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The club year runs from 1 September until 31 May. The club year ends with the Annual General Meeting (AGM). On 10 June 2019 the Anglo-Swiss Club Locarno held the AGM at the Hotel Belvedere, Locarno. We are happy to announce that Mrs Nana Marti, President of the ASCL from 2014-2019 was awarded honorary membership. Mr Anton Marti, who for many years was responsible for the Walks with Talks, was also awarded honorary membership. We would like to thank Nana & Anton for their work and dedication to the Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno.
Stefanie Bertoneri Amrein was voted in as new president. Stefanie's background is in tourism and hospitality.
If you have not yet met Stefanie, please come to the first coffee morning of the new club season on Saturday, 31 August 2019 from 10.00AM - 12.00noon in the clubroom. Alternatively you are most welcome to attend the aperitif on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 in the clubroom 5pm-7pm.
On both occasions you will also meet other committee members and, of course, many active club members.
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12 years ago, Hedi's life was changed forever when a wonderful family came out to the rescue to meet her. We can't possibly describe the life she lived after leaving the rescue that day, so we are going to let her family tell you. Rest peacefully Hedi. We will never forget you.
"I wanted to let you know that early this morning Hedi (she was turning 15 next month) crossed the rainbow Bridge. She gave us 12 wonderful years with her and we are so blessed that she decided 12 years ago to share her life with us.
When we came to the rescue back in 2007, Hedi picked us. She had an instant bond with Ian. There was no doubt about it. She decided that we would be her family that beautiful Saturday morning on Bonsall. It was an immediate connection.
She was the sweetest cuddle dog, warming our toes at night. She preferred the human bed over the dog bed, always slept with a down pillow and tucked under blankets. She loved the cuddles but boy, did she love to hunt. The first few years we tracked her hunting on an excel but soon gave up. No bird, squirrel, rat or Opossum was ever safe in her yard or park. She would clear a 6-7 foot wall to pull them down. Later on she even tracked snakes on her walks (not rattlers). She had the hunting spirit going even to the last day.
She was an amazing companion and guard dog for this family. Nobody stepped foot on her property unless she deemed them safe. When the kids were younger she would corral them out front on their big wheels making sure that nobody came too close. She would chase the kids down the hills while they were sledding and get into mischief with them but always keeping them safe. She could be found in the middle of Nerf dart wars, Lego building or art projects. Cuddle up to them while gaming, share a blanket while reading a book, or sneaking a snack off their plates.
5 weeks ago her spunk suddenly changed and we learned that she had liver cancer that was bleeding. The Chinese medicine Yunnan Baiyao gave us 5 weeks with her to say goodbye and spoil her with steak and ice cream (she loved her mint and chip). She gave us so much joy and love and was a family member through and through. Our hearts are broken today but we know that she is hunting with her boyfriend Chester and waiting for us to cross the rainbow bridge when our time comes. Thank you for an amazing 12 years with us Hedi! You were an amazing dog and will be missed more then words can say.
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This project is designed to aid patients unable to manipulate their hospital bed controls yet healthy enough to want to raise and lower their head, knees, feet or bed frame. Voice control is used via microphone or wireless wrist band.
After powering down then up, the program prompts the patient, using an onboard speaker, for a unique name for itself not normally heard in a conversation, like "Albatross". Then the program prompts the patient to say the key control words "HEAD", "KNEES", "FEET", "FRAME", "UP", "DOWN" "STOP" AND "FLAT", training itself to recognize the commands from that particular speaker. When training is complete, the program loops continuously, monitoring the microphone, waiting to hear, to "word spot", its unique name. Once it hears "Albatross", the program obeys the next few words, for example "HEAD", "UP" AND "STOP".
The prototype was built using Sensory Inc.'s Voice Extreme (VE) module mounted on a daughter board permitting access to most analog, digital and control signals from the CPU, completing a Voice Recognition system to control the external environment, in this case a hospital bed. Programming is done using the VE IDE, a high-level programmer/compiler similar to "C" language.
It was simple to open the power control box for the bed to access the control points for the "HEAD", "KNEES" and "FRAME" up/down motors and physically integrate it with the VE module. This bed had a control pendant used to send 15V control signals to the to relays gating 120VAC to each motor. The pendant was handy in identifying each point. Over-travel limit switches were installed as "hard-stops", their state monitored continuously by the VE module.
Limited I/O required some simple logic circuit design and voltage translation. A 75LS138 3-IN, 8-OUT decoder generated the six (6) "HEAD", "KNEES" and "FRAME" up and down control signals from only three (3) CPU outputs. These 5VDC motor signals were fed to a MAX312 and a MAX314 (CMOS analog switches) to convert the 5VDC to 15VDC relay controlled motor signals. The 74S157N Quad Data Selector/MUX'er was used to read the state of the over-travel limit switches (6) with only three (3) CPU inputs. The 15VDC relay control voltage was generated using a MAX877 DC-to-DC converter.
The Electret microphone was installed in a small blue flashlight case and easily held like a microphone, wired to the analog input of the VE module.
The two connectors seen mounted on the corners of the VE module daughter board were used to connect to the multi-conductor cable sent to and from the bed, one for the 15VDC output motor signals, one for the 5VDC input limit switch signals. All the added devices on the prototype board area were wire-wrapped old school. It worked.
The wireless wrist band has yet to be designed and explored. The design at the moment has nothing except low voltage direct connections suitable for a test bed in any environment.
The younger crowd would love this.
I would like to see this project go as far as it can.
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Daniel is inspired by:Once perceived, the pure fun of it.
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With the good weather in England it seems a waste to just do nothing, especially when we don't know when it's going to turn miserable again. So when we do have a glorious day a trip to the park with a picnic is a must. If you are following my Instagram story you will have seen that I was having a picnic at Chatsworth House and whilst sitting there enjoying the view, you can see why this location is used for filming. Films such as Pride & Prejudice, The Duchess, The Wolfman and Peaky Blinders have been filmed here so if you do decide to visit, remember that as well as historical figures that may have walked the halls so have famous actors and actresses. I recommend taking a full day to visit that way you can start off exploring the house and garden and then stopping off in Bakewell for a traditional Bakewell pudding or tart.
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Following on from Part 1 the next part of your Domination Strategy we want to talk about is your 30-day customer value. This is extremely important because this will determine whether or not you can grow your business as fast as you want to. What are we talking about here?
First of all, we know that, in order to get new customers, we need to market. Marketing activities could be networking, online advertising, magazine advertising, all these things. They basically boil down into one of two categories. You're investing your time and energy, and then you're trying to generate potential new customers. For example, investing your time and energy could be going to networking events or replying to comments on forums. Essentially you're trying to get people to resonate with your message, and then think "Okay, you're interesting. Let me hear more from you". The trouble with time and energy is that you have limited amounts of it. In a 24-hour period, you can only invest a certain amount. You can never get time back, and your energy is limited.
The other way you can do it is investing money. If you're investing money into marketing activities, you can do that with no time, because you could be buying multiple adverts, multiple magazine spots. You could have multiple team members writing articles for you. The purpose of that is to generate potential new customers. All of that costs money. If that money is going out, to generate potential new customers, but for some reason your sales aren't as high as they should be, or your customers are not spending enough money, you're not going to be able to replicate and scale this because you're going to run out of money.
This is the problem for most businesses. Most businesses have a mix of customers. You've got some low value customers, medium value customers, and most businesses have a few high value customers. Now, when you've got low value customers, it may be that they spend a little bit of money in the first 30 days, with you. For example, let's say you spent £50 on an advert, and this customer spent £60 with you in the first 30 days. You think you've made £10, but you haven't actually because you've got to pay for the costs of doing business, costs of raw materials and staff. You may have actually lost money on that customer.
Then people say, "What about lifetime customer value? What if this customer buys from me, every month, twice a year, for the next 4 years?" Okay, yes. In the long term, you've made money from them. The problem is, in the short-term, your bank account is getting empty, quicker, because of the money you're spending on marketing rather than the money coming in. Even though in the long-term you could have a profitable business, you are actually losing cash. This means you cannot scale. If you don't have the right customer value, the right 30-day customer value, you're not going to be able to spend the money on marketing or have excess money to reinvest.
This is where we talk about specialists versus generalists. We all know the difference. If we had a heart problem, we wouldn't want to go to a generalist, we'd want to go to a specialist. Why? Specialists do one thing or a couple of things extremely well. They're experts. We can see that specialists have higher value customers whereas generalists traditionally have low value customers and medium value customers. If we think back to the 30-day customer value, for specialists, when they spend their money on the marketing, they get a higher value or a high value customer. They're going to have money to reinvest back into marketing straight away and deliver the service. Therefore, their money is scalable, their marketing is scalable. They don't have to rely on time and energy. With a generalist however, if they've got a mixture of low value and medium value customers, they may not have money left over after the marketing spend to reinvest. The specialist would be able to grow faster than the generalist.
As we can see here, most businesses, when they've got a mix of customers, will be able to grow at an organic rate. If you want to become a high growth business, you want to transition so that you are aligned with and focused on higher value, high value and medium value customers. At DominateCon, we're going to be going through more strategies in more detail to help you do this. This is the fundamental point I want get across, and I want you to understand that now. If you can be seen as the expert in your field, you're going to have a high 30-day customer value, and therefore your marketing is more scalable. Therefore, you can then out-compete other people in your arena.
Little tips here. You want to be focusing your marketing effort on your highest value, repeatable customers. You want to be looking at the percentage of budgets spent on highest value customer marketing campaigns. You want to have a really clear definition of your customer avatar. This is exactly who your customer is. What problems do they have? Where are they? What do they look like? What do they read? The more you understand them, the better you can target them. The key question you want to think about is, who are the highest value and largest profit customers you can repeat and scale with? I'll repeat that. That is going to give you a highest 30-day customer value, which allows you to scale even more. As that happens, over time, you transition into a specialist business that attracts more high-value customers and higher-value customers.
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The lawsuit will demand reparations from the governments of Britain, France and the Netherlands
Fourteen Caribbean nations have resolved to sue their former colonizers — Britain, France and the Netherlands — for lingering harms that they attribute to the slave trade.
The AP reports that the leaders of the Caribbean Community, a regional consortium, adopted a 10-point plan that would seek an official apology, a cancelation of debts and assistance for cultural and educational institutions.
The regional consortium has hired British human rights firm Leigh Day to pursue the case. Leigh Day previously secured $21.5 million for Kenyans who were tortured under Britain's colonial era government.


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Configuration: HD dvr's in both living room and bedroom.
Watch a show in my living room from the bedroom dvr. While I am viewing this a new recording starts on the living room dvr. When I finish watching the bedrooom show and while the living room is still recording I attempt to watch from the beginning the living room show being recorded on the living room TV. The recording freezes and in fact is never viewable (even days later). It seems it has been corrupted.
Related to this we were watching a recorded show (from the living room dvr) in the bedroom. Once finished, tried to rewind the news on the bedroom tv. Was able to go back the full 20 minutes but would not play back. The news program was live not on dvr.
Both seem related to watching remotely and then trying to use the local dvr. Help.
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having the EXACT same problem! seems like if you try to watch a program from another dvr while two shows are recording, it will screw up the recording. does anyone have a fix for this?
I have been having this same problem for a while now and was becoming really frustrated.
Finally starting to shed some light on what might be causeing the issue.
I.E watching a recorded program from Multi room dvr while it is recording corrupts the recorded show or something.
I am having the exact same problem and think that instead of Verizon employees cherry-picking people to help, like the guy who posted here, they should address this issue transparently and properly. By now they should have pinned a forum thread with the solution or answers.
I am sick of reading through multiple users all posting the same Multi room DVR issue and getting verizon employees responding to some personally and ignoring the others.
This is a forum, KINDLY POST THE FIXES OPENLY SO WE CAN ALL FIX OUR OWN DVR


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David Price
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Removing the barriers to innovation and growth
Seligman Theatre
Wednesday 27 March 2019
14:00 – 15:30
After 10 years of unprecedented disruption to distribution models, business models and operations, the TV industry is still catching up with itself. We explore the operations priorities if we want to remove legacy barriers to innovation and growth, and rationalise costs so everyone can sustain the new normal. We are also taking a look at what AI and machine learning can do across the TV enterprise to make television better. How do we make it easier to process and distribute content for a myriad digital end-points? How do you make apps lifecycle management more manageable? How do we reduce the lifetime cost of digital services? How does this industry finally stop piracy? Many of these questions will be on the agenda.
The convergence between IPTV and OTT technologies
- Are IPTV and OTT moving towards convergence?
- The benefits of IPTV/OTT convergence for a telco
- The impact on the network (latency, scalability)
- The technical impact (CAS vs DRM, access to adult content)
- Exploring the workarounds for each impact (multicast ABR, CMAF)
- Forecasting when the convergence will occur, and how to prepare for it
Erwan Nedellec, Orange Referent Expert and Senior Expert on TV Technical Solutions, Orange
Erwan Nedellec
Orange Referent Expert and Senior Expert on TV Technical Solutions, Orange
Panel discussion: Removing complexity and driving innovation in multiplatform distribution
- How far can CMAF reduce latency for live streaming, what technologies can break the sub-second barrier, and what impact will broadcast-like latency have for sports?
- Media companies are breaking their backs preparing content for dozens of digital distribution end-points – what workflow innovations will make this easier and faster?
- What are the most promising applications for AI/ML within the content workflow: transcription, translation, automatic highlight clips creation, face recognition…?
- To what extent can modern data analytics, and our ability to identify patterns from massive datasets more quickly, improve anti-piracy or discourage password sharing?
- What can we do to make the apps creation, maintenance and update lifecycle more manageable; How do we make it easier to change the UX and content inside apps?
- What is the potential for object-based media to tailor programming to our specific personal interests and needs – how scalable is it, and what are the technology challenges?
- What network, operations and workflow innovations should we prioritise next in the quest to minimise complexity, reduce cost and improve agility for TV delivery?
Moderated by: David Price, Principal, Scala Advisors
Case study: Why AI is crucial for our streaming business
- Learnings from 10 years of OTT delivery
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Panel discussion: Exploring the potential for AI across the television enterprise
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- Extracting rich metadata from content
- Recognising sports action that should be 'highlighted'
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The first student pilot to go through the Commercial Pilot's Licence course with Blackpool-based Westair Flying School has just passed his CPL Skills Test, and is about to start the next step in his professional pilot career.
Kudzi Chikohora said, "Westair was a great choice for my modular CPL course. Working full-time, they had excellent availability at the weekends which was important for me. Provided one booked sufficiently far in advance, there was never any issue getting training slots.
"Towards the end, as I got closer to my skills test date, they were extremely flexible in arranging extra brush up sessions/making the aircraft available etc. They could not do enough!
"I found Blackpool as an airfield excellent for training," continued Kudzi. "It has all the facilities – controlled airfield, NDB, ILS, etc – so even on days were conditions were not great we generally didn't get held back.
"In addition, the airfield has some jet traffic and with that all the formalities (ATIS etc) so one got the 'proper experience' but was not too constrained as to make training difficult.
"With Liverpool/Manchester to the south and Leeds to the east, there were always plenty of options for challenging nav legs for practice.
"I learnt a huge amount and they were able to get me to a standard to allow a clean pass CPL on first attempt. Thanks a lot all at Westair!"
Westair has been resident at Blackpool Airport for over 70 years. It recently completed an intense, six-month period of expansion that saw it move to new modern premises and re-establish commercial flying training at Blackpool Airport.
Westair is an Approved Training Organisation (ATO). It has the approvals and capacity to take a student pilot from a Private Pilot Licence (PPL), through the night rating and restricted instrument rating, (IR)R, and progress through to gain their CPL.
John Westoby, owner and CFI, is enthusiastic about the future of flying at Blackpool Airport.
"Blackpool Airport is easily accessible from anywhere in the north-west and the future of the airport is secure now that it is owned by Blackpool Council," he said.
"We can now offer pilots who aspire to fly commercially a cost-effective alternative to the large commercial schools. The modular route enables CPL students to continue working and financing their flying as they progress, rather than taking on large loans."


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Some parents have asked for additional options to provide internet filtering and additional restrictions for student iPads at home. While students are at school, and using the District 95 wireless and Internet, the websites visited are filtered to reduce the risk of inadvertently viewing obscene or pornographic images and material. It is possible to set-up your internet at home to do the same. There are several no or low cost options for home filtering. Additionally, the district has made arrangements with a third party tool for those parents wanting filtering and additional restrictions.


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Welcome to O West, Orascom Development's latest addition to its towns portfolio nestled in 6th of October. O West is set to rise as a beacon of integrated living. Envisioned as a complete sensory experience full of energy, playing differently to everyone, from shops to restaurants, sports club to common spaces, this place offers an experience you...More
El Gouna is Orascom Development's flagship town. The name of the town derives from the ancient Egyptian words for 'protected'. El Gouna has a multinational community that continues to grow, the town covers 10 km of pristine shoreline on the beautiful Red Sea coast with a total land area of 36.92 million sqm, of which 15 million sqm has so far...More
Taba Heights is a resort town comprised of a total land area of 4.27 million sqm, of which 2.56 million sqm has been developed. Taba Heights is located in Taba, a small Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Sinai Peninsula, approximately 200 km north of Sharm el-Sheikh and 20 km south of the Israeli town of Eilat. Its...More
Tucked away in the heart of the beautiful Al Fayoum oasis is Byoum; a standout luxurious destination in the area. Ideally located, Byoum is 120 km away from bustling Cairo, making it the quintessential refuge. Al Fayoum Oasis is a depression in the desert immediately to the west of the Nile, south of Cairo. Framing the compound of Byoum is a promenade,...More
Located in the heart of Makadi bay area in the Red Sea, Makadi Heights has a land bank of 3.4 million square meters with over 1.0 million square meters planned for development. Makadi Heights is elevated 70 meters above sea level guaranteeing magnificent views. The project is 20 minutes away from Hurghada airport, 25 minutes away from Hurghada...More


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JUST STARTING OVER ON OTHER BLOGS: We were delighted to be asked to take part in Silent Words Speak Loudest's Glastonbury considerationathon, which has just gone live in the last twenty four hours. We're in no way connected with Glorious Noise's latest mutation into a record label; and you'll probably already have seen The Morning News' MP3 bloggers roundtable, but in case you've missed it, there it is.
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Hey, thanks for the link. In a couple of weeks, we're going to start sending out advance promo copies to anybody who writes about music. If you want a copy (to review) find out how at the (temporary) label site (a prettier site will coming shortly).
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Congrats on the invite!
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Jump inside Dr. Seuss's very first children's book as an interactive book app! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and follow along with three fun ways to read! Where will Marco's wild imagination take him as he walks to school along Mulberry Street?
Explore And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street – Dr. Seuss:
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– LEARN new vocabulary with tappable words
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When teaching kids basketball, it's pretty standard to run drills to improve skills then transition them into game play to put those new skills to use. While great in theory, 3 on 3 player basketball (or, "small sided games") is a great way of teaching how to play the game – and it's quickly gaining traction in the basketball community! Playing 3v3 games lets coaches work with a smaller group of kids on the court so they can focus on developing each player where they need it- in real game situations.
Using 3v3 to teach youth basketball is a new trend, and one we find valuable! Read on to hear why.
3v3 or 5v5?
Using 5v5 games to teach kids can mean some kids might get left out or not get enough time with the ball in their hands. This is especially true for the kids that aren't quite as strong players. When developing skills, it's important for all kids to get opportunities to pass and engage.
Using 3v3 as a teaching tool allows our coaches to work on specific skills in fun and engaging ways. When there are less kids on the court it's easier to give kids the opportunity to play the game with minimal structure. Technique focused drills are good in theory, but in the middle of a fast game it can be difficult to know how to put those skills into play. With less players on the court it's easier to respond to the game and use the skills they learned in practice.
DID YOU KNOW? Burlington Basketball's 3v3 developmental program is a great place to start learning the basics. From there it's a natural progression into higher level 3v3 classes or into the standard 5v5 game. Join us for a camp this summer and keep those skills fresh for fall league!
Teaching Basketball IQ
Teaching techniques like the pick & roll, screening away and how to do different cuts are easier when there are less players on the court. Rather than thinking about what the other players are doing, kids can focus on running the play and learning the basics. This will help set them up for a great base of basketball IQ. The earlier these skills become ingrained, the easier it will be to progress and build upon their skills.
Skills like proper spacing on the court, moving with and without the ball, and playing different positions all create a great base for coaches to work with as kids grow.
More Benefits of 3v3 basketball
- Having less players simplifies the game, making it easier to learn
- It's beneficial for overall development
- Kids touch the ball more
- There's more space on the court to practice their moves
- Gets all players involved, instead of letting some hand back
- Breaks the game down into smaller, easier to teach chunks
- Helps players learn when to use a skill
- Kids get more opportunities to score
- It's fun!
Olympic sized goals
3v3 basketball games are even making the shift from just-for-fun play time to serious sports events. FIBA 3v3 World Cup is in its 5th year, and the IOC has announced that 3v3 will be included as an official sport in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics! So 3v3 isn't just a way to pass time anymore, it's now also a game in its own right.


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This week on the Bit by a Fox Podcast marks our first foray into the world of Cachaça, the Brazilian spirit made from sugarcane, that many may only be familiar with because of the Caipirinha – Brazil's national cocktail.
Avuá Cachaça, which officially launched in the United States in 2013, is a Cachaça brand that is a very good place to start. Peter Nevenglosky, co-founder of Avuá Cachaça was in town briefly for a tiki competition and took the time to sit down with me to discuss the category of Cachaça and it's rich history, how he got involved in this Brazilian spirit, and how a little known cocktail legend named Sasha Petraske of Milk & Honey was the first to give this little brand a leg up.
This week's cocktail recipe is the Pan Am cocktail created by Cervantes Ramirez from Milk & Honey in New York City.
Pan Am by Cervantes Ramirez
1oz Avuá Amburana
1 oz Dry Vermouth
1 oz Dry Curaçao
orange twist
Add ingredients and ice to a mixing glass, stir until well chilled, strain into a rocks glass over ice. Swipe rim of glass with orange peel, squeeze, and drop into the glass.
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CoutureNode and auto-reload feature
Before talking to you about workflow and interface, I will have a short introduction to the auto-reload feature of Couture.
Each of your action is saved in a node called CoutureDataNode, this node can be found in the outliner if you turn off "DAG objects only". That means that if you save your scene and don't touch this node, you will be able to restart couture exactly where you left it!
That feature is very usefull if you are working on a large garment or you want to go back and change something.
The interface of couture is composed of two main areas : The Outliner and The Pattern Table.
The Outliner will give you a second outliner and will sort every piece of cloth during the 3 phases of the workflow.
Allowing you to quickly find a specific piece at a specific moment.
The outliner also allow you to quickly show/hide/lock/select a group of clothes.
You can also get rig or add new piece of cloth in the tool.
The pattern table contains all the action to perform on a garment in order to have an editable mesh.
3 Phases of Couture
During the creation of the tool it was hard to come up with a good way to name the different categories of mesh used by Couture. At the end I came up with "Garment", "Pattern" and "Retopo".
Garment : This mesh is imported straight out from Zbrush or Marvelous. It has the shape that you want to achieve, good UVs but a triangulated topology not suitable for animation.
Pattern : This is the same mesh but flatten. It has the same properties including the vertex index. This mesh will later be use to transfer UVs, create blendshape and drive the wrap.
Retopo : You create this mesh by hand or using any automatical topology algorithm such as Zremesher. This topology is ready for animation and contain mostly quads. The sape of each piece of cloth must match the shape of the pattern meshes. This meshes will later be drived by a wrap on a pattern meshes allowing you to edit his topology in 2D ans 3D space.
UV layout selected
Start maya, load couture and import a garment. First step is to have a look to your UVs, sometimes when it comes from Marvelous, the UVs are nice but pack on top of each other :
It's important to have a clean UV layout, otherwise later when you will work on your Retopo, it will be less convenient. Here is a exemple of good layout:
Luckily for you, the first button in the couture interface "UV layout selected" allow you to layout your UVs.
It's also the good moment to set the scale of your garment in your scene.
Load garments
Then select your garments and clicK on the button "Load garments", now you are ready to start and go on the Pattern table. If you have selected a mesh by mistake, you can delete or add a new piece of garment. You can also reset the import by selecting a group a new garment, Couture will ask you if you want to reset your selection, then click on the button and you are ready to go.
Each time you progress in the workflow, you will access new shortcut for each phase of Couture.
Eye will allow you to quickly show or hide.
Lock will allow you to lock or unlock the selection.
Arrow will allow you to select a whole group of mesh.
You can unlock the garments shortcuts with the button "Load garments". You can unlock the Pattern shortcuts with the button "Flatten garments". You will unlock the Retopo shortcuts with the button "Pairing flatten geometries".
Flatten garments
Couture will read the UVs of your garments and move every point of your mesh according to the U(X) and V(Y) coordinate.
How to solve an error with the flatten garments process ?
If the mesh has non unwrap UVs, this step won't work and couture will raise an error.
Even if your model seems to have UVs and looks good, it can still contain mistakes. You can learn more about this subject on this page: Mesh quality.
2D retopology process
Then it's your turn to work for couture, you will have to create a retopology of your pattern that match the shape of each pattern.
However to ease this step, Couture offers you some shortcut to speed up your workflow.
You are free to create this topology as it pleases you. You can export the flatten geometry and perform this step in another DCC, for exemple you can use ZBrush and the Zremesher feature. But you can also use the modeling toolkit.
Notice that you have two export options "merged" or "separated". You can also export a simple "FBX" or "OBJ" but notice that you also have a "GoZ" button. Goz must be pre-installed on your computer.
When you are ready to go, you have two options once again, "Import retopo" and "Select retopo".
If your topology is already in the scene, use the "select retopo". If you need to import your result from Zbrush, use the button "Import retopo".
It's important to check the quality of your retopologized mesh, especially if it comes from Zremesher, you can learn more about the process here :Mesh quality.
Pairing flatten geometries
Normally, if you are using a similar workflow, you should create a blendshape between two meshes (garment + pattern) and then a wrap between 2 other meshes (pattern + retopo). You would have to carefully hand pick each meshes and it could take quite a long time if you have a garment with a lot of pieces.
Couture already know each pair of garment and pattern because they share the same name. Using the pivot position, Couture will guess a pair between a pattern and a retopo mesh.
To perform this step, simply hit the Pairing flatten geometries, Couture will go through every mesh and update the UI and all the other function for every match.
If something goes wrong (I invite you to read this page Mesh quality ), Couture will allow you to go back to the selection/import retopo and also redo a new pairing.
However, you can also use the little hand button a create a pair manually.
Transfert UVs
This button will automatically transfers UV from your pattern to your knew retopologized mesh. A precious time and quality saving trick for your final mesh !
Create blendshapes
This button will create a blendshape between each garment and pattern.
Use the slider to activate every blendshape of your scene at the same time.
The little button next to this slider will open a window that allow you ton control each blendshapes individually.
Wrap pairs
This button will create a blendshape between each pattern and retopo mesh. Allowing you to move your retopo from a 2D space to a 3D space.
Soften edge selected
This button will create new normals for each mesh selected. When you create your retopo mesh it will certainly come with normals from a flat 2D surface which can look odd on 3D. This button will allow you to display your mesh with brand new normals !
Edit selected/ Cancel edit/ Apply edit
The first button allow you to select one or several retopo cloth that you want to edit. The selected meshes will turn to green and now you are ready to perform any modification that you like.
Then, if your are satisfied with your edits or if you want to cancel your modifications, you have two buttons that will open a prompt message allowing you to chose what action you desire to perform.


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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has announced nominees for the Best Short Fiction Film and Best Short Animation categories at this year's 8th AACTA Awards, half of which feature AFTRS alumni in major creative roles.
Nominated for Best Short Animation is Lost & Found, written and co-directed by Bradley Slabe (Master of Screen Arts 2014), and produced by Lucy Hayes. This nomination comes after Slabe won Sydney Film Festival's 2018 Yoram Gross Animation Award for the film.
Nominated for Best Short Fiction Film is Nursery Rhymes, directed by Tom Noakes (Graduate Diploma: Directing, 2009), who earlier this year was awarded the Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director at Sydney Film Festival. Its creative team includes screenwriter Will Goodfellow (Master of Screen Arts, 2014) and co-producer Lucy Gaffy (Master of Screen Arts, 2012).
Additionally nominated for Best Short Fiction is Renée Marie Petropoulos's Tangles and Knots, shot by cinematographer Zöe White ACS (Master of Arts: Film and Television Cinematography, 2008), and Charles Williams' Palm d'Or winning, All These Creatures, shot by cinematographer: Adric Watson (Graduate Diploma in Cinematography, 2013).
All nominated short films will screen at the new AACTA Shorts Fest, once part of the former Festival of Australian Film, taking place in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth from Monday 20 August. View the full list of nominees.
Announcement of nominees in other categories will follow in the lead up to the awards ceremony, held on Wednesday 5 December 2018.


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Finally we have a goal that will make us suffer less waiting for the arrival of winter! Let's face it: with this heat that is also tearing the soul we can't wait for the cold to arrive ... but now that the arrival of the MIUI 11 in conjunction with winter, we want the cold before now! To tell us that it will be so was a shrewd user who asked, albeit joking, on the official channel Weibo of Xiaomi if next month the most awaited update of all time has been scheduled since MIUI exists. And the answer was unexpected, although welcome.
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MIUI 11 will be released this year before winter: winter is comingBelow is the image that shows the exchange of words between the user and a manager behind the official Xiaomi account of Weibo, the well-known Chinese social media where we learned to take the most succulent and interesting news.
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"Will MIUI 11 be released next month?"This is the user's question,"It will definitely come out before winter"This is the answer. We leave you to imagine the comments of the rest of the Chinese users to this post, between tears of joy and crying emojis.Without a doubtgood news for many, but at the same time a cancellation for others: yes, because in many they expected acombined exit of the new update MIUI announced last January, with the highly anticipated Xiaomi Mi Mix 4. Instead after knowing that the device in question will probably not come out before the year and that the eleventh release of the Xiaomi device user interface will come out ahead of its time, many will have to put their soul in peace and wait a little longer.
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Among the novelties of the MIUI 11 what can we expect we have:possibility to set one SIM default for each contact;new colors for the interface;button to postpone reminders later;display of consumption in hotspot mode;greater integration with third-party payment services;new icons;a new one Power Saving Mode;the highly anticipated dark theme on which we are drooling from time immemorial but which we can already have following this guide.Below the smartphones that will be updated:My 9My 8Mi 8 SEWe 8 ProMi 8 Explorer EditionMi 8 LiteMy 6Mi Mix 3Mi Mix 2S2 Mix MixMi MixMy Notes 3My Notes 2We are Max 3We are Max 2I MaxMi PlayMi 6ΧWe are 5CMi 5ΧI 5SWe 5S PlusRedMi Note 7RedMi Notes 6 / ProRedMi Notes 5 / ProRedMi Notes 5ΑRedMi Note 4RedMi Note 4XRedMi 6RedMi 6ΑRedMi 6 ProRedMi 5RedMi 5ΑRedMi 5 PlusRedMi 4RedMi 4ΑRedMi 4ΧRedMi 3SRedMi 3ΧRedMi S2In short, we will have to wait but not too much: the MIUI 11 it is around the corner and indeed, now more than ever we can really say "Winter is Coming".Sourcehttps://en.xiaomitoday.it/miui11-uscira-quest-anno.html
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What are lipids?
Lipids is a broad category that describes a group of about 7,000 fat-soluble, hydrophobic (not soluble in water) and naturally occurring organic compounds, found in animal or plant tissues.
Lipids include compounds such as fatty acids, cholesterol, lipoproteins, phospholipids, steroids, waxes and even fat soluble vitamins.
One of the subcategories of lipids, the fatty acids, is crucial to understand the differences between fats and oils. (1, 2)
Fatty acids are chains of hydrocarbons – chains of carbon atoms, with each of the carbon atoms connected to one or two hydrogen atoms.
Fatty acids can be saturated or unsaturated:
- Saturated fatty acids have a straight shape. Since they are straight, they stick together closely. Therefore, their force of attraction is stronger.
- Unsaturated fatty acids (either mono or poly-unsaturated) have a sharply bent structure, where the carbon double-bonds are positioned. This is called a "cis" configuration. (read more..).
Due to this uneven structure, these fatty acids can't pack together as closely as saturated fatty acids. Therefore, the attraction forces are not as strong, resulting in a lower melting point.
The more kinks there are along the chains, the lower is the molecular attraction and, consequently, the lower is melting point. Polyunsaturated fatty acids, with more "cis" double bonds, have a lower melting point than those with less.
NOTE: one exception to this rule is with trans fatty acids. In trans fatty acids, some of the carbon double bonds have a "trans" configuration. This causes a slight kink, instead of a sharp angle as in the "cis" configuration.
If all of the carbon double bonds in the chain have a trans configuration, the fatty acid chains become more or less straight. In this case, they resemble saturated fatty acids, not only in shape but also in properties, such as solidity at room temperature.
What are fats and oils?
Fats and oils are substances that belong to a lipid subgroup called glycerides, specifically triglycerides. (3, 4, 2, 5)
Triglycerides consist of three fatty acids – another subgroup of lipids. They are all attached to another component, that holds them together, the glycerol backbone.
A triglyceride can contain any combination of fatty acids (such as one saturated and two unsaturated or three saturated or three unsaturated, or one unsaturated and two saturated).
The combinations of fatty acids in fats and oils vary greatly. The same is true with their properties, such as their melting points.
Fats and oils can be either of animal or plant origin.
The following is a simplified image of how fats relate to lipids.
What are the differences between fats and oils?
Fats refer to lipids that are solid at room temperature (have a high melting point). They are solid, mainly because they have a higher proportion of saturated or trans fatty acids and their hydrocarbon chains are long. For more details on fats' melting points, read here.
Oils, in a nutritional sense, refer to lipids that are liquid at room temperature (have a low melting point). Similar to fats, oils mainly consist of triglycerides. However, unlike fats, the predominant fatty acids in those triglycerides are unsaturated, which make them liquid at room temperature.
Although some oils can be non-edible, such as petrochemical products, in the nutritional context, they refer to edible oils that are mainly of plant origin, but also of animal origin (e.g. fish oil). (3, 4, 2)
NOTE: coconut oil is primarily made up of saturated fatty acids, unlike other oils. However, most of these fatty acid chains are shorter (called medium chain fatty acids – MCFAs) than those of solid fats, such as in butter (long chain fatty acids – LCFAs).
MCT oil, however, is in a liquid form even though it is also (like coconut oil) made up of MCTs. The reason is that the MCTs in MCT Oil are shorter than in coconut oil (short enough to be liquid). (read more..)
Therefore, its melting point is low, which explains why coconut oil becomes liquid, if the room temperature is slightly higher.
In this case, the length of the fatty acid chains has more impact on the solidity than the level of saturation. (6)
You will find a summary of the most common nutrition myths and evidence-based nutrition facts here.


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Mohun Bagan senior team will resume training tomorrow morning and post-training Chakraborty will interact with media, a statement read.
Sen stepped down as the chief coach minutes after they succumbed to a 1-2 defeat to a 10-man Chennai City FC, their first defeat of the season that came at their home ground.
"The club management would like to thank Sen for all the hard work he has done being in charge of the team for the past three years. We wish him all success for his future endeavours," the statement said. Mohun Bagan have slipped to fifth place in standings after three draws and a loss. They next face defending champions Aizawl here on December 7. – PTI


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A new community allotment is set to be transformed thanks to local residents volunteering their time.
The allotment, located off Grangeway in Runcorn, was created by Halton Housing, following the development of 40 affordable rent homes nearby.
The space has now been handed over to four local residents who have signed up to volunteer their time to transform the space, including three plots accessible for people in wheelchairs.
The volunteers hope to eventually fill the allotment with herbs, wildflowers, fruit and vegetables.
Debbie Jameson, Halton Housing Customer Engagement Officer said: "The allotment brings a host of opportunities for local residents including the opportunity to meet other local residents who have a collaborative interest in the outdoors and gardening. We also want to encourage better ownership of local green spaces, developed by and used by local people creating a greater sense of satisfaction and achievement in the local community. We look forward to seeing the allotment develop."
Once completed, the allotment will be open to all members of the community to make use and enjoy.
More budding green-fingered residents are welcome to volunteer their time to support the allotments development. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Debbie Jameson, Halton Housing Customer Engagement Officer on 07932578533 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Predictably, Trump came out against the Green New Deal with a bombastic – and ill-informed – rant in a campaign style rally in El Paso. Here's what he had to say:
"I really don't like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of 'let's hop a train to California,' of you're not allowed to own cows anymore!"
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell intends to introduce the GND Bill in the Senate, and Republicans, pundits and politicians of most stripes are predicting the bill will hurt the Democrats' chances in 2020.
But as usual, the inside-the-beltway crowd is way behind the people on this issue; polling clearly shows a large majority of the people support it. In fact, when key elements underpinning the GND were unpacked, Americans overwhelmingly supported nearly all of them, with many provisions polling above 80 percent favorable.
Right now, the Republicans' unhinged rants against the GND are generating mostly ridicule among Americans, but that could change.
But the real political danger to Democrats isn't the Republican assault on the GND, it is that they'll do what they did with Obamacare—run from the issue and allow the Republicans set the terms of the debate. That approach caused the Party to experience record losses at every level of government in 2014, and it looks like the neoliberals in charge of the party are about to do the same with the GND.
For example, here's what Nancy Pelosi had to say about the Green New Deal: "…The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?" The rest of the Democratic leadership is following her lead, and the party's old guard is following them.
Much of the press and punditry is taking the same approach, and the general message from both the Washington cognoscenti and the press seems to be it's not "practical" or "politically feasible," forgetting that's exactly what they said about Bernie Sanders' progressive platform, positions that are now wildly popular with the people, and that form the basis of Democrat's victories in 2018.
If you want to see a typical neoliberal critique of the GND, you couldn't do much better than to read Jonathon Chait's recent piece on it, which is full of hyperbole, misinformation, and outright mistakes or falsehoods. For example, early in the article he says:
Climate change experts have called for zeroing out emissions in the power sector by 2050, while the Green New Deal proposes doing so by 2030.
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But while scientists cite 2050 as the dropdead date for cutting power sector carbon emissions, they also say that each increment of additional warming will cause harm and cost us. Moreover, there's significant uncertainty embedded in the 2050 deadline; in fact, using the IPCC's carbon budgets as the basis for establishing deadlines for action allows for a 34 percent chance of exceeding the target, and possibly triggering irreversible feedbacks. So the GND is simply a prudent approach that incorporates a rational safety factor for saving the world.
Chait and his ilk also suggest that the goal of getting to net zero emissions is a technological pipe dream at this point, but again, they're wrong. Right now, today, the cheapest source of new power is renewable wind and solar power. In some areas, it's cheaper to shut down an existing coal plant and replace it with renewables than it is to keep running the old coal plant. Electric car sales are skyrocketing as their range and cost come down, and in Europe, they are cheaper to own and run than diesel and gas driven cars. Advances are in the pipeline that will increase their range and decrease charging time. Agriculture, the other big carbon source, can be converted from a carbon source to a carbon sink by changing to techniques that restore and preserve soils – something that we need to do in any case, since the world's soils are rapidly depleting. Meanwhile, by making our buildings more efficient, we can reduce the amount of new power required to heat and cool them, and lower the cost of a transition to a no-carbon economy. And each of these endeavors creates jobs.
Republicans and some neoliberals are also raising the specter of the GND ushering in socialism, government despotism, and control of our daily lives and choices. And while it will demand unprecedented cooperation, it need not imply limits on our democracy. As Joseph Romm pointed out in a recent article, a World War II level effort is both possible and necessary if we are to preserve out Democracy. Indeed, nothing threatens our freedoms more than the human and economic catastrophes that would result from NOT mitigating climate change.
Finally, there's the pragmatists and realists. As Chait puts it in his article:
And if doing anything meaningful on climate did require quickly enacting Bernie Sanders's wish list, then we might as well give up, because nothing like that is going to happen in the next presidential administration.
It appears that Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership shares this perspective. But climate change is a reality based on physics, not politics. It can't be negotiated with, or ignored, simply because it's not politic. The job of anyone who is charged with governing must be to meet this challenge, not give up because it's tough.
The "realists" and "pragmatists" who are advocating caution and warning that embracing the GND will result in Trump winning in 2020 have it exactly wrong. The only way Trump wins is if the Democrats abrogate their responsibility. The people are ready; the technology is at hand; the time is now.
As Gandhi once said, "There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." The Democrats have tried the practical and cautious route -- the route that has tied them to the elitists and the corporatists; the one that made them run from a populist progressive platform; the one that has reduced them to a minority party -- for four decades now, and it has cost them dearly.
But the stakes are more than political, they are existential. Failing to embrace the GND and head off the global catastrophe that is climate change isn't simply bad politics, it is tantamount to allowing the wholesale destruction of the climate and ecosystem in which humans evolved.
A party that responds to a challenge of this magnitude with stratagems, political calculations, cynicism, and half measures will not inspire voters; one that leads us toward a literal salvation, will.


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Woodside Fire Protection District Chief Dan Ghiorso is a great believer in AEDs ever since he used one on a referee suffering from sudden cardiac arrest at a ballpark in Foster City.
Sudden cardiac arrest is caused by an abnormal heart rhythm, usually ventricular fibrillation, where the heart is unable to pump blood to the body and brain, making a person lose pulse, consciousness, and the ability to breathe. A defibrillator works by delivering an electrical shock to the heart to stun it momentarily, giving it a chance to return to a normal rhythm.
Sudden cardiac arrest is quite different from a heart attack, where a blocked artery leads to symptoms of pain, nausea and/or sweating in an alert person.
The American Heart Association estimates hundreds of thousands of people die from sudden cardiac arrest in this country every year, and that for every minute defibrillation is delayed, the chance for survival drops by 7 to 10 percent.
In the Woodside Fire Protection District all three stations have additional AEDs posted outside for public use. The boxes are checked on a monthly basis to make sure the batteries are working and the pads are fresh.
Chief Ghiorso says those AEDs are "are a full-proof system ... a voice tells you what to do, put patches on, or to wait and do CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)."
One of the first prompts is a recorded voice explaining how to connect the AED by placing adhesive pads with electrodes on the person's chest. A computerized program then analyzes the heart's rhythm and indicates if the user should press a button to deliver a shock. In some cases the prompt may say use CPR instead.
One of the fire district's goals is to increase awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and improve public access to defibrillators. Chief Ghiorso says he'd like to see more AEDs located in places where people exercise, such as hiking trails. Studies show a history of heart disease is more of a risk factor than strenuous exercise for sudden cardiac arrest, but there can be a correlation.
The fire district periodically offers classes in first aid and CPR. The next one that includes AED instruction is on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at Fire Station Number 19, 4091 Jefferson Ave. in Redwood City.
To register or for more information go to woodsidefire.org.
Chief Ghiorso is also a fan of PulsePoint, a nonprofit foundation based in the Bay Area that offers a free smart phone app showing where registered AEDs are located. He figures there are "hundreds in San Mateo County" alone.
Portola Valley Town Center has two AEDs available to the public — one installed in Community Hall and one just outside facing the sports field.
Workers at Arrillaga Family Gymnasium in Menlo Park say their AED has been used only once since the doors opened in 2010.
During a recent mid-day basketball game there an adult stopped playing to declare that everybody ought to know how to use an AED. When he was in the military and using an AED, he ran into trouble because he missed a step. He's relieved to see AEDs have evolved to be more user-friendly and widespread.
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A former U.S. postal worker who received stock tips from a business magazine before it was mailed to subscribers has agreed to pay about $580,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of insider trading.
Davi Thomas, formerly of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and currently living in Kerala, India, pulled tips from the "Inside Wall Street" column of Business Week magazine from 1996 to 1999, according to the SEC. Thomas allegedly broke postal regulations when he read the magazines at the Mount Vernon postal sorting facility before they were mailed to subscribers and newsstands.
Thomas is accused of trading on the information and sharing it with a friend, Lionel Thotam. The two men bought stock shares in companies that were favorably mentioned in the columns, and in most cases sold the shares after their prices rose the following day.
Thotam allegedly paid Thomas $10,000 for the illegal tips. Thomas profited $153,711 from the illegal trades and Thotam profited $77,213, according to the SEC.
Thomas agreed to hand his profits over to the SEC, which, in addition, ordered him to pay a civil penalty of $153,711 and prejudgment interest of $273,503. Thotam settled with the SEC in 2002. The SEC settled with Thomas in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on May 2.


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The latest from the Rio Olympics 2016
All the latest from our Team GB athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
All the latest from our Team GB athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paul Evans , who was in the 10,000 metres final in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and 4 years later in Atlanta, is running a summer track and field camp at the UEA Sportspark in Norwich.
After breaking records at the Rio Olympics, golden-girl Laura Trott says she was very lucky to experience the Games with fiancé Jason Kenny.
Olympians from the region have arrived back from Rio to a heroes' welcome following Team GB's best Olympics in more than a century.
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of The Hungry Caterpillar, our theme this month will be paper piecing. Whether you create fanciful animals in Eric Carle's style, or use printed papers to make quilt-like designs, have fun with color, texture, and patterns this month!
Artist Trading Cards are miniature artistic pieces that are meant to traded with others, never sold. They can be made from anything, as long as the finished product is 2.5" x 3.5". Paper, fabric, clay, wood -- if it fits in a trading card sleeve, it's an ATC. Basic supplies will be provided, and you are welcome to bring your own things. Children are welcome to participate with parental supervision.


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By now everyone knows that Google changed press release visibility in 2013. So what's left? What are the new rules (and tools) for crafting and distributing news releases and content that engages and activates your key audiences?
Panelists Will Include:
- Serena Ehrlich: Director, Social & Evolving Media, Business Wire
- Anthony Shop: Co-founder, Social Driver
This Event Will Cover the Following:
This interactive workshop will review Google's "new rules" affecting press releases and arm you for PR in a post-Google world. Our speakers will provide ideas and tips you can implement immediately to increase the ROI of your press release. This discussion will include the kinds of content that drives conversations on social media. This is what ultimately will give your news higher search engine rankings. In other words — SEO is out… Content and sharing is in!
The speakers, Serena Ehrlich and Anthony Shop, will discuss content creation and distribution in 2014 – from crafting to distribution to measuring and adjusting all to maximize results and help you meet your overall communication goals.
Moderator is:
Danny Selnick: Co-chair Professional Development Committee PRSA-NCC
$55 Non-members
$10 Students/Retirees
$10 additional at the door
When and Where:
Wednesday, February 19, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
8:00 to 8:30 a.m. – Networking, registration, continental breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. – Program
701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Metro: Navy Memorial/Archives (green/yellow lines)


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i have tried driving in a downpour at night with my dark raybans and had to remove them after a while when driving became even more challenging. i think it is important to specify that not all sunglasses will address this.
Two Tips for Safe Driving in Bad Weather
Since we're all driving more and flying less, I want to pass along two very interesting safe driving tips that were emailed to me yesterday.
During a heavy downpour, visibility is bad, even with the wipers on high. Wearing your sunglasses will vastly improve visibility, even at night. The drops on the windshield will still be visible, but not the sheet of falling rain. It also helps to eliminate the "blindness" from the spray of passing semi's, and the "kick up" if you are following a semi or car in the rain.
Snow, ice, slush, or even rain can cause wheel-spin and hydroplaning. If the cruise control is on when the tires lose contact with the pavement, the car accelerates to a higher rate of speed and takes off like an airplane. Although cruise control can be disengaged by tapping the brake pedal, the extra reaction time required to recognize that a car's wheels are spinning can be crucial (especially for drivers lured into a hazardous level of inattentiveness on long, flat stretches of road). Better just to turn off the cruise control in bad weather.
I've checked out the validity of both tips on Snopes.com. The cruise control tip has been verified, and the sunglasses tip is still being verified, but I checked with a friend of mine who drives a lot and she confirmed that the trick does indeed work.
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Your sunglasses tip is brilliant. I would think that not using your cruise control in hazardous driving conditions is obvious, but I guess not. I personally always want to have full control of my vehicle, especially in sleet, snow and rain.
Also, change your damn wiper blades. We delayed on this, got caught in vile storm in rush hour freeway traffic, and I swear it was some of the worst driving I've done in, well, I can't remember how long it's been. We'd delayed and delayed on putting new blades on — it made a HUGE difference.
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing ?
Hmmm – guess I need to get a pair of prescription sunglasses!
I never thought about wearing sunglasses when it's raining. Interesting tip.
Good tips. I find that a lot of people drive the same no matter what the weather. I never would have thought about sunglasses like that. I am going to have to try it.
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my last accident was in bad weather. next time i will do better.
Great tips. I never thought of driving in the rain with my sunglasses on before, but your tip makes a lot of sense!


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Recognition & Reward are present in a work environment where there is appropriate acknowledgement and appreciation of employees' efforts in a fair and timely manner.
Engaging your entire team in reviewing the factors that impact psychological health and safety in your workplace is the approach recommended by the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. By doing this, you not only build awareness of the responsibility of each employee to contribute to a positive workplace culture, you also get their involvement in developing and being part of the solution.
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Download the Guarding Minds at Work Presentation Slides to guide a group discussion to better understand how Recognition & Reward impacts your team and collaborate on an action plan to promote and protect this in your workplace.
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This video offers an explanation of how Recognition & Reward affects a workplace and strategies to improve it. This video is intended to help the facilitator learn language and hear examples prior to facilitating the team discussion.
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This whiteboard animation video on Recognition & Reward is part of the Ottawa Public Health series Have That Talk and can be helpful to show to your team at the beginning of your On the Agenda session.
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Interviews: MEDO
In this new occassion we have had the opportunity to interview the Hardcore band MEDO from Portugal. Check out the interview and this band on their FACEBOOK PAGE.
1.Where did you get the idea for the band name, you planned it or came out just like that?
Rafael: It was more or less both. The idea was to have a meaning and we thought that MEDO ('fear' in english) could mean Máquina Educacional de Doutrinas Opressivas which means Educational Machines of Oppressive Doctrines. We thought that it makes sense in a way, so we decided to go ahead with this idea.
Ricardo: I use to say that there are two main feelings that rule the world: love and fear. That's why I loved the idea.
2.Why did you want to play this genre?
Punk hardcore is the style that get us together... this is what we listen, feel, follow, like... it makes no sense to play anything else. Me and Ricardo (the singer) we always had a very strong connection within music (hardcore) and social / politic issues. So... everything made sense fast and easily.
Ricardo: That's right. And sing in portuguese makes sense to us because is a step forward to people get what we want to say.
3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?
Rafael: Yes, we were allbig friends before and that's why everything went well so fast. We have strong connections between most of us and making music with this guys is one of the best and easiest things in life. We are all connected and turned to the same side, so... everything goes forward very easy and naturally.
Ricardo: Sure. Personally, me and Rafael are friends for more than 10 years, and we share a lot of interests, so having a band together just made a lot of sense.
4. Each band member favourite band?
Rafael: This is a tricky question 'cause for me, at least, I listen to lots of different styles so it's hard to say. But I would say that my fave punk band nowadays is probably The Casualties and my fave hardcore band is Biohazard. I don't know about the rest of the team (ahahaha) but I know that Ricardo also likes Biohazard a lot. But I don't know about The Casualties (ahahah).
Ricardo: That's right. It's allways hard to say what's my favorite band because I listen to a lot of different styles, but in hardcore Biohazard is the one.
5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?
Rafael: I am inspired by the (true!) punk/hardcore bands that I listen to. They influence me a lot.
About 'what' inspires me... I would say the world around me. Everything that happens socially or politically, the news, the environment, racial issues, discrimination between men and women, drugs abuse, apathy, i don't know... years are passing by and everything remains the same. That's why we are all the time preaching about the same things once spoken by our old influences... they defended the same issues back in the 70's, 80's, 90's... and we're still carrying this flag.
Ricardo: The world around us day by day and its social and political problems.
6. Where was your last gig?
Lisbon, Hell of a Weekend.
7. Where would you like to act?
Rafael: I would love to perform with this band in a squat. In the 90's it was really easy in Portugal but now we have few and it's not easy, I don't know why. And, of course, on another hand we'd like to play in medium sized festivals in Europe like Ieper Festival for instance.
Ricardo: Wherever people like to see us. Of course play in the festivals that Rafa said would be great and even a euro tour.
8. Whom would you like to feature with?
Rafael: I think with every band that share the same feeling / ideals that we do. We'd love to play with Biohazard of course but we just don't care. We do our thing with any band. This month we're playing with The Casualties, Slapshot, Knuckledust and No Turning Back, another band that I love and that have influenced me a lot. So... I feel like living a dream.
9. Whom not?
Sell out bands and bands without a true message. Fuck them all!!
10. Any of you has ever suffered from stage fright? Any tip for beginners on how to beat that?
Rafael: I think we all have to passy thru it. It's normal. I still have it and I play since 20 years ago! I don't know. Not fright but... anxiety?! I think the tip is to close your eyes and let your heart flow. Everything will come up naturally and then it's gone :)
Ricardo: Well I'm stil a begginer.. I'm not a really nervous guy but for sure there is some anxiety until the moment I pick up the microphone and then that's gone. Just don't think a lot about it.
11. What bands have inspired you the most?
Rafael: The 90's. Biohazard, Madball, Sick of it all, Warzone, Gorilla Biscuits, Cromags. But some more recent though like No Turning Back which I love a lot. And, of course, also the local bands that were here before : Punk-Kecas, Kontrattack, X-Acto, Censurados, etc.
Ricardo: Of course the classics Biohazard, Madball, Agnostic Grint, Bad Brains but also the locals like Punk-Kecas, Trinta e Um or Mata-Ratos.
12. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?
Rafael: Have no idea, sorry.
Ricardo: An autograph.
13. What do you think of your fans?
Rafael: I wouldn't say fans but... friends. I love them all, they are the base of all of this. Without them we could still be the same but... it wouldn't be the same... if you know what I mean. They all make sense in all of this.
Ricardo: All said.
14. What do you think of our site?
Rafael: Every way of communication and share is respectful so... well done! :)
Ricardo: Great job promoting bands! Keep on going and a big thank you for demonstrating interest in our band!
15. Something add?
Rafael: As Chris Cornell once said: 'To be yourself is all that you can do'. Be true, be kind, be positive, share, learn, teach, give, take, spread the word but... never EVER stop being yourself! Our own is the most important thing in our lifes. And, to mention another idol, as Layne Stanley once said 'If I can't be my own I'd feel better dead'. Peace!
Ricardo: Stay true! As the portuese band Trinta e Um said "If I'm true to myself I will be a step forward"! Peace!


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Be careful with screenshots on Instagram! Soon, the social media app will have a new function that will inform profile users each time someone screengrabs one of their photos on stories—and yes, it will send a notification!
The information was published by the writers in WABetaInfo blog, who are mainly experts on everything about WhatsApp but have discovered this new Instagram feat. According to the post, some IG users can already test it out.
Reportedly, every account will be able to read the new screengrabbing rules—whether you took the screenshot or someone took a screenshot of you. When (and if) this really happens, don't be shocked: Instagram will notify you of everyone who's grabbin' your pics! Those who are trying to be sneaky will also get a warning. The blog states: "Instagram won't send the first screenshot notification, but it will inform you that the next time it will do."
More IG news: Personalized Text
Another new feature that might debut soon, but is less shocking, is that the photo-sharing app is working on more fun text options for your stories. According to WABetaInfo, these include four new fonts (modern, strong, type, neon) and are already available for users in Japan.
*Translated from the original article by Luiz Felipe Silva published on VIX Brazil
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Set within a dilapidated old high school, a class prank that went horribly wrong years earlier sets the impetus for SLAUGHTER HIGH (1986), a rather ludicrous if quite memorable slasher film which has arrived on Blu-ray in a brand-spankin'-new transfer as part of Lionsgate's continuing Vestron Video Collector's Series.
Mark Rantzen (Simon Scuddamore) is the school geek of Doddsville High (or as the U.S. ads proclaimed, "The Dork of Doddsville High"!) who is constantly teased and bullied by his classmates, including class clown Skip (Carmine Iannaccone) and the school's most popular hottie Carol (Caroline Munro). However, when one of their pranks goes very wrong, Mark gets badly disfigured in a chemistry mishap, which - needless to say! - leaves him yearning for revenge in a big (and hopefully messy) way. As per the usual template for this sort of formulaic fare, years later, Skip, Carol and the rest of the so-called dork/geek's wrongdoers are mysteriously invited to a school reunion at their now very-run-down old alma mater, where they are - no great surprise there! - ritualistically killed-off one-by-one.
A predominantly-British production with some fleeting American input courtesy of producer Steve Minasian - one of the silent partners behind Sean S. Cunningham's historical benchmark for the slice'n'dice/jab'n'stab genre, FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) - SLAUGHTER HIGH was, like some of Minasian's other films, such as PIECES (1982) and DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (1984), co-produced by exploitationer extraordinaire, Dick Randall. Hoping to cash-in on the last remnants of the slasher boom (which, by 1986, was, for all intents and purposes, very much on its last legs), co-directors Dugdale, Ezra and Litten were hoping to inject something new into a by-then-tired-out genre with some creative—and decidedly vicious—killings and dark humour, while, at the same time, staying true to the film's type. The killer, although his identity is obvious right from the get-go, wears a rather unnerving jester/clown mask, which provides some necessary extra punch to many of SH's kill scenes and, in a nice touch, amps-up the tension in others with the faint sounds of jingling bells being heard emanating through the desolate hallways of the derelict learning institution. All the standard archetypes are present, but what sets this movie apart from the rest of the slasher pack are its inventive, over-the-top kills: including one poor guy who shotguns a beer only to realize the can is filled with some sort of green ooze; which, quite literally, makes his stomach explode! In yet another oddball—not to mention completely nonsensical—demise, a female victim takes a bath and is reduced to a bloody skeleton by corrosive-laced water which pours into the tub from the tap.
In an additional connection to FRIDAY THE 13TH, composer Harry Manfredini contributes a cut-and-paste score, consisting of numerous cues from his earlier, now-iconic compositions, but he also contributes a suitably awful yet wholly appropriate theme song (co-written by John Caribbi), which perfectly establishes SH's silly tone; although, it must be said, the film does display quite the unabashed mean streak, one which is far more pronounced than is usually seen in your average psycho killer film. In this respect, it is rather akin to Danny Steinman's FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING (1985), one of the nastier endeavours to be found in the entire stalk'n'slash/cut'n'gut canon.
Originally titled APRIL FOOL'S DAY, a title which had to be nixed when Paramount's FRIDAY THE 13TH producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. announced Fred Walton's same-named slasher spoof that very same year of '86, Vestron Pictures did release the present film theatrically. However, in all probability, most people likely caught this via Vestron Video's Beta/VHS videocassette release, which was made available in both R-rated and unrated versions. The film first debuted on U.S. DVD in 2009 via Lionsgate and their '80s 'Lost Collection', and even though it was uncut, it was derived from a less-than-impressive, tape-sourced master. This same edition later popped-up in a 4-Film Collection and an 8-Film Collection, both again from Lionsgate, and which also included numerous other Vestron Pictures releases. Working from the interpositive, Lionsgate's latest release is obviously their most attractive presentation of SH yet, which has been remastered in 2K for the occasion. The 1080p MPEG-4 AVC encoded Blu-ray is once again presented uncut, while the heightened HD resolution is a vast improvement over all versions that have gone before, exhibiting far more detail, solid black levels and fairly robust colours, latter of which especially come alive during the hallucinogenic, candy-coloured ending. The DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio option also sounds crisp and clear, with no noticeable issues whatsoever, especially given the limitations of the low-budget production, and for anyone that may need them, Lionsgate has once again provided English SDH subtitles.
The abundant extras begin with an affable audio commentary care of co-directors Dugdale and Litten, which is nicely moderated by Red Shirt Pictures' Michael Felsher. Working with Dick Randall, they were given the opportunity to direct this FRIDAY THE 13TH clone and were asked by both Randall and Minasian to create something that was (quote) "the same, but different", and that much of the film was (quote) "driven by what they could afford." They discuss many of the cast members who, outside of veteran scream queen Caroline Munro, were all in their mid-twenties while trying to portray high-schoolers, and that many of the actual U.S.-born-and-bred actors were criticized for their 'unconvincing' American accents (?!). Much of the film was also (quote) "very loose" in its conception. Many of the ideas for the killings were simply thought up when Dugdale and Litten (quote) "met-up in a pub and had a chat." In a surprising revelation, they explain how they had no input whatsoever into the music, and that fully half the film's budget was used to hire Manfredini. The pair also discuss SH's main shooting location, an actual still-standing if disused Victorian asylum which doubled for Doddsville High, along with the 'accidental' full-frontal nudity from Scuddamore and his unfortunate and very sad suicide soon after completing SH (which, despite rumours, was not a result of appearing in the film). They go on to discuss plenty of other anecdotes, including the killer's signature jester/clown mask, which was simply purchased at a costume shop and used as-is; Randall's brief cameo in the film, which they insist was not intended as a caricature; that Caroline Munro's Soho apartment in the film belonged to London strip club magnate Paul Raymond; and that the extended chase sequence which concludes the film was helped along by (quote) "Steadicam guru" John Ward. Both Dugdale and Litten prove to be excellent raconteurs, and they span the film's ninety minutes with ease. In a second audio commentary, or rather audio interview (21m01s), Felsher talks with composer Manfredini about the unavailability of his music, and how the only track they could locate was a (quote) "Mono Music and Effects Track", which is included following the interview. Manfredini also discusses his early career and film work, such as Sean S. Cunningham's HERE COME THE TIGERS (1978) and the cultural impact of FRIDAY THE 13TH, which generated a lot of work for him. He also admits that he was initially attracted to SLAUGHTER HIGH simply for the money, as well as how the film's ostensible if obviously non-U.S. setting (quote) "threw him for a loop."
Other no less significant extras include Red Shirt Pictures' Going to Pieces (18m29s), an interview with co-writer / co-director Mark Ezra wherein he discusses, among other things, his recollections of Dick Randall, who was (quote) "a very funny and interesting guy", and the problems which arose from trying to shoot an American film in London. He also goes on to discuss co-directors Dugdale's and Litten's different responsibilities, and how they almost got ex-"Rat Pack" star Peter Lawford to play the coach. In Red Shirt Pictures' My Days at Doddsville (14m35s), Caroline Munro discusses how she became involved in the production and the challenges and benefits of working with three directors; in particular Dugdale, whom she was dating at the time. She also talks about the locations used and the physical demands her role placed on her. In addition, the disc includes an extensive still, poster and promotional artwork gallery (6m55s), as well as the film's quite graphic theatrical trailer (1m43s) and a couple of radio spots (1m50s).
Although it has been readily available over the years, SLAUGHTER HIGH has, thanks to Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series, finally arrived in what can easily be touted as THE definitive presentation of this fan favourite. Order it from Amazon or DiabolikDVD.