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Designing the Ultimate User-Friendly Kitchen
In an unprecedented partnership between academia and industry, more than 100 RISD students in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Industrial Design set out to challenge 50-year-old assumptions about residential kitchens, an everyday example of poor design.
Spurred by the knowledge that routine kitchen tasks force people to bend, stoop, reach and lift—repeatedly compensating for weak design in uncomfortable ways—the team began with research. Making a succession of dinners together in typical kitchens, they used careful time/motion studies to document how inefficiencies in kitchen design require more than 400 discrete steps to make a simple dinner. Ultimately, the goal was to redesign the kitchen environment and help as many potential users as possible function independently—from the young to the old.
During the course of their research, students literally deconstructed existing elements of the kitchen, debunking the myth of the kitchen triangle as they blew apart stoves, refrigerators and dishwashers. They tested existing standards for work heights and reach, researching human factors, demographics and trends. Through their ergonomic studies, they developed the parameters of a key concept they called the "comfort zone"—the area within easy reach for each individual.
A series of studios generated thousands of innovative blue-sky ideas: a utility mouse, continuous wet surfaces, pop-up dishwashers, grey water irrigation systems, countertop waste channels, toe-kick suction, electronic consumption tracking, built-in retractable appliance cords, misting bays, steaming bays, retractable burners and more. In the end, the team conceived of its Universal Kitchen as a "kit of parts," with interchangeable modular components for refrigeration, cooking, water delivery and storage.
Over the course of the five-year project, various leaders in the industry provided support, including Kohl, Frigidaire and Maytag. After presenting two prototypes at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's 1998 show Unlimited by Design, RISD sold exclusive rights to its Universal Kitchen to Maytag Corporation.
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Emap: Strategic review? Against what world view?
Emap plc is undertaking a strategic review - which roughly translates as 'is up for sale at the right price'.
As a humble employee I'm told to 'carry on - business as usual'. And, to be honest, isn't any and everything up for sale, at the right price, at any time?
Experience of friends who have been through similar strategic reviews in other companies suggest one thing: This process won't be fast. So I'm not putting my seatbelt on just yet.
Latest rumour is this was all sparked by a specific £1.3bn offer for the B2B division.
As usual, when I'm close to a story that makes the mainstream media, I'm completely underwhelmed by the standard of 'professional' reporting. No wonder mainstream broadcast media is characterised as struggling! (and I write as a professionally trained journalist of some 20 years experience).
Take for example the Mail on Saturday's report on emap's Friday announcement. It said emap had done a u-turn only months after claiming the numbers didn't stack up for a sale or demerger. And our expert financial guide in the report thrilled us with the insight that the change in mind was as a result of the share price hitting £8.65.
But, as any semi-sentient would have been able to tell the writer, the share price rose to that level as a result of the announcement on Friday morning. Basic cause and effect. Basic point missed.
No wonder people now turn to each other to create trust. A handful of partially informed non-experts would have spotted that simple error. A co-created version of the story is already ahead on points!
And the moment a report makes a simple mistake like that one - that's the moment I lose faith. Why trust the hotch-potch of suggested buyers tagged on?
A digital communal version of that would have that simple notion revealed- and corrected in moments, faith restored - sensible discourse continued.
No surprise then that NowPublic has just secured another $10.6M of funding.
The Sunday's were little more enlightening (those I saw, anyway, please do share if you found someone who had a sensible view writing somewhere).
One argued that major emap shareholders were getting jittery over emap's lack of a decent digital strategy.
Without context there is no meaning - so to say emap lacks a decent digital strategy means little unless you're going to compare it with what (for example) other traditional mainstream media companies have done or have revealed they are doing.
Off the top of my head - emap has one - is investing heavily in one - and is growing its digital revenues. How does that compare with traditional media rivals? I'll leave that to the time-rich Sunday print journalists to consider.
A strategic review responds only to the stakeholder with the most political power in a system: The City.
The City is conservative in its thought. If it can be characterised in systems terms, it is a hard systems thinker.
To be an effective company in a time of change means operating at the creative edge of chaos. It means having a paradigm shift in world view. It means soft systems thinking.
None of these sit well with the view from the single most powerful stakeholder.
But if The City is genuinely interested in growth, as opposed to comfortable mediocrity, it has to change its world view.
The City wants to see us honing our scissor kick technique in order to keep raising the high jump bar. It's the only way it understands change.
We have to do a fosbury flop. It can't even guess at how that might work.
Make no mistake, the world is changed. Your world view must change with it. A number of key stakeholders will always have an important role in influencing how well any system adapts to that change. Their world view must change too.
It's up to us to make that happen.

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A Chicago Marathon official said Tuesday that registration for the October event will not reopen until at least Thursday after website woes caused registration to be temporarily suspended.
Fifteen thousand entries to the Oct. 13 race remain. The citywide race will be capped at 45,000 participants.
"We are incredibly sorry that runners interested in signing up for the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon experienced such difficulties today. We have been working nonstop with our registration provider to find the root of the problem and a solution," marathon race director Carey Pinkowski said in a statement.
"Before we reopen registration, we need to make sure all technical issues are permanently resolved. We will provide ample notice regarding when the registration process will reopen."
The 36th annual marathon opened registration at noon Tuesday, and runners complained they had trouble signing up for the 26.2-mile event.
A marathon spokeswoman told RedEye that race registration was working earlier in the day but running slow. Officials suspended registration at about 3:30 p.m.
David Blumenthal, 30, said he spent 45 minutes of his lunchtime refreshing the registration page. He finally got through--and then he was charged twice. This will be the Lincoln Square resident's first Chicago Marathon. He described the registration process as frustrating.
Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey (D-Chicago) said it took him 50 minutes and multiple reloads of the registration page to register for the Chicago Marathon, which he called an eight-month goal.
Michael Gann of Alabama had better luck. He started trying to register at 12:40 p.m. and was able to finish the process at 12:55 p.m. Gann said this will be his fourth Chicago Marathon.
The race sold out in six days last year, a record. Registration is first come, first served. The cost to register is $175 for U.S. participants.
Runners who believe they may have been charged twice can contact the Bank of America Chicago Marathon at email@example.com or contact the registration provider Active.com customer service line at 877-228-4881.
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Security Advisories
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BIND-8.2.2-P5 available
CERT Advisory CA-99-14 Multiple Vulnerabilities in BIND:
Six vulnerabilities have been found in BIND, the popular domain name
server from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC). One of these
vulnerabilities may allow remote intruders to gain priviledged access
to name servers.
It is recommended that all systems running the BIND package that
shipped with Slackware 7.0 upgrade to this one. Here is the ChangeLog
bind.tgz Upgraded to bind-8.2.2-P5. This fixes a vulnerability
in the processing of NXT records that can be used in a
DoS attack or (theoretically) be exploited to gain access
to the server. It is suggested that everyone running
bind upgrade to this package as soon as possible.
nfs-server-2.2beta47 available
It is recommended that all Slackware 7.0 systems using NFS upgrade to
nfs-server 2.2beta47 to patch a possible exploit. Here is the
ChangeLog description:
nfs-server.tgz Upgraded to nfs-server-2.2beta47, to fix a security
problem with the version that shipped with Slackware 7.0
(nfs-server-2.2beta46). By using a long pathname on a
directory NFS mounted read-write, it may be possible for
an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server. It
is recommended that everyone running an NFS server
upgrade to this package immediately.
These packages are designed to be installed on top of an existing Slackware
7.0 installation. In the case where a package already exists (such as
bind.tgz), it is adviseable to use upgradepkg. For other fixes (such as the
nfs-server.tgz one), you can just use installpkg to install the fix.
NOTE: For packages that replace daemons on the system (such as bind), you
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Otherwise the file may not be updated properly because it is in use. You
can either stop the daemon manually or go into single user mode and then
go back to multiuser mode. Example:
# telinit 1 Go into single user mode
# upgradepkg bind Perform the upgrade
# telinit 3 Go back to multiuser mode
Remember to back up configuration files before performing upgrades.
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Robert J. McCann has been announced as the gold medal recipient by the American Irish Historical Society for 2012. He will be presented with the medal at the annual banquet in November at the Waldorf-Astoria.
McCann has been CEO of Wealth Management Americas and member of the Group Executive Board at UBS since October 27, 2009, and also has been CEO of UBS Group Americas since December 2011.
McCann is the founder of the McCann Learning Center at Bethany College and the McCann Investment Fund. The McCann Learning Center provides support for students with learning disabilities or other difficulties, while the Investment Fund helps students understand the stock market by making real investments
McCann served as the president of the Global Wealth Management Group of Merrill Lynch until January 2009. He also served as an executive vice president at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. from August 2003 to January 2009, and served as its president of Global Private Client Segment from June 2, 2005.
A committed philanthropist, he is a member of the board of the American Ireland Fund and has donated generously to many of its charities.
McCann was deeply involved in the Northern Ireland Mentoring Program, which brings promising students from Northern Ireland to the U.S. and allows them to work with major companies here.
He has also worked hard to find funding for cross-community educational projects in Northern Ireland after he learned that kids as young as six begin to display religious prejudice.
McCann was initially responsible for bringing Sesame Street to Northern Ireland, where the show filmed 20 different episodes especially aimed at Northern Irish kids.
McCann traces his family roots back to Belfast. His great great grandfather emigrated from there, first to Scotland and then to Western Pennsylvania and worked in a mill.
AIHS President General Dr. Kevin Cahill stated, "Bob McCann is the embodiment of a successful Irish American who has given back both to his heritage and his country. He is a deeply committed philanthropist and has played a significant role in ensuring that peace in Northern Ireland will endure. We are delighted to honor and acknowledge him."
Previous gold medal honorees have included President Ronald Reagan, Bono, John Cardinal O'Connor and Coca-Cola President Donald R. Keough.


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DECATUR, Ga. (AP) – Authorities on Friday identified the body of a man who was found entombed in concrete in the backyard of a northeast Georgia home.
The man has been identified as Sean Dugas, 30, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner's office. The body was found Monday encased in a plastic storage container filled with concrete.
Authorities this week charged twin brothers Christopher and William Cormier, 31, with murder in the death of Dugas, a former newspaper reporter in Pensacola, Fla. The Cormier brothers are also charged with concealing death.
"It's a little hard to wrap your head around it," said Kris Wernowsky, who worked at the Pensacola News Journal, where he sat next to Dugas for about three years. "I've worked there for so many years and covered many things in Florida. You never would have thought you would go to a website and click on a story about someone you know. … It's heartbreaking."
Dugas' dreadlocks and bushy long beard helped him stand out easily in the Pensacola area on the Florida Panhandle, Wernowsky said. Dugas had covered a wide variety of topics, including breaking news and entertainment, the newspaper said on its website.
Dugas worked for the News Journal from 2005 to 2010, rising from a clerk to a police reporter.
"He was a good breaking-news reporter," Wernowsky said. "He was the type of guy who was eager and loved his job. I rarely heard about him complaining about anything."
Winder, Ga., police officer Chris Cooper said this week that medical examiners declared the death a homicide based on the number and location of the man's injuries. The autopsy revealed that the man died of blunt force trauma to the head about a month ago.
Georgia authorities on Monday arrested the twins at a home in Winder that was being rented by their father. Winder is a small city located about 45 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Police said Dugas had been reported missing and was last heard from on Aug. 27, when he made plans to have lunch with a friend the next day.
When the friend went to pick him up for the meal, he wasn't home. After trying unsuccessfully for days to reach Dugas, the friend went back to his house on Sept. 7 to find it empty. Neighbors told her a U-Haul truck had been there Sept. 3 and they saw at least one man removing things.
That man told the neighbors that Dugas had been beaten and was going to live with him, police said.
The female friend continued to try to reach Dugas before calling police on Sept. 13.
Based on information provided by Pensacola, Fla., investigators, Winder police found the body at the Georgia home being rented by the Cormier twins' father, who told police his sons had arrived from Florida about three weeks earlier. They told him they were supposed to take care of their missing friend's dog. However, they supposedly claimed they'd ended up killing the dog and burying it in their father's backyard, police said.
"There is so much that is not known," Wernowsky said. "There are so many empty spaces for a lot of us. I didn't know any of his family, and I feel sorry for their loss. What a horrible way to end your life."
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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That Old Schnaible House
By Alfred Opp, Vancouver, British Columbia
Edited by Connie Dahlke, Walla Walla, Washington
Our ancestors in the colonies of South Russia kept close contact with one another and with their relatives. They talked about the good times and the bad times. In the early settlement years, times were so tough that many of the colonists thought often of their homeland, and even entertained thoughts of going back. But this was next to impossible. Mom often told me how her grandmother told of the hard life of the pioneers and how people became so homesick they often cried for days. Because of their longing for their homeland, it became very important to save every memory and pass the stories down for later generations. These stories were told and retold at the social gatherings and formed a large part of the strong bond that developed between our people. As a result, our
ancestors well knew where their families had come from. In addition, some families kept in contact with friends and relatives back in the homeland.
In Bessarabia, as in the other German colonies in South Russia, the church kept records in remarkable detail about the life events of the people in each village. Families also kept written records to the best of their ability. Today, I have in my possession the family Bible owned by my grandfather. On the back pages he made notes of important dates in the family.
When the Soviets moved into Bessarabia in 1940, they took over everything. The first thing they confiscated were the church records and other historical documents. We were allowed to copy our own information to provide identification to clear us for transit to Germany. The original records themselves were taken by the Russian officials and filed away as official documents. While this deprived us of our records, in a sense it also preserved them. Many of the records carried by our people back to Europe were lost in the turmoil of the war. After the war ended, Russia gave East Germany copies of some of these records. They became generally available when Germany was again unified, and are available on microfilm in an Archive in Leipzig, Germany.
Those of us who lost everything in the war began to search for a new place to start over – a place where we could feel we belonged. Part of this search for belonging involved seeking information that could answer the questions about one's heritage. People who were native Germans became involved and helped the immigrants. At that time the churches in South Germany still had their old records in-house. While giving us a history lecture, the Pastor of our church in Alfdorf showed these old records to us. Some of them were badly faded, but others were remarkable well preserved. To see these old documents in the Pastor's old home and in the old churches was a moving experience for me. I had always felt close to home and to God while sitting in these old churches. These old buildings had been witness to so much history, both good fortune and trying times. Some of these buildings were where my own ancestors gathered to worship and pray during their hard times. Just the history alone seemed to make the walls talk. I could not walk away from the thought of the dire circumstances that pushed our ancestors to leave their homeland, and how their ties to the "Vaterland" made leaving home so very hard. And here I was, after all these years, to find that home once again.
After Helgard and I were married, we settled in Canada. We both love our homeland dearly, but we felt America had the space for a better future for us. Over the years, we have made many return trips to Germany.
After the war, Helgard's parents moved to South Germany to get established. They too, wanted to be in their ancestor's homeland. After a successful career in business, they sold out and moved closer yet to where one of their ancestor's once lived, in the Black Forest. To get property there was not easy. They were told that the land belonged to the Schwarzwälder (people who had lived in the Black Forest for generations), and a foreigner was not allowed to invest. After proving to the authorities that their own ancestors had moved out from the area over 150 years ago, and this was to be a home-coming of sorts, that was enough proof for them to get permission. They eventually were able to build a nice house in a very picturesque location. There they lived for 20 years. On one of our visits, Helgard's Mom told us that in her search she had discovered the village where one of our ancestral families once lived. The village was isolated from all the tourist traffic. One day we looked the place up, and when we got there the locals told us proudly that in their area stands the oldest farmhouse in the entire region. It turned out it was the house built by our Schnaible ancestor! We found the house and what a good feeling we had as we looked it over. The Schnaible name had died out in the area, but a distant relative was allowed to take over the property on the condition that he would not alter the site nor tear it down. The Schnaible house was built in 1583, and this young man was enthusiastic about restoring it. To help with the expense of the work, he received money from the German government Heritage Fund. From what we saw, he has done a good job. The building sits on a reddish-brown sandstone foundation – a common building material in the Black Forest. The bottom floor housed the animals, and on top was a frame structure typical of its time and similar to what can be seen on many buildings from the past. The upstairs had a large living room, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a Speiss (pantry for food storage). A ladder took up us to the unpartitioned loft where there were two bed for servants and room for hay storage. It was most interesting to note how low the doors and ceilings were. People must have been shorter in the olden days! Outside, we saw many grave markers leaning against the outside wall, some of them going back 300 years. The man told us that the town was cleaning up the graveyard to make room for new graves. The man had plans for preserving the grave-markers, and was very helpful in answering our questions.
Most of the land in the Black Forest is steep hillside and covered with trees. One could see the struggle the Schwarzwälder had to carve a living out of the small parcels of useable land. The people had to be inventive to produce a cash income, and became known for their skills in crafting wood into clocks and musical instruments. The people also produced charcoal and made a type of lubricant from wood-sap. In the city, charcoal was used as a long-lasting heat source, and was also used to heat irons for ironing fabric. Anyone who has used a charcoal iron knows that it took a trick to keep everything hot and working. Swinging these irons from left to right stirred up the charcoal a bit and helped to increase the heat the charcoal produced. I remember my Oma Zacher using such an iron in Teplitz. Mother used such charcoal irons well into the 1950's.
Since the Black Forest can support only a limited number of people, many families emigrated out of the Forest over the years. Wherever they went, they carried their traditions of diligence and hard work with them. As with many areas, the Black Forest has made adjustments over the years that are for the good of the people who live there. But the beauty of the people and the land remain as wonderful memories for us. Whenever we returned to the Black Forest we found Unser Leute (our people) and felt that we belonged.
Alfred Opp is the author of "Pawns on the World Stage" - the memoirs of his childhood in Teplitz, Bessarabia and the experiences of his family in war-torn Europe (Poland during 1941-1945 before they fled to East Germany in 1945, then the reconstruction of West Germany 1945-1955).


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Here is the English translation of the letter.
|The chairs of absent Arabic bloggers including Alaa
I am worn and exhausted, but this will pass just like the times before it passed and I will go back to seeing you less and I will miss you less because Mona will be busy with her fights and her romantic stories and with the challenge of balancing her multiple roles and Sanaa will be busy with her many projects and her many adventures that she inadvertently finds herself in. And I will be busy with Manal and Khaled and with whatever new reasons we have to be angry and to resist.
Personally I wish that Mona did not reach this letter because now the anti-January 25 revolution police/military state supporters believe that Alaa is giving up. You only have to read their comments online to know what they think and to where we are heading. It is heartbreaking message, a sad message.
I see a person who is exhausted and he has to.
Alaa Abdel Fatah has been in prison now fore more than 50 days.
Now tell me what kind of democracy awaiting us in Egypt.


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< Governor Inslee's WA Vision
Jan 17, 2013 06:39
Category: General News
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Levee's Weaken
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal Inspectors have found hundreds of flood control systems at risk of failing. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says 326 levees covering more than 2,000 miles in 37 states are in urgent need of repair. Problems include earthen walls weakened by trees and shrubs, houses built dangerously close to levees and decaying pipes.


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BK spitter Skyzoo resurrects Chi-Ali on this one. Sky released the original version of his 9th Wonder-produced single "Jansport Strings" a little while back; for the remix to the track on which he pays homage to Chi-Ali, the master wordsmith really tied it all together by inviting the legendary emcee to the booth to do himself some justice on the cut. The verse was the first that Chi recorded since being released from prison after serving a 12-year stint for second-degree murder. He states that he's:
Back from the dead like it's Easter and I'm Christ and I'm, here for them checks like the sneakers and them Nikes
Chi-Ali is wastin no time on a resurgence. "Jansport Strings" lives on Skyzoo's highly anticipated LP A Dream Deferred, which will come to fruition tomorrow Oct 2. Take a listen below, and check out the official "Jansport Strings" video, plus some behind the scenes footage of the two lyricists in the lab as a bonus after the jump.
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|2008-12-06, 03:43
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The mods banned 'shipping threads a couple of years ago. This is a thread to DISCUSS the character Ami and her part in the story. Heck, I love Ami, I love all the characters -- its how they interact with each other that makes the storyline so interesting. Subtract one character and you lose much of the dynamic.
|2008-12-06, 04:42
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As promised yesterday, off-topic is less tolerated now and some posts have been edited/deleted. It might be acceptable to compare Toradora with other series, but I don't see the point in making whole posts about School Rumble in the "Kawashima Ami discussion thread".
Finally, a friendly note: there'd be so much to discuss about Toradora's characters, especially after the last 2 episodes. They're beautifully portrayed, deep, each one necessary for the story. Why wasting such precious discussion's material for the sake of unnecessary diversions?
|2008-12-06, 04:57
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Thank you mod and Vexx, I thought I am a lone sane voice here (whew).
But I do feel sad for Ami in regards to her unreciprocated feelings but I also think she is achieving something new in her makeup which being honest to herself and less worry on how outsiders will look at her.
Hopefully the novelist will include a side story that talks about her as main focus. She is just too interesting to be just a side character/cheerleader/sexual teaser type.
|2008-12-06, 11:06
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Now, about Ami... I'm in the same boat as most of you in thinking she's probably the more interesting character in the series, and I would love for her to end up happy with the man she loves at her side. But, honestly, in this story... I just don't see how that's possible.
And please, all those After Stories specials... they tend to cheapen everything that made the originals special. I'd rather not have that here, as well, even if the conclusion is not totally to my liking. I mean, this series is not only about who gets to be with who, is it?
|2008-12-06, 13:42
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|2008-12-06, 15:41
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I think he just lacks of depth general. And though I agree with Vexx statement taht taking any of the character from the story would hurt it, I think that taking Kitamura out of it would hurt Toradora the least. He is useful as a plot figure, but as a character himself - he is rather unimpressive and dull.
All other characters like Ami, Taiga etc. have already established themselves as characters... But I cannot say the same towards Kitamura in all honesty.
|2008-12-06, 16:56
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|2008-12-06, 17:18
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The other thing I was saying was that other pairing possibilities aren't impossible in this kind of show. The chars are woven together in such a way that if certain minor circumstances were different, it could greatly affect the outcome. Example: In ep 9, when Ami asked to go to the beach. If Minorin didn't ask him to help wash the dishes, the whole Minori/Ryuuji talk would have been avoided. With Ami and Ryuuji being alone, she could have said something akin to what she said in ep 10, w/o the distractions. This could mean +pts for Ami/Ryuuji and 0pts for Minorin/Ryuuji rather than +pts for Ryuuji/Minori and -pts for Ryuuji/Ami. I feel that the "After Story"s capitalize on this fact and I enjoy a slightly different perspective of the same circumstances. I guess some ppl see it as a 'cop out' or something >.>.
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|2008-12-06, 18:09
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Given the fact that Minori knows a lot more on what's going on than she shows, Minori might have actually asked Ryuuji to help wash the dishes with her to block Ryuuji from talking with Ami at that point, so that he will talk to her instead.
Just speculating.
|2008-12-06, 18:23
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What a nice party we're having here.
I also adore Ami, she's a great character (Though her big superiority complex really isn't showing anymore, she's just rather arrogant now)
Ami x Ryuuji isn't realistic at all, anime wise, we all know he's hiking off with Taiga.
Ami is showing some good character developtment now, which is a plus. I think it's funny how the way she teases Ryuuji, giving him the thumbs up to go then flatly exposing her prank. But I find that she in reality is waiting for the thumbs up for Ryuuji, which of course she's never going to get. They're very compatible as seen in ep 9 and 10 and atleast Ryuuji is very open with how he finds her attractive, not in a perverted way either, though his mind does wander.
Wouldn't an Ami After story be nice?
|2008-12-06, 18:39
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I agree, Ami x Ryuuji in terms of how the anime is going to end is unrealistic because it will follow the novel and partly because of trends in anime, but in general character compatibility, I think they're the best.
Ami challenges and teases our honest man and Ryuuji does the soul searching that Ami attempts. They balance well together.
|2008-12-06, 20:23
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Location: Canada
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See, this isn't the Kawashima Ami Appreciation topic anymore.
This is the "we want an unrealistic and internally inconsistent ending because we're hard for Ami" topic.
Could we please discuss something OTHER than our favorite pairing?
|2008-12-06, 20:26
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physics223, don't ask for JC Staff to surprise you...Or they will... and you won't be happy... like the ZnT second season ending...was a total surprise since noone thought that the ZnT best selling volume would be completely skipped juts to give you a totally rushed, crap ending...
Or the Kimikiss surprise.. Definately was surprise that the animation of one of the best selling games turned into one of the worst selling animes of that season... All Due to JC Staff being original and surprising...
So I'd say that though I wish for Ami/Ryuuji too, it's better not to play with fire (JC Staff) and to hope that they will do what they are supposed to.
Kaisos Erranon, it never was Kawashima Ami Appreciation topic...It is a discussion topic, meaning both positive and negative opinions regarding this character... Too bad that it becomes less and less her actual character related.
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In the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., many people are concerned about making sure a tragedy like that doesn't happen in our schools.
It's not only a matter of limiting access to firearms, but also one of mental health. Rockville Centre Schools Superintendent Dr. William Johnson said that the district has measures in place to identify and help at-risk children before they become a danger to themselves and others.
"There are two sides to the coin: one side is preparing kids to do well with one another," Johnson said. "The other is, can you identify problematic behavior in kids and head off more serious problems? And the answer to that is, I think we can."
Johnson explained that, if a student is identified to be troubled, the district does a number of things. "One, we provide direct service to the child," he said. "Two, we get the parents involved. Three, we generally insist on some kind of involvement in therapeutic activities outside of school. And four, if there's a disability involved, we're involved on a counseling basis as well as an instructional basis. So we can modify the whole environment in which we're provided instruction."
Every school in Rockville Centre has at least one social worker and psychologist (South Side High School has two psychologists). The middle and high schools also have guidance counselors. While they all serve different functions in the school, they all work together to help students.
"Not only do we have social workers assigned to every school and psychologists assigned to every school to implement programs like [character education]," said Noreen Leahy, the assistant superintendent for special education and pupil services, "but they're also there to observe students and kind of be the first line of defense in case we identify a developing emotional or psychological problem or deficiency."
The guidance counselors, social workers and guidance counselors all help the students in different ways. The primary responsibility of guidance counselors, Leahy said, is to make sure students have all the necessary credentials to graduate high school and move on to post-school life, whether it be college, work or the military.
Social workers focus on the social and emotional well-being of the students, as well as physical needs that may arise, such as homelessness and lack of nutrition.
"The psychologist's primary responsibility is to be somewhat of a psychometric statistician for us," said Leahy. "They do the testing for special education, they will write up the reports of that testing, they'll meet with parents and conduct meetings to make sure the special education programs are being implemented and run properly."
All three have a counseling component to their job. "The social workers tend to do more of the psychological counseling, but that's not to say the guidance counselors and psychologists don't do that as well," said Leahy.
Johnson said that guidance counselors, social workers and psychologists are also all trained to know the signs of dangerous and troubled behavior in students. "The one that crops up more frequently than anything is kids that are suicidal or become suicidal because they are victims and are just silently kind of walking through the world," said Johnson. "And I know we've been successful in getting kids into hospitals, into all kinds of therapeutic situations outside of school and have probably saved some lives."
The district also has measures in place, Johnson said, in the event that a student is identified to be a threat to others.
"The special education system is built so we can find an appropriate setting for these kids in case this is found to not be an appropriate setting for them," said Johnson. "It's my obligation to education kids, but not necessarily at South Side. So we can, working with families, put kids on home instruction. We can put them in therapeutic settings. We can provide educational services when they are in hospital settings. We do a lot to encourage and support families when it's recognized they have a real problem."
There's only so much the school district can do, though. Leahy said that problems sometimes arise when students leave the structure of school. Also, some psychoses present themselves in early adulthood.
"In a very real sense, this is a community problem," Johnson said. "There are people in the neighborhood who have eyes and ears. If they see something that they see as an aberration, they have to be good enough to call the mayor, call the police, call the schools, call somebody and say, 'We've got a problem and I'm not sure how to deal with it.' Too many people just close their eyes to that."


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The study of Archaeology in North America; its relationship to the Native Americans. Lost history, lost civilizations, Learn the answers, see the proof and lets discover together the lost history of Pre Columbus America, and all the great civilizations some larger than Rome in their day. Read the legends, see the evidences and take it from there. Central and South America as well, Anciently their was trade between all the Ancient American Lands with others.
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The last 3 days of the course - USWK019 Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client for the Implementation Consultant Workshop - were a full deep dive into the nitty gritty aspects of the Web Client from a technical implementation standpoint - everything leading up to the GP login window. I think I learned more about certificates, network load balances, firewalls, and a number of other underlying stack elements than I ever wanted to know about in just these 3 days. However, this is what the new brave world brings to bear.
These 3 days brought almost 25 consultants together in one room - some of the top guys in the business. Frankly, we had a great time and carried all the labs out with enthusiasm and lots of questions for Jason and Lucas. There was a moment during the labs where Lucas was shadowing every machine in the environment, troubleshooting a multi-machine Web Client installation.
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I have to say that after 5 grueling days, it was time to get some rest from it all. Nonetheless, the content of the classes were great, the material was superb, and the instructors were fabulous. I appreciate the opportunity to meet so many cool folks in the industry and hope to see everyone soon at Convergence 2013 New Orleans.
Side note: In the Microsoft Dynamics GP development world we have a series of principles and best practices, collectively known as the "Musgravion Doctrines". Similarly, in the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client world, there a number of specific terms and particulars, collectively known as "Aaronisms". Any misuse of a term or incorrect reference within the context of your cursory explanation or write up can earn you a follow up email as a result - Aaron Donat, smile! Just messing with you.
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The 85th Academy Award nominations certainly managed a few surprises Thursday morning --no nominations for directors Ben Affleck ("Argo") or Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty"), lots of Oscar warmth for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Michael Haneke's French-language drama "Amour."
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The NYC Design Excellence Program was put in place by Mayor Bloomberg through the Department of Design and Construction in 2004 with the goal of pursuing an "innovative and ambitious public works program in partnership with the most creative and experienced professionals in the world" as an alternative to public low-bid design contracts. Essentially the program serves as a mechanism for "awarding public projects to a relatively small shortlist of the usual globe-trotting suspects" and places a heavy premium on experience and reputation, tending to result in high-quality, predictable public spaces. While this approach does limit possibilities and codify the method for commissioning public works, the program also acts as an effective regulation on the market for the design of public spaces and creates accountability for the creation of public works in the City.
On Saturday, May 22nd, the Colombians came to town. Introduced by Matilda McQuaid, curator of the Why Design Now exhibit at Cooper Hewitt, and moderated by Mark Robbins of Syracuse, the panel included Mauricio Valencia, Planning Director of Medellin, Federico Restrepo, civil engineer, CEO of Empresas Publicas Medellin and former Planning Director, and Camillo Restrepo, architect and co-designer of the Orquideorama that we love so dearly here at FASLANYC, and co-editor of the blog ATLAS (agencies translatina de arquitecturas).
The following is an edited version of my feverish notes, with specific points attributed to certain speakers by their initials in parentheses. One important note; the Arch League would not have been able to host this event if these three guys had not taken the time to learn English (to varying degrees). The single most critical step that North American designers must take in the next five years is to learn basic Spanish (and/or Portuguese) to a level that enables the communication of practical academic ideas. It is not only absurd and ethnocentric to expect others to learn English, it is also a relinquishing of power and an abdication of responsibility, one we are beginning to pay for.
In the introduction by Mrs. McQuaid, all of the work was immediately placed in a socio-political context: Medellin had historically been the violent crime and drug capital of the world, a trend that began to change with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. The city was not particularly poor but had a huge income disparity and distrust of elected officials and tax evasion were common, especially among the poor (FR).
In a turn of events that smacks of Jamie Lerner's 1988 coup in Curitiba, Sergio Fajardo was elected mayor of Medellin in 2003. As the figurehead of a group of young, invested professional citizens including social workers, planners, architects, and engineers, he instituted a new program of "Social Urbanism". Emblematic of this approach was the decree that "We must build our best buildings in the poorest areas". These projects were to be public; schools, libraries, museums, bridges, botanical gardens and sports recreation facilities. These new icons help residents to construct new mythologies about their city and its public life.
But the projects were more than symbols; they were to meet the needs of quotidian life in Medellin through specific and layered programming. The libraries are the best known example of this focus: 40% of the programming was given over to books and media, 60% to public services including job training, computer access, and micro-credit lending centers. Each library would also include a public garden and open space, and the new projects would connect to remade streets that provide necessary amenities- seating, planting, bus shelters, and newly prioritized public transit gondolas and bus lanes.
This Social Urbanism (MV) initiative was conceived of as a catalyst to break the vicious cycle of disinvestment and disenfranchisement in poor neighborhoods. In Medellin the areas with the strongest voter representation received the most public investment, yet the poor areas in greatest need were under-represented because of the distrust of government in those areas (FR). Community involvement in identifying needs as well as programming and design was considered critical, the "software of each project" (FR).
Each of the projects was commissioned through an open national competition juried by prominent designers, engineers, and bureaucrats. These competitions functioned as a mechanism for dialogue and discourse within the local design community. Anecdotes about the collaborations between the various design offices seemed to bear this out (for instance, the collaborations between Camillo Restreppo and Massif, Camilo Ramirez, and Tres Arquitectura on the Biblioteca San Cristobal and Biblioteca 12 de Octubre).
On the theme of openness in architecture, Camillo made one of the most eloquent and impassioned statements (paraphrased):
The small construction budgets and distance from centers of learning and commerce- it is a landlocked city at high altitude- means that Medellin designers have a certain amount of freedom and autonomy. They do not have to pander to stylistic vogues and indeed this is often impossible because of complicated fabrication techniques and material requirements. There is an emphasis on lo-tech/hi-concept design in Medellin, and the exploration that this requires is possible because their is no heavy legacy of former architecture masters in the city. And there never will be! Architecture in Medellin is the antithesis of the heroic individual making his mark on the world. Rather, it is a potent social weapon, one that must be aimed directly at the situation. Here, we are trying to rebuild the city as an open university where everything is a learning opportunity and public life is varied, rich social interaction (CR).
However, this open process which encourages exploration and is not dominated by bureaucratic politics and foreign influence also leaves a messy and difficult process (MV). The constant recreating of program, aesthetics, and methods of intervention- the "hardware and software" of each building- is arduous and at times contentious.
The difference in the models for commissioning public architecture in New York City and Medellin is striking and is an excellent chance to contrast two opposite approaches as cities try to rebuild in the wake of the crises and plan for future growth, resource scarcity, and climate change. Both models work relatively well for their respective cities. In NYC, one of the richest and most well-connected of the world's "network" cities, creating a list of some of the most prominent and accomplished architects in the world and keeping them "on-call" for requests-for-proposals for the city's public architecture is an effective way of ensuring a level of quality and international notoriety for the various works and an orderly process.
The codification of the commission process does stultify some of the design impulses in the city, driving it underground. More sinister, this embarrassment of Design riches and the bureaucratic processes behind it serve to harness design as a "method of exclusion". Most damning, much of the work is just not that interesting. As many of the practitioners are old with established methods and approaches, and commissions favor those with significant track records, some of the projects are just expensive stylistic masturbation, equal parts ego and political hubris; not rooted in any particular mythos of the site or city but rather a copy of the memes making the rounds in the world of star designers.
In Medellin, the Social Urbanism seems to be working. Not only are the individual projects worth lusting over from afar at a computer in New York City, but there is evidence that communities are being knit back together and public life is reviving. The design community in Medellin includes practitioners and academics from a range of ages and backgrounds, and there seems to be a real optimism about the future of the city and its public works.
New York has more influence over the traditional (English-speaking) media and as mammoth has previously noted, some version of their model is what currently predominates when commissioning public work in the US. We will see if the Medellin message gets out. Hawthorne and McQuaid are trying to do their part.


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Los Rios Chancellor Summer school starts at Los Rios Community Colleges Monday and if you're a student, you may be asking yourself why the district hasn't used those Proposition 30 funds to restore courses cut during the recession. The short answer is, they spent a good amount of money to avoid cutting classes during statewide budget reductions. To get the bigger picture, we're speaking with Chancellor of Los Rios Community College District Brian King about plans to restore courses in the district, and whether it's still possible to get in and out of the state's second largest community college district in two years.
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"Trek for a Cure" What would you do if you had a rare type of blood cancer that made you easily fatigued? Hike a couple hundred miles if you're Annette DeBow. "Trek for a Cure" is DeBow's method for recruiting people to sponsor research of her rare type of cancer, called as a group, myeloproliferative neoplasms. The 190 mile hike from Meek's Bay in Tahoe to Tuolomne Meadows starts July 14, but "Trek for a Cure" will begin even earlier with a benefit concert featuring Emily Wells, who has been heard on "All Songs Considered" and in other NPR shows. The concert is Saturday, June 15 at Plainfield Station in Davis. Ahead of the concert, we're speaking with DeBow and her doctor, Dr. Jason Gotlib, about MPN cancers and the relevant research being done at the Stanford Cancer Center.
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Rose Vermazen Update Last year, we told you the story of a homeschooled 15-year-old dancer from Davis, Calif., who dreamt of dancing at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow since she was nine. The dream came true when last summer when Rose Vermazen was invited to train at the Academy in Moscow. She started in Fall 2012 and now she's back from studying, one year later. We'll talk with her about her experiences in Russa.
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"Fire and Water" Betsy Graziani Fasbinder joins us to discuss her debut novel "Fire and Water," which is a complex tale of mental illness and its effects on family members and loved ones set in San Francisco. We'll also take a look at the book's interesting road to publication - the novel was published this March by She Writes Press, a new "indie" publishing house in Berkeley.
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Boston Bombing Victims To learn more about Sacramentans Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky, who were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, and to support their recovery click HERE.


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Make Vicks VapoRub more convenient and fun to apply by inventing a new applicator.
2.500 €
Wettbewerb endete am 4. Dezember 2016
Grafikdesign - Illustration
Vicks VapoRub is an iconic product used all over the world for relief from cough, cold and congestion.Nowadays, people use their hands to scoop out the ointment and apply/massage it on their body. This leaves their hands greasy and the ointment gets stuck under their nails. This is especially worrisome for young moms who take extra care of their nails and don't want to go through the tedious process of removing the ointment from their perfectly manicured nails. Sometimes they also use less amount of ointment than they should which reduces the benefit.
Invent an attractive applicator for Vicks VapoRub which will make the process of scooping and massaging the ointment hassle-free.


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Monday, December 24, 2012
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