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Zhongkai Li-Raw Material Brand Identity
At Design Interviews
(Excerpt) Interview with Zhongkai Li : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Zhongkai Li : My design inspiration comes from life and nature, more specifically, it should be based on my interest in the material and the material. I like to collect these to my interest, and put them into my design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Zhongkai Li : I pay attention to the combination of nature and technology, and to the use of the material. I want the brand to force people to re-position the relationship between nature and human beings, therefore giving rise to the reconsideration of the art of simplicity. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Zhongkai Li : In fact, we are developing a new season of the product; about the this award winning design, I want to further promote and find some way to sell them. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Zhongkai Li : A few years ago I was thinking about the idea, and I have always been thinking. I Just have been waiting for a mature time to implement it. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Zhongkai Li : Because of the fast pace of modern life, people are busy working, but there is no time to embrace life and nature. Slowing down to enjoy the beauty of nature is one thing that makes me feel comfortable, so I decided to create a brand to collect the dribs and drabs of everyday life. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Zhongkai Li : I plan to sell them, but because of funding problems, the products have not formally been put into production. But I really hope to have more people who want to know my brand. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Zhongkai Li : A lot of excellent independent designer inspired me in China; the independent designer brands more and more appear in people's fields of vision. The people's consumption view is changing; people began to tire of industrialized production of highly similar, fast culture that already cannot satisfy the needs of the masses; they want to be different with others to show their own personality. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Zhongkai Li : Germany's happy me studio and French silk scarves brand: milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre. I think they are thinking the same problem as I am. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Zhongkai Li : Advocate natural, pursuit of superior quality and comfort of consumer groups. To the pursuit of personality of young people, of course, it is also a good choice. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Zhongkai Li : My project is more of an interpretation to "complete information", translating the traditional plane paper media and turning it into a brand-new designing language permeating space, product and image.Raw Material does not only endow the form with a clear concept of location, but also regarding it as an emotional reaction. It challenges self-perception of the original object, thereby switching to another way to reflect another form. By reinterpreting everyday objects and materials, it breaks the shackle of traditional thinking deep-rooted in people's mind and changes the property of the materials selected with layout and design. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Zhongkai Li : Raw Material (RM) is an independent designer brand committed to researching daily materials and exploring formal languages.RM want to explore a potential new Angle of view. In the simplest way to reflect the core of brand is first impression that RM want to show the viewer. Brand name is the most straightforward way to interpret the content of the brand. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Zhongkai Li : RM has recorded these with the rubbing method of the traditional printmaking and kaleidoscope, then used computer to integrate it, finally presented in the form of digital printing and silkscreen. RM restored the authentic emotional response from the objects, which is also a challenge to the possibility and uncertainty of the materials. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Zhongkai Li : I .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Zhongkai Li on Raw Material Brand Identity at design-interviews.com ]
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pdftk. It was fairly easy to follow a color specification through from the .graffle file and into the PDF. Here, for example, is an RGB color specified in the Nucleobases.graffle and the corresponding color appearing in the exported PDF of the same file:
The deeper story is that human-readable text formats are wonderful: they are easily debugged, they are easily manipulated (with text editors and other tools like awk and sed), and they can be compressed using common compression programs if space is a problem.
Similarly text based protocols (such as HTTP, IMAP, SMTP, FTP and POP3) make it easy for humans to write, read and debug. One of the things that made POPFile easy to implement was that all the mail protocols are text based (the entire POP3 proxying module is able to use simple string matching and regular expressions to handle POP3). And they are also line oriented (a command is read by reading to the line ending). That makes programs to handle them very easy to implement.
Recently I used an undocumented API that was entirely text-based (using JSON) to obtain live bus arrival times in London and make an Ambient Bus Arrival Monitor.
Another great example of a text format appears in the code that's behind Hacker News and UseTheSource. In the Lisp philosophy your program is also data it can consume and the data about users is simply sent to a file as Arc code meaning that any admin tasks that don't (yet) have UI can be performed trivially by hand:
I wonder how much of the success of the Internet can be put down to the decision to use text-based protocols for almost everything that people will need to implement. And how much we owe the early writes of the RFCs in deciding that text was best.
PS A reader points to Eric Raymond's Art of Unix Programming and specifically the chapter called Textuality.
PPS A commenter over at Hacker News makes the very good point that it's easy to version/diff text files and very hard with binary.
PPPS Another commenter over at Hacker News points out that there's a chapter in The Pragmatic Programmer called The Power of Plain Text.


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A Touch of France
A Touch of France – music cover album designed for Really Slow Motion
ReallySlowMotion is a music and sound production team of experienced professionals whose main focus is Film, Game, TV. We write, record, produce and mix under your request to provide you with any soundtrack or sound design your project may need. If you are an editor, music supervisor or media professional we also have a catalogue of music and sound design ready for your commercial project and licensing.
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"It belongs in a museum!" These famous words of Indiana Jones always pop into my head whenever I see something precious, rare or valuable in the world today. Indeed, so many objects are museum worthy or display worthy, from fine art, to historical objects, to memorabilia, whether found in an actual museum or in a personal collection. But after discovering the precious piece you want to display, the next realization is this: It needs a museum quality display case to showcase it. A display showcase that will enhance the beauty, not distract from it.
Pedestal Source is proud to announce our latest product: The Down Light Showcase Pedestal. Made in the same tradition as our other high quality display pedestals, the Down Light Showcase Pedestal is handmade in the U.S.A. right here at our facility in Fort Collins, CO. This lighted display case combines a simple, aesthetic beauty with innovative engineering to put all the focus on your precious piece. Whether you're a museum curator, a gallery owner, a jewelry shop owner or a private collector, the Down Light Showcase Pedestal gives you a quality, museum display case that you can be as proud of as you are the piece you're displaying.
Let's look at some of the features of the Down Light Showcase Pedestal:
- Overhead and/or ambient under lighting.
How often do beautiful pieces of art fail to stand out simply because of poor lighting? At Pedestal Source, we have years of experience in displaying art and other valuable objects. We know that certain pieces need lighting from above, and some are better illuminated from the bottom. That's why we give you the option of either low voltage LED top lighting, or ambient under lighting, or both. There are an amazing variety of looks that can be obtained when using the changeable color LED under light system.
- Laminate or wood veneer finishes available.
There's no need to settle for one finish, one color. Choose from many real wood veneers and laminates so that you get a great display showcase that not only highlights your object to perfection, but suits the room around it.
- No visible door hardware or wiring.
Nothing distracts from your fine art like clumsy door locks and intrusive wiring tubes down the side or corner of the viewing area. Our engineering team has developed an innovative system that keeps the sight lines clutter free. All you see is what is meant to be seen: your piece being displayed. Check out the video below for more details on how to access the display area.
- Completely customizable – imagine the possibilities!
So you're looking at the picture of the case and thinking, "It's nice, but I really need something like (fill in the blank)". At Pedestal Source, we have always prided ourselves in making our products customizable. The Down Light Showcase Pedestal is no different. Whether it's the overall size, the acrylic viewing area, the finish or even adding storage, you can be sure you will be getting a great custom made showcase that meets your needs. You can even interchange the display platform. Imagine a mirrored platform underneath a sparkling piece of jewelry!
At a time when there is much discussion of U.S. Manufacturing jobs going overseas, we pride ourselves on the fact that all of our display pedestal and showcase products are made right here at our facility in Colorado. You can also rest assured you are not only getting a quality American made product, you will be getting first class customer service to go with it.
Whether you're looking for a museum style case to display your fine art or collectables, or you are a jewelry shop owner that wants an eye-popping jewelry display case, The Down Light Showcase Pedestal will put the focus clearly on the item inside of it. Couple that with the confidence of knowing you have a superior, made in the U.S.A. product, we're sure you'll treasure this case almost as much as your piece! Well, maybe not, but either way, we think Indiana Jones would approve.
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Against Wind & Tide: Letters and Journals
These days not many people are familiar with the work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh. During her life (she died in 2001) she was most famous for her relationship with her husband, pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly between New York and Paris, to cross the Atlantic solo. There was also much publicity and notoriety about her firstborn's kidnapping and murder in 1932.
Against Wind & Tide begins with Anne roiling with the news that she is pregnant for the seventh time. She's in her forties and her whole spirit rebels against another pregnancy. Yet, unless she has a physical reason for an abortion, she does not feel that can be an option. Much of the book is about motherhood. Charles once asked Anne what she believed the most important relationship in life to be--he said between husband and wife--but Anne said the relationship between mother and child was paramount. However, even as a rich woman who could afford a housekeeper and a cook, she often felt divided between parenting demands and her own writing. Yet what a wonderful mother her letters show her to be. She relates to each child differently, extremely aware of his or her strengths and weaknesses, and always encouraging each to be his or her best.
Anne was an amazingly gifted writer and though she wrote extended book-length essays and fiction, she excelled at detailing the personal struggles and explorations of an individual. She did that throughout the 20th century. Anne's writing is deeply contemplative. She does not skim the surface of life but burrows into it both seeking and answering some of the hard questions.
In this book she covers all the "flood truths": life, death, nature, love, the nature of friendship, and the complications, frustrations, and great joys of marriage. Charles often travelled and would seldom tell Anne when she could expect him back. Later, it turned out that he had fathered seven children in Europe while they were married. There is no mention of whether Anne knew anything about Lindbergh's other lives; however Anne did recognize their relationship as complicated. Several times in the book, she thanks him for broadening her life and also for all his encouragement for her writing. He carefully edited her book galleys but also pushed her out into the world, encouraging her to spend nine weeks touring post-World War II Europe and write articles about it. This was during a time and cultural period when most men thought women only should stay at home.
Anne's also incredibly well-read. Many of her letters especially to her children suggest books for them. The book is also full of travel. The Lindberghs took safaris in Africa, whale watching trips to Baja, trips out West to ski and camp. Inspired by their history of being two of the world's first aviators, flying to Europe, Florida, and Hawaii was never a big deal.
Most touching are the journal entries and letters about her own mother's decline and death. Anne compared dying to birth; she thought it had a similar rhythm. And how lucky she was in her mother's death. Her mother's first stroke happened in Anne's home after Thanksgiving, and though Mrs. Morrow lost her ability to speak that night, it returned the next day. All that day, Anne and her mother shared their thoughts of love and their life together. The next day Mrs. Morrow lost her ability to speak again, but how grateful Anne was for that day.
Equally touching but much harder to bear was the news that Reeve's baby son John had encephalitis. His death brought back so much of Anne's pain from her own child's loss, but she knew how to counsel her daughter, and to connect deeply with her during this difficult period.
Several of her children edited this book, and what a tribute to their mother who so often talks about them and corresponds with them in these pages. Lindbergh celebrates solitude and the deep interpersonal connections that make life rich and rewarding.
If you like Anne's writing try her wonderful Gift from the Sea about a woman seeking solitude on Cape Cod. For more about this famous couple, check out their daughter Reeve's memoir of both parents titled Under a Wing.


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Art and Lifestyle by Brandon Knoll
Writing poetry on the nature of humanity ...and vise versa.
Art doesn't have to be worthy to be worth sharing
With Kathy Fish and Nancy Stohlman
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"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word." —Catherine Drinker Bowen
A potpourri of emotions
The poetry of ineptitude.
Trying to benefit from education & (a little) from unemployment!
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Jan 09, 2007 | ISBN 9781400079971
"It's no time to be 21, and we have Tamara Draut to thank for describing to us, in precise details, the forces arrayed against young people — and what can be done to alleviate the situation." —Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas"A convincing, impressively researched call-to-arms. . . . Fast-paced, informative prose, amply supported by statistics." —San Francisco Chronicle"Persuasive. . . .The 30-something author knows whereof she writes." —The Washington Post"Draut's presentation will convince many and may be useful even to those who disagree with her. . . . Parents and young adults definitely need to read this book and have conversations afterward." —USA Today


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Due to the current economic downturn, worker productivity in the professional cleaning industry is now more important than ever.
Of course, this issue has never been something the industry could afford to ignore — it"s just that other issues and trends have been getting quite a bit more attention during the past few years.
When looking for ways to improve worker productivity — which can be defined as a decrease in the amount of time spent performing specific cleaning duties, thereby cutting labor costs — there are two critical components: People management and cleaning procedures — products, systems and methods.
The most advanced, efficient and effective cleaning systems will not improve worker productivity if cleaning workers are ill-trained to use their equipment.
And even the most skilled and well-taught cleaning workers will likely fail, or at least not work up to their full potential, if the cleaning products, tools and equipment they use add time to the cleaning process instead of reducing it.
These facts are especially true of restroom cleaning.
No other regularly performed cleaning task requires as much time and attention as restroom maintenance.
It is historically one of the most labor-intensive cleaning chores; what"s more, as we in the industry well know, restrooms are also the most problematic area of a facility to maintain.
This is because without some proof that a surface is truly, hygienically clean, evaluating restroom cleaning and maintenance has always been extremely subjective.
The good news is that worker productivity, especially when it comes to restroom maintenance, can be enhanced significantly.
People and procedures are at the heart of both the problem and the solution.
It's All About People
At the recent annual meeting of the Consumer Specialty Products Association, the manager of a major U.S. government facility discussed how he had "greened" his building and how it eventually earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification as a result of his efforts.
This speaker also talked about the large disparity he sometimes experiences between what cleaning contractors promise in terms of worker training and what they actually do.
While many contractors "talk the talk" when it comes to ongoing training programs for their cleaning workers, in far too many cases, the presenter finds this training simply never takes place.
In fact, he even mentioned that in some situations, he and his staff found themselves training cleaning workers on how to maintain certain areas of their facility or use certain products.
Situations like this are actually at the heart of poor worker productivity.
Workers turn to managers for direction — but in some cases that direction is simply not there.
This fact was born out in a study conducted by Proudfoot Consulting, which is an operations-management company that performs a variety of studies regarding worker productivity issues.
This 2006 study asked U.S. executives to rank leading barriers to worker productivity in their organizations.
Three of the top obstacles mentioned were:
- Poor management of people
- Poor leadership in terms of managing and training workers and leading change
- Poor communication between managers and workers.
According to this same report, cleaning contractors looking to improve worker productivity and create a high-performance staff can take a number of steps to accomplish this goal, including:
- Making productivity a strategic initiative. Improving worker productivity needs to be one of an organization"s key "top-down" goals, and this message should be communicated frequently to all workers.
- Aiming high. Improvement goals should be ambitious and once a productivity goal has been attained, managers and workers should look for additional steps that can be taken.
- Training people on the job. As valuable as classroom training can be, actually coaching people on the job is critical to enhancing their performance.
- Communicating clearly. Workers need to know why things have to change in order to improve productivity and encourage feedback. Further success and accomplishment must be communicated immediately to demonstrate positive results.
- Measuring performance. Every improvement initiative must be measureable and measured. For restroom cleaning, this not only involves analyzing whether restrooms are being cleaned faster, but also if they are being cleaned more thoroughly and hygienically.
Cleaning Procedures
Finding ways to use fewer cleaning products, chemicals and methods makes cleaning faster and helps improve worker productivity.
This is especially true of restroom maintenance, in which a variety of different cleaning products and tools — cloths, disinfectants, chemicals and powders, mops and buckets, window cleaners, etc. — are typically used to clean a number of different surfaces, including fixtures, partitions, countertops, floors, glass, mirrors and metals.
Cleaning professionals should always try to turn to chemicals and supplies that can multitask.
For instance, using one product that can clean both fixtures and mirrors saves time, helps eliminate mistakes and means fewer items that must be loaded onto cleaning carts — all of which can help improve worker productivity.
Taking this a step further, using one cleaning method or procedure that can clean all of the various surfaces found in restrooms would eliminate even more tools and equipment and likely improve worker productivity even further.
This is why many facilities have adopted what ISSA refers to as spray-and-vac cleaning.
This method involves using machines that pressurize water and metered cleaning solution, and then apply it to soiled, contaminated surfaces.
The area being cleaned is then rinsed, blasting loose pollutants from surfaces, followed by vacuuming the same areas to remove excess liquids, soils and contaminants.
Prove It's Clean
Even when focusing on worker productivity, we must never forget the chief purpose of our industry, as well as that of the individual cleaning worker — protecting the health and safety of building occupants.
This issue is especially pertinent when it comes to restroom maintenance.
Cleaning professionals can turn to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) rapid-monitoring systems to test cleaning effectiveness and help determine that surfaces are hygienically cleaned.
Because of the cost savings associated with improved worker productivity, we likely will see our industry and most all industries look for additional ways to accomplish more in less time.
A recent article in The New York Times reported that the economic recession "is forcing a return to a culture of thrift that many economists say could last well beyond the recovery."
Although this focus never entirely disappeared in the cleaning industry, increased emphasis on improving worker productivity is likely to last far into the future.


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On 3 February, the Director of FRA met with the new Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Contact Point on Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI) Ms Mirjam Karoly.
The meeting was an opportunity for the Contact Point to present its priority areas of work. These included: Roma police relations, the political participation of Roma, women's rights and gender mainstreaming, and Roma housing. The meeting was also a chance to identify synergies with FRA's current work. The Contact Point will return to FRA on 27 February to strengthen cooperation regarding the implementation of specific projects.


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Dave11372 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Last Chance Tavern (http://www.lastchanceonline.com)
Our restaurant of 40 years recently expanded with a Tavern / live music venue. The Tavern which opened in July aims to be the best new place around to eat, drink, and listen to live music. We have 300+ beers, 100 cheeses. Specializing in Belgium/English ales & craft beers. Our restaurant and bar is decorated with antiques. We are 5 minutes from the ski resort and look to be a popular after ski hang-out. Take a look at our website for more about us, including menus and pictures.
Demographic: affluent / 25-75
Music style: piano / classic rock
Food type: family comfort / pub fare - late-nite
The billboard will be placed off highway on the way to Hunter Mountain Ski resort. We target skiers and party go-ers both young and old. We are building on a brand and customer recognition which has been built over 40 years.
Billboard size is 8ft x 15ft.
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Our typical colors are white, green, red, yellow, but you are not limited to these colors
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- http://www.lastchanceonline.com
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Chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the tastiest and worldliest food subscription boxes
Nonna Box is a monthly subscription or a one time adventure of carefully curated gourmet Italian products that highlight a different Italian theme each month. Your box will ship between the second and the third week of the month (usually on the 11th of each month), and be at your door and in your kitchen in just a few days later.
Each box includes 5 to 7 full-size, imported, and hard-to-come-by Italian products. A local nonna will share her story and her favorite recipe which will use the box's products.
Your box comes with cards that detail regional culinary tradition, the box's products and their local importance, as well as serving suggestions. As you eat your way through Italy, you'll learn about authentic regional culture and cuisine.
It's like traveling through Italy without leaving your kitchen!
You won't be dissapointed if you sign up. The items included in the box have been wonderful. Love the recipes and stories. The only down side is I don't know how to reorder the merchandise in the box.
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The selections and recipes chosen for each Nonna Box were very high quality and unique. It was clear a lot of thought went into each box. The Nonna Box representative was also very prompt in responding to all of my questions. My Italian Mom LOVED her Nonna Boxes! Thank you Nonna Box.
I feel extremely fortunate to have found this subscription box service to help feed my addiction to authentic Italian foods. Everything about Nonna Box has been outstanding - from the food products showcased each month to the wonderful customer service provided by Guido (who went above and beyond to assist me with finding food substitutions due to my allergies). The company truly cares about their customers and it shows.
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I can't thank you enough for helping me make them so happy - even though it is my Moms birthday you made them both happy!!
The Mini Sopresa Nonna Box delivers high quality and premium Italian products in a small package. It's like a quick present from Nonna, thoughtful and generously packed with surprise treats. This $23 box contains 4 imported Italian products that will help you cope with your homesickness for Italy.
Let's be honest, most nonnas don't use recipes; they learn in the kitchen from their own nonnas.
But, since we can't transport you to their kitchens, we've done the next best thing:
We've persuaded them to put their wisdom into words, and now we're sharing it with you.
While most of our nonnas' tips are for Nonna Box members only, here are a few featured nonna recipes.
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With an endless array of self-shot promos and 'Challenge Swound!' competition videos (sample: drink a liquidised Big Mac meal), Swound! are a band that have spared no effort in cultivating their accessibility. Their puppy-dog impetuosity and wide-eyed enthusiasm about simply being in a band make them very difficult indeed to dislike. Even more so if, like me, you value musicians with a lack of pretence and an eagerness to entertain just as much as the three chords they string together and call 'songs'.
If dwindling album sales and the rise of social networking have placed certain demands to interact on fledgling bands, the newfound availability of music an endless supply of formerly obscure acts from the dawn of rock 'n' roll onwards. Into the Sea is an album quite clearly in love with its influences. The four brothers Staszkiewicz draw upon an A-Z of '90s alterna-rock and grunge-pop, taking in everyone from fallen teenage nearlymen Symposium, Noise Addict and Radish, to the big hitters like Weezer, Redd Kross and Pavement along the way. On one hand it's dumb, frivolous and light as a feather. On the other it's a barrel of fluffy fun and endearing as a hamper of kittens.
There's a lesson to be learned here, too, for contemporaries like The Wombats who make the mistake of tirelessly sculpting their songs with workmanlike writing, draining all the enjoyment out of them in the process. Swound!'s best quality is found in their restraint, which gives moments like 'Big Trouble' and 'Tokyo' a freshness that overcomes the lack of chiselled immediacy. That the lyrics are riddled with geeky Mortal Kombat and '80s movie references only accentuates the agreeably confectionery nature of the entire project.
In the grand scheme of the Cult of Swound!, Into the Sea is just one piece of the many-faceted, multimedia puzzle that might not quite support the weight of expectation normally thrust upon a debut album if it stood alone. However, in the supporting role it inhabits it works very nicely indeed, thank you very much.
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Michael Carone, MathWorks
Frank Liu, MathWorks
In this webinar we introduce Stateflow for modeling and simulating signal processing and communications applications. First we will provide a general overview of Stateflow and how it can be used for logic design. We will then review fundamental Stateflow concepts through the use of a digital receiver examples, where Stateflow is used to model the synchronization logic of the receiver.
No Stateflow knowledge is assumed for those attending this webinar.
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Unless you opt for one of the very low-power CPUs on the market today, chances are the processor inside your desktop PC has a fan attached to keep it cool. The higher performance the chip and the more you overclock, the more cooling required. And more cooling inevitably means more noise unless you go with a water cooling solution.
Specialist cooling company Noctua has teamed up with RotoSub to come up with a low noise solution that allows you to stick with air cooling, but removes the noise. They've done this by adding active noise cancellation to one of their CPU coolers for the very first time. A project that's been ongoing for over a year.
The cooler is still in prototype form, but was on display at Computex 2013. It could actually be referred to as a cooling cube looking at the design, but is based on Noctua's NH-D14 cooler using a twin-tower heatsink, which consists of two heatsink blocks and a fan mounted between them.
The noise cancellation is achieved through a combination of mic and speakers. The mic listens to the sound created by the cooler, then the speakers output the same sound with a phase difference. In so doing, destructive interference is created and the level of noise is cut significantly.
According to those able to listen to the prototype CPU cooler, there was actually no noise heard when the system was active. If you watch the demonstration video above you can clearly hear the difference the noise cancellation makes.
Such a system is sure to be popular and no doubt expensive. Based on the design, it should be possible to develop versions that work with all motherboards and CPUs, meaning Noctua could certainly have a hit on its hands here.


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There was little that I found surprising in President Obama's second inaugural address (if you didn't watch it or have a chance to read it, you can find it here). He clearly articulated—however vaguely—a center left agenda, much as one might have predicted. Unless the Democrats capture the House in the 2014 midterms, I don't see a set of circumstances that would result in major progress on any of the big-ticket items.
My biggest concerns came in the President's discussion of entitlements. The relevant passages:
We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. (Applause.) For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.
We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. (Applause.) They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great. (Applause.)
As I have noted in many past postings, the challenges posed by our entitlements is nothing short of daunting. The dates for the insolvency of the various trust funds have been moved up in recent years (with the disability trust fund slated for insolvency by 2016, the last year of President Obama's second term). The passages above reinforce my existing concerns that there will be little if any progress on entitlement reform in the next few years. The President's rejection of a tradeoff between "caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future" ignores an important fact. The status quo guarantees that the "generation that will build the future" will also have to bear an enormous tax burden to cover the costs of the baby boomers' pensions and health care. These costs and the costs of servicing the debt will squeeze out much of the discretionary spending for the very programs that the President finds so attractive.
Of course, the President may believe that the trust funds could be made solvent if only the rich paid their fair share. If this is the case, the President's claim that we need to "revamp our tax code" may be shorthand for significant increases in marginal rates.
More likely, the President believes (like his predecessor) that entitlement reform is best left to a future administration that will have no choice but to face the tradeoffs that he rejected in his inaugural address.


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Aspheric lenses focus or collimate light without introducing spherical aberration into the transmitted wavefront. For monochromatic sources, spherical aberration often prevents a single spherical lens from achieving diffraction-limited performance when focusing or collimating light. Aspheric lenses are designed to mitigate the impacts of spherical aberration and are often the best single element solution for many applications including collimating the output of a fiber or laser diode, coupling light into a fiber, spatial filtering, or imaging light onto a detector.
All of these molded glass lenses are also available premounted in non-magnetic 303 stainless steel lens cells that are engraved with the part number for easy identification. These mounted aspheres have a metric thread that makes them easy to integrate into an optical setup or OEM application. The mounted aspheres are readily adapted to our SM1-threaded (1.035"-40) of lens tubes by using our Aspheric Lens Adapters. Mounted aspheres can be used as a drop-in replacement for multi-element microscope objectives by combining the lens with our Microscope Objective Adapter Extension Tube.
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If an unmounted aspheric lens is being used to collimate the light from a point source or laser diode, the side with the greater radius of curvature (i.e., the flatter surface) should face the point source or laser diode. To collimate light using one of our mounted aspheric lenses, orient the housing so that the externally threaded end of the mount faces the source.
Molded glass aspheres are manufactured from a variety of optical glasses to yield the indicated performance. The molding process will cause the properties of the glass (e.g., Abbe number) to deviate slightly from those given by glass manufacturers. Specific material properties for each lens can be found by clicking on the Info Icon in the tables below and selecting the Glass tab.
Choosing a Lens
Aspheric lenses are commonly chosen to couple incident light with a diameter of 1 - 5 mm into a single mode fiber. A simple example will illustrate the key specifications to consider when trying to choose the correct lens.
The specifications for the P1-630A-FC-2, 630 nm, FC/PC single mode patch cable indicate that the mode field diameter (MFD) is 4.3 μm. This specification should be matched to the diffraction-limited spot size given by the following equation:
Here, f is the focal length of the lens, λ is the wavelength of the input light, and D is the diameter of collimated beam incident on the lens. Solving for the desired focal length of the collimating lens yields
Thorlabs offers a large selection of mounted and unmounted aspheric lenses to choose from. The aspheric lens with a focal length that is closest to 16 mm has a focal length of 15.29 mm (Item# 354260-B or A260-B). This lens also has a clear aperture that is larger than the collimated beam diameter. Therefore, this aspheric lens is the best option given the initial parameters (i.e., a P1-630A-FC-2 single mode fiber and a collimated beam diameter of 3 mm). Remember, for optimum coupling the spot size of the focused beam must be less than the MFD of the single mode fiber. As a result, if an aspheric lens is not available that provides an exact match, then choose the aspheric lens with a focal length that is shorter than the calculation above yields. Alternatively, if the clear aperture of the aspheric lens is large enough, the beam can be expanded before the aspheric lens, which has the result of reducing the spot size of the focus beam.
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Choosing a Collimation Lens for Your Laser Diode
Since the output of a laser diode is highly divergent, collimating optics are necessary. Since aspheric lenses do not introduce spherical aberration, they are commonly chosen when the collimated laser beam is to be between one and five millimeters. A simple example will illustrate the key specifications to consider when choosing the correct lens for a given application.
The specifications for the L780P010 laser diode indicate that the typical parallel and perpendicular FWHM beam divergences are 10° and 30°, respectively. Therefore, as the light diverges, an elliptical beam will result. To collect as much light as possible during the collimation process, consider the larger of these two divergence angles in any calculations (i.e., in this case use 30°). If you wish to convert your elliptical beam in to a round one, we suggest using an Anamorphic Prism Pair, which magnifies one axis of your beam.
Ø = Beam Diameter
Θ = Divergence Angle
From the information above, the focal length of the lens can be determined, using the thin lens approximation:
With this information known, it is now time to choose the appropriate collimating lens. Thorlabs offers a large selection of aspheric lenses to choose from. For this application the ideal lens is a -B AR-coated molded glass aspheric lens with focal length near 5.6 mm. The C171TMD-B (mounted) or 354171-B (unmounted) aspheric lenses have a focal length of 6.20 mm, which will result in a collimated beam diameter (major axis) of 3.3 mm. Next, check to see if the numerical aperture (NA) of the diode is smaller than the NA of the lens:
0.30 = NALens > NADiode ≈ sin(15°) = 0.26
Up to this point, we have been using the FWHM beam diameter to characterize the beam. However, a better practice is to use the 1/e2 beam diameter. For a Gaussian beam profile, the 1/e2 diameter is almost equal to 1.7X the FWHM diameter. The 1/e2 beam diameter therefore captures more of the laser diode's output light (for greater power delivery) and minimizes far-field diffraction (by clipping less of the incident light).
A good rule of thumb is to pick a lens with an NA twice of the NA of the laser diode. For example, either the A390-B or the A390TM-B could be used as these lenses each have an NA of 0.53, which is more than twice the approximate NA of our laser diode (0.26). Note that these lenses each have a focal length of 4.6 mm, resulting in an approximate major beam diameter of 2.5 mm.
The table below contains all molded visible and near-IR aspheric lenses offered by Thorlabs. For our selection of IR molded aspheres, click here. The item # listed is that of the unmounted, uncoated lens. An "X" in any of the five AR Coating Columns indicates the lens is available with that coating (note that the V coating availability is indicated with the design wavelength). The table to the right defines each letter and lists the specified AR coating range. Click on the linked X's to purchase the specific lens, which is available mounted and unmounted.


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Designing for Solar
A version of this article appears in the Solar & Efficiency Special issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 20, 2007
Deciding where to put a PV system on a roof can be a struggle, especially if the best place for the system is unavailable for some reason. That's when an architect or designer may need to consider integrating the PV system with the roof or with a porch overhang—and that's where BIPV Designer software can help. BIPV Designer lets users quickly see how much energy can be produced by putting building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) on various building surfaces. By moving around in the graphical user interface, from simple to detailed, inexperienced users can learn the effects of placing BIPV in different areas. Seasoned professionals will also find the tool valuable. This simple yet powerful program is available for either Windows or Macintosh platforms and can be downloaded for free on the Internet. (Unfortunately, feedback indicates that it does not run on the most recent Mac OS.) Designing Details In 1996, Energy Ideas, my company, developed the first version of BIPV Designer on a floppy disk. We were then contracted by Solar Design Associates to expand this program to include more functions. Christopher Gronbeck of Sustainable by Design was instrumental in developing the new graphical ...
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TB Drug Shortages Put U.S. Patients in Peril
Supply of many medications needed to fight drug-resistant disease is often intermittent at best.
THURSDAY, Jan. 17, 2013 (HealthDay News) — Shortages of key tuberculosis drugs are posing a real hazard to patients throughout the United States, a new report finds.
The shortages are making it even more difficult to treat what's known as multidrug-resistant forms of the infectious respiratory illness, the researchers said. These patients often require so-called "second-line drugs" when the medication of choice fails.
For example, the new report cites the 2011 case of a father and his infant child who had each contracted TB. "Despite intensive efforts by public health personnel to obtain the two drugs [needed], the initiation of treatment was delayed by eight days for both patients, prolonging the father's infectious period and thereby increasing the risk for transmission to the community," wrote a team led by Dr. Barbara Seaworth of the University of Texas Health Science Center.
Matters were even worse for the baby, who had also contracted a form of meningitis and "was placed in a particularly dangerous situation," the researchers noted.
"TB meningitis in young children is a medical emergency, and delays in treatment lead to worse outcomes, such as severe [mental] impairment, epilepsy and death," according to the report published in the Jan. 18 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In this case, both the father and baby did recover fully, but not every case involving drug shortages may turn out so well, the experts said.
In the new study, the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association surveyed TB programs across the United States and found that 81 percent of those that reported having patients with multidrug-resistant TB also said they had problems obtaining the medicines needed to treat these patients.
All of the programs that reported difficulties in obtaining drugs to treat multidrug-resistant TB listed nationwide shortages of the drugs as one of the reasons for the difficulties, according to the report.
In an accompanying editorial, experts noted that since September 2011, the supply of key second-line TB drugs has been "precarious."
"Kanamycin is no longer produced in the United States, streptomycin has been intermittently unavailable because of increased international demand, and capreomycin and amikacin have been available on an intermittent basis in only small amounts because of manufacturing problems and lack of raw materials," according to the editorial.
Other causes included shipping delays (noted in 71 percent of cases), lack of resources (62 percent), and the complicated process of obtaining certain drugs (48 percent).
As a result of difficulties obtaining drugs to treat multidrug-resistant TB, 58 percent of the TB programs reported delays in treating patients, 32 percent said there were lapses or interruptions in patient treatment, and 32 percent said they were forced to use an inadequate — and potentially less effective — treatment regimen.
Shortages disrupt the flow of care, as well, the editorial pointed out, leading to "rationing, increased drug costs, and inefficient use of staff time." They also "increase the risk for medication errors because regimens must be adjusted, leading to confusion over drug administration schedules, adverse reactions [side effects] and [drug-to-drug] interactions," the experts wrote.
Some efforts are underway to help ease the situation. In March of 2011, the Federal Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis created a working group to address ongoing drug shortages, and in October 2011, a presidential order directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice to fight drug shortages occurring across the health care spectrum.
"Reliable, consistent access to second-line drugs will require the collaboration of CDC, FDA, state and local health departments, national health professional societies, and the pharmaceutical industry," the study authors concluded.


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Facts, Fables, and Fiction about "Paul Revere's Ride"
On the remaining Wednesdays in September, the Paul Revere Memorial Association [i.e., the Paul Revere House, getting fancy] is presenting a series of lectures on the theme "One Hundred and Fifty Years of 'Paul Revere's Ride': Facts, Fables and Fiction."
These lectures will start at 6:30 P.M. each Wednesday at the Old South Meeting House on Washington Street in Boston. The series is free to the public, thanks to a grant from the Lowell Institute. Here are the topics.
Wednesday, 8 September
Listen, My Children: Paul Revere's Ride in Poetry and Legend
Using new research, historian and author Charles Bahne [a Boston 1775 guest blogger] will examine how Henry W. Longfellow created one of America's most enduring legends—a tale which, like all legends, often strays from the truth. What did Longfellow know when he wrote the poem? Why did he include some details, and ignore or omit others? What about William Dawes and Samuel Prescott? Included in the program will be a world-premiere: the first-ever public reading of Longfellow's complete first draft, including an entire stanza which was later deleted, and has never been published.
Wednesday, 15 September
The Lost and Legendary Riders of April 19th
Beyond Paul Revere and his companions, Americans have passed along stories of other notable riders on April 19, 1775. Historian J. L. Bell [that's me!] investigates the facts and fiction behind such figures as Hezekiah Wyman, the dreaded "White Horseman"; Abel Benson and Abigail Smith, children said to have helped raise the alarm in Middlesex County [and never explored on Boston 1775]; and Israel Bissell, the post rider credited with carrying news of the fight all the way to Philadelphia.
Wednesday, 22 September
"A Friend" of Paul Revere: The Role of Family Histories in the Ongoing Mystery of Who Hung the Lanterns in Old North Steeple, April 18, 1775
On April 18, 1875, in front of a packed house at Boston's Old North Church, Samuel Haskell Newman presented his family's account of the night of April 18, 1775. Specifically, he identified his father, Robert Newman, as the man who hung the lanterns in Old North steeple on that historic night. One year later, in July, 1876, Reverend John Lee Watson of Orange, New Jersey, argued in a letter to the Boston Daily Advertiser that it was his relative, Captain John Pulling, who hung the signal lanterns. Old North Foundation historian and educator Bob Damon will evaluate these competing narratives and explore the important role that family histories play in our understanding of history.
Wednesday, 29 September
Revering America: The Politics of Remembering the Revolution
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was not the first, nor by any means the last, to make use of Revolutionary War history for other purposes. Just this past spring, George Pataki launched an anti-health care petition drive called RevereAmerica, from Boston's Paul Revere Mall. Americans have always put the past to political ends. Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of History at Harvard University and New Yorker staff writer, will discuss the fraught relationship between reverence and revolution.


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About the Presenter: Eugene McGoldrick is a development director for technical computing products at MathWorks, working in particular with application deployment and computational finance products. He has more than 20 years of experience in software development working for Lotus Development Corporation, Thinking Machines Corporation, and Putnam Investments. Eugene holds a bachelor of engineering, master of engineering science, and Ph.D. from University College Dublin
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Your announcers are Michael Cole, Booker T, and Jerry Lawler.
John Laurinaitis comes out and he reminds us that he is the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and the Interim General Manager of Raw. He says that tonight is not only the 25th Anniversary of Survivor Series, but the 10th Anniversary of his arrival in the WWE.
Match Number One: United States Championship Match: Dolph Ziggler versus John Morrison
The match starts with a vocal 'We Want Ryder' chant and they lock up. Ziggler with a waist lock take down and then he slaps Morrison in the head. Morrison goes after Ziggler and Ziggler goes to the floor. Ziggler returns to the ring and they lock up. Morrison with a hammer lock and Ziggler with a reversal but Morrison with a fireman's carry into an arm bar.
Ziggler with a kick and punches. Ziggler kicks Morrison and Ziggler with an Irish whip but Morrison floats over when Ziggler charges. Ziggler with a drop kick followed by a side head lock take down. Ziggler with a shoulder tackle and then he lands on his feet on a hip toss. Morrison blocks a drop kick and he catapults Ziggler into the turnbuckles. Morrison with a clothesline that sends Ziggler over the top rope and then he hits a corkscrew plancha onto Ziggler.
Vickie yells at Morrison and that distraction allows Ziggler to recover and hit a neck breaker for a near fall. Ziggler with a kick to Morrison's arm followed by a punch. Ziggler with an elbow drop and then he kips up. Ziggler with a fireman's carry and a near fall.
Ziggler with a reverse chin lock and then he tries for a crossface and then back to the side head lock. Ziggler pulls Morrison down by the hair and then he kicks Morrison while he seems a bit nonchalant while kicking and punching Morrison. Ziggler slaps Morrison in the face and Morrison takes Ziggler into the turnbuckles and he punches him.
Morrison misses a charge into the corner and Ziggler with a reverse exploder suplex for a near fall. Ziggler tries for a sleeper but Morrison pushes him off. Morrison with clotheslines followed by a leg lariat and a swinging neck breaker for a near fall. Ziggler runs Morrison into the turnbuckles and rolls up Morrison for a near fall. Morrison lands on his feet on a suplex attempt and then he hits a springboard round kick for a near fall.
Ziggler with a satellite move into a sleeper but Morrison applies a sleeper. Ziggler escapes and then Morrison with a satellite DDT but Vickie pulls Dolph's leg onto the rope and the referee stops his count.
The referee and Vickie argue and Vickie is sent to the back.
Morrison sets for a suplex but Ziggler blocks it and Ziggler with an inside cradle for a near fall. Ziggler avoids a Shining Wizard and gets a near fall with a rollup. Morrison and Ziggler exchange near falls. Morrison misses a springboard round kick but Ziggler hits a Fameasser for a near fall.
Morrison gets Ziggler off him on a sleeper attempt and Morrison hits the Shining Wizard. Morrison goes for Starship Pain but he lands on Ziggler's knees. Ziggler with the Zig Zag for the three count.
Winner: Dolph Ziggler
After the match, Vickie comes to the ring to celebrate with Dolph as she takes the belt from the referee.
After the match, Vickie gets on the mic and she says that the United States Champion has something to say. Dolph says that he would hate to have to follow that. Some think that he is a bit of showing off, but when you back it up every night, it isn't showing off. Ziggler says that nobody does it like him and you are not a show off if you are really good at what you do.
Zack Ryder's music plays and he makes his way to the ring and Ziggler attacks Ryder as he enters the ring.
Ryder hits a Rough Ryder but Ziggler leaves the ring.
The Divas come out to the ring for the Lumberjill Match.
Match Number Two: Divas Championship Match: Beth Phoenix versus Eve Torres
They lock up and Beth pushes Eve away but Eve with a forearm. Eve tries for a cross body but Beth catches her and drops her to the mat. Eve with a leg sweep and a kick for a near fall. Eve with another kick to the chest and then she does the booty shake for the moonsault but Beth goes to the floor and she is sent back into the ring. Eve with a neck breaker and then she hits a moonsault for a near fall.
Eve is sent to the apron and she kicks Natalya away before she returns to the ring and is kicked by Beth. Beth slingshots Eve's throat into the bottom rope and she gets a near fall. Beth with a rear chin lock. Eve kicks Beth and then Eve sends Beth into the turnbuckles and follows it with a drop kick and back elbow. Eve with a series of kicks and then she hits a running clothesline.
Eve tries for the flip leg drop but Beth gets her knees up and Beth tries for the Glam Slam but Eve with an elbow and then she applies an Octopus and then a figure four chin lock. Natalya gets on the apron along with the Bellas and Beth attacks Eve and gets a near fall with a rollup. Eve rolls through and gets a near fall. Eve kicks Beth and then she goes up top for a moonsault but Beth pushes her off and Eve holds on to the top rope.
Beth goes to the turnbuckles and they fight on the second rope. Beth traps the arms and hits a Super Glam Slam for the three count.
Winner: Beth Phoenix
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The remainder of the amount due will be charged to your credit card on arrival. Should numbers or room selection change, the per person deposit times the number of people who actually travelled will be deducted from the total accommodation charge levvied by the hostel.
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If no show we charge 50% of reservation
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The following group types are not accepted by this hostel: Junior / Primary School If you have misrepresented the type of group you are booking for, your booking may be cancelled by the hostel."
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At Patagonia's doors, Casa Margouya is a place to relax and also a perfect departure point for all outdoor activities, such as rafting, kayaking, trekking, mountain biking, canyoning, horse riding, mountain climbing, etc.
Also you can visit the hot springs, Chiloe Island and a lot of other unique and beautiful spots. You will have the opportunity to meet travellers from all over the world and chilean people.
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Cancellation Policy: 2 days before the arrival
Check-in: 8.30 am-8.00pm
Check out: 11.00 am
Method of Payment upon the arrival: Cash only!
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Faked LinkedIn job offers on the rise
Social networks interconnect people with common interests in near real time on a global scale. That's the power of social media. And it's also a beacon to cyberscammers.
Fraudulent job offers from alluring recruiters are spreading at a faster pace on LinkedIn, according to Bitdefender.
Security researchers from the Romanian anti-malware vendor recently helped expose a LinkedIn profile put up by an attractive, bogus recruiter, "Annabella Erica." Scammers had injected her profile into Global Jobs Network, an authentic LinkeIn group, comprised of 167,000 users.
Ms. Erica, it turns out, existed to help the scammers gather e-mail addresses and passwords useful in a wide array of identity theft capers.
Corporate spokesman Julie Inouye tells CyberTruth that LinkedIn immediately removes profiles that are found to be spreading inappropriate content or engage in spam or phishing.
The company also scans URL's against known blacklists and blocks sites known to be engaged the distribution of malware, spam or phishing sites, she says.
But, at the end of the day, it comes down to social media user caution. "We advise that members exercise caution before clicking links and opening attachments in email messages, as that is a common vehicle for distributing phishing sites as well as malware," says Inouye.
CyberTruth asked Bitdefender security specialist Bianca Stanescu to drill down on corrupted LinkedIn job offers.
CT: On any given day, how likely is it that a LinkedIn user will encounter a faked profile?
Stanescu: Any LinkedIn user may fall victim to job scams, no matter if he joined a LinkedIn group or not. If a user clicks the 'like' button on a fake recruitment announcement, he spreads it involuntarily to his connections' home pages. Job groups are being flooded with bogus recruitment offers on a daily basis. Scammers have a fruitful business tricking people who are just looking for a job.
CT: Have you notified LinkedIn about this and other malicious profiles?
Stanescu: Yes, Bitdefender works closely with LinkedIn as one of its security partners.
CT: What is LinkedIn doing to police its services; could it be doing more?
Stanescu: The LinkedIn security team is constantly monitoring such threats. But figuring out which profile is bogus or not can be tricky. The clues that indicate fake profiles might also indicate that a person was in a hurry or simply didn't take care of er social media appearance. The malicious and dangerous links are the ones that give the 'diagnosis.'
CT: Anything else?
Stanescu: Users should take security and privacy in their own hands. By installing a security solution and keeping it updated, they will have all fraudulent and malicious web sites blocked, no matter if they are tech-savvy and careful, or not. They should also think twice before clicking on a job promising them thousands of dollars for doing nothing and staying home.


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North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling NEEM ice core Eem ice cores Inland ice climate research
The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling - NEEM - is an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from North-West Greenland (camp position 77.45°N 51.06°W) reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian. The project logistics is managed by the Centre for Ice and Climate, Denmark, and the air support is carried out by US ski equipped Hercules managed through the US Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
The layout of an ice core drilling camp
At the start of the 2008 field season, the NEEM camp consists of a single heavy-duty tent, some vehicles, and a skiway. By the end of the season, there will be numerous buildings together with trenches under the snow surface for ice core drilling and analysis. Take a look at the camp layout here.
Get a free ride in the NEEM Camp
Tyler Jones, University of Colorado, takes you on a free ride round the NEEM camp 2011.


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christina knight necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 188 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Abode Asset Management
Abode (Asset Management) is a property management company.
We can do sales, but focus on managing investment properties. We also arrange furniture and appliance packages with complete installations for fully furnished apartments.
We are different to most other agencies as we treat the property as an asset in much the same way as the financial markets manage share portfolios - for the purpose of wealth creation.
We aim to provide accurate market information, constant communication, and easy to read and useful monthly statements.
Very simply, we want to be GREAT at what we do!
We are approachable, flexible, friendly and professional.
Our focus is mainly investors... collectors of property.
Many investors are frustrated that Financial Advisors won't recommend property as an investment (as there is nothing in it for them). We hope to help them achieve balance in their portfolios, or to offer a complete `direct property' alternative.
Our target clients are usually busy people. Asset rich and time poor. Educated and friendly.
We will be called `Abode' mostly. The words Asset Management should be much smaller.
We are looking for a logo that will translate well to all the standard business stationery.
I would like to see a symbol that can also stand alone. (For example, centred on the back of a business card.)
I am excited to see what colours you come up with, and have no set opinion as yet. Too many agencies in my areas are predominately blue... but it is my favourite colour...
Would like to see a beautiful and elegant design, not a budget or flashy design.
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Light Sources and Optical Power meter in one unit. Designed for field operations with a 5.7" screen, yet weighing under 3.3lbs / 1.5kg, the AQ1100 provides a USB port for data storage and optional PING test function and Visible Fault Light. It can be configured for standard power measurements, high power measurements or FTTH with 1490/1550nm parallel measurements.
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Pharmacokinetic and Safety Study of Raltegravir and Atazanavir in a Once Daily Dose Regimen in HIV-1 Infected Patients (PRADA)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00943540
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 22, 2009
Last Update Posted : January 10, 2011
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
The licensed dose of raltegravir is 400 mg twice daily with or without food. Raltegravir is metabolized predominantly through glucuronidation by UGT1A1. Atazanavir increases the plasma concentrations of raltegravir 400 mg twice daily by 72% due to inhibition of UGT 1A1.
This suggests that combined use of atazanavir and a lower dose frequency of raltegravir, once daily for example, is possible. Another reason why raltegravir most likely can be applied is that its pharmacodynamic effect is not related to Cmin but to AUC which is expected to be similar for an 800mg QD dose when compared to 400mg BD. Phase III clinical trials evaluating QD dosing of raltegravir are currently ongoing and interim results are expected to be published in mid 2009.
A regimen of atazanavir and raltegravir in combination with lamivudine or emtricitabine may be a well tolerated and effective NNRTI-, and ritonavir-sparing regimen that could be an attractive option for both first and second line (after NRTI/NNRTI failure) treatment regimens.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection HIV Infections
|Drug: raltegravir QD Drug: atazanavir Drug: lamivudine (or emtricitabine)
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pharmacokinetic and Safety Pilotstudy of RAltegravir and Atazanavir in a Once DAily Dose Regimen in HIV-1 Infected Patients (PRADA)
|Study Start Date :
|July 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2011
Experimental: Raltegravir BID-QD
Week 1-4
Week 5-8
Drug: raltegravir QD
Raltegravir 800mg QD
Drug: atazanavir
Drug: lamivudine (or emtricitabine)
lamivudine (or emtricitabine)
- pharmacokinetics of raltegravir [ Time Frame: after two weeks of reference treatment and after two weeks of test treatment ]
- Viral load [ Time Frame: after two weeks treatment with the reference treatment and after two weeks treatment with the test treatment ]
- Adverse events [ Time Frame: entire trial ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-infected as documented by positive HIV antibody test and confirmed by Western Blot.
- Subject is at least 18 years of age at the day of screening.
- Subject is able and willing to sign the Informed Consent Form prior to screening evaluations.
- HIV-1 RNA < 40 copies/mL for at least 6 months on antiretroviral therapy.
- Subject has no history of previous virological failure or documented resistance mutations
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of sensitivity/idiosyncrasy to the drug or chemically related compounds or excipients, which may be employed in the trial.
- Relevant history or current condition that might interfere with drug absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion.
- Inability to understand the nature and extent of the trial and the procedures required.
- Pregnant female (as confirmed by an HCG test performed less than 3 weeks before the first dose) or breast-feeding female.
- Abnormal serum transaminases determined as levels being > 5 times upper limit of normal (see Appendix A for normal ranges of clinical laboratory values).
- Concomitant use of medications that interfere with raltegravir or atazanavir pharmacokinetics: rifampicin, irinotecan, midazolam, triazolam, ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, cisapride, pimozide, lovastatin, simvastatin, indinavir, proton pump inhibitors, H2 receptor antagonists, St. john's wort, Ginkgo Biloba, didanosine, tenofovir, efavirenz, nevirapine, antacids, clarithromycin, phenytoin, phenobarbital, carbamazepine.
- Active hepatobiliary or hepatic disease (including chronic hepatitis B infection).
- Alcohol abuse.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00943540
|University of Bonn
|Bonn, Germany
|Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem
|Arnhem, Netherlands
|Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen
|Nijmegen, Netherlands
|Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
|Rotterdam, Netherlands
|Principal Investigator:
|David Burger
|Radboud University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|D.M. Burger, PhD, PharmD, Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|July 22, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 10, 2011
|Last Verified:
|January 2011
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HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
Atazanavir Sulfate
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
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Micro Beads Filled Fun Series of Cushions and accessories from Orka. Orka Micro Bead Cushions. Stretachable Spandex fabric outside which is WOW to hold and feel. Comes filled with Micro Beads or Snow Beads. Micro Beads along with Spandex fabric gives an mesmerising Feeling and touch. To add an extra dimension, we have printed these cushions with classy and stylish vibrant designs. You can also personalize the same with your images. Can be used to play throw ball in house ( It would not hurt), can be used as a traditional cushion, back support, can be used as car accessory or the best one - Hold it and feel the love!!! Try it to feel the love - Orka Way!!. Licensed Merchandise from Cartoon Network - Power Puff Girls, a leading Kids Property available exclusively in India with Orka.
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Just in time for St. Patrick's Day comes Crispy Smashers, AKA Irish Road Kill — the best potato dish on the planet.
Yeah, I went there.
Every woman I have given this recipe to has called me later and said something like this: "My husband wants ONLY this kind of potatoes now. And he wants me to make it every single night. I want to go on record that I officially hate you."
How's THAT for flattery!
Crispy Smashers is a simple potato dish that is better than a latke, right up there with a great French fry, and something that will have your family scampering to the table when they hear what's on the menu.
They are unbelievably good, easier than any other potato you can think of, and they go with everything. As with all simple dishes, it helps to use high quality ingredients – fresh potatoes, extra virgin olive oil, freshly ground pepper, and crunchy coarse sea salt.
In deciding what to name them, I thought being literal was good — they are crispy, and they are smashed. So, uh, Crispy Smashers. But one of the readers of my newspaper column said his family had renamed them "Irish Road Kill." Love it!
Writing out the directions to this recipe might make it seem overly fussy or complicated, but the opposite is true. This is so simple that after you make it once, you won't have to refer to the recipe ever again. Not ever! It will be etched into your memory. I added explanatory detail because after 25 or 30 times making them, I think I have it down to a science – how to dirty the least amount of cookware, pare it down to its essential ingredients, and make it foolproof.
Sure, if you like washing pots, you may certainly boil the potatoes to get them cooked and ready to smash. Me? One less pot is considered genius.
My husband and kids are members of the club who would like to eat these every single night. How about your family?
Here's a quick visual tutorial:
Crispy Smashers (aka Irish Road Kill)
This is more a method than a strict recipe. Don't crowd the pan – let each potato have its space to stretch out.
- 1 to 2 medium-size red skinned potatoes for each person you are serving
- Olive oil
- Sea salt (or kosher salt, or seasoned salt)
- Freshly ground pepper
Turn oven on to 425 degrees; position a rack in the middle of the oven.
Wash and dry potatoes, and with a knife, make a small slit in the top of each (so they won't explode with cooking). Place them on a paper plate, and microwave on high, about 7 minutes per pound. They will be soft.
Meanwhile, lightly film a low-sided baking sheet or baking pan with oil. (Recommendation: use the bottom of the utilitarian metal broiler pan that came with your oven, as long as it is big enough to fit all your potatoes.)
Remove potatoes from microwave oven and arrange them in the baking pan, with a couple of inches to spare between each potato (enough space for potato to spread out). One by one, squish each potato flat, to about 1/2 inch thick. I do this by placing the same paper plate on each potato, one at a time, and pushing hard with the heel of my hand; then discard the plate when all are squished flat. Or use a potato masher and push down hard once on each potato. The skin will break and the soft potato will spread out yet will remain one piece.
Drizzle olive oil on each potato (2-3 teaspoons per potato, depending on how heavy your hand is) and sprinkle each with a pinch of salt and a grinding of fresh pepper.
Bake about 30 minutes, until they are browned and crispy.
Remove from oven and serve.
Make ahead note: Although it is unlikely you will have leftovers (no one can seem to leave any remaining in the pan), you can make these a day ahead of time. Simply reheat in the microwave or the oven. They won't be as crispy the second day, but they will be just as delicious.
Variation idea
A Shockingly Delicious fan in Malibu, Calif. (hello Anne!) reports making these into "smashed potato skinish things" by adding bacon and green onions and cheese. Sounds like dinner to me!


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Imagine a chocolate cookie, and then make it about five times more buttery than the one you were imagining–and add some pecans into the mix, too.
Then, sandwich two of them together with a smear of buttery frosting.
You are now beginning to get the idea behind the Chocolate Butter Pecan Sandwich Cookie from Seattle's Dahlia Bakery. This cookie is small–not the typical gargantuan bakery or coffee shop cookie, here–but extremely mighty. I picked one up after a serious lunch at Serious Pie just around the corner, and all I can say is that it was a double whammy of Tom Douglas deliciousness. The cookie had been suggested by a friend, and while it probably wouldn't have been my first choice purely based on visual appeal, it was definitely a delightful taste surprise. Every bite was rich with chocolate, pecan, and butter–in that order.
This is all to say, if you see this cookie when you visit Dahlia–get one. Or two. Don't forget the coconut cream pie, either.
Dahlia Lounge and Dahlia Bakery are located side by side at 2001 4th Ave., Seattle; check them (and Tom Douglas' other restaurants) out at tomdouglas.com.


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Stellar author team of Microsoft MVPs helps developers and administrators get the most out of Windows IIS 8
If you're a developer or administrator, you'll want to get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft's new IIS 8 platform with this complete, in-depth reference. Prepare yourself to administer IIS 8 in not only commercial websites and corporate intranets, but also the mass web hosting market with this expert content. The book covers common administrative tasks associated with monitoring and managing an IIS environment--and then moves well beyond, into extensibility, scripted admin, and other complex topics.
The book highlights automated options outside the GUI, options that include the PowerShell provider and AppCmd tool. It explores extensibility options for developers, including ISAPI and HTTPModules. And, it delves into security protocols and high availability/load balancing at a level of detail that is not often found in IIS books.
Professional Microsoft IIS 8 features a wealth of information gathered from individuals running major intranets and web hosting facilities today, making this an indispensible and real-world reference to keep on hand.