ruthlessness of her oppressors; indeed, the overwhelming nature of vengeance is explored in-depth in the final book of the trilogy. Independence, skill, and relentlessness are the "strong, feminist" qualities that readers celebrate, but they are also the qualities that Collins' books implicitly censure.
For what ideal, then, does The Hunger Games advocate? Femininity, it would seem. After all, Katniss ultimately chooses companionship over independence, relinquishes the dangerous power that her skills facilitate in favor of temperance, and trades her wrath for an attempt at tranquility, even domesticity. Through the eyes of Katniss, the cruel and destructive world of Panem has only two true heroes: Peeta, a non-aggressive, sensitive and deeply caring boy; and Primrose, an even more gentle, caring, angelic little girl. These characters do not exhibit the physical strength, political aggression, or obstinacy that characterize most of the prominent figures in the series. Indeed, they serve as the moral center of Katniss's universe precisely because of their impermeability to the aggression around them, what Collins symbolically alludes to as "fire." In The Hunger Games, fire is attractive and powerful, but it destroys everything in its path. On the contrary, redemption is possible through love, nurturing, and non-violence—qualities that carry feminine connotations.
The Hunger Games could easily be interpreted as a feminist allegory. In a sadistic, masculine world, Katniss is "a fiery teenage huntress battling to overcome a corrupt, male-dominated system." Yet the franchise's political undertone is more complicated, still. It crusades against brutality, but simultaneously condones it. With adrenaline-pumping passages, now translated into Hollywood action sequences, Collins invites us to revel in the gory glory of the Games. Real-life readers and viewers mirror the audience within the story, rooting for the survival of their favorite characters—and thereby, the deaths of other characters. At the same time, the story inspires us with the lofty feminized ideal of prioritizing altruistic selflessness over self-preservation, as demonstrated by an official trailer for the movie that heavily emphasizes the heroic self-sacrifice Katniss commits by taking her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games. Somehow, the series refuses to fully embrace aggression or non-violence, and even hints at the futility of searching for a happy medium. With no resolution in sight, The Hunger Games leaves its fans confronting what we knew all along: Neither gender is superior. There is no paradigm for a perfect human, because no such being exists.
It is worth noting that the attributes of passivity and agression are not gendered in Collins' literary universe. Remarkably, The Hunger Games assumes that gender is not circumscribed by defining character traits. Just as Katniss' femininity is not questioned because of her emotional toughness, Peeta's manhood is not doubted because of his emotional vulnerability. The nation of Panem may be an archaic dictatorship, but its post-gender social organization far outpaces the social advancement of our modern society. It takes for granted a principle that would startle much of The Hunger Games' readership: there is nothing inherently masculine about aggression or feminine about passivity.
The Hunger Games largely avoids the restrictive lens of gender. Within Collins' literary world, Katniss is characterized neither as feminine nor as feminist; she is merely a complex, humanized character. Perhaps this is the real victory of the Games.
Tarina Quraishi '14, a Crimson editorial writer, is an English concentrator in Eliot House.
February 11, 2012 § Leave a comment
Ordinary life done right is romantic
– Ryan Sutter
"He has invented the insult for himself"
January 21, 2012 § Leave a comment
"The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill–he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it."
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Effervescence
January 20, 2012 § Leave a comment
It is easy to be forgotten. It is easy to be lost in the crowd of memory. And if you ask me if it's easy for me to forget things, yes, indeed it is. Whether I like it or not.
Perhaps it is this lightness that I love about the transience of life. The transience of goods. The transience of memories. Even the transience of people.
My oh my, we can be forgetful of that effervescence, that lightness. I am unburdened.
Yesterday was a thousand years ago.
So what do they mean then, these things people hand you, uninvited: pathetic pleas, abrasive comments, vulgar ugliness, shameful aggression?
They are what they are: pathetic pleas, abrasive comments, vulgar ugliness, shameful aggression. They are the reflections of their owners: pathetic, abrasive, ugly, and shameful.
What are these attacks then? What are they, when you easily forget them? When instead of resenting them you barely realized that you've passed them.
Nothing, if you ask me. Because I believe in beauty, and the lack of beauty. Everything else is transitory, everything else is insignificant.
The effervescence is in me.


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Penny Craswell is an editor and freelance writer based in Sydney, Australia. Over the past 17 years she has edited magazines such as Frame, Indesign and Artichoke, and recently was contributing editor of Mezzanine magazine and guest editor of AR. As a freelance writer, she has made intelligent observations on design, architecture and interiors which have been published in Azure, Frame, Mark, Belle, Mezzanine and AR to name a few.
Her industry understanding and ability to communicate in a sophisticated manner have lead to consulting roles with Woods Bagot and Bijl Architecture, as an inhouse communications specialist. Additionally Penny is the founder and editor of The Design Writer and is currently completing her Masters of Design at The University of NSW where she has been researching narratives in design.
Penny has made the journey from Sydney to Milan regularly since 2010 through her various roles.


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