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The Amendment of the PRC Population and Family Planning Law has been officially implemented as of January 1st, 2016. The aforementioned Amendment has changed China's previous one-child policy to one that encourages couples to have a second child, establishing the "two-child policy", under which couples are allowed to have additional children if legal requirements are met.
The issue to be addressed here, is whether an employer may terminate an employee's employment contract, if the latter violates the national family planning policy by giving birth to a third child. This issue has baffled employers for a long time, over which no unified opinions have been formed in judicial practice.
From the perspective of national laws, in order to protect employees' working rights, the employers' rights of unilateral termination are strictly restrained. An employee's violation of family planning policy is not listed as one of the scenarios explicitly defined by the PRC Employment Contract Law, in which the employer has the right to unilaterally dismiss a concerned employee. In addition, Article 5 of the Special Rules on the Labor Protection of Female Employees states that "the employer shall not …dismiss or terminate the employment contract with a female employee due to her pregnancy, childbearing or breastfeeding". The aforementioned rule does not distinguish legal and illegal "procreation", meaning employers need to act with extreme caution when handling a female employees' violation of family planning policy.
On the other hand, as a special national policy formulated in a specific time, the PRC Population and Family Planning Law states that in the event where a person gives birth to a child in violation of the family planning policies, she is required to pay a Social Child-raising Fee. In addition, if such violation is committed by state functionaries, he or she shall be given administrative punishment, while people other than state functionaries shall be given disciplinary punishment by their employers. The aforementioned rule does not specify the scope and limit of "disciplinary punishment", resulting in uncertainties of judicial authorities' views on the employers' decision of termination.
We notice that some courts (e.g. some courts in Beijing) are quite conservative when dealing with cases regarding the dismissal of female employees violating the family planning policy. Such prudence might be correlated, to some degree, to the looseness and adjustment of the national family planning policy.
Review of several cases
In Installation Engineering Co., Ltd. of First Bureau Group of CSCEC versus Sun Yan [(2014) Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court Civil Judgment No.08745], the company submitted several kinds of internal regulatory documents which specified the company's right to impose disciplinary actions on employees in violation of the family planning policy. In respect to employees "whose violation of family planning policy was serious, resulting in relatively great impact", the company had the right to unilaterally terminate their contracts immediately. In the meantime, the company submitted a written explanation of adverse impact caused by employee's violation of family planning policy. However, the court held that regardless of the abovementioned explanation, the company failed to submit other evidence so as to prove repercussions caused by the employee's violation, thus held the company's termination decision was illegal.
In China People's Liberation Army Daily Printing House versus Lv Hongjie [(2015) Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court Civil Judgment No.10587], one focus of the disputes between the company and the employee was whether the company had publicized the rules and regulations based on which the termination decision was made. The company alleged that it published the requirement of family planning rules on factory newspapers and hung them on the walls of workplace, and it also organized several sessions of employee group study in order for them to learn about related rules. Relevant witnesses also testified that they were aware of the company rules that employees who gave birth to a second child would be dismissed. However, the court held that evidence of factory newspapers and witness testimony were not enough to establish that relevant rules and regulations had already been communicated or publicized to employees. Therefore, the company's termination decision was held illegal by the court.
Based on the above cases, although the courts did not directly deny the company's right to terminate female employees in violation of family planning policy according to its internal rules and regulations, they might examine the evidence submitted by employers in a quite picky manner when hearing specific cases.
In a case regarding wrongful termination published on Announcement of Jiangsu Province Higher People's Court in 2014 (Liu Jingjing versus Jiangsu Jinli Fertilizer Co., Ltd.), the court's judgment reflects the judicial authorities' conservative tendency towards the dismissal of female employees who violate national family planning policy. "In the event where employees violate regulations regarding family planning, even if they are required to assume corresponding administrative liabilities, the employer shall not terminate their employment contracts based on such violation", said the court in the judicial verdict.
Loosening national family planning policy might lead to changes in judicial criteria
The implementation of birth control policy in China is a measure of expediency under special circumstances of the nation. With population growth gradually got under control and the increasingly severe problem of an aging population, national policies, laws and regulations have gradually liberalized the restrictions on birth control. In response to changes in attitude from the general public, judicial authorities might also adjust their views on cases regarding employees' violation of family planning policy. Despite the fact that in certain cases courts in areas as Guangdong Province recognized the employers' decision of dismissing employees due to their violation of birth control policy, with loosening national family planning policy, it is much likely that weakening intervention of employers in employees' birth giving will become a more common practice, which is more consistent with the social cognitive trend.
Employer's strategy in dealing with employees' violation of family planning policy
From the perspective of employee management, different entities may adopt different strategies. For instance, national authorities should impose severe disciplinary actions on civil servants pursuant to relevant rules of CPC and the government. State-owned enterprises and institutes, those who pay more attention to implementing family planning policy, may continue their previous practice regarding disciplinary actions imposed on employees in violation of family planning policy. However, for general companies, they are advised to take a relatively moderate measure when dealing with employees violating birth control policy. For example, companies may terminate the employees' employment contracts through mutual negotiation. Also, companies may stipulate in their internal regulations that employees whose birth giving do not conform to national family planning policy will receive salary during their maternity leave based on the standards of sick leave or personal leave. However, the employer will face certain legal risks if it immediately dismisses the employee who violates family planning policy on the basis of severe violation of its internal regulations.
Employer's internal management should be maintained with reasonable limits
In terms of protecting employees' working rights, employee management conducted by employers should be maintained within particular scope and limited involvement. Generally speaking, the employer is not advised to regulate or manage employees' personal life outside the workplace. In addition, employers should refrain from taking disciplinary action on employees' behaviors in violation of administrative regulations that are not related to work. Therefore, it is advisable for employers to review and adjust their internal management strategy in a timely manner, so as to avoid as far as possible interfering in employees' personal life, and focus on management of the matters directly related to employees' performance of the employment contract.


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Voters on Tuesday cast their ballots to decide who would be the next leaders in education at the K-12 and at the community college level in Long Beach.
As of 10:14 p.m. Tuesday, incumbents on both boards maintained their seats. Long Beach City College Board of Trustees President Jeff Kellogg, who represents District 1 in North Long Beach, lead with 55.5 percent, or 1,688 votes, compared to retired professor Marshall Blesofsky, who received 44.5 percent of the votes, 1,352, tallied in early results.
Current Long Beach Unified School District school board President John McGinnis was ahead with 56.2 percent of the vote, compared with Cal State Long Beach professor Juan Benitez, who received 43.8 percent of the votes, according to early data from the Long Beach City Clerk's office.
As of 10:14 p.m., 1,403 people voted for McGinnis, compared with 1,092 for Benitez.
Three seats were open for both the LBCC board of trustees and for the Long Beach Unified School District school board representing Districts 1, 3 and 5. Area/District 1 represents North Long Beach, Area/District 3 represents the downtown and Central Long Beach areas, while Area/District 5 represents East Long Beach and parts of Lakewood.
At LBCC, the discussion leading up to the election was dominated by the recent elimination of 11 vocational programs and the two-tiered education plan approved in the fall that makes classes available in the summer and winter at a higher cost.
The LBCC Political Action Coalition made up of faculty and staff who opposed both the elimination of the programs and two-tiered tuition backed candidates Blesofsky for Area 1, Sunny Zia for Area 3 and Gregory Slaughter for Area 5.
As of 10:14 p.m., Zia had won 59.5 percent of the vote, compared with Stella Ursua, who had 40.5 percent.
"I'm cautiously optimistic. Hopefully, the trends will be the same. So far, so good," said Zia, who was with family and faculty members at El Torito restaurant in Lakewood.
Virginia Baxter, head of the LBCC Foundation, won 55.8 percent of the vote in the early results compared with Slaughter, a retired police lieutenant, who won 44.2 percent.
The District 1 seat to represent North Long Beach was the only one on the school board not being sought by an incumbent after Mary Stanton, who served on the school board for 24 years, announced last summer she would not seek re-election. Kerr and Ntuk both sought the seat.
Early results showed Kerr ahead with 54 percent of the vote, with Ntuk taking 46 percent. As of 10:14 p.m., three of 49 precincts reported their results.
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Mark Paul is a postdoctoral associate at Duke University and a visiting fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
William Darity, Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cooke Professor of Public Policy, and professor of African and African American Studies and economics at Duke University.
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Blogging memories can be an effective way of sharing your stories with loved ones or family members. But is it for you?
Varying Communication Styles
In her article, A Company Divided: Bridging the Generation Gap at Work Through the Power of Communication, Bea Fields summarizes communications styles by generation. Though her article is meant for businesses or organizations, her points can help all of us communicate better with other generations.
Use of technology in communication, as a reader and as a writer, does have a strong correlation to age. Of course, that's not absolute. I know people in the sixties who tweet and people in their forties that use the computer only to check their email.
Communication Styles and Blogging Memories
So, how does this relate to the decision of whether or not you want to start blogging you memories? Your choices are more about what's a good fit for you and your loved ones. There's not a "best" option. There's no right or wrong answer—you just have to figure out what's right—and more comfortable—for you.
Pros and Cons of Blogging Memories
Because memories are episodic in nature, they lend themselves easily to a blog. Blogging your memories, as opposed to writing them with pen and paper, allows you to share your memories in real time, but don't require that you do.
There is a technical learning curve. How steep that curve seems is subjective.
Consider your audience as well. The people with whom you're sharing your memories might not feel comfortable with a blog format. Blog formats let you see how many people viewed your posts, so if you invited thirty relatives and only three actually visited, you'll be a tad disappointed.
More Resources
There's more about the pros and cons to starting a blog in my book, which should come out late this spring. See also Choosing a Blog under Writers' Resources)
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Nick Taylor's professional career picked up a little more speed Wednesday when he won a Vancouver Golf Tour event in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
The 24-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C., who turned pro in 2010 but was slow to find the same success as he did in his standout amateur days, birdied the 18th hole at Swan-e-set Resort to post a one-shot victory over Creighton Honeck of the United States.
He shot two-under-par 70 Wednesday in cool, rainy and windy conditions to finish the 54-hole event, considered one of the mini-tour's majors, at nine under. Taylor, once the No. 1 amateur in the world, collected $7,500.
The victory continues a run of good form that has produced a tie for seventh place at the Canadian Tour's season opener in Victoria last Sunday and a victory in April at the All-American Tour Championship, a mini-tour event. The latter got him into a Nationwide Tour event, for his third career start on the circuit. He's also had eight starts on the top-tier PGA Tour.


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Federica Raia, On the Cutting Edge Collection - SERC (Science Education Resource Center)
Activity takes one to two class periods.Learn more about Teaching Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness»
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- Although the 2007 data may be dated, this activity is more about recognizing patterns in spatial data. This approach of teaching with data is valid and useful.
- This a skill-based activity that focuses on having students recognize patterns in global data sets.
- This skill is important for critical thinking while analyzing large data sets and data-based imagery.
- The activity can be used with data on the GLOBE poster or with any data set.
- Comments from expert scientist: This activity provides a broad overview of the Earth System. I see this as a strength compared to other ways of presenting the material such as going into detail on each Earth System component but then missing the big picture. The process of formulating hypotheses is critical to the scientific method. In this activity, students are pushed to develop their own hypotheses.
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- This activity uses a jigsaw approach to have students work in small groups while observing data-based imagery.
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MS-ESS1.B2:This model of the solar system can explain eclipses of the sun and the moon. Earth's spin axis is fixed in direction over the short-term but tilted relative to its orbit around the sun. The seasons are a result of that tilt and are caused by the differential intensity of sunlight on different areas of Earth across the year.
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HS-C3.3:Patterns observable at one scale may not be observable or exist at other scales.
HS-C5.2:Changes of energy and matter in a system can be described in terms of energy and matter flows into, out of, and within that system.
HS-C5.4: Energy drives the cycling of matter within and between systems.
HS-C7.1:Much of science deals with constructing explanations of how things change and how they remain stable.
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HS-P1.3:ask questions to determine relationships, including quantitative relationships, between independent and dependent variables
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This is one of my favorite variations of Cheesesteak. It has a kick of spice but keeps the integrity of a cheesesteak. Great for Football season!
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- 6 sandwiches
- 1.5lbs sliced ribeye steak.
- 2 green bell peppers.
- 2 jalapeno peppers.
- 1 habanero pepper.
- 2 white onions.
- 1 small lime.
- 1 teaspoon oregano.
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper.
- 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil.
- 1 teaspoon of Tabasco sauce.
- 12oz. Pepper Jack cheese slices.
- 6 Jalapeno cheese bread hoagies.
- 1 cup mayonnaise.
- 1/2 cup horseradish sauce.
- 1/2 small lime
- 1 clove of garlic.
- In a small bowl combine mayonnaise, horseradish sauce, lime and garlic. Cover and refrigerate. In medium bowl combine sliced peppers and onions with the oregano and red pepper. Squeeze the juice of one small lime over the veggies. In large pan/skillet heat oil and Tabasco sauce. Sauteed the ribeye steak and desired amount of veggies. Top off the steak and veggies with a piece of pepper jack cheese and remove after it has melted. Place meat and veggies on a Jalapeno Cheese bun, spread with the sauce and enjoy!


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The availability of relatively inexpensive transmission of video signals has recently increased dramatically. With the proliferation of bundled telephone and video communications, the system may migrate towards communications systems whereby an operator can remotely access audio/video signals. Current systems which offer embedded control information in audio or video signals require expensive equipment to be located at both the sites with signaling and decoding devices that do not enable universal control of devices. Ideally, the site generating the control information would contain a multipurpose device, which could control a number of devices at remote sites.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a method and apparatus for enabling an operator to receive incoming video signal and imbed command information in an outgoing video signal in order to remotely control a device. The apparatus includes a device for generating command information in a visual icon, which is interpretable by the operator and conveys command information within the outgoing video signal. A processor receives the outgoing video signal and decodes the icon into the command information, and outputs to a device controller.
Applications and Advantages
- Remote controlling of devices by embedding command information within video signals
- Usable across multiple video standards (NTSC, PAL, SECAM etc.)
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Regional Reviews: Washington, D.C.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Also see Susan's reviews of Caroline, or Change, Baby Screams Miracle, and As You Like It
Yes, Albee's story of two troubled couples brought together for one excoriating night of accusations and revealed secrets has enough surprises and joltsand a lot of very dark humorthat its three-hour run time (with two intermissions) speeds past. Posner is working with four actors who understand that taking risks in their performances can result in notable rewards.
First among equals must be Holly Twyford as Martha, who gives an incandescent performance in the literal definition of the word, casting light into the dark corners of her character while also producing heat. She manages to synthesize Martha's loudness, her gleeful exhibitionism, and her insatiable desire for attention while revealing bits of her fear of abandonment and occasional despair. Costume designer Kelsey Hunt has dressed Martha in a way that showcases her (and Twyford's) physical attributes to their maximum advantage.
Gregory Linington plays George, Martha's long-suffering husband, with sly understatement through most of the drama; when he strikes back, he wraps the malice and aggression in snide or condescending humor. But for all that, he gives as good as he gets, bearing the blows that Martha inflicts but maintaining his dignity.
Tall, commanding Danny Gavigan gives a straightforward performance as Nick, the ambitious young professor, while Maggie Wilder (in another of Hunt's gems, a demure flowered dress with pearls) shows Honey's progression as she tries to keep up with the others and eventually becomes close to catatonic. The trip is uncomfortable, but it's also unforgettable.
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Increasing usage on for msn search through an innovative multiplayer search game. In teams of as many friends as you want, this concept sees users scouring the net looking for clues revealed on banners. They solve the riddle using msn search. If they type in the correct keywords, gain points towards winning instant and grand prizes!
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This is the 2016 Honda Civic sedan
Upcoming Honda seen on the street sans camouflage
The official reveal of the all-new 2016 Honda Civic sedan is just around the corner, but if you need a dose of compact four-door excitement like now, these spy shots give a good idea of what the car is going to look like.
And by "good idea" we mean "this is what the 2016 Honda Civic looks like."
Whether this was truly accidental or more of an "accidental" preview courtesy of some conveniently careless product testers, we'll take it. CivicX.com shared this set of photos with the world, and we're sharing them with you here. Be sure to check out the original forum post for lots of discussion.
2016 Honda Civic sedan no camouflage on street profile
As the 2016 Civic concept suggested, the 10th-gen sedan gets a better-defined, more highly sculpted beltline than the ninth-gen Civic it replaces. The rear is somewhat speedback-ish, and we're detecting vague notes of Mazda 3 in the overall look — not a bad thing, as Honda has pledged to make the 10th-gen Civic "more sporty." Up front, the hood gets a bit of definition thanks to a set of ridges that work their way backward from the headlights, and the big chrome bar across the grille gets even more assertive.
The car comes off as big at first glance, but appearances can be deceptive — we said the same thing about the coupe concept until we saw it in person. At the very least, it's not as big as the Ford E350 van parked behind it …
Stay tuned for more information, and more pictures, after the reveal next week.
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Coming across Spiriva coupons can help you afford necessary medication without putting a crimp in your budget. Spiriva is prescribed to people with chronic breathing problems such as COPD and severe asthma.
It works by helping to keep the airways opened without taking steroids. Since other medications may be effective and cheaper, not every prescription insurance plan will cover the Spiriva Handihaler. As a result the costs can be very high, even for those with drug coverage. There are ways to find good Spiriva discounts and make this a more affordable option. For those who have tried steroids, they know the side effects are undesirable, and the medication doesn't always work. Spiriva is a better option for many people, except the cost can be prohibitive.
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Spiriva coupons aren't going to be found in the same way you find other coupons. Instead, you'll want to find websites that pool information in a single place. There are programs that help with the cost of Spiriva, coupons available, and mail in rebates that can help you. Instead of looking at several sites to get this information, a good coupon site will have everything you need in one spot. The legitimate sites are also free. You should be able to print out forms, follow links to savings sites, and may be able to print Spiriva coupons directly from the site and present them at the pharmacy. If the coupon requires you to send information in to get reimbursed by mail, you should be able to find the directions and the address to send off for the Spiriva coupons or rebates.


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Hi! I have a question. How can I look good in my soccer uniform? My uniform is too big for me! I borrowed it from someone that is bigger than me! It is size 16 and im size 12, any ideas of how to make It look good on me? PLEASE HELP ME!!! 😊😊😉😉
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As I continue learning speed painting I continue to be humbled by the masters.
Painting in colour, as I've now found out, is much more difficult than originally thought. So even more respect for works like those above.
As I continue learning speed painting I continue to be humbled by the masters.
Painting in colour, as I've now found out, is much more difficult than originally thought. So even more respect for works like those above.
Some things that I've been playing around with. May or may not ever finish them, but the ideas are there and people keep telling me to share the intermediate things.
I feel like the loft is off to a good start, but that back wall needs some love. Not sure yet. The external scene is, well, I'm terrible at them. I mean, that's the point of practice, but still. I started a speed paint of almost that exact idea but realized half way through that doing the shading for each of those chimney stones is an ugly process.
The MK2 Stealth Chairs are the design we were originally going to make after we did the cardboard versions, but we got distracted and it never fully materialized. Someday, perhaps.
Funnily enough, not counting the render times themselves, making these takes about the same amount of time as my "speed" painting does. I'm both a pretty fast modeler and a pretty slow drawer, it seems. It is getting faster though. I was painting this morning and went to take a break only to realize it wasn't as late as I thought it should have been. So that's good. Improvement!
So. Cool.
I do think it'd almost be better without the bird chirp soundtrack though, because the visual metaphor is so strong by itself. The absence of sound would allow you to add your own but also contemplate that what you're seeing isn't a mere illusion trying to fool you; it's that your brain is so easily manipulated.
What would be awesome is this sort of thing in like, 2cm square glass pieces that drizzle down like rain falling against the glass. I would totally use that for all the exterior windows in my house. Perpetual sunny rain, with perpetual shadows falling across the walls opposite.
My favorite part starts at 1:50 – modular shelving options!
It's a tricky balance; on one hand you have people who know very little and are happy for an all-in-one system that this provides, but on the other you have the fact that these messes exist entirely because people have a lot of options, from Apple TVs to game consoles and want and use that modular freedom.
On the third hand is a big picture question: is the TV dying? I probably won't ever have one in my lifetime. I mean, maybe, but it'll be a purchase that will be made if I happen to have a stack of cash laying around – not that I'm waiting with excitement as I raise the money to get one. I have a handful of large monitors and an iPad for watching Netflix in bed. I'm entirely content and satisfied with this arrangement, so there isn't any real obvious reason for me to get a TV.
I'm probably the exception, not the rule, but I do wonder how many out there are like me right now and how many of our kids in the next generation will be more (or less) like that.
I feel embarrassed to post these because I don't feel like I have any skill in the medium yet but also because by definition I have to leave them unfinished. I look at them and think about all the further revisions I could make and the details to be added, but that would defeat the purpose of speedpainting which is to say getting an idea across quickly, not perfectly.
So, psychologically that's something I'm still learning.
There was the question of references and while there are definitely things from other examples that inspire me, they aren't direct traces of anything in particular. It's like a collage in my head, things clipped out of inspirations everywhere and pasted together into a scene, then drawn out. The dumpster one is probably the most direct, being an interior from a level in Mirror's Edge but since I'm doing it from memory I don't even consider that cheating. The Lovecraft one borrows from the lore, but people would argue my Polyp is all wrong anyway. Imagination.
My goal, other than simply getting better, is to do a timelapse screen cast video like all the fantastic examples found out there. Then you can laugh at my utter inefficiency and I'll say "see? it's a valiant struggle" because I really am that terrible right now. It'll be fun!
I came across the above photo and it dawned on me, something that's been basking under the heat lamp that is my brain for too long now: my confusion when it comes to material usage. Let me explain.
The above scene is somewhat disturbing to me in that it goes against my conviction for utility – the trees are structurally useless. "But Brennan, they're aesthetically useful." and to that I will kindly ask you to get off my lawn. In this case, I'll gladly play the crotchety old man and here specifically my role will probably be cast in film by a silver haired German. Like Gran Torino as directed by Wes Anderson. There's this amorphous blob that is the venn diagram middle between "useless" and "useful" when it comes to which spectrum you're referring, but architecturally I have to give my points hands down to functional things being the most gorgeous of all. Like bridges. Gorgeous.
But! – and this is the part where I've been struggling to find myself – but, that doesn't mean I'm against trees in the house. Admittedly the
birka birch is sort of 'meh' but really, I'm not against trees as beams, and this is always something I (wrongly) assumed had to be associated. They're different variables in reality. It's not the usage of trees, it's how they're used in context.
And I'm sure lots of people read that and laugh at my 'discovery' because it's so obvious. "Duh," you roll your eyes, "Of course that's how it is." as you ride away on your fixie bicycle. And I'll gladly accept that – it looks silly to me reading it over again now, too. But that's fine. It's learning and I'll gladly open that to everyone.
TL;DR I thought not liking useless trees meant I didn't like trees in that environment at all – a charmingly noob mistake.
In preparation for my graduation and moving I'm trimming the fat from my life and trading old useless things for either more valuable or less voluminous things such as video games. I still don't have any time to play, but someday if and when I ever get sick I'll be set.
Today I got Brink. It's a game that didn't review very well and sort of fell off the radar for most gamers. I've only played the first few levels and already I agree, but more importantly the art style is fantastic. It's vaguely Mirror's Edge in it's sharp architecture and clean, smooth lines but with the chaotic ruin of Portal 2's beginning chambers (Brink's environments have either been abandoned for some time or are active slums).
I remember being really excited when the first teaser trailers came out but when the debut price hovered at $50 I didn't bother. So, it's a bit late, sure, but we can still draw inspiration from it.
The parkour in the trailers, by the way, is grossly over played. The in game version is pretty meh. Still, just ignore him and watch the environment:
It's a cool style and I've been in Blender making a few airports and malls. I'm reminded of the Wipeout Uber Mall and perhaps that's another perfect game to visit for inspiration.
I like making toast because for those two or so minutes you're allowed to just stand there and think about things. Much like showering, it's these pockets of vacant staring that lead to some of the best ideas. A more mediocre idea occurred: my toaster is rubbish.
It's been dutifully making my toast for a year and a half now and while it hasn't failed or jammed or lit anything on fire, the design itself really isn't much to write home about. It's a Betty Crocker but I couldn't find any further information on it. Measuring roughly: 17cm x 23cm x 20cm makes for a pretty hefty countertop footprint and looking at the mechanism I haven't a clue why the bulbous plastic shell needs to be so obese. I can only assume the original design reason was so it doesn't get too warm, but if they had done a bit of problem solving that shouldn't have been a problem.
There's three buttons and a knob and then the big toaster-down lever part on the corner. The buttons read "Bagel" "Defrost" and "Reheat" – none of which I've ever used. I'd be curious to see statistics as to who does. Frankly, I can't even see what they would effect. Bagel might only use one side of the heating? Defrost / Reheat might go at lower power for longer? I'm not sure. Again; never used them. Why would I be reheating my toast, anyway?
My design removes them altogether. It's sort of egocentric, I realize, to assume that everyone uses the same functions I do but if I'm redesigning it for myself, I'm allowed to satisfy my only customer the best way possible. Likewise the heat knob is gone. Since we've already got this handy linear lever we might as well integrate them: it moves the toast action still, but it's height will vary the toasting power. There'd be internal ticks to denote power level intervals. Alternatively, and I'm assuming this only works for people who either live alone or with other people who like their toast the same brownness, put the knob somewhere like the back or the bottom and let them set it and forget it. I spent the first week figuring out the optimum toasting number and it's been left there ever since. Unless you've got like, a picky family or something, you really don't need to have it on the front to be constantly adjusted. Again. Maybe it's just me,
So that eliminates almost everything. We're left with one sliding knob. Neat.
I've also rearranged the bread. Instead of having two x two grills (two toast with two cradles) I've made the cradles wider to accommodate two slices side by side. Having no science to back this up on I'm not sure how heating is affected this way (especially when having only one slice in) but it makes the form factor much thinner and longer, which means it can sit up against the wall better and allow more space on the counter for, say, breadboards and butter and things. For my cramped kitchen this would provide much needed space and allow the appliance to be pushed back out of the way better when not in use.
Aesthetically minimal, of course. Matte black and brushed grey for me, but it would work well with anything, really. We could go the Kitchenaid route and offer more colours than the paint store swatch board but as I've mentioned before, visually loud things demand attention and do you really want the attention in the room to be your toaster? Exactly. Matte black it is.
And that's pretty much it. A basic, easy, intuitive toaster redesign that saves space and makes you a cooler person, just by owning it.
If you follow any tech news site or CES itself, you'll have seen this clip already.
I dismissed it when I first saw it, but over the week thoughts started creeping in about how truly disruptive this technology is. I mean that in both senses of the word.
First, the good: The technology is cool, straight up. It's a clear LCD panel that can detect touch across a massive span. I'm curious as to how it works, and, if IR based, how well it works in front of an actual sun. Similarly, how opaque are those pixels? If it's facing south on a sunny day, does it actually block all of that energy? But, it has some cool potential.
The bad: The first thing they do is put a calendar on it? A clock? Twitter? Hooo boy. And a skeuomorphic blinds system? You have all of this technology to put whatever you want on it and you choose to copy the relatively terrible interface and effects of a physical blinds system. Why not a fade in opacity instead of 100% on and 100% off bars of light and dark? This is supposed to be the future! It's easily possible, but someone somewhere thought that this would be an easier analogue to understand, as if we haven't been using touchscreens for the past five years of our lives. We might not understand all the technical details, but we've gotten used to touching sliders and seeing effects. Design to your audience, and there is no audience to which Venetian blinds applies. Even five year olds these days are more in touch with technology (pun intended) than that. Is there really an uproar with seniors that feel more comfortable with seeing blinds vs a much more practical variable fade? So truly, there is no reason to take such a step backwards. Unlike desktops with files and folders drawing a metaphor to deeply abstract ideas, the control and effect of a slider here would be obvious and intuitively understandable without drawing such unnecessary comparisons.
Back to the Vista style widgets. Why? We have them on our phones nicely arranged exactly how we want them. We have them on our computer desktop. We have them on our tablets. If you're old school, you probably have your notes, calendar etc. printed on actual chopped up trees. How often do people actually check their calendars in real life? I lead a pretty schedule-centric life and I open the calendar app maybe once every couple of days – I certainly don't need all four of them around me at all times. Of course this isn't true for everyone, but the people who use it more are probably going to use their phone rather than walk over to their window. Same with Twitter. I love Twitter, don't get me wrong, but it's not something I want to stand around and scroll through on my window.
Maybe I'm over reacting. It's a tech demo, after all, maybe the real life one will be stripped back. But, somehow I doubt it. Somehow I can just see it coming with Nortons Antivirus and I'll have to stand next to my window for hours trying to get rid of all the crapware. At least on a laptop you can sit down.
On a macro point, I jest feel like we're drowning in all of this. It's literally coming between us and the outside world now. I think the variable opacity LCD blinds idea is awesome. Truly, I'm excited for that technology to become cheap and widely available. But I'm uneasy about have a dashboard on a window – the invention whose sole purpose is to see out of. I just imagine some executive somewhere thinking this is the coolest thing – and it is cool – but missing the real point of it's usage. They like technology for technology's sake, when really, technology should only exist to make our lives better. We've forgotten that, it seems.
Moral of the story: Exciting technology, but you have Twitter in your phone so you can travel anywhere in your house / city / the world with it. Why tether yourself to a permanent fixture?


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Posted by drio start in Lifestyle | March 28, 2014 | 10 Comments
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Founded by local music teachers Irene and Jarl Hulbert, the ARTI-ST Music Education Center opened its Perry Hall facility in 2002. With advanced degrees in music, Irene and Jarl have the training and passion to bring the community musical instruction of the highest quality. Irene's Master's degree in music is from UCLA. She also did post-graduate studies at Peabody and at the University of Maryland. Jarl completed his Doctorate in Musicology at the University of Maryland, where he specialized in historical music instruction methods. To date, he is the only Perry Hall-area music instructor who has been Nationally Certified by the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association).
Our name, "ARTI-ST," is an acronym for our motto: "Artistic Rewards Through In-Spired Teaching." True, music is a reward in and of itself, but at ARTI-ST Music we strive to do more than just teach, we strive to inspire. In pursuit of our mission, we combine high-quality musical instruction with performance and evaluation opportunities. While we are grounded in the ideals of classical training, our teachers approach each private student with flexibility and seek to cater to individual needs and aspirations.


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Once you try these cinnamon rolls, no other recipe will stand a chance. These are delightfully sticky and gooey with the perfect cinnamon filling and vanilla icing, and just the right amount of butter to make them moist and full of flavour. You can skip the nuts in the filling or substitute with walnuts or currants or raisins, or a mix.
If the icing is too thick to drizzle, add a touch more butter, one teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached.
One of the easiest recipes. I followed it to the letter (leaving out the nuts) and they turned out perfectly. This recipe made 45 good sized buns, soft and fluffy they went down a treat. - 23 Dec 2015
This is a good recipe for cinnamon rolls. I left out the pecans and maple extract, because I didn't have any, and I accidentally rolled the dough the wrong way, so I came out with 10 giant rolls, but I just cut them in half to serve. The bread part came out fluffy, and the taste was sweet, but not too sweet. My glaze was too thick to drizzle, but (since I didn't have a lot of time to continue adding butter), I just smeared it thinly with a spoon, and it melted a bit. I would use this recipe again. - 12 Nov 2012 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
These were amazing! Mine came out VERY large, but they tasted fabulouse. - 03 Dec 2012 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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John Walker Self
John Walker Self b ca 1826 in La. or Copiah Co., MS.
Married Palatine ca 1860, probably Simpson, MS.
Fought in Civil War.
Moved to Grant Parish, La. ca 1870
Married Martha Buxton 1879
d 21 8 1920 Montgomery, La.
Looking for his parents, siblings.
Looking for Palatine's maiden name & parents.


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The weird, the wild and the wacky
DPRK, THE SHOW - The world's weirdest film festival provides an unique opportunity to sneak a peak behind the scenes in what has to be the quirkiest reality show on the planet. All part of the zany theatrics at the Pyongyang International Film Festival.
Australia - Way Down Under, where rivers and lakes are dry and men race boats, legs wiggling out the bottom, one gets jaded by all the oddities. Until you arrive at Coober Pedy, the cave city featured in "Mad Max" as well as "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the latter notably for portraying the place as something other than a nuclear wasteland. See why in Home Under The Range.
MONGOLIA'S MANLY SPORTS - Clubs and internet cafes have come to the capital, but Mongolia still revels in Naadam, the world's second-oldest Olympics, which, eight centuries ago, was the definition of civilization: horse racing, archery and wrestling.
Around-the-world - He's the Rip Van Winkle of the road, writing the ultimate road book, by bike. After a full four decades, Heinz Stucke has circled the globe more than 10 times, and he keeps going on and on: the Bikeman's Amazing Adventure.
Indonesia - Spears fly and blood flows, as the worms wash ashore in a sexual frenzy when the moon is full over isolated Sumba, where stone-age tribes and voodoo culture reins. Then, and only then does the unique festival of Pasola brings a carnival of killing and sacrifice to the head-hunting tribes of Indonesia.
Vietnam - Jesus, Jeanne d'Arc and Thomas Jefferson are venerated, alongside Victor Hugo, Julius Cesar, Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. Lest the psychedelic colors flash you back to the Summer of Love, this indigenous alter belongs to Vietnam's Caodai, at the Congregation of Kitsch.
China - Who says the Middle Kingdom has gone overboard for Too much American influence? Many Chinese can't get enough of the old wild west.
Japan - the Japanese weren't satisfied with the mood swings of Mother Nature, so they built an enclosed ocean paradise, just a stone's throw from a real beach. At Ocean Dome, the surf's always up at the Indoor Beach
Japan - And lest it seem too kookie, we find the concept fits nicely with Japan's insatiable mania for theme parks.
Haircuts - Don't sound too adventurous? They can be, when you are on a quest to find the world's cheapest, wackiest haircutters?
The Phillipines - Kevin Costner squandered hundreds of millions of dollars building a fantasy world covered by water. In the wild, pirate-infested seas between Borneo and the Philippines, Sea Gypsies live their entire lives in a genuine Waterworld.
North Korea - the title for the world's weirdest country is no contest. The Hermit Kingdom defies belief in winning the crown hands-down. In fact, North Korea is not only the weirdest place that I've ever been, it's also takes the five runner-up slots. I made a rare visit in 1991, and you can join me on a train tour to Pyongyang.
Taal - In the Philippines there is a mountain crater containing a lake. In that lake is an island, topped by another mountain, which also has a crater, containing yet another lake. In the midst of its warm waters is still another island. Here stands Taal, one of the world's smallest, but deadliest volcanoes. Join an expedition Into the Volcano.
Tahiti - Dreamy blue
seas, gentle
breezes, hula skirts, sexy smiles and aimless mirth, but the French brought trouble to
paradise when they started nuclear testing in the South Pacific. But this
tropical paradise told the French, No Boom Boom here please.
North Korea DMZ and Tahiti
by Ron Gluckman, Philippines by Stuart Isett;
Cambodian haircut, Outback sunset and Sumba by David Paul Morris


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The authors, who have published books on the California Indians, noted that some aspects of the history between the Indians and the Spanish Missions were "not PC" to mention. And the political comedian commented on the ways in which he planned to tone down his racy comedy at his Danville show.
Growing up, I learned that it was better to call Indians "Native Americans," as it was Christopher Columbus's misinformation that helped coin the term Indians. But much to my surprise, the authors informed me that most American Indian tribes actually prefer to be called Indians, with distinctions being made about where they live.
Anyone who was born in the U.S. is a Native American, the tribes told the authors. And I've heard a similar augment from black writers who have commented on how obnoxious it is to be called "African American," having been born in the U.S. Their argument is that nobody born in America with, say, Irish roots is called an "Irish American."
In our attempts to be PC, are we actually being more offensive? While it's important to recognize cultural sensitivities, where do you draw the line? Is being PC the educated, aware thing to do - or is it just drawing unnecessary attention to our differences? I'd love to hear from you. What do you think?


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Ephesians 5:25New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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