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Lone Star Politics, Books a la Carte Edition / Edition 2 available in Other Format
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Lone Star Politics, Books a la Carte Edition / Edition 2
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Learn how Texas politics affects public policy.
Lone Star Politics emphasizes public policy and the decisions of political actors in its approach to studying contemporary Texas politics. Using the best scholarship, current examples, and historical context, the authors examine how government and politics respond and adapt to the changes in the Texas political landscape.
Fully revised to meet the GOVT2305/2306 curriculum changes, Lone Star Politics, 2/e contains 14 chapters–a full semester's worth of Texas Government content. The second edition features the same pedagogical features students currently enjoy in American Government textbooks, extending their learning experience from the 2305 course seamlessly into 2306.
MyPoliSciLab is an integral part of the Goldstein program. Key learning applications include Texas Tribune Videos, Texas Explorer activities and state specific Simulations. MyPoliSciLab for Lone Star Politics makes reading the textbook a greater opportunity for analyzing current events, thinking critically about politics, and participating in politics.
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This program, the 30 for 30 series by ESPN, is the best television sports documentary series of all-time.
It deserves it's own thread here, as it's all about sports, but always more than sports.
Three times that I can recall this season, I have been moved to tears watching it.
Who caught the last night episode on Marcus Dupree?
Is there anyone here who was around when he was making his legend?
Anyone watch the one about the Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia stuff?
The Two Escobar's was the most riveting one for me. I wish I had saved that on my DVR.
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One of my CCDE bootcamp students asked a question about next hop in MPLS VPN network. So, I would be very pleased to explain the BGP next hop behaviour both in IP and MPLS network in this post.
Let's start with this IP network shown below (Figure-1).
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., (PRWEB) November 28, 2012
ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple platforms, including business phone systems, applications, and mobile UC solutions, today announced that its has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, North America based on ShoreTel's Cloud Division with its ShoreTel Sky family of products.
"Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have been delivering complete UCaaS solutions for more than a year, have clients with more than 1,000 subscribers and have more than 100,000 total endpoints in service," wrote Gartner Analysts Daniel O'Connell and Bern Elliot in the Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications report. "These vendors offer comprehensive and integrated UCaaS solutions that directly, or with well-defined partnerships, address the full range of market needs, including the ability to service large accounts. These vendors have defined migration and evolution plans for their products in core UCaaS areas and are using their solution sets to acquire new clients, as well as to expand their footprints in their client bases to new functional areas."
"We consider our positioning in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner confirmation of our commitment to provide enterprise-class voice and UC services that are as easy to use as they are reliable and feature rich," said Dan Hoffman, president of ShoreTel's Cloud Division. "We will continue to lead the market by delivering product innovations that support the modern company, the modern workforce, and the new paradigm of mobile work. For our clients this means; embracing device independence while maintaining corporate identity and control and enabling real time performance management with integrated metrics to create a more responsive and accessible workforce."
ShoreTel believes that the transition to a new phone system does not have to be painful. Each new client is provided with resources dedicated to managing a smooth transition through the process from beginning to end. The company is known for its laser focus on customer service and boasts industry leading customer satisfaction scores and client retention rates.
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Brian Marick shares insight into how one can remain a programmer throughout his career.
Brian Marick was a Lisp and C programmer in the 80's, a testing consultant in the 90's, and an Agile consultant in the 00's. This decade he's a Clojure and Ruby programmer. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and is the author of four books, including The Craft of Software Testing and Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer.
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There is obviously room for improvement, for example: after 7-8 minutes of discussing about how Crickets hear and mate, you admit this has nothing to do with the subject of the talk.
We might be doing things differently here in Europe, but I learned how we estimate distance and how we hear from my math and my biology teachers in school. This was when I learned in biology class why vultures have front facing eyes and hens have eyes on the opposite side (hint: some animals are hunters and some are prey) and also when I learned what sin()/cos() functions are. All these examples bring nothing new in general and, especially, nothing to the subject you are adressing.
The talk is, perhaps, just a basic introduction to evolutionary biology and natural selection and has little to do with IT in general, except for the two buzzword-compliant slides about TDD and Refactorings.
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I rather found this talk refreshing, honest and interesting.
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I would not object so much to how interesting the presented facts are, as to how they can be applied to the subject being adressed. I was expecting to get some insight on how one can still work as a developer when he/she is 50-60 years old. Perhaps you could share a short list of practical advice you got from this talk.
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...or "How to automatically manage complexity"
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Brian uses crickets, baseball, tango, valet parking, chess, medical diagnosis, and XP to explore the appeal of automatic, complex behavior. He alludes to Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow in discussing the effortful vs. the automatic systems in the brain.
The implication is that, to the extent that you can make aspects of your job as a programmer automatic, you can use less energy to accomplish a task than those who have not. Effortful activity is tiring and error prone. Automatic activity is not tiring and is mostly accurate.
Brian offers some principles to help manage complexity:
* Constrain possible perceptions
* Make perceptions one-to-one with actions
* Convert goals to achieve into invariants to maintain
* Convert effortful calculation into automatic perception
* Make changes to simplify perception
For those of you interested in these topics, I think you'll enjoy spending an hour of your time here to get a glimpse of the neuroscience behind expert performance, whether those 'experts' are crickets, doctors, or programmers. If these ideas are new to you, good...the science of complex systems is full of examples of patterns in many seemingly unrelated fields operating off of similar principles and mathematics.
My advice: Get used to it. The complexity of the world is increasing. It's your job as a programmer to manage that complexity. Enjoy the ride!
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The Jesus Action Figure "Restored"Aug 29, 2012
The art world (and much of the internet) has been in a tizzy recently about a well-meaning elderly Spanish woman's thoroughly botched attempt to restore a 19th centure fresco entitled Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez. For more than a century the painting has held price of place at the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza, Spain. Over the years the painting had deteriorated due to exposure to humidity. Cecilia Jiminez was distressed by the sorry state of the beloved portrait and took it upon herself to attempt to restore it:
BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser says the delicate brush strokes of Elias Garcia Martinez have been buried under a haphazard splattering of paint. The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic, he says. The woman appears to have realised she was out of her depth and contacted Juan Maria Ojeda, the city councillor in charge of cultural affairs.
Professional restorers plan to examine the painting to determine if proper restoration is possible. In the meantime, the Archie McPhee staff decided to attempt their own "restoration" of one of our Jesus Action Figures:
The results bear an uncanny resemblance to the current unfortunate state of the Ecce Homo fresco.
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Tales of a Twiggs Town
They call this place Dry Branch, Georgia. There hasn't been a flood here in millions of years since the Atlantic Ocean pulled away from the fall line. But, eight to a dozen decades ago, the liquor flowed freely to the lovers of moonshine, while the teetotalers took no shine to the whiskey at all. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't the only place in Georgia or the country where folks took a drink. Like everywhere else, if they needed a drink, they usually found someone who would be willing, for a fee, to give them a snort of spiritous liquor.
T.J. Butler wanted to a make a living. And that living was selling liquor to all the thirsty throats he could on the outskirts of Dry Branch. On January 6, 1892, he paid his one hundred dollar license fee to the court in Macon believing that his establishment was at least three miles from the nearest church. He was wrong. Though he just made it according to the surveyor's calculations, T.J. Butler came up some sixteen feet as measured along the nearest public dirt road. The decision of the city court judge was clear, "The defendant is ordered to pay the sum of $50.00 for violating the inviolate laws of the state."
There was nothing that T.J. Butler could do about his store, especially the department where he kept his intoxicants. The anti-liquor crowd apparently took matters into their own hands. After much consternation of the part of Dry Branch residents, someone or a group of irate teetotalers set the place on fire. As a result of the midnight blaze, not a shingle was left. Though Butler had his establishment insured, the insurance only covered half of the $3000.00 loss.
Without a place to sell his spirits, the convicted criminal took issue with the fine and took his case to a higher authority, the legislature of the State of Georgia. On the winter solstice in 1892, the General Assembly voted not to allow him to sell liquor two miles, five thousand two hundred and sixty four feet from the nearest church, but to reimburse him for two-thirds of his license fee.
It seemed that it was illegal in the city of Macon to sell liquor. So, those who wanted their liquor to consume or sell made arrangements with depot agents in surrounding communities, including Dry Branch. Once the whiskey arrived, every night it would be placed on the Bibb County side of the line where the Maconites could come and pick it up. When no one came to pick it up the next morning, the agents were forced to retrieve the barrels of booze and bring them back to the station - a task which worried them much if a revenue agent came snooping around.
It was a cool night on the morning of March 29, 1916, when an ingenious group of whiskey drinkers figured a way to get their hooch without breaking into the depot in Dry Branch. They called under the building, took soundings to locate the barrels, and drilled holes through the floor directly into the whiskey barrels above. The contents were drained into some sort of container until the barrel was empty. The plan worked until it was uncovered by railroad detectives, who put an end to the scheme by exposing the whole brilliant plan.
Reginald Claypole Vanderbilt, son of Cornelious Vanderbilt, one of the world's richest men, came to Dry Branch on Groundhog Day in 1915 to visit P.W. Martin as his country home, "Ashantee," near Dry Branch. The visit was purely social, though the two men were former business partners. Vanderbilt partook of the fruit of the vine too often, dying of liver failure at the age of forty-five after squandering his seven million dollar inheritance. His greatest legacy was his daughter Gloria, who became a successful actress, artist and socialite.
Serpent admirers will love this story. If you don't like snakes, then skip this paragraph. Out on the Martin place, a short distance from Dry Branch, a man and his wife were walking around when he noticed a large Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake coiling his body and preparing to strike. Just as the viper rared back, it was struck with a mortal blow.
For all of the afternoon and most of the next day, the man took the snake all over Dry Branch to show it off. He had reason to be proud of his reptile. Someone laid it on the ground and marked off seven feet and six inches, an insignificant half foot short of an all time record. Curios collectors offered the man as much as $5.00 for the snake which had a girth of a whole foot at its longest.
Rev. Willie Barber had the devil after him. No, not the red horned underworld demon, but a widowed church sister, who had been hoodwinked by the wrong reverend. Barber organized a church in Dry Branch. His charisma charmed the widow so much that an instant bond between them led to the lady giving the pastor the hog and a cow to sell with the understanding that he would return the proceeds to her. Pretty soon, the minister was gone and so were the livestock and the money. After investigating the matter and finding that her trusted clergyman had gone down to form another church near Elberta, Georgia, where she suspected he was gone to swindle some swine from another trusting widow lady. She reported the crime and swore out a warrant for the arrest of the evil evangelist.
Most of us would never imagine a possum hunt would become a social event, but in early 1920s, it was the thing to do on cool Friday night in the fall. The men would forge ahead with their shot guns and dogs. The boys went out to E. Mallary's farm and bagged three fine possums for a supper with their ladies at Ed Loh's Caf' on Saturday night. Sometimes, both the ladies and the men would motor out to the woods, eat an early evening picnic and return home in the moonlight.
The clay hills of Dry Branch and its environs often reveal remarkable treasures, such as fossilized shark's teeth and sea animals. Luckier ground lookers have found diamonds and even tiny pieces of gold. Police officer Layfield was out walking when he spotted a good sized unusual stone shimmering in a creek bed. It turns out the object of the officer's eye was a moonstone, a silicate of potassium and aluminum. Layfield was so intrigued by his gemstone that he took it to a jeweler in Macon, who sent it to New York, where it was polished and fashioned into a scarf pin. Layfield's son had it set in a ring, which he wore for many years, not because of it's monetary value, but because moonstones are good luck symbols.


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One man was stabbed to death and his roommate critically injured during a violent domestic quarrel inside their home in the Lakeview neighborhood, police said this morning.
Police hadn't yet determined exactly how the incident in the 600 block of West Stratford Place happened just before 11:30 p.m. Monday.
Both men, 25 and 53, were stabbed multiple times during an argument and were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said, citing early reports.
The 25-year-old man, identified as John E. Atkinson, was pronounced dead at 12:08 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Doctors managed to stabilize his rommmate's condition, police said.
A police source said that a third roommate was home at the time, but didn't awake until after the violent confrontation was already over.
Police didn't say if any arrests had been made as Area North detectives continued their investigation.
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Toy Science is back with loads of game style exhibits featuring Simon, Wooly Willy, Battling Tops, Kerplunk, Connect Four, Shut the Box and much more! Each toy is not only really fun to play with but also demonstrates a physics principle or scientific fact. Toy Science exhibit will be at ScienceWorks Museum through January, 2017.
Did you know that your kids are experimenting with science all the time as they reach for that favorite toy or game? Did you know that you are engaged in assessing probabilities with games of chance? Why do games and toys that combine both elements of luck and strategy intrigue us the most?
ScienceWorks exhibit builders and volunteers took a selection of classic toys and have recreated them on a larger scale. Whether playing with simple machines, magnetism or games of chance, toys give us an interesting glimpse into some fascinating scientific principles. This fun, interactive exhibit allows kids and adults the opportunity to share in an exploration of toys spanning the turn of two centuries.
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Maharishi Vidya Mandir was established at DUBEY COLONY area of Kangra in the year 2000. Spread on a sprawling and serene in 2.0 acres campus, the school building has been constructed as per Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Sthapatya Ved Design which ensures perfect vastu.
The school has got well ventilated and furnished class rooms, fully equipped laboratories and library and a huge and well maintained play ground.
The school employs well qualified, trained and experienced teaching faculty. Regular orientation programme and workshops are conducted for the teachers to equip themselves with the latest trends in education.
The school is managed by Maharishi Shiksha Sansthan, which was founded by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Sansthan manages over 170 schools with student strength of around 1 lac children across India covering 118 cities in 16 states. Maharishi group of institutions has world wide presence in the field of education, business management, Vedic research, agriculture, Transcendental Meditation besides host of other areas.
Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Kangra, has grown leaps and bounds in just a little over a decade since its inception and boasts of student strength of over 2000. For the third year in succession the school has been ranked as No. 1 among the Maharishi Vidya Mandir group of schools in India under the 'secondary school' category.
The school gives importance to co curricular activities besides academics. At an effort to reduce the book load of children, the institution has devised its own text books based on NCERT syllabus. The school has been a pioneer in introducing innovative methods of teaching like, 'learning by doing' 'concept learning' 'demonstration and presentation methodology' 'dramatization' etc.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation is practiced by students and staff members. Consciousness Based Education Programme of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is being implemented in the school which helps ensure all round development and bring out hidden talents of the students. This concept, which is also known as the 'home of all knowledge', ensures imparting total knowledge to the students.


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The Eagles announced today that they've signed linebacker Rashad Jeanty to a one-year deal.
Linebacker is probably the Eagles' most uncertain positional group, and there will likely be jobs to be won whenever the Birds prepare for the 2011 season.
Here are the linebackers currently listed on the roster: Stewart Bradley, Jamar Chaney, Keenan Clayton, Moise Fokou, Omar Gaither, Akeem Jordan, and Ernie Sims.
Of that group, Bradley, Gaither, Jordan and Sims are not under contract for next season. In other words, the Eagles have a lot of offseason decisions to make.
Chaney was a pleasant surprise after filling in for Bradley last season, but doesn't have a large enough body of work to be considered a sure thing.
Bradley's future is up in the air. Will he be back? Will be play in the middle? Will he be moved to the strong-side?
Clayton was active for seven regular-season games as a rookie. Fokou was OK, but not great, after taking over the strong-side position from Jordan. He was also the Eagles' leading special-teams tackler.
I'm not expecting either Gaither or Sims to be back. And Jordan is a tough call. He couldn't hold on to the strong-side job last year, and the Eagles kept Sims at the weak side instead of him. Jordan was a valuable contributor on special teams though.
As for Jeanty, he played the strong side in Cincinnati, but fractured his fibula during the Bengals' playoff game against the Jets in January of 2010. He didn't play at all last season after the Bengals released him in August, and there was some controversy around their decision.
Jeanty's agent David Canter told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the Bengals incorrectly advised him not to have surgery after his injury.
"It's tremendously disappointing on the way this has been handled," Canter told The Enquirer's Joe Reedy last year. "We don't see how the Cincinnati Bengals can do this without any inclination that this was even a possibility. It's a tad shocking how he was released and was done in a disheartening, callous and unfair manner. The only reason why he isn't healthy and wasn't able to pass the physical is because they failed to fully diagnose and mistreated the injury."
According to Adam Caplan of FoxSports.com, Jeanty got looks from the Dolphins, Jets, Seahawks and Vikings.
In 2009, he led the Bengals in special-teams tackles, and in 2008, he won the Ed Block Courage Award. Jeanty is 27 years old and listed at 6-2, 243.
According to Mac's Football Blog, Jeanty can earn up to $1.25M in 2011, so this looks like a low-risk signing by the Birds.
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I had the chance to audition this monitor for over a month while house-sitting for a friend. I haven't seen any online reviews for the monitor in its "Statement" version with ribbon tweeter, but there have been some blurbs about this version being one of the best two monitors under $3000 (along with the widely reviewed and highly regarded Usher Tiny Dancer). Given that, my expectations were high and so was my disappointment.
I was able to listen to a lot of familiar material over the time I was house-sitting, and on the plus side the monitors did produce very good imaging and reasonable soundstage depth. Any monitor in this price range should do that: it's one of the primary advantages to getting a small monitor. With that said, they did not provide the sense of hall space that I have heard from other speakers in this price range. For instance, on the Cowboy Junkies album The Trinity Session (which was recorded in a church with a great sense of space) the LSA1 Statements brought the singer's voice forward and the instruments were clear and detailed but the sense of venue didn't come through. I've heard much better from other speakers (for example from the Taylo Reference Monitors or B+W 805 monitors).
They also provided good low-level detail, but again nothing that seemed to lift them above other monitors in this price range. On Paul Simon's song "Slip Slidin' Away" there are some backing vocals that tend to blend with his singing on poorer monitors. The LSA1 Statements did start to separate out those vocals, but it was not fully accomplished. Again, they are par for the course and not up to the standards of the best in the price range (and the over achieving Ascend Acoustics Sierra-1s do a better job at half the price).
So far, the LSA1 Statements were quite listenable, but not distinguishing themselves especially. Where my real disappointment started to kick in, however, was in listening to female vocals. I first noticed the problem listening to the classic duets of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. When Ella would come in on certain songs (such as "Can't We Be Friends") I would hear a veneer of distortion over vocals that I am accustomed to hearing as clean and pure (for recordings of that era). I replayed the track, and with my hand on the top of the speaker I could feel cabinet resonance getting particularly strong during her singing. The cabinets are reasonably solid, and the speakers are about 24 lbs. each, so this is not a general issue but particular to certain frequency ranges as far as I could tell. On other female vocal recordings I would periodically hear the same issue–a muddiness or discoloration that increased with the singer's own volume (e.g. exactly what happens when cabinet resonance or bad crossover design is distorting at a certain frequency). This was repeatable and persistent. A speaker that pretends to be best in its price class (and that retails for $2500) cannot do this. It's a fatal flaw, on top of the middle-of-the-pack performance in other regards.
Although my opinion of the LSA1 Statement was essentially cemented when I discovered its design flaw in reproducing female vocals, the issue of bass response is something that always comes up in discussions of small monitors. There are basically two approaches here: let the bass roll off as physics dictates (doing the best possible with drivers and porting to extend it as well as can be done) or add in a bass bump that gives the impression of more bass than is there. The LSA1 Statements seem to err on the side of the latter. They do an excellent job of bass reproduction, as many modern drivers and cabinet designs are able to achieve, but they also seem to give a bump to bass at certain frequencies to augment this fundamentally competitive performance. On this point, however, the observation has to be taken with a grain of salt. My friend usually does a careful job of placing his speakers in his listening room, but room interactions with bass are as much a part of the story as the speaker design itself.
The final observation that I had regarding a single aspect of the sound was that the ribbon tweeter can provide a clean and not harsh treble that is nevertheless very detailed and extended flat beyond the realm of human hearing. The LSA1 Statements have turned me on to modern ribbon tweeters, even if the implementation is critically flawed by the vocal distortions noted.
Regarding overall sound, there are two additional things that I look for in a top quality speaker: 1) are they fatiguing (a combination of subtle factors affects this) and 2) do they choke at high volume (e.g. playing a full orchestral piece without getting congested)? I found the LSA1 Statements to be more fatiguing than I would have expected. I think this has to do with their propensity to move things forward, more in-your-face, on recordings where this is not meant to be the case. I often got the impression that these speakers were pushing the music at me in a way that was jarring. I am used to highly detailed speakers that do not hide flaws or harshness in the original recording, but the LSA1 Statements go beyond "revealing." I guess I would say that they are "aggressive" for lack of a better word. Regarding their ability to play at concert volumes, I found that they didn't respond as well as other monitors I've heard in this regard. The Taylo Reference Monitors that I mentioned earlier (and that I owned for a good while) behaved like a top-notch monitor should: as the volume went up the soundstage expanded and opened but the sound did not become strained. The LSA1 Statements don't have anything near the aplomb to stay coherent at higher volumes. Again, they don't do badly but just average for a small, relatively pricey monitor. As the volume goes up, congestion creeps in and their artificially forward presentation makes you want to turn the volume down again. It was sad to me.
I found myself turning the volume down a lot when auditioning the LSA1 Statements, and this is usually a sign to me that a number of things are wrong.
The final observation that I would make is that in looking for information about these online I found the same speaker being offered under another branding label. The speakers are completely made in China, and it seems that the same speaker is sold under a couple of brand names. The LSA Group website claims that they modify the crossover and add lambs wool as a dampening material to make this a "statement" loudspeaker. I didn't open my buddy's speakers up to look for the Auricaps in the crossover circuit, but I did look into the rear port and it does seem that the stuffing is wool (or at least not the poly-fiber that I'm used to seeing). So, LSA may be tweaking the generic Chinese product, but the overall fit and finish definitely has the feel of something coming out of China rather than many other speakers in this price range that are made to a higher degree of polish.
In conclusion, given all of the deficiencies and no aspects of superiority above the best in this price range, I would strongly recommend against buying these and give them two stars for sound quality (again, in the very competitive market segment that they are in).
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August 18 -
September 25
Prints by Lawrence Brose and
Paintings by Michelle Dussault
Drawing the Line:
Fifty Years of Cartoons from the Permanent Collection
Der Drache, die Jungfrau, und die Tribune/
The Dragon, the Virgin, and the Grandstand
an installation by Suse Weber
photographs by Jan Bleicher
Lawrence Brose,
Boys in Ecstasy #1, 2001,
Iris print on Arches paper,
46 x 34 inches
Lawrence Brose
This exhibition of large-format Iris prints is drawn from a filmwork
entitled De Profundis that, in the words of its maker, explores
the "transgressive aesthetics of Oscar Wilde and contemporary
queer culture." In the film, footage from an early home
movie depicts sexually ambiguous males who apply suntan lotion
to each other on the deck of a pleasure boat, and is interfused
with sailor-daydream pornography and sexually ecstatic faces
surfacing in overlapped or duplicate motion. A creepy chorus
intones certain aphorisms of Wilde's ("The only way
to rid of temptation is to yield to it") in male voices
sound-looped into timbres fiendish or demonized, effeminate or
sissified—a veritable black mass of cathedral whispers
and limp-wristed rapture performing the ambiguities that exist
between the individually willed and the socially settled. Brose's
sexual politics are at the far end of any normative identity;
his work embraces the deviant or embarrassing against the pathology
of sameness as countered also by the radical, the outlandish,
the transgendered, and the unwittingly homo.
During these times troubled by the current state of the globe,
where difference is gravely threatened by an anxiety manufactured
in the name of an overarching national identity and the beckoning
ideology to unite, these prints are a challenge for us to consider
the repercussions of being socially marked and potentially targeted—hence
vulnerable to profile and censure. It is the task of difference
now to proliferate, both as represented in art or as braved in
society, imperative still to render human relations complex and
in creative collision with that impetus of the same whose sole
imagination is to deem dangerous all things that lie beyond its
claims on the visible.
- from an essay by
Roberto Tejada
independent curator and critic
Michelle Dussault, Bradford Pears, 2002-04,
acrylic on canvas,
36 x 48 in.
Michelle Dussault
My envious disgust at pair bonds, as a lifestyle and a reproductive
strategy, is an often-visited topic in my work. The search begins
with an investigation of heterosexuality motivated from a presumptively
homosexual lens. As a heterosexual woman raised by closeted homosexual
parents, I have felt loosely associated with a kind of homo-mulatto-esque "race," a
concept somewhere between culture and biology that I would like
to strip down and see lying naked on the floor. The ambiguous
orientation of explicit imagery in my paintings suggests an unorthodox
position and tells a slightly different story, one in which heterosexuality
is as strange a concept as it was for me growing up in a homosexual
Sex was never meant to be part of the equation. Reproduction
was supposed to slip gracefully into representation without soiling
the sheets. But there it was waiting to assert itself as part of
the process or part of the problem, waiting to complete the formula,
to bring the numbers together, or to keep them apart. 23+23=__.
I haven't forgotten the lesbian or gay couple. Tic. Or the uncertain
reproductive options of the single, toc, the barren, the infertile,
the impotent, or the ugly. Tic Toc. There are always arrangements
that can be made: back doors in and out of, ways around biology,
beneath or on top of it, outside of or curled beside its suggested
methodology. But they're not always the way I like it, fast
and cheap. Tic Toc.
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Drawing the Line:
Fifty Years of Cartoons from the Permanent Collection
Alfred Andriola, Kerry Drake, 1969,
Gift of Publishers-Hall
St. Lawrence University
Permanent Collection
The images selected for this show remind us of the broad scope
of the cartoonist's imagination, which finds its subjects
in the rarified air of world politics as well as in the mundane
arena of daily life. Styles, too, run a gamut, from melodrama
to soap opera, from whimsy to satire.
Today's editorial cartoon, with its sardonic take on the
doings of the great and not-so-great, would have seemed familiar
to 18th-century readers, who were used to seeing their leaders
mercilessly lampooned. Tom Tomorrow's comic portrait of Clinton
as a lava lamp and Shoemaker's rendering of Nixon's
attempt to coax a wallflower Ho Chi Minh into a peace tango are
thus part of a long tradition of visual satire.
In Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury series,
we see the lampoon tradition married to what was essentially a
20th-century development—the comic strip. The strips gained
their initial momentum on the battlegrounds of the newspaper circulation
wars, which were often fought on the colorful pages of the Sunday
supplements. It was here that the basic characteristics of the
strip were established.
In the pages that entertained readers with the adventures of
Buster Brown, Little Nemo and Krazy Kat, most of the familiar techniques
came to maturity. Sequentially arranged panels depicted the humorous
doings of a recognizable cast of characters, using a highly integrated
combination of images, words and graphic conventions. When artists
and writers began to team up in the 1920s to create the lengthy
narratives of the so-called continuity strip, the genre was more
or less complete.
Social historians will find much of note here—for example,
the way gender roles are uncritically reinforced in these predominantly
1960s images. It is only in the more recent work of Inuit artist
Alootook Ipellie that we see issues of ethnic identity addressed
So here in the deft curve of a line and the sinister play of
a shadow, in one fell stroke, or in the slow unfolding of a multi-character
narrative, our foibles, our fears, our fantasies, and our passing
fancies are laid out for inspection. In these images, too, the
past and the future of the mass-circulation comic arts are on
in all their rich variety.
Included in the exhibition:
Alootook Ipellie, Ice Box, May 1986,
pen and ink on board, SLU 2001.17
Card text by Kerry Grant, professor and chair of
the English department at St. Lawrence University. Many of the cartoons
in the exhibition were donated by Publishers-Hall Syndicate in 1969.
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Captive Beauty: Zoo Portraits by Frank Noelker
Frank Noelker, Seal, Germany, 2000
Frank Noelker's work makes a powerful statement.
It is both beautiful and profoundly disturbing. He has captured,
in this series of portraits, the very essence of the problem of
zoos. For here we see "wild" animals who are no longer
wild. In some instances the walls of their cages have been skillfully
painted so that, at a quick glance, they appear to be large, spacious
enclosures—in their natural habitat, almost. Yet the artwork,
the painted trees and vines and flowers, serves only to render
more heartbreaking their stark imprisonment.
[These photographs are] not intended as an indictment against all
zoos but rather serve as a plea for greater understanding of the
animal beings within them. And as field biologists provide zoo
administrators and keepers with better knowledge about the needs
of the various species in their collections, and as the public
has become better informed, things are improving around the world.
Enclosures are getting bigger, and more and more attention is paid
to enriching the environment, providing stimulation…. There
are still, however, far too many of the concrete and steel cages
left, especially in Europe. And the inmates of many of the zoos
in the developing world live in the most horrible conditions. If
there is not enough money available to create the best possible
conditions, then animals should not be kept. It is as simple as
To collect the images, Frank toured zoos in many
parts of the world and spent days sitting, watching, and waiting
for the shot that
would convey the story of captive lives, the indomitable animal
spirits that refused to give up, clinging to the last vestiges
of freedom within their hearts. Frank's heart was broken
again and again. And I understand, for I too have looked into the
eyes of three-hundred-pound gorillas destined to spend the rest
of their lives in small enclosures while human animals gather to
stare and point. And there are other eyes that haunt me: the eyes
of elephants chained to the ground, of wolves, those wild, free
spirits of the north, in small pens reeking of urine, and worst
of all, the eyes of dolphins taken from the deeps of their ocean
world to swim round and round and round and leap out of the water
to catch plastic balls.
Let us hope that the day will come when the steel-barred
cage, the concrete island, and bare, sterile enclosures of all
will be no more. Frank's work, with its implicit plea for
our sympathy and understanding, will play a part in making this
Jane Goodall
from the foreword to Captive Beauty: Zoo Portraits by Frank Noelker
(University of Illinois Press, 2004)
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Mbari Houses:
Photographs by Ulli Beier
The custom
of building mbari houses, monuments honoring Ala, the Igbo
creator goddess, is limited to a region in Nigeria around the
town of Owerri. Mbari are unfired, painted mud figures constructed
by young boys and girls from a certain age group who work under
the supervision of senior craftsmen. The artists, working from
nine months to a year, live in total seclusion outside the
village on a piece of land that has been fenced in with palm
leaves. A mbari house is not a shrine. After a sacrifice is
brought to Ala, no further ceremonies take place there. Exposed
to wind and rain, the figures crumble within a few years, and
then the next age group will construct new mbari.
Some key figures must be represented in these monuments: Ala,
the earth goddess with a child sitting on her lap, typically
a sword in her right hand; her consort, Amadi Oha, the god of thunder,
is often dressed in a topee and tie like a British district officer;
and various river goddesses serve to affirm the cycles of nature.
Young artists invent other gods, people, and animals: Christ in
a schoolboy's uniform, a schoolteacher with a book, a tailor
with a sewing machine, women in childbirth, gorillas, monkeys,
dogs, horses, leopards, and horned fantasy creatures called "elephants."
The ephemeral quality of mbari is essential to its meaning and
purpose. It would have been easy enough for the builders to protect
the figures from wind and rain, or the artists could construct
heavy, solid forms with arms closely attached to the body, like
the mud figures found in Benin City in shrines dedicated to Olokun,
the god of the sea. However, mbari artists seem to provoke decay
by representing Ala with an outstretched arm, or portraying a
leopard pouncing onto a goat. In the mbari tradition, the act of
is more important than the finished object. The function of the
building is to honor the goddess of creation and thereby ensure
the productivity of the earth and the survival of the community.
The very short life span of mbari houses allows every age group
in the village to participate in this eternal cycle.
-Ulli Beier
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Der Drache, die Jungfrau,
und die Tribune/ The Dragon, the Virgin, and the Grandstand:
An Installation by
Suse Weber und/and
Ausflug/Stroll: Photographs
by Jan Bleicher
Suse Weber, Diamant im Speckgürtel,
Tribünengerüst, Werbebanner, DDR Uniformen, Karnevalsklub
In contemporary Germany, Übergangsgeneration
is a colloquial term that refers to the transitional generation
of east Germans who came of age in the communist German Democratic
Republic (GDR) prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Suse Weber
was born in 1970 in Leipzig, the city described as the epicenter
of the "peaceful revolution" of 1989. Jan Bleicher was
born in 1966 in East Berlin, the capital of the former GDR. Like
others from this generation, Weber and Bleicher learned professions
in the east and, when the Wall came down, were forced to re-orient
themselves to radically changed circumstances. Neither Weber, trained
as a kindergarten teacher, nor Bleicher, trained as a plumber, has
held a permanent position in those professions. Since 1990, Weber
has moved through a series of off-the-books, part-time jobs, including
construction, art installation, and shoe sales, while Bleicher usually
works in construction as a manual laborer. Today, most east Germans
remain economically and socially marginalized. Despite massive investment
and the rapid transfer of west German political, economic, and cultural
structures into the east, the region's unemployment rate hovers
at 20%.
Jan Bleicher, Ausflug (Stroll), 2003,
C-print, 36 x 26 centimeters
It is under these difficult circumstances that Weber and Bleicher
create their art. Each responds differently to the disappearance
of the nation in which they were born and the more recent commodification
of life under capitalism. Whereas Weber's installations examine
the memory of and nostalgia for life in the GDR, using artifacts
such as military uniforms, household products, and national symbols,
Bleicher's photographs make no direct reference to the past
and instead depict contemporary urban buildings and parks usually
devoid of people. Weber's installation, The Dragon, the
Virgin, and the Grandstand, draws together elements of fantasy,
folklore, commerce, and sport. Structured to resemble a grandstand
or medals podium in a sports stadium, the installation critiques
the use of sports spectacle in the service of nation-building, whether
communist (as in the case of the former GDR) or capitalist (as in
the case of the United States, especially during a year which includes
both the Olympic Games and a presidential campaign). On the other
hand, in Stroll, Bleicher observes the world from the point
of view that might be described as that of a stray dog wandering
through a park. On view are images of thick, lush shrubbery in its
deep stillness, vacant architectural structures, or anonymous tourists
equipped with cameras of their own.
-Joel Morton
assistant professor, gender studies
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I enjoyed this book. But, I felt bad for Bud when one, two or three bunny girls said you can?t dance, you have big feet. I think the bunny girls should dance with Bud because the bunny girls know that Bud is going to cry and other people will also be sad. If I were the bunny girls, I would not care and I would dance with Bud. I enjoyed this book because it was interesting and surprising.
I would recommend this book to anyone that does not like funny books because this book is not funny at all. Instead, this book teaches lessons. If you want to learn good lessons or if you are a teacher and want to teach good lessons then read this book.


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Europe appears to be out in front of the United States when it comes to using IT to improve transportation and health care costs across state jurisdictions. The European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution this week urging adoption of a law that would require all new cars be to equipped with technology to automatically contact rescue services in the event of a crash, Computerworld reported.
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The eCall system is estimated to able to speed up the response times of emergency services by 40 per cent in urban areas and by as much as 50 per cent in rural locations, according to the Touchstone Research Lab. That would result in an estimated 2,500 lives saved a year and reduce injuries by 10 percent to 15 percent, the research firm said.The eCall device would automatically dial the European emergency services number, 112, in the event of a serious accident, then send data wirelessly from airbag and impact sensors as well as GPS coordinates to local emergency agencies. The European Commission is aiming to have a fully functional eCall in place throughout the European Union by 2015, according to telecompaper.com
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This technology is SO old! I worked for a company that had this for cars/vehicles in the US back in the early 1990s. It's the selling of the idea to the public (so that automakers install the feature) that is the "tough nut to crack."
OnStar has this feature already, so I wouldn't say they're ahead of the U.S.
Just like OnStar has been doing for the last 15 years. The Europeans are not "out in front of the United States when it comes to using IT." In reality they are just out in front when it comes to taking the freedom to choose from people as the European Parliament has been doing for years.
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I loved every second of this wedding and that is saying a lot considering that I was 20 weeks pregnant and still pretty nauseous ha ha! The whole vibe of the wedding was just perfect, everyone was happy and calm and just enjoying the day, and all of that is due to the cutest couple ever...Katie and Jason. They seriously were such a treat to photograph, they are both so down to earth and sweet that I felt like I was just hanging out with friends.
Thanks for letting me be there to enjoy, celebrate and photograph your day. You two are the BEST!!
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FX's Legion Gets Renewed For A Third Season
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Marvel's Kevin Feige Talks Future Stan Lee Cameos And The Nickname Lee Gave Him
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And Of Course: Nintendo Sued For Patent Infringement Over Wii Devices
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At this point, plenty of companies are recognizing that it's just too expensive to actually innovate. If you do something well, you're only going to get sued by someone else who hasn't been able to innovate as well as you. While we can point to the various examples of companies getting sued, it's also worth thinking about all the companies who don't even bother to innovate, recognizing it's just not worth the expense of these lawsuits. The patent system is functioning in exactly the opposite manner from its constitutional purpose. It's not promoting the progress, it's hindering it by making sure that "progress" has a toll booth attached to it.


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Scotland Census, 1851 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Scotland Census, 1841 , Scotland Census, 1851, Scotland Census, 1861, Scotland Census, 1871, Scotland Census, 1881, and Scotland Census, 1891.
- 1 What is in the Collection?
- 2 Record Content
- 3 How to Use the Record
- 4 Known Issues with This Collection
- 5 Related Websites
- 6 Related Wiki Articles
- 7 How You Can Contribute
- 8 Citations for This Collection
What is in the Collection?
The British government has taken censuses every 10 years since 1801. This guide covers censuses of Scotland from 1841 through 1871.
Scotland's population was enumerated on the following dates:7 June 1841, 31 March 1851, 7 April 1861, 2 April 1871, 3 April 1881, and 5 Apr 1891.
This data has been provided by Findmypast.com.
Census schedules consist of large sheets with preprinted rows and columns. The schedules are arranged by county and then divided by civil parish. Some are further subdivided into smaller enumeration districts, each district being an area that could be enumerated in a day. The only exception to this is the 1841 census, which was arranged by "hundreds" (administrative subdivisions of land). The information was recorded in columns on two pages that face each other. Information is recorded in entries that cover two facing pages. For reference purposes, the National Archives assigned a piece number to each enumeration district and stamped a folio number in the upper right corner of each right-side page.
The original schedules are well preserved and housed at the Public Records Office in Kew. Microfilm copies are located at the Family History Library, at the Family Records Centre in England, and at county record offices and some libraries. Parts of the 1841 and 1861 censuses are faint and sometimes unreadable. This has occurred through damage or neglect in storing the records. An attempt is now being made to preserve the records by transcribing and publishing them. Some of these preservation efforts are being published in book form, while others are being posted on the Internet.
The Registrar General created the national censuses of the British population. However, the actual gathering of information was usually done by the Home Office of each county with assistance from the county sheriff. The census was completed in one day, then the census books were sent to the Registrar General's office in London. Almost all of the residents of Scotland are included in the census.
The Registrar General created censuses for several reasons, including population studies, accessing military readiness, compiling lists of eligible voters, and tracking relief to the poor.
The information gathered by the census taker is only as reliable as the person who provided the information. While some information may not be completely accurate, it can still provide important clues in locating an ancestor.
Enumerators went door to door collecting the data in census books. The census takers listed only those who spent the night in each household, so individuals who were traveling or at school were listed where they spent the night.
Record Content
Census records for 1841 contains the following information:
- Names of each household member
- Gender
- Address
- Occupation
- Whether the individual was born in the county
- Age (The census taker usually rounded the ages of those older than 15 down to a multiple of 5.)
Beginning with the 1851 census the information includes the following:
- Names
- Ages
- Parishes and counties of birth
- Occupations
- Relationships to the head of the household for each person
- Sometimes the birth country for people born outside of England
How to Use the Record
As you are searching it is helpful to know such information as your ancestor's given name and surname, some identifying information such as residence and age or birth year and birth place, and family relationships. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name as your ancestor and that your ancestor may have used nicknames or different names at different times.
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Reviewed By Andrew P (WEST CHESTER, OH) Reviewed for a 2011 Ford Explorer —5/28/2016 1:45 PM
The K&N 77 is a great setup it installs easy and has a great sound when you put the pedal to the metal. The performance speaks for it self. Great product, well worth the price.


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Prezi: Prezi Desktop is a presentation software for Windows and Mac giving you all the power of Prezi without needing an internet connection. Start your prezi online or off, work on your desktop, then upload your prezis to the cloud (only if you want to) to access remotely or to securely share your ideas with anyone.
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By Laura Zuckerman
Feb 4 (Reuters) - A Montana panel that oversees jurists is
seeking to discipline a judge for sentencing an ex-teacher who
raped a 14-year-old girl who later killed herself to just 30
days in prison and for declaring the girl partly to blame in her
own rape, documents showed on Tuesday.
The Montana Judicial Standards Commission has found that
District Judge G. Todd Baugh committed judicial misconduct when
he imposed the light sentence last August against former
Billings high school teacher Stacey Rambold, 54.
The panel said in a complaint filed with the state Supreme
Court that Baugh undermined public confidence in the judiciary,
created an appearance of impropriety and "justified the unlawful
sentence by blaming the child victim," according to papers from
the commission.
Commission attorney Malin Stearns Johnson, who wrote the
document, said the judge's conduct warranted disciplinary action
but she did not say in the complaint if she was seeking a
reprimand or Baugh's ouster.
Under its rules, the commission has the option of holding
its own hearing and making its own decision, or the case can be
turned over to the justices on the state Supreme Court with the
commission's recommendation for reprimand.
Baugh, who has said he would not run for re-election when
his term expires at the end of the year, could not immediately
be reached for comment on Tuesday. He has until later this month
to respond to the allegations, according to commission rules.
He ignited a firestorm of criticism last year when he
ordered Rambold to be incarcerated for just 30 days for the 2007
rape of his student, Cherice Moralez, who killed herself in
In remarks that intensified an ensuing outcry from women's
groups, Baugh commented during the sentencing hearing that the
teenager seemed older than her years and was "probably as much
in control of the situation" as her instructor.
Johnson said the judicial panel received hundreds of
complaints about Baugh after his remarks and the sentence he
imposed on Rambold - technically 15 years in prison with all but
31 days suspended and credit given for one day served.
"Through his overly lenient and unlawful sentence,
inappropriate rationale, and subsequent public comments, Judge
Baugh has eroded public confidence in the judiciary and created
an appearance of impropriety," Johnson said in the legal filing.
The Montana chapter of the National Organization for Women,
which lodged a complaint against Baugh with the judicial panel,
will continue its campaign to have the judge removed from the
bench, said president Marian Bradley.
"This is a huge victory," she said of the panel's legal
filing. "But we want everyone to know we are still fighting for
justice for Cherice and for all victims of sexual assault."
The commission has filed seven formal complaints with the
Montana Supreme Court against judges since 1991, documents show.
(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho; Editing by Alex
Dobuzinskis and Cynthia Osterman)


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Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks
Spring time change followed by increase in hospital admissions
WASHINGTON — Springing forward for daylight saving time might carry hidden danger for people with heart problems.
Physician Amneet Sandhu of the University of Colorado Denver and colleagues analyzed more than 42,000 admissions for heart attack at Michigan hospitals that occurred from 2010 through 2013. He reported March 29 at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology that his team found a 24 percent increase in heart attack admissions on the Monday after the spring-forward clock change to daylight saving time when compared with other Mondays throughout the year. In contrast, the researchers detected a 21 percent decrease in heart attacks on the Tuesday following the switch back to standard time in the fall, shortly after getting an extra hour. Heart attack rates on other days during those weeks were not substantially different from average. The results bolster previous smaller studies that linked daylight saving time to heart attacks.
The spikes translated into eight more heart attack patients at Michigan hospitals on the spring Monday and seven fewer on the fall Tuesday, Sandhu said. Because the hour gained or lost comes during the night, the finding raises questions about the risk of disrupting the sleep cycle. "This might precipitate heart attacks in particularly vulnerable patients," he said. Emergency rooms should be aware of the pattern, he added.
- A. Sanhu et al. The impact of daylight savings time on the timing and incidence of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction. 63rd Annual Scientific Sessions and Expo of the American College of Cardiology, Washington, D.C. March 29, 2014.
- I. Janszky and R. Ljung. Shifts to and from Daylight Saving Time and Incidence of Myocardial Infarction. New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 359, Oct. 30, 2008, p. 1966. doi:10.1056/NEJMc0807104.


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Name: Kunal Thaggarse
Member since: 2003-11-20 14:05:25
Last Login: 2014-11-30 09:21:16
Homepage: http://techblab.blogspot.com
working on a semi-autonomous robot as of now. It can be controlled by a 4 channel RC unit, and in path-find mode, it uses algorithms to find it's way around mazes/ obstacles automatically. I have just finished with the RC control unit now. THe chassis is rigid and incase the robot topples over, the wheels are large and offer traction even when the robot is inverted. the main chassis is compact and flat. The circuit boards are designed in such a way that I can upgrade them in modules later on, if I want to. An electronically controlled 2 speed transmission switches to lower gears automatically if the main motor cannot spin upto a certain RPM. The transmission is almost ready and the the transmission module is controlled by an 8051 micro- controller.
Recent blog entries by kunal
Anybody interested in taking part in techfest 2005? http://www.techfest.org Im making a robot for this techfest. One of my main objectives is to have a transmission system on the robot, because the robot has to climp steep inclines. I have designed a 2 speed automatic tranny, and I hope it works. Power to weight ratio and low-end torque are the key ingredients here. I didnt want to increase the power to weight ratio by cutting down on structural components....the robot has to have structural rigidity when it jumps down that incline. Tranny should solve the problem.
LATEST UPDATES: Will be working on a customised Fuel Injection system on a 92.2C.C 4 stroke engine. I am using an ancient 486 laptop, but that outta do the work. Shall be ripping off the carb off the engine first. Then comes the herculean task of designing or modding fuel injectors, polishing intake manifolds, shaving off the cylinder heads for an increased compression ratio and increased power output. Why on Earth would I be talking about an engine? I just realised that I was making a BIG robot, and I needed something more efficient when it comes to delivering power...the orignal Spiderbot was stripped down, it's legs taken off apart, and now I shall have em' replaced with mini pneumatic tires. I have also realised that I would be investing a lot of time and money in fabricating the F.I system, so as of now crude pulleys pull the throttle cable which is attached to the carb. I have never posted my pics because this robot of mine is constantly evolving, it started from a small thing that just pranced around like a toy to something that may give sports cars inferiority complex!!!!..... Why? Engine produces 7.4 horses at 7500 Rpm, and the approx robot weight is 40 Kgs. Power to Weight ratio is a cool:(7.4/40)*1000 = 185Bhp/tonne. The final gearing is ridiculously short, and naturally because it should be able to tackle any terrain/gradient....
I am using a Via C3 1Ghz processor, and Im pretty happy with it. Using a Lead Acid accumilator and an SMPS which I designed myself, I was able to run it for 73 minutes. Im running the motherboard without the negative supply(-12,- 3.3 are not connected, and I am using an AT power supply using an 810E board) , so as of now the serial port is inoperable. Does anybody have a circuit diagram for an SMPS? Most of the programming is done, so that I can operate the stepper motors for my robot through the serial port, and because a serial port uses negative voltage (-15V to trigger a 1 I think), I cannot operate the motors.. Has anybody used the Intel PXA-255 for building a robot? Spiderbot is still not ready as of now, lots of modifications yet to be done, shall post the URL soon when I get the time to make a nice site.
hey all; just installed kernel 2.6.2 on Redhat linux 9.0, and the latest kernel has made the PC fast indeed... MY RIG: AMD ATHLON XP 2800+, Asus A-7N8x delux, 1024MB DDR 400, Geforce Fx-5700, 80GB*2 RAID 0... SOMEBODY PLZ CERTIFY ME TO MASTER......;)
Yesterday I just managed to take out my good old 486DX- 66Mhz with 16 megs of Ram and a 500Mb hard drive......well it took me 16 hours to install windows 98, nevertheless it was fun......its been ages since I have played around with those legacy devices, experimenting with those wierd jumpers trying to prevent IRQ conflicts. The best part was when win98 was trying to swap the pagefile......the hard disk was groaning under excruciating pain.......then came the benchmarking......I ran sisoft sandra 2002, and in the memory benchmarks the rusty ol' thing gave me the int. bandwidth as 24Mb/ps and float of 16Mb/ps. even a 5.4Krpm HDD on a PIO-4 mode has a better transfer rate than the mem bandwidth of this junk that has been lying on my loft for the past 4 years.....
kunal certified others as follows:
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New Work
"Eureka" (top and center detail)
25x58 inches, red acrylic and white gesso on found cardboard.
Based of a tiny piece of litter.
"Daly" studio image (bottom). Abstraction of plastic utensil packaging.
by Vincent Romaniello
What is that leaping in your chest?
Collar Works, Troy, NY
Call of the Wild
Anderson Chase Gallery
Katonah, NY
Hope for the Holidays
Main Gallery, Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ
Climate Change Awards
Human Impacts Institute
Taipei Economic & Cultural Office
New York, NY
Sage Reunion Tour
BLAM Brooklyn
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY
Movement is Rising:
Demystify, Destroy and Rebuild!
Museum of Impact
Newark, NJ
The History of Art
Brooklyn, NY
Graffiti Inspired
Walter Meade Gallery
Roxbury Arts Group
Roxbury, NY
Small Works Baruch 2016
Mishkin Gallery
New York, NY
Postcards from the Edge
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
New York, NY
Exchange Rates
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY
Tribute to the Disappeared
An art project in honor of the 26,000 disappeared in Mexico
Black Lives Matter
MCLA Gallery 51
North Adams, MA
BronxArtSpace: Speak Out
Bronx, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Through the Rabbit Hole
Sideshow Gallery
Brooklyn, New York
Drones Over Harlem (solo)
Chashama Gallery
New York, NY
Miscellaneous & Blended
Museo de Arte de Sinaloa
RIGHTS - Art for Activism
Amnesty International
Brooklyn, NY
Ground Floor Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
Parliament Arts Organization
York, PA
Bushwick Open Studios
Brooklyn, NY
CinemaSunday BOS 2015
Brooklyn, NY
Studio resident
Brooklyn Library
240 Division Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Artists Responses to
Holland, MI
The Artist's Studio
BRIC Arts | Media
Brooklyn, NY
Nation III: Circle the Wagons
Sideshow Gallery
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
You've Got Mail
Ground Floor Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
Micro Collection Museum
Milano, Italy
The Big Small Show
Victory Hall Drawing Rooms
Jersey City, NJ
Take Me Home
Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI
Lines Drawn
America's artists look beyond the Politics of Red and Blue
Charles Krause Gallery
Washington, DC
Village Drones (solo)
Durham, NC
Exchange Rates
56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY
Bushwick Open Studios
• Studio, 513 Johnson
• Bushwick Open: 20 artists, 386 Jefferson
• Centotto, 250 Moore
Exuberant Politics
Public Space One
Iowa City, IA
5th Avenue SAW
Storefront Art Walk
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
By-Productions, or Asides
Brooklyn, NY
Working it Out
The Painting Center
New York, NY
MY STORY A Nationwide Diversity Art Show
Washington State University of Vancouver
Vancouver, Washington
The Exchange Archive
MultiAgency Collective and
MoMA Stucio: Exchange Café
Legend of Drafts
Brooklyn, NY
Movement Museum
Muzej Pokreta, Slovenia
Box Populi: The Art of Protest
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Cultivate Vyner Street
London, UK
Brucennial 2012
Curated by The Bruce High Quality
and Vito Schnabel
New York, NY
photos | photos | video
Pile of Clowns
Brooklyn, NY
Vincent Romaniello (solo)
Pigment Power
Lotus Salon NYC
information | slideshow
Amplify Action
Sustainability Through the Arts
Skylight Gallery of the
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Museum: Open Studio Project
Brooklyn, NY
information | photos
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Style # 186927
Plunging neckline, high-shine layering and striking knotted back detail make this lace bebe cocktail dress an elegant and structural evening piece. Offers metal zipper at back. Team it with a leather jacket and booties to give your style fall edge.
- 73% polyester, 25% cotton, 2% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 27" (69 cm).
- Dry clean.
- Imported.
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S.
- Exclusively available online.
Brennan Deep V Lace Dress - WEB EXCLUSIVE is rated out of 5 by 18.
Rated 2 out of 5 by TleeC from Not what I expected.. Saw this dress online. Had to purchase it...my very first purchase from BeBe...when I received it I was disappointed. It looks cheaply made. I tried it on and doesn't fit like the picture. The front doesn't come as low. I'm 5'8" I have a longer torso so the dress was too short also...
Date published: 2013-01-27
Rated 5 out of 5 by MKJinCT from Gorgeous!!! Love this dress I purchased this dress for Mexico. I loved it, the color blue on the dress is beautiful. The xsmall fit me like a glove. Quality was really nice. paired with 6 in. madden Rhinestone T strap sandals, icing on the cake! Super low neckline is sexy.
Date published: 2013-01-03
Rated 3 out of 5 by Baby from The product was not what I expected to be The color is not as shown online there is a huge difference and the size is not a true size. I was very disappointed being that it was an exclusive item and now I can't exchange.
Date published: 2012-11-18
Rated 5 out of 5 by Claudita from im in love i love this dress its the most beautiful i have now just love the way it hugs my body and now on sale just unbelieving if you can get it now XD
Date published: 2012-11-09
Rated 5 out of 5 by Amaris from Love this dress This dress was a hit at my 30th birthday party. Def felt sophisticated and sexy. I ordered a small, which was true to the measurements on the site. I am curvy with a small waist and it fit in all the right spots.
Date published: 2012-10-22
Rated 5 out of 5 by bebe<3<3 from Super Hot! "I purchased this dress about two weeks ago for my birthday, as soon as I tried it on I was in Love! Fits amazing, runs a size big so I got a small instead of medium, I do recommend some bikini glue and pastys, if not your girls will be out there for the world to see.. Had so many compliments from everyone! Its definitely a must have dress!"
Date published: 2012-04-23
Rated 5 out of 5 by monilove from Great for curves!! "This is my first review, because this dress deserves a lot of credit! I'm about 5'6/36D/size 10, and the L fit great. I just tried it on because I loved the colors -- but it ended up fitting like a glove! Like the others said, fashion tape would save you from embarrassing moments :)"
Date published: 2012-04-03
Rated 2 out of 5 by namrata from beatiful but odd I really liked this dress the first time I saw it in the store. I love the coral color and I love lace so I thought it would be perfect. The bottom fit so nice and snug to show off my curves and rear. The top was big I though it had to be at least an D cup to fit. It was cut oddly. Please make this so the top will fit a 34B cup. Other than that I would've bought it on the spot.
Date published: 2012-04-02


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Prosecution to wrap up arguments as Oscar Pistorius bail hearing nears decision
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PRETORIA, South Africa – A magistrate may rule Friday in Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing, deciding if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp.
The prosecution was expected to complete its arguments opposing bail as the hearing, which should have been completed Wednesday, goes into a fourth day.
Pistorius is charged with one count of premediated murder over the Feb. 14 killing of Steenkamp. He says the shooting was accidental because he thought there was a dangerous intruder inside his home.
Pistorius' coach, Ampie Louw, says he's considering putting Pistorius back in training if he's bailed to allow him to "get his mind kind of clear."
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair will decide if Pistorius is freed with conditions.


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SALES | DIRECT-RESPONSE COPYWRITING JOB: eCommerce Copywriting for Health & Personal Care Industry (Back Pain)
Budget £18-36 GBP / hour
Our team is looking for some support -- you might just be the right candidate!
We're looking for a long-term direct-response copywriter to join our health start-up as a freelancer (for the start, a couple of hours a week, but growing engagement as our company grows)
Your fundamental hard skills:
- DR Sales Education (think Behavioral Psychology etc.) & Sales Background
- Experiences in Value-Based Selling and Education-Based Marketing
- [recommended: previous eCommerce and online conversion experience]
- [recommended: previous Health & Personal Care/ Back Pain copywriting experience]
The soft skills we value and require for your job:
- Love for selling (think Gary Halbert, Dan Kennedy)
- Reliability & punctuality -- you have to deliver on time
Your job will entail (but not limited to):
- Creating direct response sales copy for eCommerce platforms (primarily [url removed, login to view])
- Synthesizing (primarily physical) product information into coherent sales letters
- Developing a 'customer interaction' styleguide
- Creating product packaging inserts
- Creating conversion-optimized e-platform (think Facebook, Instagram) advertising
- ...
For your application please answer the following 4 questions:
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[url removed, login to view] of your main jobs will be creating sales copy for eCommerce platforms such as Amazon.com. Please tell us: Are you capable of doing Amazon sales copy? Do you have experiences with this type of work? If so, what is your track record?
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We're a very ambitious and devoted team, we value our customers over everything and would love to have you onboard! It's our mission to alleviate people's back pain around the globe and we're convinced we've done a pretty good job so far! So: I hope to welcome you to the family soon!
Talk soon,
P.S: We will NOT answer to standard copy+paste messages, and need a specific answer and proposal from you showing why especially you're capable of doing this type of work -- thanks!
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SALT LAKE CITY (Monday, November 15, 2010) – ESPN 700 Sports Radio and Utah's PBS affiliate KUED are giving listeners and viewers a chance to kick off Rivalry Week early, with chances to win passes to next Monday's fundraiser event in advance of the final Utah-BYU Mountain West Conference game. ESPN 700 Sports Radio – as it does week-in, week-out – remains the Wasatch Front's home most insightful local and national sports talk.
"Revelry for the Rivalry" is a fundraising event taking place next Monday, Nov. 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Tower at Rice-Eccles Stadium, sacred ground for the rivalry. The event includes a sneak peak of "Red Blood, Blue Blood," a new KUED film exploring the tradition of the fabled rivalry. Legendary coaches Ron McBride and LaVell Edwards, as well as former players will be on hand that evening. For those who do not win a coveted pass to the exclusive event this week, the tax-deductible ticket price of $100 includes admission to the kick-off event, an annual membership with KUED, a DVD copy of "Red Blood, Blue Blood," and a sports-themed buffet. Tickets are limited and can be purchased at kued.org.
Today's guests on a "Studs & Duds Monday" with Bill Riley & Spencer Checketts from 2:00-6:00 p.m. include Brian Johnson, former Utes quarterback and current offensive assistant coach; Blaine Fowler, a former BYU football player and current analyst for The Mtn.; and Oklahoma City Thunder play-by-play announcer Matt Pinto, who will preview tonight's matchup at Energy Solutions Arena between the red-hot Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sound bites from both BYU and Utah Football press conferences will also air, as well as interviews from today's Jazz shootaround.
Last week's guests included such Notre Dame luminaries as Don Criqui (play-by-play for the Fighting Irish) and Allen Pinkett (ND analyst), in addition to Brian Windhorst (ESPN NBA writer covering the Miami Heat) and local personalities Morgan Scalley, Kalani Sitake, Gordon Chiesa and Josh Watkins (Runnin' Utes guard).
ESPN 700 Sports Radio is the where the local head coaches and senior decision-makers give their exclusive takes, including Utah Football's Kyle Whittingham (Thursday), who joins Bill Riley for weekly coach's shows. RSL General Manager Garth Lagerwey's weekly appearance each Wednesday will continue through the 2009 Champions' offseason, while Utah Basketball's Jim Boylen can also be heard each week. Tuesday night, the Utes' Women's Basketball game at Weber State tips off at 7:00 p.m. MT on ESPN 700 Sports Radio, while on Wednesday, the Runnin' Utes men's squad will host Montana at the Huntsman Center in a game that can also be heard at 7:00 p.m. MT LIVE on ESPN 700.
Every day at 5:10 p.m. MT, Bill & Spence host the "Big Interview of the Day" with a prominent guest for an extended segment. Each Thursday, Real Salt Lake Founder and former Utah Jazz President Dave Checketts is featured, with a variety of both local and national newsmakers featured throughout the week.
Kicking off each day with ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike in the Morning" from 4:00-8:00 a.m. MT, ESPN 700's day continues with "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" from 8:00-11:00 a.m. before "The Dan Patrick Show" runs from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Local "ESPN 700 SportsCenter" breaks are featured throughout the national programming, prior to "Bill & Spence" delving deep into the issues of the day from 2:00-6:00 p.m.