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With spring in the air, the PopTech Roadtrip is gearing up to hit the road again. Recently we stopped in LA to host an evening focused around experiential learning initiatives. Next up: we're coming to London and New York!
Together with Steelcase, we're continuing to host Roadtrip events across the Atlantic and in the Big Apple that feature interesting speakers and opportunities to meet other members of the PopTech community. Sign up today to reserve your spot. See you then!
PopTech Roadtrip: London
Tuesday, June 23
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Steelcase WorkLife Center, 77-79 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3JU
Speaker: John Maeda, returning guest host of PopTech, will explore the PopTech 2015 conference theme of Hybrid. As boundaries between industries and disciplines blur, a "slash generation" emerges—people who are no longer rooted in a single field or methodology. What does "doing both" mean in the 21st century? Hear from John Maeda on how patterns of hybridity are on the rise—and how technology, design, and business may be impacted.
PopTech Roadtrip: New York
Thursday, Sept 10
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Steelcase WorkLife Center, 4 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Speaker: Stay tuned for updates!
Collaboration alert! "How to Clone a Mammoth" gets animated
What happens when an artist and a scientist collaborate? Long-time PopTech conference scribe and PopTech Fellows faculty member Peter Durand of Alphachimp first met Beth Shapiro in 2011, when she was a PopTech Science Fellow. Beth is an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research who explores the influences of climate and humans in determining species extinction.
Fast-forward four years to when Beth and Peter crossed paths at another conference. Beth presented on the challenges and possibilities of cloning a mammoth, or the "science of de-extinction." Peter scribed her talk and afterwards when admiring the result, they knew they had to animate it. Their work together on animating "How to Clone a Mammoth" became the book trailer for her book of the same name, out on April 5. Watch their video below and be sure to check out Beth's book on the process of de-extinction.
Know of other PopTech collaborations? Send them to comm[at]poptech[dot]org to be featured on the blog.
Smith College looks for co-director/designer in residence for new pilot program
This guest post was authored by PopTech community member Borjana Mikic, Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director for Initiatives in Design Thinking and the Liberal Arts at Smith College. Questions about the role she describes below? Contact her at email@example.com.
A few years ago, I convened a group of approximately 40 faculty and staff at Smith College, the nation's largest women's liberal arts college, to discuss Tim Brown's and Jocelyn Wyatt's article "Design Thinking for Social Innovation." Over the course of two hours, our wide-ranging conversation touched on three questions:
- What does design accomplish in terms of student learning?
- Is design thinking a useful construct for us at Smith?
- How might we build on the community of design thinkers at the college to create something greater than the sum of its parts?
Smith has a long history of educating women leaders for society's challenges, as well as strengths in design (with programs in engineering, architecture, landscape studies, and other studio and performing arts). It seemed to those of us who gathered together on that cold December day that we were on to something that could be quite powerful in cultivating the creative and resilient habits of mind and body that our students would need to engage collaboratively across disciplines while addressing the pressing problems of our times.
Luckily, we weren't the only ones who thought this had potential! As of January, we have received a multi-year grant to launch an exciting experimental pilot program in Design Thinking and the Liberal Arts. This is where we need your help. We seek a dynamic individual with substantial experience as a practitioner within a relevant design thinking environment to join us in this exciting endeavor as co-director/designer in residence. If you're intrigued, and are curious to find out more, please take a look at the full job posting through Smith's official job site. Thank you for helping us spread the word!
What to watch this weekend: PopTech Hits
In a few weeks, we'll share a major speaker announcement. Join our mailing list to hear it first. Let the countdown begin...
Until then, we're celebrating the wildly brilliant and thought-provoking speakers and performers who have graced the PopTech stage. We even put together a playlist of some of our most memorable talks. Tune in, turn it up, and share with your friends. Tweet us your favorite or let us know what you would add!
All you need is love + these three PopTech talks
Whether you celebrate Valentine's Day with chocolate and roses, or you forgo it altogether, we've rounded up three PopTech talks that are sure to capture your attention (and maybe even your heart).
Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher (PopTech 2014) teaches us a thing or two about the science behind attraction and how and why we fall in love. While at PopTech, Helen Fisher sat down with "On Being" for an interview around the biology of love and how we can use this knowledge to give new meaning to our relationships. Tune in here.
Designer Kacie Kinzer (PopTech 2010) shares a heartwarming experiment featuring a cardboard robot and its journey across New York's Washington Square Park.
Professor and author Stephanie Coontz (PopTech 2009) explores our notions of love, marriage, and where it's headed as an institution.
An interview redux: A graduate program for visionaries
A little over five years ago, I was interviewed by PopTech's editorial staff about a masters program that I had already spent two years developing, and that had not yet launched. Looking back at the hopes I had and the assumptions I made is an opportunity to ruminate on the difference between what we imagine, the plans we make to get there, and how reality aligns (or doesn't) with them.
Design for Social Innovation at SVA in New York is now in its third year. It's the first MFA program for creative leaders who want careers with purpose inside businesses, non-profits and governments. DSI is a cross-disciplinary program that teaches students to work at a systems level, on dynamics of human behavior and interaction, integrating design, entrepreneurship, data analysis and visualization, ethics, communication design, game theory and design.
In a nutshell, before we launched I imagined what I and all the other faculty could teach our students, what they would need to know in order to become leaders of change out in the world, the best way to structure the program. I projected three years out, to where students would be working, and what they would be working on.
What I didn't know, couldn't know, as those of us who create new programs and projects never can; is the single, crucial element that has changed everything: the people our efforts are designed to serve; the ones who showed up. These graduate candidates have committed two years of their lives to the program because it fulfills a deep need in them that nothing else can – to go out and create change, break the rules, disrupt the status quo and use their own powers of creativity to bring something to life that has not existed before. They are remarkable people; unpredictable, visionary, and impossible to predict or know until we are deeply into working together.
Below are some of the things I said, and how reality compares so far:
I hoped for diversity, defining that as a desire for students to come from a few countries and not all from traditional design backgrounds.
Our students have come from 22 countries, with undergraduate degrees in economics, anthropology, international studies, environmental science, media arts, social responsibility, art history, architecture, advertising, urban studies, design management, bio tech and engineering, environmental studies, economics, geography, interior design, anthropology, film making. And of course, graphic, product, interaction and communication design.
As it happens, the diversity of the cohorts is one of the things students love most. That Israelis, Saudis, Turks, Spaniards, Colombians, Brazilians, Mexicans, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Brooklynites can talk with each other about issues that they can't talk about at home is important to them. That they learn, not only about American (and New York) culture when they come here but about cultures all over the world, prepares them to work all over the world, and to better understand issues in local context.
I predicted they would be interested in the things most social innovators are committed to - poverty, health, justice, climate change, resources, energy. They are, but they each have their own unique way in:
- Eliminating food waste by creating popup restaurants that serve dinner from ingredients headed for landfill;
- Giving young Korean women the confidence to stop having plastic surgery;
- Helping Saudi women who have come to school in the U.S adjust to the more restricted society they will return to;
- Getting the vote out among college students in India;
- Teaching young people in China about sex education;
- Making life less lonely for elders in Spain;
- Reimagining the healthcare system in India;
- Fixing Access-A-Ride so it better serves the elderly and disabled in the U.S.;
- Starting conversations between the Israelis and Palestinians;
- Curtailing consumerism;
- Making a sound library for families of people with Alzheimer's.
I declared my hopes for what students would come away with from the program: a connection to themselves and their own purpose, the ability to enter any situation and see the system dynamics at work, humility, creativity, the skill to make things visible and accessible to diverse people or groups so that collaboration is possible, the character to lead by inspiration and example, and the confidence to use beauty, elegance and joy as motivators.
They are all that and more.
What I did not imagine is what it would take to organize a program for a class of 25 students who come to break rules rather than follow them, who will succeed because they don't fit into a box or in a corporation's backward facing org chart, and who will each define their place in the future in their own unique way. That life is more complex in reality than on paper is not a surprise. The ways in which it is complex are what make it exciting.
Applications for the Fall 2015 class at Design for Social Innovation MFA program are open. For more about the program, visit dsi.sva.edu or watch the video two students made, below.
Four PopTech talks to watch on World Cancer Day
In honor of World Cancer Day, we're proud to highlight the PopTech talks of a brave survivor, innovative physicians, and a determined author. Visit worldcancerday.org for resources and how you can contribute to the cause.
Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering, Google
When Regina Dugan was 9 years old, she was diagnosed with catastrophic ovarian cancer. Doctors told her parents that she wouldn't see Christmas. She shares her moving story at PopTech 2014 of how odds are irrelevant.
Jim Olson, pediatric oncologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
After the death of a young patient, Jim Olson did not want any other families to suffer through the pain of losing a child to brain cancer. Pushing the pressure of publishing papers and winning grants aside, he focused on experiments. This led to the invention of "tumor paint" — a substance that comes from an unexpected place — and could be used to revolutionize brain surgery. See why every audience member at PopTech 2013 was brought to his and her feet. Read more about Jim Olson's work: NPR, CNN, WIRED. Update: Tumor paint was approved for its first US trial in Sept 2014.
David Agus, oncologist, New York Times bestselling author
At PopTech 2012, David Agus asks, "what is health?" His New York Times bestselling book "The End of Illness" examines misperceptions about what "health" really means, how the body actually works, and new insight on living a long, healthy life. He envisions an era of preventative medicine based on hard data about what ails us.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
When physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee discovered that nearly no literature existed on the origins of cancer, he was determined to fill this gap. He penned "Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. At PopTech 2010, he shared his journey on writing such a book.
Hey LA! We'll see you Feb 11
The PopTech Roadtrip* is returning in 2015.To kick off our journey, we're heading to…Los Angeles! Sign up to join us for a fun, eclectic, education-focused panel and discussion on Feb 11. (More Roadtrip dates/locations will be announced soon.)
Our long-time partner Steelcase is collaborating with us again in 2015 on the Roadtrip series — all of our events will be housed in their beautiful WorkLife spaces. (Think: innovative office design showrooms.) We're excited to help them open their new Los Angeles space with an evening of conversation around a topic we're both passionate about: experiential learning initiatives. Joining us will be several PopTech Fellows who are doing fascinating (and hybrid) work in and around education.
RSVP: Sign up here
Date: Wednesday, Feb 11, 2015
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Steelcase WorkLife, AT&T Center, 32nd Floor, 1150 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA
Ben Dubin-Thaler, BioBus
Nick Martin, TechChange
Jeremy Thal, Found Sound Nation
Marisa Sergnese, Steelcase
*About the PopTech Roadtrip:
Last year, we kicked off a new event series. We heard from the PopTech community that they would love more opportunities for engagement and interaction outside of our annual conference in October. We agreed. So, we hit the road and hosted evenings of interesting speakers and conversation around the country. The PopTech Roadtrip was born!
Dignified Work in the Digital Age
In August 2014 PopTech convened a group of diverse thinkers at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center to explore the notion of livelihoods in the 21st century. The task was enormous. The issues surrounding access to meaningful livelihoods impact countries rich and poor, and the underlying impediments to achieving meaningful, dignified work are numerous.
We are pleased to present the work of the Bellagio/PopTech Fellows and program catalysts in a paper entitled "Dignified Work in the Digital Age," which outlines a meaningful structure to analyze both the key pillars of modern livelihoods and the most salient global factors affecting them in the future.
A documentary short and a powerful talk by Robtel Paily at PopTech 2014: Rebellion further capture the unique spirit of this collaborative program.
The Bellagio/PopTech Fellows Program was made possible through the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation. To learn more about this program, or to make inquiries regarding our work on livelihoods, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Spread some holiday cheer
Oh the weather outside is frightful but PopTech will be so delightful. If you're still looking for that perfect present, consider the gift of PopTech! Today through Saturday, Dec 20, you'll receive a gift bag of fun and handy treats with your purchase of a PopTech: Hybrid $1,500 pass. With only 21 passes left at this price, now's the time to give a loved one (or yourself, we won't judge) a PopTech experience. Happy holidays and we'll see you in 2015!


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This is great news for byu. Just think of all pickle juice byu will be able to drink to get ready for the big game in 2014.
- 1:30 p.m. July 10, 2012
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This is a shame
- 1:35 p.m. July 10, 2012
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What a tragedy for the fans! Of course, both programs will survive without the game, but ending one of the best rivalries in college football is shameful. Hill will forever be remember as the one who ended the rivalry. I hope he's happy with his legacy.
- 1:36 p.m. July 10, 2012
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I have mixed emotions about this. I don't mind it so much since the rivalry has reached unhealthy levels and will relieve at least some of the tension between the two teams. But college football is also missing out on one of the best rivalries in sports that often provided thrilling finishes. Best of luck to you Utes. Go Cougars!
- 1:37 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Go USC Trojans! Beat the Utes.
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Awesome news for both programs. Make fans of both schools appreciate the
amazing rivalry in a new light. Couldn't have come at a better time. On
the other hand, can hardly wait until September. Ought to be an awesome
All the best to both schools in the hiatus and beyond.
- 1:39 p.m. July 10, 2012
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That's a shame, it really is. I think saying "that's just the current landscape of college football" is just a cop-out. I'd be surprised if it's picked up in 2016 - it will be too easy to replace it with 'better options.' Sad to see. When will the craziness end? To think that all of this is in the name of "it's in the best interest of our school and our fan-base." Not sure whose best interest this is.
- 1:40 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Bailing on BYU and USU? Utah really has no sense of tradition or rivalry. I
pity any Utah fan that actually cares about football.
BYU and Utah won't play for a world war... and for joining the Pac-12.
I guess those Utes are just nothing but the "big time" now.
- 1:42 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Sounds about right. They needed to make room for Michigan, and buying out Utah St in 2014 will allow us to have another home game, since we would only have 4 PAC 12 home games that year. I wish this was not the case. There is nothing that I love more than the UTAH vs yBu game every year, and beating them into the ground. My wife and I even made sure that we did not have our first kid during football season, so there was no conflict with this or any other game. This will only make the rivalry that much more intense. 2 years off, will only build the trash talking between teams.
- 1:43 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Unfortunate but somewhat predictable. Decades and decades of a great rivalry just cast aside. What a shame but, again, not a surprise.
- 1:44 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Lame! College football having a playoff is a step in the right direction, but all the realignment garbage has ruined too many good traditions and rivalries. It doesn't make any sense at all. I mean San Diego in the Big East? and these are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. Institutions of greed if you ask me.
- 1:46 p.m. July 10, 2012
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BYU certainly has better options. Now why would I want to travel to Michigan again? Go Cougars and everyone else that Utah plays.
- 1:55 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Good news for college football fans in Utah. Let the rivalry continue.
Go Utes! I can't wait for football season.
- 2:02 p.m. July 10, 2012
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Wow. The end of life as we know it must be near. Oh the agony! Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth! Or, maybe duckhunter said it best: meh.
- 2:04 p.m. July 10, 2012
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It's good that Utah is getting to play UMich, the team BYU beat to seal its national championship.
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They may have better options some years, but most years, not so much. You aren't going to get those great teams as of right now giving you home and home. Actually wins some games against ranked teams, or teams above .500 to end the year, then they might talk to you. Plus, your better options are only in Sept. You need better options throughout the year. Your schedule is WEAK!!!!
In 2014 the UTES have home games with Stanford, Oregon, USC, and AZ, along with 2 other teams not scheduled. Probably both crap, but who cares when you have USC, Stanford and Oregon, Plus road games against Michigan, UCLA, AZ St, etc. That is a GREAT schedule. Having yBu at home to beat that year would be icing on the cake. I am sad to see the rivalry go away for a couple of years, but that is what's happening with college football. It is all about the money and power.
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Very disappointing. As a Ute season ticket holder, I always look forward to this game. I understand the reasons for discontinuing, but I feel that big money and conferences are taking the fun out of college football.
- 2:09 p.m. July 10, 2012
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This is a shame and a testimony of director Hill's short-sightedness. The rivalry has been around much longer, and means much more to us fans and alumni than the short term thrill of a lucrative series against Michigan. Lets get real, if our conference foes are all PAC 12 schools, why do you need Michigan? I would rather keep the rivalry going. Because in years from now, noone will care about the Michigan games, but the exciting rivalry games of recent years will always be talked about.
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Here is a video I made about this a couple of months ago.
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A norm on a vector space comes from an inner product if and only if it satisfies the parallelogram law. Given such a norm, one can reconstruct the inner product via the formula:
2<u,v> = |u + v|^2 - |u|^2 - |v|^2
(there are minor variations on this)
It's straightforward to prove, using the parallelogram law, that this satisfies:
- <u,u> ≥ 0 for all u, and <u,u> = 0 iff u = 0
- <tu,tu> = t^2 <u,u>
- <u,v> = <v,u>
- <u,v+w> = 2<u/2,v> + 2<u/2,w>
From 4 with the special case w=0 one quickly deduces that <u,v+w> = <u,v> + <u,w>.
The usual method of proving <u,tv> = t<u,v> is to use 4 with induction to prove that <u,nv> = n<u,v>, then deduce <u,tv> = t<u,v> for t rational, and finally appeal to continuity to extend to the reals.
Is there any way to avoid this last bit? In particular, is there a more geometric view of why <u,tv> = t<u,v> for all real t? Pictures would be great!
If not, is there a different way to express the condition that a norm comes from an inner product that does make all the conditions obviously geometrical?
Clarification added later: My reason for asking this is pedagogical. I teach a course which introduces, in quick succession, metric spaces, normed vector spaces, and inner product spaces. The properties of metrics and norms are very easy to motivate from intuitive properties of distances and lengths. I'd like to do the same for inner products in terms of angles. Thus by "geometric" I mean "geometric intuition" rather than geometry as geometers understand it. Since the inner product is introduced after the norm, I argue that using the cosine law one can define the notion of "angle" between two vectors using any norm. However, unless the norm is "special", that notion of angle doesn't behave how we would expect it to do so. In particular, in order for angles to add properly, one needs the norm to satisfy the parallelogram law. Here "add" means that (modulo a pi or two), the angle from u to v plus the angle from v to w should be the angle from u to w. Once one has the parallelogram law then the fact that it comes from an inner product follows via the route above. However, the properties of an inner product are not particularly obvious from thinking about properties of angles. So the easier they are to deduce from the parallelogram law, the easier they are to motivate. I consider the route to <u,λv> = λ<u,v> to be a little long. I was hoping someone could shorten it for me.
Alternative, there may be a different starting point than that angles "add". Perhaps some other property, say similarity of certain triangles, that could be used. However, I'd like a single property that would do the lot. I don't want "add" for some properties and "something else" for others. That's too complicated.


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After poring over the Logic manual, I finally found the answer: There was some sort of problem with the Key Commands assignments. (I suspect this happened when when I was attempting to program a controller some time back.) I reset the assignments and it took care of the problem.
From the Logic Express 9 user manual:
(The Key Commands window is accesible from the main menu bar: Logic Express > Preferences > Key Commands...)


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We were fortunate enough to be born into a more privileged environment. We view it as our responsibility to help those who weren't. It has been a Core directive since our inception to always give back to the communities in which we are proud to be a part of. Our family of over 2,000 skilled and talented artisans span throughout different parts of the world. All of our communities benefit from their employment and our local charitable endeavors. From proper housing and medical care, to additional parks and recreation, it gives us a great sense of purpose and accomplishment that we are able to play a meaningful part in the lives of such wonderful people.
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Not everybody digs the default wallpapers offered with the iOS 4 upgrade for iPhones and iPads. Designer Zachary Bir found them a bit too bright and busy, so he drew up some rich gradients and black-leather-inspired wallpapers that highlight your app icons.
No beaches, no sun-reflecting lakes—just some nicely crafted, dark backgrounds shaped to fit your iPhone, iPad, or the iPhone 4 you might pick up tomorrow. Bir also picks up and modifies a black leather texture from Tumblr/Instapaper maker Marco Arment that seems like it'd be a nice fit for anyone who's just looking for something to put their apps (and folders) on.


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Am I not worth a +1 anymore? There is no automatic upvote for my posted deal
I posted this deal and the starting number was "0". No automatic plus one as is usually the case for items that I post. Other newly posted items have the 1 up at the beginning, but not mine...I am sad. I cannot even upvote it to "1". I have been relegated to second class citizen.
(tongue planted FIRMLY in cheek)
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a tongue planted firmly in your own cheek is always better than planted between someone else's
It's a glitch. It has happened periodically over the years but never fear, it will be corrected.
IIRC it's log out, log in, expire then repost.
I find it happens about once a month...no reason, just does.
I delete the deal and repost and everything is fine in deals.woot! land.
It is not all that important to repost, but thanks for the info. Not many seem to think it is all that good os a deal anyway....lol. Only 900 sold on eBay in under 2 hours for a 1/2 price, NEW laptop from the Manufacturer which is now sold out anyway.
That keeps happening to me randomly, too. I haven't bothered reposting the deals, but found it strange. Thanks for posting the question. Glad to know I'm not alone.
@mtm2: lol @ wasting atp to repost simply because you didnt get your own silly upvote. nice care.
@niloc225: About the same time an official official FAQ listing appears.
@pinchecat: Hey, it is what it is. And if the post actually does well the extra vote might make it worth it!


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Hi guys,
I'm trying to align the NN4 (RD16 attached) with tripod legs for use with the nadir adaptor. Not a problem here. However, I remember Heinz advising to align the ezleveller to the legs of the tripod.
It proves to be a problem, as it would mean that the NN4/RD16 needs to be screwed on the ezleveller and aligned between 2 points of the triangle - I have tried multiple times to get this and it seems impossible to.
While doing this, I realised that there is a black object inside the RD16 rotator's attachment hole that seems to be loose > Just checking if this is normal? It looks like a black disc with a round hole inside.


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We provide instruction for beginner and intermediate skill levels- it's a great way to try yoga for the first time or learn a few new poses.
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In this game, you need to give things to your research machine to unlock improvements. I was wondering, what items, in what tiers, are best to put into the research machines and what the value would be. Also, which items should you never use in a research machine?
The items you dig up from graves (other than amulets) seem to be purpose-built for researching -- they only require a shovel to acquire, and they give 80 research a piece. The only other use for them is to trade them for gold with the Pig King. Amulets, as of the Nov 27, 2012 update, provide resurrection upon death; amulets are probably too valuable to most players to exchange for research.
Tallbird eggs (cooked or uncooked) give 80 research as well, but fried tallbird eggs are a great food source -- if you have plenty of food and just want research points, this is a good option (and a better option than researching a bunch of other food to save the egg). Similarly, mandrakes give 100 research (also cooked or uncooked). These are quite rare. You can cook the mandrake to get the day-skipping effect and then use it to fuel research afterwards. Again, the sacrifice here is the very good food item, but if you have loads of food anyway, this isn't a terrible option.
Torches are a good renewable source of research points -- as far as I know, all crafted tools in the basic tier give 10 research points at 100% durability. Torches can be created with just straw and twigs, compared to the other tools which require you to use some of your flint (which is not a renewable resource).
Rope is a decent choice if all you have is grass, but torches are more efficient if you also have twigs.
If you have food to spare, cooked food gives more points than raw equivalents. Cooked monster meat is the first food I would sacrifice, at 7 points a piece, due to the negative effects of monster meat.
A (partial) list of items with research point values can be found on the wikia, although this doesn't indicate the worth of items in other aspects of the game.
To address the portion of the question about things you should never throw into the machine, I'd say never throw in any stone or flint (or anything created with stone or flint) because stone and flint aren't renewable in any way.
The diggable plants that you can harvest aren't renewable (although the resources you gather off of them are). Berry bushes (and possibly reeds) might be few enough and valuable enough that you wouldn't want to destroy them. Grass plants and saplings aren't renewable, but are common enough it wouldn't hurt to toss quite a few of them into the machine.
The Arqade question on renewable resources is a good place to start when trying to figure out what you should hoard rather than use for research.
At the moment the most efficient items I've found to fund the researches are the Grass Tufts and the Saplings. They can be found when digging cut or uncut Grass and both picked or unpicked Saplings with the Shovel. Each one of them gives you 20 research points, which makes them worth more than gold in this regards(gold nuggets only give you 15 research points).
It's still unclear if this is the intended behaviour and, being the game still in beta, it will be probably subject to change, but at the moment this is the most efficient way to fuel up your researches.
The best way to generate research that I've found is Rope, Planks and Torches. They are completely renewable, quick and easy to gather the resources for without danger, and provide a decent return. There are higher value materials available but these usually suffer from being rare, hard to acquire, non-renewable or have other important uses.


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Group Hosting Charity Race Faces $10,000 Penalty Following Tennessee Department of State Investigation
(Published: September 2, 2010)
Challenge Nation, a Washington D.C.-based company, is facing $10,000 in civil penalties for soliciting contributions on behalf of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee without the group's knowledge or consent.
Challenge Nation sponsors "urban adventure races" – which essentially are scavenger hunts - in cities across the country. Challenge Nation has a race scheduled in Nashville Sept. 12. In promotional material for the event, Challenge Nation stated that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee would receive a portion of the proceeds from the event.Read More...
Veterans Charity Faces $50,000 in Civil Penalties for False Claims
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The Veterans Support Organization (VSO) faces $50,000 in civil penalties following an investigation by the Department of State's Division of Charitable Solicitations and Gaming.
The investigation found that VSO violated the state's charitable solicitations law 10 times while engaging in fundraising efforts for its Tennessee chapter, with each offense carrying a penalty of $5,000.
Fraudulent Fundraiser Faces $140,000 in Civil Penalties
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A Chattanooga man is facing $140,000 in civil penalties for asking area residents and businesses for donations that he falsely said would be used to help area veterans.
An investigation by the Tennessee Secretary of State's office found 28 instances in which Steven Brackett sought donations on behalf of an organization he called the American Veterans Relief Foundation. The investigation concluded that the organization did not provide food baskets or other support for veterans, as Brackett had promised donors.
The Secretary of State's Division of Charitable Solicitations and Gaming assessed a civil penalty of $5,000 against Brackett for each of the 28 violations of the Tennessee Charitable Solicitations Act.
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The Secretary of State's office has ordered a Millington man to pay $622,000 in civil penalties after an investigation found that he had misled donors to believe that contributions obtained from them would be used for charitable purposes when, in fact, they were not.
Todd Kelley, director of the office's Division of Charitable Solicitations and Gaming, informed Kenny King of the penalties by letter Monday afternoon. King had been raising money under the names of the Tennessee Drug Education Association and the Shelby County Drug Education Agency.
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A Portland man faces possible prison time and at least $40,000 in civil penalties after fraudulently representing himself as a Robertson County deputy sheriff who was raising money for a charitable publication to be produced by the sheriff's office.
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The three wise men are among the Christmas season's best-known icons. However, when it comes to charitable contributions, some of us don't always make wise decisions.
The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is traditionally one of the busiest fundraising periods of the year for many charities. Some collect as much as half of their total contributions during the holidays. That isn't too surprising since many of us, filled with the holiday spirit, give some of our money to worthy causes at this time of year.
The problem, though, is some charities are not quite as charitable as they lead people to believe. In some cases, only a small portion (or none) of the money they receive is actually spent on their charitable missions.
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Can I use WUBI as an offline installer?
I already had the .iso file of ubuntu 12.10 - i386, and inside the iso is
For example: I will do a partition of,
E:30gb then i will target
E: in wubi so that it will be Ubuntu then use the .iso file to install it on E:
My Computer:
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Is it fine to do a dual boot? Can I run Windows 7 Home Premium OS, with the custom theme and boot screen, can that effect dual booting?
I just don't want to damage any of files or either any of OS
And if I can't boot any of the operating systems what should I do? Can I avoid doing a clean install if that ever happens?


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Stencil Me Happy Tips and Linky
Guys!! I am so excited to share todays project with you!
You may have noticed that I am a lifer. When I fall in love with something its sort of a forever thing. If you are a Vintage Revivals lifer you will remember how much I love the amazing Melanie and her company Royal Design Studio.
Its true I really do love her. (I actually started crying while I was introducing her at Snap last year because I just love her SO much. Annnnd I may be a little over emotional, but that's neither here nor there.)
When I decided to do such an over the top wall behind Kelsey's bed it made the bathroom an obvious choice for my current favorite stencil from Royal Design Studio. (I was actually the same stencil that I demo'ed on my most recent episode of The Nate Show, its just that good!)
The stencil design is called Nova Trellis. I love it because it is ethnic and modern and clean all rolled into one happy package.
Once you have your favorite design picked out it comes down to stencil survival. Here are my 4 favorite stencil tips:
1.Start in the center of your wall. Doing this ensures that the stencil will be balanced visually!
2. Only tape the stencil on 3 sides. This makes it MUCH easier to line up, especially if you have a stencil design that has a lot of blank space (it can "stretch" and wont lay flat or line up square.)
3. When it comes to corners the stencil is designed to bend (not crease!) so make sure that you let the stencil dry between coats of paint so that you have room to play with it and move it around on the wall. If the stencil still has wet paint on it then you will have lots of touch-ups around the corners!
4. Pretend you are painting a baby. Yes that sounds super freaky, BUT when you are stenciling you want to use light pressure. Not so light that you don't get any paint on your wall but just pretend you are painting a baby, that is the only way I can think of to describe the right pressure. If you push too hard you are going to force paint underneath your stencil and then you will have more touchups. Don't make the baby cry.
If you are still on the fence about stenciling you can rest assured that the quality of Royal Design Studio Stencils is the best. And if you want more info about how I stencil you can check out this post.
If you are feeling SUPER excited jump on over and use the code VINTAGE10 to get 10% off your next order!
And just for fun I thought it would be great to get the creative stencil juices flowing so we are going to have a linky!! If you have done a project with a Royal Design Studio Stencil link it up below! I will be featuring my favorites all week on my Facebook page and EVERYONE that links up is getting pinned! Did she really get pinned? Did she kiss him and cry? Can you name that movie?! If so then we are DESTINED to be soul mates.
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(CNN) – Count Vice President Joe Biden among the Washingtonians eagerly awaiting the opening of the District's first Costco.
The second in command made a trip across town Thursday to shop the first Washington location of the wholesale giant on its opening day, walking in prepared with his Costco membership card, which he flashed to the minder at the front door.
A Biden aide said the vice president and his wife have long been patrons of Costco, which requires customers to buy an annual membership to shop at their large warehouse-style stores. The aide said Biden's membership was re-activated Wednesday – including paying the $55 fee - in anticipation of his DC spree.
As he strolled the store's aisles, Biden grabbed a few samples of the store's food items, and picked up, among other things, a Panasonic television and an apple pie. Workers from the store's tire department attempted to get the vice president to browse their offerings, but were rebuffed.
"Hey man I don't need tires," Biden said. "I don't drive anymore."
At one point, he attempted to call his daughter Ashley on his telephone, apparently to get her thoughts on buying one of the store's watches. She didn't answer.
Asked by reporters accompanying him to the store his thoughts on fiscal cliff negotiations, Biden said he was "optimistic" a deal could be reached, but that part of the deal should include extending Bush-era tax cuts for middle class families.


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SEV332: Focus Vocational Skills -2hr (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Special Education
COURSE TITLE: Focus Vocational Skills -2hr
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The Focus Vocational Skills course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify career options, access community resources, and practice work-related behaviors. The course provides guided "on-the-job" practice in school and community settings for a range of post-secondary careers. The skills necessary for success in the working environment are emphasized to include decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, technology, workplace readiness, and communication.
Major Instructional Activities: Practical application and generalization of course concepts occurs in natural settings such as home, school, and community. Instructional activities include personal and career planning, resume writing, interview skills, investigating personality traits associated with various types of jobs, and completion of interest inventories / forms / applications. Students have multiple opportunities to research various types of jobs, identify necessary income for post-secondary living expenses, research potential income for diverse jobs, and review employment sections of newspaper and Internet. Employer expectations will be emphasized to include decision making and problem solving skills, communication and social skills with supervisors and co-workers, following directions (oral & written), workplace readiness skills, and rights and responsibilities of employees. Work-based strategies appropriate for this course include study trips to community businesses, job shadowing, and service learning. Activities may require the student to be knowledgeable of the use of related technology, tools, and equipment.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated through informal and formal assessments. Multiple authentic assessments will be used as students perform, produce and demonstrate skills both in the classroom and real life settings. This course may not be mastered in one year and students may earn multiple credits in this course.
Course Objectives: The essential objectives of Focus Vocational Skills are designed to facilitate learning outcomes appropriate to the instructional needs of each student. Instructional activities are based upon real world needs with the goal of increased independence and autonomy in his or her home and community.


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WEIRTON - North Marion utilized superior height and scored repeatedly off of its transition game to overpower Weir High, 74-52, Saturday afternoon in a girls basketball game at the Carl R. Hamill Fieldhouse.
It was the season opener for the Lady Huskies, but they appeared to be in midseason form with nine girls scoring in a balanced offensive attack.
With tall junior center Anna Moscufo leading the way with 12 points and senior sharpshooter, Audie Bartlett, netting eight including two threes, the Lady Huskies raced out to a 23-15 first quarter lead and were never headed. They outscored the Lady Red Riders (0-3) in every quarter.
Down by 37-26 at halftime, the Lady Red Riders made their only run of the game coming out of the locker room cutting the Lady Huskie lead to 40-35 at the 4:50 mark of the third quarter when senior Shelva Burns canned a jumper from close range.
However, junior Mackensy Hess drove to the basket for a goal and was fouled. She drilled the free throw (she was 6 of 6 from the line in the game) to ignite a North Marion run that put the game out of reach.
The Lady Huskies outscored Weir High 17-5 throughout the remainder of the third period to assume a commanding 57-40 margin going into the final frame.
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NORTH MARION: Bartlett 3 2-3 10, Haller 2 4-7 8, Moscufo 8 0-1 16, Singleton 2 3-4 7, Rodriguez 4 0-0 9, Egress 3 1-2 9, Hess 3 6-6 12, Andrea Nicholas 0 1-2 1, Wells 1 0-0 2. Totals: 26 17-25 74. Three-pointers: Bartlett (2), Egress (2), Rodriguez (1); Rebounds 43 (Singleton, 11, Moscufo and Egress 9 each); Turnovers: 14.
WEIR HIGH: Young 1 7-9 9, Stead 1 4-6 6, Shingle 4 0-2 10, Long 1 0-0 3, Lemley 3 1-2 7, Burns 5 2-3 12, Dalrymple 1 3-4 5. Totals: 16 17-26 52. Three-pointers: Shingle (2), Long (1); Rebounds: 20 (Burns 5, Stead 4); Turnovers: 16.
"I didn't think we played badly," said veteran Red Rider coach, Bill Smith, "I thought our girls scrapped hard. I have no complaints about the game other than we lost because my girls gave me their top effort.
"North Marion is ranked eighth in West Virginia. They're a pretty good ball club. They have a lot of depth. I was well pleased, though, with our effort today."
The Lady Huskies enjoyed a good game on the boards out rebounding Weir High 43-20 and often getting two or three shots from under the basket. Noca Singleton finished with 11 boards while Moscufo, who led all scorers with 16 points, and freshman Cara Egress pulled down nine missed shots each.
Egress, a freshman, gave coach Mike Parish's Huskies a big lift off the bench. In addition to her rebounding, she scored nine points..
"Rebounding got us into transition," Parish explained. "But we had spells where we looked good and spells where we missed some easy shots and not getting good catches. We got the lead up to 10 or 12 points a couple of times, but they kept coming back until the fourth quarter. I think we finally wore them down.
"(Anna) Moscufo got us off to a good start. We just had times when we were inconsistent. I think we only scored one point the last four minutes of the first half when we could have put the game away. But a lot of it was first game jitters for us. I had a lot of freshmen and sophomores playing and on the road the first game. So I expected a little bit of that. We just have to learn from it and get prepared for the next game."
The Lady Huskies, with their ability to get their big girls the ball for close shots, out shot the Red Riders 40 percent to 27 percent. North Marion made 26 of 64 shots while the Riders hit 16 of 59.
Hess finished with 12 points and Bartlett made 10 to back up Moscufo in the scoring column.
Weir High was led in scoring by Burns with 12 points and junior Alyssa Shingle, who hustled her way to four steals and grabbed three rebounds despite being the smallest girl on the floor, tallied 10 points. Senior, Raven Young, chipped in nine points including 7 of 9 from the foul line.
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For nearly the last two decades, ZAMST has been a premiere brand associated with injury prevention equipment in Japan, and on Dec. 13 the company named Robbie Davis to its U.S. Advisory Board, a component of ZAMST comprised of experts from the sports industry. Davis—who is the founder of Gameshape, Inc. Integrated Performance Training—worked with clients on the Los Angeles Lakers during their 2009 and 2010 championship seasons. Additionally, Davis utilized his knowledge regarding injury prevention, developmental techniques, and training to help basketball players on Team USA along with professional athletes at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
"Robbie Davis is a tremendous asset to ZAMST and a highly respected professional in his industry," Hajime Takada, Director of International Business for the Nippon Sigmax Corporation, Ltd. of Japan, parent corporation of ZAMST, said in a press release. "We hope to learn a great deal from each other about new and innovative methods of performance training as it relates to our focus on injury prevention."
Through his newly-appointed position with ZAMST, Davis will be the resident basketball expert, contributing to injury prevention seminars along with offering his expert advice in various areas of product development. The Manhattan Beach, Calif., native will also add to ZAMST's social networking platforms, providing articles and other forms of contributions online.
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I had a question about what you guys do in your service as I had read that you use a form of meditation during it. Is this true and if it is could someone explain the process and the goals?Respectfully,Prasrabdhi
What is this goal? I would say the overall goal is to enter into the very life of the Holy Trinity and through participation in the heavenly liturgy to go forth and do the common work among those in our lives outside of church.
Could you explain this a little more? I am unsure what you mean by entering the life of the holy trinity.
When I speak of entering into the life of the Holy Trinity, it is this: God became man so that man might become like God. By God's grace we are able to enter into the exact life that God is as the love of the Holy Trinity the way that Trinity by nature is this life.
With those in mind how do you guys feel about Living Buddha Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh?
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5 Creepy Creatures We Wish Science Hadn't Just Discovered
Every year, scientists discover tens of thousands of new creatures, most of which are cuddly and/or wuddly. However, every once in a while we uncover a species so vile and so contrary to all that we consider precious and good that it makes us seriously wonder if all this exploration nonsense is worth the hassle. Horrors such as ...
#5. A Hot-Pink Millipede That Oozes Cyanide
Most millipedes are not particularly adorable. They're a little disgusting, but they're not terribly threatening. They're just kinda ... there, waiting to gross out schoolgirls or be eaten by birds. Except, of course, for the shocking pink dragon millipede. Woe be to the bird that comes near one of these bastards. Woe be to any animal, honestly. The thing isn't hot pink because it likes doing K in a dark warehouse while wearing fur boots -- the bright color is a warning that this son of a bitch secretes cyanide.
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When you secrete poison, then you can decide what color to associate that with. For now: Barbie pink.
It was first discovered in 2007, and scientists quickly learned that the shocking pink dragon millipede, while looking like a half-chewed piece of Laffy Taffy, was anything but sweet and tasty. It does have a pleasant, almond-like smell to it, but that's just because it has a series of defensive glands that ironically spew almond-scented cyanide. You might remember cyanide as one of the deadliest poisons on Earth, and one of the last things you should ever let near your skin.
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In entomology, much like in dealing with passengers on a city bus, spiky pink hair pretty much means "Keep your distance."
This is a creature so potent and dangerous that, although it does have a Latin name (Desmoxytes purpurosea), even the man who discovered it uses the casual name. As Henrik Enghoff explained, "We think that such an unusually colored, conspicuous millipede deserves more than a Latin name and suggest calling it 'the shocking pink dragon millipede.'" Man, even Tyrannosaurus rex couldn't swing "giant roaring sharp-toothed death lizard." That's some serious science street cred right there.
#4. The Bat With the World's Longest Tongue
There's a good reason Bruce Wayne dresses like a bat when he wants to scare the bejesus out of some bad guys: Bats are friggin' scary. And back in 2005, science added one more to the creepy pile: Anoura fistulata, the Ecuadorian tube-lipped nectar bat. And with a name like "fistulata," you know it ain't gonna be pretty.
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Now, compared to some of the other horror shows we've displayed in the past, this little guy isn't so bad at first glance. Kinda stupid and inbred-looking, for sure, like Larry the Cable Bat, but not terrifying. But then it opens its mouth:
On the plus side, he can snake a drain like that.
Why yes, that is its tongue. And yes, it is longer than its entire body. In fact, this guy has the longest tongue (in relation to body size) of any mammal on Earth. It's 3.5 inches, while the rest of the body is only 2. That means its tongue is one and a half times the total length of its whole body. That's like a human being sporting a 9-foot tongue -- even Gene Simmons has to admit that's a bit unattractive.
Not ready to run off screaming just yet? Well, get this: Like many bats, these guys have the ability to hover like a hummingbird, which means that if you wake up in the middle of the night to a wet tickle on your forehead, you'll find that good ol' fisty here is able to maintain unceasing, disconcerting eye contact while deep-tonguing your business.
#3. A Lobster With One Super-Sized Sword Claw
Discovered a thousand feet beneath the sea off the coast of the Philippines, this is Dinochelus ausubeli. "Dinochelus" translates to "terrible claw," which, if anything, is an understatement.
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"Got your nose" just became a sinister carnival of horrors.
That monstrous claw is designed for exactly what it looks like it's designed for -- cold-blooded murder. Because this lobster is totally blind, it uses its elongated claw to reach out and grab prey, using its teeth almost like a wheat thresher before happily feasting away. This begs the question: Why only one huge claw? Clearly, the small claw is redundant and useless, since the gigantic claw could catch prey both near and far. Using the small claw is like the Power Rangers using their Zords solo. Come on, guys ... you resort to Megazord in, like, 100 percent of your successful battles -- just skip the middleman already.
Oh, and the ocean's not done unveiling its horrifying secrets to us. Just a couple years before the arm-wrestling lobster up there came to light, scientists discovered the Kiwa hirsuta, or Yeti crab. It is literally impossible for a more accurate name to exist.
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Except possibly the "under your bed tonight crab." You're welcome.
The Yeti crab may look huggable, but it turns out all that fur is actually a natural filtering system used to collect the swirling filth all around it. Once collected, it filters out the bacteria, raises it to whatever the bacterial version of maturity is, and then eats it when ready. In short, that hair is a landfill, a farm, and a dinner table at the same time.
And that's what the deep sea thinks "snuggly" is? We'd hate to see its version of terrifying.
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In terms of web design, there is a very specific amount of space between elements that make an interface look nice. Too little space and things look cramped, but too much and they look __. Words like spacious and open usually have positive connotations. I'm looking for a word to describe how something looks when there's too much empty space.
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Some of the following terms may apply directly; others are no more than figurative. Most of these words are adjectives rather than adverbs.
These are words I have used to critique websites with the same issue you have described:
Sprawling - Spread out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way.
It's often used of constructions/settlements - built over a wide area in a way that is ugly or not carefully planned. a sprawling city. But you can build a website, so I don't see why a "loose" layout shouldn't be sprawling.
I think you're wanting to make a critique about the website's use of whitespace in composition. Likely there would be other compositional problems such as layout and navigational issues. In art as in typography one squints to look at the piece to establish the overall tone (heavy/medium/light) of the layout to judge use of whitespace. You can use a suitably set blur filter instead of squinting. UX stackexchange forum members can advise further. Layout alignment of elements and the shape of the entire design also come under scrutiny, these things play just as important a role in human eyes scanning the website and making sense of it. Hope this answer is not unhelpful as I'm trying to impress that a single word, sprawling for example's sake, is not in itself a useful ejudicator. Saying instead something more concrete is preferrable (with evidence to prove it) that a website is too spacious for comfortable reading/understanding or navigation etc. Otherwise your assessment is as subjective as the next persons. Sparse, disconnected, disjointed, uncontained, too light (composition), bloated, unfocused, untamed, the list goes on, with various emotional spin attached.


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For Samantha Lane, a biomedical engineer-turned-finance MBA student, an internship was nothing short of essential. In fall 2011, Lane knew full well she was entering a new world of financial lingo and intense business course work. She immediately began applying for finance internships with medical companies, hoping for a finance role that might mesh with her three years at a New Jersey orthopedics firm.
Having completed two undergraduate internships, she understood that "an internship is a 12-week job interview." Lane interviewed with several medical firms, then the Johnsburg, Ill., native met with Kraft Foods, where she found the right fit. She decided to take Kraft's sales finance internship in her home state to focus on Kraft's sales to restaurants and other distributors.
"Going from the medical field to food and finance was the biggest challenge—I was making the transition of industries and job functions," she explained. "But my engineering background still feeds into finance. I now have a comfort level and confidence that I can do this in a real-world situation." Lane helped track expenses and profitability for Kraft. One task was to retool a profitability database; another was to develop an efficient way to track return on investment for a $14 million budget.
"The cool thing is that the tool I developed for the $14 million budget will be used by about 200 sales representatives," she says. "It was great having a structured program and projects with actual needs. It was very rewarding."
The company's "act like an owner" culture inspired her to give her all to her projects. She also formed friendships among other Kraft finance and marketing MBAs and met the division's CEO and other finance leaders.
Lane's bold move outside of the medical industry paid off with increased confidence and practical knowledge. Other potential interns might consider her advice: "Don't be afraid to go outside of your comfort zone and apply to any and all jobs, regardless of industry."
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It is our great pleasure to honor these donors with special gifts, events, and heartfelt gratitude–especially since these friends share our vision for the future of our students and our institution. They see in a special way how UIS contributes to the Springfield community and want to partner with our faculty and staff in making a difference through the lives of our students.
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Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who has worked as a safety consultant for BP starting in 2001, said he sent many warnings to the company's management in the years before the accident about how cost-cutting would hurt the safety of operations.
By TOM FOWLER
NEW ORLEANS -- An expert witness for plaintiffs suing BP
said the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident was "a classic failure
of management and leadership in BP," at the trial here in
Federal District Court over liability for the disaster.
Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering
professor who has worked as a safety consultant for BP starting
in 2001, said Tuesday that he sent many warnings to the
company's management in the years before the accident about how
cost-cutting would hurt the safety of operations.
"It was too lean," Mr. Bea said of BP's operations after it
reduced spending.
The testimony came on the second day of the civil trial that
will determine the degree of culpability that BP and the other
companies have for the accident, which killed 11 workers.
On Monday, lawyers for BP, drilling contractors Transocean and
Halliburton, the federal government, Gulf Coast states and
local businesses traded barbs over who was to blame for the
explosion that unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in US
Mr. Bea also criticized BP's own internal investigation of
the Deepwater Horizon incident for failing to investigate
management decisions leading up to the accident. Instead, he
said, BP's study, known as The Bly Report, focused on the
direct cause of the explosion on the drilling rig and the role
that equipment and crew on the rig played.
During cross-examination, Mike Brock, a lawyer for BP, tried
to challenge the credibility of Mr. Bea's testimony,
emphasizing the limits of his expertise and emphasizing the
role the companies suing BP played in providing him information
for a report he did that was critical of BP's work leading up
to the blowout.
"You understood that the plaintiff's legal team was focused
on finding documents that hurt BP, not helped BP?" Mr. Brock
Mr. Bea said he and his colleagues "were searching for the
truth, the facts."
Mr. Brock also walked Mr. Bea through many efforts the
company and its management made over the years to improve its
safety operations, including surveying workers about safety
BP has argued that the accident was due to many errors and
misjudgments by all of the companies involved in the project, including rig owner
Transocean and cement contractor Halliburton.
Other witnesses expected soon include Lamar McKay, chairman
and president of BP Americas, and previously recorded
depositions of former BP CEO Tony Hayward and Kevin Lacy, the
former head of BP's Gulf of Mexico operations.
A second trial, scheduled for the fall, will determine how
much oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Together, they will
determine the size of fines the companies face under the Clean
Water Act, which could total as much as $17.6 billion.
BP, which hired Transocean and Halliburton to work on
drilling its well, has said the fines would likely be under $5
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I was working in BP before, and I don't really agree that it is generic problems in all part of BP, and also not agreeing that it is only specific to BP. After in BP, I worked as consultant, mostly delivering process safety management topics and its related elements. In the one year servicing to several petrochemical and oil&gas companies, I would say that many have similar problems with what BP has that leading to GoM incident.Anyway, with the very limited knowledge about drilling operations and about the incidents itself, I am not going to judge who is responsible for what. But, I would agree with Prof. Bea criticism that the BP Investigation Report (Bly Rport), which is available in the internet, is still in "immediate cause" stage rather than concluding the "root cause".
Hirak Dutta
WE have to create a safety culture that is totally intolerant of any unsafe situations. The rank & files must be empowered to STOP unsafe operation & should not be questioned later for their act. I feel sad that we are not learning form the repetitive mistakes of similar nature and thus unable to ensure safe operation. Top Management of companies must create a climate of learning too. Please remember that Bottleneck of the bottle is at the TOP.
Scott Mills
The quote "It was too lean." is an opinion, not a fact. A true investigation would look at the implementation and audit trail of the safety systems - it isn't easy to get right - most companies are still trying to get there - even the big players. I find it unlikely that BP conciously scrimped on safety.
Al Ward
There has been a great deal of focus of the event however the process of the hire and testing of the rig and its equipment e.g., design of the BOP not fit for the drill string being used. Root cause has many different paths but to get to get there and it is the point to which when the barrier fail's that impact goes unseen until something happens. This was the very first barrier that failed which laid the trap, once you start to feed in the other failures thing start to spiral out of control before you get to the point of actual failure. Competence in understanding the well design and impact on changes barrier failed, Management of the change barrier failed. Boundaries of management responsibility not clear barrier failed. All opportunities missed to intervene. BP is no different from any other operator in that they have processes and procedures in place. It is the culture that is displayed from the top that dictates how people react and operate within the processes and procedures. I agree with the comment regarding safe operations is cost effective as it reduces downtime which at the end of the day reduces costs in lost revenue.
K. Fitzpatrick
I was involved in a project inChina in which we referenced BP"s "Guideline for BP Managers." The document spells out specific criteria for BP personnel actions. Obviously there were failures at the Deepwater Horizon facility; however, for Prof Bea suggest that suggest that cost cutting and "classic" management failure is the primary cause is inappropriate. One wonders wht Prof Bea"s warnings were.
Kazi Mujtaba
I fully agree with Robert that deepwater horizon incident was failure of BP management. BP must not be a blame thrower because it is solely BP responsibility to ensure safe working practices in its domain. Otherwise BP would continue to digest the bitter pills like Texas Refinery explosion, deepwater horizon & several un-reported incidents. Cost cutting approach is killer, good companies never compromise to the safety because they know that safer is the operation higher would be gain.
Dr. Amarjit Bakshi
This was told to BP lot of times a they were hiring also inexperienced personnel and had systematic problem in all areas. It is the same problem that hiring managers are afraid of hiring competent personnel and it is the industry culture as personal are not rewarded for accomplishments but for in which group you are and the mannager is powerful enough to put incompetent yes personnel.
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BYESVILLE - Steubenville once again put forth a nice showing at the Division II district track meet at Meadowbrook High School on Saturday. The Big Red girls were fourth overall with 65 points.
The regional opens Thursday afternoon at Muskingum University.
Big Red was led by sophomore Elise Watts. She won the long jump with a mark of 17-1 1/2. She was also second in the high hurdles at 15.48.
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Steubenville posted arguably the most impressive victory of the day when the team of Watts, Kira Newburn, Knisha Sanders and Lysiah Rice blitzed the 4x2 field for the victory in a time of 1:45.79. The Big Red time was nearly three full seconds ahead of Martins Ferry.
Rice was third in both the 100 (12.74) and 200 (26.48). Big Red's 4x1 team was fourth in 51.50.
Indian Creek's Whitney Martin continued her impressive senior campaign. She's continued to drop time and turn it on in the two short sprints. She won both the 100 and 200 meter dashes in 12.46 and 25.59, respectively.
Creek freshman Madison Smith joined Martin in the winner's circle after capturing the 400 meter dash in 60.85.
In the field, steady senior Kristen Shimko won the discus with a twirl of 112-ft-2.
The Redskins' 4x2 finished fourth in 1:49.69.
The Martins Ferry Purple Riders' girls' track team spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons in Division III.
The returned to Division II this season and left Meadowbrook High School with yet another piece of hardware.
Coach Rich Materkoski's squad tallied 67 points to finish in a distant tie for second with Morgan, trailing only John Glenn.
Martins Ferry won just one event during the course of the 17-event meet and it was on Thursday. Senior Rikki Allen captured the pole vault, soaring over 9-3.
Jamie Truchan was the runnerup in the 1600 meters. She ran four laps in 5:34.71 to advance.
The Purple Riders were strong in the relays, qualifying in both the 4x2 and 4x4.
In the 4x2, the team of Sarah Applegarth, Ashley Griffith, Malyah Coleman and Talyr Jenkins posted a 1:48.47 for the silver medal.
The 4x4 team of Truchan, Dalethia Johnson, Lauren Bennett and Sarah Applegarth posted a 4:15.96 to earn a bronze medal.
Senior Nikki Allen was fourth in the high hurdles, skimming 10 timebrs in 16.52.
Sophomore Tyesha Allen qualified fourth in the 300 low hurdles, running a 48.09.
Johnson was third in the 400 with a 61.93. Freshman Candace Kendzierski was third in the shot put with a throw of 34-4.
St. Clairsville - on the strength of its speed in the short sprints - had a strong showing and scored 54 points.
The Red Devils' lone victory came when the team of Mechenzie Wood, Kennady Walker, Hannah Jordan and Ayla Stewart teamed to run a lap in 50.28.
Stewart - the speedy senior - continued her impressive final campaign. She was second in the 200 meter dash with a 26.13 and fourth in the 100 in 12.75.
Walker also qualified in the 200, running half lap in 26.61.
In the field, sophomore Mikayla Westlake qualified third in the high jump with a clearance of 4-10.
Union Local qualified a trio to the regional.
Freshman Megan Bateman ran eight laps in 13:15.00 to finish fourth in the 3200 meters.
Kylie Russell earned a return trip in the pole vault on Thursday and Mikayla Patton qualified in the shot put the same evening.
Edison's lone regional representative will be senior Ashley Borsch. She'll run in both the high and low hurdles. She was third in the highs (16.47) and second in the lows (47.28).


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A vegetarian diet excludes meat, poultry, fish, and foods containing these products. There are many different variations of the vegetarian diet. This article focuses on the lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet, which is based on plant foods, but also includes eggs and dairy.
There are many health benefits associated with following a vegetarian diet. In general, vegetarian diets tend to be lower in saturated fat and cholesterol, and provide higher amounts of many vitamins and minerals than traditional western diets. Moreover, a well-balanced vegetarian diet may help:
People choose to follow a vegetarian diet for many different reasons, including health benefits, concern for the environment, and concern for animal welfare.
A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet is based on plant foods such as grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes, seeds, and nuts, in addition to dairy and eggs. To make sure that you meet all your nutrient needs on this diet, be sure to eat a variety of each of these types of foods. Nutrients that deserve extra attention to make sure they are eaten in sufficient amounts include: protein, iron , calcium , zinc , vitamin B12 , vitamin D , and omega-3 fatty acids .
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