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The land of techno-elves
A look at technology in Europe's second-most innovative nation.
'Lord of the Rings' author JRR Tolkien discovered the Finnish language at Oxford and fell in love with it. The Finnish epic 'Kalevala', which he read in the original, became a powerful inspiration for his work, and Finnish formed the base for Elvish, one of the many make-believe languages he constructed to give his world of Middle Earth its depth, detail and believability.
In a letter to WH Auden in 1955, Tolkien wrote: "Finnish was like discovering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me; and I gave up the attempt to invent an 'unrecorded' Germanic language, and my 'own language' - or series of invented languages - became heavily Finnicized in phonetic pattern and structure."
One wonders if Tolkien also took his inspiration for ways and manners of the elves, the superior race of his imaginary world, from the Finns.
Although they claim the highest incidence of blond hair in the world, many Finns have high cheek bones and slightly almond-shaped eyes. Like elves. They also tended to live in forest isolation, to be strong of character, and to have a mysterious, detached approach towards the world. Like elves. But there is a difference. The elves have magic. The Finns have technology.
Actually, the two are not so different. Who was it who said that, from a certain perspective, magic and sufficiently advanced technology are almost indistinguishable?
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Here is a list of what the five million Finns are up to at the moment of writing:
Nokia, which makes a million handsets a day, is developing three sensational phones.
Nanotechnology is producing miracles. The latest Finnish project is a shape-changing handset that you flex from its candybar shape and wrap around your wrist or stretch to keyboard dimensions; a second handset under development will allow you to take a photo of an object that instantly gives you Web descriptions of it; a third collects data about traffic flows based on the GPS satellite readings of the users' movements which are then collated to build up a picture of the traffic situation and beamed back to the users to avoid the traffic snarl ups that cost billions of dollars a year.
Linus Torvalds, a Finn from the Swedish minority, invented the open source Linux software, with a stability and portability that makes it a favoured choice to run mobile phones, gaming consoles, and 85 per cent of the world's supercomputers.
There's Fogscreen, the world's first walk-through projection screen made of 'dry' fog, which allows you to project images that seem suspended in mid-air, "a bit like 'Star Wars'". Fogscreen was invented by two virtual reality researchers from the university of Turku.
There's Habbo Hotel, one of the largest social networking sites, where teenagers use avatars to furnish their rooms, gossip, play games, say bubba to each other (sexual words are bleeped out) and spend their parents' money on intra website credits.
Finland had the most boring television outside of the eastern bloc in the 1970s. Now they are compensating with Floobs, allowing anyone to set up their own channel on the Internet.
There's also Finnvoice, the electronic invoicing system which will be the model for the Single European payment area due to come onstream in 2010, facilitating, harmonising and making electronic the way European firms and individuals bill each other.
Finland's Neste's biodiesel, NExBTL, is the perfect biofuel. There's Finland's RFID revolution, where patients are not restricted to the waiting room as they have electronic tags, and nurses download data straight to a computer from the sickbed.
Finally, the world's most modern and largest nuclear reactor is being built in Finland; and toys are being invented to beat the obesity epidemic.
Backing examples with figures, Finland is the world's leading patent applicant per capita, the second most competitive economy (and the greenest one) in 2006 and the second most innovative country in Europe (after Sweden).
The country awards the Millennium Prize in Technology, which has been sarcastically called the Nobel Prize of Finnish Vanity, and whose first recipient, Tim Berners Lee, admitted he first heard of it when he received it. But €1m are not to be sniffed at.
'Sisu' means 'guts'
Why are the Finns so successful? British educators take note.
Whereas Tolkien used the prerogatives of a writer to invent a favoured race, the Finns have had to resort to hard work, native sisu (guts), and a fortunate turn of events. But, above all, the country's comprehensive education system has long been considered the best in the world. In the OECD rankings, Finland came first by a long way in science, was narrowly beaten to second in reading and maths by Korea and Taiwan, and was first overall. This was achieved not through throwing money at schools - Finland spends less on education per capita than the UK - but through old-fashioned virtues. Teachers are respected, and entry to the profession is competitive. The weak students are marked out early and looked after. Communications between parents and teachers are good; society is homogenous. Finland always had a free peasantry, and Lutheranism placed a premium on literacy even among the poor.
Add to the educational achievements a slow increase in liberalisation and deregulation, with refocusing the associated economic policies, and the boost to the national spirit after collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Finns have had a tough time from their neighbours. The Soviets invaded in November 1939 with an army five times as large as the Finnish and with 100 times as many tanks. In the celebrated Winter War of 1939, the Finns had some advantages, however: they knew the terrain, were experts on skis and wore white smocks.
Their opponents wore khaki and clung to the roads.The Finns ambushed them, splintering and isolating Soviet units, and targeted their soup kitchens. They left tree stumps and logs as tank traps, covered frozen lakes with cellophane to make them seem unfrozen to discourage crossing. They made their farmsteads uninhabitable as they withdrew and mined the saunas and latrines. When the war ended, a Russian general said: "We have gained just enough territory to bury our dead."
The Finns made peace with honour. But they lost the continuation war when they joined the Nazis in a revenge attack. A price was subservience to the USSR in foreign affairs which only ended in 1991.
There are dangers ahead. They never cease. Again, we can dip into Tolkien. One of the motifs running through his books is hatred of industrialisation and its consequences. The peasant goodness of the Shire contrasts with the industrial might of Mordor. In a key turning point in the story, the treacherous wizard Saruman embarks on a crash course of industrialisation, turning the countryside around his castle into a landscape of mines and foundries.
Later, he tries to do the same to the Shire. Perhaps the greatest threat the Finns face is not a resurgent Russia, but the consequences of industrialisation: this winter, temperatures were six degrees above normal. A Met office map over global climate fluctuations marks out the Baltic sea in warning signal red. The university of Tartu in Estonia estimates that summers are a month longer than 20 years ago; winters in those days saw the whole 500,000km2 of Baltic freeze over.
It didn't snow in Helsinki this winter. The ice breakers have been lying idle; the crocuses flourished in February. There was no ice, even in the inlets of the jagged coastline, or in the archipelago. A Helsinki newspaper commented early this year: "All our winters are now going to resemble Belgium in November."
At least they will still have the Northern Lights.
Finnish companies are developing the world's most advanced biodiesel; and Wartsila, the engineering company, is a world leader in ships run on liquefied natural gas - ships are highly CO2 emitting.
With the Northern Route opening up across the Siberian coast to Japan and China, the Finns are developing cargo-ship ice breakers, to deal with ice cover. Several years running, the country has won Yale university's awards for its environmentally sustainable economy.
But its fate, in this sense, lies with larger, more polluting nations. Against global warming, advanced mobile phone technology is not going to be of much help.
Patents and applications
There are still tweaks to be made. I talked to the chief adviser on innovation at Finland's Confederation of Industries, Timo Kekkonen, who said that Finland needs more entrepreneurs and venture capital. Nokia was a one-off, and most Finns are better engineers than marketers. Finns are good at inventing, there was a lot of support from industry, but most of them went to work for a bigger company rather than start one up themselves. Leading in patents, they lag in applications and execution: it is perhaps significant that the splendid fog screen costs $40,000 a unit. It needs economy of scale.
Further, while Finnish schools are excellent and weak students are catered for, the best are not stretched enough, and Finnish universities are not in the same league internationally - Helsinki University is only ranked 78th in the world. Finland has opted out of elitism. Kekkonen says: "We have a very high proportion of people going to university, and we have a big country with a small population. With 20 universities, there is not enough money to spend on each one."
His solution is to attract more foreign students and academics, to achieve greater rates of knowledge transfer. Kekkonen says: "We have far fewer visiting academics than other Scandinavian countries." That way, Finland would become even more innovative.
'Lord of the Rings' ends on an elegiac note: the age of magic and elves is over; those that remain "go across the sea" to the land of immortals. The age of prosaic men has begun. Here the game of facile comparisons peters out. The Finns are here to stay, and will continue to develop their technology.


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Two separate three-car collisions and a vehicle fire closed eastbound state Route 18 in two Auburn locations Tuesday night, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Major Collision: EB SR 18 @ C Street. All lanes blocked. Fire is on scene. Expect delays as emergency crews work. #SlowDownMoveOver— Trooper Rick Johnson (@wspd2pio) January 4, 2017
One of the three-car collisions was a rollover in which Valley Regional Fire Authority crews worked to extricate a person from the rolled vehicle, Trooper Kyle Yarbrough said.
It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured in the crashes.
The collisions, which happened about 8:35 p.m., were west of the SR 18 exit for C Street.
Trooper Rick Johnson tweeted just after 10 p.m. that the wrecks had been cleared from the roadway, but a vehicle fire near state Route 167 was blocking traffic.
UPDATE: the collisions at C ST have cleared right. But...EB 18 JE of 167 is blocked for a vehicle fire. Fire is on scene. #SlowDownMoveOver— Trooper Rick Johnson (@wspd2pio) January 4, 2017
Vehicle fire EB Hwy 18. All lanes closed EB near super mall. pic.twitter.com/edNQPBaiFm— South King Fire (@Southkingfire) January 4, 2017
South King Fire reported on Twitter at about 10:15 p.m. that the fire had been put out and one lane was cleared. No one was injured in the fire, the agency tweeted.
@Southkingfire Vehicle fire is out. No injuries. One lane has been reopened.— South King Fire (@Southkingfire) January 4, 2017

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A recent article in the New York Times by Rachel Bachman shows that people who maintain workouts on a regular basis share some common approaches to fitness. Adopting some of these approaches can help you to work out more regularly.
Whether you make a New Year's resolution or simply try to "get to the gym", life inevitably gets in the way. But despite our challenges, research shows that 21% of adults do manage to get enough exercise, and these people have some common traits and habits. They are consistent but not rigid. And most importantly, they have open minds about what defines "exercise."
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1.They work out at the same time most days. A study published in April in the British Journal of Health Psychology examined 181 people who exercised an average of 300 minutes a week—twice the federally recommended minimum. Most of those people picked a regular time to work out and stuck with it.
When things become predictable you don't need to invest much thought. A mental script of behaviors helps you go into autopilot about exercising and fitness.
2. They have a streamlined pre-exercise routine with visual cues. In a study published in 2017 and led by Dr. Kaushal, new gym members were asked to create cues to prompt them to exercise. A cue might be running clothes, shoes and headphones laid out on a dresser. The plan is that when a runner wakes up, he sees the cues, dresses and dashes out the door.
After eight weeks, members of the study's experimental group were 1.7 times more likely to meet physical-activity guidelines than those in a control group, maintaining their regular workouts.
3. They're more flexible than infrequent exercisers about how long or vigorously they exercise. Active people are less likely to have all-or-nothing definitions of physical activity, according to a study soon to be published in BMC Public Health. The study looked at 40 women, 11 of whom said they exercised at least three times or two hours a week.
An increasing number of active people are widening their definition of exercise. Many people think exercise has to last at least 30 minutes and make you sweaty and exhausted. Dr. Segar's ongoing research suggests that frequent exercisers increasingly view things like walking meetings and family bike rides as things that "count" as exercise.
4. They're more likely to exercise for pleasure than for weight loss. A Journal of Consumer Research study recruited 61 gym-goers at a University. People in one group were told to choose the exercise for their workouts they most enjoyed, while the people in the other group were told to choose the exercise most useful for their health goals. Both groups were instructed to do as many sets of their selected exercise as they could.
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It's no longer 'the future is female.' It's now, 'the present and the future are female." Every day there are new brilliant female entrepreneur arriving on the scene and shaking up the way we live our lives. We are witnessing this movement in every industry on the planet, and with each new female entrepreneur, the boundaries of what is possible are pushed further and further. These brilliant women are elevating the game and changing the world as we know it. It's time to stop for a moment and recognize a handful of the many female entrepreneurs that are putting their name one 2017.
Co-Founders, DIVONA
New to the scene, but already making big waves, this duo of female entrepreneurs is disrupting the perfume industry in a huge way. Focused on assisting women in need, when a customer purchases one of their twelve paraben/phthalate/cruelty-free perfumes, Divona allows the consumer to physically choose an item from a selection of socially good nonprofits, that will then be placed in a care package and sent to a woman in need.
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Georgia Castle, 87 of Butler, Missouri passed away August 3, 2017 at Serenity Rehabilitation and Nursing in Butler. Memorial services will be Monday, August 7, 2017 at 10:30 am at the Butler Presbyterian Church with Rev. Mari Lynn Jones and Pastor Ron Dunlap officiating. No visitation. Inurnment will follow services in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler. Services under the direction of Mullinax Funeral Home, Butler (660-679-0009). Memorial contributions are suggested to the Butler Presbyterian Church or Butler Public Library. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.mullinaxfuneralhome.com
Georgia L. Sherwood Castle was born September 2, 1929 in Butler, Missouri to Harland B. and Maude Hartel Sherwood. Georgia spent her early years in Butler, attending Butler Schools and graduating from Butler High School, Class of 1947. During her entire High School years she worked at Fisk Theatre and continued until it burned down. Georgia accepted Jesus Christ and was baptized at the age of ten at the Ohio Street United Methodist Church. She later transferred her membership to Butler Presbyterian Church in 1991.
Georgia was united in marriage to Lewis L. Castle on April 22, 1951. They began their married life in New Bedford, Massachusetts, later moving to Kansas City, Missouri and to Independence, Missouri.
Georgia attended Secretarial School in New Bedford and was employed as a secretary in Aerovox Corporation, National Wholesale Association of Credit Men, Jackson County Planning Commission and Bliss Association, Inc.
The couple retired in 1982 and returned to Butler, Missouri. They enjoyed their early retirement by traveling the states, making a point to visit all state capitols.
Georgia was an active and devoted member of Butler Presbyterian Church, serving as an Elder and singing in the Sing Praises Choir for many years. She served as president and secretary of BHS Alumni, president of her P.E.O. Chapter and was a charter member of Our Old High Restoration organization.
Georgia's ability to communicate was through laughter, smiles and giving hugs. She was an optimistic, happy person and often said, "I love meeting new people, because I have so much to tell them." Her passion was for all arts, but she especially enjoyed music and oil painting.
Georgia was preceded in death by her husband Lewis, her parents, an infant sister and one brother Dwayne Sherwood. She is survived by six nephews and two nieces and her special children and grandchildren too numerous to mention.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina native and entertainer Clay Aiken is set to officially announce his candidacy for Congress today. Aiken will face two challengers in a Democratic primary for North Carolina's Second Congressional District. If he wins, he'll face Republican incumbent Renee Ellmers, whose staff has already thrown out anti-gay rhetoric and insinuations.
Ellmers responds to criticism over anti-gay statement; still no word on how Ellmers truly feels about her LGBT constituents
Aiken, 35, says in a video posted by the Raleigh News & Observer that Washington "is dysfunctional." Too many people, he says, go to Washington where they let the city and politics change them.
"She ended up in D.C. and was changed by it," Aiken says of Ellmers. "I went to Hollywood and I didn't let it change me and I'll go to Washington and I won't let it change me. Too many people go to D.C. and let it change them and forget that they are voting for, working for people back in North Carolina. That's not something that I will do."
Aiken came out as gay in 2008. He has a partner and a young son. He says the issue won't be a concern.
"People care about jobs, they care about the economy, they care about being able to pay for college," Aiken told The News & Observer. "That (his sexuality) is an issue that doesn't affect many people in this district or this state."
But, Ellmers' campaign staff are already on the attack. In a statement, the campaign linked Aiken to "San Francisco" and said Ellmers, not Aiken, would be "fighting for families."
"It speaks volumes to the state of the N.C. Democratic Party that the primary is shaping up to be a choice between the failed Perdue Administration's Keith Crisco, a lawyer who doesn't even live in the district, an activist who's (sic) own party rejected her in the last democrat primary – and Aiken, a performer whose political views more closely resemble those of San Francisco than Sanford," Ellmers spokeswoman Jessica Wood wrote in an email. "Renee best represents the values of the voters in the 2nd District and remains focused on fighting for their families."
Aiken expects to draw the most financial support from individuals, though the Raleigh newspaper reports he may use some of his own money.
In order to challenge Ellmers, Aiken will have to make it past the Democratic primary. One primary challenger, Houston Barnes, a Durham attorney, says he'll withdraw from the race and endorse Aiken. Other challengers include former state Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco of Asheboro and Toni Morris, a licensed professional counselor living in Fayetteville.
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The World outside the USA are like me, we are hurting at what Israel do, we stand beside Palestine with no hate for Isreal, because it's people, Jews!! Don't like this.
Before I share Israel/Palestine, this is what Ross Kemp does.
One of the most confronting scenes Ross has ever faced.
While hiking in Papua New Guinea, armed guerrillas ambush Ross and his cameraman, threatening to shoot them with their guns.
Ross amazingly uses his bravado to dissipate the situation. ALL SHORT VIDEO'S APART FROM 'PALESTINE FULL' This is how the World outside BLIND American Christians who refuse to even want to understand both Jews and Arabs REFUSE to hate. "These Palestinian DOGS AND ANIMALS AND SUB-HUMAN BEINGS SHOULD BE IN FECKING JORDAN" is not the 2016 answer to a Thousand year old issue. American Christians don't know it, but they are the ONLY people on Earth who take this story to a place even Jews/Arabs, Israeli's and Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank where Jews kill Jews because MANY Jews dislike what Israel do in Gaza. But read your book or KNOW A TRUTH that makes your book WRONG…..Faith is one thing friends….But blind ignorance is another things altogether. How SCARED must a person be to not want a book ruined by the truth? I am asking. NO HATE…I just can't get my disabled stupid mind around a question and issue I have lived myself in a different way. The IRA bombed the UK when we were kids, we were terrified…Thatcher, well I was a 'Thatcher Child', she oppressed Scotland more than American Media make the POTUS race look like a movie….
Free your minds from fear and allow your so called 'CHRISTIAN HEART' to not cast stones. By ignoring this, denying this, naming this as you mostly do (NOT YOU ALL) You are breaking 4 (AT LEAST) of the 10 commandments….Yet this does not bother Christian America? I am confused….But I already know the Childish manner in how Christians from America can deny a truth so hard, that is puzzles the other 95% of our World. 7 Billion people on Earth and about 150 Million American Christians keep the hate going by refusing to vote or change. But MANY American dislike what Israel does. It's Genocide….But I guess Suicide Bombing is only wrong SOMETIMES…I guess Syrian Kids found in Oceans escaping what Palestinians can't is choice too yeah? Choosing what is not or is Evil is confusing to me….But I have a disabled mind…So it might be me.
Let's see who has debating skills other than "I don't want to talk about this [BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO THICK TO DO SO] or "They belong in Jordon because my Book told me this".
UTTER CONTEMTP BY SOME….UTTER EVIL, CLOSED MINDED EVIL…By Gods 'Chosen Ones'
Irony huh?
No hate…..Just question the World can answer, and half of America blindly, stupidly, lack of talking skills don't want to know about.
The bible CLEARLY states "When Babylon falls, so shall the World" But I would and could not believe this anyway. Babylon fell around 539 BC.
Babylon HAS FALLEN…And our World is still here. But both England and the USA did level, killing 10's of thousands in Babylon in the last 20 years…
See Babylon is now Iraq.
And Noah's Ark!
Was there a guy called Noah? Probably!!!
Did he see or feel a flood coming? Maybe!!
Did he build a boat? VERY LIKELY!!
Did he allow 2 of EVERY Animal into the boat to save them? NO!!!
How can I be sure? TRY IT!!!!
How did 2 Kangaroos get from Australia to Iran?
How did 2 Scottish Highland Ponies get to Iran?
How did 2 Canadian Moose get to Iran?
Can you see the pattern emerging?
Did you even read this far? L
There are about 8.7 Million animals on Earth, land, air and sea.
Today there are WAY LESS as our Species have killed off too many
THE EXTINCTION CRISIS <Click
Why do we still have Sharks that kill people?
Why is the Noah crap always shown as this?
The Tigers and Lions would eat EVERYTHING….lol
Some things are IMPOSSIBLE RIGHT?
I mean if I wrote a book today, and hid it, knowing in 1,000 years from now it would be found and I wrote "I Shaun, eat a whole Mountain in a week to save Humanity"
What fools would fall for that? IT'S AS IMPOSSIBLE AS NOAH'S CRAP STORY…..PS: Noah was in and from and lived in what is now called 'Iran'
Video's below if you REALLY want to open your minds.
Listen to Israeli fathers say "We kill Palestinian kids, what do we expect" or "Why does my Government always Genocide in Palestine? Because I know 100's of people who have been injured by rocks, and a few killed" or "Israeli's saying "THE HATE MUST END, STOP THIS SHIT"
But half of America thinks they ARE THE WORLD…Here is a reminder…There is another 6.9991 Billion of us who MOCK YOU…But don't hate you….
The only hate I can TRULY believe is the hate between Jews and Arabs who don't want RELIGIOUS AMERICAN HATRED RUINING THIER LIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST 10,000 MILES AWAY WHERE AMERICANS ARE FAT AND DON'T GIVE A FUCK…
PS: Watch the 2nd video down before the USA/Israel pull it…delete it…As they will…they always do delete the TRUTH FROM INSIDE ISRAEL….Because it goes against Christian Americans beliefs. HOW SAD!!!
There…Said it..
Now let's see who ignores it..
Hates it…
Throws hate back…(Stones)
Or says a 1 line remark of bullshit
IT'S SUNDAY I WAS BORED OK!!! Ian started this….LOL
Before Israel/Palestine, this is what Ross Kemp does.
One of the most confronting scenes Ross has ever faced.
While hiking in Papua New Guinea, armed guerrillas ambush Ross and his cameraman, threatening to shoot them with their guns.
Ross amazingly uses his bravado to dissipate the situation.
Ross Takes on Armed Men | Ross Kemp Extreme World
Ross Kemp Middle East In Palestine [FULL]
Ross Kemp Middle East In Israel [FULL]
Ross Kemp interviews children in Gaza
Israel's Fear | Ross Kemp Extreme World
Ross Kemp Speaks with the Children of Gaza
Ross Kemp in Gaza – Marketplaces
Israel's Border | Ross Kemp Extreme World
Gaza's Children | Ross Kemp Extreme World
Ross Kemp – Middle East: Gaza clip of suicide bomber
Brave Palestinian little girls
Give us a Chance – A child from Palestine
#AceNewsReport – Aug.07: 8yo Palestinian girl bullied by IDF soldier tells RT Israelis 'don't want us to play on our land'
An eight-year-old Palestinian girl from the West Bank has told RT about her encounter with Israeli officers, in which they forcibly took her bike.
The girl's mother says it's not the first time her children have been attacked by Israelis in the area…..
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Today, it's officially been one month since I've joined my lovely host family and since I am literally living in Ireland. It went by soooooo fast! So, after this busy week and busy weekend that I've had, I'm taking some time to breathe and look back a little, acknowledge what happened and squeeze out some more good juice out of these past few weeks.
The first two weeks went by in the blink of an eye. The kids adopted me pretty much instantly, to my greatest surprise. And I felt comfortable from the get-go. I knew from the moment I skyped with them that they were gonna be amazing but when I met them IRL, and after having spent just a day with them, I realized they were much more awesome than I could have imagined. I know I like to exaggerate and this might seem like it, but really, it isn't. They are good people, so nice to me, easy-going and I feel oh so good around them.
The routine wasn't so hard getting into. It's pretty simple really and it's just a matter of getting used to it. I am still not able to wake up at 6am in order to have breakfast before the kids and get on with my business before I wake them up, but I'll get there eventually. Having not had an organized life for the past two years and especially these last six months where I would just sleep whenever and paint/sing all day and sometimes go out to get food; it's understandable. I need time. But this is just a detail. Once you know it, you just do it and it slides like butter on bread(what).
So, those first two weeks, I spent just adjusting to the schedule and trying to learn how to fit my painting and music in my free time. I spent a lot of time in the house; scared to go outside. But eventually I got to meet some Spanish au pairs and we hung out in town together. And just last week I met some French ones. Knowing that there are a handful of people other than my host family that are aware of me, is reassuring and I have no doubt that I will be able to build strong bonds with a handful of people during this year. I had a lovely weekend with Marta, a French au pair who lives really close to me; I really like her. And, surely, I will meet more people with whom I "click" and can enjoy something bigger together than just hanging out(nothing wrong with that but I need to walk in deeper waters, ya know).
I haven't had much adventure going on just yet. Nothing crazy to tell. No big stories really. It's been a really chill month. I adjusted very quickly and so did everyone else. I feel like I belong and not like a weird parasite that's just sucking the life out of them. I feel good. They truly are amazing. And, having heard some other stories from the au pairs that I've met, I can only emphasize how LUCKY I am. My family is just the best and I'm happy.
I love feeling how we're all just growing more and more comfortable with each other each day. Like I said, we were already pretty okay from the get-go. But we're getting closer and it's such a nice feeling to experience!
I love the talks I have with the parents in the mornings or evenings, when I'm having tea or when I get back home after a day on my own. And I love the different feelings I get from talking to the mom and from talking to the dad. The different topics and perspectives. They're really cool people, sweet and chill; I love them. They care about me and it shows and I've grown so fond of them already. Like they've been gone all afternoon and evening to a wedding, and I swear I'm already missing them but I won't admit. Ha ha!
I love the kids and how they try my patience sometimes and I just have to learn over and over. They help bring out the best of me. It's not always easy, but they're very sweet kids and they fill me with love. And my favorite thing right now is that, three days ago I taught them how to say "I love you mommy"(Je t'aime maman) in French and they just keep saying it to me. And it is so cute and, man. Pinch me, I'm dreaming! LIFE IS REAL
Simply put, I love everything about being an au pair, here and in this family. I know everything would've been and felt much different with some other people. But what I have right now is more than gold. I am so thankful!!! And I can't wait for more days!
I will have more to say as the weeks and months go by. For now, this is all there is to be said. They rock, I love them, the city is beautiful, I'm happy and ready+fueled by their support to reach for the sky. This is more than I had dreamt of and man, is it beautiful to be where I'm at right now in my life.
This week I'm starting my art class and I can't wait to see what that's going to be like and what it's going to bring in to my life! I still have so much to see and so many people to meet. And I still have so much work, so much to build before I get those dreams of mine running. I'm excited and I'm on my way.
Up we go! 😉
It feels weird to be treated so well, to be in a non-toxic environment, to simply be a person among over people… I come from a polluted place; I stomped outta the door, my feet are clean now. I let go of those toxic relationships I clung onto for the last few years and I felt so lightweight… So lightweight that the winds of change flew me away to a land of greener grass. Honestly, not holding any grudges but fuck 'em. Thank you guys, but fuck you. I'm glad you're out of my life, leaves more room for better friends; I'm glad you aren't taking up all of my time/thoughts, leaves more room for love and light which I'll now spread. I am very much alive. I am happy. And I'm only getting started.
Until next post, don't stop believing. ❤


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Earlier this year, when my boyfriend was booking his appearance at Otakon, he casually asked me if I wanted to go -- free badge, free hotel -- and I readily agreed, desperate for any sort of mini-vacation. I had been to Otakon before, as as tween. The last year I went, I was fourteen years
Earlier this year, when my boyfriend was booking his appearance at Otakon, he casually asked me if I wanted to go — free badge, free hotel — and I readily agreed, desperate for any sort of mini-vacation.
I had been to Otakon before, as as tween. The last year I went, I was fourteen years old. I remember feeling generally very "over it," and whether that was a symptom of not being interested in anime anymore or just of being fourteen, I left early and did not go back.
Until now.
I have developed an interesting relationship with anime and manga over the years. Growing up, my brother was a big fan of shows like Macross and Ghost in the Shell. My mother worked for a time as a cultural ambassador for a local university, and spoke fluent Japanese — as a result, I grew up around the language and culture. When I was fifteen or so, I started studying the Japanese language on my own and by the end of high school had passing fluency. Hell, I can still carry on most of a conversation or read a Manga (with Furigana), if it doesn't get too complicated.
But I never really had much an interest in anime once I got past my early teens. Being a white person that speaks Japanese means that you are pretty much auto-sorted in with Otaku culture in most people's eyes. I had nerdy schoolmates constantly asking me to translate manga for them, teach them how to call someone "a baka" (urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh), and so on and so forth. The main reasons I stuck with learning Japanese were: I had become close friends with a Japanese exchange student at my high school, I had grown up knowing a few words and phrases through my mom, and I have always sucked at Romance languages.
Maybe it was this assumption that I "should" be into it, and desperation not to be seen as an Otaku, or worse, as a "weeaboo," that drove me away from wanting anything to do with anime and manga. But I spent ten years not paying any attention to it, save for re-watching the shows I already knew I liked: FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and a few others (plus a half-season of Attack On Titan and a sudden and random addiction me and my closest male friend developed for Ouran High School Host Club earlier this year).
So, Monday night, with forty-eight hours to go until we left for Otakon, I informed my boyfriend that I was going to watch all the anime.
But I mean, that's a pretty tall order, right? So I decided to research which shows were trendy right now (and therefore more like to be featured at Otakon). Pro tip: do not just type "anime" into the Tumblr search box. Don't do it.
Armed with a few titles and some alcohol, I started in with Kill La Kill, which has been dominating my Tumblr dash for the past year. What follows is my crash course in popular anime, accompanied by a handy cheat sheet for the uninitiated anime convention attendee:
Kill La Kill
My initial reaction was that I loved the animation style, which has an old-school, hand-drawn look about it that reminded me vaguely of Lupin III (my favorite anime series ever). I felt confident that I was going to enjoy this show, until I walked out of the room for ten seconds to get my glasses and then came back to find that a ton of stuff had happened and I had no idea what was going on.
The show is about a high school, Hannouji Academy, that seems to be the focal point of a larger class system. A teenage girl named Ryuko is looking for the person who killed her father and left behind one half a "scissor blade," which Ryuko wields as she slices her way through the school's student body, who have superpowered school uniforms that help them fight dirty. The show seems to play on tropes from other anime: there's a hot bad guy, there's a sexy scientist guy (his shirt automatically starts coming off, accompanied by sparkles, whenever he starts into a monologue; it's pretty funny), there's a cutesy Lolita character, and there's the big bad, Lady Satsuki (who is always scowling and immediately became my favorite character).
Initially, I was all about KLK and thought it was going to be a total girl-power show. After about ten minutes, though, protagonist Ryuko's superpowered school uniform transformed into a fanservicey nightmare of straps and underboob.
Two episodes later, I couldn't tell if the blatant fanservice is supposed to be satirical or not. Part of me kind of loves the magical girl transformation into a ruthless killing machine, most of me is just wondering how her skirt stays up when it only comes to halfway up her butt. They introduce another "Kamui" (the superest of the super school uniforms), named "Junketsu" ("purity") and worn by world's baddest badass Lady Satsuki. Then there is a battle where Ryuko's Kamui becomes more powerful because she accepts showing off her breasts. It is at that point that I decide it is time to switch shows.
Kill La Kill
What's It About?: Superpowered school uniform revenge story ultraviolence.
Will It Be At Otakon?: YES. My god, the sheer number of KLK cosplays I saw on Tumblr was overwhelming. I feel like every person at this convention will be dressed as Ryuko, including me somehow. It just happens when you walk in the door.
Should You Watch It If You Don't Watch Anime?: Tough call. The animation is gorgeous, the fight scenes are crazy. I can't tell if it is ironically or just genuinely stupid and misogynistic. It's sort of like Prison Pit except an anime with superpowered school uniforms. So, uh, not like Prison Pit at all.
Free! Eternal Summer
During my ill-advised Tumblr search for "anime," I saw Free! mentioned a number of times, but not by its actual name — most of the Internet just seems to refer to it as "swimming anime." I could only find one episode to watch for free online, and it was the first episode of the second season. Also, I was becoming sleepy. So here is a screencapture of my excellent notes on Free! Eternal Summer:
I got bored and dozed off for a bit, waking up just in time for truly puzzling end credits, which feature all the characters dressed up as secret agents and firemen and stuff. I do not think I will be watching any more of Free!.
Free! Eternal Summer
What's It About?: Hot dudes have a swim club and real feels. End of plot.
Will It Be At Otakon?: Oh, yes. Seems to be heavily represented in the internet's cosplay prospectus.
Should You Watch It If You Don't Watch Anime?: No. This is the most anime show ever. It is so anime, you guys.
Space Dandy
I loved Cowboy Bebop, so I felt confident about Space Dandy, which is from the same creator. However, by this point in the evening, I was having trouble staying awake and reading subtitles, so I let my rusty Japanese language skills take over and caught about every third word. The plot seems to be that there is an alien-hunter named Space Dandy who is a philandering asshat. He has an adorable robot friend. They pick up a weird cat alien (who is also a pervert, natch) and together they have misadventures. At one point they go to a restaurant named "Boobies."
I then fell asleep on the couch and had to be put to bed.
Space Dandy
What's It About?: Goofy space alien hunter with a pompadour and his robot/kitty/alien friends.
Will It Be At Otakon?: I suspect so, though I feel like this series is something that "cool nerds" like (probably due to the crossover success of Cowboy Bebop). I am betting that I will probably see one or two really good cosplays.
Should You Watch It If You Don't Watch Anime?: Sure! It's fun, and the animation/color palette is gorgeous. Or don't! I don't care. Live your life, man.
The next morning, I woke up, feeling guilty about not finishing that episode of Space Dandy, and began packing. Have you ever been to a convention before? Yes? Then you know they are disgusting germ festivals riddled with disease. I always pack two boxes of Emergen-C and a giant water bottle and sip it throughout the day. As a longtime veteran of conventions, let me give you my four tips: eat breakfast, drink water, wash your hands constantly (seriously: so much more often than you think you should), and wear comfortable shoes. I cosplay every year for New York Comic Con and I will sacrifice costume authenticity in the name of comfy shoes. Get those gel insoles if you can — Conventions are hell on your knees with all that shuffley slow walking!
I knew I would be crashing at a friend's house on Tuesday evening, so I informed him that we would be watching anime. "Sounds fun," he said. "No," I responded, "It's for work."
I went into RWBY with literally no foreknowledge of its plot, or even what it looked like (or what "RWBY" stands for. I was referring to it aloud as "Ri-wibby"). Cosplays of it were well-represented in the Tumblr "Otakon" tag, so I queued it up on Crunchyroll. I was surprised by two things: one, it is in English. Two, it has the worst animation I have ever seen in a show. Or a video game cutscene. Or in my nightmares. "It looks like Reboot…" my friend says, cringing.
RWBY takes place in a world where humanity has successfully fought off some kind of monsters using an element called "Dust." Dust seems to be worth money in the post-monster era, as evidenced by the fact that the show opens with a robbery of Dust from a…Dust…store? The robbery is foiled by Ruby Rose, who is our incredibly obnoxious protagonist. She is noticed by the headmaster of the Beacon Academy, where students learn to become hunters of some variety, I don't know.
This show is godawful for a number of reasons, but let me attempt to be succinct: there is a trope in anime that I like to call the "TittyWitch." A TittyWitch is any magically powered character that has an "uptight librarian" aesthetic (small wire-frame glasses, blouse and waistcoat, etc), except she has inhumanly gigantic breasts. This show has a TittyWitch. Her name is "Glenda Goodwitch".
This might be the single most grating show I have ever watched.
What's It About?: Annoying, one-sided characters do some kind of magic or something.
Will It Be At Otakon?: Unfortunately.
Should You Watch It If You Don't Watch Anime?: No, you should not watch this show for any reason.
Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online has a big following amongst the teens who attend my young adult programs at the library, so I decided to check it out. At first blush, it is an anime about watching people play an MMORPG. The first ⅔ of the series premiere literally plays out like a tutorial level, with our protagonist Kirito showing a newbie player, Klein, the basics of killing a boar to gain XP. At one point, there is emotional, dramatic music as Klein explains that he will be logging out of the game at 5:30, when he has scheduled a pizza delivery. Kirito, full of feeling, congratulates him on his forward thinking in regards to pizza.
Well, Klein is doomed to never get that well-timed pizza, as this show takes a sudden turn into a very dark, weird place. Suddenly transported back to the center of town, everyone playing SAO is treated to a confusing talk from the creator of the game and VR helmets, who suddenly appears as a weird goop that turns into Orko from MotU and says that if anyone tries to leave the game, their helmets will use microwave technology to cook their brains. The only way to leave the game is to clear it, beating all 100 levels. Fun! Kirito decides to get the jump on everyone else and head off to the next town to grind experience. Klein declines his offer to bro out and stays behind to help some other people. Their parting words to each other are about how Kirito is "pretty cute" and how Klein has an "unkempt face." Then Kirito does some jumping and slashing and dramatic yelling as he gives a Jeff Winger speech to himself about beating the game.
Sword Art Online:
What's It About?: IF YOU DIE IN THE GAME YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE
Will It Be At Otakon?: Probably? I am not sure if I would recognize any cosplay from it if I saw it, though.
Should You Watch It If You Don't Watch Anime?: Weirdly enough, and despite it being probably the most boring/stereotypically dramatic anime out of everything I watched, I found myself most enraptured by SAO. I would definitely watch more. Why? It is a mystery.
Now, here I am on Wednesday afternoon, about to hit the road to Baltimore, and realizing that I never figured out what Homestuck is.
Wish me luck (and say hi if you see me!).


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Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) said on Thursday that a new round of U.S. sanctions against Iran could rupture the unity of the international coalition negotiating for Iran's denuclearization.
Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, made the remarks on Thursday as part of his opening statement at a hearing exploring the bilateral nuclear agreement with Iran. The hearing was part of an effort to look into the interim agreement with Iran in greater detail, assess prospects for a more comprehensive final agreement and explore the likely effects of new sanctions legislation.
Johnson said that while he supports strong sanctions, he said it may the most reasonable course of action to pause additional sanctions against Iran while negotiations take place.
"The history of our relationship with Iran is littered with missed opportunities, on both sides," Johnson said. "I want to assess the formal analysis the committee is to receive today from the director of national intelligence on the effects on negotiations and on our P5+1 partners of Congressional action on new sanctions, but I agree that the administration's request for a diplomatic pause is reasonable. A new round of U.S. sanctions now could rupture the unity of the international coalition against Iran's nuclear program."
Johnson said the current negotiations with Iran may be the last best chance to resolve the nuclear crisis by diplomacy. He said the U.S. should not do anything counterproductive that could damage Western unity on the issue. That way, if talks fail, it will be clear that Iran caused the failure.
"We should not give Iran, the P5+1 countries or other nations a pretext to lay responsibility for their collapse on us," Johnson said. "Ultimately, while some of us might differ on tactics, it is clear we all share the same goal: to ensure that Iran does not achieve a nuclear weapon, and to do that diplomatically if possible, while recognizing that other alternatives remain on the table."


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Spring is right around the corner! To help you grow your doTERRA business, we're happy to announce that we've added a great new lead capture feature to all Using Essential Oils websites, doTERRA digital e-books!
You'll find a new banner at the bottom of every page of your website on the footer section along with the latest doTERRA Product Guide, Quarterly Living Magazine, Quality Reports (added last month) and the monthly oils promotions!
The new eBook feature that includes a new eBook form, eBook Squeeze page and eBook download page is now completely installed and ready for use on all active sites so there is NO EXTRA CHARGE and NOTHING you need to do to activate this new feature. We do hope that you do a quick test on your site and provide feedback on the form below.
We've included the two currently available digital e-books directly from doTERRA, so you can be confident that it is compliant content for you to share with your customers and prospects.
How it works:
If a website visitor clicks on the banner invitation, it takes them to a new e-book "squeeze page" where they enter their name and email address to gain access to the e-book. Once they have entered that information they are taken to a confirmation page where they can select between 2 e-Books: Essential Oils for Beginners, or Aromatherapy. You'll then have this contact information auto-loaded onto your website contact list.
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This fall Her Agenda hosted a conversation in partnership with Alley on the topic of mastering a multidimensional career with writer, digital strategist, speaker and now New York Times best-selling author, Luvvie Ajayi. Over the years, she's built a loyal following and created a career that lives at the intersection of comedy, activism and technology.
In a world where we have so many opportunities, and most of us have side hustle upon side hustle, it can be hard to figure out how to bring all of our dimensions together in a way that makes sense. Luvvie spoke with our founder, Rhonesha Byng, about how she did it, how she monetized it, and how she built a team to help her sustain it all while staying true to her voice and her self.
Luvvie first began her journey in 2006 writing through her blog, Awesomely Luvvie, now a community of half a million. "I've built this community because my tone in writing is, I'm writing to you not writing at you," while explaining how she has built her audience. "People relate to how I approach topics."
The cycle of overwhelmness is a popular topic for Luvvie, who in addition being a NYT best seller, manages both Awesomely Luvvie and Awesomely Techie, is the co-Founder and Executive Director of The Red Pump Project, in addition to a constant stream of speaking engagements. Luvvie shares how she pulls herself back out of the cycle, "I use a lot of apps for my craziness like Wonderlist. It's a to-do list app that syncs across all your devices. I have to get myself out of it by remembering it's just one thing at a time."
"[You have to understand] there will never be a point where you don't have 85,000 things to do – [and be] okay with that state," Luvvie shared. "Be more gentle with yourself and understand that you are not superwoman and people can't expect you to be. Prioritize your work and be transparent with people too. It's important to be human in your business and let people know that [you can't] do 55,000 things today in one hour."
Here are the 5 biggest keys Luvvie shared with us:
- Learn how to let go of control: "That's been the biggest lesson about this whole book tour and release. This [tour] has been an exercise in trusting the people around you to hold you up and I think that's really important."
- Build a team: "It's hard, especially for all the type A control freaks out there. If you are doing work that's really good, you might be doing it in a silo – nobody knows, so this book forced me to get a publicist."
- Plan, plan, plan: "The leap of faith sounds real sexy. If you have that dream, I do encourage you to go follow it. If you have this dream, plan. If you have to, be really cheap for a year before you quit your job [so you] have a nest egg. You can't quit your job when you have $300 dollars saved like 'I'm gonna make it work and move to New York with $4.' Plan for it and then when you leap you won't go crashing to the ground."
- Pay attention to your gifts: "It's important – don't take them for granted. The blog has opened all of the doors for me.'
- Get a media kit: "You want something on paper that can speak to your work. Create something physical that represents your business whether that be a media kit, e-book, or visual resume."
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Apple doesn't do cheap. It never has and, despite a summer of hype and hope, it was never going to slap a bargain-bucket price tag on its new iPhone 5c.
However, its decision to start flogging its plastic device at £469 SIM-free, rising to £569 for the 32GB model, is proof positive just how little Apple is interested in competing with Samsung, HTC and Nokia in the lower end of the smartphone gene pool.
Plenty can be (and has already been) said about this being a huge mistake by Apple.
The game has changed and where it once defined the future, it's now having to follow its rivals.
Except that the level of hubris at the top of the Cupertino company means it's unwilling to dilute its brand by offering the iPhone 5c at a super low price point in the same way others are happy to.
The idea of anyone in China, India or other developing markets being willing to pay this much money upfront is absurd.
That's one way of looking at it. The other is that Apple knows that with so many million iOS devices out there, shifting iPhones is no longer how it makes the big bucks.
That money comes from the App Store, where it still bests Google Play, despite there being millions more Android phones and tablets in the wild.
Analysis firm Distimo's May figures showed Apple's daily revenue from its Top 200 paid apps at $5.1 million, compared to $1.1 million for Google.
So, perhaps Apple doesn't think it needs to flog that many iPhone 5cs in order to make cash (which, let's face it, is it's ultimate goal).
Even with that high price, it's hard to imagine the iPhone 5c being a flop. Once we get complete contract info from the networks, there'll be a clearer idea of the device's chances.
As ever, even if numbers are sluggish, perspective will be required.
Apple still massively outsells the likes of Nokia and HTC in the smartphone sector and this new phone will doubtless be no different.
What the iPhone 5c does lay bare, though, is that Apple has no plans at all to offer a genuinely cheap phone.
It clearly doesn't perceive a low-cost kit as a viable way of making big profits, seeing as the margins would be so low in selling a phone for under £200, say.
The specs are essentially the same as 2012's iPhone 5, except for the polycarbonate shell.
We're hardly looking at a phone that offers entry-level internals, such as Nokia's superb but limited Lumia 625.
Be under no illusion, the iPhone 5c will sell. But it marks a point where Apple is no longer leading the conversation.
These days it feels like Cook and co have become 'me too' purveyors, something that was almost unthinkable just a few years ago.


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I have started taking levothyroxine 25 MG 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I colored my hair and after the shower I noticed some welts, very itchy on my knees. As the day went on I started to itch on my upper arms and shoulders and the backs of my upper thighs. I don't know if this is a reaction to the medication or the hair dye. Any ideas?
How long can it take a reaction to occur when taking levothyroxine?
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This sounds like it might be more a reaction to the hair dye than a medicine you've been taking two weeks. Try taking some benadryl and see how you respond to that. Don't use oral benadryl and benadryl cream together. That's way to much histamine. If the rash gets markedly worse, or you developed other symptoms, go to the er or your doctor.
You should call the doctor who prescribed the levothyroxine and tell him about your allergic reaction, and ask him if HE/SHE thinks it is from the med or from the hair color.That is a very low dose of levo. By the way, was this the first time that you have used this hair color? Report this to your doctor also, and let him/her determine what is causing the allergic reaction. He/she might have to give you something to counteract your allergic reaction in the meantime, regardless of what could have caused it. Good luck.
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After their parents having made it big on the big screen, its Bollywood's star kids turn to take over the reins from them. Most of these star kids have already done their acting classes and are all set to make their big debuts. Thanks to the social media, some of these kids have their own fan clubs with many people following them.
So, let's take a look at the Bollywood's most-talked about celebrity kids who are media's favourite newsmakers:
1. Sara Ali Khan
Sara Ali Khan is the daughter of Saif Ali Khan and ex-wife Amrita Singh. Sara is all set to make her Bollywood debut opposite Sushant Singh Rajput in Kedarnath. The actress has already started shooting for the film and looks stunning the in photos shared by the crew of Kedarnath.
2. Jhanvi Kapoor
Sridevi and Boney Kapoor's daughter Jhanvi is extremely gorgeous. The 20-year old has taken acting lessons from The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles. She is rumoured to be making her debut opposite Ishaan Khattar.
3. Shanaya Kapoor
The daughter of Sanjay Kapoor and Maheep Kapoor, Shanaya is often spotted at big Bollywood parties with her parents. This gorgeous girl is best friends with Suhana Khan and Ananya Pandey and the trio is often clicked together by the paparazzi.
4. Ishaan Khattar
Neelima Azim and Rajesh Khattar's son Ishaan Khattar, who also happens to be Shahid Kapoor's half-brother has already assisted Abhishek Chaubey in the making of 'Udta Punjab'. The 21-year-old has previously acted in Shahid's 'Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi' and is currently busy preparing for the Hindi remake of 'Sairat'.
5. Suhana Khan
Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana has recently been making several public appearances with her parents at parties. The star kid is also a social media sensation despite her staying away from online platforms. According to latest reports, Suhana was spotted around a popular audition location, thus sparking rumours of her gearing up for Bollywood debut
6. Ananya Pandey
Daughter of Chunky Pandey, Ananya is all set to make her debut in high society at le Bal in Paris this year. Ananya is rumoured to be debuting in Karan Johar's 'Student of the Year 2' alongside Jhanvi Kapoor, Disha Patani and Ishaan Khatter.
7. Ira Khan
Ira is the daughter of Aamir Khan with his first wife Reena Dutt. Ira who is studying in Netherlands, is currently in Mumbai and was clicked by the media at Aamir Khan's Diwali party. Ira has always been public shy and rarely makes any public appearances.
8. Ibrahim Khan
Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh's younger child, Ibrahim Ali Khan is another upcoming star. He made his Bollywood debut in the movie Tashan with the role of the young Jimmy. Unlike the other star kids, Ibrahim is not camera shy and is often spotted partying with other star kids.
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LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 35 people including women and children were killed and as many as 70 wounded in an explosion on the Pakistani-Indian border near the Pakistani city of Lahore, a local doctor said.
"We received 35 bodies including those of women and children and 60 to 70 were wounded," Deputy Medical Superintendent of Ghurki Hospital near the Wagah border crossing, identified only as Dr Khurram, told domestic television channels.
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Rensselaer Alumni Magazine - Spring 2010 - (Page 17)
ROBERT KARLICEK JR. has been named
director of the $18.5 million multi-university Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC). Karlicek is the president and founder of SolidUV Inc., which develops highpower ultraviolet LED systems. From 2005 to 2008, he served as chief scientist and vice president for research at Luminus Devices. Prior to these ventures, Karlicek worked for more than 25 years in research, development, and manufacturing of opto-electronic devices with industry leaders including AT&T Bell Labs, EMCORE, General Electric, Gore Photonics, and Microsemi.
Das will use the five-year, $500,000 award to further his research into the dynamics of collective intelligence on the Web. The CAREER award is given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers and is one of the NSF's most competitive awards. Das joined Rensselaer in 2007. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Harvard University and doctorate in computer science from MIT.
professor of biomedical engineering, has been named head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Vashishth is among the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine core faculty of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. His interdisciplinary research focus, propelled by more than $3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, includes biology and hard tissue mechanics, cellular control of tissue growth and development, mechanobiology of skeletal tissue regeneration, and fatigue fractures of long bones. Vashishth received his bachelor's degree from the Malviya National Institute of Technology, his master's degree in mechanical engineering at West Virginia University, and his doctorate in biomedical materials from the University of London. He joined Rensselaer's School of Engineering in 1999.
SANMAY DAS, assistant professor of computer science, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation.
the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr. '59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering, has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Linhardt is one of 531 newly selected fellows recognized for their efforts to advance science or its applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished, according to AAAS. In the announcement, AAAS cites Linhardt for "distinguished contributions to pharmaceutical chemistry, particularly for research on the structure, activity, and synthesis of the anticoagulant drug heparin and related polysaccharides."
NIKHIL KORATKAR, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has won the 2009 SES Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Division of Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures. The annual award is reserved for "one outstanding young researcher" and aims to "encourage especially promising researchers to remain active in the field [of nanotechnology]." As part of the award, Koratkar will deliver a special presentation in April at the ECS annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
professor of computer science, has won a Humboldt Research Award. The award, which is given by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes Trinkle's lifetime research achievements and helps support his future work. He has been recognized for his fundamental discoveries in the field of robotic algorithms and movement. The Humboldt Research Award recognizes researchers from around the world and fosters increased research collaboration with German research institutions.
his work in acoustics, vibrations, noise control, and sensors. He holds 17 patents, most of which are in the area of noise control and vibrations.
KURT ANDERSON, professor of
senior constellation professor of the Tetherless World Research Constellation and assistant dean for information technology, and JEFFREY TRINKLE, professor of computer science, have been selected as fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Fellowship is reserved for senior members of the IEEE who demonstrate extraordinary accomplishments in security, healthcare, space, smart grid/energy, or sustainable energy. IEEE cited Hendler "for contributions to artificial intelligence, and development of the Semantic Web." Trinkle was cited "for contributions to analysis of robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation."
HENRY SCARTON, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering and director of the Laboratory for Noise and Vibration Control Research, has been named a life fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME recognized Scarton for his "significant engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession." Scarton, who joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1971, is best known for
mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been appointed associate dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Engineering, and LINDA SCHADLER, professor in materials science and engineering, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs. Anderson's research interests are in all aspects of computational multibody dynamics, with particular attention given to development of advanced algorithms. Schadler's research has focused on the micromechanical behavior of two-phase systems, primarily polymer composites.
KENNETH WARRINER, professor of architecture, died on Nov. 4, 2009. Warriner taught architectural design and theory for more than 40 years. He was also an accomplished architectural scholar, focusing on urban design and theory. He was published on topics ranging from human subjectivities and their consequences for design to the influence of built environments on human social dynamics. He received a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Florida in 1953. Warriner attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design's City Planning Program in 1955 and the Architectural Association's History, Theory, Criticism Program in London in 1988-89. He practiced architecture in Florida and New Orleans until 1963. Before joining Rensselaer's architecture faculty in 1968, he was for five years a project architect with Stonorov and Haws of Philadelphia, an internationally renowned architecture practice. The Rensselaer Board of Trustees presented Warriner with the Outstanding Teacher Award in 2004.
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