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Renowned British economic historian Niall Ferguson in his new and dazzling history of Western ideas, Civilization: The West and the Rest, argues as his central thesis that the West developed six killer "apps"—referring to the popular software applications for smartphones and tablets—that caused the West to dominate the global stage for the last 500 years. These key institutions and complexes of ideas, such as "competition," "property rights," "the Work Ethic," were what led the West to preside (relatively unchallenged) over global politics, economics, and culture, despite the fact that the civilizations of the Orient were much more advanced than Western Europe in the 1400s, which was plagued by disease and war. Over time, however, the West has become, as Ferguson puts it, a "template" for the Rest (i.e. non-Western countries), which have been copying (or downloading) the apps and are now on the verge of overtaking the West in terms of economic strength and size, led by China.


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CBDCollege needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
CBD College
We are a new college providing a variety of courses - short and long.
We have no history, old buildings etc to work with. But we are in the CBD where we operate.
young and old. some courses are simple one day courses - first aid/coffee - students book into these....
and others are 5 and 7 days - training/occupational health and safety - 21 years plus book into these
others are 1 year - accounting - students 21 plus
We would like a logo - maybe in a circle - that can be used on our letterhead, internet site etc. We also want the logo set up for an iPhone app button. We would like this in illustrator version.
Not sure what else to say - I hope you are inspired - email me if you have further questions. Thank you.
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Is there a different standard for black NBA coaches?
The good thing about the Donald Sterling mess, as Mark Jackson pointed out when the scandal was raging, is that it got people talking about racism. The more open discussion we have, the better chance of changing and healing.
Hey, maybe the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP should give Sterling another achievement award.
But seriously, race discussion continues, even as Sterling sinks into the sunset.
The focus is still on the NBA - on David Stern and Adam Silver, team owners and the players - for giving Sterling a pass for so long.
But now the spotlight is also shining on Mark Jackson and the Warriors, and coaches in general.
Jackson, as far as I know, isn't calling out the Warriors for racism, but the topic has been tossed on the table. There are rumblings that expectations are higher for black coaches, and that they are not given as much time to grow as white coaches are given.
Some of the noise is vague and pot-shotty, like Noah Gulliver on the Web site EveryJoe.com: "While I won't go so far as to say the Warriors are a racist organization, it's difficult to come up with another reason for why Mark Jackson was fired. ... (The media looks the other way) but those of us who can see the truth can see that Mark Jackson didn't get a fair shake - and we know why that is."
Good thing Gulliver didn't go so far as to say the Warriors are a racist organization.
More responsible voices are also protesting the status quo. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith railed Wednesday at the color-coded unfairness of the NBA's coaching carousel.
Steve Kerr looks like the prime candidate to fill four coaching vacancies - Lakers, Warriors, Knicks and Jazz - and Smith finds that curious. He notes that in-limbo former NBA coaches like Lionel Hollins, Avery Johnson, Sam Mitchell and Mike Woodson are cooling their heels while Kerr's phone rings off the hook.
"What the hell has (Kerr) done to warrant that?" Smith wondered. "No experience, and the pick of the litter! ... You see black coaches with experience on the bench and can't get a sniff, but a person with no experience is chillin'? Clearly there is a big-time discrepancy."
Good point, although it could be argued that Kerr is Mr. Hot because he has the golden seal of approval of the legendary Phil Jackson. Also, any unproven candidate (see: Mark Jackson three years ago) offers great promise, while Woodson and Johnson have demonstrated that they are not Gregg Popovich or Doc Rivers.
What about the patience angle? Lionel Hollins builds his Memphis Grizzlies into a 56-win team, takes 'em to the conference finals, and gets fired. Keith Smart was fired after one season with the Warriors, then called out on strikes in Sacramento after one swing.
Meanwhile, the Van Gundys seem to be near the top of every team's hiring list. Don Nelson was allowed to work through many mediocre seasons.
Mark Jackson is the current poster dude for the disease of owner impatience, which some say afflicts black coaches more than white ones.
Those who see racism in the Warriors' move note that a major complaint Joe Lacob had about Jackson, the old point guard, was that he wasn't a smart enough tactician/strategist. In fairness to Lacob, he never told Jackson, "Bring in a white professor to help you with the X's and O's."
Warriors' sources say Lacob and Co. felt Jackson spent too little time on the job. To some, that complaint sounds like "lazy," a highly charged label.
I don't believe Lacob's (and Bob Myers') firing of Jackson had racial overtones, or undertones. I need hard evidence to make that kind of charge, because it's a serious one.
Unrealistic expectations or personality clashes don't have to be racial. If Lacob felt Jackson spent too much time preaching in L.A. when he should have been coaching in Oakland, that's not perceived laziness, that's a perceived neglect of coaching duties.
Still, this is all good stuff to talk about, because racism isn't all Sterling-style. It can be subtle, even unconscious. For decades NFL owners ignored all black coaching candidates while claiming to be color-blind. They meant they couldn't see candidates of color.
There's always stuff we don't know. When I fell in love with the NBA in the mid-'60s, I didn't realize there were quotas on the number of black players each team could have. With Sterling, we all kept quiet and let him fester way too long.
So let's keep talking.
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Aprendiendo Zend Framework
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Zend_Tool_Framework is a framework for exposing common
functionalities such as the creation of project scaffolds, code
generation, search index generation, and much more. Functionality may be
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Common interfaces and abstracts that allow developers to create functionality and capabilities that are dispatchable by tooling clients.
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markus Oralius wrote:How about creating a reset button to re-arrange troop deployment (if needed) prior to starting your turn?
Or maybe creating a way to shuffle armies around the board until you chose to lock your selections in and start your turn. That would make troop deployment alot more user friendly.
markus Oralius wrote:let me clarify that it couldnt apply to the initial random troop deployment at all. It would only apply to the reiforcements that you manuallly place at the beginning of your turn.
I switched to CC from another website, and it was one of the top features I thought I would like to see here. It can be done. A button next "begin turn" that could reset troop deployments before your turn starts.
Maybe a better point to make is that it would only improve the game. If the programmers are willing, there is no reason not to have that feature that I can think of.
chapcrap wrote:This has been suggested before and shot down. Basically, don't mess up.
However, I think that getting a change to redo deployment before attacking is not awful.
mc05025 wrote:It will mess up the freestyle games
agentcom wrote:mc05025 wrote:It will mess up the freestyle games
I don't see how ... It's not like the other player can tell that you have ended your deployment or assault phase until you attack or reinforce, respectively.
darth emperor wrote:Well I would say more, just permit it in sequential games, nothing of freestyle. Neither first round of manual game (the latter one is more arguabily)
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Most retirees or would-be retirees have heard the stories–about doctors who no longer accept Medicare patients, or who have opted out of the program entirely. But a new study indicates that fears about not having access to health care in later life are largely overstated.
About 47 million Americans are already enrolled in Medicare, and the bulk of the baby-boom generation has yet to reach 65, the age at which a person normally qualifies for federal health insurance. The growing demands on the program – and repeated threats by Congress to cut Medicare payments to doctors – have sparked media reports in recent years about fed-up physicians washing their hands of all things Medicare.
But a study published last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading nonprofit that specializes in health-policy analysis, found that, nationally, "most Medicare patients enjoy good access to physicians" and that "most physicians are accepting new Medicare patients."
Examining data from patient and physician surveys, published studies and new physician data from Medicare, the foundation looked at:
The 'usual source of care.' Fully 96% of Medicare beneficiaries say that, when they are ill or need medical advice, they have a "usual" source of health care. Most (86%) identify that source as a doctor's office or a doctor's clinic.
That said, some subgroups of older adults are vulnerable. About one in eight beneficiaries (12%) without supplemental coverage (such as Medigap insurance or Medicaid) report having no usual source of care.
Doctor visits: Horror stories about patients unable to schedule timely medical appointments seem to pop up regularly, but again, the numbers tell a different story.
The 2012 Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (a government-sponsored survey cited in the Kaiser report) found that 88% of enrollees in traditional Medicare, and 87% of those in Medicare Advantage plans, were "usually" or "always" able to schedule timely appointments for routine care. And the numbers were even higher for getting an appointment with a specialist: 92% and 90%, respectively.
Finding a new doctor. Fewer than one in 12 (7%) Medicare beneficiaries find themselves looking for a new primary-care physician during the year. (Among the reasons they do: a new medical problem, their doctor retires, or the beneficiaries moved.) Of those, only 1.8% report problems in finding a new primary-care doctor, according to the 2012 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission patient survey. That's similar to the "problem" rate – 1.6% – among adults ages 50 to 64 using private insurance.
New patients and 'opting out.' More than nine in 10 (91%) office-based physicians report that they accept new Medicare patients, as do almost all (98%) surgical specialists. And as of September 2013, less than 1% of all physicians in clinical practice have "opted out" of Medicare entirely, according to new, unpublished data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The numbers, of course, don't guarantee that adults age 65 and older will never encounter problems finding health care. For instance, Medicare beneficiaries with four or more chronic conditions, according to the survey, have higher rates of access problems.
But for now, the Kaiser report concludes, the "preponderance of evidence is clear and consistent: the majority of people with Medicare have good access to physician care."
Also worth reading:
Budget deal trims federal pension benefits
As rates rise, don't give up on bond funds
More disgruntled doctors leave Medicare
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Ground testing of hydraulic and pneumatic components installed on aircraft, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles is critical to ensure flight worthiness. Whether it be a hydraulic pump or valve, accurate flow measurements help determine system performance.
Today's demanding aerospace market demands implementation of meticulous quality control systems in the manufacturing process so that the final product meets all the internationally set standards. For example, manufacturers of hydraulic and pneumatic components used onboard aircraft or in other aerospace or defense equipment are faced with not only government and military standards, but also industry cooperative standards such as the National Aerospace Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP). The goal of standards such as ISO 9000 and NADCAP is to develop basic quality programs that provide for continuous improvement emphasizing defect prevention and reduction of waste and variability.
Demands on manufacturers
The risk to human life inherent to aircraft failure must be a serious consideration for all suppliers of aerospace equipment. The risk factor means the reliability of all systems used to control the aircraft must be given a high priority.
Manufacturers of aircraft components use hydraulic and pneumatic test stands to verify 100% certification of performance and reliability over the part's full range of inputs. Each component must pass rigorous test procedures before it is shipped to the ultimate customer. Inspection through sample testing is not an option for such a high liability product.
Designers of aerospace equipment are also developing more efficient systems to meet the demands of increased industry competition. Improving designs often includes a review of the hydraulic system, as engineers seek more efficient means of transmitting power. Increasingly, the focus is on reducing the size of hydraulic components or concentrating power into smaller package sizes. This can be accomplished by using higher operating pressures.
During the prototyping of a new helicopter platform, for example, component manufacturers may need to test the performance of an orifice or pump. Flow measurements not only have to be extremely accurate, but data must also be provided on a real-time basis. Once the flow data are collected, the manufacturer makes the necessary design changes, keeping the aircraft within specified performance tolerances.
Common testing requirements
Hydraulic components intended for commercial and military aircraft are typically designed for maximum power density and reliability. Because low maintenance is critical to aircraft of all types, hydraulic component makers continually seek to optimize existing products and systems, as well as manufacturing processes.
Although every component of a hydraulic system undergoes stringent testing, valves, pumps, and actuators are scrutinized especially closely. Liquid flow measurement is commonly used as a fine-tuning process to monitor the machining and assembly of the hydraulic component to achieve the desired flow characteristics.
Most hydraulic test stands are dedicated to test one or a limited set of hydraulic devices. These systems, which typically run in either semiautomatic or fully automatic mode, contain a cabinet with flow regulators, pressure regulators, manifolds, and connections to the unit under test. A computerized data-acquisition and control system, along with a full suite of sensors, enables the test stand to perform a variety of tests.
The most widely used technique for precise leakage measurement of aircraft parts is to connect one end of a hydraulic cylinder to the component under test, and the other end to a pressure source. If any fluid leaks from the unit under test, fluid enters from the cylinder to replace it, and the piston moves. Therefore, movement of the piston over a known time period is a measure of the leakage rate.
Latest flow meter technology
For test stand applications requiring the best flow measurement accuracy available with the benefits of high resolution and dynamic response, proven reliability and compact size, a precision turbine flow meter is the flow sensor of choice. The high resolution of the turbine meter makes it ideal for detection of leaks in aircraft fluid systems. With resolutions to 48,000 ppg (pulses per gal) for small turbines, minute fluid flow can be detected.
A turbine flow meter paired with a flow computer can be used to measure the hydraulic fluid flow through a component under changing conditions. Tests can involve multiple types of hydraulic oils, each having unique characteristics related to temperature, pressure, and viscosity.
Turbine flow meters rely on a proven, highly accurate measurement technology, which provides exceptionally reliable digital outputs. These flow meters incorporate a freely suspended turbine rotated by the flow of the fluid (liquid or gas) through the meter body.
Because the flow passage is fixed, the rotor's rotational speed is a true representation of the volumetric flow rate. The rotation produces a train of electrical pulses, which are sensed by an external pick-up mounted directly above the rotor. The frequency of the pulses can be converted to an analog current or voltage or can be displayed as gpm, lb/hr, cfm, or in other engineering units.
The 2- to 3-msec response times typical of turbine flow meters provide rapid updating of flow rate. Furthermore, calculations are made in conjunction with real-time temperature, pressure, viscosity, and density values — which lends itself to output as mass flow rate.
Turbine flow meters also have a relatively high turndown ratio, with a linear range of 10:1 and a repeatable range of up to 100:1. This capability often enables a single turbine meter to replace multiple meters with a lesser turndown capability and can significantly reduce cost in applications requiring accurate rate and totalization measurement over a wide flow range.
Unlike other flow sensing technologies, turbine flow meters are compatible with remote electronics. Also, when paired with a heat-tolerant electronic pickup and amplifier, turbine flow meters can be located in areas exposed to extreme temperatures. In this setup, data acquisition electronics are safely mounted elsewhere.
Data accuracy
Depending on the accuracy requirements and flow conditions, primary standard flow meter calibration techniques alone may meet the application requirements. When accuracies to ±0.012% reading are needed, advanced flow electronics and calibration techniques can be used to provide volumetric or inferred mass flow outputs.
The combination of a precision turbine flow meter and advanced flow electronics provides a solution for measuring bi-directional flow in hydraulic and pneumatic testing. Flow measurement performance is optimized by compensating for viscosity changes from variations in ambient fluid operating temperature, which affects the accuracy of liquid flow data.
In hydraulic test stand applications, a turbine flow meter with a bi-directional Universal Viscosity Curve calibration can be equipped with pickups for determining flow direction and sensing temperature. The turbine meter may be paired with a flow computer, which performs linearization and temperature compensation to ensure high accuracy over the meter's full extended range. The unit's electronics can be configured to display volumetric or mass with temperature compensation for variations in liquid viscosity and density due to temperature. Such flow computers simplify test procedures by storing temperature versus viscosity and density data for multiple fluids — saving time to boost productivity.
In order to correct for viscosity changes in the hydraulic fluid, the relationship of temperature vs. viscosity for the fluid and the operating temperature range of the measurement must be known. With the operating kinematic viscosity range known, the turbine flow meter is calibrated at multiple viscosities spanning the operating range. The flow meter will require a calibration for every factor of ten that the viscosity changes.
For example, a fluid with an operating range of 1 to 100 cSt would require a multiple point calibration at 1, 10, and 100 cSt. These data are then calibrated on a universal viscosity curve, which is formed by plotting the flow meter's K factor on the linear scale and frequency divided by kinematic viscosity on the logarithmic scale. The result of this plot is one continuous curve covering the range of possible meter frequencies and viscosities.
Aircraft equipment manufacturers require state-of-the-art flow instrumentation for use in component test environments. Turbine flow meters have long been the choice for aerospace and defense industry testing. They are accurate, have a wide turndown ratio and fast speed of response, and, when paired with advanced flow electronics using universal viscosity calibration techniques, can be employed over a wide range of temperatures and viscosities.
Ladd Howell is aerospace applications engineer at Flow Technology Inc., Tempe, Ariz. For more information, visit www.ftimeters.com.
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Depression and HIV
July 23, 2014
What Is Depression?
Depression is a mood disorder. It is more than sadness or grief. Depression is sadness or grief that is more intense and lasts longer than it should. It has various causes:
About 5% to 10% of the general population gets depressed. However, rates of depression in people with HIV are as high as 60%. Women with HIV are twice as likely as men to be depressed.
Being depressed is not a sign of weakness. It doesn't mean you're going crazy. You cannot "just get over it." Don't expect to be depressed because you are dealing with HIV. And don't think that you have to be depressed because you have HIV.
Is Depression Important?
Depression can lead people not stay engaged in their care, to miss appointments or doses of their medications. It can increase high-risk behaviors that transmit HIV infection to others. Overall, depression can make HIV disease progress faster. It also interferes with your ability to enjoy life. A study in 2012 showed that patients with depression, especially women, were more likely to stop receiving care and to not achieve undetectable viral load.
Depression often gets overlooked. Also, many HIV specialists have not been adequately trained to recognize or treat depression. Depression can also be mistaken for signs of advancing HIV.
What Are the Signs of Depression?
Symptoms of depression vary from person to person. Most health care providers suspect depression if patients report feeling blue or having very little interest in daily activities. If these feelings go on for two weeks or longer, and the patient also has some of the following symptoms, they are probably depressed:
What Causes Depression?
There are many causes of depression. Having the diagnosis of a chronic disease, like HIV infection or AIDS, can make depressive symptoms worse. Some medications used to treat HIV can cause or worsen depression, especially efavirenz (Sustiva). Diseases such as anemia or diabetes can cause symptoms that look like depression. So can drug use, or low levels of testosterone, vitamin B6, or vitamin B12.
People who are infected with both HIV and hepatitis B or C (see Fact Sheet 506) are more likely to be depressed, especially if they are being treated with interferon. Other risk factors include:
This article was provided by AIDS InfoNet. Visit AIDS InfoNet's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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Defense budget includes two subs a year but base commissary funding threatened
In its fiscal 2015 budget request Tuesday, the Pentagon asked Congress for enough money to keep buying two submarines a year from Electric Boat in Groton.
"We have a district right now that is pretty special in the fabric of national defense priorities," said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District. "There is so much change that this budget is proposing, if for one second people believed this is something we could do without, they would have cut submarines in the shipbuilding plan."
But the Pentagon also unveiled plans that, if approved by Congress, could mean less funding for the commissary at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, and 450 to 500 fewer positions for the Connecticut National Guard. A proposed round of base closings also could jeopardize the future of the Groton base.
Many military families are especially worried about the proposal to reduce the $1.4 billion annual subsidy to military commissaries by $1 billion over three years. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has said the department is not shutting down commissaries, but some speculate the Defense Commissary Agency will be forced to close some stores or to increase prices.
A local Navy wife, Emma Lindbeck, said she spends about $200 a week on groceries for her husband and six kids at the base commissary.
"The government is not likely to give back what it takes away," she said. "The things that we don't fight for, that we allow to go away, definitely aren't coming back. It's not going to make a large impact on the budget, but it would make a large impact personally, and for other families."
The Defense Commissary Agency estimates military members and their families save 30 percent by shopping at a commissary. The base will open a new $15 million, 57,000-square-foot commissary in April.
"Beyond the medical care, the commissary is the benefit I see on a day-to-day basis that has the most impact on us," Lindbeck said.
Ed Shyloski, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers, stocks up at the commissary once a month. He said the commissary is a perk for officers but it has become a basic necessity for enlisted members and non-commissioned officers, whose salaries are lower. Shyloski questioned why entitlement programs are not reduced instead, since the government spends significantly more on those.
Paul Dillon, a retired Navy master chief who shops at the commissary on Sundays, said he wonders, considering cuts to benefits for service members and veterans, "How are we going to attract folks to come into the military?"
Courtney said the House Armed Services Committee will study Hagel's proposal closely. Most of the committee members have military installations in their districts so they know how important commissaries are, he added.
Hagel also asked Congress to authorize a Base Realignment and Closure process in 2017, and said the department will continue to reduce its infrastructure in Europe, an action that does not need congressional approval. Congress has denied the department's BRAC requests for the past two years.
Both Courtney and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have said the political will to approve a BRAC does not exist in Congress. The Groton base was nearly closed in the 2005 round.
The Pentagon's budget will be cut by $75 billion in the next two years or more if sequestration continues in fiscal 2016. The 2015 base budget request provides $495.6 billion, a decrease from the $496 billion that was provided for 2014.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and 46 other governors sent a joint letter Friday to President Barack Obama to oppose reducing the Army National Guard from more than 350,000 nationwide to 335,000 by 2017. The state stands to lose 450 to 500 Connecticut National Guard positions, according to Malloy's office.
Courtney said he questions why the Defense Department would scale back what is probably the most cost-effective force for responding rapidly while it simultaneously reduces the number of active-duty Army soldiers and Marines.
Blumenthal said the National Guard performs essential functions overseas and at home, in combat and in peacetime, and should not be cut.
"Overall there is no question that the military needs to be leaner and more agile, with an emphasis on special ops and weapons platforms like submarines and the Joint Strike Fighter," Blumenthal said. "We will not be occupying other countries with mass land forces. The strategy makes sense. The details have to be reviewed."
Despite the proposals that could hurt the district, Courtney said his colleagues view southeastern Connecticut as "a survivor" compared to their districts, because the Pentagon still wants to buy two attack submarines each year while it cuts or eliminates other weapons programs.
Electric Boat in Groton builds two Virginia-class submarines per year with its shipbuilding partner, Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. The budget proposes allocating $6.3 billion to pay for two submarines in 2015, to buy materials with long lead times for the 2016 submarines and to continue developing a module to boost firepower on the attack submarines. The budget also includes nearly $1.3 billion to continue the research and design work on a new class of ballistic-missile submarines, an Ohio-class replacement being designed by EB.
Connecticut's 1st and 3rd districts did not fare nearly as well because the Pentagon wants to order fewer aircraft, Courtney said.
He compared this stage of the budget process to spring training in baseball. Now, he said, the subcommittees in Congress go to work and the real scrutiny begins.
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It is always nice to have someone new in the team and that is why I am announcing with great pleasure that Egmont Koblinger is joining our small family.
Egmont is, like Gyuri and Balázs, from Hungary. On his free time Egmont enjoys playing guitar and biking so Switzerland is the perfect location for him.
On the same time I wanted to announce that Erik decided to move back to Sweden so with a bit of sweet-sour taste we want to wish him all the best in the new adventures that he will take on.
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Romain1 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Coogny is focused on 3 activities : Baby sitting / Dog sitting / Services for seniors
For this 3 services, users will be able to find and contact sitters who they can trust thanks to social recommendation and evaluations.
Consumer oriented
Women between 25 & 35
Women between 50 & 60
The value and the idea Coogny's Website should convey : simple, smooth, welcoming, safe, like a cocoon
You will start from the logo attached.
The design should be kept simple
Here are several examples you can relate to :
What I like about them : they are simple and casual. Some are also coming with very clever ideas about how some elements are integrated in the design.
No cartoon style.
Dominant colours will be white and orange, blue & purple can be used to stress on particular points.
Here is the colour spectrum we thought about : http://colorschemedesigner.com/#0W22flUsCv5w0
width of all the screens : 980px
Formats expected : .ai .psd .png
Attached, you will find the wireframes of the pages I would like you to design :
*Home Page :
It is separated into 2 sections :
Above : without scrolling you can see a visual and animated elements, FB and e-mail login box. Buttons to share the page on FB & Twitter
Underneath : A text / Client testimonials / Footer
*Search screen
This screen allows to perform and display the results of your sitter search
At the top : Buttons to go to the Subscription and credit pages
Top menu : categories to navigate across the site
left pan : criterias
In the center : profiles resulting from the search : each profile comes with a button to message the sitter and a button to add a particular profile in the facorite list
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Lentil and Chestnut Soup Recipe
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- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour and 15 minutes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 small onion, minced
- 1/2 leek, minced
- 1 medium carrot, minced
- 1 celery stalk, minced
- 1 cup red lentils
- 6 1/3 cups vegetable stock
- 8 ounces canned chestnuts
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- heavy cream, for serving.
Pour the oil into a large Dutch oven set over medium heat. When warm, add the minced onion, leek, carrot, and celery. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften but don't brown.
Add the lentils, stir well, and then pour in the stock. Bring to a boil over high heat, and then reduce heat to maintain a simmer. Cook until the lentils are very soft, about 40 minutes. Add the chestnuts and simmer for 20 more minutes.
Carefully puree the soup in a blender. (You'll probably have to do this in batches.) When done, return the soup to the pot to warm it back up. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with a sprinkling of parsley and a drizzle of heavy cream.
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I am going to tell you something right now that will not surprise anyone reading this: We are going through incredibly uncertain times. We are in the middle of the most unpredictable economy we have experienced since the Great Depression. Over the past 12 years we've been through some pretty scary stuff from the dot com bust, terrorist attacks, a housing crunch, a Euro-zone collapse, and a downgrade to the United States' credit. I will be the first to admit that I am not telling you anything you don't already know. With that said, I would like to ask this question: What have you done to guard yourself from the next financial storm? Whether it's the unrest in the Middle East, hyperinflation, a double dip recession, the bond bubble, another rating downgrade, etc.; Do I need to go on?
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In the world of investing there are two types of investors: the informed and the uninformed. Take a guess at who is in a better position to weather the next peril that lies ahead. This is accomplished by a very basic planning technique we implement when building our clients' Financial Houses.
I would assume that many readers of this article have, at some point, built their own physical house—not with your own two hands but with the assistance of a professional. I have received mixed reactions about the process itself. Some find it a trying and tedious process while others find the experience to be exhilarating and new. Regardless, the underlying common denominator to a successful build is having a proper plan in place before any ground breaking occurs.
Unfortunately, I find that many people have built a very basic but glorified teepee. All roof with no foundation to sit on and no walls to tie the two together. In our working years it is necessary and natural to assume more risk in our portfolios. To better understand this, let me breakdown the three essential structural elements of a properly built Financial House.
Common sense tells us that the necessary starting point when building a house, physical or metaphorical, is the foundation. For retirees, the foundation is undeniably the most important part of the Financial House. We absolutely cannot start building out the walls or roof without a proper foundation. The foundation is meant to provide stability, strength, protection, and most importantly a base on which to assemble the more visible (exposed) portions of your house. Foundational assets portray these same qualities. We know that no matter what financial perils lay ahead, the assets you have positioned in your foundation will still be there. Think back to the first pictures and video taken by the Red Cross helicopters after Japan was struck by the tsunami. When the waters receded, what was the only visible indicator of civilization? That's right. We were able to make out the areas where people once inhabited because of the foundations of houses that were left behind. The key here is, when faced with the perfect storm, you do not want your entire portfolio exposed to the elements capable of tearing down the house you worked so long and hard to build. Another component to keep in mind is the varying levels of foundation. Some houses sit on a cement slab (basic) while others enjoy the benefits of a crawl space or even a basement (functional). When building your foundation, you want to consider making it as functional as possible. This will allow you to maintain the structural integrity and protection of your assets while at the same time permitting upside potential.
Wall assets are going to be stable in nature and are designed to provide a pedestal to secure the roof. Walls are where we incorporate income-producing, inflation-protected, real assets. I'm sure you would agree both income production and inflation protection are essential when planning for retirement. Historically, advisors have used bonds to build out the walls of their clients' financial houses. In today's interest rate environment, bonds are like Chinese drywall. If you recall, back in 2001 the US started importing drywall from China that was later found to contain harmful chemicals leaving homeowners sick. Do not build your walls with Chinese drywall! Alternatives we consider still kick off a regular monthly dividend capable of reinvestment or withdrawal as income. The key difference here is the underlying assets have the ability to rise in value when inflation inevitably comes down the pipe as opposed to being washed away. We can hear the train coming. Do not wait until it's too late to get off the tracks.
Roof assets are going to be the riskiest positions/investments you own. Stocks, mutual funds, and variable annuities are all examples of assets we would classify as roof-based. Consider each position as a shingle. One thing we know about roofs is the fact that they take the brunt of the beating every time we experience a financial hailstorm, tsunami, or tornado. On the flip side, you can experience significant gains in a positive market. With this said, it is necessary to take a certain amount of risk inside your portfolio but you have to make sure it is smart and calculated. The thing to keep in mind here is, just as you would with your physical house, you occasionally have to replace a couple shingles and sometimes an entire new roof is needed. At our office we utilize the services of a money manager with the ability to position assets in or out of your roof on a daily basis. This allows us to advise on a proactive basis instead of reacting to our volatile markets, which, as we all know, is too late. Anytime you consider a money manager, always consider fees, expenses, and exactly how your money is being invested in order to intelligently decide which "roofer" you employ. The news hasn't always been positive in years past. This is what we have come to know and love about the investing world we live in. This is a very important time to have a proper financial plan in place. Make sure your Financial House is structured in a manner to truly provide the protection you need to weather the next storm. The clouds are ominous. The winds are gusting. The radar is red. Your financial security is in your hands. Let this be the siren to jump-start your efforts in building your Storm-Proof Financial House.
Andrew Greer focuses on retirement planning at Hobart Financial Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a licensed insurance agent and a registered representative with Global Financial Investment Services, LLC. Andrew is series 65 and series 7 licensed allowing him to work with clients in the area of portfolio management and retirement planning. To reach Andrew, contact him at (704) 553-0123 or email@example.com


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Back in 2009 this blog reported on the very topic of Workers Compensation insurance, stating that 1 and 5 businesses are breaking workers compensation laws. In my everyday practice, I feel like the trend is still prevalent in the construction industry. The main reason being is due to the exorbitant price of this insurance on contractors.
Workers Compensation is codified in Louisiana under Revised Statute 23:1021 et seq. There are a myriad of rules and definitions within this chapter of the code that would make any contractors head spin. There are a few key items to remember when classifying employees. First and foremost is that there is a presumption of employee status, as seen in La. R.S. 23:1044. This can be overcome by a number of factors which would make the worker, an independent contrator rather than a employee. La R.S. 23:1045 is where the law states that independent contractors and subcontractors are exempt from coverage. Although the price to insure all employees under workers comp insurance is high, the price that is paid if an accident happens to an uninsured worker is much higher. Furthermore, when the insuring companies do an audit at the end of the year of the status, there can be a hefty price tag for improper reporting.
I represent a number of clients who are learning the hard way that companies like LWCC and Louisiana Home Builders Association are not fun to litigate against for a contractor trying to make profits. These companies have either in-house attorneys or law firms who handle these cases day in and day out. There is almost no incentive for them to settle claims because there is no fear of pricey litigation. As for the contractor, attorney fee bills keep going higher and at the end of the day the contractor can pay double and triple of what they would have if they had properly reported or settled early.
So let this be a warning to all contractors who are trying to push the line when it comes to workers compensation insurance, its just not worth it. Just like fighting any insurance company, even if the insurer is wrong, they will fight to the bitter end to be proven so. Taking an early haircut, so that you can get back to making money in the industry, can be a win-win for your construction company.


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Get a glimpse of the North Pole at the Saint Louis Zoo, where you can walk through an arctic wonderland of twinkling holiday light displays. Enjoy special menus and s'mores at Schnuck Family Plaza, fireside storytelling and activities. And don't forget to swing by and say hello to their special delivery this year, Kali the polar bear.
Free Activities & Attractions
- Go nose-to-nose with Kali the polar bear at McDonnell Polar Bear Point
- Waddle into Penguin & Puffin Coast
- Get buggy at Monsanto Insectarium
- Campfire s'mores (available for purchase) at the Holiday Traditions area sponsored by Laclede Gas
- Fireside stories: Gather 'round the fire as storytellers like Tundra Tom spin wintry tales about penguins, reindeer and other wildlife. Perhaps Arctic Annie will share chronicles of Missouri critters that live all around us. Come fluff your fur, warm your paws, and perk up your listening ears as you hear captivating animal stories. Sponsored by Prairie Farms Dairy.
- Live ice carving demonstrations on Friday and Saturday nights
- Strolling entertainment and costumed characters on select nights
- Visit the 102.5 KEZK Blizzard Zone for all kinds of frosty fun.
You can purchase tickets in advance online, or on site at the Zoo until 8:00 p.m. each night.


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Randall Curren, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, has been selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., for 2012-13.
Curren, whose research is in the philosophy and ethics of education, was the only philosopher among a group of 24 members selected to spend a year in residence in the institute's School of Social Science.
The institute provides visiting scholars, known as members and visitors, the freedom to pursue theoretical research into fundamental problems in the sciences and humanities. It has hosted some of the world's most noted thinkers, including Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and George Kennan.
"Scholars are not often able to delve deeply into the intricacies of their field and at the same time address broad societal issues," says Joanna Olmsted, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. "Professor Curren is one of those rare thinkers who is doing both. His work addresses education and sustainability, two of our most pressing issues, while at the same time advancing research on fundamental issues of philosophy."
As a fellow, Curren's work at the Institute will explore the nature of human well-being and the role of academic institutions in promoting well-being. "The fundamental purpose of educational institutions is to promote development that is conducive to people 'living well,' so it is important to understand how these institutions do and don't satisfy important needs that contribute to the fulfillment of human potential," said Curren. "It is also important to recognize that human well-being or 'living well' has both objective and subjective aspects, and to understand how these aspects are related."
In order to address the relationship between these aspects of well-being and what contributes to well-being, Curren is working with Richard Ryan, professor of psychology, psychiatry, and education at the University of Rochester. Through his collaboration with Ryan, Curren hopes to develop accounts of education, human flourishing, and the relationships between them as a way to identify good practices in education and to contribute to wider debates about the role of education in society.
Curren has been a faculty member at Rochester since 1988 and he has served as philosophy department chair for the past nine years. He has a secondary appointment in the Warner School of Education's educational leadership program. A former Mellon Fellow, Newcombe Fellow, Spencer Fellow, and Andrew Mellon Instructor in Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, he also has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Spencer Foundation. He is a past president of the Association for the Philosophy of Education, has served on the ethics committee of the American Educational Research Association, and chaired the American Philosophical Association Committee on Teaching. His works include Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education. He is the editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, of the journal Theory and Research in Education, and also of the recently published Philosophy of Education: An Anthology.
Founded in 1930, the Institute for Advanced Study is a private, independent academic institution. It has no formal links to other educational institutions but enjoys close, collaborative ties with Princeton University and other nearby institutions.
Other University of Rochester faculty who have been Institute for Advanced Study members have included those from the Departments of History (Theodore Brown), Mathematics (Frederick Cohen, Richard Lavine, Saul Lubkin, Joseph Neisendorfer, Douglas Ravenel), Mechanical Engineering (Albert Simon), and Physics and Astronomy (Ashok Das, Sarada Rajeev).


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It turns out the DNA is real, check out our full review of the HTC Droid DNA smart phone.
Phone fans could be in for a treat next week, as HTC and Verizon have sent out invitations to a press event to be held in New York on November 13, where we could get the first 1080p smartphone/tablet hybrid launched outside Japan.
The invite doesn't appear to contain any hidden messages, showing nothing more than a lens-flared light on a dark background, but a few leaked press pictures could give us a better idea what these long-time partners are preparing for us.
The images popped up on @evleaks' Twitter account this week, and show a big-screen, Verizon-branded HTC smartphone that bears a striking resemblance to the HTC J Butterfly.
Quite how such a bizarrely named phone could slip you memory, we're not sure; but just in case it has, here's what it's all about. Announced last month in Japan, the J Butterfly has a 5-inch display with a headline-grabbing 1080p resolution. It seemed inevitable that HTC would let the Butterfly spread its wings at some point, and the Verizon event seems like the ideal launchpad.
Five-inch, full HD touchscreens are set to be the next big thing in the world of the smartphone display, with Sharp's 1080p IGZO screen making its debut this week, and LG confirming recently that it's also working on a similar panel.
It's highly unlikely the J Butterfly name will remain on the US version though, and instead it's likely to be another "Droid" device, this time the Droid DNA. That name has appeared on both the FCC's website and a leaked Verizon price list, and has superseded other possible names including the HTC DLX and the HTC X5. Neither of those names are dead though, and could be used for a GSM version of the phone.
If the 5-inch, 1080p screen isn't enough to get your pulse racing, then should the Droid DNA share the J Butterfly's other features, it will also have Qualcomm's high performance, 1.5GHz, quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, plus Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as its operating system.
Previous leaks have suggested a December 6 release date for the phone, but we'll have to wait for the November 13 event to confirm this, and all the other details concerning HTC and Verizon's new device.


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What did you expect? David Beckham riding around again ala James Bond and the Queen dropping out of a helicopter? C'mon now.
I didn't mind seeing David Beckham I thought the whole helicopter was rather amusing.. overall, I liked the opening ceremony.. all except for the whole technology/social networking part of it. That was cheesy as hell.
Other than that, it's this closing ceremony I find awfully boring. I'm waiting for the Spice Girls to perform for the most part lol
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For the queso sauce:
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Add the milk, increase the heat to high and cook, whisking constantly, until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and whisk in the cheese until melted; add the Parmesan and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Keep warm.
For the relish:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
For the pickled red onions:
Bring vinegar, water, sugar and salt to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from the heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Put the onions in a medium bowl, pour the vinegar over, cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours and up to 48 hours before serving.
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Heat a griddle or large saute pan over high heat. Add the oil and let it heat until it begins to shimmer.
Shape the ground beef with your hands into 4 round patties about 1 1/2 inches thick and season each burger on both sides with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook the burgers until golden brown on both sides and cooked to medium, about 8 minutes.
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The ninth annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research took place on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011 at 1 p.m. The presenter was Christopher I. Amos, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. The lecture was convened by the National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research and was held at the Masur Auditorium, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.
Dr. Amos is an internationally recognized expert on the statistical analysis of inherited disease. He has made seminal contributions by developing new analytic methods and applying them to cancer genetics and human autoimmune diseases. Research conducted by Dr. Amos has ranged from investigating familial factors for prostate, head and neck, lung, and colon cancers, to the study of Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, a rare disorder predisposing to polyps and multiple cancers. He currently leads a large, genome-wide association study in lung cancer, which recently identified a novel locus influencing lung cancer susceptibility in a region of chromosome 15q that encodes nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. His work on autoimmune diseases, ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to scleroderma to primary biliary cirrhosis, has revolutionized our understanding of these conditions.
Dr. Amos's current work focuses on the identification of genetic factors for lung cancer and their interactions with smoking, utilizing a multi-pronged approach that includes epidemiologic studies of gene and environmental contributions to lung cancer risk, as well as cell-biologic and animal models. He heads the statistical genetic coordinating center for the Genetic Epidemiology of Lung Cancer Consortium, the informatics core for a study of a mutational model of childhood cancer, as well as the statistical genetics core of the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium.
Dr. Amos obtained his Ph.D. in Biometry at the legendary program at Louisiana State University (LSU) before undertaking postdoctoral training at the NIH Inter-Institute Medical Genetics Program, which is affiliated with the intramural programs of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). In 1993, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas (UT) MD Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, achieving the rank of full professor at the latter institution immediately upon completion of his postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Amos is a past president of the International Genetic Epidemiologic Society, and is the recipient of numerous honors, including the International Genetic Epidemiologic Society Leadership Award and the Margaret and James A. Elkins Jr. Faculty Achievement Award in Cancer Prevention at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Trent was the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) founding Scientific Director, serving in this role for more than nine years. His leadership and vision was instrumental in establishing NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research as one of the premier research programs in the world devoted to genetics and genomics. In recognition of his significant contributions to the research environment at NIH, NHGRI established the annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research in 2003. This lecture is given by a prominent cancer researcher who brings the kind of energy, creativity and enthusiasm to cancer research that Dr. Trent has exemplified throughout his career.
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Mark B.N. Hansen
James B. Duke Professor of Literature
Over the past decade I have sought in my research, writing and teaching to theorize the role played by technology in human agency and social life. In work that ranges across a host of disciplines, including literary studies, film and media, philosophy (particularly phenomenology), science studies, and cognitive neuroscience, I have explored the meaning of the relentless technological exteriorization that characterizes the human as a form of life and have paid particular attention to the key role played by visual art and literature in brokering cultural adaptation to technology from the industrial revolution to the digital revolution. My recent work has focused on the experiential significance of the revolution in computation that has transformed the architecture of knowledge in academe and in culture more broadly. As I understand it, the computational revolution is altering the infrastructure of our lifeworld profoundly and thereby changing what it means to be human and also what is involved in practicing the humanities today. I believe that the humanities must embrace technology and that humanists must enter full-scale into the informatics revolution by, for example, contesting the meaning and value of information and rethinking what it means to be human in a realtime, digitally-networked, global world in which we often cognize in concert with intelligent machines. My first book, Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing, set the agenda for my research by asking what is left out when literary and cultural theorists turn their attention to technology. My answer, to put it schematically, is experience: by variously taking technology as a formalizable object - as, say, a figure for the operation of language, for the structure of the text, or for the vicissitudes of the psyche - theorists simply overlook the non-representational, experiential, and massively diffuse impact of technologies on social and cultural life. My effort to grapple with this diffuse impact has led me to focus on media technologies and, in particular, on the contemporary digital media revolution. I have done this in two books, New Philosophy for New Media and Bodies in Code, both devoted methodologically to a practice of experiencing the theoretical and technical significance of the digital revolution through the work of practicing new media artists, architects, and literary authors. In both of these studies, and in my work generally, I proceed from actual engagements with cultural artifacts and processes to theorization that draws together 20th century phenomenology, recent cognitive (neuro)science, and (neo-) cybernetic discourses. My current work expands the scope of my research by focusing directly on the coupling of the human and the technical that has characterized the human since its inception. In a study of time and media, I seek to update German philosopher Edmund Husserl's model of time-consciousness in order to address the massive technical inscription of time in our world today. If our experience of selfhood is a function of self-affection by time (as Husserl argues), how is this experience impacted when time becomes mediated by computational processes that occur at scales far beneath what our senses can experience? I explore this critical nexus of self-affection and technical time across various registers, ranging from the intensive times of textual processing in 20th-21st century experimental writing and digital poetics to the evolutionary dynamics of human technogenesis. Having recently spent a year in Beijing, China, I have also become interested in expanding my work to address the very different experience and tradition of time in the East, especially as it impacts practices involving media, art, and the internet, in the context of contemporary globalization.
- Ph.D., University of California at Irvine 1994
- M.A., University of California at Irvine 1989
- B.A., New York University 1987
IKKM. Unknown. July 2013
Arts Council Funding. Duke University-Arts Council. November 2009
FHI Faculty Fellowship. Duke University, FHI. September 2009
Ruyer, R, Edlebi, A, and Hansen, MBN. Neofinalism. January 1, 2016.
Hansen, MBN. Feed Forward: On the Future of 21st Century Media. University of Chicago Press, 2014. (Monograph)
Critical Terms for New Media. Ed. MBN Hansen and WTJ Mitchell. University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Edited Book)
Herrnstein Smith, B, and Weintraub, ER. Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory. Ed. B Clarke and MBN Hansen. Duke University Press, 2009. (Edited Book)
Hansen, MBN. Bodies in code: Interfaces with digital media. September 20, 2006. Full Text
Hansen, MBN. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media. Routledge, 2006. (Monograph)
Hansen, MBN. New Philosophy for New Media. MIT Press, 2004. (Monograph)
The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Full Text
Hansen, MBN. Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. University of Michigan, 2000. (Monograph)
Hansen, MBN. "Topology of sensibility." Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture. December 22, 2015. 33-47. Full Text
Griffin, SM, Jameson, F, and James, H. "Introduction." September 1, 2015. 197-198. Full Text
Szabo, V. "Introduction." July 31, 2015. 328-329.
Hansen, MBN. "Performance as media affect: The phenomenology of human implication in jordan crandall's gatherings." Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations. April 10, 2015. 222-243.
Hansen, MBN. "Our Predictive Condition, or, Prediction in the Wild." The Non-Human Turn. University of Minnesota, 2015. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "Algorithmic Sensibility." Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Ed. S Denson and S Leyda. Routledge, 2015. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "Ecologies of Imitation and Experience." General Ecology of Media. Ed. E Hoerl. Diaphanes, 2015. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the 'Digital' in Digital Cinema is not the 'Digital' in Digital Technics." Technology and Desire: the Transgressive Art of Moving Images. Ed. R Gaafar and M Schulz. Intellect, 2014. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "The Primacy of Sensation." Theory Aside. Ed. D Stout and J Potts. Duke, 2014. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "The Artifactuality of Affect." The Timing of Affect. Ed. M Anderer. Duke University Press, 2014. (Essay)
Hansen, MBN. "21st-century media: Worldly sensibility and feed-forward agency." Multitudes 68.3 (October 26, 2017): 60-68. (Review) Full Text
Hansen, MBN. "Bernard Stiegler, Philosopher of Desire?." Boundary 2 44.1 (February 2017): 167-190. Full Text
Hansen, MBN. "Medium-oriented ontology." Elh English Literary History 83.2 (June 1, 2016): 383-405. Full Text
Hansen, MBN. "The operational present of sensibility." Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 24.47 (January 1, 2014): 38-53. (Review)
Hansen, MBN, and Hörl, E. "Medienästhetik: Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt." Zeitschrift fuer Medienwissenschaft 8 (2013): 10-17.
Hansen, MBN. "Technics Beyond the Temporal Object." New Formations (2012): 44-62.
Hansen, MBN. "Foucault and Media: A Missed Encounter?." Saq: the South Atlantic Quarterly (2012).
Hansen, MBN. "Engineering Preindividual Potentiality: Technics, Transindividuation, and 21st Century Media." Substance 41.3 (2012): 32-59.
Hansen, MBN, and Clarke, B. "Neocybernetic Emergence: Retuning the Posthuman." Cybernetics and Human Knowing 16.1-2 (2009): 83-99.
Hansen, MBN. "Living (with) Technical Time: From Media Surrogacy to Distributed Cognition." Theory, Culture & Society 26 (2009): 294-315.
Hansen, MBN. "The Time of Bare Life." Ed. R Brand. Bare Life (Exhibition Catalogue) (September 2007). (Essay)