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The government has revealed 24 new measures as part of an economic reform programme aimed at kick-starting Egypt's struggling economy, which will be presented to the International Monetary Fund in order to obtain approval of a badly needed $4.8 billion loan.
Ahram Online has obtained a copy of the economic programme, which was drafted following an 'economic initiative' conference in late December launched by the Egyptian Cabinet, in cooperation with private-sector representatives and economy experts.
The following are the most significant measures to be implemented according to the new programme.
Tax reform
The programme raises the annual income tax exemptions for salaried employees from LE9,000 to LE12,000 as of October 2013.
The first bracket of the new income tax structure, which will pay 10 percent in income tax, will be extended to LE30,000 per year from a previous LE20,000.
"The increase means that employees whose annual income ranges between LE20,000 and LE30,000 will only pay 10 percent in taxes, compared to the previous 15 percent," Assistant Finance Minister Hani Kadry told Ahram Online.
The increase, according to Kadry, will be implemented once Egypt's Shura Council (the upper house of parliament) approves it.
Additionally, a 0.001 percent tax will be imposed on all stock market transactions, while a corporate tax will be standardized at 25 percent for all companies.
As it currently stands, Egypt's corporate tax ranges between 20 and 25 percent, based on respective companies' financial situations.
Social justice
The reform programme will also raise the total number of beneficiaries of monthly social security pensions (LE300) to 1.5 million people by June of this year and 2 million people by June 2014.
The reform programme also calls for the government to adopt an emergency plan to develop Egypt's railway system at a cost of some LE1.2 billion during the current and coming fiscal years.
It also calls for developing 68 shantytowns nationwide at a total cost of some LE600 million during the 2012/13 and 2013/14 fiscal years.
The economic recovery measures also call for raising the local price of one ardeb (198 kg) of wheat by LE20 to LE400 in order to boost local production.
Foreign reserves & GDP
The Egyptian government forecasts that successful implementation of its economic recovery programme would lower Egypt's budget deficit by the end of the 2014/15 fiscal year to LE183 billion, constituting almost 7.7 percent of GDP – compared to the 10.9 percent forecast for the current fiscal year.
Egypt's GDP is expected to rise to almost LE2.3 trillion by the end of the 2014/15 fiscal year, compared to LE1.5 trillion in the 2011/12 fiscal year.
Egypt's current budget deficit stands at LE170 billion, approximately 10.8 percent of the country's GDP.
If the programme is successfully implemented, Egypt's foreign currency reserves – which currently stand at an alarming $13.6 billion – are expected to rise to $22 billion by the end of the current fiscal year.
This story was updated on 27 February


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The Director General of IUCN and the Director of the French Aid Agency (AFD) signed a financial agreement of 800,000 Euros last December. The grant aims at supporting the BEST initiative for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories, as well as IUCN's work on the establishment of a dedicate tool for Europe overseas' biodiversity.
IUCN has a longstanding partnership with the AFD. This new grant will help continue and extend the current BEST facilitation project IUCN is working on, and it will also fund two additional marine biodiversity conservation projects. These were shortlisted in the EU grant call in 2011 but did not receive financial support because of lack of funding. The two projects are:
- The COCA LOCA project for the preservation of the marine turtle Caretta caretta in the Indian Ocean – submitted by the Reunion island association Kelonia;
- The MANG project on coastal wetlands knowledge and capacity buidling in the EU overseas entities – submitted by the Atelier Technique des Espaces Naturels (ATEN) and the Conservatoire du Littoral.
"The support by the French Agency reflects the partnership approach of the BEST initiative and serves as an example for expanding cooperation for Europe overseas biodiversity" says Carole Martinez, Coordinator of the IUCN EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories Programme. The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 invites the European Commission, Member States and the Europe overseas entities to work together for the implementation of BEST.
Contributing to the capitalization of experience, the collaboration between IUCN and AFD also brings new support to the creation of future funds for BEST. Hosting 70% of the EU's biodiversity, overseas entities are havens of exceptional biodiversity. They host more endemic species than the entire European continent. Stretched over more 4.4 million square kilometers, equivalent to EU area, these entities provide the EU with the biggest marine domain of the world with more than 15 million square kilometers.

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hartmut esslinger's early apple computer and tablet designs
hartmut esslinger's early apple computer and tablet designs 'apple macphone'image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
in german designer hartmut esslinger's new book 'design forward', the founder of frog design overviews 'strategic design', and how innovative progression has sparked creative change in the consumer market, especially for one of the most successful american companies ever built: apple. the official book launch happened at the opening event of an exhibition 'german design standards – from bauhaus to globalisation' on german design classics, during the BODW 2012 business of design week in hong kong. the exhibition has been a collaboration between the hong kong design institute (HKDI), the neue sammlung – the international design museum munich – and the red dot design museum in essen, germany.
designboom met hartmut esslinger shortly before his presentation in hong kong and in that occasion we were given the first book copy. he introduced us into the strategic planning of apple and his personal friendship with steven jobs. in this article, designboom takes a look back at esslinger's designs of the early 80's, where the images document prototypes, concepts and explorations of apple's computers, laptops and tablets.
apple snow white 3 'macphone', 1984image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
' I want apple's design not just to be the best in the computer industry, but to be the very best in the entire world.' – steve jobs
(…) in 1982, apple was in its sixth year of existence, and steve jobs, apple's cofounder and chairman, was twenty-eight years old. steve, intuitive and fanatical about great design, realized that the company was in crisis. with the exception of the aging apple, IIe, the company's products were failing against IBM's pc's. and they were all ugly, especially the apple III and soon to be released apple lisa. the company's precious CEO, michael scott, had created different business divisions for each product line, including accessories such as monitors and memory drives. each division had its own head of design and developed its products the way it wanted to.
as a result, apple's products shared little in the way of a common design language or overall synthesis. in essence, bad design was both the symptom and a contributing cause of apple's corporate disease. steve's desire to end the disjoined approach gave birth to a strategic design project that would revolutionize apple's brand and product lines, change the trajectory of the company's future, and eventually redefine the way the world thinks about and uses consumer electronics and communication technologies.
apple snow white 1 'tablet mac', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
the idea for the project was inspired by the work of richardson smith design agency (later acquired by fitch) for xerox, in which the designers collaborated with multiple divisions within xerox to create a single high-level 'design language' that the company could implement throughout its organization. jerry manock, the designer of the apple II and head of design in apples's macintosh division, and rob gemmell, head of the apple II division created a plan in which they would invite global designers to apple headquarters and, after interviewing all of them , stage a competition between the two candidates.
apple would choose a final winner and then use that design as the framework for its new design language. no one knew at that time however, that we were in the process of transforming apple into a company whose design-based strategy and innovation-over-money approach would make it a global success. (…) – text excerpt from the book 'design forward'
apple snow white 1 'sony style', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
(…) after many talks with steve (jobs) and other apple excecutives, we determined three different directions for further exploration
concept 1 was defined by 'what sony would do if it built computers'. I didn't like this idea, as it could create conflicts with sony, but steve insisted. he felt that sony's simple cool design language should be a good benchmark, and sony was the current pacesetter in making high-tech consumer products smarter, smaller and more portable. – text excerpt from the book 'design forward'
apple snow white 2 'americana', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
concept 2 would express 'americana,' reconnecting high-tech design with classical american design statements, especially raymond loewy's streamlined designs for studebaker and other automotive clients, the electrolux line of household appliances, gestetner's office products, and (naturally), the coke bottle. – text excerpt from the book 'design forward'
apple 'baby mac', 1985image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
concept 3 was left to me. it could be as radical as possible – and that nade it the best kind of challenge. concept A and B were well founded in proven statements, so concept C was my ticket for a voyage toward a mysterious destination. it would also become the winner. (…) – text excerpt from the book 'design forward'
apple 'baby mac', 1985image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple IIC, 1983image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple snow white 'macintosh studies', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple snow white 2 'macintosh studies', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple snow white 1 'lisa workstation', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple snow white 2 'macbook', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
apple snow white 2 'flat screen workstation', 1982image courtesy of hartmut esslinger
hartmut esslingerimage © designboom
hartmut esslinger (1944)in the mid 1970s, he first worked with sony on its trinitron and wega ranges. in the early 1980s, he began working with apple. during that time their common design strategy transformed apple from a 'silicon valley start-up' into a global brand. he helped creating the 'snow white' design language, which began with the legendary apple IIc including the legendary macintosh computer, and reigned in cupertino from 1984 to 1990. soon after steve jobs' departure, esslinger broke his own contract with apple and followed jobs to NeXT. other major client engagements include lufthansa's global design and brand strategy, SAP's corporate identity and software user interface, microsoft windows branding and user interface design, siemens, NEC, olympus, HP, motorola and general electric. in december 1990 esslinger was featured on the cover of businessweek the only living designer thus honored since raymond loewy in 1934. esslinger is a founding professor of the hochschule fuer gestaltung in karlsruhe, germany and since 2006 he is a professor for convergent industrial design at the university of applied arts in vienna, austria. today prof. hartmut esslinger is a master of strategic design with the beijing detao masters academy (DTMA), a multi-disciplined, application-oriented higher education institution in shanghai, china.
Ha-ha! Pat Sharp in the contact list (pic on top). Apple have always been well connected! Gt
Outstanding work.
The appearance of fashion, will be more and more people love, the present level of science and technology more and more developed.
This design has the imagination, let a person shine at the moment, very good,
He must be Jonny Ive's dad. 🙂
The "macbook" concept from 1982 looks surprisingly modern
Very good work! One thing though, Electrolux is a Swedish brand, not American.
That Baby Mac looks like the iMac's dad, 13 years ahead of its time. Incredible!
…"Steve Hobs…?"
Apple Newton?!?
Nice concepts. BTW there's a 'Steve Hobs' mention up there hehe
They say John Ive is Senior VICE of design. So who is the top dog of design at Apple?
A well guarded secret I assume. Nonetheless, IVE is flipping awesome!!!!
There was so much going on at apple. The keyboard and the laptop were nice.
Why did they always put the keyboard where the palm rests should be in the early laptops? I knew laptops would be coming and was so disappointed that they all had this flaw. Didn't anyone notice this at the time? Not even Steve Jobs?
@Marnix – the idea for palm rests on the keyboard was not an obvious solution. I assume as all other keyboards of that era did not have them (think of how thick the commodore 64, atari 800 XL, IBM PC keyboards were… .625″ or thicker – none with a palm rest either) – the initial concepts were trying to mimic the presence of a normal keyboard and also keep the hands out of the viewing area of the screen.
I think it is obvious to us now that the thickness and unsteadiness of the laptop on your lap without your hands resting on its base is a huge omission. I think also the pride of "We're doing it right" was a part of it as PC counterparts came out. It wasn't until touch pads invaded the bottom of the space that apple had palm resting space.
Seeing the Apple logo on a notebook without a palm rest and centered pointing device is very, very odd.
It's amazing how conservative these designs look, and also how outrageously large they look. But I know that at the time, they would have looked very futuristic and very small and compact.
Great stuff.
Its so good to see how far Apple was ahead of the rest and if i look true the design stages u see modern aspects back in the productline now. And who would have thought Apple already had Flatscreen computers!!!!! WOW
I've always loved babymac and cassie.
@ terry
Jony Ive is a Senior VP of APPLE, not of Design. As a Senior
VP of Apple, he is the particular VP of the company that is the head of
Design, as opposed to Finances or Software Development or Retail, etc.
Some of these designs are fantastic! Loving the MacPhone. Too bad Apple isn't this innovative or creative anymore.
None of the early, "Portables" (osborne, compaq, etc) or "Notebook" computers had wrist rests. Most of the early notebook designs seemed very odd. For example some of Compaq's notebooks had a small trackball on the right side of the screen. Apple was the first one to make a notebook that had a wrist rest in front of the keyboard and the trackball in middle (the PowerBook 100), later they introduced the trackpad to the world on subsequent models. It was also one of the lighter ones available at under 6 pounds. Their previous Mac Portable was over 15 pounds and over 4 inches tall, and that was small with its thin LCD screen in comparison to the other portables that had CRT displays.
Ha ha almost all this stuff was rejected. Good thing this stuff got the boot when jobs came back.
With the exception of the MacPhone and Apple IIc, those are some hideous designs!
I am not ashamed to admit the Americana style is my favorite.
It reminds me of 70's and 80's era sci-fi.
"innovation-over-money approach" Now Apple has gone to a lawsuit AND money approach.
@ Parr
One of the reasons why many PC laptops at the time did not include built in trackball was because Windows wasn't a big success until Win 3.11 and Win 95. Most PC folks were still using DOS which didn't require a mouse. It made sense to allow for an option trackpad that usually fitted to the side of the case. Macs, on the other hand depended on a mouse.
As for other portables having CRT displays. The Mac Portable came out in late 1998. PC were using LCD for some time. Some of them were using color while Apple was stili using B&W and grey-scale. A few other things the PC Laptops beat Powerbooks to was built-in CD-Rom drives and PC Card slots.
I really like the dual-screen workstation, despite the upright one looking so much like Roy Orbison
Design flaws: 1.) No capitalization is obnoxious. 2.) No margin padding on the main body of the article or the comments looks undisciplined in website design.
Other than this, I enjoyed the article and look forward to some day buying Mr. Esslinger's book.
SAP's software user interface. Anyone who has ever worked in this system hates it for ever and ever.
Lots of other great stuff though.
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a robot bird built using 40 pigeon feathers flies like the real thing
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The first indoor track and field meet of the season for the Lipscomb Bisons, saw two school records fall and a usual suspect at the top of the leaderboard at the Ed Temple Classic hosted by Tennessee State University on Saturday.
Sophomore thrower April Terry set two school records while junior Tucker Peabody took home the victory in the 200m.
"We had a good start to the season today," Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor said. "There were some great efforts, while at the same time we see how much work we have to do."
Terry set the school record in the weight throw with a throw of 15.37m and in the shot put with a toss of 12.37m. She finished in third and fourth place, respectively, in the events.
"April led the way for us today absolutely crushing the school records in the shot and weight throw," Taylor said. "I think all our throwers set indoor personal records."
Sophomore Houston Ward finished second in the weight throw with a toss of 14.44m and third in the shot put with a toss of 14.40m.
Junior Tucker Peabody claimed victory in the 200m dash with a time of 21.75 seconds, besting second place by thirty-seven hundredths of a second.
"Tucker ran great in both the 55m and 200m," Taylor said. "I really liked what we saw from Nelson Scott today as well. He is a great competitor."
Scott clocked in with a time of 51.19 in the 400m dash as the top Lipscomb finisher.
Gemikal Prude finished third in the high jump with a leap of 1.98m while Adam Austin finished in a tie for seventh with a jump of 1.88m.
Lipscomb returns to action Friday as it travels to Birmingham, Ala., for the Blazer Invite at the Crossplex. The meet is hosted by UAB.


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Engineering Biology and Medicine at Small Scales: From Cell Manipulation, Molecular Screening to Early Cancer Detection
John X.J. Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, April 26, 2013, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
Translational biomedical engineering plays an important role in assimilating the advancement of nanomaterials and microdevice engineering toward developing innovative tools for medicine, as well as contributing to the investigations across the multi-scale biological hierarchy with minimal invasions. Our laboratory is currently developing a few novel biotechnologies exploring scale-dependent physical science and the miniaturization technology towards efficient healthcare. In this talk, I will review our research on (1) rapid blood screening devices for circulating tumor cells detection and analysis; (2) quantum dots based near-field imaging microchip for cellular microarray screening and molecular-scale energy transfer process measurements; and (3) MEMS-scanner based endoscopes for in vivo sub-cellular early cancer detection. Nano-micro scale science, information, and biomedicine are integrative components of the research that are used with advanced engineering tools to facilitate biomedical studies and develop point-of-care diagnostics for global health applications.
About the Speaker
John X.J. Zhang is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas of Austin (UT Austin) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint affiliations with Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB), Microelectronics Research Center and Texas Materials Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, California in 2004, and was a Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, before joining the faculty at UT Austin in 2005.
Zhang's research focuses on exploring bio-inspired nanomaterials, scale-dependent biophysics, and nanofabrication technology, toward developing new diagnostic devices and methods on probing complex cellular processes and biological networks critical to development and diseases. Both multi-scale experimental and theoretical approaches are combined to investigate fundamental force, flow, and energy processes at the interface of engineering and biomedicine. In particular, his laboratory is leading the development of integrated photonic microsystems (MEMS, micro-electro-mechanical systems), semiconductor chips and nanotechnologies critical to healthcare, defense and environmental applications. He has published over 120 peer reviewed papers and proceedings, presented over 45 invited seminars worldwide, and filed over 15 US patents (3 patents issued). His research findings have been highlighted in many public media, and were licensed to two companies: CardioSpectra, Inc. and NanoLite Systems, Inc.. He has organized many major conferences in the area of MEMS/BioMEMS, nanotechnologies, and biomedical engineering.
In addition to being the Principal Investigator of many major grants from U.S. federal agencies such as NIH, NSF, and DARPA, Dr. Zhang was also recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award for Translational Research in Biomedical Engineering in 2006, the British Council Early Career RXP Award in 2008, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) Award in 2009-2014, DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2010, and an invitee to attend U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering (NAE-FOE) program in 2011, the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education (NAE FOEE) program in 2012, and subsequently China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE) program in 2013.


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Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush urged the nation to change its immigration and education systems to ensure a robust American economy in remarks Wednesday before the World Affairs Council in Dallas. A suburb away, former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her first paid speech since leaving the helm of the State Department earlier this year.
The dueling appearances came on the eve of the opening of George W. Bush's presidential library, stoking speculation about each of their political futures. Both are considered strong White House contenders should each seek the presidency in 2016.
Both of their families were gathering for the library dedication on the campus of Southern Methodist University, an event that will put five living U.S. presidents, including President Barack Obama, on the same stage.
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Presidential politics were close to the surface in Dallas Wednesday.
During a question-and-answer session, one man told Bush he had met him in Florida. "Hopefully I'll meet you in Washington as the next president of the United States," the man said.
Asked by another questioner whether he might run for president in 2016, Bush pointed to his son, George P. Bush, a candidate for statewide office in Texas. "To be honest, I'm focused on the land commissioner race in 2014," Bush said with a smile.
Bush, who recently released a book promoting immigration changes, said the nation needed an agenda that would give Americans "the right to rise," whether in entrepreneurial ventures, through restructuring immigration or educational policies that help children attain success. He urged Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would stretch from Canada to Texas and pointed to fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson as a president who cajoled and persuaded Congress to enact his agenda.
"We need people to get outside their comfort zones. We need leaders to have humility to find consensus and compromise. If we do that we'll break the logjams in all sorts of areas of policies that right now don't seem to be working, and this country will take off," Bush said.
Bush lauded his brother's approach to life after the White House, saying he deserved credit for "not sitting on the sidelines and publicly carping and chirping and opining about his successor. I think that is a great tradition in our country that once you serve, you do your best and then you move on."
The feeling was mutual. The former president said in an interview with ABC News that Jeb Bush would be "a marvelous candidate if he chooses to do so. He doesn't need my counsel 'cause he knows what it is, which is `run."'
Meanwhile, Clinton spoke at a private event to the National Multi-Housing Council's board of directors, a trade group that represents the apartment building industry. Terms of Clinton's compensation for the speech have not been disclosed, but it was expected to net six-figures.
About 40 Clinton supporters gathered in Irving, Texas, waving signs outside the resort where the speech was being held. Chance Browning, 29, wore a red T-shirt that read "Hot for Hillary" as he gathered with friends.
"It's never too early to start rallying support. I think she's perfectly poised to run in 2016," Browning said.
Jim Lapides, a spokesman for the housing council, said the event was closed at the request of the former New York senator's speakers' group, the Harry Walker Agency, a common practice.
In recent speeches, Clinton has discussed ways of helping women and children flourish in developing nations but offered few hints about her political future. She is writing a book about her experiences as secretary of state, which will be released in June 2014.


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The Crimson held Stanford scoreless in the first half en route to a 10-4 win at Harvard Stadium (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's lacrosse team used another stifling defensive performance to get back to .500 on Wednesday as it took down Stanford, 10-4, at Harvard Stadium.
The Crimson (4-4) set the tone early as Kelly Weis made her first of eight saves off a Catherine Swanson free position shot just 1:07 into the game. Harvard capitalized on the ensuing possession as Jennifer VanderMeulen converted a free position attempt for the first score of the day, and Danielle Tetreault made it a 2-0 game 4:50 in off a second free position attempt. VanderMeulen added her second goal less than 30 seconds later for a 3-0 lead.
Play evened up over the next 20 minutes as the teams traded possession back-and-forth. Weis came away with three more saves during the stretch before Micaela Cyr found the back of the net off a feed from Jenn Leffew with 4:24 remaining in the frame to move the score to 4-0. Leffew got in on the scoring action with 1:49 to go as Melanie Baskind found her cutting in front of the net, and for the second straight game Harvard went into the half without allowing a goal, 5-0.
The lead grew to 6-0 out of the break as Leffew and Baskind teamed up for another score, and Baskind made it a 7-0 margin with 24:58 remaining. Stanford (2-6) got on the board with 20:49 on the clock but Chelsey Newman responded for the Crimson with her first goal of the year, making it an 8-1 game. Back-to-back tallies by VanderMeulen gave Harvard its largest lead of the day, 10-1, with 14:27 to play.
The Cardinal netted three goals in the final 4:01 of regulation as Harvard walked away with the victory, 10-4.
VanderMeulen led all scorers with a season-high four goals while Leffew notched two goals and one assist for three points. Baskind also registered three points with one goal and two assists as six different Crimson scored in the victory.
Weis anchored the Harvard defense with eight saves and three groundballs, as the team's four goals allowed were its fewest since a 19-3 win over Yale last season. Harvard has allowed five or fewer goals in each of its last two games, marking the first time the team has accomplished the feat since April of 2002.
Cyr matched her season-high with four ground balls while Lauren Tomkinson also registered a season-high with three. Tetreault and Kasey Uhlenhuth led the Crimson in draw controls with three and two, respectively.
Stanford outshot the Crimson 18-14 but put only 12 attempts on goal. The teams were even in draw controls, 8-8, and Harvard held a slight edge in turnovers, 18-15. Emilie Boeri led the Cardinal attack with two goals while Lyndsey Munoz recorded three saves in goal.
Harvard will be back in action Saturday, March 31 when it faces No. 2 Syracuse at Gillette Stadium. First draw is scheduled for 12 p.m.
Game Notes: Harvard has allowed five or fewer goals in each of its last two games, marking the first time the team has done so since April of 2002 … Harvard has outscored its last two opponents 12-0 in the first half … Kelly Weis notched her fifth game with at least eight saves … Jennifer VanderMeulen registered her second hat trick of the season and the 24th of her career.


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Open house pick of the week: Anuhea at Makakilo
There are various new community developments on the west side of Oahu, being filled almost as fast as the homes can be built. In Makakilo, there's a community called Anuhea, and the one available home there is open this Sunday.
It's the first showing for this new listing, located on a rim lot in a quiet cul-de-sac. (Click here for details.) It is just six years old and shows like new, with more than $75,000 worth of upgrades throughout, including laminate flooring, plush carpet, corian counters, stainless steel appliances, and upgraded cabinets in the kitchen.
In this price range, rural homes have an incredible amount of space: the lot is 6,100 square feet, and the home itself is 1,515 square feet with four bedrooms and 2. 5 baths. The master bedroom upstairs is huge: It's got enough room for the bed plus more large furniture, a walk-in closet, vaulted ceilings, a big master bathroom with double sinks and a large, open deck overlooking the yard and the open plain.
The covered lanai downstairs opens to the landscaped yard. Inside, central air keeps the house cool. This is probably going to be a popular choice for people looking to live on that side of the island, for that price point.
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Let $u(t) = \Sigma_{k=1}^n c_k e^{i \lambda_k t} (c_k \in \mathbb C, \lambda_k \in \mathbb R) $ be an exponential polynomial of order $n$ with purely imaginary exponents. We can assume that the exponents are $\delta$-separated.
Define $E_n$ to be the collection of all exponential polynomial of order $n$. i.e.,
$$ E_n:= \{ u : u(t) = \sum_{k=1}^n c_k e^{i \lambda_k t}, c_k \in \mathbb C, \lambda_k \in \mathbb R, and |\lambda_i - \lambda_j| > \delta\\ when\\ i \neq j \}. $$
Of course $u$ is an almost periodic function i.e., given $\epsilon >0$ there exists $T_\epsilon$ such that every interval of length $T_\epsilon$ contains an almost period of $u$. i.e., $\forall x \in \mathbb R,$ $\exists \tau \in (x,x+T_\epsilon)$ such that
$$ \sup_{t\in \mathbb R} |u(t)-u(t+\tau)| < \epsilon$$
Is it possible to find a bound on the $T_\epsilon$ for such an exponential polynomial, I added the separation condition hoping that it would lead to an affirmative answer.
I have this suspicion that the almost period may have to do something with the number theoretical properties of the set of exponents. After all if all the exponents are in a lattice then the function is periodic.
and may I even dare hope to find a bound which will work for the entire class? Some nice subclass maybe ?
If that is too much to ask then what is a good question to ask ?
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Reallusion's iClone4 Pro: Building on Quality
November 9, 2009 12:28 am
Tags: 2D, 3D, 3ds Max, animation, CrazyTalk, Dulci, Half Life, iClone, John Martin, machinima, Maya, Poser, Quake, real-time, Reallusion, Renderosity, Unreal
iClone4 Pro
"iClone4 is a real platform for (animated)
filmmaking. You can bring your project very solidly into iClone4
and understanding the kind of stylistic look and feel that you want
to bring to it, I think now the program is really capable of
letting you hone that for yourself."
It was just over 10 years ago when the first machinima filmmakers were hacking games like Quake to control a camera and record PvP matches. In those heady early days of machinima, filmmaking was a lot like playing the game. You'd get some friends to join you on a server, one person would be the camera and the "director" would move players around much like in a live-action film. Various takes would be recorded via the demo recording function of the game and with the addition of some basic editing, voice recordings and titles in a video editor, you'd have a machinima film. Primitive looking, but it was fun and it was done real-time with no rendering.
As game companies realized that modding and machinima extended the life of their game (and earned them more profit), they began releasing SDKs (software development kits) which gave the early machinima filmmaker more tools to create more well crafted and polished 3D animated films. Still, even with the best SDKs there were limitations: difficult to use custom content, lack of documentation and a steep learning curve, plus no guarantee that you'd even own the film you created.
Despite these obstacles, machinima filmmakers managed to create some remarkable films, and machinima became very popular. This led companies like Reallusion to fill that gap that existed between pure game-based machinima and high-end animation with expensive programs like Maya and 3ds Max. When Reallusion released version 1.0 of iClone in 2003, they provided a relatively cheap way to create 3D animated films that was easy to learn and had no rights issues (you owned what you created). Granted, the program was very simple and often the results didn't look as good as what you could cook up in Unreal or Half Life.
That was 7 years ago, and with release of iClone3 last year, Reallusion stepped up as a serious alternative to game-based machinima along with developing an enthusiastic user base, many of whom were first time machinima filmmakers. Our review praised iClone3 as "the new standard for machinima." Essentially, iC3 was the first complete non-game machinima tool to include the major tools you need to create professional looking 3D animated films in real time.
So, with the recent release of iClone4 Pro, has Reallusion managed to improve on what was a milestone in the development of their excellent animation toolset?
While iC4 doesn't have the same impact as it's amazing predecessor, there are updates and new additions to the program that truly make iClone4 Pro a must have upgrade. Let's take a look at some of the new features that were added.
Opening screen of iclone4
New Features
New Facial Animation mode - Basically, Reallusion added their hit facial animation program Crazy Talk to the iClone toolset. This was a no-brainer for them as this addition was almost overdue. CT enables you to keyframe facial animation for your characters, or "puppeteer" your chosen facial features in real-time. Before, you could import Crazy Talk animations into iClone, but by integrating it inside of iClone it's much, much easier to animation your characters now. This new feature alone is worth the price of the upgrade.
Close-up of new facial animation features
PopVideo & 3D Video FX - Reallusion expanded their user base with iClone4 Pro by extending it's functionality to include motion graphics. You can now place video on any surface of 3D objects and create layers of video for foreground, background, titling and SFX. All major video file formats are supported (avi, wmv, mov, flv, etc). Compositing video effects from right within iClone4 Pro is very easy now using Reallusion's PopVideo, which is video with an alpha channel.
Drag & Drop Editing - With iClone4 Pro you can drag & drop files directly from your computer or external hard drive. You can also turn any video or image file into a 3D object when you drop it into an iClone4 Pro scene.
Texture Sharing and Blending - A very welcome addition to iClone is the ability to share textures on multiple objects. You can also blend your chosen textures with multiply, addition and overlay. UV manipulation now includes rotation, mirror and inversion. Poser and Second Life facial textures are now supported and can be imported for use in iClone4 Pro.
New Characters and Content - Two new G3 characters have been added, G4 heads (with optimization for advanced facial animation/textures) with eyelashes, a new G3 cartoon character and non-human characters are included with iClone4 Pro. It's now much easier to edit and animate non-human characters, too.
Motion Paths & Transition Curves - In iClone4 you can place motion paths for your characters or objects and adjust them on the fly. Camera moves and character animation now has several new transition curves (linear, ease in, ease out, etc.) for smoother animation and movement.
New motion path function in iClone4
There are many more additions to iClone4, too many to list here. You can find a complete breakdown of what's new at the Reallusion iClone4 page.
"..and the fact that we can have the
characters who aren't speaking be animation goes along way towards
character-oriented scripts. I'm not a big action-oriented
writer...I use this (facial animation) in just about every scene.
So easy to use"
CommentsiClone4 is an excellent step up from the previous version of iClone. I found that working with this new version is much easier. The program is more responsive and I did not experience a single crash in several weeks of using the program. Perhaps it was just that I was more familiar with the program, but I found I could achieve better results with iClone4; importing Google Sketchup content via Reallusion's 3DXchange program was a snap. I had a scene up and running in minutes.
The added ability to dock and collapse the timeline is most welcome. I had a devil of a time with the old timeline, as I ended up moving it all over the screen trying to keep it out of the way. Individual animation tracks for each character makes it easier to create animation for multiple character scenes. The transition blends for animation is helpful, but the focus on this version of iClone is on facial animation. iClone still needs a more robust body animation set to compete with Poser, for example. A blending graph where you can visually tweak the animation transitions would be ideal.
New HDR video effects like light bloom and changing exposure allow for a range of visual effects that are comparable to higher end programs that cost much more. I found these effects and many other visual effects simple to apply and easy to adjust.
The new motion paths were a bit harder to get right, but with some patience I was able to create and adjust paths for my characters that looked great. I suspect that as I become more familiar with the process, I'll be able to do it more quickly. Already, the time saved in just having motion paths is excellent. This addition was a little overdue, but I'm glad to see it implemented so well in iClone4.
The video compositing is slick and well done in iClone4, but I found myself staying with the basics of the program: creating scenes, adding actors, setting lights and detailing animation. Video layers has a nice wow factor, but it is of less importance to most machinima filmmakers. Still, I really like it's implementation and the creative possibilities are there for those who want to play with this new functionality.
Shot of the animation mode in iClone4
The visual quality of iClone characters has always lagged behind slightly in comparison to Poser (and certainly to higher end 3D programs), so it was a pleasure to see the new G4 heads in action which look great. The additional facial features and ability to create complex facial animations on the new heads will push characterization in iClone4-based machinima to a much higher level.
Finally, with iClone4 Pro, Reallusion has proven that they are a company committed to releasing quality upgrades for its programs. Much of the improvements in iClone4 Pro were initiated from a growing user base. Since my last review of iClone, an entirely new generation of users have appeared and film production using the program has at least doubled. Some users have become producers of special content for the program and are even providing workarounds for individual problems. And Reallusion has responded with filmmaking contests and strong support for it's users.
I'd still like to see a bit better handling of documentation from Reallusion though. They have a nice set of iClone4 Pro video tutorials and the help system is good within the program itself, but there still isn't a downloadable manual for iClone4 Pro. I printed the manual for iC3 last year and had it cheaply bound by a local printer. It's disappointing not to be able to do this for iClone4 Pro.
I'm impressed with iClone4 Pro, maybe not as much as the previous version 3, but if you start adding up the improvements in workflow, facial animation, video layers, texture blending, new content and drop & drag images/video, you realize just what a great release iClone4 is. And at $99 for the upgrade ($199 for the full program), you can't beat the price. iClone4 Pro is fully compatible with Windows 7, XP SP2 and Vista. No Mac version yet (keep your fingers crossed).
I highly recommend iClone4 Pro for new machinima filmmakers, or for those who are considering upgrading from a previous version of iClone. You can also try iClone4 Standard edition which doesn't include some of the advanced facial animation or timeline features for $79. And there's a free iClone4 Ex version which has all of the Pro version features for 2 weeks and then reverts to a simpler version of the program. There's a good version matrix at the Reallusion site which lays all of the info out in easy to read columns.
My sincere thanks to John Martin and Reallusion for providing a copy of iClone4 Pro to review. I was fortunate to be able to chat with John and iClone power user, Dulci, recently over Skype. Dulci is an avid iClone filmmaker and one-half of the "Wolf and Dulci Hour," which focuses in on machinima creation especially with iClone. It's a great show and well worth your time.
You can listen to the 30 minute chat here.
There is also an excellent video recording of John Martin's demo of iClone4 at Siggraph in August, 2009, at Reallusion's blog (scroll down the page a bit). I've also uploaded an "iClone4 Quick Tour" video to Renderosity's Video Center:
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iClone4 Quick Tour
A great user-created site for iClone custom content is Clones2go.com. And if you want to see a good example of what a talented filmmaker can do with iClone watch John Martin's Bluebird, an animated Charles Bukowski poem.
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Savannah-based company is behind it.
MelApp debuted this month for the iPhone. The application, designed to analyze skin lesions like freckles and moles for melanoma risk, is a product of Health Discovery Corporation, an 8-year-old company based in downtown Savannah and run by Dr. Steven Barnhill.
Melanoma is considered the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
Barnhill declined to be interviewed for this story but explained the benefits of MelApp for consumers in a news release issued upon the application's release.
"Most consumers understand that early detection is critical with a cancer like melanoma; what they need is a reliable technology literally at their fingertips that offers immediate convenience at an affordable price," Barnhill said. "Now they have it with MelApp,"
MelApp uses the iPhone's camera, a database of moles and freckles licensed from John Hopkins University Medical Center and GPS technology in assessing risk. Users take a photo of a mole or freckle with the phone camera and use the $1.99 MelApp to enlarge and crop the photo.
Users then answer questions regarding the mole or freckle's size and development and upload the information through MelApp. The software compares the file to the photos and info of skin lesions in the John Hopkins database and provides a risk assessment.
For those users the software deems at risk for cancer, MelApp can direct them to nearby physicians for a follow-up evaluation, using GPS technology included in the smartphone.
"Nothing can replace doctors or specialists when it comes to diagnosing and treating melanoma," said Dr. Howard Zaren, who uses similar technology to the MelApp in the 'mole mapping' program at the St. Joseph's/Candler Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion. "But awareness is the basis of all screening. Knowing that you can and should watch out for certain conditions so you can catch them at an early phase is important. This technology certainly has the potential to boost awareness."
MelApp has met with instant success. Users in 40 countries have already purchased the application, and it ranks among the top-100 highest grossing apps in the health care and fitness category.
But then its popularity should come as no surprise. Melanoma kills one American every hour, according to the American Melanoma Foundation, and World Health Organization statistics show 130,000 cases are diagnosed globally each year.
Melanoma accounts for 80 percent of skin cancer deaths, St. Joseph's/Candler's Zaren said.
Health Discovery Corporation was born in September 2003 following Direct Wireless' acquisition of the Barnhill Group.
MelApp: How it works
Users download the $1.99 application, take a photo of a mole or freckle with an iPhone camera and answer questions regarding the mole or freckle's size and its development. Then submit the information for analysis via the application.
MelApp uses mathematical algorithms and image-based pattern recognition technology to evaluate the uploaded image against a database licensed from the John Hopkins University Medical Center and assess risk. The software will return an answer — high-risk or low-risk for melanoma — within seconds based on five parameters, including mole asymmetry and the rate at which the skin lesion developed.
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Best Jackson Hole Summer Activities
Find the top activities in Jackson Hole during the summer
With options like hiking, white water rafting, fishing, relaxing in a day spa, biking, and so much more, there is always something to do in the summer in Jackson Hole. Jackson Hole is a family friendly summer vacation destination.
Endless Jackson Hole Summer Activities
Summer in Jackson Hole offers a plethora of activity choices: do I explore the beautiful hiking trails that wind through fields of wildflowers or hit the river for a little whitewater fun? Is it time to explore the skies by hot air balloon or ride horseback into the backcountry? Whether you're chasing a heart-pumping thrill or looking for more relaxing fun, we're here to help you design the ultimate western summer mountain adventure.
Touring and Wildlife
With an idyllic location just one mile from the entrance to Grand Teton National Park and only an hour from the renowned Yellowstone National Park, visiting these iconic landmarks is easy. You can explore these national treasures on your own or hire a tour guide to lead you to some of the best views and wildlife spotting areas in and around Jackson Hole.
Expeditions explore the valley, focusing on each animal's unique ecosystem. Naturalists offer local knowledge and exclusive viewing opportunities. Experience the thrill of spotting a Grizzly or a towering Moose, and take in the beauty of the landscape.
Cost: $199 per person for half day.
Children's rates available.
Consult our Concierge for preferred outfitters.
Hiking and Mountain Biking
Jackson Hole Activities, Hiking in the SnowHiking and Mountain Biking trails begin outside our door and continue into some of the world's most spectacular outdoor lands.
At the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, there is a seven mile network of mountain bike trails to explore. The Teewinot chairlift enables you to hitch a ride with your mountain bike half-way up the mountain. You may also explore trails in the backcountry around Jackson Hole.
You can rent bikes and accessories from many shops in the area and set out on your own or hire guides for tips and instruction.
Specialty outfitters provide guided, half-day hiking or biking access through the hills and valleys of Jackson Hole. A guide will take you on stunning treks throughout the Bridger-Teton National Forest. A wide range of terrain suitable for all hikers and bikers – from the novice to the seasoned – can be found just outside.
Price varies by location. Our Concierge will email pricing.
Road Biking
With some of the most stunning backdrops imaginable, a variety of paved and dirt roads and trails throughout Jackson Hole offer another excellent way to see the landscape. The National Elk Refuge Road or the extensive paved pathways that run throughout the Jackson Hole valley offer ideal options. Our Concierge is well-versed in road rides, so be sure to inquire!
Jackson Hole from the Big Skies
Explore Jackson Hole from the Big Skies Whether you choose to fly high in a hot air balloon or float peacefully in a paraglider or a glider plane, delving into the big skies of Jackson Hole by air is an unforgettable experience. Take in the expansive valley from a bird's eye view – marveling at the mountains, meandering rivers and lush landscape.
Horseback Riding
There's no better way to experience the romance of the Old West, explore deep into the back country, and climb high in the mountains than on horseback. Rides offer stunning scenery while evoking the old days, when the West was wild and horses were daily commuters. There are many outfitters, most offering full- or half-day rides.
Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis, designed by Robert Trent Jones II, showcases some of Jackson Hole's most breathtaking Teton views. This semi-private club is consistently ranked number one in the state of Wyoming by Golf Digest magazine. Located just 20 miles from our luxury hotel, the club offers a pro shop, golf instruction, club rentals, driving range and putting green.
Teton Pines is a full-service, semi-private championship golf course offering tee boxes of varying levels, many water features and large greens. This 18-hole course, opened in 1987, was designed by Arnold Palmer. Located just 5 miles from the Lodge, the course offers a pro shop, golf instruction, club rentals, driving range and putting green.
Rafting, Kayaking & Watersports
The Snake River offers both calm waters for scenic floating and a dramatic canyon for whitewater excitement. High alpine lakes and ponds are found among the mountain peaks and have their own opportunities for water fun.
Whether you rent kayaking equipment and head out on your own or enlist a guide or instructor, you can choose between the athletic descent of the Snake River or the gliding serenity of the alpine lakes in Grand Teton National Park.
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Fly Fishing
Home to some of the world's best trout fishing, the lakes and streams below the Teton Range feature Rainbow, Brown, Lake trout and one of the few remaining populations of wild Cutthroat trout. There are a number of rivers in the area for you to choose from – Snake, Henry's Fork, Gros Ventre, Green, Madison and many more!
Cost typically ranges from $395-$650 for half day to full day for one to two people. Our Concierge is happy to assist with making the right choice based on your time and interest and can schedule with our preferred partners and outfitters.
Other Summer Activities in Teton Village
In addition to the planned daily events in and around Teton Village, let our Concierge Team or (as we like to think of them) our "Adventure Specialists" assist you in planning the following fun pursuits and activities:
- Discover Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's brand new Gravity Logic-designed mountain bike park with lift access
- Soar through the sky and ride the tram to the top of Rendezvous Peak and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
- Take on the trails of our slopeseide mountain via hike or mountain bike
- Ride the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Gondola and enjoy a scenic lunch or picnic on the mountain
- Paraglide with Jackson Hole's world-class tandem pilots
- Saddle up for a horseback ride with experienced local outfitters
- Help drive cattle at a local ranch
- Rent and ride a bike to (via bike path) to Grand Teton National Park, the charming neighboring town of Wilson, or even downtown Jackson Hole
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Agenda: July 6, 2012 Watershed Health and Environment PEG Meeting
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Presenter: Dena Marshall, Facilitator
Portland's Comprehensive Plan (10 minutes)
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We're lucky in Colorado because many of our state's most remarkable landscapes are located on public lands that we all own.
From iconic peaks to isolated mountain streams, these lands offer prime opportunities for reflection, recreation, hunting and fishing, among other pursuits. They're places that have brought many of us here to live and work in the first place.
In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates outdoor activities like these brought $2.9 billion into the Colorado's economy last year. Outside projections indicate that President Obama's recent designation of Chimney Rock as a national monument will double the economic benefit the iconic formation provides the region, bringing an additional $1.2 million to the area. Coloradans on whole saw nearly 75,000 jobs and more than $14 billion in economic development derived from our public lands, and that's just in 2011.
Coloradans understand that our national leaders should exhibit a careful balance when managing the American people's investment in these lands. Whether an area is drilled for oil and gas, or preserved as wilderness (both important and legitimate uses), the proper stewardship – and continued ownership – of our public lands should be prioritized if Colorado is going to thrive in the 21st century.
Unfortunately, that ownership and balanced stewardship is currently threatened. Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed selling off millions of acres of public lands to the highest bidder. These millions of acres you and I hold title to would be put up on the auction block if some have their way.
It's clear the federal government must confront our fiscal challenges, but policies like this put our economic future, not to mention our treasured national heritage, at risk. Rather, we should protect one of the key economic drivers of Colorado's economy – our public lands – by rejecting these misguided policies.
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One Direction mania is about to start all over again with the November release of their sophomore album Take Me Home. So to celebrate, the guys stripped down and performed their current hit single "Live While We're Young."
Calm down, they didn't strip down literally, but they did perform an acoustic version of their uptempo party anthem.
After some quick on air banter, the guys took the airwaves to belt out a shortened and different version of the song.
For instance, you can clearly hear Liam Payne change the lyrics from "the music up the windows down," to "the music up the window cleaner." It wouldn't be a One Direction performance without some random behavior like changing lyrics or grabbing bums.
Following Liam is Zayn Malik, who belts out his verse a little faster than the guitarist is playing, but when the rest of the group joins in, the harmonies more than make up for it.
Perhaps he was sick or had lost his voice, but missing from the chorus was Niall Horan, who was not singing into the microphone and can be seen twirling in his chair.
One Direction will kick off the North American leg of their 2013 World Tour which will begin June 13, in Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
-CJ Robinson, MIX 105.1/Orlando
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Two subsets of soldiers with Gulf War illness react differently to physical exertion, and their brains atrophied in different regions, U.S. scientists say.
Lead author Rakib Rayhan of Georgetown University in Washington said the same patterns found using brain scans and exercise stress tests were not detected in the control group of healthy subjects, the Chicago Tribune reported.
After the 1991 Gulf War, veterans complained of various symptoms including pain, fatigue, headaches and cognitive impairment. It affects some 30 percent of the nearly 700,000 troops who served in the war.
Numerous studied were conducted on exposure to nerve agents, pesticides, radiation and smoke from burning oil wells but no definitive cause for Gulf War illness was identified.
In one group of 18 veterans, pain levels were elevated after exercise and their brain scans showed a loss of brain matter in the regions associated with pain regulation.
In another group of 10 veterans, exercise triggered a condition in which moving from lying down to a standing position causes the heart to race. This group had atrophy in the brainstem, which controls heart rate and blood pressure, the study said.
The study was published in the journal Plos One.


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Dish-TiVo ruling could hit 6 million subscribers
A federal appeals court panel today upheld a lower court's ruling that Dish Network's DVRs infringe on patents held by TiVo.
Among other things, the ruling could mean that about 6 million Dish subscribers will have their DVRs removed or disabled because they violate TiVos patents, according to JP Morgan analyst Mike McCormack. He says that number could be as high as 13.9 million (out of 14.1 million Dish subscribers).
But that won't happen just yet as Dish said it plans to seek an en banc, or full court, review of the three-judge panel's split decision.
"At this time, our DVR customers are not impacted," Dish said in a statement.
McCormack said the most likely scenario is that Dish hammers out a royalty agreement with TiVo to allow Dish customers to continue using their DVRs.
"Given the court's decision that damages be awarded based on $2.25 per DVR subscriber per month, we believe ongoing royalty payments to TiVo in the future could be $2 to $3 per subscriber," McCormack wrote in a research note today.
TiVo said, if the decision stands, the company is in line to collect at least $300 million from Dish.
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Evolution is generally regarded as pretty good at specializing species for certain ecological niches, but with a glacial pace of adaptation, sometimes it needs a helping hand. Meet the team of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who decided they wanted to beef up the paraoxonase 1 (PON1) to the point it could combat sarin and other G-type nerve agents.
PON1 is an enzyme that is produced by our livers that can counteract sarin, tabun, soman, and cyclosarin, but not well enough for use in case of emergency — requiring people to use masks and suits, which can be penetrated. So the researchers undertook a path of "directed enzyme evolution," intentionally speeding up the course of adaptation to further their goal.
This technique is, essentially, the sort of wonderful mad science that we love here at io9. They artificially induced mutations into the gene that encoded target enzyme, creating variations in its efficiency and ability, and picking the best out of the lot. Within four generations of this process, the enzyme was functioning 340 times more efficiently than its natural form.
The hope is that the modified enzyme will be able to given to people going into an area exposed to these nerve agents to protect them, as well as being used to fight those already subjected to it. It also shows that with some judicious use of mutations and population pressure, "directed evolution" can provide very speedy results.
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Larry Pratt is the executive director of the Gun Owners of America, which makes the NRA look like a bunch of weak-kneed comsymps. He also seems to be completely clueless about the nature of constitutional rights. Speaking of Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Heller, which said that the Second Amendment does confer an individual right to bear arms but that this right is not unlimited, he said:
"He (Scalia) was not speaking from a constitutional perspective. The amendment does provide it's own degree of scrutiny: It says, 'shall not be infringed.' And we know that at least one justice, Mr. Thomas, takes that point of view. This is not something where the government is supposed to be free to tell we the people, the government's boss, how much — how far we can go with the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is there to constrain the government."
Well yes, the Second Amendment does say that the right to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed." But every other right stated in that document has similar language. The First Amendment says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And yet Congress makes laws criminalizing perjury, libel and fraud, and forbidding the media from giving away troop movements, and setting rules on where and when people can peaceably assemble. Does that mean they're violating the First Amendment by abridging those rights? Of course not. Because no reasonable person could possibly think that any right is entirely unlimited, even his hero Clarence Thomas.
So how do the courts go about determining which limitations are constitutional and which are not? In the case of the First Amendment and many other rights, they require that the government show that the law that was passed is the least restrictive means of achieving a compelling state interest. That interest might be public safety, the need to avoid giving away military secrets (thus the press can't reveal troop movements) or to protect the rights of another person (hence, libel and slander laws).


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The sunflowers are from the grocery store by my house and the vase is one that I made at a Pottery Painting place.
The vintage style Cracker Jacks are from Walmart and the trunk came from an estate sale last week:
And nothing says "Happy Birthday America" like a pink cooler, right?
I saw this cooler at Target last year and I didn't get it. I regretted that foolish decision all year. Yesterday it came back into my life. It was the last one on the shelf and ON SALE. I took that as a sign from God that it should be mine. We do have several coolers, but none of them are pink. And I am pretty sure all of them have had dead animal parts in them at one time or another from my hunting husband. So now we are the proud owners of a pink cooler.
Now Marcus has not seen our new cooler yet, and he reads my blog, so this is how I am breaking it to him. He also reads the comments, so it would be helpful if you could confirm the fact that this was a wise purchase, and how lucky we are that I was at the right place at the right time to get Target's last pink cooler and on sale! Basically, I think he should thank me!
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Our ECDs Tony Davidson and Iain Tait, along with Creative Director Scott Dungate, are featured in this month's issue of shots as part of a round-up of shots Awards winners from 2015.
The 'Agency of the Year' Q&A with Tony and Iain features the two talking about London as one of the world's creative capitals, attracting fresh talent to advertising, and creating work described as "unformulaic." An excerpt:
W+K's shortlisted work covers quite a broad range — interactive, social, and film — is that mix something the agency specifically aims for?
Tait — I don't think it's a conscious thing. We just look for interesting, appropriate and creatively exciting ways to solve problems for our clients. I think the only type of work we actively discourage is the fakey stuff that's specifically aimed at awards shows.
Davidson — We have a 'Wiedenism' in our lobby that says 'Walk in Stupid.' This points to the fact that whatever business problem walks into the building, there's no set way of solving it. In today's world there are so many options as to how you might solve that problem that it is important you and your clients keep an open mind and don't immediately jump to conclusions about anything, especially media.
Meanwhile, Scott talked about working on shots' Digital Campaign of the Year: Honda, The Other Side. Scott, on taking creative risks:
Can you tell when you've had a great idea and all the pieces are falling into place?
I think when you have an idea that contains an element of risk you potentially have something that could be great. Risk is something agencies and clients instinctively try to avoid or play down, but we really should be looking at our work and making sure we have some risk baked in. It should be a key and necessary ingredient. If you don't, then you're probably playing it too safe and not pushing hard enough. With The Other Side, nobody really knew if the storytelling would hold together until we saw the first edits, in the prototype, on set. That was the risk we, and the client, took.
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Quick Penne with Broccoli and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
1 pound whole-grain penne or other pasta
1 large bunch broccoli, cut into bite-size florets
1 jar (8 ounces) oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained and chopped
1 to 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
12 large leaves fresh basil, very thinly sliced, or 2 teaspoons dried
1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
1⁄4 cup toasted wheat germ
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir in the penne. Decrease the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, until the penne is almost tender. Add the broccoli and cook, stirring occasionally, until the penne is tender but firm and the broccoli is crisp-tender, 3 to 4 minutes.
Meanwhile, put the sun-dried tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of the oil, and the basil and garlic powder in a bowl large enough to also accommodate the penne and broccoli and stir until well combined.
Drain the penne and broccoli well and, while they are still piping hot, pour them over the tomato mixture. Add the wheat germ and toss gently until thoroughly combined. Add more oil as desired, season with salt and pepper to taste, and toss again. Serve immediately.
Frozen Banana Creamy with Cocoa Dust
3 large frozen bananas
1 1⁄2 cups chilled vanilla nondairy milk
3 to 4 teaspoons brown sugar or maple syrup
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
Put the bananas, nondairy milk, and brown sugar in a blender and process until smooth and creamy.
Pour the mixture into pretty dessert dishes or glasses. Sprinkle with the cocoa powder and serve immediately.
Avocado - Cashew Salad
4 teaspoons flaxseed oil
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
4 ounces (5 cups, lightly packed) mixed baby greens
20 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
1 red or yellow bell pepper, chopped
1⁄2 bermuda onion, chopped
1⁄2 cup chopped raw or roasted cashews
1 avocado, sliced
To make the dressing, put all the ingredients in a small bowl and briskly whisk until smooth and emulsified.
To make the salad, divide the greens between two large salad plates. For each serving, top with half of the tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, and cashews. Arrange the avocado slices on top in a spi- ral pattern. Drizzle with half of the dressing. Serve immediately.
Warm Bakery Bread with Herbed Dipping Oil
1 loaf crusty whole-grain bread (If possible, I recommend a locally (within 60 miles) produced crusty, whole grain loaf of fresh baked bread from your local supermarket or farm market.)
3 to 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced, or 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon italian seasoning
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Tightly wrap the bread in foil. Bake for 15 to 20
minutes, until heated through. Meanwhile, put the oil, garlic, and italian sea-
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Slice the bread and serve it in a bread basket or large bowl, wrapped in a large cloth napkin to keep it warm. Serve immediately, with the oil mixture alongside in small bowls.


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Claudia Edwards, graduate coordinator for the Cameron University School of Education and Behavioral Sciences, is the co-author of a new educational book, "Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs." The 170-page volume was recently published by ASCD, the second-largest educational organization in the country, and is aimed at K-12 teachers and school administrators. Edwards and co-authors Donald Kachur and Judy Stout wrote the book as a follow-up to their 2010 volume, "Classroom Walkthroughs to Improve Teaching and Learning."
"Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs" is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involve teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors relate how administrators and teacher-leaders moved fellow teachers from resisting to embracing the practice of becoming the observers as well as the observed in classroom walkthroughs.
Readers will learn how to:
- Foster a school culture that supports teacher walkthroughs.
- Implement the components of successful walkthroughs, such as focus and "look-fors," data collection methods, and meaningful follow-up strategies.
- Get all teachers involved and actively participating.
- Evaluate the walkthrough process and measure its effectiveness.
- Use walkthroughs to support professional development related to the Common Core State Standards
The book demonstrates that when teachers learn from one another in a cycle of continuous professional growth—through observation, shared inquiry, dialogue, and follow-up—they develop a sense of collegiality and a common mission. By opening their doors to their peers, they also contribute to broader school improvement efforts that positively affect teaching and learning throughout the school.
Edwards joined the Cameron staff in 2007 following a 29-year career as a public school teacher. During her teaching career, she was an assessor for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a staff developer and a mentor for interns and entry year teachers. She earned her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from Cameron.
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I love a good chess board. While I'm not entirely sold on its modern art aesthetic, or its $US30k price tag, I do love that the pieces start talking shit when you move them.
A3 Network says the set was hand-built by artist Barbara Kruger, who used three integrated computers and 96 microprocessor to get the Corian pieces to verbally interact with each other. Now if I could only custom order a set with soundbytes from The Seventh Seal, maybe I'd at least start daydreaming about buying a set. [YouTube]