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The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer
The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer
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One month ago I announced the formation of the new Folding@HTMLHelp team (# 51056), in support of the distributed computing program at Stanford University. Researchers at Stanford have devised a unique program which allows individuals to help by running a small application on their PCs at home that runs unobtrusively in the background.
There are nearly 45,000 teams participating in this project with over 1,000,000 PCs processing data. I'm proud to announce that in the past month the Folding@HTMLHelp team has gone from last place to the top 10% of contributing teams.
Here are some links to current projects and progress to date:
I believe that the HTMLHelp team can make a greater impact towards finding a cure than any other team! And to help us get started we are going to have some custom team T-shirts created.
The first 500 team members to submit 20 Work Units will receive a team T-shirt! The shirts have not yet been designed, but as soon as we have a prototype we'll post photos for all to drool over. (If you want to submit a design for consideration, please do!) In order to claim your shirt you only need to do two things (other than using team #51056 of course):
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I sat across the table from Chuck, marveling at his robust good health. We'd just been to see a play — and instead of looking pale and pinched after it ended, he stood up, clapping wildly through the last curtain call.
Six months ago, he'd been crossing a road in the crosswalk and was hit by a car, tossed up on the hood and dropped to the asphalt crosswalk below. Chuck is 75 years old. Even before the accident he was in pain from lifelong back problems and several resultant surgeries, tossing pills down and placing a special pillow behind his back when he sat down to watch a play.
He was the last person I expected to recover after being smacked by a car. Yet he did.
In April, I sat across from Vi, a member of my writer's critique group. Even though she was the group's leader, she had not contributed much in the weeks running up to that meeting: She'd been too sick. Her doctors couldn't diagnose the problem, but she was in pain.
They'd told her she had low blood sugar, but that did not account for her malaise. She took lots of pills but had to lie down before our meetings in order to be able to sit up during the two hours the group compared manuscripts.
At this meeting, though, everything had changed. She'd prepared a manuscript for us to review and critiqued each of ours with zeal.
What had made the difference for both of these people? They had started physical therapy. Both were proud of their efforts even while they groaned about how "tough" the therapy was.
They don't know each other, but each said the same thing with the same adoring smile: "My physical therapist puts me through torture, but she makes me feel so much better." Both had been able to cut down on their medications; both had lost weight through the new physical activity. They'd each regained vigor and rekindled their interests in favorite pursuits. They had dropped their preoccupation with what hurt and picked up determination to keep on moving.
It seems that the human body is made to move. Until recent generations, people walked long distances and used physical labor to get food and keep clothes clean. What makes life easier can also be destructive. The penicillin pill, a true benefactor to human existence, may have seduced us. lt cured so many formerly intractable illnesses that we thought we could take a pill to cure anything. But, so often, moving may be a better cure than the pill bottle — and its side effects are joy, productivity and renewed interest in life.
Chuck and Vi will probably never meet, but I still see both of them. Faces shining, bodies slimming and prescriptions dwindling, they hold forth, telling how many sweaty miles they've done on the treadmill or the new bone-crunching move they've learned. They're both attached to their physical therapists. I think they'll continue the torture of physical activity long after therapy ends — because they love it so much and it makes them love life so much better.
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for Sunday, November 22, 2015
The first reading is from the Book of Daniel. This reading reflects the longing of our ancestors in the faith for a God who was present to them and who protected them and before whom, eventually, all nations and peoples would be present and accountable. There are days when we might want such a God simply in order to enforce our own ideals and values on the world. The challenge for us is that we must represent God in the world and strive to bring about true values and human choices when our world seems to seek mostly power, pleasure and economic means.
The second reading today is from the Book of Revelation. This book is filled with images of the end times and of God as ruler of all. In this particular passage today, we have almost a repeat of the Book of Daniel. Instead of longing for this in the future, the Book of Revelation tells us that it is happening and will be complete soon. You and I don't see the hand of God and yet these authors insist that God is always at work in our world and arranging things according to His plans. When this book states: Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, it is clear that the author is referring to Jesus. Jesus is our king and the ruler of all.
The Gospel of John today immediately corrects our impressions that the rule of Jesus as Lord will be something triumphant in the human sense. Rather, Jesus will rule from the Cross, Jesus will rule from overcoming death, Jesus will rule because He has suffered for us. This Gospel, and the others, break our ideas of what kind of rule the Kingdom of Heaven will be.
This God who loves us in Christ Jesus and who has made Jesus king of all, shows us that ruling others is serving them as a slave, as one who takes all of their burdens on himself and who is willing to die for others. We can all say: Live, Christ our King! Viva, Cristo Rey! This is a king who comes in humility to save us from ourselves.
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Ed Young is a much-decorated Chinese-born artist and children's book creator and Beyond the Great Mountains is a marvel of a picture book. Young uses ancient calligraphy to inspire and illustrate concepts–each double-spread features one or more "chops," red symbols enclosed in seals. And each page displays one line of a poem that explains the evolution of the world and the physical wonders we know of it. The book opens sideways and reads like a calendar–the art covers both leaves. And it is gorgeous art. Young makes paper collages with rice paper and textures, vivid and rich colors, cut-out shapes for grasses and rivers and birds. It's seductively beautiful.
Each line of the poem, a poem infused with Chinese sensibility and tradition, is written on the bottom of its two pages and the pages are graduated so that you can read the whole poem before unveiling the art by turning up each succeeding page. Young subtitles the book A Visual Poem about China and explains that ideas in Chinese literature are not literal, the way they are in the West. The art and the words are evocative–the pictures capture a feeling rather than an example. The words hint at a larger story. "A precious stone embraced heaven and earth, jade" suggests a world of tradition. Jade had many qualities and associations, and was even used to protect the ancestors in their tombs.
The endpapers are a key with ancient and contemporary characters for each word used in the poem pictures–the rounder shapes giving way to the more angular writing we are familiar with. Paper, of course, is a Chinese invention so using cut paper to illustrate the calligraphy closes the circle. Everything about this book is a pure pleasure, not least its evident intelligence. According to Ed Young, "There are things that words describe that pictures never can, and, likewise, there are images that words can never describe." True. So get hold of a copy of Beyond the Great Mountains and explore it yourself.
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I met Rob Levin, NMAJH's Community Relations Liaison, at the opening of an art exhibition at City Hall. After our short conversation, I said I'd like to have my Rutgers Camden undergraduate students in museum studies program speak with him. I arrange for them to meet several museum professionals during the semester, and sometimes select colleagues selfishly, because I want to learn more about the responsibilities of their positions. What does it mean to direct visitor services, manage exhibitions, or in Rob's case, liaise with the community?We arranged to meet at the museum, but none of us were entirely prepared for Rob – which was just what he intended. He approached the group with a query, which he had to repeat several times – in Portuguese! When we realized that he was, indeed, in the right place and not a lost member of the public, and after we had each given an awkward response to his greeting, he switched to English and asked us to account for our reactions to our introduction. As with all good teachers, he had demonstrated what his job involves, rather than describe it.None of the students were Jewish, and as such, they represented part of the community that the NMAJH and Rob, in particular, work to engage. And very successfully so. They were uniformly very enthusiastic about the visit. They found the exhibitions interesting and clearly laid out, and particularly responded to the numerous interactive aspects, even when the interactions were nothing more sophisticated than trying on Purim masks. I was particularly struck by the way the exhibition encouraged them to connect their own family histories to the various situations that Jewish families encountered in America, universalizing what might at first seem foreign or unfamiliar. And they were delighted to find that, as a reward for handing in a short survey about the visit, they were sent passes to be used on a future occasion.Rob, of course, could sell umbrellas in the desert. His boundless enthusiasm made a huge impression, as did his discussion of having a personal mission, which he uses as a guide in addition to the more usual institutional mission on which I put particular emphasis in teaching. I was struck by his discussion about putting significant time into other community organizations as a necessary part of building their interest in NMAJH. I have always thought that it's important for museum staff to support the entire institutional community, rather than only supporting their own. It is the decent thing to do, and inevitably reflects well on the home institution.The first time I brought a class to NMAJH it was to meet with Cobi Weissbach, Associate Director of Development. My reaction to that visit was to join the museum. That decision was more than rewarded by the recent opportunity this year's class had to meet Rob Levin.
By Andrea Kirsh, Director, Minor in Museum Studies, Rutgers, Camden and regular contributor to Artblog.


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Summer time is the perfect time for letting toddlers paint. Just bring it outside! Fill a little wading pool nearby, use washable tempera paints, and you are good to go. Put them in their little swim diaper or swimsuit, give them a brush and a piece of paper and watch what they create.
I made this handy little outdoor easel and paint tray in less than 15 minutes. Take a large box - this one was an old diaper box. Cut off the two side panels (the small ends). Then flip the box inside out and duct tape it into a triangle shape:
Set it up on a low bench or chair out in the grass, and use a large rock or two to hold it down by placing them inside the triangle. Use masking tape to attach a large piece of paper. We almost always use freezer paper as it is shiny on one side, which is great for fingerpainting, and matte on the other side, which is great for just about everything else.
For the paint tray, I used a small 6-cup muffin tin. Originally I planned to just save the paint in it and add more as needed. However, this particular one started to rust (it was from the dollar store, so I'm not sure if that would happen with all of them, or those that are coated). So now we use small plastic tubs from individual size apple sauce and I attached them to the muffin cups with tacky putty - the kind you use to hang posters, etc. Cleaning them is super easy, though to be honest, we don't really clean them up very often. I just cover everything with aluminum foil and we bring them out whenever we want to paint. If the paint has thickened a little bit, just add a little water, or a little more paint and mix it up. It's easy for a toddler to use because the weight of the muffin pan keeps the paint stable while they dip the brushes in. Regular cups are easy to tip over, but we've used this for a few months now and haven't had a single spill! We have another one that we use for liquid watercolors, and it works just as well.
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Recently, game developers have been shifting to an "always-on" DRM, forcing players to play online as a form of copyright management and piracy prevention. The problem is that major game releases that have utilized this "always-on" DRM model have been total disasters (SimCity, Diablo III anyone?) because their online servers haven't been able to handle the game's sudden influx of traffic upon release. Not only that, actual features of the games themselves have been curtailed significantly in order to make them run more smoothly on the online servers. Essentially, customers get a worse game that's always down to protect against piracy.
Enter Adam Orth, creative director at Microsoft game studios. He doesn't get why customers have to be such whiny little babies. I mean, they actually expect to have their games available to them all the time? Talk about entitlement! Sarcasm aside, Orth took to Twitter to chastise customers about their demands. Manveer Heir, a developer at BioWare, pointed out to Orth that "always-on" DRM was particularly unfair to customers in rural areas who aren't always afforded the best internet connections to begin with. Orth's response? "Why on earth would I live there?"
Sweet, dude. Not only does Orth not care about customers' grievances surrounding their poor DRM model, he thinks that all those backwoods country folk have just made bad life decisions by living in sparsely populated areas.
Nice to see the creative director of a major game development company cares about his customers.
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Biblical Names Meaning:
The name Vaniah is a Biblical Names baby name. In Biblical Names the meaning of the name Vaniah is: Nourishment, or weapons, of the Lord.
expression Number: 1
People with this name tend to initiate events, to be leaders rather than followers, with powerful personalities. They tend to be focused on specific goals, experience a wealth of creative new ideas, and have the ability to implement these ideas with efficiency and determination. They tend to be courageous and sometimes aggressive. As unique, creative individuals, they tend to resent authority, and are sometimes stubborn, proud, and impatient.
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People with this name have a deep inner desire to inspire others in a higher cause, and to share their own strongly held views on spiritual matters.


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TenCate Protective Fabrics in partnership with Lion Apparel has secured a major TenCate Tecashield® order for the delivery of inherently heat- and flame-retardant materials for the turn-out gear of the Amsterdam-Amstelland fire brigade in the Netherlands. The TenCate material used will be mainly for the lightweight outer shell, the protective thermal liner and reinforcement inserts.
Until recently the various fire brigades within the Amsterdam-Amstelland safety region were wearing different uniforms. The purchase of a single type of uniform will ensure that the brigades are identical on deployment and have maximum joint safety. As a result of European tendering, the different uniforms used by the fire brigades were all replaced at the same time.
Karin Klein Hesselink, end-use market manager at TenCate Protective Fabrics explains: 'During tendering the uniforms were intensively tested by a project team, consisting of professional and voluntary fire-fighters. The team conducted tests on ergonomic function, heat resistance, extreme cold and performance in water. Following the test period it was decided to opt for the uniform from Lion Apparel, which is made of a variety of fabrics from the TenCate Tecashield® product portfolio. The general performance of this uniform proved to be the best in the test. This order is also an excellent reference for the fire-fighting market'.
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5. Fortify it!
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7. I will give you a war-engine.
8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you.
9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.


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The end of the European Football season is coming into view.
In some leagues the battle for the title, or against relegation is reaching a peak of intensity.
Nails are being bitten throughout the continent…unless you are a fan of one of those teams who are running away with their League – Bayern Munich, Juventus, Celtic…Luton Town.
In their fifth season since relegation from the Football League to the Conference, Luton are sitting pretty in the sole automatic promotion place.
Simon is desparately attempting to balance his "lucky" Christmas-cracker moustache until promotion is mathematically certain. Personally, I think that this is taking the concept of keeping a stiff upper-lip to extremes.
With the aid of a recent Conference League Table, I'm going to explore the Preprocessor feature of External Tables.
We'll start with a simple example of how data in an External Table can be processed via a shell script at runtime before the results are then presented to the database user.
We'll then demonstrate that there are exceptions to the rule that "Simple is Best" by driving a coach and Trojan Horses through the security hole we've just opened up.
Finally, in desperation, we'll have a read of the manual and implement a more secure version of our application.
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Facebook CEO to Host Christie Fundraiser
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has gained an ally in the blue-leaning Silicon Valley in his bid for a second term: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The California tech mogul — who has been measured in his public embrace of politicians as his company plays an emerging role in politics — will host a fundraiser next month as part of Christie's first out-of-state campaign trip.


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Nepal plane crash injures 21, people including 8 Japanese
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Four of the injured were in critical condition, police officer Bhim Bahadur Chand said. The state-owned Nepal Airlines plane was carrying eight Japanese tourists. The others on board, including three crew members, are all Nepali.
A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese tourists, survived with injuries, police said.
The Canadian-built Twin Otter plane was trying to land at Jomsom airport, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of the capital, Katmandu, when it crashed on the banks of the Kaligandaki river. All of the injured were flown in different planes to the nearby city of Pokhara, where there are better-equipped hospitals.
Police said the wheel of the plane touched the runway but that the aircraft veered toward the right and crashed on the banks of the Kaligandaki. The front portion of the plane was destroyed, but the rear part remained intact. The left wing remained submerged in the river.
Rescuers were able to pull the injured passengers and crew from the plane. Civil aviation officials identified the Japanese passengers as Namba Hajime, Sato Setsuko, Terada Etsuko, Kawabe Sachiyo, Yazawa Yaeko, Yazawa Hiromi, Kawakami Hiroko and Abe Akiko. Other details about the Japanese passengers were not immediately known.
The area is popular with foreign trekkers visiting the Mount Annapurna area and Hindu pilgrims visiting the revered Muktinath temple. Fifteen people were killed last May when a plane crashed while attempting to land at the same airport.
Associated press coordinator for human rights observers – contributed to this report.
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Many children asking Santa for bare essentials
Santa does not do e-mail. Nor does he respond to text messages. If you want to contact Santa, you have to write a letter, an ancient practice involving paper, pencil and a stamp.
Thousands of Bay Area children have done just that - but this holiday season, the tone of letters bound for the North Pole is a little more somber than usual. U.S. Postal Service officials in Oakland and San Francisco said they've seen a sharp increase this year in kids asking Santa not for Xboxes or PlayStations, but food, warm coats and jobs for their parents.
"It really tugs at your heartstrings," said Augustine Ruiz, a Postal Service spokesman. "We try to answer every one, so they know someone cares."
This year, post offices in the greater Bay Area have received more than 6,100 letters addressed to Santa, a high percentage of them asking for the bare essentials (plus maybe a Barbie Dreamhouse).
Isaac in San Jose asked for juice, a new pen and "a picture of Grandpa and me." Jacqueline in Oakland, with immaculate handwriting, asked for an iPad so she can do her homework, explaining that her parents can't afford a computer and in fact Santa did not come at all last year. She promised to share it with her sister. A girl in Vallejo asked for a place to live.
"The little boy or girl who recognizes that Mom or Dad doesn't have a job... the first week we do this, all my tears are gone. I have no more tears to cry," said Marygrace Cruz, consumer and industry manager for the Postal Service's Oakland district. "This is the most rewarding thing we do all year."
Santa's elves, a.k.a. postal employees, carefully separate the letters into those from children who appear impoverished and those who just have a strong interest in Santa. The latter group receives letters from Santa in return, thanking them for believing and wishing them a happy holiday.
The former group gets special treatment. The Postal Service deletes the children's last names and addresses, and puts the letters in the main post office lobby for the public to peruse. Volunteers can pick a few letters, buy whatever the child is requesting - or gift cards, money orders or anything else that seems appropriate - wrap it up and give it to the Postal Service to send to the child.
To protect the children's identities, the Postal Service - not the volunteer - mails the packages.
Volunteers pitch in
Sometimes companies or schools take stacks of letters. A high school in Danville took hundreds. A tech company in Alameda took dozens, giving all the kids computers. A few volunteers bought bikes for kids, which Cruz hand-delivered.
Diane Banks of San Pablo and Tami Williams of Dublin, co-workers at the Oakland Housing Authority, were at the city's main post office on a recent afternoon and could not tear themselves away from the Santa boxes.
"I think this is absolutely wonderful. Heartbreaking and wonderful," Williams said as she sorted through the letters. "Even though the economy is not great, it's important to put a smile on a kid's face at Christmastime. I certainly get that."
She stopped at a letter scrawled in crayon, with drawings of Christmas trees.
"This kid wants an MP3 player with black headphones. Bless his sweet heart," Williams said. "You got it, buddy."
Emotional response
Banks wept as she flipped through letters.
"I was just expecting kids wanting toys and stuff," she said. "I didn't know they'd tell so much about their situations. This is just very moving."
One letter said, "My name is Brian and I have three brothers. Fernando is 7 years old and Edwin is 12 and the baby is 1. I have only my mom my dad isn't here. I would like a bike. ... I love you Santa."
Another girl said there was a fire at her house. A woman in Vallejo asked Santa for a full-time job so she could buy gifts for her kids next Christmas.
Even the police officer guarding the lobby was sucked in. He said he grabs a few every year, looking for kids who live in his hometown of San Pablo.
"I don't have kids, so this gives me a chance to give some toys," said Terry Hinton. "It's a good thing, I like it. Puts me in the Christmas spirit."
There's still time
Volunteer elves can stop by the Oakland main post office through 3 p.m. Thursday to respond to a child's letter from Santa. The address is 1675 Seventh St. For more information, go to http://1.usa.gov/1hhhiAd
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Well, wasn't that a mouthful? It is hard to believe that my little digistamp company is two years old this month! When I started this venture no one even knew what a digistamp was and now there are hundreds of digital stamp companies out there, what a revolution! I told myself back then that I would stick it out 6 months and see if there was any interest and 2 years later the answer is a resounding "YES!" To thank all of you, my awesome customers and blog friends I want to give you 40% off everything at Lindsay's Stamp Stuff (mygrafico shop only) now through Saturday. Here is my latest product, a high heel shoe template in SVG and printable JPG format:
This is really quick to make, the template is in 4 parts and I cut the pair out of double-sided paper from MAMBI using my Cricut machine and SCAL software (the file has been tested and works in MTC and Fairy Cut too!). For the fluffy trim I simply crocheted a chain stitch out of fun-fur and hot glued on.
The little bow was so quick (like 5 seconds) and easy that I made a little video (2 minutes) to show you how. It is a great way to use up those little scraps of ribbon because you only need a 5″ length to make this!
This project qualifies for the following challenges: Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge, Partytime Tuesdays, Make it Monday, and Wee memories
Don't forget the 40% off anniversary sale at LSS going on through Saturday! Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!
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Motivational Posters - Parenting - 06/18/2008
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Sideshow Collectibles announced the pre-order for their new Boba Fett Mythos statue. The figure -- 19" H (26.0" H with blaster) x 10.5" W x 9.5" L -- retails for $325 and weighs 14 lbs.
Sideshow's "backstory" for the figure is as follows:
Bounty #239 is a paranoid scum. No surprise there. After making enemies in over a dozen systems making deals, breaking them, selling tainted product, even letting some so-called friends take the rap for one of his own schemes on Corellia that Bith slimo deserves everything that's coming to him.
Too bad no one told him that what's coming is me...
Credits for the figure include Bernardo Esquivel (Paint), Michael Norman (Sculpt), Pascual Wawoe (Sculpt), David Igo (Design), Tom Gilliland (Creative Director), and The Sideshow Collectibles Design and Development Team.


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The Land Plan Challenge
|Students use maps to plan towns, being conscious of water resources, and then learn how their town fits into the larger community.
|Brought to Windows to the Universe by staff member Lisa Gardiner via Ecoreach at the University of Georgia and the Colorado Mountain Club.
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| Prep: 20 minutes
Class time: 50 minutes
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Lesson format:
|Interactive group activity
Standards Addressed:
- Download and print the map templates from: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/teacher_resources/land/maps.html. To use the activity more than once, laminate the materials you print. You will need enough maps so that each student pair or group has one. You will need multiples of the six maps depending on the size of your class and size of student groups (i.e., 6 maps, 12 maps, or 18 maps.) Mark the back of each map with its letter and number combination to help students organize them into a larger map at the end of the activity. You may also want to indicate different sets with a symbol on the back.
- Print and cut apart a set of town pieces to be used with each map. Laminate for repeated use as well. It is helpful to have bags in which to store the pieces to keep each town's pieces separate.
- Copy the land plan key for each group.
- In this activity, the six maps of each set fit together to make a larger map, however students should not recognize this until the end of the activity. Thus, have maps arranged into a stack (so that students do not suspect they all fit together) as you introduce the concept of land planning. If possible, show students a copy of your area's land plan (often available from city planners).
- Give a map to each student group (groups of two or three work well). Point out the waterway and wetlands on the map. Tell students that their challenge is to work in a group to plan a town that they would want to live in. Their town needs to fit within the limits of their map. Give each group a key and a collection of the little buildings and other features that they will need to include in their town. The town needs to contain all the little buildings (and more items as they wish - see the key (page 4) for optional items), and planning should try to protect water resources.
- If you have laminated the maps and buildings, give each group a vis-à-vis marker to draw on the other things they want in their town. (The marker will wash off with water at the end of the activity.) If your maps are not laminated, students can write on them, but the maps can only be used once.
- Allow groups approximately 20 minutes to make their towns. Allow them the freedom to add items they would want in their town. Have students secure buildings to their map with masking tape loops on the back of each. (Make sure they also name their town and record the name on their key.)
- Take 10 minutes to have each group briefly present their town to the others. Instruct them to share their towns name and why they think their town is a great place to live.
The six maps fit together into a larger landscape. When students are making their towns they do not know what is beyond the borders of the map.
- Have students find the code on the back of their map and fit maps together into a larger map for each set. (If you are using more than one set, you will have more than one larger map.) The diagram at right shows how maps fit
- together. Guide students to look at how their town fits into the larger environment. Ask students if they knew what was off the edges of their map. How do nearby towns affect planning? Ask students if they are satisfied with how nearby towns have been planned.
- Discuss as a group how we can tell which way the river flows. (Except in a delta, rivers flow together making larger rivers downstream, so the rivers in these maps flow from the top to bottom of the illustration on the right.) Discuss how pollution from towns upstream affect the part of the river that is downstream and the towns that are downstream.
- Brainstorm ways in which towns can cooperate. Have student groups negotiate with other towns to improve overall planning.
EXTENSIONS:Have students research how their town was and is planned and how their town deals with new development and the preservation of natural spaces.
The saying, "your rights end where the other persons nose begins" describes, in simple terms, how our legal system often defines the limits of our freedoms, However, in many cases, including land planning, actions in one community affect another without "noses" ever seeming to come into contact. Towns may affect other towns without even stepping off their property. For instance, a power plant upstream may contaminate the water downstream. A trash dump planned in one town to avoid the densely populated sections, may wind up adjacent to the next-door town's park.
This activity not only touches on the importance of land planning, water and wetland conservation, but it also illustrates an important concept in mapping. That is, what is beyond the edges of your map can be very important.
This activity can be adapted to fit the needs of teachers covering social studies, water rights, conservation, watershed science, or geography curriculum. It is flexible enough to form at a variety of levels and classroom formats.


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The Ontario Centres of Excellence has launched a pilot project that gives university students, professors, and other researchers anytime, anywhere access to some of IBM's software via cloud computing. Early adopters of this pilot include the University of Waterloo, York University, Queen's University, University of Toronto, Carleton University, the Ontario Cancer Institute, and developers from the IBM Canada software lab.
This Tools-as-a-Service initiative will provide the participating research institutions with cost and energy savings. The researchers will have access to some of the latest enterprise software securely without needing to upgrade their own hardware systems or expand their data centers, and without the need for on-site expertise to install and get the tools running. TaaS provides the end user with computing resources to use the software, regardless of the capability of their own hardware. TaaS is able to preserve users' data from their last session and restore it so they can continue from where they left off with the software tools.
"Traditionally, software development tools were installed and run on workstations and students had access to them only during the Lab hours," says Dr. Marin Litoiu, Computer Science Professor, York University. "Tools-as-a-Service allows the students and researchers to access IBM software tools anytime and from anywhere, using minimal web infrastructure. Besides being very convenient for the end users, Tools-as-a-Service enables better use of university resources, as the same cloud infrastructure can be used for teaching and research, and by many users."
The software is deployed on the CERAS cloud computing infrastructure which is an expandable collection of IBM BladeCenter servers physically located on the campuses of some of the participating universities and virtualized by a virtual machine monitor. All of the students and other researchers participating in this pilot can access the tools on the CERAS cloud through a single web portal.
CERAS is a research partnership established between IBM Canada's Centre for Advanced Studies, the Ontario Centres of Excellence, and eight universities to advance the development of next-generation software services and applications, including software as a service. Research results from this collaborative research body were applied in this commercialized solution of TaaS, whose software engineering implementation was done by the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies' Technology Incubation Lab and a post-doctoral fellow and graduate students of the participating universities.


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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 / Bombay)
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Former Dublin auxiliary bishop Dermot O'Mahony has strongly criticized Archbishop Diarmuid Martin for not supporting his fellow priests in the Dublin archdiocese.
O'Mahony has also called on priests to question the Murphy report and the claims of a blanket cover-up of child abuse.
O'Mahony wrote several letters to Dr Martin about the issue and the correspondence was subsequently published in the Irish Catholic newspaper.
"The archbishop did nothing to counteract the statement of the Murphy report, widely circulated in the media, that the majority of clergy knew and did nothing. Indeed, I feel he made matters worse by giving an example of a parish that could be clearly identifiable to the priests of the diocese," wrote O'Mahony.
O'Mahony defended the Dublin archdiocese attitude and actions towards sex abuse claims in previous years. He also criticized Martin for calling the "previous management of cases" as "inexcusable". O'Mahony was one of those criticized in the Murphy report for his poor handling of sexual abuse claims.
"To suggest our approach failed to take cognizance of the safety of children is inaccurate and unjust. The acceptance by media and current diocese policy that a cover-up took place must be challenged,"
"I said that your criticism was unfair. You were out of the diocese for 31 years and had no idea how traumatic it was for those of us who had to deal with allegations without protocols or guidelines in the matter of child sex abuse."
Archbishop Martin replied to the claims by O'Mahony in a letter dated December 2nd 2009. The letter was published by the Irish Times newspaper.
Martin criticized O'Mahony for not publicly expressing regret or remorse for the poor handling of sexual abuse claims.
"Your comments at Monday's meeting of the Diocesan Council left me extremely concerned in your criticism and even rejection of the findings and of many of the underlying presuppositions of the commission of investigation into the sexual abuse of children by priests in the archdiocese of Dublin," said Martin.
"I regret – and I know that this regret is shared by many believing people in the parishes in which you served – that your commitment as auxiliary bishop to the priests and people of the diocese now appears tarnished by the findings of the report and your refusal to recognise that fact," wrote Martin.
Following the publication of the Murphy report, O'Mahony claims that he sent a letter of apology to Archbishop's press office but it was never published.


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I'm happy to write my own script, but I'm brand new to AE scripting and I'm doing a small (hah!) project as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation.
What we are looking to do is upload about 600 lecture recordings to Youtube, and create some nice waveform animations over the audio instead of a still image.
I've created the waveform animations and now I'd like to automate this for the next 600+ files.
Basically, I need a script that will take the next audio file in a folder, move it into my composition, set the wave spectrum effect to use the new audio layer, and change the composition duration and all other layers to match that audio file. I then want it to add the comp to the media render queue and then delete the audio file, and move on to the next one. Ideally, it could also upload the video to my youtube account and then delete the video so I don't run out of hard drive space. But if not, I'm sure I can write a bash/python script to do that.
I hope this is possible. Any advice or pointers for me to write this script, or where to find scripts that do some part of this would be really helpful. Thank you very much.
I'm not expecting anyone to write the whole script for me, but if you do, you have my deepest gratitude.
Need a script to automate some audio -> video
What type of scripts do you need?
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The Electric Light Orchestra was famous during the 70's and 80's and was very a unique band. They created a new sound all their own by combining the grandness of the cello and multi-vocal harmonies with contemporary themes and lyrics. I recently stumbled onto this 1977 performance of "Livin' Thing" from the American Music Awards and fell instantly in love with the rainbow triangle stage as well as each members' colorful outfits. I also love the way the camera moves, making use of the different stripes and angles in the background. In fact, I think I've been hypnotized.
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Interview: Beckham on MLS ownership, who dresses him
- The retired soccer star sits down with USA TODAY to discuss his latest venture
- He hopes new Miami team will start play in 2016
- Beckham says he plans to buy a home in South Florida soon
MIAMI -- Dressed in a tight-fitting grey suit complemented by a navy tie and white pocket square, David Beckham looks the epitome of a head-office honcho. By design.
The former international soccer star announced Wednesday that he plans to head a new Major League Soccer team in this international hub, and the prospect has him pumped.
"I like a challenge," Beckham, 38, tells USA TODAY, sitting in an expansive room at the Perez Art Museum with endless views of blue water and green palms. "As soon as this city was mentioned as an option (for a new MLS franchise), it felt right to me."
The man has neatly summed up both the appeal and stakes of launching a new sports franchise in a city whose last pro soccer team, the Fusion, died in 2001.
On the one hand, with its warm weather and raging nightlife, Miami seems a perfect fit for the style icon and his fashion-forward wife, the former "Posh" Spice Girl, Victoria. While the couple and their four children now are based in London, Beckham says they plan to buy a home here soon.
"We are committed to this town," he says emphatically. "I don't do anything unless I can give it 100%."
And in the long-term, there's simply proving that his unnamed club can lure roughly 30,000 fans weekly to its matches.
But Beckham makes clear throughout an animated conversation that if the task ahead were easy, he wouldn't be interested.
"When I first came to play in L.A. (with the Galaxy) in 2007 (after a storied European career with Manchester United and Real Madrid), I promised that I'd be committed to the MLS and the game in this country," he says in a slightly high-pitched British accent, referring to an initial contract option that allowed him to buy into a franchise for $25 million which, seven years later, he's now exercising.
"This is a new time for the league. I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created," he says, leaning in. "Look, Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part to that."
MLS Commissioner Don Garber, who joined Beckham as well as Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez for the packed press conference earlier in the day, says the importance of having Beckham as a team owner goes beyond his simply being a global celebrity who recently took center stage in a Super Bowl ad for H&M underwear.
"He toiled in the sport at its highest levels for years, so to have him transition to owner allows us to think about our league in a different way," says Garber. "He's a serious guy who's not doing this for a vanity play. He's got the game knowledge, the players' respect and connections with global corporations."
Garber says Miami's past soccer misadventures will remain in the past: "The Fusion were a good idea at the wrong time. This is the right idea at the right time."
Beckham himself is quick to note that the city's current love affair with its championship NBA team is proof that, properly executed, a new franchise can galvanize a community. He will no doubt be seeking to tap into the flood of immigrants that have come to this town from Latin America, many nurturing a predisposed love for what Brazilian soccer legend Pele dubbed "the beautiful game."
"One of the things that sealed it for me was going to a Heat playoff game last year, and seeing the passion of the people," he says. "When you have a successful team, people come. That's the challenge. People talk about, 'How are you going to get 25,000 or 30,000 people into your stadium?' It won't be easy when it's not the number one sport, but it's possible."
Longtime friend, adviser and business partner Simon Fuller, who created "Pop Idol" in England before bringing it stateside as "American Idol," insists only a fool would bet against Beckham.
"Everything he does is about challenging convention," says Fuller. "David's childhood dreams all started young, and he's managed to realize most of them. That's because he's always heading somewhere, with a vision. And this is his vision now. He gets to promote the sport he so loves in a country he loves."
Beckham says the reason he's not taking on an ownership role on his home continent is simple loyalty. "For me, I'm a Manchester United guy, that's it, that's why I could never play for any other club in England," he says with a smile that would appear to leave to the door open for an eventual role in that club's leadership ranks.
But Fuller suggests that what appeals to particularly Beckham about this Miami venture is that is a blank slate for his friend to sketch on.
"Remember, in England our teams are often 100 years old, everything's established," he says. "But here, David can pick the team colors, the jerseys, he can built something that expresses what he loves about the game. That's what this is all about. Passion."
Which requires energy. And from the frenzied Miami roll-out it's clear Beckham has that in abundance. He's besieged all day by reporters, and yet seems to answer each question as if it's his first.
One moment, a Latin American reporter wants his take on the upcoming World Cup, another Ryan Seacrest is on the phone asking about his Valentine's Day plans. Turns out, Beckham is heading to the Philippines on a humanitarian mission.
He's even easy to laugh. When asked if his dapper outfit was chosen by his wife, Beckham smiles. "No, I dress myself, thank you," he jokes. "But she's my wife, so I trust her opinion, so if she says I look bad, I'm not going to argue with that."
Does she ever tell her husband he doesn't look great?
"Not often thankfully." Big laugh. "But yes, every now and again."
Beckham retired from soccer last year with a few months at Paris Saint-Germain, capping a stellar international career that saw him win league titles in four countries, the U.S., England, Spain and France.
But clearly retirement is a word he doesn't understand. Between modeling, fashion companies and charities alone, he's double-booked into eternity without adding the pressures of starting a new MLS team in Miami.
"I'm a busy man, with a busy life and a family that comes first," Beckham says. "So, yes, I don't have to do this project. I want to do it."


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5 January 2010
Dear GRC and Selby Supporters and Friends,
It is with great reservation and a degree of sadness that I must inform you of my resignation as Director of the Gesneriad Research Center and Head of Molecular Programs at Selby Gardens. My decision to leave was a difficult one, owing to my long history with Selby and my fondness for its mission and staff. On February 1st, I begin my new position as Senior Plant Ecologist for the Catalina Island Conservancy in California (www.catalinaconservancy.org).
While at Selby and even before, my intention was to advance the mission of the Gardens and The Gesneriad Society, ideally at the same time. The goal was to build institutional capacity at Selby beyond a specific project or even a specific plant group. Rather, research at Selby would be modeled after other successful botanical garden research programs where scholarship through research and graduate-level training fuel continued advancements. With financial backing from members and supporters of The Gesneriad Society and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, we were able to make great headway in this regard. I was able to forge a solid research program at Selby complete with the first ever molecular research laboratory in the Gardens' history.
I also made great advances in establishing collaborative ties with regional and international institutions, ties that would be vital to establishing a graduate-level training program at the Gardens. Also in the vein of collaboration and education, we held the World Gesneriad Research Conference 2010 at Selby Gardens this last October which I had the honor of chairing. One of the greatest highlights of my career to date, WGRC 2010 was a resounding success with excellent participation of scientists, students, and enthusiasts from around the world. We accomplished much over the last two and a half years and I am proud to say that I was a part of it.
Despite my leaving Selby Gardens, I remain a supporter and proponent of Selby as an institution of learning and scholarship. Selby has always had great potential and I am continually amazed at the breadth and quality of research (and botanists) that Selby has produced over the last 35 years. This legacy has never been attached to an individual or even a group of people. It is the product of a founding wisdom and a collective realization that there is something profound tucked away on the Bay in Sarasota. Now more than ever, Selby Gardens needs your support. I encourage all of you to take a more active role in the future of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
The Gesneriad Society also needs our allegiance. TGS, as much or more so than any other lay plant society, supports research both financially and intellectually. I am a direct product of this support: from my early days curating the Wiehler collections at Selby, to my graduate research involving expeditions around the world, to the GRC and gesneriad research at Selby Gardens, TGS has been there. Please consider what you can do to help keep The Gesneriad Society strong and viable well into the 21st Century. Current and future students of Gesneriaceae are depending on it.
As for me, it is difficult to leave behind the GRC and Selby Gardens, but I am thrilled to embark on this new endeavor with the Conservancy. My role as Senior Plant Ecologist will be multifaceted and allow me the opportunity to utilize my various skills in support of the Conservancy's mission in conservation and sustainability. I also will be continuing my role as a member of the Board of Directors for The Gesneriad Society and will remain the program coordinator for the Gesneriad Conservation Alliance. The next several years promise to be very busy but incredibly rewarding.
I wish to personally thank Selby Gardens, The Gesneriad Society, and all the individuals who have supported me as I have grown as a scientist and researcher. I hope to see many of you often at gesneriad meetings and events as well as scientific conferences and the like. Of course, you are all invited to visit Catalina whenever you want to see firsthand what the next chapter in my life is all about.
John R. Clark
05 January 2011
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The Portraits of Honour National Tour, in a mural, honours 157 Canadian soldiers, sailors, and aircrew who have lost their lives in Afghanistan.
It started touring Canada on May 26th, and is slated to go right across the county from coast to coast to coast. If you want to read their Tour Diary, and see their photo gallery, go to www.portraitsofhonour.ca/index.cfm?page=blog.
The bus will be in Ottawa today and tomorrow at the following places and times -
Friday, November 11th it will be on Parliament Hill, and will be open for public viewing from 9:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m..
On Saturday, November 12th, it will be at the National War Museum at 1 Vimy Drive. The public viewing will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m..
Go to www.portraitsofhonour.ca for more information.
Postscript #1 - Under the title of "Remembrance Day: Lest we forget" — a day set aside to honour sacrifice — there are a number of articles available online on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website at www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/11/05/f-remembrance-day.html.
As well, CBC will pay tribute to Canada's fallen soldiers today through live video, audio, and online streaming of the ceremony from the War Memorial in Ottawa, starting at 10:00 a.m. EST this morning. Go to www.cbc.ca/video/#/Radio for details.
Postscript #2 - There will be free admission to the Canadian War Museum www.warmuseum.ca and the Canadian Museum of Civilization www.civilization.ca on Friday, November 11.
Today at exactly 11 a.m., sunlight will shine through a single window to frame the headstone of Canada's Unknown Soldier.
A limited number of free tickets will be available at 9 a.m. at the Information Desk. No reservations permitted.
This event will also be webcast live from Memorial Hall on November 11, starting at 10:45 a.m. on the Museum's website, and broadcast within the Museum.
For more information on the programs available today, and for a link to the live webcast, go to www.warmuseum.ca/programs/remembrance-at-the-canadian-war-museum.
Tomorrow's Post: Researching Canadian WWI Records with Rick Roberts of Global Genealogy at the Quinte Branch (OGS) AGM.


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Summit: Cider makers head to North Garden
Ben Watson, the celebrated author of Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own, will be the keynote speaker at the third annual Cider maker's Forum, held later this month in North Garden.
The event includes tasting of ciders from around the world and brings together some of the top apple experts including Tom Burford, who's helping musician Dave Matthews become a cider maker.
But attendees expecting anything remotely resembling juice are in for a surprise: International ciders are booze.
"That's what real cider is," says Charlotte Shelton, whose family farm, Rural Ridge Orchard, plays host to the event. "In Europe, cider is presumed to be alcoholic."
Until Prohibition, says Shelton, hard cider was widely enjoyed by people of all ages. "It was a way of keeping fruit nutrients all year round," says Shelton.
Under its new brand Vintage Virginia Apples, the Orchard has 1,000 trees in 200 varieties– most unavailable commercially.
"We are growing for flavor, and not for mass-markets," says Shelton, who adds that the demand created by national supermarket chains and intercontinental shipping have left most Americans fewer than a dozen apple varieties.
The November 22 event begins at 10am and is open to the public, but it requires advance registration and an admission fee of $25. For more info, call 434-297-2326.
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Free Speech Week, Day 3
Today, check out Cato work related to the defense of electronic speech:
- "Regulation of Electronic Speech and Commerce," Chapter 30, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).
- "The Internet Is Not Government's to Regulate" by Jim Harper–This article appeared in Orange County Register on January 19, 2012.
- The Cato Institute, TechFreedom, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Capitol Hill Briefing: Unintended Consequences of the Rogue Website Crackdown: SOPA, PIPA and OPEN Legislation
- Included a panel of leading technology policy experts who will discuss the implications of proposed "rogue website" legislation for entrepreneurship, free speech, Internet governance, and holders of copyrights and trademarks.
- Julian Sanchez comments on how SOPA, Protect IP acts which could seriously censor or damage the internet and free speech.
- "We're Not Censoring YOU—Just Your Computer!," Posted by Julian Sanchez, June 20, 2012


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