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(11-20-2015, 11:42 PM)Khleys Wrote: By the way, the weapon cores aren't character-locked, so if you only care about the general stats and don't care for the 2-set effect or the additional Skill boosts, you can just get anyone's anything and upgrade that.
Imo, missing out on a lot by skipping out on the 2-set effect, but to each his own.
(11-20-2015, 09:07 AM)Person Wrote: If you decide to use a random weapon, take in mind that you can wear another character's weapon, but not profit from the skill additional effect (OA first skill +12% critical damage for weapons, Trainee 1st skill +12% critical damage for modules, FM1 +10% critical chance for the 2/2 set, on any set + the first 3 trainee skills Lv+1.)
Yeah well , guess what, the set effect is still **** compared to any of the modules you'll be usi---------
Okay........so seems like you can give up on the seha's HP card set up and use the set's module for more......benefit?
Yeah, there will still be almost no difference srsly.
(11-20-2015, 09:42 PM)Endgame Wrote: Well, upgrading from 54 lantern/wand to 62 wand might be an upgrade for my Levia and Seulbi. (Levia's ASpd would shoot up.) But replacing their Yellow Aerial/CHC/CHD modules with the 62 set one would be a definite loss though, since they'd lose 12% CHC and 10% Aerial just to get 3% CHD.....
But for everyone else, should I aim for the 54 lanters as I was, or the new weapons? Because I think I'll have an easier time trying to get those weapon drops (Nata already has his daggers.) than going through the 68 crystal RNG boxes for only a 1 in 5 chance of a lantern.
In my opinion, those new gears are just easier to get weapons, no one wants to spend 2months gambling weapon boxs just to get hammers all over and over (i actually got 4 hammers so far, upgraded 1 , dismantled 2, kept one for reasons???)
Since the drop rate is waaaaaaay higher, you can "pick" your weapon before owning all the materials to upgrade it, which is good in term of choice? they are very close in stats to Lv54s but they are still weaker due to no proc or activation AND different stats.


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Maybe this should be replicated and extended with the PSID as it covers a longer time period. Stroke mortality patterns have also experienced a shift according to Casper ML, Wing S, Anda RF, Knowles M, Pollard RA (May 1995)."The shifting stroke belt. Changes in the geographic pattern of stroke mortality in the United States, 1962 to 1988″. Stroke 26 (5): 755–60. PMID 7740562.
Teenage Years in the Stroke Belt
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Effect of duration and age at exposure to the Stroke Belt on incident stroke in adulthood
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In New York, the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2012 was remarkably similar to the morning of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. A beautiful, sunny, unseasonably warm morning.
I had not noticed the parallel, and in fact had not been conscious of today's date, until I took my dog out for her morning walk. We came across an elderly man who wanted to say hello to her, and in chatting he mentioned the date. A short time later it emerged that his step-son had been working at Cantor Fitzgerald, and had never come home after leaving for work that morning. That's when it dawned on me that this was such a comparably lovely morning.
The man said his now-former wife had received a mid-seven figure settlement. We both shrugged. So what?
Eleven years ago I left my office to get something for breakfast, and remarked on what a gorgeous morning it was. I remember seeing someone riding a Vespa through midtown, the first one I'd seen since hearing that Piaggio was re-entering the U.S. market, and thought it looked like fun to be buzzing around on it on such a nice day.
Returning to the office I bumped into a couple colleagues who had come outside for a smoke, and they mentioned that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. They didn't have any details and like most people I assumed the culprit was some novice pilot in a Cessna.
When I got back upstairs, the televisions were showing live footage of the smoke billowing out of the building, which seemed awfully heavy for a Cessna. Shortly thereafter we saw the explosion from the second tower, and it was clear that this was no accident.
A number of colleagues had previously worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and a couple were able to get through on the phone to their former colleagues. Just watching that was surreal. A sample exchange, from memory, following one such call:
"What did he say is going on down there?"
"He said he doesn't know if they can get out, and he needed to hang up so he could try to get a call through to his family."
One of my colleagues had a son in his twenties working in one of the towers, and he spent the morning trying unsuccessfully, and increasingly frantically, to call his son. Blackberrys were functioning perfectly but were far from ubiquitous and his son didn't have one. There was nothing any of us could do or say to help. Relief only came several hours later when his son, having hoofed it the few miles from the Trade Center to midtown, walked in the door.
Two colleagues had actually had a meeting at the Trade Center scheduled for that morning. Thankfully they had been running a bit late, and they were still on the subway when the first plane struck.
By early afternoon, there was nothing to do but walk home, up the empty and silent avenues. Medical professionals went to hospitals, in anticipation of a surge of injured people needing treatment, but they needn't have. The surge never came; people were either below the point of impact and got out fine, or they were above it and didn't get out at all.
So I was lucky. Neither I, nor any friends or relatives, were ever in danger, though a number of people I knew professionally were lost.
One thing I find interesting in the public reaction was the active solicitation of donations of supplies for search and rescue. You could bring items they were asking for to the Javits Center. My wife and I had brought down some supplies, specifically what I can't recall except booties for the rescue dogs. I'm sure the supplies were all put to good use, but it got me wondering: with the full wherewithal of the U.S. government at their disposal, why did authorities need small, irregular donations? They didn't. But the city was full of people who did need to feel like there was something they could do to help. The request for donations was, I think, as much as anything, an effort to aid the donors.
I guess the thing that I find most striking today is the widely varying
ways people grieve. Some privately, some very publicly, some focused
more on individual victims and heroes, some in broader terms. Some perhaps in ways the surprise even themselves; I hadn't planned on writing anything about the topic, yet here I sit, typing.
Eleven years on, I don't derive any great or unique wisdom from what happened that day. Treasure the loved ones in your life while you can. But one shouldn't need to be reminded of that. The worst tragedies bring out the best in people. Also not news, particularly - at the risk of sounding like what Californian friends deride as New York provincial - in New York City, where the six-sigma extremes of humanity seem to cross paths regularly.
My prayers are with the people whose lives were cut short, and the people who lost loved ones, particularly the children who have grown up without a parent over the past eleven years. And that's about all I have to say.


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Actor: Roger Moore
US Release Date: 29 June 1979
US gross, $ [adjusted]:62,723,559 [139,385,687]
Worldwide gross, $ [adjusted]: 202,700,000 [450,444,444]
World Premier - 26th June 1979, Odeon Leicester Square, London
Locations: Yokon Territory, Canada, London, Los Angeles, Southern California, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Tapirape, Brazil, Outer Space.
Source for above info: The " mother " of all James Bond books - James Bond: The Legacy.
The end credits from The spy who loved me said James Bond would return in "For Your Eyes Only". But Star Wars was a phenomenon. And to cash into the Outer Space mania, Bond decided to become an astronaut. In a teaser start similar to The spy who loved me , a space shuttle is stolen and the world is in danger again. Bond is busy in the arms of a beautiful woman in a plane. In a stunt as height defying but not as spectacular in the previous movie, Bond throws himself from the plane. Suddenly Jaws appears and Bond breaks his ripcord steals a parachute and lands safely. Jaws is left flapping his arms.The titles look like a remnant from the previous film as we see the trampolines once again. Shirley Bassey does the singing honors.Info taken from " MR. KISS KISS BANG BANG! ", the Granddaddy of all James Bond websites.
The clues point to billionaire Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) and
hence Bond sets off to meet him. Here he meets Corinne
Dufour (Corinne Clery) who is Drax's personal helicopter pilot.
Corinne: The Drax residence. Every stone brought from France. Cute, isn't it?
Bond: Magnificent. Why didn't he buy the Eiffel tower as well?
Corinne: He did, but the French government refused him an export permit
Bond works his charms on Corinne and unlocks Drax's secrets. Drax however, and has her mercilessly hunted down by a pair of vicious dogs. Bond gets to visit the Space facility where he meets Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) who is a NASA trained astrophysicist and a CIA agent.
Bond: I'm looking for Dr. Goodhead.
Goodhead: You just found her.
Bond: A woman?
Goodhead: Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond.
Next to test out Bond, Goodhead invites him to try out a G-Force machine.
Goodhead: Oh, come-on now Mr. Bond, a 70-year old can take 3 G's.
Bond: Well, the trouble is there's never a 70-year old around when you need one.
One of Drax's goons meddles around with the controls and Bond has the spin of his life. He is eventually saved when he fires one of the darts activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles. After being spun around, Bond departs for Venice, where we have a fantastic boat chase and a visit to the Venini Glass Store where Drax is manufacturing poisonous chemicals. After a brief fiasco afterwards, Bond departs for Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Goodhead in tow. (Isn't this eerily like The spy who loved me ?)
Enemy Action
Bond's contact in Brazil, Manuela (Emily Bolton) almost is bitten
off when she runs into Jaws during the middle of the carnival
season. But Bond saves her and later is attacked by Jaws when on
a cable car.
Goodhead: You know him?
James: Not socially, his name is Jaws. He kills people.
And after jumping off the cable car wire
Holly: Have you broken something?
Bond: Only my tailor's heart.
Jaws meets Dolly (Blanche Ravalec), a girl with blond pigtails who takes an instant liking to the monster. She helps the huge henchman out of the rubble of a cable car station he has just destroyed, and stays with him.
In the melee Goodhead is kidnapped but Bond discovers the location of Drax's secret hideout. Bond's powerboats around in the Amazon and when attacked by Jaws goes down a waterfall and converts the boat into a glider. He lands near a nubile nymphet who lures him to a pond where he is thrown into to become the meal of Drax's pet python. After injecting a lethal concoction into the reptile, Bond emerges out.
Drax: Mr. Bond! You defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you! You're not a sportsman, Mr. Bond! Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python?
Bond: I discovered it had a crush on me!
Later as is the tradition, Drax explains in great detail his master plan to destroy all human life on earth and to establish a master race of perfect specimens. Then Drax puts both agents in the blast pit below a Moonraker Space Shuttle about to depart, Bond pops open the rear of the watchcase to reveal a tiny coil of explosive plastique. He fixes the explosive to the exit hatch lock, and then pulls out the upper right control button from the watchcase to produce a long detonator wire. This he plugs this into the explosive, which he detonates by pushing on the right side of the watchcase.
Bond and Goodhead hitch a ride on the Space shuttle, signal to NASA and with the help of Dolly, Jaws turns against Drax when he is ordered to throw Bond into Deep Space. Bond and the NASA Space fighters fight a duel with laser guns with the Drax troops and finally Bond succeeds in destroying the Space Station and Drax. But in a tragic moment, Jaws sacrifices his life so that Bond and Goodhead can escape in a Space Pod. Next Bond goes on shooting the Poison gas filled globes so that the world is safe again.
And this leaves him with plenty of time till he lands on Earth again. When finally, NASA Command Center establishes audio-visual contact with the spacepod, they see them to find them floating in the air with a sheet over them:
M: ....007!! My God, what is Bond doing?!!!!
Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir!!
After this outlandish adventure, EON made Roger Moore return in a more serious and down to earth, For Your Eyes Only .
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Crushing Solo Queue - Minimizing Losing Streaks
In this article I will talk about bad streaks. Losing streak is when you lose lots of games in a row, it can be as few as three or it may be ten or even more. Most of the times, during this period you feel that you are extremely unlucky, you don't really know what to do or what should you change to get out from this horrible situation. It happens in Diamond too, so it's not because of being in Bronze, Silver or Gold
The Reason Why Losing Streaks Happen and Losing Streak Probabilities
To understand this section, you need basic understanding of Math, so it might be a little bit difficult to understand. Whenever you sit down to play, there is a probability that your next couple of games will be defeats. I am sure you know that. With lower win rate, you have higher chance to lose the game and more Defeats you can get in a row.
A really simple example:
Let's assume that someone has 50% win rate, then the games will be like a coin toss since it's 50-50 to get heads or tails. Go to this website where you can simulate coin tossing. Heads will be your Victories, tails will be your Defeats. Set the Flip to 100 and select your desired virtual coin type. Click on "Flip Coin(s)" and check your biggest winning and losing streaks. The results may vary but you can see that the exact same thing can happen with your games, it simply takes way more time since a game is 30-50 minutes. For me, the biggest coin streaks were 7 and 5 and I think it will be around this number for you too. As you can see it isn't because people are unlucky, it's because that's how it is for every one who can win only 50%. If your win rate is under 50%, prepare to have even more defeats and even bigger losing streaks. Please note, that this only simulates 100 games but someone who would like to climb up to high elo, has to play way more than this and with more games even bigger streaks come.
With this calculator, you can check the exact probability of your losing streaks. It's for betting but it will be perfectly fine for League of Legends too. As you can see on the picture below, there are three fields. In the first field called "Series Length" means your number of games, "Streak Length" is your defeats in a row. "Loss Probability" is the chance to lose the game. So if you have 52% win rate, then this number is 48% because you subtract your win rate from 100%. Click on the picture and check yours based on your overall win/loss or based on your main champions' stats.
My overall win ratio is around 50% at the moment. Let's calculate mine and do the same with your own numbers. First, type in your total number of games in this season. I have 212 W and 213 L, so 425 games. As you can see, with this many games 6 defeats in a row WILL happen since it's almost 97% and of course even bigger losing streaks are also possible. With 50% win rate, you can go up slowly in rankeds even with the huge losing streaks. Like a month ago I was 25 wins behind when I started focusing on learning how to win more and analyzed my match history, my win rate started to improve rapidly. With every percent of win rate improvement, your losing streak length and probability becomes less and also more often you get longer winning streaks. Lately I am winning way above 60% of my games, if I could get only around 60% in the long run, the results would be completely different. You can see the 50% win rate on the left and 60% on the right. Losing streak length and probability instantly dropped.
Minimizing Losing Streaks
When losing streaks happen, your true goal is to minimize them because it's mathematically inevitable to completely avoid it, especially in Solo Queue in the long run. The only chance would be to win every games but even pros like WildTurtle can achieve around 70-80% win rate in Solo Queue's high elo.
Some crucial mistakes that make your losing streaks even worse:
- Believing that you should constantly try out new things:
You start to panic. You will be like "These things are not working, let's try this and let's try that." You change roles, champions in nearly every game because you desperately try to find the escape from your losing streak. You play outside of your comfort zone and because of this you won't be confident in your own skills and slowly start to tilt. With these champions you most likely have way lower win rates and as you have learnt it, lower win rate is the number one cause of big losing streaks.
Solution: Get back to your comfort zone. Play your high win rate champs, the ones you know you can handle properly. Doing well in your games, making some good moves or a 1v5 Pentakill will give back your confidence.
- Giving up more games and way sooner.
What I have realized when I tried a Silver ranked few months ago is that people give up games because of trivial things even if they could win easily. Enemy team First blood, ff20. adc missed a creep, ff20. Mid didn't get a blue buff, ff20.
Solution: Keep the faith and try to focus till the end, people throw a lot. Anything can happen. To make sure that your allies don't surrender when you could carry alone, pick a duo partner and vote "No". With two "No" votes your team can't give up when you know you can carry alone. That's one of the many benefits of playing duo queue in ranked games.
- Dragging down team mates.
Sometimes as soon as the champ select starts. Thinking about "Oh they picked Darius, it's over." or "Stupid bans, ff 20" or similar negative comments. Negative mindset is contagious, with these comments you basically lead your team to defeat. They focus on YOU instead of their champion and on winning the game which will eventually crush their performance.
Solution: If you can't say anything that could help you and your team to win the game, don't say anything. Stop typing and focus on playing as well as you can. Also, you can press the mute button when you feel the urge to start chat fighting with someone.
- Playing even though you know your overall performance is way worse than usually.
Bad games happen. Nothing works, people constantly get away with low hp, your cs is extremely bad, you have zero map awereness because of something, etc.
Solution: Don't start a new game when you know you can't focus at all. For example if you have a bad day, someone made you really angry or you are sad because of something and can't really focus on anything. Also you can try "stop-loss". It's simple. If you lose three games in a row and you feel it affects you, stop playing rankeds for that day or for a couple of more if you need to.
- Feeding, trolling, leaving.
The fact that you would like to improve your skills suggests that you don't go full feggit but if... IF you do these, don't even wonder why you can't go up. There are exeptions but most of the time you guarantee a Defeat for yourself and for other 4 people anytime you troll, leave or feed.
Solution: Don't fuckin' do it! Just think about it, how absurd it is to go crazy because of a game you play to have fun. Being angry once a while when you have a bad day is okay but I have never understood those people who go completely mental and destroy other people's fun just because a little mage killed him/her twice. Toughen up! It's not the end of the world.
How to be "lucky" in League of Legends
The harsh truth is that there are only a few people who can achieve success just by being lucky. Not just in League of Legends, but in anything. If you aren't among the lucky few, you have to do something else. Be prepared, and you will be lucky. Anytime I feel that I've mastered a champion, I become more "lucky". Whenever I play a champion with 65%+ win rate, I don't see as much raging, my allies are better, the enemy teams are throwing more, have less afks in my team and more in theirs and even if bad things happen to your team, it won't really affect the outcome. I become more aware of the mistakes of my opponents and you will be too. It will feels like they are in slow mode. It can't be a coincidence because I feel this after thousands of games and I have heard the same thing form other high elo players too. On one of my accounts, my biggest main was the old Fiora. During that time the vast majority of people blamed me for picking it because players believed she is that weak. We won 4v5s after 4v5s. If you dominate them, THEY will feel that THEY are unlucky even though you have one afk. "How can my team be that bad, I can't even win an 5v4 with these noobs." If you can't beat the whole enemy team, sometimes it's enough to destroy one enemy, and their team will fall apart. Go for the fragile ones, if someone rages in all chat from the enemy team, crush that player. Do you remember? Negative mindset is contagious, you have learnt the most crucial mistakes but they haven't.
Forget being hopeless and get used to finding the reasons. Learn how to analyze your own match history, replay your games and find out your mistakes. Some League of Legends players are doomed but you can't act like those if you would like to climb the ladder. You need to be different. Not so long ago someone trolled and spammed my whole Facebook group with hateful comments about how unlucky he is and how everyone is noob. Quoting him: "I can't carry because my allies always play like shit." I suggested him to check my Fiora guide (A wild Fiora rework appeared so it isn't good anymore) and carry with her easily, the reply was that Fiora is worthless. I offered him to practice in 1v1, so we might find out what's the problem and of course I had a strong feeling that I find tons of leaks in his play, so I wanted to open his eyes. Anytime I have beaten him I tried to give hints. He replied with an excuse or somehow bashed me. After winning against him, suddenly Fiora became OP in his eyes and that was the reason why he couldn't win. So I picked another one. After a couple of quick games I offered him to say ANY champ and I will be with it. I won, he raged even more and we could do this for days, the outcome wouldn't be different. Good bye and Banhammer. He couldn't put his ego aside, so he will stay "unlucky".
On the picture below, you can see Warwick, Malphite and Volibear in a red bracket. I love to play them, they seemed to be easy and had a better win rate than 50% so they proved that I can go up with them. After realizing this, all I needed to do is picking them as often as I could! But what happens if you can't pick your role? Pick an easy champ. Don't try to do wonders with high skill cap champs if you don't even know that role and have almost 0 experience with that champion. That's what most people do, that's what I did too for a while and that's why most people fail even though they might be better than other players in that Division. For example if you don't really play Support, don't try Thresh or if you don't have any clue about jungling, avoid Lee Sin. You have to drop out the champs that you can't play and stick to those who you can. For example I have to stop playing Blitzcrank since I can't really win more than 40% of the games. I would need lots of practice with him and so much effort to improve my win rate. So, what now? I try to find a champion that seems to be easy for me. I have tried Alistar, it worked and I like to play with him. 4 wins and only 1 lose so if I must support, I pick him from now. The first big milestone is to have 2 mastered role with 2 champions for each role and 1 backup champion for each role you don't main with 50% win rate. You can read my picks below and you should make a list for your preferred champions too.
My preferred picks:
- Top: Volibear, Malphite
- Jungle: Warwick and now testing Amumu and Zac
- Adc: Miss Fortune
- Mid: Malphite (benefit of a multirole champion) and testing Annie
- Support: Dropping out Blitzcrank and picking Alistar from now
Since I mostly play with a duo partner, picking my preferred role is a lot easier. Having a solid win rate with a champion also helps you to get what you want, people start to offer you roles or even ask you to pick your main. You just need proof.


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This living legend of tango turns 82 today and he's still singing to appreciative audiences in Buenos Aires.
Di Sarli recruited him at the tender age of 18 and later he also went on to sing with Pedro Laurenz - two of the great orquestas of the Golden Age. For more about his interesting career, read this interview in Todotango where you can also listen to a number of his hits. Bill recently forwarded this lovely Youtube video of a recent sub-titled interview with the great man.
When it comes to romantic tangos and valses, he's a master. Don't Sebastian and Maria Ines capture the romance of Junto a tu corazon beautifully in this performance?
When will the Tango Teacher Disappear?
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A tutorial on porting your game to run as an app on Android TV using Android Studio and Cordova.
Emanuele Feronato writes: "I already showed you the creation of a native Android App starting from a HTML5 game using Cocoon.io, the tool I used to turn my HTML5 games Ladderz, znumberz and Stack the Crates into native Android games.
Things start to become harder when you want to publish for Android TV, as Cocoon.io does not support Android TV configuration, and no one of the plugins you can find around the web work.
So you should abandon Cocoon.io and stick on Android Studio + Cordova. If you aren't familiar with these tools, I already wrote two detailed tutorials"


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When shall we worship? While it is always a good time to worship God, we believe that God has appointed special times to assemble, worship, and praise His name. The bible tells us when these special times are.
"And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my feasts'". (Leviticus 23: 1-2)
God calls his special times of worship "feasts of the Lord"! The feasts of Lord include the Sabbath, Passover (The Lord's Supper Service) and Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, and Last Great Day. Although these feast days were commanded by God in the Old Testament, they are as relevant today as they were back then. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! The feasts of the Lord are God's feast days, not Jewish holidays. Although they commemorated important events in Israel's spiritual history, they also looked to the future. Pointing to Jesus Christ and God's plan of salvation through Him, God's feast days have more meaning for Christians then they ever did to ancient Israel. After all, just about everything in the Old Testament scriptures pointed to Jesus Christ. As one grows in his or her understanding of Gods feast days, the New Testament literally comes to life in ways that it never did or could before. In fact, the feasts of the Lord point to every important event and every aspect of God's plan of salvation that is important to Christians. And there is something else that should be considered. According to the overwhelming testimony of the Scriptures, God's feast days were observed by Jesus Christ, the apostles, and New Testament church. So, come worship with us as we celebrate the feasts of the Lord!
"I was glad when they said to me, 'Let us go into the house of the Lord.'" (Psalm 122: 1)


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Many institutions like Wheeler national Wildlife Refuge are resorting to technology resources to study the activities of animals in their natural habitat without affecting their behavior. The main goal of this kind of innovative projects is to preserve these species and improve their health and quality of life. Additionally, such strategies enable people to enjoy the most captivating biodiversity of our world.
Endangered species that can be preserved with the assistance of technology
In Estonia, a project involving a camera and an immense forest is allowing through streaming a dynamic interaction with a small group of ospreys. The creators of the program installed a filming device right next to the nest in which a chick of this species is being raised. During the day, people can observe in real time, how parents bring food to feed their baby bird, among other activities.
Technology innovations are allowing the implementation of similar projects in many places around the world which help to identify the most suitable strategies to preserve endangered species. For instance, SEO/Birdlife is undertaking conservationist programs through the installation of webcams on the nests of threatened feathered creatures.
Birds like the Swallow and the Peregrine Falcon can be appreciated with all their magnificence with the assistance of high definition cameras that are strategically located near their nests. These devices are installed in such way that they not affect the natural behavior of these animals, helping to collect valuable knowledge related to their biology and their livelihood.
On the other hand, National Geographic magazine and the University of Georgia have joined efforts to implement a project that consists in the study of outdoor activities of domestic cats. Through the footages collected in real time it is possible to observe life form the perspective of these felines who carry a tiny camera with them.
Raising awareness in regards to the importance of all kinds of life
Webcam projects also involve educational purposes, since they allow people of all ages to observe the magnificent equilibrium of nature and the complexity of all living beings that surround us. Many conservationist institutions like Wheeler national Wildlife Refuge provide an open window to wildlife. Thanks to the launching of a network of filming devices, during a specific season, it is possible to observe live images of some of the most emblematic species.
Webcams have revolutionized the relationship between humans and wild animals. These devices offer a privileged perspective from which it is possible to appreciate different species and learn much more about them without harassing them. Nature fans become invisible and silent observers of the most fascinating creatures without interfering with their activities.
Live transmissions of wildlife have as a main goal to raise awareness about what really means to observe an animal on its natural habitat without producing a negative impact. The audience can contemplate the way each creature unfolds on its habitual surroundings while respecting its space. Kids can learn from an early age the important is each living being for the equilibrium of the environment. It will help to create a consciousness of responsibility in future generations that will actively work on the preservation of a healthy planet.


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First Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region
Representatives of the eight participating countries have now a stable platform where they gather together to define the priorities for their joint work in the four thematic pillars of the Strategy: 1) Blue Growth; 2) Connecting the Region; 3) Environmental Quality; 4) Sustainable tourism and therefore the moto of this Forum was: 8 countries, 70 million people, one strategy.
The Foreign Ministers and the national authorities responsible for EU funds of the States involved, as well as the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy were among the speakers of the conference.
The event provided possibilities for networking (B2B) hosted by the Croatian Chamber of Economy, and represented a great opportunity to reach out to a wide range of stakeholders from the Region, including national, regional and local administrations, the business sector, the academia and the civil society at large.
The EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian region has been established with the aim of better cooperation between the countries on the territory of the Adriatic-Ionian region - four EU Member States and four non-EU Member States. In 2016, when the Republic of Croatia co-chairs the Steering Committee of the Strategy, special emphasis is placed on strategic projects that have a strong transnational impact on all countries in the region, availability and attractiveness of the macro-region, development of energy networks, competitiveness of small and medium enterprises and education as a horizontal priority.
Mr Miro Kovač, Chairman of the Conference and Croatian Minister of foreign affairs, in his addressing said that now more than ever we need to work together in order to reach common goals. Countries that are already in the EU and countries that are on the way to the EU share common challenges and that we are here to offer innovative solutions for empowering small and medium entrepreneurship. He also said that it's crucial for all to go beyond their comfort zone and that by standing together in challenges with solidarity we can achieve much more.
Ms Corina Cretu, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, stated that she believes that this macro-regional strategy has great potential, not only for increased competitiveness and connectivity in the region, but also for integration. The EUSAIR promotes cooperation between EU and non-EU countries alike, to ensure that no one is left behind on the path to prosperity.
During the Forum, the Dubrovnik Declaration was adopted by the representatives of the Governments of participating countries. The text of the Declaration is available here.
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Professor Michael J. Sandel is an ambitious man. In an op-ed in Prospect magazine last year, he said that "If I ruled the world, I would rewrite the economics textbooks," which he thinks is "a small ambition, unworthy of [such a] sovereign office." After competing with Professor Greg Mankiw for the largest class on campus for many years, it seems like the battleground has moved to textbook sales.
Professor Sandel's objection to economics as a discipline comes from his discomfort at the marketization of public life. In his public lecture "The Perils of Thinking like an Economist" and his book "What Money Can't Buy," Sandel offers numerous examples of markets that challenge social norms. He claims that these markets, while innocuous in reasoning proposed by economics textbooks, create moral issues in two different ways. First, the expansion of markets causes injustice stemming from wealth inequality. In a world where kidneys can be sold and bought, for instance, wealth inequality could cause health resources to be allocated to the wealthiest rather than the neediest. Second, the formation of markets may alter the nature or character of the good being traded. Paying kids to read, for instance, changes their love for knowledge into love for money, which may deter kids from reading for fun. He blames economists for formalizing moral issues like these without consulting moral philosophy, and argues to reduce the role of markets in public life.
While I disagree with the moral contention in some of his examples, I agree that these arguments are valid criticism of the unconstrained market. His criticism is not, however, "a big step toward a more civic life" as he claims—because it is already in the very textbooks that he wants to replace.
Professor Sandel criticizes economists for applying efficiency arguments to buying and selling kidneys without thinking about its moral consequence. If Sandel cares to talk to any economist at the Harvard Faculty Club, he will find that his colleagues not only think about such moral complexities, but have also devised solutions. Instead of cash incentives, the "kidney exchange" will use an algorithm to swap donated kidneys, so that people who cannot receive donated kidneys from a loved one can still get a donated kidney from a stranger. This can improve efficiency of kidney donation based on the economic principle of coincidence of wants, but not in a morally contentious way. The study of markets without financial incentives became such an important subfield of economics that its intellectual godfather, Harvard economist Alvin E. Roth, received the Nobel Prize in Economics last year for this contribution. It is intriguing that in Sandel's book about economists' fixation with monetary markets, he forgets to include such alternative markets offered by mainstream economists.
More broadly speaking, economists are no strangers to difficult discussions about civic life. The great economists Kenneth J. Arrow and Amartya Sen founded the field of social choice theory, a mathematical formalism for making collective decisions with consideration of fairness, rights, liberties, and human folly. Of course, such ideas would not be included in Professor Sandel's hypothetical textbook, because he dismisses the "rigor of natural sciences" in economics as deviant from the discipline's origin as moral philosophy.
Since its conception, economics has come a long way from a normative political philosophy to a positive social science. David Ricardo and Alfred Marshall systemized the discipline with formal analysis. The introduction of statistical methods connected social theories with reality. Recently, economists have tentatively applied these toolkits to explain phenomena ranging from family life to social norms. With sufficient and reasonable assumptions, economists can answer difficult questions with a great dose of objectivity and rationality. Given the trajectory of economics to overtake spheres previously governed by moral philosophy, Professor Sandel is justified in questioning the role of a value-free science in public discourse.
His criticism, however, is not different from that of a weaver against the sewing machine. A value-free framework offers a platform for discussions driven by scientific consensus. Put simply, before deciding what a society should choose, people must agree on what society will do when given choices. Existing economics textbooks teach the latter, but Professor Sandel would prefer students to learn the former. Given that Sandel prefers to have students arrive at their own conclusion in his Justice class, it is not clear why he would prefer to teach students the moral limits of markets, rather than teach them how to think independently concerning such questions, with sound tools from economics.
In his attack on the field of economics, Professor Sandel caricatured the discipline as being narrowly focused on the cost-free transaction of a private good between two rational individuals, a conclusion that would not be surprising if he stopped reading an economics textbook after the first chapter. If Professor Sandel continued reading, he would find that economic thought gives great importance to social cost, as in environmental economics, or justice, as in social choice theory, or market irrationality, as in behavioral economics.
Professor Sandel's book may offer insights about moral concerns in markets, but he chooses to ignore the comprehensive intellectual framework that already addresses his concerns. Instead of rewriting economics textbook altogether, Professor Sandel may make better use of his time picking up the economics textbook that he evidently forgot to finish reading.
Jonathan Z. Zhou '14 is an applied mathematics concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Vintage Lanvin Rumeur
3 comments:
- Vanessa said...
I have only tried a recent incarnaton of Rumeur, but it was plenty skanky enough as I recall, though admittedly my tolerance of animalic notes has come on by leaps and bounds since. Were I to try the modern stuff today I might well say "not as bad as all that" too!
- October 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Rappleyea said...
I've never smelled the original Rumeur, although I happened upon an extremely generous SA right after the new edition was released, and so I do have that. I've never actually worn it, but if I remember, it's fairly pretty in a mainstream way. Not at all your description of the original. Chanel's Cuir de Russie, a fairly tame leather, is about as leathery as I get. My favorite from the 30's is Guerlain's masterpiece, Vol de Nuit. The vintage parfum is ALL THAT!
- October 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- viji said...
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<trackbot-ng> Date: 15 August 2007
<tlr> Scribe: Ian Fette
<scribe> ScribeNick: ifette
mez: Did not see any issues raised
when minutes sent out
... approved
<tlr> http://www.w3.org/2007/07/08-wsc-minutes.html
mez: Thank mez, serge, thomas, mike,
et al for completing action items this week
... more completed, havent closed yet, will be in next one
... did not hear of any issues
mez: do anything about the action items closed due to inactivity?
<tlr> no objection from me, as I think both have actually simply been overtaken by events
mez: Thomas sent an update, thank and
... item on agenda is conformance language items on rec track, today is page info summary part
... other item is to talk about what will be discussed next week
... any bashing from anyone?
tlr: A quick note about link: way
HTML was created, random number looking IDs being used, change
every time document is regenerated, not stable IDs.
... if you need a stable ID, email tlr and he will take care of it
tyler: wouldn't mind having meta discussion about proposal in general before diving in to conformance language
mez: Found out late that Jonathan wouldn't be here
tyler: When users making decisions,
don't consult secondary dialogs etc
... info presented there doesn't effect user decisions, is a non goal for this WG
... in sec 3.1 of note, call out presentation of all security info is not a goal for this WG
... don't think this WG needs to or should standardize
mez: in terms of goals / non goals aspect
<Zakim> Chuck, you wanted to present an alternative point of view to Tyler's
mez: non goals might come out of the work but won't expend collective resources in tackling them, in line with deprioritizing compared to other items
chuck: Make the point that there is a
self defeating cycle to this argument
... the info that gets presented is geeky to the extreme, hard to follow, inconsistent etc., therefore not important throw it out
... troubled by argument, deja-vu
... related is that we will never get an approach working for all users. Only small subset of users will investigate
... those who do are important to overall ecosystem, track problems, identify bogus sites etc
<tjh> yes Mez
chuck: if we don't achieve improvement, we are undermining ability to have collective community observing, even if those paying attention are small subset. Room for improvement, hate to give up on it
mez: in response to Chuck, mez
personally agrees about support ecosystem that needs secondary
info, attempted to argue several times, not much support for that
point of view at time mez argued
... second, since we said non-goals could fall out, makes sense to mez for something to be part of our rec
... if we agreed something was non-goal, it would be silly to have meeting entirely around it unless it was optional meeting
tyler: hears what Chuck is saying,
emphasize points that it's a feature we expect to be used by very
few (awfully small) number
... even he rarely consults info summary
... emphasize it is a non-goal, if slipping schedule, working on non-goals not best use of time, work on things that are clearly our goals first
<Zakim> Chuck, you wanted to make some other on-topic points
Chuck: has trepidation, doesnt want
... process has largely been driven by browser developers
... concerned that people who have provided a UI... understand business cases etc, but... constant failure to include adequate info or ability to get at adequate info about authentication details relating to websites
... because browser community has across board not delivered capability, we're in a circle of people outside of community saying "if useful, we'd use it", people within circle saying "but nobody uses it"
... would like to say that we really need for anyone to be able to access this info in a rational way,
... including new info, not only cert, but was OCSP used etc
... doesn't care how small the population who would use it is, still contend that it's valuable
... enough people to inform larger community, do not lose sight of need to equip those few with tools they need
... also mechanisms to report problem
tlr: hears one person saying
non-goal, others saying is a goal
... also have an agenda that has this topic, presumably people have read material we have
... propose to move ahead and start talking about it
... otherwise risk we waste entire call discussing whether to discuss, propose to move on
<Chuck> I think that what we've discussing is a proposal to drop this "non-goal"
mez: don't close discussion without followup
tyler: more than just remaining hour
of the call, will consume more than the next hour
... if we decided to drop from rec proposal, significant time saving for WG
... for chuck, dispute notion that current browsers don't provide enough info for experts
... if we're talking about small subset of experts, can make due with status quo. he can.
mez: might be overestimating kind of
person who calls help desk
... her proposal: not same as tlr's, in fact, not hearing anyone argue with process point tyler raised
... given current note, not finalized yet but close, in fact, page info is a non goal so we should not spend concentrated time on it when we have many other things to do
... if everyone agrees, we should record that, falls under non-goal, but since nothing else queued up today, make as much progress as we can today, and then it takes its place w.r.t. team resources as a non goal, see what happens
tlr: not disagreeing, looking at
note, we say as a non-goal presentation of all security
... what was meant is that we will not suggest or standardize the presentation for all conceivable security information
... conclusion: any presentation in secondary chrome is outside of our goals. That is far from obvious, leaning towards saying the note and the dicussions earlier don't decide whether this specific proposal is a goal/non-goal, It's within our scope, to extent note doesn't answer whether or not to prioritize, will see answered by amount of energy people putting in to it
... current proposal: entertain the proposal named page info summary, go through it on this call, see level of energy and see what happens
... goal/non-goal not obvious, inclined to say it is a goal meriting time
... suprised the argument comes up now
mez: hearing different opinions
... inclination on meta discussion would be
<tyler> sounds like we need a straw poll once more of us are present
mez: if tyler or someone wanted to
clarify whether secondary info is a non-goal, which has some
possibility, we should either do it in email or as agenda
... tyler, want action item?
tyler: no, take straw poll when we have more participants
mez: went through her mind as well, with lack of discussion etc
tyler: moz people not here
mez: are you suggesting agenda for next time?
tyler: y
mez: ok next
<tlr> Since I said I'd shut up on the meta discussion, this is on IRC only: There are other things concerning secondary UI that we are talking about. I don't think we want to imply that all of that is out of scope; I would certainly argue against it, and strongly so.
<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#pageinfosummary
mez: starts to read intro for
... first task seems understandable
tjh: page info or identity
information, doesn't give impression that it's info about stuff
coming at me from security perspective
... page info is about stuff coming at me, privacy / identity about info going elsewhere
... suggest that conformance language be softened, appropriate name, suggestive of that this is info about stuff coming at me and source
mez: security context info to end user, current context information
tjh: right
<Chuck> The place where "direction" of information flow gets mixed up is that some pages request information from users, while others do not.
mez: should be accessible from
primary chrome
... must include relevant site identity information including domain name, owner name etc
<Chuck> There is also the potential for hidden fields that might be autofilled without the user's direct knowledge.
tlr: first remark is clearly domain
name of high level, "web page" in sense of definition in
... text vague about owner, verifying authority's name, useful to say useful info in org. attribute of subject field of entity certificate if trusted CA...
... by the way, should be information about trust root as opposed to issuer
... can have long chain of CAs
... refinement to be done around owner name etc
... take point from identity signal discussion
chuck: wanted to pick up on point
timothy was making
... good point, section mixes up direction of information flow. emphasize that one piece of info that could be presented is, "does this page ask for information?" have form fields etc
... can see messy page and have no idea if page is asking for info or not
... uses a browser that provides signaling every time a page has forms on it, suprised how many times he runs across hidden form fields etc
... think info is usable context etc
<Zakim> Thomas, you wanted to note that that can't be easily answered
tlr: problem is that cannot conclude
from absence of forms, that no data is being sent to the page /
that no info will be submitted
... particularly when JS is present
... undecidable what particular piece of JS code does
... halting problem, don't know what is injected etc
... need declaritive way, pages constrain what they can do etc
... not possible in current environment to say what info a site will submit
... only way to know is abence of JS, CSS AND forms, small fraction of pages out there
mez: relevant history context
... mez reads bullets from 5.2
<Chuck> I vote for banning all javascript. ;-)
<Audian> funny (banning all js)
tlr: think there is info listed uner
MAY that fundamentally belongs under MUST
... what info at a minimum needs to be communicated to people
... what needs to go under MUST is a possibility to drill down into cert. validity, w.r.t TLS and error handling we will discuss a proposal that makes some of the validity notions more complex than they are now
... that needs a secondary UI backdrop that gives expert users opportunity to see what is going on
... anything about cert validity MUST be made available
... mixed content is important, may turn into why am i not seeing any positive indicators
... suggest host name resolution source is either out of document
... lower layer info
... may have caching resolver etc
... localhost depends on how your machine is maintained
... info there lends itself to problems
... wants to drop dns related part, promote TLS related parts
... needs to be available to users
... entire section re-written not in terms of specific widget but in terms of info that must be available to users
... guidance w.r.t. cert info: what to display and when
chuck: agrees w.r.t. DNS issues
... good goal, maybe not practical
<tlr> The DNS issue is essentially orthogonal to the security achieved.
chuck: raise point: lots of good
issues, important question not appearing here though: what elements
are required to render a page?
... what plugins, for instance
... does use flash, real media, etc?
... image decoder?
... that info is relevant
... version number of plugins etc
... flash has a mechanism to get version info
... also issue about cookies - useful to know about, but what kind of cookies?
<tlr> yep, precisely
chuck: some state info maintained
outside of browser
... need more structure
<Zakim> ifette, you wanted to talk about cookies
<tlr> ifette: just wanted to say that, even with Cookies, not entirely clear which are harmful and which are benign ...
<tlr> ... even if long-lived ...
<Zakim> Thomas, you wanted to note that "no cookies" at this point is no guarantee for anything
ifette: hard to figure out whether cookie is benign
tlr: many mechanisms to keep state on
client - js code with cache control headers etc
... many ways to keep state, keep careful not to recommend anything that just says "tells user no state kept if there are no cookies" b/c that conclusion doesn't hold
... cookie might actually be more privacy friendly when just have a bit of preference info, store on client rather than giving a unique id to client etc
... nontrivial issue
<Chuck> Agree with comments on cookies, and cookie-like objects. This also gets to the issue that a page display may also be surreptitiously moving information about the user from one site to subsequent sites the user visits.
mez: walked through conformance language, lots of points raised, inclined to run straw polls, see where we are on key points
<tlr> chuck, indeed. You know the a:visited info leak in CSS?
mez: first item: something about
spirit of first line
... first one is deconstructed in terms of details
... emphasis on single widget (e.g. part)
... second half phrased to talk about how this is security context info available to user
... seems to mez that first half encapsulates spirit of section
... phrased "user agents must provide a user-accessible information source"
... wants round of straw polls, whether people think that having a MUST line on conformance language for this kind of information is good / live with
tlr: doesn't understand question
mez: Question is: having conformance language around user agents MUST provide user accessible information source around security context information, which is what first line seems to be about
tlr: alternative is...?
mez: dont know, straw poll
tlr: asking b/c his answer for one depends on alternative
mez: nobody has put forth alternative
tlr: are we talking MUST/SHOULD/MAY, talking "somehow available", "must be avail in secondary chrome", "should be avail in pri. chrome"
<Chuck> My input: We "MUST" improve the information available to users about the site and page security context. The devil is, unfortunately, in the details.
mez: must/should/may secondary chrome
tlr: pref would be MUST be provided in some way
<Chuck> Unfortunately, I have to sign off, as I've got another meeting.
tlr: proposal for section would be to
turn it into a ranked list of security context info
... some info MUST be presented, some SHOULD, some MAY
... goes away from prescribing particular widget style
mez: wants check-in with group here
tlr: question: should section stay in
current mode (widget), or turned into a set of sec. context info
that MUST/SHOULD/MAY be avail to user, without saying whether
primary or secondary chrome
... set of alternatives that would help tlr in editing this part
mez: is confused
<jvkrey> +1
+1 tlr
tjh: preference is that we have
language that says "info MUST be provided", can't dictate widgets,
exactly how provided etc
... can dictate one click away
... user agents that don't have 1024x768
... trepidation for one click
... primary/secondary OK
<tlr> w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#def-primary-chrome
<tlr> w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#def-secondary-chrome
ifette: comments about reduced chrome mode
tlr: would have question to tim - did he hear tim say that he would not want a list of prioritized things, but would rather just say "there should be some standard drill down possible, leave it at that"?
tjh: must be a way to get at this
... if we could agree on prioritized list, set that would be available, would be OK with conf. language about M/S/M in that prioritized list
rachna: do browsers today that make cert dialogs avail, would that comply?
mez: perhaps not
tlr: one of ways to approach, look at
dialog, what's wrong with it? one of wrongness is confusion re:
encryption, authentication, lack of info re: cert status checks,
lack of user friendliness
... drill down into more detail
tjh: respond to rachna
... would cert dialogs conform?
<tlr> understanding "cert dialogue" as the doubleclick on a padlock
tjh: thought of popup dialog boxes
indicating problems as opposed to double click on padlock
... former would not be conformant
rachna: meant the latter
tjh: would consider that as part of what this is trying to convey
rachna: seems like that info + history + creds is what we have listed
<Mez> User agents MUST provide security context information through one ore mor user-accessible information sources
mez: rewrote first line
... with typo or two
... is it the case that that form of conformance language is in fact obvious?
... not sure it's obvious
tjh: in reading that watered down version, seems that every UA he knows of would conform
mez: trying to work through it, follow up with number of statements about where and what
tjh: opinion is that if we're trying to narrow in, watered down isn't enough
mez: keep hearing about mobile challenges
ifette: possibly, mobile is important
jvkrey: most are compliant, not quite
as you would see on desktop
... have to navigate a lot more, but it's there
tlr: looking at https page on mobile using Blazer, sees padlock, isn't touchable
<Zakim> Thomas, you wanted to add a data point
tlr: nowhere near compliant
... data point
... propose drill down
mez: wants a sense of room on that
<asaldhan> umute me
<Mez> User agents MUST provide security context information through one or more user-accessible information sources
<tjh> +1 to Thomas's remarks
MEZ can you state the question?
asaldhan: distributed mobile group tlr probably knows about, might give some info on mobile devices and their conformance
tlr: not sure he knows which group
asaldhan: the one that had a meeting
in Dublin
... recently
... will look it up
tlr: ubiq. application working
... across multiple devices, expertise about device profiles, backing from vendors
... ubiquitous web applications working group
... on W3C website hopefully
<Mez> a section starting with language like "User agents MUST provide security context information through one or more user-accessible information sources", which includes conformance language on what information, and where
mez: wants a sense of the room
... typed in something else (thanks ;-) )
<tlr> +1 to that proposal
<asaldhan> The group I was referring to was: http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/
+1 to taking a straw poll on what mez typed
<tlr> my +1 was to the material proposal, not just to having the straw poll. ;-)
<tlr> +1
mez: straw poll on that
... responses would be YES / CAN LIVE WITH / NO
ifette: YES
<tlr> tlr:YES
<Mez> mez: yes
mez: yes
tlr: yes
<jvkrey> jvkrey: yes
tyler: abstain
<hal> Yes
<asaldhan> yes
tjh: yes
<tlr> tjh: yes
<tlr> rachna: yes
rachna: yes
mez: hour was not wated
... her understanding that editors will go off and update conformance language
<tlr> yes
mez: thomas and asaldhan
<rachna> clarification: rachna: yes but we should make sure that the information is usable, not just that we make more info available
<tlr> ACTION: thomas to update 5.2 according to call's discussion [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/08/15-wsc-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot-ng> Created ACTION-281 - Update 5.2 according to call's discussion [on Thomas Roessler - due 2007-08-22].
<tlr> rachna, excellent point.
tlr: in terms of material that could
use discussion, we have area around minimizing trust decisions and
error handling
... current text includes proposal based on some discussion, briefly, 3 distinct modes: positive indicators, no indicators, strong error pages
... proposal for edge conditions
... discussion around whether that captures the sense of the group, other circumstances, general approach...
... wants to ask what should come after that
... would determine what gets folded in to document next, wants to keep ahead of curve
mez: unclear on references for that document
tlr: section 4 and section 5.3
<tlr> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#tlsforweb
<tlr> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#error-handling
tlr: also curious to check in on the
state of the usability discussion around PII bar proposal
... something to spend time on now or whatever
... prime suspect for next thing to fold in
mez: who is point on usability for PII
rachna: rachna is
mez: ready to have that discussion next week?
rachna: needs go around with tyler, but sure
mez: it's going on the agenda
<tlr> sounds excellent, and the "needs a go-around" was the status update I was looking for for today. :)
mez: thanks, bye


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Posts Tagged 'Gentle Giant'
This Obi-Wan Kenobi is part of Gentle Giant's Star Wars animated statue series. I've posted a lot of their pieces in this style here already, and the Star Wars line is one I regret getting into late. I have all of the classic trilogy releases, as well as most of the Prequel and Clone Wars statues, but I missed out on a few key Clone Wars / Prequel characters that came out at the very start of the line. Some of those (Padme Amidala in particular) have become prohibitively expensive on the secondary market, so it's likely that this will be a collectible series I don't complete, barring a lottery win.
This Twilight Ringwraith was the final piece (so far, and probably ever) in the Lord of the Rings animated statue series Gentle Giant produced. I really love all of their animated-style collectibles, and I wish they would add a few more characters into this one. The Twilight Ringwraith is a very cool statue, but it's always struck me as odd that they made him before making Aragorn, Arwen, or any of the Hobbits.
I'm gradually making my way through this Project 365. Getting all these photos taken and posted every day for a year is more grueling than you might imagine, so every once in a while I'm falling back on pictures I took a long time ago but haven't posted yet. That's what's going on today as I take a break from the DC busts I've been posting and show off an older one, the Emperor Palpatine animated statue from Gentle Giant's Star Wars series.
Today I'm featuring another Star Wars statue from Gentle Giant, this time taking an animated character and turning her realistic. Asajj Ventress is one of the antagonists in the Clone Wars cartoons, and here she's draped on her Sith master, Count Dooku, lightsabers at the ready. This is a really cool full-size statue that I picked up as a one-off, as I don't generally collect the full-size non-animated style Star Wars pieces from Gentle Giant.
I've mentioned previously that I'm a huge Star Wars fan but am woefully behind on the Clone Wars cartoon. Sadly, that's still the case, but I'm determined to catch myself up on all of that before Episode 7 comes out in a couple of years. Still, I'm a completist and big fan of Gentle Giant's line of Star Wars animated style maquettes, so I've added several Clone Wars characters into that collection, even though I haven't encountered them yet in my viewing. Savage Opress is one such character, and he's the newest one released, joining our merry living room display just this week.
I don't have a ton of Lord of the Rings collectibles, compared to the number of pieces I have from other franchises and media I enjoy (Star Wars, Marvel, DC, etc). The pieces I do have fall squarely into two occasionally overlapping categories: animated maquettes and bad guy busts. I really like the villains' designs in the LOTR movies, so I've made it a point to collect a few items from that corner of fantasy. This is the Sauron bust Gentle Giant released a while back as part of their Ringbearer series. The series is called "Ringbearer" because each of the busts in the line has a hidden drawer just the right size for holding a ring. I haven't found a practical use for the drawer in this Sauron bust just yet, but it's kind of a neat feature.
This is kind of a weird one. After having successful animated statue lines based on Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and some other properties, Gentle Giant looked to New Line's horror franchises for inspiration. They released cartoony statues from both Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and this is their Jason Voorhees animaquette. He's in scale with the other statues in this style, and there are a lot of neat details worked into the piece. He's stomping on a Camp Crystal Lake sign, and his overall look is creepy and goofy at the same time. The victim slung over his shoulder is a bit morbid, but this is Jason Voorhees we're talking about.
The Star Wars Classics series came out several years ago from Gentle Giant and, by all accounts, was a failed collectible line. The busts released featured various characters from both Star Wars eras, represented as smaller-scale sculptures. There was a lot of backlash from collectors about the small sizes of these pieces, and that extended to a Lord of the Rings series they did in this same scale as well. Only a few characters were made in each line, and I thought they were all pretty neat little busts.
I very nearly forgot to post a new collectible today, breaking my daily streak and completely ruining my Project 365 aspirations. As luck would have it, I remembered with less than an hour left in the day, and I grabbed these old photos I took a long time ago of my Darth Maul maquette from Gentle Giant. Hopefully I'll manage to snap some new shots of another piece tomorrow!
I love the animated maquettes Gentle Giant makes. It started with the Star Wars ones based on the original 2D Clone Wars cartoons and blossomed into all kinds of crazy animated stuff. We have a huge display in our living room that is a mixture of animated style statues from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Buffy, and it covers the majority of a full wall. The newest addition to the cartoony Star Wars line arrived this week, and it's this Scout Trooper getting beaten up by Ewoks. This one is exclusive to an online store other than our own, so I had to buy him from the distinguished competition. Aside from feeling a little weird about that, I'm really happy to have this piece in our collection. He's limited to 1000 pieces, and ours is number 700-something.


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What is your name? :
Sue Redekop
What is your business's name? :
How can people find you? :
How did you hear about Project: Priceless--the NEST? :
Via twitter and the blog!
What do you make/do?:
I sew accessories with gorgeous fabrics, sourced locally and as far away as Japan…my focus is on handy dandy cute zipper pouches.
How do you fit in with the DIY/handmade world?
I love the handmade community and am so impressed by what is created from local crafters. It's a welcoming, supportive environment for the creative side of my personality.
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I love the whole process of sewing, from picking out the fabrics to hunting fabrics down in second hand shops, and repurposing them into practical cute items.
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Irreversible ocean warming threatens the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second-largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically. Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), recently made this prediction in a new study, which can be found in the latest issue of the Journal of Climate, released today. In the study, the researchers use an ice-ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf - a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.
When it comes to the fate of the great Antarctic ice shelves, the sea ice surrounding them is of central importance. For example, in the southern Weddell Sea so much sea ice forms during the autumn and winter months that the amount of salt released in the process turns the water around and below the 450,000 km2 Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf into a massive protective sheath. So far, this barrier of extremely salty water, with an average temperature of ca. minus 2 degrees Celsius, has protected the shelf from the inflow of water masses that are 0.8 degrees warm, which the Weddell Gyre transports along the edge of the continental shelf (see graphic).
New simulations from climate researchers at the AWI now indicate that this cold-water barrier could be permanently lost in the course of the next few decades. The reason: rising air temperatures over the Weddell Sea, which could cause less sea ice to form. "We can already see the first signs of this trend today. First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses," says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.
These comparatively small-scale changes may mark the beginning of a fundamental and irrevocable transformation in the southern Weddell Sea. The researchers expect the effects to become noticeable by 2070. "Our simulations show that there will be no turning back once the warm water masses find their way under the ice shelf, since their heat will accelerate the melting at its base. In turn, the resulting meltwater will produce an intensified overturning, which will suck even more warm water from the Weddell Gyre under the ice. As such, according to our calculations, the hope that the ocean would someday run out of heat won't pan out in the long run," Hellmer explains.
As a result of the dramatic melting on its underside, the shelf's grounding line will shift further south and the ice will gradually lose direct contact with the seafloor. To date, frictional contact with the seafloor has helped to slow down the ice flow. Once this natural brake is gone, the draining of ice from the Antarctic Ice Sheet will quicken. "The meltwater feedback cycle under the ice shelf will only slow down once the shelf has collapsed, or no more glacial ice flows in from inland to take its place. So we're talking about processes that will continue over several centuries," says co-author and AWI model designer Dr Ralph Timmermann.
The researchers' forecasts are based on the AWI's BRIOS (Bremerhaven Regional Ice-Ocean Simulations) model, a coupled ice-ocean model that the team forced with atmospheric data from the SRES-A1B climate scenario, created at Britain's Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter. The dataset includes e.g. information on the future development of winds and temperatures in the Antarctic, and is based on the assumption that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will reach 700 parts per million by the year 2100. "Accordingly, our model used climate data that is similar to the IPCC's (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) current business-as-usual scenario. The results clearly show that even limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius won't be enough to save the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf," says co-author and AWI researcher Dr Frank Kauker.
In addition, the authors believe the predicted changes in the Weddell Sea offer a new perspective on current developments in the Amundsen Sea. As Hartmut Hellmer explains, "When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat cannot be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place. In other words, the losses of mass of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will intensify – just like the models predict."
To measure the forecasted inflow of warm water under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, in the past two Antarctic summers scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below it. Thanks to their efforts, every night fresh data on the water temperature, salinity, flow speed and flow direction is transmitted to the AWI facilities in Bremerhaven via satellite. "However, it will take a few years before we can use this latest data to reliably document the changes," says Hellmer.
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Hartmut Hellmer, Frank Kauker, Ralph Timmermann, Tore Hattermann: The fate of the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf in a warming climate, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0420.1
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Well, the Rio Olympics are upon us, and it has certainly captured the public's imagination. Adam Peaty's 100 metre breaststroke gold medal and world record, the French gymnast who shattered his leg, and Djokovic going out of the tennis in the first round, have been some of the major talking points. However, the highlight for many has been Helen Skelton and that incredibly short dress on Saturday night whilst presenting the swimming, which almost melted Twitter!
Helen Skelton and THAT Dress
The blonde bombshell sported a black-blue dress which showed off her shapely legs, and certainly started the games off with a bang. The 33 year old mum-of-one sent pulses racing nationwide. To make things even better, she would swivel on her chair, giving guys and girls everywhere a fantastic view of her pins.
Well, it didn't take long for her to become a trending topic on Twitter. To be fair, for something so amazing, her dress, or should I say, the reaction to it, caused a number of arguments.
Obviously there were hundreds of positive comments regarding her choice of clothing. People were blown away by how good she looked. However, as with most of things, there were a string of humourless feminists talking about how we were 'objectifying her'. They seemingly thought we needed to ignore what she was wearing, instead of complimenting her. I never understand that mindset. If people look good, let them know I say. You don't need to be sleazy in the way you do it, but if someone makes an effort let them know it is appreciated.
I really do need to make something clear. Helen is an absolutely superb presenter. Her presenting skills and knowledge of the sport are superb. She is credit to broadcasting, and in no way are we objectifying her. She is just a beautiful woman, on top of being bloody talented! Some people need get a grip.
She is Taken!!
However, for those who really are obsessing about Helen Skelton, I'm sorry to say she is taken. She is married to Richie Myler of the Catalans Dragons (yes, he is big and hard). I of course, hope they have a wonderful life together, and Catalans don't get destroyed by St Helens on Friday at all. OK, I am bitter, don't judge me!
Well, carry on the good work Helen. You really have put a smile on millions of faces, nt just with those legs, but also your bubbly personality and knowledge of all thing aquatic.
But my word…those legs!
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When he isn't fighting the good fight, he enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, and young daughter. He also enjoys reading and taking long walks.
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