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Wellness & Spa – beneficial therapies all included
This magnificently relaxing extra can be used at no additional charge in our 5,000 m2 wellness and sauna facilities. Surprising effects, scents, sounds, water gardens and much more... Welcome to a world of unique dreams.
Temple of Vitality, sauna, adventure and bathing area
- 48°C caldarium
- 50°C laconium
- 45°C rock steam sauna
- 47°C steam bath
- 80°C Tyrolean pine sauna
- Salt grotto set in Tyrolean rock
- Infrared Swiss pine room with three loungers
- Log cabin sauna with its own relaxation and fresh air section in the hotel gardens
- New: garden sauna with infrared relaxation area, quiet room, fresh air section
- The 'Stille Alm'oasis of relaxation with water beds kept at optimum temperature and a magnificent panoramic view of the stunning mountain landscape
- On top: 'Stille Hochalm' – the crème de la crème of relaxation rooms with romantic alcoves and cosy herb and pine water beds
- Labyrinth of the Senses
- 'Quellengarten mit Wasserschlössl' adventure pool,180 m² in size, indoor pool temperature maintained at 28°C and outdoor pool kept at 31°C
- 800 m² bio swimming pondwith a beautiful lawn for sunbathing
Please notice, that children under 14 have no access to the Temple of Vitality.
Our monthly highlights
Get on your toboggan
What fun!
Not only during the day but at night-time too, the region's toboggan runs invite visitors to partake in a little sporting fun.
Innsbruck the Beautiful
The pretty city on the River Inn
Innsbruck's Old Town, museums, shopping areas, cosy cafés and beautiful tourist attractions are all well worth a visit.
The golf season has opened ...
Start of the golfing season
One of the most beautiful golf courses in the Alps will tempt visitors to tee off – the Alpenrose is in on the action too.
Two wheels, one adventure
Our 'racing stable'
includes more than 60 bicycles, mountain bikes and electric bicycles. If that doesn't give you an excuse to go cycling, nothing will!
Alpine rose red
When the Alpine roses bloom
In June and July, the magnificent carpets of Alpine roses all around the region will captivate every hiker and lover of nature.
It's a cult thing.
5th Karwendel Hike
This will be taking place on 24 August this year, when more than 2,000 participants will meet for the iconic hike to Pertisau.
All aboard the nostalgia train
For more than 120 years,
the Lake Achen steam rack-and-pinion railway has been travelling from the valley to the lake. A great experience for all the family.
Cows with headdresses!
Round-up time is here again
It's a wonderful spectacle when the cows are brought down from the high Alpine pastures – and everyone celebrates.
Nothing beats a good walk
Natural beauty ...
... and hiking fun. During the Alpenrose hiking weeks, you can experience the very best the autumn season has to offer.
Old but still great
500 old power packs
There's lots to look at and enjoy at the Tractor Festival and Vintage Car Meeting ('Oldtimertreffen') on 4 October in Maurach.
It's 'Törggelen' time
Burgi invites you ...
... to the 'Törggelen' festival; sample the year's new wine in a sociable get-together accompanied by chestnuts and ham.
Come on a ski run with me
My cross-country skiing paradise
Those with sporting ambitions come together at the Lake Achen Nordic Skiing Race or at the Lake Achen 3-Valleys Race.
Simply delicious
Fondue in the mountains
In January, Burgi regularly travels with our guests to the fondue evenings held in the Bergrestaurant Rofan mountain restaurant. A real experience!
Trapper adventure
Snowshoe hiking
Nature at its purest, sporting challenge and the possibility of hiking to the most picturesque locations.
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We are trying to develop a website that automate an organisation process. This company, let's called it Acme Limited, usually ask their clients to submit paper form and have the clerks to manually enter those form into the internal system. At the moment they have 60 clients across the state.
Now, Acme Ltd wants their client to go to their website, that we are building, and fill in the data themselves, instead their clerks. The driver for this, is to free up their clerks, and reassign the clerks to do something else.
In my understanding for this scenario - please correct me if I am wrong - the customers in an agile environment, must includes not only the users from the within the company, but also their clients. If we were to develop their system using agile, is it better to include the clients into the software development process ? Have them sit within the development area so that we can ask for their input during development ?

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How did pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux find herself in this fix? She can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Alex Markov, however, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little featherhead with champagne tastes. As humorless as he is deadly handsome, he drags the irrepressible Daisy away from her uptown life and sets out to tame her.
Except it won't be as easy as he thinks. This man without a soul has met a woman who's nothing but heart. Will vows spoken in haste shatter . . . or offer the promise of love everlasting?
About the Author
Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the New York Times bestseller list with Dream a Little Dream. She s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is also a hiker, gardener, reader, wife, and mother of two grown sons.


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For $A \subset \mathbb{N}$ and positive integer $h > 0$, define $r_{A,h}(n)$ to be the number of ways to write $n$ as the sum of $h$ (not necessarily distinct) elements of $A$. We say $A$ is an additive basis of order $h$ if $r_{A,h}(n) > 0$ for all $n$ sufficiently large. Well-known additive bases of finite order include the Waring bases ($\mathbb{N}^k$ for some $k > 0$) and the primes (Goldbach-Shrinel'man Theorem, the $h = 4$ case known as Vinogradov's Theorem). In both cases, the COUNTING function for $A$, which is the function $f(n) = |A \cap [1,n]|$, is quite regular. In particular, for the Waring bases we have $f(n) \sim n^{1/k}$ and for the primes we have $f(n) = \pi(n) \sim \frac{n}{\log(n)}$ (Prime Number Theorem). My question is are there any well-known cases where $f(n)$ is very irregular? In other words there exists some function $g(n)$ and constants $0 < c_1 < c_2 < 1$ such that $\displaystyle \liminf_{n \rightarrow \infty} f(n)/g(n) < c_1, \limsup_{n \rightarrow \infty} f(n)/g(n) > c_2$. I am interested in naturally occurring examples, and less interested in a specific construction of a basis with this property (that shouldn't be too difficult, though I have not tried yet). In particular, whether this property is worthy of serious study.
I guess the very natural example of numbers whose base 3 expansions have only 0's and 1's (a basis of order 2) has the property you mention (taking $g(n)$ to be $n^{2/3}$).
Well, there aren't terribly many well-known sequences for which f(n) is irregular. You could always go with something like the set of integers with an odd number of digits in its binary representation.


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Zoey in Hutchinson wearing a reindeer outfit!(credit: CBS)
Jewels dressing up for the holidays.(credit: Jodi Kesha)
Holiday Pets The bunny had a little too much egg nog in New Prague. (credit: Kate Grabosky)
Holiday Pets Zoey, a yorkie poo, 5 months old, all ready for her first Christmas. (credit: Amy Lockman)
Holiday Pets Sadie, Buddy, Teddy and Tasha looking forward to a "Charlie Brown Christmas." (credit: Sheila and Bill)
Holiday Pets Maxwell the cat is in the holiday spirit. (credit: Scott Bryant)
Holiday Pets Happy holidays from Fifi, Herbie and Sally. (credit: Ron Totman)
Holiday Pets Maizee Johnson & Beamer Clausen. (credit: Pam Clausen)
Holiday Pets Sunny getting into the spirit. Ho! Ho! Ho! (credit: Mick Scott)
Holiday Pets Boogie loves to help wrap gifts. (credit: Lynette Nelson)
Holiday Pets Charlie. (credit: Lori)
Holiday Pets Georgie the rein-dog! (credit: Kirsten)
Holiday Pets Cooper is loving the winter wonderland! (credit: Kerry Hoeschen)
Holiday Pets Here is Kali in her Christmas coat.
Holiday Pets Jube Santa! Best wishes from Minneapolis.
Holiday Pets These are two of our three yorkiepoos. One is an elf, one is santa and the third refuses to participate. (credit: Jill Wisner)
Holiday Pets My dog Teagan in his Santa hat with beard. (credit: Jessica Gauger)
Holiday Pets Dodger and Playdoh, Santa's "little" helpers. (credit: Jenny Heinrich)
Holiday Pets Our doxie, Tucker, sitting under the tree. (credit: Dan and Ryan Wuertz)
Holiday Pets The perfect gift under the tree. (credit: Curt Yort)
Holiday Pets Belle's ready for Christmas and her birthday. (credit: Colleen Nelson)
Holiday Pets Toby, the star of new book On Toby's Terms, sticking his tongue out at Santa PAWS. (credit: Charmaine Hammond)
Holiday Pets These are our farm dogs, Sugar and Spice. They love the tractor, so we took their picture in the loader. (credit: Carol Whitcomb)
Holiday Pets Viggo & Violet posing for the holiday. (credit: Tony Mantovani)
Holiday Pets Ester is waiting patiently for Santa to make his annual stop in Zimmerman. (credit: Sue Frisch)
Holiday Pets Relax, Daisy has Christmas preparations under control in Redwood Falls. (credit: Lorrie)
Holiday Pets At Zywiec's Garden Center in Cottage Grove, Santa hugs Melvin so tightly his tongue sticks out. (credit: Michele Zywiec)
Holiday Pets Don't let the lettering fool you, Claire from Stillwater doesn't have her photos retouched. She really is that cute. (credit: Ita Walker)
Holiday Pets In Shoreview, Bugsy and Candi warm up Santa's chair for him. (credit: Trisha)
Holiday Pets Buddy dons his Christmas hat. (credit: Deb Nelson)
Holiday Pets In Franklin, Santa takes a rest on Ozzy taking a rest. (credit: Deb Nelson)
Holiday Pets In Brooklyn Park, it's Wesley's first time playing in (or even seeing) snow. (credit: Stacy Stellmacher)
Holiday Pets In Burnsville, even guinea pigs Ginger and Cinnamon spread holiday cheer. (credit: Jill Reeves)
Holiday Pets Hannah and her toy puppy in St. Paul love Christmas. (credit: Hannah)
Holiday Pets "MB" in St. Paul loves to play Santa. (credit: Denise Cook)
Holiday Pets "Reindeer" Pickles the Rabbit spreads holiday cheer in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. (credit: Chris and Juli)
Holiday Pets Mittens is fully prepared for the holidays in Columbia Heights, Minn. (credit: Melissa Heath)
Holiday Pets Moulon of Burnsville, Minn. is a Pekingese who enjoys playing Santa Claus. (credit: Mel and Kersey Jackola)
Holiday Pets Molly in Brainerd, Minn. is waiting for Santa to come. (credit: Joy)
Holiday Pets In White Bear Lake, Minn., Marley the Golden Retriever is spreading cheer in Christmas gear. (credit: Marley)
Holiday Pets This Arden Hills, Minn. Golden Retreiver keeps his paws warm by donning booties. (credit: Steve Cook)
Holiday Pets Lily the Chihuahua is ready for a snow storm. (credit: Alexis Walsko)
Holiday Pets Lily in Burnsville, Minn. loves to wear her Ms. Clause coat. (credit: Tina)
Holiday Pets Two "Christmas Angels" in Rochester, Minn. (credit: Suzanne)
Holiday Pets Tia from Savage, Minn. says this is "Timber Paws." (credit: Tia)
Holiday Pets Grover and Bailey, in their holiday antlers. (credit: Lisa Smith)
Holiday Pets Pup Gracie in her antler ears. (credit: Larry from Jordan)
Holiday Pets The cockapoo Mac is all ready for the holidays. (credit: Lorie Streeter)
Holiday Pets Kamo Claus is coming to town! (credit: Carolyn)
Holiday Pets Daisy lays down for a long winter's nap. (credit: Sarah Libby)
Holiday Pets Ziggy says "Bah, humbug." (credit: Angie and Tony)
Holiday Pets
This 7-month-old Miniature Golden Doodle wishes you a happy holidays.This is Samson. (credit: Andrea Porter)
Holiday Pets Bongo poses like a reindeer in antlers. (credit: Emily P.)
Holiday Pets Liberty Belle, Bernese Mountain Dog, telling Santa her Christmas wishes! (credit: Beth in Luck, Wis.)
Holiday Pets Milo enjoys wearing his winter hat. (credit: Emily P.)
Holiday Pets Peanut in front of the tree posing in her santa hat. (credit: Karen Batchelder)
Holiday Pets Sisu gets the grinch for Christmas! (credit: Scott Rykken)
Holiday Pets Bella, Aruba and Zoey telling Santa all of their Christmas wishes. (credit: Sherlyn Anderson)
Holiday Pets Kelsey is singing along with the Christmas carols in Hager City, Wis. (credit: Maryann Anderson)
Holiday Pets Hera the Boxer as a mad Santa. (credit: Abby In Minneapolis)
Holiday Pets A closer look at one of the pets featured in a family Christmas card. (credit: Patricia Wegner)
Holiday Pets Casey Wojchik sent this picture of his cat dressed in festive, if not classic, holiday apparel. (credit: Casey Wokchik)
Holiday Pets Jack's thinking, "take the picture already!" (credit: Dave Sweet)
Holiday Pets Pup Callie is wearing her Christmas collar. (credit: Lin Nelson)
Holiday Pets Wow, Santa. That's a lot of kitties. (credit: Vicki Kuhlmann)
Holiday Pets Can you see it? An iguana gets cozy in the Christmas tree. (credit: Aiden Winn)
Holiday Pets Cagney from Maple Grove, Minn. (credit: Shari Prusak)
Holiday Pets Sammy is not happy about joining in on these reindeer games. (credit: Patty Sanger)
Holiday Pets Ruby and Rosie ask, "Are we done yet?" (credit: Sharon Collier)
Holiday Pets Ginger tries on the beard, but seems distracted by the bulb. (credit: Patty Sanger)
Holiday Pets Larry Coulter sent this picture of Daisy, Cindy and Nordy. (credit: Larry Coulter)
Holiday Pets Monte from Minneapolis in his Christmas collar. (credit: Kathy Barksdale)
Holiday Pets "The things we do to make our owners smile," said Missy the cat from Brooklyn Park. (credit: Melanie Enge)
Holiday Pets Mini, Sammy and Kirby post for the Chip Family Christmas photo. (credit: Joan Black)
Holiday Pets Ginger the guinea pig loves the holidays! (credit: Jill Reeves)
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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
|Centers & Pools
|Reservations & Permits
|Projects & Planning
|A - Z Index
Construction of park pathways, site furnishings, landscape boulders, lawn areas and a new sidewalk and planting strip is complete. Thanks to a great group of volunteers for two productive volunteer work parties in January 2006 to complete the landscape planting!
If you'd like to read an overview of the public involvement summary, click on the link.
> Public involvement summary
This park participated in some innovative non-native plant management methods when April 24, 2005 became �Take your kidd to work day.� Four goats were herded in a small area to begin non-native plant clearing. The goat landscape management activity is part of the community match for fundraising for the park renovation.
> more about using goats to clear brush!
Construction of park improvements (pathway, benches, picnic table, lawn and landscape areas) occurred over the summer of 2005. Volunteers will assist in planting and ongoing vegetation management work.
CONGRATULATIONS! On October 6, 2004 Safeco Foundation awarded the York Park Task Force $15,000, bringing the total funds leveraged by this Rainier Valley community group to $52,000 including money from the Miller Foundation, and the Department of Neighborhoods and King County. Great fundraising work!
|This project developed a 11,625 square-foot site into a neighborhood pocket park.
The site was purchased in 2003 from Seattle City Light with Pro Parks Acquisition Funding. The
North Rainier Hub Urban Village Neighborhood Plan requested the City �purchase York substation
for community open space and develop it into a pocket park.�
$109,070 of Pro Parks Levy development funds are allocated for park development.
Final concept design for York Substation park development
York Park Task Force meets regularly to plan park events. Contact Louise Hotaling at 206-723-3811 email@example.com for more information.
Seattle Parks met with the community on:
11/8/04 to review the final design for York Substation.
> Read a meeting summary
Seattle Parks met with the community on
1/14/04 to review a single concept plan
> Read a meeting summary
12/8/03 to review possible designs for York Substation.
> Read a meeting summary
Parks met with the York Park Task Force and other friends of the park during 2004 to review fundraising plans to raise additional development funds. The new park will be constructed in 2005.
> Read a letter of support from King County Councilmember Dwight Pelz
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Patrick Deneen has a good read over at Front Porch Republic on the nature of the project of reading the "Great Books". I won't spoil the read, but he makes the observation that while reading the Great Books of the western canon is a good thing, there must be some impetus for reading the Great Books beside simply reading the Great Books. In other words, there must be some sort of anthropology and idea (or theology) of history which can serve as an impetus for reading the Great Books. This is the kind of thing I was getting at in my book, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life. Years ago, Frederick Wilhemsen made some similar observations in his Modern Age article, "The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom" (in the Summer/Fall 1987 issue). For the essay click here. Wilhemsen's point (correct in my view) was that a Great Books program can be a good thing, but one must never forget the goal or telos of education: wisdom. One reads the Great Books as part of an overarching goal of becoming a wise person. Without the goal of wisdom, Great Books programs risk forming persons who are simply able to drop a name, or summarize a concept, but are not wise or virtuous. These persons are simply unwise and foolish name-droppers, not wise persons.


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Mini Brie & Apple Quiches
We love the way Brie and apples taste together in these mini quiches. Mini phyllo cups make it swift…View slide
Guacamole-Stuffed Eggs
Guacamole-stuffed eggs are the perfect healthy appetizer recipe for an easy, yet impressive, potluck…View slide
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These crustless mini quiches are like portable omelets. Turkey sausage and sauteed mushrooms keep th…View slide
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These peanut butter-pretzel truffles satisfy your craving for something sweet and salty.…View slide
Mini Greek Pizza Muffins
All the flavors of a Greek pizza make these savory muffins bite-size treats for adults and kids alik…View slide
Chile Con Queso
Our healthier version of chile con queso will have ooey-gooey-cheese lovers celebrating. Now you can…View slide
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Some molten-cake recipes call for simply underbaking the batter so the middles stay lava-like, but m…View slide
Black Bean Quesadillas
In a hurry? These satisfying quesadillas take just 15 minutes to make. We like them with black beans…View slide
Parmesan Spinach Cakes
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On April 18, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention-funded Safe Start Center will present the 1-hour Webinar "Unclocking the Development of Children Exposed to Violence." Panelists will discuss the impact of exposure to violence on child development and offer ways schools and the child welfare system can better respond to trauma.
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Congrats on launching the audio fics! I noticed it said that if someone didn't want their stories read and recorded they should let you know, but it doesn't say how. I just wanted to suggest adding it to the profile page. You can click whether or not you are a beta reader, so perhaps another item can be added as to whether or not you would approve your stories as audiofics. Either that, or when the mods make a decision for the next recording, you could contact the author. But then, you might not hear from them all, and if you can just check their profile page, you are good to go!
Good luck with the new feature!


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Repelled by tax 'fairness'
The wealthiest Americans always have had targets on their backs, put there by politicians ginning up class envy to justify ever-more-progressive taxation and wealth distribution. But of late, "the rich" have been subjected to a relentless thrashing at the hands of leftist politicians and "journalists" for being guilty of the crime of first-degree success.
The 2012 presidential campaign was all about the Top 1 Percent "not paying their fair share," even though for 100 years they've done the heavy lifting on income taxes. Today, while nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes, the Top 1 Percent account for 22 percent of all income-tax receipts while taking home just 13 percent of the nation's earnings, according to the most recent Congressional Budget Office data.
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Eugene Patrick Devany wrote on Jan 24, 2013 3:29 PM:
" If typical workers paid only the 15.3% payroll tax and no income tax at all; they would still be paying more than the high earners with their $1.3 trillion in tax expenditures (exemptions, special rates, deductions and other loopholes which reduce tax revenue). The tax revenue collected from the individual income tax base was only 14.1% of the total $12.5 trillion in income ($898 billion from the income tax and $865 billion from payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare [FY 2010]). The payroll taxes destroy jobs and have prolonged the recovery from the Great Recession.
Payroll taxes are part of the income tax base and should be merged with the income tax for an honest assessment of tax liability. Better yet, the payroll taxes should be replaced with a revenue neutral net wealth tax (excluding $15,000 and retirement funds) and the income tax rate should be reduced to 8% (possible because no tax expenditures can be justified with such a low rate). "
Payroll taxes are part of the income tax base and should be merged with the income tax for an honest assessment of tax liability. Better yet, the payroll taxes should be replaced with a revenue neutral net wealth tax (excluding $15,000 and retirement funds) and the income tax rate should be reduced to 8% (possible because no tax expenditures can be justified with such a low rate). "
Glenn Koons wrote on Jan 24, 2013 10:01 PM:
" The problem is of course that all the Conn. and Blue State and Purple State Moron Voters re-elected the same liberal progressive Dems that hiked taxes on all, put regs on business to drive them out of states like NY and CA., and then managed to spend us into Greece. Again, of course, the liberal media propped up the Obamaites and just said, we need a transformation from free enterprise to socialist baloney(though it never works) and the Low Info Voters said, you betcha and give us food stamps. And now, it is too late to stop this Tyrant in DC and his lefist Senate, unions, university clones. And now the paper comes out for reality???????? Please. "
George wrote on Jan 25, 2013 11:34 AM:
" Class envy has nothing to do with the current tax fairness debate. It has to do with a class of the wealthy which has received all of the tax breaks for the last 30 years, while the rest of us have had to pick up the tab. You elitists can look down your noses at the rest of us if you like, but you are just as liable to pay a fair share of taxes as the rest of the country and if you don't like it, it's just too bad. "
Observer wrote on Jan 28, 2013 12:46 PM:
" I am an educated lower middle class American that pays almost 32% off my hard earned Labor in taxes and that is not counting the state income tax and the tax on purchases. This is not about fairness and tax the wealthy more, this is about spending that is out of control and a tax system that is completely unfair to our country and its citizens. Throw out all the politicians, let communities take care of their own, get us out of the constant wars and do away with the tax code on our Labor (which is NOT commerce) and our nation and economy will improve greatly. "
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Are Carcinoid & Neuroendocrine the Same?
Last Modified: January 7, 2013
Can carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor be used interchangeably? Or is one not always the other or something?
Katie Fanslau, RN, MSN, Nurse in Nuclear Medicine at Penn Medicine responds.
There are a several different types of NETs (Neuroendocrine Tumors). So Carcinoid is a type of NET, but not all NETs are carcinoid. Other types include:
- Pheochromocytoma
- Paraganglioma
- Neuroblastoma
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I have been able to google "bulk phase transition" and get plenty of results that verify that something called a bulk phase transition exists, however, I cannot seem to find a precise definition of what exactly a bulk phase transition is. Could someone please help me with a definition of bulk phase transition? I would very much appreciate it.
I think the word bulk transition is used in several (related) contexts. The first is the following: Consider a system with a first order phase transition, governed by some partition function in $d$ dimensions. Impose boundary conditions that create a $d-1$ dimensional interface between the two phases. Construct an effective partition function (in $d-1$ dimensions) for the interface. You can now ask whether the roughening transition for the $d-1$ dimensional interface occurs at the same temperature as the $d$ dimensional bulk transition.
A (related) usage of the term bulk transition is in lattice field theory, usually in the context of first order transitions of lattice gauge theories at strong coupling. A weak coupling transition of a $d+1$ dimensional lattice model is related to a thermal phase transition of a continuum field theory in $d$ spatial dimensions. But this is not the case for a strong coupling transition -- there is no continuum limit, and therefore no thermal interpretation of the boundary conditions. The transition is merely a bulk transitions of the $d+1$ dimensional lattice model.
I think you should not put the question in such a way: "What exactly a bulk phase transition is?" concerning such matters. It is because it is not a precisely defined scientific term. It is rather an explanatory term that people may use to indicate different things. In such a case they, of course, should explain, what do they mean.
I would say that a bulk phase transition can appear in a liquid or a solid. In a liquid however the differences would be less pronounced since the difference between the bulk and the surface is only some interface energies. In solid state phase transitions (normally reffered to as transformations) the strain energy also depicts a major contribution to the Gibbs free energy (analogy of pressure in gases). Therefore, since these stresses are lower near unconstrained surfaces, one could use the term bulk phase transition to restrict his representative volume element fully to a bulk, e.g. by applying periodic boundary conditions


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In the current round, I have no resources but have placed 1 meeple on a card and the rest on wood. I roll the die and get a few wood resources which can cover the cost of the card. Am I allowed to use the resources gained in the current turn to buy the card?
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Yes, of course you can. The only "problem" is that you risk not getting the resources you need and then you won't be able to pay for the card and thus you may waste that worker's turn.
That's not to say that good Stone Age play doesn't involve such risk-taking as long as it's realistic.
Yes, you can. From p5 of the rules:
And on p6, explaining how to resolve a people figure on a civilisation card:
Emphasis mine. You can certainly wait to see what resources you get from other people before turning your attention to the civilisation card. And you don't even have to buy the card, even if you have by that point obtained the resources to do so.
No, you can't. When you buy a card, this is how it happens:
1) You buy the card.
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Is there a way to determine the newest tag in subversion?
For an application I've deployed the client needs to have another server that they can access in case the live server goes down. There is already an automated system to copy the database to the backup server. The application code is in a subversion repository and I would like to write a script that copies the code from subversion to the backup server automatically. I have a script that does this, however, I need to manually tell it what tag to retrieve. Is there a way to make this totally automated.
The server is running Redhat.


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SMO is the fastest way to increase traffic on site/blog.
If you want to increase the traffic in your blogs then you have to write the quality and attrcative contents and use high PR sites for blogs.
First of all search you niche related keyword and select some low competitive and having somewhat good search volume you can create your blog post using that keyword and initially update your blog 2-3 times weekly than after you can limit your post also interlink your posts, submit blog in blog directories, you can ping and bookmark your blog
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July 12, 2013. About 2,300 neuroscientists from all over the world gathered in downtown Seattle June 16-20 for the annual meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). Presentations ranged from imaging the brain in sickness and in health; resting-state versus task-based strategies; analytical tools to make sense of all the voxels streaming in; and the latest brain stimulation techniques. Schizophrenia figured prominently in one morning workshop devoted to exploring different measures of brain organization in mental illness. Toward the end of the meeting, Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), dropped by for a town hall-styled conversation about the new BRAIN (Brain Research for Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative announced in April by the Obama administration (Insel et al., 2013).
Brain organization in schizophrenia
Vince Calhoun of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque organized the workshop, held Tuesday, June 18, which featured talks about ways to capture the brain's connectivity and how these networks might differ in schizophrenia. All speakers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor co-activated regions of the brain, which was then taken as a measure of their connectivity.
Ed Bullmore of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, reviewed his graph theoretical approach, which focuses on hub regions of the brain that are highly connected to other parts of the brain. At rest, the brain in schizophrenia seems to have fewer of these hubs (Lynall et al., 2010), and modeling work from Bullmore's group suggests this could stem from too many long-range connections (see SRF related news story). Bullmore proposed that these hub regions represent the most valuable components of the brain's network and that brain disorders, including mental illnesses, are "hubopathies." To back this up, he showed new computer simulations in which targeted removal of hub regions steeply decreased global efficiency—a measure of how well information flows through the brain—compared to random removal of brain regions.
In his talk, Vince Calhoun emphasized the dynamic nature of the brain's connectivity patterns, even at rest. Last year his group reported that, at rest, the healthy brain cycles through distinct states, with some regions tightly co-activated some of the time, then less well correlated or even anti-correlated at other times (Allen et al., 2012). He showed data indicating differences in these states in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and a poster by Barnaly Rashid of his lab delved into the details. Of five distinct states identified during rest, people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder transitioned into three of these states less often than controls did, and both spent less time in state 2, which is noted for decreased correlations within sensorimotor regions, but high correlations within cognitive control regions, visual regions, and default-mode regions. State 5 also looked slightly different in schizophrenia and bipolar: Bipolar disorder was marked by reduced connectivity between visual areas and frontal cortex, whereas the version of state 5 in schizophrenia included several regions that were over- or underconnected compared to controls.
In her talk, Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv University, Israel, described the dynamics of brain connectivity as emotions evolved while people with schizophrenia watched movie clips. This approach has allowed her to dissect two different networks involved in empathy in a previous study: an insula-anterior cingulate circuit tied to "embodied simulation," which represents a bottom-up process by which a person viscerally feels another's emotions, and a medial prefrontal cortex-temporal-parietal circuit tied to "Theory of Mind," which reflects a more cognitive rumination on someone else's emotions (Raz et al., 2013). Synchrony within these regions tracks with emotion intensity, and Hendler presented new data from people with schizophrenia showing that, despite reporting similar fear intensities as controls while watching the movies, their brain synchrony differed, overemphasizing the Theory of Mind network. Healthy siblings of people with schizophrenia showed intermediate levels of synchrony, suggesting that some of the pattern of emotion-related brain changes reflect vulnerability to the disorder and its associated difficulties in reading emotions.
In the last talk, Tianzi Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, described the brainnetome (as in Brain-net-ome), a Chinese project to study the brain at multiple levels, taking its networks as the basic unit of research (Jiang, 2013). Part of this initiative involves scanning, with both structural and functional imaging methods, 1,000 schizophrenia patients, and the researchers have already scanned half that number. This integrative view will not only provide a fuller picture of the brain in the disorder, but the researchers also hope to develop a way to diagnose it through imaging.
Jiang described recent results of this effort: A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene was associated with disrupted connectivity in healthy controls. Specifically, for the risk variant Ser704Cys, Cys allele carriers showed decreased global efficiency relative to Ser homozygotes (Li et al., 2013). New data presented by Bing Liu in a poster from the group also reported decreased white matter integrity in the tracts connecting the thalamus to the medial prefrontal cortex for Cys allele carriers, implicating DISC1 function in brain connections.
NIH BRAIN initiative: the next big thing?
This "big science" approach to solving the brain's mysteries seems to be catching on, with other projects underway in Europe, Israel, and now the United States. Touted as the "next great American project," on the order of the moonshot or the Human Genome Project, the NIH's BRAIN initiative plans to pull together different fields to develop the tools most needed to decode the language of the brain. On Wednesday afternoon, June 19, Thomas Insel was on hand to explain and receive feedback on the new initiative. He acknowledged that the complexity of the brain made the ultimate goals of this project harder to identify than, say, the Human Genome Project's clear endpoint. An advisory group is now developing priorities for research, and their recommendations are expected by August. Insel tried to calm anxieties about the project taking away money from the already strapped NIH budget, saying that its budget for 2014 was less than 1 percent of the $5.5 billion planned for neuroscience research.
Though it is unclear whether the project will involve brain imaging, or even human studies, plenty of comments followed. One person suggested that understanding brain development was a worthy target, as finding ways to treat what are now lifelong developmental disorders would be a good return on research investment. Another audience member suggested that, in parallel with developing tools, there is a need for developing analysis techniques that can deal with the massive amounts of data to come (and that are already swamping researchers). Yet another attendee countered that there were already ways for dealing with high-dimensional datasets in the fields of computer science, statistics, and physics. "There are people out there already who can do this," he said, to applause from the audience. Finally, someone suggested that focusing on brain disorders could break open brain operation better than studying healthy brains. Insel said that, as director of the NIMH, he had no quibbles with that idea, but as far as he knew, the BRAIN initiative was "agnostic" about disorders.—Michele Solis.
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He lit up when talking about movies and people that have influenced him, particularly Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," which he said he discussed with Mr. Eastwood during the making of "J. Edgar." They wanted to emulate how that 1950 film handled voice-over narration. But Mr. DiCaprio also seemed to go on auto pilot from time to time, answering in the way that actors tend to answer. (Lucky to be employed this, trusting your gut that.) And personal questions are not appreciated. Just why is it that he dates all of those supermodels?


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March 15th, 2012
Part 4 of this story. (Part 1.) Tomorrow: an epilogue.
Part 4 of this story. (Part 1.) Tomorrow: an epilogue.
A few years ago, I wrote a recommendation of the strip "Cul de Sac," by Richard Thompson, a gentleman I had the privilege of meeting several times. I wrote:
The characters are eccentric in ways that continually delight and surprise. I read individual strips in bits and pieces (here's the strip's official online home), but it wasn't until I sat down with the full books in-hand that Alice, Petey, and their parents and friends took on strange and hilarious personalities. The language is clever and specific; the drawings are weird and delightful…
In 2012, Richard retired from drawing "Cul de Sac", following the worsening of his Parkinson's disease. To aid in a fundraising effort for Parkinson's research, I and many of my cartooning colleagues contributed original art to a book called Team Cul de Sac. The next time I saw Richard was in my buddy Dave Kellett's cartooning documentary Stripped.
This week, Richard passed away from complications from Parkinson's. He was 58 years old.
Here's a video that shares a little bit of what made Richard's art — and his life, and his personality — so marvelous:
I hope everyone takes the time to read some "Cul de Sac", or his editorial strip, "Richard's Poor Almanac". Richard was a phenomenal talent, a cartoonist's cartoonist whose work overflowed with wit and exuberance, and I hope his voice will endure to inspire generations of artists in the way it has me.
He was also a kind, generous, gentle man whose acquaintance I was supremely honored to have made:
To David, the genius behind Wondermark, with admiration from your fan —
Richard Thompson, SPX 2010
He did not have to be so kind, but he chose to be. I will always be grateful that I met him, that I got the chance to experience his work, and that I could be a tiny, tiny part of his life.
We will miss you, Richard.
Thanks to everyone who entered our latest caption contest! I had a lot of fun reading all the entries, and it was very hard to choose winners, as is always the way of these things. For future reference, the captions were entered on the Wondermark Facebook page, and there were also some in the comments on this post.
Common themes this time around included: the dromedary as stork delivering a baby; puns on "animal magnetism" or "attraction"; mentions of Insane Clown Posse ("magnets, how do they work?"); references to Camel cigarettes or "Arabian" things like shawarma; proverbs about passing through the eyes of needles; instructions to plant the child at some specific spot in the garden; robots; and long Dickensian dialogues.
That all being said, please enjoy some, in no particular order,
"Mabel had a knack for getting out of her chores."—Graham Bird
"I've told you before! Milkshakes bring boys to the yard."—Gedbury of Slacks Creek
"I'm terribly sorry madam, sometimes the stork delivers the wrong ones. Thank you for keeping the receipt."—David Ault
"Back off, Ermengarde, I got this."—Francis Heaney
"I hate the packaging on these things."—Pan Outeast
"Stand back, Helen! The bastard still has my ball bearings and I've finally got him right where I want him!"—Chuck Jordan
"Is that my good magnet? Are you using my good magnet again?!"—Erik Deckers
"Its budget dwindling rapidly, the BBC production of Moby Dick was forced into increasing levels of abstraction."—Jorpho
"Dammit, woman, don't try to stop me! This is science!"—Kristan Wheaton
"My real dad lets me play with magnets whenever I want!"—Alex S.
"And with Mother's return, the situation went from bad to worse."—Collin Voyles
"Technical foul. Lose one quarter furlong."—Doug Zimmer
"Get in the car. No time to explain."—Shawn LeBlanc
"Wait! I want to change my vote!"—David Tresner-Kirsch
"The view from here is much improv'd:
It is two-toed, not cloven-hooved!"—Pan Outeast
…A reminder! Last caption contest, we instituted a rule that we would ALSO consider, as an exhibition entry, a line of dialogue from the current "Garfield". Which, for the day the contest ended (July 12th), gives us:
"How's the summer treating you?"
[Hold for polite applause.]
Now, without further ado, or distracting reminders to
come visit me at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, at booth #1229…
Tuesday July 12th, at midnight Pacific time, is the deadline to submit to our fourth Caption Contest! You can submit your entry here on the site, or on the Wondermark Facebook page. I will read all the entries and post my favorites soon!


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The Call to Advocacy for Your Child with Autism
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Becoming an advocate will never change the condition, but it can utterly change your perspective and that of everyone you come in contact with. As you gradually release the dreams you had for your child before the diagnosis, you will move through the difficult stages of grief toward the calm of acceptance. Then you will be ready to take on the new role that this diagnosis asks of you.
"We need you," Jim Sinclair said in his plea to parents. "Your world is not very open to us, and we won't make it without your strong support. . . . Take a look at your autistic child again and . . . [t]hink to yourself:
"This is not my child that I expected and planned for. This is an alien child who landed in my life by accident. I don't know who this child is or what it will become. But I know it's a child, stranded in an alien world, without parents of its own kind. . . . It needs someone to care for it, to teach it, to interpret and to advocate for it. And . . . that job is mine if I want it.'"
As the mother of an autistic child, I know how much this new job asks of a parent. I have felt for myself what a blow this diagnosis can be. Despite my deep, unqualified love for my son, it has literally forced me to find a new strength inside.
Learning how to advocate for my son has been the biggest challenge of my life. But now Marty is ten years old. In the years since his diagnosis, I've spoken with hundreds of parents who have children with special needs. It's been a wonderful opportunity for me to help. Along the way, I've become a recognized expert myself.
As a result of standing up for my own child and standing up for the children of my clients, I know exactly what it takes. I can clearly describe the road ahead — pointing out many of the pitfalls and showing you how to avoid them, explaining definitively what works and what doesn't.
Because I was so frustrated myself at the lack of clear information when I needed it most, you will be given concrete tools for navigating the laws, institutions and decision makers that so greatly affect your child's life. In the very next chapter, "Advocacy 101," you'll be introduced to the skills you need to become a powerful advocate for your child.
If I can move from anguish to advocacy, so can you. It isn't easy, but I'm going to show you how. Now let's roll up our sleeves and get down to business.
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Magnetic resonance imaging opened a new chapter in the history of medical diagnostics, but it still cannot answer all the questions. Researchers at the Iowa State University came up with a wonderful solution. They developed a software, BodyViz, that can convert common 2D MRI and CAT scans into 3D visualizations, enabling physicians to navigate inside the body using an Xbox controller.
Two-dimensional imaging technologies have been used in medicine for a long time, said (BodyViz co-founder) Eliot Winer, an Iowa State associate professor of mechanical engineering and an associate director of Iowa State's Virtual Reality Applications Center. But those flat images aren't easily read and understood by anybody but specialists.
"If I'm a surgeon or an oncologist or a primary care physician, I deal with patients in 3-D," Winer said.
(The creators) like to quote a doctor who told a reporter that when preparing for complex procedures, "2-D is guessing and 3-D is knowing."


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Cancer Death Rates Decline: What Does it Mean for Me?
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Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: October 17, 2007
The headlines have been hot in early October with the news of a significant decline in cancer death rates. The American Cancer Society released a report detailing an overall decline in cancer death rates of 2.1% from 2002 through 2004, compared to the 1.1% decline seen between 1993 and 2002. These rates include all types of cancer in both men and women, from all races. The decreases were greater in men (2.6% per year) compared to women (1.8% per year). Declines were seen in the top three cancer killers in men (lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer) and two of the top three killers in women (breast and colorectal cancers).
What can we take from these headlines? Is getting that mammogram still important? Will putting out that cigarette really help me? Let's delve deeper into this headline and explore what the causes for this decline may be, and how it affects us.
Why are we talking about 2004?
For starters, you may be wondering why we are talking about numbers from 2004 in 2007. Well, here's how it works. All medical facilities report information about new cancer cases and deaths to a state based cancer registry. The state registries collect, manage, and analyze this data, sharing it with the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR, which is run by the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC). The NPCR, along with the National Cancer Institute's SEER program, collect and analyze data for the entire US population. As you can imagine, this is a time- consuming process, and so the reported data is typically from 3 to 4 years prior.
Thus, we're talking about 2004 data because that is the most recent information that we have available. Let's look at some of the specifics:
Colon Cancer
Despite remaining the second-leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, colon cancer deaths are dropping more rapidly than any other cancer: a 5% drop in men and 4.5% drop in women. That can likely be attributed to two things, early detection and better treatments. Higher rates of colon cancer screening with colonoscopy have led to earlier detection, leading to a greater number of people being cured of the disease. In 1996, physicians had only one type of chemotherapy available to treat colon cancer. Now there are six, leading to longer survival for even those with advanced disease.
There's more good news for colon cancer. The number of people being diagnosed with it is declining as well; down by 2.5% a year. What's the reason? Screening! Screening with colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy allows pre-cancerous polyps to be detected and removed before they become cancer. More folks are getting screening for colon cancer, but the number being screened is still only 50% of the population. Imagine how the rates would decline if everyone underwent screening for colon cancer.
Breast Cancer
On the surface, the news looks good, as rates for new breast cancer cases dropped by 3.4% a year from 2001-2004. Researchers are attributing the largest portion of this decline to the decrease in hormone replacement therapy use seen in 2002 and 2003. But the news isn't all good. Unfortunately, from 2000 through 2003, the number of women getting mammograms declined by a little over 3%. This may mean the decrease is in part because we are not finding the cancers in those women who are not being screened. Larger problems such as insurance coverage and access to care may also play a role in this decline in screening.
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer death rates account for the big difference in male and female cancer mortality. In men, the death rates have steadily declined by about 2% a year, but in women, the death rate is still increasing, although less rapidly than in the past. On the plus side, the actual number of lung cancer cases in women leveled off between 1998 and 2004 (following a long period of increases). Researchers attribute this to the fact that smoking became more common among US women after World War II (years after men took up the habit), and women have been quitting at a slower pace compared to men. This led to an earlier spike in lung cancer in men and a slower decline in women. While we have been hearing more about people who have never smoked being diagnosed with lung cancer, smoking is still by far the leading cause- and a preventable one.
Surveys by the CDC in 2004 and 2005 found smoking rates in US adults had remained constant at about 21%, after an eight-year decline. They also reported that 42.5% of smokers had stopped smoking for at least one day in the past year in an attempt to quit. Even more alarming, there has been no decline in smoking among US adolescents from 2002-2005. Unfortunately, smoking remains the most preventable cause of cancer incidence and death.
Other Cancers
The number of prostate cancer cases stabilized from 1995 to 2004, after declining from 1992 through 1995. Increases in the number of cases of multiple myeloma, as well as cancers of the kidney, liver, and esophagus were seen in men between 1975 and 2004. In women, increases were seen in cases of melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, kidney, and bladder cancer between 1975 and 2004. In both men and women, thyroid cancer rates nearly tripled from 1995 through 2004. There is still a lot of work to do in the areas of prevention, early detection and treatment for many types of cancer.
What does this mean for me?
As always, group statistics have little to do with what happens to an individual. As active participants in our own health, we must do what we can to decrease our own risk. This means it is very important to adopt a healthy lifestyle, including quitting smoking, keeping alcohol consumption to a minimum, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating a well-balanced diet. In addition, we have to participate in appropriate cancer screenings, such as mammograms and Pap tests for women, PSA levels for men, colon cancer screening, and periodic visits to a physician for preventive healthcare for both sexes. Sounds like quite a bit of work, but it's our life and we should be responsible for taking care of it.


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I wonder what you think about the quality of light in studio flashes or portable speedlites?
The first time I used speedlites, the light was very good. Then I purchased an Elinchrom D-Lite kit. My first impression was that the light is a little on the warm side, and the quality of light lower than Canon 580-EX speedlites.
Then I got an Elinchrom Quadra kit, and after my first shot I said WOW!, the light has a metallic color, the subjects looks better and have a good light/shadow definition. Of course I used a softbox of similar size in all cases. One Hollywood photographer said that he can recognise if a photo was made with expensive lights or cheap lights.
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Utilize Available Screen Space
Summary: Websites and mobile apps both frequently cram options into too-small parts of the screen, making items harder to understand.
A computer screen's precious pixels are the world's most valuable real estate. Amazon's Add to Cart button is 160×27 pixels, or 0.003 square feet (0.0003 m2 ) at a typical 100 dpi monitor resolution. You could crowd almost 800,000 Buy buttons onto the floor space of the average American home, which currently sells for $160,000. Even a single Buy button will often bring in more than that — let alone the revenue from 800,000 buttons.
Normally, when something is extremely valuable, you try to conserve it. But screen space shouldn't be hoarded, it should be spent. I see too many designs that cram highly valuable content or action items into tiny spaces while wasting vast amounts of screen space.
8 years ago, I analyzed the space allocation across 50 website homepages and found that only 40% of screen space was used on navigation or content of interest to users. This was in the days of 800×600 monitors when space was particularly precious. Today, many websites are a bit better, and bigger monitors obviously allow for more room to play.
Still, sites frequently open important features in tiny pop-ups, violating two guidelines:
- Don't pollute users' screens with pop-ups.
- Show stuff in a space that's big enough to let users see everything they need to see without scrolling. For example, follow the guideline for e-commerce product pages to make photos really large when users click the Enlarge Image button.
Wasted Mobile Space
Even on a big desktop monitor, space is at a premium and should be utilized. Mobile screens are so small that it's a sin to waste space.
Let's look at a screen from an iPad study we ran recently. This is a new study, but the style is reminiscent of the whacky designs that dominated early iPad apps:
ABC News iPad app: home screen.
The user interface to the current news is a huge sphere; you can spin it using gestures. It's a neat graphic and the initial interaction is enticing: at first, users found it "kind of cool," "really cool," "fancy," "eye-catching," and "kind of fun."
Despite these positive initial reactions, users didn't like the screen and turned to an alternate view as soon as they discovered it. Regular users of the ABC app told us that they preferred the more standard-looking news listing as their main screen when using the app.
ABC News iPad app: The alternate home screen with more news.
This is what people actually use.
Why do users favor the regular, slightly boring design for everyday, actual use? Because it shows more news at a glance. The sphere offers a clear view of only a single story. Other stories have distorted images and captions that are hard-to-impossible to read. What a waste of screen space.
Higher information density = less need to move around and higher likelihood that you see what you want. Edward Tufte's call for charts with more "data ink" in his masterwork The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is related to this idea, though slightly different: printed charts are different from interactive user interfaces. In a UI, you can't cram the screen full of too much info or users will feel overwhelmed.
A second example from the recent study comes courtesy of NASA:
NASA iPad app: The home screen with drop-down menu expanded.
The main screen on NASA's iPad app is a visualization of the solar system. This is not a highly efficient use of space, but it's actually okay because it's an engaging image that offers a wide selection of choices from the opening screen, while clearly communicating what the app is all about.
In user testing, the main problem with this screen was the risk of touching the wrong heavenly body: the distance between Earth and the Moon is only 60% of our usability guideline for separating objects in touchscreen applications. (See full report with mobile usability guidelines.)
Another usability problem related to space utilization (screen space, not outer space). The drop-down menu featuring satellite missions was hard to use for two reasons. First, the button's icon looked more like a fish skeleton than a satellite, but that was a relatively minor issue.
The bigger problem was that it was physically hard to move through the long list of missions — doing so seemed to require almost infinite scrolling. Also, each satellite was hard to recognize from its picture and acronym. Most satellites look much the same unless you're even more of a space nerd than NASA has the right to expect of its users.
The designers tried to emulate a mega-menu, but failed to achieve its benefits for several reasons:
- There's no categorization of the menu items — a good mega-menu would have broken the missions into groups and given each group a title. Doing so would make it much easier to find certain types of satellites, such as those for inner-planet exploration.
- Labels are not explained — for example, it might be helpful to know that "ACE" measures high-energy particles, whereas "AIM" studies mesosphere ice.
- Illustrations are meaningless . Pretty fluff, but still fluff.
Instead of the ever-scrolling menu, it would have been better to take users to a separate full-screen overview that showed all the missions in a single view, making them much easier to compare. Spending more screen space is okay, as long as you give users an easy way back to the main view.
The proliferation of small, hard-to-use interaction areas in iPad apps is partly Apple's fault because of a design mistake in the default email application. The inbox is shown as a skinny menu down the side. This is great in the landscape view, letting users quickly alternate between the inbox and individual messages so they can quickly process their mail.
In the portrait orientation, however, the inbox menu appears as an overlay that partly obscures the message content, making it impossible to work with the two panes simultaneously. Why show two panes, when you can't use both? It would be better to display the inbox across the entire tablet screen, showing more messages and/or more extensive previews of each message.
Bigger is Better
Mobile devices and tablets are inherently small, so you must optimize the use of their screen space and show things as large as possible. Desktop screens are bigger, so you can often achieve a better user experience by enlarging things even more.
There are very few exceptions to the rule that bigger is better in user interfaces. One example is found on sites that insist on opening new windows and maximizing them — even on the biggest of monitors. Once people get a 30-inch monitor, they don't want maximized browser windows anymore; it's highly annoying to find, say, a glossary entry taking up 2560×1600 pixels and obscuring the other windows you're working with.
Mainly, though, let's stop cramming information into tiny peepholes. Optimizing the UI for the available screen space is a key strategy for improving usability (and thus lifting your conversion rates).
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A portable shitter for old people. Used when making it to the bathroom is an impossibility. Just pop a squat and take a shit. Much like a reverse pissbag.
Haha, look! That old dude just dropped his assbag.
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a complete asshole. someone who sucks really really bad and doesnt give 2 shits about other people
That kid who just cut me off is a complete assbag
by Paul April 03, 2003
Same thing as a douche bag. A bastard that deserves a dirty ass whipping. A person that is one massive bag of dirty ass.
Dude Tony is such a dirty ass bag.
by Leebuck2 April 14, 2003
1. slang word for someone who represents that of a colostomy bag (derived from being full of s**t).
2. a**hole
2. a**hole
Because of his choice to leave the drowning baby in the lake though physically able to have saved it, the man was a renowned assbag.
by tr0n December 31, 2003
What you call an asshole that is being more than an asshole.
Dude, you're bein an assbag...
by Swami0586 August 01, 2005
The epitome of all asses; a derogatoy word (noun) typically utilized in defiling a particular species of homosapien expressing excessive abnormal behavior.
Hey assbag, get the hell off of the road!
Your mother sucks assbags in hell!
Your mother sucks assbags in hell!
by Chris McK February 27, 2006
A couple of friends and I were trying to think of a way to properly describe a guy who was such a jerk. We couldn't decide if he was an asshole or a douchebag. Thus became, Assbag!
He is being such an Assbag!
by melia433 June 12, 2008
Fan-modified catchphrase of Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander of Legend of the Seeker/Sword of Truth. Applies to any situation.
Save Our Seeker you assbags!
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Trends for the Web in 1997
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What happened to my predictions for 1996?
What happened to these predictions for 1997?
Two major trends will revive the Web as a useful tool beyond the current hype and uselessness:
- taking the Web seriously in business
- a rebirth of semantic encoding
A little exercise before you read any further: take out a piece of paper and draw "a computer." It doesn't need to be a beautiful or highly detailed illustration; just sketch a rough outline of what a computer looks like. We will return to this exercise at the end of this essay, but you have to do it before you read my comments.
Taking the Web Seriously as a Business Tool
Despite the enormous hyperbole surrounding the Web, current reality is that almost nobody takes it seriously as a business tool. Even though the December 1996 holiday shopping season was the first in which a few merchants reaped significant sales from the Web it is still almost impossible to actually get to buy anything on the Web: one journalist who set out to do all his Christmas shopping on the Web only succeeded in acquiring a single present. The problem is that most companies view their websites as glorified brochures and not as a way of interacting with their customers. The goal of having a website should not be to brag to your friends that you are on the Web but to provide service to your customers (and thus make money).
In a recent survey of large British companies by JCP Computer Services, only 25% of the Information Technology Directors said that they had ever used the Internet to purchase goods or services. When not even the IT Directors have used the Internet for anything real, it should come as no surprise that their companies end up with failed websites and unvisionary plans for leveraging the Internet. My challenge to any CEO reading this: Has your CIO ever bought something through the Internet? The same question should also be asked of your head of marketing. Nobody should be in charge of a company's Internet strategy if he or she doesn't take it seriously enough to use for some personal business. (After you have checked into this matter, go and buy a few things on the Web yourself!)
When you do try to shop the Web, you quickly realize how most websites fail to provide true customer value. Sure, they may have all kinds of "cool" decorations and animations, but there is rarely anything real there. Full product listings are often missing, as are detailed specs and indications of whether the product is even in inventory and what the expected delivery time will be. If you place an order despite this poor service, you will normally be left in the dark as to whether any human ever saw your order until the happy day when the UPS truck comes by with the goods. Almost no commercial websites have bothered to tie their inventory and sales management systems into their email system to give customers immediate notifications of shipments (and any delays). This despite the finding that punctual delivery of Web purchases increases customer loyalty from 60% to 96%.
The problem seems to be that executives in charge of Web strategy don't think through the implications of having an interactive medium at their disposal. The lucky corollary is that anybody who does do so will have a relatively easy time standing out on the Web and attracting the customers. There is a the huge difference between seeing a cool demo of a Web site and actually using it for a real purpose. I predict that 1997 will finally be the year when customers (and their money) will talk loudly enough to get rid of superficial coolness and make websites into serious business tools: this year may well be the last chance for legacy companies to make their Web presence useful before customers irreversibly defect to new brands.
The Renaissance of Semantic Encoding
The original design of the Web and its underlying data format, HTML, was based on encoding the meaning of information and not its presentation . For example, the above heading is encoded as a level-2 heading (<H2>), meaning that it is the highest level of subheading below the level-1 heading that's the heading for this entire essay. This encoding style was chosen by Tim Berners-Lee because he wanted the Web to be a universal information system: thus, he could not know what computer equipment the various users would have (some might have high-resolution color screens and others might be blind and use a voice-only interface) and it was necessary to keep the details of the rendering of the information out of the file itself. The exact way pages would be shown (or read) to the user would be determined by the user's own equipment.
The notion of encoding the meaning of documents was temporarily lost as some browser vendors introduced proprietary tags to encode the exact rendering of the information. For example, many Web designers have been induced to use presentation-based text encodings like "18 pixels tall bold Garamond" instead of using the semantic encoding of a level-2 heading. The benefit of presentation-based encoding is that the page may display in a close approximation to the intended design if the user has a combination of hardware and software that is similar to that used by the designer. Thus, more sophisticated layouts became possible.
Presentation-based design only works as long as it is possible to predict the user's hardware, software, and preferences. This was reasonably easy in 1995 and the first half of 1996 when almost everybody was using the same browser software and almost all hardware was essentially equivalent. If you followed my instructions to draw a computer, you probably sketched something with a big box for a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse, since that's how the typical computer looks today. In 1997, we will see non-traditional computers like WebTV and personal digital assistants like the Newton and the PalmPilot become much more prevalent. These devices have very different display capabilities than the traditional computer (typically a much smaller screen) and thus cannot display Web pages well that have been coded for a specific presentation that looks good on a standard monitor. Using semantic encoding allows the device to optimize the display to its capabilities.
I also expect speech-based browsers to be used more extensively in 1997. Enhanced accessibility for users with disabilities (especially blind users) is one reason for speech browsing. Seeing users also find themselves in hands-busy, eyes-busy situations (such as driving a car) where they could access Web-based information if it were read out loud. It is obvious that speech interfaces to the Web will be much better if semantic encoding is used so that the system can understand the structure of the page. For example, knowing which parts of the text constitute headlines would enable a speech system to read a summary to the user who could then easily chose what sections to have read in full.
A final reason for reverting to semantic encoding rather than presentation encoding is the increased diversity in software used to access the Web. If one compares screenshots of the same page in different versions of the same browser (or even the "same" version running on different platforms) it is very clear that the resulting presentations differ substantially. My site was accessed by 68 different browser versions in December 1996. Even the single-most popular browser version (Netscape 3.0 for 32-bit Windows) accounted for less than 20% of the use. As different browser vendors gain market share and as all of the vendors release ever more versions of their browsers, there will be so many versions that it will become impossible to test pages for all of them if page designers insist on tweaking display appearance. You never know what will come next, and since " Data Lives Forever", your only hope of page survival is to follow the standard.
Instead of embedding appearance-specifications in the content, a better solution is to separate content and display-specific instructions. Information relating to the presentation of the information should be kept in a separate styl esheet file that is linked to a content file that only contains semantic markup. Style sheets are a new development on the Web and currently not widely used, but they are the only solution to getting nice presentation with ever-increasing numbers of browsers and display devices. For example, a page could link to three different stylesheets: one for desktop computers, one for small-screen devices, and one for television sets. Style sheets should be linked rather than embedded in the file in order to facilitate maintenance and sharing of style across pages (two benefits: UI consistency and less download time due to caching - if only Internet Explorer would stop hitting the server every time the same style sheet is referenced).
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Hey does anyone know how you are supposed to credit (if you are supposed to) the typefaces you have used in a printed work (case in point - design exhibition catalogue for my BA)
I've been using elephant italics and a few free fonts :)
Historically/traditionally it's called the colophon:
From the article:
Personally, I think it's a nice thing to do.
You don't actually have to credit typefaces in a finished work.
When you license a font, you are licensing that font file as if it is software, not the letter forms the software generates or the finished work generated by that software, as those are unprotected. So there is no real requirement to acknowledge the font author or font in the finished work, at least with any common font license.
The exception is when you are distributing the work in digital form and the font file, or data derived from the font file, needs to be distributed along with the work in order for the recipient to see it with the intended font. This is the case with web fonts, where a special license to distribute the font on the web needs to be obtained. In this case you are actually distributing the font file and must read and obey the font license.
As for what you should do if you'd like to voluntarily acknowledge the typeface, font or font author, these as said might want to be placed into a "Colophon" section as described in DA01's answer. In a book this is usually part of the front matter, overleaf from the title page (on the back of the same sheet, on the left) but before the table of contents.


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The latest podcast is up and running! Things are a little different this week, as "Friday Filibuster" hosts David Johnson and Mac McEntire stopped by the lavish, state-of-the-art "Sounds and Sights of Cinema" studio to chat about film music. Favorite scores, favorite composers, controversy, Willow... it's all here. We also featured a few personal favorite film music selections on the program...
Selected by Dave:
Crimson Tide - Hans Zimmer
Willow - James Horner
Selected by Mac:
Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti
Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman
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I converted an Excel chart to a PDF file by Save As.. PDF in Excel. It looks good, but there is a lot of whitespace/margin on top and bottom which I need to get rid of. The only way to do so seems to be by using Acrobat professional which I don't have. Is there a free way to do this? I use Windows by the way.
You can use the commandline tool pdfcrop. For this you need perl.
You can get the size right in Excel before saving to PDF - see my answer on superuser, copied below for convenience:
To avoid the "crop the PDF" step mentioned in several answers (on superuser), you can put the chart on its own Worksheet with an appropriate paper size and zero margins. E.g. in Windows Excel 2007:
If there is no size close enough, or you want to be exact, you'll need to create a custom page size. Unlike Word, Excel doesn't let you do that itself, but rather uses the size from the printer driver.
It may be best not to have an outline around the chart in the PDF itself: you can choose Format Chart Area | Border Color | No Line.
For Windows install a Perl, eg from http://www.activestate.com/perl and then you can use
Alternatively use the
This is more of a Superuser question than a Latex question. You could also use Briss which doesn't require Perl.
You might want to consider using the new inkscape pdf import option. It even allows you to edit the picture. Be aware though that the result is not optimal for editing.
In Excel, Page Setup, uncheck Center on Page - Vertically. Sheet will justify to the top.


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Saudi Aramco's CEO says the recent cyber attack against its computer network illustrates the need for global oil and gas companies to work together on safety technologies.
By Ben DuBose
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HOUSTON -- The recent cyber attack against Saudi
Aramcos computer network illustrates the need for the
global oil and gas industry to work together on safety
technologies, the companys CEO said Tuesday.
Speaking at the annual IHS CERAWeek energy conference in
Houston, Khalid Al-Falih said the August 2012 incident should
serve as a wakeup call for both his company and the broader
What happens to one company happens to us all, he
As we know from last years vicious [cyber]
attack, there are a lot of bad guys out there.
Al-Falih, who delivered the opening keynote to the
conference, said his near-term outlook for the industry was
very positive. But that still carries risks, he cautioned to
the thousands of industry professionals in attendance.
A healthy picture should not make us complacent,
Al-Falih said. Though were on the right track, if
history teaches us anything, its that such rosy outlooks
do not always materialize.
If youre on the right track, you can still be
run over if you just sit there.
The easiest way for the metaphorical train to derail would
be on safety and environmental issues, he noted.
We must take ownership and accept that it is our
responsibility by embracing excellence in operations,
Al-Falih said. Sharing our technologies and best
practices is for the collective good.
In the case of cyber security, investment is critical,
according to the Aramco CEO. Based on prior measures taken, the
company did not lose any production as a result of the August
Invest and invest heavily and be aware of all the
scenarios that could happen, he said. Dont
underestimate the capability of the bad guys who may be trying
to penetrate your systems.
Its not petty crime anymore. Its organized
groups that have a lot of technology and resources at their
Aramco avoided significant damage because it had
rehearsed various scenarios and had plant
operations segregated from the groups that were touched, the
CEO said.
Nonetheless, the episode serves as a grave reminder of the
importance of cyber security.
Never underestimate how dependent you are on your
information technology network and
systems, Al-Falih said. Its become like
oxygen. You think you can live without it but you
Lose it and you become immediately
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6 Heroic Movie Deaths That Could Have Been Easily Avoided
#3. The Iron Giant -- The Giant
The Iron Giant tells the story of a boy named Hogarth (because that's what kids are named, right? Like goblin wizards?) befriending a huge, extremely dangerous yet innocent robot. When government officials find out about the huge robot roaming around the town of Rockwell, Maine, they rightfully get pretty worked up, thinking a Russian or alien invasion is upon them, and try to destroy it.
"It's not like we're using any of this shit on the Russians, anyway."
Hogarth manages to prove that the Giant is friendly as long as he's not attacked, but there's one douche bag who's determined to blow this bitch up, and he orders a nearby submarine to fire a missile at the Giant that's going to incinerate everything in sight. Of course, the problem with this is that at that moment, the Giant is hanging out in the middle of a town full of people, including all the military personnel.
Didn't really think that one through.
Then, in a moment so sad that it probably doomed the film's box office prospects, the Giant flies up into the air and lets the missile destroy him in order to save the town. Seriously, there's probably a Guinness World Record waiting out there for anyone who can watch this whole movie and not start bawling at least six times.
Wait a second ...
Remember that the reason the military wanted to destroy him was because when the Giant was threatened, he transformed into this:
We're seeing a minimum of five laser cannons on this bad boy, not including that spike on the top, which we can only assume is a top-notch espresso maker. So the Giant's loaded up with enough weapons to destroy a small nation, yet he flies right into the missile later on and lets it blow him up into itty-bitty pieces.
So why not just bust out your laser cannon and blow that missile up while it's still in the air? According to the movie, the Giant can activate his weapons only when he feels that there's a threat, which we're pretty sure a soul-crushing, city-destroying rocket qualifies as. Therefore, he should have been able to blow that thing up long before it got to him without getting himself destroyed in the process, and countless dudes wouldn't have all had to lie to their girlfriends about how it was our allergies acting up that was making our eyes water during the end of the movie.
No, seriously, your apartment's just really moldy.
#2. Enemy at the Gates -- Joseph Fiennes
Enemy at the Gates is about a sniper battle in the middle of World War II between Russian Jude Law and Nazi Ed Harris. That's basically all the awesome you need to know, but there is also a less awesome subplot about friends Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes fighting over the same girl.
Bros before hoes, man.
During the course of the movie, Fiennes tries to get Law court-martialed and accidentally gets a kid who was helping them spy on the Germans killed. He ends up feeling kind of shitty about both of these things. Near the end of the film he goes for a little redemption, which you can guess he does not survive.
Specifically, when Fiennes and Law go out together looking for the German sniper, Fiennes admits that he's been a pretty terrible friend and he wants to help Law out. As a final act of heroism and friendship, he offers to show Law "where the major is" by standing in front of a window and letting himself get shot to reveal the other sniper's position. And by shot, we mean in the head, right between the eyes.
"Did it work?"
Wait a second ...
This act totally fulfills its purpose in that Law manages to spot and kill the major. But ... if all he needed was for a head to poke out a window and get shot, then there were about 2 million bodies lying around with perfectly good heads. Why not prop one of those bastards up in front of the window?
Oh yeah, that could totally just be a propped-up dead guy.
It's not quite as heroic, but surely coming up with the awesome "lure him with a corpse" plan will get him some karma points, right?
#1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Gandalf
Gandalf kind of cheats the "dramatic death" thing by coming back in the second film of the series, but he clearly didn't know that when he chose to stay behind to fight the Balrog so the rest of the Fellowship could get away (though the Fellowship just stands there and watches the fight instead of actually getting away).
He's risking his life to buy us time! We'd better all stay and watch.
Actually, the Fellowship seems to have a good 30-second head start on the Balrog, as everyone else is up the stairs and almost out the door before they even notice Gandalf hanging out in the middle of the bridge waiting for the flaming death beast to arrive.
"Hey guys, watch me! This is going to be awesome. Hey guys! Are you watching? Guys?"
Gandalf's plan seems to consist entirely of "break bridge so YOU SHALL NOT PASS." He starts talking smack to the Balrog about what a badass wizard he is, again probably to give the not-running-away Fellowship time to leave, and when that doesn't make the monster back down, he cracks the bridge as the Balrog is crossing, causing it to fall into the dark chasm below, directly in front of him. The Balrog is so close, in fact, that it's able to grab him as it goes down, and bam, no more wizard protection for the Fellowship.
Leaving them with two tanks, ranged DPS, melee DPS and four midgets.
Wait a second ...
There was no reason Gandalf had to wait that long to break the bridge, or break it from the center like he did.
If he had crossed all the way, broken the bridge and then kept running before the Balrog caught up to them, they all would have been in the clear, and they wouldn't have lost their wizard for the better part of two movies. Or even if he did exactly what he did but then ran away, he would have been fine. Instead, he waited in the very center for as long as humanly possible before cracking that sucker, and then he just hung around as it fell, even though goblins were still shooting arrows at them from across the chasm.
He still could have "not passed" if you broke it from the other side, Gandalf.
Then again, maybe we can blame the Fellowship for this one. If they had run away like they were supposed to, maybe Gandalf wouldn't have felt the need to drag out this bridge-destroying thing for as long as possible and gotten himself temporarily killed.
Good work, douche bags.
For more fictional deaths that were head-scratchers, check out The 5 Most Easily Avoidable Movie Deaths. Or check out some real-life examples, in 6 People Who Died In Order To Prove A (Retarded) Point.
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