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Note from Alice
NFCA Executive Director
With every New Year dawns the promise of a better tomorrow. For me, that better tomorrow is one where those suffering with symptoms of celiac disease receive a prompt and accurate diagnosis and those living with celiac disease possess the knowledge, skills, and resources to manage their disease so that they may live the healthiest and fullest life possible. At NFCA, we extend a hearty welcome to 2009 and embrace this wonderful opportunity to announce a few of the exciting projects we are set to embark on this year.
1. The NFCA will launch a series of informative monthly webinars for physicians, dietitians and newly diagnosed celiac patients interested in learning about the gluten-free lifestyle, along with best practices for those with celiac disease. Check the NFCA website at www.beyondceliac.org for details.
2. The NFCA's GREAT program (Gluten-free Resource Education Awareness Training) will be expanded to include regular webinars for chefs and food service personnel to update them on the latest in commercial gluten-free cooking. We know that you will find more and more wonderful restaurants across the country offering delicious and safe gluten-free food for you and your families to enjoy.
3. The NFCA is developing a program related to women's health and wellness with a focus on reproductive health issues. Our goal is to escalate the recognition of celiac disease as a factor in several health issues facing women. Personal stories are an effective tool for relaying the true impact of this autoimmune disease. We invite you to share your story concerning women's health with us. Please send your stories to Nancy Ginter at [email protected].
The NFCA's new programming will give new audiences the information they need to manage celiac disease and the gluten-free lifestyle both professionally and personally. In 2009 we hope to increase recognition and knowledge of celiac disease across expansive and diverse populations, maximizing our ability to restore health and reclaim lives. May this New Year be the beginning of new hopes, new possibilities and new joys for all of you. All of us at the NFCA wish you and your family's blessings of happiness, peace, and good health in 2009.
Alice Bast
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As 2009 begins and the family calendar slowly fills, one date is marked boldly in our home: my daughter's birthday. Granted, hers is not until November, but we will go through many ideas and plans before settling on a party theme. Because she has celiac, food is a critical factor. Luckily, there are endless options for throwing a smashing birthday party complete with delicious, gluten-free food.
A Piece of Cake
Let's start with the most important element: the cake. Years ago, for our daughter's fourth birthday, we ordered a cake from a gluten-free bakery, drove two hours round-trip to pick it up, and carefully transported it to the site of her gymnastics-themed party. It was a masterpiece: layers of vanilla cake sandwiched with fluffy mascarpone cheese (think tiramisu) and topped with whipped cream, rainbow sprinkles and chocolate shavings. The kids took a few bites and left the rest of their $40 cake to run off and do more tumbling on the mats.
After that year, we started baking our own birthday cakes. Two of our favorite GF mixes come from Miss Roben's. We love their chocolate and yellow cake mixes. Both are simple to make with a few added ingredients. We bake them in a sheet pan and frost them with ordinary, brand-name frosting like Duncan Hines or Pillsbury. Be sure to check the labels, as some are gluten-free and some are not. My daughter loves to help with the baking and decorating. She adds sprinkles, chocolate chips or chopped nuts to the iced cake and the result is delicious. The kids love it, too, and never suspect they are eating something gluten-free.
One bonus to using a gluten-free cake mix: it can easily be used for cupcakes. Check the package for baking times and ladle the batter into a lined pan. They are a little harder to frost than a sheet cake, but make a great treat to send in to school with your child if his or her birthday falls on a school day.
Party Entrees
To kids, the food at a party is one of the least important details. I confess to having spent too much time over the years at other children's birthday parties worrying about my daughter's feelings being hurt when she can't eat the pizza or other entrée being served. Every single time I watch the other kids take two bites of food and run off to continue skating/climbing/running/shouting/laughing, I am reminded that it is not as big a deal as I thought. My purpose in pointing this out is to remind other parents that the food component of a successful birthday party need not be a source of stress. Kids are not looking for gourmet fare. Give them foods they like in portions that are child-appropriate, easy for little hands to manage, and quick to hand out and clean up. Here are a few ideas:
Hot dogs
For older children (hot dogs can be a choking hazard for toddlers) hot dogs are a classic favorite. Boiled, grilled or microwaved, they are easy to make and hand out and tasty to eat. Many brands offer gluten-free options, including Hatfield, Dietz & Watson and Hebrew National. You can provide toppings like mustard, ketchup, relish, onions, even cheese, to add to the fun. Go ahead and use regular buns for the guests and either give your child a gluten-free bun or put a couple of hot dogs on a plate.
Chicken nuggets
Regular readers of this column know I am a huge fan of the gluten-free frozen chicken nuggets by Bell & Evans. I have tried many alternate brands and none come close to the flavor and texture of these delicious chicken nuggets and tenders. They are frozen uncooked and bake up nice and crispy in 25 minutes. Serve them with a variety of dipping sauces (try gluten-free ranch dressing, ketchup, barbeque sauce, honey mustard, pesto, and pizza sauce) and enjoy.
Burgers are a classic and can easily be grilled at home. They can be enjoyed by your child Á la carte or on a gluten-free bun. As with the hot dogs, offer your child's guests regular buns. Serve them with a variety of toppings and everyone will enjoy creating their personalized burger.
Snack foods
Fortunately for celiacs, there are countless snack foods that are mainstream, popular and gluten-free. Be sure to check the websites and ingredient lists of the major manufacturers for a complete list of gluten-free products. A few notable companies are Frito-Lay, Herr's, Lay's, Utz, Orville Redenbacher and our favorite: Robert's American Gourmet-makers of Pirate's Booty and other organic, all-natural snacks. Put out some bowls of salty, sweet and crunchy snacks and your child's guests will have a ball. Here are some fun and yummy ideas:
♣ Potato chips with sour cream and onion dip. Yes, the classic Lipton's Recipe Onion Soup Mix is GF!
♣ Corn tortilla chips with salsa or guacamole
♣ Chunks of fresh fruit with cream cheese dip (mix a jar of Jet Puffed Marshmallow cream with a package of softened Philadelphia cream cheese)
♣ Sliced raw veggies with ranch dressing. Try strips of sweet red pepper, cucumbers and baby carrots with Newman's Own or Wishbone ranch.
One final idea that is always a big hit: build-your-own sundaes. Supply ice cream and a slew of toppings (whipped cream, hot fudge, nuts, M&Ms and more) for a dessert that no kid will be able to resist.
With children, blending in is key. That is why I avoid serving the gluten-free sandwiches, pizza and other foods that are tasty but still noticeably different from their gluten-containing counterparts. With so many food options available that can withstand the peer test, it is a wiser move to serve what you know will pass, differences undetected. Enjoy your 2009 birthday parties!
Introducing Our Newest Column, Nourish
By Linda Simon, NFCA Volunteer Staff Writer
"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food." -Hippocrates
"Great!" you say. It seems reasonable that the treatment for gluten intolerance is a change in diet, but so hard to do if you do not cook! Unfortunately, a large number of Americans today do not. So, NFCA and I are introducing a new column called Nourish. It will teach simple cooking techniques along with good gluten-free nutrition.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Linda Simon, a registered dietitian and personal chef. For several years now, I have been cooking for gluten-free clients, teaching gluten-free cooking classes and developing new gluten-free recipes. I do it because it's fun! Now I want to share the creativity, joy and satisfaction of cooking and eating gluten-free with you!
Nourish will include one or two simple recipes each month. Several successful techniques and types of equipment will be used. I will discuss how to cook meals that are easy, quick, or cheap. We will also focus on improving nutrition, highlighting what varying ingredients have to offer.
So let's start at the beginning, with breakfast.
Breakfast Risotto, Three Ways: Before we get to the recipe, lets start with some tips: Using brown rice is a great way to start the day with healthy and hearty whole grains. If you like a creamier dish, more like rice pudding, opt for short grain or sweet brown rice. It is a bit more difficult to find, but so worth it. Check out well-stocked Asian markets because they often carry interesting kinds of rice, including these. You can buy a big bag and store it in the freezer for use in other dishes.
Dried fruit plumps up and naturally sweetens the breakfast risotto. Any combination of fruits will work. Cinnamon helps reduce spikes in blood sugar, and as an added bonus, will leave a nice scent in the kitchen. Optional walnuts and/or ground flax seeds can be used to garnish the dish, adding fiber and omega 3s. The walnuts will give yummy and contrasting crunch, but don't cook the nuts or the flax seeds in with the rice. They will lose some omega 3s and get mushy. Add them in right before serving.
Any left over Breakfast Risotto stores well in the fridge or freezer. Simply warm it in the microwave, adding some water if it thickens more than you like.
Now for the recipe!
Crock-pot Breakfast Risotto: Wake up to breakfast ready and waiting. What's not to love?
Serves 6
1 cup short grain or sweet brown rice
1 cup dried fruit (any combination of raisins, cranberries, apples, dates, etc.)
1 tsp cinnamon
4 cups cold water
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
1/2 cup ground flax seeds, optional (Grind them in a coffee grinder and store extras in the freezer).
Put rice, fruit, cinnamon and water in a 6-cup crock-pot. Turn on low before going to bed. Cook for about 8 hours. Spoon into serving bowls and garnish with optional nuts or ground flax seeds.
Pressure Cooker Method- Make friends with a pressure cooker. I have several and use them almost every day for all kinds of dishes. Be sure to read the manufacturers directions.
Using the ingredients listed above, put rice, fruit, cinnamon, and water in a pressure cooker. Lock on the lid and bring to pressure over high heat. Turn down heat to medium or low and maintain pressure. Cook for 15-20 minutes. Cool under running water or allow the pressure to release on its own. Serve as explained above.
Stove-top Method- no special equipment needed.
Put rice, fruit, cinnamon, and 5 cups of water in a heavy saucepan. Over high heat, bring water to boil and cover. Lower heat to maintain a simmer. Liquid simmers when it has just a few small bubbles. Cook for 45-60 minutes, or until the rice is tender. Stir occasionally, more often as the water is absorbed. Tip: It's OK to add even more water if needed, to prevent sticking to the bottom of the pan and burning the risotto. Serve as explained above.
Linda Simon [email protected]
Soups and Stews for the Cold Winter Months
By Christina Gentile, NFCA Volunteer Staff Writer
There is nothing more enticing and relaxing than a bowl of hot soup on a cold winter night. The aroma, heat, and taste of a delicious bowl of soup is a true hallmark of the winter season. Usually, homemade soups and stews are made using flours and gluten-containing thickening agents. When I cook homemade soup and stew using my family's recipes, I substitute all-purpose flour with white rice flour, and if a thickening agent is needed, I use cornstarch, potato starch, or potato flakes. When using a broth, it is important to remember that not all are gluten-free. Be sure to use a gluten-free broth such as Swanson. In addition, some bouillon cubes contain gluten; opt for a gluten-free brand such as Celifibr Vegetarian Chicken Gluten-Free Bouillon Cubes.
A good broth and stock, fresh and flavorful ingredients, and a mixture of seasonings can create a delicious soup. A high-quality stock creates a flavorful soup, but takes a couple hours to cook. However, it is not difficult to make and can also be frozen for later use. If you do not have the time to cook a homemade stock, you can always purchase a gluten-free version. Cooking soups with fresh vegetables is a great idea because it adds many nutrients to the dish. When adding vegetables to your soup or stew, try sautéing them in a pan for a few minutes before adding them to help bring out the flavor. When cooking the soup, keep the stove at a low simmer. Do not boil the soup because the soup may burn, the nutritional content of the vegetables will be reduced due to the heat, and the soup may lose its color and appearance. If you are on the go and do not have time to cut up vegetables or cook meat, try using frozen vegetables or purchase pre-cut vegetables, and opt for pre-cooked shrimp, chicken, and meat. For a hearty vegetable-based stew, try adding gluten-free pasta noodles, cubed potato, and black beans. Below are several ideas for gluten free stocks, soups, and stews. Enjoy!
Gluten Free Stock Recipes:
Chicken Stock: Place 4 pounds chicken (backs, wings, and bones) in a large stock pot. Add 4 quarts of cold water, 2 large sliced onions, 2 cups sliced carrots carrots, 2 cups chopped celery, celery leaves, 1 bay leaf, 4 peppercorns, 2 sprigs parsley, and 1 teaspoon dried thyme. Slowly bring to a boil and lower heat to a simmer, skimming off surface foam for the first 30 minutes. Simmer for 2 hours and strain. Yields about 7 cups.
Beef Stock: Preheat oven to 450°F. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large roasting pan. Add 4 pounds beef bones and brown in oven, about 10 minutes, stirring pieces frequently. Add 2 large sliced onions, 2 sliced carrots, 2 sliced ribs celery with leaves and roast until browned. Transfer bones and vegetables to a large stock pot. Pour off fat from roasting pan and deglaze with 1 cup hot water, scraping up browned bits from bottom of pan; pour into stockpot. Add 1 bay leaf, 4 peppercorns, 2 sprigs parsley and 1 teaspoon dried thyme to stock-pot and cover with 4 quarts cold water. Slowly bring to a boil and lower heat to a simmer. Simmer 4 to 5 hours, skimming off surface foam during first 30 minutes of cooking; strain. Makes about 3 quarts.
Vegetable Stock: Combine 3 each of finely chopped carrots, celery, leeks, and onions, along with 1/2 pound mushroom pieces, 1 bay leaf, 2 sprigs parsley, and 1 teaspoon dried thyme in a large stockpot. Cover with 3 quarts water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cook, covered, 2 hours; strain. Makes about 2 quarts.
Garden Tomato Soup
1 cup chopped celery
1 small onion, chopped
1 medium carrot, shredded
1-small green pepper, chopped
¼ cup butter or margarine
4 cups chicken broth
4 cups chopped peeled tomatoes (about 7 medium)
2 tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
Potato flakes for thickening
1. In a 3 qt. saucepan, sauté celery, onion, carrot and green pepper in butter until tender
2. Add 4 cups broth, tomatoes, sugar, curry, salt and pepper; bring to a boil
3. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes, add potato flakes and simmer until desired thickness
Cream of Spinach Soup
2 cups chopped fresh spinach (or 1 10-oz package frozen spinach, thawed)
1 cup chopped onion
¼ cup butter
3 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered (about 1 pound)
1 ½ cups chicken broth (or vegetable broth for vegetarian option)
1 ½ cups water
2 chicken bouillon cubes (or vegetable bouillon cubes for vegetarian option)
2 cups half-and-half
½ teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
¾ cup sour cream
1. In a large saucepan over medium heat, sauté onion in butter for 3 minutes or until limp. Add potatoes, chicken broth, water, and bouillon cubes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Add spinach and cook for 2 to 4 minutes longer until spinach is tender.
2. Working in batches, purée soup mixture in a blender. Return to saucepan. Whisk in half-and-half, salt and pepper.
3. Over low heat, bring to just before simmering. Whisk in the sour cream. You may want to use an immersion blender to get the sour cream fully incorporated.
4. This soup can be served hot or chilled. Garnish with chopped chives, sprinkles of allspice, or a dollop of sour cream.
Potato-Leek Soup
3 large leeks, cut lengthwise, separate, clean. Use only the white and pale green parts, chop.
2 Tbsp butter
2 cups water
2 cups chicken broth (or vegetable broth for vegetarian option)
2 lbs potatoes, peeled, diced into 1/2 inch pieces
Salt & Pepper
Marjoram - dash
Tabasco sauce or other red chili sauce
1. Cook leeks in butter with salt and pepper in a medium sized saucepan. Cover pan, cook on low heat for 10 minutes. Check often. Do not brown leeks! Browning will give leeks a burnt taste.
2. Add water, broth, and potatoes. Cook for 20 minutes. Scoop about half of the soup mixture into a blender, puree and re


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Battles in the video-game world don't always take place on the screen. Gamemakers often have found themselves duking it out with the National Institute on Media and the Family over violence in games, their marketing practices and game ratings. But something unusual has been happening lately: The one-time adversaries are actually working together.
The proof is in the Minneapolis-based institute's annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card (www. mediawise.org), which comes out today for the 13th year. In the past, the report has criticized video-gamemakers and given grades -- often low -- on how their products affect children. But this year, the grades are up and the tone is conciliatory. One reason?
"Nearly all of our policy recommendations from past report cards have been implemented," the report says.
David Walsh, who founded the National Institute on Media and the Family, said there has definitely been a shift in the nonprofit organization's relationship with gamemakers.
"For us to be fair with the report card, we need to acknowledge the fact that the industry has really made significant changes and reforms," Walsh said last week. "While there's still a ways to go, we are starting to see our role now as focusing more and more on parents -- because we've been critiquing the industry for not doing enough to help parents, and they've basically responded to everything that we've asked."
Some examples of the changes the industry has made in response to the institute's concerns, according to Walsh:
• The three major home consoles -- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii -- all have parenting controls.
• Marketing practices that once targeted young players with adult-oriented games have been cleaned up. "They now have probably the best advertising code of conduct among any of the entertainment industries," Walsh said.
• The ratings on video games, which were inconsistent and not universally applied, are more accurate.
• Retailers now have 80 percent compliance for verifying the age of buyers before selling games rated Mature, for players 17 and older. "That's not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than the zero it was just five years ago," Walsh said.
• The Entertainment Software Ratings Board, an industry-backed group that administers video-game ratings, is doing a better job of educating parents after years of being a prime target of the institute. "Their accelerated parent and retailer education programs are state of the art," he said.
In fact, the ESRB recently augmented its ratings by adding paragraph summaries that detail why a game has received a particular rating. By visiting the ESRB's website (www.esrb.org), parents can quickly get a feel for the game's content. For instance, the summary for the popular mature-rated shooter "Resistance 2" explains, "Aliens and humans get blown up, torn apart, shot, impaled and killed in gushes of red blood and body parts. During cut scenes, team members are killed by aliens, and in one instance, executed by another character. Characters use strong profanity ... during game play and cut scenes."
As more evidence of the new environment, Walsh's comments were even included in the ESRB's news release about its new game summaries.
"There's a good deal of common ground that the ESRB shares with the National Institute on Media and the Family in terms of wanting parents to be involved in and informed about the media their children consume," ESRB president Patricia Vance explained last week. "Dr. Walsh agrees that rating summaries are a powerful tool to allow parents to be even more informed about video game content, and we're very proud to have had his support in our announcement."
Things aren't perfect, Walsh said. Research shows that many kids still play mature-rated games, he added, but the responsibility lies with parents -- the only group to receive an "incomplete" grade on the institute's report card. That's why it also advises parents on which new games to embrace and which ones to avoid (at left).
"What we're doing now is partnering with the industry to work on our now mutually agreed-upon goal, which is educating parents and giving them the tools," Walsh said. "That does not mean that we will abandon our role as the conscience of the industry, but it also doesn't make sense to be a naysayer just for the sake of being a naysayer."
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More than 100 years ago, within a period of only a few decades, unusually many historical finds, treasures and whole cities of antique cultures were found and excavated; Schliemann discovered Troy, Evans investigated Crete, Carter found the grave of Tutankhamen and Koldewey excavated Babylon.
In Jenseits von Theben the players travel back to this time at the end of the 19th century, take on the role of these famous archaeologists and discover those antique treasures and places, which lay buried in the sands for thousands of years.
Each player slips into the role of an archaeologist, travels across Europe, finds suitable knowledge in different archaeological areas then excavates at antique places. The players receive points (= fame and honor) from discoveries at these locations; the player with most points wins the game. Additionally, the players can acquire articles for better excavation and travel conditions and can visit exhibitions to present their finds.
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Peter Prinz
Prinz Spiele
Year: 2004
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 50 - 100 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 700 grams (estimated)
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Thebes, what can I say? I am a glutton for games about archeology. Thebes should have been named Game of the Year, although I do like Zooloretto... and so do the gaming group I occasionally play with.
Thebes keeps you interested from the first digging to the last. You start out with your archaeologist in Warsaw. Warsaw gives you the advantage of taking all four cards from the board and replacing with four new research ones. You discover immediately as a gamer you are dealing with 52 weeks for each year -- 1900-1901-1902. You measure how many spaces you move from city to city in weeks. For example, if you want to move from Warsaw to Paris, that costs two weeks of the 52.
Next, you are governed by cards, much like Thurn and Taxis. You look at four different research cards as they are called. Some research cards relate to cities, some to Congresses (gathering of archaeologists), some to assistants, and some to shovels. You pick a card, for example, that says Rome. You are in Moscow when you draw the card. It takes three weeks or movement to reach Rome. There, you place the card you have selected as a later preparation for the dig. Cards are colored coded for the five different dig areas.
Digs are housed in five different locations at the bottom of the board. You can dig in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, or Crete. I had to get used to reading the top of the cards in German, but the cards are generally self-explanatory. Five different languages of rules are included in the game, so you can also practice your language skills. Now, let's return to that card I picked up and can later use from Rome. Each card is color coded for a particular dig. You look at the card as general knowledge or specialized knowledge. You are furnished five bags where you can house treasure and debris round tiles for later digging. I put the Rome card aside, which happens to have two closed books at the bottom of the card. That means specialized knowledge. It is important to remember the adage from the rules: "You cannot have any more specialized knowledge than general knowledge." General knowledge is the symbol for a closed book(s).
As I learned in the first playing of this game, you don't want to plunder too soon. My opponent waited on his digs until the second year (after you pass the first 52 weeks). I decided to dig on the first year with about five books. Now, comes the fun part with a specialized wheel. To simplify, let's say we have five books, either specialized or general only. You take the wheel (have to put together) and turn to a white 5 on a blue background. Then, you decide (and that is the fun part) how many weeks you are willing to dig, for example, in Greece. You have already moved your figure to Greece--that cost so many weeks, also. You decide on five more weeks and remove five circular tiles from the beautifully illustrated Greece bag. Your first three picks are duds (debris), and then you draw two artifacts. You have already received a "1" artifact for being the first to dig in Greece. Now, you are lucky to have drawn a "5" artifact and a "2" artifact. These artifacts will give you points at the end of the game.
Let's talk for a moment about victory points. You earn points for the Congress cards you hold. You earn points for all the artifacts. You earn special points if you draw circular tiles of specialized books from the bags as part of the digging. The person for each of the digging areas (e.g. Egypt) achieves special points (usually 5)for the most specialized knowledge accumulated.
You don't know until the end of the game whether you have achieved the most points. You have an idea, but the digging may continue even in year, 1902, until the 52 weeks is exhausted. How else can you achieve victory points? Don't forget the exhibits. Some of those research cards are exhibit cards. You have two numbers on the exhibit cards and three places to store exhibits on the board. The first number on the top left indicates the number of victory points. The number on the upper right indicates the number of weeks to move ahead on the 52 to achieve those points later. Unfortunately, with only three board slots the additionally drawn exhibit cards to replace the original four research cards cause you to constantly replace cards as A moves to B to C, and the entire deck (as we found out) of exhibit cards could be exhausted early.
Have I in a whirlwind way given you the flavor of the game? The game is spirited and quite intense. You never what you are going to dig. Would I play the game again? In a heart beat! The sands of time will never run thin.


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Today, the Buccleuch Kennel based at Chapel Farm is home to many champion gundogs. This includes Buccleuch Labradors, English Springer Spaniels and Cocker Spaniels who have won many prestigious accolades including multiple British and Irish Springer Spaniel Championship wins, twice placed at the Cocker Spaniel Championships, and most recently winning the 2017 IGL Retriever Championship, all achieved under the expert handling of David Lisett.
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Registration is now open for the upcoming Hawaii Modernism Symposium. Join Historic Hawai'i Foundation for presentations, discussion and celebration of Hawaii's significant architecture, planning and engineering achievements from the middle of the 20th century. The event entitled: "Hawai'i Modernism: a Symposium on Identification, Evaluation and Preservation of Our Recent Past" will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the East West Center in Honolulu. The event will include a presentation of major findings from HHF's recent context study on Hawai'i Modernism, a national overview of Modernism, discussion groups on key issues nationally as well as locally and next steps.
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How long will users stay on a Web page before leaving? It's a perennial question, yet the answer has always been the same:
- Not very long.
The average page visit lasts a little less than a minute.
As users rush through Web pages, they have time to read only a quarter of the text on the pages they actually visit (let alone all those they don't). So, unless your writing is extraordinarily clear and focused, little of what you say on your website will get through to customers.
However, while users are always in a hurry on the Web, the time they spend on individual page visits varies widely: sometimes people bounce away immediately, other times they linger for far longer than a minute. Given this, the average is not the most fruitful way of analyzing user behaviors. Users are human beings — their behaviors are highly variable and are not captured fully by a single number.
Leaving Web Pages: The Weibull Hazard Function
New research by Chao Liu and colleagues from Microsoft Research now provides a mathematical understanding of users' page-leaving behaviors. The scientists collected data from "a popular Web browser plug-in," analyzing page-visit durations for 205,873 different Web pages for which they had captured upwards of 10,000 visits. Suffice it to say: these guys crunched a lot of data (more than 2 billion dwell times).
- The result: the time users spend on a Web page follows a Weibull distribution.
99.9% of readers will now ask: What's a Weibull distribution?
Weibull is a reliability-engineering concept that's used to analyze the time-to-failure for components. The model's hazard function indicates the probability that a component will fail at time t, given that it has worked fine up until time t.
So, after replacing a spare part in a piece of equipment, Weibull analysis predicts when you'll have to replace it again. It also lets you conduct risk analysis beyond simplistic mean-time to failure. And, if you own a lot of equipment, you can use aggregate analysis to, say, manage your spare parts inventory.
Of course, when analyzing Web visits, we simply replace "component failure" with "user leaving the page." In their research paper, Liu and colleagues provide intensive statistical analysis to show that the Weibull model closely matches users' empirically observed behavior.
According to earlier research, there are 2 different kinds of Weibull distributions:
- Positive aging: The longer the component has been in service, the more likely it is to fail. In other words, the hazard function increases for larger values of t. This makes intuitive sense, because the longer stuff is used, the more it wears down. Thus, something that has been in use for a long time will be approaching its breaking point.
- Negative aging: The longer the component has been in service, the less likely it is to fail. Here, the hazard function decreases for larger values of t. This makes sense when individual components vary in quality: poorly made components usually fail early, so anything that has been in service for a long time is likely to be particularly robust and will usually survive even longer.
Negative Aging: Leave Quick or Stay Long
The researchers discovered that 99% of Web pages have a negative aging effect. In human–computer interaction (HCI) research, it's extremely rare to get this strong a finding, and Liu and colleagues should be credited with discovering a major new insight.
Why negative aging? Because Web pages are indeed of highly variable quality. Users know this and spend their initial time on a page in ruthless triage to abandon the dross ASAP. It's rare for people to linger on Web pages, but when users do decide that a page is valuable, they may stay for a bit.
The following chart shows the hazard function — that is, the likelihood of leaving — for the median Weibull parameters fitted across the scientists' humongous dataset:
It's clear from the chart that the first 10 seconds of the page visit are critical for users' decision to stay or leave. The probability of leaving is very high during these first few seconds because users are extremely skeptical, having suffered countless poorly designed Web pages in the past. People know that most Web pages are useless, and they behave accordingly to avoid wasting more time than absolutely necessary on bad pages.
If the Web page survives this first — extremely harsh — 10-second judgment, users will look around a bit. However, they're still highly likely to leave during the subsequent 20 seconds of their visit. Only after people have stayed on a page for about 30 seconds does the curve become relatively flat. People continue to leave every second, but at a much slower rate than during the first 30 seconds.
So, if you can convince users to stay on your page for half a minute, there's a fair chance that they'll stay much longer — often 2 minutes or more, which is an eternity on the Web.
So, roughly speaking, there are two cases here:
- bad pages, which get the chop in a few seconds; and
- good pages, which might be allocated a few minutes.
Note: "good" vs. "bad" is a decision that each individual user makes within those first few seconds of arriving. The design implications are clear:
- To gain several minutes of user attention, you must clearly communicate your value proposition within 10 seconds.


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Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.
R.S. § 2335 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, § 13, 17 Stat. 95.
1925—Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words in first sentence of text, now reading "before the register of the land office." Such words formerly read "before the register and receiver of the land-office." Such act is treated more fully in note under section 29 of this title.
Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Jumbo China Buffet has been a festival supporter for years by committing to the festival's Restaurant Discount Card. Cards will be sold for $5 at the festival gates and information booth (near the fountain) when the Bowling Green International Festival is held on September 24, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Circus Square Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Admission to the festival is $3 (children under 12 free) but, Restaurant Discount Card holders get in for $1.
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Police Find Lobdell's Passport; Intensify Searchby Maria Flora, The Journal Review • April 23, 2004 Share:
Tony Lobdell
Anthony Hyatt Lobdell, 21, Indianapolis, is enrolled in an Institute for Study Abroad program at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, about 624 miles west of Buenos Aires.
Argentine federal police are heading the investigation into his whereabouts. The U.S. Embassy issued a press release and Lobdell's photo to 250 Argentine media outlets Wednesday pleading for help finding the man. On Thursday, an American couple told Embassy officials they'd talked with Lobdell April 9 in a mountain park near the town of Bariloche in the Patagonia region of the Andes Mountains.
Bariloche, Argentina
Lobdell told his host family he would return April 11. They became alarmed and reported him missing to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires when he did not return by April 16. His host mother Silva Pont de Balbi told the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, that Lobdell promised to call her when he reached the town of Bariloche, but she has not heard from him.
The American couple said they met Lobdell at a mountain park April 9. He was on his way down the mountain to catch a bus back to Bariloche about 4:30 p.m., an Embassy official who did not want to be identified, said.
Argentine police Thursday searched the room in the inn where Lobdell had been staying since April 6 and found his clothes and passport, "Which to us means he had only gone out for the day, expecting to come out shortly," the State Department official said. Sources did not name the inn or the mountain park where Lobdell was last seen.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in Argentina is working with local officials.
The mountainous region of Bariloche
Argentine federal police, Mendoza police and forest rangers were searching for Lobdell. "They now have a better idea of where to look and hopefully that will speed things along," Amidon said, adding, "Everyone at the college continues to hold out hope that the intensified investigation and new clues will lead to his safe return."
Lobdell last used his Wabash College e-mail account April 7. He withdrew $36 from his Argentinean bank account through an automatic teller machine in Bariloche April 9, his host mother told La Nacion.
"Anthony is a very responsible boy, very studious, sociable, and 'sano' (good or wholesome) who liked sports, intellectually curious, serious, and helpful," Pont de Balbi told a La Nacion reporter. Lobdell lived with her family since his arrival in February.
Lobdell is a Franklin Central High School graduate. He is a Wabash College junior majoring in political science and minoring in Spanish. Lobdell's friends know him as Tony. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.
Young Americans and Europeans visit southern Argentina in droves because it's a beautiful area and the dollar is strong, the State Department official said. The area where Lobdell was last seen has rugged terrain.
Amidon said parents are voicing concerns about their students' safety abroad. The college has no plans to call students home, as a great percentage of them will study abroad during the course of their education, he said.
The State Department official said it is highly unusual for an American to go missing and that Argentines are generally non-violent toward U.S. citizens. The official also would feel comfortable with their son living and studying there.
Information about the investigation is available at the Mendoza newspaper, La Nacion, Web site: www.lanacion.com.ar
© 2004 The Journal Review
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Budget of 'increased taxes' unites Labor
Australians are listening to the Abbott government but some may be confused about what they're hearing, the prime minister says.
Admitting his first budget includes "increased taxes" in one interview, Tony Abbott in another pointed to selective listening for confusion about pre-election promises.
"Well, I know that people hear different things," he told ABC's Insiders TV program.
Mr Abbott spent another day on Sunday defending his budget, which includes a Medicare co-payment, pension cuts and a fuel excise rise.
Labor are using the budget as the linchpin for a new united front, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten telling party members the budget had brought Labor together.
"This terrible budget of the Abbott government, it has defined the Labor party," he told the annual Australian Labor Party conference in Melbourne on Sunday.
"Friends, the Labor party nationally has its voice back."
His comments came just hours before state and territory leaders commenced an emergency meeting in Sydney to discuss an $80 billion hole in state funding, left by last week's budget.
Mr Shorten accused the government of using cuts to state funding for schools and hospitals to sneak in another tax.
"They are actually increasing taxes through the back door," he told party members.
The states will have no choice but to raise GST because they must continue to operate schools and hospitals, he said.
Labor call it blackmailing, a line echoed by the Greens.
Mr Abbott says it's about ending handouts the government can't afford.
"What I've got to do is ensure that at the Commonwealth level, we are not living beyond our means, we're not mortgaging our future and piling up never-ending debt for our children and grandchildren," he told Fairfax radio.
But if a tax conversation was what Mr Abbott was after, the states refused to play along and shot down suggestions GST or income tax hikes were on the agenda at Sunday's meeting.
They instead joined forces to call for an urgent Council of Australian Governments meeting before July 1.
The latest Galaxy poll, published by News Corporation on Sunday, found 75 per cent think they will be worse off as a result of the budget.
Thousands of protesters rallied in capital cities to voice that view.
But Mr Abbott says the budget is in line with what his government promised, including stopping the boats, scrapping the carbon tax, building roads and taking control of the budget.
"I don't want to plead the fine print but I do believe that we have fundamentally kept faith with people," he said.
He said everyone must share the burden caused by Labor "spending like a drunken sailor".
Labor's fury is directed at doctor co-payments, a raised pension age, restrictions on unemployment benefits, cuts to state funding and the fuel excise - measures it will oppose.
Abbott's "juvenile" paid parental scheme is also high on Mr Shorten's hit list, with the Labor leader claiming it will pay millionaires $50,000 of money they don't need.
"See how that goes for pensioners trying to get an extra smear of vegemite on their toast on day 13 of their budget," he said.
The Greens and Palmer United Party also oppose several measures, meaning Mr Abbott has some tough conversations to get the harshest of his budget measures through the Senate.
But the prime minister appears to have backed away from his threat to hold a double dissolution election over the budget, saying the crossbenchers would understand its harsher measures.
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World Centre for Sustainable Development launched in RioJun 24, 2013
Rio de Janeiro – The first anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, has been marked today with the launch of its legacy: an international centre of excellence in sustainable development policy and practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The reference centre — to be known simply as Rio+ — will facilitate research, knowledge exchange and promote international debate on sustainable development.
Managed through a partnership between the Government of Brazil and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rio+ will bring together a broad international consortium of partners, including governments at the federal and local levels, UN agencies, NGOs, universities, think-tanks and the private sector, creating a unique space to discuss of innovative ideas and actions for building a sustainable world.
"The opening of this important new World Centre is a turning point for the global development community and represents a resolute drive to address the challenges and opportunities of our contemporary world," UNDP Associate Administrator Rebeca Grynspan said.
One of Rio+'s first activities will be to continue the discussions and assess the suggestions gathered under the platform Rio Dialogues for Sustainable Development – launched ahead of the Rio+20 Conference last year. With UNDP's support, the Dialogues were launched by the Government of Brazil and have so far engaged more the 12,000 citizens and experts in the discussions leading up to the Rio+20 Conference.
"The debate and definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are part of the important role RIO+ will play," Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Texeira said.
The establishment of Rio+ was announced on the final day of the Rio+20 Conference, on 22 June 2012, by Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, who signed the partnership and presented the Centre's mission and its initial 26 partners.
"RIO+ will also be a relevant political space for the promotion of the dialogue with the society, opening doors for universities, private sector, governments and everybody interested in discussing and promoting sustainable development," the minister added.
RIO+ will gather a team of international researchers and is located at Rio de Janeiro's Federal University (COPPE/UFRJ), in Rio's North Zone.
"RIO+ has emerged at a unique time in history, amid an animated political debate on sustainable development, poverty eradication, human rights and social justice, and when the global development agenda beyond 2015 has been the subject of unprecedented UN-led public consultations," Grynspan said at the opening ceremony of the seminar "Towards the implementation of Rio+20: Sustainable Development Goals," organized this morning by the Government of Brazil and UNDP.Contact information
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Can Cutting Your Food Into Smaller Pieces Make You Eat Less?
For a long time, we've all been told that one of the keys to eating less is to eat more slowly. But could cutting up our food into smaller pieces work too?
New research says it can.
In an experiment, Arizona State University researchers gave 300 college students either a whole bagel or the same bagel cut up into four separate pieces. Then, 20 minutes later, the participants ate lunch.
While the researchers found that people in both groups ate the same amount of each bagel, the students that ate the segmented bagel ate about a quarter less at lunch than those who ate the bagel when it was presented whole. Later tests with animals also produced similar results.
The conclusion? According to lead study author Devina Wadhera, "Cutting up energy-dense meal foods into smaller pieces may be beneficial to dieters who wish to make their meal more satiating while also maintaining portion control."
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"Show us the straight path,he path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who
go astray." -- 1:6-7
Surah 1 for Skeptics
There's not much to see here.
Just a prayer to Allah, praising Allah, and yet supposedly written by Allah, telling the world that Allah is awesome, Muslims are Allah's favorites and are on the right path, and everyone else has either gone astray (like the Christians) or earned Allah's wrath (like the Jews).
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Cooperstown has its Hall of Fame baseball weekend.
Thanks to Paul Grady, Costa Mesa High is having its first Hall of Fame baseball weekend next month.
One of the first things Grady wanted to do when he took over as baseball coach at Costa Mesa five months ago was bring awareness to the program. He hasn't coached a game as the man in charge of his alma mater and he already has grand plans for the program.
The Costa Mesa Baseball Hall of Fame weekend is Feb. 15-16 and the first inductee will be Brent Mayne. He graduated from the school in 1986 and went on to have success in college, playing at Orange Coast College and Cal State Fullerton, and then in the major leagues for 15 seasons with seven teams.
The reason why Mayne, a catcher, is the first to make it into the Costa Mesa Baseball Hall of Fame made sense to Grady.
"He was a great guy and he helped the younger guys," said Grady, adding that he was a sophomore on the junior varsity team when Mayne was a senior on varsity. "We want to start a tradition here."
Grady hopes the Costa Mesa Baseball Hall of Fame weekend will be an annual two-day event.
The inaugural one takes place with a ceremony and dinner at Costa Mesa Country Club on Feb. 15. The next day, there will be a slow-pitch softball tournament and a Costa Mesa alumni game at TeWinkle Park.
"The events are open to everyone," said Grady, adding that tickets to the ceremony and dinner are $30 per person, the softball tournament is $200 per team, and the alumni game, only open to former players and coaches, is a $35 donation per person.
"We want to induct someone every year, not just former major leaguers. We want to recognize those who have given back to the community and have been successful citizens."
Round 2 of the Battle for the Bell boys' basketball game is Wednesday, when Costa Mesa plays host to rival Estancia at 7 p.m.
The Mustangs took the first meeting, 54-47. They need to get past the Eagles again to stay in the hunt for second place in the Orange Coast League.
Costa Mesa finished the first half of league play at 3-3, one game back of Godinez. The Mustangs are in third place.
Estancia, which is 2-4 in league, trails Costa Mesa by one game.
Last season, the Mustangs won the Battle for the Bell rivalry for the first time in five years.
The Newport Harbor boys' basketball team continues to lose tough, close games in Sunset League play.
The Sailors fell in another heartbreaker to Edison on Friday. They lost, 60-58, in overtime, marking the second time the Chargers have edged the Sailors in the waning seconds.
With four league games left, Newport Harbor is 1-5 and in fifth place. Four of the Sailors' league losses have been by single-digit points. Before their recent setback, they lost at home to Edison, 67-65, at home to Fountain Valley, 72-68, and at home to Los Alamitos, 60-51.
Next for the Sailors is a Wednesday night game at Fountain Valley, which is in first place at 5-1.
Corona del Mar is one game back of first-place Northwood in the Pacific Coast League boys' basketball standings.
If both teams win their next two games, CdM (5-1 in league) will have a showdown at Northwood (6-0) on Feb. 5. The Sea Kings will need to beat the Timberwolves to move into a first-place tie with them.
A victory by Northwood would clinch the league title outright.
If you're a high school senior football player that's looking to play on the next level, this might interest you.
Terry Donahue, the former UCLA football coach and current Newport Beach resident, is part of the California Showcase, a free, one-day, non-profit event that's taking place at the Home Depot Center in Carson on Feb. 23. The event gives seniors a chance to showcase their talents and earn scholarships to Division II, Division III and NAIA football programs.
For more information on the event and to sign up, visit http://www.cashowcase.org.
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Tapestry 5 in Action is a comprehensive guide that introduces Apache Tapestry and its approach to building modern web applications. The book walks you through Tapestry 5, from a simple Hello World application to rich Ajax-enabled applications. Written by a core committer, it provides deep insight into the architecture of Tapestry 5.


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In May, Elon Musk said he was planning a cross-country road trip in a Model S with his five young sons, to prove that Tesla's newly expanded Supercharger network makes long drives in electric cars practical.
Today on Twitter, he announced that he has finalized the route:
Just finalized the LA to NY family road trip route in Model S. 6 day, 3200 mile journey with only 9 hrs spent charging. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2013
At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee, never just for charging itself — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2013
Musk didn't give any details of the route, but when he floated the idea in May, he mentioned Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Four Corners, Wyoming, Mount Rushmore, Chicago, and Philadelphia as stopping points.
From that information, we plotted out that trip, on a map of Tesla's Supercharger network. Notice the car will be within driving distance of a charging station at all times:
"It might end up being like some Chevy Chase movie," Musk joked in May. That would be fine for Tesla, as long as it doesn't end like the dreadful review from the New York Times.


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The Coliseum is Rome's most famous and perhaps most impressive structure. This enormous Roman amphitheatre, commissioned by Emperor Vespanian, was built from concrete, peat and brick and accommodated more than 50,000 spectators. An army of slaves from the Jewish-Roman War took a total of 8 years, from 72 to 80 A.D. to build the 50-metre-high 'il Colosseo'.
Inside the beautiful arched curves of the Coliseum gladiators fought each other or with wild animals; spectators would also watch chariot races, boxing matches and archery contests. Theatre performances were often quite bloody as convicted criminals were cast in the role of victims; they would actually be killed on stage during the performance. Cruel or not, the Roman people would stand up and applaud this kind of theatre performance.
In the 5th century A.D., the Coliseum, as well as the rest of Rome, came under attack by Barbarians and fell into disrepair. "Barbarian" was the general Roman term for all non-Roman people. Looting and natural disasters further damaged the Coliseum. The low point came in the Middle Ages when the theatre was reduced to a stone quarry. Stones would be taken from the Coliseum to be used as building materials – some of these stones were used in the construction of St. Peter's Basilica. Pope Benedict XIV put an end to the looting in 1749; he recognized the Coliseum's historic value because of the early Christians who had been tortured to death here.
Few people are aware that in the early days the Coliseum could be covered with an enormous canvas called a velarium. This cover protected the spectators from the strong sun. It was tied to large poles on top of the Coliseum and anchored to the ground with ropes; the job of rigging this canvas required the help of more than a thousand people. But with this many people the task was quickly accomplished; within 15 minutes the entire velarium would be unfurled and put in place.
Nowadays the Coliseum is one of the top attractions in Rome. It is an imposing monument and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Today there are no longer any performances or spectacles at the Coliseum, but the building is open to visitors. Underneath the arena visitors may tour the convoluted maze of hallways and cages once used by animals and gladiators. These cages were hoisted up from below so the humans and animals could enter the arena at the stage level. After many years in deplorable conditions, the Coliseum is currently undergoing a colossal restoration that will take several years to complete.


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What to bring?
Feel free to bring these items and any other cozy reminders of home. Because your main purpose at Barry is to study, don't forget your thesaurus, dictionary, computer, calculator, and resource books. You may wish to bring your stereo system, but you should check with your roommate once you receive your housing assignment information. This isn't Noah's Ark, so you don't need to bring two of everything!
- Alarm Clock
- Refrigerator (1.5 amps)*
- Microwave (800 watts)*
- Television
- Computer
- Ironing Board
- UL-Rated Power Strip
- First Aid Kit
- Flashlights
- Plastic Storage Crates
- Cleaning Supplies
- Dishes and Silverware
- Pictures/Posters
- Hangers
- Bedspread/Comforter
- Mattress Cover/Bed Crate
- Pillows
- Standard Twin Sheets (39 x 75 inches. 99 x 190 cm)
- Throw Pillows
- Throw Rugs
- Towels
- Toiletries
- Laundry Detergent
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SeanN necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 70 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Casual E or casuale (we are open to any variation of capitals and lower case), is a new business looking to recruit uni students (i.e. facebook users / Gen Y demographic) to work mainly for the hospitality and event industries.
Casual E or casuale or Casual e or casual e (etc)
The design task is to create a logo and graphic style for Casual E.
Specifically, we require the following items:
- A logo;
- Background designs for the logo for the hospitality industry (the main market for Casual E), Health and Education – the backgrounds will be used on the website.
A secondary design job / competition will be placed on 99 Designs for the design of the webpages subsequently.
We are open-minded regarding the logo name:
Casual E OR Casual e OR Casuale OR casual OR casual e or any other possible variation.
We welcome your feedback.
Essentially, the objective is to get people to recognise, remember and return to the website. The website registered is casuale.com.au
Applications of the brand.
Besides being front of place on the website, the logo will potentially be used in the following applications:
- Flyers;
- Partner websites;
- Exhibition signage.
Therefore, we require:
• the logo to identify the company and help drive traffic to the website; and
• communicate the purpose of the business in a way that will work universally (if possible).
Brand Positioning
The brand positioning is the place for Australian University student to find causal employment.
Design Direction
The look and feel of the website and therefore the logo needs to be Web 2.0. We want the website to be a clean design with crisp white space framing the imagery and communication.
- We are very open to your creative ideas;
- Colouring of the website is likely to be pink (R:250 G:0 B:100) and blues (R:45 G:45 B:200) and (R:200 G:250 B:250) - although these are not set in stone. Given we don't see ourselves as the creative ones, we are looking for you to provide the creative input. Don't hold back, go for it!;
- We require one logo with four different backgrounds (1. hospitality and events; 2. Retail 3. Education 4. Office / Professional work environment). For example: some glasses, champagne and fireworks could be the background for hospitality and events (you don't need to design that, its just what came to our mind);
- Must be "web 2.0" style.
- Item 1...
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TMC wrote:RobDIKUM wrote:The Coooach wrote:"Always" Next wrote:The Coooach wrote:As some of you know, i work for BART. I was on vacation when this happened but I got the news on my Blackberry shortly after it happened. My job requires I get correspondence from BART central.
The whole situation is sad, pathetic and cut wrenching. I wanted to throw-up and cry when i saw the video. We BART employees don't know anymore than most of you. We are kept in the dark. I have been at work for all the rioting and protest. it has been a very scary scene around here. We have been told not to drive around in any vehicles with our ensignia and i have stop wearing any article of clothing with our ensignia.
I am sure i have heard a little more than most of you but I am not at liberty to say. All i want to say is that my heart goes out to the family of Oscar Grant. I sympathize for all of us innicent BART employees that have to face the wrath of the community when we had absolutely nothing to do with it. I even sympathize for the othe BART police officers who had no idea what was going on and now they have to face the wrath of our community.
I'm sorry I didn't read all your posts, just the first couple of pages before I post this. I don't know the officer personally although I'm sure our paths have crossed because I'm part of the new hire orientation team here at BART but i don't remember him personally. All i like to say that there are bad people and good people in every walk of life and you may not never know who they are until something like this happens.
Im sure everybody joins me in saying stay safe out there Reggie. Thank You for the insight and we look forward to hearing any news you might be able to share with us at a later time.
Thanks Always. As you can expect it is pretty stressfull at this time around here. I feel for the station agents who have to work by themselves at the BART station.
As a lot of uyou have said, the violence is coming from a few people who get a rise out of destroying property and run home to see if they can see themselves on the NEWS. Most of the protestors have been well organized and wellbehaved.
One point that I think that could have helped squelch a lot of this community anger is that BART should have apologized and sympathized immediately. This did not happen. Not admitting to guilt or innocence but saying something like " We are sorry for this horrible event and the death of Mr. Grant. We sympathize with the family as we continue our investigation. Nothing like this was said for several days after it had happened. Me and my fellow employees don't understand why BART didn't handle it this way
probably because that would mean they are admitting to the liability and they don't want to get sued, as heartless as it sounds it probably comes from that.
No, actually, it would help in case they were sued. I'm with Reggie here, I don't know why BART didn't, at least, extend their sympathies to Grant's family.
WoW what a perspective coooach, i most understand it is a difficult time for you being to closely tied to the incident. Sad that one person has smeared the entire force with his action. We can agree the relationship with the police force and oakland has always been in bad standing and this sensless act has blown the lid of the top. I wish not only the cops and also the city of oakland can take this incident and try and improve the relationship for the better.


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Carrie Underwood to Get 'The Sing Off' Treatment Next Week
Week after week, contestants on NBC's hit acapella competition 'The Sing Off' tantalize viewers with vocal cover songs, often trying a hand at today's Top 40 hits and easily-recognizable artists. On Nov. 7, the show will mix in a little twang to produce country renditions — like Carrie Underwood's famous one, 'Before He Cheats.'
Co-ed group Urban Method will be the ones to take on Underwood, and with their performance, they'll stay true to the genre by sporting cowboy boots, big belt buckles and a few plaid shirts. No word on what other country songs will be featured, but each of the six remaining groups will perform one country hit and one rock song to make up the show's 'Classic Rock & Country' night.
Each group is hopeful that their efforts will lead to a big payoff: $200,000 and a Sony Music recording contract. The decision has been in the hands of famous judges Ben Folds, Sara Bareilles and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men until now, but online voting will open to the public on Nov. 21. America will decide the big winner during the show's live grand finale, which airs Nov. 28.
Watch Urban Method Perform 'Before He Cheats'


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Who knew? Of course, I should have. There are few things these days that pseudo-psychiatrists can't turn into a in-depth understanding of your psyche. So, why not ice cream?
I've been craving ice cream lately. It's that simple. Probably because I've removed it from my diet, at least temporarily. (I do have an A1C test — for blood sugar level — coming up soon.) I'm one of those people who craves anything I can't or shouldn't have. The list is long. But, I digress. Currently I'm lusting for some ice cream.
On a whim, I took to my friend Google to find out what my favorite flavor meant about me. (If you can't eat it, read about it.) And, of course, there it was. A completely accurate, ridiculously ridiculous ice cream-personality indicator. I dug in and here's what I found. If your favorite flavor isn't here, I apologize. I will continue to look further, if you'll let me know your flavor of choice.
Butter Pecan
If your favorite flavor is Butter Pecan, you might be characterized as the perfect worker. You are devoted, conscientious, respectful and fiscally conservative. You hold high standards for right and wrong and show integrity in all of your actions. This includes an extreme sensitivity for others' feelings. You aren't one to wear your heart on your sleeve; it takes a little encouragement from close friends and family to share your deepest thoughts.
Chocolate Chip
As a chocolate chip lover, you are competitive and accomplished; no victory is sweet without a little hard work. Although you are competent and ambitious in love and work, you are generous with your time and money, never taking your blessings for granted. Your captivating personality makes you a shining star in social situations.
As a coffee lover, you are lively, dramatic and flirtatious – thriving on the passion of the moment. Because you throw yourself into all that you do, you tend to be over-committed, starting new projects without finishing old ones. You tend to become bored by dull relationships and thrive on new and exciting ventures.
Double Chocolate Chunk
If you love Double Chocolate Chunk, you tend to be lively, creative and dramatic. Always the life of the party, you charm everyone you meet with your enthusiasm and sense of style. You enjoy being in the spotlight and prefer to be in the company of friends rather than left alone to reflect on life. You prefer passion and excitement in your romantic relationships, and require a lot of attention from your mate.
Mint Chocolate Chip
As a Mint Chocolate Chip lover, you tend to be ambitious and confident… yet a little skeptical about life. You are a realist who prepares for the future, needing a solid plan to feel secure. While your stubbornness is a business asset, it can add a challenging element to your relationships. Nonetheless, your loyalty, honesty and
Rocky Road
If you opt for the rich, indulgent taste of Rocky Road, you tend to be a balanced mixture of charm and practicality. While you are outgoing and engaging in social situations, in the business world you tend to be more aggressive and goal-oriented. You enjoy being catered to, and appreciate the finer things in life. You are very sensitive to minor slights and respond best to encouragement rather than criticism.
A love for strawberry reveals a thoughtful, logical person who carefully weighs each option before making decisions. More a follower than a leader, you are content and effective working behind the scenes and out of the limelight. In relationships, you are often characterized as shy and reserved. Although you don't fall head-over-heels in love at first sight, once you commit to a relationship, you are loyal and supportive.
There is nothing plain about Vanilla. In fact, if you love Vanilla, you are actually a colorful, dramatic risk taker who relies more on intuition than logic. Emotionally expressive and idealistic, you tend to set high goals for yourself, and push yourself to meet and exceed them. On the romantic front, you tend to rely on secure romantic relationships that fulfill your emotional needs while working toward future objectives.
Spumoni or Neopolitan
You're schizophrenic.
Ok, so I made up the last one. But the others come courtesy of icecream.com. By the way, I'm a vanilla girl. All the way. You?
Anybody gotta spoon?


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Quantum Weirdness
A Matter of Relativity?
Copyright 2006/2007 James A. Tabb
Part 2 – Double Slit Weirdness
When a proper light source (coherent – light from a single source all at the same frequency) is placed in front of a screen with a narrow slit, the light is diffracted (spread out) as it goes through the slit and appears as a shaded band centered on a screen or photographic film. The light is scattered and/or bent by the edges of the slit as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Single Slit Diffraction
If we add two more slits located side by side between the first slit and the screen, the light passing through each of the new slits is diffracted again such that the photons from each slit are bent across each path and combine to reinforce or cancel each other where they strike the screen.
Figure 4. Double Slit Interference
The result is an interference pattern (light and dark bands) on the screen as shown in Figure 4. If you block either of the two middle slits, the interference pattern disappears. If a photographic film replaces the screen and the intensity is reduced so that only a few hundred photons are sent through the double slits before the film is developed, the interference pattern will be made up of individual dots organized in a pattern that duplicates the interference pattern. Keep the film in place long enough and the patterns become more complete. Put a cover over one of the slits and the film still shows dots, but no interference pattern, only a diffraction band. Put a detector in one of the slits and the interference pattern also disappears.
Now if the light source is reduced in intensity enough to send only one photon at a time, a weird result can be seen if the photographic film is left long enough (days or even months in a very dark box) where both slits are left open. The interference pattern continues to develop on the film, even though there is no possibility of interference (or even photon bumping) unless the individual photons go through both slits somehow.
Part of the current explanation is that the photon goes both ways, but any measurement (putting a detector in the path) always disturbs the measurement. In fact a whole class of quantum theory has developed around the inability to make precise measurements due to the measurement disturbance problem. How do we explain this quantum weirdness?
A Matter of Relativity
There are two processes going here. One process is the real time that our experimenter sees, about 1 nanosecond per foot of photon travel. The photon is traveling through the experiment with real and measurable delays from the emitter to the first slit and from there to the double slits and from there to the film. The other process is that the photon's relativistic path is zero so it is in contact with the film and the emitter at once and all of its paths in between are of zero length and require zero time. All paths that can lead to the same path are conjoined. Time of flight and distances for the photon expand only as it passes through the setup. The photon and the observer see simultaneous events differently. All the events are simultaneous to the photon, but none are to the experimenter.
All the elements of our experiment have no depth and seem to be congruent as if they were paper cutouts that have been bonded together with the emitting source. As observers, we can't see it. As the photon leaves one element of our experiment, such as the first screen with one slit, the double slits are squeezed down to a point and plastered across its nose. The photon easily fits across both slits of the second screen as the distances to them are zero and thus the distance between them is also zero. Indeed it fits across the entire second screen, but the edges are less distorted. Since the photon is also plastered across the slits, everything behind the slits is also plastered there – the entire path is available at one instant as in Figure 5 a. The photon is able to take all paths (even simultaneously) that lead to a common point because they are all in front of it as it enters our experiment, and zero distance separates all the paths. No amount of fiddling with flipping mirrors or detectors will fool the photon into disclosing its path because the mirrors and detectors are also plastered to the photon's nose throughout its (instantaneous) flight. The mirrors and detectors are in place when the photon makes its decision or they are not. The result is path shut or open.
As the photon moves from the first screen to the second, the second screen moves with it (attached to its nose) until it reaches its normal (real world as we see it) dimension and then expands as the photon moves into the slits as in Figure 5 b. Portions perpendicular to the path of the photon become normal size and atoms from the edges again buffet the photon. Everything behind the photon is of no consequence, gone – vanished.
Figure 5. – Relativistic Double Slit
From the relativistic point of view, the photon has a number of crisis points such as within the first slit. As it passes through the first slit, the atoms at the edge of the slit buffet it and the photon's path is randomly diffracted from the original path. The slit has grown to normal size (perpendicular to the photon's travel) but now the photon is virtually attached to the entire screen containing the double slits in the background that represent the next crisis point or wakeup call. If neither slit is blocked, it has an opportunity to go through both.
Figure 6. Photon Recombining
I see the photon as being a packet of energy that obeys the laws of conservation of energy. It flows around the barrier between the two slits only if it can recombine on the other side without ever completely breaking into two separate pieces. It behaves almost like a perfect fluid and leaks through where it can, but unlike a perfect fluid, it cannot separate into multiple "drops".
If the packet can meld behind the slit spacer as in figure 6, it does so before it separates in front of the spacer. The melding process takes place an integral number of wavelengths from the slits and results in a change in path that leads to an impact in the interference pattern, a pattern that can be calculated using the methods of QED. As soon as the melding takes place, the photon separates in front of the slit spacer and begins joining the rest of the body already melded together, so that the photon is always a full packet of energy
If melding does not take place because of a blocking detector or some other shield, then the photon pulls itself into whichever slit passed the bigger portion of its packet and slips through that slit whole. If it is the blocked slit, it is destroyed there. If it is the unblocked slit, it comes though whole but does not interfere with itself because it did not meld around the slit due to the blockage in the other slit. It may also be destroyed by the slit itself. The photon is destroyed in the blocked slit or on the film behind the open one, never both. It makes no choice. In the case of a blocked slit, there is no recombination. The side with the larger energy pulls the photon through an opening if there is one and if that opening has a detector or blockage, it dies there.
The answer to the weirdness of photons seeming to interefere with itself is that it is due to the forshortening of the experiment due to the effects of relativity.


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO – October 3, 2003 - New Mexico Tech is the nation's top recipient of Congressionally approved earmarked research funds, according to recent rankings published by The Chronicle of Higher Education
With slightly more than $56 million in academic-earmark funds coming in for various cutting-edge research projects and training programs, New Mexico Tech tops The Chronicle's list of 30 national universities that received the most earmarked federal funds this fiscal year for scientific research and other projects in higher education.
The featured article on Congressionally directed federal funding also notes that the single largest earmark in 2003, for $21 million, went to New Mexico Tech for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) project.
In addition, with more national emphasis being placed on homeland security, members of Congress set aside $125 million for the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, which includes Louisiana State University, Texas A&M University, and New Mexico Tech. As a direct result, the article states, each of the universities was given $20 million in federal appropriations to train police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians to properly respond to terrorist attacks involving explosives and other weapons of mass destruction.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's recent issue also made mention in an accompanying article of New Mexico Tech's pending plans to purchase the southwestern New Mexico town of Playas for use as a first-responder training facility.


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Todays photographs show Roy Hoods Greengrocers shop which used to stand on Stockport Road in Gee Cross.
The photos were taken by Nick Clarke in 1982.
I really miss the personal touch of shops like these.... People used to go to them to socialise as well as shop.
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Outside the shop.
Lovely fresh carrots !
As the building looks today, courtesy of Google maps.
Many Thanks, Nick , keep them coming - all very much appreciated ! :)


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'Wave' by Sonali Deraniyagala
It is the day after Christmas. An accomplished academic is decompressing in a Sri Lankan coastal paradise with her husband, her two boys, and a friend, when someone notices an ominous wave outside their hotel window. In an instant, the party is out the door, running for their lives. They jump into a Jeep, which races to outpace the pursuing tide. Within moments, the Jeep fills with water, then is knocked onto its side. Water engulfs. Water pounds. Finally, water recedes. The professor emerges dazed, bruised, half-naked. Alive, but utterly alone.
Gripping scenario, that, the stuff of popcorn dreams. But this is life's waking nightmare as it transpired for Sonali Deraniyagala in 2004, when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami that took the lives of her husband, Steve, her 7- and 5-year-old sons, Vikram and Malli, and her parents, along with some 230,000 others in 14 countries.
There are no stats or news reports in "Wave," other than a gobsmacking London-tabloid headline that accompanied a photo of Deraniyagala's sons: "I watched as my whole family was swept away." Is there no shame? To be sure, a torrent of shame floods this bracing and ruthlessly self-confrontational memoir. But the shame is owned by the author herself, who shouldered the unfathomable burden of a grieving woman convinced that, in the final count, she failed the mother test. "In those terrifying moments, my children were as helpless as I was," she writes, tabloids be damned, "and I couldn't be there for them. . . . Their helplessness, I can't bear to consider . . ."
But consider she does. Deraniyagala reverses the clock in zigzagging increments, inching backward (and sometimes forward again) from that cataclysmic day to family life in London, from her Cambridge-days courtship with Steve, back to her childhood in Sri Lanka. As the membranous memories come into focus, we follow her aching rehabilitation from a state of almost willful insanity in the wake of impossible loss to something akin to the high-functioning University of London economist she was before December 2004. (Deraniyagala is now a research scholar at Columbia University.)
When the tsunami receded, Deraniyagala was discovered spinning in mud, an unnerving embodiment of the self-destructive oscillations that would characterize her behavior in the ensuing months. Despite being under surveillance by relatives, who rightly feared for her life, she stabbed herself with a butter knife, bashed her head against a bedboard, Googled methods of suicide, and hallucinated on cocktails of alcohol and pills.
In "Wave,'' Deraniyagala reinhabits this tempestuous period with graphic immediacy, exposing "the outlandish truth of me" in terse, impressionistic thought waves that make manifest the tenuous line separating grief from rage and cruelty. In a disturbing episode as the first anniversary of the tsunami approached, she terrorizes a family that has rented out her parents' old home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. "The Dutch family, settling in there like nothing's happened," she bristles, pounding on the gates and ringing their doorbell at 2 a.m.
The naked ferocity of the passages is such that the snippets of the author's youth and collegiate days limned in the book's final act arrive as something of an anticlimax. But that may also be a function of the author's deeper interest in leaving a palpable legacy of her lost boys. And this she accomplishes, triumphantly. Steve, Vikram, and Malli spring from these pages with an exuberance and dimensionality that lifts "Wave" from memoir into some virtual realm of documentation.
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