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The Growth and Employment' (GEM) project is an initiative of the Federal Government, World Bank, and DFID to increase firms' growth and employment in Nigeria. The project seeks to achieve economic diversification, increase overall competitiveness, increase investment (domestic and foreign) and sustainably increase jobs (especially higher value jobs) for Nigeria.
It aims to achieve these objectives through various actions to improve market access, market intelligence, policy change, supply chain management, branding, standards, cluster investments, workforce (certifications, skills), producer-marketer collaboration and investment in technology.
The GEM program is focused on industries with high growth and employment potential and which provide a fertile ground for successful intervention. The choice of industries was based on two criteria:
- The potential to offer strong improvement in terms of growth, employment and spill-over (cost discovery and economic linkages);
- The feasibility of successful intervention in terms of ability to bridge the competitiveness gap, likelihood that policy failures could be addressed and the presence of a private sector able to address market failures.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was considered to be one of the key sectors that could achieve the desired outcomes. GEM has Strategically Partnered with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and other Industry Stakeholders to implement key ICT Skills Development Programs as identified by the Industry Cluster Group.
Objectives of the GEM-IBM-NITDA Emerging Technology Training Programs include:-
- Preparing Beneficiaries with skills that ultimately make them gain sustainable employment or become Entrepreneurs.
- Equipping young Nigerians who have studied ICT related courses with the skills they need to monetize their knowledge
- Harmonizing participants prior learning with the skills they will be taught in the areas of social media, project management and critical thinking as well as problem solving
- Training Candidates on Key ICT Skills.
- Mentoring Candidates on key technical and entrepreneurial Skills
- Assist Candidates gain experience through getting placements with Industry Stakeholders.
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Create social media campaigns,
- Understand personal branding,
- Understand how their skills can add value and how to monetize this value,
- Understand how to use a number of IBM tools,
- Have access to on-the-job training and work experience,
- Access IBM platforms and
- Participate in IBM critical thinking training that is usually undertaking by multinational CEO's
General Candidates/Beneficiaries Selection Criteria
Our ideal candidates should have adequate knowledge of the Internet, they are outgoing, strong problem-solvers, out of the box thinkers, possess strong logical reasoning abilities and are not scared to work in a challenging and fast paced work environment. The candidates need to be willing to commit to a one year program if selected for phase 2
In addition, they must possess the following:
- University graduate with a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science and/or other related internet marketable fields
- Must have graduated within the last 4 years and have at least a first degree in an ICT related course and have a proven interest in innovation
- Have basic technical skills such as coding, software design, website or app design or other technical ICT related skills
- Knowledge of programming languages such as PHP, C, C#, Java, .NET, and Visual Basic, etc
- Exposure to Mobile Application Development.
- Must have completed at least 1 technical Internship program/ Industrial attachment.(IT related)
- Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
- Team player with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated outstanding level of professionalism including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy
- Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information
- Superior interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude
- Proficiency in MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel)
Submission of Expressions of Interest (EOIs):
Prospective Candidates should visit https: http://bigportal.org.ng/gemict for further details and registration.
Note that registration closes two weeks from date of publication which is Monday January 09, 2017.
Project Coordinator
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The Open Documentary Lab is pleased to announce the Research Forum, a space for researchers to voice their opinions and test new theories. As part of our mission to promote the exchange of ideas about the new arts of documentary, we hope to encourage academic discussion and debate about these emerging forms by creating a place where researchers can develop ideas and interact with the field. The views presented here belong to their authors, and will necessarily take different forms. In the spirit of the documentaries we study, we look forward to community collaboration and exchange as the ideas explored in the Research Forum take root, grow and support the development of the field.
by William Uricchio, Principal Investigator, MIT Open Documentary Lab
Over the past decade or so, 'engagement' has become an oft used term in the worlds of marketing and audience metrics, indicating a shift in interest from the mere 'exposure' of audiences to texts, to the quality of the audience's experience. Although initially presented by qualitative researchers as a challenge to a media industry built upon counting eyeballs and clicks, it has gained traction, encouraged by the rapid state of media change and the evident need for new perspectives. The Internet as well as computer games, e-readers and digital television all share potentials for user interactivity as well as data tracking, offering a quantitative underpinning to qualitative concerns, and helping to drive an emerging paradigm shift in institutional notions of audience participation.
This broad shift serves as a backdrop for the operations of the interactive documentary, which seems to promise enhanced opportunities both for user engagement and – especially for the funders of social impact documentary — for measuring something that might be interpreted as such. We can distinguish among such 'engagement-inducing' activities as crowd-sourced funding to support particular documentary initiatives; crowd-sourced footage and community co-design; user-determined routings through textual environments; and the 'after-life' of projects that remain as active platforms for ongoing community interaction. Of course, not all of these are unique to the digital domain: crowd-sourced funding and sourcing, co-design, and even the community-based 'afterlife' of projects all have analog precedents. But the digital domain greatly facilitates these practices, and has the added value of making their operations in some senses more visible.
There is much here that we don't know. For example, are contributors to crowdfunding initiatives (say, Kickstarter or JuntoBox, which offer ways to fund projects without promising the funder any ownership of the project or revenues from it) more likely to feel engaged? Since this is a self-selecting group, contributing resources on the basis of interest, the answer is presumably 'yes' – they were engaged as a condition of giving to the project. But how, beyond funding, might this manifest itself? Might they draw in their circle of friends? Promote the project and its cause in a personal way, encouraging others around them to share their interest? Might they, in other words, take a more active role in proselytizing the project, thereby having a social stake in its use, than a non-involved participant? The same might be asked of people who contribute footage to a crowd sourced initiative such as Perry Bard's 2010 and ongoing Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake project (which offers remixes of user generated footage to remake Vertov's film every day), or Kevin Macdonald's 2010 The World in a Day (which drew from 80,000 YouTube submissions). While the act of submitting footage presumes a high level of engagement, does this in turn lead to ongoing efforts to engage a larger cohort of participants and viewers to the project? I am unaware of detailed evidence regarding these behaviors; but the amplification logics of social media are increasingly well studied, and may offer an appropriate analogy for these behaviors.
Collaborative documentaries also avail themselves to forms of co-design. This established practice, dating back at least to the 1970s, is related to user-centered design and participatory design (although it does not presume that any stakeholder is more relevant than another). It is process-oriented, blurring the roles of designer and author, much as some documentary projects blur the roles of author and user. Co-design developed with the notion that better designs emerge from directly involving stakeholders in the design process; so it seems reasonable to draw on this tradition if we want to enhance engagement, involving stakeholders in the documentation process. An example of such an approach is the cross-platform project Sandy Storyline (Rachel Falcone, Michael Premo and Laura Gottesdiener, 2012)[1], described by Tribeca's Ingrid Kopp as "… a community-generated narrative of the storm that seeks to inspire a safe and more sustainable future. ( ) It creates a living archive that shows the potential for sharing stories on a very human scale."[2] Organized by members of the social justice movement, Sandy Storyline's avowed goal is to foster civic dialogue so communities can decide, from the ground up, their own futures. Sandy Storyline, like Hollow: An Interactive Documentary (Elaine McMillion, 2013)[3] – an initiative "for the community, by the community", is deeply embedded in the lives of those who are its co-producers. Hollow uses video portraits, user-generated content, photography, soundscapes, interactive data and grassroots mapping not just to document a community's past, but to play an active role in building its future. Although both projects are, as of this writing, quite new, they have no 'end' in sight, serving as ongoing, growing and dynamic resources for their participants, who continue to contribute imagery and comments. Less of an 'artifact' (in the sense that films tend to be once completed and shown) than an ongoing forum for documentation, reflection and exchange, projects like Sandy and Hollow point to a new and largely unexplored dimension of the 'new' documentary to which we need to attend. Their civic character holds great potential, providing ways for communities to share knowledge and experience, and offering citizens incentives for sustained participation.
As noted, one can certainly find precedents in the analog past for these incentives to engagement, such as Britain's 1930s Mass Observation Project that involved thousands of citizens for its findings. But the affordances of networked computers and digital cameras have greatly lowered the barriers to participation and enhanced a two-way dialogue between project developers and the public. As alluded to in the previous section on narrative, the interactive character of these documentaries, their requirement that the user 'wander' or 'play', adds a distinctive opportunity to engage by making participants co-constructors of the text itself, rather than 'mere' readers. The user's interests presumably direct the process of negotiation through the documentary environment. While we can surmise that the ensuing textual experience differs from encounters with readymade texts, like storytelling differs from play in Osterweil's terms, the nature of that difference and its implications for user engagement – as in the other cases – remains under researched and unknown. We do know that in some digital environments, users leave traces, allowing designers to discern behavioral patterns. Traces may offer evidence of engaged behaviors; and perhaps more importantly, they may offer insights into barriers to participation, points that could be redesigned or tweaked in some way in order to encourage more sustained participation. Because there is no fixed text, but rather a textual environment ripe with narrative possibilities, producers can continually refine the project, responding to aggregated behaviors and user feedback. Like the long 'afterlife' of some projects, this ability to continually fine-tune an interactive documentary in response to user behaviors offers a potentially new and powerful dimension for exploration.
[1] www.sandystoryline.com
[2] http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/51424e82c07f5db7a600000c-sandy-storyline
[3] http://www.hollowthefilm.com/

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Robert wrote:Too bad he didn't do Burning Love & Mystery train in Pontiac, regular songs in Las Vegas December'75..
Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:27 am
drjohncarpenter wrote:Factors in a less-favorable review:
- Elvis not at his physical best
- unusual stage set-up ruined chemistry of band and singer
- cold made band's instruments go out of tune
- pre-show was crap
- main show shorter, less "hit-filled" than perhaps expected
And he had to leave the stage to change his outfit after the pants ripped. That couldn't have helped the flow of the evening.....
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Gregory Nolan Jr. wrote:I don't care how legendary you are but ripping your pants on stage is very vaudeville. We loved ya, E, but it was time to retire the jumpsuits or hit the gym..
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drjohncarpenter wrote:Here's the scoop: Elvis simply had a "mental block" regarding the first verse of "My Way."
Even during the 1973 "Aloha" broadcast he is fearful of forgetting the words that start the song, so he "sneaks a peek" over at the music stand by Charlie.
Inspect any version where Elvis uses the lyric sheet, he's OK after getting past the first verse, usually discarding the page in dramatic fashion (for example, see Binghamton in May 1977).
And that's the way it is.
Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:51 am
drjohncarpenter wrote:Here's the scoop: Elvis simply had a "mental block" regarding the first verse of "My Way."
Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:42 am
Rob wrote:The Doc is right.
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drjohncarpenter wrote:Rob wrote:The Doc is right.
Thanks, Rob. Do you think the above phrase is overused on this MB?
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Scatter wrote:I'm going to take that less-than-subtle stab at self promotion as an homage to our recently departed spectacle ...
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drjohncarpenter wrote:Scatter wrote:I'm going to take that less-than-subtle stab at self promotion as an homage to our recently departed spectacle ...
Not self-promotion, just a pinch of my always-delightful humour.
As my post was a pinch of mine
Of course, if Maurice has indeed left the MB, I'll gladly kick down $1.00 towards a statue in Cork to remember his tremendous contribution here.
Is that a statue made IN Cork or a statue OF cork??
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Eli Manning's historic run as the New York Giants quarterback will come to an end in Oakland on Sunday.
For the first time in 13 years, Manning won't be starting when the Giants (2-9) take on the Raiders. In a surprising announcement Tuesday, the Giants said that Geno Smith will start in place of Manning.
Rookie Davis Webb from Cal will also play, if not this week, then at some point before the end of the season.
"Geno will start this week," coach Ben McAdoo said. "Over the last five games, we will take a look at Geno, and we will also give Davis an opportunity."
While Manning doesn't much resemble an elite quarterback these days, he hasn't been awful for the struggling Giants this season, throwing 14 touchdowns against seven interceptions and completing 63 percent of his passes.
Given Manning's long, successful career with the Giants, the news of his benching has been met by predictable outrage in and around New York, from players to the press.
Newark Star-Ledger columnist Steve Politi was incredulous after the Giants' announcement, writing, "a terrible, awful, no good, really bad year for the Giants just got worse on Tuesday. This will go down as one of the most surreal days in franchise history. Eli Manning is out. Geno Smith is in. The dumpster fire rages on."
Manning has started 210 consecutive regular-season games, the second-longest streak by a quarterback in NFL history, behind Brett Favre's 297. He has started every Giants game since Nov. 21, 2004, when he took over for veteran Kurt Warner in the 10th game of his rookie season.
The 36-year-old Manning has started 12 postseason games, and twice led the Giants to Super Bowl victories.
Manning was given the option of starting against the Raiders to keep the streak alive, but declined. In doing so, he may have done the Raiders a favor since he's won all three of his career starts against Oakland.
"Starting just to keep the streak going and knowing you won't finish the game and have a chance to win it is pointless to me, and it tarnishes the streak," Manning said. "Like I always have, I will be ready to play if and when I am needed. I will help Geno and Davis prepare to play as well as they possibly can."
Smith's start will mark the second straight week the Raiders face a starting quarterback just elevated from backup status. The Raiders took advantage of the inexperience of Denver's Paxton Lynch in Sunday's 21-14 win.
Smith has yet to taste much success in the NFL after being the Jets' second-round pick out of West Virginia in 2013 — his career record as a starter is just 12-22. But, he's done pretty well in his three career starts against the Raiders, completing 69 percent of his passes and rushing for 122 yards while winning winning two of them.
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For today's tip, I want to share what I've learned about shooting macros. Macros are amazing because I am surprised at what I find whenever I'm shooting. You cannot see every detail at the time of capture, but when you see it on a big screen or printed large you find things you never imagined. Look at the little fish stamped onto the watchpiece. I didn't see it when I was composing the shot...
1. Maintain sharpness your eye sees by knowing the plane you are shooting, especially hand held shots.
What many people find when they attempt to shoot tiny stuff is they are unhappy with the sharpness of the image. It looks kinda ok in a little part of the image, the rest is just uninterestingly blurry.
The trick here is to imagine that your lens and sensor of the camera is always looking for a flat surface to shoot; if that means you have to turn the angle of the camera around to do this, you do it until you have the broadest surface area of the object or bug or whatever parallel to the lens center. In this way, even if you are shooting a shallow depth of field (like with a 100mm macro, anything less than f11 is pretty shallow) you will have the majority of the flat surface in sharp focus.
2. Increase your depth of field for more sharpness
Now the rule of thumb I describe in Tip #1 applies here; ideally you are shooting with a stationary object on a tripod, and then it doesn't matter how long the shutter speed takes, you can crank the aperture down to its smallest (in the above image, shot at 30th second at f32, using the EF100mm f2.8 lens at ISO125) and you will get all the depth of field you need. It becomes less critical if you are "off" the plane a bit at that point because everything is sharp.
Here are some examples of really shallow depth of field. The first grasshopper shot works only because the majority of the body is parallel to the lens. You can see that the antennae behind it goes to blurry mush. If I had shot this head on, all you would see is maybe its eyes and mouth.
The above ant swarm shot was a super shallow depth of field, and all you are seeing is the tops of the bodies, just barely enough sharpness before the ground turns to mush. Frankly I was lucky because this was done at 1/60th of a second at F2.8 using a 50mm compact macro lens at ISO 100. It was a grab shot or I'd have cranked up the ISO and dialed the aperture down to f8 and likely 100th of a second to keep the movement of the ants from blurring them out.
The above shot is at f2.8 (very shallow) using the 100m Macro lens, ISO320, 1/200th second. If this wasn't higher ISO, this shot would not have been possible hand held.
When you have mastered this with daylight, you can head on to using strobes for your macro shooting.
A macro shooting setup with gooseneck to move the flash anywhere needed. Canon 100mm 2.8 macro lens, using the remote speedlight controller (IR) on a tripod. With the Quantum battery setup.
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A single pulsed laser beam containing multiple wavelengths (wavelength multiplexing) is employed to activate two semiconductor antennas in series. The dielectric nature of the semiconductors permits serial cascading of the antenna elements. Recently observed nonlinear characteristics of the radiated f ield as a function of the free carrier accelerating (bias) voltage are used to minimize the small interactions between elements. We demonstrate that the temporal electromagnetic radiation distribution of two serial antennas is sensitive to the three-dimensional pattern of the optical excitation source. One can, in turn, vary this distribution continuously by optical means to reconfigure the array. ã 1999 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 160.5140, 260.5150, 140.0140, 060.4230, 350.4010.
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Crisman, E. E., J. S. Derov, P. H. Carr, S. D. Mittleman and D. D.-W. Liu. ʺOptoelectronics – Two-Element Dielectric Antenna Serially Excited by Optical Wavelength Multiplexing.ʺ Optics Letters. 24(4):235-237. February 15, 1999. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.24.000235.
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HAPPY CATURDAY!Today, we have this fabulous work of art for you.
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We really love this thick oil effect, Athena. How do you keep being so beautiful in so many different ways!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, as always, Athena! We'd love to see this painting in a museum.ReplyDelete
That's beautiful, Athena. We tried to use Dreamscope today and last week, but unfortunately it doesn't work anymore. Pawkisses for a Happy Caturday :) <3ReplyDelete
Athena, you look like flower petals! Beautiful.ReplyDelete
Nice! I love paintings where you can see the texture of the paint. I've got to try Dreamscope!ReplyDelete
Lovely effect!ReplyDelete
That's a brilliant effect, Athena and Mum. It totally looks like an oil painting!ReplyDelete
Oh wow! That's an amazing effect! Just beautiful! With a beautiful subject, of course!ReplyDelete
Love the effect Athena we will have to check it out!ReplyDelete
Perfect photo to welcome spring! and such a cool effect-i will try it nextReplyDelete
That is a great image. I like the thick paint look of it. I will have to look into this Dreamscope that you used. Have a blessed weekend. :)ReplyDelete
Interesting ... why do I feel like, if I were to try to pet you, my hand would get stuck :) You know Athena ... you're a beauty in any medium. Have a great week ...
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Mom has used that Dreamscope effect on Cooper Murphy. We think it turns out beautiful, and it looks meowvolous on you, Athena. Your eyes are gorgeous. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo & Cooper MurphyReplyDelete
That looks fabulous....we almost use that same one this week. Maybe we'll try it next week!
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How cool ! Great effect ! PurrsReplyDelete
that is delicious-looking!!! Love it! catchatwithcarenandcodyReplyDelete
That turned out incredible, Athena!ReplyDelete
Ooh, that's a great art effect.ReplyDelete
I missed participating this week. We're cutting down on posting but hope we can join in again soon.ReplyDelete


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It's just three months away… and time to start counting the days!
To my favorite Pottery Tour of the year. The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour.
And this year's tour promises to be one of the best ever!!!
It's their 25th Anniversary!!!
As usual, there are seven host locations on the tour. And this year they have invited fifty-two guests artists to join in the celebration. Promising to be an incredible three-day weekend in Minnesota!!! So many pots to see. So many potters to chat with. So much fun for everyone!!! I'll be coming up as usual to play at all of the locations… and "quite possibly", add a new pot… or two… or twelve to my collection?!!!
I know I will be going up for the weekend. Wouldn't miss it. It's an annual adventure!
Unfortunately, I haven't been "invited" to be one of the guest artists… yet… so I will still be there shopping, chatting and admiring a TON of wonderful pottery with everyone else!!! It's the best pottery weekend every year… and I'd love to see some blog fans there!!!
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NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd, often one of President Barack Obama's biggest defenders and apologists in the mainstream media, conceded on Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Obama's internal poll numbers have shifted so dramatically for the worst that, if Obama has another poor debate performance, he may not be able to overcome his "deficit" in the polls.
Todd said something happened in the campaign after Romney decimated Obama during the first presidential debate, and there "has been a structural change" in the race, and the advantages Obama had in the battleground states are gone.
Todd said according to the "private data I have heard about," the race is tied and swing states like Florida, Iowa, and Colorado are trending toward Romney.
Todd said if Obama "doesn't show up" to Tuesday's town hall debate, he could face a deficit he may not be able to overcome.
Todd was nebulous about the "structural changes" in the race, but a new Politico/George Washington University poll spelled it out. After the debate, Romney has closed the likability gap with Obama, which had been Obama's greatest strength. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed had a favorable opinion of Romney while 44% did not. Fifty-three percent viewed Obama favorably while 45% did not. Last month, 49% viewed Romney unfavorably, and his likability score was underwater.
"Converting those who hold an unfavorable view into those who hold a favorable view is one of the hardest jobs for any campaign," Ed Goeas, the Republican pollster who was a part of the bi-partisan polling team wrote.
And yet, Romney was able to accomplish this difficult feat during the debate. According to the poll, 77% of those who watched the debate thought Romney won and 34% of those surveyed said they were more likely to vote for Romney after the debate. Meanwhile, 25% of those surveyed said they were less likely to vote for Obama after the debate:
It is hard to see that the president had any positive impact at the debates with anyone other than his base. If the rest of the debates have a similar level of influence and impact, then Governor Romney might start to break away in this very tight race.
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Bahula Chauth Vrat is observed during the Krishna Paksha Chaturthi in Bhadrapad month as per traditional Hindu calendar followed in Madhya Pradesh. Bahula Chauth 2018 date is August 30. The fasting and rituals on the day is dedicated to Ganesha. The vrat is offered for peace and prosperity in the family.
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There are several ways to increase your disability payments, including if your primary insurance amount increases due to cost of living adjustments. Another way is if your individual benefit is recalculated to give you credit for previously uncredited earnings, as Disability Advisor reports.Continue Reading
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I have two young boys and their lives revolve around ice cream. Not just any ice cream will do for these pint-sized connoisseurs. The one and only place that can satisfy their cravings is the hip new self serve shop across town. Why settle for the one flavor in the fridge or the three generic toppings available at the local fast food joint when there is a magical place with unlimited combinations to satisfy any sweet tooth.
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As I was doing some research on old school basketball stuff the other day, I came across something unusual. I found a program from a CBA game from 1986. The CBA, former home to now NBA coach Phil Jackson was celebrating its 40th anniversary in 1986. The CBA was a poor man's alternative to an NBA team, and filled those markets where a city could not sustain an NBA franchise. Here in Cincinnati, we had the pleasure of watching the Slammers and their brand of basketball at the Cincinnati Gardens. I'm sure everyone remembers the formidable Slammers Twin Towers combo of Ozell Jones and Dan Federmann!
In this old game program was an ad that allowed you to order a t-shirt with your favorite CBA team logo on it. The ad is presented in full black and white and features the graphics from all of the teams in the CBA for the 1986-87 season. Judging by the looks of the logos on the page, there weren't many powerhouse graphics firms used to create many of the looks of the teams. Everyone in the league used a basketball in their logo except the Jacksonville Jets. These shirts were a deal at $8.95 and came with a money back guarantee!
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It does look like a very good package. Not sure if they are just being sloppy and have written 1000mb instead of 1000MB. If it is mb then it is only 125MB but that is still ok i would say.
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Well MB is megabytes and mb/Mb is megabits with the relation being that there are 8 bits in a byte.
And as for use i would say internet connection speed is a good example.
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kbps and kb/s are the same thing?
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The Gospel of Life Pilgrimage to Rome that I am leading with Father Frank Pavone and Teresa Tomeo officially begins this evening when we meet our 150 pilgrims. I look forward to having a chance to getting to know each of them.
We came to Italy a few days early because we had the chance to meet the family of St. Gianna Molla, who died rather than have a life-saving treatment that would have killed the child in her womb. Her daughter and namesake, Gianna, who was just days old when her mother died, visited the Priests for Life office last year, and we were thrilled to be invited to visit her family in Milan.
I'm posting a few photos from the first days of our pilgrimage to Italy and included is one of me with Laura Beretta Molla, who was 2 years old when her mother died, and her husband Giuseppe. There's also a photo of Father Frank Pavone, Teresa Tomeo and I with Bishop Carrasco de Paula, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life.


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Baked this on Election Day! Since we had to be at precincts at 5:30 a.m. to be election officials, put the loaves in the oven on a timer, and baked for a shorter time than usual since I knew they'd be sitting in the warm oven all day. The formed loaves rose overnight -- made with a combination of hard and soft winter wheat that I ground coarsely in the VitaMix. Should have let the loaves rise longer, but couldn't because of the election day requirements -- so they're not quite as high as they could have been. But the coarse flour gives a great texture.
Whole Grain Whole Wheat
Coarse ground winter wheat
King Arthur First Clear flour
Organic cornmeal
Organic high gluten flour
Ground flaxseed
Hemp seed
Al Blyth's honey
Columbus Pale Ale
Sour soy milk
Kosher salt
Organic canola oil
New England starter
Mixed 11/2/08
Baked 11/4/08
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Obama Victory Bread
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Labels: Obama victory, sourdough, whole wheat
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Where do you buy high gluten or first clear flour in Columbus? I have been looking for it without any success so far. Thanks for your help.
- December 17, 2009 at 2:28 PM
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Implanting the VNS battery in a patient and connecting it to the vagus nerve takes about an hour. It is usually done under general anesthesia, though local anesthesia is sometimes used. The operation can be done on an in-patient or out-patient basis.
The surgeon makes two small incisions — one in the neck to gain access to the vagus nerve, and one below the collarbone in the chest wall or armpit.
The surgeon places the VNS pulse generator into a surgically-made "pocket" under the skin of the patient's chest and threads a plastic tube containing the electrodes from the neck to the generator in the chest. He or she then gently wraps the flexible ends of silicone-coated electrodes around the vagus nerve.
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I'm not sure if these are the kind of shoes that you can, you know, wear, but Janina Alleyne's "Exoskeleton" collection is clearly a case of form over function... in keeping with the majority of haute couture. Which is not to say that they're not spectacular, but rather that each of the three prototypes might properly be considered as sculptural objects as opposed to wearable ones.
As if six-inch heels aren't vertiginous enough, I don't know if I'd trust that additively-layered dragon claw to support any weight...
The other two styles are a little more reasonable, with the wedge heel; along with the white leather straps, they seem far more practical.
Shapeways has a little more info:This Shoe is the Bottom Part of a 2 Part Shoe concept designed by Janina Alleyne & Modelled by INNER | LEAF. Janina Alleyne is a very talented Shoewear Design Student at De Montfort University in the UK. After advertising on Shapeways for a Shoe Modeller, INNER | LEAF were delighted to win the commission to model one of her designs. So impressed with the first model, Janina commissioned INNER | LEAF to do her entire range which included 3 shoes and a Hat.
The IKEA hack is a veritable touchstone of the young and resourceful (read: broke) contingent of DIYers, but this Flotspotted project is exceptional for its scope: not only does Swiss designer Andreas Bhend hack the furniture but also the instructions themselves. "Frosta" is a collection of three articles of furniture...
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In our conversations and correspondence over nearly 30 years, I noticed early on that two of William StaffordÔÇÖs favorite words were converge and intersectÔÇöverbs of motion indicating bodies approaching one another, and perhaps connecting. Does this sound, maybe, like the setup of some of his greatest poems?
ÔÇťThe sharp swallows in their swerve/flaring and hesitating/ hunting for the final curve/coming closer and closerÔÇö ÔÇŁ (ÔÇťThe Well RisingÔÇŁ)
ÔÇť ÔÇŽthere/are comings and goings from miles away/that hold the stillness exactly before us.ÔÇŁ (ÔÇťAsk MeÔÇŁ)
I have been thinking lately about those Stafford verbs in relation to our friendship, and for that matter, the now nearly 50 years of our ongoing friendship with the Stafford family. As it happened, although the circumstances for ÔÇťconvergenceÔÇŁ were favorable early, our ÔÇťintersectionÔÇŁ came later than it might haveÔÇöand improbably.
As an undergraduate at the University of Oregon in the late 1950s, I somehow had never heard of Stafford and his poetry, and likewise through my graduate years in English at the University of Washington. Ironically, I had to leave the Northwest in 1965 for New York stateÔÇöand a teaching job at the University of Rochester ÔÇöto make my Stafford discovery.
That winter, a friend, aware that my wife and I were acutely homesick, asked if I knew the poetry of William Stafford. No, I confessed, I didnÔÇÖt. In reading through Traveling Through the Dark, I experienced then and there a shock of recognition that I hope never to recover from. The poems became indispensable in the way of great poetry as soon as I read them; and besides, some of them were vivid evocations of places in my home territory of Central Oregon that I hadnÔÇÖt yet tried to write about myself!
So I sent Mr. Stafford a fan letter, addressed to Lewis & Clark College, not expecting a replyÔÇöbut one came right back, cordially and enthusiastically suggesting that we ought to try to intersect when we were back in Madras next summer! That didnÔÇÖt work out, but eventually our families did connect at Sky Ranch, our old homestead/summer range/retreat in the hills east of Madras. It was the start of a cherished set of friendships, and the prototype of subsequent visits to the place over the years. BillÔÇÖs lovely poem ÔÇťFinding Sky RanchÔÇŁ is displayed in the Oregon Convention CenterÔÇöand also in the Sky Ranch living room.
From this first encounter, we kept in touch with Bill and Dorothy the best we could, given our busy lives East and West. BillÔÇÖs cheery assurance, as we tried to align our summer schedules, was always ÔÇťWe can zig to your zags!ÔÇŁ His growing national reputation in the 1970s and ÔÇÖ80s made him a popular reader on poetry circuits, and he regularly subjected himself to marathon interlocking poetry junkets. Has there ever been an American poet so widely traveled in America, and so warmly welcomed in his visits to colleges, writing centers, and arts festivals?
Through it all, both at home and on the road, he kept writing, ÔÇťheadlong to discoverÔÇŁ (very early each morning) what his way with words could turn up in the raw givens of experience. It was never BillÔÇÖs style as a celebrated writer to set up as a practical critic or writing master for other poets, but I know how much I learned (or should have learned!) from his occasional hints of approval or skepticism, and always from the simple heartening knowledge that he was reading the stuff I sent him. That was meat and drink to me and countless other aspiring poets that he corresponded with, and it is greatly missed still. This unstinting generosity to younger writers is part of the Stafford legacy and it will be, I hope, a keynote in next yearÔÇÖs Stafford centennial celebration here in Oregon and elsewhere.
In ÔÇťA Ritual to Read to Each Other,ÔÇŁ Bill imagines the dire difficulties of maintaining ÔÇťthe parade of our mutual lifeÔÇŁ through the surrounding darkness. Not ÔÇťlives,ÔÇŁ notice, but ideally one life ÔÇťon parade,ÔÇŁ kept shared and humanly mutual through the honest attentions of each one of us to the others. Bill has left the parade, alas, but this rare vision of mutuality is central, I think, to what we celebrate in the man and his poems.


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Poor weather continues to impede the search for a helicopter that went missing in Peru's highlands with eight South Koreans and three Europeans aboard.
Air Force Col. Juan Rios tells The Associated Press that clouds, winds, rain and hail made it impossible for a military chopper to get closer than two miles from where the Sikorsky S-58ET chopper is believed located.
About 50 police officers searched Friday for the 14 people who were on the missing aircraft, which was headed to Cuzco on Wednesday when it went missing.
The Korean Embassy in Lima said the eight Koreans aboard had been exploring a potential hydroelectric project near Mazuco, where the flight operated by Cuzco-based Helicusco had originated.
Police said the other foreigners aboard were a Dutchman, a Czech and a Swede.


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Celebrating the life of Randy Earl McClennen
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Randy Earl McClennen, 59, of Comanche passed away Thursday, February 16th, 2017 in the Duncan Regional Hospital.
Memorial services will be 2:00 PM Monday, February 27, 2017 in the Bailes-Polk Funeral Home Chapel.
Randy was born April 16, 1957 at Machias, Maine the son of Ronald Walton and Rosalie Doreen (Guptill) McClennen. He married Deborah Adams on August 2, 1990 and though their marriage ended their companionship did not. They live together until the time of his passing. He was a machinist for much of his life and enjoyed fishing, hunting and motorcycles. His daughter, Aubree was the light of his life and they did everything together. He was preceded in death by his grandparents and uncle Jack McClennen.
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ISS's owners, Swedish private equity firm EQT and Goldman Sachs' buy-out arm, are now unlikely to get the £1.5bn that G4S was ready to pay them – a deal that would have seen them pocket 1.7 times their investment.
The Danish cleaning company now faces around £280m in annual interest charges on its £3.9bn of debt.
In its 2010 annual accounts ISS made DKK1.79bn (£208m) of adjusted profits before tax. But after DKK1.8bn of impairment and amortisation charges, the company made a net loss for that year of DKK532m.
The economic outlook for the company, given its biggest market is the UK and one of its biggest clients the NHS, is thought to be challenging.
By 2013, creditors will demand repayment of £460m of debts - though the company insists part of it "is expected to be rolled over". Barbara Jensen, head of group treasury, said ISS had more than £115m of free cash a year, allowing it to manage its debts comfortably.
But that free cash has not stopped a spike in the cost of insuring ISS' debt since Tuesday, when the deal was shelved. Credit default swaps on ISS's senior five-year debt have more than doubled from 186.25 basis points on the day G4S announced the bid to 392.820 points on Thursday. ISS's complex capital structure leaves it owing money to banks, hedge funds, bondholders and asset-backed lenders. Its punitive interest rates range from 4pc to 11pc.
Its management, headed by Jeff Gravenhosrt, has spent nearly two years meeting prospective shareholders or buyers ahead of a pulled flotation and now a cancelled deal. They are thought to have been given three months to re-focus on operations before the company's owners consider tentative approaches, which have already been made. One potential buyer said the company was likely to be sold for between £4bn and £4.6bn, including debt.


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Harris Pye and Sobrena to collaborate
The U.K.-headquartered Harris Pye Group and the Sobrena ship repair yard, in Brest, France, have signed a non-exclusive collaboration to work together providing services for refurbishment, repair, upgrade, conversion and life extension of ships and offshore assets across the marine, cruise and oil and gas fields.
"We are delighted to have come to this agreement with Sobrena," says Mark Prendergast, Harris Pye's Group Managing Director, who called the agreement "a natural next step" in an ongoing relationship that sees the two companies "pooling our strengths to the advantage of clients to the advantage of clients in the cruise and offshore oiland gas industry."
Under a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding, the two companies plan to form an integrated project team from both parties to offer design, engineering, supply, installation, commissioning and docking and yard facilities. "We have each identified our particular strengths, and will be working to those," says Mr. Prendergast.
"Sobrena associated with Harris Pye on projects in both the offshore and cruise fields will be a strong and reliable solution for customers, covering all aspects with a common project team but also with clear and identifiable services for each party," said Michel Faou, General Manager of Sobrena. "Sobrena is happy to be able to present additional alternatives to customers in the Atlantic Basin."
In a case by case analysis, Harris Pye Group's role will be to provide its installation project team to identify and provide, where necessary, all associated materials, tooling, manpower, supervision and project management and to control this process in conjunction with Sobrena and client's project teams.
"Harris Pye will also be responsible for the provision of full estimation services for all aspects of the contract within our remit and services; for providing fully managed labor teams to undertake agreed work scopes; and to provide Quality Assurance and Control including materials traceability," explains Mr. Prendergast. "We will also provide Health & Safety management to OHSAS 18001 standards."
Well known as a leading specialist in repair of marine and industrial boilers, including all associated steam systems, the Harris Pye Group has recently undergone substantial planned growth, by both internal expansion and acquisition, into areas complimentary to its core business. It offers expertise in automation, control engineering and ship repair; industrial services; the manufacture of food-grade stainless steel galley/land-based kitchen equipment; and ship outfitting. Over the past 10 years, the Group has also successfully developed its service to the offshore oil industry to include in situ repair, upgrade and conversion of rigs, semi-submersibles, trading tankers, FSU, FSO, FPSO and FSRU units.
Sobrena, the major French ship repair yard, Sobrena is owned by Group Meunier, a major industrial maintenance company. With three dry docks of up to 80 m in width and 420 m in length, Sobrena is able to accommodate almost all ships and offshore assets with very few exceptions.


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Biographical note on Subhas Chandra Bose, 14 Jul 1943
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Subhas Chandra Bose with a colleague at Tokyo
(The following biographical note is attached to the report: "Recent Activities of Subhas Chandra Bose" in Source 5)
Subhas Chandra Bose. Born 1897, the son of a leading citizen of Cuttack, Orissa. Expelled from the Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1915 and came to England 1919, where he took the Mental and Moral Science Tropic at Cambridge, and entered the I.C.S. Resigned from I.C.S. 1921 to join the non-cooperation movement, and was arrested for taking a leading part in the Calcutta hartal during the Prince of Wales' visit to India. When Calcutta Corporation came under Congress of Calcutta and was again arrested and deported to Mandalay jail where he spent two years as a state prisoner. Elected member of the Bengal Legislative Council while in prison, he was finally released in 1926 to go to Europe for medical treatment as his health had broken down. Soon gained control of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. From 1929 to 1936 he was in constant conflict with the Government of India and was frequently arrested and released, making two visits to Europe in the intervals of these arrests. While in Vienna in 1934 wrote his book The Indian Struggle 1920-34 in which he bitterly criticised the tactics of Gandhi, Nehru and the Congress High Command. Elected President of the All-India Congress in 1938, re-elected in 1939 but resigned. He put himself at the head of the Congress extremists, founding the Forward Bloc in Bengal in 1939. Arrested in July 1940, released in December, but kept under police supervision, from which he escaped to Berlin in January 1941. His activities in Germany chiefly consisted in broadcasting. In May 1943 he arrived in East Asia and is now in Singapore, where the H.Q. of the Independence League has lately been established. A man already shown in his broadcasts and in interviews granted to Axis journalists that he means business. His influence in India is at present hard to assess, but since he has little chance of being recognised by Gandhi and the Congress High Command it seems unlikely that he will be able to win over the whole of Congress to his plans for national revolution.