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On Saturday, after my grueling, fairly unsuccessful TIFF was wrapped, I traveled most of the way across Hamilton in the hopes of catching filming for the 2nd time during my trip here. This time, a film series I was familiar with & excited about, KICK ASS 2 was doing scenes at Sir Winston Churchill High School. The Canadian school was playing the part of Millard Fillmore High School in New York somewhere.
On set that day were several notable & smaller role cast members. When I first got there I saw several areas blocked off to traffic, so I set up near the Pat Quinn Arena (I really didnt know he had an arena in Hamilton) and took a few shots. I soon realized, I was a little TOO far away. I shot a couple frames, and couldnt at the time even tell what I was shooting but knew to follow the cameras, and sure enough, caught a couple partial frames of Chloe Moretz & Aaron Taylor Johnson doing a scene as Mindy Macready & Dave Lizewski, the non-superhero everyday high schoolers that are of course Hit Girl & Kick Ass. This was Chloe's 1st day on set, so I knew these were sure to be probably the 1st pics of her. As I ventured closer to the set I saw several "please no photos" signs around. After discussing with the cop on how legal it was, which he of course told me what I already knew, it was really, just a request, not an order.... I decided to do my shooting from a distance as to not make an international incident about it. So for a couple hours I would stay low key, and was sneaking a quick pic here or there of the set when there was a chance, but wasnt shooting with a blatant intent to disrupt or be noticed. The scene was mostly of Mindy & Dave walking, then Mindy essentially snubbing Dave & getting into an SUV that Marcus, Mindy's guardian was driving. As lunch time closed in, I learned the "Marcus" character from the 1st movie had been re-cast & the man I saw playing him (which I instantly knew wasnt the original one) was Morris Chestnut who I know from his time in Vancouver filming "V". Funny part was, I asked a crew member if she knew the 1st film & she said she did. so I asked "is that guy supposed to be the character Marcus?" She said yes. I replied "they recast him?" & she said no, its the same actor. Guess she didnt pay THAT close of attention to the original. I saw a character dressed in a grey hoodie that I never got a clear look at, and who was seemingly not in the later scenes. I dont know who it was, or what his importance, if any was. May have just been a background character, but he seemed to hang around the tent the talent was at during breaks sometimes..... so, unsure who it might be. I never actually had a chance to shoot any frames of him, so its a mystery to me who it is, if anyone notable at all. I also cant even recall what he did in the scenes. It was sort of odd. I wondered if it was Christopher Mintz-Plasse for awhile, but convinced myself it probably wasnt. Eventually lunch was called and I attempted to get an autograph, but my timing was just a couple seconds too late and Moretz & Johnson had gone inside the school and away from the set. In no time I found their trailers on the other side of the school & amused myself with games & internet on my blackberry as I waited for lunch to end. Soon, I saw Chestnut go back to set & I knew that Moretz & Johnson would soon follow. I moved as close as I was really allowed to, and called out to Chloe as she went by, but she either didnt hear me, or chose not to, as I didnt even get a partial head turn in my direction. Moments later Aaron came by & I spoke up a bit louder, he saw me & thought for a moment about going right in, but came over, signed 2 items for me & hurried to set. I am sure Aaron didnt know, or frankly cares, but he is the 1st celeb I have ever gotten IN Hamilton. I've gotten AHL autographs here before, but never any TV or Movie autographs. A couple weeks earlier, Lily Collins COULD have been the 1st, but she opted to deny me. So the honour now instead goes to Aaron Taylor Johnson. After lunch they had more scenes with Dave & Mindy having discussions in front of the school. It seemed to be the theme of the day, this wasnt the only scene where there seemed to be long discussions going on between the pair. During an extended break after lunch I went & hung not far from the tent the talent waited in during breaks. Aaron saw me there & told Chloe & her handler I wanted an autograph. Instantly she got up, walked over with her handler and willingly signed a couple items for me. I was pleased to have that out of the way, then I could focus on trying to take a few more pics of the shoot. After a couple more set changes for different angles, I moved along from where I was standing most of the day. I found by fluke a little driveway that was not seen by crew & was being used by a couple background extras to sit on between takes. It was out of sight of the crew during takes, so I sat back, out of the way, then once the extras would move on to do their walk thru, I moved to the end of the small driveway area & would shoot off a few frames of Chloe just standing alone on the sidewalk. Shortly after a couple takes of that, i felt I had enough & headed home with what I felt was a decent take from the set. My interpretation of things I saw & heard at set were... they shot scenes of Mindy getting picked up by Marcus, then dropped off by Marcus & her then waiting for Marcus to drive off before hailing a cab. Mindy would have a couple discussions with Dave, 1 ending with her essentially leaving him looking upset/sorry as she got into Marcus's truck. The other, which I heard better implied that Dave was asking Mind to "train" him & her eventually caving in & agreeing to do it. Another scene they shot simply had Mindy on the sidewalk, with kids walking by her & a well dressed blonde girl in all blue who I found out thru reading reports about this shoot is Claudia Lee, her character "Brooke" is essentially Mindys school nemesis. Since this was Chloes 1st day on set, I would have to believe, this was 1 of the 1st scenes these 2 would have done together. There wasnt much to it that I recall, just Brooke walking past Mindy as she waited for a cab. I know, you have likely seen some of these shots already on Just Jared or Perez Hilton, but here is an extended set of the photos from this shoot, including Chloe, Aaron, Morris & Claudia. |
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NISE Net partner Becky Wolfe of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis recently shared some fun nano math she and a colleague calculated over lunch:
We were talking at lunch today (we being my fellow museum educators) about the recent mini-marathon in Indy. Our discussion was why it was called a mini-marathon if it was really a half marathon. One of my colleagues said she was only interested in a nano-marathon. That got me thinking – exactly how long would a nano marathon be. Here's our math.
1 marathon = 26.2 miles =1,660,032 inches
1 billionth of a marathon would be .0016 inches, if you round up , that would 2 thousands of an inches.
To be fair, we measure nano meters in the metric system, so here's the same thing in metric.
1 marathon = 26.2 miles = 42,164 meters
1 billionth of a marathon would be .04 mm
Soooo…a nano-marathon is 0.002 inches or .04 mm. Every time I take a step, I'm running multiple nano-marathons.
All this talk of mini-marathons vs. nano-marathons got Vrylena Olney of the Museum of Science, Boston thinking about the NISE Net's mini-grants vs. nano-grants. Here are her calculations:
If a grant is $40,000,000 (approximately the full 10-year NISE Net grant), then a nano-grant is 4 cents. Which is why I think everyone should be pleased we give out mini-grants instead of nano-grants.
Our mini-grants are on the order of 10 ^-4, so somewhere between milli-grants (10 ^-3, or $40,000) and micro–grants (10 ^-6 or $40).
On the other hand, you define a grant as $3 million, then a nano-grant is a third of a cent, and our mini-grants are actually milli-grants. And the NISE Net is a deka-grant.

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A recent news story has a presidential candidate flirting with the idea of building a wall along the U.S. border—the northern border. His explanation:
Walker has long said that securing U.S. borders, especially the southern border with Mexico, is not only a deterrent to illegal immigration but also a way to ensure that terrorists and international criminals do not enter the country.
The U.S. hosts about 75 million tourists each year, coming from a wide variety of countries. Does anyone seriously believe that we can filter out from that flood one, or ten, or a thousand bad guys? All a competent terrorist needs is a passport in a name that isn't on a list of people to keep out. I do not know what country in the world is currently the least expensive source of bogus passports, but I would be surprised if the price was high enough to discourage someone supported by ISIS or al Qaeda or ... .
As in too many other cases, the underlying logic is:
Something must be done.
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Tinseltown didn't invent the American dream, but it sure put it out there for the world to see — a dream lit by the perpetual sunshine of Southern California, steeped in the values of the immigrant filmmakers who moved there in the early 1900s and got enormously rich.
It was their own outsider experience these Italian, Irish, German and often Jewish moviemakers were putting on screen, each optimistic, escapist fantasy a virtual American dream checklist:
Hollywood's not called a dream factory for nothing. It manufactures optimism, and in the process of selling it, can make the possibility of success feel wondrously real.
During the Great Depression, for instance, the silent comedy Modern Times had Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp imagining not great wealth, but an idyllic middle-class existence, in a house with orange trees and grapevines so nearby he could pluck fruit through his window, and a cow in the backyard that came when called and filled a pitcher with fresh milk when Charlie patted its flank. This was a life of ease in a land of plenty, and though the Little Tramp was an outsider, even he could dream.
So could the showgirls, gangsters and cowboys who populated early Hollywood fantasies. In big-sky Westerns, every man was his own boss; in organized-crime flicks, entrepreneurs turned to bootlegging, where life was short but glamorous; and in the Depression, was the Hollywood musical depressed? No way! Chorus girls were turning into stars overnight. Upward mobility was everywhere.
And yes, there were millions who were left off the dance floor. People of color rarely got to watch their dreams get realized on screen until decades later. African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latin Americans, gay Americans — the list of people who were left out of Hollywood's dreams in the first half of the last century is appallingly long.
It wasn't until after World War II that the film industry took more than a glancing interest at the aspirations of minorities — the transplanted Puerto Ricans in West Side Story, for instance, who sang with dripping irony of why they'd left San Juan for New York.
I like to be in America
OK by me in America
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America
Hollywood had long been inspiring immigrants to come to the U.S. with images that filled them with overstated optimism about what they'd find here. The Italian film Golden Door depicts the dream in all its glory; made in 2006 but set a century earlier, it centers on a Sicilian immigrant who's lured here by trick photos that show American rivers flowing with milk and onions the size of wheelbarrows.
By the time he gets to Ellis Island, traveling in steerage, he's figured out that these are false hopes. But then he sees Manhattan's skyscrapers glinting in the sun. Someone calls them "golden houses 100 floors high," and his face lights up again. That is the power of the American dream.
There is, of course, a catch to all this dreaming. The movie industry stacks the deck pretty heavily, treating wealth — or at least financial security — much the way it treats youth and beauty. The vast majority of happy characters in movies are young, good-looking and well-off, so the subtext is that those qualities all go hand-in-hand.
Never mind that the storyline is telling you that what matters is what's in your heart. Never mind, in fact, when it tells you that not everyone makes it. Because even the folks who aren't making it on screen are still movie stars.
"I coulda been a contender," laments Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront. "I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum." Well, sure, but he's still a young Marlon Brando — and he's earning a movie star's salary.
And that speaks to why Tinseltown's version of the American dream became so seductive. Chaplin, who played the Little Tramp, was a millionaire, a fact that was not unknown to the public. For decades there has been no greater glamour than that bestowed by Hollywood. Even when fame is fleeting, it's flashy.
And you don't hear about the big star who lives in an ordinary house and drives an ordinary car, because that's not part of the fantasy. By leaving out the caveats, Hollywood can make the American dream seem a persuasive American reality — even if it's not the reality most of us experience.
Which is why when people come to visit from overseas, they often remark on something that seems kind of unremarkable if you live here.
"All the cars are new," they say. "It looks like a movie."
What they can't see, of course, is the monthly car payments, or the maxed-out credit cards. But they're right, the image is like the movies. It does look American, and is kind of dream-y. All filmmakers are doing is making what they know. And then doing a little editing.
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Well, we survived it: A Science Fiction Con with no WiFi. Most of us were less than happy about that, and the hotel had a plethora of problems, including a badly leaking roof which forced staff to evacuate the art show to a new location due to the heavy rains and tornado weather. However, the Con was so well run, we all had a great time in spite of this. Even the hotel staff urging us downstairs at one point couldn't dampen spirits for long.
The dealer's room was a happy place with a generous group of people supporting each other and steady visits from always helpful staff even as attendees made their way through. I sold 13 books at the Con and had 3 more online sales during the convention, which makes it my most successful Con for book sales so far. Attendance reached 250 this year, a new height for the Con, and I'd say that definitely helped. I also gave out a lot of cards with my website info on it as well. Despite my new ebook cards drawing interest, I didn't get the first sale on them but that was due in part, I believe, to Sams Dot not having ebooks and thus not wanting to push them, and I didn't go out of my way either. They were readily in sight for anyone who looked at the table. At ConQuest, when it's just me at my table, I'll try a different approach. I must admit, I do prefer selling paper copies, however.
Two of my three panels were well attended. 10 people showed up first thing Saturday morning at 11 for CHARACTER BUILDING. They were attentive, but, perhaps, tired. It took me a bit to work them up to interaction, however, they were all eager to learn. My reading that afternoon had no one present, but I waited there for 15 minutes and then got an influx of people and wound up reading to 6, which was almost double my reading at Conclave last October. And they really seemed to enjoy that as well as the Q&A time following, so I felt good about it. I also know at least two of those people bought books, so I'd call that a success as well.
On Sunday, I did two panels back to back. The first, FAITH IN SFF, drew a dozen very engaged people. I didn't go to all of the other panels, but I'd say I had as many as the Conan panel before had drawn and these people engaged very much with the material and me, leading to a great discussion. They even applauded at the end. I had approached this as a discussion of faith in all of its forms: not just faith in Higher Powers, but faith in magic or science or even wealth. I asked everyone to be respectful and stated that our purpose was not to argue validity of beliefs but discuss how they motivate us and how their presence is handled in world building. I read my list of SF classics with religious themes from SF Signal and then added those mentioned in the comments on that post as well as a few others I'd discovered. Attendees added even more. I'll have an even longer list when I do this panel again at OsFest. In fact, the OsFest chair was present and complimented the panel, encouraging me to repeat it at their Con. I honestly wasn't sure we'd get much interest in the topic and that, if we did, it might devolve into incivility. I was so pleasantly surprised. Very enlightening for all of us, I felt. I learned as much as anyone.
My second Sunday panel, GREAT READS, drew only 3 people but they were lively and we had a great discussion on books we've loved. I read books from my 2011 Year's Best Reads List and didn't even get to my 70 Most Memorable SFF Reads which I also had brought with me. My list of books people suggested, which I want to read includes: Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer, Persistence Of Vision by John Varley, Flight of The Dragonfly by Robert Foster, Chung Kuo by David Wingrove, The Leandros series by Rob Thurman and Integral Trees by David Niven.
My own schedule was so busy that I didn't get to hear Elizabeth Bear's panels, unfortunately. Between my own panels and reading and then dealer room duties, I missed her activities. I did, however, introduce myself and I'll see her again soon at Convergence in Bloomington, MN. She also agreed to do an interview by email for SFFWRTCHT soon, so that will be two great chances to learn about her more.
I also sold a series of interviews with short story writers to Sams Dot Publishing for their Aoife's Kiss zine and booked Jack McDevitt, who turned around my questions so fast, I'd already turned the thing in Monday, well ahead of the May 1 deadline for the June issue. I'll be looking into Tanith Lee and others for upcoming issues, 1 per month. This is my first paid interview series. The small press pays a token amount, but it's regular income of a sort and, added to other sources, is a step in the right direction.
One of the more humorous events of the Con also involves McDevitt, whom I told in my emails I would look forward to meeting at OsFest in Omaha this July. He's list as Guest Of Honor, only, he said he wouldn't be there. Too busy. I ran into the Con chairs of that Con at my panels and mentioned that to them, suggesting perhaps emailing Jack soon might be a good idea. To say they were a bit worried would be an understatement, but on Monday, Jack informed me he would indeed be at the Con. He said he'd forgotten to write it down and commented: "I'm beginning to understand why my wife won't let me out alone at night."
Altogether, a success and enjoyment. I'd certainly do it again, if asked. I certainly recommend it to other dealers and creatives as well. For what it's worth…
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the author of the space opera novels The Worker Prince, a Barnes & Noble Book Clubs Year's Best SF Releases of 2011 Honorable Mention, andThe Returning, the collection The North Star Serial, Part 1, and has several short stories featured in anthologies and magazines. His children's book 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes For Kids from Delabarre Publishing along with the anthology Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 which he edited for Flying Pen Press, headlined by Mike Resnick. As a freelance editor, he's edited a novels and nonfiction. He's also the host of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Chat every Wednesday at 9 pm EST on Twitter, where he interviews people like Mike Resnick, AC Crispin, Kevin J. Anderson and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. A frequent contributor to Adventures In SF Publishing, Grasping For The Wind and SFSignal, he can be found online as @BryanThomasS on Twitter or via his website. Bryan is an affiliate member of the SFWA.
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I'm building a site that needs to guarantee user reputation scores are accurate by preventing users from creating more than one account, at the cost of decreased user signups. So far, the only solutions I have thought of are allowing users to:
- Link to their (verified) PayPal account through PayPal Account Authentication
- Provide their PGP public key, and checking that the MSD (a metric of trustworthiness) is below a certain value
Of course, even these methods aren't bulletproof, but are likely to make creating a sock-puppet account very difficult. Are there any others I haven't considered?


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The CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test) is one of the most commonly used cognitive tests in Jeffco to help us understand our students' thinking styles and identify gifted potential. In October, every second-grade Jeffco student takes the CogAT. Jeffco also administers the CogAT for other grade levels, as well as for gathering data for GT Center placement. The CogAT is comprised of verbal, quantitative, and non-verbal batteries which give us a comprehensive measure of cognitive abilities. The CogAT score reflects a student's ability to discover relationships and demonstrate flexible thinking at this stage of cognitive development. The CogAT reports two scores: Percentile Rank and Stanine. Percentile Ranks range from 1 to 99 and indicate what percentage of grade-classmates or age-classmates a child out-performed on a particular sub-test. If a student scored in the 40th percentile, they scored better than 40% of grade-level and/or age-level students nationwide. Stanine scores are groupings of percentile ranks, ranging from a low of 1 to a high of 9. A higher stanine means a higher level of cognitive abilities development. The table below shows the relationship of the two scores: CogAT takes the stanine and percentile scores and combines them into an individualized student profile, which allows us to see clear differences in how each student approaches learning and problem solving, interacts with various learning environments, and what kind of support they need to learn successfully. After students take the assessment, a report is sent home containing the test results, which includes individual student scores, stanine and profile. On the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CogAT Profile site, you can access the interactive feature which allows you to enter your child's profile and receive detailed information about their profile. In order to better understand the CogAT profile for your student, please visit this website: Riverside Insights
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Truth For Life - Oct. 6, 2012
October 6
Christ's Surprising Choice
Moses made a strange choice, but not as surprising as the choice of Him who is a prophet like Moses but greater than him—even our Lord Jesus! It is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled with a sense of Jesus' love, also be overwhelmed with astonishment that such love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and halfheartedness, we are dissolved in grateful admiration for the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace.
Jesus must have found the cause of His love in His own heart; He could not have found it in us, for it is not there. Even since our conversion we have been poor, though grace has made us rich. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must each subscribe to: "His relation to me is that I am sick, and He is the Physician of whom I stand in need. Sadly how often I play fast and loose with Christ! He binds, I loose; He builds, I tear down; I quarrel with Christ, and He agrees with me twenty times a day!"
Most tender and faithful Husband of our souls, pursue Your gracious work of conforming us to Your image, until You will present even us in our poverty to Yourself without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Moses met with opposition because of his marriage, and both himself and his spouse were the subjects of disapproval. Can we be surprised if this empty world opposes Jesus and His church, and particularly when notorious sinners are converted? For this is always the basis of the Pharisee's objection: "This man receives sinners."1 Of course He does; after all, He did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Family Bible reading plan
verse 1 Ezekiel 39
verse 2 Psalms 90
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From Morning & Evening revised and edited by Alistair Begg copyright © 2003. Used by permission of Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday rammed through a measure opening a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, vowing to dig deeper in a search for truth. Democrats declared it merely a political ploy to raise campaign cash and motivate voters.
A bitterly divided House voted 232-186 to establish the panel that Speaker John Boehner insisted would answer questions that linger almost 20 months after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission. Seven Democrats, many facing tough re-election campaigns, broke ranks and joined Republicans in supporting the probe.
The panel's investigation will be the eighth on Benghazi and will examine the entirety of the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Independent, bipartisan and GOP-led probes have faulted the State Department for inadequate security at the outpost, leading to four demotions. No attacker has yet been brought to justice.
Republicans say they're unsatisfied with explanations so far, and they have leveled a range of accusations against President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other senior administration officials. Chief among them: that the administration misled the American people about the nature of the attack during a presidential election campaign and stonewalled congressional investigators.
"We will not take any shortcuts to the truth, accountability or justice," Boehner said during the House debate.
Democrats remain divided over whether to boycott the select committee. They are concerned that their participation would grant legitimacy to what they believe will be a partisan forum. But they also worry that if they avoid it they won't have the chance to counter GOP claims and defend potential witnesses — including Clinton, a possible 2016 presidential candidate.
After the vote, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was noncommittal about whether Democrats would participate on the special committee, but assailed the new probe. "Our nation deserves better than yet another deeply partisan and political review," she said.
Party leaders will meet with their rank and file Friday to decide on the next step.
Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida criticized the "song and dance" she said came from Clinton when House members wanted to question her about Benghazi a few months after the attack. Clinton's testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee was delayed when she missed a month of work toward the end of her tenure after suffering a virus, then a fall and a concussion, and then brief hospitalization for a blood clot near her brain.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., said no evidence uncovered in any of the investigations thus far suggests wrongdoing by the administration. Republican claims have descended into "the crass and unbelievable," she said.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the questions "have been asked and answered time and time and time again," and he added: "Let's end the political circus."
Benghazi has produced 13 public hearings, the release of 25,000 pages of documents and 50 separate briefings. The select committee won't be the only inquiry, as other GOP-led congressional panels continue their probes, including a House Oversight investigation which just last week took the extraordinary step of subpoenaing a Cabinet member. Secretary of State John Kerry hasn't said when he might testify.
Democrats deride the effort as a conservative campaign designed to energize Republican voters in typically low-turnout midterm elections.
Boehner's legislation creates a select House committee through the end of the year. It will have to be reapproved when a new Congress begins in January or go out of existence. The select committee has no explicit financial constraints.
Earlier this week, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an email vowing that "no one will get away" from the committee's investigation and asking people for donations.
Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the Democratic campaign committee chairman, called fundraising off Benghazi "despicable and insulting." Boehner on Thursday refused to criticize the fundraising drive.
In an opinion piece Thursday in USA Today, the congressman whom Boehner has chosen to head the probe signaled he'd re-examine the entirety of the Benghazi attack, including questions Democrats and some senior Republicans consider settled.
The GOP-led House Armed Services Committee concluded months ago the U.S. military couldn't have responded in time to save Stevens and the others. Still, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina asked: "Was our military response during the pendency of the siege sufficient?"
The Obama administration says officials tried to provide the public with the best information available after the attack at a time when U.S. embassies, consulates and other facilities were facing angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a YouTube video mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The administration originally attributed Benghazi to a similar protest that extremists hijacked but retracted that account amid severe criticism.
House Democrats have issued several demands if they are to participate in the select committee. Boehner already has rejected their call for equal representation on the panel, deciding instead to fill it with seven Republicans and five Democrats. The Democrats also seek guarantees they'll have equal access to documents, say on subpoenas and right to question witnesses.
In a letter to colleagues late Thursday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., raised the possibility of Pelosi appointing just one Democrat to the panel to ensure Democrats have access to documents and witnesses.


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Today, we are announcing the upcoming availability of an exciting new feature in the Power BI service: we are giving dataset owners full control over the scheduled cache refresh cadence of their DirectQuery and live connection datasets.
When you set up DirectQuery or live connection against a data source, the Power BI service will make live queries against the data source when users interact with report visuals. In addition, the service also keeps a cache for dashboard visuals created against the data source. This enables extremely quick loading of dashboards. Periodically, this cache is updated in a process called scheduled cache refresh.
With this feature, we're giving dataset owners full control over how often this scheduled cache refresh happens. Want the most up-to-date dashboard visuals? Have the cache update every 15 minutes. Want to lower the load on your underlying data source? Lower the cache update cadence to once every two hours.
With this update, we are setting the scheduled cache refresh cadence of all existing DirectQuery and live connection datasets to be one hour. When this feature rolls out in your region, we will send you an in-product notification if you are the owner of any such datasets.
Read on for a walkthrough of how to change the scheduled cache refresh cadence of your DirectQuery/live connection datasets.
Feature Walkthrough
This walkthrough assumes that you've already set up a dataset with DirectQuery or live connection in the Power BI Service. As mentioned above, once you do so, Power BI will automatically make queries against your data source every hour so that your dashboards load quickly.
To change the scheduled cache refresh schedule for your dataset, navigate to dataset settings.
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The smelt coming up in streams in incredible amounts of spring and is a very important food for zander, salmon and pike, among other things.
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The little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The daffodil breaks under foot, and the tasselled larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
See! the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
The kingfisher flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.


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August 25th: The Little Girl and the Big Apple
It's one thing to see it in Woody Allan movies nodding my head in an embarrassing amount of approval for the city life, as opposed to actually visiting here; When I saw the hundreds of stories building towering over my head, even the highest of heels seemed belittled…
Walking the
I walked tirelessly, as there was so much to see, and stopped on the way only for a snack from the smoky pretzel-stands, or to smell the "roses" in Bendel's, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks and Takashimaya.
At Saks, I got a sniff-a-boo at the Bond No. 9 scents, but tried not to get too attached, as I already had my mind set on
I also smelled Eau de Reglisse for the first time, and marveled at the Caron Urns, falling in love all over again with the mysterious and dark scents that this house manages to release into the air so reliably. I was swept off by the pepper, nutmeg, musk and vetiver ordeal of Poivre, intrigued by the dark, WWII sentimentality of N'Aimez Que Moi – dusky yet dewy roses and violets; but my real surprise hit me when I reached Bendel's, and fell head over heels with Farensiana: instead of the light, cheerful green note of cassie, I found there a deep mimosa and tuberose, underlined with vanilla and heliotrope. I think I will have to dedicate a whole trip just to the Caron Urns next time when I am in
At Bendel's I also smelled the dark George Sand for the first time, and instantly liked Kisu: a musky-clean vetiver scent with modest doses of white florals and rosewood – very similar to the concept of Narciso Rodriguez. Bendel's also had the nicest l'Artisan Parfumeur counter, and
I did not expect to find the Guerlain's boutique scents at the bottom of Bergdorf Goodman, but I did, carelessly. As soon as I got in I was offered a spritz of Insolence (which I had to deny gracefully, by sniffing the salesperson's hand repeatedly). It smelled gorgeous on him, but awful and obtrusive on the scented ribbon. I asked for a sample to get out of the situation, and he lead me right into a Guerlain heaven (which turned to be somewhat of a torture, since I was already covered with Caron scents, so I had no room to try anything really) – Rose Barbare, Cuir Beluga and Angelique Noir had to remain on golden satin ribbons. Rose Barbare was beautiful, and I gave up and tried it on one of my fingers (!), which I have never done before. I also had a bit of room for Jicky parfum on the back of my hand, which is one of the loveliest lavenders I ever smelled. They also had Vega, Liu,
They also had three of the Ineke scents, which smell exactly the way there were described. My favourite was the lilac scent - After My Own Heart.
Takashimaya was already dark as a secretive tea house when I got there. I sniffed a few unknown-to-me scents, and than walked until I reached Central Park and stopped to eat an apple and an orange, while the scent of carriage-horse manure permeated the air to no end; it was already dusk, and the ducks were floating in the pond in search for left over crumbs of salty pretzels. A sound of old-fashioned Jazz music from a courtyard drew me to peak into a strange looking courtyard: a large King-Kong was surrounded by floating Japanese lanterns. I peaked in and than set off to the other corner of the park, to find a Broadway night…


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The parable of the good shepherd. (1-5) Christ the Door. (6-9) Christ the good Shepherd. (10-18) The Jews' opinion concerning Jesus. (19-21) His discourse at the feast of dedication. (22-30) The Jews attempt to stone Jesus. (31-38) He departs from Jerusalem. (39-42)1-5 Here is a parable or similitude, taken from the customs of the East, in the management of sheep. Men, as creatures depending on their Creator, are called the sheep of his pasture. The church of God in the world is as a sheep-fold, exposed to deceivers and persecutors. The great Shepherd of the sheep knows all that are his, guards them by his providence, guides them by his Spirit and word, and goes before them, as the Eastern shepherds went before their sheep, to set them in the way of his steps. Ministers must serve the sheep in their spiritual concerns. The Spirit of Christ will set before them an open door. The sheep of Christ will observe their Shepherd, and be cautious and shy of strangers, who would draw them from faith in him to fancies about him.
6-9 Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church, and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture.
10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have trusted, and are sure of Him. See here the grace of Christ; since none could demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.
19-21 Satan ruins many, by putting them out of conceit with the word and ordinances. Men would not be laughed out of their necessary food, yet suffer themselves thus to be laughed out of what is far more necessary. If our zeal and earnestness in the cause of Christ, especially in the blessed work of bringing his sheep into his fold, bring upon us evil names, let us not heed it, but remember our Master was thus reproached before us.
22-30 All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt. The Jews understood his meaning, but could not form his words into a full charge against him. He described the gracious disposition and happy state of his sheep; they heard and believed his word, followed him as his faithful disciples, and none of them should perish; for the Son and the Father were one. Thus he was able to defend his sheep against all their enemies, which proves that he claimed Divine power and perfection equally with the Father.
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanctifies. The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, none but such as he makes holy. The Father was in the Son, so that by Divine power he wrought his miracles; the Son was so in the Father, that he knew the whole of His mind. This we cannot by searching find out to perfection, but we may know and believe these declarations of Christ.
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to deliver the godly our of their temptations, and to make a way for them to escape. Persecutors may drive Christ and his gospel our of their own city or country, but they cannot drive him or it out of the world. When we know Christ by faith in our hearts, we find all that the Scripture saith of him is true.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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MENA Newswire: ila Bank, the digital mobile-only brainchild of Bank ABC, MENA's leading international bank, has won two major awards, the 'Leading Digital Bank in the Middle East' and the 'Leading Digital Bank in the Consumer Banking Segment', at the IBS Intelligence NeoChallenger Bank Awards 2022. ila was honored for delivering a new way of banking through its agile customer-driven innovation approach, leveraging the Cloud.
The pioneering digital bank, along with its technology supplier Amazon Web Services (AWS), emerged victorious in both categories in recognition of ila's excellence in driving customer impact through innovative use of emerging technologies. This followed IBSi's assessment of over 100 technology implementations by Neo, Challenger and Digital Banks from 34 countries worldwide.
Commenting on the awards, ila Bank Bahrain CEO, Mohamed Al Maraj said: "ila has been built to challenge and disrupt the traditional retail banking model with the purpose of delivering a smarter, more relevant, and inclusive way of banking, in this increasingly digital and fast-changing world. We are indeed honored to have been recognized by IBS Intelligence, a world-renowned authority on financial technology. This win further bolsters our ambitions and reaffirms our success in enriching the consumer banking experience."
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It is with great sadness that UWA management announces the demise of Ruhondeza the oldest gorilla silverback and leader of the first habituated tourism gorilla family in Uganda – Mubare in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP). He succumbed to death yesterday afternoon after a four month spell in solitary life. Ruhondenza as he is fondly known died at over 50 years of age in his nest in Rubona village, neighbouring the park.
He was the first dominant silver back to lead the Mubare gorilla group in 1991 when Bwindi National park was gazetted. His family name Mubare originates from an area in the park called Mubare hills found South West of Bwindi where habituation started. He commanded a family of about 17 individuals in habituation of the group. By the time of his banishment to solitary life, the family had reduced to six individuals.
His name "Ruhondeza" in the local Rukiga dialect denotes a "sleepy fellow". Ruhondeza right from the family habituation had manifested himself as a sleepy and lazy character that made many people wonder about his ability to lead Mubare. Many have however been pleasantly surprised that in his sleepy nature, he had managed to take the leadership mantle of the family till old age became a factor. He is believed to have been between 28- 32 yrs in 1991 when habituation started.
His leadership weakness in the long term caught up with him. His leadership style in his hay days shows that many male gorillas in his family were cunningly and systematically eliminated as he feared a future attempt on the popular head of family throne. This largely weakened his defence against other gorilla groups who continued grabbing members from him. This coupled with his inability to successfully service his females led to a gradual reduction of the family size. Females could for example prefer to join other gorilla families with strong males genes perceived superior than remain with him. This behaviour made silverback Makara of Katendegyere benefit from him by grabbing about 3 females.
With persistent interactions with other wild powerful gorilla groups, his regime collapsed in March 2012 when he was seriously beaten to submission by a wild group. Ruhondeza was forced to live a solitary life on private land as he was afraid of another fierce battle with strong silverbacks.
His only royal black back (Kanyonyi) safeguarded the remnants of his 2 family members. Kanyonyi due to his strength as a budded young silverback has since grabbed other 4 members from other groups to keep Mubare viable. Ruhondeza is believed to be the biological father of Kanyonyi and other former members of Mubare.
Until his loss of the coveted status of head of family recently, his leadership enabled gorilla ecotourism to develop and grow in Uganda.
Before abduction of his throne, he had grown weak due to old age and was unable to fight aggression. Efforts to get the silverback back into the park were futile till management reached an understanding with the communities who had grown fond of him to let him stay on the private piece of land in Rubona village where he was monitored on a daily basis till he passed on.
Ruhondeza's Mubare group has enabled gorilla eco-tourism to grow and flourish in Uganda and the entire tourism community is saddened by his death.
We applaud this contribution to tourism and mourn his demise. A postmortem has been conducted to ascertain the exact cause of his death (beyond old age). He was given a decent burial near the park offices.
UWA is compiling all the rich literature and stories about Ruhondeza, which will be placed on a monument by his grave to ensure that even in death he continues to be a tourist attraction to Buhoma.
Ruhondeza is an icon symbolizing what gorilla tourism has done for Uganda and the Bwindi communities. One of his most celebrated achievements is the development of the Buhoma- Mukono Community Development Association and Buhoma community Hospital as a result of viable tourism.


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The new City Hall and cultural center in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein, is designed to create cohesion and the foundation for a stronger local community. A modern participatory democracy requires transparency and communication at eye level in the encounter between citizen and authority. These elements have been the core of Danish practice 3XN's design. "It was important for us to create a building that was welcoming, rather than authoritarian in its expression," says Principal and founder of 3XN, Kim Herforth Nielsen.
Nieuwegein is located 5 km south of Utrecht, and since 1970 the city has grown from having just 8,000 inhabitants to 62,000 inhabitants in 2012. The strong growth in population makes heavy demands on the city administration to develop the city socially and culturally. "It's a challenge they are very conscious of in Nieuwegein. Therefore we have tried to create a building that can be a catalyst for social affiliation with the city," explains Kim Herforth Nielsen.
Architecturally the building takes its point of departure from a central and bright atrium from where a sculptural staircase soars up through the building and connects the many diverse facilities – indeed facilities not normally found in a City Hall. By bringing together the local library, citizen service centre, café, cultural center and commercial spaces in the building, the City Hall fuses with a range of everyday activities. This creates life in the building all day, and strengthens the connection to the commercial and residential area surrounding the building.
The five floors spread out like a fan and open up towards the atrium, allowing the building's visitors and employees to visually connect with what is happening on the other floors. 3XN puts great emphasis into maximizing the benefits of daylight through use of windows, including a huge picture window on the 4th floor, through which daylight streams down into the building. "Daylight contributes to a good working and living environment – it allows one to follow the rhythm of the day and enjoy the small nuances created by the shifting daylight," explains Kim Herforth Nielsen.
The Mayor of Nieuwegein, Mr. FransBackhuijs describes the open structure of the building and the many different facilities as a great advantage for the city administration. "We are in close visual contact with the city and citizens throughout the day. That contributes to even more joy and enthusiasm when working for a better Nieuwegein".
The building has two facades. The inner is a traditional facade of concrete and glass, while the exterior facade of glass patterned silkscreen almost folds around the building, but without covering it completely. This avoids direct sunlight in work station areas, while spaces like the lobby and restaurant receive maximum natural daylight and unobstructed views over the city. The glass' geometric patterns in blue and grey give the facade a three-dimensional expression and reflect the diversity of both the building and Nieuwegein.


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The New England Patriots might be superstars on the field this year, but the work they do off the field is truly inspirational. In particular, Jerod Mayo's charity bowling event for the Boston Medical Center showcases the great support the players have for each other and the community.
So you can understand why were so excited to be the videographers for the event. We were ready and set up well before the red carpet started, which started a long wait for the excitement to begin!
The carpet was quickly a buzz when Jerod Mayo and his family showed up. We were fortunate enough to get the exclusive spot right by the door and got the chance to talk to many players including Malcolm Butler, Nate Solder, Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman!
Kim Zyotti, the owner of Blue Sky Entertainment and the person who helped to make the whole event happen also took the time to talk to us about the charity and all the good it's done for the community. Over the last 6 years, the annual event has helped to raise over one million dollars for the Boston Medical Center!
There was even a back door entrance from Tom Brady! While he managed to sneak by our red carpet interviews, our own Michael Indresano got the chance to say a quick hello.
Then it was time for the main event: bowling! Mayo, his family, and other Patriots players bowled alongside teams of fans.
Chya Mayo rooting for her ball to make it to the end!
Julian Edelman celebrates a bowling victory in a slightly more reserved manner than on the field.
Although he was focused on bowling strikes, Edelman also managed to spare a moment to talk with our production team!
Malcom Butler watches as his teammates compete for the best score!
There was also a pool tournament in a second room, where a select few got the chance to shoot pool with players, including Nate Solder or Sebastian Vollmer.
Last up was the auction, which brought "the Chandlers" together to help get the crowd excited and bidding high!
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[Editor's note: This is the second in a series of blog posts co-published with On Think Tanks. The views expressed within this blog series are the authors alone, and do not represent the views of CRRC-Georgia.]
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Hans Gutbrod: The think tank sector is most relevant in Georgia, since Georgia is a context in which ideas are being worked out, and where there is an interest in policy solutions. Citizens have come to expect that the government delivers. So that, in principle, is a great opportunity for institutions in Georgia.
In Armenia, by contrast, policymaking is fairly closed. There are a few elite pockets of discussion, often involving the Central Bank and some other institutions, but in my view, the space for discussion is narrower. There are some bright spots, such as the Civilitas Foundation and CRRC Armenia. Both of those (and I have worked with both, to be clear) can contribute ideas, but the political system offers fewer access points.
Civilitas Foundation, interestingly, has developed into providing even more content and media, and that is a sensible approach, as it can be hard to transmit messages through traditional media that often has an insufficient institutional and financial basis for quality journalism. CRRC Armenia has been active on issues involving social protection for a long time, and has a good network and contacts in that field. Yet, overall, Armenia is punching way below its weight as a country, with only a limited effort to make it an attractive country to live, work and stay in. This limits the role of any research organization. Perhaps indicative of that situation is that even a Prime Minister whose appointment was greeted with at least some optimism, such as that of ex-Central Bank Director Tigran Sargsyan on balance delivered fairly little. When Prime Ministers can't deliver, there's not that much that think tanks can do.
In Azerbaijan, there isn't any think tank scene to speak of. The government typically has tried to solve any problem by throwing money at it, and by throwing any independent voice into jail. The results are mixed, at best. Yet, ironically, an investment in think tanks might be even more important, just for that reason. Ultimately it's possible, but unlikely, that the regime of Ilham Aliyev will last long. The most remarkable aspect about Ilham Aliyev really is how utterly incompetent his government is. They were handed huge amounts of money, and mostly blew it on themselves and a few prestige objects, instead of actually modernizing the country, its universities, and establishing alternatives to oil and gas. While the regime looks solid now, it has so little management capacity that it could unravel quite quickly in a crisis.
The key question is what alternatives will then be available. Given that there is no opposition to speak of, who can be ready to run things? You need to train people who understand the policy issues so that they can deliver results within the first six months of taking over. If you do that, a post-Aliyev government has a good chance. Conversely, if there is no viable alternative things could turn grim quickly, as Libya illustrates. I know this sounds far out right now, but it's important to hedge against downside risks, and thus policy research would be a good investment.
Coming back to Georgia, policy research organizations haven't really caught up with the new realities. The previous Saakashvili government was brimming with ideas. Some of these ideas were harebrained, but others also proved remarkably successful and even visionary. With the government hatching so many ideas, research organizations often struggled to keep up and had limited opportunities to contribute new suggestions.
This has now changed. Most people agree that the current government is much more receptive to outside input and ideas, partially because they produce fewer of their own. Yet we don't see that much input from research outfits. Many policy research organizations, have settled into a comfortable routine of criticizing the government, along with the society. That's understandable, but there is a missed opportunity of bringing in new ideas. Take one example: when the mayor of Tbilisi promised to plant 1 million trees, this would have offered an extraordinary opportunity. Research organizations could have jumped at this issue, coming up with ideas on how to plant these trees, talking about urban planning, reviving parks, greening the city, bringing in excellent ideas that worked elsewhere. Here and there this may have happened, but I haven't really seen a sophisticated paper by anyone that advanced the discussion.
So what's the biggest missing ingredient, for policy research organizations to succeed? In my view, it's curiosity. I myself have been to many events which are interesting, engaging, and where new ideas are being discussed. It's regrettable that often not a single policy researcher is there, even if the event happens close to their office. Improving ideas doesn't happen in isolation. It's a result of intense discussion. It also often requires sifting through lots of less relevant material. Of course, I understand that all these organizations have many other things to do: other projects, administration, other obligations.
Yet research outfits aspiring to be think tanks do need to ask themselves whether at the end of the day they really are passionate about policy. If you have not read Nudge, what are you doing at the table of a policy discussion? I know this is an extreme view, but I do think it needs to be brought into the discussion.
To be a good lawyer, to be a good practitioner, to be a good policy professional – for all of that you need to keep up with what's happening in the field, you need to connect with the community you work in. I wouldn't want my heart to be operated on by someone who is fumbling along, without having checked in with what's happened in the field in the last 20 years. Why should we demand less from think tanks? In the most extreme case, they're involved in open-heart surgery of entire societies.
Donors, too, should be discriminating in that regard, and hold local research organizations to a much higher bar. Asking for more transparency is just one of those aspects -not sufficient, but certainly necessary. We all need to ask more, to get better results, better policy proposals, and ultimately, better policies.
Ultimately I'm fairly optimistic that this can succeed, though think tanks may be dragged into the future rather than leading into it, and existing institutions may be sidelined. The playing field is now better for those that are agile. Ray Struyk has put forward a great book on how to manage think tanks, and this can help ambitious institutions get it right, if they take the materials seriously.
Another reason, to end on a plug for something that I put together, is that now journalists and ordinary citizens no longer need to take anything on faith. They have access to some of the best think tank research through tools such as www.findpolicy.org. So new ideas may come in, though not necessarily from formalized organizations.
The key challenge for all of us is how to accelerate a better understanding of policy. The best think tanks should be ahead of this process, not behind.
DG: In Azerbaijan, given the recent crackdown and shuttering of organizations which could provide just the training you mentioned, where are there (if there are) opportunities to invest in think tanks either from the side of donors or domestically?
HG: I think in Azerbaijan, the key is to invest in organizations that may work on the outside, that help to clarify what really is going on, that use innovative tools, that collect data that highlights how official data just isn't right. In a way this would be a research outfit that could feed into discussions via social media, a kind of research version of the original version of Radio Free Europe. I know that this is difficult, but you really need to invest into thinking precisely when times are particularly difficult. The case for such external research organizations has also been made by Emin Milli, a dissident who spent significant time in jail for daring to speak up.
DG: You noted here as you have noted elsewhere that donors need to push for higher quality research outputs from local organizations. Do you have any concrete recommendations of how to do so?
Well, there are many measures, and not so many have been tried. I would hope that donors engage substantially with this question. Here are some key measures that come to mind.
- Finance: there should be more core financing to start with. Many research organizations are totally projectized, and this makes it harder for them to invest into quality.
- Nudging: at the point of application, ask about quality assurance mechanisms. Some key questions could include what are you actually doing, with whom, how? Can you put this on to your website, to indicate your commitment to such quality assurance? That would be a good start.
- Checklists: use and encourage the use of checklists. For example, does a policy proposal include a budget? Or is it just a wishlist?
- Comparison: encourage and finance small public reviews and comparisons. For example, does an organization make its old reports accessible, or does it lose all materials when updating a website? Unfortunately the latter still happens way too often, and is a great loss. Many organizations barely think of that, and knowing that you will be reviewed could encourage more attention on that issue.
- Network: create access to constructive external peer review. You could potentially encourage the formation of a network of quality review. This would be an experiment, but if it works it could have a transformative impact.
- Transparency: there are many reasons for transparency, but an additional one is that having full financial information on a grantee website helps donor coordination. Donors should not just be transparent themselves, their quality can also be measured by the transparency of their grantees.
DG: Any final thoughts?
HG: Yes. Ultimately, the really interesting things often are outside the disciplinary mainstream. I cannot recommend Ed Catmull's book Creativity, Inc. highly enough. He describes how Pixar works, and how they consistently managed to turn out successful films. This book holds many lessons for creative organizations, and think tanks should be at least somewhat creative, and in the end also tell a compelling story.


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PDX Art & Music
Local artists and musicians to inspire your travel experienceArt & Music
Art @ PDX
The Art Program at Portland International Airport provides a portal into the dynamic cultural life of our region. The Port of Portland, which owns and operates PDX, maintains a rotating exhibits program throughout the airport terminal. The program offers nine changing exhibits featuring the work of our region's finest artists. The Port headquarters also boasts a robust permanent art collection.
Music @ PDX
PDX's music program works to create a relaxing, pleasing and stress-free environment for travelers through the use of live music. Every day, volunteer musicians perform in the terminal and help enhance the passenger experience through personal interactions with travelers. These local musicians volunteer their time, offering travelers an eclectic mix of live music representing some of the best in local jazz, classical and contemporary styles and approaches.
Hollywood Theater
Located on Concourse C the Hollywood Theatre entertains travelers with short films telling stories specific to the Pacific Northwest. It also provides artist residency opportunities, inviting collaboration between national/ international media artists and local filmmakers, and hosts special events. Hollywood Theatre at PDX is free to travelers, who can drop to watch films while waiting for their flights. All films are family-friendly; the short films play consecutively on approximately a 1-hour loop. For a current listing of films currently screening, visit the Hollywood Theatre at PDX section of the PDXArt Blog.
Contact Us
Musicians wishing to volunteer to perform at PDX, or those with questions about the music program, please email Walter Marchbanks or call 503.415.6267.
For more information about the PDX Art Program and our current exhibitions, please email Wendy Given or call 503.415.6657.


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A new way to cool materials with light
The work advances the scientific understanding of laser cooling technologies currently being pursued to explore the boundary between classical and quantum physics.
New findings by University of Michigan researchers overturn scientists' understanding of how light and sound interact in the process called Brillouin scattering.
First explained by French physicist Léon Brillouin in 1922, the phenomenon describes how light waves and acoustic waves are coupled in almost any transparent material, such as glass, water, crystals such as silicon, and air.
In 1964, laser pioneer Charles Townes used this phenomenon to demonstrate 'Brillouin lasers' in which acoustical waves replace the electron vibrations in conventional lasers. Previous researchers focused on the emitted light in a Brillouin laser, however, these lasers also contain an amplified acoustical wave in the host material that was rarely investigated.
"For the better part of the century since its discovery, it has been textbook knowledge that the component in the Brillouin scattering that amplifies sound, which involves heating, is always dominant" said Gaurav Bahl, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and first author of a paper on the new findings published in the print edition of Nature Physics.
"Our work attempts to change this notion, by providing the first experimental evidence of the cooling of an acoustical density wave in a solid using Brillouin scattering."
"We're tipping the balance," added Tal Carmon, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and principal investigator. "Where previously the heat element was dominant, we found a way to use Brillouin scattering for cooling."
They did this by using a glass device that only allowed certain colors of light to circulate in a resonator. The colors of light that would have a cooling effect—those toward the blue end of the spectrum, were allowed to circulate 1 million times in the resonator, enhancing their cooling ability. The redder colors that would heat were filtered out of the system.
In this manner, the researchers used light to cool a single mode of vibration of a glass sphere to an effective temperature of -425.2 degrees Fahrenheit (19 Kelvin).
The work advances the scientific understanding of laser cooling technologies currently being pursued to explore the boundary between classical and quantum physics.
Research on the cooling of solids can lead to, as Bahl describes, "exquisitely sensitive physical sensors," such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and picogram mass sensors that are capable of weighing tiny objects such as cells or large proteins.
The paper, titled "Observation of spontaneous Brillouin cooling," by Gaurav Bahl, Matthew Tomes, Florian Marquardt, and Tal Carmon, is published in Nature Physics. It is also is featured in a News & Views piece in Nature Physics.
Story by: Nicole Casal Moore (734-647-7087)


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How to use Codeless Barcode Generation feature in ReportViewer RDLC local reports in ASP.NET
- Neodynamic Barcode Professional 7.0 for ASP.NET
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or greater)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 / 2010
- Microsoft Visual Web Developer (VWD) 2008 / 2010 Express Editions
You can easily generate and display linear, postal & 2D barcodes in RDLC local reports in ASP.NET by using a very simple yet powerful feature called "Codeless Barcode Generation" provided by our Barcode Professional for ASP.NET product.
In short, Codeless Barcode Generation (CBG) is a feature that lets you to render barcode images on ASP.NET or simple HTML pages by just setting up an especial/formatted URL to an HTML's IMG tag without the need of coding VB or C# sentences for barcode rendering. The CBG just needs you add an entry to your web.config file and it will ready to go.
Using CBG in RDLC reports has the following benefits:
- You do not need to write any code! Just add an Image control on your report and set it to the especial/formatted URL provided by CBG. For example, rendering a Code 128 barcode for the value "ID032929" you would do that as follows:
- By using CBG feature, you can easily display barcode images in the Header & Footer sections of the RDLC report, something that requires lots of tricks if using other approaches.
In the following guide, you will learn how to configure CBG feature and use it to generate and display a 2D DataMatrix barcode in the report's header section and Code 39 linear barcodes for a list of products based on Northwind DB sample. The following figure shows the report with the barcodes:
The sample RDLC report displaying a 2D DataMatrix as well as Code 39 barcodes for Northwind DB sample products
To reproduce it, please follow up these steps:
- Open Visual Studio or VWD 2010 and create a new website project http://localhost/MyWebsiteRDLC
NOTE: the website needs to be created and hosted in IIS.
- Download and install Barcode Professional for ASP.NET. After that, add a reference to Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional.dll assembly to your website.
- Configure the Codeless Barcode Generation feature into your web.config file.
If you are using IIS 7.0 or greater, then add the CBG entry under the <handlers> node of <system.webServer> like follows:
<add name="BarcodeGen" verb="*" path="BarcodeGen.axd" type="Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional.BarcodeProfessional, Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional" />
If you are using IIS 6, then add the CBG entry under the <httpHandlers> node of <system.web> like follows:
<add verb="*" path="BarcodeGen.axd" type="Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional.BarcodeProfessional, Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional" />
- That's it! The Codeless Barcode Generation feature is ready to be used!
- Now, create a new RDLC Local report naming it MyBarcodeReport.rdlc
- We'll be displaying a 2D DataMatrix barcode on the header. So, add a Header to the report and add to it an Image control from the toolbox. In the Image control set the source to "External" and the Value to this:
That's the especial/formatted URL which tells to Barcode Professional to generate a 2D DataMatrix barcode for the value "ReportID-091230913". In this case we're using fixed data but you can replace it by a param or any data source field of your report!
NOTE: To learn more about the Codeless Barcode Generation params please refer to such topic in our product help docs which can be reach online at http://www.neodynamic.com/ND/SupportHelp.aspx?tabid=17
- Now, in the body of the report, we'll list products from the Northwind DB sample. For each product, we'll display its code and name. For the code, we'll be generating a linear Code39 barcode.
- First of all, add a new data source to your report. To do that, select View > Report Data from VS 2010 menu bar. In the Report Data pane, click New > Dataset...
- In the Dataset Properties dialog box, click on "New" button for adding a new Data source. In this sample we created a small Access MDB file containing only the Products table of Northwind DB sample which is available here Northwind.mdb
Use it as your data source please by following up the VS wizard.
- After you created a new dataset for your report, please drag & drop a Table control from toolbox onto your report's body. Add the two ProductCode and ProductName fields to the table and add a new Image control for the first column. In the Image control set the source to "External" and the Value to this:
="http://localhost/MyWebsiteRDLC/BarcodeGen.axd?S=Code39&C=" + Fields!ProductCode.Value + "&AC=False&BH=0.25&DC=True"
Notice how we used the ProductCode field into the especial URL! It's just that easy.
NOTE: To learn more about the Codeless Barcode Generation params please refer to such topic in our product help docs which can be reach online at http://www.neodynamic.com/ND/SupportHelp.aspx?tabid=17
- At this point, your report should look as follows:
The Visual Studio IDE - The RDLC report with the Image controls for displaying the barcodes generated by using Codeless Barcode Generation feature.
- Finally, open the default.aspx file and add a new ReportViewer control. Set it to display the MyBarcodeReport.rdlc file and set up the data source too! After that, go to the class behind file of such page and add the following line of code into the Page_Load event handler:
Visual Basic .NET
ReportViewer1.LocalReport.EnableExternalImages = True
ReportViewer1.LocalReport.EnableExternalImages = true;
This line is for enabling the RDLC can display external images which are the one we used for the barcodes.
- That's it! If you run/test your website, you should get the RDLC report displaying 2D Data Matrix and Code 39 barcodes without a line of code!
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Hidden object game review
The Void family mansion used to be a gorgeous home, until Dr. Malleus Void inherited it.
Legend has it that the creepy doctor spent his time doing terrible experiments in the home, and it has been abandoned for an entire decade in Mystery Trackers: The Void game.
After 3 world famous celebrities go missing inside the house, it's up to the Mystery Trackers to go inside the house, and solve its mysteries once and for all in Mystery Trackers: The Void!


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, DOGE, KAS mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Karma (KARM), formerly Karmacoin, is a digital cryptocurrency based on the X11 algorithm. Like the philosophy behind the name, Karma stands for everyone reaping the results of his/her actions. By supporting good causes and helping others through Karma, Karma developers aim to make it the primary digital currency for rewarding good deeds and spreading good karma.
In a way, Karma is a new way to "Like" your family, friends, organizations, causes, and others. You can think of it as an actual token of appreciation. The goal of Karma is to become the global "currency with a heart". Karma can be used for tipping, donating, buying, or micro financing; it enables users to send small amounts of money to friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, charities, and other causes for the good things they do.
– http://www.givekarma.net/
Block Explorer:
– https://chainz.cryptoid.info/karm/
Coin Specifications
Source Code:
– at GitHub
– RPC Port: 9432
Mining Pools:
– https://aikapool.com/karm/
– http://pool.lulupon.net:54092/
– http://www.hasher.ca/
Coin Exchanges:
– Bleutrade
– Yobit


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Looking for the right job can be difficult at any time, but especially right now as our economy still hasn't fully opened.
FOX 17 recently spoke with the founder and CEO of personal branding firm Simply Be, Jessica Zweig, about how social media can help and, in some instances, hurt in the job search.
Zweig released a book in February titled "Be, a No B.S Guide to Increasing your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself."
She calls much of the business practices she shares in her book a "step by step methodology of building your message, building content, how to craft a strategy, how to build a PR plan, how to get social media right, the whole entire journey of building a platform."
Zweig says people need to get over the perception that self-branding is an act of vanity. "In fact, it makes us in service and it makes us strategic because there are people out there that are going to get the gig or the job or the networking opportunity over you, not because they're better but because people know they exist," Zweig told FOX 17.
Zweig says social media is the place to be "social" and "human" and show you care and not just a place to try to go viral.
Don't feel as though you have to be on every platform, she says. Instead, stick to the one or two that make the most sense for you and who you want your audience to be.
In addition to social media, Zweig says, there are other things you can do to enhance your online resume, such as a blog, a webinar, or maybe a video series.
"If I'm an employee and someone comes to my workplace, I'm going to look them up on LinkedIn, I'm going to Google them. But if I Google them, I might see that they have a personal blog, or they host their own podcast, or there are some videos of them online I can watch and get to know," Zweig explained to Fox 17, calling that a "fully fleshed-out online resume".
To learn more about Zweig and her new book, go to her website.
This story was first published by Derek Francis at WXMI.