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Nacho Monreal has urged his Arsenal team-mates to ignore the critics as they step up their bid for a top-four finish.
With just one defeat in their last seven league games, Arsenal are four points behind arch-rivals Tottenham, but crucially with a match in hand.
Eden Hazard says he has been satisfied with his debut season at Chelsea so far but hopes he can crown his time at Stamford Bridge with silverware.
The Belgian winger has made a big impact with the Blues, scoring eight Premier League goals and notching as many assists, but says his main aim is to help them lift trophies with the FA Cup and Europa League still in reach this year.
Roberto Mancini has conceded the Premier League title but says he will be at Manchester City next season to try and win it back.
The reigning champions are 15-points behind leaders Manchester United, and must now switch their focus to holding off a challenge from Chelsea and Tottenham for the runners-up spot.
Chris Smalling has admitted Manchester United's charge towards the Premier League title has been motivated by last season's final day heartbreak.
Central defender Smalling will turn his attention back to club duties after impressing in England's World Cup qualifiers with San Marino and Montenegro.
Pablo Zabaleta is surrounded by superstars at Manchester City but has named Gareth Bale as the Premier League's best player, describing the Tottenham winger as a "force of nature".
With 21 goals in 36 appearances this season, Bale has been instrumental in Spurs' climb to fourth in the Premier League table, giving them a strong chance of qualifying for the Champions League.
And finally, Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has vowed to be fit for the club's Champions League quarter-final first leg clash against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.
The Spaniard has been troubled by a thigh injury and is set to be rested for this weekend's La Liga clash with Celta Vigo, but has set his sights on a return for next week's match in Paris.
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10 things I learned raising £1m VC for my martech startup
Last week, my business, Phrasee, announced a £1m seed investment. Awesome! Champagne all round! But, getting there wasn't easy.
See, I've never run a fast-growing martech business before. Luckily, I'm a quick learner – and here's 10 things I've learned about startup fundraising since launching 18 months ago.
Start Me Up! GigRev, the social media platform for artists and bands
We all know the music industry is in turmoil, with the rich getting richer and small acts struggling.
GigRev is a social media platform attempting to connect fans and artists, aiming for genuine engagement over Likes and ad revenue.
We caught up with the team.
Start Me Up! Ksubaka creates game-like advertising for shoppers
Augmenting the retail environment with consumer-facing digital technology is always a much debated topic.
Ksubaka is a startup that creates fun digital experiences for consumers whilst delivering brand advertising.
We caught up with the team...
What does 'startup culture' really mean & how can it help big businesses transform?
An eye-catching stat from a Forrester report got me a bit worked up today.
The survey concluded that 43% of firms with a mature digital strategy see competing departments wanting to own digital as the most significant barrier to effective digital transformation.
Sheesh, it paints a pretty picture of our industry doesn't it?
A day in the life of... a food & drink startup entrepreneur
I always love hearing about food and drink startups, especially on Dragon's Den (or Shark Tank).
And with the rise of online subscription services in FMCG, food and drink brands are springing up all over the internet.
Sylvie Hall is co-founder of EatCleanTea, a brand of matcha tea that you can buy online, subscribe to, or look for (soon) in stockists on the high street.
Fintech startup Mondo provides slick, impressive UX: Review
Mondo has been billed as "a bank that's as smart as your phone. Built for your smartphone, this is banking like never before."
The "easy-to-use' app apparently updates your balance instantly, gives intelligent notifications and aspires to be the best bank on the planet.
Well, how could I resist?
Digital customer experience: four innovation methods
Customer experience and innovation are both hard to pin down.
Econsultancy's new report, Innovating the Digital Customer Experience, in association with Jahia, attempts to do just that.
The report examines how to innovate, the concept of practical agility, marginalizing your competition and the 'innovator's toolkit'.
A day in the life of... Head of Marketing at a fintech startup
Fintech was perhaps the buzzword of Q1 2016, so it's fitting that our next 'day in the life' comes from a fintech startup.
Anna Kilmurray is Head of Marketing at ClearScore, a company providing free credit check software.
Here's what she has to say about life in a startup.
Start Me Up! Tunsy is the 'Tinder' marketplace app for fashion
Tinder-style ecommerce apps have been gaining momentum of late.
Tunsy uses this same addictive UI but, interestingly, it's a marketplace, where multiple retailers can find customers.
I got the inside story from Mehdi Boumendjel, co-founder and CCO.
Start Me Up! Hero App lets consumers message businesses
Messaging is already the marketing topic of 2016.
Facebook is evolving its platform and WeChat is as successful and fascinating as ever.
Hero is a new app designed to allow consumers to message businesses. We caught up with its founder, Adam Levene.
Nine startups that could revolutionise your ecommerce efforts
The startup landscape is currently overflowing with innovation, providing lots of exciting new marketing tech for ecommerce sites to work with.
With so many startups vying for attention, however, it can be overwhelming when it comes to deciding which ones deserve your time and attention and which ones are unlikely to have an impact.
Start Me Up! People.io allows people to monetize their personal data
Despite consumers becoming more comfortable inputting data online over the past decade, 2015 saw mounting pressure on crappy ad formats, data resellers and unsolicited communication.
It's in this context that people.io launches today, a platform that allows consumers to benefit from giving away their personal data.
We caught up with the team...

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text: Rescued On December 1, 2009, the New England Aquarium, a stranding partner of the National Aquarium, responded to an unresponsive stranded Kemp's ridley sea turtle in Brewster, Massachusetts. The turtle was initially transported to the New England Aquarium, where it underwent triage and treatment for cold-stunning, the sea turtle equivalent of hypothermia. On December 14, several Kemp's ridley turtles were transported to the National Aquarium for long-term rehab. Rehabilitated During the six-month rehabilitation, the turtle, later named "Marshall," underwent treatment for pneumonia, a bacterial infection, and several lacerations and abrasions associated with the cold-stunning. Marshall enjoyed a diet of capelin, shrimp, squid, and mussels while in rehab, and nearly doubled in body weight. Marshall was the largest of the four Kemp's ridley turtles in rehabilitation at the Aquarium during this time, and shared a pool with two slightly smaller "poolmates." Released Marshall was released at Maryland's Point Lookout State Park on June 19, 2010, along with two other rehabilitated Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Kemp's ridley sea turtles commonly hang around the Chesapeake Bay during the warm summer months to feed on an assortment of jellies and invertebrates. Kemp's ridley sea turtles had already been spotted in the Chesapeake Bay for several weeks, so this was a perfect time and location to release the turtles. Tracked Prior to release, Marshall was outfitted with a small satellite transmitter that allowed us to track the turtle. The transmitter allows us to track and monitor the animal post-release, and helps scientists to understand the migration and feeding patterns of these animals. Learn more about the importance of animal tracking. From June 19 to August 2, when we received the last satellite transmission, Marshall traveled more than 232 miles! Back to the Top


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Tracing Stars is the story of two sisters, fitting in, and a lobster named Monty. Indie Lee Chickory believes in wishing on stars, she also believes in her rare golden lobster, Monty. When Monty sneaks a ride to school in Indie's bag, disaster ensues. With Monty missing, her sister Bebe continually mad at her, Indie wishes on a star to be the best Indie Lee Chickory she can be. To start being the best she can be, Indie starts spending her days fitting in with Bebe and her new friends, and spending her nights searching for Monty with her new friend Owen. When Bebe tells her Owen is a loser and warns her not to be friends with him, Indie realizes being the best Indie Lee Chickory is more complicated than she thought. How can she keep Owen a secret, and make Bebe proud of her? This story is heartwarming, it teaches a great lesson about fitting in and being yourself. This book is great for anyone looking for something uplifting.
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In April I wrote about the tons of (private, never public) grumbling by investors over "acqui-hires."
In many cases investors feel cheated when entrepreneurs take millions off the table in a small acquisition and investors get little or nothing back.
To be clear, we take the opposite position at CrunchFund.
But the lawyers and the VCs are definitely trying to figure out ways to protect themselves in these deals.
And a newly published academic paper by UNC law professors John Coyle and Gregg Polsky digs deeply into the topic. You can download and read it here.
Dan Primack also has a good summary.
The paper references my earlier post:
Michael Arrington recently suggested that, in response to this situation, counsel for investors will develop legal innovations to address this deficiency. Specifically, he suggested thatinvestors' counsel develop new contractual provisions that deal specifically with the prospect of a future acqui-hire. In this Section, we propose several possible innovations along these lines.
It also includes information from a lot of anonymous interviews with entrepreneurs, buyers, investors and counsel.
What's most interesting about the paper for me – these guys, outsiders, really get the whole psychology of Silicon Valley and the multi-stage game that's going on.
Everyone's concerned with long term reputation and that leads to non-legal pressure to act in certain ways by all parties involved.
The only thing I think the authors missed is that there's also reputational pressure on buyers as well. These buyers rely heavily on investors to get deals done and if they push too hard, investors tend to get pretty angry over the long run.
Anyway, this is an area of deal culture that is highly volatile right now, and the psychology at work is fascinating. This last long quote really gets to the fundamental forces that drive Silicon Valley:
Whether an entrepreneur will be able to raise funds for a new venture will depend, at least in part, on his relationship with the investors who had funded his last venture. "When you start a company," we were told, "the first place you look is to the people who funded you the last time." Even if these previous investors decline to invest, their opinions will still affect the ability of the venture to obtain funding. In Silicon Valley, previous investors often vouch for an entrepreneur and also provide leads and recommendations for funding when they are unwilling or unable to invest themselves.
Entrepreneurs who aspire someday to start another venture will therefore desire to remain on good terms with their previous investors. In game theoretic terms, the relationship between the entrepreneur and the investing community in Silicon Valley is a multi-stage game where the optimal strategy may not be to maximize one's winnings in the first round of the game. A desire on the part of the entrepreneur to maintain his reputation, we were told repeatedly, can and does serve to check his incentive to extract everything he can from the current venture. This may explain theprevalence of the acqui-hire structure, in which part of a portion of the compensation package is effectively deflected to the investors, as contrasted with the defection model, in which the newly- hired engineer keeps everything.
The power of reputation as a check on entrepreneurial opportunism appears to vary with the prominence of the investor in the original venture. If the investor is Sequoia Capital—perhaps the best-known venture capital firm in Silicon Valley—then we were told that the entrepreneur will go to great lengths to end the current venture on good terms. In the acqui-hiring context, this would mean making sure that Sequoia received a payout from the buyer large enough for Sequoia to feel as though it had been treated fairly. If, on the other hand, the investor is a small-time angel investor, then the entrepreneur will be less concerned about leaving on good terms. Such an angel investor might be unable to finance any future ventures and, moreover, would be a small enough player that any negative assessment would not generate traction in the Silicon Valley investor community.123 Between these two extremes—Sequoia and the novice angel—there is obviously a wide range. In all cases, however, it seems that entrepreneurs try to figure out, as one interviewee put it, "the lowest amount that can be paid to investors so that they don't squawk."
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San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy stated that Hunter Diehl was killed May 26 while mining underground.
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A co-worker spotted Diehl blinking a light and came to his aid. After talking with the victim, the co-worker went for help. When he returned, he found the victim unconscious. While waiting for help, Diehl quit breathing. CPR was initiated.
The victim was transported to San Juan Hospital in Monticello, where he was pronounced dead. MSHA and the San Juan County Sheriff are investigating the accident.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The capital murder trial of an Arizona inmate accused of killing an Oklahoma couple after breaking out of prison resumed Monday with prosecutors calling a fellow inmate to testify about the escape and subsequent flight.
The prosecution's case against John McCluskey hinges partly on the testimony of inmate Tracy Province. The two, along with an accomplice who threw cutting tools onto the prison grounds, sparked a nationwide manhunt when they escaped from a medium-security prison near Kingman, Ariz., in 2010.
Province testified that it took three months to plan the escape but only three minutes to accomplish it that summer day
The inmates scaled one fence and cut wire and more fencing along the prison perimeter before they began searching for their getaway car, Province said.
"Once we didn't find the escape vehicle, the plan changed. We were flying off the cuff," he said.
Prosecutors say the trio kidnapped two truck drivers and commandeered their semi. After hitching another ride south, they picked up another car. They headed toward the Arizona-New Mexico state line where they camped.
Province, who had been serving life in prison, testified that he felt exhilarated despite not having heroin in days.
"A little while ago I was in prison. Now I'm standing in a wide open area free," he said.
Prosecutors say the trio targeted Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Okla., at a rest stop near the Texas-New Mexico state line. Tired of driving more than 1,000 miles in their cramped get-away car, they wanted the couple's pickup truck and trailer.
The Haases were carjacked at gunpoint and forced to drive to a desolate spot along Interstate 40 in eastern New Mexico. They were shot. Their bodies were burned along with their trailer and their truck was stolen.
Province is expected to testify for as many three days.
McCluskey's defense attorneys indicated in a recent motion they intend to challenge Province's credibility.
The defense also suggested in opening statements that years of drug use had clouded Province's memory and that he had incentive to testify for the prosecution to avoid the death penalty.
Province and the accomplice, Casslyn Welch, pleaded guilty last year to numerous charges stemming from the Haases deaths. Both face life sentences.
Welch, who is also McCluskey's cousin, is expected to testify in the coming weeks.
According to court documents, Province separated from McCluskey and Welch and was arrested in northwestern Wyoming about a week after the Haases were killed. Authorities said he was found with the Haases' backpack, a Bible, a gun, a knife and other supplies.
He told authorities his plan was to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park, but he decided to try to hitchhike to Indiana instead.
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This week on Ark II, Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet (1956) fame guest stars as Alpha 1, or "Alphie," in "The Robot."
Samuel has been working on the construction of this highly-intelligent machine for four months, and he puts the finishing touches on Alphie just as the crew stops lake-side in Sector 9, Area 15 to enjoy a picnic. Unfortunately, Alphie -- like most young children -- is prone to accidents and clumsiness, and Captain Jonah has a difficult time trusting him.
After Alphie snaps off the knobs of the Ark II's mapping computer, Jonah orders the machine shut down while the team investigates a strange "sickness" in a nearby village. Alphie begs not to be de-activated, because he believes he can help resolve the problem. When Jonah won't acquiesce, Alphie breaks free of restraints, knocks-out Samuel, and heads out into the wilderness to act on his own.
It turn out that Alphie is right. As the robot learns from a girl named Nestra, all the villagers are suffering from exposure to a toxic gas, one which turns them into vacant, zombie-like sleep-walkers. Alphie discovers the source of the leak in a nearby crevice, but finally must sacrifice his very life to seal it up and save the humans.
After Alphie's noble act, Jonah realizes he was wrong to harshly judge the robot. As Ruth notes at one point, "robots make mistakes…but so do people."
Along with "The Lottery, "The Robot" is likely one of the best and most enjoyable episodes in the Ark II series catalog. The writers, Len Janson and Chuck Menville, along with director Ted Post, really bring their best game on.
There's a real vibrancy to this installment (at least compared to others), in part because there's more banter between the characters here than in all the other episodes combined. They joke, tease, laugh, and show real ease with one another. Who are these people?
Perhaps even more importantly than the new-found esprit de corps, not everyone is nice all the time in this episode. Jonah is still the good guy captain, but he reveals impatience and temper with Alphie. That doesn't make him evil, it makes him human.
Samuel, meanwhile, displays powerful emotions when he realizes that his creation has died heroically. These are welcome colors that the characters could have used on other occasions too, so that they wouldn't always seem so perfect…and cardboard.
Visually, "The Robot" is well-vetted. The show opens with some new footage of the Ark II at an idyllic lakeside, for instance. And Robby himself -- shiny and upgraded for his starring appearance here -- makes a great visual anchor for the proceedings. It's entirely possible (with apologies to the late Jonathan Harris…) that Robby is actually the best and most versatile guest star in the Ark II stable. He gives a command performance hero, and his heroic death is actually pretty touching.
As usual, the weakest part of an Ark II episode involves the obligatory jet jumper, the rocket pack that Jonah wears to conduct reconnaissance in every darn segment. It was interesting to see the jet jumper in action probably four or five times early on, but now it's just a momentum breaker. The jet jumper interludes inevitably slow down the narratives.
Finally, Ruth makes a comment in this episode that obliquely involves one of my curiosities about the show. I've often wondered about the organization that built the grand Ark II, and whether the vehicle is the only one of its kind.
In "The Robot," Ruth notes "It's the only ark we have," which, on the surface, seems to suggest the Ark II is indeed a one-of-a-kind. On the other hand, she may simply be referring to the crew. It's the only ark this crew has, in other words. So we almost get clarity, and then we get robbed of clarity...
In "The Robot," Ruth notes "It's the only ark we have," which, on the surface, seems to suggest the Ark II is indeed a one-of-a-kind. On the other hand, she may simply be referring to the crew. It's the only ark this crew has, in other words. So we almost get clarity, and then we get robbed of clarity...
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"The level of funding for nursing education research remains frustratingly low, and new and expanded sources are urgently needed. With increased resources and continued high quality and innovative proposals that can lead to successful awards, nursing education researchers will be able to provide the evidence required to most effectively educate tomorrow's nurses."
These are among the conclusions contained in "Advancing Nursing Education Science: An Analysis of the NLN's Grant Program, 2008-2010," an analysis of the National League for Nursing's grant program for nursing education research that appears in the January-February edition of Nursing Education Perspectives, the NLN's respected peer-reviewed research journal. While the NLN is among the few supporters of research in nursing education, authors noted, the commitment to scholarship is critical if the future nursing workforce is to be adequately prepared to safeguard patient care in a complex, dynamic health care environment.
The study was co-authored by Joanne R. Duffy, PhD, RN, FAAN, a professor at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis and immediate past chair of the NLN's Nursing Education Research Advisory Council (NERAC), the panel that oversees and awards the grants; NERAC's current chair, Marilyn Frenn, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, an associate professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee; and Barbara Patterson, PhD, RN, a professor at Widner University School of Nursing in Chester, Pennsylvania who sits on NERAC.
The three examined the proposals submitted and the process followed to award funds during the three grants cycles, 2008 through 2010. Among the data they reviewed were the criteria used by a panel of independent senior researchers who each generated scores for individual projects. NERAC then used the scores to make its award decisions. The authors noted the increasing rigor over the three-year period of the submitted applications, including the emergence of more mixed quantitative-qualitative methodologies and greater incidence of multi-site, high impact studies, as principal investigators competed for limited sources of funding.
Scholars would benefit, they suggested, from a greater understanding of how proposals are evaluated, information that the NLN makes available through web-based seminars and in live instructional sessions at the NLN's annual Education Summit. Also, since NERAC standardized its criteria for evaluation in 2008, it has generated succinct web-based documents, such as FAQs, to aid researchers in preparing their proposals to achieve a higher rate of success in attaining funding.
"With their thoughtful analysis, Drs. Duffy, Frenn, and Patterson have done a great service to the science of nursing education," said NLN president Cathie Shultz, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN. "And," added CEO Dr. Beverly Malone, "The NLN will continue to stress that scholarship be among the highest priorities of today's nurse educators and schools of nursing and work to expand resources for that purpose."
"Advancing Nursing Education Science: An Analysis of the NLN's Grant Program, 2008-2010" by Duffy et. al., along with the entire January-February edition of Nursing Education Perspectives, may be viewed on the NLN website at http://nlnjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.5480/1536-5026-32.1.10.
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Start a Kids' Book Club
For many kids, the notion of a parent/child book club could spell more flipping out than flipping through pages cover to cover. But kids' book clubs are springing up left and right, and book clubs are quickly evolving to fit every kind of kid, from the novel novice to the seasoned skimmer. These clubs provide a comfortable, communal atmosphere that promotes reading, critical thinking, and expressing ideas. The best part? Parents will get an extra-special glimpse of how and what their kid is really thinking about the world.
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- Starting a book club can be a breeze, but only if you take the right approach from the beginning. "Don't try to make the book club something it's not," advise Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp, co-authors of the comprehensive The Kids' Book Club Book (Tarcher, 2007). "We had parents telling us that at the beginning of the groups, they had an agenda. Some of these groups ended up not being so successful because the kids had a different agenda." If this sounds familiar, you know that compromise is key. To create a common ground, make sure that you tailor the book club to all its members, not just the expectations of the adults. That way, kids will feel like the club belongs to them, and is not just a parent-mandated chore.
- After you've established the group's goals, it's time to start reading! Both parents and kids can browse for books, but Judy and Vicki recommend that you preview all books for the group's approval before diving in. The Kids' Book Club Book authors also recommend that you choose books that can generate a lot of interest, like a book with a popular movie version, or a series of books that will hook them for months. Be sure not to forget the reading level of the group, and take the time to find out what they'll be reading in school, so that you can be aware of the issues they're discussing, as well as avoid overlap.
- "Make book clubs as unschool-like as possible," advises Vicki. "Adding food and time to socialize and do an activity is really helpful in making it fun." The biggest obstacle? "Scheduling. Simple and straightforward, kids are busy." To avoid scheduling headaches, sit down with a school calendar and make note of important school events. Set the club meeting dates early, or bring calendars to each meeting and schedule as you go along.
- If done right, a kid/parent book club will give kids a life-long love of reading they won't associated with the stress of school. A book club will also give kids confidence in their opinions, broaden their (and your!) social circles, allow parents and kids to reflect on serious or sensitive topics without feeling self-conscious, and help parents get a window into the daily lives and experiences of their kids. Plus, you'll have an excuse to revisit old childhood favorites and enjoy the best children's books of today – if your kid can get his nose out of your only copy!


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Oscar-winning actress Susan Hayward lived in Carrollton with her husband Eaton Chalkley from 1957 until his death in 1966. She considered Carrollton her adopted hometown and was buried here next to her husband when she died in 1975. Her gravesite is located near the front entrance of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help RC Church on Old Centerpoint Road.
Visitors can pay their respects at the gravesite, and Susan's former ranch is visible (though not open for tours) across the road. Printed information about Susan Hayward's Carrollton days as well as a tour guide can be arranged at the Carrollton Visitors Center at 102 North Lakeshore Drive in Carrollton or by calling 800-292-0871.
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Directed by Cary Fukunaga (Focus Features, 2011)
There are secrets hidden in the shadows of Thornfield Hall, but no mystery as to why Hollywood has made nearly 20 films based on Charlotte Brontë's Gothic tale of forbidden love.
More than 160 years after Brontë created her, Jane Eyre remains a riveting and original character. An orphaned waif betrayed by a bloodless aunt who dispatches her to a Victorian gulag of a boarding school, the disinherited Jane is forced to make her way in the world as an impoverished governess and teacher of other people's children.
But rather than being soured and embittered by abandonment and abuse, Jane's passion for love and freedom is fueled by the long winter of their absence, and the young governess enters her service at the remote and windswept Thornfield Hall lit by an inner warmth and intellect betraying her plain and humble countenance.
At Thornfield, however, Jane (Mia Wasikowska) must deal with Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender), the often absent and emotionally erratic master of the manor. And she must sort out her own growing passions for this dark and wild man who awakens friendship and love in her but seems unreachable in mysterious ways. Rochester is a man of contradictions and secrets, and Jane's passions and virtues respond to him in conflicting ways, forcing her to make exhilarating and then excruciating choices.
And as Jane and Rochester act out the tumultuous drama of their stormy romance, Brontë (and director Cary Fukunaga) has set the two protagonists against a Gothic backdrop that manifests the swirling storms of their interior lives. Thornfield Hall is a dark, brooding, and lonely place ready to burst into flames. It is as if the passions, fears, and secrets lurking in Jane and Rochester have taken shape in its very stones. The only question is whether the love and warmth in Jane can construct a nurturing home for the two of them there—a question that has held our attention for more than 160 years.


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By Robyn Porter, CRRL Intern
Candice Ransom, the author of more than 125 children's and teen's books, balances the responsibilities of a writing career with the creative energy necessary for reaching young readers. Her works include picture books, young adult books, and early readers. Many hold historical or biographical significance, such as Liberty Street, published in 2003.
Liberty Street, a picture book, is set in Fredericksburg during the Civil War. Described as "a moving story of courage and love," Liberty Street tells the story of two slaves, a mother and daughter, and the love and struggles they share in tragic times. Ransom bases her book on slave accounts and records of the original Liberty Street in Fredericksburg, where slaves used to walk and visit friends on Sunday afternoons. In her story, a mother enrolls her daughter in a secret school to learn to read and tries to earn extra money to buy her daughter's freedom before she is bonded out to another family far away.
Some of her other works include The Big Green Pocketbook (1993), the story of a mother and daughter's trip to town to run errands, and When the Whippoorwill Calls (1995), a story of positive and negative change for a tenant farming family in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Also, her books for teenagers include My Sister, the Meanie (1988), My Sister, the Traitor (1989), and My Sister, the Creep (1990). They tell the story of two sisters and the love-hate relationship they share through their teen years. Ransom drew from her own experiences with her older sister to make the sister books realistic.
Although Ransom recognizes advantages in every age, she particularly enjoys writing for children ages 3-7. "I enjoy doing something for younger kids where there's a lot of rhythm and rhyme and nonsense; at this age of my life, it's very freeing." However, she finds early reader books the most challenging, as well. She admits that it's difficult to contain an entire story in eight pages because "their world has no abstracts, it has to be very concrete, and since I don't have any kids, it can be really hard for me."
Entering the minds of children is often impossible for adults. However, Ransom uses many of her personal experiences to recall life as a young adult. "I had a miserable pre-teenhood. All I had to do was remember those and put them on paper and they were absolute bestsellers." Lately, Ransom relies more on creativity for her work because after writing her stories down "many of them left my mind because I freed room for other things." However, traces of her life can still be found in many of her works.
Ransom has continued writing while pursuing masters degrees. The combination of student life and career expectations can be daunting. "My degree work is very different from my books for contract, and this has been an enormous challenge to try to separate this work constantly. [I'm] trying to keep one side very creative and trying to keep the energy level up for books that I'm being paid for." Ransom holds a MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College and is working on a masters in Children's Literature at Hollins University.
One important lesson Ransom has learned from attending school while writing is time management. Before entering college, Ransom would start an interesting idea for a book, but delayed writing when other priorities called her attention. "I would never get to them, or I'd get to them very late. I'd have files of ideas that would be sitting there for years and entering this program has forced me to do that work."
Despite the challenges, all her hard work is repaid when she receives letters from children who've read her books or when she visits schools and sees the kindergartners holding their copies of The Big Green Pocketbook. But, she describes the most rewarding part of writing as "the actual work. When I'm actually working on something that's going well and it's my idea, until I have to send it to my agent or my publisher and then all these people get their sticky little fingers in it and it isn't mine anymore. But, while it's mine, that's the best part."
One Christmas Dawn (1996), the story of a young girl who awaits Christmas and the return of her father from the sawmill, where he's gone to find work, holds a special place in Ransom's heart. Typically, picture books take Ransom over five years to complete. However, the idea for this book came faster than others. "One Christmas Dawn shaped itself very nicely from start to finish and because of that, because it had a naturalness to it. I don't see the mistakes in there, it doesn't seem weighted down. Sometimes I'll go through my work and see problems, but that one still seems magical to me."
With all her success as an author of children's literature, Ransom doesn't have any plans for adult books in her future. Some years ago, she tried writing an adult mystery novel. She attended murder mystery conventions, which were "a lot of fun because people talked about how they would kill people while we were eating lunch. It was so different from kids conferences, where the focus would be on how to nurture their little minds." Her endeavor to write mystery books didn't last long, after completing half the novel and showing it to her agent, "They basically said don't finish it, it's just not for me. So, I very happily went back to what I was meant to do. There will be no adult books."
There is no doubt that Ransom's career is a success. Beyond her wide readership, she's the recipient of multiple awards, including the Hodge Podge Society Best Children's Book for The Promise Quilt and the Notable Trade Book in Social Studies for One Christmas Dawn. She is also adjunct professor at Spalding University (Louisville, KY), teaching writing for children in their MFA in Writing program. However, Ransom believes that she's yet to achieve her greatest writing accomplishment. "I don't know what it is, where it's going to be, or whatever. But, I'm not ready to lay down the pen and say 'That's it.' I just want to keep writing good books and I haven't reached the climax, yet. It's still out there."
She offers this advice to aspiring authors: "In some ways, it's much easier to get started than when I started a long time ago because there are so many resources, like the internet and conferences--just the availability of material is enormous. So, take advantage of these resources, but know when to stop, too. You have to trust your own judgment, don't rely too heavily on all of that stuff, but it is there when you need it."
2017 marks the 25th anniversary of Candice's The Big Green Pocketbook. It is also a year that many of her books have been reprinted, and a brand new one—The Tooth Fairy's Night—appeared in January. In this Level 1 early reader, young ones can come along on the tiny, sneaker-wearing Tooth Fairy's nightly rounds and enjoy an exciting time through a rhyming story. Also look for Amanda Panda Quits Kindergarten, a picture book which tells of a funny but terrible (to Amanda) first day of school and how she eventually coped.
Find out more about Candice Ransom and her books at her Web site and locate her books in our catalog. Also, check "Candice F. Ransom." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Biography in Context. This resource is available to CRRL cardholders through www.librarypoint.org/research. Additionally, you can check out a recent article in the author's hometown newspaper online: "The Astounding Storytelling Career of Candice Ransom," The Free Lance-Star, June 7, 2017.
Fast Facts
Born: July 10, 1952, in Washington, D.C., daughter of Thomas Garland and Irene Dellinger Farris
Education: Vermont College, M.F.A.; Hollins University, M.A.
Married: Frank Wesley Ransom (a satellite engineer), February 14, 1979.
First Book: The Silvery Past, a contemporary mystery for teens, 1982.
Current Home: Fredericksburg, Virginia


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I'm currently debating which is the most efficient processing strategy for third declension nouns.
The problem:
Third declension neuter forms differ significantly from the masculine / feminine forms in both the consonant and -i- stems. What information should we internalise in order to reconstruct the entire declension and determine the correct gender to render modifiers in?
The various rules in dooge's text for dropping, substituting, and adding of characters seems rather pointless considering we need to recall more than the nominative form in order to decline anyway.
There are key parts of each noun which must be known in order to decline and process it in a sentence.
(1) The Gender
(2) The stem (or a case which reveals how to decline it, gen plural for ex).
(3) The nominative form.
I can see two possible ways of doing this.
(1) Internalising the nominative singular form, the stem, and the gender.
(2) Internalising the nominative singular and plural, and the genitive plural.
Or perhaps there is a simpler method of acquiring these nouns?


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The picaxe is a great hobby platform, but what is needed is a user interface for projects that go beyond OLED type screens.
This would be canned code that runs on PC or Mac or android.
This would seem to be pretty simple, communicating via serial port on USB.
Even a terminal program would be useful.
Anyone have any ideas on this? Has this already been done?
Note: not all locations have wifi or internet.


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Paul McCartney "Live Kisses" / Dir. Jonas Åkerlund
In February, Paul McCartney released 'Kisses on the Bottom,' a jazzy collection of songs and standards that influenced the former Beatle as a young boy. To kick off that release he filmed a 13-song concert at the Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and streamed it to fans worldwide. That star-studded show will soon be available on DVD and Blu-ray.
'Live Kisses' — available Nov. 13 — features the album played in track order and in it's entirety, with two exceptions. 'The Inch Worm' is cut from the Jonas Akerlund-directed film, and 'The Glory of Love' and 'More I Cannot Wish You' are flipped. Diana Krall and her band lead McCartney through the songs. The Eagles' Joe Walsh makes an appearance to play the guitar solo originally recorded by Eric Clapton on 'My Valentine.'
Also included as bonus features on 'Live Kisses' are the 'My Valentine Video' starring Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman, two 'Kisses on the Bottom' photo shoots, and interviews with McCartney and album producer Tommy LiPuma. The package, which will also be available digitally, includes a 40-page book. For ordering details visit PaulMcCartney.com.


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In my last post I introduced the Econsultancy network, a map of the follower relationships between 3,930 users talking about the brand, sharing links, and tweeting at the official @econsultancy account.
I pointed out that it was pretty remarkable that all these users talking about Econsultancy are bound together in a web of follow relationships, despite not necessarily sharing anything else in common.
But how can we use this network data we've gathered to give us some more concrete insights we can use in our campaigns?
For example, to identify influencers, segment audiences, and understand what content is interesting to them.
Identifying influencers using network analysis
The fundamental insight of social network analysis is that a person's position in the network is an indicator of how influential they are.
This is because influential people are more likely to acquire connections, but also because having more connections in itself makes you more influential.
Put another way, it's difficult to imagine how someone could be influential on Twitter without being followed by others interested in their topic. Without followers, how would they be able to express their influence?
And if they somehow managed to be influential anyway, wouldn't they then acquire followers?
Once we accept this link between connections and influence, we can use algorithms provided by network software such as NodeXL and Mathematica to rank members of a network, and find out who is most influential.
The most commonly used algorithms are eigenvector centrality and PageRank, a variant developed by Larry Page of Google.
Algorithms like these reward people with lots of followers or relationships, but they also reward people for relationships with others who are themselves well-connected.
In other words, these algorithms allow influence to be passed on. They search out those who are not only well-connected, but are connected to others who are central.
|Influence rank (eigenvector centrality)
|Twitter handle
|Twitter bio
|Econsultancy publishes independent research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, ecommerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
|#ATL based Marketing | Social Media pro |Speaker |30+ years Mktg | Sales Exp. | M.S. Mktg |LUV travl, photog, & sports. Top 10 List Twitter Marketing | SM
|FORBES Top50 Social Media Influencer TIME Man of Action http://t.co/AooVGFSJrS VID http://t.co/XikjGrQBE5 BOOK http://t.co/D2OMyBA9fR Lawyer Tech
|Author: Optimize. CEO: @TopRank Online Marketing agency w/insights on integrated search, social media & content marketing. Proud dad, world traveler, foodie.
|Editor in Chief at Econsultancy. Blogs about ecommerce, mobile commerce, email marketing and more.
|Director of Product Development at Econsultancy, writer & music fiend.
|i'm a big fan of ecommerce, emarketing, ebusiness, & selected other words beginning with e.
|Sr. #SocialMedia #Marketing Manager at Euromoney Institutional Investor @iimag...Lover of great food & wine, #soccer fanatic, #yankees fan and #shopping addict!
|Campaign and Digital Intelligence - follow us for conversion rate optimization analysis & tips - visit us to try our #Analytics & #LeadGeneration technology :)
|Managing Director, We Are Social. Alter-ego to @djeski. On a quest for the world's best whisky and street food, and social serendipity along the way
The Econsultancy account itself is the most influential as we'd expect, even though accounts with far more followers were picked up in our network.
The fashion retailer ASOS (@ASOS) has more followers than Econsultancy (more than half a million compared to Econsultancy's c. 150,000), but because it is less relevant to this community is ranked far lower in terms of influence at number 51.
Likewise, the eigenvector centrality algorithm has placed two employees of Econsultancy in the top 10 (@gcharlton and @lakey), correctly working out that they are very relevant to the community we're looking at even though they also have fewer followers than ASOS.
The 100 most influential accounts in the Econsultancy network, size by eigenvector centrality score
'Betweenness', brokers and innovators
A variant measure when we're looking for influencers is 'betweenness'. Rather than finding people who are at the centre of communities, algorithms like betweenness centrality find those who are on the most paths between others in the network.
People with high betweenness tend to be the innovators and brokers in any network. They combine different perspectives, transfer ideas between groups (or decide to withold them), and get power from their ability to make introductions and pull strings.
|Betweenness rank (betweenness centrality)
|Twitter handle
|Twitter bio
|Econsultancy publishes independent research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, ecommerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
|Sr. #SocialMedia #Marketing Manager at Euromoney Institutional Investor @iimag...Lover of great food & wine, #soccer fanatic, #yankees fan and #shopping addict!
|i'm a big fan of ecommerce, emarketing, ebusiness, & selected other words beginning with e.
|Small business sales and marketing, mountain biking, photography, and Mac fanatic.
|Owner of Digital Juggler, Ecommerce consultancy & co-host of #EcomChat - weekly ecommerce discussion Mondays 1pm GMT. Please join in!
|MD at Iconic Digital, leading London based digital marketing agency. Follow me for industry news, marketing advice as well as useful hints and tips!
|#ATL based Marketing | Social Media pro |Speaker |30+ years Mktg | Sales Exp. | M.S. Mktg |LUV travl, photog, & sports. Top 10 List Twitter Marketing | SM
|Power marketing tools to grow your business through Twitter: build your community, precise targeting, analytics, competitor tracking, best time to tweet & more
|Managing Director, We Are Social. Alter-ego to @djeski. On a quest for the world's best whisky and street food, and social serendipity along the way
|Our Social Times is a social media agency working with clients in the UK and Europe. We also run great events.
In my next and final post, I'll look at how we can use the Econsultancy Twitter network to find communities and optimise content for them.
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Woohoo i'm an Inbetweener.
CAn we all now charge Econsultancy based on our relative level of influence, innovation and brokering?
Just asking....
Thanks for an interesting blog and useful info on the algorithms/tools behind this type of analysis.
I feel like those "between" Twitter users are like the gate keepers. They are the ones creating the connections between unusual and unsuspecting groups. They might see patterns and relationships faster than the rest of us, which makes them good at jumping from group to group.
Nick – I agree, especially when you consider that innovation often involves combining insights from different sources / disciplines, as people like Steven Johnson have argued. 'Between' people might also feel less pressure to toe the line and have more freedom to try new ideas (because they are less embedded in the centre of their communities).
Great post Andrew, and totally agree with Nick's comment. This is something we really need to get a better understanding of, specifically for community building and content promotion. Can't wait to read your follow up post. Do you know when it'll go live?
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Nice post Andrew. I'd be interested to learn how you used the eigenvector centrality algorithm to create influencer mapping like this. I think it could be very useful to understand these types of influencer analytics for companies.


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Top leaders from government, industry, and academia gathered at the AIAA AVIATION 2013 Conference 12–14 August in Los Angeles, California for a very successful and well received event. The Institute thanks all those who participated. For those not able to attend, a number of the keynote addresses and panel discussions were video recorded and are available for viewing.
The conference kicked off Monday afternoon, 12 August, with an opening keynote address by AIAA President-Elect Jim Albaugh, executive vice president, The Boeing Company, president and chief executive officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes (retired). Albaugh set the tone for AIAA AVIATION 2013 stating, "Aerospace is a fantastic industry – and it really is a force for good in this world. We drive the world's economy. We're great stewards of the environment. And I think we've been able to bring together and connect cultures and countries and people that have never been connected before."(Pictured: NASA Administrator Charles A. Bolden)Full Story, or visit www.aiaa.org/AVIATION2013Recap to watch the videos.
Cybersecurity expert Richard A. Clarke delivered a keynote address on the afternoon of Tuesday, 13 August as part of AIAA's AVIATION 2013 Conference, which took place 12–14 August in Los Angeles, CA.
Clarke, chairman and CEO, Good Harbor Security Risk Management LLC, and former U.S. national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection, and counterterrorism, delivered a stern warning, pointing out to the audience of 500+ aviation professionals that "aviation is the sine qua non of U.S. society, if not the world," and reminding them that the bulk of the world's commerce is fueled by the aviation sector. (Pictured: Richard A. Clarke)Full Story >
AIAA officially released its decision paper "A Framework for Aviation Cybersecurity" on 13 August as part of the AIAA AVIATION 2013 conference. "A Framework for Aviation Cybersecurity" outlines the existing and evolving cyber threat to the world's $2.2 trillion commercial aviation enterprise, and notes the lack of international agreement on cybersecurity for aviation. "It is my hope that the world's aviation community implements the framework proposed in this paper, to better safeguard and ensure the future of aviation," said AIAA President-Elect Jim Albaugh. "Only a vigilant, unified, and coordinated approach will allow us to craft the best possible defenses against the sophisticated and ever-evolving range of threats we face."(Pictured: AIAA President-Elect Jim Albaugh)Full Story >
AIAA is pleased to announce that its 2014 Nominating Committee has selected candidates for next year's openings on the AIAA Board of Directors. The chair of the committee, AIAA Past President Paul Nielsen, confirmed the candidates who will appear on the ballot. Full Story >
AIAA Executive Director Sandra Magnus will appear on Federal News Radio, on 8 September from 0900–1000 hrs, and on Business Talk Radio Network on Tuesday, 10 September, from 1900–2000 hrs. Magnus' interview can be heard on the Internet, or on these radio channels: Federal News Radio: WFED 1500 AM and WWFD 820 AM, in the Washington, DC Area; Business Talk Radio: WMCJ 1640 AM, Cullman, AL; WGCH 1490 AM, Stamford-Norwalk, CT; KVBR 1340 AM, Brainerd, MN; KBNN 750 AM Lebanon, MO; WDXI 1310 AM, Jackson, MS; KSCR 1320 AM Eugene-Springfield, OR; WLFP 1550 AM, Pittsburgh, PA; WDXL 1490 AM, Lexington, TN; WGOC 1320 AM, Johnson-City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN; KXIQ 1180 AM, Memphis, TN.
AIAA President-Elect Jim Albaugh recognized the 2013 Conrad Spirit of Innovation Aerospace Challenge winners, Team M^3 from Warren High School in Downey, CA, at the opening plenary of AIAA AVIATION 2013. The team designed and built a prototype "sleep halo" to make airplane travel more comfortable and safe. Team members included Mulan MacDougall, Matt Pacheco, and Michelle Tulean, as well as educator Glenn Yamasaki. To learn more about the 2013–2014 Challeneges, please visit www.conradawards.org.(Pictured: (from left to right) Jocelyn Letona, Nicole Ochoa, Sandy Magnus, Matt Pacheco and Mulan MacDougall. Click Image for larger version.)
The first AIAA Corporate Member Business-to-Business Networking Event took place at the AIAA AVIATION 2013 conference in Los Angeles on 12 August. Ms. Mary Simmerman, vice president F-35 supply chain management, Lockheed Martin Aeronatuics, and Ms. Delores Alexander, director, supplier mangement, Shared Services Group, The Boeing Company, facilitated the event. The focus was to assist small companies with the process of working with prime contractors. The small businesses also found opportunities to learn from and network with their counterparts during a one-on-one networking session. Feedback was very positive, and AIAA looks forward to hosting another B2B networking event on Tuesday, 20 September during the AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference and Exposition. Details can be found at www.aiaa.org/space2013.(Pictured: participants of the first AIAA corporate member business-to-business networking event)
National Science Week was celebrated in Australia 10–18 August 2013. The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) arranged for AIAA members and National Air and Space Museum curators Dr. Tom Crouch and Dr. Valerie Neal to tour states in Australia to lecture on the history and future of the aviation and space professions. The tour culminated on 20 August with a three-way video connection between RMIT and both locations of the National Air and Space Museum. Guests were greeted by the Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, and Councillor Ken Ong. This first ever three-way connection allowed the curators to bring the artifacts to life to their audience of students, teachers and the general public, providing exclusive insights into their storied histories. Students from MacRobertson Girls High School and St. Martin de Porres School, Laverton were specially invited guests. (Pictured: (from left to right) AIAA members Lauren Burns, Valerie Neal, and Thomas Crouch with City of Melbourne Councillor Ken Ong before the Above and Beyond event at RMIT. Click Image for larger version.)
Dr. Ping Lu has been appointed to replace Dr. George Schmidt as the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Lu has served as an associate editor of the Journal since 1996. An AIAA Associate Fellow, he is a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. "I am pleased to thank Dr. George Schmidt for his many years of service to the AIAA as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics and welcome Dr. Ping Lu as his successor in this capacity," said Donald Fraser, founder of JGCD. Full Story >
On 14 September, AIAA will designate Lunken Field, near Cincinnati, OH, as a historic aerospace site. The field was known for the start of Aeronca, American Airlines, and Embry-Riddle. The ceremony is set for 1300 hrs at the Sky Galley at Cincinnati's Municipal Lunken Airport.
For more information on AIAA's Historic Aerospace Sites program, contact Emily Springer at firstname.lastname@example.com.(Pictured: Lunken Field in the 1930s)
On 19 August, AIAA designated Kitty Hawk, NC, as a historic aerospace site, following a decades-long negotiation with the U.S. Park Service. A historic marker was unveiled as part of the First Flight Society's National Aviation Day at Kitty Hawk. AIAA Board Member Bob Lindberg made the official designation in front of a full-scale model of the original 1903 Wright Flyer. AIAA also presented a plaque to the park honoring the Wrights' work there. AIAA members of the Hampton Roads Section and the Carolina Section were also in attendance.
For more information on AIAA's Historic Aerospace Sites program, contact Emily Springer at email@example.com.(Pictured: Bob Lindberg, AIAA Director-at-Large, speaking at the Wright Brothers National Memorial Park in North Carolina. Click Image for larger version.)
The AIAA SPACE Conference & Exposition, set for next week, 10–12 September, in San Diego, CA, is AIAA's premier event on space technology, policy, programs, management, and education. At this three-day event, attendees can expect lively discussions with government and industry leadership in plenary panel and keynote sessions; interactive exhibits, demonstrations, presentations, and poster sessions in the exposition hall. Dr. Sandra Magnus invites you to join us in San Diego in this brief video.The conference will feature six stimulating plenary sessions:
To register, or to preview this year's agenda, visit www.aiaa.org/SPACE2013.
Room 28E San Diego Convention Center
Is your region looking for a great way to engage in STEM outreach? Is your section ready to inspire students by hosting your own Engineers as Educators workshop for your local professional members? Visit www.aiaa.org/Train-the-Trainers for more information.
Room 28E San Diego Convention Center
Sharing your passion for aerospace with K–12 students is important and you never get another chance to make a first impression. This workshop will give you insights into how to approach a classroom talk, a mentoring situation or informal interaction with after-school or scouting groups. You will learn tips and tricks and low-cost activities to make your interactions engaging with both students and teachers. Registration is required. Visit www.aiaa.org/Engineers-as-Educators.
Room 29CD San Diego Convention Center
Join local San Diego students from Maryland Elementary School, Memorial Preparatory for Scholars and Athletes, and The Preuss School, at the AIAA Educator Academy Mars Rover Celebration demonstration event. Stop by and see where these students' explorations of Mars might take them. Students will also be visiting the exhibit hall.
The AIAA Educator Academy is an exciting new program which engages students in unique applications of math and science. For more information about how your section can host an AIAA Educator Academy in your section, contact Lisa Bacon at email@example.com.
The AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), set for 13–17 January 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland, gives you extensive access to a wide range of the latest research and development, not just in your own areas of expertise, but across technological boundaries. AIAA has consolidated more than 10 individual technical events into one – all for a single registration fee – making it more dynamic, more broadly relevant, and more consistent with the requirements of travel policies. Nowhere else will you find the breadth and depth of aerospace research, analysis, and foresight at a single location.Featuring:
Watch our SciTech promotional video. Visit www.aiaa.org/scitech2014 for more information or to view the full detailed program. What will you miss if you're not there?
11 September 2013Missile Defense: Past, Present and Future Webinar11 January 2014Sonic Boom WorkshopLow Reynolds Number Workshop
National Harbor, MD (near Washington, DC)11-12 January 2014Decision Analysis Course
National Harbor, Maryland (near Washington, DC)
Call in number: 866.740.1260
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Passcode: 2647527 (same for both)18 September 2013 – 1400–1500 hrs EDT
Engineers as Educators – Available Tools
Instructor: Brian Hullinger
This webinar will teach you how to use the tools we have to put Engineers as Educators alumni in touch with Educator Associate members. The webinar will walk you through the Engineers as Educators Toolkit page and the Volunteer database interface. This webinar is useful for Section officers wanting to find volunteers for a particular event, for educators looking for assistance in the classroom and for members wanting to volunteer in the classroom. To register visit http://doodle.com/ppfbr2qirtvzv7eq25 Septmber 2013 – 1400–1500 hrs EDT
Section Best Practices – STEM K-12 Outreach
Instructor: Edgar Bering
Is your section looking to jump into the STEM K–12 Outreach activities? Are you looking for new and innovative ways to spread all the support that AIAA can give to teachers and students in your area? This webinar will share best practices and great ideas to get engaged with your local schools and informal education groups, such as after school, museum, and scouting programs.
To register visit http://doodle.com/q2pfvmkyxvgwqwqd.
This standard is a revision of a document developed by the AIAA Solar Cells and Solar Panels Committee on Standards. It focuses on space solar panel qualification; much effort and care has been taken to clarify requirements and resolve other issues and errors that were present in the original version. It establishes the quality requirements and provides the methods for establishing the qualification of electrical components integrated onto spacecraft solar panels. The result is a new standard that defines the best practices for space solar panel qualification. Download a Copy >
For the first time ever, AIAA is releasing a full set of standards (10 in total) dedicated to Plug-and-Play (PnP) capabilities. This technology, evolved from the desire to quickly and reliably assemble a spacecraft, has been a challenge since the 1960s. In this Space Plug-and-Play Architecture (SPA) set of standards, the focus is on the technical approaches to adapt the various computer PnP capabilities to small spacecraft and the space environment.
Features of the 10-standard set include:
For a full list of standards available, visit AIAA's Aerospace Research Central (ARC). Please note, these standards are available at no cost to AIAA members and may be downloaded individually or as a set.
AIAA will present awards for key contributions to space science and technology during the AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference & Exposition, 10–12 September, at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. Full Story >
A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has won first prize in the AIAA Foundation's annual Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition. Representatives of the team will present their design on 10 September at the AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference and Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.Full Story >
A team from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, has won first prize in the AIAA Foundation's annual Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition. The 2012–2013 contest asked teams to design a regional aircraft featuring a hybrid electric propulsion system.Full Story >
A team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, has won first prize in the AIAA Foundation's annual Undergraduate Team Space Transportation Design Competition. Representatives of the team will present their design 10 September at the AIAA SPACE Conference and Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.Full Story >
AIAA members are urged to submit nominations to recognize colleagues for accomplishments or dedicated service with AIAA's highest awards, including the Reed Aeronautics Award, the Goddard Astronautics Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the International Cooperation Award. Awards will be presented during the annual black-tie Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala. Log in to MY AIAA to submit your nomination. If you have any questions or need further information, contact email@example.com
The AIAA Member Spotlight for September 2013 shines on Dr. Barry Boehm, an AIAA Fellow and TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department, and Director of the University of Southern California's Center for Software Engineering. Dr. Boehm joined AIAA in 1959.
From 1989 to 1992 Boehm served as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Information Science and Technology Office, as well as Director of the Department of Defense Engineering Enterprises' Software and Computer Technology Office. Prior to those positions, Boehm worked for TRW from 1973 to 1989, ending his career there as the Chief Scientist of the Defense Systems Group. Prior to TRW, Boehm was at the Rand Corporation, starting there in 1959. Among Boehm's contributions to the field of software theory are his Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), a software cost estimate model; the Spiral Model of software process, a risk prediction model in software systems; and his Theory W, or the win-win approach to software management and requirements. (Pictured: Dr. Barry Boehm)Full Story >
The Aircraft Designers: A Grumman Historical Perspective tells the behind-the-scenes story of the designers and engineers who conceived and built Grumman aircraft from the founding of the company in 1929 until its 1994 acquisition by Northrop. While Grumman aircraft have been previously documented, The Aircraft Designers focuses instead on the people, disciplines, processes, and anecdotes behind the creation of such past icons as the F6F Wildcat and TBF Avenger and modern-day weapon systems like the F-14 Tomcat, E-2 Hawkeye, EA-6B Prowler, and Joint STARS.
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite is the recently declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, which provided invaluable photographic intelligence to the U.S. government, and stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space.
Twenty years since the first edition was published in German, and just over fifty years since the launch of the Earth's first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, this third edition of the Handbook of Space Technology presents in full color a detailed insight into the fascinating world of space for the first time in English. Written by more than 70 leading experts from universities, research institutions, and the space industry, this comprehensive handbook describes the processes and methodologies behind the development, construction, operation, and utilization of space systems.
On 28 September 1963, a navigational satellite, Transit V-B, was placed into orbit.Trivia Question: What was particularly noteworthy about this satellite?Bonus Trivia Question: What organization placed the satellite into orbit?Trivia Answers >
The September 2013 issue of Aerospace America is now available online for AIAA members. Don't miss this month's feature article, "Health Effects of Human Spaceflight," by James W. Canan, which discusses the increasing concerns about the effects on human health as sojourns in space grow longer. As Canan writes: "The ISS serves as a flying laboratory where the responses of real people in a radiation-prone microgravity environment can be studied in real time. Observable changes, psychological as well as physical, are more prevalent and varied than scientists once believed, and some have come as a surprise to researchers."
To access the September issue of Aerospace America visit www.aiaa.org/myaiaa, log in, and navigate to "Access Publications & Materials" to select "Aerospace America."
Liberty Mutual is pleased to offer AAIA members special savings and personalized coverage. Enjoy exceptional service your way: at a local office, by phone, online or via mobile device. We will help ensure you, your family and your valuables are properly protected. Visit Liberty Mutual for a free quote.Learn More >
The AIAA Career Center has the most comprehensive career and recruiting tools for the aerospace industry. Set up an account today and gain access to a variety of aerospace job postings, salary information, professional career timelines and much more! Also, Career Resources for job seekers is now available via the AIAA Career Center.
View the full suite of career resources on the AIAA website!
5 September 2013Winning Design in AIAA's 2007 Nanosatellite Program's Nanosat-4 Competition Set to Launch on September 14Azosensors.com – Cornell University's Nanosatellite CUSat for GPS Calibration to be Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base4 September 2013Vortex "Surfing" Technique to be Discussed at AIAA SciTech Forum in January 2014TMCNet.com – Scott AFB Scientist Helps Develop 'Vortex Surfing,' a Flight Maneuver That Could Save Millions in Fuel1 September 2013Work of AIAA Member Steven Barrett Featured in Article on Air Pollution DeathsSiliconIndia News – Air Pollution Causes 200,000 Early Deaths Each Year In U.S.
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The Arizona Luxury Market Breathing Life
April 4, 2012
Since the housing and financial downturn, the luxury segment of the market has been severely impacted. Choked off demand, huge price drops and a glut of inventory have made this segment stagnant.
So, is the luxury market experiencing the same recent upswing in home sales as the rest of the market?
There seems to be a renewed interest in luxury, as savvy buyers are looking for value in the segment. In February of this year there were 21 luxury properties that went under contract in Tucson, the highest monthly total in the last 2 years. March continued with a strong showing with 18 luxury listings going under contract. Those contracts should results in higher closed sales in the next few months.
The Phoenix market has seen continued activity in luxury, with 365 luxury properties going under contract in the first quarter 2012, and Phoenix is down to 13.6 months of luxury inventory - one of the lowest levels in the last 2 years.
Who is doing the luxury business
The overwhelming majority of luxury real estate in Tucson is sold by one company - Long Realty Company. In fact, year to date over 70% of luxury homes were sold by Long Realty.
As housing heats up, keep an eye on luxury homes. There are still challenges to work through such as appraisals and strict down payment requirements for high end purchases. A renewed interest by affluent buyers may be the result of a stronger stock market, slowly improving economy and better consumer confidence.
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