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I've come across this blog a few times in the last year. What's better than coffee? A blog dediated to it. Check it out
Well, here we are at 1000 cups of coffee. We made it! This mosaic was created out of the photos I took along the way, all 300 of them (this may be obvious, but click on the photo to enlarge it). Feel free to use it and share it, wherever good coffee is appreciated. Coffee|Served Daily began as a small idea and morphed into an opportunity to connect, caffeinate and create. Clearly I had no idea what I had signed up for, even if it was just in my imagination.
I envisioned a project that would enable me to stay connected to a few friends who love coffee and photography. I suspected there were five of us. My friends played along, and then 99 other new caffeinated friends joined in. From all over the world: China, Finland, Italy, Monaco, Germany, England, Malta, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, France, Hong Kong, Turkey, Denmark, Portugal…
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It was a long hot summer.
The United States experienced the warmest July in its history, with more than 3,000 heat records broken across the country. Overall, the summer was the nation's third warmest on record and comes in a year that is turning out to be the hottest ever. High temperatures along with low precipitation generated drought conditions across 60% of the Lower 48 states, which affected 70% of the corn and soybean crop and rendered part of the Mississippi River nonnavigable. Arctic Sea ice declined to a record low, and a surface thaw swept across 97% of the Greenland ice cap.
Though it's not possible to definitively link any of these individual events to human-caused climate change, the summer's extreme weather follows clear longer-term trends and is consistent with climate model projections. This was the 36th consecutive July and 329th consecutive month in which global temperatures have been above the 20th century average. In addition, seven of the 10 hottest summers recorded in the United States have occurred since 2000. Such rising temperatures and climate anomalies have been documented around the world.
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But there's also one bit of good news: The increasingly powerful evidence of a long-term warming trend is making climate-change denial more difficult to defend. Take "Climategate" — the argument that scientists have based their evidence for global warming on fraudulent science. The Koch Foundation provided funding to physicist Richard Muller of UC Berkeley, a longtime climate-change skeptic, to disprove the widespread consensus on global warming. Instead, his re-analysis showed the exact same warming trend found by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientists.

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Greenpeace activists aboard the 'Federal Pescadores' carrying GE soy. The activists attached themselves to onboard cranes and the anchor chain of the cargo ship to prevent the cargo being unloaded.
After the ten years of commercial growing 85% of GE crops are still grown in just three countries: Argentina, Canada and the US. This means that in the overwhelming majority of countries commercial growing is only happening on a merely symbolic scale or not at all. Africa, Europe, Russia, the Pacific and most of Asia are still GE free.
Meanwhile, the genetic engineering industry is rapidly loosing the last bit of credibility, as illegal GE foods are entering the foodchain, such as what happened with Bayer GE rice.
Also, the support for GE crops is eroding because more and more scientific publications are showing the health and environmental dangers of genetic engineering.
Last but not least - the overwhelming majority of consumers around the world are opposed to genetic engineering.
This has led to the rejection of GE foods by major supermarkets and foodcompanies, among them Carrefour, Unilever and McDonalds. If this rejection trend continues, the incentive for growing GE crops will eventually disappear.
People all over the world from consumers to scientists are saying NO to GE crops. By saying we want to stay GE free we are winning the fight to keep our environment and food chain natural.
Greenpeace is opposed to the release of genetically engineered organisms (GE organisms) into the environment and the food chain. Greenpeace is also against the patenting of life.
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Greenwashing Concerns Mount as Evidence of Fracking's Climate Impact GrowsRead time: 8 mins
Sharon Kelly | August 13, 2013
By Sharon Kelly • Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 07:00
Several years ago, Utah public health officials realized they had a big problem on their hands – one with national implications as other states were racing to increase oil and gas drilling. Smog levels in the state's rural Uintah basin were rivaling those found in Los Angeles or Houston on their worst days.
The culprit, an EPA report concluded earlier this year: oil and gas operations. The industry was responsible for roughly 99 percent of the volatile organic compounds found in the basin, which mixed under sunlight with nitrogen oxides – at least 57% of which also came from oil and gas development – to form the choking smog, so thick that the nearby Salt Lake City airport was forced to divert flights when the smog was at its worst.
But the haze over the Uintah isn't the most dangerous air pollutant coming from the oil and gas fields in the valley.
A string of studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that the core ingredient in natural gas, methane, is leaking at rates far higher than previously suspected. This methane has climate change impacts that, on a pound-for-pound basis, will be far more powerful over the next two decades than the carbon dioxide emissions that have been the focus of most climate change discussions.
The smog problem is especially pronounced in Utah. But a growing body of research nationwide suggests that methane is leaking from the natural gas industry at levels far higher than previously known.
In Washington D.C., pressure is mounting to ignore these methane leaks. The oil and gas industry says there is no time to waste. We must proceed immediately with the "all-of-the-above" national energy strategy they say, code for "drill baby drill". This pressure is coming not only from the natural gas industry itself, but also from a surprising ally: the Environmental Defense Fund, which has supported natural gas development as a "bridge" from coal to renewables.
This position has drawn renewed accusations that the EDF is "greenwashing" for the natural gas industry.


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Mango Barbecue Sauce
I love it when the weather here in Southern Oregon starts to warm up. Warm weather is perfect barbecuing weather. Don't get me wrong, I barbecue at all times of the year and I even have been known to barbecue in the middle of a snowstorm… It's just that it so much more pleasant and enjoyable when the weather is nice. Standing next to the BBQ, chatting with friends or family, grilling dinner with long stainless steel tongs in one hand and an ice cold beverage in the other hand. You get the picture…
The other day at the local Food Coop, I found this gorgeous organic mango for a dollar and a half. It was twice the size as my fist and was perfectly ripe. I could not pass it up… At first, I was going to make a dessert, I then quickly changed my mind after thinking about making a sweet and tangy Mango Barbecue Sauce. I wanted a sauce that I can easily brush on grilled chicken or pork tenderloin during my busy work week for a fast and flavorful dinner.
While my Mango Barbecue Sauce was simmering away on the stove, I snagged my camera and headed out the back door. The photo above is the backside of a perennial herb called "bloody dock" or "bloody sorrel". Yeah, I know, it's a gory name for a lovely little plant. But when I bought them I was told that you could eat the leaves in a manner similar to spinach. We'll see. The plants are not quite big enough for me to harvest a bunch of leaves yet. Maybe in a few weeks I might be able to do that…
Up in the corner of the backyard, I heard all of this squawking… It was a young blue jay that fell out of the nest a few days ago. The parents were taking turns flying back and forth to feed their little down covered youngster. The baby jay would hide in the bushes and only come out when its parents were around with their beaks full of food. I'm hoping that within a week or so it will be able to take care of itself and be able to fly around on its own. In the meantime, my Jack Russell Terrier is not allowed out in the back yard without a leash… Poor dog!
My Mango Barbecue Sauce is easy to make and takes about an hour to prepare. I like to brush it on grilled chicken or if I have a more time on my hands, brushed on succulent barbecued pork ribs. Makes about 3 cups and it will keep up to a week in the refrigerator. Enjoy! Tessa
- 1 large mango (peeled and diced)
- 1 cup tomato ketchup
- 1/2 cup champagne vinegar
- 1/4 cup Indonesian Soy Sauce
- 1 can Pepsi (you can use Coke if you want)
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 tsp ancho chili powder
- 1 tsp Szechuan pepper
- 1/2 to 1 tsp liquid smoke
- 1/4 tsp red chili flakes (or to taste)
- 1/4 tsp cracked black pepper (or to taste)
Grab a saucepan and add all the ingredients. Cook on low, stirring occasionally for about an hour or until the mango is cooked down and the sauce has thickened. If it is too thin, cook a bit longer. Too thick, then add water. Be sure to taste and correct your seasonings. Remove from heat, blend with a hand or stick blender until smooth. Brush on grilled chicken or pork. Makes about 3 cups. Keep in the refrigerator covered for about a week. Enjoy! Tessa


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Even Asus, maker of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet, isn't impressed with the sales results of Microsoft Windows RT-based tablets.
Asus Chairman Jonney Shih told tech news website AllThingsD that the Taiwan-based manufacturer won't be launching new Windows RT-based tablets running on ARM chips.
Shih didn't flat out say Asus won't produce Windows RT products, but did maintain that the company is putting time and energy into devices that run on Intel chips.
"The result is not very promising," he told AllThingsD, referring to the widely reported problems with Surface RT and the Asus VivoTab RT.
Asus could not be reached to elaborate on Shih's comments.
Nvidia, which makes the Tegra 3 ARM-based processor used in Surface RT, recently voiced support for Surface RT and the Microsoft concept behind it.
"Surface RT is the very beginning of a long process and it's the first shot in a changing landscape," said Rene Haas, vice president of computing products at Nvidia.
Haas in May said that next-generation Tegra 4 chips would be used in multiple RT tablets, but in July said he couldn't commit to when or what types of future RT product will appear.
Microsoft cut the prices of its Surface RT tablets by up to 30% in mid-July.
Just 200,000 Surface RT and other Windows RT tablets shipped in the first quarter of 2013, IDC said.
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Have you noticed that Cyndi's List has a new look? The purple is still there to welcome us to her web site, but things have changed and I think for the better.
I begin my morning with an online preview of my bank activity as I don't want to become insolvent! Next are the newspapers that I read online and then social networking and blogs and weather. Time is then devoted to Cyndi's List. It doesn't take long to click on the "Browse New Links" button and see the new activity. On a daily basis this is updated, not only for new links, but for new data that is added.
If this is your first time to click on the new links, you can catch up by going to each day's entries. It may take time, but the results are worth the check. There are many other links and categories for searching on her web site, but just like taking morning pills, I won't miss a click on "Browse New Links."


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3DRelams and Interceptor Entertainment have announced that they will be releasing Duke Nukem II for the iPhone and iPad in April. The Duke Nukem gaming series will be fondly remembered by millions of older gamers as a side scrolling shooter type game with all the carnage and shooting you could possible wish for.
In 1993 Apogee released Duke Nukem II. Its explosive action made it an instant side-scrolling classic. 20 years later, Interceptor Entertainment and 3DRealms have teamed up to bring Duke Nukem II back. Duke Nukem II for iOS lets you experience this 90′s classic all over again on the most popular gaming platform in the world!
The iOS game will be based around how it looked and played back in 1993 with smooth side scrolling action, VGA graphics, 256 eye popping colors, kick ass weapons, 32 action packed levels, full touchscreen support, new artwork and music.
If you are already excited by this upcoming release, take a look at the reveal trailer below; if you remember and loved the original then you are not going to be disappointed with this one. Duke Nukem II will be arriving in the App Store next month and will cost $1.99.
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GM to Invest $1.3B
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will invest $1.3 billion at five factories in three states so they can build higher-quality trucks and more fuel-efficient engines and transmissions. About $600 million will go to the Flint, Mich., assembly plant for a new paint shop. The plant makes full-size pickup trucks. An engine plant in Romulus, Mich., near Detroit will get $493 million to build a new V-6 engine and 10-speed automatic transmissions. Around $121 million will go for a logistics center at a Detroit factory, while GM will spend $31 million in Toledo, Ohio, to build more six-speed transmissions. A casting plant in Bedford, Ind., will get $29.2 million to make transmission parts. It's unclear how many jobs will be added. GM would say only it will create or keep 1,000 positions.


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The New York Mets aren't finished this winter, and with just over two weeks before pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie, there are pitchers still on the market.
The Mets like to play out the market to see if prices will drop and it might be worth a call to see if Bronson Arroyo or Paul Maholm still want to pitch. Both want major league contracts, and likely more than one year, something GM Sandy Alderson would be reluctant to do.
Ervin Santana is still on the market, but his asking price would definitely be too high for Alderson's liking.
Usually when a player is still on the market this late it is because his salary demands are exorbitant or there's a health issue.
I'm betting the Mets are done testing the market for free agent pitchers and would only get back in if they were to receive a call.
Relievers are a different matter.
Reportedly, after losing out on Grant Balfour, they are interested in Tampa Bay closer Fernando Rodney, 36, who won five games and saved 37 with a 3.38 ERA last season.
An ESPN report had the Mets offering Balfour a deal similar to the two-year, $12-million contract he signed with the Rays, so it stands to reason those are the beginning parameters in talks with Rodney.
That they would talk to Rodney suggests they aren't sure Bobby Parnell, who is recovering from neck surgery, will be ready. It also indicates they might not be sold on Vic Black as a closer.
Another possibility is former Cubs closer Carlos Marmol, who saved 38 games in 2010, 34 in 2011 and a combined 24 since with the Cubs and Dodgers.
Working in Marmol's favor is that he's 31, suggesting he has time to get it back. Marmol's mechanics are a mess, but there's no injury holding him back. He struck out 59 in 49 innings which shows good velocity, but in that time he walked 40 which is a huge problem.
Also working against him is that he earned $10.1 million last year. Alderson wants to sign somebody to a minor league contract, so for Marmol to sign he'll need to get desperate.
If it is just adding bullpen depth, there's Andrew Bailey, 29 (Boston), Jeremy Bonderman, 31 (Detroit), Bruce Chen, 36 (Kansas City), Kyle Farnsworth, 37 (Pittsburgh) and Joel Hanrahan, 32 (Boston).
Remember, those who aren't premier free agents and are still available means they are unsigned for a reason, so it is buyer beware.
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A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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We have 3 windows at the front, dimensions we need design for is: 48" x 48" times three windows. Bright bold colors, we would love photos of beautiful women, and or couples, skin is good as long as there is no sexual undertonnes. Three windows could have a design that is connected or separate. Could have some phases like: Indulge Yourself, Be Beautiful,
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A bikini or two piece is a women's swimsuit with two parts, one covering the breasts (optionally in the case of the monokini), the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two (optionally in the case of the Tankini). It is often worn in hot weather or while swimming. The shapes of both parts of a bikini resemble women's underwear, and the lower part can range from revealing thong or g-string to briefs and modest square-cut shorts. Merriam–Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition) describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit", "a man's brief swimsuit" and "a man's or women low-cut briefs".
Mini Micro Bikinis
Basically, these are what you might call 'extreme bathing suits' designed to cover only the minimum parts of your body. Supposedly patterned along the lines of garments worn by tribal peoples in various warm climates, micro bikinis typically possess the following features:
• Narrow thong or G-string bottomed bathing suit
• Very narrow strips of material that cover only the genitals
Fashion observers believe the mini micro originated to combat anti-nudity legislation passed in some states in the 1970s. Initially, the homemade bathing suits were nothing more than leftover pieces of fabric, sewn together with thin twine or fishing line. Inevitably, local shops picked up on the idea and began to make more practical styles using modern materials.
These bikinis serve a double purpose.
a. They adhere to the barest norms of decency, so you can't actually throw legislation at the wearer
b. They titillate, and how!
Rules you must obey
Obviously, to flaunt your assets, you need to make sure they look pretty darned good. Here's where waxing plays such an important role.
If you go for Brazilian waxing
you are opting for complete removal of hair from your anus, perineum and vulva, basically, the bikini line. This is the most extreme form of bikini waxing.
Not wishing to lay spoilsport, the pain involved with this procedure can be acute and continue for quite some time. However, you may feel that the result is worth the discomfort
Micro bikinis
In the 1990s and 2000s, designers have continued to revamp the bikini and innovated new styles. While the thong and string bikinis retain their popularity, the micro bikini has recently been added to the growing selection.
Essentially, micro bikinis are bikinis combining a micro bikini top and a thong bikini bottom. Needless to add, it is scantier and more revealing than traditional bikinis and hence its name.
Buying micro bikinis
· A word of warning: you need to be careful that you don't opt for a string bikini when you mean to buy a micro bikini. There are enough illustrated examples online to show you the difference.
· Numerous sites offer essential advice like how to shave your bikini line (hairy exposures will NOT do). Make sure your pubic area in particular is well shorn.
· Choose the fabric well. Test your skin for itches and allergic rashes, particularly since you will be spending a lot of time in the sun wearing your bikini
· Have plenty of sunscreen handy. You need to use liberal doses all over your body since you obviously will not have much on in terms of protection from the sun's rays!


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In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." To this day, the careers of reality show stars, pop singers and, yes, professional athletes follow Warhol's dictum. For every Michael Jordan who parlays athletic stardom into successful business ventures, there are dozens of others who burst into the mass consciousness like the Kool-Aid guy through a brick wall, only to be forgotten nearly as quickly.
The athletes in the following list are notable for their brief moments in the sun. They all worked hard, trained hard, and took their chosen fields seriously, but for reasons ranging from injuries to bad luck to simple lost mojo, they faded from the public eye like the athletic equivalent of onetime "American Idol" sensation William Hung.
Read ahead to see some athletes who have left their fame on the playing fields.
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Mike Mandujano necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Legal Clerking & Process Serving, Inc.
I am combining my current business named Lawyers' Legs, Inc. and my business partner's business which is called Paralegal Services. Combined, my partner and I have almost 37 years experience in the industry (25 him, 12 me).
Lawyers' Legs is a clerking service that is catered toward the busy attorney. They do not have time to travel to downtown Chicago, pay for parking and wait in a line in a busy City office where they have no idea what they're doing! The "best" part is these attorneys are dealing with people that are not the most helpful. The reason why my company exists in the first place.
Paralegal Services, Inc. is a service that processes court filings for attorneys, as well as, serves papers to people that need to appear in court. It's basically going around to people, delivering docs and saying "you've been served". He also does background checks and completes searches for people that don't want to be found, called skip tracing.
Legal Clerking and Process Serving, Inc. (LCPS) will be a combination of the two businesses.
Audience is Chicagoland Lawyers or professionals that may need some sort of legal clerking or process serving.
I want something that will catch attorneys' eyes.
Clients love our current logo, and I would like it to almost be a takeoff of that. You can find an example of my Lawyers Legs logo here http://www.lawyerslegs.com.
To be honest, I've never been in love with it. I think it's a little too stiff and always wanted it to be a little flashier. On the flipside, it does get the point across (attorney/paralegal with a briefcase, scales of justice, and his tie flapping in the wind). When an attorney sees it, they think paralegal or clerk, I feel.
I'd like this new logo to be the same basic concept, but more finished. The three aspects of the Lawyers' Legs logo must be incorporated (Briefcase/doc, scales and tie). Maybe the man to be a little more animated. Maybe crouched down as if in a runner's stance, or, in more of a natural running motion. Give him the effect that he's FAST and CONFIDENT!
I have uploaded a couple of Superman images that I googled. He's either running or flying. Either way, it leaves you with the impression that he's fast and confident, something we would like our clients to take away from the logo. As you see in all the pics, you can easily incorporate a folder/document/briefcase in one hand and scales of justice in the other.
You can also play around with the letters of LCPS somehow and either incorporate that into the logo, or, perhaps just by itself.
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Breaking: buds at Clos Electrique!From John, April 5th, 2013
Bud break just happened in Clos Electrique vineyard, and our friend Jeremy Fenske was there to capture it. Take a look:Share This
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When it comes to the development of glyphosate-resistant weeds, producers have two choices: Pay more now or pay much more later.
"It might be more expensive upfront, but working to prevent glyphosate-resistant weeds from ever developing is more economical in the long run," said Ray Massey, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri. Massey spoke to the MU Crop Management Conference in Columbia, Mo., about data gathered from a 2006 MU field trial of glyphosate-resistant tall waterhemp in western Missouri.
Massey determined that proactive management is a better economic choice than reactive management if resistance was to develop in a field within 26 years.
"That means that even if resistance didn't occur until year 25, it would cost less to spend a little extra money each year for 25 years than to wait until resistance developed and then pay to control it," he told the audience of about 60 certified crop advisers and farmers.
Massey used data collected by MU weed scientist Kevin Bradley, who earlier this year confirmed tall waterhemp as Missouri's third glyphosate-resistant weed and sixth such weed in the U.S.
The western Missouri field where the resistant waterhemp developed had been in continuous soybean since 1996. Glyphosate had been used continuously.
"It's a pretty nasty beast we're dealing with on this site," Bradley said. "We were able to get control with some pretty expensive programs, but it's pretty bad.
"I freely admit I'm trying to scare producers with this scenario into doing the right thing."
He added that weed scientists always expected it would be better to try to prevent glyphosate resistance than to let it happen.
"Now we've learned that, from an economic standpoint, what we were saying was right," Bradley said. "We have the numbers to confirm it."
Missouri is the first and only state where three glyphosate-resistant weeds — tall waterhemp, common ragweed and horseweed — have been identified. Bradley said Missouri holds this dubious honor because of the large number of acres planted to continuous soybeans, 90 percent of which use a glyphosate system for weed control.
"Resistant weeds are not something we create," Bradley said. "They exist naturally and we select for them by using the same herbicide continuously."
It's not uncommon to find producers who believe "that resistant weeds aren't a problem until they occur on my land," he said. "There's a belief that a silver bullet will come along, but there isn't another silver bullet. I just don't see it happening."
According to Bradley, preventing glyphosate resistance is best achieved by rotating to herbicides with different modes of action in a field. This can be done by using pre-emergence herbicides followed by glyphosate, or by rotating glyphosate with other post-emergence herbicides in alternate years.
"While we know it's important to be proactive, what we can't say yet is how often we need to be proactive with a glyphosate system," he said. "It may need to be an every-other-year application of an herbicide with a different mode of action, or it may only need to be every third year."
The use of glyphosate increased dramatically in the mid-1990s with the introduction of crops genetically modified to tolerate the herbicide. In addition to soybeans, varieties of corn, cotton, canola, sorghum and alfalfa also have been developed to allow the post-emergence use of the herbicide.
To date, scientists have confirmed nine glyphosate-resistant weeds worldwide. In addition to the three in Missouri, they include buckhorn plantain, goosegrass, hairy fleabane, Italian ryegrass, palmer amaranth and rigid ryegrass.


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I would love to pull out my Ciel cosplay and host some lovely ladies.I don't really know how to dance but I'd totally be excited to try.
I heard that there will be dancing lessons before the con.Did I imagine that?
Kokotankuu- Ohkay~ Just wanted to clarify basically.Disney Waltz- I wanna do this. Can we do this next year? I'll do Ariel or Aurora..Kitty- I think so?
Hi! I'm actually very interested in being a host for this year at the ball. I know alittle here and there about ballroom dancing. I've never had the chance to go to the dances yet. They're usually packed before I get the chance. I'm very friendly and love talking to new people. :3 Breaking people out of their shell and loosening them up is what I enjoy to do. I hope I can assist you guys in the dance if it happens. X3 I'd probably go as either Reno or Dave.


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Exceptional artists to perform at Musica Viva!
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh music department will perform a broad range of instrumental, vocal, solo and ensemble compositions at the inaugural event Musica Viva! from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Arts and Communications Music Hall on April 16.
The event will begin with a semiformal reception at 6:30 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres, beverages and a silent auction. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will showcase collaborative performances by UW Oshkosh faculty, students and alumni that cross many genres, styles and historical periods.
Maria Payant, a senior music vocal performance major, was recommended by her voice instructor Joyce Andrews and then chosen by a music faculty committee to perform at the event.
"The program is made up of both faculty and students, so it is very exciting to be able to share the stage with my professors and colleagues," Payant said. "The professors that are performing are experienced performers who have traveled the world and are now sharing their talents and passion with students. The students are the classical musicians of tomorrow, the upcoming stars of the musical world."
Payant will perform a vocal solo of "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini. She explained that having an opportunity to see such a varied presentation of dedicated, talented musicians is "truly exciting."
The evening will conclude with an afterglow reception in the lobby with live music, dessert buffet and the conclusion of the silent auction, of which items are donated by local businesses.
The cost to attend Musica Viva! is $40, which includes hors d'oeuvres, live performance and afterglow dessert reception. Sponsors of this event include the UW Oshkosh Foundation, Wisconsin Public Radio, Heid Music, JW Pepper and the Oshkosh Northwestern.
Department of Music Chair Carl Chapman said that all proceeds from the event will go towards UW Oshkosh music scholarships.
"The proceeds will help to augment funds for music performance scholarships offered to incoming students through on-campus auditions," said Chapman.
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Artist Reception is Thursday, May 5 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Allen Priebe Art Gallery Hours:
- 10:30 am to 3 p.m. Monday – Friday
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"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Written by Oscar Wilde; directed by Richard Kalinoski; performances at 7:30 p.m. April 27-31; 2 p.m. performance on May 1; $10 for general public; $8 for seniors; $3 for UW Oshkosh students with Titan ID.
Kalinoski announces Student Playwriting Contest
Richard Kalinoski, resident playwright and coordinator of The Playwright's Project's annual Student Playwriting Contest, has announced this year's contest. The deadline for entries has been extended to March 15.
One-act plays, written by students, can be submitted to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh theatre department, located in Arts and Communications West room 103. The winning playwright will receive a public reading, cash prize and framed commemorative certificate.
Contest rules include the following:
- UW Oshkosh students only
- Plays should be in manuscript format and 15 to 40 pages long
- Plays must be handed in by March 15, 2011
- Character list must be included with bound manuscripts
For more information or if you have questions regarding the Student Playwriting Contest, contact UW Oshkosh professor Richard Kalinoski at email@example.com or call (920) 424-0937.
Richard Kalinoski, theatre department, submitted this announcement. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to contribute calendar items, campus announcements and other good news to UW Oshkosh Today.
Meet the Prof: Eli Kalman
The following faculty Q&A was submitted by the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Advocacy Committee, a committee of the Faculty Senate. Richard Kalinoski, professor of theater, wrote the introduction.
"I have been a professional musician on three continents. During my doctorate at UW-Madison, I realized how much both my wife and I would love to stay in Wisconsin, should the opportunity arise. Because we are fluent in five different languages we were able to successfully immigrate to the United States. It was the right time for us to settle down for a different phase of our life.
"My first visit to UW Oshkosh was musically marked with a Katrina Benefit Concert collaboration with faculty violinist Klara Fenyő Bahcall. I was tremendously impressed by UWO and its people and deeply honored to contribute with my music."
Why did you choose to go into your field?
"I started playing the piano before age six in Romania as one of the two hundred fortunate youngsters brought together for a special music program in my hometown. Twelve years later only 25 of us became musicians. The journey across many exams and yearly competitions taught us that being a musician will never be an easy profession but a way of life. The 12-year program – which is still offered – remains a wonderful compliment to our devoted teachers and their methods. Their main focus and mission was to teach us the love and respect of music."
What is your favorite thing about UW Oshkosh?
"I see myself as the ambassador of musical values. My favorite thing about our school is the chance I get to make a difference to my students and to provide guidance. The search and initiation for the musically talented makes me a valuable tool in the hands of those who wish to learn about three hundred years of musical achievements.
"It is an amazing position to have tremendous academic freedom and real opportunities to be an example for students while staying faithful to my artistic beliefs. The music I teach or perform and the actual interaction with my growing piano studio make my life exciting and challenging. I recall from my past how good it feels to have a special mentor. I want to be that person for each of my students. It is the chance that I have here and, with no doubt, my favorite thing at UW Oshkosh."
What is the professional accomplishment of which you are most proud?
"I am proud to have found a career that allows me to combine teaching with performing music. The dedication I have invested in both areas is highly gratifying. It means the world to me to have done well on the last many concerts I have played (here in the U.S.). I am proud of my future engagements as well. I am pleased about my recordings, especially the Schumann chamber sonatas. I am proud to make a difference for my students who have made their journey to the graduation recital. I am also very pleased about my publication of the first edition of Respighi's Violin Sonata, dated 1897, which will come out in a few weeks on AR Publications. This is after more than five years of research and effort."
What leadership or service activities are you involved in?
"In addition to my involvement in a variety of service activities at UW Oshkosh, I am maintaining a presence and visibility in Wisconsin and nationally with my contributions as adjudicator/clinician and as a guest performer.
"I have brought to our school our annual performances with my partner, cellist Parry Karp from UW-Madison. The recitals have been presented yearly since 2006, both at UW-Madison and UW Oshkosh. Other performances have been annual broadcasts on NPR at 'Sunday Live from the Chazzan' and often from WFMT in Chicago. In addition to our performances at UW Oshkosh, I have appeared with distinguished cellist Amit Peled (John Hopkins) in fifteen different states over the past three years. I have been a member of the faculty at Rocky Ridge Music Camp in Colorado since 2005. I am also on the piano faculty of 'Maestro' which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad. In 2010, I performed at the Ein Hod International Festival in Israel organized by Maestro to support music education."
What is the most common misperception about what you do?
"The most common misperception about what I do is in regard to the music learning process itself. The satisfied listener of a concert comes to you after the performance and compliments you if you did well. I often wonder why the outsider's first assumption is that it is about 'having fun' at the piano. The listener wants to hang on to words such as 'effortless' and 'enlightening.' It is a great feeling to be associated with such imagery but feels odd, especially when one isn't even close to the effortlessness that others perceive. Audiences often forget how hard pianists must work. Musicians train in mental discipline and consistency from an early age. This is why being a musician is a way of life and not only a profession."
What is the most exciting project you are working on right now?
"My most exciting projects in 2011 are my performances with cellist Amit Peled from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. We released our 2009 recording on the Centaur Label entitled 'The Jewish Soul.' Our duo concert engagements have taken us to some of the most distinguished stages in this country. We have performed on Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Virginia, in San Francisco Performances, the Sylvia Adalman Concerts Series in Baltimore, the Connoisseurs Concert Series in Wichita and the Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago (and many other significant venues). Mr. Peled and I had two notable concerts in January: at the Farley House in Madison and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C."
How does what you research help you to be an effective teacher?
"My research focuses on many musical aspects from teaching to performing music. In teaching, my research is based on working together with the student and understanding the nature of the problem at his/her level. In performance my research is my active concert life. I believe it is important to be an active performer as a teacher because of the energy and the journey one has to make in order to serve music with every concert. The live performance has always a 'magical' component based on inspiration which is difficult to define with words.
Describe some ways your department serves Northeastern Wisconsin.
"As service to NE Wisconsin I have built and maintained a solid personal, professional relationship with the Northeastern Piano Teachers Forum based in Green Bay. Our collaboration has led to my current position as an adjudicator and clinician at their festivals and concert engagements. I am invited to teach master classes for the Forum and to interact with students in a variety of formats."
Tell us about your family.
"As they often say, behind a successful man there is always a woman who knows how things should be done properly. That is very true regarding my family. Nori has been the real heart of all happenings. Nori is a violinist whose career began as mine did in Romania. Later, a graduate of the Romanian Conservatory of Music "G. Dima" with a double degree and certification of violin pedagogy and performance, she currently teaches violin at Lawrence Academy and maintains a private violin studio in Oshkosh. She also enjoys her performances as an orchestral violinist in Water City Chamber Orchestra, Fox Valley Symphony and the Green Bay Symphony. My son Norbert started his ambitious career with a computer/engineering diploma from Technion, Israel. Norbert returned to school recently and is soon to graduate from Ross Business School in Ann Arbor with an MBA."
What are your hobbies?
"I like hiking in the mountains and enjoy higher altitudes. Most summers I teach five weeks at Rocky Ridge Music Camp in Colorado located near the base of Long's Peak, which is in Rocky Mountain National Park. Both Nori and I enjoy good music and the simple life at 9,000 feet in a historic log cabin in the woods. The combination of music and mountains in majestic settings, such as the Rockies, is second to none."
Richard Kalinoski, theater, received notable reviews from LA Weekly and Backstage magazine
Richard Kalinoski, theater, received notable reviews from LA Weekly and Backstage magazine on his play, "Beast on the Moon." Kalinoski's play also has been recommended for the LA Alliance Ovation Awards, which are the highest theatre awards given in Los Angeles. A performance must be recommended before it can formally be nominated for an Ovation Award. Only 15 percent of professional productions in Los Angeles receive recommendations for the Ovation Award.
The play focuses on two survivors of the Armenian genocide and the development of their relationship as immigrates in Milwaukee. Nominees will be announced, Monday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m., at the Autry museum in Los Angeles, Calif.
Student Joe O'Hearn wins 2011 playwriting contest
Joe O'Hearn, a theatre major and non-traditional student in the theatre department, has won the 2011 Playwright's Project Student Playwriting Contest. O' Hearn's one-act play, Boundary Crossing, was chosen by Professor Richard Kalinoski, coordinator of the Playwright's Project, for its distinctive exploration of some of the psychological implications for a P.O.W of World War II.
Boundary Crossing marks the 13th iteration of the Student Playwriting Contest sponsored by the Playwrights Project. O'Hearn's play will be given a public reading on May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Experimental Theatre in the Fredric March Theatre building. The reading will be done with the volunteer support of students and faculty in the department of theatre. O'Hearn also wins a cash prize and a framed certificate commemorating his accomplishment.
Previous winners of the Student Playwriting Contest have had their plays read and or produced at other universities following their work at UW Oshkosh.
Richard Kalinoski, theatre, submitted this announcement. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to contribute calendar items, campus announcements and other good news to UW Oshkosh Today.


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I can't believe my reading week is finished and that I have to go to classes again on Monday! The good thing is that I feel more relaxed and I have managed to plan and do a lot during this week. I know it is too early but I am starting to get into the Christmas spirit.. Don't blame me, the whole town is full of Christmas decorations and have you seen the Christmas jumpers they have everywhere? Christmas is my favourite holiday and I actually believe that it is probably everyone's favourite! But we still have one month until Christmas so I will leave the Christmas talking for later.
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Final Fantasy XIV still clings to life, although – with its meagre player populations now a mere third or less of its peak – for how much longer is a matter of some quite unfriendly speculation.
Square Enix eventually responded to the humiliating PR disaster of its server population collapse by ceasing to make server populations public, however this did not stop the remaining players from conducting their own unofficial population estimates.
The main method used appears to be using specially designed tools to count the number of player characters showing any change each day, using the public player database.
This has given rise to fairly complete estimates for server populations in lieu of the official ones.
The most recent comprehensive piece of research is the following chart for the last day of January – showing from left to right, the server, the server population as a percentage of Cornelia (the benchmark server), the estimated active daily players, and the estimated number of alt or mule characters (57% of the total):
This suggests an estimated active daily unique player population of only 17,776.
The total active character figure of 31,150 can safely be ignored as the last official unique player count was 22,000, back in November (the same day saw Cornelia counted at 4019 using the unofficial method) – with players reporting virtually deserted servers, it is safe to say the collapse reflected in the numbers is real.
More recent statistics only exist for Cornelia – although some simple calculations allow an estimate of the current population to be arrived at; for the last week of January the average was 2086, and for the most recent week of March the figure is 1850.
This 12% decrease suggests the total active population has decreased somewhat to 15,500 or so – a mere third of the peak numbers reported.
This week also saw the release of a patch which made enemies bigger – sadly for Square Enix it seems not to have had the same effect on player numbers.
With player numbers now less than those of a minor browser game, it seems unlikely even the combined effects of making the game F2P and releasing an upgraded PS3 version will do anything but delay the inevitable for a game whose only accolade is being proclaimed the most disappointing game of 2010.


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A Better Way to Do the Monster MashBy Michael Vizard | Posted 2006-01-14 Print
Mashing together data and Web services can do more than just put Google Maps on your site. It might free you from dominance by software vendors.
Among hard-core Web developers and the aficionados of all things Web 2.0, there is a lot of excitement over the concept of creating new Web applications by mashing together diverse sets of data.
The most obvious instance of a mash, sometimes known as a hack, usually involves something like Google or Yahoo maps being married to a data set that can benefit from being displayed in geographical context. For example, a distributor of gasoline might want to use Google maps to display gasoline prices in a particular region as a service to its customers, or Ziff Davis, the company that publishes Baseline, might want to display where there are high concentrations of storage sales based on the demographic data it collects from subscribers.
More recently, Amazon took this mashing concept a step further by deciding to open its Alexa search index to third parties. In effect, this means that anyone can create Web applications that for a relatively nominal fee can incorporate the Amazon search engine, and then go one step further by linking that application to the Amazon e-commerce engine using Amazon's Web services platform.
By adding a little imagination, the average business could probably come up with a half-dozen or more similar concepts that leverage either publicly available data sources, such as census records, or data that their existing business partners might be willing to share across a supply chain.
None of these application concepts are particularly new, but what is new is that the barriers to creating these types of applications are diminishing rapidly. Previously, if you wanted to create an application that used geographical information, it usually meant investing in a geographical information system. Or if you wanted to have a first-class search engine, it meant licensing industrial search engine software.
You may still want to license those types of tools for industrial-strength applications, but there are a whole host of business applications that can now be created using services such as Google Maps or the Alexa search engine. And you don't have to hire expensive Java or .NET programmers to create them; many of these applications can be quickly created using tools such as Ajax, otherwise known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
The potential impact that Ajax could have on the application development backlog of the average enterprise could be nothing short of immense. This is because Ajax essentially allows departments within the organization to quickly develop a wide range of graphically rich customer-facing applications on the Web without diverting development resources from major I.T. projects that require Java or .NET developers.
And because of the nature of the way Ajax applications are updated, it introduces a more effective paradigm for managing applications because typically there is no client-side code. This means that application functionality can be added on a continuous basis, rather than today's twice-a-year version number update process.
Ajax, along with technologies such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Web services, represents the full floweringafter half a decadeof the potential of XML, which gave people a self-describing, data-neutral file format. And with the advent of new applications such as Microsoft Office 12 and future upgrades to SAP, XML is well on its way to becoming the dominant file format.
Once that happens, applications will start to behave a lot more like containers for data rather than places where vendors grab hold of our data as part of some misguided effort to lock customers into their platform. XML will make it easier for customers to share information across a broad number of users, and ultimately buy a greater array of application software to leverage those core data sets.
So the next time you want to create that new application, take a look at what services on the Web already exist and how they might be leveraged using tools like Ajax. After all, anything that can cut the time it takes to develop an application is well worth investigating.Michael Vizard is editorial director of Ziff Davis Media's Enterprise Technology group. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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