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Château Lafite Rothschild Vintage 1982. One dozen bottles. In original wooden case. Estimate: HK$350,000500,000 per 12 bottles. US$44,900 64,100 per 12 bottles. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
Autumn auction of Finest and Rarest Wines will take place in two sessions on Friday, 26 November and Saturday, 27 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 600 lots valued over HK$60million (US$7.7 million), the sale contain a number of extensive collections, ranging from ten years of Lafite- Rothschild (1992-2002) to a sensitively chosen group of first growth Bordeaux and Dom Pérignon champagnes as well as a marvellous collection of wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
Leading the sale is a stand-out collection of Château Palmer coming directly from Bordeaux, which Christies will presents in three auctions in Hong Kong, London and New York this season. The sale will also offer an extraordinary presentation of prestigious cuvées offered by the legendary house of Krug, featuring Krug Clos du Mesnil, Krug Clos dAmbonnay, Krug Vintages, Krug Collections and Krug Grande Cuvée. This marks the first and only time in its history that Krug is putting to auction a magnificent set of champagnes from the 1980s and 1990s and as such it will be among the highlights of the sale.
The EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME: THE KRUG UNIVERSE
Established in 1843, the House of Krug has, throughout six generations, pursued an uncompromising philosophy of quality. Renowned for its inimitable taste an extraordinary contrast of richness and freshness, power and finesse Krug is regarding the world over as the ultimate expression of luxury. Leading the sale is an extraordinary lot that brings the universe of Krug to life. Consigned directly by the House of Krug, the aptly named Journey through the Krug Universe lot offers an exceptional collection of 144 bottles of the houses finest champagnes from the 1980s and 1990s. Included is Krugs most sought-after Clos dAmbonnay, which debuted only recently with its 1995 and 1996 vintages.
The buyer of this lot will be entitled to a unique VIP journey to the Krug Maison in Reims, France, which will comprise two First Class tickets, two nights accommodation, a privileged preview of the assemblage for the 2010 Krug Grande Cuvée and a tasting of some of the corresponding base wines for this release. A private guided tasting will be conducted of at least 10 different Krug Grande Cuvées from over the last 20 years and a selection of at least 10 astonishing vintage champagnes of the House of Krug. The experience will culminate with two unique Krug gastronomic and personal experiences one in Clos du Mesnil and the other in one of the Michelin starred restaurant in the region. Valued at HK$450,000-550,000/US$57,700-70,500, this lot offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Also offered by Krug is an extremely rare selection of thirty-six bottles of the exceptional Krug Clos du Mesnil 1983, 1986, and 1992 (estimate: HK$280,000-380,000 / US$35,900-48,700).
Romanée-Conti, as the local proverb goes, is the central pearl of the Burgundian necklace. This miniscule vineyard give its name to the most famous Domaine in the world, commonly referred to as DRC, or, more reverentially, simply as The Domaine.
This season Christies will present an impressive arrange of Romanée- Conti, including a selection from an important private collection. The provenance of these wines is among the best one can find anywhere, and this collection in particular is a stand-out in that it features only wines that have been acquired through long established relationships with unquestionable merchants who themselves are in great standing with The Domaine. Among the star lots from this special collection is a very rare assortment case of the famed vintage of 1978 (image right, estimate: HK$450,000-550,000/US$57,700-70,500). Also offered from this private collection are bottles from the Burgundy benchmark years of 1990 and 1999.
Blue-chip Bordeaux from the most famous Châteaux in the world form an important cornerstone in Christies Hong Kong wine sales each season. Among the leading Bordeaux offerings is a full case the 2005 vintage from Château Lafite- Rothschild (image left, estimate: HK$120,000-150,000/US$15,400-19,200), as well as a rare imperiale of the 1990 vintage (estimate: HK$60,000-85,000 / US$7,700 10,900). Collectors will also be presented a substantial selection of wines from Château Latour spanning nearly three decades from 1976 through 2005. Rare highlights include three one-owner cases of the incredible 1982 vintage (image right, estimate: HK$350,000-500,000/US$44,900-64,100). Provenance is paramount when collecting wine and these cases were purchased on release from one reputable retailer and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled home cellar until released for this sale.
Château Mouton-Rothschild stands alone in its feat of being the only Château of the 1855 Médoc classification to change status when it was elevated to First-Growth status in 1973 after a 51 year campaign. Mouton- Rothschild is famous for its exotic and powerful fragrance, as well as its long-standing tradition of commissioning well-known artists to design its labels. This seasons star Mouton-Rothschild offerings include the famed 2000 vintage, including two rare and highly sought-after jeroboams (image left, estimate: HK$75,000-90,000 /US$10,900-15,400 each).
Within the world of fine wine appreciation, there is something of an ultra-elite, an innercircle that few wines will ever enter. This is a group of maybe five or six, almost exclusively French wines, whose prices and reputations exceed those of all others. This outstanding group naturally includes the wines of Château Pétrus. In the best vintages few wines compare in terms of critical acclaim. Located in Pomerol, the sumptuous wines of Pétrus are best known for their power, concentration, and multi-layered complexity. Among the selection this season is an extremely rare case of the great 1947 vintage (estimate: HK$200,000-300,000 / US$25,640-38,500) and a selection of the rare of the 1982 vintage in large formats, including two imperiales (estimate: HK$280,000-400,000 / US$10,900-12,800 each) and a jeroboam (estimate: HK$240,000-350,000 / US$30,800-44,900).
This season, Christies will present a rare offering from Château Palmer in three auctions in Hong Kong, London and New York. These sales of which Hong Kong is the first - give an unprecedented chance to purchase vintages ranging from 1945 through 21st century. These rare wines come directly from the Château and from the Societé Mähler-Besse, a trusted Bordeaux négociant and part-owner of the Château.
Château Palmer occupies a special place in the affections of Bordeaux lovers. Few would deny that it is one of the leading estates of the Margaux appellation, and indeed of the entire region. Decade after decade, Château Palmer presents some of the most thrilling wines in Bordeaux. They have produced legendary wines in all of the great post-war vintages: the 1945, 59, and 61 vintages are all legends and wines of stature that stand with the best of the Médoc. Vintages that might have been lesser at other châteaux have proved triumphs for Palmer. Their 66 and 70 are particularly well regarded today, and more recent years have seen vintage after vintage of top notch wines: 81-82-83; 85-86; 89-90. Newer vintages from the 90s and the glorious years of the 21st century confirm its worldwide reputation.
Leading the selection presented to collectors in Hong Kong is a bottle of the legendary 1945 vintage, one of the few 45s that can be called exceptionally opulent and super rich (estimate: HK$62,000-70,000 / US$7,900-9,000). Also of note are three bottles of the exquisite 1959 and a case of the 1961 vintage, one of the greatest of the 61s and, unquestionably, both among the best-ever Palmers (estimate HK$350,000-400,000 / US$44,900-51,300). A case of the 1983, considered by Robert Parker to be the most powerful Palmer since the compelling 1961, will also be among the most sought-after by collectors (estimate: HK$50,000-55,000 / US$6,400-7,100).
In association with the sale, Christies Hong Kong will be holding a Masterclass of the wines of Château Palmer. Featuring Charles Curtis MW of Christies and Bernard de Laage de Meux, Export Director for Chateau Palmer, the Masterclass will be held on 25 November at the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre.
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Impressive last start winner Moqla returns to Morphettville on Saturday to chase some black type success in the Listed $100,000 Dequetteville Stakes (1050m).
Moqla was an impressive two and a quarter lengths winner in an 1100m two year old Handicap at Morphettville three weeks ago and Lindsay Park co-trainer Tom Dabernig said the Exceed And Excel filly deserved her chance to tackle better company and try to record some black type on her name in the breeding catalogue.
"She was an impressive last start winner. We are going for some black type here," Dabernig said.
At her second race start Adelaide jockey Matthew Neilson was able to lead all of the way for her maiden win and he should have no trouble positioning Moqla on the pace again from barrier two in the eleven horse field.
In an open betting race, Moqla is rate a $7.50 chance with Ladbrokes.com.au while Dabernig rates the unbeaten If Not Now When at $4.40 as one of the hardest to beat.
"I think the favourite If Not Now When will be hard to beat but I think our horse, drawn a good gate, will run well," Dabernig said, who trains in partnership with David Hayes.
The Henry Dwyer trained If Not Now When is chasing a hat trick of wins after scoring on debut in the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush (1000m) at Bendigo on March 19 followed by a win in the $100,000 VOBIS Gold Plate (1000m) at Cranbourne on April 1.
Michael Dee has been aboard the Artie Schiller filly for her two wins to date but needs plenty of luck in the Dequetteville Stakes after drawing out wide at barrier ten.
The Terry & Karina O'Sullivan trained Moshki is the ruling favourite at $4.20 and is coming off a four and three quarter lengths all the way win in the Listed $100,000 Cinderella Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on March 5.
Apprentice Emily Finnegan has retained the ride even though the Dequetteville Stakes is a non-claiming race and she will be able to have Moshki in a prominent position again from barrier three.
Dequetteville Stakes market order at Ladbrokes.com.au: $4.20 Moshki, $4.40 If Not Now When, $6 Serenely Discreet, $7.50 Moqla, $8.50 Modern Wonder, Areti, $9 Motown Lil, $14 Neapolitan, $17 Extra Olives, $34 Posh Journey, $61 Helmara.

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Maps concepts and infrastructure from OpenGL ES 2.0 to Direct3D 11.1, including a direct comparison of API sets, moving from Embedded-System Graphics Library (EGL) to Microsoft DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI), handling assets and resources, and mapping uniforms and attributes. Provides a walkthrough of porting a simple OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer to Direct3D 11.1, including porting the EGL to DXGI, porting vertex buffers, uniforms, and attributes, and porting OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL). Also includes an API mapping reference for moving from OpenGL ES 2.0 to Direct3D 11.1.
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This 7-minute video shows you how to use Parallels Desktop to run Windows and Microsoft Visual Studio on a Mac. Parallels Desktop is especially useful for running Visual Studio and Xcode side-by-side, and this video introduces some general strategies for sharing your code between these two development environments. For more info, see Using Parallels Desktop to install Windows and the dev tools on your Mac.
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This one-hour video introduces iOS developers to building Windows Store apps for the first time, presented from an iOS developers' perspective. Topics covered include an overview of the business opportunity, how iOS APIs map to the Windows Runtime APIs, general Windows 8 UI and app design principles, and demonstrates writing simple code with Visual Studio. This video is presented by Big Nerd Ranch, who are well-known experts in teaching iOS developers from around the world.
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Nicholas Genna is a doctoral student in the Environmental Horticulture Department under the advisement of Dr. Héctor E. Pérez. Nicholas has attended the University of Florida since 2009 and has since obtained a bachelor's in biology and a master's in environmental horticulture. Nicholas's non-horticultural background in biology is a driving force behind his motivation to ask basic scientific questions that address current research gaps in seed biology. One such gap is the potential for a within-species mass-based aging response in seeds. As a master's student, Nicholas found that the mass-based germination behavior of Rudbeckia mollis (Asteraceae) seeds transitioned from similar to dissimilar with age. Now, Nicholas is continuing this research as a doctoral student where he is focusing on how intraspecific seed mass variation modulates seed deterioration in situ and ex situ. Nicholas' work has natural implications in understanding how seed mass contributes to microevolution in plants and anthropocentric implications in understanding how seed mass modulates viability loss in long-term storage. At the conclusion of his education, Nicholas hopes to work in some capacity to conserve resources and biodiversity by advancing mankind's scientific understanding of the natural world.


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Ever since the Kardashians broke out onto the sphere of cultural awareness, it seems that they've been monopolizing pop culture headlines. Whether that's through relationship drama, new business endeavors, or, yes, pregnancy announcements, there always seems to be a new Kardashian tidbit to gossip about over a cup of coffee.
First there was Kourtney Kardashian's pregnancy announcement, which would be followed by two more. Kim followed suit, announcing her third child via surrogate earlier this year. Then there were the rumors that Khloe and Kylie were pregnant. While the latter hasn't been confirmed or denied, Khloe took to Instagram to share her happy news last week. Since then, she's been active on her social media accounts, including Snapchat, which is where she shared her current favorite skincare products. We, of course, took notice—especially since she so expertly mixes high-end products with drugstore favorites.
Keep scrolling to see all of the skincare products Khloe Kardashian posted to her Snapchat.
Kardashian posted this image to Snapchat, showing eight different skincare products in total. The one that stood out to us first was the Bioderma Sensibio H2O ($11). It's a cult-favorite micellar water that we love to use for removing makeup and cleansing dirt and oil away from our skin. (Experts swear by it too—makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes names it as one of her five favorite products of all time).
Another French pharmacy pick that Kardashian uses is the Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentre ($16). It has a fine, milky texture that sinks into the skin and hydrates with shea butter, aloe, and soy proteins.
The French product theme continues with the La Mer The Intensive Revitalizing Mask ($170) and Genaissance de La Mer the Serum Essence ($630). Just like all La Mer products, they're formulated with ingredients from fermented sea kelp to nourish and repair the skin's natural renewal processes. Both of these products (particularly the serum) are incredibly expensive, though you can't get much more luxurious than La Mer.
Her other picks include the PanOxyl Anti-Acne Face Wash ($13), Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream ($100), which is another Byrdie favorite and IS Clinical Active Serum ($78). Clearly, she's all about hydration, as almost all of her favorite products add moisture to the skin. The last product in her line up is Cosmedica's Hyaluronic Acid Serum ($11), which is a perfect product for winter since the hyaluronic acid molecule can hold up to 1000 times its own weight in water.
Khloe posted the picture with a red heart emoji. We mirror her sentiments since some of these products are our long-time favorites. We will do as Kardashian does and bring them back into our winter skincare rotation to supercharge our skin with moisture. Thanks for the recommendations, Khloe!


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It's Election Time, and Migrants Matter (Finally!)
With one in five Viennese voters having an immigrant background, parties have now discovered another kind of foreigner-focused campaign for the upcoming elections
"Iyi Aksamlar, Kalispera, Dobra Vecer, Good Evening," said the moderator as she stepped onto the stage in the packed ballroom of the Vienna City Hall. Sitting at her feet, were Sikhs next to Turks, Chinese next to Greeks, Vietnamese next to Serbs. Around 500 entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized businesses with migrant backgrounds responded to last Friday evening's invitation from the SPÖ (Social Democratic Party) to the second "Gala Evening of Ethnic Business." One third of the businesses in Vienna are run by migrants. Just last year, people from 85 countries started businesses.
"You can always count on City Hall," SPÖ City Councilor for Finance Renate Brauner assured the guests, and Councilwoman for Integration Sandra Frauenberger called out "We are on the good side of power!"
The multicultural evening at the City Hall was just one of many events the red city government has been using for the municipal elections to be held in the capital city on Oct. 10. This time the SPÖ is managing a foreigner-focused election campaign of a different kind.
"Migrants are the new proletariat," Frauenberger said a year ago in a Falter interview. Back then it sounded frivolous. In the mean time, her statement has taken hold as a political reality.
This time, the defending champion's campaign is centered on the "New Austrian." One third of all Viennese and a fifth of all voters have migration backgrounds. Austrian Serbs and Turks, Croats and Kurds – they are all being wooed. Yet, the SPÖ is not promoting a slogan of fear. They have left that to the head of the FPÖ (Freedom Party) Heinz-Christian Strache with his posters "Mehr Mut für Wiener Blut," a phrase difficult to translate: "More courage for Viennese blood" or perhaps the "Viennese spirit." Nor is it campaigning in pseudo-gestures, such as those used by the head of the Viennese ÖVP (Austrian Peoples' Party) Christine Marek with statements like "Let's talk about education - ideally in German."
For the first time, the SPÖ has been using self-assured calls for integration. Mayor Häupl has even showed himself with migrants on posters – still a no-go in commercial advertisements in 2010 – alongside which key words of his campaign can visibly be read, "Clear Rules for Living Together."
This is one slogan that has been thoroughly tested. An independent team in the SPÖ campaign headquarters across from the MuseumsQuartier develops strategies in order to "no longer talk about, but rather with ethnic minorities," as Häupl said in the current edition of the magazine for the Turkish immigrant community Biber. Five thousand Austrians with migrant backgrounds were polled by the Ifes Institut just before the summer on their political hopes going into the campaign. The result was so simple it was surprising: Even those not born in Austria long for serenity and order in the city.
The SPÖ is not the only party to have discovered, although a little late, another type of foreigner-focused campaign. Anyone who attempts to provide an overview of the great lengths the parties are going to in the weeks and months before the election to appeal to the migrant communities comes upon a mish mash of partly strange and partly surprising campaigns. Surprising because the typical Viennese doesn't usually get it, and strange because the campaigns appear to be proceeding like an advance towards an unknown planet that was right nearby all the time.
The campaigning parties have invested tens of thousands of euros in part on foreign-language advertisements in migrant media such as Biber, Kosmo and Yeni Vatan Gazetsi, appearing next to interviews of the top candidates. Additionally, politicians of all backgrounds visit and even organize traditional Muslim Iftar-Meals during Ramadan. The ÖVP organizes Serbian evenings with Serbian-Orthodox priests, while FPÖ politicians paid, of all things, a visit to the Kurdish New Year celebration Newroz and the Greens for the first time are distributing Kurdish language brochures. The SPÖ won over the allegiance of the Serbian-born boxer Goran "Gogi" KnezCevic from the FPÖ. And the ÖVP-head candidate Christine Marek makes pilgrimages to the Turkish Atib headquarter, Austria's biggest Mosque congregation, while ÖVP party leader Matthias Tschirf has tried unsuccessfully for months to obtain a joint appearance with a very popular Serbian-orthodox Patriarch in Belgrade.
But above all, all of the parties are positioning and marketing their candidates with migrant backgrounds accordingly to target groups. Up until now, only three foreign-born members have sat with the SPÖ on the city council. Now, one out of six candidates has foreign roots, whereas in the case of the Green Party, seven of the first 20 candidates. With Lukas Markovic, the FPÖ has for the first time an Austrian of Serbian descent campaigning for them. The ÖVP on the other hand has tried to gain points with the Christian immigrants with the candidacy of swimming star Dinko Jukic of Croatian descent. Even the first Turkish headscarf-wearers are campaigning for the SPÖ and ÖVP.
A look back clarifies the speed of this change. Just 14 years ago, the current head of the Viennese Green Party, Maria Vassilakou, celebrated becoming the first municipal councilor with a migrant background. It would be five years before the Turkish Social Democrat Nurten Yilmaz would follow.
In the late 90s, the SPÖ Secretary of the Interior Karl Schlögl competed against the then head of the FPÖ Jörg Haider for the roll of the most extreme right-winger in foreigner politics. Foreigners were perceived as a diffuse threat, not as a future political hope, and definitely not as potential voters.
"When I began consulting the Viennese SPÖ in 2001, they didn't want to talk at all about foreigner related topics," remembers Häupl's U.S.-American consultant Stanley Greenberg in a Falter interview. "Since then, one can no longer not talk about foreigners. We have come to a point where we recognize and openly discuss the diversity of society and how we want to deal with it."
But it was FPÖ head Heinz-Christian Strache, of all people, who opened the debate on migrants when he solicited the Serbian community in the 2008 parliamentary elections. Not only did he demonstrate a surprising interest in foreign policy by repeatedly criticizing the independence of Kosovo as illegal, but as in the current campaign, he wore a Serbian-Orthodox prayer necklace along with a visible blue Brojanica.
One look to the population figures in Vienna is enough to understand why Strache divides foreigners into "good" and "bad," in short, into Muslims and Christians. One out of five of the 950,000 voters have a migration background. Due to their size, the most relevant voting groups for the party strategists are the Serbs and Montenegrins, Turks, Czechs, Germans, Bosnians and Polish. Together these groups represent around 120,000 voters.
With an eye to the current campaign, Strache even founded the Christian Freedom Party (CFP). How does this sub-organization fit with the traditionally xenophobic and anti-clerical FPÖ?
"The FPÖ has always been a home-conscious party that represented the interests of its own people. It was not, and is not, xenophobic," said the German-Serb Konstantin Dobrilovic who, sporting a well-cut suit, met us in a Cafe on the Graben in central Vienna.
The devout Christian met Strache in 2008 at a Viennese charity event for Serbs in Kosovo. Since then, he rose from selling socks to heading the CFP. Among other things, his job includes marketing himself to the media as a well-integrated stereotypical Serb. During the campaign, the CFP has been giving press conferences and organizing podium discussions, networking with Christian associations and sending representatives on neighborhood tours.
Asked about his understanding of politics, Dobrilovic talks about a Christian Europe with values such as family, virtue, opposition to forced marriage or forced genital mutilation, and an unwillingness to integrate with Austrian Muslims.
"Europe was born on a pilgrimage," quotes Dobrilovic from Goethe, "and Christianity is our mother tongue."
Croatian-born swimmer Dinko Jukic also talks about Christian values but in the context of the necessity to integrate.
"We do not, however, promote agitation," said the athlete, who was presented a few weeks ago by the ÖVP as a free-agent candidate. "I stand for successful integration and that each of us can make it on our own strength and without paternalism," said Jukic. He is a kind of poster child of a Migration Hero.
"The parties that manage to tell the story of a common ascension that historically rivaling groups can identify with will benefit," argues Sora-pollster Christoph Hofinger.
Like Jukic, the Kurdish-born Green Senol Akkilic refuses to be reduced to a symbol of his community. Both say their "target group is all Austrians," but also admit that their networks mostly comprise the migrant communities.
"We don't put migrants on the ticket in order to address voting groups," said the integration worker Akkilic. "We represent the diversity of Vienna." Migrants in Vienna appreciate the Greens particularly for their progressive immigration and human rights policies, according to Akkilic. The SPÖ only often wins the competition for votes because they offer apartments, jobs and subsidies.
The Ifes poll from early summer agreed with Akkilic, and proves that Strache's Serbian commitment has impressed journalists more than the Serbian community. "Only" 27% of Serbs, Bosnians and Croats vote for the FPÖ, compared with 56% for the SPÖ. Among the Turkish-born voters, of which a clear majority belongs to the working and professional classes, the SPÖ obtains 78%, according to Ifes and the Greens – 16%. The ÖVP is lagging behind with both groups, with 5% and 6%, respectively.
Christine Marek's campaign demonstrates the difficulty of trying to respond to the interests of both migrants and indigenous Austrians at the same time without offending one of the two groups. The ÖVP leader, for instance, apologized during a visit to the Mosque congregation Atib for a statement by the party's young candidate Sebastian Kurz, who called for German language services in local mosques and described the Islamic denomination as unwilling to integrate.
"Such insensitive attacks could happen to the most careful campaigner," Marek said at the meeting. Shortly after in a broadcast, she expressed her "full support" for Kurz. Within a short time the Islamic officials circulated this as an example of the "two faces" of Marek.
The current manner of courting migrants has produced a further problem which Thomas Schmidinger, a political scientist at the University of Vienna, describes as "Ethnicization of Austrian politics." If the FPÖ exploits the political oppression of the Kurds in Turkey as an example of the uncivilized Turkish immigrants, or when the ÖVP politician Mustafa Iscel advertises, as in the last election, that his party campaigned against the recognition of the Turkish genocide of Armenians, it is not exactly conducive to peaceful coexistence in Vienna.
"This type of ethno-politics runs the risk of importing international conflict to Vienna," said Schmidinger.
That this was already the case was made clear after the boarding of the Turkish Marmara-fleet by the Israeli military in the early summer. After a powerful and eloquent appearance by Iraqi-born SPÖ politician Al-Rawi at the heated demonstration against Israel, the first Jewish officials resigned from the SPÖ. And later as Al-Rawi, ironically also acting as the integration spokesman for the Islamic Fellowship of Belief (IGGIÖ), headed the unanimous passing of a resolution against Israel in parliament, Viennese politics found itself caught in the middle of the Middle East conflict. Thus, religiously charged, ethnic election campaigns could be history by the next parliamentary elections five years from now.
"It is grotesque to be first approached as members of an ethnic group rather than as a worker, employee, self-employed person, education hungry, poor or old," maintained network researcher Harald Katzmair.
The fact that Viennese politics presently finds itself in a somewhat in-between stage, just now leaving the extreme "foreigners don't interest us" phase behind and the era of election courting across race still to come, every political strategist thinks he knows best who belongs to the growing pool of migrants from the second and third generation.
Czech-born Beko Paxant, for example, is head of the red youth election campaign and the man who recruited the Serbian boxer Gogi Knežević as the draw for SPÖ events.
"Admittedly, we have taken a long time to orient ourselves in this new environment," said Paxant. "Now fighting for votes is not about race, rather sociological factors. There are just as many 'Bobos' among the Serbs, Turks, Croats and Czechs as there are enlightened, leisure oriented and 'Schwarzköpfe.'" Schwarzköpfe, "the dark-haired," a term used by the rapper Nazar, describes disillusioned youth migrants who spend their time in shopping malls. To reach them is the most difficult job.
One look at the U.S.A. reveals future challenges. Even in the White House, the principle of the liaison officer still exists. Several people in the office of public relations handle specific social groups, such as the Jewish community, the African-Americans and the Catholics.
"I have no idea how we are going to do it in the post-Obama era," Greenberg admitted. "The very idea of having someone who brings in the views of the black population has, in the meantime, come to look bizarre."
Translated by Ingrid Salazar
This article appeared originally in German in the Sept. 15, 2010 edition of the Viennese weekly, Falter, Nr. 37/10. It appears here in English for the first time, with permission of the authors.


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About deborahcrockerI am a retired public school teacher. I have been married for 44 years to my high school sweet heart. We have two grown children and six grandchildren. For many years I have written my prayers in order to maintain both my focus and as a release from my stresses. These prayers are written in the form of dialog with God. I write my concerns, questions, and then write the answers just as they came into my heart. This website contains the conversations I had with God concerning my constant struggle with my weight and my compulsion to overindulge in the pleasure of food. I have gained, lost, and regained over 60lbs several times throughout my lifetime. I am now in the process of surrendering this addiction to God's control and I know He will give me the victory. I believe that God speaks to all of His children in different ways. With me, He speaks both in my heart and in my dialog writings. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." John 10:27 It is my hope and prayer that these dialogs will both encourage and bless you throughout your own journey of breaking free from your addiction. I hope that you will also begin having your own personal dialogs with God. He will speak to your heart as well.I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and that He rose again on the third day so that we may have a "new" life both here on Earth and later in Heaven. I also believe that my overeating (gluttony) is a sin (addiction) that has held me in bondage with a constant struggle for most of my adult life. This addiction, like all addictions, has prevented me from living a life to my fullest potential. I have always felt controlled and defeated by this overwhelming compulsion to overeat. This compulsion, at times, has damaged both my confidence and my potential. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. BUT I know that Jesus Christ has come to set me free! HE IS THE ANSWER! As I surrender the control of my life and desires to His direction and His will, He will set me free from all addictions! He promises and He will make you free too! John 8:36 Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. VICTORY IS COMING!!!
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Off to Capri
Last week of summer vacation in Capri. The nicest part is I am spending it with my daughter, Tatiana and her best friend Isabelle and her brother, Francois.
Isabelle and Francois have a lovely family home in Capri, and this is where we are.
Have been without internet for a few days, but now we are up and running.....So, first day's post after first day out on the sea.......
On a very personal note, I will admit to you all, that by the sea is where I always feel my best. Have never been able to figure that one out. Afterall, I grew up on solid ground in West Texas....
Must have been in another life..........Meanwhile, I am loving my life this week.......
The end of summer is always so nostalgic. Think I will go have a last Bellini (champagne and fresh peach juice) in Capri this evening. You know......just to toast the summer goodbye.
Cotton voile top is vintage Marni
Liberty cotton print short by Crimson
Straw beach bag at Crimson
Envelope Lobster Purse by Anya Hindmarch
Tropezienne sandals by Rondini
Sunglasses by Bottega Veneta


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CSE News for 2010
EECS Spinoffs Recognized as Key Innovators in Business Competition
The companies Arbor Photonics (high power laser technology) and Evigia (wireless sensing) earned top prizes in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, while the student competition included prizes for Reveal Design Automation and for MiEND-Drug Screeners. [Full Story]
Students Demonstrate Microprocessor-Based Systems Projects
On December 17, student teams from EECS 373, Design of Microprocessor-Based Systems, demonstrated their embedded design projects at a poster and demo session in the CSE Bulding's Tishman Hall. [Full Story]
2010 Computer Games Showcase Draws Huge Interest
On Friday, December 17, CSE's Tishman Hall was alive with the sound of an enthusiastic crowd of over 300 attendees trying out and comparing new video games. [Full Story]
/BIN/ART Opening Highlights Adaptive Art
On December 16 and 17, a new collection of adpative art was on display at the Duderstadt Gallery featuring student works. [Full Story]
Students Give A Couple of the Best Among 3,000 Elevator Pitches
Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen won in their category Michigan Matters, and Best Mobile App. Their projects are called, Metro Detroit Computer Exchange and miParty. [Full Story]
2011 Departmental Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2011 EECS Outstanding Achievement Award: Mingyan Liu, Scott Mahlke, and Mahta Moghaddam. [Full Story]
Intel Donates Computers to EECS to Support Research and Teaching
Intel Corporation has donated funds to EECS for computers to support research and teaching in the areas of Computing Systems and Logic Design. [Full Story]
Pettie, Wenisch Named Wellman Faculty Development Professors
Asst. Profs. Seth Pettie and Thomas F. Wenisch have been named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professors. [Full Story]
CSE Grad Students Present at Honors Competition
Four finalists gave presentations on their research at the 7th annual CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition on December 8. [Full Story]
Peter Chen Named ACM Fellow
Prof. Peter Chen has been named an ACM Fellow for his significant contributions to reliable storage and virtual machines. [Full Story]
December 5 - 11 is National Computer Science Education Week
Come to CSE to join in lectures and activities.
CSE Grad Student Awarded Rackham Fellowship
Daya Khudia, a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering, has received a Rackham International Student Fellowship to support his research. [Full Story]
Olson: Robotics Online - U-M Robot Team Wins International Competition and $750,000
[Full Story]
Olson: ZDNet Australia - US Defeats Australia in Robot Comp
[Full Story]
Olson: AnnArbor.com - Robots Built By University of Michigan Students Win $750,000 Grant
[Full Story]
Olson: Detroit Free Press - U-M Team Wins Global Robotics Prize
[Full Story]
Olson: PRWeb - Hail to the Victors! Team Michigan Wins Inaugural Worldwide Robotics Competition in Australia
[Full Story]
Student Programming Team Advances to ACM 2011 World Finals
A team of three U-M students has advanced from regional competition and will compete in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. [Full Story]
Yahoo! Expands M45 Supercomputing Initivative, Selects U-M
Yahoo! has expanded its Hadoop-based M45 academic research initiative to include four additional US universities, including U-M. Eight researchers in CSE, ECE, and SI will participate. [Full Story]
U-M Robot Team Wins International Competition and $750,000
A team of student robot developers led by Prof. Edwin Olson has won the MAGIC competition that was sponsored by the US and Austrialian defense departments. [Full Story]
EECS Researchers Win Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010
Prof. Igor Markov and PhD students Myung-Chul Kim and Dong-Jin Lee have won the Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010. [Full Story]
Sylvester-Blaauw: PRWeb - Ambiq Micro Secures $2.4M Investment
Sylvester-Blaauw: GreenTech - Ambiq Micro Closes $2.4 Million Seed Round For Efficient Micro-controllers
Prabal Dutta Wins Best Paper Award at SenSys 2010
Assistant Professor Prabal Dutta, along with co-authors from University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, has won the Best Paper Award at SenSys 2010. [Full Story]
David Kieras Selected for 2010 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award
Prof. David Kieras has received the Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. [Full Story]
Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble in Original Theatrical Performance
Friday, November 5, the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble will participate in an original theatrical piece as part of the Once. More. festival and the Performing Arts Technology 25th Anniversary. [Full Story]
Students Create 20 Projects in 24 Hours at Hack U
Students who participated in Yahoo!'s Hack U event created 20 new web and mobile apps in 24 hours. [Full Story]
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac now available
Copies of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac are now available for checkout from the DCO offices. As with all software covered under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, this software can only be installed on machines owned by the University of Michigan.
2010 MIPSE Graduate Symposium
The 1st Annual Graduate Symposium of the interdisciplinary Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering offered awards for best oral and poster presentations to students of 5 departments. [Full Story]
J. Alex Halderman Interviewed on CNN and NPR
CSE Prof. J. Alex Halderman was interviewed on CNN television about how his research team cracked and reprogrammed the new Washington DC Internet voting system - in 36 hours. [NPR Link] [Full Story]
Thomas Schmid Selected for 2010 Computing Innovation Fellowship
Dr. Thomas Schmid, a Post Doctoral Researcher in CSE, was recently named a 2010 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) by The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA). [Full Story]
U-M Students Build Amazing Mobile Apps in 48 Hours
U-M students with an interest in mobile device programming came together for the third 48-hour Smartphonia Mania Hackathon. The outcome was an impressive set of functional apps! [Full Story]
University of Michigan Team Wins GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Poster/Demo Award
A team of U-M computer scientists won the GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Poster/Demo Award at the Annual Symposium on the Gigascale Systems Research Center. [Full Story]
New Equation Could Advance Research in Solar Cells
A groundbreaking new equation developed by Prof. Stephen Forrest and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable their wider adoption. [Full Story]
CSE and North American Bancard Host 48-Hour Hackathon
This weekend, CSE and North American Bancard will host the third annual 48-hour Smartphonia Mania Hackathon. Students are invited to join and create mobile apps - for any moble device! [Full Story]
U-M Researchers Hack into Voting Test Bed
Michigan Engineering computer science researchers, led by Prof. J. Alex Halderman, successfully hacked into a test bed of a new Internet-based absentee voting system in Washington, D.C. [Full Story]
Team Michigan Departs for MAGIC Robotics Competition
Team Michigan, a group of U-M students led by Prof. Edwin Olson, will depart for the world finals in the MAGIC robotics competition in Australia. [Full Story]
Farnam Jahanian Selected to Head NSF CISE Directorate
Farnam Jahanian, CSE Chair, has been selected by NSF to head its directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). [Full Story]
New Student Group to Form for Mobile App Development
A new student group is forming around mobile app development, and everyone's invited to the organizational meeting in Design Lab One at the Duderstadt on Sept 30 @ 6:00pm. [Full Story]
Yahoo! Brings Hack U to CSE Oct 27 - 30
Yahoo! will bring its renowned team of tech gurus to CSE for Hack U, a series of workshops culminating in a 24-hour programming contest. Students, check it out! [Full Story]
Green Computing: Higher Energy Efficiency from Silicon to the Cloud
For decades, researchers and industry have been focused on increasing computing performance by increasing transistor density and shrinking the size of computing devices. But with the continued scaling of computing systems to sizes only theorized a decade ago, combined with the prevalence of mobile devices, social networking, cloud computing, and the cost of powering huge data centers, the computing paradigm has changed. Energy efficiency is now a primary consideration at all levels of computing. [Full Story]
CSE Spinout Arbor Networks Acquired in U-M Tech Transfer Success Story
Arbor Networks, the Internet security and network management company founded by Professor Farnam Jahanian and Robert Malan will be acquired by Tektronix Communications. [Full Story]
MRacing Team Drives to 2nd Overall Finish in Formula Student Germany
With EECS students Jacob Oberlin and Nathan Lusk in charge of the electronics, the MRacing team finished an impressive second of 91 teams in the competition. [Full Story]
Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins
For the fourth year, Assoc. Prof. Dragomir Radev has coached the US Computational Linguistics Team to multiple wins. [Full Story]
Meeting the Challenges for Low-Power System-on-Chip (SoC) Design
U-M and Nanyang Tech. U. will collaborate to advance research in the areas of low-power and biomedical IC's, energy harvesting, and wireless sensors. [Full Story]
Robotics Team to Advance to World Finals
Team Michigan has qualified as a finalist in the MAGIC international robot challenge. Prof. Edwin Olson, his students, and their team of robots will compete this November in Australia. [Full Story]
Blaauw,Sylvester: New York Times - Ambiq Micro Wins Another Business Competition
CSE Researchers Win First Place in ISPLED Design Contest
Three CSE researchers have won first place in the ISLPED 2010 Low Power Design Contest for developing a method for harvesting power from a smartphone audio jack. [Full Story]
EECS Faculty Receive HP Labs Innovation Research Awards
Four EECS faculty teams have been selected to receive 2010 Innovation Research Program awards from HP for projects that range from plasma science to virtualized data centers. [Full Story]
Blaauw-Sylvester: Crains Detroit Business - UM spinoff Ambiq Micro Inc. wins business plan competition
Kang Shin and Collaborators Win Best Paper Award at USENIX
Prof. Kang G. Shin and four collaborators have won the Best Paper Award at the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference for "LiteGreen: Saving Energy in Networked Desktops Using Virtualization." [Full Story]
Schmid and Dutta Win ACM 2010 HotEmNets Best Paper Award
CSE Post Doctoral Researcher Thomas Schmid and Assistant Professor Prabal Dutta, and along with two collaborators from UCLA, have won the Best Paper Award at the 6th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors. [Full Story]
CSE to Hold CS4HS Summer Workshop for High School Teachers
CSE welcomes Michigan high school teachers to CS4HS, a two-day summer workshop takes place August 18 - 19, 2010 at CSE. Welcome, teachers! [Full Story]
Official Michigan iPhone App Has Roots as a CSE Student Project
The U-M has released its official iPhone app, which provides access to a range of campus information. The app also has roots as a CSE student project. [Full Story]
EECS Alum is a CS Pirate-Entrepreneur
EECS Alumnus Nick Yang has started three successful software companies in China, and has a fourth in mind. He loves building a fast ship, recruiting a crew, and developing software that changes people's lives. [Full Story]
Blaauw,Sylvester,Hanson: Ann Arbor.com - U-M microcontroller spinoff Ambiq Micro wins
Ambiq Micro Wins Global Business Plan Competition
Ambiq Micro, the startup founded by Profs. Sylvester, Blaauw, and Dr. Scott Hanson, received seed funding of $250K from DFJ and Cisco in their first place finish in the Global Business Plan Competition. They are expected to "lead the way to ubiquitous computing with next generation energy-efficient microcontrollers." [Full Story]
Sylvester-Blaauw-Hanson: Market Watch - DFJ and Cisco Announce Ambiq Micro as Winner of Global Business Plan Competition
Computer Vision Research Recognized at Innovation in AEC Conference
Prof. Silvio Savarese's student, Mani Golparvar-Fard, receives best paper award for research in four-dimensional augmented reality models and their application to the construction industry. [Full Story]
Solar Car Team Wins American Solar Challenge - AGAIN!
With clock speeds reaching 100 mph in testing, Infinium races to its 3rd consecutive win in the American Solar Challenge. Special congratulations to all the EECS members of the team! [Full Story]
Microsoft Office 2010 now available
Copies of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional are now available for checkout from the DCO offices. As with all software covered under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, this software can only be installed on machines owned by the University of Michigan.
UM:Autonomys Team Takes Home 1st Prize
Michigan's Autonomy team took first place at the student robotics Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition. EECS students designed and assembled the electronics box for the water vehicle. [Full Story]
Visual Studio 2010 now available
Copies of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 are now available for checkout from the DCO office in 2917 CSE. As with all software covered under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, this software can only be installed on machines owned by the University of Michigan.
WIMS-CUOS: WWJ 950 - Four U-M Projects Named to NSF 'Sensational 60' List
[Full Story]
WIMS-Lasik: URecord - U-M projects named to NSF Sensational 60 list
Halderman: BBC News - US Scientists Hack India Electronic Voting Machines
Halderman: Times of India - Tamper-Proof? Scientists Show EVMs Can Be Hacked
Halderman: Slashdot - Researchers Demo Hardware Attacks Against Indias...
WIMS: GLITR - UM Center Celebrates 10 Years of Developing Wireless Devices
U-M Tech Transfer Office Program for Entrepreneurs
This video story features Ambiq Micro and Scott Hanson (PhD EE 2009), CEO and co-founder of the company along with Prof. David Blaauw and Prof. Dennis Sylvester. Ambiq Micro is called one of the most promising companies that mentor-in-resident Dave Hartmann has worked with recently. [Full Story]
CSE Researcher Receives Outstanding PhD Award
Dr. Thomas Schmid, a Post Doctoral Researcher in CSE, has been selected to receive the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department's 2009-2010 Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Award. [Full Story]
Kaplan: APS Observer - This Side of Paradise; Discovering Why the Human Mind...
Caravan Track Hits the Road
Student app developers and Ford engineers departed CSE on May 13 for a cross country roadtrip in 2011 Fiestas running social networking software that the students developed. [Full Story]
CSE Spinout Places 6th in Rice University Business Plan Competition
U-M students pitched Reveal Design Automation, a start-up with roots in CSE, at the recent Rice University Business Plan Competition. [Full Story]
CS Students Win Big in ITS Mobile Apps Innovation Challenge
Current and former computer science students have been announced as top winners in all three categories of the ITS Mobile Apps Innovation Challenge. [Full Story]
Forrest: Ann Arbor.com - Investment in education would reverse U.S. manufacturing contraction
CSE Spinout Highlighted in National Report on Research to Jobs
Arbor Networks, founded in 2000 by Prof. Farnam Jahanian and G. Robert Malan, who was then a doctoral student at U-M, has been highlighted in a report on federal investment in basic research and resultant job creation. [Full Story]
Flinn and Noble: Popular Mechanics - Cloud Computing for Commuters
[Full Story]
Feature on Valeria Bertacco
Assoc. Prof. Valeria Bertacco was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of Michigan Engineer, a special issue devoted to remarkable women in engineering. [Full Story]
Kieras: Ann Arbor Observer - Hang Up and Drive! (PDF)
CSE Graduate Student Awarded Intel Ph.D. Fellowship
Andrew DeOrio has been selected to receive a prestigious Intel Corporation Ph.D. Fellowship. [Full Story]
CSE Graduate Student Wins Best Student Paper at WWW Conference
Tony Fang has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th World Wide Web Conference for his paper, "Privacy Wizards for Social Networking Sites." [Full Story]
Students Develop Cloud Computing Apps for Cars
Recent apps developed by CSE students for the new Ford Fiesta are making the news, and the top app will be loaded into a 2011 Fiesta for a socially networked cross-country road trip. Videos on Facebook. [Full Story]
EECS Department Recognizes Graduate Student Instructors
April 26, we recognized exemplary Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides at the annual GSI awards luncheon. [Full Story]
Forrest: Going Global (U-M and SJTU)
Prof. Stephen Forrest talks about U-M's cooperative research with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the excellent opportunity that exists to take advantage of the U.S. Department of Energy's emphasis on renewable energy research with Chinese institutions. [Read More] - - [Energy and Power Research in ECE]
Researchers Demonstrate Vulnerabilities in Indias Voting Machines
An international team of researchers, including CSE Asst. Prof. J. Alex Halderman, has demonstrated that electronic voting machines in India, the world's largest democracy, are vulnerable to fraud. [Full Story]
Data Mining Workshop Brings Together Over 100 Researchers
On April 23, researchers from across the U-M gathered at CSE for a highly-anticipated workshop on data, text, web, and social network mining. [Full Story]
Bertacco and Austin: BBC News - Web Security Attack Makes Silicon Chips More Reliable
[Full Story]
Patrick O'Keefe Receives NSF Fellowship for Research in HCI
Patrick O'Keefe, incoming graduate student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his research in human computer interaction. [Full Story]
CSE Students Create Social Networking Apps for Cars
On April 23, six teams of students demoed the apps they created in the new "Cloud Computing in the Commute" course taught this semester at U-M in partnership with Ford. Video from event on Facebook. [Full Story]
Awards and Dragon Slaying
Matt Lauer, 2010 HKN President, surprised Prof. David Wentzloff with the HKN Professor of the Year award at St. George's Day Feast. Also, HKN receives award, and EECS Alumni Society hands out awards. [Full Story]
Debapriya Chatterjee Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate Debapriya Chatterjee has received an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his work in developing EDA applications for GP-GPU platforms. [Full Story]
Student iPhone App Acquired by National Company
The popular DoGood iPhone app - created by three U-M students and downloaded by close to 70,000 people - has been acquired by Tonic. [Full Story]
David Kieras Inducted into the CHI Academy
Prof. David Kieras has been recognized by the HCI community through his election into the CHI Academy by the Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI. [Full Story]
CS-Focused Companies Graduate from TechArb Incubator
Eight student-run and student-involved companies, most CS-driven, will graduate from TechArb, the Center for Entrepreneurship's incubator. Featured at the event will be Jason Bornhorst, CSE graduate, co-founder of TechArb, and co-founder of Mobil33t. [Full Story]
Xin Hu Receives Yahoo! Research Award
CSE Graduate Student Xin Hu has received a Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Award for his research in network security. [Full Story]
Featured Video: Phoenix 2 Chip
This video describes the Phoenix 2 chip, a solar-powered, commercial-grade microprocessor that is the smallest chip that can harvest energy from its surroundings, and the company spawned by the research, Ambiq Micro. [Full Story]
Prabal Dutta Wins IPSN Best Paper Award
Prof. Prabal Dutta, along with two colleagues from UCLA, has won a Best Paper Award at the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks in Stockholm, Sweden. [Full Story]
U-M Researchers Win 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award
EECS Professors Anna Gilbert and Martin Strauss, along with Joel Tropp, have won the 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award from EURASIP. [Full Story]
Brian Noble to Receive Teaching Award
Professor Brian Noble has been selected to receive a 2010 University Undergraduate Teaching Award, which honors faculty who have demonstrated outstanding ability in teaching undergraduate students. [Full Story]
Amin Ansari Wins Distinguished Achievement Award
CSE graduate student Amin Ansari has won the 2010 College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award, which recognizes academic and research excellence. [Full Story]
Job Prospects Best for EECS Majors!
Various news agencies (CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week) are reporting excellent jobs outlook for engineering majors compared to other areas, especially for EECS majors. [Full Story]
Radev: NALCO Press Release - Say What? High School Linguists Break the Code
[Full Story]
Essl: BlogTalkRadio - Radio Interview on Cell Phones and Learning
[Full Story]
Essl: WOBC News - Radio Interview on Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble
[Full Story]
Markov: EE Times - IBM Benchmarks Prod Microprocessor Designers
[Full Story]
Students Win Clock Network Synthesis Contest at ISPD 2010
EECS students Dongjin Lee and Myungchul Kim have won first place in the Clock Network Synthesis Contest at the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, producing circuit designs four times more energy efficient than those of their closest competitor. [Full Story]
Soloway: eSchool News - Education Reformers Tout Value of Handheld Technologies (pdf)
[Full Story]
Visualization Graphics Selected
CSE grad David Adams is now a PhD candidate in Physics at U-M, and has been using graphics for visualization of his research since taking Prof. Sugih Jamin's EECS 487 Interactive Computer Graphics course. The American Physical Society recently highlighted this image from David in their image gallery.
Prof. James Meindl Delivers Lecture on Nanotechnology
Prof. James Meindl, pioneer and leader in microelectronics and microsystems research and education, was on campus recently to deliver the William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture. You may watch his lecture, entitled, Nanoelectronics in Retrospect, Prospect and Principle, and hear his predictions for the future of nanoelectronics. Video
Noble and Flinn: Technology Review - Creating Apps Just for Cars
[Full Story]
Martha Pollack Re-Elected to CRA Board of Directors
Prof. Martha Pollack has been re-elected to a three-year term on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. [Full Story]
CSE Graduate Student Receives Margaret Ayers Host Award
CSE graduate student Mona Attariyan has received the Margaret Ayers Host Award from the U-M Rackham Graduate School. [Full Story]
Bertacco and Austin: UPI.com - Study Finds Weakness in Security System
[Full Story]
Bertacco and Austin: The Register - Severe OpenSSL Vuln Busts Public Key Crypto
[Full Story]
Bertacco and Austin: Slashdot - Researchers Find Way to Zap RSA Algorithm
[Full Story]
Adar: Technology Review - Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
[Full Story]
CSE Alumna Selected to Receive Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Smita Krishnaswamy (CSE Ph.D. 2008) has been selected to receive the 2009 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Association. [Full Story]
CSE Researchers Find Weakness in Common Digital Security System
Profs. Valeria Bertacco, Todd Austin, and doctoral student Andrea Pellegrini have demonstrated a weakness in a popular encryption method that is frequently used in a variety of electronic transactions. [Full Story]
CSE Graduate Student Receives Best Paper Award at FAST 10
Graduate student Kaushik Veeraraghavan won the Best Paper Award at the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) in San Jose. [Full Story]
Ambiq-Enertia: New York Times - Michigan Business Challenge
EECS Technology Wins Top Prizes in Michigan Business Challenge
Scott Hanson (PhD EE 2009) presents a prototype microprocessor from the startup Ambiq Micro, which he co-founded with Profs. Blaauw and Sylvester. 2nd place went to Enertia. [Full Story]
48-Hour Game Development Contest Yields 10 Games
Wolverine Soft, the student video game development group at U-M, held its 7th annual 48-hour game development contest on Feb. 12-13. At the event, 25 participants on 9 teams created 10 games. [Full Story]
EECS Students Claim Top Two Clean Energy Prizes
The teams Enertia and Advanced Battery Control took first and second place in the 2009-10 Clean Energy Prize business plan competition. [Full Story]
Three EECS Students Receive Predoctoral Fellowships
Mojtaba Mehrara conducts research in compiler technology.Ashutosh Nayyar conducts research in communication and sensor networks.Scott Rudolph conducts research in negative-refractive-index media.
Clean Energy Prize: PR Newswire
Clean Energy Prize: Renewable Energy Sources
Edmund Durfee Recognized as IFAAMAS 2010 Influential Paper Award Co-Winner
Prof. Ed Durfee will receive the Influential Paper Prize from the Intl. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. This award recognizes a paper published at least 10 years ago that has had significant and lasting impact. [Full Story]
Mojtaba Mehrara Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Computer Science and Engineering graduate student Mojtaba Mehrara has been awarded a 2010 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. [Full Story]
Sylvester and Blaauw-MSNBC: Tiny solar-powered sensor runs almost forever
Sylvester and Blaauw-Popular Science: Miniature Sensor Perpetually Charges Self Using Environmental Energy
Wolverine Soft to Hold 48-Hour Game Development Contest
Wolverine Soft, the student video game development group at U-M, will hold its 7th annual 48-hour game development contest, beginning this Friday, Feb. 12. No programming experience required - artists, musicians, and others interested in game development are welcome! [Full Story]
Student Programming Team Competes Well in ACM 2010 World Finals
Having succeeded previously in regional North American competition, a team of three U-M computer science students competed in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest on Friday, February 5 in Harbin, China. [Full Story]
Smallest solar-powered sensor system could run forever
A 9-cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually. [Full Story]
EECS Professors To Pursue Research Under Grants From Google
Google has announced its first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards, and four EECS professors have received two grants for their research into energy-efficient computing. [Full Story]
iPhone Developers Club Holds 24-Hour Hackathon
The iPhone Developers Club will host a 24-hour mobile hackathon this Friday, February 5, beginning at 6:00pm at Design Lab One in the Duderstadt Center. Students are welcome to develop on iPhone, Android, or any mobile device. [Full Story]
Professor Emerita Lynn Conway Receives Computer Pioneer Award
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Shimmer by Sarah Schulman
1998, hardcover
Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky sits in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with every other girl whose eyes are on the next step up the ladder. Across town at a rival paper, gossip columnist Austin Van Cleeve rules New York with his razor-sharp pen. In the village, Cal Byfield is stuck flipping hamburgers to support his dream of a Negro theatre on Broadway. These three characters, each with their own distinctive voices, collide in compelling and startling ways against the backdrop of McCarthy-era New York City in a tour de force of invention and interlocking drama.


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a two-day programme of interventions, screenings and an exhibition
dealing with the militant image and its resonances
in collaboration with Courtisane Festival
There was a time when cinema was believed to make a difference, to be able to act as a weapon in struggle, to operate as a realm of discord. The so-called "militant cinema" was not only considered as a tool to bear witness but also to intervene in the various political upheavals and liberation movements that shook the world in the 1960s and '70s. What remains of this unassailable alliance between cinema and politics? After the flames had died down, all that seemed to be left was a wreckage of broken promises and shattered horizons. Today it feels like we have been living through a long period of disappointment and disorientation, while the sense of something lacking or failing is spreading steadily. An overwhelming melancholy seems to have taken hold of our lives, as if we can only experience our time as the "end times", when the confidence in politics is as brittle as our trust in images.
Perhaps that is why, for those who came after, there is a growing tendency to look back at an era when there was still something to fight for, and images were still something to fight with. Can a re-imagining of old utopian futures shed a new light on our perceived dead-end present, in view of unexpected horizons?
Can an understanding of past dreams and illusions lead to reinvigorated notions of responsibility, commitment and resistance? Can a dialogue with the period in question help us to find the very principles and narratives capable of remedying its impasses? And how can this questioning help us to think about how cinema, unsure of its own politics, can be "political" today? In light of a potential rebirth of politics, would it still be possible for the art of cinema to appeal to the art of the impossible?
Participants: Irmgard Emmelhainz, Sabu Kohso & Go Hirasawa,
Eric Baudelaire, Mohanad Yaqubi & Reem Shilleh (Subversive Film), Angela Melitopoulos & Bettina Knaup, Ayreen Anastas & Réné Gabri, Olivier Hadouchi, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Evan Calder Williams & Victoria Brooks, Raquel Schefer, Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro, Daphné Hérétakis.
The Fire Next Time is organized in conjunction with the exhibition L'œil se noie, Eric Baudelaire and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc in KIOSK (05/04 – 15/06/2014), in the context of the research project Figures of Dissent at the School of Arts and in collaboration with the Courtisane Festival.
The Fire Next Time is organized as part of The Uses of Art – The Legacy of 1848 and 1989, a project initiated by the museum confederation L'Internationale with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
With the support of the research groups S:PAM & PEPPER (UGent), art centre Vooruit, BAM institute for visual, audiovisual and media art, Embassies of France and Mexico, Eye on Palestine. Thanks to KASKcinema and Minard.
The Fire Next Time events are free, except for the Julius Eastman concert. Concert: €10 box office / €8 presale. Seats for the events in KASKcinema are limited. Please book in advance by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Talk + screening:
* Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) FR, 1976, 16mm, color, French & Arabic spoken with English subtitles, 53'
* Hito Steyerl, November DE, 2004, video, color, English spoken, 25'
Talk + screening:
* Masao Adachi & Koji Wakamatsu, Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai Senso Sengen (The Red Army / PFLP: Declaration of World War) JP/ Palestine, 1971, 16mm to video, color, stereo, Japanese & Arabic spoken with English subtitles, 69'
Talk + screening:
* Sophie Bissonnette, Martin Duckworth, Joyce Rock, A Wives Tale CA, 1980, 16mm, color, English & French spoken, 73'
Cinema Performance
Cinema Performance
Talk + Screening:
* Santiago Álvarez, Now !
CU, 1965, 35mm, b/w, sound, color, 5'
* Ugo Ulive, Basta
VE, 1969, 16mm to video, b/w, Spanish spoken with English subtitles, color, 14'
* Santiago Álvarez, 79 Primaveras
CU, 1969, 35mm, b/w, sound, 24'
* Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Coffea Arábiga, 1968
CU, 1968, 16mm to video, b/w, Spanish spoken with English subtitles, 18'
* Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Desde La Habana, 1969
CU, 1968, 16mm to video, b/w, Spanish spoken with English subtitles, 18'
* Humberto Solás, Simparelé, 1974
CU, 16mm to video, b/w, Spanish spoken with English subtitles, 28'
Talk + Screening:
*Daphné Hérétakis, Ici rien, FR/GR, 2011, 16mm, Super 8, 30'
*Ramiro ledo Cordeiro, Vida Extra, 2013, video, 96'
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Doctors at the SMS hospital performed a quick surgery on an elderly man who had taken the spoon inside while swallowing his medicine
Doctors at the Sawai Mansingh (SMS) hospital in Jaipur have successfully saved the damage that could have been caused to the intestine of an elderly man, after he swallowed the spoon along with his medicine the same day. The 60-yr old man is reported to be under mental treatment earlier, and was rushed to the hospital after the incident took place.
The spoon was taken out from the patient's stomach successfully, through Endoscopy, a non-surgical procedure used to examine a person's digestive tract, as confirmed by PTI.
"The spoon could have harmed his intestine but the procedure took place successfully on Saturday," Dr SS Sharma, professor in the Gastroenterology department, SMS hospital said today.
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It was once said that Vim can do everything. This might not be entirely true, but Vim can surely do a lot of different things that you might not have imagined it can.
In this appendix, we will take a look at some of the things that Vim users have made it do via Vim scripting or by combining it with other programs.
This appendix will take you through everything from games and mail clients, to IRC chatting and complete development IDE setups—all done in Vim.
Even though Vim is a text editor, people have spent a lot of time on creating scripts that make it do other things (other than being an editor). Among these are small games that you can play directly inside the Vim editor. Notice that these are not just ...
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Full Frame VS APS-C Camera Sensors
I am occasionally involved in discussions about which sensor format is better. Full frame or APS-C? It continues to be my opinion that they are equal if the photo sites are essentially the same size and the manufacturing technology is essentially equal. That is to say that a 16mp APS-C sensor is the equal in terms of image quality as a 36mp full frame sensor. I have read a few articles that discuss this subject and none have been convincing or have not addressed the issue in the terms I mention. The most recent article I read is very interesting but I am still not convinced that full frame sensors are superior to APS-C when compared as above. It is however a good article and the comments by readers are perhaps yet more informative. Of course some of the comments are not relevant but if the subject interests you be sure to read the comments. I would like to hear your thoughts on the subject. This is the article


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Created: January 26, 2009
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Andre continues the mission. Andre continues to work tirelessly to defend the city from anything and everything. He does everything within his power to handle any and all crime and apocalyptic elements that show themselves to him. He hasn't slowed down at all, but as time has gone on, he's grown more suspicious of those he once considered on the side of good. The recent addition of the New VCPD has him wary and in his eyes the system is still broken. Conflict is inevitable, but he has yet to determine from where.
Andre's strength comes from his bracelet which is permanently bonded to him. It can never be removed unless Andre is killed. Simply removing the arm and placing it on someone else wouldn't give them any powers and would cause severe energy based shocks until they die.
Andre has immense physical strength through the bracelet's augmentations. He's able to move at super-human speeds and he is capable of flight. He can absorb energy and rejuvenate himself through it. Fire, Plasma, Electricity, Atomic, any sort of energy, it all goes into him to heal. Andre also can control energy blasts of his own. Because of this, he doesn't need to drink anything, eat anything, or sleep. He often forgoes these things entirely since it allows him to patrol constantly.
Andre can also absorb powers from others, he got the ability to fly from his deceased friend Tyr. He can kill people with this power as well, sucking out their life-force.
Andre lives a pretty solitary life. He doesn't have an apartment or place he stays anymore, nor does he stop patrolling the city. The few people in his life and few bonds he made are just that, few. As a result, he is a bit taciturn. He's not shy, but he doesn't offer up much conversation if it doesn't serve a purpose anymore. At heart, he's a good person, but he's very committed to his duty and he doesn't really allow himself time to do anything outside of protecting the city. Andre can be prone to a shoot first ask questions later mentality in order to prevent anything from going wrong.
Andre does not speak ebonics. He will never say nigga, homie, or slang of any kind.
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No-Drain Microwave Macaroni and Cheese
Posted on July 22, 2017 in Sides
1 7oz box of Mac & Cheese mix
1 3/4 cup HOT tap water
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
Put macaroni in a 2 qt bowl with HOT tap water. If you can't use HOT water, adjust cooking time accordingly. Cook in microwave for 9 to 9 1/2 minutes, stirring once or twice. All the water should be absorbed and macaroni tender. Stir again after it is finished. Add cheese mix, milk and butter, stirring until butter is melted and cheese powder is cheesy.


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After driving through six states, all drenched with rain, I arrived in New York City. Only to be rear-ended by a big yellow cab. Once situated in a downtown hotel looking out over Times Square, I popped a few Advil for my sore back and set out on foot and subway train to the McNally Jackson independent bookseller. From there it was off to the White Horse Tavern in the West Village for a drink and early dinner. The bartender was an easy going friendly chap from Madagascar named Lova –– not pronounced like Mr. Lova Lova, but like Loofa –– with a V. I received an education from him about his hometown and we shared a few laughs. I'll certainly be headed back to soak in some more writerly ju-ju from the haunted walls of authors from a by-gone era. Tomorrow we set up our booth in the Javits Center for BookExpo America, once completed, its off to the MoMA to take in a few new exhibits that I'm excited to see. Farewell for now.
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Rick Capozzi is a highly regarded industry leader in financial services, author, and former National Sales Manager at Morgan Stanley. Rick's notable 30-year track record of success spans across several channels, including private banking and trust, wealth management, and Registered Investment Advisor (RIA). Holding senior leadership positions with the world's largest organizations, including TD Private Bank, Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and UBS, Rick's track record speaks for itself. Rick is currently president of Capozzi Advisory Group, LLC, a boutique consulting and training firm. His workshops on leadership and wealth strategies for high net worth clients have helped tens of thousands of financial professionals around the world become more successful in growing their practices.


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Actually,it would be more like an actuator replacement that is manual twist.
I am working on getting a 8.5' dish but the actuator is shot.
I have threaded rod to play with and was wondering if they make a replacement actuator that is jackass powered?
The original was 24" or 36", a new 36" would be $$


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Are you in search of a new and exciting opportunity working within the Aviation sector? Do you want career progression and development? Then, our new established airlines company has a fantastic opportunity for you.
Corendon Airlines Europe, established in 2017 with the goal of operating flights between European countries, flies under the Maltese flag with a fleet of 3 aircrafts from Germany, Austria, Estonia and Poland to tourist destinations in Turkey, Egypt, Israel and Greece.
In the winter of 2018-2019, Corendon Airlines Europe continues its flight operations from Hurghada with 2 aircrafts. In 2019, three new B737-800's will join the fleet and as from May 2019 our aircrafts and our crew will also be based in Heraklion, Tel Aviv, Rhodos and Cologne.
In the light of this growth we are looking for experienced Cabin Crew Members to be based in Cologne (Germany).
- At least a high school education degree.
- Initial Safety Training Attestation or Initial Training Certificate issued under EU-Regulation 1178/2011 in the latest version.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English (additional languages are desirable)
- Height between 170-185 cm for male candidates and between 165-180 cm for female candidates. Height has to be in proportion with weight.
- Immaculate appearance.
- Minimum 20-years-old.
- Medically fit to meet aircrew requirements.
- Able to swim.
- Holder of a valid EU passport allowing unlimited travelling.
- Enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated
- Strong representation skills and advanced customer satisfaction awareness.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- With a proactive approach to encourage continuous improvement within the company.
Additional Information:
- The company conversion trainings will be on several dates in the first quarter of 2019.
- We offer you a contract until 31.10.2019 which can be extended based on your performance and the operational requirements.


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Choosing the right edition/version
KB Home | Choosing the right edition/version
PaperCut is offered in two different flavors:
The product feature chart on the home page will provide a quick overview of the differences.
Each addition is focused on different environments:
- Schools and Colleges usually don't need the advanced client features. Instead users have access to the standard popup (optional) or require no popup at all. The advanced popup is available but may only be used by two users - for example by administration staff. Extra advanced clients may be added at an additional cost.
- The system defaults in PaperCut NG edition are also tuned for a silent monitoring or quota/charging control. Users do not need the client popup as this is optional.
If you need assistance with choosing the best version, please feel free to email our technical support team.
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How I Came To Be
In the 1980's, the world was in a panic state of upheaval. Chaos and disorder reined the globe. Harmony was abandoned while yin and yang were laughed at. Balance was shaken and monotony was stirred. Reason trembled in the shadows of impulsive actions and fancy-fleeting moments, but that's just my opinion.
The babies of the post-war era free thinkers were now ruling the world. Women turned their living rooms into workout havens and while Jane Fonda's aerobics videos encouraged them to "go for the burn" they danced their afternoons away in legs streaked with neon colored tights. George Michael was fast becoming a world-renown gay sex symbol and rose to stardom with Wham! while some of his British brethren tied the knot across the pond bringing the likes of Princess Diana into the vulnerability and limelight of lies, rumor and speculation known as the media. Music Television exploded with The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" as a somewhat ironic yet poignant statement to a foreshadowing of the silent war between radio and MTV in the decades to come. Steven Spielberg showcased a large part of the San Fernando Valley and how cute Drew Barrymore's nose was and always will be in E.T. the Extra Terrestrial while the Valley produced a language all on its own, linguistically a geographical phenomenon. Dan Aykroyd awkwardly sings "We Are the World" with the rest of the Jackson Five and Madonna lies to us all, telling us she knows what it's like to be a virgin. It was all about the bangs, the teased hair, the shoulder pads, pastel colored blazers with rolled up sleeves, jelly shoes, legwarmers, Miami Vice and CHiPs.


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A look at what's happening around the New York Jets:
1. Year of the (Big) Cat? The last time the Jets had a high-profile defensive lineman entering the final year of his contract (Sheldon Richardson, 2017), they traded him. The time before that (Muhammad Wilkerson, 2015), they drafted another defensive lineman in the first round (Leonard Williams), sending a message to Wilkerson.
Now, four years later, Williams finds himself in the Wilkerson position, preparing for the last year of his contract and wondering about his long-term future. The questions will intensify if the Jets select a defensive lineman with the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL draft, perhaps Nick Bosa, Quinnen Williams or Ed Oliver.
Round and round, we go. The Jets have a way of repeating history.
Unlike 2015, when Wilkerson, 24, was the subject of pre-draft trade speculation, it's all eerily quiet on the Williams front. The Jets are intent to ride it out with him, waiting to see if he can deliver a blockbuster season that would warrant a massive, long-term extension (or, failing that, a franchise tag). It could backfire, of course, if he doesn't rise to that level. In that case, they could lose him next year for nothing.
Unlike Wilkerson, who skipped voluntary workouts because he was unhappy with his contract, Williams is participating in the offseason program. What does that mean? Not a whole lot. In the end, it's all about production. Wilkerson moped for months, but he enjoyed a career year and landed a five-year, $86 million deal (a bad investment, as it turned out). If Williams plays lights out, he'll get paid, too.
Everything is aligned for Williams to have that kind of season. He's all-in, which is what you'd expect from a player in a contract year. (By the way, he's making a handsome wage in 2019 at $14.2 million.) Before team workouts in New Jersey, he trained at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, California. Instead of a normal routine, he changed up his workouts, sprinting up beach dunes and taking jujitsu classes to improve his body control and balance. He also believes he will thrive under fiery new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
"One of my favorite coaches of all-time was Coach [Ed] Orgeron, and he was an intense coach," Williams said of the current LSU head coach, his position coach at Southern California. "I feel like that type of energy brings the best out of people."
Still, Williams is only human. If the Jets invest a $30 million-plus guarantee in a hot-shot rookie, he'll have to be thinking about what it means for his future.
2. An Oliver twist: In his latest mock draft, NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah has the Jets picking defensive tackle Ed Oliver at No. 3. That's a name we hadn't heard in the conversation. Oliver has been compared to Aaron Donald, whom Gregg Williams coached with the Los Angeles Rams, so it's easy to connect some dots. Still, it doesn't sound like a great fit for the Jets.
Oliver was a dominant nose tackle at the University of Houston, but he would be undersized (6-foot-2, 287) at that position at the NFL level. Can his rare explosiveness compensate for his size? That's a question you shouldn't have to ponder when you're talking about the third pick in the draft, especially if Quinnen Williams -- a better overall prospect as an interior lineman -- still is on the board.
Jeremiah acknowledged that he, too, would take Williams over Oliver. But, in projecting the Jets' choice, he believes Oliver could "kind of be more of the Robin type of a player to Batman there with Leonard Williams, just a different skill set to give you a little something different. So that's what his strength would be."
An interesting thought, but give me Williams, Nick Bosa or Josh Allen over Oliver.
3. Big-name visitors: Teams have completed their top-30, pre-draft visits. The notables who visited the Jets were Williams, Allen, Oliver, defensive end Rashan Gary, tackle Jonah Williams, tight end Noah Fant, tackle Andre Dillard, center Erik McCoy and linebacker Jachai Polite, who could be an intriguing third-round option.
4. High praise for Gase: Not many people in football know Adam Gase better than former Jets and Miami Dolphins executive Mike Tannenbaum, who worked closely with him in Miami. Tannenbaum's take on Gase is fascinating. He compared the Jets' new coach to one of their old coaches.
"I think there are a lot of similarities between him and Rex Ryan," Tannenbaum said on "Flight Plan," a new Jets podcast on ESPN. "Both those guys are just inherently very confident people. When you sat with Rex in a meeting, he would tell the special-teams coach, 'Hey, this week we're not going to practice kickoff returns because they're not going to score.' He wouldn't just say it to say it. He said it because in his soul he felt that way.
"I can't tell you how many times Adam would walk up in the hallway and say, 'Hey, just so you know, when we're ahead by 25, I'm going to onside-kick it in the fourth quarter because I want people to know how high our standards are.' He would truly feel that way. ... I think one of his super powers, one of his true gifts is he's very confident and very relatable, especially on the offensive side of the ball."
Tannenbaum said Gase will bring a "fresh energy and approach and moxie on that side of the ball that hasn't been there in a long time." He said Gase, like Ryan, has the "ability to instill confidence and be extremely relatable to the players. Those are two skills -- regardless of how you're portrayed by the media -- without those two skills, you have no chance."
5. Inside the Jets' schedule: Once the NFL schedule is released, we spend hours (days?) dissecting it, looking for quirky trends. To me, one of the most important factors -- a hidden factor -- is the amount of rest in between games. When a team has an edge over its opponent, it can be a big advantage.
In the Jets' case, they have six games in which there's an uneven number of rest days -- only two in their favor. But in one of those cases, their edge is minimized. In Week 5, the Jets will play the Philadelphia Eagles on 14 days' rest (after a bye), but the Eagles will have 10 days after a Thursday night game in Week 4. So much for a big edge there.
The Jets have shorter rest in both games against the Patriots, which certainly doesn't help their chances of pulling an upset. The most lopsided situation is Week 11 against the Washington Redskins, who will have 14 days to a normal seven for the Jets.
After that game, the Jets should be in good shape for the rest of the way. The only uneven game is Week 16, but it works in their favor -- 10 days for the Jets (after a Thursday night game), seven for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Those extra three days late in the season will be huge for a certain running back, who will be amped to face his former team.
Jets Steelers, Sunday December 22nd. I got a feeling something miiight be a little different this time around... 👀😂 pic.twitter.com/TPYolo7jtu— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) April 18, 2019
6. Are you ready for some football? This will be a hectic week at One Jets Drive. While draft preparation continues, Gase will conduct a voluntary minicamp on Tuesday and Wednesday. New coaches are permitted to have an extra minicamp, and this is it. It will be a watered-down version, with no offense-versus-defense drills. Still, it will mark the first opportunity for the players to run plays in the new offensive and defensive systems.
On Tuesday, general manager Mike Maccagnan will conduct his pre-draft session with reporters. Prediction: He will declare he's happy at the No. 3 spot, prepared to pick one of the top three players on his board instead of trading down (unless he does).
7. The last word: "We're going for that one team that's been winning every year in that division. [Gase] said that's one of the main reasons he came here, and we all believe that. The guys that are new additions to the team, we're pretty much here for the same reason. We know there's one team that's been on top for a long time. We feel we have the [attitude] and the players and the game plan is to get that done." -- linebacker C.J. Mosley.


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Session 1
We began the session by tuning our instruments. This led to the first topic of the day – Tuning your guitar using harmonics.
Once we had tuned up we covered RH harmonics following the shape of the chord in the LH (see photo right). This included simple minor 11 and E-shape barre chords.
Session 2
We continued our work on chords into session 2, covering standard open chords followed by enriched chord voicings i.e. Em6, Em9 and Em6/9 and so on. We then briefly played through the James Bond Theme.
After a question about time signatures, mixed with moving open chords up and down the fret board, we covered Radiohead's 'Go To Sleep'. This involved moving around a 'G' shaped chord in a 10/8 time signature!
They ask the questions, I supply the answers!
Session 3
After a break for lunch we began work on the REM song 'Everybody Hurts'. This song involves a simple RH picking pattern over the chords of D, G, Em, A, Am, C, Bm and F# in a 6/8 time signature.
Session 4
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Have you wondered what it would be like to live in a camper? You may think it would be fun to have a home while you roam from one place to another. Living in a recreational vehicle, can also save you a lot of money.
What you normally see in an apartment can also be seen in an RV. But of course due to limited space, everything has to be multifunctional and smaller in size. Living in a small space also means having limited storage so you must only purchase & bring what you really need. To give you more idea on what to expect in living in a camper, watch this video.
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Dry Ice Blasting
We offer Dry Ice Blasting Equipment Sales, Hires and Training, Dry Ice media Sales, and Dry Ice Cleaning Services, in the United Kingdom and Worldwide.
Dry ice blasting also known as Dry Ice Cleaning, CO2 Blasting, was developed as a safe, clean alternative to bead, grit, and sand blasting.
Dry Ice Blasting has now grown to become a vital part of the cleaning process in a remarkable variety of industries throughout the world.
Dry Ice Blasting is an industrial cleaning process in which particles of solid carbon dioxide are propelled at high velocities to impact and clean a surface. These particles are accelerated to supersonic speeds by compressed air and delivered via a hand held or robotised nozzle at the surface to be cleaned.
Dry Ice Blasting...
- Cleans without surface erosion
- Dramatic savings in man hours and hazardous chemicals
- Eliminates potential damage to machine parts
- Eliminates secondary waste streams
- Eliminates personnel exposure to cleaning product corrosives
- Reduces downtime with minimal disassembly
- Eliminates blasting media entrapment and drying time
- Eliminates electrical and bacterial problems
- Reduces overall cleaning time
Dry Ice Blasting differs from other blasting techniques as the blasting media (Solid CO2) vaporises on impact with the surface being treated, leaving nothing behind other than the material that has been removed.
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Unlike conventional blasting methods, sand, bead grit etc., the process is non abrasive. Dry Ice has a hardness between 1 (Talc) and 2 (Gypsum) on Mohs' Scale of Mineral Hardness.
Bombarding a surface with solid CO2 creates a tension wave between the contaminate and the substrate. Most of the kinetic energy used to drive the particles to the surface is converted into heat on impact facilitating a rapid phase change from solid to vapour and expanding by a factor of 540 times by volume. In this state, the vapour has excellent "wetting" properties and causes the contaminant to be lifted away from the substrate via surface disruption and rapid sublimation.
CryoGenesis was established in 1994 by Clive Curtis following two years of research and were the first Dry Ice Blasting company in the UK. It is our ongoing commitment to provide Dry Ice Blasting technology and Dry Ice Cleaning Services to a wide range of companies in the UK, by supplying the best and affordable equipment in the world today. Manufactured by ColdJet USA together with Alpheus - the originators of the technology in 1986.