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Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade graduation cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.
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The State Worker: California Attorney General Harris has power to influence pension-change efforts
A single word could send a game-changing California public pension proposal into political oblivion early next month.
Within the next few weeks, Attorney General Kamala Harris will issue a title and summary of not more than 100 words to describe a ballot initiative that would, among other things, give state and local government agencies power to change retirement benefits prospectively for current employees.
The language Harris uses to describe San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's measure is key because that's what voters will see. Once she issues the language, Reed will focus test it and then shop the measure to potential campaign underwriters.
Reed's side worries that Harris, who enjoys strong labor support, will live up to the ballot-bias rap she got in 2012. A pension-change measure that year failed to raise signature-collection money after the title and summary falsely said, among other things, that the proposal would change benefits for current employees and monkey with death and disability benefits. Editorials and political columnists from both sides of the aisle blasted Harris for politicizing the process.
At the time, Harris stood by her take on the measure. She still does, spokesman Nicolas Pacilio said. The proponents could have sued her over the 2012 title and summary she issued, but didn't.
Now Reed needs to raise least $2 million to collect 807,615 qualifying signatures for a pension initiative, "and that's just to get a seat at the table," said Bill Whalen, a Hoover Institution research fellow and former speechwriter for GOP Gov. Pete Wilson. The subsequent campaign would cost tens of millions of dollars more.
What will Harris do this time? An internal memo to labor leaders from Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group mined a recent union-commissioned survey to suggest messages that would bury the initiative.
"Note that 'eliminating' fosters a visceral negative response from voters. Over 50% are VERY unfavorable to 'Eliminating Police, Firefighters, and Other Public Employees' Vested Pension Benefits' (54% VERY unfavorable) AND "Eliminating Public Employees' Vested Benefits" (51% VERY unfavorable)," the Garin memo says.
Reed's measure doesn't "eliminate" pensions. It eliminates the guarantee that pensions can never be altered once promised. Employees would vest as they work, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. Under certain circumstances, employers could cut benefits prospectively, reduce cost-of-living adjustments, increase the retirement age for future benefits and require employees to pay more. Anything within the scope of collective bargaining would have to be negotiated to impasse before the employer could impose changes.
Sure, some might dump their defined-benefit pension plans, but Reed's measure doesn't prescribe it.
Still, a single word to the contrary could kill Reed's efforts.

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Christengemeinde Elim
The Pentecostal Christian church "Christengemeinde Elim" in Hamburg, Germany, needs a fresh and modern design for its website. The Elim offers many activities and groups for every age. Furthermore, there is a deep effort to meet the needs of people in Hamburg, Germany, and the rest of the world. The current website can be found here: http://www.elim-hamburg.de.
- People interested in the Elim
- Over 1,000 church members and visitors in every age (0 - 100 years)
The visitors' main interests are:
- What is the Elim?
- What does the Elim do for me, Hamburg, and the World?
- The last sermons (MP3, PDF and Video)
- What's up next Sunday or next week?
- Contact / Directions
For the youth and internal communication purposes the Elim has two extra portals which are not part of this briefing.
We need the following two types of pages.
- The home page
The home page should contain visually attractive buttons for accessing the most important sub pages. The current home page can be found in the attached file elim-home.psd and under http://www.elim-hamburg.de. The current design should be improved, e.g. grouping of the buttons should be possible. Please keep in mind that some buttons are regularly updated by a tech-savy person who is not a professional designer.
- The sub page
The sub pages should use the same header and footer as the home page. Besides the normal content area, we need extra space for additional information (e.g. contact person, different logo, links).
Please feel free to change the actual design and positions of the menus. The requirement is that they are just intuitive and nice (maybe without drop-down menu).
The final output should be in a Photoshop file, with the different elements layered and grouped as state of the art.
The Elim's logo is attached to this brief.
If you need additional information or assistance with German words, please do not hesitate to contact me.


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Citrix Synergy Round-up: Cisco Previews Nexus 1000V on XenServer
In conjunction with the newly expanded partnership with Citrix, Cisco demonstrated its Nexus 1000V virtual switch on the Citrix XenServer virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor, with XenCenter integration this week at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona. This is another important milestone in Cisco's multi-hypervisor strategy for its full Nexus 1000V virtual networking portfolio, following on the heels of our support for Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 (currently in beta) and the demonstration of Nexus 1000V on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) open source hypervisor for Linux at Cisco Live in San Diego earlier this year.
The demonstration at Synergy showed the consistent deployment architecture for the Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch, NX-OS feature-set, operational workflows, and port profile based provisioning of virtual Ethernet ports (vEths) via XenCenter. Two virtual workloads – Ubuntu server and Windows Client – were shown to interact with each other as in the diagram below.
But wait, there's more… Here's the network diagram of what was shown in the video demonstration:
In addition to focusing on the integration and support of all the major hypervisors, we are seeing the emergence of complete virtualization stacks that consist not only of the hypervisor, the virtual switch and virtual services, but include the orchestration and cloud management tools to automate the deployment and provisioning of these new cloud networks. Here, again, Cisco is taking a multi-orchestration strategy.
Cisco's virtual network infrastructure, consisting of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch and Cloud Network Services, a portfolio of virtual application services including vWAAS, ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, Virtual Security Gateway, and virtual Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) supports multiple ecosystems of virtualization and orchestration stacks from leading vendors, partners and open source communities. Cloud Network Services includes best-of-breed third party virtual services as well, like the Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall and now the Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual application delivery controller.
As enterprises and service providers drive towards cloud deployments, they are looking for turnkey platforms to drive the automation and management of their cloud environments. By support the virtual network infrastructure across all of these hypervisor and cloud orchestration stacks, Cisco is leading the way in giving customers choice, flexibility and alternative cost models to build out their clouds the way they see fit.
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Was it announced when the Nexus 1000v for XenServer will be available?


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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Former President George H.W. Bush marked his 85th birthday on Friday the same way he did his 75th and 80th birthdays: He leaped from a plane and zoomed downward at more than 100 mph in freefall before parachuting safely to a spot near his oceanfront home.
Bush made the tandem jump from 10,500 feet with Sgt. 1st Class Mike Elliott of the Army's Golden Knights, who guided them to a gentle landing on the lawn of St. Ann's Church.
"It's a great, exhilarating feeling," he said after he was removed from his harness. "I don't feel a day over 84."
He said he enjoyed the jump so much that he planned to do it again when he turns 90.
When he was president, Bush was an avid jogger, speed golfer, fisherman and tennis player. He said he has slowed down since then, but he doesn't intend to stop moving.
He told reporters that he jumped Friday for two reasons: to experience the exhilaration of free-falling and to show that seniors can remain active and do fun things.
"Just because you're an old guy, you don't have to sit around drooling in the corner," Bush said. "Get out and do something. Get out and enjoy life."
Children on hand
All five of Bush's children, including former President George W. Bush, were there, along with 14 grandchildren, two brothers and a sister.
Elliott said he was "definitely nervous" because of Bush's age and the presence of his entire family.
"What we do is inherently dangerous, so there's always some risk, but we pride ourselves on safety and make sure everything goes as planned. And today it went without a hitch," he said.
Bush's first parachute jump came when his plane was shot down over the Pacific in 1944 during World War II. He bailed out at 1,500 feet after a bombing mission over ChiChi Jima. His two crewmates didn't make it.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
In 1997, Bush fulfilled a wartime promise he made to himself that someday he'd jump from a plane for fun by hopping out over Yuma, Ariz., and he jumped again on his 75th birthday at his library in Texas.
Video: Free falling with the Golden Knights His days of solo parachuting ended at age 80 when bad weather forced him to scrap his plan to go alone. He made not one but two tandem jumps in Texas.
Seventh leap
The skydiving jump marked Bush's seventh parachute leap from an airplane. His last jump was in November 2007, also with Elliott, at the reopening of his presidential library at Texas A&M University. He made that jump unannounced after hip replacement surgery.
Joining Bush on Friday was anchor Robin Meade from HLN, the cable network formerly known as Headline News. Meade also made a tandem jump with the Golden Knights.
Nancy Brindle, who works at Patten's farm stand in Kennebunkport, said she's surprised at the number of local residents who are concerned about Bush's safety but she wasn't worried.
"It's so much fun to live in Kennebunkport and be part of the excitement," she said. "It's a pleasure to be part of it all. It far outweighs any inconveniences."
Former First Lady Barbara Bush doesn't object to her octogenarian husband's fascination with skydiving.
"She is fine with it, particularly now that he does tandem jumps. She has so much trust and faith in the Golden Knights that she's fine with it," said Jean Becker, Bush's chief of staff.
Dr. Tom Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study, applauded Bush for serving as an example to others — especially seniors — to stay active.
"For Mr. Bush to have this attitude of, you know, carpe diem, really is spot on. Clearly age is not stopping him from doing something that he thinks is really fun, and thrilling," said Perls, a professor at Boston University. "Age, the number, should never stop somebody."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mayor Karl Dean and the Department of Metro Public Works today were joined by a number of community leaders for the groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited 28th Avenue Connector project.
The Mayor included $18 million in the Fiscal Year 2011 Capital Spending Plan for the connector, which is will be a one-third mile road physically connecting 28th Avenue in North Nashville to West End with a bridge spanning the CSX railroad that runs behind Centennial Park.
"We are literally reconnecting two parts of our city that were divided over 40 years ago when the interstate was built," Dean said. "This is a project that has been talked about in Nashville for decades, and I'm extremely proud to say that we're done talking and we're finally going to build it."
Construction activities will immediately begin on the site and should take approximately 12 months to complete. Metro Public Works is overseeing the project. The department began planning for the 28th Avenue Connector in 2009 and held three community meetings at multiple locations to gather public input on the project's design.
The connector will be a "complete street," meaning it will incorporate infrastructure to allow for all forms of transportation with sidewalks, bike lanes and bus stops. The new thoroughfare will also include a number of sustainable features, including side plantings and a median that will serve as a rain gardens to reduce and filter stormwater runoff. The Metropolitan Arts Commission has issued a request for proposals for public art to span the bridge and accompany the bus shelters.
"This is an important complete street project that will establish new and vital connections for our citizens, as well as those who work in and visit Nashville," said Billy Lynch, Director of Public Works.
During his remarks at today's ceremony, Mayor Dean discussed new economic development the connector is already beginning to generate. One City, a mix-used office complex planned for 18-acres adjacent to the 28th Avenue Connector site, has already been approved by the Metro Planning Commission and the Metro Council.
Demolition work has taken place on another site fronting the connector in preparation for future development. And the Metro Council recently approved an agreement between Metro Government and HCA that will provide the Metro Public Health Department with a new headquarters facility nearby the connector on Charlotte Avenue.
"One thing is for sure – with these projects combined, in a matter of a few years, 28th and Charlotte avenues will look nothing like they do today," Dean said. "Corridor redevelopment is a critical part of continuing our city's growth in a sustainable way. With the right public investments, like the 28th Avenue Connector, we can create a stronger, more economically vibrant Nashville."
Today's groundbreaking festivities included a brief awards ceremony to recognize six students who won the "Creating Connections Art Contest" offered to children at the Hadley and Watkins community centers. As a way to engage youth from North and West Nashville in this historically significant public infrastructure project, the children were asked to paint pictures of what they envisioned the completed 28th Avenue Connector will look like and how it will improve the city.
More information about the 28th Avenue Connector, including renderings and the names and artwork of the student art contest winners, is available online.
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- Real talk about sex among families is more important than ever, "Speak" author says
- Laurie Halse Anderson's acclaimed young adult novel "Speak" turns 15 this year
- The novel's central themes -- teen rape and stigma -- are still relevant, Anderson says
During 15 years of talking to high school students about sex and bullying, Laurie Halse Anderson has continued to get the same questions from boys: Why was the main character in her book, "Speak," so upset about what happened to her? Didn't she want the attention of one of the popular boys? And why was the impact so traumatic?
Anderson, who published the award-winning novel in 1999, believes the questions come from an honest place. They're teen boys, after all, growing up in a society where media and pop culture tell them women are created for sexual gratification.
They're not used to reading novels that feature characters like Melinda Sordino, a teen who is raped by a classmate at a house party. As her classmates and neighbors go to great lengths to protect her attacker, Melinda plunges into near-silence, refusing to say what happened while still feeling ostracized by her classmates.
Fifteen years after its publication, society has shed some of the stigma associated with sexual violence, but the conflict at the heart of "Speak" still shows up in headlines, from Steubenville, Ohio, to Maryville, Missouri.
And yet, many parents still struggle to find the words or the courage to talk to teens about sex and intimacy, Anderson said. As a mother who raised four girls, Anderson knows that parents today are navigating uncharted territory when it comes to adolescent sexuality, and they're doing it earlier than parents in other generations.
Talking to teens about sexuality, intimacy and consent is urgent, she said.
"We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent," she said.
"So many teens out there are operating in a vacuum, they're operating in adult situations without any adult support or advice."
For the 15th anniversary of "Speak," Anderson is lending her support to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, a resource for survivors of sexual violence. Macmillan, the publisher of "Speak," is matching donations to the organization in April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Anderson said she wrote "Speak" based on her own experience of being raped as a teen. She struggled for years to find the words or the courage to express what she'd gone through.
Much has changed since then, she said, and "Speak" has become required reading in some schools across the country.
Scores of students still describe the same struggles to Anderson, and she often directs them to the RAINN hot line, she said. Over the years, more resources have emerged for survivors of sexual violence, especially online. Today, if you're a victim of any crime, including sexual violence, you can go online and "find someone who's walked in your shoes who can help you make sense of what happened," she said.
"I do see reduction of shame, which is very good. We still have a long way to go yet.That's the reason many victims don't come forward. That feeling is understandable, but it's why we still need to do more to reduce the stigma around rape," she said.
While the Internet brings people together and creates supportive communities, it has also become the source of damaging images and intense bullying, she said.
"We as a culture are still figuring out how to teach our children the awesome parts of the Internet and cell phones and new media, but we also have to figure out how to keep them safe," she said.
Although many students first encountered "Speak" in high schools, it's now being taught in middle schools, Anderson said. She thinks it's an acknowledgment that sex education needs to start earlier if we want to help teens feel comfortable talking openly about sex and what feels right and wrong.
She believes parents can be more involved, too; just take a deep breath and commit to talking about sex and what constitutes consent, she said.
"Because boys and girls can be victims of rape, we need to try to teach them to make decisions about life that keep them safe, sober and with people they can trust, and make sure people who might be inclined to rape -- who think they can get away with it -- know they can't get away from it.
"It used to be that we teach girls not to be raped, but we need to start teaching boys not to be rapists, and that's a really hard thing for parents of boys to process," she said. "No one wants to think of their sons as rapists.
"We are a culture who is right now in 2014 finally having the conversation that it actually doesn't matter what a woman is wearing, you're not supposed to rape her. I think we're all trying to find the right language surrounding sexual assault. I'm optimistic that we're heading in a better direction as a culture."
The term "young adult lit" was hardly in use when Anderson wrote "Speak." She didn't set out to be a public touchstone in the genre, she said.
A teacher who uses "Speak" in her classroom told Anderson that she calls it "resilience literature," a term Anderson said she is proud of.
"Speak" is about teen rape, the pressures of high school and the insularity of small-town life, but most importantly, it's about overcoming stigma, Anderson said.
"That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like," she said. "If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books."


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On Monday, volunteers and board members from the Livingston County Community Pantry were on hand at the visitor's center of Caterpillar's Pontiac plant to receive a grant from Caterpillar in the amount of $10,000; the largest single donation to the food pantry since its opening in spring of 2007.
Administrative Coordinator Joan Bevill says she and other board members had been praying for the grant since they sent in the application, but after four weeks of no response hope began to waiver. Then it happened. On Aug. 1, after six weeks of waiting, Bevill received a call from Caterpillar's Pontiac plant Human Resources manager Kevin Kramer.
"Oh my goodness, it was so exciting," said Bevill. "Word spread really fast amongst the friends and family of volunteers and board members. There were people shouting and clapping here in the pantry."
They heard about the grant application from Marsha Cremeens, Pontiac's United Way coordinator. She had been talking to Kramer, who said he would like to see the food pantry apply for the Caterpillar Foundation's grant. Board members initially couldn't believe that Caterpillar would donate that much money.
"One of the main reasons we have the Caterpillar Foundation is to support programs that help basic human needs; that's exactly what the food pantry does," said Caterpillar spokesperson Lisa Miller. "We love to be able to help the communities where we work and live."
Since 1952, the foundation has contributed more than $550 million around the world to help make sustainable progress possible. The foundation continues to provide program support to organizations in the areas of environmental sustainability, access to education and basic human needs.
Whenever the pantry accepts a donation, Bevill invites all volunteers and board members to be in attendance. She says it is an act of recognition for the volunteers because without them, the pantry could not function. As the ceremony closed, many people walked up to both Kramer and Susan Toher, the Pontiac plant's operations manager, with a handshake and words of gratitude.
"They are fantastic people," said Bevill. "Just like the board members, they are dedicated to our mission. They were all just so amazed and appreciative."
Bevill says there aren't words to describe her feelings in regard to the grant. Donations are limited in the summer months and many of the annual food drives around the county tend to take place during the months of September and October. Anywhere in-between 850 to 1,000 people per month are in need of the services the food pantry provides, so during the summer months, supplies can diminish quickly.
When financial contributions are made to the food pantry, Bevill says the majority of the donation is put towards food supplies. The City of Pontiac provided the pantry with their building and also pays for the pantry's gas and light service. The only bills paid by the pantry are for the telephone and food supplies.
"If people knew what it costs to get food to that many people per month," said Bevill. "Most of our money is spent on food. We like to let people shop like they would at the grocery store and we have a list of the quantity of items they can receive depending on the size of the family. We end up giving a lot more food than the average pantry because we are not just serving Pontiac, we are serving families across the county."
Going forward, Bevill says the food pantry is proud to have so much public support for their cause. Simply put, Bevill says the community has been the reason the food pantry can offer to those in need what they could not supply for themselves. The fact that the food pantry is thriving is a direct result of thriving communities and businesses throughout the county.
"We have been supported by the community up to this point," Bevill said "We look forward to another six years of prosperity for Livingston County."
Bevill recognizes that not every grant they apply for will be awarded to them. For this reason, she said every time pantry board hears of an opportunity, they are willing to put the effort in to applying.
"Sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't," said Bevill. "That's the reality of it. Caterpillar is an awesome provider for the community. The company means a lot to me personally and I think this grant is really great."
Cat grants $10K to pantry
On Monday, volunteers and board members from the Livingston County Community Pantry were on hand at the visitor's center of Caterpillar's Pontiac plant to receive a grant from Caterpillar in the amount of $10,000; the largest single donation to the food pantry since its opening in spring of 2007.


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Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction, Part 1With the introduction of Web Services over the last year or so, there has been a renewed interest in service-oriented architecture (SOA). An SOA is an architecture that has special properties. It is an architecture made up of components and interconnections that stress interoperability and location transparency. The term service has been used for more than two decades. For example, leading transaction monitoring software has used the term "service" in the early 1990s. Many client-server development efforts in the 90s used the term "service" to indicate the ability to make a remote method call. Web Services has given the term service more prominence in the last few months. Services and service-oriented architectures are really about designing and building systems using heterogeneous network addressable software components. In this article, I will explore the evolution of SOA, make a case for SOA, and describe some of the properties of SOA.
Software Architecture in General
Before getting too far into the details of SOA, the term software architecture needs to be defined. Software architecture is a fairly new practice in the field of software engineering. The software architecture of a system consists of the large-grained structures of the software. It describes the components of the system and how those components interact at a high level. The interactions between components are called connectors. The configuration of components and connectors provide both a structural and a behavioral view of the system.
Brief History of Software Design
Over the last four decades, the practice of software development has gone through several different development methods. Each method shift was made in part to deal with greater levels of software complexity. The way we have managed complexity is to continuously invent coarser grained constructs, such as functions, classes, and components. We can think of these constructs as software "black boxes".
A problem arises when we try to group a large number of objects together. Although access to the objects is controlled through their interfaces, the granularity at the object level still makes dependencies between them difficult to control in a large system.
Introducing the component concept gives us a better way of managing these dependencies in large systems. A component is a smaller group of objects working together to provide a system function. For example, a claim, automobile and a claimant object can work together in a claims component to provide the claim function for a large insurance application. The claim component becomes another black box at the level of a large system function. The claim and automobile objects are not known to any other part of the system, except for the claim component. This means that no other part of the system can become dependent on these objects since they are completely hidden.
This is the point we are at today in software development. Technologies such as Enterprise Java Beans, .NET and CORBA are effective ways of implementing components. The method of component-based development has allowed developers to create more complex, higher quality systems faster than ever before because we have a better way of managing complexities and dependencies within a software system.
The Case for Service-Oriented Architecture
So are we done? In software engineering -- of course not! Now that we have developed all of these heterogeneous components for one system or another, we need to be able to use them together. But there is a problem: developers built some components using EJB, some CORBA, and many of the resources we need for our systems are on mainframe computers running COBOL. Using Enterprise Java Beans requires that method invocation be done via RMI. CORBA uses IIOP. And many times the component is located across the Internet, behind a firewall and the message cannot get through. Although each has tried to be interoperable with the other, small inconsistencies cause developers a lot of pain when trying to figure it all out.
In addition, even if we did not have these problems, the components still have to know too much about each other. For example, if I want to use a Claims component, I have to know not only what transport and payload type to use, I also need to know exactly where it is. I also need to have intimate knowledge about its interface so that if the interface changes, I have to change the way I call it. Since these components have network addressable interfaces and the number of clients can be large, this creates dependencies on an enormous scale. So how do we solve this problem?
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Fiscal conditions are slowly improving for American cities, aided by increases in sales tax and income tax revenue, but rapidly rising pension and health costs for city workers continue to pose a potentially crippling threat, according to an annual study released Thursday by the National League of Cities.
Local officials also expressed concern that the gridlock in Washington over the debt ceiling and other budget issues could send their cities back into a tailspin. In particular, there would be "catastrophic implications" to a failure to raise the debt ceiling, said Clarence E. Anthony, the league's executive director.
"Cities' fiscal conditions remain vulnerable to external policy shifts in the face of a gradual and tenuous economic recovery," the report concluded, "including cuts in federal spending and threats to global, national and regional-local economic conditions from political stasis on issues including the federal budget and U.S. debt ceiling."
Michael A. Pagano, dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who presented the report Thursday at a news conference in Washington, said it was especially unfortunate that the stalled federal budget debate was happening just as cities appeared to be turning a fiscal corner. "God knows what will happen with the shutdown now," he said.
The latest City Fiscal Conditions Survey, which the league has undertaken yearly since 1986, was sent by mail and e-mail to financial officers from 1,140 American cities. This year, 31 percent responded to the survey, which the league said was sufficient to make reliable generalizations about cities' fiscal health.
The survey of city finance officers showed that 72 percent believed their cities were better able to pay their bills and keep services operating this year than in the previous year. In last year's survey, 57 percent made a similar claim, while only 43 percent did so in 2010.
Still, the officials reported that their cities were still feeling the effects of the 2008 recession. The recent economic improvements, while notable, are still happening too slowly, they said, and skyrocketing pension and health costs remain a constant worry.
"Pension and health care costs will persist as a challenge to city budgets for years to come," the survey said.
City sales tax revenue increased 6.2 percent in 2012, a rate that the league characterized as "robust" and that indicated the rising strength of local economies. Financial officers said they expected such revenue to continue to rise this year, though at a slower rate.
For those cities that have income taxes, revenue rose 4.4 percent from 2011 to last year. Property tax revenue, however, fell a small amount, 0.4 percent, despite higher housing prices, largely because it can take years for cities to reassess properties to reflect changing prices.
Concerned about shrinking state and federal aid, city officials are also keeping more cash on hand at the end of the year as a kind of rainy-day fund, following several years in which cities were forced to eat into such reserves to blunt the impact of the economic downturn.
When the financial officers were asked which budget factors had the most negative impact on their cities, 80 percent said health benefit costs, 75 percent said pension costs and 73 percent said infrastructure demands. When asked what had the most positive impact, 65 percent pointed to the "health of the local economy."
To help offset these rising costs, 39 percent said their city had raised existing fees for municipal services, while about a quarter of the cities had established new fees for previously free services. Only one in five had taken the politically unpopular route of raising property taxes.
About a third reported cutting work forces or instituting hiring freezes. Labor Department statistics released in August showed that municipal government employment across the United States was about half a million jobs lower than in August 2008, just before the financial collapse.
"Looking to 2014 and beyond, all indications point to improving conditions for city budgets, with national economic indicators pointing to continued slow growth," the report concluded. "External factors, however, could easily undermine cautiously optimistic projections, including, most notably, the possibility of federal budget cuts."
The outcome of those external factors will have a major impact on whether cities can sustain this fiscal momentum.
"Everybody is watching Congress now," said Ronald C. Green, the city controller in Houston. "We're looking at the debt ceiling."
The partisan gridlock in Washington has at least forced cities to come up with fresh ideas to address their own budget problems, said Dan Gilmartin, the executive director of the Michigan Municipal League.
"I think cities are just getting used to being victims of some of these ideological food fights we're seeing in the federal government and in state capitals," Mr. Gilmartin said.


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I met Steven Briend at the Disposable Film Festival last year. I liked his papercraft stop motion "magic" short PROTEIGON. I just got to see his new short SHUNPO which is a nice bit of dance on film with another tad of cinema magic thrown in with excellent results. Check it out:
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What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A Step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo. Shunpo was shot in 6 days in 13 different locations in Paris plus one in Turkey at "Tuz Göllü" salt lake. The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 L, 24-70L and 70-200L lenses.


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The next race on the A1 Global calendar is the final race of the A1 SA calendar Cyanosis AR on 18 - 20 Oct in the Tugela Valley in the centre of the KwaZulu-Natal. The race will be approximately a 160 km course and will push the top teams to finish in around 20 hrs with a cut off time of 30 hrs.
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"Taken" star Liam Neeson took on the role of activist Sunday, touring one of Manhattan's stables in support of the city's maligned horse-drawn carriage industry.
Neeson, who came out late last month against Mayor de Blasio's proposal to replace the horses near Central Park with replica antique electric cars, went to the Clinton Park Stables on West 52nd Street Sunday along with members of city council and the Teamsters union.
"I know some of the drivers and I've seen the joy these tourists get," Neeson said. "We can't put a dollar amount on what that does for the tourist industry."
The "Non-Stop" star went on to say that the horses are all well cared for and shouldn't be replaced with electric cars, calling the carriages a "connection with our history."
"This is an industry that's been around since before Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration," he said.
Earlier on Sunday, de Blasio, who turned down an invitation to tour the stables with the "Taken" star, reiterated his intention to get the carriages off the busy Manhattan streets.
"Other cities around the world have banned the horse carriages, so I'm firm about the fact we have to make this move," he said.
De Blasio said he does plan to tour the the city's horse stables, but his intention in those visits will be to help carriage operators find new work.
"We want to work with the folks who operate those horse carriages and get them new opportunities in other types of related work," de Blasio said. "For example, the antique replica cars that we want to establish as the alternative to the horse carriages, that's a great employment opportunity for those same folks."


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pro rodeo national finals Wrangler National Finals Rodeo 2015. It is the season-ending "championship event" for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) and is widely acknowledged to be the world's premier rodeo and will be start from 03.12.2015 this year. CBS Sports Network will live broadcast the event from Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. Watch WNFR 2015 online full coverage.
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The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, coming up in Las Vegas December 3 – 12, 2015, is the culmination of a yearlong struggle on the wide-open rodeo road. Professional cowboys and cowgirls have vied for a coveted spot in the top 15 of their respective events so they can take their place in the Thomas & Mack Center arena for 10 nights of rodeo action, battling on dirt for a chunk of an unprecedented $10 million in prize money and a chance to be crowned world champion.
Here are a few you'll want to watch:
The reigning world champion bull rider, Sage Kimzey, shattered records last year as only the second rookie bull rider in the history of rodeo to win a world title. This year, his dominance at the top of the standings has continued, and he's well-positioned to be a repeat champion. Kimzey is no rookie anymore.
It's only fitting that Kimzey's travel partner and fellow Oklahoman, bull rider Brennon Eldred, would pace him in season earnings. They call themselves the #580 crew for their area code, and with Eldred, Oklahoma stands a good chance of having another world champion bull rider, even if it's not Kimzey.
With a father and three uncles breaking a record for the number of brothers to qualify for the same NFR, Rusty Wright knows that world titles in saddle bronc riding are plentiful on his family tree. This year, he'll qualify for his first trip to the Thomas & Mack Center and might just take home a title of his own.
Looking to defend their 2014 world championship will be team roping powerhouses Clay Tryan and Jade Corkill. Perhaps they know best that you can't do it alone when it comes to hitting the rodeo jackpot in Vegas.
You couldn't miss 2014 Barrel Racing World Champion Fallon Taylor if you tried. The always-colorful cowgirl will no doubt be lighting up the arena with personality and perseverance in her quest for back-to-back championships.


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Ten Beauty Treats For Valentine's Day
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You'll heart these love-themed nail polish, makeup, fragrance, and skincare essentials.
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate your affection for others, and there's no better way to show friends and family a little love than by gifting them with a sweet beauty treat. Don't have a Valentine in mind? No problem. Treat yourself! Who needs flowers and candy when you can have nail wraps printed with Sweethearts and chocolate scented shower gel? After all, a card is a nice gesture, but sparkly red nails are an indulgence you can savor for manicures to come! So whether you're spreading the love or giving yourself some well deserved TLC, this Valentine's Day should be all about the gift of beauty.


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Established in 1956, Commercial Door Systems is the Greater Kingston Area's oldest garage door company. Second generation owner, Kevin Collins, is past President of the Kingston Construction Association and past president of the Kingston Home Builders' Association.
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The San Diego Chargers are borrowing heavily from the Indianapolis Colts' approach a season ago. With Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy accepting the head-coaching job in San Diego, the Chargers are starting completely fresh with a young GM/coach tandem that can grow up together.
Borrowing the Colts model included hiring a Colts front-office member. New Chargers general manager Tom Telesco was with the Colts from 1998 to 2011, his final six years as director of player personnel. Those Colts teams were built on offense, and we suspect the Chargers will lean that way as well.
The Chargers didn't take any half measures by keeping GM A.J. Smith or hiring a familiar head coach. There was no promotion from within the front office. It was time for a complete reboot. Let's look at some winners and losers from the move.
Philip Rivers: He had a great relationship with Norv Turner, but it was time for a fresh start. McCoy has worked with quarterbacks as varied as Jake Delhomme, Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning. He has worked under John Fox, Josh McDaniels and Peyton Manning. (Yes, Manning brings his own system with him.) McCoy's best selling point is adaptability.
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Gregg Rosenthal provides a one-stop shop for all the latest head-coaching search news. Who are teams targeting? More ...
Mike McCoy: This sounds obvious enough, but the Chargers job was perhaps the best available because of the presence of Rivers and some young quality talent on the defensive side of the ball. This is a roster that should compete right away in a bad division.
Chargers fans: They wanted a fresh start. They got it. The Broncos lost a stunner Saturday, and then the Chargers stole their coach. If Denver made the Super Bowl, would San Diego have been patient to get him? Kevin Acee of U-T San Diego says no. The team likely would have hired its coach this week and moved on without McCoy if the Broncos won.
Josh McDaniels: He now has a coaching tree! (Yes, we're kidding. It would be more like a bonsai.)
John Fox: He has to replace a coordinator for the second consecutive year. The Denver Post wonders if Manning's old buddy Tom Moore from his Colts days could wind up with the Broncos.
Arizona Cardinals: McCoy reportedly was high on their list, if not on top of it. The team now could turn to defensive coordinator Ray Horton or Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley.
Bruce Arians: Telesco and Bruce Arians worked together in Indianapolis. Arians sure seemed to prefer this Chargers job based on multiple reports. He still has a shot to get the Chicago Bears job but isn't seen as the favorite there.
Lovie Smith: It's hard to imagine him getting a head-coaching job now. San Diego looked like his best chance.
The coaching search tracker: With McCoy in place, we suspect the Philadelphia Eagles and the Bears should follow suit shortly. The Jacksonville Jaguars started their process later and might keep the tracker alive into next week.
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- Canadian Grand Prix - Qualifying
Bottas' third 'a nice boost' for Williams
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Valtteri Bottas believes his third place in qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix is "a nice boost" for Williams after a poor start to the season for the team.
Williams has been well off the pace so far this year and has yet to score a point in the opening six races of the season. However, Bottas delivered a superb performance in changeable conditions in Montreal to qualify in third place and said the team made the most of the conditions to secure the best grid position of his short career so far.
"Of course it means a lot," Bottas said. "It's way more up in the grid than we could really ever imagine. It's been so difficult in the first six races for us and this will be a nice boost for the team. We really got everything quite right today."
Bottas added that even with the wet conditions he hadn't expected to qualify so high up.
"It's a great boost for the team. It's a result no-one really expected - of course you always hope to do well - but really surprised that it really happened we were third, so I'm very happy."


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Although he may be small in stature, Dr. John E. Sarno, now retired, is a still giant in the medical community. Many years ago, he cured me – without surgery, drugs or exercise – of "incurable" back and neck pain. He has also cured just about everyone I have sent to him.
This photo was taken a few years ago in Dr. Sarno's office at the Rusk Institute in NYC.
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The six-semester, full-time bachelor programme provides a particularly stimulating environment in which students from many different nations and cultural backgrounds work together with an international faculty. As a BCi student, you gain a solid foundation in a wide range of management as well as consultancy skills. You are encouraged to study one semester abroad at one of our partner universities around the world. Business Consultancy International provides a considerable advantage when beginning your career, particularly in the business management and consultancy professions. Graduates are therefore able to fulfil the requirements of the business community by means of perfect communication skills in English, intercultural understanding and experience, global business know-how and knowledge of universal standards.
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MilitaryUnited necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Military United Home Loans
We are a mortgage company that specializes in home loans for Veterans and Active Duty Military. We are one of the largest dedicated lenders in the nation and secured over $1 Billion in VA financing last year. Young, rapidly growing company with 350 employees and locations in about 8 different states.
This is what will make this project fun. It's a very well defined audience. Both active duty military and veterans who are looking to buy a home using their VA loan benefit.
As a service member, one of the most valuable benefits you receive is a the VA Home Loan Benefit... it allows those who are eligible to buy a home with no money down and pay no PMI. This is just about the best loan product out there but it's reserved for military (both active an veterans). Saves thousands at closing and a couple hundred dollars per month.
We are going through a re-branding effort right now and would like to push our new name, "Military United Home Loans".
A large percentage of our audience is first time buyers. Young families, more veterans than active duty. We also do refinances as well, not just purchase loans.
We really like our current logo (house) but feel like we should get some new ideas. Clearly something patriotic, military and home buying.
Something professional, unique and memorable. We will also operate realty and insurance under the same brand name.
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Association Between Cerebellum Volumes and Cognitive Functioning. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2019.
BEPS: Development, validation, and normative data of a sentence production test in French. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2019:1-13.
Berengario da Carpi and the Renaissance of Brain Anatomy. Front Neuroanat. 2019;13:11.
The BNT-38: Applying Rasch Analysis to Adapt the Boston Naming Test for Use With English and French Monolinguals and Bilinguals. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2019;62(4):909-917.
Can Social Anxiety Impact Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia? J Nerv Ment Dis. 2019;207(3):140-144.
The Canadian Dementia Imaging Protocol: Harmonization validity for morphometry measurements. Neuroimage Clin. 2019;24:101943.
The Canadian Dementia Imaging Protocol: Harmonizing National Cohorts. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019;49(2):456-465.
The Canadian longitudinal study on aging as a platform for exploring cognition in an aging population. Clin Neuropsychol. 2019:1-30.
Case Reports of Aripiprazole and Problematic Gambling in Schizophrenia: A Critical Review of the Evidence. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2019;39(4):393-397.
Characterizing emotional Stroop interference in posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression and anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 2019;14(4):e0214998.
Children and Teens in Charge of their Health (CATCH): A protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of solution-focused coaching to foster healthy lifestyles in childhood disability. BMJ Open. 2019;9(3):e025119.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for Insomnia and Hypnotic Medications: Considerations and Controversies. Sleep Med Clin. 2019;14(2):253-265.
Coming together to define membrane contact sites. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):1287.
The Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia: Canadian Cohort Study. Can J Neurol Sci. 2019:1-13.
The contribution of semantic memory to the recognition of basic emotions and emotional valence: Evidence from the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Soc Neurosci. 2019:1-12.
Convolutional Neural Networks for Spectroscopic Analysis in Retinal Oximetry. Scientific Reports. 2019;9(1):11387.
Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Voice Handicap Index in the Quebec French Population (VHI-QF). J Voice. 2019.
Cumulative stigma among injured immigrant workers: a qualitative exploratory study in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Disabil Rehabil. 2019:1-14.
Delayed Galectin-3-Mediated Reprogramming of Microglia After Stroke is Protective. Mol Neurobiol. 2019.
Differential language network functional connectivity alterations in Alzheimer's disease and the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Cortex. 2019;117:284-298.
Disassembling insomnia symptoms and their associations with depressive symptoms in a community sample: the differential role of sleep symptoms, daytime symptoms, and perception symptoms of insomnia. Sleep Health. 2019.
Driving After Drinking Alcohol Associated with Insufficient Sleep and Insomnia among Student Athletes and Non-Athletes. Brain Sci. 2019;9(2).
Editorial: Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights From Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies. Front Psychol. 2019;10:126.
Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on the number of smoked cigarettes in tobacco smokers. PLoS ONE. 2019;14(2):e0212312.
Effectiveness of a 6-Week Day Hospital Treatment for Personality Disorders: Data From a Naturalistic Study. J Psychiatr Pract. 2019;25(3):199-205.


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The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Franco "Bifo" Berardi's The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (part of Semiotext(e)'s excellent Intervention Series) is a perplexing text – often perplexingly bad, it has to be said. But beneath the autonomist reworking of a post-Foucauldian politics, and amidst the ruinous post-poststructuralist neologisms, a truth is trying to fight its way out. Infuriatingly, in such an often wooden (and when not wooden, wooly) essay, that truth is about poetry – the poetry intrinsic to all language that isn't tied to instrumental use, the poetry we see when language unmoors itself from crude referentiality.
When language is reduced to information exchange it loses its ironic potential; when language tries to describe those things that lie beyond language – love, hope, another possible world – its failure to pin things down ambiguously reveals its human success:
Poetry is language's excess: poetry is what in language cannot be reduced to information, and is not exchangeable, but gives way to a new common ground of understanding, of shared meaning: the creation of a new world.
Poetry shows that language cannot be counted upon – not least that it can't be counted on simply to count. When it is showing, it is always telling: as language's excess, it can never quite account for itself. Language's imprecision, its limitless lability, is precisely what proves it is fit for purpose. Fit to indicate hope, fit to hint at what the dream meant or might mean. Language fails at simplicity, and by failing succeeds: a cast iron definition of love wouldn't help anyone make love or know they were in love. Poetry shows us language is defined by what it cannot quite name.
Somewhere in Bifo's book something like this is trying to be articulated. And for that reason alone (helped along by some nice riffs about capitalist time and precarity) I commend it to the House!


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Japan Landslides: Death Toll Rises to 54
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TOKYO—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Hiroshima, western Japan on Monday, where rescue efforts continue for those missing after torrential rain sent floods of water and mud through hillside neighborhoods killing at least 54 people.
His visit comes five days after a series of powerful landslides crushed dozens of homes in Hiroshima city, forcing more than 1,600 people to seek refuge in emergency shelters. Police said 28 people remain missing after the disaster, considered the largest and most deadly of its kind in recent...


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Beachy Head (Figures 1 and 2) is a famous natural and historic site and tourist attraction on the south coast. The cliff top area is part of the Downland Country Park managed by Eastbourne District Council.
The section of cliff surveyed at Beachy Head is situated to the east of the modern lighthouse. The survey spans a 400 m south-facing stretch of beach with a cliff height of between 120 and 160 m.
As part of a programme of work monitoring coastal erosion and landsliding at several sites around the coast of Great Britain, BGS has surveyed the cliffs at Beachy Head in Sussex using terrestrial LiDAR — see Terrestrial LiDAR Survey Techniques
The geology of the cliffs at Beachy Head consist of Cretaceous chalk comprising the Seaford Chalk and Lewes Nodular Chalk formations (formerly called the Upper Chalk Formation) overlying the New Pit Chalk Formation (formerly part of the Middle Chalk).
The New Pit Chalk Formation (Turonian) in the lower part of the cliff is largely obscured by chalk debris. This is principally blocky, white firm to moderately hard chalk with numerous marls. Flint occurs sporadically or in seams in different part of the formation.
Overlying the New Pit Chalk Formation is the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation, which is Turonian to Coniacian in age. This consists of hard nodular chalk and chalkstone, which is locally porcellaneous. It has some interbeds of firm chalk, particularly in upper part and some thin marl seams including one at the base. The Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation is subdivided into 12 members, separated by marls or hardgrounds.
Overlying the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation is the Seaford Chalk Formation. This is Upper Coniacian to Lower Santonian in age and consists of white chalk with beds of flint nodules, some of which are large to very large. It constitutes the entire cliff between Beachy Head lighthouse and Birling Gap to the west. It consists of three members, the Haven Brow (upper), Cuckmere (middle), and Belle Tout (lower). The Bedwell's Columnar Flint separates the Haven Brow and Cuckmere whilst the distinctive Seven Sisters Flint separates the Cuckmere and Belle Tout.
On the foreshore, the chalk platform is littered with debris aprons from recent and earlier rockslides and rockfalls. The dominant landslide mechanism is a type of sliding failure with a very deep tension crack penetrating most of the Seaford Chalk Formation. This mechanism is described in Duperret et al. (2004) as being characteristic of cliffs in the Seaford Chalk and Lewes Nodular Chalk formations in England and their equivalents in France due to the prominent vertical and sub-vertical joint and fault patterns within these formations.
Two major landslide events have occurred at Beachy Head since 1999:
On the night of 10 January 1999, a large landslide occurred at Beachy Head severing power and telecom cables from the cliff top bunker to the lighthouse. For several months, the failure required emergency manning procedures by Trinity House Lighthouse Service. The volume of this landslide is estimated to have been 128 000m3 (Hobbs et al., 1999) and between 100 000 and 150 000 m3 (Mortimore et al., 2004). This landslide produced a large debris apron (Figure 2), which persists to the present day.
The lighthouse base is situated at approximately 192 m from the cliff toe at high tide. The debris apron extended originally about 115 m from the cliff toe and came within 65 m of the lighthouse. The cliff at this point is 126 m high.
A further minor landslide occurred on 8 April 1999 and involved a displaced 'slice' of chalk left by the January slide.
This landslide occurred at 14.30hrs on 3 April, 2001 and destroyed the landmark known as the 'Devil's Chimney' (Figures 3 and 4). The landslide followed three days of preliminary subsidence and detachment movements amounting to a displacement of a few metres.
A deep tension crack, probably penetrating the entire thickness of the Seaford Chalk Formation, developed following pre-existing joints. The separated block tilted seaward further opening the tension crack and increasing the vertical stresses at its base. Debris and water were able to enter the fissure over many years, before the final slide where failure occurred. This failure is thought to have occurred in two stages separated by a few days or hours.
Duperret, A, Genter, A, Martinez, A, and Mortimore, R N. 2004 Coastal chalk cliff instability in NW France: role of lithology, fracture pattern and rainfall. In Mortimore, R N, and Duperret, A. (eds), Coastal Chalk Cliff Stability. Engineering Geology Special Publications. The Geological Society, London, pp. 33–55.
Forster, A, Hobbs, P R N, and Flint, R C. 1999 Cliff stability and coastal landslides : rock slide at Beachy Head: In: Earthwise No. 14 p. 18–19
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Sunday Sweets: Vintage Elegance
"Elegance isn't about being noticed, it's about being remembered."
Isn't that a deep thought? I didn't think of it myself. I found it on Pinterest, which basically does my thinking for me these days. But I do think you'll find today's vintage style Sweets to be nothing but noticeable AND memorable.
For instance, I don't think I will ever forget this cake, as I've been staring at it for a solid 20 minutes.
Its beauty has been burned into my brain!
This next one is completely fondant-free, and so exquisitely detailed it's actually causing me physical pain. Ugh.
Submitted by Denette L. & made by & Eat It, Too!
Have you ever felt that? A little sting from viewing something of absolute beauty? Like this gorgeous cake, or an amazing sunrise, or Zac Efron?
Perhaps I've said too much.
I've never looked at a cake before and wished it was a ride at Disneyland, but here you have it:
Hmm, but maybe an entire theme park dedicated to cake would be even better. Caketopia! I might be onto something here...
Now, prepare your eyeballs for the intense awesomeness they are about to behold:
Sub'd by Annette P. & made by J'Adore Cakes Co.
Each of these cakes is entirely breathtaking on its own, but THREE? A pearly pink trifecta of peacock plumaged perfection? Swoon. No. I take that back. They deserve two syllables: Swoo-hoon.
I don't think anything fits the term 'vintage elegance' better than a corset.
And this incredible cake really embodies the phrase, huh? Get it? *elbow nudge*
Ohh, I love the diamond tufting on this cake. And the colors are so retro and perfect. With the glints of gold and pearls, it's like a little jewelry box full of treasures!
Submitted by Crystal Q. and made by Andrea's SweetCakes
However, I wouldn't be disappointed to find it full of cake inside, either.
Someone should tell this cake that it's not polite to upstage the bride.
Look at that lace! Simply gorgeous.
Modern vintage: an oxymoron?
Ha ha hardly.
(Well, I guess it is an oxymoron, but that word just sounds like an insult!) This cake deserves nothing but flattery with its cool juxtaposition of stripes and ruffles.
And now: more ruffles!
This confection looks totally cute and innocent, until you notice that one layer looks like a garter, and the ruffly tier looks like a petticoat! Gasp! I clutch my pearls in shock! Such scandalousness.
And I'm not sure exactly how, but this cake is giving off a bit of a 'boudoir' vibe as well. Maybe its the sassy stack of ruffles, or the 'stitching' along the stripes, or the fondant jewelry draped just-so.
Sub'd by Debbie C., made by The Caketress photo by Jennifer Klementti Photography
"Voulez-vous stare at this cake avec moi?"
PS: EDIBLE JEWELRY? Is this really real? I approve.
Sweet sassafras! This final Sweet is amazing. It's like a '40s prom dress or something. In fact, it's the very definition of vintage elegance. I even made up a word in its honor:


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It was only last fall that Macau-born Sunny Lin's cosplay made waves throughout Asia. Japan declared that Lin was the closest to a living incarnation of Boa Hancock from One Piece.
Based in Taiwan, Lin is the February cover girl for FHM Taiwan, underscoring just how rapid her assent has been and that it is possible to build a career based on looking like a One Piece character. Wish her the best of luck.
Check out more photos below.
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If a pipe bursts or a toilet backs up, many of us might not give a second thought to looking up a plumber. In most areas, there will be lots of options for services nearby.
But in the isolated town of Jackman, Maine, which has a population of around 800, the local plumber recently retired. Now, the closest plumber is in the nearest town — 50 miles away.
To fill the void, one family has partnered with the local school district to create a scholarship. The 2015 Inza and Harry Hughey Memorial Scholarship will award $2,000 to a local graduate willing to become a certified plumber and come back to work in the town.
Sheryl and Larry Harth run the scholarship fund and decided to focus it on plumbing once the void hit them acutely. They moved back to the area about two years ago and built a house, hiring a plumber who lived in that town about 50 miles away to work on the project. Last year, they needed more work done and they were promised that that plumber would return.
"Well, it's been two years and we still have not seen that person," Larry Harth tells NPR's Arun Rath.
He says there are some folks in town who know the basics of plumbing, but they're not licensed. In emergency situations, they can only provide guidance.
Harth and his wife have had a scholarship fund through the high school since 1998. "We finally said, 'You know what, we have a great electrician and many carpenters, but we do not have a licensed plumber,' " Harth says.
The preference is to have a student or past graduate of Forest Hill High School receive the scholarship.
"With that, then we have somebody who is established, who knows the town, has a love for the Great [North] Woods," Harth says. "And we're hoping that this will entice them with the scholarship moneys."
Denise Plante is the principal of Jackman's Forest Hills Consolidated School District. The school is K-12, all housed in one building. This year's graduating class had only 12 students, and 168 students will start this school year.
About 1,000 people live in Moose River Valley, which includes the towns of Jackman and nearby Moose River. Plante says Jackman has actually been designated by the state of Maine as an on-shore island. Instead of water, they are surrounded by trees.
And the nearest town — which, again, is 50 miles away — is also very small. That means whoever receives the scholarship would have to go at least 70 miles away to find a school where he or she could get certified.
So far, Plante says they've gotten a lot of calls from people interested in moving to the town to be the plumber. One call came from someone who has snowmobiled in the region — one of Jackman's larger tourist attractions.
Plante says, "He loves coming here for that reason, and then could be the licensed plumber that this scholarship student could apprentice under."
The deadline to apply is March 1, 2015.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Arun Rath, here at NPR West. What do you do if a pipe bursts or your toilet backs up? Well, you call your super or Google a plumber, right? It's not so easy in the town of Jackman, Maine - population approximately 800. Their local plumber recently retired. Now the closest is 50 miles away. So one family has partnered with a local school to create a plumbing scholarship - $2,000 for a young person who agrees to train as a plumber and work in the town. Larry and Cheryl Harth started this scholarship. Larry is on the line with the project from Jackman, Maine. Welcome to the program.
LARRY HARTH: Thank you kindly.
RATH: So, Larry, can you tell us the story of the day your family realized you needed more plumbers in Jackman?
HARTH: Well, approximately two years ago we built a new home here in Jackman. We moved back from the West Coast and we had a plumber coming approximately 50 miles away. We had a need this past year for that person to come to do some more work and we were promised that they would. Well, it's has been two years and we still have not seen that person.
RATH: Wow, most people would get annoyed with that you know, four-hour window, let alone having to wait for - for two years.
HARTH: Exactly. Fortunately, we have a number of people who can help us in the plumbing needs. But they're not licensed plumbers and so we've had a scholarship through the high school since 1998. We finally said, you know what? We have a great electrician and many carpenters, but we do not have a plumber.
RATH: So how does the application process work and are you looking for people in Jackman or people who might want to move there?
HARTH: Well, our preference is to have a student or a past graduate. With that, then we have somebody who was established, who knows the town, has the love for the Great Northern Woods, and we're hoping that this will entice them.
RATH: You're with Denise Plante, who's the principal of Forest Hills Consolidated School there in Jackman. Can I talk to principal Plante?
HARTH: You surely can, and thank you for your time.
RATH: Thanks, Larry. Principal Plante, I think a lot of people would assume that every town has at least one plumber, and I've definitely been through towns smaller than Jackman. Is it very remote there?
DENISE PLANTE: We're pretty geographically isolated. We have between us and the next really small town about 50 miles of trees. And those are winter roads and/or moose roads. We have been designated by the state of Maine and they call us in on-shore island.
RATH: Wow - and how many students are there at your school?
PLANTE: We have one building and it's K-12. And we have 168 starting this school year. This year's graduating class is 12 students.
RATH: Wow - What kind of applicants have you had so far for this?
PLANTE: We've had a lot of people interested in moving to town to be the plumber. We've had one very interesting call from somebody who has snowmobiled in the region, which is one of our larger tourism attractions. He could be the licensed plumber that the scholarship student could apprentice under.
RATH: That's nice - I imagine being an avid snowmobiler, you wouldn't mind so much going out on emergency plumbing runs in the dead of winter.
PLANTE: That's true.
RATH: Denise Plante, thank you.
PLANTE: You're welcome.
RATH: Denise Plante is the principal Forest Hill School in Jackman, Maine. She's working with Larry and Cheryl Harth on a plumbing scholarship for the town. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Yes, it's true. The Web is dead. It's not that people aren't using The Internet anymore—they certainly are—it's just that users are moving away from the browser-based "Web" environment and into the mobile app-centric world.
Two quick illustrations: 1) Instagram has long been a true force in the social sphere, but it was years before it had a Web-based interface. Its entire model was mobile-based—the website was secondary. 2) Over the past years, we here at PCMag have even found it increasingly difficult to bring together our annual Top 100 Websites feature. Back in the early 'aughts, it was easy. Today, it's a stretch. (Good thing we have so many other great app roundups).
The moral: the Web is indeed dead, long live mobile. That also means all those hours you spent honing your HTML and CSS skills were for naught. It's all about being able to create a functional and engaging mobile app.
But that doesn't (necessarily) mean you have to take an app-programming class. Like the early days of the Web, several tools have risen that will allow anyone to create a product with little-to-no programming language. (But if you have the coding skills, it will give you the ability to make a truly unique thing).
These third-party services will even handle the process of submitting your app to the various stores (e.g. Google Play, the iOS App Store, or the Windows Phone app store). We'll get into some of those services below, but let's start with a very basic overview of each environment and how to break in all by yourself.
While Android is the larger of the ecosystem (worldwide), iOS is in the midst of a very impressive comeback. And if you want to make cash-money, iOS users have shown that they are far more willing to actually spend money on apps.
Before getting started here, you should also know that Apple maintains a far more stringent lock-down on its store than Google or Microsoft. You have to follow Cupertino's rules.
First, you will have to enrol in the iOS Developer Program, where memberships begins at $99/year (there are different levels for enterprise and education). If you aren't using a third-party development tool, you will have to download XCode—the official IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the iOS and Mac environments—from the Mac app store. You don't necessarily need any programming knowledge to use Xcode, but it can help if you want to get into the nitty gritty.
The primary language iOS apps are written in is Objective-C programming language. A tutorial on that can be found here. Last year, Apple introduced the much less-techy Swift programming language to use alongside Objective-C, which you can learn more about here.
Apple provides a basic tutorial of XCode usage here. Apple also offers an additional suite of tools that will help you test, distribute, and monetise your app.
After your app is developed and tested, you must submit it for review by Apple before it is included in the App Store. Apple's official stance is that "review times can vary for each app." If your app is rejected for some reason (Apple's long list of guidelines is here), you can submit an appeal to the "App Review Board." But ultimately, Cupertino always has the last say.
To submit apps directly to Google Play, you will need to sign up for a Google Play Developer account, which will cost you a one-time fee of $25. Submitting apps to Google Play is a far less rigorous activity than for the App Store—once submitted, it should be available in a few hours.
If you want an overview, Google offers a nice step-by-step training guide for budding developers.
The first thing you'll need to do is download Android Studio. While there are other IDEs out there, Studio is the official Android one and is available for download on Windows, Mac, or Linux. If you want to design for Android, it might help to be acquainted with the Java programming language. It's not the only language that Android apps are built in, but it's the fundamental one. Android Studio gives you the opportunity to develop, test, and monetise your app. Once you have developed and tested your app, you will publish it using the Google Play Developer Console.
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Windows is by far the smallest mobile OS environment, but as it attempts to seamlessly bridge the Windows desktop, mobile, and tablet environments with Windows 10, it may become more robust. Time will tell if this strategy will be successful.
For an overview of the development process, Windows Phone has a nice development guide available here. First, you will need to sign up for a Windows Developer Account and pay a one-time $19 fee.
You will need to use Microsoft Visual Studio to develop the apps. Windows Phone—like regular Windows apps—are written in a variety of languages including C# or C++ with XAML, C++ with DirectX, and JavaScript with HTML/CSS.
If you want to test on your phone you will have to register it as a test device, though there are several Windows Phone emulators you can use as well. Once completed, you can just publish to the Windows Phone store.
Microsoft has also created a pared down developer suite in the form of the Windows App Studio, which allows anyone with a Microsoft account to create a cross-platform Windows app with just a few clicks. No programming knowlege required.
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Getting overwhelmed? Don't. We live in the information age, so there are plenty of easily accessible resources. If you're looking for help on any of these IDEs, there are any number of helpful independent guides and forums available online (and tons of visual guides throughout the YouTube-iverse).
In addition, there are a number of third-party software programs specifically designed for non-programmers and non-developers. Each has a unique set of offers, including cost (some will even allow you to forgo signing up as a developer with the varied storefronts, but this may mean they own your app and will take a bite out of any revenue you manage to create). So compare the many options out there before choosing.
Our own Sascha Segan used one pay service called Mobile Roadie to create his Android app, with mixed results. And Sal Cangeloso from our sister publication Geek.com used MIT's App Inventor 2 service create a pair of Android apps.
The above examples are not the only options, or even necesarily the best ones, but they do show how anyone can create an app these days, regardless of programming knowledge. The app world is your playground! Have fun!


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Flowers are as delicate as they seem. Composed of around 70-95% of water, temperature control is a major concern to keep optimum freshness of these live products.
The temperature control starts right from the production stage. As soon as the flower is being cut, it is stored in a cold room between 2-4°C for one night in buckets of water. This allows the flower to gorge itself with water and maintain its humidity level.
It is then recommended to keep the flowers around 4-6°C until it is being delivered and displayed at home.
The transport phase is critical. Flowers don't like temperature variations and the temperature inside the box needs to stay as accurate as possible.
The right level of humidity is also vital during transport. A low level will imply loss of quality while too much humidity can bring to the development of botrytis and mold.
Final step for our roses, the delivery to its surprise winners with a light commercial vehicle
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The ECO-DRIVE power module is driven by a hydro pump connected to the truck's engine power take-off (PTO). The hydraulic system drives a generator that delivers electrical power to the host Carrier Transicold unit, without any requirement for the refrigeration unit to use its own diesel engine.
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