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My review based on each activity.
- 08.00 : Pick up. The pickup was exactly on time, and the driver was very friendly. I was surprised to when my driver was able to speak in multiple languages with all the other guests. He was very friendly and we joked and laughed a lot.
- 09.30 : Depart from Sanur by fast boat. The boat started at the beach and we had to get thigh deep in water just to get on the boat. So I advise you guys to wear your swimming trunks when they pick you up.
- 10.45 - 13.30 : Snorkeling sessions at 3 different spots. In my case we got to see Manta Bay, Crystal Bay and Gamat Bay. At the start we checked the manta bay first but had to leave since the waves were too high. Then the group went to crystal bay, the corals were broken from the hard waves hitting the beaches but there were plenty of fishes and we even saw a sea turtle. After that the group went back to Manta bay to check and we were lucky since the waves were lower and we saw 2 Manta rays. One of them even swam right underneath me. It was both frightening and awe-inspiring at the same time. Final stop is at the Gamat Bay where the fishes were as tame as dogs and cats. You just have to act like you have food and they would come in swarms. Take some sands and just sprinkle some for the fishes to come within hands reach. Some even nibble your fingers.
p.s: I included the camera for my tour and the guide did an awesome job. I am not a great swimmer, the only swimming I did was at the pool so I opted for the option of having the guide photograph for me. The pictures were well worth it. I could NOT have taken such great picture. Upclose photos of sea turtles and manta rays. He swam like a pro within arms reach of the majestic creatures to get those pics. The pictures here were taken by the guide.
- 13.30 - 14.30 : Simple beach side lunch at Paradise Beach, Nusa Lembongan . I am not sure whether the menu changes or not, but for my trip the food was great. We had rice, fried noodles, fried rice, vegetarian tofu and tempe, sweet and spicy chicken and tofu, grilled pepe, grilled fish, chicken satay, fruits (watermelon and pineapple),and creamy macaroni and vegetable soup (weird sweetish soup). beverages served were, apple juice, orange juice, guava juice, hot tea and hot coffee. They had beer and other drinks as well but you have to buy them.
- 14.30 - 15.00 : Mangrove tour by kayak, the mangrove tour were very simple (20-30 minute max) and most of the time is just spent mingling with the other guests.
- 16.00 : Depart from Nusa Lembongan by fast boat. At this point I was just so tired from the whole tour that I wanted to just go back to my room and sleep.
In summary, the tour was fantastic. The highlight of the whole tour is of course the snorkeling and while 30 minutes sounds like a small amount of time to spend at each site, I had more than enough time and was extremely tired by the end of it. Even if they had brought me to another site, I don't think I could have swam any more. The mangrove tour was just some relaxing time and it was obvious that it was just added on there since the mangrove forest is extremely close.
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We had an incredible day snorkelling at Lembongan Island with Lembongan Watersport. The tour guides we great and you were never in the water without a guide. Swimming with the manta rays was unforgettable and an amazing experience. The water is crystal clear and the fish and sea turtles were beautiful. My videos show better imagery however I could not upload these. Highly recommend these guys for great value and organisation. Highlight of our visit to Bali.


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Dr. Jindong Cai, Music Director
Click HERE for our 2018 Concerto Competition results.
ECYS Solo Competition and Performance Program challenges young artists
to master their art and themselves through development of talent,
character, confidence and leadership skills.
Competition is closed until next year. See the schedule below.
Questions? Contact Eman Isadiar.
Performances Selected for 2017-18
To perform with the Senior Symphony:
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1, Kameron Duncan, piano
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Mvts. I & II, Emily Kao, cello
GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Mvt. I, Jessica Li, piano
LALO Symphonie Espangnole, Cassandra May, violin
MOZART Flute Concerto in G K313, Mvt. I, Anwesha Mukherji
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, Fiona Tsang, cello
To perform with the Sinfonietta Orchestra:
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor," Mvt. I, Simon Tao, piano
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasy, Andromeda Kepecs, violin
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Mvt. I, Hyunwoo Roh, clarinet
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Mvt. IV, Ryan Su, cello
CHOPIN Grande Polonaise Brilliante, Vivian Wang, piano
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Mvt. I, Joey Zhu, piano
To perform with Galbraith Honor Strings:
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K488, Mvt. I Ashley Huang
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K216, Mvt. I, Momoka Yanagisawa
BACH Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056, Mvt. II, Claire Yuh
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The program units for the NAPH sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature are below and are available at SBL's website.
The National Association of Professors of Hebrew sponsors several program units at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The sessions serve to facilate discussion of the biblical text.
The upcoming Annual Meeting will take place in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
- To view the program units scheduled for the upcoming Annual Meeting, please see units below or click here and search for "National Association of Professors of Hebrew".
NAPH is sponsoring seven sessions and three co-sponsored sessions.
I. Annual Meeting of Officers and Members.
II., "Giving Back: A Session in Honor of Ziony Zevit" on the occasion of the publication of Lema`an Ziony: A Festschrift in Honor of Ziony Zevit (Wipf & Stock 2016).
III, Theme:"Digital Teaching." We invite papers related to internet/ digital course planning and instruction, geared toward Jewish history and culture, from the early biblical age to modernity.
IV,Guides for Perplexed Biblicists: How To Read and Interpret Historical Dates Based on Carbon-14 and Bayesian Statistics.
V., Theme: "Reading the New Testament as Second Temple Jewish Literature." The session seeks to move beyond the standard backgrounds" discussion to consider how the New Testament is both reflective of and contributes to our understanding of Jewish life and thought in the days of the Second Temple.
VI,Theme: "Prophetic Literature." This session will focus on critical and theological studies of the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible, including the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Prophets.
VII, The Hebrew teaching methodology session invites theoretical and practical presentations on the theme: Using Bible Software to Understand Biblical Texts.
Papers are solicited for three co-sponsored sessions with the "Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew" section: (1) "Mitigation and Intensification in Biblical Hebrew" (e.g. restrictive adverbs, modal expressions, deictic shifts, negative polarity items, rhetorical and conducive questions, conditionals, and oaths). (2) "Interrupted Syntactic Structures" (e.g. vocatives and terms of address, parenthetical remarks, sentence fragments, "scrambling" and ellipsis). (3) "Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew" (non-thematic session for papers applying linguistics to any topic in Biblical Hebrew). Contact Prof Jacobus Naudé (firstname.lastname@example.com) for more information.
The National Association of Professors of Hebrew is an Affiliate of the SBL. For additional information on the NAPH sessions, please contact the program unit chair, Zev Garber.


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LE BOOK offers experiences that are such an important part of our business: human connections. I love having the opportunity to meet the people who represent the work that I admire.
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CONNECTIONS was full of great work, with some surprising jolts!
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No permits are required to shoot on private property so it is often helpful to look for a private location to shoot "public" areas. For example, Pier 39, which is private property, provides very good footage of both the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, the bay, Alcatraz, sea lions, boats, etc. They are also very receptive to working with film crews.
(This is an UNOFFICIAL guideline) If a crew is small (2–3 people) and does not need any special arrangements (they won't be parking a large vehicle, stopping traffic or blocking pedestrians, etc.), they can most likely film without the need for permits. Because San Francisco has so many visitors shooting their own videos, it's often difficult to identify the professionals from the amateur. As long as the person filming could be mistaken for a visitor, they will most likely not need a permit. However, if the crew has tripods, reflectors, boom mikes, etc., they are obviously a tv crew and will be expected to have permits.
All film permits must be obtained by the tv crew themselves working directly with the San Francisco Film Commission. The only tv crews that do not require film permits are news crews covering actual news (such as a press conference, breaking news like a fire, natural disaster, etc.). The Film Commission is sympathetic to the promotional value of other tv crews but has definite guidelines by which they must work. The standard fee is $300 per day for unlimited locations, plus the crew must show proof of insurance (this is fairly standard procedure).There may be extra fees depending on what/where/when they want to shot. If they plan carefully, many crews can shoot all they need in one day. The San Francisco Film Commission handles permits for within the city only, not Sausalito, Marin, Berkeley, Napa, Tahoe, etc.
The Golden Gate Bridge and the National Park Service (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, including Alcatraz and Muir Woods) each have their own separate permitting processes. They are required to have someone accompany tv crews and there are associated costs. The Golden Gate Bridge is especially restrictive on filming for security and traffic reasons.
Filming at Yerba Buena Gardens requires a seperate permit as well.
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2017 saw an upsurge of sonically inclined guitar heroes (Goat Girl and Shame to name a couple) paving the way for a new generation of awkward, eccentric deviants with a knack for song writing and complex simplicity.
Enter Milk Disco, a London based five-some who are beginning to find their feet in the world of spooky, garage disco beats - as Matt R (vocals) fondly refers to their sound. The rest of the line up includes Dan (Guitar), Matt M (Drums), Sacha (Bass) and Gianluca (Synth) and together they make a rather curious collective - ranging from 19 to 27 in age, and hailing from either Australia, Nottingham, or Surrey. So what makes Milk Disco any different to the next spooky, garage disco collective?
"We like to keep things very simple while being as imaginative as possible, within those constraints", says head boy/lyricist Matt R, explaining the idea behind their track 'Welcome To The Milk Disco' (one of three tracks available on Spotify).
"'Twisted Wheel' and 'Weekender' are both about personal life experiences. Things that make me feel something - whether its positive or negative. Really pulling apart simple ideas and feelings. Those songs especially have weight to them, there's humour there too. Life's famously never simple, so I try to make all the emotions of the songs as straight forward as possible. Everyone can recognise those feelings and that's what those songs are about."
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Their coming together tale is one we have heard many times before, a case of parts slowly but surely falling into place, to create a pleasing pattern. "We started with just two of us (Matt R & Dan) playing around with drum machines and bass loops at Hermitage Works Studios in North London. We were messing around and over that summer put a few songs together. Our mutual friend Matt Bruce (Monaco/Vanity Project) came in and helped us record some synth stuff for we were dinosaurs to the synthesiser."
"After we finished he kindly came and helped us manifest our ideas, mixing rigid sequences/synth lines coupled with Dan's outrageous plays on guitar. We then met Matt M, and he fitted into place immediately as an incredible force on the drums. Sacha was then asked to stand in for a gig we booked as a full band. We had no idea he was such a great bassist and then that all fell into place as the foundation of Milk Disco."
"Gianluca came in later when we wanted some-one to push buttons and twist some other buttons; bringing the dance element of our sound together a bit more. He's pretty much the Ringo and made everything lairy and hairy…"
The combination of so many different musical elements normally stem from a vast and peculiar list of influencers, and this case is no different. "LCD Soundsystem are a big inspira-tion in terms of ideas within a band set-up, which is quite a clear reference in some of our songs. We all love different elements across various genres, such as dance, house, northern soul, britpop, UK garage… to name a few artists; Clor, Gang Of Four, Ought, Wes Montgomery, Jerkcurb, Blur - the list goes on."
ABC's 'Poison Arrow' also made an appearance in boys' favourite tracks, alongside Daft Punk's classic 'Revolution 909'. What has 2018 got in store for Milk Disco then? "Touring, writing, releasing more music and hopefully becoming minor celebrities so there are pictures of us on the front page of terrible newspapers falling out of clubs being sick on someone."
The dream. You can catch them supporting Superfood at London's Scala on February 12th.
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Beatley Library: 8:30AM-8:00PM
LibraryResearch & ResourcesHow To...
Maps and directions are available to get to the Library via car or public transportation. Maps of each Library floor are also available: Level 1 and Level 2.
Go past the Circulation Desk, up the stairs and turn left.
L225 is the first room on the left. (If you get to the copy machine or the bathrooms you've gone past it.)
There are group study rooms, for student use only, located on both levels of the library:
Go past the Circulation Desk, up the stairs and turn right. The College Archives will be on your right.
The quickest way to locate a book is to find the floor it is located on and its call number from a catalog search.
If you want to browse the library, use these maps to determine where items on certain topics and formats (DVDs, magazines, books, etc.) are located.
Have you found an interesting article online, clicked on Find Full-Text and been disappointed to see "Article is not available?" You can still get that article!
Use a keyword, author name or title to search the catalog for books, videos, software, journals, websites, career resources and more.
Click on the item's title for more information, and if we have the physical item, or access to an electronic version, the location and call number or link will be provided.
See the catalog help page for detailed instructions.
The Circulation Desk is located in the Information Commons, on the main floor of the library; it is on your left as you enter through the main doors. You will need your Simmons ID to check items out.
Materials that instructors place on reserve are located at the Circulation Desk.
You can also see what's on reserve for your course through the Course Reserves system.
Students, faculty, and staff can access our resources from off-campus. After clicking on a resource you'll be presented with a page on which to Log In to Your Simmons Library Account. Use your Simmons username and password to access resources, including e-books, databases and more, and to renew materials you have checked out.
Simmons Library items can be renewed online by logging in to your account. Interlibrary Loan items can be renewed by logging into the Interlibrary Loan website.
Students can reserve a group study room online. You can also view group study room policies.
Members of the Simmons community may book a Library meeting room (Mann Room or L116) via the college room booking system.
You will need your Simmons ID to print, copy or scan.
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Baccarat cigars have been creating a few of the mildest and aromatic cigars since 1871. A favorite of both beginner and veteran cigar smokers, Baccarat cigars are hand made with an all Honduran grown tobacco core seamlessly rolled in a sweetened wrapper cap as also found on some conventional Cubans.
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Sujata Sengar received her B.Sc. Engg. (Hons) and M.Sc. Engg.(Hons) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 1988 and 1990. She holds a Doctoral Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD). From 1990 to 1991 she worked asScientist Fellow at C.E.E.R.I., Pilani. From 1992 to 1994 she worked at Lecturer in Department of Electronics andCommunication ngineering, T.I.T. S. Bhiwani. From 1994 to 1997 she worked at Lecturer in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, C.R. State College of Engineering, Murthal. From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a Lecturer in the department of Electronics Communication and Computer, at REC Kurukshetra and in 1999 she joined as faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology,Delhi. Presently she is working as Associate Professor in the Division of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Tech- nology, Delhi, India.
1. S.P.Singh, S. Sengar and S.L.Maskara, "An overview of Congestion control Techniques in ATM Networks and some performance results," IETE Technical Review, Vol. 17, No, 3, pp 87-103, May-June 2000, (Awarded the IETE
K.S.Krishnan Memorial Award for the Best paper in the Systems OrientedCategory for 2000).
2. Sujata Sengar, S. D. Joshi and S. Prasad, "Transceiver Design and Performance Analysis of Space Time Coded Fractal Modulation," Wireless Personal Communication, March, 2010.
3. Bunty, Sujata Sengar, "A filter bank implementation and performance analysis of MC DS CDMA," nternational Journal of Recent Trends in Engg & Tech. ACEEE,USA, 2010
4. Shree Prakash Singh, Sujata Sengar, Rochak Bajpai and Sridhar Iyer, "Next-Generation Variable-Line-Rate Optical WDM Networks: Issues and Challenges," Journal of Optical Communication Volume 34, Issue 4 (Dec 2013).
5. Sridhar Iyer, Sujata Sengar, Rochak Bajpai and Shree Prakash Singh, "On the Performance of MLR Optical WDM Network Based on ITU-T Conforming Fibers in the Presence of Dominant Physical Layer Impairments", Accepted for publication in Journal of Communications and Information Networks.
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1. S.P.Singh, S. Sengar and S.L.Maskara, "A comparative study of Congestion control Techniques in ATM Networks," National Conference on Communication NCC-99, IIT Kharagpur, India, pp 614-620, 29-31 January 1999.
2. V. Bhatia, Aloknath Dey, Anubha Gupta, Sujata Sengar, "A robust phase-reversed tone detection using bispectrum and DFT-based algorithms,"Proceedings of 6 th International conference on Signal Processing, 26-30 August 2002, Volume-2, Pages 1372-1376, China.
3. A. Sethy, Anubha Gupta, Sujata Sengar and Ankit Maheswari, "Wavelet domain image watermarking Algorithm based on Energy ratio Equalization," 7th international conference on Information Technology, CIT-2004, 20-23 December,Hyderabad, India.
4. A. Sethy, Anubha Gupta, Sujata Sengar and Ankit Maheswari, "Watermarking Algorithms based on statistical properties of wavelet coefficient," 7 th international conference on Information Technology, CIT-2004, 20-23 December, Hyderabad, India.
5. G. Chawla, Anub ha Gupta and Sujata Sengar, "A wavelet based detection and analysis of gamma rhythms in EEG signals," IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing & Communications, SPCOM-2004, 11-14 th December, IISc Bangalore.
6. Sujata Sengar, S. D. Joshi and S. Prasad, "An Application of Multi Wavelets in Wireless Communication In The Presence Of Frequency Selective Fading" IEEE INDICON, 2006.
7. Sujata Sengar, S. D. Joshi and S. Prasad, "Performance analysis of space time coded Fractal modulation in the presence of Frequency Selective Fading," IEEE Wireless and Optical Communication Networks IEEE WOCN-2006, Bangalore, India, 11-13 April 2006.
8. Bunty, Sujata Sengar, "Performance Evaluation of Multicarrier CDMA in presence of frequency selective fading channels by cyclic prefix method," International conference on communication and computational Intelligence (INCOCCI 2010).
9. Sridhar Iyer, Rochak Bajpai, S.P. Singh and Sujata Sengar, "Issues and Challenges in Next-Generation Mixed-Line-Rate and Energy-Driven Optical WDM Networks," ICEIT Conference on Advances in Mobile Communications, Networking and Computing – ICEIT MCNC'13 September 27-28, 2013.
10. Rochak Bajpai, Sujata Sengar and Shree Prakash Singh, "Comparison of performance of a mixed line rate optical WDM network using different modulations at 40 Gbps" IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication & Automation (ICACCA 2016) , 8th & 9th APRIL 2016 at Tula's Institute of Engineering & Management College Dehradun.


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Saturday, 9 March 2013
I've used a b/w pic because no makeup gets worn to the gym (and just woken up hair). By the end of each morning session we're all very messy, out of puff but ready for a new day.
Clothes sewing
BTW, I do have some fashion sewing that I've pattern tested and have been waiting to show you but I'm waiting to be given the 'green light'.
So in the meantime, I'll get back to making a few more work pieces for the change in seasons and cracking the books because I have a bit of study to do this year. What's life without a bit of variety :)
It's all good.
10 comments:
- Andrea said...
Thank you for posting a picture. I have a purchased armband for my iPhone, but don't love it. I may need to make myself one like yours!
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- Lena Merrin said...
Maria, not long to wait now :))
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- Janine said...
Another great reason to be able to sew. What are you studying this year ?You seem to be a lady of many talents !
- 9 March 2013 at 20:07:00 GMT+11
- SarahLizSewStyle said...
That looks a very handy pouch useful also outside a gym. Like the garden, or even around the house for those of us that can never remember where we left the phone (not me, of course!)
- 9 March 2013 at 20:35:00 GMT+11
- RhondaBuss said...
You didn't need to post a black and white picture as you are lovely with or without makeup.
- 10 March 2013 at 00:11:00 GMT+11
- RebeccaHoward said...
Wow. Your just woken up hair looks really different to my just woken up hair;) I think the armband is a great idea. I succumbed to buying one from one of those pop up stores. It is still pristine on account of all the exercise I don't do.
- 10 March 2013 at 07:50:00 GMT+11
- BeaJay said...
Great to make something so useful!
- 10 March 2013 at 08:24:00 GMT+11
- Cherrypix said...
I can't even find the camera at that hour, let alone operate it! Your armband looks great and useful...you look fit!
- 10 March 2013 at 09:02:00 GMT+11
- Robyn said...
What a great idea to make your own - glad to hear it worked out well. I've just started to add the occasional run to my fitness routine but couldn't face coughing up the big $$ the fitness stores charge for arm bands so I've had to run sans music. Thanks for the inspiration :)
- 10 March 2013 at 13:26:00 GMT+11
- Gabrielle said...
You look fine first thing! But the B&W photo still made me smile - reminded me of advice I was given when I was pregnant that B&W photos would be more flattering after labour! Unfortunately we forgot about that...
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 9, 2014) - Taipan Resources Inc. ("Taipan") (TSX VENTURE:TPN), through its wholly owned Kenya-based subsidiary Lion Petroleum Corp., has signed a binding farm-out agreement with Tower Resources (Kenya) Limited, a subsidiary of AIM-listed Tower Resources plc (LN:TRP) ("Tower"), whereby Tower will acquire a 15-per-cent participating interest in Block 2B onshore Kenya. Taipan will retain a 30-per-cent operated interest in Block 2B.
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Taipan, is presently preparing to drill the Badada Prospect on Block 2B in Kenya. The Badada prospect has been independently estimated by Sproule International Limited ("Sproule") to have Mean Gross Unrisked Prospective Resources of 251 MMBOE and High (P10) Estimate Gross Unrisked Prospective Resources of 498 MMBOE. The total estimated Mean Gross Unrisked Prospective Resources on Block 2B is 1,593 MMBOE based on 19 exploration leads1.
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Less than a year ago I reviewed several great USB Flash drives, all nice and fast and around 4 gigabytes in capacity. One I liked a lot was the Kingston Datanewser HyperX, but at the time the $131 list price put it at $60 bucks more than the average. Even the 8GB version at the time was $266.
This week Kingston announced the Datanewser 150 series, and they're massive. Not in size (it is a thumb drive) but capacity: 32GB and 64GB. Better yet are the prices: $108 and $177 direct, respectively. Amazon is selling the drives for even less, at $63.36 and $118.99, respectively.
How does Kingston make the drives so capacious and so cheap? EverythingUSB believes Kingston is using MLC (multi-level cell) Flash memory, which is less expensive than SLC (single-level cell). It's also slower.
The Datanewser 150 is apparently running around 28 to 30 megabytes per second (MBps) read speeds and 8-MBps writes. That first number is pretty good, but the second number is about half of what I got when testing the HyperX a few months ago. In fact, it's so slow that the 150s do not support Windows ReadyBoost when used with Vista.
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Well, today I realise just how much power I have over some people, and how easy it could be to abuse the power. Actually, I think the word is trust. Power and trust seem to me to be the same thing.
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I am in a position of trust, and/or power. And in this I use my charisma for good. I get people to do the right thing to benefit themselves.
But it would be really easy to do the wrong thing, and get people to do something to benefit me.... I could easily take advantage of others. I can always see an end-game, and often, I see the possibilities of how things could be manipulated. I guess having a huge IQ comes in negatively at times too, as I can see things several steps ahead. Life is far too much like chess sometimes.
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Ok, I admit this post is horribly, horribly off topic and is something I don't think is entirely appropriate for this space, but I got tagged as the scratchpad by our dear friend and colleague Amy Disch, so …
Four Jobs I've Had
Information Resources Specialist
Librarian (Project Assistant)
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Four Movies I can watch over and over
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Europa, Europa
Spirited Away
Roger Rabbit
Four Places I've Lived
under a rock
an apartment
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The Mad City
Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
Scientific American Frontiers
The History Detectives
Four Places I've Been on Vacation
What's this vacation of which you speak?
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Yahoo! Mail
the scratchpad (well, who doesn't, really?)
???? maybe Google
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ice cream
peanut butter
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in water (preferably swimming someplace warm, perhaps in the ocean)
in the woods
at an awesome dance
at a delicious meal
Four People to Tag
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You're fired! Welcome to the team
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A nursing home administrator I know had to terminate an employee recently, and despite her best efforts, he took it poorly. She learned more about him in the five minutes after she delivered the news than in the whole two years previous. It wasn't pretty. Like Ralphie in "A Christmas Story," he needed to spend some time holding a bar of soap between his teeth.
The holy grail of long-term care hiring would have to be the ability to divine in advance who will end up becoming a personnel liability and workplace nightmare. Most providers try to do that with a combination of intuition, hypnosis, polygraphs, frisking and background checks.
It's also clear that investing in recruitment processes and better training can certainly help minimize problems before they start.
But I have an even better, more innovative idea; one that has never been given the chance it deserves in a long-term care setting. When a new employee shows up for that first day at work, at some point when he or she least expects it, fire him or her. Over a triviality. For no apparent reason. How he reacts will be the best possible indicator of character and suitability. If he or she shows grace under pressure and doesn't throw things, you've probably found the right person.
It's unfortunate you'll have to resort to this, but with the high costs of rehiring and retraining, you need all the accurate, immediate information you can get. Another, less tangible reward will be watching the relief on his face when you suddenly smile and say, "Good work, Joe. You pass the test. Welcome to the team."
Admittedly, he might be a little bitter at first, and his initial impulse might be to walk quickly to the car and not look back. But if he decides to stay despite knowing you played such a cruel trick, he's probably someone you can count on for the long haul.
Things I Think is written by Gary Tetz, who cobbles these pieces together from his secret lair somewhere near the scenic, wine-soaked hamlet of Walla Walla, WA. Since his debut with SNALF.com at the end of a previous century, he has continued to amuse, inform and sometimes befuddle long-term care readers worldwide.


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Jorie Graham is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won The Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.
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L'Oreal Fall 2013 is popping up at drugstores now! Huge displays are starting to dominate CVS and you can find many of the products I've reviewed for you already from the collection!
Products I've already reviewed from the L'Oreal Fall 2013 Makeup Collection:
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Other products available from the Fall 2013 Collection:
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The family was to be flown to South Side on a Marine One helicopter and then driven to their nearby home in the Kenwood neighborhood.
President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha exit Air Force One. (Tribune / Terrence Antonio James)
Chicago Aviation Commissioner Richard L. Rodriguez was the top official to greet Obama on the tarmac. He was joined by about a dozen others who had connections to get them in position for the arrival.


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Stop spinning; "This is big stuff. Democrats? Republicans
Its all the same crap. A Democrat sneaks it in, and all the Republicans approve it.
That was precisely what i said. I leave the fearmongering to your pals in Washington.
Originally posted by kindred
Well this appears to be genuine. Doesn't surprise me at all that the US Government who are basically a bunch of warmongers would bring back the draft. (I somehow cant see any US congressman's sons & daughters being drafted)
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Polar vortex returns, Prairies expected to be hardest hit
A polar vortex is primed to blast cold air across Canada. (Reuters file photo)
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The buzzword of last winter is back.
A polar vortex - a large pocket of freezing cold air - is making an early appearance and is expected to send a blast of arctic air over Canada, hitting the Prairies hardest.
"Without question, the coldest Arctic air of the season will dive south from northern Canada," Weather Network meteorologist Tyler Hamilton says on the station's website. "Along and behind the passage of the cold front snow will develop, and as the Arctic high builds upsloping snow will bring significant snow to some areas.
"The largest temperature change will be for Lethbridge, Alta., which will see a high of +14 C on Saturday. By Tuesday, that will fall to -13 degrees Celsius."
Lethbridge is 213 km south of Calgary.
Accuweather.com says the vortex will expand southward and eastward to affect about 200 million people in the U.S. as the week progresses.
What the #PolarVortex is not. pic.twitter.com/Jw1RLVXdRo
— Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) November 7, 2014
Minnesota this time next week. #PolarVortex pic.twitter.com/5yNN9mmsxl
— Cody Yeary (@codyyeary) November 7, 2014
Just went to the mailbox its that time to find a hot neighbor and cuddle #PolarVortex
— Dr. Chuck (@Chuck1079) November 8, 2014
Say #PolarVortex one more time! I dare ya! pic.twitter.com/r3mN79x4PG
— Mark Drees (@txskywtchr) November 7, 2014
A little fun at the expense of the national weather media this morning! #PolarVortex #sayitaintsnow pic.twitter.com/QLGV3sSq1P
— Andrew Kozak (@Andrew_Kozak) November 7, 2014


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Environmental Sensor Systems
Dong-Ik Kim
Taejoong Lee
Hyuntae Cho
Sangmin Lee
Han-Jung Kim
Chong-Ook Park
Hyung Gyu Lee
Gyuseong Cho
Je, Minkyu
Ji-Hoon Kim
TOPIC 1 : Development of personal environmental monitoring systems
Hyuntae Cho, CISS
Development of personal environmental monitoring systems which measure indoor and outdoor air quality
Study on network protocols for environmental monitoring systems
Study on low-power environmental sensing technology and sensor calibration technology
Research Contents
Development of an integrated IoT device for monitoring indoor environment
Study on event detection technology for low-power operation
Study on a low-power scheduling algorithm for the monitoring device
Topology construction and maintenance for low-power network and communication
Design of network framework for integrating smart environmental sensor system, Wi-Fi based wireless communication, server, and smart devices
Expected Contribution
Provision of the core technologies for the smart ITC platform
Provision of the core technologies about algorithms for low-power and accurate sensing
Provision of healthcare service by tracking human's activity and exposure time to air pollution
Improvement of life quality through the provision of the exact information about air quality
TOPIC 2 : Development of environmental sensors for indoor/outdoor air quality monitoring
Dong-Ik Kim, CISS
Han-Jung Kim, CISS
Dae Ick Han, CISS
Il-Doo Kim, KAIST (Materials Scinece and Engineering)
Inkyu Park, KAIST (Mechanical Engineering)
Chong-Ook Park, KAIST (Materials Scinece and Engineering)
Gyuseong Cho, KAIST (Nuclear & Quantum Engineering)
Jongbaeg Kim, Yonsei Univ. (Mechanical Engineering)
Hyung Gyu Lee, Daegu Univ. (Computer and Communication Engineering)
Development of miniaturized optical particulate matter sensors for indoor/outdoor air quality monitoring
Development of nanotechnology-based smart air purifier for indoor air quality
Development of air trackers using environmental sensors and monitoring systems
Development of high performance sensing layers that can detect environmentally hazardous chemical species in both outdoor and indoor spaces for real-time recognition of dangerous components
Development of catalyst-metal oxide composite sensing layers with ultra high sensitivity and fast sensing performances
Developing hybrid nanomaterials and manufacturing processes for high-performance, low-power, ultra-compact environmental sensor
Development for processes of surface functionalization and material conversion of nanomaterials
Implementation and commercialization of the Insulating oil degradation detection system using Park-Rapp probe
Development of high-efficiency, low-cost hydrogen sensor by applying tape casting technology
Packaging development for the measurement of hydrogen and gas separation through a gas permeable membrane
Design and implementation of the insulating oil degradation detection algorithm and electrical circuits
Interface circuits for silicon-based radiation sensors
Improving sensing performance of nanomaterial-based TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compound) sensors
Developing various nanomaterial-based VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) sensor arrays
Design and Implementation of SmartPatch prototype (business prototype) targeting for low-cost smart UV-level meters
Research Contents
Optical system design, structure design, calibration system setup and calibration algorithm development for miniaturizing particulate matter sensors
Development of advanced air purification technology for removing harmful substances (VOCs, PM2.5/10)
Development of personal air pollution device embedded smart environmental sensor module
Development of organic nanotemplating technique for nanocatalyst synthesis with high dispersity
Synthesis of nanocatalyst-functionalized 1D metal oxide nanofibers using electrospinning technique and control of surface morphology
Evaluation of chemical sensing performance using the catalyst-metal oxide composite sensing layers
Pattern recognition using the catalyst-metal oxide composite sensing libraries
Developing hybrid functional nanomaterials for high-performance, low-power, and ultra-compact environment sensors, fabrication and integration of hybrid nanomaterials in sensing devices, and implementation of multiplexed sensing array
Developing hybrid nanomaterials and applying them for the high-performance environment sensors
Design and implementation of sensor packaging having stability at high temperatures
- Design and fabrication of the solid electrochemical hydrogen sensor by applying tape casting technology to Park-Rapp probe
Development of sensor packaging and measuring device for insulating oil degradation
- Design of the packaging which can prevent heat from entering/existing the packaging
- Development of the measuring device which can measure hydrogen gas separated from and collected through a gas permeable membrane
Design/Implementation of circuit for temperature compensation and measurement algorithm
- Checking sensor signal characteristics and design of the temperature compensation circuit
- Design and implementation of an oxygen-pumping driving algorithm to eliminate oxygen gas present inside the packaging and interferes with hydrogen gas measurement
Prototype testing of system for detecting oil degradation and development of production process
- Making a prototype including the sensor and peripheral circuits
- Finding ways to secure reliability through field evaluations
Interface circuits for silicon-based radiation sensors
- Interface circuits consisting of preamplifier, main amplifier, and single channel analyzer
- Integration of the interface circuits with silicon-based radiation sensors and plastic scintillators
Detecting TVOC using various nanomaterials (ZnO, WO3,CNT,andgraphene)
Detecting TVOC using various structures of nanomaterial-based sensors
Analyzing TVOC sensing performance depending on morphology and crystallinity of nanomaterials
Developing SmartPatch business Prototype targeting for low-cost smart UV-level meters
- Business planning
- Customized display module using E-Ink technology
- Customized PV-Cell
- Integrating SmartPatch ASIC and UV sensor on a same package
- System-level integrating using a flexible PCB
- Reliability and field test
Expected Contribution
Utilizing for local particulate matter forecast due to portability
Advanced air purification technology to completely remove fine dust (PM2.5/10) and harmful gas
Contribution to securing smart IT platform related to personal contaminated air monitoring
To propose a newly developed synthesis method using the organic templating route, obtain intellectual property, and increase the market share in chemical gas sensing related technology globally.
We can open related market and develop nanomaterial-based high-performance, low-power, and ultra-compact environment sensor by developing high-sensitivity environment sensor. Also, market of smart environment sensor for mobile device is opend by our research.The progress of ubiquitous sensor network using ultra compact sensor contribute to creation of demand in health care and intelligent building.
The world market for environmental sensing and monitoring is expected to reach $ 15.3 billion in 2016
Suggestion of new product and its business model of Park-Rapp probe
Suggestion of the model of basic research industrialization
Transformer accident prevention and the Enhancing the social safety net
Enhancing the vitality of the weak domestic measuring equipment industry
Revitalization of UV-level meter and correlated health-care markets
Securing communication technology on low-cost and low-power energy harvesting devices
Securing software-based SmartPatch technology for enlarging the target market of SmartPatch
TOPIC 3 : Development of environmental sensors for indoor/outdoor air quality monitoring
Je, Minkyu, KAIST (Electrical Engineering)
Hyung-Chul Park, Seoul Tech (Electronic Media in IT)
Development of low-power smart gas sensor interface circuit
Development of power efficient digital signal processing technology for high performance IoT based sensor system
Research Contents
High-resolution large-dynamic-range low-power gas sensor readout circuits
High-accuracy high-efficiency heating and temperature control circuits
Calibration and compensation circuits
Integration of the interface circuits with gas sensors for the implementation of gas sensor systems
Development of low-power MODEM to reduce power consumption of wireless data transmission for IoT sensor network
Expected Contribution
Securing core circuit technologies for next-generation smart sensor systems
Mitigating the nation's heavy dependence on imported sensors and related circuit components
Miniaturization and power reduction of the sensor products for various applications, leading to preemptive advantages for the future world IoT market
Improvement of environment and public health by extending the offer of wireless smart gas sensor systems to much larger user base
Contribution to reliability through excellent communication support and low-energy consumption for smart sensor network system
TOPIC 4 : Development of smart farm monitoring and management system with smart RTU
Hun Kyu Choi, Spinasystems
Development of efficient smart farm system and its application programs using weather information and surrounding sensor data and achieving optimal control of actuators.
Research Contents
Development of smart system H/W
Development of smart system S/W
Android app development for monitoring and controlling greenhouse conditions
Development of web server in cloud environment
Expected Contribution
Applicable to IoT automation platform
Compared to conventional PC-based solution, suggested solution can save up to 40% system construction cost.
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New image recognition app brings context to smartphone photos
We've all seen the QR code. That's the pixelated-like mobile phone-readable barcode that marketers place on or near products. Point your smartphone at the encoded icon, scan it with an associated mobile app, and the device links to a website.
Then there's the regular, stripy barcode that you can use to compare prices at brick-and-mortar stores.
Both of these technologies are likely to be superseded.
Image recognition
The Blip is a proprietary marker-less image recognition technology. It doesn't use any kind of barcode because it doesn't need to. The technology actually identifies the image and then delivers the marketing message.
I was able to successfully scan a Heinz tomato ketchup bottle and obtain smartphone-delivered ketchup recipes in a kind of virtual reality-like superimposition.
It's still early days for the technology, and although I was able to learn all about the wonderful things possible with ketchup, I wasn't able to obtain the same results with a can of corned beef hash—nothing happened.
The reason: Heinz has got a deal with the Blippar, the app's publisher, where it has developed a Blipping campaign so the bottle is known by the database.
Everyday object database
However, Blippar wants to take it further and get the engine to recognize unknown objects.
The company has loftier goals than just tomato ketchup recipes—however tasty—and wants to develop an image database of everyday objects.
"Point your phone at a dog and it will tell you what breed it is," Tracey Lien writes of the visual technology for the Los Angeles Times.
"Blippar wants to making 'blipping'—the act of scanning an object through the app—as habitual as opening Google Maps in a search for directions or opening Yelp for restaurant reviews," Lien writes.
Neural engine
A deep learning neural engine is the background science. Roughly, the computer learns what the object is from seeing repetitious, multiple images. It's a kind of elaborate pattern recognition.
As more advanced deep learning occurs—mimicking human thought processes, like categorization—the more accurate this kind of technology can be.
Ultimately, it's the kind of thing we'll be seeing in self-driving cars, for example. The technology learns the difference between roadside objects that appear similar. "Is that a person at the crosswalk or a lamppost?" Lien uses as an example.
'Visual Internet'
That's the idea. But it's not all there yet—Blippar can't identify objects arbitrarily.
"Right now, when you start the Blippar app, it can't tell you about the chair in front of you, but it'll recognize a bottle of Coke," Ambarish Mitra, Blippar co-founder and CEO, said in an interview with NDTV Gadgets. The Coca-Cola can is in its catalog.
However, NDTV Gadgets says "in the next five to six months, Blippar will be launching a 'visual Internet,' wherein the Blippar app will be able to identify objects that aren't necessarily in its catalog."
Blippar says it will use deep learning to achieve this.
Visual browser
"Our aim is for Blippar to become the visual browser of the future," the company says on its website.
"To achieve this, we aim to be the default Augmented Reality lens through which people unlock interactive experiences. And we plan for 'blipping' to become the eponymous verb that describes doing it," it says.
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Dogs Deserve Better - Animal rescuers gone wrong.
Photo and info taken from "Bring Joel Home" Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/BringJoelHomeWA?sk=info#!/BringJoelHomeWA
Dr. Suzanne Fiala lives in Seattle. She is a beloved and popular family physician who began fostering for the local chapter of Dogs Deserve Better in October, 2010. Between October 2010 and March 2011 Dr. Fiala fostered 11 dogs for DDB, including 2 litters of puppies. All of the dogs were pitbulls or pitbull mixes. Dr. Fiala received accolades on the DDB FB page for her devotion and hard work.
The last dog she took in for foster was Joel, an adult pitbull male that weighed in at 27# and was too weak to stand. Joel was chained to a picnic table in someone's yard for his short life, and with his sister Julie, fed a 'handful of food every 5 days' as admitted by his owner. Why were they treated this way? Because they did not housetrain quickly enough to his satisfaction when they were puppies.
When Joel was taken to the emergency vet he was 24-48 hours from death - emaciated, weak, his bowels and other organs were shutting down. DDB took possession of the dog and placed him with Dr. Fiala the next day, February 1. Joel was, by their admission, the most damaged dog they had ever had in their local program. And the local rep, Kelly Page, hoped Dr. Fiala could save Joel, if anyone could.
Dr. Fiala took Joel to her home. She warned her children he might not live through the night. That first night, Dr. Fiala and her children sat around Joel and laid hands on him, sending him love and positive energy, and whispering softly and kindly. Dr. Fiala dozed on the dog bed next to Joel, to offer him water, food, and to maintain constant human touch with him. She told him to please hold on, and to give her a chance to show him what love felt like. And miraculously Joel slowly came back to life. Dr. Fiala remained with Joel 24/7, carried him to and from her office in the daytime, fed him bits of roasted chicken, rice and organic vegetables every 2 hours until his gut started working again, and the vomiting and explosive diarrhea stopped. Over a month's time Joel went from a living skeleton to a vibrant, beautiful boy. His emotional scars were deep, but those improved over time as he came to trust his new family, the first people who had ever been kind to him.
Through February and March, Joel and Dr. Fiala were inseparable, day and night. Dr. Fiala's children and other dogs welcomed him, and life became a wonderful and happy routine. Dr. Fiala enrolled Joel with a trainer using only positive techniques, to advise and help her to socialize Joel to humans and animals alike.
Throughout March, however, things started feeling really wrong with DDB. The local rep did not reimburse Dr. Fiala for any of the money spent on Joel's care, though that was the condition of fostering and the bill quickly rose to over $1000. Also, Dr. Fiala noticed that the DDB website was soliciting donations for costs for Joel's care that she herself had paid for...so where was that money going? And perhaps most troubling, Dr. Fiala came to believe that Page, the local state rep, played God with dogs in need. The ones that got media attention got Page's attention, and other cases of suffering dogs in need were pushed aside.
At the end of March, Dr. Fiala was so disillusioned she felt compelled to write a letter to DDB-National founder, Tamira Ci Thayne, expressing her concerns. Dr. Fiala also quietly decided she just wanted to formalize Joel's adoption, and get out to do rescue work elsewhere with people of integrity.
April 2 - Dr. Fiala announced on her FB page that she was adopting Joel, to the pleasure of many local Joel fans.
April 4 - Page, the local DDB rep, posted on the DDB-WA FB page that Dr. Fiala was adopting Joel.
April 7 - Dr. Fiala sent her letter of concerns to Ms. Thayne in PENN.
April 7 - Dr. Fiala mails her signed adoption contract to DDB. The contract does NOT require a countersignature, and is the last, formal step in the adoption process. The contract is only offered AFTER DDB okays the adoption.
April 8 - Dr. Fiala is contacted by Marie Belanger, 'regional rep' based in Indiana and told she will investigate the concerns from the letter.
April 8-10 - a series of exchanges between Dr. Fiala and Ms. Belanger quickly show hostility and defensive posturing, and Dr. Fiala's witnesses, who Ms. Belanger promises to contact, are never contacted.
April 14 - local Seattle DDB reps including Page go to the doggie daycare near Dr. Fiala's medical office where Joel was spending some time socializing, and take him.
They notify Dr. Fiala after the fact in a voice message, saying that Joel has been 'repossessed' because the contract is not valid, that it was a National decision, and that Joel has been rehomed with another foster family.
No one in the animal rescue network in Seattle has seen or heard from Joel again. Any inquiries as to his whereabouts on the DDB-WA FB page are immediately deleted and the inquirer is blocked from future postings.


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Well, it's official! I'll soon be moving to Fukuoka, Japan. After a couple of years of working towards this goal, I was finally successful and had the amazing fortune to receive a research scholarship from the Japanese government. When people ask me why I became interested in Japan and learning the language, my answer is always, "Japanese design." It's kind of a fun story actually...
Anyway, the point of the story is, even though in truth I'm not quite sure what first prompted my conscious interest in Japan, it's certain that my biggest motivation for sticking to learning the language and finding opportunities to travel there was my desire to understand and be close to the beauty of Japanese design. Although I might not have known how exactly how I would eventually immerse myself in the design culture of Japan, the prospect of finding my "tribe" kept me determined to keep learning the language.
And now it's happening!
I can't believe it, but in one month I'll be in Fukuoka, ready to dive into the amazing art of Japanese woodworking. After some time learning from professional artisans, I'll continue researching this country's contemporary design and start to make connections between the two to find the common thread of Japanese design culture and aesthetics. And then, most exciting of all, I'll create an original furniture design proposal inspired by the genius of Japanese woodworking.
Last September I made a visit to an amazing woodworking tools museum in Kobe. It was wonderful! They had just recently redesigned the whole museum, perfect timing. Despite being mostly in Japanese (with some English translations), the exhibits were exceptionally easy to understand, not to mention beautiful. They even had a workshop where you could make your own chopsticks out of cypress wood! What a great introduction to Japanese woodworking techniques.
As you can see in the picture on the right, I visited Nagoya Castle last fall as well. The Honmaru Palace portion of the castle was rebuilt just last year according to the original plans. I'll bet you have a hard time believing that this building (a minimalist architect's dream house) was designed in the 1600's. Sorry all you minimalist architects out there, I already claimed the place if they ever decide to rent it out.
As preparation for my "real" research to start, I've been collecting some imagery on Pinterest. Feel free to check it out if you're interested!
Wish me luck and stay updated with my blog as I continue on this journey of discovery!
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Paris and Los Angeles have never felt closer.
French fashion label Louis Vuitton has just released a short film that pays homage to the City of Angels. The film, directed by French cinéaste Jean-Claude Thibaut, is part of a series of works sponsored by Vuitton that use "gender as a lens" to interpret various cities.
With a pulsating bass line and a poetic -- if not overly dramatic -- voiceover, the short features glorious images of our city and the nearby desert. Locales like Paramount's Melrose gate, the LA River, and the Chateau Marmont are shot in a romantic manner that conveys the mystery and glamour of LA.While the concept of gender doesn't come across strongly, it's a lovely homage to LA. Considering the film's style and edge, the LA Convention and Visitors Bureau should think about using it! Watch: