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I am going to lay it to you straight, you are 18, the sea of women you will swim through in the next 5-10 years will eclipse her time in your life. If she is causing you grief and pain drop her. It's going to be tough but time will move on and the wounds will heal. If she has moved on, then that should be a sign she doesn't want to be with you. If you can stomach being friends with her you are a bigger man than I am and I applaud you for that. My advice would to be focus on yourself, heal, get over her and see what else is out there.
Women are complex creatures and if you guys are both 18 or around the same age, you still have a lot of growing to do and things to figure out, like who you want out of life. So take a good look at the relationship, and ask yourself if you really want to chase after a girl who in less than a week has moved on to somebody else.
You probably didn't do anything wrong, while I don't know the exact details of your relationship, given your short time together I am sure there were not too many opportunities to horrifically screw up.
Don't beat yourself up too much over it. Heartbreak sucks, but when you put yourself out there for someone, you might get hurt. Just the nature of way things are.
I know it's cheesy to say, but in the end it'll be for the better in your life, and you may not realize that until years from now, but it will be.
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So I saw Iron Man 2 yesterday. Why doesn't Tony Stark like having things handed to him? He mentioned this a few times, was it like from something that happened in the first one or did I overlook something? This is serious and it's bugging me >.>
When you push, you are using the chest- and triceps muscles. When you pull, you are using the upper back- and biceps muscles. From experience, I'd say that the former muscles are generally stronger, but I don't have a proper scientific basis for that guess. If you mean that you are doing pushing/pulling standing and thus is using the entire body, pushing is easier because you can use the legs more effectively.
If you post on a thread, and it's locked and the creator get's an infraction, do you too?
Not a noob, just curious.
Apparently, the Kids Bop lyrics of "Thrift Shop" go like this:
Walk into the club, like, "What up, I gotta big heart"
What does the idiom to love someone to ribbons mean?
When will the Gen V sprites be animted for use in signatures and posts etc..?
Question. QUESTION.
Was there an anime based convention happening Columbus Ohio this weekend?
I'm worried about someone. They were gone when I got home from work on Friday and I retroactively remembered that they said they were going to a Con soon-ish but I couldn't remember the name. I do remember they said they were going to Ohio in that conversation I forgot we had, though!
Long story short, we cannot communicate by phone. We message each other.
I could IM/E-mail them. I've done both but haven't gotten a response yet which isn't terribly unusual. I'm not overly concerned. I'm just wondering if they'd possibly be back tonight or tomorrow night. Since I at least knew they were gone for the weekend I was going to work on their V-Day gift since it still needs a few hour's work. I was trying to figure out how much more time I had approximately.
Edit: I went to take a nap and woke up when she jumped on me. Went to OHAYOCON.
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I'm guessing it comes from the saying 'tear someone to ribbons', meaning you dislike a person to the extent that you'd hurt them so much all that's left is ribbon-shaped pieces of them. Loving someone to ribbons would be the opposite.
I've never heard anyone use the phrase, though. Perhaps someone saying that would actually decorate somone they love with ribbons.
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Not really, especially compared to some of the other questions in this thread...
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What do the gears of a bicycle stand for, and to what type of surface each one is suitable for, in general?
This article seems pretty straight forward.
There's plenty more information out there if you just google "bicycle gears".
What is PO? I was just wondering, because one of my clubs is having a tournament, and they say you can compete with wifi or PO.
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Whether you want some family time together before the summer ends, a romantic getaway or a round of golf with friends, Woodloch in the Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania just might fit the bill.
Located 95 miles from Manhattan, Woodloch, as I discovered on a media visit, is a collection of three different style resorts.
Family-friendly Pines, a 1,200-acre lake-front compound, has just about every childhood activity imaginable in an all-inclusive stay.
"This is the kind of vacation we enjoy, it's carefree," says one visitor.
Pricey on the weekends and holidays, midweek rates are the most affordable, starting at $155 a night per adult depending on the accommodations, with kids ages three to six staying for free.
If your body clock is ruled by "tee time," then a visit to Woodloch Springs and its 18-hole golf course could be a hole-in-one.
The Lodge At Woodloch, a destination spa, rounds out the trio of choices for girlfriend getaways or romantic couples looking for a woodsy hideaway with an emphasis on wellness.
Three portion-controlled meals are included in the nightly rate, and without a calorie count in sight, this is far from a "deprivation vacation."
Surrounded by gentle hiking trails, a stay here will feed the soul and offer other nutritional benefits that extend well beyond the doors of this luxury escape.
Again, midweek is going to be your best value, at $249 per person per night, based on double occupancy in August and September, except for Labor day Sunday. Besides meals, this includes all fitness classes, gym workouts and lectures.
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Yoshida in China: How Nokia failed, MediaTek won
Junko Yoshida
SHANGHAI – "Reverse innovation" should not be confused with "reverse engineering." Let's examine the differences.
First, some context.
Earlier this month when I sat down for breakfast here with Feng Chen, vice president of China fabless company Rockchip, he abruptly asked if I knew the "80-3-2 rule." I had never heard of it.
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The subject came up as we were discussing the global media tablet market. Chen, who noted that this is his personal theory, not Rockchip's, explained: If you design a system (or chip) with performance of at 80 percent compared to the best-in-class product on the market, and if you offer it at one-third the price, you can double the sales volume of your system (chip).
Chen used the media tablet market as an example. Many Android-based tablets with relatively less performance than Apple's iPad, will eventually exceed sales of iPad in volume, he argued.
In other words, don't over-engineer it.
Android, along with outsourcing and faster product turnarounds are the key elements that make the 80-3-2 rule possible. The rule also offers a mechanism for getting products in the hands of consumers.
Does the 80-3-2 rule make sense? Sort of.
The chart above illustrates the theory's flaw: While Apple gets all the profits generated by the iPad, sales revenue for the Android camp is divvied up by many me-too Android tablet and chip suppliers. Presumably those companies, all subscribing to the 80-3-2 rule, are fiercely undercutting one another, further reducing their margins.
So, the 80-3-2 rule is simplicity itself, but it doesn't look sustainable to me.
Chen's theory reminded me of something else. The Economist carried a story about "frugal innovation." The article cited companies like General Electric and India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that developed new products like a hand-held electrocardiogram (by GE) and a water filter (TCS).
"Instead of adding ever more bells and whistles, they strip the products down to their bare essentials," embarking on "frugal innovation," or as it is sometimes called, "reverse innovation," the Economist explained.
Understanding China's approach to innovation is fundamental to figuring out the future direction of technology markets. There is another name for what Junko Yoshida describes above, a notion called "second-generation innovation," an approach that has worked very well for China. It allows Chinese companies to limit risk while serving domestic markets and generating more than enough profit to keep pressing ahead.
Yes, certainly the 80-3-2 rule makes sense, although those exact numbers might not, in every instance. I don't think we need to limit this "rule" just between Eastern and Western products, though.
Most companies offer multiple similar products at different price points. True for cars, true for clock radios, true for TV sets, refrigerators, and anything else you can name. GM USA can sell a whole lot more volume if they offer Chevy Cruzes AND Cadillac XTSs.
The problem I see is mostly that the trade media has come to assume that the way Apple operates is the way Western industry operates, and all the rest happens in the East. This is all part of the media hype surrounding Apple products.
I understand that Apple is an abberation. No company survives with just one model -- iPhone -- for every country.
But the point of this particular story is not about that. It is about how tech companies figure out a "good enough" product, and create a more imaginative business process, to create products in volume at a lower cost for many more people in the developing countries.
Frank Eory
I too was immediately reminded of Muntzing as I was reading this story.
But "reverse innovation" can also be described simply as re-writing the technical specs and including lower cost as a fundamental spec that takes priority over performance or design margins.
Muntz figured out that a TV set could still function without things like "extra" capacitors, which allowed him to make the TV set cheaper, but also less reliable.
Another example would be restricting the number of unique parts in a product's bill of materials, to reduce inventory handling costs and to maximize volume discounts -- as when an engineer specifies a single 3.3 uF cap somewhere on his board, while using a number of 2.2 & 4.7 uF caps elsewhere on the same board. The reverse-innovation minded boss tells him sorry, you can't use 3.3 uF -- it has to be either 2.2 or 4.7, and we will take the performance hit or design margin hit or whatever.
David Ashton
The wikipedia article refers at the end to Bob Pease's take on Muntzing which is, as always, worth a read:
Thank you very much tb1 - never heard of Muntzing - what a funny and instructive story
Much appreciated
My 2 cents: Android may beat Apple in terms of volume by more than 2x. But what the theory ignores is that volume is not equal to profit. The bells and whistles are what gives you the premium price, which translates to larger per unit revenue. Think GM vs. BMW. Or Apple vs. Mediatech. They are simply not in the same league.
"The bells and whistles are what gives you the premium price, which translates to larger per unit revenue. Think GM vs. BMW. ... They are simply not in the same league."
But even that is overstated. Much of that, too, is merely "common wisdom" and media hype.
First of all, profit does not translate to revenues. A company can make a lot more money by going for more volume of sales and less profit. This allows the company to diversify its products better, sell to more markets or market segments, and so on. Again, Apple is the exception to this rule, not the rule.
As to the GM vs BMW comment, perhaps you should read the current issue of Car and Driver, where they review the Camaro convertible against the BMW 6 series convertible. For that matter, GM has a no-holds-barred sports car, the Corvette, that BMW does not compete against.
What this article explains as a phenomenon for developing country markets is ALSO a phenomenon within any single country. Companies that want to make big revenues are always better off serving more than just the top segments of the economy. Android sales are very good in the US too!
@Bert23306: "First of all, profit does not translate to revenues."
The question is whether revenues translate to profits. If your cost structure is out of alignment, they don't.
And while you can attempt to diversify and sell a range of products, this carries inherent risks. The benefit is that "all your eggs aren't in one basket". You have insulation if you are doing poorly in a market segment because you might be doing well elsewhere, and your consolidated results will be respectable.
The risk is that your revenues might increase, but profits as a percentage of revenues may drop. You may be making more profit overall, but will be vulnerable to criticisms that you could make a greater profit with a different product mix. A number of companies have attempted to move up the value chain, as the question they asked was "This line is profitable, but is it profitable *enough*? Can we make a better return investing corporate funds in other areas?"
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yeah, in a slow change area this might work. like channel, LV.
for cell phone maybe not, like vertu.
Agreed on the theory, Bert. But you do have to consider the human aspect i.e: being present in all markets dilutes brand value. The average man knows GM for its Chevvy Cruze, not Corvette. And android sales, though robust in volume, is not making money.
Diversification may serve mammoth organizations or supplier organizations. But for consumer markets, where wow factor is important, it may actually hurt sales for the flagship product if diversification is towards the low end of the spectrum. For some companies, again, Apple or BMW, its not worth the risk.
I may need to dispute the "Cruze" vs. Corvette comparison. Removing GM from it, I bet more people worldwide would recognize "corvette" than "cruze".
Frugal engineering is just coming about in medical technology. Equipment manufacturers are just finding out that adding more "bells and whistles" to medical equipment is decreasing the relibility of the equipment, making it more complicated to use and endangering patient care.
You actually make my point :-) Corvette is a great car, but most people happen to "visualize" Cruze when they consider GM.
This Harvard Business Review article may help articulate what Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan, for example, means by "frugal innovation."
Paul H.
My company gave me a 7" Zeki tablet that uses a Rockchip processor. The product is so frustrating to use I threw it away. I prefer products that are well designed.
In many cases the product development starts from the marketing team who looks at the competitor and requests what they have plus a few more features.
Japanese phones are a good example of this - they have everything you might imagine plus more.
On the other hand Apple is very frugal in what hardware they put into their products for the price point of American market can bear.
However I think 80-3-2 rule stands - if you can strip 20% of most expensive features, sell it for 1/3 of price you can always find buyers who would buy this product, play with it and thru away to get better but more expensive one. They would feel they paid 1+1/3 price justified to pay for their experience and mistakes.
I'll lay out a simple matrix that clarifies the business strategies being compared:
Strategy 1 - Cost leadership: think Walmart. This is what Rockchip is modeling. Broad target, low cost leadership, adopt the 80% rule as stated
Strategy 2 - Differentiation: think Apple. Unique set of values (in their case integration of S/W and H/W) with a broad target
Strategy 3 - Focused cost leadership. Narrow target, low cost. Think Nokia as they are right now with 80% of sales coming from handsets under $50.
Strategy 4 - Focused differentiation. No one in this space comes to mind right now. But these are the guys trying to claw a niche out in this market.
Comparing Rockchip's target market with Apple's is two opposite ends of the spectrum and not comparable. When the market for tablets matures, the cost leadership strategy will gain traction and it won't be Apple that goes there at least under their current strategy.....if they try it will either mark a shift in business objective or that management has lost it's vision.
The 80-3-2 rule sounds like an encapsulation of the fact that any market is not monolithic: there are a variety of designs and price points possible. Someone like Apple may have successfully staked out the high end of the market, but there's still the middle and low end. How do you target it and make make money?
Two ways, really. You need to constantly look for ways to take costs out of your product, so you can sell at a lower price and still be profitable. And you need to attain high volume.
In a different area, supermarkets are instructive. By definition, most of what they sell are fungible commodities. A quart of milk is a quart of milk, regardless of whose name appears on the package, so competition reduces to price. Supermarkets have been steadily consolidating to gain economies of scale and lower costs, and to attain high volumes. If your margins are paper thin and you may make a penny on a dollar, your challenge is to take in a *lot* of dollars to make pennies on. (The measuring sticks for supermarkets are inventory turns and return on assets, not profit margins.)
Supermarkets have also been trying to move up the value chain. The ones around me give pride of place to frozen foods, deli counters and the like. These provide convenience by reducing the steps the shopper must take to get and serve food, because part of the labor has already been done, and carry higher price tags and better margins in consequence. Retailers look at sales/square foot of retail space, and want those sales to carry the highest margins possible.
Whether the 80-3-2 rule is sustainable will depend on how successful you are at reducing costs and building volume. You must do so faster than your competition. Size matters, and smaller competitors won't be able reduce costs enough or sell at high enough volumes to survive long term.
There is one problem with the 80-3-2 rule. Often features don't incur hard costs, only firmware development. When that is the case, removing 20% isn't going to allow 1/3 the cost.
What is significant about reverse innovation, is that it is a strategy widely employed, particularly by emerging contries. The risks assocated with taking something that is working and doing it better and cheaper are much less than the risks of creating something new. The latter requires vision and innovation as well as a variety of technical risks and then market acceptance risks. As countries build expertise and infrastructure, they can then consider more cutting edge efforts.
Consider early Japanese automobiles. If you looked under the hood of a 1970s Datsun, you saw a Ford or Chevy, with all dimensions shrunk a bit. The general size and shape of the engine and parts were the same, just smaller. Compare that to a current Japanese car. For starters, the drive train has been moved from back to front. The engine has been rotated 90 degrees. The components don't look anything like they used to. They have moved beyond value engineering a successful design to creating some of the most reliable and fuel efficient vehicles on the planet. But they didn't start there.
WW Thinker
You are correct, the so-named 80-3-2 is nothing new. People call it different names at different times. Japan, Taiwan, Korea all took this approach in the past. I am surprised that this is considered new at all especially when history always repeats itself!
I think people can surely gain some market share if they price their product lower. However, why and how it can be lowered? The bloody Chinese manufacturers are squeezing all the workers' (in broad sense engineers and managements are all regarded as workers) energy so that cost can be much lower. Look at the life of Chinese a bit more you can see that people who work 16 hours a day can just earn just barely 1/3 of the salary of their western counterparts so they surely can win with lower cost. Besides, just because the time-to-market is so short, I don't think Chinese companies are doing real innovation with enough time to think. So, surely they can't build products that is 120% better but just can build something 80% of the competition. With less features, how can you ask for higher price? People in third country (Chinese Government also called itself as 3rd country) are just OK to live with lower profit as they basically have no choice! In most Chinese companies, the only person who really makes money is the boss. All other people are just working like slaves!
Bear in mind that it costs far less to *live* in China than it does in the West. That "1/3 of the salary of their western counterparts" may be good money, relatively speaking, and a Chinese worker might be better off in terms of what their money will buy than their western counterpart.
And the factory workers who get the press in the west tended to be peasants from rural areas. Those factory jobs offered better hours, better working conditions, and much better pay than being a farmer back home, so there was competition to *get* those jobs. China is coping with urban sprawl and inadequate infrastructure as it copes with the migration from country to city.
China's lower cost vis the West has more than one underlying cause.
There's more on frugal innovation here:
Products need to map the income distrbution / buying power of customers. This is true even within Apple. Growth rate of iPad / iPhone / iPads have been order of magnitude higher than that for even Mac Air because the former group is much cheaper ( for iPhone 5 its still $ 200 w/ contract vs $ 1,200 for the cheapest Mac Air ). Wal Mart, Media Tek and other bottom feeders should not be scorned as they cater to the masses and are well versed in squeezing large profit from thin margins by going for volume ( they have the "masses" ). Soon they pile up enough billions to buy out "boutique" houses. Chinese semiconductor companies will soon have the bucks to buy out SiV design houses and smaller Fabless companies. As the technology diffuses, Apple would try to maintain its 60 % margin with innovation / stunts but find it increasingly harder. They already exerienced one such cycle with the Mac after Gates brought out inferior but workable & cheaper Windows. So the 80 - 3 - 2 rulec claimed by this Rcckchip fellow as his own goes back at least as far as 20 years - yet another case of Chinese IP piracy and trying to impress gullible reporters !
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I think The 80-3-2 rule works for Chinese manufacturers trying to sell their products globally. Because of their inherent lower cost structure, they can use this strategy.
Cost of capital is way too low.
Thank you for the article and stimulating conversation. There is another imortant item that might need attention.
Nufront (about which I know next to nothing) just introduced a 3G baseband (TeLink7619)chipset (BB+XCVR+PMU) in SiP - the baseband uses CEVA DSP in 65nm.
What is interesting is that Samsung also introduced an 4G LTE baseband (backward compatible down to 2G) - also based on CEVA DSP.
So the question is who designed these basebands - CEVA or IC vendors? Does CEVA now has an 4G LTE baseband? Since SW is very different between 3G and 4G basebands.
It would be great to review CEVA - it looks like it is becoming in BB DSPs as significant as ARM cores in application processors.
Many thanks in advance.
Nicolas Lejeune
It is the first time that I hear the name 80-3-2 but the practice described is something that has been done by many companies before. I am not fully convinced that it is applicable in all cases. If you can offer 80% of the spec at one third of the price, you can maybe double your revenue but what will your margin be? Maybe Feng Chen can let us know the fourth number in the sequence?
Smart phones and tablets are still a growth market driven by new functionality and specs. Chinese companies have been trying to get a foothold by offering the same for a lower price but I do not think that they have been successful. These comanies often do not offer the same but less for indeed a lower cost. There is rumor these days that chinese companies are looking for consolidation or possible take-overs.
The same holds to some extent for Taiwanese companies. Mediatek is still there but the big breakthrough predicted 3 years ago has not happened. They have not been successful to take significant business from Qualcomm. Not because they are not cheaper but because they have not been able to offer a good 3G solution on time. They have now merged with one of their former competitors. The other problem Mediatek has had is that the pirate phone market in China is no longer what it was.
This may all change when the smart phone and tablet market stop innovating and competition starts to focus on price rather than on functionality. I think that we are not there yet.
Just my two cents...
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Top Tourist Attractions in Nice
Nice, capital of the département of Alpes-Maritimes and diocesan city, lies on the Baie des Anges (Bay of Angels), surrounded by the foothills of the Maritime Alps, in the eastern part of the Côte d'Azur, about 30km/19mi from the Franco-Italian border.
Colline du Château
The first part of Nice to be settled was the Colline du Château (castle hill, 92m/302ft high), which can be reached by elevator from the shore promenade (Quai des Etats-Unis) at the end of the Baie des Anges. The area at the top has been laid out as a park and offers an impressive panorama (orientation table). The citadel which once stood here was destroyed in 1706. Worth seeing are the remains of two churches built one above the other in the 11th and 15th C., which have now been excavated. Just to the east of the remains there is a good view of the harbor below.
Tour Bellanda
From the Colline du Château in Nice steps lead down to the promenade, passing the Tour Bellanda, a massive round tower built in the 16th C. on the site of the Bastion St Lambert, and in which Hector Berlioz composed his opera "King Lear". The tower houses the Musée Naval (maritime museum).
Vieille Ville
The lively and picturesque Old Town of Nice, with its maze of tiny alleyways and streets, in which one could be forgiven for imagining oneself transported to Italy, is popularly known as "Babazouk". It opens out at the western end of the Colline du Château and in the northwest is bounded by spacious boulevards and parks, which extend over the Paillon (Jardin Albert I, Place Masséna, Promenade du Paillon). In the south it is bordered by the Ponchettes, in which fishmongers and grocers supplement the wares on display at the market on the adjoining Cours Saleya.
Galerie de Malacologie
Near the eastern end of the Cours Saleya (no.3), a short distance to the west of the steps descending from the castle hill, can be found a department of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle with an aquarium and an interesting collection of molluscs.
Cours Saleya Market
The Cours Saleya Market is the place to go for local foods, such as olives, cheese, fish, or mushrooms, along with flowers and other goods. The prospects for people watching is also very good.
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Ville Moderne
The buildings in the Ville Moderne in Nice include those situated on top of the covered-in River Paillon.
Jardin Albert I
The Jardin Albert I in Nice is the park-like area between the Avenue des Phocéens and the Avenue de Verdun; here is situated the Théâtre de Verdure (open-air theater). The gardens extend north as far as the busy Place Masséna, where the Fontaine du Soleil, and a fine fountain are to be seen. To the north extends the busy Avenue Jean Médecin, one of the principal shopping streets in the city, in which further north still stands the neo-Gothic Church of Notre-Dame.
Promenade des Anglais
Promenade des Anglais is the roadway which runs along the waterfront, behind the beach. The wide sidewalk with chairs and benches is a popular place to relax on sunny days.
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Nice is housed in the Palais Masséna (65, Rue de France). It contains relics of the Roman era, works of the Nice school of painting (Bréa, Durandi, etc.), Italian and Provençal porcelain, a collection devoted to regional history and culture and including the Nice watercolorists of the 19th C. A large collection of arts and crafts and the Félix Joubert collection of weapons can also be seen.
Les Baumettes
Fine Arts Museum
In the university district of Les Baumettes in Nice, which adjoins to the west, is situated the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret. This important art collection includes works by Chéret (d. 1932 in Nice), Fragonard, Braque, Carrière, Chagall, Degas, Monet, Sisley, sculptures by Carpeaux and Rodin as well as pottery by Picasso.The Fine Arts Museum houses 15th to 20th C French, Italian and Flemish works. Highlights include 17th and 18th-century French paintings, and 19th-century paintings and sculptures.The museum also houses the Dufy collection and the Alexis and Gustav Adolf Mossa collections.
Jakovsky International Museum of Naive Art
In the Avenue Val-Marie in Nice, is the Musée International d'Art Naëf (Museum of Primitive Art), which originated in a bequest by the art critic Anatole Jakovsky and provides an excellent overview of primitive art throughout the world. Adjoining it there is a research and information center.This museum displays an international collection of naive art dating from the 18th C to the present day. The collection was donated by Anatole Jakovsky, a Romanian art critic.
Prieuré du Vieux Logis
From the eastern side of the university quarter the dead-straight boulevard Gambetta in Nice and its continuation the boulevard de Cessole lead north to the district of St Barthélemy. In a 16th C. building, the Prieuré du Vieux Logis, on the avenue St Barthélemy (no.59), objects from the 14th to 16th C. have been assembled to represent what the interior rooms of houses would have looked like from towards the end of the Middle Ages: study, dining room, a complete fitted kitchen, etc.; French artisans' work and paintings of the French and Flemish schools are also to be seen.
Harbor Area
At the foot of Mont Boron (178m/584ft), which bounds the Baie des Anges to the east, lies the Nice Harbor area with Port Lympia and the Avant-Port (outer Harbor). Three- and four-storied plain residential buildings in the Italian style characterize the scene. Adjoining on the north is the district of Riquier, developed in a checker board plan after 1780.
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Place du Palais-de-Justice
Place du Palais-de-Justice in Nice is a renovated town square with colorful stone paving and an attractive fountain. The square is home to the Nice courts, which are the notable architectural highlights. The courts overlook the square with an impressive staircase leading down.
Monuments aux Morts
Monuments aux Morts, built from white stone, displays over 3,600 names commemorating soldiers that died during the Great War. There is an enormous urn in the center and bas-reliefs by Alfred Janniot. The imposing monument faces the sea.
Musée des Arts Asiatiques
The Musée des Arts Asiatiques was designed by well-known Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The museum building appears to be floating upon an artificial lake, which is home to numerous birds. The museum's collection highlights the court and folk or tribal art with contemporary works. Performances of living art forms, such as the Asian Fridays, the demonstrations of the Gestures of Asia, or weekly tea ceremonies are also offered.
Patinoire Jean Bouin
Patinoire Jean Bouin, located on Esplanade Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, is an Olympic size skating rink. Skates for hockey, beginners or seasoned skaters are available to rent. The rink has night skating as well with music playing in the background.
Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St-Nicolas
Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St-Nicolas was built in 1912 by Tsar Nicolas. The ornamental interior houses many historical and religious objects that were transferred from Russia during its time of turmoil.
Prehistory Museum of Terra Amata
Exhibits at the Prehistory Museum of Terra Amata include a 400,000 year old prehistoric site with ancient hearths. Items on display include tools, animal bones, and dwellings.
Royal Salon of the Hotel Negresco
The Royal Salon of the Hotel Negresco has been enshrined as a National Historical Monument. This area is home to a number of boutiques, including ones which house the greatest names in French clothing. Most purchases are duty free.
Cuneo-Scenic Rail Trip
There is a beautiful view of the mountains on this scenic rail trip. A long expanse of viaducts and bridges is incorporated into the rail-line's design.
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Clifford H. "Cliff" Wood, age 86, of Chillicothe, died Monday morning, October 22, 2012, at the VA Medical Center in Chillicothe. Born February 5, 1926, in Gallia County, he was the son of the late Clifford and Zella Vaught Wood. In addition to his parents, he was preceded by his wife, Neta Pool Wood; by a son, James P. Wood; a granddaughter, Paula Marie Wood; and by a daughter-in-law, Cindy Lee Wood.
Cliff was a retired truck driver and a United States Army Veteran. He was a member of the Logan Elm Masonic Lodge in Kingston, The Aladdin Temple Shrine and the Ross County Shrine Club.
Cliff is survived by two sons, Howard (Eunice) Wood of Lakeland, Fla., Eddie Wood of Cross City, Fla.; a daughter-in-law, Pamela Wood of Bidwell; step-children, Debby (Les) Barcus of Gallipolis, Dean (Judy) Holt of Columbus, and Susie McKabb of Columbus; one brother, Bob (Frances) Wood of Bidwell; grandchildren, Michael Wood, Jennifer Wood, Stephanie (Kevin) Latta, James, LeAnn McFadden, Lewis Wood, Lacy Wood and Dusty Wood; great-grandchildren, Wyatt, Joey, Layla, Roxanne, Tabitha, Joshua, and Jeremiah, Aubra Marie Wood, Jersey Lee Gainey, Thomas J. Gainey, and Hunter Easton Wood. He is also survived by two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, October 26, 2012, at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home in Gallipolis. Burial will follow in Salem Cemetery. Friends may call at the Ware Funeral Home in Chillicothe on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. with Masonic services being conducted at 8 p.m. by the Logan Elm Lodge. Friends may also call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral home on Thursday from 6-8 p.m.
Military Funeral Honors will be conducted at the cemetery by the Gallia County Veterans Funeral Detail.
An online guest registry is available at waugh-halley-wood.com.


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In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the poet T.S. Eliot wrote: "For I have known them all…have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
Emma Simmons, for at least the past eight years, could say the same thing, if you replaced "coffee spoons" with colorful sweaters and collected books.
Simmons said she has knitted at least two child-sized sweaters per month, and donated every sweater to World Vision, a humanitarian organization that, according to their website, helps "communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice."
She never expected to find what she described as her "life's mission," when she learned how to knit. Her mother sewed and knitted, so she was familiar with the process, but it was later in life when Simmons learned to sew and crochet from a family friend.
"I wasn't a knitter back then, but I read an article in 'Guideposts' about donating sweaters to children and it seized me so strongly I had to do it. I already crocheted, so that is how I started, but crocheting is less flexible — it doesn't have the drape knitting does."
It was Simmons' mother, whom she described as a "master craftswoman," who suggested she learn to knit in order to create softer sweaters.
"I had a couple of friends who knew how to knit, but I give credit to Bonnie Martin — she probably doesn't realize how big of an influence she was on me when I was learning the process. I would find Bonnie wherever she was in town to help me if I was stuck on a stitch, and that's how it all started."
She pointed to a postcard from World Vision, which she receives each time she donates a sweater. On the postcard was a young girl holding a newly-donated sweater and a young boy with a huge smile on his face, wearing his new sweater.
"How can you not want to help a beautiful child like that? You know, sometimes I have this vision of ascending into heaven and seeing children wearing my sweaters," Simmons said, with eyes shining and a small laugh. "There are just so many children in this world who have nothing, and this is my way of helping them."
Simmons can knit anywhere — she knits in public, in her living room as she is reading or watching television, even going down the highway, with someone else driving, of course.
One thing she finds quite curious is that everywhere she goes people are always commenting on her knitting and saying, "I wish I could knit," or "I want to knit," but no one has ever really wanted to learn the art of knitting from her. "I found that very odd," said Simmons.
"You know, sometimes I think I will knit other things, and I do, on occasion, but knitting is just a totally separate thing for me — it's not to wear personally, it's for the children who need those sweaters."
Simmons said she quilts and sews for friends and family, gesturing to quilt tops hanging from the wall of her sewing room. She once delighted her co-workers by giving them a gift of fingerless gloves for Christmas, "so they could go outside and smoke" she said, laughing.
"I've come to realize that knitting the sweaters is my mission. Don't you just love it when something comes along and seizes you? That is how life is for me."
A love for the mountains
Simmons lives in the White Plains community with her husband, Myron. She is originally from Flint, Mich., and spent 28 years in Selma, Ala., before moving to Boone after she fell in love with The Blue Ridge Mountains during a road trip to North Carolina with her father.
Originally Simmons had an idea that she wanted to move to Chapel Hill but when she visited the triangle area on her road trip, she realized the mountains had her hooked. She fondly remembers traveling The Blue Ridge Parkway and having never spent much time in the mountains, they made a lasting impression on her.
"I spent over a decade [after the road trip] in Selma, yearning for those North Carolina mountains."
After moving, by herself, to Boone, she spent time "cocooning" in a home by the river, until she met her husband, Myron, through a co-worker and moved to Surry County, where he was born and raised.
Simmons still commutes to Boone each week for her job as a nurse in a rest home.
"It is more difficult in the winter, with the ice and snow, but I do it because I love my job."
"Books are my passion"
Emma Simmons enjoys knitting, but reading is her true passion, and sometimes she even combines the two: "I can even knit and read at the same time — isn't that sweet?"
"My life has unfolded, chapter by chapter…it's funny how life is like that, but everything that happened in my life led to the next chapter, just like a book," Simmons said, as she knitted a green-striped sweater.
Books surrounded her, they filled multiple bookshelves and tables in each room of her warm home. It is the home of a reader, filled with books collected as she journeyed through her lifetime of reading, with many books from library book sales and used book stores in almost every town she has visited and lived in.
Simmons is not focused on one particular genre or type of books, she simply loves most all books, and has a habit of picking up multiple copies of the ones she loves.
"I was bit by the J.D. Salinger bug and I have multiple editions of his books, among others — I find another and I have to have it; it may be a vintage edition or a cover I've never seen."
When Simmons was young, she loved reading and enjoyed what she describes as "the typical childhood books," naming the "Little House on the Prarie" series, Stuart Little, "Anne of Green Gables," and she remembered one book in particular, a hard-to-fine book called "Baby Island."
She attended a Lutheran school when she was growing up and the school had one shelf full of library books. Simmons remembers that she had read the entire collection of books, and she wanted more. Her older brother came home one day and told her about the public library. Simmons asked him to check out a book for her, "a book about a girl," and her brother brought home a biography of Queen Esther. Simmons still fondly remembers that book as her very first library book, the book that began her lifetime love of libraries.
"I was never without books after that. I remember meeting my best friend in eighth grade and she was just like me — books, books, books!"
Life unfolding, like the pages of a book
Simmons is quite content with her life today. She is surrounded by what she loves, she has children and grandchildren, and what she describes as a "great husband and a great job."
"You know, I think my present life is near to perfect. After everything I've been through, it has all come together…I get to see the mountains, I love my husband, and I have a great job. I'm at the age where I get to sit back and enjoy life, and wait for a phone call about my grandson."
Earlier, Simmons' phone rang, with news from her daughter that her grandson, Jack, was born.
For Simmons, the anticipation of retirement is "close enough so you can get excited" but she sometimes thinks that anticipation is what is so exciting — the act of planning and dreaming.
"I'm really pragmatic…I like to plan, but I've been thinking recently, don't wait, enjoy what you have now, seize the day…because destiny moves you; it has been that way throughout my entire life."
From reading and knitting, to collecting local art, to just enjoying her "near to perfect" life, Simmons is an example of a multi-talented woman. Her mission of knitting sweaters is more than just a hobby — it is a need that comes from deep inside her soul, one she must express as part of her journey through life: "the only thing that would be better is if I could knit books."