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How Gamification can Increase Customer Interest
Gamification, (noun): the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service
Games, especially those with high-quality designs and graphics, have such an absorbing effect on everyone. It can make people stop and engage in a game for as short as five minutes and as long as five hours. This can be an option for businesses to engage in some business marketing with a well-developed game, as social game advertisements are relatively cheaper than regular ads. Everybody loves to have fun and be carefree. This makes people more susceptible to check out the ads while they take a break from real life and all its issues.
If done right, businesses can benefit from games, as they help make people become more familiar with the processes of a certain company. This is the situation with the Marriott Hotel game, which promotes brand exposure and awareness among its players. People who participate and follow the game's rules basically learn about the processes of hotel operations from kitchen orders to room reservations and other amenities.
According to Daniela Baker, a game's creation, marketing and launching can cost as much as $100,000 to $300,000. Businesses, then, have to spend $12,500 to $22,500 to maintain the game for at least four months. These expenditures are enough to make entrepreneurs think twice about setting up a game for their businesses. Other than that, there's the risk that the game will not earn much popularity. That would make an expensive investment even more impractical to get into. This makes it important for businesses to properly weigh the potential returns and losses they might incur to develop a social game.
Another thing to consider is how they would tailor their marketing strategy with a game. Would a funeral parlor, for example, succeed in duplicating their operations in a game? Would a game like that attract a large following or would it result to a major flop? Wouldn't an embalmer role be too morbid and creepy to play?
Before you think to dip your toes into the gaming business, let's look at some statistics:
In the infographic, "Battle of the Sexes: How Men and Women Use the Social Web," women outnumber men by at least 20% in playing online social games like Farmville and Plants vs. Zombies.
In fact, it is said that the older female demographic (40 to 60-year olds) play more often than their male counterparts. Women also play longer, as proven by PopCap Games when they commissioned Information Solutions Group to conduct a study on the gaming population:
This puts another spin in businesses trying out their own games for marketing purposes. As women are more active in playing social games, companies with female-targeted or gender-neutral games fare better. This makes it vital for corporations to make their games 'social' and appealing for the female demographic.
So, what makes a social game?
Social games can be found in social networks, which encourage players to compare gameplay and scores with friends or people outside their online social circles. Nick O'Neill defines social games as "…structured activity which has contextual rules through which users can engage with one another. Social games must be multiplayer and have one or more of the following features: turn-based, are based on social platforms for providing users with an identity and are casual." [sic]
Facebook games like Farmville, Cityville, Mafia Wars and Tetris Battle have the characteristics mentioned above. The framework of those games caters to a wide community of players who need to interact with each other to move on to the next level. They need gifts like energy bars and other materials that only friends could give them. This, I think, is the primary attraction for women to play social games. Women, in nature, are more sociable and group-oriented. This kind of setup, the gift-giving and sharing of resources appeals to them.
This impresses the need for businesses to create games that would be 'social' in nature. It should be aesthetically designed and easy enough to play with enough features to keep players engaged and prevent them from getting bored. Develop your game with a knowledgeable social game marketing company to plan your budget well and minimize potential losses.


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Monday, November 28, 2011
Book Review: Surprised by Oxford
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Book Review: The God Debates
John Shook's The God Debates: A 21st Century Guide for Atheists and Believers (and everyone in between) is a stunning addition to the sometimes highly volatile contemporary arguments over God that are so prominent. The author takes a serious in-depth look at just about every argument used by apologists of religion (particularly Christian) and teases them apart, describing how they are constructed, and uncovering the many flaws that make them ineffective.
Shook categorizes arguments for God in the following way:
- Theology from the scripture - arguments for God based on special revelation and apologetics
- Theology from the world - arguments for God derived from the natural world, morality, human experience, and human analogy
- Theology beyond the world - cosmological arguments, teleological arguments, and arguments from the laws of nature
- Theology in the know - Reformed epistemology, foundationalism
- Theology into the myst - arguments based in mysticism, relativism, existentialism, and scriptural interpretation
Saturday, November 05, 2011
Book Review: God Without Religion
Andrew Farley has followed up his previous book, The Naked Gospel, with another brilliant turn in God Without Religion. Farley has the gift of making profound things simple - and nothing is more in need of simplifying than religious teaching about the gospel that persists in keeping Christians in bondage.
The central point of God Without Religion is that Christians now live under the New Covenant which has jettisoned the Mosaic Law and replaced it with a new ethical foundation in the gospel of grace soaked in the power of the Holy Spirit. For Farley, many Christians have not grasped the freedom they have in Christ. They are bound up (the original meaning of the term from which religion is derived) in the oppressive belief that the have to keep the at least some of the Old Testament laws.
Of course, many will object to this message of grace plus nothing and frequently appeal to NT passages about behavior, law, and obedience. But one of Farley's gifts is to exegete Scripture and he looks at these common passages, teasing out there actual meaning in their literary and historical contexts. His explanations are clear, simple, and penetrating and I often sat breathless as I wondered why I hadn't seen these things before.
If you are living a religion that insists on defining rules or laws for you that you must live by then you must read this book. St Paul, in Galatians 5, provocatively drives home the fact that the whole point of Christ's ministry was to bring freedom. And the only way to live as a Christian is to live by the Spirit - not by being lashed to the Mosaic Law. As Farley points out, the law can only provoke us to sin. It was never intended as a tool for Christians to live their lives by. The fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, and so on) are produced in us quite separate from law.
God Without Religion is a stunning second book from Farley. He uses analogies and stories to good effect; he makes the Bible come alive; and he makes controversial issues, that have plagued the church, practical and relevant. Get this book without delay and come to know God without religion.
Book details: Farley, Andrew (2011). God Without Religion. Baker Books.

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Below you can find link to a paper released by Smitha Francis, "Basel capital requirements and the continuing conflict with the right to development."
Countries in a financial crisis have experienced declines in economic growth, increases in poverty due to the loss of jobs and livelihoods, and thus erosion in several socio-economic and cultural rights previously achieved. Such direct and indirect negative human rights impacts from economic crises have been exacerbated by the subsequent tax payer-financed bailouts of private firms and fiscal austerity which negatively impacts on the economic and social rights of middle- and low-income groups.
Post-crisis responses to improve financial regulation have often been to reform capital requirements imposed on banks to absorb unexpected losses.
Established out of developed country bank failures in the early 1970s, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision sought to improve bank supervision at the international level for banks with cross-border operations. The Basel Accords have been one such method to reduce the risk of bank failures and improve financial stability within and across countries.
The Basel Accord I ("Basel I"), released in 1988 and enforced in G-10 countries by 1992, was focused on protecting banks from credit risk by assessing the riskiness of each class of borrowers and forming a capital requirement based on such assessments. However, Basel I became subject to a wide array of problems including poorly defined regulatory capital, failing to account for the risk weight of specific assets, and regulatory biases that affected financing for development by favoring short-term over long-term lending to developing countries. Overall, Basel I was too simplistic to address the needs of the banking system.
By 1999 plans were set to completely revise the original norms to address developments for the more complex and sophisticated banks. The fully revised capital accord finally enacted in 2004, "Basel II," retained key elements of the 1988 Accord while expanding capital coverage to include operational risk, in addition to credit risk and market risk. The global financial crisis was evidence that the refinement and greater sophistication in Basel II as compared to Basel I would not contain the growing financial fragility in the banking sector upon liberalization. The global financial crisis exposed the Accord's weaknesses, namely that it underestimated the losses that regulatory capital should absorb, failed to account for liquidity risk, did not consider the greater risk that systemically important financial institutions pose to the stability of financial systems, and did not pay enough attention to the pro- cyclicality produced by capital requirements.
The Basel III norms introduced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2012 are scheduled for phase-in between January 2013 and 2019. The accord aims to raise the quantity, quality, consistency and transparency of the capital base while strengthening the risk coverage of the capital framework. Basel III has also introduced an additional capital conservation buffer that can be drawn down in periods of financial stress. It will include a countercyclical capital buffer, a new leverage ratio aimed at reducing the risk of excessive leverage at the bank level and systemic levels, and two new liquidity ratios meant to promote short-term resilience to potential liquidity disruptions.
However, Basel III retains fundamental problems in its framework. The complex risk assessment methodology continues to rely on ratings generated by banks' internal models which use non-transparent transactions between banks and other financial institutions. Also, the increasingly detailed and incremental regulation adds considerable complexity and imposes huge demands and costs of implementation on financial regulation and supervision. And yet there is no guarantee that the higher, more refined capital requirements imposed by Basel III will ensure reduced financial fragility and prevent another financial crisis.
At the same time, the higher capital requirements on banks will have an adverse impact on the progressive achievement of economic, social and cultural rights by reducing the financial sector's ability to support the work and livelihoods of small producers, women with lack of assets, and other disadvantaged sections of societies.
The way forward calls for a systemic change in financial operations through the structural separation of commercial banking and investment banking. This would limit the potential for innovative financial engineering in increasing systemic risks and leading to financial crisis, which as we saw, hinders the realization of several rights through its consequences on sustained economic growth, development finance and social spending. Also, developing countries should limit the scope for entry of foreign financial service providers into their economies as the presence of foreign players increases fragility and magnifies the problem of financial instability.


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Here's a useful new term: Tartan Noir. It describes a form of Scottish crime fiction characterized by troubled protagonists and plots that deal with questions of redemption.
It turns out there's also Scandinavian Noir (troubled protagonists and changing society; authors include Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum and Arnaldur Indridison), and Mediterranean Noir (troubled protagonists and governmental corruption; authors include Andrea Camilleri and Michael Dibdin). Most of the crime novels I've read in the last few years fall into one of these genres, it turns out, including A Darker Domain by Val McDermid.
I liked this one a lot. It's a standard police procedural with POVs from several different characters. I liked the two female protagonists (a cop and a journalist, both investigating the same crime). So many of these "noir-ish" books have a dearth of female characters.
McDermid's two female leads are not as tortured as some of their male counterparts (Kurt Wallander's depression, and Erlendur's troubled family) but they still have their demons. McDermid's writing is excellent and her plotting is complicated but accessible. I also liked the relative lack of blood and gore, though I hear some of her other titles feature more violence.
Hey, what about Stalin's Ghost, by Martin Cruz Smith? Arkady Renko is certainly a detective with issues, and all those books dwell on corruption and moral ambiguity in both the old and the new Russia. But a quick Google search for "Russian noir" yields only links to articles about Russian photographers, filmmakers and Pinot Noir from California's Russian River Valley; no one has yet used the term to refer to this type of fiction. Folks, you heard it here first!
Becky Holmes blogs about books at A Book A Week.


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Located at the northern end of Brooklyn's waterfront, Greenpoint's young creatives mingle among the neighborhood's Polish heritage, blending a unique community equally familiar with punk rockers and pierogies. Many families comfortably make their homes in the area, and contribute to a neighborhood right at Brooklyn's border to Queens. Its brownstones are exemplary of Brooklyn's older constructions, but it also has a growing number of loft conversions.
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Hailing from Idaho, Macy Miller is one architect who had a huge dream about something very small. After getting divorced and having her house foreclosed, she knew she didn't want to go through having a mortgage. Yet, she still wanted a home to call her own. In order to make her wish come true, Macy dreamed up a brilliant idea: to build a small, yet gorgeous house.
So, Macy got to work on a 196 square-foot house, complete with everything she could ever truly want – and without the worry of a mortgage. She worked on the home for two years, building her own piece of paradise. With a price tag of only $11,000, it's no surprise that more and more people are joining in on the tiny home craze.
Although she didn't know much about construction, she was ready to learn.
She worked on her dream for years before it finally came true.
She made sure she kept going.
Her divorce was one of her main motivators.
The foreclosure on her house was another motivator.
She knew she didn't ever want a mortgage, so she kept her focus on her dream.
She kept working tirelessly on her tiny home.
The home's composting toilet, at $2,000, was its most expensive fixture.
She wired the entire house all on her own.
Macy broke her back while falling off the home's roof during its construction.
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The petite home was even created to be environmentally friendly.
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It's unbelievable what one person can do once they put their mind to it. Macy proves that all it takes is a goal and dedication to make something amazing happen.
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A. The answer is a firm "no." You could be on the same Wi-Fi network as hackers. Even with security measures in place, they can still nab your usernames and passwords. So, reserve using sensitive sites for home or use your cellular connection.
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So close, and yet so far; saving the Far West Village
Protesting Julian Schnabels proposed 10-story addition on W. 11th St.
By Andrew Berman
We used to say, Time is running out to save the Far West Village. Now we say, Time is up; theres simply no other way to describe the urgency of the situation facing this endangered neighborhood, and for the need for immediate action by the city to save it.
For over a year, we have waged a massive campaign to get the city to protect the far western edge of our neighborhood, which falls outside of the Greenwich Village and Gansevoort Market historic districts (though the call to protect this area goes back at least 40 years). We have given the city plans for landmarking the area to preserve historic buildings, and for downzoning the area to prevent inappropriately tall or bulky development.
What have we gotten in response? This summer, City Planning publicly stated they would work on a rezoning plan based upon our downzoning recommendations a great start. By the end of the year, the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave strong indications that they were reviewing and working on our landmarks proposal, and were coordinating efforts with City Planning. And then just before Christmas, Mayor Bloomberg approached by me and State Senator Tom Duane when his path crossed ours at a Save the Far West Village rally on the steps of City Hall stated for the record that he fundamentally agrees with our call for landmark and zoning protections, and would speak to city agencies about moving ahead.
All this sounds good, right? Except for what else we have gotten. An 1832 house on Charles St. in our proposed landmark district, which we had informed the city was endangered, was demolished just three days after the mayors City Hall statement. After New Years, we discovered artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel was racing to get permits to add a 110-ft.-tall apartment tower above his historic home/studio at 360 W. 11th St., a project for which the city gave him expedited permits just days before our demonstration protesting his plan. Related Companies is poised to pursue a huge residential development requiring the demolition of the historic Superior Ink factory at West and Bethune Sts. Lehman Brothers is planning a residential development on another huge site on Charles and W. 10th Sts. between Washington and West Sts., which under current zoning could allow a tower of 30 stories or more. And at least five other known sites in this 14-block area face possible demolition and new development.
Whats wrong with this picture? In spite of these reassuring words from the city, do we really have any chance of getting them to enact our landmark and zoning plans to save our neighborhood?
I think we do, but it will require stepping up our campaign even further, and pushing the city beyond what they may be inclined to do. I believe that City Planning will keep its commitment to do a rezoning, and I believe Landmarks does want to see the historic fabric of this area preserved. But the big question is: how much will they do, and will they do it in time to still make a difference?
I think the answer to that is yet to be determined, and we have to do everything we can in the coming weeks to shape that outcome. Part of the problem is these two agencies have had their staffing levels slashed dramatically over the years, and they are sadly unable to do all the work our citys neighborhoods ask of them at once a long-term problem we must address, but thats a topic for another talking point. So while I believe these agencies might like to respond to our call for preservation measures for our neighborhood, left to their own devices, they may well move more slowly, and do less, than we need them to in order to really preserve the Far West Village.
Thats why we must keep up the pressure and the calls for immediate action. We must bring every threatened building, and every plan for woefully out-of-scale new development, to the citys attention, and confront them with the consequences of delay. The massive and consistent participation in our demonstrations, rallies and town halls, and the flood of e-mails, letters and postcards the city has received about this issue has moved it from off the citys radar screen (where, by all accounts, it was just a year ago) to squarely on the front burner.
We must keep going, hold the citys feet to the fire, and demand they act right away. We are so close to winning the protections we need for our neighborhood, but at the same time, we are just as close to losing it all, and seeing a massive wave of demolitions and out-of-scale new construction transform this neighborhood forever. The next few weeks will determine which of the two scenarios prevails.
But in just a few minutes today, you can make a difference. Go to www.gvshp.org/ FWVletters.htm on our Web site for sample letters to send to the city in support of immediate landmarking and rezoning of the area, and for other ways you can help. And send an e-mail to email@example.com to get on our e-mail alert list, so you can be sure to know the next time a building is threatened, and what you can do to help. Reach out to your friends, family, neighbors, block and tenant associations and co-op and condo boards, and let them know how important it is that they join us in this fight now, when it matters most.
Time is up the city has no excuse for waiting any longer to preserve the Far West Village, and we have no excuse for letting them. Its up to us.
Berman is executive director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
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The Diversity Council of United Way of Anderson County began in February 2006 as an idea of JT Boseman, Michael Cunningham and Juana Slade. These three United Way volunteers decided that a movement needed to take place to get more African Americans involved in philanthropic, civic and board activities in Anderson County.
The first Diversity Council lunch meeting was held at the United Way of Anderson County office in May 2006. Discussion items included: an overview of the United Way of Anderson County's proposed transition to Community Impact; opportunities for involvement in the transition process; and the proposal of a Community Service Day honoring slain Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On September 8, 2006, it was suggested the name of the Council be changed to the African American Leadership Council (AALC), and on October 6, 2006, the name change was unanimously approved.
On July 1st, 2016, the Council changed it's name to the African American Leadership Soceity. It was decided that any African American who donates at the Leadership Giving Society level of $500 and above will automatically become a member of the African American Leadership Society.
Each year the African American Leadership Council host its signature project "MLK DAY ON", the largest MLK Community Service project in Anderson County. The Saturday before the MLK Holiday, the council engages hundreds of volunteers across the county in giving back to the community by performing various service projects such as renovating community centers, cleaning senior centers, landscaping parks, etc. In February, the council recognizes Black History Month with our signature Black History Black Tie Ball. At this event, three awards are given out to community leaders, The Emerging Leader Community Award, The Community Trailblazer Award, and The Community Legacy Award.
The council also hosts a Back to School Youth Summit/College Fair for teens in the community. Speakers are on hand to discuss timely topics with the youth of the community and to instruct them how to make good decisions in life. Free school supplies are also given to every student in attendance.
The African American Leadership Society (AALS) provides guidance to cultivate leadership in the African American community to ensure a diverse voice in efforts that address community needs.
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Mobilize African American leadership in the community.
Link community leadership to the work of the United Way.
Actively seek opportunities for African American leadership cultivation, involvement, participation and education.


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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.
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- Died: April 16, 1859
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Through Area of Interest Funds, the National Christian Foundation Kentucky seeks to support those charities that minister in six strategic areas. Individual donors may choose to give to these Areas Of Interest Funds through their donor advised fund, or may give directly to any Area of Interest Fund without a donor advised fund. The six Area of Interest Funds are described below:
The Poor and Needy Fund. Jesus equated mercy toward the poor and needy with our love for Him. This Fund is committed to support those ministries that show mercy to the poor and needy in Jesus name. The primary concern is that those in need receive direct help—personally and with compassion.
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Three former Labour ministers have claimed that Prince Charles lobbied the last government on various issues such as complimentary medicine, education and the environment, according to the Sunday Times. David Blunkett, Peter Hain and Michael Meacher told the BBC that the Prince continually tried to raise issues close to his heart with ministers, although it is not clear to what extent he was listened to.
Speaking on a BBC documentary, "The Activist Prince", David Blunkett, who served as Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, said that Prince Charles wanted him to create more grammar schools.
These selective schools were credited with bringing high quality education to children who were bright but poor, helping them escape poverty and lead successful lives, but were largely abolished by Labour who saw them as divisive.
Blunkett said: "I would explain that our policy was not to expand grammar schools, and he didn't like that."
"He was very keen that we should go back to a different era where youngsters had what he would have seen as the opportunity to escape from their background, whereas I wanted to change their background."
Asked whether he thought this could create constitutional problems, Mr Blunkett added: "I can see constitutionally that there's an argument that the heir to the throne should not get involved in controversy; the honest truth is I didn't mind.
"If you are waiting to be the king of the United Kingdom, and you've waited a very long time, you genuinely have to engage with something or you'd go spare."
Also speaking to the programme was Peter Hain, who served in various government posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown:
Mr Hain said that he and the Prince shared an interest in complimentary medicine, which the Prince was keen to see introduced on the NHS, but was "constantly frustrated by his inability to persuade any health ministers anywhere that that was a good idea."
Charles was interested in a complimentary health trial in Northern Ireland that had "spectacularly good results".
"When he learnt about this he was really enthusiastic and tried to persuade the Welsh government to do the same thing and the government in Whitehall to do the same thing for England, but not successfully."
Michael Meacher, who was Minister of State for the Environment from 1997 to 2003, also said that the Prince had tried to influence him, although in this case he needed little persuading.
"I knew that he largely agreed with me and he knew that I largely agreed with him. We were together in trying to persuade Tony Blair to change course."
He said that he and Charles would "consort together quietly" about policy on climate change and genetically modified crops.
Asked whether this could cause a constitutional problem, Mr Meacher responded: "Well, over GM I suppose you could well say that. Maybe he was pushing it a bit. I was delighted, of course."
Although some had criticised the heir to the throne for attempting to influence policy, there is little evidence he has succeeded in substantially altering the government's agenda. Former Prime Minister Sir John Major also defended the prince:
"I think it is encouraging that the Prince of Wales is entirely free, from his unique perspective, to write to ministers or the prime minister in a way that is invariably intended to be helpful, and I think to cut that off, or to make sure those letters are much more bland than they otherwise might be, would be a loss."


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This week the worldwide Jewish community observes the High Holiday period starting at sundown Monday with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah marks the start of the Ten Days of Repentance or Days of Awe, which end Oct. 9 with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Rosh Hashanah welcomes the New Year, 5,769 on the Jewish calendar. It also commemorates God's creation of the world and the Day of Judgment, when God remembers and judges all human deeds. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, is devoted to spiritual concerns and includes prayer, fasting and repentance.


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TALLAHASSEE — Allen Morris is stout-bodied, raspy-voiced, white-haired and cherry-cheeked as he hunches over his desk in an office tucked away off a back corridor of the Capitol. He presents the image of an old geezer whose time has come and gone.
But a moment or two of conversation reveals that Morris -- clerk of the House of Representatives, consummate researcher and obsessive chronicler of Florida and its government for innumerable sessions of the Florida Legislature -- still possesses a cub reporter-like enthusiasm for the lawmaking process.
It has been a favorite pursuit of his since he came here as a reporter in 1941.
``I enjoy watching the making of laws to govern Florida`s 10 million people,`` Morris said.
``It`s kind of awesome.``
As House clerk, it is Morris` job to keep track of each bill filed as it moves through the legislative process and act as arbiter of the rules that govern debate and the passage of bills in the House.
During a House ceremony in his honor earlier this session, Morris rose from his seat underneath the speaker`s podium, where he usually sits quietly keeping his records.
``In 30 regular sessions and 70 special sessions, I have heard 21 speakers declare `The House will come to order,` `` Morris said. ``Since that April day in 1941 when first I heard that command, it has been an electric moment that, for me, is never stale.``
Later, reflecting on his years in Tallahassee, Morris said he has no plans to retire despite his age. He is 75.
``The best part of my job, I suspect, is I`m doing what I want to do and what I`m informed enough to do,`` he said.
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Eton Mess
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Last summer my mother and I went to Scotland, where we visited some friends in Kirkcaldy, just north of Edinburgh. At lunch in their lovely dining room we were served a dessert I had never tried, and of which I had always been highly skeptical. Like Spotted Dick, Heg-Peg-Dump and Toad-in-the-Hole, Eton Mess is one of those traditional U.K. dishes with a moniker that makes you want to run for the hills. But I was happily surprised to find that what I had assumed would be a heavy, drippy English "pud" was in fact an appealing reinterpretation of one of my all-time favorite desserts: pavlova.
This version was particularly good, according to my mother, who has some experience with Eton Mess. Crisp, sweet shards of meringue and partly mashed local strawberries were folded gently into clouds of fresh whipped cream, each bite a perfect balance of the three. I made it a point to have Eton Mess twice more over the next several days, and my mother and I have talked about it many times since. Which is why I was not surprised when she submitted this recipe for Eton Mess to the Strawberry contest two weeks ago. I had been planning to write about it later in the same week and include my own recipe, but instead we tested hers.
When Amanda and I crumbled the meringue and folded all of the ingredients together, what I recalled as a light airy concoction emerged a weepy mess, true to its name. Disappointed, I called my mother to debrief. We decided that the wet weather was partly to blame for the soggy texture (meringue never bakes properly when it's humid). Reviewing the recipe, she also realized that she had mistakenly called for too little whipped cream. Although Eton Mess didn't make it as a finalist that week, her recipe now reflects these changes and is worth a try.
Strawberry season has nearly come to an end, but one of the beauties of Eton Mess is that you can make it throughout the summer using whatever berries you have on hand. I especially like it with raspberries, which streak the cream with varying shades of pink.
Eton Mess
Serves 6-8
- 4 egg whites, at room temperature
- 7/8 - 1 cup white sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 quart fresh local strawberries (or other berries)
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2-3 tablespoons sifted powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees.
- In a large clean bowl, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar and vanilla and continue beating while slowly adding the sugar. Beat until the mixture holds soft peaks. Do not over beat.
- Pile the mixture onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, smoothing the top with a spatula until the meringue is an inch to an inch and a half high. (Shape does not matter.) Place the baking sheet with the meringue in the oven and bake for about 1 hour. When cooked the meringue should have a delicate "tan" crust. (You do not want the meringue completely dry, but it should not be too wet in the center either.) Remove from the oven, slide the parchment onto a rack and leave to cool for at least 15 minutes.
- While the meringue is baking, wash, hull and halve the berries (if the strawberries are large, quarter them.)
- While the meringue is cooling, whip the cream: In a large chilled bowl beat the heavy cream with chilled beaters. When the cream is very thick but before it holds any peaks, add the vanilla and sprinkle in the powdered sugar. Beat until the cream holds soft peaks.
- Assemble the dessert: Break the meringue into pieces a little bigger than bite-size and put in another large bowl. Fold in the cream (you may not need all of it) and then fold in the strawberries. The dessert should be soft and not too dense. This is the time to add more whipped cream if it seems too tight. Put the "mess" into a pretty bowl and serve or refrigerate until serving time, not more than 3 hours.


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There is an obscure memorial about a quarter mile off Highway 95, some fifteen miles north of Fallon, Nevada. Only a well-trained eye can decipher it through a sea of sage and rocks. It looks like nothing more than an odd shaped outcropping, or the remains of something long forgotten. After traversing the short dirt road to it, however, one finds a large stone monument, complete with an engraving identifying it as a tribute to the countless thousands of emigrants who passed through this place of hardship. This portion of the emigrant trail is called the Carson Route. It meanders through the heart of the Forty-Mile Desert, which saw heavy traffic from 1848 until 1869, when the nearby Union Pacific railroad was constructed.
This seemingly clean strip of desert was once the horrific scene of abandoned wagons and dead livestock. Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) came this way by overland stage in 1862 and described the scene in his book, "Roughing it":
"forty memorable miles of bottomless sand, into which the coach wheels sunk from six inches to a foot. We worked our passage most of the way across. That is to say, we got out and walked. It was a dreary pull and a long and thirsty one, for we had no water. From one extremity of this desert to the other, the road was white with the bones of oxen and horses. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that we could have walked the forty miles and set our feet on a bone at every step! The desert was one prodigious graveyard. And the log chains, wagon tires, and rotting wrecks of vehicles were almost as thick as the bones."
Beginning at the Humboldt Sink (near present day Lovelock), the Forty-Mile Desert was the last chance for drinkable water until crossing the forty miles to the Carson River at Ragtown. The trip had already been an arduous one to this point. After following the Humboldt River for several weeks across the breadth of Nevada at the hottest time of the year, the wagons were in need of repair, the people weary, and the oxen and other livestock pulling the Conestoga's were exhausted from hundreds of miles of hard roads and questionable, often murky, water. They would enter the Forty-Mile Desert at a most challenging time.
The Forty-Mile Desert had to be crossed in August in order for the wagons and livestock to be prepared for the haul over the mountains into California before October, when the first snows might hinder the passes. The fate of the Donner Party was well known to the people thereafter traveling west. The Donner Party provided a ghastly example of what could happen when untested roads and supposed shortcuts were used. Bickering and infighting ensued and the Forty-Mile Desert was not crossed until September. Despite the dangerous crossing of the Sierras, not to mention the many other frustrations and challenges along the journey to the fabled goldfields of California, the Forty-Mile Desert was beyond doubt, the deadliest and most dreaded leg of the trip. According to the Nevada State Park System and the Churchill County Museum Committee, a survey conducted in 1850 highlighted that, 1,061 mules dead, 5,000 horses dead, 3,750 cattle dead, and 953 emigrant graves. This survey, made only two years into the deadly crossings, make it hard to imagine how many other emigrants may have perished in the twenty years that followed.
They often traveled at night at a painstaking trek of half a mile per hour, or even less. Sometimes a wagon would only total a few miles per day or night as the emaciated oxen weakened. The men, women, and children would normally walk alongside in order to lessen the burden on the livestock. If they were lucky, they would carry on like this all the way to Ragtown, with their wagons and belongings and most of their livestock. If they were unlucky, the oxen would collapse and die in the desert and the emigrants would carry what they could, abandoning all else, in hopes of reaching Ragtown alive. Besides the countless emigrants still beneath the sand and sage of the Forty-Mile Desert, there was as well an ever growing cemetery at Ragtown.
In this unforgiving climate, relief did come on occasion during the mid 1850's, but at a price. Asa Kenyon, station master and proprietor of Ragtown, sunk a well about fifteen miles north of his station along the trail. He sold water at a dollar per gallon, an excessive price for the time but very cheap for the saving of life. This would help get the families to Ragtown alive, where he could sell them goods from his trading post.
The actual trail they negotiated is still there, but now marred in parts as an ATV trail. However, on many sojourns to this historic place, I have rarely seen another soul. It is a desolate and haunting trek up and down the path of those emigrants who are heroes for their great sacrifice to get across this waterless stretch of desolate tract. They served as a sacrifice to the promise of a better life.
One time while driving the trail, perhaps fifteen miles from the Ragtown site, a curious site on a barren flat caught my attention. It seemed to be simply a scattering of red and brown rocks. Something intrigued me about it, kindling my curiosity. I walked over to it and upon closer inspection; these rust colored stones were no stones at all! Picking up pieces one by one I discovered to my astonishment that these were decaying bits of iron. They were parts of wagon wheels and other iron components to a wagon, not one piece larger than a child's collar bone. I figured the wheel hubs to be not far beneath the surface, but chose not to dig.
A mere generation ago there was still plenty to be found. I have conversed with several "old-timers" of this area who possess Forty-Mile relics. Among them, a near complete wheel and the deteriorated remains of a wagon tongue. I know a man who found a piece of old iron out there and forged it into a very impressive looking knife. I was told that in 1911 work crews came through and burned what was left of the wagons and salvaged the larger iron remains to haul off to Hazen, to be sent by rail car for melt down and reuse elsewhere. I am certain that if one were to explore portions of the Forty-Mile Desert today by tedious excavation, many physical remnants of those long ago hardships would be found. I would like to think that the rusted remains, as well as the many bones, are in their final resting place.
The trials and tribulations of the Forty-Mile Desert have not been lost to history. In fact, wagons still cross the desert. There is an annual reenactment that happens each September. Although they travel on rubber wheels and much lighter wagons hauled by mules and horses and are followed by a support team, they are a tribute to their overwhelmed for-bearers. I once found another wagon train in the Forty-Mile Desert. This one had the iron wheels and shortened, but sturdy replicas of the old Conestoga wagons. The women and girls were dressed in prairie dresses and bonnets and the men and boys in slouch hats and suspenders. Modern advances such as ice coolers and cell phones make the going a little less dangerous, but these good people have done an inspiring job at keeping the past alive.
Despite the reenactments and tangible aspects from the emigrants' plight, I tend to think the most treasured remains are the words from the emigrants themselves. Every few miles on the Forty-Mile trail are markers made of chunks of Union Pacific rail. Most of these markers bear a few words from a passage of an emigrant's diary, often depicting the curiosity of the local terrain. The words that sum it up the best for me are the lines engraved on the old stone monument mentioned at the beginning of this article. The words were written on August 5th 1850 by E.S. Engalls:
"Imagine to yourself a vast plain of sand and clay…the stinted sage, the salt lakes, cheating the thirsty traveler into the belief that water is near. Yes. Water it is, but poison to the living thing that stops to drink. Burning wagons render still more hideous the solemn march; dead horses line the road, and living ones may be constantly seen lapping and rolling the empty water casks (which have been cast away) for a drop of water to quench their burning thirst, or standing with drooping heads, waiting for death to relieve them of their tortures, or lying on the sand half buried, unable to rise, yet still trying. The sand hills are reached; then comes a scene of confusion and dismay. Animal after animal drops down. Wagon after wagon is stopped, the strongest animals are taken out of the harness; the most important effects are taken out of the wagon and placed on their backs and all hurry away, leaving behind wagons, property, and animals, that, too weak to travel, lie and broil in the sun… The owners hurry on with but one object in view, that of reaching the Carson River before the boiling sun shall reduce them to the same condition…The desert! You must see it and feel it in an August day, when legions have crossed it before you, to realize it in all its horrors. But heaven save you from that experience."
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You dream of losing weight this year. You dream and long to be thin and fit. But you can't; every year you try, every year you get bigger. You may have lost hope. It's not your fault that no one told you how to do it, but you know there is a way. There is a way to get past the pain of your weight issues; issues that are keeping you tired, feeling depressed, and feeling just plain crappy about yourself: the answer is hypnosis for weight loss.
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Sophie Dahl (model): Sophie was a "plus sized" model from England. After a change of heart, she dropped a huge amount of weight with help from hypnosis for weight loss. Now she leads a healthy lifestyle, is a beautiful pin-up model, and managed to keep the weight off as 10 years later she is still a size 8 dress size!
Orlando Bloom (actor): Orlando used hypnosis as a child. His mother took him to see a hypnotist to help him to overcome his addiction to chocolate and also to help him to lose weight and get into shape; another hypnosis for weight loss success story.
Albert Einstein (physicist): The legendary physicist regularly used it to help him to develop his ideas. Some claim that the theory of relativity came to him during one of his sessions.
Tiger Woods (golf pro): He has famously used hypnosis ever since he was a child. He used a mixture of hypnosis, N.L.P, and visualization to help him to focus and improve his concentration and "get into the zone".. as one of the highest paid sports stars and most successful golfers ever, I think it worked for him!
David Beckham (soccer pro): Visited a hypnotist privately to help him to confront some of his personal issues – the rest, we don't know.
Steve Hooker (athlete): Won a Gold Medal at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games in the Pole Vault. He puts his success down to not only his dedicated training routines and high ambitions, but also thanks hypnosis for helping him to visualize his success time and time again so that he felt completely comfortable, and "at home" on the day.
Lily Allen (singer): Another celeb (Lily is a singer from the UK) who used hypnosis for weight loss successfully – she lost so much weight she dropped 3 dress sizes.
Aaron Eckhart (actor): Listened to hypnotherapy tapes to help him to beat smoking and alcohol addictions – later stating in an interview that it changed his life forever.
Geri Halliwell (singer): The ex-spice girl again adds to the numbers of celebs who used hypnotherapy to lose weight and get fit.
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister): The famous wartime British Prime Minister used to often work, plan, and strategize all night, and so he would listen to hypnotic tapes during the day to help him to stay fresh.
Ashton Kutcher (actor): Ashton is a big fan of hypnosis, using it for various issues that we know of. He initially used it when he first got into acting to help him to focus, and to visualize his own success and stardom. I guess it worked! More recently he used a stop smoking hypnosis CD, and yes, he did successfully quit.
Jimmy Connors (tennis pro): Uses hypnosis regularly to help his tennis game, and to help him keep his focus during important tournaments.
Matt Damon (actor): Matt proclaimed his love for hypnosis live on TV, stating that, "It was I the greatest decision I ever made in my life." This was to Jay Leno, and he was referring to using hypnosis to stop smoking.
Kevin McBride (boxer): Listens to his hypnosis sessions before every (boxing) fight. He claims this gets him into a positive and focused state of mind and focuses him on winning.
Jack Nicklaus (professional golfer): He LOVES hypnosis! Jack isn't shy about his passion for hypnosis and enhancing his mind. He uses it to improve his concentration during golf games.
Jackie Kennedy (former First Lady): Took private sessions with a hypnotist to help her get over the tragic death of her husband.
Lord Tennyson Alfred (poet): Lord Tennyson was a famous poet in his time and it is said he wrote entire poems while under the influence of hypnosis – again tapping into his creative side.
Ellen DeGeneres (celebrity): Ellen underwent hypnosis live on her TV chat show, and used its power to successfully stop smoking.
Ben Affleck (actor): Ben was quoted as saying: "I feel a huge difference in my health now that I don't smoke. I feel like I'm in better shape than I was five years ago." – another fan of mind enhancement, and especially hypnosis and its ability to rewire human behavior.
Kevin Costner (actor): Had his own private hypnotist flown out to Hawaii (while he was filming Water World) to cure him of his sea-sickness which was plaguing his filming schedule – from then onwards Kevin was fine in the water.


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There will be a free lunch and through this lecture the location of the 24UP will be revealed! After the lecture you will be able to sign as a team for the 24UP at the CHEOPS desk.
The 24UP is a 24 hour design contest in groups of four which will be held the 10th and 11th of February. After the 24 hours, every group will present the results and the jury will decide on a winner for who a price will be waiting!
Just like last year, the 24up commitee started of their promotion with a 24warming up. Students in groups of two made a design for a bar on top of Vertigo in just a lunch break. This small design contest was given by Renato Kindt to warm up the students who would like to take part in the real deal, the 24 up itself. From the about 8 groups that took part, Renato himself chose a winning group and were rewarded with a few architectural magazines.
De date of the 24up edition 2016 is announced. The 2016 edition will take place from friday the 10th untill saturday the 11th of february 2017. More information will follow..
In the early hours of Friday morning Omroep Flevoland pays a visit to makea report about the 24UP. For the radio and TV report they spoke with the organization and participants.
Off we go! Pen scratching, tearing of sketching paper and computer tattle overrule the sounds of bouncing basketballs, stomping shoes and Ricochet hockey sticks in the sport centre Almere Poort since half past two. The clock is ticking and the participants start in good spirits and enthusiasm to the assignment.
On tuesday january 6th 2015 in the lunchbreak at 12:45-13.30 Renato Kindt, teacher of hand drawing, will organize a 24-up warming up! 24 minutes. One secret mission. One secret location. (no, not really; it will take place in the hand drawing room).
The purple horses all around in Vertigo already brought the message: You can now sign up at the CHEOPS-desk for the 15th edition of 24UP on the 15th and 16th of january! The mission and location will be epic and participation will merely cost 15 euros per person. So it will be (almost) cheaper than staying home! You can sign up for teams of four, but it is no problem to sign in alone; we will try to create a team for you.
So do you want to battle for the legendary title of 'Winner of the 24UP 2015'? And do you want to craft a beautiful horse building board? Sign up now at the CHEOPS-desk!
Businesses have always supported the 24UP with great enthusiasm. We are very happy to announce the internationally operating Van Aken Architects as one of the parties backing us in the organisation of this design contest!
Van Aken Architects will be present during the 24 hours to help students in their designing process, for participants THE chance to take part in a conversation with professionals and start business contacts.
so our thanks go to the bankers "of the world of tomorrow" of ASN Bank! Their slogan is fully consistent with what the 24UP stands for as the engineers and architect of tomorrow take part. Now it is the participants' task to reflect the sustainable image of ASN Bank in their solutions for the design brief.
On the 15th and 16th of January, the 24UP will be held for the fifteenth time.
The 24UP is a multidisciplinary design contest organised yearly by CHEOPS, study association of the build environment. For this contest, students of the build environment are given exactly 24 hours create a masterplan for an area given in the design brief. Throughout the years, this activity has grown more and more professional and well-known. This has resulted in creative and innovative solutions for municipalities as well as businesses.
The location as well as the design brief will be kept a secret up until the day of the 24UP. To introduce the students to the design brief there will be several lectures from involved parties before the contest starts. During the contest, where teams consisting of four people work on all the different disciplines, many supervisors will be available for the students when they have questions. After the 24 hours are over, a professional and experienced panel of judges will judge the different masterplans and announce a winner. Afterwards all submissions will be combined into a final booklet which will be open for viewing within the faculty of the build environment, Vertigo on the TU Eindhoven campus.
The Universityfund Eindhoven (UFe) will also be a sponsor of the 24UP this year. THe UFe was founded by alumni of the TU and supports education and scientific research and stimulates the studentculture with her contribution. The educative and studentlike character of the 24UP is strongly related to the goals of the UFe. We want to thank the UFe for their undeniable contribution to a unforgettable studentship for the participants.


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China Pushes Plan To Boost International Use Of Yuan
China is pushing forward with a plan to make the yuan a more widely used currency in the global economy, potentially resulting in its accounting for up to 10 percent of international reserves within a few years.
According to Dai Xianglong, the head of China's national pension fund and a former governor of the Chinese central bank, internationalization of the yuan would be a stabilizing influence on the global economy.
Speaking Tuesday at the Boao forum on China's Hainan Island, a yearly meeting of world leaders to discuss the Asian economy, Dai cautioned that the process should be measured and gradual.
The proposal comes as Western sanctions push Iran to trade more with China and accept yuan as payment for Iranian oil. Those transactions, among other developments, are helping broaden the use of the Chinese currency around the world.
According to Dai, who is chairman of the National Council for the Social Security Fund, internationalizing the yuan will proceed in three ways: first, by making it more popular as a means of settlement in global trade; second, by speeding up convertibility of yuan capital accounts, making the yuan an investable currency; and third, by continuing reforms of exchange rates and interest rates.
Yuan Interest Abroad
China first announced to the International Monetary Fund in 1996 that it would begin allowing exchanges for yuan-denominated current accounts. At that time, the government estimated a 10-year transition before allowing exchanges of yuan capital accounts. The Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the global financial crisis that began in 2008 slowed down that process.
Following China's announcement of yuan exchange-rate reform in 2005, the currency has risen 31.4 percent against the U.S. dollar. That same year, Beijing began pushing to trade with major international partners in yuan.
In January, China and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a three-year currency swap for 35 billion yuan ($5.5 billion). This followed currency swap agreements China had already signed in 2011 with Thailand, worth $11 billion, and South Korea, worth $57 billion. In February, Turkey also agreed to a three-year swap that's worth $1.6 billion.
Japan's government agreed in March to buy 65 billion yuan or $10.3 billion of China's government debt. Also last month, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, bought $500 million worth of yuan for its foreign-currency reserves.
Iran Trading
European and U.S. sanctions against Iran may also be boosting use of the yuan by the Islamic republic. Due to being locked out of Western financial systems, Iran has sought out other currencies with which to conduct its lucrative oil trade. In August 2010, Iran agreed to trade with Russia, India and South Korea in their respective currencies.
The Iranian government recently proposed using the yuan in oil trading with China, which would help ease financial pressure on Tehran. China buys 20 percent of Iran's oil exports.
Banking giant HSBC issued a study in 2010 estimating that half of China's trade with other emerging markets by 2015 will be conducted using the yuan -- valued around $2 trillion. That would make the yuan the world's third-biggest trading currency after the dollar and the euro.


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When twins Alex and Alexyss move from Chicago to Toronto, they are in for an unexpected surprise. For starters, they live with their mother who abandoned then at the age of 2. They have three new step-siblings, two of which are wrestling-bashing players and sluts. They don't make much friends but a lot of enemies are in their bags! Soon they realize that maybe this new school isn't so bad after all. Especially if their twin's friends are so incredibly... amazing. Let's see how these twins handle love and hate, while all trying to tie it together with their new family.
- alex
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- anorexic
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- morning
- romance
- schedule
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@thatsnotmyname: @Febrero14: Thnks!! I'm going to upload today :)
@Febrero14: Haha I don't look at pics of them but I'm pretty sure John cena is old. People more than 3 years ago talk abou him :/
Febrero14 Feb 03, 2010
dats ok bt i giv u props 4 using randy orton hes da hot 1 out of those 3 john cena n da undertaker r really old
@Febrero14: Lol thanks for liking it but I know nothing about wrestling just named three people my friends talk about
Febrero14 Feb 03, 2010
i lik ur story but seriously undertaker can tak tem all john cena and randy orton
verityj22 Feb 02, 2010
I can't wait to find out what is going to happen........upload soon!!!!!!!


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Research Commissioning
Research Investment
We use a variety of research investment models, including commissioning and contestable methods as well as co-funding. We invest and support:
- Research Projects
- Scoping and Seeding Projects
- Special Projects
- Other Research
All research we undertake aligns or contributes to our Research Plan (research themes and priorities).
Commissioned Research
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has developed a research commissioning process to invest in our specific research priorities, encourage a collaborative research programme and to support excellence and outcomes that will meet our mission and vision.
The Purpose of Research Commissioning
The overall purpose of research commissioning is to give practical effect to the Ministerial Determination defining CoREs as:
... an inter-institutional network of collaborating researchers working on an agreed plan.... producing world class research.
We wish to give expression to this prescription in a field we are entitling 'indigenous development' (described in our Research and Strategic Plans). NPM is seeking to maintain and grow a network, a movement, a community of excellent collaborating researchers working in the field of indigenous development. Additional objectives of Research Commissioning are as follows:
- To achieve high quality excellent research which is both relevant and useful to Māori people
- To demonstrate clearly and consistently the value of our research
- To gain greater cohesion, direction and focus in our research programme
- To engage a wider range of expertise in our research investment decisions by involving them in the development of a research plan, a commissioning plan and monitoring research projects and programmes
- To achieve a better mix of long term research investments and short term research projects
- To energise PRE relationships further so as to achieve an active research network
- To build 'nodes of research excellence', particularly, but not exclusively, around a significant senior academic and research leader
- To reduce the cost to both researchers and NPM in preparing and processing research proposals from a range of disciplines using fair and transparent means
- To ensure that research conducted by NPM is cost effective.
Overall we seek to gain coherency, cohesion and momentum across a range of research projects and programmes leading to positive change.


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ERIC Number: ED045470
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1970
Pages: 15
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Eye Noise and Map Design.
Merriam, Mylon
This paper describes the physiological "eye noise" effect of line contrast in maps and considers the effect of line contrast on the direct picture of terrain surface as produced by shaded relief. An attempt is made to describe map reading in its two major steps: 1) the enrichment of the brain image resulting from scanning the map sheet, and 2) the essential motion for the construction of map reading patterns. An experimental typographic map is proposed, with accompanying psychophysical scales, to study and control the eye noise effect. (Author/JLB)
Descriptors: Cartography, Contrast, Design Requirements, Geography, Maps, Psychophysiology, Visual Discrimination, Visual Perception
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Controlling Arduino using your Voice
bluehybrid @ instructables.com shows us how to use your voice to control a led light on Arduino. To achieve this he used the 1Sheeld Arduino shield.
This Project is getting start to use arduino with 1Sheeld
In this project we will turn an LED (ON) and turn it (OFF) by Voice
We will say "Open" to turn it (ON) and "Close" to turn it (OFF)
Controlling Arduino using your Voice – [Link]


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The governess's image of steering the ship hits home in the second chapter when she received a letter from her employer containing a brief request to handle the issue contained in a second, unopened letter sent to him from Miles' school. The school letter contained the unpleasant news that Miles has been expelled, stating that he was 'an injury to others.' Having opened the letter just before bed, she spent a second sleepless night pondering its consequences and confronts Mrs. Grose about it the next day.
Imparting the news to Mrs. Grose, the governess caught a quickly masked look from the latter that she found remarkable. Mrs. Grose was taken aback when the governess read part of the letter to her, and responded with indignation that Miles could not harm anyone. She later admitted that Miles has been known to be bad...
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