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Maddy from Inspired Bride just sent me the loveliest gift…in honor of her upcoming 1 year blogaversary, she's sending out some custom postcard files to bloggers for the holidays. Since this time of year is all about sharing, feel free to download the file and send it out to your own friends! Thanks Maddy, and congrats on 1 year!
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1994 F D C T National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India.
1980 M.A. English Literature, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.
1978 B.A. English Literature with Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Solo Exhibitions
(Forthcoming) Salt: The Great March, New Delhi.
Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative, Taj Palace, New Delhi.
Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative, Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago.
Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative, Jamaat Art Gallery, Mumbai.
A Space for Abstraction & Muses, Sristhi Art Gallery Welcome Hotel, Baroda.
Lyrical Abstraction: A room of /for muses works on canvas, Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Works on Paper – Mixed Media, ICC Milpitas, California.
Pastels, Inks, Drawings Welcome Art Gallery, Baroda.
Ethnicity and Symbols I, American India Foundation, California.
Ethnicity and Symbols I, Indiana University, South Bend Indiana.
Woman of the New Millennium, Shristi Art Gallery, Baroda.
Select Two-Person/Group Exhibitions
(Forthcoming) Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and laura kina,
Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, IL Curator Lanny Silverman.
Indigo: Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami FL USA.
Indigo: Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina, ArtXchange, Seattle, WA USA.
Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina, Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai.
Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina, Palm Court Gallery,
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti &Laura Kina, ABS Red Earth Art Gallery, Baroda Gujarat.
Select Group Exhibitions
(Forthcoming) CARE Package, Alhamra Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan and Twelve Gate, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Ombretta Agro.
(Forthcoming) United Art Fair New Delhi
20th Anniversary Exhibition : 20Jurors Woman Made Gallery Chicago.
13th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL. Curator: Laura Kina.
Logged, Emami Chisel Art Calcutta, India. Curator: Amit Mukhopadhya.
Art Fusion, Nehru Centre, Mumbai. Curator: Nina Rege.Natures Fury@20×12 (Curatorial Digital Project), Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Women Imaging Women: A Study of Female Portraiture, Robert Morris University, Chicago. Curator: Amy Galpin.
The Spirit of India, Singapore. Curator: Anu Aggarwal.
Line and Form, The Mahua Art Gallery, and Bangalore.
Cynosure Lanxes, ABS Art Gallery, Baroda, Gujarat.
Creative Fantasy, The Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore.
Elle Decor Art & Design Show, New Delhi. Curator: Dr. Alka Pande.
Here Comes the Bride, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curator: Beate Minkovski.
Print Making, Chaap, Baroda.
Women, Trauma and Visual Expression, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Nature's Fury, (curatorial project) Digital artwork, Srishti Art Gallery.
Voices against Violence, Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda.
Earthquake Relief Art Benefit , Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda.
Earthquake Relief Art Benefit, Artcore Gallery, Baroda.
Awards and Grants
2012 by Indian Council of Cultural Relations- ICCR for 'Indigo Project International'
2010 Grant for curatorial project 'Natures Fury' by Gujarat Sports & Culture Ministry.
2009 Grant for "Indigo Narrative" project by Gujarat Lalit kala Academy.
2004 "Artist of Eminence" by Baroda Management Association, Baroda.
1994 Best Traditional Craft Design Collection Award, NIFT New Delhi.
Publications –
'The Quilters' Spring 2012- Published article on 'Indigo Narratives' series
Jyoti, shelly 'Sahitya Akedmi' Indian English literature
( IL268- March April 2012 edition LV1 NO2)-Published art work.
Jyoti ,shelly 'Shringara' by Dr Alka Pande-Published art work.
Jyoti ,shelly Socleen journal-'Genetically modified crops' Published artwork.
Jyoti, Shelly. Authored article 'Art & Couture: The Collaborations.' ArtETCMagazine.Vol.9
Jyoti shelly(Visual Arts Publications IHC, New Delhi, 2010).
Jyoti, Shelly. Socleen Journal 'Green Houses' 2010. Published artwork.
Jyoti, Shelly. Socleen Annual Journal 'Global Warming'. Published artwork.
Jyoti, Shelly. The Alchemist.(Institute of General Semantics, Texas USA)
Cover image.Published Art work.
Jyoti, Shelly. Spring Magazine. (St. Xavier University, Chicago)
Cover image.Published Art work.Jyoti, Shelly. Sahitya Akademi. IL238. 2007. Poetry and Published Artwork.
Jyoti, Shelly, Raja Ravi verma . "Fusion of Art and Design." Times of India.Published article.
Select Bibliography
ART INDIA reviews INDIGO works on a title 'BLUE DYED GIRLS' by Sandhya Bordewekar
vol17, september 2012 edition
Interviewed by Kathryn Myers, University of Connecticut A video project 'Regarding India: Indian contemporary artists'.
Batet, Janet. "Redescubriendo la ruta del indigo." El Nuevo Herald 22, May 2011.
Turner, Elisa. "Critics Choice Elisa Turner's Picks for May 2011." ArtCircuits.com May 2011.
"City based Artists exhibition to open in Florida" Times of India, May 6, 2011, Ahemedabad edition.
"Needle Sharp." Femina. 24 March, 2010.
"Historic Moments." New Woman, Mumbai, February, 2010. 29.
Gupta, Gargi. "A Common Thread." Business Standard. 16, January, 2010: Weekend Edition V.
Doshi, Riddhi. "A Creative Struggle." DNA After Hrs, Mumbai. 13, January 2010.
Poonam, Goel. "Indigo Blues." Deccan Herald. 7 January, 2010: Mixed Media 4.
Chattopadhyay, Sohini. "Azure Allure." Open Magazine. 1, January, 2010: 56-57
HT Café. 13 January, 2010. 23.
Bhaskar, Divya. 11 January, 2010. 2 Goel, Poonam.
"Indigo Smorgasbord" The Pioneer. 29, December 2009. Viva City: 14.
Atistic Twosome." The Asian Age. 29, December, 2009. The Age: 34.
"Artyfacts." India Today. 28, December 2009. Home/Events: 68.
"Many Colours of Art" . Business Standard. 26, December 26, 2009. Weekend: 5.
"Indigo." The Times of India. 25, December, 2009. What's Hot: 28.
"Installed." Mid-day. 23, December, 2009. 21.
"Indigo." The Economic Times. 20, December 2009. 2.
Kalra, Vandana. "Blue Print." Indian Express. 22, December 2009: 6.
Indian Contemporary Art Blog Posting 12, December, 2009.
Indian Art News Blog Posting 20, December, 2009.
"Indigo." Financial Express. 20, December 2009. Multimedia, 8.
"Redefine." Mail Today – News for the New Indian. 18 December, 2009: 28
"Beyond Blue Jeans." Hindustan Times. Dec. 18, 2009:Fashion and Beauty.
"Indigo By Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina." First City. December, 2009. 228-229.
City Guide Delhi recommendation "Art, Drama, Entertainment and More." Good Housekeeping. December 2009. 166.
"Colonial Hues." Design Today. December 2009. 85.
"Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina." First City, Delhi's City Magazine. December 2009. 228-229.
ML, Johny. "Indigo Inscriptions"; Vali, Murtaza. "The Dye That Binds: Indigo Iconographies"; Yee, Michelle. "Moving Materials:
Reclaiming Histories of Migration." Indigo: New Work By Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina. New Delhi/Mumbai, India: self-publication, 2009. (catalogue).
Vora, Swapna. "Shelly Jyoti and Mithila: The Joy of decoration."
"Interweaving: The Art of Shelly Jyoti." Artconcerns.com. May 2008.
Sharma, Meghna. "The Expressions." TV Interview. Lok Sabha channel, New Delhi, 2009.
Mathur, Swati. "Thread of Heritage." India Today, 13, Oct, 2008.
Malhotra, Priya. "Interweaving: The Art of Shelly Jyoti." 2008.
Maddox, Georgina. "Shelly Jyoti Contemporises Mithila Painting." Forward Block, Indian Express. Mumbai, 7, Oct., 2008.
Jhony ML. "Lyrical Abstractions: A Room of/for the Muses." The Alchemist. Volume 65, Number. 1 Jan, 2008. Cover art www.articlearchives.com.
Sharma, Supriya. "Fashionable Canvases." The Hindu. 2007, New Delhi.
"Fashionable Art." Pioneer. New Delhi, 2007.
TV interview- India Times New Time. New Delhi, 2007.
Banga, Mamta. "Wear This Art if You Wish." The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, March, 2007.
"For This Artist, It's All in the Eyes." Indian Express. Baroda 7, Nov. 2007.
Kamath, Avinash. "Designers Paints New Women." Indian Express. Viva City. 2000.
Shah, Amita Pratap. "The Evolution of Women." Baroda Times. 13, Jan., 2000.
Jayraam, Monal. "Millennium Women." Indian Express. 29 Dec. 1999.
Visiting Artist Lectures and Workshops
Artist lecture 'A conversation with the Artist', DePaul University, Chicago.
Workshop Beyond Mithila Past & Present, DePaul University, Chicago.
Artist lecture Transnational Artistic Collaborations, Woman Made Gallery Chicago.
Artist lecture The Politics of Indigo: Revisiting India's Torrid Colonial Past, Centre
for Contemporary Theory and General Semantics, Baroda.
Artist lecture Beyond Mithila Past & Present, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Workshop Madhubani Traditional Art Form /Artist lecture Fashion Designing as
a Career Opportunity, Vidya Vihar School, Baroda.
Workshop Apparel Designing: Methods & Trends, Dept. of Home Science,
M.S. University, Baroda.
Artist lecture Experience Sharing as a Women Artist and a Designer, Seminar on
Women Force and Source, Baroda Management Association.
Workshop Madhubani Traditional Art Form, Stanley Clarkes School,
South Bend, Indiana.
Design lecture Technology and Computation Accelerating the Speed and Growth In the Garment Industry, Forum for Contemporary Theory, Baroda.
Designing Kids Wear from Concept to Consumer, six week programme design conducted for domestic market – NIFT New Delhi.
Related Professional Activity
2001 – 2005
Juror to fashion shows – National Institutes of Fashion Design, Baroda.
Designed, manufactured garments under my own label 'SHELLY JYOTI' domestic market.
Freelance designer for export houses for American and European markets.
Coordinated fashion related courses in Fashion Institutes in India.
Designed & Painted the site Pre-nursery School, Delhi Public School East of Kailash New Delhi.
'Art studio for Creative Minds ' Pune Maharashtra.
Set up creative workshops for adults.
Taught pre-nursery school 'Little Angels Kindergarten School' New Delhi.
Advisory Board Member
Board member-Baroda Citizen Council- BCC Baroda.Gujarat India.
Board member-Special School & Centre for Autism -DISHA Baroda Gujarat-India.
Board member-Society for Clean Environment- SOCLEEN Baroda Gujarat India.
Professional Affiliations
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL USA.
Forum for Contemporary Theory Baroda, India.
DAAN-The Diasporic Asian Art Network, New York.
Social Initiatives
Supporting Azrakh textile printers.
Art for Adult Autism
Email id: email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.shellyjyoti.com

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In the ongoing battle of the budget, President Obama has done something very cruel. Declaring that this time he won't negotiate with himself, he has refused to lay out a proposal reflecting what he thinks Republicans want. Instead, he has demanded that Republicans themselves say, explicitly, what they want. And guess what: They can't or won't do it.
No, really. While there has been a lot of bluster from the G.O.P. about how we should reduce the deficit with spending cuts, not tax increases, no leading figures on the Republican side have been able or willing to specify what, exactly, they want to cut.
And there's a reason for this reticence. The fact is that Republican posturing on the deficit has always been a con game, a play on the innumeracy of voters and reporters. Now Mr. Obama has demanded that the G.O.P. put up or shut up — and the response is an aggrieved mumble.
Here's where we are right now: As his opening bid in negotiations, Mr. Obama has proposed raising about $1.6 trillion in additional revenue over the next decade, with the majority coming from letting the high-end Bush tax cuts expire and the rest from measures to limit tax deductions. He would also cut spending by about $400 billion, through such measures as giving Medicare the ability to bargain for lower drug prices.
When you put Republicans on the spot and demand specifics about how they're going to make good on their posturing about spending and deficits, they come up empty. There's no there there.
Republicans have howled in outrage. Senator Orrin Hatch, delivering the G.O.P. reply to the president's weekly address, denounced the offer as a case of "bait and switch," bearing no relationship to what Mr. Obama ran on in the election. In fact, however, the offer is more or less the same as Mr. Obama's original 2013 budget proposal and also closely tracks his campaign literature.
So what are Republicans offering as an alternative? They say they want to rely mainly on spending cuts instead. Which spending cuts? Ah, that's a mystery. In fact, until late last week, as far as I can tell, no leading Republican had been willing to say anything specific at all about how spending should be cut.
The veil lifted a bit when Senator Mitch McConnell, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, finally mentioned a few things — raising the Medicare eligibility age, increasing Medicare premiums for high-income beneficiaries and changing the inflation adjustment for Social Security. But it's not clear whether these represent an official negotiating position — and in any case, the arithmetic just doesn't work.
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Start with raising the Medicare age. This is, as I've argued in the past, a terrible policy idea. But even aside from that, it's just not a big money saver, largely because 65- and 66-year-olds have much lower health costs than the average Medicare recipient. When the Congressional Budget Office analyzed the likely fiscal effects of a rise in the eligibility age, it found that it would save only $113 billion over the next decade and have little effect on the longer-run trajectory of Medicare costs.
Increasing premiums for the affluent would yield even less; a 2010 study by the budget office put the 10-year savings at only about $20 billion.
Changing the inflation adjustment for Social Security would save a bit more — by my estimate, about $185 billion over the next decade. But put it all together, and the things Mr. McConnell was talking about would amount to only a bit over $300 billion in budget savings — a fifth of what Mr. Obama proposes in revenue gains.
The point is that when you put Republicans on the spot and demand specifics about how they're going to make good on their posturing about spending and deficits, they come up empty. There's no there there.
And there never was. Republicans claim to be for much smaller government, but as a political matter they have always attacked government spending in the abstract, never coming clean with voters about the reality that big cuts in government spending can happen only if we sharply curtail very popular programs. In fact, less than a month ago the Romney/Ryan campaign was attacking Mr. Obama for, yes, cutting Medicare.
Now Republicans find themselves boxed in. With taxes scheduled to rise on Jan. 1 in the absence of an agreement, they can't play their usual game of just saying no to tax increases and pretending that they have a deficit reduction plan. And the president, by refusing to help them out by proposing G.O.P.-friendly spending cuts, has deprived them of political cover. If Republicans really want to slash popular programs, they will have to propose those cuts themselves.
So while the fiscal cliff — still a bad name for the looming austerity bomb, but I guess we're stuck with it — is a bad thing from an economic point of view, it has had at least one salutary political effect. For it has finally laid bare the con that has always been at the core of the G.O.P.'s political strategy.


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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Raising the Bar
Yesterday's patron has virtually no possible chance to do any meaningful research to extend her family lines. No matter what her desire, unless she relies on someone with more skills, she is essentially locked out of pursuing her research. What are those factors that enable genealogical research? Let me use the 1940 U.S. Census as an example.
Right off the bat, a hypothetical researcher in the 1940 U.S. Census would have to be aware of the existence of the U.S. Census. As practicing genealogists, we take for granted the whole concept of a census. To us, the introduction of another ten years of U.S. Census is big news. But I can assure you it is not "big news" out there in the general media. So even if you are one of those people who answer surveys and say you "have an interest in learning about your family's history," you may not have enough interest to know that censuses exist except in general terms. If you think the 1940 U.S. Census is big news, check out the latest stream of news on the Google News page. Do you find any mention of the U.S. Census without doing a search? In fact, I did a search for "census" on the Google News page and only came up with one article about the Census release.
But beyond an awareness of the 1940 U.S. Census, what will you or anyone have to know and do to even gain access to the information? Unless you have some pretty extensive computer and research skills you will not likely be sitting on the computer trying to find your family in the Census next week.
Doing genealogy is hardly a mainstream activity, but at the same time, due to technological changes this rather obscure activity is becoming even harder for people to enter. Yesterday's patron is pro-typical of the constantly raising skills level needed to pursue any activity, such as genealogy, where technological skills are impacting that activity in a direct way.
My Great-grandmother amassed a huge amount of genealogical research basically using paper and pencils or pens but she also happened to live only one or two blocks from the Genealogical Society of Utah's collection, now known as the Salt Lake Family History Library. If she were to visit the Library today, she would find much of the information only available to those with at least rudimentary computer skills. For example, rather than an paper card catalog in drawers, the only catalog is online on computers. My initial point is that technology has "raised the bar" to entry into the world of information. If you do not possess some threshold of computer skills, you will not likely even be aware of where to go and what is happening in genealogical research today and the amount of information and the skills you need is constantly increasing.
How long did it take you to acquire your computer skills? I began my "training" with a typing class in high school (one of the very few high schools classes that had any real world benefit to my life). So what happens to people who never learn any keyboarding skills? They are essentially locked out of the world of genealogy as we know it today until they acquire some level of competence.
What about the cost of entering the world of genealogy? What does it cost you for your Internet connection? How about the cost of your cell phone, your iPad, your computer? Most of the world's population can only dream of having instant and constant access to these basic genealogical tools.
What about your ability to read and write? Yesterday's patron could not easily write by hand her own name. How far can she go in genealogy with no hand writing skills and no keyboarding skills? This opens up the whole issue of whether or not our school systems are adequately preparing students to exist in a technologically sophisticated society? But my observation today is limited to the fact that the technological shift of documents to electronic sources has increased the skills necessary to do genealogical research. So as genealogists maybe we should be teaching computer skills?
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A very pertinent post James. Technology is fantastic for those who can use it but increasingly a barrier for parts of the population, not just genealogists.ReplyDelete
In Allegheny County (Pittsburgh area) the local Community College has lot of computer classes designed for the "older" users.ReplyDelete
Being retired myself I use the computer, research and do repairs, problem solve and install software. I think they just need some encouragement and basic education.
When I served as a Family Search missionary on Temple Square with my husband,the main focus of my 'training' was to teach me how to use the various computer resources available. Then to teach me how to help other people learn to use them too. I am from a generation that grew up with computers as a required part of life from a very young age. My children already know as much about computers as I likely did when I graduated high school. They are prepared for that entry gate into genealogy, but I worry for the folks like my mom that is a complete technophob! It is quite hard for her to bravely take some beginning steps into the realm of genealogical research. Interesting post (as usual). This is not something I have thought much about, but I think now that I should.ReplyDelete
I found this quite disturbing. I've been involved with computers since the early 1960's but still remember how to do research without one (although I wouldn't want to). Our City library system has computer classes for the total technophobe and rank beginner in both English and Spanish. They still require some very rudimentary typing or keyboarding skills and would possibly be too advanced for your patron. These classes, however, focus on email, Word and Excel, all of which are useful for the beginning genealogist but don't give the beginner a sense of accomplishing a little delving into their own family history. The city library system also has classes on Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc but to get anything out of this one must be more familiar with a computer than your patron may possibly be able to manage. Our local genealogy society also has beginner classes (well attended) and some program like this would be helpful for you patron.ReplyDelete
How to reach someone with the interest and few skills is quite a problem. The library system advertises all of its programs in a monthly newsletter (once again, bilingual) but if someone like your patron doesn't use the library they wouldn't know of these resources.


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Quantification can be achieved through sectioning and staining with Masson's Trichrome, which stains the basement membrane extract blue and the endothelial cells/vessels red, or by measuring the amount of hemoglobin contained in the plug.¹,²
The primary advantage of this assay is that it is relatively easy to perform; however, it does still require the use of animals which can limit the size throughput. While the subcutaneous locale is a practical choice, it is not ideal since angiogenesis does not typically occur in these areas. The investigator should also note that current measurement techniques are not able to completely compensate for the inherent variability between animals.
- Akhtar N, Dickerson E, Auerbach R. (2002). The sponge/Matrigel angiogenesis assay. Angiogenesis. 5(1-2):75-80.
- Kragh M, Hjarnaa P, Bramm E et al. (2003). In vivo chamber angiogenesis assay: an optimized Matrigel plug assay for fast assessment of anti-angiogenic activity. Int J Oncol. 22(2):305-11.
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The International Securities Exchange (ISE) is an all-electronic US options exchange offering options trading on over 2,000 underlying equity, ETF, index, and FX products. An API is available for the Options Trading System (OTS). Developers can use the API to create applications that send trading commands and/or queries to, and receive broadcasts and/or transactions from, the trading system. Firms can customize their trading applications to fit their firm's risk management and order-flow systems. All applications developed must be certified by the ISE. Documentation is not publicly available.


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The out of hours interests, pastimes and hobbies of Shell employees is as diverse as the workforce itself. Shell encourages these pursuits. Not only can they help with an individual's work/life balance but they can also benefit their careers at Shell. Celeste's ongoing quest to develop her French language skills gives her much joy while helping improve skills she applies at work.
Celeste Wang loves speaking French. After studying the language in France earlier in her education, Celeste knew that after returning home to China she needed to make an effort to maintain her proficiency in the language.
Celeste works in Shanghai where she is a Key Account Manager in Shell's Lubricant's business in China: it's primarily a B2B focused role she's been in for six months. Celeste has been working with Shell for two years, joining directly after graduation.
"I knew that, as they say, if I didn't use it I would lose it. That would have been a pity because I get such joy from French," Celeste noted. "So I actively looked around for venues in Shanghai where I could continue my French education. Fortunately I found a number of outlets where I could converse in French and, often, enjoy the culture and society that goes with that."
So Celeste took on honorary work as the general secretary for Groupement des Centraliens en Chine: an organisation for the alumni for all Centraliens (graduates of Ecole Centrale) in China. "This gives alumni a forum to network, converse in French and get to know each other better. It also organises conferences and seminars on various subjects," Celeste said.
Further, during her annual leave, Celeste participated in a French-speaking contest organised by CCTV (China Central Television). To Celeste's delight, she came second.
She also occasionally helps the French Consulate in Shanghai. "I helped consulate staff organise some events and participated in French singing competitions where I acted as one of the judges. It was lovely listening to a variety of performers singing in French and a great way to use the language with other French speakers," Celeste said.
A broader view of cultures, differences and diversity
Celeste sees her experiences during the French speaking contest as important learnings. "I had to take on very challenging tasks: to be calm and resilient when facing them. During that contest, CCTV organised training for us by CCTV broadcasters who gave us public speaking skills training. Those experiences have all been of great help to my work."
"I also realised that French was helping me learn much more than just the language. I believe learning and knowing the language allows you to better understand the culture it comes from. French is giving me a broader view of cultures, differences and diversity. These lessons also help me in my day job at Shell; as a Key Account Manager, I work with a range of Shell customers. They are often a mix of nationalities and cultures. My French skills mean I am more open to clients differences and am more patient in understanding and engaging with them."
Celeste also volunteers to teach French to a mixed group of professionals who are interested in French culture and the language. 'Our group meets up each Sunday," Celeste said. "While it's informal it certainly helps with my coaching skills: focusing on explaining things clearly and thoroughly."


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By Tillman Richard on September 10 2019 08:22:25
Business processes are diagrammed through the use of flow charts. These charts are not just for businesses, normally, it could also be used in different processes including the programming languages systems, management systems, decision-support system, etc. These flow charts are perfectly useful in keeping the manager or head and the members of the organization aware of what is to be done every now and then. Flow charts may vary according to what kind of process is being done in a company; and of course, in a flow chart, there would be different groups that will be working to form a whole system.
In a business, there would surely be different ways of keeping the business processes intact or maintained. There are different managerial skills and responsibilities that are applied as well as conceptual skills that are always imposed to leaders. These are the skills that would always be important of all. Without these skills, normally, the company would not work efficiently and would not be productive and progressive. This is somehow disturbing for the people involved in the company, either coming from the outside or inside premises.
One incorrect process could lead to different failure. All business processes are chained with one another. Normally, with one link broken, surely almost everything would be broken as well, which is why it is always advisable to track the problems and take corrective action as possible.
Even simple flowcharts make sense and can help break up the monotonous text. The last thing you want in any research or technical paper is to have too many paragraphs of solid text without enough whitespace, or graphics. Too much text without enough breaks, actually defeats the purpose of memory retention and comprehension by the reader.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Lawmakers say they would probe why Obama administration talking points didn't at first reflect CIA findings that terrorists attacked the U.S. mission in Libya.
"I know the narrative was wrong and the intelligence was right," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"We're going to get to the bottom of how that happened."
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told the same program David Petraeus, CIA director at the time, told lawmakers "very clearly" Sept. 12 -- the day after the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans -- "that it was a terrorist attack."
Petraeus even "outlined who he thought might be involved in it," she said.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told five major Sunday morning interview shows Sept. 16 the attacks began as a "spontaneous reaction" to an anti-Islamic video widely disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world that had also set off protests elsewhere.
"I think it's clear that there were extremist elements that joined in and escalated the violence," Rice said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that day. "Whether they were al-Qaida affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or al-Qaida itself, I think, is one of the things we'll have to determine."
Rice later said her statements were based on CIA talking points given to her in briefings the day before her television appearances.
Republicans have alleged an administration coverup to play down a possible al-Qaida link before the Nov. 6 presidential election. President Barack Obama said during his campaign his administration weakened al-Qaida and killed its founding leader, Osama bin Laden.
Feinstein said she felt certain the White House was not behind any change in the talking points Rice used.
"With the allegation that the White House changed those talking points, that is false," Feinstein told "Meet the Press," adding the only adjustment the White House made was to change the word "consulate" in Benghazi to the more accurate "mission."
"That's the only change that anyone in the White House made, and I have checked this out," she said.
Still, "we gave the direction [Saturday] that this whole process is going to be checked out," Feinstein told the program. "We're going to find out who made changes in the original statement. Until, we do I really think it's unwarranted to make accusations."
She said it was not right for Rice to be exposed to public contempt, ridicule and scorn for comments that were consistent with the approved statement she was given to speak from.
"She was within the context of that statement," Feinstein said. "And for this, she has been pilloried for two months. I don't understand it. It has to stop."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told "Meet the Press" the misstatement would hurt any Senate approval of Rice if she is nominated to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in Obama's second term.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Rice had "a lot of explaining to do" and would need to explain her comments to the Senate if she is nominated.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said it was "totally unfair" to hold Rice responsible for relaying information she was given.
He accused Graham and McCain of hypocrisy for using the incident to potentially block a Rice nomination.
"Eight years ago, when President [George W.] Bush suggested Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state, some people said, well, wait a minute, wasn't she part of misleading the American people about intelligence information that led to our invasion of Iraq? And it was Senator McCain and Senator Graham who stood up and said don't hold her accountable for the intelligence that was given to her -- she was simply relating what she had heard," Durbin said.


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Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning will retire, according to veteran NFL writer Rob Lowe.
Wait … Rob Lowe?
That Rob Lowe?? Why not?? After all, he LITERALLY is the finest sports writer on the planet.
OK, so, he's not a sports writer. Or a writer. (Except on West Wing). But maybe his great work in Parks and Rec buys him some journalistic credibility.
The actor believes he has the scoop, beating thousands of media members to the news that the future Hall of Fame quarterback will retire.
"Hearing my fave, #18 Peyton Manning will not return to #NFL. Wow. #Colts," Lowe wrote on Twitter.
Leave it to ESPN's Chris Mortensen to ruin the fun and bring sanity back. He talked with Archie Manning, Peyton's dad.
Wrote Mortensen on Twitter: "Archie Manning laughed when he heard @RobLowe said Peyton will retire, "Noooo…he ain't retiring. I think he would've told me."
It is worth noting that Lowe has been on the sidelines for Colts games in the past, courtesy of, um, Manning. Also, the first person Colts owner Jim Irsay followed on Twitter? Rob Lowe.
Lowe later asked NFL Network broadcaster Rich Eisen: "My people are saying Manning will retire today. What do you hear?"
Lowe continued on Twitter: #Colts fans, let's hope my info is wrong. Don't like being wrong, but this time… I'm hoping."
But Colts owner Jim Irsay had some fun at Lowe's expense, writing on Twitter: "My sources tell me Rob will star in an epic remake of "Deep Throat" with aging porn stars and 4 finger circus clowns!"


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Man pardoned by Barbour in fatal shooting
JACKSON, Miss. A Mississippi sheriff says one of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon last year from the state's then-governor was involved in exchange of gunfire that killed another man.
Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan said Wayne Thurman Harris of Slate Springs and Chris McGonagill of Calhoun City got into an argument at a cookout and both of them fired guns. Both were wounded, McGonagill fatally.
Pollan said no charges have been filed because he has not had a chance to interview Harris.
Harris received a full and unconditional pardon from Barbour on Jan. 10, 2012, after serving a sentence for selling marijuana.
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Blumenthal: FRA to call for train cameras
A national rail safety regulator will act to require cameras facing inward and outward on locomotives and operating cabs after the derailment last month in the Bronx, N.Y., that killed four and injured 67, Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Sunday.
Blumenthal said he hopes the Federal Rail Administration will issue an order rather than follow a longer rule-making process, because footage of tracks and engineers operating locomotives is necessary to determine culpability in collisions and derailments.
The additional cameras would have been useful in investigating the Dec. 1 Bronx derailment, in which a train barreled off the tracks at 82 mph on a sharply curved section of track where the speed limit is 30, Blumenthal said.
William Rockefeller, the driver of that train, told others he went into a daze moments before the crash.
"The whole purpose of cameras is to deter misconduct or mistake, as well as detect track defect or debris or other obstruction on the tracks or on bridges," Blumenthal said Sunday. "I'm hoping they do it soon."
After the Bronx crash, he and Schumer called on the FRA to impose a requirement for camera installation.
On Sunday, Blumenthal pointed to National Transportation safety Board recommendations both before and after a fatal crash five years ago that killed 25 people in California, calling for cameras as a tool to assist in post-accident investigations.
Blumenthal said that he believes that such cameras would have provided insight into other recent mishaps, including the derailment of one train and its collision with another on May 17 in Bridgeport, which injured 76 people, and the death of a Maine woman struck and killed by a train on the Saugatuck River railroad bridge on Dec. 26.
"This step is big news, because cameras can help save lives," Blumenthal said. "There shouldn't have been a tragedy or, in fact, a series of tragic incidents, beginning with the Bridgeport collision and derailment and the death of Annette White on the tracks in Westport."
After the Bronx crash, the FRA ordered Metro-North Railroad to reprogram its pre-existing alert system to automatically slow down, but not halt, trains on dangerous curves and at bridges, if engineers are exceeding recommended speeds.
On Sunday, Metro-North spokesman Salvatore Arena said the railroad has no immediate plans to install cameras on trains.
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After being left high and dry outside Loftus Road on Thursday night when West Bromwich refused to countenance his sale to Queens Park Rangers, Odemwingie lit a fire under his relationship with his current club on Friday, accusing them of playing a part in the confusion.
Albion manager Steve Clarke, meanwhile, said that despite the "lunacy" of Odemwingie's actions in driving down to QPR on Thursday night, the door was open for him to return to the squad.
After an hour of face-to-face talks with Clarke on Friday morning the striker was sent home from training and will not be part of the squad to face Tottenham Hotspur at the Hawthorns tomorrow.
Odemwingie's car park vigil at Loftus Road added a comic twist to the last throes of deadline day, but the fallout has proved embarrassing for the player, both clubs, and potentially Ashworth, who takes up a senior position with the Football Association in September.
The events on Thursday encapsulated the desperate nature of some trading in the January transfer window, with a player clearly desperate to get out of his club caught between an equally desperate buyer and a reluctant seller.
Odemwingie is understood to believe that he has been hung out to dry by both clubs. QPR insist that they did not talk to him after West Bromwich refused permission.
For their part the Midlands club claim he was never given leave to talk to QPR.
The striker, however, is adamant that he was given the go-ahead to open talks by Ashworth, and West Bromwich were clearly open to a deal of some kind as they discussed the possibility of taking Junior Hoilett from QPR as a replacement. Clarke admitted yesterday afternoon that was the case.
Odemwingie got his retaliation in first on Friday morning, telling Sky Sports on the way to training that he was not the only one to blame.
He admitted that he did not have written permission to talk to QPR, but claimed he had been given the impression he was free to talk to QPR by Ashworth.
The 31-year-old forward also said that he had tried to make the deal happen by offering to give up his bonus of £300,000 to help fund a swap deal with a QPR player, thought to be Hoilett.
Asked if he believed Ashworth had given him permission to leave, Odemwingie said: "Yes, he can deny it because he has to look good in this situation. We will find a way forward for everyone now, but the truth is that it went wrong and he told me a few days ago that we could have handled this differently.
"I was ready to give my bonus, I have £300,000 from the points we have won so far, I offered that too. I love the club, I love the fans, I did perform here and I will always love the club. I will still leave, it is just a matter of time now."
Speaking after an hour of talks with Odemwingie and Ashworth, Clarke said that he was disappointed with the Albion forward, and that the first he knew of the drama was when he saw his player being interviewed on television.
The club will consider disciplinary action against the player, but Clarke said that he was not ruling him out of his future plans. He was also critical of QPR.
"I am disappointed with the way the whole episode turned out. I think he's been very, very badly advised. And I think, if I was Peter, I would be looking for new agents," the Albion manager said.
"It was total lunacy because he didn't have permission to be at QPR. That's why QPR turned him away. We were as surprised as anybody when he turned up at Loftus Road. At some stage yesterday the deal was close to happening. I think that's obvious. But like a number of transfers on deadline day it fell through.
"I can't say for sure that he hasn't played his last game for the club. But I don't think he's played his last game for the club.
"When we decide that the time is right for Peter to come back to training, we will address that situation and he will be back in."
Asked about QPR's conduct, Clarke said: "I know that I wouldn't work that way. I know that I would conduct myself differently. That's all I can say."
Odemwingie is already facing a club fine for attacking West Bromwich on Twitter last week, and the club are believed to be investigating the possibility of an additional sanction for his actions on Thursday evening.


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Please STOP the Hunting of Polar Bears and the Fur Trade. The pelts come from Canada, under the guise of Sustenance Hunting. Fur Trade is booming. The demand driving two other Countries,Russia and China. In Russia himself is shooting of Polar Bears prohibited since 1956! The Polar Bears are in Danger of Extinction. The Pack Ice melts and the Habitat of Polar Bears is shrinking. The Science predicts a Population decrease of 70% over the next 40 Years. Nevertheless be each Year hundreds of these endangered Animals alone shot as Trophies. European Tour Operators sell a Polar Bear Hunting-shooting for around 40 000 euros.
Ludwig Meier
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The Polar Bears ,their Habitat shrinks by Global Warming. By the additional Hunting for their Pelts they are in Danger of Extinction. There are only...
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The Polar Bears ,their Habitat shrinks by Global Warming. By the additional Hunting for their Pelts they are in Danger of Extinction. There are only 20,000 left!
The argument with the Inuit is just a bullshit pretext. The Inuit have their own demand for meat that has never threatened the survival of polar bears.
Behind this legal loophole is represented the whole fur trade and trophy industry, with semi-automatic weapons shooting all animals in their sights. This involves a lot of money. The Canadian Government does nothing about it.
Now in the Arctic Circle, hundreds and thousands of hunters come to hunt for polar bears for $35,000 a head, and they come from all over the world- Mexico, Europe, the U.S, and even Canada's "Inuit" communities, many of whom hunt their quotas and legally sell them onto outsiders wiling to part with cash. For some countries, they allow hunters to take polar bear hides back, as long as they have the paperwork. According to the Independent, last year the U.S. banned the importation of polar bear hides but most countries, including Britain, place no restrictions on the skins.
Hunter Photo: HSUS- American trophy hunters are gunning for Canada's shrinking polar bear population
President Obama has proposed,with Russian Support, a Ban on the Trade in Polar Bears, but another Polar Bear Range State, Canada, is adamantly opposed to it. _______________________________________________________________________________
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| This article is about the Crew Quartermaster equipment management leadership position in a Venturing Crew.
For the equipment management leadership position for Boy Scout Troops and Varsity Scout Teams, see Quartermaster.
For the highest-level rank award in Sea Scouting, see the Quartermaster Award.
|Serving as Crew Quartermaster can apply towards Positions of Responsibility requirementss for Star, Life, and Eagle.
|Crew Quartermaster
The Crew Quartermaster is a special crew officer that keeps track of crew equipment and sees that it is in good working order. He/she issues equipment and makes sure it is returned in good condition.
Reports to
- Keeps records on crew equipment.
- Makes sure equipment is in good working condition.
- Issues equipment and makes sure it is returned in good condition.
- Makes suggestions for new or replacement items.
- Works with the crew committee member responsible for equipment.
- Sets a good example.
- Wears the uniform appropriate to the Venturing crew.
- Learns and lives by the Scout Oath and the Scout Law.
- Approaches Venturing in the spirit of fun, and seeks to reflect this spirit in the individual mentoring of new Venturers.
As a special crew officer:
- Fosters and develops an environment within the crew that has a true sense of community, that encourages growth and responsibility to one another.
- Works in a spirit of partnership with the Crew Advisor.
- Assists in developing a program of activities for the crew help carry them out.
- Upholds the standards and policies of the chartered organization and the Boy Scouts of America.
- Ensures that activities are conducted within BSA safety guidelines and requirements.
- Cultivates the capacity to enjoy life - have fun and explore while leading.
The Crew Quartermaster is the equipment manager youth leader in its unit. Other equipment manager youth leaders are:
- Quartermaster ─ Scouts BSA
- Crew Quartermaster ─ Venturing
- Storekeeper ─ Sea Scouting
See also
|Venturing portal
- Positions of Responsibility
- Venturing
- Venturing Gold Award
- Venturing Silver Award
- Star Rank
- Life Rank
- Eagle Scout Rank
Crew Positions of Responsibility and Adult Advisers
|Crew Officers:
|President • Vice President - Administration • Vice President - Program • Secretary • Treasurer
|Special crew officers:
|Crew Guide • Quartermaster • Historian
|Other crew officers:
|Musician • Den Chief
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Iran, Syria and North Korea yesterday prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the US$70 billion global conventional arms trade, complaining that it was flawed and failed to ban weapons sales to rebel groups.
To get around the blockade, British UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant sent the draft treaty to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and asked him on behalf of Mexico, Australia and a number of others to put it to a swift vote in the General Assembly.
UN diplomats said the 193-nation General Assembly could put the draft treaty to a vote as early as Tuesday.
"A good, strong treaty has been blocked," said Britain's chief delegate, Joanne Adamson. "Most people in the world want regulation and those are the voices that need to be heard."
"This is success deferred," she added.
The head of the US delegation, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman, told a group of reporters, "We look forward to this treaty being adopted very soon by the United Nations General Assembly."
He declined to predict the result of a vote, but said it would be a "substantial majority" in favor.
UN member states began meeting last week in a final push to end years of discussions and hammer out a binding international treaty to end the lack of regulation over cross-border conventional arms sales.
Arms control activists and human rights groups say a treaty is needed to halt the uncontrolled flow of arms and ammunition that they say fuels wars, atrocities and rights abuses.
Delegates to the treaty-drafting conference said on Wednesday they were close to a deal to approve the treaty, but cautioned that Iran and other countries might attempt to block it. Iran, Syria and North Korea did just that, blocking the required consensus for it to pass.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had told Iran's Press TV that Tehran supported the arms trade treaty. However, Iranian UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told the conference that he could not accept the treaty in its current form.
"The achievement of such a treaty has been rendered out of reach due to many legal flaws and loopholes," he said. "It is a matter of deep regret that genuine efforts of many countries for a robust, balanced and non-discriminatory treaty were ignored."
One of those flaws was its failure to ban sales of weapons to groups that commit "acts of aggression," ostensibly referring to rebel groups, he said.
The current draft does not ban transfers to armed groups, but says all arms transfers should be subjected to rigorous risk and human rights assessments first.
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari echoed the Iranian concerns, saying he also objected to the fact that it does not prohibit weapons transfers to rebel groups.
"Unfortunately our national concerns were not taken into consideration," he said. "It can't be accepted by my country."
North Korea's delegate voiced similar complaints, suggesting it was a discriminatory treaty: "This [treaty] is not balanced."
Iran, which is under a UN arms embargo over its nuclear program, is eager to ensure its arms imports and exports are not curtailed, diplomats said. Syria is in a two-year-old civil war and hopes Russian and Iranian arms keep flowing in, they added.
North Korea is also under a UN arms embargo due to its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
Russia and China made clear they would not have blocked it, but voiced serious reservations about the text and its failure to get consensus. India, Pakistan and others complained that the treaty favors exporters and creates disadvantages for arms importers.


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Goldman's chief economist Jan Hatzius — who has been optimistic that the US economy will turn a corner in 2013 — is the latest to talk more about signs of a soft patch.
In a new note, he talks about 'A Consumption Setback.'
He writes:
Real consumer spending growth in the first quarter is tracking 2-1/2%, much stronger than we had expected at the start of the year. But the March retail sales and the dip in consumer sentiment in early April suggest that consumption is entering the second quarter on a weak note. The personal saving rate also looks somewhat low relative to our model, which is based on household wealth, bank lending standards, and labor market conditions.
The most plausible explanation is that we are seeing a delayed impact from the January payroll tax hike. If this is the right explanation, we could see a couple of quarters of weaker consumption growth in the 1%-2% range, despite the increase in household wealth and the more recent decline in gasoline prices. Combined with the hit from the sequester to federal spending, this would probably make it difficult for real GDP to grow much more than 2%, even if homebuilding and business investment continue to perform well.
Still, Hatzius remains optimistic about growth and even US consumption growth in the latter half of the year, as the benefits of America's low level of debt service and deleveraging kick in.


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In the old days, Ghostbusters didn't have the luxury of carrying their equipment on their backs. Instead, ghost-hunting spiritualists had to travel with large stationary contraptions, and hope their etherial prey wasn't too nimble.
Photographer Noah Doely creates odd and unnerving ambrotypes envisioning a past slightly more mystical than own, one filled sea monsters, homespun androids, and fossils hidden behind every wall.
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Touch targets
Users touch the screen with their fingertips, so touch targets (also called hit areas) for UI components should be large enough for users to use without frustration. If you use BlackBerry UI components, you don't need to worry about the size of the touch target for each UI component. The sizes are designed to be large enough for users to touch with a finger without having to hit the target precisely.
If you create custom UI components, remember that the size of the touch target depends on the ppi of the screen. If you are designing your app for different BlackBerry devices, create a touch target for the pixel density of each screen size.
Best practices for custom UI components
Create touch targets. For BlackBerry smartphones, create touch targets that are at least 101 x 101 pixels (7.2 mm).
Make the size of the touch target larger than the visible UI component. Provide enough space around each component so that users can initiate an action easily. The extra space provides leniency for users whose attention is divided or those who are on the go.
For check boxes and radio buttons, create a touch target area for the entire row and the associated label. These UI components have small visible areas.
Make the size of the release area larger than the visible UI component. The extra space allows for imprecise interactions, such as when a finger moves after initially touching the screen.
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Electronics Components: Introducing Microcontrollers
A microcontroller is a complete computer on a single electronic chip. They can be purchased for $50 or less. Like all computer systems, microcomputers consist of several basic subsystems:
Central processing unit (CPU): A CPU carries out the instructions provided to it by a program. The CPU can do all the operations necessary to the proper functioning of the computer, such as moving data from one location of memory to another or receiving data as input from the outside world.
Clock: The CPU and other components of the microcontroller are driven by a clock that provides timing pulses that control the pacing of program instructions as they are executed one at a time by the CPU. For most microcontrollers, the clock ticks along at a pace of a few million ticks per second. In contrast, the clock that drives a typical desktop computer ticks along at a few billion ticks per second.
Random access memory (RAM): Provides a scratchpad area where the computer can store the data it's working on. For example, if you want the computer to determine the result of a calculation (such as two plus two), you need to provide a location in RAM where the computer can store the result.
In a desktop computer, the amount of available RAM is measured in billions of bytes (GB for gigabytes). In a microcontroller, the RAM is often measured just bytes. That's right: not billions (GB), millions (MB; megabytes), or even thousands (KB; kilobytes) of bytes, but plain old bytes. For example, the popular BASIC Stamp 2 has a total of 32 bytes of RAM.
EEPROM: A special type of memory that holds the program that runs on a microcontroller. EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, but that won't be on the test.
EEPROM is read-only, which means that once data has been stored in EEPROM, the data can't be changed by a program running on the microcontroller's CPU. However, it's possible to write data to EEPROM memory by connecting the EEPROM to a computer via a USB port. Then, the computer can send data to the EEPROM.
This is how microcontrollers are programmed. You use special software on a PC to create the program that you want to run on the microcontroller. Then, you connect the microcontroller to the PC and transfer the program from the PC to the microcontroller. The microcontroller then executes the instructions set forth in the program.
Most microcontrollers have a few thousand bytes of EEPROM memory, which is enough to store relatively complicated programs downloaded from a PC.
One of the most important features of EEPROM memory is that it doesn't lose its data when you turn off the power. Thus, once you transfer a program from a PC to a microcontroller's EEPROM, the program remains in the microcontroller until you replace it with some other program.
You can turn the microcontroller off and put it on a closet shelf for years, and when you turn the microcontroller back on, the program that was recorded years ago will run again.
I/O pins: One of the most important features of a microcontroller is its I/O pins, which enable the microcontroller to communicate with the outside world. Although some microcontrollers have separate input pins and output pins, most have shared I/O pins that can be used for both input and output.
I/O pins usually use the basic TTL logic interface: HIGH (logic 1) is represented by +5 V, and LOW (logic 0) is represented by 0 V.
Most microcontrollers can handle only a small amount of current directly through the I/O pins. 20–25 mA is typical. That's enough to light up an LED, but circuits that require more current should isolate the higher current load from the microcontroller I/O pins. This is usually done by using a transistor driver.


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California Dreaming: poems from California poets selected by Library staff.
Join us for an exhibition of poems by California poets, lining the atrium on the third floor of the Main Library. The 15 poems were selected by Library staff and represent some of our favorite poetry. The poets are both well-known (Alejandro Murguia and Al Young) and new to the scene (Stewart Shaw and Monica Xu).
Make your next trip to the Library a literary one with these wonderful poets. We're sure you will find something to love in this exhibit.
The exhibit will be up from April 1, 2013 (National Poetry Month) to June 30, 2014.


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The residency team is pleased to announce the draft release of the Implementing an IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Cluster using Linux on Power, SG24-8248. The topics described in this publication are as follows:
- Introduction to the solution
- Reference architecture
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Abstract: Place branding has become popular. Places brand themselves to attract tourists, talented foreign workers, investments and businesses. The brand accentuates the positive characteristics of the place; it frames the society and sells its cultures. In the context of tourism, this paper examines the branding strategies of two very different countries – Denmark and Singapore. In Singapore, the convergence between the brand message and the place reality is frequently engineered by creating new brand-related products. In Denmark, the brand tries to communicate an existing local reality; it wants to present a prevailing reality. To the Danes, the brand is descriptive and should portray the country in a positive and accurate manner. To the Singaporeans, the brand is normative and a vision of what Singaporean society ought to become. These countries share common goals when branding themselves but their branding strategies are different, why? This paper situates their strategic differences in the local social, cultural and political context. Although country branding is externally directed, domestic politics and mechanisms of local control affect how the country can brand itself. Keywords: place branding, branding strategies, Denmark, Singapore, tourism, destination URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7393
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Now that we have had the chance to play with both what do you guys like better? personally me i prefer the ripper
Both are mediocre... Ripper on DLC, and Maverick on original
Ripper all the way. The ripper is a maverick is assault rifle mode and is the bizon or cbj is smg mode. Easy answer
Id say that the ripper is closer to the bizon rather than the cbj. Thats a good thing because it would be op if the sub was as fast as the cbj. The cbj has the highest ROF of all the subs. I can speak with confidence as I use smgs and shotguns exclusively in this game. Therefore I'm not sure what the ar portion of the ripper is closest to.
After playing with the ripper the past couple nights, it is becoming a favorite, due to versatility. I enjoy staying in the SMG weapon tier as far a choosing a gun goes, and I'm loving the SMG version of this gun, while still having some a ranged option if I really need it. It isn't overpowered, but it is good.
The AR version is comparable to the remington (3-5 shot kill and not as much range), and it is the slowest firing automatic gun in the game at 600 RPM, with the bouncy honey badger recoil. The SMG version is far better, but on a map like stonehaven, where you will stay in AR mode most of the time, grip or rapid fire are great attachments to increase the ripper's performance. Adding rapid fire wont do anything to the SMG version, but it will bump the AR RPM from 600 to 720ish.
You are right, in SMG mode, the ripper and bizon shoot at almost identical RPM.
Interesting. According to driftor(And I'm not saying he's right although he usually is) rapid fire puts the ripper at almost 900rpm in AR mode. I haven't tested it but it sure seems more than 720.
You maybe looked at the wrong numbers in that video, that is what I am basing my stats on.
To save you some time, go to 3:40 on his video
Its quite possible, it was months ago. Perhaps I'm remembering wrong too. I'll take your word for it .
Rapid fire increases fire rate by 17%. Theoretical fire rate is 674rpm, so that would be 788rpm. But frame rate and the game's old engine sees it limited to 720rpm most of the time, just as the stock rpm is 600rpm at 60fps.
Unfortunately the SMG doesn't get a benefit because it goes from 968rpm (900), to around 1130rpm. The next framerate "boundary" is 1200rpm (think Type 95 rapid fire burst, or PP90M1/PM9 rapid fire), so it stays at 900rpm.
But yeah, rapid fire is kinda pointless on the Ripper, as you have the faster firing SMG for CQB and the more stable fire rate of the AR to help counter the low damage at range. The increase in recoil doesn't seem worth it...you'd be better off going with a true master of all trades - MTAR + rapid fire
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SinhalaSinhala (සිංහල), also known as Sinhalese (older spelling: Singhalese) is the mother tongue of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million. Sinhala is also spoken, as a second language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 3 million.
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124. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
125. PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God, by Frank Warren
126. Death Troopers, by Joe Schrieber
127. Cut Time, by Carlos Rotella
128. Wall and Piece, by Banksy
129. Button, Button, by Richard Matheson
130. Nightmares and Dreamscapes, by Stephen King
131. Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld
132. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
133. Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
134. Shadow Boxers, by Jim Lommasson
135. The Women of Nell Gwynne's, by Kage Baker
136. Imperial Commando: 501st, by Karen Traviss
137. Makers, by Cory Doctorow
138. Eclipse Three, by Jonathan Strahan (editor)
139. Canticle, by Ken Scholes
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113. Locke and Key: Head Games, by Joe Hill
114. Ex Machina: Smoke, Smoke, by Brian K. Vaughan
115. Preacher: All Hell's A-Coming, by Garth Ennis
116. Preacher: The Alamo, by Garth Ennis
117. Ex Machina: Ex Cathedra, by Brian K. Vaughan
118. Scalped: Casino Boogie, by Jason Aaron
119. Scalped: Dead Mothers, by Jason Aaron
120. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey, by Jane Espenson
121. 100 Bullets: The Counter-Fifth Detective, by Brian Azzarello
122. Jack of Fables: The Big Book of War, by Bill Willingham
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Marie Osmond signed up to perform a string of gigs over Christmas this year (12) as she can't face celebrating the festive season since her son's suicide in 2010.
The veteran singer has struggled to enjoy the holidays since her son Michael Blosil jumped to his death from the balcony of his Los Angeles apartment in February, 2010.
Osmond admits she is still mourning the loss, but she plans to keep busy over the next few months by staging concerts with her brother Donny.
She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "We are doing a big Christmas tour and the reason was (after) my son passed away, I told my brother Donny, 'I can't be home for Christmas. I am going to do a tour.' So he said, 'Let's do one together.'
"It never gets better. God gives you little bits of respite and then suddenly it will hit you, especially around the holidays... It was a terrible time (after his death). It is a club you wish nobody belonged to. A lot of people have lost sons and daughters. It's not a fun club to be a part of."
Osmond is playing dates in Arizona, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City in Utah in the coming weeks, before taking the show to the U.K. in January for a string of shows into February (13).


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Although the question is easy to pose, I think some background will help to motivate it, so I'll start with it.
Consider variables $X=(X_1, \ldots, X_n)$ over a field $K$ and the elementary symmetric functions $T=(T_1, \ldots, T_n)$ in $X$. In other words $X$ are the roots of the polynomial $Y^n + T_1 Y^{n-1} + \cdots + T_n$.
A polynomial $f$ in $X$ is symmetric is $f(s X) = f(X)$ for any permutation $s$. Here $s X := (X_{s(1)}, \ldots, X_{s(n)})$. Then a basic fact is that if $f(X)$ is symmetric, then $f(X) = g(T)$, for some polynomial $g$.
It is reasonable to define an alternating polynomial to be $f$ that satisfy $f(s X) = sign(s) f(X)$, where $sign(s) = \pm 1$ is the signature. The "elementary" alternating polynomial is the Vandermonde polynomial $V(X) = \prod_{i<j} (X_j-X_i)$, and any other alternating polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial in $T$ and $V$.
Note that $V$ is a square root of the discriminant $\Delta$ of $Y^n + T_1 Y^{n-1} + \cdots + T_n$ and the discriminant has an explicit formula in terms of $T$ using the Sylvester matrix.
That definition for alternating polynomials gives nothing interesting in characteristic $2$ (because then $1=-1$). The only definition that makes sense to me in characteristic $2$ is: $f$ is alternating if $f(s X) = f(X) + add.sign(s)$. Here $add.sign(s) = 0,1$ is the additive signature, i.e., equals $1$ if $s$ is odd and $0$ if $s$ is even.
I already figured out what is the "elementary" alternating polynomial $u/V$ and what is the Artin-Schreir equation it satisfies: $u(X) = \sum_{s \ {\rm is\ even}} X^{n-1}_{s(1)} \cdots X^0_{s(n)}$ and it satisfies the Artin-Schreier equation $X^2 + X = \frac{u(X) u(s_0 X)}{\Delta}$, where $s_0$ is any odd permutation (e.g., transposition), and $\Delta$ is again the discriminant. (Note that $u(X) + u(s_0 X) = V$.)
My question is: Does there exist a nice formula for $\frac{u(X) u(s_0 X)}{\Delta}$ in terms of $T$?


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Michigan's onmibus anti-abortion "super bill" was nearly guaranteed to pass the state senate the moment it was announced it would be up for a vote. According to Michigan activists, of the 38 members serving in the senate, only eight state senators openly refer to themselves as fully pro-choice, leaving the chamber a virtual lock for passage for any abortion restriction that anti-choice special interest groups can design.
The fact that the final vote was only 27 to 10 is perhaps the best indicator of exactly how overreaching the super bill is. A small number of legislators who don't identify as pro-choice rejected the bill, considering it far too extreme.
"It's hard to believe that this sort of assault on women is continuing after an 18 point gender gap on election day and the women of Michigan standing up and calling on the legislature not to take up this kind of legislation," Meghan Hodge Groen, Director of Government Relations for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan told RH RealityCheck, pointing to the five new pro-choice legislators elected in November as a sign of the voters refusal to have legislators make medical decisions for the women of the state."
Although the legislation has passed soundly in both chambers, they were not passed with a veto-proof majority, making Republican Governor Rick Snyder the last chance to stop the bill from becoming law. As a politician who will be responsible to the full state when it comes to his own political future, Groen notes that Snyder will be forced to choose between the will of his party and the people of the state he represents.
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Nancy Northrup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights echoes the need for a veto as well. "HB 5711 is a prime example of deceptive nature of the national anti-choice agenda," she stated via press release. "Under the pretext of protecting women's health, this bill would completely undermine women's access to safe and affordable reproductive care—and ultimately place their lives and well-being at risk."
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RICHMOND, VA. -- Senior forward Ricardo Marsh (Mebane, NC.) has been named Colonial Athletic Association Co-Player of the Week. He shares the honor with UNC Wilmington's Craig Callahan. Marsh averaged 28.5 points and 7.0 rebounds per game.
Marsh scored a career high 30 points against Delaware, hitting 12 of 22 shots from the floor and hauling in six rebounds. He then scored 27 points with eight rebounds at Hofstra. He was 10 of 19 from the floor and 7 of 9 from the free throw line.
Marsh joins teammate Rasheed Wright (Greensboro, NC.)as CAA Players of the Week. Wright was selected last week. Marsh currently ranks third in the CAA in scoring at 18.2 and in rebounding at 8.6. He now has 1,155 career points which rank him 28th on ODU's all-time list.
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Ashley is always changing her look - whether it's her makeup, hair, clothes - you get the point! This star loves to experiment and in her Instagram pics she did just that.
The first look features the blonde beauty donning a natural pink lip with her eyes rimmed with a black liner. Her skin looks luminescent in this photo - we have to wonder how this girl ALWAYS looks amazing! This look really shows off Ashley's eyes and her flirty style. The makeup is simple and playful, which definitely shows off her personality. Her short, cropped blonde hair, and perfectly pink pout makes Ashley one stunning young actress.
The second look gravitates more towards a fall look, as her switch to dark colors really has us asking if this is her look for the fall season! Her black lip looks sinful as the rest of her makeup follows suit. She pulls off a black smokey eye and filled in brows to really give off a strong look. Her makeup is making a statement - this girl likes to have fun!
No matter what look Ashley's in, the girl definitely does not want to take herself too seriously, and likes to show a more playful side to her fans. The actress posted both photos with the captions reading "pink," and the other "black." Well girl, we think you look ah-mazing in both!
What do you think of the makeup look? Do you think Ashley looks better in a more subtle, pink inspired look - or is the goth inspired look your favorite? Vote below to tell us your thoughts!
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