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SC13, Denver, USA | 17 - 22 November 2013 | Booth #1716
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has revealed new services to enable users of numerical computing to benefit from NAG's 4 decades of experience and expertise in numerical solutions. Numerical computing is the core of much of modern business analytics, data processing, modelling and research - i.e. it is often fundamental to the operations and future of the business. Thus, it is critical to be able to rely on the results of numerical computing and to be able to develop a computing advantage over competitors. NAG has delivered proven solutions in this area through its trusted Numerical Libraries for over 4 decades. In response to customer interest, NAG is now launching its Numerical Services to deliver the expertise and experience behind these highly reputed Libraries directly to developers and users of numerical computing applications - whether they use NAG products or not. This follows the success of NAG's HPC Services business and enables customer access to the full range of NAG experts - numerical analysts, computer scientists, mathematicians, algorithm developers, software engineers, and more.
At the world's largest HPC event, SC13 (http://sc13.supercomputing.org/), NAG will be showing how the utilization of NAG expertise can be the bridge to an organisation's cutting-edge use of numerical computation. For example, one pervasive issue driving the need for such services is the changes in hardware towards greater parallelism, sometimes resulting in codes experiencing diminished performance or incorrect results. NAG now provides a full range of support including HPC services, software and algorithm tuning, custom algorithm development, numerical method selection and specialist numerical and parallel code training, and much more.
Recent successes of the NAG Numerical Services include:
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✔ The financial systems division of a technology services company needed NAG to enhance key statistical models
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NAG continues to provide world-class flexible, robust and trusted parallelised numerical algorithm libraries for accelerators (Xeon Phi, NVIDIA, CUDA), for HPC (OpenCL, OpenMP, MPI) and for languages/environments (C, C++, C#, F#, VB, .NET, Fortran, Java, Excel/VBA, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Python, R). The NAG Libraries, including the NAG Library for SMP & Multicore and the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB have recently been expanded with more algorithms for manycore/multicore plus functionality in the areas of:
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More information on NAG's Numerical Services and Products or visit the NAG booth (#1716) at SC13.
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Brian Eno's Luminous
Through March 11, if you find yourself around London, you've got the opportunity to check out Brian Eno's Luminous, a "large-scale installation of 77 Million Paintings." As far as I can tell, it sounds quite a lot like what old-school-web-designer-cum-new-media-artist Joshua Davis does these days.
I am, as you'd imagine, a big fan of Brian Eno's music and his thoughts on culture and technology. I'll be in London in just over a week to catch the Arsenal, and so I'm excited to get a chance to take a look at the display. Watch this space for thoughts and photos upon my return.
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Wed, 30 May 2007
The politics of negotiation. "It's Ok to be the Boss" how to fight the undermanagement epidemic with Bruce Tulgan. Then, Annie Jacobsen gets a chance to say "I told you so" about a dry run terrorist attack on flight 327. "Terror in the Skies". 888-773-6782 for a discount for WHO listeners. Then, Senator John McCain with campaign issues.
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How real is broadband competition? A new study out from Kagan Research suggests that there's not much competition where it matters: price. Though many US markets have access to both DSL and cable modems, no pricing battles have erupted between the two services, and none are expected in the near future.
What has happened is that a two-tier market has developed instead, one where cable does not need to compete with DSL on price because it is considered a "premium" service with higher speeds. In the first part of this year, the US average for cable modem service was US$39.45 a month, while DSL was slightly less expensive at US$35.38. The cheapest ISP was Verizon; the most expensive was BellSouth. DSL's price advantage seems responsible for its faster growth rate, but cable is still growing strongly enough that the industry does not yet need to engage in a price war to lure new customers.
The report does note that these are standalone prices, and allows that there might be more competition between the two technologies if bundling deals are taken into account. Both the cable industry and the telcos are offering substantial discounts to customers who sign up for multiple services from the same company, and both have the ultimate goal of providing Internet, telephony, and video services.
Non-profit group Public Knowledge laments the current situation, calling it a "duopoly" that does not provide real competition. It's because consumers don't have many options that some form of Net Neutrality provisions are necessary, according to the group's Art Brodsky. "Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statistics showing that just about everyone who has broadband gets it from either the telephone company or the cable company," he writes. "The FCC has affirmatively pursued the policy of creating this situation, and it?s one of the main reasons we need a Net Neutrality policy. There is no real choice."
Opponents of federal legislation might argue that even if Brodsky is correct and that the current situation is little more than a duopoly, additional services look to be on the way. Ars has followed developments in the WiMAX market for some time, and recent developments suggest that large-scale deployments of the technology could happen in the next two years. WiMAX has the potential to quickly create new players in the broadband market, but it's also a new technology that will have its share of teething pains. Until it becomes well-established, the obvious question is whether there is enough market pressure to keep the current duopolies from making unpopular decisions.


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Nasa's Curiosity rover pictured on Mars by MRO satellite
Nasa has used one of its satellites to image the Curiosity rover on Mars.
The picture shows not only the six-wheeled vehicle, but also all the components of its discarded landing system.
These items include the heatshield, the parachute and backshell of the entry capsule, and the skycrane that lowered the rover to the surface.
The image was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 300km and at an oblique angle of 41 degrees.
"Even though these weren't the best viewing conditions, you can still see a lot of detail," said MRO and Curiosity scientist Sarah Milkovich.
"You can see a lot of dark regions around the different components where when they came in, they disturbed the bright dust and exposed a darker surface underneath," she told BBC News.
This is most evident at the crash site of the skycrane, which clearly kicked up a shower of dusty debris on impact that then fanned off to the northwest.
And by the rover itself, it is possible on the close-up view to see two darker lobes either side of the vehicle. These are the patches of ground that were disturbed by the rockets of the skycrane at the moment of touchdown.
To give a sense of scale, the distance from the rover to the heatshield is 1,200m; to the parachute and backshell, 615m; and to the skycrane, 650m.
MRO will get another picture of the landing site in five days' time but on that occasion it will be looking almost straight down instead of off to the side.
In this image, the team hope to get much better definition on the vehicle.
The main camera on the satellite - its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) - can achieve a resolution of 30cm/pixel, so it may even be possible to see the shadows the robot casts on the ground.
The geologists on the mission team have taken a keen interest in the landing site image for what it tells them about the nature of the rocks in the area.
It is apparent from the picture that there are three distinct zones of ground.
At top-right is an area that previous observations have revealed to have high thermal inertia - it stays warmer longer at night, for example - than the broad area off to the left that holds all of the landing components other than the heatshield.
The third zone at bottom-right seems to display more impact cratering, which is usually indicative of being an older surface.
Visiting the intersection of all three zones is now being considered as a possible science destination once the rover starts some serious driving in September.
A signal confirming the Curiosity rover (also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, MSL) had landed on the Red Planet was received here at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 05:32 GMT; 06:32 BST on Monday (22:32 PDT Sunday).
The robot rover put down on the floor of a deep depression on Mars' equator known as Gale Crater.
The first hours on the surface have been spent checking out the health of the vehicle and retrieving some early engineering pictures that tell the mission team about the immediate vicinity where Curiosity landed.
Efforts are currently under way to deploy the vehicle's high-gain antenna (HGA), which would provide a direct-to-Earth link through which to pass data. At the moment, it is all being relayed back via MRO and Nasa's other Mars satellite, Odyssey.
The HGA task should have been completed on Sol 1 - the first full day of Martian surface operations - but the team is having to deal with a pointing error on the antenna. This should be fixed on Sol 2.
Also on Sol 2, a command will be sent to lift the rover's mast, which holds its navigation cameras and the ChemCam laser instrument that can determine the chemistry of rocks from a distance.
Perhaps one of the best pictures returned from the rover so far is the test shot from Mahli - the Mars Hand Lens Imager.
This camera is mounted on the rover's tool-bearing turret at the end of its robotic arm.
The picture, which was released early on Tuesday, gives us a real sense of being on Mars.
You can see some rocks in the near-field and the rim of Gale crater in the far-field.
It looks hazy simply because the transparent dust cover was left in place when the shot was taken, but the camera team says the image tells them the Mahli is in great shape.
"If it did not have dust on it, you would not know it had dust on it," explained Ken Edgett, the camera's principal investigator.
"The purpose of the first picture? We haven't used the camera and its focus mechanism since July last year [before we launched from Earth]. It was to check the instrument was working properly - and it is," he told BBC News.
- (A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
- (B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
- (C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over instruments on its arm for close-up investigation. These include a microscope
- (D) Samples drilled from rock, or scooped from the soil, can be delivered to two hi-tech analysis labs inside the rover body
- (E) The results are sent to Earth through antennas on the rover deck. Return commands tell the rover where it should drive next
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- Transnational Threats from the Middle East: Crying Wolf or Crying Havoc? Authored by Prof. Anthony H. Cordesman.
- There is no doubt that the Middle East can present significant potential threats to the West. The author of this monograph examines these threats in order to put them into perspective--to distinguish between "crying wolf" and "crying havoc." After thorough analysis, he contends that the problems caused by narcotics and organized crime, immigration, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction do not as yet require draconian action by the Western nations.


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Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!
• Yu Darvish will probably be a Ranger. Darvish's Japanese team confirmed Texas won the rights to negotiate with him last night with a $52 million bid. Toronto was long presumed to be the favorite, but that's not how it played out. The world's most famous half-Iranian, half-Japanese pitcher will probably be spending the next few years sweating up a storm in Arlington. And what do you know? Yu's new agent would like you to know he's a big fan of the Rangers organization.
• Dmitri Young continues to think people care about his comeback.
• Ousted Astros GM Ed Wade is re-joining with his old trading partner Ruben Amaro Jr. in Philadelphia, where Wade had previously served as GM. Folks in Houston are left to wonder if Wade had been working for the Phillies all along.
• Roy Oswalt is coming to terms with the fact that nobody in their right mind will give him a multiyear deal.
• The Braves are suing Disney for naming an upcoming Pixar project "Brave," even though the movie has nothing to do with the team or the tribe they're named after.


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When Alan and I first met, we lived in Newport Beach, CA – a place filled with great breakfast joints. Our favorite was Side Street Cafe, a tiny and adorable little pancake house where all the food was big on flavor. This is where my love affair with stuffed french toast began, and ever since I've been on a quest to find somewhere that it's even half as tasty.
The only place that's come close to a delicious pancake house on this coast is my own kitchen (and sadly, I've yet to duplicate it, but I think I'm getting there)! This is a fun version that uses sausage instead of cream cheese and fresh fruit, just for something different! It's easy, different and delicious – and very filling! Just one of these babies is enough for me, and I can really pack it in! ;-)
I've made stuffed french toast using many different methods – cutting a slit in the side of a very thick slice of bread, stuffing then grilling it is the most common – but this version is the most unique, not to mention the easiest! It works well with all types of fillings, so experiment with what you like best and take it from there. I like to set out several filling options then let my family and guests choose their own. It makes it a fun and easy breakfast that pleases everyone!
Stuffed French Toast Waffle Panini
- your favorite loaf of bread
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 T. melted butter
- sausage, cheese, and/or anything else you'd like to "stuff" your french toast with (sweetened cream cheese and fresh berries would be delicious)
- syrup
Preheat your waffle iron. If using sausage, pat into VERY thin patties, about a half inch smaller than your bread and roughly the same shape. Cook thoroughly.
Mix together eggs, milk and melted butter and a shallow dish. (If your filling is sweet, add a small amount of vanilla and cinnamon). Soak two slices of bread in egg mixture as you would for french toast, letting excess drip off. Add one slice to hot waffle iron, add toppings and place second slice on top. Complete until iron is full, close iron and press down to "close" your panini. If using cream cheese or similar "gooey" fillings, you can scoop out a small amount of the bread on the inside very carefully so it gives more room and doesn't ooze out the sides.
Cook until nice and brown, and serve hot with maple syrup or other accompaniments.
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A Multi-sectoral, Gender-sensitive Approach is the Way Forward
By Judith Francis and Jana Dietershagen
The Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organization (PIPSO), in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) held a national workshop in Suva Fiji on 28-29 June on 'Promoting Nutritious Food Systems in the Pacific Islands' within the framework of the ongoing CTA/IFAD/PIPSO project.
Garlanding chief guests of the workshop: From left to right, Mr. Christoph Wagner, Howard Politini and Sakiusa Tubuna
The aim was to present different viewpoints, exchange knowledge, and spark discussions around the multifaceted and multidimensional aspects of the agri-nutrition challenges in Fiji, which led to key recommendations that inform national policy and programmes. The event was attended by 63 participants (46% female), comprising representatives from public and private organisations. The workshop was officially opened by Christoph Wagner, Head of Cooperation of the European Delegation for the Pacific, Sakiusa Tubuna, Sub-Regional Coordinator of IFAD in the Pacific, and Howard Politini, Chair Board of Directors, PIPSO.
"Addressing agricultural challenges in an innovative way is what this workshop is about" – stated Wagner, adding that "The European Commission has a strong focus on public-private-partnerships."
IFAD views the CTA/IFAD/PIPSO collaborative project as an opportunity for developing and piloting innovative approaches that strengthen the agriculture-nutrition nexus and increase people's access to nutritious and healthy foods.
"This project is an opportunity to mainstream nutrition in agriculture. Therefore we need to pull together all the expertise", said Tubuna.
From left to right: Fantasha Lockington (CEO Fiji Hotel and Tourism Association), Emil Jejov and Judith Francis (CTA)
Judith Ann Francis, CTA's Senior Programme Coordinator S&T Policy and leader of the CTA/IFAD/PIPSO project, presented an overview of the innovative tools and approaches that will be used for achieving the project goal, such as seed-funding; value chain coordinating/agricultural innovation (VCC/AI) multi-stakeholder platforms; and an innovation credit facility for small and medium enterprises (SME) development.
According to Francis, "through these innovative tools, the project will support communities to find solutions that build on traditional knowledge, agri-businesses to harness the social and intellectual capital and producers to engage in inclusive value chain development."
Participants discussing and suggesting strategies during roundtable exercises
Dr. Jimaima Lako, a CTA consultant, presented her research findings from a rapid country scan on the Agriculture Nutrition Nexus in Fiji, which formed the basis of the highly interactive 2-day workshop. Key highlights include:
- High prevalence of non-communicable diseases – (NCDs) (35.8%) and micronutrient deficiencies especially iron deficiency anaemia (32.4%)
- High dependence on imports and calorie intake from imported foods and processed foods that are generally cheaper and less nutritious, with negative impacts on health;
- Multiple policies and frameworks covering agriculture, health, women etc. that do not specifically address the nutrition challenges and in some cases are contradictory.
- 16 national policies and frameworks are in place across various line Ministries (Agriculture, Fisheries, Health, Education etc.) but these are not specific enough on addressing nutritional challenges.
- Need for more research (including on the relationship between agri-nutrition outcomes by academia) to support the Ministries in their work, as well as private sector/businesses.
- Major gaps in Agri-Nutrition nexus identified include Weak or absence of nutrition link in the National Development Plan and Policies in use by the various line ministries, Lack of commitment and poor coordination of the Fiji Plan of Action on Nutrition( FPAN) with multi-stakeholders and partners and Limited awareness and availability of nutrient dense local foods.
- "Policies on agriculture, health, nutrition exist in Fiji but they are not aligned. Agriculture can change the nutrition paradigm of NCDs and anaemia." Dr. Lako, explained.
Other presentations and interventions on current issues in agricultural development, food security, crops and fisheries value chains and women's empowerment by the diverse multi-sectoral panellists provided additional meaningful insights and sparked fruitful discussions during the round table group sessions. For example, Joann Young, Assistant Representative at FAO, triggered the reflections by questioning: "What is the cost of a nutritious diet?" Dr. Isimeli Tukana, Director Wellness in the Ministry of Health, advocated for agriculture as the solution to the nutrition challenges: "Fiji is going through nutrition transitions. Unless the laws change, nothing will happen. The solution for NCD's is in agriculture."
Women play a critical role in Fiji's agricultural sector
Cherie Moris, from Fiji Women in Fisheries Network, emphasised on the importance of women as custodians of knowledge in sectors such as fisheries; finding new markets and the cost and time of processing are just a few barriers they have to overcome. Other obstacles can be lack of access to expertise and difficulties complying with food safety standards.
Female participants discussing during the group exercises
Sian Rolls, from Femlink Pacific, further explained, "the biggest gender gap is in decision-making. Women feel frustrated because, despite the development changes, they have not been seeing improvements in their economic and nutrition status."
Cherie Moris Fiji, Women in Fisheries Network
SMEs to accelerate value chain development
"SMEs create the most jobs in Fiji. They need support and capacity building," emphasized Ravi Chand, CEO, National Centre for Small and Micro Enterprise Development.
Business in Fiji is not just about trading any more, but is gaining an inclusive community engagement role. Together the government and the private sector can contribute to sustainable economic development.
Products of participating producers were displayed during the workshop
Save Waqainabete, Business Development Analyst at Joe's Farm, explained: "Agri-businesses can play a vital role in addressing agri-nutrition". Agribusinesses need to overcome financial and technical challenges while reducing costs so that fresh local produce and value added products can be affordable for local consumers. While subsistence farming is the main activity, there needs to be a shift to semi-commercial operations – this is one way to address supply issues to respond to market demand.
Workshop outcomes: Three strategies for national development consideration
- Setting a high-level political agenda and urgent multi-sectoral approach to addressing agri-nutrition and tackling NCDs in Fiji.
- Establishing stronger collaboration and relationship with academia and private sector for evidence based policy and strategic planning
- Partnerships and collaboration between Government Ministries, communities, private sector, and academia, need to be strengthened and their ongoing activities aligned. Joint interventions could include media campaigns, agribusiness/farming communities' initiatives with schools, promoting local produce and local cuisine, to name a few.
Moving forward with the project
In the next few months, similar national policy roundtables are rolling out in the other project's target countries: Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. Priority value chains are analysed to launch the Value Chain Coordination/Agricultural Innovation platforms and to identify the challenges and opportunities for investing in weather risk insurance - another innovation that the project will explore in consultation with producer organisations and representatives of the public and private sector.
Participants presenting results from group discussion on women's empowerment
According to Emil Jejov from CTA: "Index based insurance is suitable where many smallholder farmers operate. Insured farmers are able to save more and invest more in inputs and other production assets. Multi-stakeholder consultations are crucial in developing successful insurance products."
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Some people may find this an odd topic for the first post for what is ostensibly a technology blog, but they're probably wrong. How women are perceived and treated in the technology industry is vital to its long-term health.
I'll be honest, for much of my life I was turned off by the label feminist. I found it too easy to buy into the opposition marketing that being pro-women was somehow anti-men. The technical term for this idea is bunk, but that doesn't stop it from being a widely held belief. What eventually led to my acceptance of that term as positive in its own right and in particular a label that applied to me was remembering that life, in most cases, is not a zero sum game. Helping women become valued members of a community does not somehow diminish my ability to be a part of that community. if anything, it enhances it.
There was recently a fire-storm on Twitter over some comments made by Paul Graham that were at least partially taken out of context. The controversy surrounding the quotes and the swift reaction to them on Twitter is interesting in itself, but I'm more interested in some of theother comments that Mr. Graham made during his conversation with the reporter.
First of all, I'd like to look at these as exemplars of opinions that I think are too widely held, and not necessarily as strongly held convictions of Mr. Graham. I take him at his word when he says that he did not believe these comments would be used for an interview-style post and that if he had, he would have spent more time ensuring that they fully reflect his beliefs.
Here is one of Mr. Graham's quotes (emphasis added by me):
For one thing the number of women is increasing. I think there were a dozen startups with female founders in this batch. It might have been as much as a quarter. I don't know the exact number. Someone could go and count.
That's something I'll probably be asking Jessica [Livingston] more eventually, but yeah.
She'll have to go count too. There's a couple of reasons why there are not as many female founders. There's two questions, "Do we have some problem specifically? This you could identify by looking at the pool of YC startups versus some other comparable pool. I noticed that Andreessen Horowitz, for example, has a page on their site with their seed portfolio which are presumably all companies of similar stages, or at least the time they invested.
I happened to notice because about a quarter of them were from YC, that means three quarters of them are not, it would be interesting to go and see. If you want a pool of startups at similar stages and qualities, it would be interesting to look at that other 75 percent. If you want to know some demographic questions about founders, see what the founders are like at those other startups.
While it's commendable that the number of YC-funded startups with female founders is increasing, I'd like to call attention to the last statement. This demonstrates a common flaw when organizations want to see how well they're doing at attracting women. The problem with the proposed analysis is that it assumes that the best benchmark is how well other VC firms are funding women founded startups. This is flawed because you're still limiting your analysis to the existing pool of founders/startups. The more interesting question is are there ways we could be encouraging more women to start companies who might otherwise have self-selected out of being a founder.
This is important because it demonstrates a flaw in much of the logical thinking about sexism. It seems logical to assume that if you're not actively trying to prevent women from starting companies then sexism isn't a factor. The problem is that many of the effects of sexism are not caused by conscious action. I'd like to think that the relatively lower percentages of women in STEM fields are not caused by people actively discouraging women to enter those fields. However, sexism is still prevalent in the form of unconscious biases. In particular, stereotypes are self-reinforcing.
If you are put into a position where you are made to identify with a group that is stereotypically less able to perform a certain task, then your performance on that task actually decreases. The converse is also true, that you can improve someone's performance on a task by getting them to identify with a group that is stereotypically better at that task. None of this is the result of someone consciously saying, "well, I guess I'll perform worse on this math test because I'm a women", but that is the effective result.
One of the reasons I'm a feminist is that I believe it is not enough to simply accept the status quo. In order to make the world a more equal place to live, we have to actively fight against not just conscious acts but unconscious biases. Once you start to recognize that these biases exist, it gives you the opportunity to look for creative solutions to the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields.
Here is another quote from Mr. Graham (emphasis added by me):
You can tell what the pool of potential startup founders looks like. There's a bunch of ways you can do it. You can go on Google and search for audience photos of PyCon, for example, which is this big Python conference.
That's a self selected group of people. Anybody who wants to apply can go to that thing. They're not discriminating for or against anyone. If you want to see what a cross section of programmers looks like, just go look at that or any other conference, doesn't have to be PyCon specifically.
Or you could look at commits in open source projects. Once again self selected, these people don't even meet in person. It's all by email, no one can be intimidated by or feel like an outcast for something like that.
This quote has two examples of insidious thoughts that seem logical, but are built on flawed premises. The first is the assumption that simply not actively discouraging participation by women is enough for all of the potentially interested women to join in on an event. This is massively flawed for two reasons:
- Just because the organizers are not actively trying to discourage women, it's very easy for their event to be less than welcoming. For example, most conferences have a number of social events where alcohol flows freely. Is it really surprising to think that women would be intimidated by such events, especially when they are clearly in the minority of participants?
- Potentially more insidious is the notion that just putting something out there makes it equally accessible to all groups. Sarah Milstein has a great post on this, specifically about attracting speakers from underrepresented groups to a conference, but the same ideas apply for attendees as well.
The second thing brought up by the quote is the notion that you can't feel intimidated or outcast by e-mail or other electronic means of communication. This is just patently ridiculous and demonstrates an inability to empathize with other people. It's well-documented how nasty comments can get on some online forums. In particular, threats of rape and death are far too prevalent to think that they could just be shrugged off.
Rather than focus only on the aggregate of documented cases, I thought I'd share some of my own experiences. Prior to joining Cloudera I had worked a lot with Apache Hadoop and other open source software, but I had not contributed directly to any projects. This was mostly driven by the difficulty in getting permission to share my work from my previous employer. Unsurprisingly, I was very excited to contribute once I got to Cloudera. I quickly learned that not all open source communities are equally inviting to new participants. While I found my patches eagerly accepted by the Apache HBase community, similar efforts to contribute to Hadoop itself were met with what I would describe as curt responses. It was easy to interpret the reactions as if I was bothering community members by my attempts to join in. Now, not everyone in the community reacted that way and I was able to overcome my feelings to still contribute, however, it was not at all what I would call an inviting experience.
If I had not been working for Cloudera, a recognized leader in the Hadoop space, I may not have felt bold enough to go through the process. It's never easy to put oneself in a vulnerable position, but that's exactly what you need to do to work in the open source world. You have to put your code out there and not just accept, but also invite criticism. It takes a lot of effort to not view the criticism as being levied against you, but as an attempt by the community to ensure a consistently high quality product. Some communities get this so right by not just working with new participants, but by going out of their way to be thrilled that you're trying to participate at all. Taking that extra step goes a long way towards attracting more participation. The point is: being welcoming is a lot more than just not actively trying to discourage participation.
Ultimately, my reasons for being a feminist are pretty selfish. I find technology benefits from a wide-variety of views and opinions. The more people we bring into the STEM fields, the wider the variety and the more work I'm able to learn from and build upon. The reason why being a feminist requires direct action on my part is that even in the absence of explicit discouragement, the under-representation of women in STEM fields is not something that can just fix itself due to the unconscious biases that permeate our society.
I'm proud to call myself a feminist and you should be too.


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Zen Archives++September 07, 2005
I'm happy to report the Zen Garden archives have (finally) undergone a major re-tooling.
The css Zen Garden has been desperate for some TLC for a while now. Submissions have been increasing steadily (sometimes 6 or 7 per day), but management and archiving has been a frustrating problem for quite some time. So I fixed some of the major problems.
Since its launch on this domain over two years ago, the css Zen Garden archives have undergone numerous changes to cope with the growing volume of designs.
It seems hard to believe now, but at one point in time all designs I had received fit on one page. When that page grew too weighty, I chopped it into a handful of categories and gave each of those their own page. Then they had to be further subdivided into their own series of pages.
However, the categories themselves have become mostly meaningless, with 'Conceptual' becoming a default placeholder for just about any non-official design, unless I found a way to cram it into one of the other categories instead.
But fixing the problem either meant way more work for me, or adding a large degree of automation to the publishing process. So I opted for automation.
After spending the better part of last year writing a book on the site, it became obvious that my manual addition process was going to need to be addressed, and soon. So in January or so I started tinkering with MySQL databases to see what I could come up with.
By February, all new submissions were going into a database. Not a very good database, mind you, but it was enough to allow me to write a quick manager for the site during the spring. All submissions went into a database, which allowed me to categorize and automatically generate HTML that I could copy and paste into various templates. Handy, but not good enough.
About a month back, I needed help screen-scraping the list of Zen Garden designs. This was to facilitate Version 2 of the manager, which would contain a full database of all Zen Garden designs, so that publishing would be automatic from now on. And barring some publishing settings which will take a bit longer to enable, it's finally done. The publishing workflow is almost completely automated, so all I have to do upon categorizing a design is hit the big 'Publish' button. (Official designs take a bit more manual work, but that's a necessary evil.)
Archive Improvements
So now that I can update the site without planning my schedule in advance, what can we expect?
Well immediately, you'll see that the archives finally have screenshots. It's been a long time coming, and the lack of having them has bugged me too. Now that I spend less time updating, I can spend a bit more time to grab these for the official designs. This is a manual process, which involves Safari and Photoshop — until it can be automated on the server as well (and I have my doubts this is possible, barring an API from BrowserCam or similar), screenshots will only exist for official designs. We'll see what this does to my bandwidth though…
As well, I can do fun things like creating 'recently added designs' lists, and even offer an alternative archive format in the 'View Designs By Date' page. This is a bit broken for existing designs due to missing publish dates — creating metadata manually is no fun at all, thanks — but it ought to become a lot more useful as new designs are added.
The categorization problem above? So fixed. Now instead of a handful of meaningless categories, designs can exist in any number of the 50+ categories which describe things like layout type, dominant colours, and themes. I'm basically treating them as tags, and can add new ones at any time. For now, I've only re-categorized the 180 official designs, but as new ones come in I'll be more accurately categorizing any and all that get published. The new problem is going to be categorizing the categories; I've reserved a 'group' column in the table for precisely that, whch will be implemented in due time.
What else? Oh, a couple new RSS feeds, which are going to be 'experimental' for now. The designs listed are screwy at the moment (expect them to be completely innaccurate) and I'm not 100% convinced they do what they're supposed to yet, that will take a few updates to figure out. But you can expect they'll eventually work.
Long Term
So that solves a few problems, and leaves a couple of questions hanging about what has yet to be done:
- How about Comments/Ratings?
- I've considered comments, but I'm not going to do it. Browse any major CSS design listing site to experience first hand why not. Anonymous commentary-free ratings might be a possibility, but very low priority.
- Ads?
- No. Well, kind of. Since I've spent far more (billable) time than I should have on this upgrade, I'm likely going to run some ads on the archive pages for a few months. Only to recoup the costs, and then they'll be removed. I have a specific dollar value in mind, so they'll only run until that has been reached. If you have a cool product that's relevant to the type of people likely to be viewing the Zen Garden, get in touch. Otherwise it'll just be AdSense.
- Why are the archives still on mezzoblue.com?
Legacy and overhead. The site was originally launched on this domain, and since the purpose of the site is to re-skin a common body of content after all, picking just one of those and just using it for the archives and supporting material seemed a little silly. But forcing submitters to style more variations would have been more time-consuming for them, and the barrier to entry would be a lot higher. This was a real concern at the time, so I dropped the supporting material in this site's template to side-step the problem.
At some point I think there will be a 'master' design for the supporting material, which will then see it and the archives pushed over to the csszengarden.com domain. At that point, the page that greets you when you visit the site will change to more of an explanation/design listing, to solve some of the lingering problems around the fact that I can't change the markup structure these days. But I'm not quite ready for that step yet.
- Is it still relevant?
Truth be told, my idea of what the site is has changed quite a bit recently, perhaps yours has too. Keeping in mind that it's a lot of things to a lot of people, and designers new to CSS are still stumbling across it for the first time every day, its original purpose hasn't gone away. But for those of us who get CSS design now, and that's a significant lot of us, the initial impact has long since faded.
What was reinforced to me as I went through the archives for screenshots and categorization, is what a wide and diverse body of work we've created. Hundreds of designers are solving the exact same problem in so many diverse and unique ways. That work continues to be relevant, and although much has changed about the techniques and coding we use in the past few years, a good design is still a good design. And there are a lot of them. And there will continue to be more of them.
As it says in the wording of the site, which is long obsolete, "One day this gallery will be a historical curiosity; that day is not today." This may be true of the markup that makes up the site (more
divs and
classes than necessary today), the site navigation (woefully inadequate), and even the wording itself (oh how I wish I could edit), the main point of the site — the designs people submit — will continue to be relevant as long as I continue to receive them.
I know of gnome-web-photo, which can be used to automate the screenshot process, but it is probably a pain to install and setup right now.
Well Dave if you don't accept donations, then perhaps I could help out taking screenshots of Zen Garden submissions.
Given the way the web design community has rallied around the Garden, I have no doubt that if Dave asked for help in any area he would get an overwhelming response.
I am just impressed with the devotion and patience that has gone into making this project what it is, and keeping it up for as long as he has.
Great work.
Great news, the improvements work well!
Does this mean you will look at those submitted designs? :)
Thanks for all the hard work. The list looks great. Now I know why it's been so long since the last post.
The categorization is much easier to browse what you're looking for from a newbie standpoint. However the oldies that knew exactly where to look for an old design in a long large list…it can become daunting. But no big deal. It needed it.
I'd still like to see a ZenBrowser which browses the templates through a framed browser, much like the themes for WordPress.
Looking good. While I can understand your lack of desire to support comments on the site it might be nice to have a way to mark a design as "broken"
What I mean by broken, typically, are those unofficial designs that no longer have their CSS online (for whatever reason).
Here are a couple I found while testing out the new archive system:
Under All Other Deigns:
Marimbondo by Lucas Sigrist
homework by nailman
You might want to check out Paparazzi for screenshots until you can come up with something more automated.
It's looking great Dave. Quick idea on the automated screenshot front - perhaps you could use SnapWeb ( http://braintickling.8k.com/snapweb.html ) along with some Applescript to resize and upload the screenshot?
I've a little experience myself with this after building SiteVista ( http://www.sitevista.com/ ) - it's similar to BrowserCam.
If you ever have a crack at it and get stuck, drop me an email, I could send you some sample Applescript that I wrote to do the Safari tests in SiteVista.
Come now Dave, you know there are people who are more than willing to donate. Of course usually in the world of freelance web design, we are usually tight on money, especially the young among us ( Ahem, myself. ).
Bill - Yes, a 'broken' list is definitely in the works for future upgrades. I did some pretty careful weeding a month or two ago, but it's an ever-changing thing. Further complicating matters is that sometimes the servers are just down for a while, or slow, and so removing it outright leads to even more work when I get an email from the designer asking me why I removed it. I have some ideas on this, but it's not the highest item on the priority list yet.
Brian / Paul - Thanks for the suggestions, I came across both Papparazzi and Site Vista in my searches, but Snapweb is new to me. I suspect the bandwidth concern is the bigger problem of the two, though.
Joseph - thanks, but I'm not looking for donations. Given the book, the site toes a funny line between commercial (albeit indirectly so) and non-profit. I like to think of it as the latter, but the argument could be made toward the former. For tax purposes, and just plain the sense that donating to a site that indirectly benefits me seems wrong, I'm not considering donations.
I took a quick look at Hotlinks[1], to see what they were using. Looks like they're using some scripts[2] to automate screencaps from the command line, which is itself based on khtml2png[3].
Of course, since my eyes cross any time I see the words "Gtk" or "X server," installing any of these lovely little scripts is way beyond me.
[1] http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/
[2] http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000055.html
[3] http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/
Re: broken sites. The answer is so simple (and has been suggested to Dave before): just host all the entries on Mezzoblue! Then absolutely nothing will ever happen to them, unless Mezzoblue itself goes down. In other words, they will remain 100% intact, a true historical record.
Otherwise, it's a case of clicking each one to find several don't work. After a few seconds staring at an unstyled screen, I cancel the attempt, and go back to try another entry instead. Not good. That's always been a problem here.
I doubt they would take up much server space, so how about it?
As for donations, many people would be more than willing to support the site. It seems strange not to have them set up, especially if it paid for extra server space to host all those designs (hint). I guess Dave has some moral objections to them, which of course, I respect. I just don't feel ads would cover a tiny fraction of the potential revenue from donations.
Well, letting people leave comments on each design would open a can of worms. Dave do not go that road please.
It would be great if each designer is instead to submit design notes explaining why he designed the way he did, thus viewers are allowed to see what went on the designer's mind. That would only be fair to both viewers and designers as the viewer would feel obliged to read the design notes before he rubbishes a particular design.
Css Zen Design is a massive understaking, let's face. We are ever grateful for your effort.
Dave, I have read your CSS Zen Garden book - it was great.
I have an idea. Why not write a CSS Zen Garden 2 with a detailed look at the designs on the Zen Garden? It would be the collaborative work of all the contributors in a way for a complete and better understanding of CSS for the readers.
Oliver, that's a pretty good idea although I suggest Dave wait a little until some new technology comes out, just so it isn't Zen of CSS Design with a new coat of paint.
I second Oliver's idea: CSS Zen Garden, version 2. A new HTML page, with new text, navigation and the rest; designers submitting new Zen Garden designs would use the version 2 HTML, and the version 1 HTML would be kept in an archive section.
You could launch this at the same time you launch the support site. Of course, you've probably had just about enough of all this Zen Garden nonsense for the moment!
On another note, I got the book out of lay-by today (LOVE the cover!); nice. I look forward to getting Molly's signature at WE05 (and yours?).
Excellent piece of work!
I wanted to refer someone having questions about horizontal designs to a couple of Garden entries a while ago, and never got around to digging them up; in the past ten minutes before posting this comment, I not only found the examples I had in my head, but a whole bunch of others, too!
I agree with Mohodin Rageh. I would love to see design notes and an explaination much like what Douglas Bowman did at http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/05/27/in_the_garden.html and http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/design_process/.
When I open a lot of designs in tabs, I don't know the name of the one I'm looking at. Could you add it to the document's title?
If that's not possible, a quick hack would be to add &title=DesignNameHere to the end of the URL, so we can look at the address bar to help us remember.
The categorization is much easier to browse what you're looking for from a newbie standpoint. However the oldies that knew exactly where to look for an old design in a long large list…it can become daunting. But no big deal. It needed it.


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January is Be Kind to Food Servers Month, a time to recognize the contributions of people who help make our dining experience more enjoyable.
So why should we be kind to food servers?
Well, first of all, because they're people. People who are trying to make a living like the rest of us, and usually at less-than-minimum wage. The expectation, of course, is that tips will make up the difference in their wages so they reach at least minimum wage.
So where does that different come from? Well, from you and me, of course.
And how much should it be? Well, an industry standard for tipping is about 18 percent. And if you want to simplify it, make it 20.
That means if you have a meal for two and the bill is $25, then you should tip about $5, making a total bill of $30. Even if you dine at Buck's Grill and enjoy the $4.95 burger and fries special, you should throw in another $1 for a tip.
It doesn't end with tipping, though. Being kind to food servers means putting yourself in their place. How would you feel if people jumped all over you whenever their mashed potatoes were too cold, their soup too hot, human hairs the same color and texture as those on the cook's head prominently visible through the kitchen window were adorning your eggs or cockroaches were napping in your creme brulee? Is that the food server's fault? Did the food server deliberately wait to serve your mashed potatoes and gravy until they were cold? Was it the food server who deliberately heated the soup to scalding, like a medieval warrior protecting the castle battlements? Was it your young, flaxen-locked food server who yanked those gnarled, gray hairs from her head and put them in your eggs? Or was it your food server who searched the kitchen floor relentlessly for cockroaches, just so she could place them in your creme brulee? Of course not.
It was the cook!!!
So don't blame your food server.
Blame the cook.


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The Membership Relations Committee is happy to showcase some ArkGeo Geocachers through the "Geocacher Profile". The committee thought Jean Kennedy aka MSHippie should be the next cacher to be in the spotlight.
What is your geocaching name? MSHippie
How did you choose your handle? I wanted to keep a little bit of my home state with me. It is a play on how a born and bred Mississippian pronounces Mississippi, with 3 syllables rather than 4. It could also be read as Ms. Hippie or Mississippi Hippie. Just fun play on words.
How long have you been geocaching? Joined in 2007, first cache found in 2009
How did you find your first Geocache, and which one was it? I looked for the one nearest to my home Sophias Dyer Park. It has since been archived.
Who usually goes with you when you go caching? One, two, or all three of my daughters, collectively known as ARgeokid
How long will you work on puzzle caches before you give up? Not very long, really depends on what type of puzzle it is I am terrible at math and triangulating but I love trivia and history.
What town/areas have you most enjoyed caching in? I love the caches that are in parks or hiking trails but I have stuck mostly to Alma and surrounding towns.
Do you do paperless caching? yes
What kind of geocaching rig do you use? Not sure how to answer this one my car or my GPS? I prefer using my Garmin Colorado, but for convenience I use the Geocaching app on my old Iphone 4s. My cachemobile rig is a Subaru Outback.
Why would you recommend anyone else to take up geocaching? Without a doubt
Where are you originally from? Jackson, MS
In what states have you geocached? AR, OK, LA, MS
What was your first event ever attended? 04/20/2013 Lake Louemma CITO by Jffok
How many caches have you found? 696+, I have been lax in logging my finds over the last few months.
Which type of cache container do you prefer over the rest? Traditional ammo can
What was the most famous cache that you have found? Well, I will have to decide that by the cache that has the most favorite points because I dont believe that I have really found a famous cache Studs R Plumb by Yazzman.
Do you use disposable batteries or rechargeable batteries? Both
Do you enjoy hiding or finding more as your part of the hobby? Finding
Do you have a personal goal in mind when you make a hide? I havent hidden any myself.
What is your favorite type of cache hide? I love the ones that are in the middle of poison ivy and/or black locust trees.
What do you think the proper hide to find ratio should be to keep the sport fresh? Seems like some people are more cut out to hide than others. I would prefer fewer well thought out hides that offer a little challenge than a lot of micro skirt lifters just to make ones numbers increase.
How did you end up getting into this wacky hobby? Not really sure. I must have read about it somewhere.
What's your favorite geocache? Frisco #4003 (1919-1952)
If money was no object, where would you like to go geocaching? Australia
Do you like geocaching by yourself or in a group? I would prefer a group but I mostly end up going alone.
How many First to Finds do you have? None ☹
Are you a First to Find person who is always set on go and if so, how many miles out do you have your settings on to get notifications? No
Do you have any other hobbies besides geocaching? Playing video games and reading
Thanks for allowing me to share my Geocaching story


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Brussels, 7 October 2009
Questions and answers on the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) and its financing
What is the SET-Plan?
The SET-Plan is the technology pillar of the EU's energy and climate policy. It is a blueprint for Europe to develop a world-class portfolio of affordable, clean, efficient and low emission energy technologies through coordinated research. It has been proposed by the Commission in 2007 and endorsed by Member States and the European Parliament as the appropriate way forward. It lays out the EU's strategy to accelerate the development of these technologies and to bring them more quickly to the market.
The SET-Plan describes concrete actions to build a coherent energy research landscape in Europe. The idea is to better organize research efforts across Europe, selecting technologies with the greatest potential and planning together how money should be invested.
How is the coordination between different sectors organized?
The implementation of the SET-Plan is coordinated by the European Commission. Member States are in the driving seat and are represented in the Steering Group on Strategic Energy Technologies (see MEMO/08/657 ).
On the research side, the SET-Plan brings together the research capacities of the major European institutes and universities which joined on 28 October 2008 in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) (see IP/08/1587 ).
Industry is also involved in the building up of six technological European Industrial Initiatives in the areas of wind, solar and bio-energy, electricity networks, carbon capture and storage and nuclear fission.
A new initiative is being proposed in the new Communication, the Smart Cities Initiatives, which focuses on energy efficiency in European cities.
How were the 6 energy sectors selected for the industrial initiatives?
Th e 6 technology avenues included in the SET Plan for European Industrial Initiatives (Wind, solar, CCS, bio-energy, Nuclear, Grids) have been identified by the Commission and the industry as those for which working at Community level will add most value – technologies for which the barriers, the scale of the investment and risk involved can be better tackled collectively. Furthermore for the 6 sectors the actors expressed their willingness to join forces and work together . The choice was based on an extensive consultation process involving the Information system of the SET Plan (SETIS) which provided data and analysis on the current state of the art of the technologies and their anticipated technological development and market potential. However, the Communication also includes estimates on already existing initiatives on fuel cells and hydrogen, energy efficiency and basic research.
What are low-carbon energy technologies?
Low-carbon energy technologies refer to technologies that emit less carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) than the energy technologies that rely on traditional fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas). They are based on renewable resources (like wind, sun and biomass) or enable the sustainable use of fossil fuels (like carbon capture and storage). Examples of low carbon energy technologies are the ones created through wind power, solar energy (including photovoltaïcs and concentrated solar power), bioenergy, new electricity grids, carbon capture and storage (CCS), nuclear fission and fusion energy, fuel cells and hydrogen, energy efficiency in buildings or transport.
Why does Europe need to move to a "low-carbon economy"?
There are several reasons why Europe should move to a "low-carbon" economy:
What are the obstacles to the development of low carbon technologies?
The problem lies i n the fact that the abundant availability of resources, such as oil, gas and coal, has held back Member States and the industry from investing in energy research. Indeed, public and private energy research budgets have decreased since 1980s. We have to act now and to urgently increase the level of investment in research to develop low carbon technologies.
We are aware that markets and energy companies acting on their own are unlikely to be able to deliver the needed technological breakthroughs within a sufficiently short time span . Locked-in investments, vested interests, as well as the high risks and need for significant investments in less profitable alternatives, mean that change will be slow without a major push. Public policy and public investment partnering with the private sector is the only credible route to meet our goals, established for the public good.
How much additional investment is needed?
With today's level of knowledge, the Commission believes that investment in the EU has to increase from the current €3 bn per year to around €8 bn per year to effectively move forward the SET-Plan actions 1 . This would represent an additional investment, public and private, of €50 bn over the next 10 years.
These estimates and actions required have been defined by the industry, the research community, the Commission and Member States. Together, they have drawn up Technology Roadmaps for the development of low carbon energy technologies that show the way up to 2020.
Each Roadmap presents the technology objectives that are critical for making each low-carbon technology fully cost-competitive, more efficient and proven at the right scale for market roll-out. Investment should cover basic and applied research, pilot projects (small scale trials), demonstration programmes (actual large scale trials) and market replication measures (successful transfer into fully viable, profitable low carbon technologies available for public use). Costs of deployment are excluded in these estimates.
The assessment and monitoring of these technologies can be found on the new online Strategic Energy Technologies Information System (SETIS)-
What is the current level of investment in research in low carbon technologies?
Investment s dedicated to R&D in non-nuclear SET-Plan priority technologies amounted to €2.38 billion in 2007 with a division that is roughly balanced across individual technologies. If one adds research in nuclear SET plan priority technologies, the investment amounts to a total of around €3.3bn.
The R&D investments dedicated to CCS, smart grids, biofuels, wind energy and photovoltaics are in-between €270 million and €380 million each. The share between public and private participation depends on the maturity level reached by these technologies, but the overall breakdown in 2007 was 70% private and 30% public sector. 80% of the public investment in R&D was at national level. The larger investments for hydrogen and fuel cells research (€616 million) may be explained by the diversity of technologies that are subsumed, thus attracting R&D investments from many large and small companies from a broad variety of sectors (e.g. car manufacturers, electric utilities, chemical companies and component suppliers). At the same time, few countries and companies are active in research on concentrating solar power technologies (CSP), explaining the comparatively low R&D investments in this field (€86 million). This level of investment is not sufficient if we are to achieve our ambition to shift our current energy system into a low carbon model.
What would these additional investments finance?
Investments should remove the bottlenecks in the development of low-carbon technologies. Together with the industry, the Commission identified the following priorities up to 2020:
Six European Industrial Initiatives: these public-private initiatives , bringing together researchers and the industry, target sectors for which working together at EU level will add most value.
Objective: up to 20% of EU electricity to be produced wind energy technologies by 2020. The programme is estimated at 6b€ over the next 10 years. More than 250 000 skilled jobs could be created.
Objective: by 2020, 50% of networks in Europe operate along "smart principle" effectively matching supply and demand. The programme is estimated at 2 b €.
Obje ctive: At least 14% of the EU energy mix would be from cost-competitive, sustainable bio-energy by 2020. The initiative will need about 9 b€ for its implementation. More than 200 000 local jobs could be created.
Objective: to reduce the costs of CCS by 2020. The total public and private investment needed in Europe over the next 10 years is estimated as 13 b €.
Objective: the first Generation-IV prototypes should be in operation in 2020. The investment for the next 10 years to come will be about 7 b €.
Other initiatives have been launched by the Commission and are included within the additional financing for their contribution to developing clean energy technologies.
What is the link between the SET-Plan and the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR)?
The EEPR has as its primary objective to help in getting our economy going, after the downturn we have suffered. However, the intelligent investment decisions taken by the European Union with this programme goes beyond recovery and puts in place key building-blocks for the CCS and the Wind European Industrial Initiatives of the SET-Plan. € 1.6 bn have been allocated to get started with the first demonstration plants for carbon capture and storage and to boost innovation in Off-shore Wind. The first projects supported by this programme will be signed before the end of 2009. This programme confirms the commitment of the EU to low carbon technologies.
Who will contribute to the additional investment needed?
The massive need for additional investment can't be supported by a sole actor, be it from the public or private sector. A European approach is essential to realise our ambition. The bulk of the funds required will have to come from the private sector and from Member States, with a contribution from the EU budget towards some of it. In this way, the limited resources available from the EU budget can be used to leverage a step change in the investment provided for the research and demonstration of low carbon technologies. The EIB would also be involved.
The level of risk faced by low carbon technologies at different stages of their development calls for a risk-sharing approach in which all relevant actors, public and private, take on the part of the risk corresponding to their own field of activity. In general terms, the higher the technological uncertainties, the more public support is needed. But the Commission also wants the industry to take greater technological and market risks as well as banks and private investors.
Where will the extra public funding come from?
Times are difficult now and public spending and budget deficits are under pressure in the Member States. This limitation should act as incentive to prioritise public investments. Investment in energy technology development has to increase substantially – starting immediately. Focused public finance on the development of low carbon technologies is in line with achieving public policy goals
For the time being, it has been agreed that the ETS will help financing the SET Plan in two ways. Firstly, the 300 million EU Allowances set aside from the New Entrants Reserve of the ETS will be used to support carbon capture and storage and innovative renewables. These allowances will be distributed by Member States for demonstration projects selected according to European Community criteria.
Secondly, from 2013, the auctioning revenues from the ETS can be reinvested at national level in the development of more efficient and lower cost clean technologies. The use of the revenues is determined by the Member States. At least 50% should be used for climate change related activities, including in developing countries.
Is an intervention at Community level appropriate?
In the EU landscape of publicly funded research, the funding consists of a European 'common pot' managed by the Commission , the Research Framework Programme, and national programmes managed independently by the Member States. In this way, each can capitalise on their own strengths and opportunities. Action at EU level can take on high risk, high cost, long-term programmes beyond the reach of individual nations. This would allow risk-sharing and generate a breadth of scope and economies of scale that could not be achieved otherwise.
Combining public resources effectively and creating flexible Public-Private Partnerships with industry should be the future model for pan-European energy research cooperation.
What will be the contribution of the European Investment Bank (EIB)?
The EIB increased its overall lending target in the field of energy to €9.5bn in 2009 and €10.3bn in 2010 (compared to €6.5bn in 2008), including energy efficiency and renewable energy. This also includes the new equity fund (the "2020 Fund – Marguerite") dedicated to investments in Members States' renewable energy, TEN-T and TEN-E.
Which is the timeline for the implementation?
Overall, the SET Plan has originally been designed both to reach the 2020 targets of reducing the emission of greenhouse gases by 20% and increasing the share of renewable energy sources by 20% and to move forward towards the vision of a complete decarbonisation of the energy system by 2050. However, the technology and financial roadmaps of this communication cover specifically the next 10 years, i.e. 2010-2020.
What's next?
In the 21-22 October 2009, the second European Energy Technology Summit will take place in Stockholm. During the summit, the European Industrial Initiatives will meet in eight parallel sessions to discuss and review the technology roadmaps of the SET Plan. The participants will represent European actors in the innovation system for energy technology – financial community, industry, researchers, customers and public policy makers, as well as representatives from the European institutions and international partners. The initiatives will subsequently be launched in 2010.
Today, 80% of EU energy supply comes from fossil fuels. These sources of energy are the chief source of greenhouse gases. To achieve the EU's environmental and energy goals, the EU has to focus on the development of low carbon technologies using renewable resources (e.g. wind, sun and biomass), enabling the sustainable use of fossil fuels (like carbon capture and storage), and promoting energy efficiency. The SET-Plan, adopted in November 2007, is designed to optimize and coordinate the EU's effort to develop these technologies.
See also IP/09/1431 on the SET-Plan
The global roadmap that appears below shows the key milestones of each EII, assuming that all activities start in 2010. More details are given in the individual roadmaps.
A detailed explanation of these figures is presented in the accompanying Impact Assessment SEC(2009)1297 of 07.10.2009.
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Newsreader fans on OS X have long had NetNewsWire somewhere near the top of their lists. And for good reason, since NetNewsWire is a damn good piece of software for the Mac. The NNW crew has been workin' hard on version 3.0 of the software, which we were somewhat horrified with back in February when we saw parts of the developer release at that time.
Horror aside, the 3.0 version has now graduated to 3.0a8, which the release notes specify is "not even beta. It has bugs." So if you're allergic to beta software, you may want to stay away.
There are a number of changes and fixes, but some of the ones that stand out to me include:
- Subscribe menu folder popup selects folder that's selected in subs list
- Send to Twitterrific
- Feed limit now 1000 (you don't even want to know why this is important to me)
Check out the release notes for full details on all the changes since 3.0d62. The prerelease version of this software is available on Ranchero's web site, with lots of bright, red warnings that there are lots of bugs to be found. If you're feeling adventurous, go for it. If not... well, have a cookie or something.


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Approved by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, it has 20 nesting tubes of various sizes to accommodate different bee species. The space between the tubes is filled with porous volcanic stone to insulate from cold and heat, discourage mites and absorb moisture to prevent fungus growth. A pattern of broken color on the exterior draws the attention of bees, and a plastic shield on the front protects the tubes from being pulled out by birds and rodents.
Made of ABS plastic, the nest is 5" long overall and mounts easily with two included nails. With a few plants to supply edible pollen growing in your garden (a list of suitable plants is included), you'll attract your first pollen bees in no time, and their descendants will continue to use the nest – and benefit your garden – year after year.
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48 hours in Madrid
Despite its status as a leading European capital, land-locked Madrid has often been overshadowed as a tourist destination by the more glamorously chic Barcelona.
But its appeal to travelers is on the rise, with world class museums and dining, expansive, centrally located parks and first-rate shopping increasingly drawing visitors to its bustling thoroughfares.
Struggling economically, Spain continues to lure tourists and budget-minded travelers can stretch their dollars at hundreds of small, centrally located hotels and cafes that cater to both locals and foreigners serving up surprisingly sophisticated cuisine.
Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help you get the most out of a short stay in this growing tourist destination.
5 p.m. - With a metropolitan area population of more than six million, Madrid is a major city and could seem overwhelming for first-timers. Best to stay in the center of the capital, where affordable hotels such as the Praktik Metropol (http://www.hotelpraktikmetropol.com/) abound. Airy, modern rooms can be found for $100 a night, sometimes even less, and the location steps off the Gran Via couldn't be better suit to major sites.
5:30 p.m. - Like many Western economies, Spain is struggling. Show your local smarts and save the entry fee at the world famous Prado Museum (Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23, www.museodelprado.es/en/) by lining up for the nightly free admission at 6 p.m. While you'll only have two hours, research which galleries house the artists you most want to see. And as you're in Spain, "local" artists such as El Greco, Goya and Velasquez might be among logical choices.
8:30 p.m. - It's too early for dinner in Spain, where most restaurants don't even open doors until 9. So go with tradition and sample the tapas and libations at Taberna de Antonio Sánchez (Calle de Mesón des Paredes 13), which specializes in local favorites.
10 p.m. - For dinner, head over to the lively Chueca district, with its trendy, funky shops, cafes and bars, driven by a youthful vibe and burgeoning gay scene.
At Bazaar (C/ Libertad, 21, http://www.grupandilana.com/en/restaurants/bazaar), you'll find a sprawling, airy and stylish whitewashed room with huge glass windows looking out at the bustling street scene below. Arrive early to score a table on the upper level, and sample a host of moderately priced starters and entrees that navigate the terrain between pan-Asian and Spanish cuisines ranging from risottos to fresh fish.
Midnight: A stroll back to your hotel is entertainment enough, as the streets bustle with couples and groups heading off to tap into Madrid's pulsing nightlife. This area also abounds with bars and intimate cafe if a nightcap is in order.
10 a.m. - One of the most touristy spots you can hit in Madrid -- and one well worth the effort -- is Chocolateria San Gines (Pasadizo de San Gines 11) where the thing to have from the very limited choices is churros, a kind of elongated, ridged donut, and a cup of hot chocolate, which to American palates is more akin to a cup of melted dark chocolate.
Dip the freshly fried churros into the thick sweet elixir and take in the wood-columned salon's warm glow of this institution tucked away on a charming side street near the Plaza del Sol which dates to 1894. This filling, if hardly nutritious, breakfast will set you back less than $10.
11 a.m. - The Royal Palace (Calle Bailen, 34-914-548-800) is among the city's top, and thus most-visited, sites, so best to get there early. Tours of the ornate, 2,000-room palace range in length up to several hours, and EU citizens get in free on Wednesdays, when you can see the changing of the guard. Self-guided tours are also allowed, and audio is available.
Afterwards, check out the adjacent Santa Maria la Real de la Almudena Cathedral and its Roman crypt, or stroll the manicured Sabatini Gardens.
2 p.m. - In good weather, consider a splurge at the Ritz Madrid's Terrace & Gardens cafe (Plaza Lealtad, 5, across the street from the Prado), which serves traditional Spanish cuisine including tapas amid bucolic plantings on shaded terraces.
If the city's hot weather during the summer months proves too much, the recently refurbished Atocha train station is a short walk, where you can dine at any one of several casual lunch terraces in the dazzling main atrium, replete with towering tropical plantings and ponds under a glass roof.
4 p.m. - A lovely, and centrally located place to walk off lunch is the adjacent 20-acre Royal Botanic Garden (Plaza de Murillo, 2; http://www.rjb.csic.es/jardinbotanico/jardin/), which dates to the 18th century and boasts some 30,000 plants and flowers. Next door to the Prado Museum.
7 p.m. - After regrouping at your hotel, it's time for tapas. But as in much of Spain tapas bars are ubiquitous, making it hard to choose a place on faith. Get the best of all possible worlds and also ogle some beautiful gastronomic treats at Mercado San Miguel (Plaza San Miguel), one of Madrid's oldest marketplaces that has undergone a stunning renovation.
Grab a glass of tinto de la casa (house red) for a mere 3 euros ($4), order up some nibbles such as mixed olives, Iberico ham, cheeses, smoked fish or even sweets from several of the dozens of purveyors and secure one of the tables that anchor the center of the marketplace. You'll find yourself among tourists from Japan, the U.S., Germany and Spain, as well as locals, all happily sharing this civilized, convivial Spanish tradition.
9 p.m. - Gently priced modern Mediterranean cuisine served in an elegant setting draws a full house virtually every night at La Gloria de Montera (Just off the Gran Via, Calle Caballero de Gracia, 10, http://www.lagloriademontera.com/
9 a.m. - Breakfast is not a "groaning board" affair in Spain, so do like the locals and nip into any of the hundreds of sidewalk cafes (weather permitting of course) for a light repast of coffee, juice, pastry and fresh fruit. Most hotels also provide a continental-type breakfast for guests as well.
10 a.m. - A Sunday walk in the park - the sprawling, central Parque del Retiro - is in order. Enter at Plaza Independencia by the imposing, neo-Classical Puerta de Alcala, or gate, and stroll the manicured paths, past the man-made pond where couples and children boat, eventually making your way to the Victorian Crystal Palace where free art exhibits are usually on offer, and the sprawling rose garden.
Noon - Like many capital cities, Madrid is dense with museums of every stripe. A relatively intimate, self-guided experience can be had at the Cerralbo Museum (Ventura Rodriguez 17), the turn-of-the century home of the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, an avid collector, academic, writer and archeologist.
The 32-room museum has been meticulously preserved and restored, with its intact collection of objects, furniture, artwork and books which was considered Spain's most complete and private collection of the time.
2:30 p.m. - At Este O Este (Calle de Manuela Malasaña 9), you'll find an intriguing melding of Spanish and Moroccan cuisine, including a couscous special on Sundays.
4 p.m. - Walk off that hearty midday meal with a stroll down the Gran Via. If shopping is your thing, you'll find outlets of familiar stores such as H&M, as well as the stylish, well-known Spanish retailer Zara.
5 p.m. - Just off the Puerta del Sol, which marks the center of Spain, you'll find Mallorquina (8 Plaza del Sol), a bustling, bi-level long-established pastry shop offering a dazzling array of cream cakes and sweets. If weather permits, get your treats "to go" and head over to nearby Plaza Mayor.
This grand, 17th-century square is the first stop on most tourist itineraries, so why not make it your last? Take in the mimes and other street performers, and try to reconcile the vibrant, light-hearted scene with the spot's bloody history as an execution center during the Spanish Inquisition.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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Examine the Topic
Now that you have read the research and viewed the video discussion on interpersonal communication, you will examine the topic further by using an interactive video viewer to observe several teacher-student and student-student classroom interactions and analyzing the conversation patterns.
A. Teacher-Student InteractionsTo conclude a lesson in which students role-played Latin American artists invited to exhibit their work in Spain, teacher Lori Langer de Ramirez has asked the students to write a formal letter of response about their decision to boycott the exhibit. In this segment, Ms. Langer de Ramirez conducts instructional conversations with groups of students as she helps them compose the letter.
B. Student-Student InteractionsIn this lesson, Ms. Tulou's students answered a series of questions on a worksheet, then walked around the room to discuss their responses in pairs and small groups. As they converse, students are aware that Ms. Tulou expects them to expand and extend their conversational interactions.
C. Reflect on the ActivityAfter comparing your analysis of the classroom interactions with the sample answers, reflect on the following questions:
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Brett Eldredge to Embark on First Ever Headlining Tour
After jumping out of a plane in celebration of his first No. 1 single, 'Don't Ya,' Brett Eldredge feels ready to do anything. So, he's embarking on what most new artists only dream of: A headlining tour.
With the current momentum of his debut album 'Bring You Back,' there's no better time to head out on a headlining club tour, and Eldredge is taking advantage. The 2013 Bring You Back Fall Tour kicks off in the midwest in October -- which is fitting for the Paris, Ill. native -- and includes an already sold-out hometown show at Joe's Bar in Chicago on Oct. 5.
The tour will make 20 stops, with 14 already announced, including major cities Austin, Boston, Chicago, Jacksonville, Milwaukee and Washington D.C. On Sept. 6, tickets for previously unannounced dates and a limited number of VIP packages which include meet and greet opportunities will be made available. You can find further details here.
After opening dates on Taylor Swift's Red Tour and Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert's Locked & Reloaded Tour, Eldredge feels he has the experience needed to hold his own onstage. Once he wraps up his own tourl, the singer will be found on the final leg of Keith Urban's Light The Fuse Tour 2014 in January.
Brett Eldredge Bring You Back 2013 Tour Dates:
10/3 – Oxford, Ohio | Brick Street Bar
10/4 – Milwaukee, Wisc. | The Rave II
10/5 – Chicago, Ill. | Joe's Bar
10/10 – Davie, Fla. | The Round Up
10/11 – Jacksonville, Fla. | Mavericks
10/12 – Bradenton, Fla. | JoyLand and Nightclub IV
10/17 – Chattanooga, Tenn. | Track 29
10/25 – Boston, Mass. | Paradise Rock Club
10/30 – St. Louis Park, Minn. | Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill
10/31 – Lincoln, Neb. | Single Barrel
11/16 – Decatur, Ala. | Herb's Music Hall
11/22 – Austin, Texas | Midnight Rodeo
11/30 – Washington, DC | 9:30 Club
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The musical premiere of a Jason Robert Brown musical based on the novel "The Bridges of Madison County" is one of the highlights of the 2013 summer season at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
The show, directed by Bartlett Sher and with a book by Marsha Norman, will be the third and final show on the main stage, running Aug. 1 to 18.
No casting has been announced but Kelli O'Hara is reportedly attached to the project. O'Hara starred last summer at WTF in the world premiere of the musical "Far From Heaven." That show is now slated for May 8 to June 30 at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. O'Hara starred in Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza"," also directed by Sher.
The 2013 season, announced Monday morning, runs from June 26 to Aug. 18, with a three-show Main Stage lineup that opens with a revival of the farce "Animal Crackers," by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, running June 26 to July 14. The show, which also features music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, is adapted and directed by Henry Wishcamper.
Also in the main stage series is George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," starring Robert Sean Leaonard, directed by Nicholas Martin. That show runs July 17 to 27. The production just completed a run at the Old Globe in San Diego. Charlotte Perry, Don Sparks, Paxton Whitehead, Kandis Chappell and Deborah Taylor are featured in that production.
On the smaller Nikos Stage, audiences will see the world premiere of Bess Wohl's "American Hero," directed by Leigh Silverman (June 26 to July 7); a revival of Tom Stoppard's "Hapgood" starring WTF fave Kate Burton, directed by Evan Yionoulis (July 10 to 21); and the new musical "Johnny Baseball," with a book by Richard Dresser, music by Robert Reale and lyrics by Willie Reale. (July 24 to Aug. 4). Marc Bruni, who was originallly slated to stage "Hello, Dolly!" at Goodspeed Opera House, now directs the WTF musical.
"Johnny Baseball" had its world premiere in 2010 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass, directed by Diane Paulus.
The season will have a fourth show Aug. 7 to 18, at the Nikos, still to be annoumnced
WTF will also present Bram, Stoker's "Dracula" as part of its Free Theatre, playing July 10 to 10. Steve Lawson directs.
Single tickets will be available startig in April on the theater's website and by mail. The WTF box office opens June 4 for phone or in-person purchases.
Information: www.wtfestival.org and 413-597-3400.


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Drew Barrymore is one of my favorite celebs–I so admire her ability to be herself, at all times, even when her look or style may be unpopular. That's why I love her ensemble at last night's Nylon + Express August Denim Issue Party in West Hollywood–she chose a $25 vintage dress picked up at an Austin shop.
I'm a sucker for anything sequined, and the slightly slouchy shape is more sophisticated than a skintight mini. Want to check out some of our favorite vintage pieces right now? Here's our three favorite shimmery accessories:
Ciner Vintage Cognac and Grey Crystal Swirl Pin. This would look great as a hair accessory (pinned next to a chic chignon) or pinned on a simple clutch for evening.
Judith Leiber Rare Vintage Pale Lilac Velvet & Crystal Evening Clutch. Just a touch of sparkle makes this bag extra special.
Vintage Italian Rhinestone Cuff Bracelet. This extra-wide bracelet is the only accessory you need with a little black dress.
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souldeep needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
I want a logo created for an Instant Messaging nicknames website. The site is called "FreshNamer", "http://www.freshnamer.com". Ignore the design colouring that is on the site currently, it is going to change based on the chosen logo concept.
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With a stay at Tampa Airport Stadium Inn in Tampa (Westshore), you'll be convenient to International Plaza and Bay Street and Raymond James Stadium. This hotel is within close proximity of George M. Steinbrenner Field and Westshore Plaza Mall.
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