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Happy Birthday 13Arts!!
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I am totally in love with your work...it's grungy and beautiful at the same time....I might have to go play now I have seen some of your secrets....Would love to do a class with you one day xxxReplyDelete
oh my gosh that video was just incredible!! I don't think I fully understood how much work and how many thousands of layers you put into your creations. This has just blown my mind!!ReplyDelete
I was so excited to see that you offered a video, it was fabulous watching you create and to see how many different techniques and layers go into your projects - loved it Georgia, thank you.ReplyDelete
Wow, this turned out amazing! What a gorgeous touch that dragonfly makes!ReplyDelete
merci beaucoup pour ce partage , je suis fan de vos réalisationsReplyDelete
My goodness I loved watching you create.. such a lot of layers and mists and the end result is stunning!ReplyDelete
I LOVEEEEE HOW YOU DID A VIDEO!!!! please doooo more :)ReplyDelete
What an absolute treat to watch you create such intricate layers....thank you for sharing your artistry :)ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning! (as always)ReplyDelete
Absolutely perfection! Thank you so much for making that video :)ReplyDelete
WOW! It's so unique! Very beautiful! Thank you for playing along with 13 arts :)ReplyDelete
This is so amazing!!! Thank You for creating this gorgeous card for us! wow, wow, wow!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card! Love all the layers! Thanks for joining along with 13 arts :)ReplyDelete
Simply amazing Georgia!!! So professional!! LOVE it!!!!xxReplyDelete
Had to check out your video again, amazing amazing stuff you're creating Georgia! you sure are a pro! Always such incredible inspiration from you, thank you! xoxoReplyDelete


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Whose my favorite client? hands down Qatar Airways. It's the most exciting job I do because I go head to head with all the other major consultants to other airlines. Singapore, Emirates, BA, Lufthansa, CX etc…
So every time we win awards it's a happy day. Last year we came 1st, and this year we came 2nd by a fraction of a point.
The other award competition we enter is run by Cellars in the Sky. Every year we have won 1st place in several categories and hopefully this year will be no different.
Although we spend days tasting through hundreds of wines, it's always fun with Erwan and Colin from Qatar. If you want to fly on one of the three 5 star airlines in the world then fly Qatar.


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I'd like to think these citrus zingers sugar cookies are the grown up versions of those little candy conversation hearts from elementary school days. The cookie with a heart outline means I think you're great! The zig zag striped one means you drive me crazy, but I think I like you. And the frosted cookie with the confetti sprinkles means you have stinky feet, but I love you anyway.
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I had never met Alex. When my friends recount their dating adventures and regale me with all their bubbly feelings, I can't help but think about the rush of meeting someone new and the thrill of having a crush.
But I also immediately remember the awkward first/second/third dates, uncomfortable side hugs and sweaty handshakes, and ultimately the horrific this isn't working out conversation. I can't handle the ensuing drama and heartache. I'm much better off listening to my friends' escapades and living vicariously through them.
It may seem mundane, but I look forward to my weekend routine (dog park, errands, movies) with Alex and the pups. I don't think I could ever give that up.
These little heart shape cookie cutter gets a lot work. It's my favorite for Valentine's Day because it's so small and cute. They make the ideal bite-sized treat. (I also used it to make the pups' sweet potato dog treats.)
I'm sharing these citrus zingers sugar cookies over at BHG's Delish Dish blog. These are not your average sugar cookies. They're made with a touch of almond flour and a whole lot of citrus. To showcase the bounty of winter citrus, I used a combination of lemon, lime, and orange. It's a bright pop of flavor sure to cure any winter blues.
These sugar cookies are great to make with children or any cookie making newbies. The dough does not require any chill time. Since the dough does not spread in the oven, no need to worry about spacing them on the baking sheet. The dough is so forgiving that you can roll the scraps together over and over and over again without messing with the integrity or quality of the dough.
So… which of these cookies would you give to your Valentine?! Obviously, Alex gets the frosted cookie with the confetti sprinkles ;)
For additional photos as well as the full recipe, visit BHG's Delish Dish blog.
Citrus Zingers Sugar Cookies
Yield: makes about 14 dozen 1-1/2 inch hearts
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoons each finely shredded orange, lemon, and lime peel
- 4 teaspoons each orange, lemon, and lime juice
- 1 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup almond flour (ground almonds)
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon each orange, lemon, and lime juice
- 1 teaspoons vanilla
- red food coloring, as desired
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Expansion at Divide County High School
CROSBY – Progress can be seen at Divide County High School where an expansion project has added much needed space.
"Enrollment numbers are going up and we needed more space for technology and to offer more diverse curriculum," explained Nick Ator, principal.
The new addition includes five additional classrooms on the north side of the school, new bathrooms and much needed storage space. The addition includes a computer lab, special needs room, art room and classrooms for social studies and STEM science, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"We are already using the special needs and art rooms and are in the process of getting operational in the rest of the areas," said Ator. "There's minor details still being worked on but basically we're completed, just not totally moved in yet."
The school is still waiting for some new computer equipment and furniture, tables and desks, to arrive so that all the new space can be fully utilized.
"We're good for the next 50 years, at least that's what we're hoping," said Ator.
Divide County High School has an enrollment of 167 students in grades 7-12. There are 200 students at the elementary level.


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G Herbo drops off a new video to his Meek Mill remix "We Ball."
It's safe to say G Herbo has been keeping fans plenty happy recently with all his releases. Over the past couple weeks, the Chicago rapper has dropped off songs like "I Like," "Legend" "Everything" & yesterday's latest leak "4 Minutes To Hell (Pt. 5)" to name a few, but that's not where it ends. Earlier in the week, G Herbo released a remix to Meek Mill's Wins & Losses cut "We Ball," and now today he's back with its official video just in time for the Holiday weekend.
Posted up on Mercedes Benz in the middle of the street, Herbo brings the lyrics to life & reflects on all that he's been through in this Lvtrtoinne-directed clip above. While this won't see life on his upcoming album Humble Beast, it'll definitely hold us over until it arrives on September 22.
Touching on his upcoming debut album, Herbo had the following message to say about it in a recent interview…"It reflects on everything that I've been through in my life, you know what I'm saying? It shows who I am today. It tells the story of me being a sixteen, seventeen year old young man from Chicago, growing up in a poverty stricken neighborhood to me doing everything that I'm doing now."
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text: Please join us in extending best wishes to Dave Martin, who is retiring from Extrel on March 31, 2018. Dave has been a member of the Extrel family since 1997, and will be greatly missed by customers and coworkers. Dave has been part of the Technical Support team for over 20 years. In addition to his work in the field, Dave instructed many of our employees and customers on chemistry and mass spectrometry. For those who were lucky enough to participate in Dave's training classes, you know that they were very informative and filled with stories of his experiences in the field. Dave was highly respected by our customers and formed close relationships with many of them. While Dave is leaving the world of instrumentation, he is going back to another one of his passions, musical instruments. He will be performing, once again, on stage with one of the local bands.


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Understanding Betting Exchanges
To begin , let's address the following question-
"What are betting exchanges?"
A betting exchange is a platform that allows players to not only place bets at the traditional bookmarker but also to market such matches to increase their profits. Match trading is not a corrupt system but is a way of forecasting the chances of the sporting event, which is often referred to as a bookmarker trader.
The primary difference between the classic bookmarker and betting exchange is that there is no competing with online bookmarkers with an organized group of people but rather one competes with punters from around the globe. Being knowledgeable about the sport gives you the greater chance of winning and taking advantage of the weaknesses of your opponents.
History of the Betting Exchanges
Betting exchange history dates back to the beginning of the 21st century. In May 2000, the first site was created in the UK based and designed on peer-to-peer concept which is a contest between bettors with equal betting opportunities. This was Flutter.com, a website that attracted many new supporters, and it took over the market after a few months. It was after this that the British Betfair was created. After a while, the brands' directors agreed on a merger as a way of increasing profits. The merger hit the mark as Betfair has been labeled as a hegemon in the betting exchange market. Encouraged by the success of Betfair, many other betting exchanges have taken up the idea and developed their own sites. These sites include WBX and Betdaq among others, but they are less popular among supporters than Betfair. With this new change, it seems like the future of e-gaming and, more specifically, sports betting is in betting exchanges.
Advantages of Betting Exchanges
- High Odds
Unlike online bookmarkers, betting exchanges offers high odds. This is a result of the fact that the odds are set by the punters and not the bookmarkers. Also, there is no set limit on the betting margin.
- Duel Against Punters from Around the World
This also brings about the opportunity for the punters to offer their own odds. If the punters feel that the odds are too low, they are open to placing higher odds and if the other supporter agrees to this new value, they can take a bet with the new odds. This way, the punters have a one-on-one fight with the exchange platform being the mediator.
- Competition is Amongst Punters
In betting exchanges, the competition is against punters and not with the bookmarkers. The chance of winning and earning profits is higher since the opponent is not a team of oddsmakers under bookmarkers, who are much more knowledgeable. You will be competing with a person with limited knowledge and ability.
- No Limits on Winnings or Maximum Bets
Online bookmarkers in most cases eliminate professional, experienced gamblers who often win by setting limits on the maximum bets and winnings. When it comes to betting exchanges, this is something that is not applicable as there are no set procedures.
Betting Exchange: How Does it Work?
The major difference between exchanges and bookmarkers is that they allow lay betting. Lay betting means backing a bet to lose rather than win. If you are used to the classic bookmarkers, it can become a little bit challenging for you to get into betting exchanges. But the moment you get to understand the differences and how it works, you are open to numerous opportunities to trade and take advantage of the increased value. This can be through locking in a profit or by getting better odds before the results are out.
The betting exchange offers a platform and pairs gamblers against each other for betting purposes. The exchange takes a commission for the service.
Rather than being limited to the odds that have been set by bookmarkers and being given only the option of backing the results, the betting exchange allows users to compete against each other and come up with their own odds. One will be backing and the other laying. As an example, if you think that a team that you want to support is likely to drift a bigger price based on the team news, you can put a request and set a higher price than the one available. Another user will think that you are wrong about your prediction and can match your bet at a higher price.
Basically, the betting exchange is all about matching bettors with different points of view on a given result, who through the exchange will make an agreement on both the odds and the stake.
The most appealing feature of a betting exchange is the ability to both lay and back an outcome. It offers the users with the choice of acting as a bookmarker or bettor.
Understanding Betting Exchanges: Backing and Laying
Exchange betting involves backing and laying. If you are a novice bettor, the two terms can be a bit confusing. To clear the confusion, this part will try to explain the two concepts in a few simple terms.
Any market offer on a betting exchange can either be layed or backed. Backing is predicting that the given event will occur. For example, in a rugby match, you can predict that there will be a home win, an away win or a draw win. Backing is the most popular option in exchanges.
Laying takes a different direction from backing. When you lay a result, what you will be saying is that it will not happen. The odds on betting exchanges are dynamic meaning that they will be changing as you view them all through until the events come to an end. The odds reflect on which outcomes are most popular and where the bettor's money goes to. You can change the odds for your bet, but this move will risk having an unmatched bet.
How Betting Exchanges Have Changed Betting
Betting exchanges have for a long time now been the center for the internet betting revolution.
Betfair took the lead in allowing punters to use lay bets and this was a move that brought a new light to the sports betting. The many features common to modern online betting would not be in existence without the betting exchange model. One such feature is the in-play betting, which is often taken for granted. This feature is a result of betting exchanges allowing users to offer prices throughout the events rather than bookies terminating bets once an event starts.
Cash out is also among the popular online betting features. With this feature, customers can cash out bets they've placed to manage a loss or guarantee a profit. With the cash out button, the process has become easier. This places the lay side of a bet to guarantee the same profit regardless of the result of the event.
Mobile betting has also emerged. Exchanges have now developed apps that are downloadable and usable on mobile devices. The exchange mobile apps have made it easier for players to place their bets on exchanges. It allows you to easily stream live events on your device or explore the casino and virtual games as well as navigating between markets.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - American Express drew an upgrade and American International Group posted stronger-than-expected earnings as the financial sector sputtered to a close Wednesday.
Wall Street also took heart in the Fed's move to boost interest rates by an expected quarter-point on Tuesday and maintain its measured pace toward the economy.
The Amex Securities Broker/Dealer Index $XBD rose 0.7%. The Philadelphia Bank Index $BKX rose 0.4%. The S&P Insurance Index IUX added 0.4%.
Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst Gary Ransom on Wednesday characterized American International Group's AIG, -0.69% latest earnings report as a "very solid" and reiterated his outperform rating on the company.
"We continue to believe the stock will gain a higher valuation as the regulatory issues subside, and as the strong earnings growth trajectory of the company becomes more apparent," said Ransom, who reiterated his outperform rating on the company.
Shares of AIG rallied 1.3% to close at $62.24.
American Express AXP, -0.22% rose 1.6% to finish $56.50 after the credit card giant drew an upgraded to equal-weight at Morgan Stanley.
The brokerage cited operating leverage at its Travel Related Services unit.
"Our analysis revealed a long-term widening of operating margins (from 13% in 1993 to 19% in the second quarter 2005). The key to this trend appears to be sticky merchant pricing, which has allowed cost savings (from reengineering projects) and cyclical benefits (from lower interest rates and provisions) to fall to the bottom line," the broker said.
Fannie Mae FNM, +1.91% shares dropped 4% to $52.64 after the company said it won't file a second-quarter earnings report as the mortgage giant continues to clean up its books after an accounting scandal. See full story.
Morningstar MORN, -0.14% rallied 16.7% to $31.55 after it reported second-quarter earnings of $9.5 million, or 22 cents a share, up from $1.3 million, or 3 cents a share in the same period a year ago. Revenue rose 30% to $56.2 million from last year's $43.2 million, amid 57% growth in its individual business and a 17% increase in its international business.
Lazard LAZ, -0.50% fell 2.5% to close at $23 after the investment bank posted stronger second-quarter earnings. See full story.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. CFC, +0.00% fell 0.4% to $35.05 after the company said its mortgage loan fundings in July rose 48% to $44 billion.


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Bawden Tree Care were tasked with trimming a number of hedges around this customer's property in Tidworth. There were a variety of species making up the hedges including; Beech, Box, Yew, Hazel and Hornbeam, the hedges were of a variety of shapes and sizes. The Box hedging needed a keen eye as over the years it had been trimmed into very specific shapes, in more recent years this detail had been lost and the Bawden team were keen to restore some of the previous uniformity in shape and height. In contrast, the Yew hedging is young and only recently planted, however the customer now wanted establish a finished height for the hedge at about 1 metre. Other hedges we more established and merely required programmed annual maintenance however some of them were at a height which required the use of a MEWP so that the team could reach the tops of the hedges safely. As normal the garden was left clean and tidy with all clippings and arisings shredded ready for composting.
The customer was kind enough to provide the following feedback to the team:
" Thank you Bawdens we are appreciative of the good work done recently." TH, Tidworth, Hampshire
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I've had this Jane Austen quote in mind for a sampler for quite awhile and am tickled with how it's inspiration turned into this sweet, narrow sampler filled with soft colours and Regency charm. Model is worked on 30ct Cream Legacy Linen over two threads with DMC and hand-dyed threads from The Gentle Art and Shamrock Threads. A DMC conversion is given in pattern for DMC purists.
I hope you enjoy stitching this lovely piece as much as I had bringing it to life.
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Student Ambassadors Application
Student ambassadors are paid positions, with a maximum stipend of $300 per semester. Ambassadors will assist Graduate and International Recruitment with on campus recruitment events, campus visits/tours, social media, blogging, videos, and other activities that support student recruitment for the University of Arkansas. There is a maximum commitment of 25 hours per semester, and a training session will be held for all new ambassadors.
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What Does a Top EU Lobbyist Earn?
The annual salary of a senior lobbyist in Brussels can top €400,000, according to a new survey from the U.K. headhunting firm Ellwood and Atfield, which quaintly notes that even the European Commission president and commissioners earn less.
If this sounds like another example of the private-sector run amok, consider how lobbying is done Washington D.C.-style.
Billy Tauzin, the former head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry's main trade group, earned $2,055,445 in 2008. His total compensation, including bonus, incentives and other stuff, was $4,476,157.
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Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)
by Unstung 08-28-2010, 09:44 PM
The Atlas V 541 carrying Curiosity was launched on November 26, 2011 at 10:02 AM EST. The rover landed on Mars in August of 2012 at Gale Crater, chosen for its geology.
Curiosity has successfully touched down on August 6 at 1:31 AM EDT!
The Mars Science Laboratory is NASA's latest flagship mission and the biggest Mars rover ever built.
Mars Science Laboratory - Jet Propulsion Laboratory @ NASA
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Popular Mechanics: "James Cameron Designs 3D Camera for Mars Rover".
To be honest, I'm starting to get a little tired of James Cameron acting like Stephen Hawking just because he made a movie that a few people (not me!) liked.
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Well, you have to give the guy a bit of credit. He's done awesome films in the past (Terminator, anyone?), and both Avatar and Titanic were the highest grossing films of all time... and AFAIK he's been a NASA advisor or something like that before. He's also done work on ROVs and underwater cameras...
And Avatar actually contained a lot of science in the biology and technology, despite the leading characters being blue catpeople.
I myself didn't find Avatar particularly special, but I wouldn't call it a bad film...
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Also Cameron did a fair work in underwater archeology, even though he rarely gets proper credit outside the field. He did for example also do a expedition to the wreck of the Bismarck, and found out that the controversial claims of the second expedition had been wrong and result of a too superficial photography. (But since it was paid by a British TV station, it is sure no surprise, the expedition favored the theory that the Bismarck was sank by British torpedoes)
The resulting documentary about the expedition is pretty recommended, it also exists in a German dub for some years now, which runs on Phoenix every other semester.
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JPL: "Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm".
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010.
The arm will be crucial for putting samples of soil or powdered rock into analytical instruments inside the rover. A camera and spectrometer to be installed at the end of the arm will also examine rocks and soils in place.
The Mars Science Laboratory will launch from Florida in November or December 2011 and land in August 2012 at one of the most intriguing sites on Mars. The landing site is still to be chosen from four finalists. Once on Mars, Curiosity will study whether the landing region has ever had environmental conditions favorable for life and favorable for preserving evidence of life if it existed.
Learn more about Curiosity at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
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JPL: "NASA's Next Mars Rover Rolls Over Ramps".
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, drives up a ramp during a test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2010.
The rover Curiosity, which NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will place on Mars in August 2012, has been rolling over ramps in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test its mobility system.
Curiosity uses the same type of six-wheel, rocker-bogie suspension system as previous Mars rovers, for handling uneven terrain during drives. Its wheels are half a meter (20 inches) in diameter, twice the height of the wheels on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers currently on Mars.
Launch of the Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled for 2011 during the period from Nov. 25 to Dec. 18. The mission is designed to operate Curiosity on Mars for a full Martian year, which equals about two Earth years.
A public lecture by Mars Science Laboratory Chief Scientist John Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, will take place at JPL on Thursday, Sept. 16, beginning at 7 PM PDT Time (10 PM EDT). Live video streaming, supplemented by a real-time web chat to take public questions, will air on Ustream at www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl.
More information about the mission is online at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.
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JPL: "Strong Robotic Arm Extends From Next Mars Rover".
Test operators in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., monitor some of the first motions by the robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been exercising its robotic arm since last month, when the arm was first fastened to the rover.
In the long run, watch for this long and strong arm to become the signature apparatus of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory. After landing in August 2012, the mission will rely on it for repeated research activities. One set of moves crucial to the mission's success has never been tried before on Mars: pulling pulverized samples from the interior of Martian rocks and placing them into laboratory instruments inside the rover.
Engineers and technicians are putting the arm through a range of motions this month in the clean room where Curiosity is being assembled and tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
"We're fine-tuning the ability to make the arm go exactly where we want it to go," said JPL's Brett Kennedy, cognizant engineer for the robotic arm. "Next, we'll start pushing on things with the arm."
The arm can extend about 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) from the front of the rover body. Still to be added: the turret at the end that holds a percussive drill and other tools weighing a total of about 33 kilograms (73 pounds).
"This arm is strong, but still needs to move accurately enough to drop an aspirin tablet into a thimble," Kennedy said.
The titanium arm has two joints at the shoulder, one at the elbow and two at the wrist. Each joint moves with a cold-tolerant actuator, custom-built for the mission. The tools to be wielded by the arm include a magnifying-lens camera; an element-identifying spectrometer; a rock brush; and mechanisms for scooping, sieving and portioning samples. The mission is designed to operate on Mars for a full Martian year, which equals about two Earth years.
MDA Information Systems Inc.'s Space Division in Pasadena built and tested the arm, incorporating actuators from Aeroflex Corp., Plainview, N.Y. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about the mission, visit http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.
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JPL: "Five Things About NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover".
An artist's concept illustrates what the Mars rover Curiosity will look like on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Mars Science Laboratory Fact Sheet.
Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity, is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term program of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The mission is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in late 2011, and arrive at an intriguing region of Mars in August 2012. The goal of Curiosity, a rolling laboratory, is to assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life and conditions favorable for preserving clues about life, if it existed. This will help us better understand whether life could have existed on the Red Planet and, if so, where we might look for it in the future.
1. How Big Is It?: The Mini Cooper-sized rover is much bigger than its rover predecessors, Spirit, Opportunity and Pathfinder. Curiosity is twice as long (about 2.8 meters, or 9 feet) and four times as heavy as Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in 2004. Pathfinder, about the size of a microwave oven, landed in 1997.
2. Landing--Where and How: In November 2008, possible landing sites were narrowed to four finalists, all linked to ancient wet conditions. NASA will select a site believed to be among the most likely places to hold a geological record of a favorable environment for life. The site must also meet safe-landing criteria. The landing system is similar to a sky crane heavy-lift helicopter. After a parachute slows the rover's descent toward Mars, a rocket-powered backpack will lower the rover on a tether during the final moments before landing. This method allows landing a very large, heavy rover on Mars (instead of the airbag landing systems of previous Mars rovers). Other innovations enable a landing within a smaller target area than previous Mars missions.
3. Toolkit: Curiosity will use 10 science instruments to examine rocks, soil and the atmosphere. A laser will vaporize patches of rock from a distance, and another instrument will search for organic compounds. Other instruments include mast-mounted cameras to study targets from a distance, arm-mounted instruments to study targets they touch, and deck-mounted analytical instruments to determine the composition of rock and soil samples acquired with a powdering drill and a scoop.
4. Big Wheels: Each of Curiosity's six wheels has an independent drive motor. The two front and two rear wheels also have individual steering motors. This steering allows the rover to make 360-degree turns in-place on the Mars surface. The wheels' diameter is double the wheel diameter on Spirit and Opportunity, which will help Curiosity roll over obstacles up to 75 centimeters (30 inches) high.
5. Rover Power: A nuclear battery will enable Curiosity to operate year-round and farther from the equator than would be possible with only solar power.
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New Scientist: "Bad breath sniffer to hunt for life on Mars".
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The Planetary Society Blog: "Seeing Curiosity".
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JPL: "Laser Tool for Studying Mars Rocks Delivered to JPL".
The ChemCam instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size target, producing a flash of light from the ionized material -- plasma -- that can be analyzed to identify chemical elements in the target. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL.
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The NASA Mars Science Laboratory Project's rover, Curiosity, will carry a newly delivered laser instrument named ChemCam to reveal what elements are present in rocks and soils on Mars up to 7 meters (23 feet) away from the rover.
The laser zaps a pinhead-sized area on the target, vaporizing it. A spectral analyzer then examines the flash of light produced to identify what elements are present.
The completed and tested instrument has been shipped to JPL from Los Alamos for installation onto the Curiosity rover at JPL.
ChemCam was conceived, designed and built by a U.S.-French team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (the French national space agency); and the Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France.
For more information, see the Los Alamos National Laboratory news release at http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/ma...wsrelease.html.
Information about the Mars Science Laboratory mission is available at http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl and www.nasa.gov/msl.
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NASA's Mobile Mars Laboratory Almost Ready for Flight
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., where it will be joined to the Curiosity rover. SAM and Curiosity are set to fly on the on the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission scheduled for launch in the fall of 2011.
SAM will become an automated, mobile laboratory as it is carried across Mars by the rover when the mission arrives at the Red Planet in 2012. Together with other instruments on Curiosity, SAM will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life.
"We expect Curiosity will make amazing discoveries," said SAM Principal Investigator Dr. Paul Mahaffy of NASA Goddard, "and we are looking forward to the contributions our mobile chemistry laboratory can make to a better understanding of the history of our neighboring planet."
SAM is in flight configuration, meaning its instruments are in the condition they will be during launch and are ready to begin operations on Mars. The instrument suite (a mass spectrometer, gas chromatograph, and tunable laser spectrometer) has started final environmental testing this week, which includes vibration and thermal testing to ensure SAM can survive the launch, deep space flight, and conditions on Mars.
Once at Mars, SAM will examine the planet's habitability by exploring molecular and elemental chemistry relevant to life. SAM will analyze samples of Martian rock and soil to assess carbon chemistry through a search for organic compounds. The lab will also determine the chemical state of light elements other than carbon, and look for isotopic tracers of planetary change.
NASA JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Mars Science Laboratory project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. SAM was built by NASA Goddard using significant elements provided by industry, university, and NASA partners.
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Andrew's Latest Cycling Calamity
The trouble with only having learned to ride my bike a couple of years ago is that I missed out on that period as a kid where you learn how to fall off your bike properly; where a spectacular catapult over the handlebars leaves you with nothing more than a grazed knee.
As part of our get-buff-before-the-wedding fitness regime, the missus and I are back in the habit of biking round the Thames path between here and the flood barrier. For most of the way, the path is divided between a footpath and a cycle path, but by and large, pedestrians have an annoying habit of lurking on the cycle path and leaving one with only a couple of inches to get past.
Thanks to a combination of gross inexperience and the physical dexterity of a chair, I'm shockingly bad at being able to turn corners without an ocean of room on either side. So yesterday — it had to happen sometime — squeezing past a mother and son, I found myself needing to make, oh, about a 30° turn to avoid a low-level wall, and encountered a rapid sense of panic as I realised my speed was marginally too great, the gap marginally too small, and my skills far too enfeebled, to accomplish the task.
They teach you, as a child, not to brake hard with the front brake, as the bike then has a tendency to stop dead, and the momentum to tip you forward and over the top. This was the lesson it took me until thirty years of age to learn, as I landed with a good, solid, full-bodied slap onto the unforgiving pavement, having abruptly dismounted the bike above the handlebars.
It's a testimony to Apple's engineering prowess that the force of a 14 st. 10 lbs gentleman landing on the iPod fazed it not one bit. A cheerful ditty by The Beloved (entitled, would you believe, Up, Up and Away) continued to play gently as I tried to recover my wind. Less can be said for my ribcage, which is as sore as a spanked schoolboy this morning, despite a conspicuous lack of bruising.
The missus enquired whether it was the bemused pedestrians' fault, offering to "kick their arses". This kind of loyalty in the face of evident incompetence is a beautiful, beautiful thing, although I suspect the prospect of a good arse-kicking mitigated any skepticism she may have had regarding their culpability for the whole sorry affair. Nonetheless, common-sense won, and the pedestrians continued on their way.
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Businesses have an impact on the communities in which they operate. Community investment is a way of maximising the positive and minimising the negative aspects of that impact, by prioritising the most pressing, business-relevant issues in the community, and making a measurable difference to them. We can help you achieve positive results from your investment in communities through our Community Investment workshops and Learning Network.
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The Network will take place over three structured 2 hour sessions from January – March each year, and will include a mixture of structured learning; peer discussion; applying the 5 principles of Community Investment model, knowledge sharing and best practice case studies. The outcome will be the development of a Community Investment Action Plan for your organisation, which you will present and share with your Network peers. Please note, for Transformational members the cost is £350, Level One and Level Two members are £500 and non-members are £900.
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The Minnesota County Geologic Atlas program is an ongoing effort begun in 1982 that is being conducted jointly by the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Geological Survey and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The program collects information on the geology of Minnesota to create maps and reports depicting the characteristics and pollution sensitivity of Minnesota's ground-water resources.
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Somehow I figured that there simply could not be a better way to start the New Year, than by spending a nice relaxing afternoon in the cinema. So, after a quick google search on "what's on" at my local Moviehouse joint I decided (collectively with the Wifey) that we definitely should go and see "The Impossible".
Now, bear in mind I had not performed any kind of research on this film before actually seeing it other than watching the trailer. The rationale behind choosing this particular film involved acknowledging the following points:
1) The Cast (Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts – that just needed to be good)
2) The Plot allegedly based on a true story set during the infamous tsunami of 2004.
3) My lovely wife refused to go and see "The Hobbit".
I have to say that up until recently I have not fully registered the 2004 tsunami that ravaged so many countries and killed nearly a quarter of a million people as a major disaster. How that happened is beyond me (not the tsunami, my failure to comprehend the extent and magnitude of this event). What most likely was responsible for my utter lack of knowledge on this subject was a sad truth that virtually none of the horrible things that happen sufficiently far away from the so-called developed world are recognised as they should be. Now as I am writing this, I realise that this observation serves as a common ground for the mixed reviews "The Impossible" is reaping all across the board, but I shall get to that later on.
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Ahh, yes… Why did I end up seeing "The Impossible"… As much as I would like to say that I was personally drawn to see Ewan McGregor do his thing just because I happen to appreciate his talent and I personally believe that he is one of the best actors out there period, I think the determining factor in the decision-making process (as highlighted above in the Point 3 of my short list) was very plain and simple – it was a joint decision and "The Hobbit" was off the table.
Now, on to the actual film. I have to begin by emphasizing that I could maybe find one or two isolated occasions in my entire life when I either walked out of a movie before the credits rolled, or when I nearly walked out of a movie before the credits rolled. Let's be clear here, when a film sucks terribly I will stay until the end, unless I'm watching it at home, then most probably I wouldn't give a terrible film the benefit of a doubt. It's just the way I am, I commit at the cinema. At home – not so much. The only reason I could actually walk out of the building is when the film is just. Too. Much. And quite frankly, "The Impossible" comes incredibly close to that fine line between acceptable and 'holy-crap-are-you-for-real' when it comes to violence and gore. Don't get me wrong, I've sat through numerous films where the violence was very realistic or even was the whole point of the film. No squinting, no squirming. I could even let out a giggle once in a while. Not this time. The reality of "The impossible" is just (nomen omen) impossible to bear, which as I shall attempt to prove, is one of the biggest strengths and weaknesses of said movie.
I don't want to say that the movie isn't good, it is. It's quite great actually, however it is so violently gruesome at times that it can and will make you feel at least uncomfortable. Why? Well, one reason really: "The Impossible" is a dramatised verbatim account of how a real Spanish family found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time during the tsunami. A real family, real people. I know that the "based on a true story" line is far too often hijacked by second-rate horror films that have little-to-nothing to do with being true. It's often just a marketing tool used to flock people into the theatres. In case of this film, however, this piece of information adds a thick layer of realism to the already naturalistic picture and whichever way you look at it, it brutally empowers the message that the film conveys.
So, in the actual film a British (yes, I'll get to that in a moment) family of five, Henry (Ewan McGregor), Maria (Naomi Watts), Lucas (Tom Holland, a stunning performance by the way), Thomas and Oscar Bennett (Belon in real life) travel to Thailand to spend their Christmas holiday. While enjoying the beautiful weather and exotic surroundings sipping cocktails and playing ball on the beach, the unspeakable happens. The tsunami hits with inexplicable force, shattering and mauling everything it finds in its way. The family gets separated and while desperately trying to survive and find one another in the roaring vortex of chaos caused by the tidal wave, they need to find new qualities and inner strengths in themselves in order to have a fighting chance at reuniting the family once more. That's more or less the plot of the film. Here, again, a big hand to Tom Holland – who beautifully portrayed the eldest son that had to stop being a spoilt brat and grow up rapidly in order to take care of his mom who was really badly injured – and I mean really badly – and who actually took over the film for quite a while as the main character.
Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts also deserve a word of appraisal, with Ewan's tear-jerking telephone conversation with his family in Britain and Naomi's ultra-realistic horrifyingly painful ordeal that had me squirm in my seat (and yes, I had to once walk out for 45 seconds to cool off) as prominent examples of their respective talents.
Now we get to the crux of this film – the pain. However you want to look at it, "The impossible" is a two hour long exercise in human suffering. A pain so realistic that it transcends the screen and gets to the viewers, I should know. I believe, visceral is the adjective commonly used in reviews to summarise this film. You can't count on a more succinct review of "The Impossible" – it takes a man, slices him bow to stern and proudly shows the audience what's inside.
Following the story we can see and actually experience the physical torment of the survivors while they try to reach safety. Quite frankly, we are surrounded by suffering the whole time, as if to make a point of how bad this disaster was. We can see people dying on the side of the streets, in the makeshift triage tents and terribly overcrowded and underequipped hospitals. There are moments when there is nothing else than screams, groans and moans of dying people that pour out of the screen and the intensity with which the director Juan Antonio Bayona carries on dishing out the cruelty very quickly reaches the point of being nauseating.
And just when you'd think you got used to those gruesome pictures, another layer of pain is dropped on you – the pain of loss. You know, that kind of pain that creeps up on you and travels up to your throat only to sit there like a golf ball making it harder and harder for you to breath. That kind of pain that makes you incapable of looking at the film without crying. The music, by the way, doesn't really help to keep the tears at bay. It's solidly written, but somehow tacky and just obnoxious as its sole objective is to make you cry. It's the kind of music one imagines would be a perfect background to the image of a sad puppy begging to be taken home from the dirty shelter. Yes, if there are things that I genuinely didn't like about "The Impossible" it would have to be the score. It was just a run-of-the mill tearjerker of a score. Finely crafted, but missing this spark that I crave in the soundtracks. But hey, you can't have it all.
So, that's it. That's the film. A stunning performance when it comes to acting, a horrifying and realistic story of pain, loss, love and fear. Well shot, well acted. Is it outstanding? I don't think so. It's a great film, but as the internet already pointed out, it fails to touch on the important subjects. Sure, we get love and pain and all that jazz, but we do see those things in every other movie that is not based on a comic book.
Well, another major issue with this film that I would like to address is how it overlooks the pain and suffering of the local people who also lost their loved ones (and homes to top that). I don't have the exact numbers (I doubt anyone does) but even taking into account the fact that a large number of people affected by the tsunami were tourists, I would be inclined to say that the local communities were hit so much harder as the workaday Thai or Malaysians who are fishermen and such, don't have expensive insurance covers. They cannot afford the state-of-the-art medical care. And here we are watching a middle-class English family in utter disregard of the people who would have to rebuild their homes once the chaos recedes. I don't want to diminish the tragedies of any people involved, but we need to realise that once all the tourists were flown back to their home countries and placed under fantastic medical care, these local people had to rebuild their whole towns, and found themselves in a world where they couldn't live the way they used to.
"The Impossible" by not touching on this very sensitive subject actually emphasises our tendency as the so-called first world to disregard the problems of people who happen to live on the other side of the globe.
In summary, I left the cinema in a state of shock. Not because of the message, but because of the naturalistic violence that was used as a tool to get the message across (and boy, was the popcorn a waste of money). "The Impossible" is a great film – once again, Tom Holland, bravo – but it is a bit too much to digest.
When I leave the cinema having just watched a great film, I know I want to watch it again someday. I can't say the same about "The Impossible". Quite frankly, I don't want to see it again. Ever.


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Inside this CSSIgniter review we'll have a peek at a few of the topics that are on offer, see how easy they are to setup and use, and also take a look at their documentation and service provisions.
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Coastline is a subject for creative professionals and its one of the most recent themes accessible from CSSIgniter. The theme uses a masonry grid layout with infinite scroll, which makes it ideal for anybody with a fantastic portfolio or higher quality images they wish to showcase.
As well as the remarkable layout, with Coastline you get access to this typical CSSIgniter theme features such as a shortcode library, a choice of colour variations, and access to the responsive support.
If you would like to give your portfolio a suitable house on the world wide web then Coastline is a fantastic option.
Corner was designed to appeal to imaginative professional who wish to showcase their service , services, or portfolio. The clean and controlled design will genuinely help your work stand out and make sure your message gets across to people.
You really can customise this theme quite easily as a result of the color pickers on offer which allow you to select from an unlimited number of alternatives. The homepage can contain widgets, such as a current work slider, making it a great way to show off the latest items you've accomplished.
Corner is a minimal theme that'll appeal to anyone who enjoys clean designs.
Santorini Resort
Santorini Resort was designed to showcase a resort or hotel in fashion. If you have been tasked with building this kind of website then this theme, and its own skills to exhibit large, high quality pictures, is a great alternative.
The design is really well done along with the reactive design makes it simple for visitors to book their stay in their cellular devices. The theme incorporates with other booking systems, which deal with the reservation functionality of the website. Santorini Resort even features a weather reporting system and space for publishing testimonials from guests.
If you'd like a theme that looks as good as the hotel or hotel you're promoting, then Santorini Resort is a great selection.
Uberto is a gorgeous blogging theme that's based on the Bootstrap framework for a fully responsive layout. The clean and minimal design gives you a great chance to let your content — text, pictures, and video — really stand out.
Whether you are blogging or want to flaunt your creative endeavours, Uberto has been created just for you.
Mobilee has been built to market and exhibit a mobile program, although it is a flexible theme, so if you like the layout, it may be used for other functions.
The plan makes it easy to display screenshots and images from your app, all nested inside the silhouette of a mobile device. The theme uses a slider for displaying multiple display captures in 1 area on the site.
If you want to keep things simple and get a website online fast to promote your cell app, or other solution, then Mobilee is well worth checking out.
If you're interested in viewing some of their topics used on real life jobs then the showcase segment of the website features some great examples. WordPress 2016 Theme
The CSSIgniter Themes
The 60 WordPress themes on offer from CSSIgniter cover a range of uses including:
Creative professionals
Business Sites
ECommerce online stores
Mobile app showcases
New/magazine websites
Conference promotion
Photography Programs
Hotel sites
Plus a Lot More
CSSIgniter Theme Characteristics
While the individual topics have attributes specific to the purpose they were assembled, There's a Frequent set of attributes amongst the topics:
Custom theme settings panel
Selection of article formats
Library of shortcodes (via plugin)
Colour plot variations
Customized widgets
Widgetized footer Places
Display content and widget settings
Easily add custom CSS
Translation files for easily making a multilingual Website
Support via a private forum
CSSIgniter has additionally established two plugins which are used to add some of their performance to the topics and the sites that are built together. This means that if you do use these features on your website, and opt to modify theme provider later on, you can still keep those elements on your site complete, providing the plugins remain active.
Using the Topics from CSSIgniter
To test out the functionality of these topics from CSSIgniter, I took the recently released Uberto, which is described as a beautiful blogging theme for WordPress, to get a test drive.
As soon as you've signed up as a client, possibly for access to one theme or all 60 themes, the themes you have access to may be downloaded from the member area of the website.
1 nice feature I noticed right away was that you can download previous versions of a theme. This would come in handy if you ever need to get the first source documents for backup purposes, or to roll back any changes you've made to the theme files in use on your site.
It is also possible to quickly get into the documentation for every theme and download the sample content.
Once the theme has been activated on your site you can either import the presentation content, and in the event of Uberto includes posts and pages, as well as the widget configuration, or move right to the theme preferences control panel to prepare the theme.
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CSSIgniter Theme Options Control Panel
The user interface of the motif settings is pretty near the native WordPress UI, which makes it simple to use, while also helping it to integrate quite well into the rest of the admin dash on your site.
During the control panel you have access to the following configurations, although these can vary depending on the CSSIgniter theme You're using:
Publish logos and favicon
Colour choices: select a colour scheme or place custom colors
Display options: excerpts and included image managing |}
Archive choices: number of articles to display
Establish social media integration
Google Analytics, Feedburner, and BuySellAds integration
Insert custom CSS
There is not a whole lot that you could do via the motif options control panel, compared to some feature-heavy themes out there, but if you enjoy simplicity and a lack of bloat, then those themes will appeal to you.
The theme settings panel also includes quick links to the support and documentation pages on the web site for the subject you're using.
If you do choose to publish the sample content, then your website will be populated with a choice of posts, along with other articles, each with picture place holders that will help you get a better feeling of how the subject works.
As mentioned, one of the common attributes shared with the CSSIgniter topics is the built in color variants. These permit you to change the main colour scheme on your website by simply choosing an option from the dropdown menu.
The theme options for your CSSIgniter topics is user friendly and provide you a reasonable amount of control over how your site appears.
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Each theme includes its own set of documentation that's saved online. The files walk you through the setup process for the subject and explain how to use it, with more information on some of the innovative theme-specific capabilities.
In the first case support is supplied via the members only encourage forums. Just customers can access the forums, which makes it a place to find questions which have already been answered or place your issues directly related to the CSSIgniter topics.
When surfing the forums it appeared that the subjects were responded to quickly with useful answers being submitted by the service team. However, to test the ceremony I did post a few questions that arose when installing and using their themes.
Both questions I posted in the forums were responded to quickly by the support team. In one instance I was given the necessary code to create the changes I wanted, and in the other I was supplied with a URL to the appropriate documentation on the site. I was delighted with the timely and helpful answers in both circumstances, particularly considering this happened on the weekend, outside office hours.
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CSSIgniter also offer you a few premium services that will help you get your website up and running as swiftly as possible. These solutions comprise:
Theme setup & installation: $49 one-time fee|}
Theme customization: $99 one-time fee
Theme design & development: $49 per hour
Therefore, in the event that you have not got a WordPress site on line yet, or don't have enough opportunity to set up a new motif, these solutions are well worth taking advantage of to their time saving abilities.
The themes from CSSIgniter can be found on three pricing strategies:
Single motif: $39
All subjects (standard): $49|}
All themes (programmer ): $79
With each program, you may use the topics as frequently as you like, on multiple websites, including client projects.
All plans include updates and support for a year, after which time you can go on using the topics unsupported, or subscribe for one more year in order to keep access to support and updates.
At the time of writing, the'all topics' programs provide you access to 60 premium topics. CSSIgniter plan to add a couple of new themes every month.
It is possible to view the complete details of the plans on the pricing page.
CSSIgniter has built up a large portfolio of premium WordPress themes that cover a fantastic choice of applications and project types. The themes look very good and their layouts are well suited to the type of projects they have been built for.
Even though the most well-known topics at marketplaces such as ThemeForest are all feature-heavy, multipurpose ones which are frequently accused of being badly supported, inefficiently coded, and resource intensive, it is nice to find a group such as CSSIgniter offering a different, with cleanly designed themes which have been constructed for a particular purpose, and that have not been weighed down with additional attributes for the sake of it.
The service provisions set up are good and it's wonderful to see affordable setup and customisation services being offered to help users get their site up and running fast with no hassle.
While WordPress can be easy to use, for new users, installing WordPress and setting up a theme has the capability to be a real time suck, and even a barrier to entry. For these reasons it's wonderful to find a way to conquer this being provided for the ones that want it.
But if you would like clean layouts which have been tailored for specific purposes, then the CSSIgniter themes might be just what you are searching for.
With access to all 60 of their subjects for just $49, and the ability to use them on numerous websites, including client sites, CSSIgniter is an affordable and practical choice. WordPress 2016 Theme
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Some tourist guides suggest that young people may be more suitable than older people for communicating in English, such as Wikivoyage's section on communicating in Japan.
While I understand the theory that many Japanese may learn English at school and then lose it, and I also assume that governments like to think that the current English education is better than that of previous generations, I haven't really noticed a strong connection between age and English speaking ability.
In Japan, is English more likely to be understood and spoken by young people compared to old people?


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The Doha Film Institute (DFI) will shine the spotlight once again on Qatar's homegrown talent and emerging Arab voices at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2019 to be held from August 16-23. A total of 11 films supported by the DFI, including the 'Shortcuts to Qatar' titles, have been selected to participate at one of Europe's largest film events.
DFI grant recipients Abou Leila by Amin Sidi-Boumediene and The Unknown Saint by Alaa Eddine Aljem will screen to a global audience at prestigious key sections of the festival. A further three DFI grant recipients and previous Qumra projects, Dawiha by Mahdi Ali Ali, Mediterranean Fever by Maha Haj and Nouss Nouss by Leila Albayaty, have been selected to the festivals project development porgramme, CineLink Industry Days, which aims to connect filmmakers with international experts to discuss various aspects of film production.
Additionally, six short films made by Qatar or Qatar-based talents will screen at the "Shortcuts to Qatar" showcase, in the presence of filmmakers from the programme, Majid al-Remaihi, Mohamed al-Mahmeed and Eiman Mirghani, who will introduce the films and participate in a post-screening Q&A.
The six short films that will screen at the 'Shortcuts to Qatar' event includes Domestic Acoustics by Majid al-Remaihi; Where Are You Right Meow by Maysam al-Ani; Voyager by Khalifa al-Marri; I Am Not My Father by Naif al-Malki; and Nasser Goes to Space by Mohammed al-Mahmeed; The Bleaching Syndrome by Eiman Mirghani. The screening will take place on 20 August at noon.
Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, chief executive officer, DFI, said, "We are truly proud of the significant selection of Qatar-supported films at the festival. Sarajevo is one of the largest film festivals in Europe, and similar to the DFI, plays an increasingly important role in improving understanding between the East and the West through film appreciation.
"The festival offers educational and networking opportunities for emerging filmmakers and has become an important destination for the discovery of new voices from the Arab world. As our cultural partners, we will continue to work with them on initiatives that focus on supporting bold voices in cinema from Qatar and the region, and bring fresh perspectives and narrative styles to global
The Sarajevo Film Festival is marking its 25th edition this year and builds on its reputation for high-quality programming, strong industry segment, and educational and networking platforms for young talents. The festival welcomes film professionals from across the world for its unique selection of Southeast European and international films. (QNA)
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Second Flowers Festival at Souq Waqif draws big crowds with floral wonders
Turkish envoy lauds tremendous progress in bilateral relations
An occasion to enhance the national spirit, express loyalty to leadership
QMC: Strategic goals realised in media sector
Qatar launches global declaration to empower people with disabilities
Doha Declaration a reference point for world governments
Sheikh Jassim attends ceremony honouring winners of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation
Qatar-Jordan military ties reviewed
HBKU-CHSS calls for papers ahead of April conference


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My initial anti-redistribution reaction to Hillary's proposal for a 'baby bond', a $5,000 bond given to all newborns which matures when they graduate high school, was that it is pretty dumb, but now I think the proposal deserves some consideration. The baby bond is clearly meant as a redistributive measure, so we should ask whether the baby bond would be a better redistributive program than existing programs.
As I have noted before, I like redistributive programs that hand out cash instead of providing free or low cost services because I think that poor folks are able to decide how to use their assets better than outside observers. The ETIC also gives out cash as do food stamps to some extent, so the cash aspect not unique to the baby bond. The most important difference is that the baby bond would pay out only once and in a lump sum, whereas the ETIC pays out continuously and pays out more, the more the recipient works. One advantage to the baby bond could be that it acts as a substitute to credit. I have heard people suggest that the poor lack access to credit because it is difficult for them to prove they are credit worthy, even if they are, which is why many have lauded the emergence of the 'subprime' credit market and payday loan companies (the New Economist showcased an interesting paper on that). If this is the logic though, perhaps it would be better to have a program which guarentee's a portion of loans to the poor.
I do think that $5,000 is a piddling amount, and that if we wanted the baby bond to be a serious redistributive measure, it should be much larger. Does anyone have any other pros or cons?


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He started his career with his debut track, 'Kalyug', which touched the youth's mind and helped him make a place for himself in the hearts of his fans.
Later, he came up with his next song, 'Lost Life', which showed his versatility to the public. Then came the song called 'Munda iPhone Warga' that received countless hits on the Internet.
Recently, he has come up with a song called 'Kuriyan ya Maape', which, again, is for the youth.


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Back to 2010 Brainstorming Back to events page
- 1 What
- 2 Who
- 3 When
- 4 Where
Planning the 3-year course of the Roadmap project
- Clement Vachet, DBP engineer, 20% at UNC, working on Iowa DBP, translating NA-MIC technology into use for PREDICT HD
- Mark Scully, DBP engineer at Iowa, Mark & Clement will work closely together, both will attend engineering tcons
- Two major areas: DTI processing and shape analysis
- Marco Ruiz, integration of XNAT with GridWizard to allow XNAT pipeline access to external computational resources
Morphometric Processing
- 2011-02-15 (Mark Scully): Prepare the BRAINS3 Toolkit for public use
- Improve the consistency of the command line argument processing
- Create an XML formal Schema from the SEM model examples
- Enhance the SEM schema with other optional tags needed for improved documentation
- Make SEM into it's own External_Add project to ease use by other packages
- Move internal documentation from https://www.icts.uiowa.edu/confluence/display/BRAINS/Command+line+argument+rules, to the SEM pages section
- Improve merging strategies between BRAINS3Tools that are part of BRAINS3 and BRAINS3Tools that are part of Slicer3. A combination of git svn should ease the integration of these two platforms.
- Improve the consistency of the command line argument processing
- 2012-01-15 (Mark Scully): Create documentation for a standard morphometric analysis
- 2013-01-08 (Mark Scully): Create tutorial for full morphometric analysis suitable for basing a DWI based analysis on.
DTI Processing
Goals: Tools for a longitudinal analysis pipeline of changes measured by fiber tractography to identify white matter tracts that have strong co-morbid degenerative timelines compared to subcortical degeneration over time. Enable the use of the advanced DTI processing in NA-MIC within PREDICT HD. Specifically, adapt all NA-MIC tools to work as individual external Slicer modules (in part they already exist, but need further work), as well as combine them into a single Slicer DTI processing wizard.
- 2010-12-15 (Mark, Joy, UNC Team): Write Tutorial for DTIPrep
- Create Media Wiki version of documentation with screen shots describing how visual inspections are to occur.
- Create PPT presentation for DTIPrep.
- Process data from raw DICOM data (enhanced DicomToNRRDConverter)
- 2010-11-30 (Mark, Joy): Add testing data suite to DicomToNRRDConverter (Joy to identify, Mark to implement)
- Target 2010-12-31(Mark): CMake URL data download mechanisms (Look at Titan CMake has examples of this).
- Target 2010-12-31 (Clement): Document how to interpret B-Matrix for Siemens (extration from dicom) on the DicomToNrrd Wiki page
- Target 2010-12-31 (Clement) Investigate DicomToNRRDConverter use of B-Matrix for vb13 data DTI_THP Iowa data.
- Target 2011-03-01 (Clement): DTI noise estimation, Rician noise filtering
- Review status of code to determine how to modularize into stand alone library and executable
- Include directly into DTI-PREP
- 2011-06-24 (Clement): DTI QC and motion/eddy current correction (enhanced DTIPrep)
- Reporting standardization for easier report generation.
- Loading reports so that batch processing mode and gui processing mode allow the same user
- GUI should allow for manual individual rejection of DWI gradients
- 2011-12-31 (Clement/Mark): DTI estimation, property map generation (existing Slicer modules)
- Review and make command line interfaces and make a dictionary of common command line arguments across the tool sets.
- Push DTIProcess tools into full Slicer Modules
- 2011-08-15 (Clement): DTI atlas registration (new Slicer module)
- Investigate if both scalars and higher models can both be supported.
- Investigate DTITK inclusion Slicer3
- 2012-05-01 (Clement): DTI atlas based fiber analysis (new Slicer module)
- Tools need re-writing to make them slicer3 compatible.
- 2012-07-01 (Clement): DTI atlas computation module (new Slicer module)
- NITRC implementation FRAT needs rewrite with new greedy registration methods
- 2012-09-01 (Clement): DWI atlas mapping tool (new Slicer module)
- Need to move to NITRC and convert to Slicer3
- 2013-01-01 (Clement/Mark/Jeff/All): Appropriate reporting of all steps
- Reporting of tool status. Track the OpenProvenance project.
- Use XML so that we can convert of OpenProvenance latter if desired.
- 2013-08-30 (Mark): DTI processing wizard in Slicer
- 2013-08-30 (Clement): Longitudinal DTI analysis module
- Create processing pipeline for
- Batch procesing for running large number of data sets
- 2013-08-30 (Steve Pieper/Kitware/Core 2 involvement): Fiber profile measurement/visualization within Slicer
Shape Analysis
Goals: Tools for a longitudinal shape analysis pipeline to identify localized changes in basal ganglia tracts that have strong co-morbid degenerative timelines. Enable the use of the advanced SPHARM & particle shape analysis processing in NA-MIC within PREDICT HD.
- 2011-04-01 (Slicer Team/Core2):Sun Grid Engine compatibility
- 2011-04-01 (Clement): Clean up existing tools for deployment at Iowa
- Individual SPHARM tools (exists, needs polishing)
- SPHARM shape summary tool (exists, needs polishing)
- Statistical Shape Analysis Tools (exists, needs polishing)
- CSV files as part of Slicer standards (Paths, variables, group associations, etc)
- 2012-01-01 (Mark): Analyze 225 subjects with Cross sectional tools
- With between 3-6 longitudinally collected scans.
- With Caudate/Putamen/Thalamus
- 2013-08-01 (Clement): Add support for particle shape analysis (new Slicer module)
- Target of 2011-01-14: have feasibility shape analysis done to identify outstanding work that needs to be done.
BatchMake Processing and Grid Wizard
- 2011-01-14 (Marco): Contact BatchMake developers and determine what needs to be done in order to distribute computational load for the analysis of this project.
- 2011-06-24 (Marco): Distribute from local data repositories.
- 2012-06-24 (Marco/Kevin Archie/Tim Olsen): Distribute from XNAT
- 2011-01-14 (Marco/Kevin Archie): Define mechanism for deploying distributed computations with GridWizard as a backend tool that the end-user never sees.
Is the image data already in hand?
- Yes. Over 2900 scan sessions collected. We will need to identify the meaningful subset of this data, get final approval from the Predict Steering Committee for that subset,and then re-deidentify it and post to XNAT for NA-MIC purposes.
- (Target date of 2010-12-10) Identified the FMRI_024 data (77 subjects, 2-3 years longitudinal) as a good candidate data set for collaborative algorithm development platform. This data set has 3 71direction+8B0 DTI data sets, 2 1.0^3 T1 data sets, and a 0.56x0.56x1.4 T2 data set.
- Will likely need to collect clinical data for shape analysis work that includes: (Age, Gender, Dx, Burdon Score, Motor Score).
- Will need to re-de-identify all the data to be used here.
- Will need to run auto-workup for generating Caudate/putamen/hippocampus/thalmus masks.
- Data exchange will be done through XNAT. including derived data.
- (Target date of 2011-01-14): Share all DTI_THP to wide NAMIC group for validation of tools being developed.
- Tutorial(s) on the wiki
- Presentations at HBM, Euro-HD.net, HDSA (The Huntington's Disease Society of America) in year 2
- Hands-on teaching event for the DBP scientific community for year 3
- DBP: Hans Johnson, DBP engineer Mark Scully
- Algo: Martin Styner, DBP engineer Clement Vachet
- Eng: Dan Marcus, Jeff Grethe, Marco Ruiz
- Iowa Supporting Guests: Shuhua Wu, Joy Matsui, Ben Rogers, Vince Magnotta
- Monday October 25th, 10:30am - 5:30pm
- 10:30-12:00 Overview of project, and background of PREDICT-HD
- 12:00- 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00- 5:30 Working meeting focused on informatics, computations and processing
- 6:30- 8:30 Dinnner @ One-Twenty-Six
- Tuesday October 26th, 8:00am - 3:30pm
- 8:00-12:00 Working meeting focused on algorithmic development
- 12:00- 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00- 3:30 Finalize timelines
- 3:30- 5:30 Discuss current limitions of XNAT, and determine how to overcome them
- Wednesday October 27th, 9:30am- 3:00pm
- GridWizard deployment
The University of Iowa Campus, Meet in W240 Boyd Tower. The conference room is a short distance away from there in the Iowa Center for Translational Science.
Take elevator BW to the second floor, and take two immediate rights. The conference room shares a wall with the BW elevator shaft.
Travel Information
The closest airport to Iowa City is the Cedar Rapids / Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) which is about 20 minutes from the hotel.
Airport Shuttle Services
The easiest way to get from the airport to Iowa City is via one of the shuttle services:
- Airport Shuttle Service (Phone: 1-800-725-8460)
- Airport Express (Phone: 319-626-5466)
Both are the same price and easiest to book before travel. The cost is roughly $60 round trip.
Rental Cars
Rental cars are also available from the Airport. The following companies have desks at the airport
- Avis
- Website
- Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-331-1212
- Local Phone : (319) 366-6418
- Hertz
- Website
- Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-654-3131
- Local Phone : (319) 365-9184
- National and Alamo
- Website
- Toll-Free Phone : 1-888-826-6890
- Local Phone : (319) 363-0249
- Enterprise
- Website
- Local Phone : (319) 366-5522
If you have any questions regarding travel, feel free to contact Joe Ekdahl either via e-mail(firstname.lastname@example.com) or phone (319-384-3026).
Hotel Information
We reserved a block of hotel rooms at Hotel Vetro at a rate of $139. The group code to get this rate is ITK. These rooms will be held at this rate until October 22.
- Hotel Vetro
- Phone: 800-592-0355
- Address: 201 South Linn Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Other hotels that are close to the conference site, University of Iowa, and downtown include:
- Sheraton hotel
- Phone: 319-337-4058
- Address: 210 South Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240
- Iowa House Hotel
- Phone: 319-335-3513
- Address: 125 North Madison St, Iowa City, IA 52242
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