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Sonic Liberty necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Sonic Liberty
We are a German based audio service provider with 10 years of experience in writing work for hire music for our clients. We also work for various music libraries (= stock music that can be licensed by all sorts of clients).
Over time we have assembled thousand of tracks that we want to publish in our own music library now. The special thing about it, is that it will be completely royalty free = the clients pay once, and then they can use the music in any way they want. Our focus music styles are orchestral / classical, high quality instrumental pop & rock music. Our music production label is famous for high class orchestra recordings and epic trailer music productions. Our goal is to provide breathtaking music, set apart from the masses of cheap and average quality music that can be purchased as royalty free music now.
The distribution of the music will mainly be done via DVD in a rather old fashioned way.
Our target audience is purely business to business. Private consumers do not buy or license our music. We distribute the music to TV stations, editors, cutters, radio stations, trailer houses, webdesign companies, film production companies, etc. Even though the media industry is young and cool there are still lots and lots of veterans who are perhaps reached by something that is not too much lifestyle and more timeless.
We are looking for something iconic in our logo that gives an idea of "FREEDOM" & "LIBERTY" as the music can be used with no restrictions after purchase. Iconic symbols of freedom (head or corona of the Liberty Statue; freedom dove, etc.) could work for something classy with style. However waves like: (( )) or symbolic radio towers sending "Waves or Pulses" over the Globe could also work as something more "trendy". A Globe is something that could work very well - however we have to stay away from the "UNIVERSAL MUSIC" Logo that is a world globe!
This is about a lettering in two different languages = the logo shoud be the same but the name of the company is different in English and in German.
SONIC LIBERTY in English
KLANGFREIHEIT in German (the meaning is the same)
We might add even other languages over time (e.g. in Korean, French, Italian, Chinese) that is why the logo should be adaptable. However for this brief it is sufficient to get us the two versions with exactly the same logo picture - one with the German lettering and one with the English lettering.
The logo should be working well as a thumbnail in Facebook / Social Networks. So it should be closer to a square than to a flat oblong form.
One last very important thing: we do not want to have any musical symbols (like notes, scores, etc.) included. It has to looks business-like and not playful.
The two attached documents show some ideas we had - very plain sketches only of course.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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Accepting the LAUNCH Accelerator Challenge
Recently, serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Jason Calacanis, issued a challenge via his LAUNCH Conference blog:
A Modest Proposal for America: Build 500 Accelerators
Jason's not talking about Large Hadron Colliders. Although a boost in particle accelerator production could potentially be helpful to the economy, he's talking about business incubators. The kind that accelerate the process of bringing disruptive ideas to life.
Jason is spot on. If there is something America needs to get out of its financial funk, it's a boost in creating innovation. Innovation is exciting. Startups are exciting. What better way to foster exciting and disruptive innovation than to build an ecosystem of accelerators?
The accelerator model provides early phase startups with the total package: mentoring, a great tech environment, minimal initial funding, and a clear path to additional funding...if justified. Groups of entrepreneurs are funded simultaneously, and together they make up a "class."
AZ Disruptors is doing its part, aiming to build Arizona's best accelerator system for entrepreneurs. Construction is underway, and the first class will begin in May 2011.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
With Y-Combinator's $250 million in Q4 exits, the accelerator model is hot. It's been heating up for some time, and now it's to the point where there are at least 58 Y-Combinator-like incubators around the world.
And get this:
- Over ⅓ of all accelerators were founded within the past year
- At the current pace, 250 accelerators by 2016 is easily realistic
- About ½ of all accelerators are located in the United States, and about 40% of US accelerators are located in California and New York
- 70% of accelerators are privately owned
- 75% of accelerators provide an initial investment of less than $25k
- The average accelerator class spans from 3 to 5 months
More Meaningful
I'm going to shift to first-person here, so I can talk about how personally excited I am about AZ Disruptors. Not only is it bringing the accelerator model to my home state, but it's right in my own backyard.
I'm an Axosoft employee. I'm also playing a small part in helping to design the AZ Disruptors flavor of business incubation. But most of all, I'm someone who has been working for software startups for pretty much my entire adult life, and words can't describe how much I look forward to giving back to the community in the form of mentoring the classes that make it through our doors.
I remember my first day on the job at an angel-funded startup over 15 years ago. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO. No idea! I can definitely elaborate on that in later guest posts. But the point here is that I can mind-dump my tech marketing experience and help good people with good ideas accelerate their growth and prepare them for what's to come.
That's a wonderful prospect. The hands-on intimacy of this style of incubator is where I believe the magic lives.
I also look forward to the energy I suspect our first class will bring to our building. We're already pretty pumped up about growing our business on a daily basis. I can only imagine what it will be like when we get 10 to 15 more smart people in this building to geek out with over amazing technology and products.
Knowing what I know about the people involved in AZ Disruptors...this is going to be one hell of a ride. And AZ Disruptors is going to be the place to be for Arizona software startups.
This article was written by Angelo Coppola. He is a software industry veteran who currently serves as Vice President of Marketing for Axosoft. Angelo will provide AZ Disruptor classes with mentorship in the areas of marketing, design, and user experience.


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1 lb cleaned squid, large tentacles halved
1 lb pasta
1 lb rapini (broccoli rabe), stems removed and corsely chopped
1/4 cup bread crumbs
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 anchovy fillets
1 shallot, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 lemon
Cook pasta according to box instructions. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large saucepan. When hot, add the garlic, shallots and anchovies and cook, stirring occasionally until the garlic and shallots are softened and the anchovies have dissolved. Add the rapini and saute for about 5 minutes or until it has cooked down. Add the squid and cook until nearly opaque, about 5 additional minutes. Squeeze the lemon juice on the squid, add salt and pepper to taste and then cook on high with the lid on for 1 minute. Pour onto drained pasta and stir to evenly distribute. Add the bread crumbs and stir. Serve immediately.


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Heading out to World Youth Day? Don't forget to pack some small flags, pins, stickers, bracelets, pens, key chains, rosaries, prayer cards … really, anything that says something about you or where you come from.
Covering several World Youth Days over the years (my first was in 1993 in Denver), I've been amazed by the type and amount of items young people have collected from other pilgrims. Trading trinkets is a WYD tradition and a good way to meet and greet people, especially if you're shy or you don't speak another's language.
So gather up some trinkets to take on the road to Sydney. You'll end up with a surprising collection of remembrances from your Australian adventure.
PHOTO: A hand-made trinket you might find in Sydney. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)


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The Jr. Pee Wee team and the Pee Wee team each captured Rhode Island Super Bowl championships. The Jr. Pee Wees defeated North Kingstown 6-0, while the Pee Wees beat North Kingstown 20-0.
The Jr. Midget team also competed, and it fell to North Kingstown 26-14.
With the victories, the Jr. Pee Wee and the Pee Wee teams advance to the first round of regionals this Sunday in Coventry. The Jr. Pee Wees will take on Hyde Park at 10 a.m., while the Pee Wees will go against Wareham at 12 p.m.


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Topic: eye abrasion
I got hurt at work and now I have an abrasion in my right eye. It's sort of light sensitive and they put some eye drops in that made my pupil huge. Seeing is... interesting. I won't be driving anytime soon. And I shouldn't really be on the computer for long. I did bring the brightness of my screen down a lot so that should help.
I am mildly disappointed that I didn't get an eye patch. I could have put on my pirate costume and taken some awesome pictures. Oh, well. I'm just glad it's going to get better. I was super nauseous and threw up twice. (in the last ten years that would make about 3 times I've thrown up) And I had a bad headache. They prescribed me a pain killer. And I have some antibiotics.
What I was doing was throwing cardboard in our baler and I suppose something fell out of one of them or something. The doctor said it was probably either dust or a small piece of cardboard. Whatever it was he said it had come out but that it had scratched my eye. Skinned it, if you will, gouged it. Whichever word you want to use. And, yes, it's going under workmans comp. First time I've ever had to do that.
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Mpumalanga Attractions
Mpumalanga is the place to head for travellers who want a taste of unspoilt wilderness areas and an experience of the South African bush and wildlife, unhindered by crowds and cities. The small private game reserves and the incredible Kruger National Park are the main attractions and can easily fill a whole holiday, but the province has many other attractions.
Following the Panorama Route is a great way to explore the region as it takes in spectacular sights such as the Blyde River Canyon and God's Window, as well as lesser-known vistas like Bourke's Luck Potholes, Wonder View, and the Three Rondavels.
Those keen on an authentic walking experience should hike the multi-day Blyde River Canyon trail which is breathtakingly beautiful. The province is a delight for outdoor enthusiasts and offers many adventure activities, including wonderful fishing, particularly near the town of Dullstroom.
Nelspruit is a good travel base and a pleasant city, but it is the charming small towns and great game lodges of Mpumalanga that really attract tourists. The little town of Pilgrim's Rest is a popular attraction for those interested in the history of the 1870s gold rush. The region is also home to the Ndebele people, famous for their beadwork and uniquely painted houses.
Mpumalanga is a summer rainfall area and has a subtropical climate with hot summers and mild winters. The highveld region to the west experiences more extreme temperatures and is hotter in summer, colder in winter, and generally drier than the rest of the province.
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Five years after his debut at the Hollywood Bowl, Indian composer A.R. Rahman tried something different — performing scores from his films with the L.A. Phil, which gave a pleasing twist for those familiar with his music and an introduction to newbies. And yet without his more uptempo songs the concert was rather staid, lacking the rock 'n' roll energy of his previous stagings, which had the audience dancing in the aisles.
Even though the concert was billed as "Journey to India," Sunday's concert — with music spanning from his first film, the Tamil "Roja," to the pic for which he's most famous to American auds, "Slumdog Millionaire" — was as much a showcase for Rahman's journey from India.
Mixing crowdpleasers such as "Lagaan" and "Robot," which appealed to fans of pics' stars Aamir Khan and Rajnikanth respectively, the Phil performed scores for lesser-known pics such as the Chinese "Warriors of Heaven and Earth" and Deepa Mehta's "Water." Rahman lent his vocals for the latter's "Chanchan," but mostly confined himself to introducing numbers while choruses (Raagapella and the Cal State Fullerton University Singers) provided backup. Giving a special touch was flutist Naveen Kumar, who replaced the vocals in "The Cry of the Rose" and "Theme From Bombay."
Some of the scores were better suited to the symphony treatment notably "Roja," Chinese pic "Warriors of Heaven and Earth" and "Lagaan," but not so much for "Raavanan" and "Robot."
The music was accompanied by a montage of clips from the pics, which was a mixed bag at best since the visuals frequently didn't match the music, with happy notes coinciding with clearly tense moments in movies like "Raavanan" and especially "The Rising," which included the disturbing image of a noose. The "Raavanan" video interspersed images of Rahman on a helicopter, on a beach and playing the piano, which actually worked better with the music than the clips of pic's beautiful star Aishwarya Rai having a rough time.
The piece de resistance was a three-number set from "Slumdog Millionaire," in which Rahman joined in for a piano duet with Asad Khan's sitar and a rousing rendition of "Jai Ho," which ended the evening on a decidedly up note.
The evening started off with the Rhythms of Rajasthan singing folk songs followed by percussionist Karsh Kale, who was the opening act. He was followed by Sher Foundation, Punjabi hoofers, and Bollywood Step Dancers, who performed vigorous numbers with risque lyrics from various Hindi films.


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Today I added pictures to accompany the Animal Silhouettes sub lesson and added a new one, called Silly Sentences. I also posted a lesson I created that I based on traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs to have the students create a Personal Identity Radial Design. You'll find a power point of the hex sign examples, the files for the front and back of the brainstorming worksheet I created for the lesson, as well as a few examples of completed student artwork.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — J.P. Morgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon on Wednesday criticized regulators, saying some of the steps taken to reform the banking sector since the financial crisis had added more complexity to the system.
"It's five years after the crisis, OK; we still have not fixed a lot of the things you are talking about. Part of the reason [is] we are trying to do too much too fast," he said, according CNBC's website.
Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dimon challenged claims that it is difficult to know whether financial institutions are risky, saying banks aren't the only businesses that aren't completely transparent.
"Businesses can be opaque; they're complex," he said. "You don't know how aircraft engines work, either."
Dimon went on to defend the way banks earn their money.
"We provide a service to you. We make a little money every time we do it. That's what happens," said Dimon.
Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co JPM, +0.48% were trading down 1.3% at $45.95 in mid morning action on the New York Stock Exchange.
Dimon argued the world economy cannot get out of its current slump without a healthy financial sector and defended Morgan's record during the crisis.
"J.P. Morgan was not just fair-weather friend, we were there in good times and bad times," he said.
Overall, financial stocks were mostly flat Wednesday. Goldman Sachs GS, -0.04% was down slightly by half-a-percent, while Citigroup C, +0.40% and Bank of America BAC, +0.96% were higher. Morgan Stanley MS, +0.62% stock is down almost 2%.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, +0.64% , which tracks the financial stocks in the S&P 500, was down by 0.17%.
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Giving 'Kash for Kibera'
Eighth-graders at Wapakoneta High School are working together to make a change in how students 8,000 miles away are learning.
"We're trying to raise money to make a school," Kacey Gerlach said.
She and a friend, Lacey Hayes, said they were touched by seeing all the pictures of young children in Africa who need their help.
The girls, who are helping to advertise for a drive to raise money to build a school in Africa, said they want to bring in as much money as possible.
Each eighth-grade classroom at the high school has a milk jug designated for "Kash for Kibera." Jugs also are in the cafeteria. Students are being asked to bring in their pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters throughout January to raise money to help Acacia of Hope's build a school in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
"For every piece they put in their homeroom container, we ask they remember that there are children in Africa that need their help," said Melissa Brown, a graduate of Wapakoneta High School, who started the non-profit Acacia of Hope last year.
Brown, who spent a year teaching in Africa and serves as director of Acacia of Hope, talked to the students, many of whom she student taught as fifth-graders in math and reading, this week about what they were doing and how it was expected to help.
"They were silent and in awe of the statistics of how many kids their age died and how so many of them don't have proper housing or have food to eat," Brown said.
Brown, whose passion for the people and children of Africa began with a church mission trip, said she feels blessed with the burden of feeding, loving and teaching these children. Through Acacia of Hope, Brown said she is hoping to build a school which would providing a place for children to attend classes during the week, a place to offer adult lifeskill and literacy classes in the evening, and a place to hold church services and Bible studies on the weekend.
"Every six seconds a child dies in Africa. Every six seconds," Brown stressed. "By the time people are done reading this article, 120 children have passed away.
"Death is everywhere, especially in Kibera, the largest slum in all of Africa," she said.
Brown said her hope is that during the month of January, Acacia of Hope can help others remember all the children in Africa who need help.
While the homeroom that raises the most change or money to give toward building an elementary in Kibera is to receive a pizza party, Brown said she is hoping it is much more than that to the students who get involved.
"Every single penny raised will go toward the children of Kibera by opening up a school for them," Brown said. "It's been proven that if a child receives an education their survival rate goes up by 40 percent. For many of us, we don't even think about trying to live. For those in Kibera, it's on their minds every moment of the day."
Kacey and Lacey started helping the cause as fifth-graders collecting school supplies to send to Africa and baking cookies and cupcakes for numerous bake sales.
"We have been involved in different ways however we can be since we first heard about it," Kacey said. "We have this whole education here and they don't really have anything. They have so many kids in a class it is tough to have that one-on-one time and they are just learning the basics. We have so many more capabilities than that. It's terrible."
Some adults in the community also have been inspired and are keeping a jar at home for the month of January. Brown encourages others to do the same.
"With just your pennies you can help us save children in Africa," Brown said. "Will you be part of a change with us?"
She requested anyone wishing to make a donation or who collects change in a jar throughout the month to contact Acacia of Hope at the end of January and they can pick it up.


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Monday, November 7, 2011
Good & Bad from the Seahawk Game
The Good: DeMarco Murray is starting to look like the real deal. It is now three straight weeks that Murray has looked like a legitimate starting running back. It will be interesting to see how many touches Felix Jones gets when he gets healthy. Hopefully Garrett will keep Murray as the starter and use Felix as the change up.
The Bad: The running game still isn't punching the ball into the end zone from close range. I don't know if Jason Garrett just doesn't trust the offensive line, but the Cowboys didn't make much of an effort to power the ball into the end zone from close range. Until they start running the ball in they red zone offense will continue to struggle.
The Good: Tony Romo didn't turn the ball over at all. By protecting the ball the Seahawks were always forced to drive the length of the field to score. That helps the defense prevent touchdowns more than any scheme Rob Ryan can draw up.
The Bad: Tony Romo is still playing too safe. It feels like Romo is still gun shy after what happened in the Detroit game a few weeks back. Romo is definitely protecting the ball but he seems to be lacking what makes him great right now. Romo is at his best when he is in gunslinger mode. He is a very average quarterback when he plays the bus driver role.
The Good: Dan Bailey continues to nail his field goals right down the middle. He is having the best season by a Cowboys kicker since Nick Folk's rookie season.
The Bad: The return game for the Cowboys is awful. Kevin Ogletree is just a very bad kick returner. And Dez Bryant made a horrible decision to field a punt inside the Cowboys five yard line.
The Good: The defense came up with 3 turnovers. The interceptions in the second half helped turn the tide in the Cowboys favor.
The Bad: The run defense was bad again. Last week seemed like a blip on the radar when McCoy went crazy for the Eagles. But Marshawn Lynch made it back to back weeks that the run defense has struggled. Run defense is becoming a major concern.
The Good: The offense had great balance with both Romo and Murray coming up with good games.
The Bad: Jason Garrett is still struggling to find a way to get the offense in the end zone consistently. I don't know if the offensive line is just handcuffing him in critical situations, but it is frustrating to see some of the questionable calls in short yardage situations.
The Good: Anthony Spencer finally woke up. He came up with a sack and a huge blocked field goal. Now he needs to show up next week again.
The Bad: Keith Brooking was terrible starting in place of Sean Lee. Brooking is so bad it is embarrassing. It seems like he should have retired 2 years ago. He is always a step or two late, he gets run over, and he seems lost in pass coverage. Lee can't get back on the field fast enough for me.
In the end a win is a win. It wasn't pretty but the Cowboys just need to start getting on a roll before it is too late. Buffalo is coming off of an embarrassing loss and will present a tough challenge next week. If the Cowboys can win that game we might see the Cowboys make a run to 8-4 against a very soft schedule. With the Giants playing with a 2 game lead in the NFC East getting to 8-4 is going to be needed to get back in the playoff race.
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- AnonymousNovember 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM
So now you have the Cowboys being 8-4 in four weeks. Some might call you crazy but if you are then I'm jumping on board that crazy train. They should win the next four games. Incredibly soft schedule. So that means that you'll be predicting them to win the next four which means that you'll have predicted them to win the first 12 games of the season. And that's what makes their 4-4 record so disappointing. While they're not a great team, they could have a great record due to what has to be the weakest schedule in the league. I'm still sticking by my prediction that they don't make the playoffs because I know they're going to lose some of these games that they should easily win. But I would love to be proved wrong.ReplyDelete
- ROMOSEXUALNovember 9, 2011 at 8:11 AM
They will win the next four, we have to have faith that they can finally pull it together. We have made the path to the playoffs harder for ourselves and its time to rectify what could be a successful year. We are going to take these next 4 games and await the Giants for a battle for the NFC east....ReplyDelete


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SOMETIMES, eliminating one problem in your soybean crop could help encourage the development of another. That's what two university researchers in the upper Midwest say occurred last season in soybean test plots where they applied fungicides.
The two researchers, David Ragsdale, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota, and Craig Grau, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin, were working on how to best address Asian soybean rust with fungicides, should rust move into their respective areas. In the process, they found that the same fungicides used to kill pathogens, such as rust, also kill all beneficial fungi, which help control damaging insects. With fewer beneficial fungi, insects such as soybean aphids and mites were able to flourish.
Healthier insect populations
"The fungicides slowed the disappearance of the aphids," Ragsdale says. "In untreated plots, aphid populations crashed quickly, whereas in plots treated with fungicide, aphids seemed to stay around longer, even into early September."
Grau saw similar results for two-spotted spider mite populations in one of his soybean fungicide test plots. Furthermore, Grau harvested lower yields at one plot where fungicides were applied, most likely because mite populations had increased.
"We had 35 to 37 bu./acre in the fungicide-treated plots, versus 41 bu./acre in the side-by-side, untreated control plots," Grau says. Insecticides were not applied for mite control.
As a result of the research, Ragsdale hypothesizes that fungicides, if used indiscriminately, could negatively affect multiyear insect populations in soybeans, essentially increasing their prevalence.
"Although difficult to test in small plot studies, the scenario that is likely to occur if fungicides are used too frequently is that fungicides will result in healthier aphid populations late in the season," he says. "As aphids leave soybeans to return to their winter host, buckthorn, a healthier aphid population will result in more eggs laid and contribute to an even higher aphid population the following season." Both Ragsdale and Grau plan to repeat their fungicide research trials this year.
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Ragsdale and Grau encourage producers to follow established guidelines when making fungicide treatment decisions. "As with any pest, treatment should only be applied when the pest is present and when fungicide (or insecticide) application will prevent further yield loss equal to the cost of the treatment," Ragsdale says. "It is a sound IPM practice to use fungicides when the application is targeting a specific pathogen."
Ragsdale points out that the focus of the Minnesota research was to determine if insect-pathogenic fungi were suppressed when fungicides targeting soybean pathogens were used at recommended rates and frequency. The key finding of this one-year study is that fungicides likely to be used against soybean rust do have the potential to harm beneficial, insect pathogenic fungi.
Ragsdale's advice is to "use fungicides only when you know you have a particular disease problem that can be effectively managed with fungicides."
Grau adds, "This reinforces that we need to maintain good IPM practices here. Consultants and growers need to accurately assess the potential for all pests and pathogens before making fungicide applications."


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This article was originally published in Dutch in "Moslemvrouwenrechten" (Muslim Women's Rights) Al-Nisa, Islamitisch maandblad voor vrouwen (Islamic monthly for women), 31st year, Volume 2, Mar 2012.
The Muslim woman with kohl-lined eyes who peers out from a slit of dark chador, or who wears a colourful silk scarf and sunglasses, laughing while driving with her friends. The Muslim woman who is a silent blue burqa, or who runs a 100-metre dash fully-clothed. The Muslim woman who suffers in her abusive marriage with no recourse to divorce, or who sits next to her husband during a wedding and writes in her own terms in the marriage contract. The Muslim woman who always stays at home, or who demonstrating on the streets for dignity and free elections.
The Muslim woman with kohl-lined eyes who peers out from a slit of dark chador, or who wears a colourful silk scarf and sunglasses, laughing while driving with her friends. The Muslim woman who is a silent blue burqa, or who runs a 100-metre dash fully-clothed. The Muslim woman who suffers in her abusive marriage with no recourse to divorce, or who sits next to her husband during a wedding and writes in her own terms in the marriage contract. The Muslim woman who always stays at home, or who demonstrating on the streets for dignity and free elections.
By divine decree, Muslim women have rights. The Qur'an supports the universal values of equality, justice and a life of dignity for women by giving Muslim women in general the right to education (6:151), inheritance to property (4:7, 4:11-12, 4:176) and to not be harassed in society (33:59). Wives in particular have the right to bridal gifts (4:4) and keeping them in case of divorce (4:20), maintenance from their male relatives (4:34), and conciliation and amicable resolution if ill-treated by their husbands (4:128).
In contexts where they appear to not have any rights, it is the lack of awareness and willingness to realise them that is to blame. If Muslim women and men were aware of the rights they Muslim women have by divine law, and if these rights were practised in the spirit of equality, justice and dignity, many restrictions faced by Muslim women today would be reduced.
Muslim women, in many geographical contexts, suffer under patriarchal social systems. Their subjugation has been falsely justified by customs, traditional practices, and religious texts. However, these vary from country to country. Mainstream media tends to show the same few stereotypes of Muslim woman, which has been filtered to audiences over decades. These stories repeat themselves in mainstream media: women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, illiterate and impoverished women in Pakistan who are jailed after being accused of zina, or unlawful sexual intercourse,[1] or young women killed for the sake of their families' namus, or honour, amongst Turks in the Netherlands.[2]
All the Muslim women and all the Muslim men
Chandra Mohanty warns us of the portrayal of Third World women as a 'monolithic' and 'oppressed' group in need of salvation.[3] Mohanty also reminds us that not all women, especially Muslim women, are oppressed in the same way. Similarly, when talking about the rights of Muslim women, not all Muslim women enjoy the same freedoms and face the same restrictions.
For a fuller understanding of the different contexts that Muslim women live in, we need to look at the socio-cultural, economic, and political situations of Muslim women in countries that codify shari'a law. Southeast Asia has typically received less coverage than the Middle East with respect to issues of Islam and Muslim women. It is worth looking at countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia because of the large Muslim population, the varying contexts, and the varying use of religious laws in tandem with secular laws.
As a measure of freedom and restrictions, I will look at four aspects of personal life – dress, education/work, marriage, and divorce. The first two aspects belong to the socio-cultural and economic spheres and are usually enforced by a series of social norms, while the last two aspects belong to the economic and politico-legal spheres.
Who can talk about Muslim women without mentioning hijab? In Singapore, the secular state respects one's freedom to practise any religion. Although female students of government schools must wear a uniform that consists of a blouse and knee-length skirt of various school colours, female students that go to Islamic schools must wear a uniform that consists of a Malay traditional dress (baju kurung) and a waist-length hijab. In any case, uniform requirements last only up to the age of 18, so young Muslim women who pursue tertiary education in polytechnics or university are allowed to dress in any way they please.
Institutions can also enforce an 'Islamic' dress. For example, government offices in Malaysia require Muslim women to wear a headscarf and a baju kurung, and recently in the district of West Aceh in Indonesia issued a new regulation that forbids Muslim women in particular from wearing 'tight clothing'.[4]
Students from a full-time Islamic primary school in Singapore.
In this case, social customs can play a large role in determining the way Muslim women dress in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia. Whether in school or at work, the Muslim community (the majority of which is made of up a single ethnic group in the case of Singapore or Malaysia) enacts socio-psychological supervision. Students who actively participate in clubs where there are mostly Muslims may feel pressured to wear hijab in order to fit in, display more authority when speaking on Islamic issues, or assure others of their propriety and morality. When visiting a small, conservative town in Padang, Indonesia, I remarked that a handful of observant young women who did not wear a headscarf, but had many hijabi friends, eventually did so within the next year or so.
Education and work
Fortunately, Muslim women in all three countries enjoy a high level of education today, despite traditional customs that restricted the duration and type of education that Muslim women could or should receive, in the past. For example, in the early 1900s, it was common for Singaporean Muslim families to send their daughters to Islamic schools while their sons were encouraged to receive a secular education. This was related to the belief of men as breadwinners and of women as caregivers of children and household managers; men participate in the (secular) public sphere to earn money while women participate in the (religious) private sphere as nurturers and teachers of children.
In Southeast Asia, women have historically worked alongside men for centuries as traders. Even after the spread of Islam to the region in the 16th century onwards, this pattern has not changed. Today you find Muslim women in almost every aspect of economic and political life, including the military. Doubtless, the presence of Muslim women in almost every occupation may be related to per capita wealth and the need for two breadwinners to cope against rising costs of living, but having one's own source of income can increase women's bargaining power in a household.[5]
Butcher in Ponorogo, Indonesia
Even though the majority of Muslims in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia follow the Shafi'i school of thought and consequently codify their laws formulated according to this fiqh, or jurisprudence, the process and requirements of marriage differ for Muslim women in these three countries. Each country has two systems of law: a civil one that applies to every citizen, and a set of shari'a laws that apply to only Muslims with respect to marriage, divorce and inheritance. Since an extensive review of the double legal systems of all three countries is an article in itself, I will only look at the right for Muslim women to marry and to divorce.
The legal age for marriage in each country varies, requiring additional special or parental consent. There are also different federal laws across provinces and states in Indonesia and Malaysia respectively. Nevertheless, a common phenomenon across all three countries is that the legal age of marriage of Muslim girls is lower than the requirement for non-Muslims; sometimes the onset of puberty is considered old enough. The requirement for a male guardian for a bride also plays a role in underage marriages, since the consent of the (virgin) bride is not expressly sought.
Despite arguments that brides are protected under Singapore's shari'a lalw, I know of a friend whose sister was forcibly married to a man at the age of 19 by her father. Also, polygamous marriages are allowed for Muslims in all three countries – a comprehensive Malaysia-wide study of polygamy[6] estimates as little as 2.5 percent and as much as 5.7 percent of all marriages per annum could be polygamous.[7] In Singapore and Indonesia though, a Muslim woman may prepare a pre-nuptial contract that allows divorce in cases of polygamy. I know of some Muslim men in their fifties and sixties who marry a second or third wife, sometimes in secret and done overseas, and some resulting in the divorce of the first wife.
Interestingly, albeit ironically, one way for Muslim women in Singapore to gain access to the more egalitarian civil marriage and divorce laws available in their country is to declare themselves non-Muslim and register their marriage in a civil court – but this carries heavy social consequences. Muslim women in Malaysia are in a more complicated situation because their constitution conflates ethnicity (Malay) with religion (Islam), legally rendering all Malays as Muslims and vice-versa.
Like marriage laws, divorce laws also vary in these countries, with shari'a courts existing in parallel with secular courts. Unfortunately, the former provide less rights to Muslim women with regards to divorce, division of matrimonial property, alimony and custody of children. For example, in Singapore, a Muslim husband may divorce his wife in a variety of ways, with him having the exclusive right to talaq (divorce by repudiation).
Both parties may seek a court-approved divorce by ta'liq, or the breach of the pre-nuptial contract.[8] The wife can only seek two kinds of court-approved divorce: fasakh (annulation) based on the husband's failure to provide financial, psychological, sexual, or physical maintenance, or khulu' (divorce by redemption) based on complaints of either party finding difficulty in being obedient to God, or the wife to the husband.[9] In this last type of divorce, a wife even has to pay the husband a sum of money.
Under Malaysia's civil law, a husband who 'neglects or refuses to maintain' his wife and not provide maintenance can be brought to court and be forced to do so. However, under shari'a law, a husband may even seek matrimonial property from a wife he is divorcing, a clear violation of her Islamic right to keep matrimonial property.[10] Again, while Malaysia has provided model statutes of the Islamic Family Law which 'provides for greater protection of women's rights', different states make their own trimming amendments. In practice, crossing state boundaries makes it possible to evade court judgments and maintenance payments.[11]
De jure and de facto
The introduction highlights some of the God-given rights that Muslim women enjoy. In practice however, with the existence of double legal systems and social norms, reality paints a different picture for Muslim women. The diversity of shari'a laws in states and provinces result in a muddled image of 'Islamic law' and great difficulty in enforcing the politico-legal sphere.
In the socio-cultural and economic spheres, social norms and traditional customs may interact with institutions to create interesting outcomes – the personal is also political. By educating both Muslim women and men on the rights that are due to Muslim women, Muslims can work together as an ummah towards establishing social justice in our communities.
[1],Definitions of zina can include adultery, premarital sex, and in the case of Pakistan, rape. While the Qur'an places the burden of proof on the accuser (24:4-5), the Pakistani Zina Ordinance requires a rapist's confession or the female victim to produce 'four pious male witnesses' instead. For further information see Shahnaz Khan (2006), 'Zina,Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Women', Vancouver: UBC Press and Marie-Aimée Hélie-Lucas and Harsh Kapoor (Eds.) Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Dossier 18.
[2] Clementine van Eck (2003) 'Purified by Blood: Honour Killings amongst Turks in the Netherlands', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
[3] Chandra Mohanty (1988) 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses', Feminist Review, no. 30.
[5] Bina Agarwal (1997) 'Bargaining''and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household' Feminist Economics, 3(1):1-51.
[6] Ding Jo-Ann (21 July 2010) 'TheImpact of Polygamy in Malaysia', The Nut Graph.
[7] Norani Othman (16 July 2010) 'Response to Comments in Article on Polygamy', The Malaysian Insider.
[8] This includes a wife's breach of a husband's verbal contract, according to Syariah Court Singapore, 'Types of Divorce'.
[9] Ibid.
[10] WLUML (16 Jan 2006) 'Malaysia: Family law bill unjust to Malaysian Muslim women'.
[11] Aminah Ahmad (1998) CountryBriefing Paper: Women in Malaysia, Asian Development Bank.


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canal, an artificial waterway constructed for navigation or for the movement of water. The digging of canals for irrigation probably dates back to the beginnings of agriculture, and traces of canals have been found in the regions of ancient civilizations. Canals are also used to provide municipal and industrial water supplies. The drainage of wet lands may be accomplished by means of a canal; by this method the Fens of England and the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands were drained. Canals can be used for flood control by diverting water from threatened areas into storage basins or to other outlets. In some cases canals are used to generate electricity; the Moscow-Volga Canal is used for this purpose.
Navigation canals developed after irrigation canals and for a long time were level, shallow cuts or had inclined planes up which vessels were hauled from one level to the next; locks (see lock, canal) developed separately in China (10th cent.) and Europe (Holland; 13th cent.). Over the years canals have been expanded in width and depth in order to accommodate larger craft, and they have, in some cases, been constructed to form bridges or to pass through tunnels to overcome topographic difficulties. Movement on canals was long accomplished by animal tows or by poling; in the 20th cent. mechanized tows and self-propelled barges appeared.
The Grand Canal of China (the longest in the world) was completed in the 13th cent. and is the most notable of the early canals. France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany were the first in Europe to develop inland waterway systems by using canals to connect rivers; these countries now have a dense network of waterways (see Rhine Canals; Midland Canal). Canal building was widespread in the 18th and 19th cent. During that period England developed an elaborate canal network, and there was also a canal-building boom in the United States in the 19th cent., especially after the completion of the Erie Canal. However, the rise of railroads brought a decline in the building and use of canals as inland waterways. Canals have been built to shorten sea voyages or to make them less hazardous, e.g., the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, and the Kiel Canal. Canals improve conditions on natural waterways by bypassing falls (the Welland Ship Canal), shallows, or swift currents (the Sip Canal in the Danube River's Iron Gate gorge). Canals may provide inland cities with direct access to the sea (the Manchester Ship Canal), or shorten the distance between cities (the Albert Canal). In the 20th cent. canals regained importance, as modern technology provided the means to overcome greater topographic obstacles and facilitated the construction of larger canals and the expansion of existing ones. The Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence Seaway system, opened to navigation in 1959, is the world's longest deep-draft inland waterway. Including six short canals with a total length of less than 60 nautical mi (110 km), it extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Duluth, Minn. on Lake Superior, a distance of more than 2,340 mi (3,700 km), providing large oceangoing vessels passage into central North America.
See C. Hadfield, World Canals (1986); R. Spangenburg and D. Moser, The Story of America's Canals (1992); R. E. Shaw, Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860 (1993); J. M. Bracken, American Waterways: The Role of Canals in America (1997).


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How and Why to Monitor Power
Quantity, Quality, and Reliability of This Expensive Raw Material Can Make or Break Your Plant's Bottom Line
Electric power is expensive, often unreliable, and sometimes dirty. Using too much power, losing power, or running on unclean power can adversely affect the operation of your plant. Accordingly, several companies serving our industry are more than happy to sell you hardware, software, and energy management services that will analyze and optimize your power consumption.
Frank Hein, principal engineer at Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill., has installed an advanced energy optimization system from Pavilion. "With all elements of the program in place, Abbott expects to save at least $273,000 per year, based on the current production rate," he says.
However, as Bela Liptak says, before you can control something, you have to measure it. Here's how and why to make power measurements (Figure 1) and do your own analysis and optimization. As we can see from Abbott's results, the payoff can be enormous.
Problems With Power
Electric power is expensive. "Manufacturing plants consume the most electricity in the United States, totaling more than $3.3 billion per year," says Dick Eshelman, vice president of engineering solutions at Rockwell Automation. "From downtime due to dirty power to avoiding peak demand charges, reducing energy-related expenses starts by understanding when, where, and how much energy is being consumed, and turning that knowledge into results."
Demand charges can be substantial. Although they vary from utility to utility, essentially the utility determines how much power your plant needs, sizes its substations accordingly, and then hits you with a significant surcharge (the peak demand rate) if you use too much power at any point in time. Exceed the peak demand rate one time in a month, and you get charged for it.
Therefore, the first energy monitoring program most plants install is a load-shedding system that measures and tracks electrical power consumption on a real-time basis. The system uses the same technique as the utility does to calculate peak demand, and sheds loads (turns off systems) to keep from exceeding the critical demand level.
If you do not understand your utility's tariff structure, it might be a good idea to get a copy of the rules and see how your energy bills are calculated.
Utilities are beginning to have problems delivering power, say market researchers at Frost & Sullivan. "Insufficient power infrastructure and the growing load on energy utilities are driving the end user market to uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. In the absence of clean and consistent power, UPS systems are needed to decrease downtime and protect sensitive equipment," says analyst Farah Saeed.
Is your incoming power clean and consistent? If not, it could cause severe problems. Richard Brown, engineer at ABB, says voltage sags and interruptions can cause havoc in a manufacturing line. He provides this list of potential problems for people in the semiconductor industry:
- A 20 msec. voltage sag to 65% will cause electronic controllers to crash.
- A 200 msec. voltage sag to 50% will cause an entire process to crash.
- An interruption lasting several minutes can cause problems with air and water filtration systems.
- Longer interruptions can affect critical temperature and humidity tolerances in a process.
(Stop wasting money on backup power)
"Because of the high economic cost of power quality disturbances, many sensitive facilities are beginning to ask electric utilities to guarantee levels of reliability in their energy contracts," says Brown. "Although not widespread at this time, such guarantees are already in effect for several car manufacturing facilities in Michigan. If a factory experiences a power quality disturbance that disturbs the production process, it receives a large credit on its energy bill."
California companies faced electric supply problems every day in 2001, as the energy crisis there reached epidemic proportions. At Cargill's salt plant in Newark, Calif., interruptions in the power supply caused production delays, leading some longtime customers to switch to alternate suppliers. "Our electricity costs doubled here, even with the incredible energy conservation measures we put in," says Lori Johnson, public affairs manager at Cargill Salt.
You need to monitor your incoming electric power to see if you have problems, avoid demand charges, decide what kind of protective and backup equipment to install, and catch your utility with its electric pants down.
Mike Powell, president of eLutions, says his company's EP Web monitoring and control software was installed in a chocolate manufacturing plant and quickly uncovered a severe problem during training. "The client's energy manager discovered a utility feed that had a 1 MW variance when compared to the other two feeds," Powell explains.
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New year, new-to-me blog theme! Below is a memorial obituary printed for the funeral of one of my maternal great-grandfathers, William E. Hayes. The memorial belongs to one of my aunts, who allowed me to photograph it last year.


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I have been doing some work on the Modern Apps Live! content that required me to use both an Office365 account and an Azure account. My Azure work is currently associated with my Microsoft Account (formerly known as my Live ID). On the other hand, I am working with a Microsoft Office365 account which I have been unable to tie to my current account at this point.
While I was working with Office365, I was trying to open my Azure account to get some storage info that I wanted to use. It told me I was already signed in with a different user ID and it did not have access to my Azure portal as noted in the image below.
Obviously I did not want to sign out, so I started looking for options. The IT Director at Magenic, Dave Meier, mentioned he was having the same issue with multiple Microsoft accounts. So, we determined this was somehow related to IE so I installed Google Chrome. By using Chrome I was able to work around the issue. However, Dave came across the following article regarding this change in behavior starting in IE 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/askie/archive/2009/05/08/session-management-within-internet-explorer-8-0.aspx. Turns out they changed how they manage sessions in that version.
The article brings up a couple of options to work around. One is using Alt-F-I to change the session. Kind of annoying as I actually use my mouse (some of you keyboard junkies will like that solution). So I used the shortcut option and created a shortcut for IE on my Windows 8 desktop which uses the switch –noframemerging. I added this to my Taskbar, and voila, I have an easy way to open a new session browser which ignores my other session. Keep in mind that you are essentially running two different sessions in IE which means that you will have two sets of credentials active. Be sure to keep track of which is which.
Also, as a quick sanity test, Google Chrome works the same way. Even when I open a different Chrome instance, it keeps my session state. So, it appears the IE shortcut is a nice way to handle this issue. Although, it is nice to know I can use a Chrome instance and and IE instance if that is my preferred method.
Add a comment if you try this in FireFox and want to chime in. I really only want to use one browser, so Chrome is still one more than I want.
UPDATE: You can also use InPrivate or Incognito modes accomplish the same thing. Thanks to Rocky Lhotka ( T | B ) for pointing this out.


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Hi Mia, my name is Ross. Are you looking for people to hit with? I've been playing for about 3 months after an 8 year break. I'm starting to pass most of the 4.5 level players I hit with and need someone to challenge me more. I'm not really match ready, but my groundstrokes and serve are about a 5.0 level now. I'm available most evenings and anytime Saturday if you want to try hitting sometime. I live in Oakland but have been playing at San Pablo Park. Let me know,
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Surgery resection of giant cell fibroblastoma (GCF) (program ID: 239471)
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
Jakob R. IzbickiSpecialized in: general, abdominal and thoracic surgery
Program includes:
- Initial presentation in the clinic
- clinical history taking
- review of medical records
- physical examination
- neurological examination
- laboratory tests:
- complete blood count
- general urine analysis
- biochemical analysis of blood
- TSH-basal
- tumor markers
- inflammation indicators
- indicators blood coagulation
- abdominal ultrasound
- CT/MRI scan
- biopsy of the tumor with hystology
- consultation of related specialists
- preoperative care
- R0 resection of the tumor
- microbiological and histological examination of the remote tissues
- symptomatic treatment
- control examinations
- cost of essential medicines and materials
- nursing services
- full hospital accommodation
- explanation of future recommendations
You may also book
About the department
The chief physician of the Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf is Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Jakob R. Izbicki, specialist in the field of abdominal, thoracic and general surgery.
The Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf offers the best surgical treatment of thoracic and abdominal diseases as well as diseases of the hormone-producing organs, vessels and obesity. The doctors of the Department under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Jakob R. Izbicki have the greatest experience in surgery of pancreas (surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer), esophagus as well as rare periampullary tumors in Northern Germany.
The possibilities for the treatment of malignancies range from a partial removal of the organ and up to a complete removal of the organ systems. In addition, while using minimally invasive techniques, doctors try to preserve (or restore) organ functions and to use the least painful surgical techniques.
According to the Focus magazine rating of 2017, the Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf ranks among the top German departments specializing in colon cancer treatment!
The spectrum of medical services of the Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Jakob R. Izbicki includes the following diseases and treatment options among others:
- Obesity
- Diseases of the colon and rectum
- Diseases of the liver, gallbladder and pancreas
- Diseases of the lungs and chest cavity
- Thyroid and parathyroid diseases
- Esophageal and stomach diseases
- Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion (HIPEC) and diseases of the peritoneum
- Bypass surgery and dialysis access
- Soft tissue tumors (sarcoma)
Curriculum vitae
- 1998- present Chairman Dept. of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University of Hamburg
- 1994- present Professor of Surgery, Dept. of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University of Hamburg
- 1992-1998 Senior Attending Physician and Deputy Director, Dept. of General Surgery, University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Ch.E. Broelsch)
- 1991-1992 Deputy Director of the project group Gastrointestinal Tumors of the Cancer Center Munich
- 1991 Associate Professor of Surgery, Dept.of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich Klinikum Innenstadt (Prof.Dr.L.Schweiberer).
- 1991 - 1992 Attending Surgeon Gastrointestinal and Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Oncology. Dept.of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Klinikum Innenstadt (Prof.Dr.L.Schweiberer).
- 1990 Habilitation (Ph.D. Degree) Dr.med.habil.
- 1990 Venia Legendi in Surgery and appointment as Privat-Dozent (Assistant Professor of Surgery).
- 1989 - 1990 Instructor in Surgery (Surgical Gastroenterology, Surgical Oncology and Thoracic Surgery) Dept. of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Klinikum Innenstadt
- 1987 Board certification as surgeon by the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians
- 1986 - 1989 Senior Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Klinikum Innenstadt (Prof.Dr.L.Schweiberer).
- 1982 - 1986 Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow in Surgical Gastroenterology II. Dept. of Surgery, University of Cologne (Prof.Dr.H.Troidl).
- 13.05.1982 Doctorial thesis, Bonn University with honours.
- 1981 - 1982 Resident, Dept. of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery (Prof.Dr.R.Pichlmayr) and Dept. of Pediatric Surgery (Prof. Dr.H.Mildenberger) University Hospital Hannover, Germany
- 20.10.1980 Graduation from medical school with honours
- 1979-1980 Special student, subintern and predoctoral fellow with grant of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at the Dept. of Pathology (Prof.Dr.J.H.Yardley) and Dept. of Surgery (Prof.Dr.R.R.Baker) of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 1976-1979 Medical School at Bonn University
- 1975-1976 Medical School at Cologne University
- 1975 Medical School at Bonn University
- 1976 Studies of chemistry and geophysics at Cologne University, Germany
- 6.6.1974 High-school-diploma
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Switchfoot is currently touring in support of "Hello Hurricane" its seventh studio album. Special to The Denver Post.
Switchfoot made an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on Wednesday night, playing its new song "Mess of Me" that deals with prescription drug abuse. Switchfoot is currently touring in support of its seventh studio album, "Hello Hurricane." Right now the tour does not include a stop in Colorado.
OK, this if funny: Right after Switchfoot played NBC aired an ad for Sunday night NFL football, featuring Skillet's song "Hero." So much for Christian music not being mainstream.
And if you missed it, Switchfoot chatted with me and I featured them in this story on Higher Note.
Switchfoot's song, "This is Home," was featured in the second Narnia movie, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian."


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We use the version from CMake now. There is a minor difference, which will not affect many systems. The KDE version accepted only giflib version 4, while the CMake version accepted any version of giflib. If giflib version 4 .x is required, the version can now be specified:
This actually only was an issue on some relatively old Sun machines in 2006. Maybe today it is not even there a problem anymore.
This file does not exist anymore, use FindRuby.cmake coming with CMake instead. Most variables are the same. Below are the changes:
This file has been removed. Use set_property(.. APPEND_STRING) instead (new in CMake 2.8.6).
This file has been removed. Use set_property(.. APPEND_STRING) instead (new in CMake 2.8.6).
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This file is now part of the extra-cmake-modules package and thus has been renamed to ECMOptionalAddSubdirectory.cmake
This file has been removed, the purpose was broken.
This file does not exist anymore. Instead, starting with CMake 2.8.6, every find_package() call which is not REQUIRED can be disabled by setting the variable CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_<PackageName> to TRUE. This makes this macro unnecessary.
This file has been merged into CMake, but has been renamed to CMakePushCheckState.cmake.


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Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company to Stage THE SOUL OF GERSHWIN
'The Soul of Gershwin, The Musical Journey of an American Klezmer' featuring 23 songs from renowned composer George Gershwin, played by a klezmer band and showcasing a number of vocalists will play at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre from May 1 to 9, 2010.
The production is presented by The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in special collaboration with Show One and by special arrangement with the National Jewish Theatre.
For tickets and more information, visit www.hgjewishtheatre.com.
During his illustrious career, Gershwin wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows with his older brother Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin's music, which spanned popular and classical genres, includes the hits "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." His first published song was "When You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em." It was published in 1916 when Gershwin was only 17 years old and earned him a sum total of $5.
The musical great would go on to write the 1917 novelty rag "Rialto Ripples," a commercial success, and in 1919 he scored his first big national hit with his song "Swanee." In 1916, Gershwin started working for Aeolian Company and Standard Music Rolls in New York, recording and arranging. He produced dozens, if not hundreds, of rolls under his own and assumed names. In 1924, George and Ira Gershwin collaborated on a musical comedy Lady Be Good, which included such future standards as "Fascinating Rhythm" and "Oh, Lady Be Good!." This was followed by Oh, Kay! (1926), Funny Face (1927), Strike up the Band (1927 and 1930), Show Girl (1929), Girl Crazy (1930), which introduced the standard "I Got Rhythm"; and Of Thee I Sing (1931), the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize. Porgy and Bess (1935) has been deemed his most ambitious project. Additional Broadway compositions include: Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933), and Pardon my English (1933), amongst many others.
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I am not, despite some recent discussions, opposed to money. I like money. Who doesn't like money? But there is danger sometimes of seeing money as an absolute, something than universally incentivises, shapes behaviour, and supports progress. Money isn't the root of all evil. But neither is it the root of all progress. It fact often it may be a relatively weak incentive to progress…and sometimes a disincentive.
Anyway, here are 5 reasons why money can't buy progress. And since I can't set my blog to music, I am just going to suggest you play this for a few seconds to get you in the right mood.
1) Cash rewards can be a disincentive to performance
"For simple, straightforward tasks, rewards work. And the bigger the incentive, the more they work.
When a task gets more complicated, and requires conceptual, creative thinking (like genuinely progressive tasks) autonomy, mastery and purpose are all much better incentives than money.
…And when the profit motive is detached from the purpose motive. Bad things happen."
2. A Fine is a Price (not a disincentive)
Often we try to use money, or more often the removal of money, to drive better behaviour. More often the opposite happens, because paying money is an excuse for acting like a jerk.
Clay Shirky spoke on this subject last week at the MIT Media Lab, describing how schools have experimented with enforcing fines for parents who are late picking up their kids. Rather than reducing late pick-ups, this fine increased them – because suddenly it was about the cost, not the basic lack of humanity towards teachers who have been cooped up with your kids all day and want to get on with their lives. And then even when the fines are removed, people continue to act like jerks.
If you want a more visceral example, spend some time in New York restaurants. People's blood will boil with rage if you fail to leave at least an 18.5% tip for your waiter. But it is also entirely normal for people to not say thank you when waiters bring them things. Because a fine is a price.
3. The balance sheet is a scorecard, not a business plan
Every great company that I have come into contact with has a clear vision or mission that comes before everyone else. For example Google exist to organize the world's information (and not be evil.) And IKEA have the wonderfully Swedish vision of 'Creating a Better Life for the Many People.'
These vision-led companies are of course insanely huge and insanely profitable. But they didn't start with the balance sheet. Their healthy balance sheets simply reflect that they are well-run companies with a powerful economic vision. Any company that starts its business planning with the balance sheet will mainly go backwards. Because the balance sheet is a scorecard not a business plan (copyright, the smartest guy I know.)
4. The design constraint of ultra-affordability
It is so easy to be stupid when you have lots of money. When you have no money, you have no choice but to be very smart.
Now there is no denying that some degree of resource is essential to invention, and quite a lot of resource is often essential for true innovation – because to go really big, you need some support.
But it is no accident that Larry and Sergey started in a garage, using Lego as a key building component. Or, on the flip-side, that the fat cats of tech are being gobbled up by geeks locked in basements. Starting with the assumption that money is not going to solve the problem makes you focus on what is really going to solves the problem. ie, you.
5. The poor man has the best tunes
Quality of creative output is inversely proportional to relative wealth status. Or…it is in your interest to keep your favourite bands small, because once they get rich they won't be able to make good music any more.
There is a big caveat here, which is that the creative process requires freedom, basic tools etc. And DOUBLE caveat – once you get back to the beginning of this century, this is a pattern that obviously falls over. It is fair to say you had to be rich to be Proust. Or Tolstoy. Or that you had to be at least able to support a lifestyle at a royal or ecclesiastical Court to make any music or drama in Europe for many centuries. Almost too many caveats to make this meaningful…
BUT there is certainly a trend in pop culture of character learnt in adversity, great work done as adversity turns into popularity, and then decadence as wealth sets in. Because extreme wealth is distracting, isolating, and destructive of motivation. Which is one of the reasons you can go from the intensity of the band at the top of this post to the artist at the bottom in a little over a decade…


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mnp13 wrote:Yeah, well, "clicker training hippie mom" must do something right because she can leave her dog in a room for a few hours with bags of treats sitting on a chair, and that bag will still be there when she comes back. Maybe we all need to be hippies for a while. Hey Demo! Go get some tie dyes
Kuuuummmbbbaaayyyaaaaahhhh...everyone join hands now...dance around barefoot.......you too Demo....
dlynne1123 wrote: Then when done. both back into crates. LIke a little time to think about what they did right.
This is one thing I never "got." The guy we used to train with used to do that between sessions of bite work. I never understood it at all. Riggs have never liked his crate at all, he hasn't since the first minute I got him, and I have worked extensively to get him used to it, and in the three and a half years I've had him he has never gotten better about it. John used to have me out him (a long and difficult process) and the "reward" after the out was to stick him back in the crate. huh? He lets go - which he doesn't want to do - and the next thing I do is something that he hates. So what's his incentive to let go next time? I was always explained to me that they will "think about the last thing they did and be more excited about it when they come out" which is true for dogs who like their crates, but if you have a dog who doesn't completely love its crate - or is at least completely indifferent to it - then in my opinion you're not doing yourself any favors in this department.
I agree...and honestly...even though my dogs like their crates, and go into them willingly...are they really "thinking" about things in there? I'm not sure they're capable of complex thoughts like that...and not sure they'd be thinking about the good things they just did if they can think like that.


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Lady Gaga has come to Miley Cyrus' defense.
And here you thought Cyrus would no longer dominate the news cycle.
Eclectic pop diva Gaga joined Bravo heavyweight Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" on Wednesday for an "extravaGaganza" in which the "Applause" singer weighed in on Cyrus' shock-inducing VMA performance last month.
"I mean, I just think everybody needs to lighten up and leave her alone," Gaga said. "Because it's pop music. Everybody's entitled to their own artistic expression, and if you have a problem with it, just change the channel."
This coming from a woman clad in a bedazzled seashell bustier and weave of voluminous ringlets embellished by a starfish. The 27-year-old has a history of being the award-show talking point thanks to her own zany getups. (She said she'll always "have a soft spot" in her heart for the meat dress she wore to the 2010 VMAs.)
But Gaga railed against the Disney alum's haters and applauded her self-expression.
"I don't understand the incessant need to constantly go on and on about hating things all the time because, what, she's 20 years old? And if anything, I give her props. You know, she's growing up in front of the entire world and maybe she's not so happy with stuff she did in her career when she was younger and she wants to be free, so let her do what she wants."
We're looking at you, "Hannah Montana."
Speaking of doing what you want, Gaga called out the audience members who let loose when British boy band One Direction clinched the song of the summer award and were met with resounding boos. (She later told the boys they deserved every bit of success they had.)
"I was completely embarrassed for MTV and for America during that award show," she told Cohen. "Because if I was in the UK and I had won, there is no way that anybody would have booed because it's so impolite. Keep your ... feelings to yourself and politely clap and smile and then go be a normal person and talk about me behind my back!"
And here's what she had to say about twerking: "I think that people need to stop putting the letter T in front of the word 'work.'"
Gaga, who underwent hip surgery earlier this year, is doing the rounds to promote her upcoming album, "Artpop," which is set for Nov. 11 release. The album will bear Mother Monster in the nude, which brings us to her stripping down for V Magazine's September issue. The issue features four different Gaga covers with 16 pages of nude photos. The singer spoke candidly with Cohen on "WWHL: After Show" about why she decided to trade her theatrical outfits for the buff.
"I don't find it particularly shocking in the scope of the artistic world," the pop star said of her nudity. "I understand maybe because I'm a public figure it may be considered [shocking] because it's nudity. In Europe, nudity is not nearly as conservative as it is in America.
"I'm really proud of myself that I could take my clothes off and take my makeup off and just be there, because since I was 11 years old I didn't feel like I could. And you have seen me put on lots of wigs and lots of outfits and lots of theater because I was unable to do that," she added. "With 'Artpop' I took it all off and I challenged myself to be able to transform in a minimal way. I hope that you can see the nuance in the transformation in the nudity between the different looks that I did on the four different covers.
"It was emotionally really taxing because I had to look myself in the mirror with no makeup on. I mean, how ... easy is that for you. It's still not easy for me. ... I needed to do that for me. I needed to know that I was willing to risk it all for art ... for fashion ... to prove to myself once and for all that I could look myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am."
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