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Excerpt from an interview with Ar. Raj Rewal, New Delhi, 27th October 2017
Q – Nirmal Kulkarni – What were the challenges presented in the design of building a space-frame in RCC, especially in view of the technological innovation which it sought to be?
A – Raj Rewal – This was an architectural competition and the client wanted a permanent exhibition complex. It had to be a unique design signifying the 25th year of our Independence and this was emphasized by Ms Pupul Jaykar and Mr. Ramadorai. In those days we had very limited means, nothing could be imported, so the design was envisaged within those constraints. So we thought that why not build an extremely large span structure, (the brief also required that even an Air force aircraft could be housed) which we can be proud of. The design of lattice structures or jalis and the triangular geometry has its base in ancient Indian past in the yantras, later on also explored by the Mughals, and we picked up that motif.
I had worked in Paris on steel space frame structures. I thought to myself as a young architect that since the Indian sun is so strong why not design a structure where the roof and wall is one seamless surface of sun-breakers. So the idea was that whole structure, because of its large span (256'X256') had to be designed to be 16' deep and that acted as a sun-breaker. In Chandigarh, Le Corbusier's buildings have sun-breakers on the outside as a separate element, but here I integrated the structure and the function of the sun-breaker into one element. I think this was a major achievement which a French architect mentioned in his book.
In terms of materials, we began thinking about steel but since steel of that much quantity was not available in the country, I had to think of concrete. I had seen Nervi's trusses which were built in concrete, so if that could be made in concrete, why not a space frame? The idea took roots. And we were very lucky to have Er. Mahendra Raj on board and him, along with Er. Dorairaj who was the head of the pre-fabrication factory, took on the challenge of engineering our design. So this was our team. But the real challenge was that the structure had to be put up in a period of 18 months flat, and we achieved it.
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Excerpt from an interview with Er. Mahendra Raj, New Delhi, 1st November 2017;
Q – Nirmal Kulkarni – What were the challenges presented in the design of building a space-frame in RCC, especially in view of the technological innovation which it sought to be?
A – Er Mahendra Raj – I had a previous experience of having worked on large span structures in a New York engineering firm. So the scheme of construction we worked out was basically a pyramid with a double layered space-frame. In this, every individual member had to be of the same size in terms of its geometry. So all four sides had to be the same in plan and the diagonals too, and this is possible only in a certain specific angle that gave us the shape. These pyramidal units which formed the module were then placed next to each other and the whole assembly multiplied to form the full structure.
Regarding materials, since steel members were not available I designed the structure in pre-cast concrete members and it was put to tender. However no contractor was willing to undertake the project because pre-casting required a certain level of accuracy and precision which they were not capable of. So there was no choice but to go in for a cast-in-situ construction and the lowest tenderer Puri Construction was awarded the project. We had to then rework the entire design to suit concrete pouring with shuttering and bars already in place. The joints which were so elaborately worked out for pre-cast concrete also had to undergo a change and there were places where as many as 9 members met, so you can imagine the complexity and we had a very tough time handling these at all levels.
Sifting through the distant time-zone of the construction process of the Hall of Nations through the memories of the creators was exciting, informative and humbling at the same time. The layered nuances of design stage, the frightening challenges of the constrained resources of materials and time and the heroic abandon with which the two of them engaged with the making of history for the 25th year of the Independence of India was to me nationalism embodied.
In June 2017, I was invited to present a key-note lecture at Gwalior for the Zonal NASA. I took this as an opportunity to inform students through my lecture which revolved around the Hall of Nations and concentrated on several aspects of the conceptual design phases through to the building process to the demolition and invited the students to subject the building and the event to critical analysis.
My consistent engagement with the event goaded me to understand more deeply the issues underlying such events through the insight of other fellow professionals which led me to organize a conference which I curated and moderated at Vagamon, Kerala, through NASA and is the first of such events which will hopefully find continuity in the future.
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- 175g (6oz) self-raising flour
- 85g (3½oz) cocoa powder
- 85g (3½oz) butter
- 175g (6oz) caster sugar
- 175ml (6fl oz) milk
- for the sauce
- 125g (4½oz) soft light brown sugar
- 25g (1oz) cocoa powder
- 600ml (1pt) boiling water
- icing sugar, for dusting
- you will need
- 1.5 litre (2¾pt) ovenproof dish
Preheat the oven to 180 C, 160 C fan oven, 350 F, gas 4. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a bowl and rub in the butter. Stir in the sugar and mix in the milk until the mixture is smooth. Spoon into the dish and level the surface.
Mix together the sugar and cocoa and whisk in the boiling water. Pour the cocoa liquid over the pudding and bake in the oven for 40 minutes or until the top is firm and there is a lovely thick dark sauce on the bottom.
Dust with icing sugar and serve at once (the sauce will be absorbed by the fluffy sponge if left to stand for too long).

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Remove a Transceiver
The transceivers for the vEdge router are hot-removable and hot-insertable field-replaceable units (FRUs). You can remove and replace them without powering off the router or disrupting router functions.
Caution: Before you remove a transceiver or any component from the router chassis, make sure that you understand how to prevent Electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage. See General Safety Standards.
Note: It is recommended that you purchase the optical transceivers and optical connectors for the vEdge router from Viptela.
Remove a Transceiver
To remove any type of transceiver from a vEdge router, you need the following parts and tools:
- A transceiver slot dust cover
- An antistatic mat or an electrostatic bag
- A rubber safety cap for the transceiver
To remove any type of transceiver from a vEdge router (see Figure 1):
- Place the antistatic mat or the electrostatic bag on a firm, flat surface.
- Attach the ESD grounding strap to your bare wrist. Then connect the strap to the ESD point on the rack.
- Label the cables connected to the transceiver so that you can reconnect them correctly later.
- Remove the cable connector from the transceiver.
- Unlock the transceiver by pulling down the ejector handle from the transceiver.
- Grasp the transceiver ejector handle and pull the transceiver approximately 0.5 in. out of the router.
- Using your fingers, grasp the body of the transceiver and pull it out of the router completely.
- Place a rubber safety cap over the transceiver.
- Place the removed transceiver on the antistatic mat or in an electrostatic bag.
- If you are not installing a new transceiver, place the transceiver slot dust cover over the empty port.
Warning: Do not look directly into fiber-optic transceivers and fiber-optic cables connected to a transceiver as they emit laser light that can damage your eyes.
Figure 1: Removing a Transceiver from a vEdge 1000 Router


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This wikiHow teaches you how to clear your router's system log, using a desktop internet browser. The system log records your router's operations, system events, and processes.
1Open an internet browser on your computer. You can use any browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera.
2Enter your router's IP address into the address bar. Click the address bar at the top of your browser, and type your router's default IP address.
- Most routers use 192.168.0.1 as the default IP address. If it doesn't work for you, you can try 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.2.1.
- If none of these IP addresses work, try restarting your router or disconnecting it from internet.
3Enter your router's admin username and password. This will allow you to log in to your router's admin interface.
4Click the Login button. This will log you into the router's admin interface.
5Click the Status tab on the navigation bar. Find the Status button on the navigation bar in your router's admin interface, and click it.
- Depending on your router's model, this button may also be labeled Advanced or another similar name.
- For most routers, you can find the navigation bar at the top of the page or at the left-hand side of the screen.
6Click System Log or Administration-Event Log on the navigation bar. This button will open your router's system log on a new page.
7Click the Clear Log button. This button will clear your router's system log history.
- If you're prompted to confirm your action in a pop-up, click OK or Yes.
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1. Open an internet browser.
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Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Lead Belly and all the pioneers of the great American classic catalog of blues are long since gone, leaving behind their scratchy, lo-fi aural masterpieces as well as a handful of images. Other modern bluesmen and women carry on, of course, and are worthy of the clubs and festivals they headline, the recordings they sell and the airplay they get. Otherwise it's a case of "you can't get this stuff no more."
The best way to get close to the source is to what I (we) did – travel through Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Doing it atop a 710-pound Harley-Davidson Road King also connects one to another primal experience – the wide open road, unchanged, more or less, through the generations since man first jettisoned his horses and took up motoring. EagleRider, observing their 25th year in business this year, has carved a unique niche market renting to eager adventurers or, as with our Road King experience, mapping out tours with themes. They now have over 100 outlets across the western world.
The arm didn't need twisting.
"It's called the 'Big Easy,' not the 'Small difficult," said Patrique of Eagle Rider New Orleans as he fitted me with a choice pair of yellow-lensed "Walter Sobchak" goggles in preparation for the first day of the 395-mile journey beginning in New Orleans and ending in Memphis.
The 4-day roll-fest wasn't what you'd call an iron-butt challenge where hundreds of miles are covered in a day, and that was fine with us. After checking in at New Orleans' historic Dauphine (one of the few hotels in NOLA where you can park a bike indoors and not worry about damage or theft and who offer motorcyclists 10% off)
we ventured out into the night to various high-end, atmospheric haunts like the Bourbon Orleans Cocktail lounge and the elegant Loa Bar. A portion of the evening, too, was spent at Eagle Rider New Orleans headquarters, where I experienced my first "Crawfish Feed."
There was a moment of horror watching the thousand or so live critters being dumped into a boiling vat of water, yes. But the eventual crawfish, potatoes, garlic and corn cob gumbo was so explosively delicious that the assembled collection of badasses and road warriors fell silent for about 20 minutes, the air filled only with the sound of twisting, sucking, slurping and gulping.
We aimed for Natchez, Mississippi the next morning, crossing over Lake Ponchartrain on the world's longest causeway and whooping it up into a blessed blue day free of emails, texts and major decisions. All senses were newly activated by the surroundings; a truck hauling trees left behind the delicious scent of wood after the rig had passed, for example. Some of the fragrant fauna and flora carried names like thorny elaeagnus, gingerlily and sweet autumn clematis. I also saw my first cotton field, which may not sound earth-shattering on its surface, but after a lifetime of listening to popular music from the late 1800s, it was nice to finally know what Stephen Foster and others were on about, anthropologically speaking, of course.
We rolled up to quiet, clean Natchez around 5 PM, lodging at the Grand Hotel and dining at Rolling River Bistro, shooting some pool afterward with friendly locals and being showered with love by the visitor's bureau, who plied us with southern food and chauffeured us from bar to bar before kicking us out of their minivan with one foot at around midnight.
The best road trip is one where nothing happens, meaning you get where you're going with no incidents, the food is good, the accommodations comfortable and nobody steals or messes with your machine when it's parked. The iconic blues landmarks were all noted and photographed -
the famous "Crossroads" where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil was examined -
and at each meal stop along the way, fried green tomatoes, fried chicken, fried onions and fried potatoes rained from all directions. If there was such a thing as a salad in some restaurants in the rural south, it would have been fried, no doubt.
The real star, however, remained our trusty Road King and the road itself along with the wind, the sun, the smell of leather and exhaust and the comradrie of companions and capable EagleRider staff who "had our backs" every mile of the journey and worked their butts off to ensure all of us had a great time. The soul was cleansed, the karma was cleared and the spirit of humanity, dulled by screens, fretting and the routine of daily indoor life, was revived.
A special mention is warranted, though, about the town of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where we rolled up to in a pretty severe though otherwise uneventful rainstorm.
I entered a strange, wonderful hotel called the Hooker, a retro oasis where I was bombarded with bursts of color, style, innovation and utter comfort unlike any hotel I've ever lodged at for whatever price, and which I vowed, in the name of coaxing future literary labor, to have a future, proper visit, perhaps a week, perhaps a month. Have a look:
The evening's entertainment took place, too, at one of the comfiest, atmospheric blues-themed restaurants I've ever had a fried green tomato thrown at me - Ground Zero Blues Club.
The outskirts of Memphis were aimed at and reached the next day, bringing the usual sadness similar to having to go home from a carnival.
But such is the nature of motorcycling; its pleasures, its ability to provide joy and exhilaration and freedom, must eventually end.
The only complaint I have about this tour was the speed with which we were compelled to rocket from meals to wheels to hotels to the road, and having to be at a certain place at a certain time. However, when traveling in a group, punctuality is a virtue, and your brother and sister riders don't like to sit there idling while waiting for some lollygagging throttle jockey to get a move on.
I shall return, EagleRider.


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In February 2013, The New Yorker broke the story that Phoenix had purchased the Harrison 4032 console customized for and used in Westlake Studios by Quincy Jones and Bruce Swedien during the 1982 mixing of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Clayton Rose, the owner of a recording studio in California, had been trying to sell it for an exorbitant sum, but after much haggling/haranguing, Phoenix eventually purchased it (to install in Paris) for $17,000 (plus $7,000 in transatlantic shipping fees). More was made of the console's role in recording the band's latest full-length, Bankrupt!, than perhaps was appropriate, according to producer Philippe Zdar, who reveals "the Thriller" was more an intermittent processing module than an integral component.
Still, the silken EQs helped edge certain competing frequencies and compounding artifacts away from the fundamental clarity. The Thriller helped fill in the interstitial gap between Bankrupt!'s brazenly extroverted dynamics and its stylish melodies, fusing together Phoenix's Gallic synth-rock eccentricities and the band's unabashed love of American power-pop gloss. Here, Phoenix guitarists Laurent Brancowitz and Christian Mazzalai, along with Zdar, reveal the importance of curiosity and opening up both your musical and mental filters, how quality should be judged by the end result, not the perceived value, and what they feel about the talisman-console they are painstakingly rehabilitating.
Brancowitz: We love to read about the ways others have discovered their techniques, so maybe we can use them . . . or abuse them. That's what happened specifically for the Harrison. I was looking for specific information about one song. I can't remember which one . . . but the information was very technical. Maybe I wanted to know what preamp they used to record the drums.
Mazzalai: Or the bass.
Brancowitz: Yes, the bass . . . maybe some DI techniques . . . we have a studio where we can plug and re-plug things, and we have this particular sound in mind, so we do our research when we want a tone. In this case it led us to knowing this particular console was for sale; by chance I saw that in a geek forum or something. It was a very old topic. Like one or two years before. Someone is selling the console for $1 million or something like that, and then going down I could see the people arguing, the price dropping . . . then at the very end of all the things I saw it was still on sale and I understood. Everything looked so fake, like a scam, but I thought there's only one possibility when something is this impossible: It's true and he's just totally crazy. And actually that was the case. It was funny. I wish you could see the ad . . . it should be archived. Every word has its font and its color [viewable here: http://cmi-records.com/thriller_pics].
Mazzalai: Me, I couldn't believe it was true. It had to be a joke. We asked all the engineers at Westlake, and they did the research, so we knew it was the real one for sure. It was a funny quest.
Brancowitz: So we had it shipped to us, to deliver the color of excellence! [Laughs.] We look for these colors at the top and the bottom. I had a very cheap keyboard I bought on the first day of recording at a pawnshop for $30. It was a toy keyboard, not too many keys but very good sounds, and I paid someone to MIDIfy it so we could play more complex parts on it. That cost much, much more than the keyboard itself. We always work with those contrasts. Often we know it's the right track because we're on the verge of total stupidity.
Mazzalai: For example, at one point we took the mic off the toms and put it in front of the guitar amp; it was just the two of us and we were very happy with the sound because of the Thriller. That's when we discovered its secret.
Brancowitz: This console, we knew it had been modified with very weird specs by Harrison for Bruce Swedien, so we knew it had a little extra ingredient of magic. And actually it does sound magical. It looks normal, but you can pull a knob and suddenly it reaches very high frequencies, it goes up to 40kHz or something crazy, just for dolphins. But it creates a little … the sound of an angel whispering, you know? It sounds really good.
Zdar: There's this little button on the EQ that goes into this air, and we loved it. And we are trying to restore another channel every week to take it back to exactly what it was like. When we got it, we had a lot to repair, so we only got a few channels in the end. It will play a more central spot in the next album. We only had four well-maintained channels in the last six months, so we recorded some stuff and used them in the mixing. We did discover the EQs are incredible, but it was only one small aspect of the process. We used it the same way we did a Pultec [outboard EQ] or a Neve [channel strip]. Mostly people who came in the studio couldn't help but touch it; some people even kissed it. It was more this mythical charm thing because we all love Michael.
One day I read a book about [Irish-born British figurative painter] Francis Bacon talking to a French journalist, and I discovered that every artist in the world went through the same phases of frustration and discovery. And that day I accepted myself completely, when I saw everyone has part of what they do that comes along through happy accidents. When I read [Ernest Hemingway's] A Movable Feast I found out he was always thinking about how and where his style would develop, how to cut parts out and find the best place to start . . . it's so good to read about artists in the recording, writing, painting process; you discover analogies everywhere and it gives you lots of truth to work with.
So we got the Harrison desk, and we can find ways to use the EQs and the high-pass filter and we can think about how Michael has done it, too, but we're not trying to emulate Thriller; we're just trying to follow in a history of free experimentation. Reading about other people's techniques shows you there's such a rainbow of music, so many ways to color and enrich the sound, but you have to remember that the first person who did them was putting themselves in this not safe territory and having the guts to try anything – that is what you want to copy, not just what is proven to work.


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A man has died after being hit in the head by an old firework he was trying to light on the NSW Central Coast during New Year celebrations.
The 52-year-old suffered serious head injuries at Budgewoi Beach about 3am on Sunday.
Friends and emergency services tried to save the man's life but he could not be revived.
"It was an old firework he had over a number of years; it was a fairly large one," Acting Deputy Commissioner Frank Mennilli told reporters.
In a separate incident on the Central Coast, a firework exploded in the face of a 19-year-old man at Blue Haven shortly after midnight, leaving him with serious eye injuries and burns, police said.
He was rushed to North Shore Hospital and is expected to undergo vision tests in the coming days.
Meanwhile, a 46-year-old man died in Victoria when a firework went off at Hollands Landing east of Melbourne on New Year's Eve.


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In my long and interesting life, I have had 41 room-mates. I've liked about 5 of them. Most of themRead more
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Having survived Hurricane Irene, I'm at The Burton Family Football Complex for the first game-week press conference.
Having survived Hurricane Irene, I'm at The Burton Family Football Complex for the first game-week press conference.
There's much to get into in terms of the depth chart, which I posted a couple days ago. For now, power is up and running, and that means you can check out photos and videos both here and with the related content on NorwichBulletin.com.
There is nothing new with the depth chart other than being corrected to reflect Mike Box not being on the roster.
I don't expect any of the "OR" situations on the roster will be updated today. Those are:
Left guard (Gary Bardzak and Steve Greene)
Back-up center (Bardzak and Tyler Bullock)
Tight end (John Delahunt and Ryan Griffin)
Back-up WR (Tebucky Jones and Nick WIlliams)
Quarterback (Scott McCummings, Johnny McEntee or Mike Nebrich)
Tailback (D.J. Shoemate and Lyle McCombs)
Back-up Punt returner (Taylor Mack and Gary Wilburn)
I'm confident that Bardzak will win both of his battles. Greene is a bigger by an inch and 20 pounds, but he is, well, green,
The tight end situation is tricky. Delahunt is a decent pass catcher and a strong blocker. Griffin, on the other hand, is a very good pass catcher and a decent blocker. I expect that this is going to come down more to match-ups than anything else.
I'd bet that Nick Williams follows Kashif Moore on the depth chart. Williams is a dangerous option in the slot because he's not worried about getting hit. On top of that, he might be the fastest wideout, which creates big-play possibilities for the Huskies.
Quarterback appears to be between McEntee and Nebrich, but I think the freshman Nebrich gets the nod. He just has great field awareness that the other QBs don't have. And his ar might be the strongest, too.
Tailback is interesting because it was Shoemate's job since January and now he's in an "OR" battle. I like McCombs. He's smarter, faster and there aren't questions about softness or fumbles.
The back-up to Williams at PR will likely be Wilburn. In the past two weeks, he's taken more reps than Mack, at least when the media was present. That said anything could happen.


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The Enchanting History of Chocolate You'll Enjoy Exploring
We all love to eat chocolates. But have we ever thought of how it all began? Here's a brief history of chocolate.
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Last Updated: Mar 7, 2018
The word 'chocolate' comes from the Nahuatl language of Central Mexico. The word might have been derived from xocolli meaning bitter and atl meaning water. According to a theory by the Mexican philologist, Ignacio Davila Garibi, Spaniards coined the word chocolate as a combination of the Mayan word chocol suffixed with the word atl. The Mexicans believe that the word chicolear, means 'to beat, stir'. In olden times, chocolate was served with beater sticks. This was the association between 'beating' and 'chocolate'. Whatever the studies may show, what most of us are interested in, is eating chocolate. It's ultimately the chocolaty taste and feel that tempts us all.
We know that the basic ingredient of chocolates is cacao. Cacao beans are the product of cacao trees. Some think that the cacao tree originated in the Amazon while others argue that it is originally either from Orinoco Valley of Venezuela or from Central America. A mature cacao tree is 15-25 feet tall. It bears fruit having green- or maroon-colored pods. Rich brown colored cacao beans are removed from the pods.
It has been found that the earliest use of cacao dates back to 1100 B.C. The people of Puerto Escondido in Honduras might have used it as an alcoholic beverage. The Aztecs linked chocolate to the Goddess of Fertility. Locals consumed chocolate in a drink known as xocoatl. Vanilla, chili pepper, and annatto were often added to the drink. Some other chocolate drinks of the olden days contained maize gruel and honey.
Christopher Columbus brought cacao beans to Spain and the Spanish introduced cacao to the Europeans. By 1585, cacao beans had come to Europe. The Europeans added milk and sugar to cacao and seasoned it with vanilla. This brought a dramatic change to the taste of chocolate, making it one of the luxury items among the Europeans.
Towards the culmination of the 18th century, Doret invented a solid chocolate in Turin. Pierre Paul Caffarel sold this form. In 1819, the first Swiss chocolate factory was established. Dutchman Coenraad Johannes van Houten devised a method for extracting fat from cocoa beans and making cocoa butter and powdered cocoa. He designed a method to treat chocolate with alkali to get rid of its bitter taste. Joseph Fry made the first edible chocolate in 1847. Two years later, that is in 1849, Cadbury Brothers followed. Till date, this company continues to rule the chocolate industry. In 1875, Daniel Peter, assisted by Henri Nestle, came up with a milk chocolate. Rodelphe Lindt introduced the process of conching, the technique of heating and grinding chocolate solids for obtaining an evenly blended liquid.
Since olden times, xocoatl was believed to relieve a person from fatigue, owing to its theobromine content. The South Americans and the Europeans used cacao to treat diarrhea for centuries. In the pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, cacao beans were used as currency. This was the value that chocolate had attained in common man's life.
During the second half of the seventeenth century, people of England were fortunate to greet chocolate to their country. In 1657, a chocolate house opened in London, for the first time ever. In the 1700s, mechanical mills began to be used for squeezing out cacao butter. This helped in the making of hard chocolate that was durable. Industrial revolution boosted the popularity of chocolate, taking it all over the world in very less time.


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The sweetness, silvery voice and deceptively gentle manner of Ronald Reagan used to remind me of the soft fur that enwraps stored phosphorus. He seemed so easy to bruise that your instinct was to protect him from anything sharp, in way of questions, criticisms, legal process or just plain discourtesy. But beneath the softness was solid metal: a moral and political philosophy of considerable mass, formed over half a century, and (like phosphorus) capable of bursting into sudden flame.
At such times -- when he reacted, say, to the Soviet Union's shooting down of Korean Air Flight 007, or when Mikhail Gorbachev pushed him a millimeter too far at the Reykjavik summit meeting of October 1986 -- it was plain that he needed neither protection nor guidance. Ronald Reagan (as we can see if we watch documentary footage of him in political action when he was younger) could very well take care of himself, and anybody in the room besides.
So, too, will ''President Reagan,'' the historical figure, survive petty assault. The idea that anything so trivial as a made-for-TV mockumentary might harm his reputation is ludicrous. Theodore Roosevelt suffered much worse damage, historiographically speaking, in 1931, when the biographer Henry Pringle depicted him as an overgrown bully. Pringle's book is still in print, but has not stopped T. R. from settling at No. 4 on several recent scholarly surveys of the greatest presidents. And John F. Kennedy, who has been repeatedly portrayed on television as a Mafia stooge, a serial bimbophile and the plotter of Marilyn Monroe's murder (or was that some other Kennedy?) still shines in American memory.
What Mr. Reagan did as president -- the big, enduring things: restoring national pride, rebuilding the military, refiring the economy, rearming Western Europe, and above all, forcing Soviet Communism to self-destruct -- cannot be argued away. Neither, it might be added, can his more serious derelictions, such as the bartering of arms for hostages, and (yes) his lack of any particular sympathy for the victims of AIDS. The writers of CBS's canceled miniseries have invented a bit of dialogue to the latter effect, but historians might more seriously ponder Mr. Reagan's actual remarks, including, ''Maybe the Lord brought down this plague [because] illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments.''
Behind the soft exterior, I repeat, was hard metal, and not all of him was nice. But more of him was nice than is normal in men that powerful. Even in ruminations like the above, and in the very funny stories he told (many of them politically incorrect), there was never any hint of malice. Well, maybe there was, when he leveled his wit against the one thing he really did hate: totalitarianism. Aides cringed at plenary sessions with Mr. Gorbachev as Mr. Reagan chucklingly told (again and again and again) jokes that ridiculed everything the Soviet leader stood for. It was insensitive, it was moral, and it was magnificent.
What he did, he did out of conviction, not caring how his actions might be perceived, then or now. Those protesting the reported slurs and inaccuracies of CBS's canceled miniseries forget that before he was afflicted by Alzheimer's, and particularly during the early years of his presidency, Ronald Reagan was lampooned with a savagery that Bill Clinton might feel happy to have escaped.
I remember Garry Trudeau drawing a series of ''Doonesbury'' cartoons, with explorers scouting a sterile landscape, under the rubric, ''In Search of Reagan's Brain.'' Paul Slansky published a devastating book, ''The Clothes Have No Emperor,'' that consisted almost entirely of presidential quotations as goofy as any emanating from the present White House. And on the private yet world-encompassing grapevine used by heads of state to convey their true feelings about one another, Mr. Reagan was a subject of such French contempt that his national security adviser flew secretly to Paris to plead with President François Mitterrand to stop making plaisanteries about le cow-boy in the White House.
It is a matter of record that President Mitterrand came to admire Mr. Reagan, as most sophisticates did when they got past what one Brit called ''the corn barrier.'' He was especially impressed with Mr. Reagan's notion de l'état, his dignified self-identification with all that was strong in the American state.
When I published my biography of Ronald Reagan, my confession that I found him to be, on first acquaintance, ''an apparent airhead,'' caused screams of outrage among his acolytes. The fact that the book was narratively designed to prove the author wrong -- that Mr. Reagan was, for all his emotional coolness and often dumbfounding cultural ignorance, a visionary statesman -- did not soothe the incense-swingers.
Four years later, this same chorus -- ever shriller and more protective as his mind and body deteriorate, and Nancy Reagan endures her ''long goodbye'' to him -- is understandable. We do not like to mock the frail, or the loyal. But we must remember, as the great realist James Gould Cozzens warned us in novel after novel, that sentimentality is a lie. Those who would sanctify the Gipper have about as much chance of success as those who try to impersonate him.


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New icon: Artist Joko Dwi Avianto's Getih Getah installation sits in the busy Thamrin area, in the heart of Jakarta. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
Throughout history, bamboo has been renowned for its strength, flexibility and renewable qualities, with many considering it a superior material.
In a nod to bamboo's qualities, artist Joko Dwi Avianto has designed and built a new Jakarta icon, titled Getih Getah (representing red and white respectively), which was inaugurated by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan on Aug. 16 near the Welcome Statue in the Thamrin area, in the heart of Jakarta.
The event was held as part of the 73rd Independence Day celebration and welcoming of participants of the 2018 Asian Games.
Joko said the bamboo installation took about a week to complete and install and would last for six to 12 months.
The installation consists of 1,600 stalks of awitali and betung bamboo varieties, stands at 5.5 meters tall, 13 m long and 4 m wide, and it is supported by 73 bamboo stalks, representing Indonesia's 73 years of independence.
Joko said the shape of his artwork was inspired by a windsock, with the ends shaped like a twisted, knotted rope to represent unity.
"Some people might see the resemblance of a head and tail; this is to show the orientation of this installation," Joko says.
Work in progress: Artist Joko Dwi Avianto poses with his artwork for the exhibition at the center of Yokohama Museum of Art's Grand Gallery in Japan. (Andang Iskandar/Humanika Artspace)
The shape, however, has elicited various comments and interpretations from the public, from humorous ones that suggest the shape resembles an erotic pose to serious ones with political tones.
But the artist said lightly that everybody was free to have their own perception or political interpretation. He just laughed and was thankful that his artwork was getting all that attention.
"As an artist who has spent many years in the art world, I already have an extensive reputation; therefore, I would not create anything carelessly," said the 42-year-old, who was born in Cimahi, West Java.
The name Getih Getah was inspired by stories from the Majapahit era on how soldiers made a great impact when they waved their red-and-white flag as they disembarked from their ships and marched in large numbers.
In his mind, when creating the installation, Joko said he was picturing athletes getting ready to compete, like Majapahit warriors.
Joko said his signature method is to divide the bamboo so that it has the desired strength and flexibility.
"I found this division method more than 13 years ago and it has proven itself in the gigantic installations I have constructed," said the artist, who got his bachelor's and master's degrees in arts and design from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).
Segments of Indonesian bamboo, he said, can be developed into different interesting shapes. "When I tried working with Japanese bamboo, I found that I could not use the same treatment as the Indonesian bamboo," he explained.
Joko's gigantic bamboo artwork called Green is Gold Too was on show at Singapore's Esplanade Concourse until July this year, where the artist put the spotlight on bamboo's valuable qualities while drawing attention to environmental concerns caused by deforestation of bamboo forests.
Throughout his career, he has made a niche for himself as a bamboo artist since he began specializing in working with bamboo-related materials as his preferred medium.
The Lost Vegetations by Joko Dwi Avianto (ARTJOG/File)
Joko acknowledges senior sculptor Rita Widagdo for convincing him that bamboo could become a unique material to be used in contemporary art.
"My first bamboo artwork exhibition was at Selasar Sunaryo in 2003, together with [artists] Handi Hermansyah and Pak Sunaryo himself. This exhibition received huge appreciation from the media. This urged me to shift from wood to bamboo as my main material," he says.
An important turning point in his career came when he was commissioned to make an artwork for the 2012 ArtJog, which at that time was held at the Taman Budaya Yogyakarta cultural park.
"After this event, I got many offers for art projects, festivals and artfairs from various countries," Joko says.
He also displayed his works at the George Town Festival 2013 in Penang Malaysia, as well as the 2014 Singapore Art Stage.
The 2015 Frankfurter Kunstverein was a turning point for Joko, who wrapped the 186-year-old museum's façade with his rusty-looking installation talking about Indonesian and Asian culture for the "Root. Indonesia Contemporary Art" exhibition.
For the over 1,500 sticks of bamboo, Joko created a semi-enclosed space that gave an introduction to the exhibition inside. He called his artwork Pohon Besar (Big Tree).
In 2017 Joko held his first exhibition in Japan. He discovered visual and symbolic connections between his own works and the ancient Japanese braided rope called a shimenawa, which in Shinto signifies the boundary between the secular world and the sacred or ideal world.
For the event, Joko's installation was constructed in the center of the Grand Gallery of the Yokohama Museum of Art using approximately 1,500 pieces of Indonesian bamboo. It was called The Border Between Good and Evil is Terribly Frilly.
Last July, Joko participated in the Rain Forest Festival in Kuching, Malaysia.
"The utilization of bamboo as a medium is in line with my ideas in criticizing the exploitation of nature, but my main focus will always be the problem of environment and man," Joko says.
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COALGEBRAIC LOGIC PROGRAMMING FOR TYPE INFERENCE: Parallelism and Corecursion for New Generation of Programming Languages
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The main goal of typing is to prevent the occurrence of execution errors during the running of a program.
Milner formalised the idea, showing that ``well-typed programs cannot go wrong''. In practice, type structures provide a fundamental technique of reducing programmer errors. At their strongest, they cover most of the properties of interest to the verification community.
A major trend in the development of functional languages is improvement in expressiveness of the underlying type system, e.g., in terms of Dependent Types, Type Classes, Generalised Algebraic Types (GADTs), Dependent Type Classes and Canonical Structures. Milner-style decidable type inference does not always suffice for such extensions (e.g. the principal type may no longer exist), and deciding well-typedness sometimes requires computation additional to compile-time type inference.
Implementations of new type inference algorithms include a variety of first-order decision procedures, notably Unification and Logic Programming (LP), Constraint LP, LP embedded into interactive tactics (Coq's eauto), and LP supplemented by rewriting.
Recently, a strong claim has been made by Gonthier et al that, for richer type systems, LP-style type inference is more efficient and natural than traditional tactic-driven proof development.
A second major trend is parallelism: the absence of side-effects makes it easy to evaluate sub-expressions in parallel. Powerful abstraction mechanisms of function composition and higher-order functions play important roles in parallelisation. Three major parallel languages are Eden (explicit parallelism) Parallel ML (implicit parallelism) and Glasgow parallel Haskell (semi-explicit parallelism). Control parallelism in particular distinguishes functional languages.
Type inference and parallelism are rarely considered together in the literature. As type inference becomes more sophisticated and takes a bigger role in the overall program development, sequential type inference is bound to become a bottle-neck for language parallelisation.
Our new Coalgebraic Logic Programming (CoALP) offers both extra expressiveness (corecursion) and parallelism in one algorithm. We propose to use CoALP in place of LP tools currently used in type inference.
With the mentioned major developments in Corecursion, Parallelism, and Typeful (functional) programming it has become vital for these disjoint communities to combine their efforts: enriched type theories rely more and more on the new generation of LP languages; coalgebraic semantics has become influential in language design; and parallel dialects of languages have huge potential in applying common techniques across the FP/LP programming paradigm. This project is unique in bringing together local and international collaborators working in the three communities. The number of
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The project will impact on two streams of EPSRC's strategic plan: "Programming Languages and Compilers" and "Verification and Correctness". The project is novel in aspects of Theory (coalgebraic study of (co)recursive computations arising in automated proof-search); Practice (implementation of the new language CoALP and its embedding in type-inference tools); and Methodology (Mixed corecursion and parallelism).
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Everyone loves a bargain, and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) caters to that fact with a simple business model: take surplus items that companies and government agencies no longer want and act as an intermediary to sell them to willing customers. That basic idea produced impressive profits for Liquidity Services for years, but coming into Thursday morning's fiscal fourth-quarter financial report, investors were worried that the company's reversal of fortune earlier this year would continue to affect its results. Let's look at the numbers Liquidity Services reported for the quarter and the full year and see what they tell about the road ahead.
A loss for Liquidity Services
For the fourth quarter, Liquidity Services continued to see its business slow, with overall revenue declining more than 8% year over year. Total sales volume of all the goods sold on Liquidity Services' marketplaces fell 11%, and a precipitous 18% decline in the company's fee income also weighed on total revenue. On the earnings side, Liquidity Services suffered even worse, with steady increases in costs of technology and operations, sales and marketing, and goods sold taking a huge bite out of the bottom line and leaving the company with a loss of $0.02 per share. Even after adjusting for stock-based compensation and other items, Liquidity Services suffered a 70% drop in adjusted net income, yielding EPS of 0.13 per share -- less than investors had expected to see.
The full fiscal 2014 showed similar declines for Liquidity Services. Adjusted net income came in 43% below 2013's level, with total revenue down 2% and gross merchandise volume falling 4% for the year. On a positive note, Liquidity Services continued to grow its customer base, with 8% more registered buyers than it had in the previous year and a 3% rise in auction participants.
Much of the difficulty facing Liquidity Services stems from major changes to its core business. CEO Bill Angrick blamed the shortfall in Liquidity Services' results on "the changing mix and volume of our current Department of Defense surplus contract, weakness in our energy marketplace, and integration costs associated with our capital assets group." The company has made efforts to reverse that outward tide, and Angrick highlighted a fourth-quarter rebound in energy, along with growing business from state and municipal governments, as offsetting some of the negative effects of a less favorable Pentagon product mix. With a wider scope of potential clients to serve, Liquidity Services hopes to have a better 2015.
Keeping expectations low
Nevertheless, despite its long-term efforts, Liquidity Services isn't promising a quick turnaround. Angrick said he sees "continued uncertainty regarding the mix and volume of property [and] final scope and timing of our new DoD non-rolling stock surplus contract" as likely to "dampen our growth and earnings results throughout FY-15." Liquidity Services took the extraordinary step of discontinuing its full-year guidance, instead looking only a quarter ahead. On that note, the company expects adjusted earnings per share of $0.16 to $0.22 for the fiscal first quarter, well below the $0.25 per share that shareholders had hoped to see.
That won't stop Liquidity Services from continuing its long-run strategy of further investment in its business. The company has established a strongly centralized information technology team to help coordinate technology assets and make its marketplaces run more efficiently. In addition, Liquidity Services has unified its sales, marketing, and operations functions in order to make its capital-assets business more attractive to customers. Aggressive investment will sustain these efforts, but it will also reduce net income in the short run.
Many investors might well be disappointed by Liquidity Services' results and the sluggish pace of its turnaround efforts. However, the company appears to be doing its best to evolve in the face of a fundamental shift in its business mix. As difficult as that process is, Liquidity Services has seen its share price fall far enough that a successful recovery could lead to a substantial long-term bounce for the stock.


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By Wade Rouse under the pen name Viola Shipman
From the bestselling author of The Charm Bracelet and The Recipe Box comes the perfect summer escape about the restorative power of family tradition, small-town community and the feel of sand between your toes.
Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home - complete with its own set of rules for relaxing - that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope. She's determined not to let her husband's affair with a grad student reduce her to a cliche, or to waste one more minute in a career she doesn't love, so it becomes clear what Adie Lou must do: rebuild her life and restore her cottage shingle by shingle, on her terms.
But converting the beloved, weather-beaten structure into a bed-and-breakfast isn't quite the efficient home-reno experience she's seen on TV. Pushback from Saugatuck's contentious preservation society, costly surprises and demanding guests were not part of the plan. But as the cottage comes back to life, Adie Lou does, too, finding support in unexpected places and a new love story on the horizon. One cottage rule at a time, Adie Lou reclaims her own strength, history and joy by rediscovering the magic in every sunset and sandcastle.
By Wade Rouse under the pen name Viola Shipman
Bestselling, beloved author of The Charm Bracelet spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life.
Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed.
When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside the women in her life�including her mother, Deana, and grandmother, Willo. One beloved, flour-flecked, ink-smeared recipe at a time, Sam begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food through their treasured recipe box.
As Sam discovers what matters most she opens her heart to a man she left behind, but who now might be the key to her happiness.
By Wade Rouse under the pen name Viola Shipman
The Discovery Of One Woman's Heirloom Hope Chest Unveils Precious Memories And Helps Three People Who Have Each Lost A Part Of Themselves Find Joy Once Again.
Ever since she was diagnosed with ALS, fiercely independent Mattie doesn't feel like herself. She can't navigate her beloved home, she can't go for a boat ride, and she can barely even feed herself. Her devoted husband, Don, doesn't want to imagine life without his wife of nearly fifty years, but Mattie isn't likely to make it past their anniversary.
But when Rose, Mattie's new caretaker, and her young daughter, Jeri, enter the couple's life, happiness and the possibility for new memories return. Together they form a family, and Mattie is finally able to pass on her memories from the hope chest she received from her mother.
By Wade Rouse under the pen name Viola Shipman
Kate, a single woman in her 30s, works as a designer/decorator for a large interior landscaping company bedecking and bedazzling St. Louis for the holidays. Her work keeps her from spending the holidays with her family and masks the loneliness and pain after a nasty breakup just before Christmas.
Known as "The Christmas Angel" for providing holiday beauty to the city's offices, homes, and malls, Kate's world changes when she decorates the home of a widowed single dad. Both soon realize that life (and love) must go on somehow and that perhaps Christmas (and guardian) angels are all around, if we only choose to see them.
Rich with the spirit of Christmas and all its traditions, Christmas Angels is a love story that will remind readers of the meaning and magic of Christmas.
By Wade Rouse under the pen name Viola Shipman
Through an heirloom charm bracelet three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives.
Lolly, still lives in the family cabin on Lost Land Lake where her mother gave her the charm bracelet that would become Lolly's talisman and connection to family past and Lolly hopes the present, but her daughter, Arden, and granddaughter, Lauren, haven't visited in years and time is running out for Lolly.
Arden, couldn't wait to leave her small town life behind for Chicago, but now divorced and burned out at work, she's simply trying to make it from day to day. In the rush of life she's let the years and all the things she once enjoyed slip away. When she receives an unexpected phone call about her mother she must decide if she can face going home.
Lauren, a talented young painter buries her passion to study business in the hopes of helping her mother after she discovers that her father left Arden struggling to make ends meet, but Lauren is slowly dying inside and doesn't know how to tell her mother the truth.
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A hilarious collection of bark-out-loud essays about living with and loving man's best friend from some of today's hottest writers and comics, including Jen Lancaster, Laurie Notaro, Jane Green, and featuring a Foreword by Chelsea Handler's dog, Chunk. Editor Wade Rouse is donating a portion of the royalties he earns from sales of this book to The Humane Society of the United States, which is officially backing the project.
Wade Rouse attempts to answer that question in his blisteringly funny new memoir by looking at the yearly celebrations that unite us all and bring out the very best and worst in our nearest and dearest.
In this rollicking and hilarious memoir, Wade and his partner, Gary, leave culture, cable, and consumerism behind and strike out for rural Michigan�a place with fewer people than in their former spinning class. There, Wade discovers the simple life isn�t so simple. Battling blizzards, bloodthirsty critters, and nosy neighbors equipped with night-vision goggles, Wade and his spirit, sanity, relationship, and Kenneth Cole pointy-toed boots are sorely tested with humorous and humiliating frequency. And though he never does learn where his well water actually comes from or how to survive without Kashi cereal, he does discover some things in the woods outside his knotty-pine cottage in Saugatuck, Michigan, that he always dreamed of but never imagined he�d find�happiness and a home.
When Wade Rouse—a rural, public school graduate who grew up more Hee Haw than Dynasty—was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job was to make a few of the very pretty, very rich, very mean mommies of the elite students happy. Enter former Tate beauty queen and sports star Katherine Isabelle Ludington—Kitsy to her friends—who went to an Ivy, married an Ivy, and made a lot of money. Now, she is Wade's VIP volunteer and a perfectly coiffed nightmare. In between designing Louis Vuitton–inspired reunion invitations, dressing as Ronald Reagan for Halloween, and surviving surprise Botox parties, Wade tries to tame Kitsy and her pink Lilly Pulitzer–clad posse while reclaiming his self-esteem. Following a year in the life of the super rich and super spoiled, Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler is hilarious, heartbreaking, and deliciously catty.
Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks in the 1960s and '70s, Wade Rouse was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Taunted by his classmates, Wade finds comfort in his offbeat but lovable family, but when a tragic motorcycle accident takes his brother's life, Wade buries his sexuality along with his brother, vowing to be the son he believes his family wants. America's Boy is Wade Rouse's tale of self-denial and self-discovery, and a tender tribute to the eccentric family that carried him through it all. Wade's battle with himself—and the long road back to self-acceptance—forms the heart of America's Boy, an arresting and utterly moving memoir about a boy learning to live (and love) in his own skin. Told with humor, courage, and boundless joy, America's Boy is a love letter to a singular time in America's heartland, to family, and to the growing pains that accompany self-discovery.


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The storm will arrive overnight Saturday into Sunday, Feb. 24 with up to a half-inch of new precipitation by daybreak Sunday.
Rain will move in sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday. The overnight low will stay just above freezing to the south, but farther north, pockets of freezing rain are possible. The freezing rain will be capable of producing localized hazardous travel, the National Weather Service said.
Rain will continue throughout the morning into the early afternoon Sunday, with up to an inch of additional rainfall possible.
Precipitation will taper off Sunday afternoon, but then will come the strong winds of 25 to 35 mile per hour with gusts between 40 and 55 mph, with the potential for up to 60 mph. The winds could easily break large tree limbs and cause outages.
There will be an elevated risk of power outages Sunday night into Monday morning, Feb. 25 as the winds could break large tree limbs and bring down trees.
Monday will be partly cloudy with a high around 40, with the strong winds continuing. Winds of between 22 to 25 mph will be out of the west, with gusts as high as 45 mph.
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The Nurugo Micro 400x turns a current smartphone into a microscope with 400x magnification. It is suitable for the examination of surfaces, but with the included plastic coating also preparations on a standard slide can be considered. The Nurugo Micro has several retaining clips and centering rings and can thus be used on different smartphones. The lighting is particularly sophisticated, because the Nurugo Micro uses the LED of the smartphone by means of patented optical fiber technology. This makes it possible without additional batteries or cable connection to the smartphone.
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...better known as Death by Power Point (kidding - well, sort of).
Rosemary is writing a short piece re Pre-Deployment Briefs for Military Spouse Magazine and is looking to interview a few of you via email (or phone, if you prefer). Ro is on a very tight deadline, so quick responses would be appreciated. If you're interested in talking to Rosemary, please send her an email. She'll fill you in on the rest.
Semper Fi Wife recently wrote a great post about the Pre-Deployment Briefing she attended.


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Plug-in hybrid electric variants of BMW's most iconic models, that mixes the BMW TwinPower Turbo gasoline engine with the joy of electric driving. The 2016 sensible fortwo is not for everyone, however this year's updates bring some welcome modifications. The 2016 Kia Rio is the model's worth-oriented yet characteristic-laden subcompact that shares a chassis with the Hyundai Accent. Again within the Nineteen Seventies, the prices of oil began to rise, and the producers of vehicles needed to make engines that might eat in any case little power while nonetheless maintaining the performance of the engine. Initially, when the manufacture of automobiles was in its initial phases, and the Ford Motor had dominated the auto industry, manufacturing and sustaining the request by customers was recognized to be the primary downside. Fiat Chrysler Cars ( FCAU ) posted the sharpest decline of the Huge Three, as monthly gross sales dropped 11{d32b21e1fd71e73913c0f8b0e940aa2b75e7880e99c388d52122d93dcb7fb26e}. Which vehicles will turn into the standing symbols of the longer term stays uncertain.
A couple dozen 2016 models are rolling out without properties for discs, particularly vehicles focusing on youthful patrons, together with the re-engineered Honda Civic and each model in Toyota's Scion line. The updates should hold the EcoSport standard amidst rivals, as it continues to be the American carmaker's most selling providing in India. The new Renault Kaptur shares its underpinnings with the carmaker's in style compact SUV Duster, but will probably be positioned above the latter in India. Luxurious automobiles grew to become a extra necessary emblem of success within the black group than for different Americans. The 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage is one other sub-subcompact, focused at first-time consumers, nevertheless it's a surprisingly versatile one. The Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck made its 2017 season debut with a strong end on the Parker 425.
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Clear view
On the old Euryza site, located on the Old Maas, the apartments will have a magnificent view over the historical centre of Dordrecht. The regional plan, that we formulated, is being developed in phases. A narrow street defines the view onto Dordrecht and ends on the high quayside square, with catering establishments. Apartment complexes A and B will be realised first. These buildings are comparable in construction and layout but have very different appearances due to their materials and the balcony design. From the living rooms and balconies, the residents have a clear view across the water and can enjoy watching the busy inland shipping.
Project nameEuryza
Quantity27 dwellings (A en B), 27 dwellings (CD)
Design date2009
Stagedesign development
Project typenew development
Disciplinesdesign & engineering
In collaboration withurban design: Stijlgroep Rotterdam
Servicearchitectural design, urban design, technical design
Client typeproject developer
ContractorBAM Woningbouw, Rotterdam


text: I want to focus on the closing scene of school days when dap calls for a campus wake up. He's is calling for a wake up on an all black campus where there is turmoil between black students. I believe the turmoil stems from multiple groups of black students on the campus wanting to become the next great black youth to lead the generation. We see a split and racial divide between black people all throughout the movies with fraternities and sororities but also in the scene outside of the chicken spot when dap and his boys and they get into an argument with other men who are older and are not college educated. One of the men on the opposite side of the debate from dap, played by Samuel L. Jackson uses the work nigga to refer to his friends and dap says "you are not a nigga" the man retorts "yes I am and you are too", as a means to express to Dap that just because he's a black man and educated doesn't mean that the world will regard him any differently, in some ways I agree with the man's sentiments and would even say I see this ideology perpetuated in modern day, there is this belief that if you act a certain way, have achieved certain things, or dress in a way that is deemed professional, that you will be treated better or differently than those that don't. This notion is false. I want to particularly focus on an incident of violence that took place on university of Virginia's campus in the fall of 2015,Martese Johnson was beaten and detained by Virginia officers for having a fake I.D. that was actually his real I.D.. Martese is a straight A student at UVA and is always dressed in a suit and tie, however the officers didn't spare him because of this, so this f idea of respectability politics providing safety or invisibility is false. I think the wake up at the end of the film is Dap finally realizing that and wanting to bring that message to everyone else on the campus. It is my believe that Daps wake up was to convey the message that the black students needed to stop tearing down each other in order to gain respect, power and safety in a world that won't grant them that because of their blackness no matter how they dress, what education they have, or ways they might behave. he says this to say wake up we are on one team. And need to work on progressing our race together, so let's stop tearing each other down in attempt to gain all of these things that don't exist for us, because no how much money or power we have in comparison to each other we will still be regarded the same way because of our race and political identity.


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The aim of these races is to give all club members of any experience or competence, including juniors, the opportunity to sail a course around the lake at the front of a fleet.
The pursuit races have a sequence of uncrowded starts and everyone finishes at 8pm.
The slowest boats with the least experience start first and try to keep ahead of the chasing boats. The fastest most experienced sailors try to catch up and overtake to get ahead just before the finish. With the fleet spread only a basic knowledge of the rules is required. The Sailing Committee reviewed racing from previous years and have modified the handicaps to try and ensure everyone is fairly matched.


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Dr Ambedkar Government Law College's Fiat Justitia National Moot Court Competition 2015 [Feb 20-22; Chennai]; Register by Jan 30 [UPDATED]
This post was originally published on December 29, 2014.
Law 85 Trust, along with the students Dr Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai, are conducting the Fiat Justitia National Moot Court Competition, 2015 to be held between February 20-22, 2015.
The Fiat Justitia National Moot Court Competition has been among a series of successful moot court competitions, with remarkable response from Law teams across the country in previous years, acclaimed for its intellectually stimulating moot problems, high standards of Judging and Transparency.
Having successfully hosted Competitions, we are looking forward to organize a more exciting and enriching experience for all the teams participating in the competition this year.
The current edition deals with emerging issues in Indian Commercial Law.
We cordially invite your esteemed institution to participate in the competition.
The Moot Problem, rules and regulation will be released by 1st of January 2015.
The official invite is HERE.
The list of dates is HERE.
The registration form is HERE.
Fiat Justitia 2015 – Travel Plan is available HERE.
Fiat Justitia 2015 – Rules can be downloaded HERE.
Fiat Justitia 2015 – Moot Problem is available HERE.


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Puff, puff, cure colorectal cancer, pass….This might one day be the chant of doctors everywhere, depending on the accuracy of a recent study at M.D. Anderson.
Researchers there have announced that a "cannabinoid receptor" in cells might be a key tumor-fighting tool in patients with colorectal cancer.
In a press release, MD Anderson's executive vice president Raymond Dubois stated: "Potential application of cannabinoids as anti-tumor drugs is an exciting prospect, because cannabinoid agonists are being evaluated now to treat the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy."
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Roughly translated, this means that preclinical tests show that sparking a bowl seems to spark the tumor-fighting capabilities of a certain cellular receptor – and it's a lot more fun than chemo.
For those not in the know, the press release states that "external cannabinoids include manmade versions and those present in plants, most famously the active ingredient in marijuana (THC)." (We like that term, "most famously").
Although it's not mentioned in the press release, this latest breakthrough appears to advance decades' worth of research from such giants in the field as Drs. Spicoli, Dogg, Cheech, Slater, and Chong.
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Well actually I don't think I'll ever be normal. But I'm myself. My head is out of the clouds, that Dayquil, Nyquil stuff really is a potent drug.
And Garment Designer version 2.5 for Windows is done (Mac version still to come) - and after a week of clicking on everything I can imagen - I haven't found anything wrong with it - I couldn't say that the last 5 times I went to test it. Hurray - Hurray - It now has a USB Key security that unless the customers computer is possed by gremlins - they can install and uninstall - and move to another computer, and upgrade and anything else they can think of doing with it - ALL on THERE own!!!
I'm still waiting for the just kiding part of all of this it really does seem to good to be true. Customers might actually call and not be ready to spit out vulgerities at me (some didn't hold back).
AND, AND get this Susan is almost done writing a Garment Designer Lesson book, WE HAVE NEW PRODUCT!!!!!!!!! I hope I didn't just jinx that.
I'm so excited - 2009 has started out with a bang!!!!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
I'm Normal. . .
2 comments:
- Lola....L..O..L..A....lo--oh--luh! said...
I am looking into purchasing Garment designer 2.5. Does it have basic body slopers for children? If so, what sizes?
- January 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- ModistaModesta said...
I thought a post with pictures would be easier to see than trying to explain it all with words. See post 'Garment Designer Sizes' please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
- January 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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So many people claim to have seen or heard spooky beings that it would be foolish simply to dismiss the notion. Yet, unlike solid objects such as tables and chairs, ghosts do not appear reliably in place and time. They need a different kind of theory from that which accounts for material things.
In search of this account we must, however, guard against a common error of thinking. We must remember that just because there is a collection of phenomena which we call 'ghostly experiences' there is not necessarily one story which covers them all.
As far as apparitions are concerned, the most commonly offered explanation, and the most likely one, is that they are 'record and playback' phenomena. The suggestion is that objects other than magnetic tapes and waxy discs can record events. Particularly dramatic happenings doubtless become more imprinted than others. For the most part, the recorded message is too feint for us to access and most of us are far too preoccupied to be sufficiently receptive. Sometimes, though, a highly sensitive person who just happens to be 'tuned' to the right frequencies, picks up such recorded data.
Another type of ghost experience, which involves the movement of material things, clearly cannot be simply a 'play back' phenomenon. We need to explain what causes the hairbrush or whatever to fly across a room.
The most likely hypothesis is that the agency is a human one. Many poltergeist episodes are associated with people who are in mental turmoil. Some humans, it seems, are capable of generating sufficient electro-magnetic force in their brains to project it outwards and to disturb the physical order.
To those many people who have experimented with psycho-kinesis, and concluded that it is not available to humans, it can be said only that we are a very long way from a full understanding of the interaction between the physical and the mental worlds. Both are manifestations of energy. Very likely the circumstances under which mentally generated energy interferes substantially with the physical world are peculiar. Surely, it is far better to see the poltergeist phenomenon as unfinished research business than to invent unverifiable entities. One day, after a doubtless long and tricky process, we will understand how these mental hurricanes can generate themselves from what are normally barely perceptible breezes.
In this, as in several other aspects of Alphomism, the avoidance of irrationality depends upon the assumption that the universe is a very subtle and sophisticated entity. Energy is capable of some astonishing feats.
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text: JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) - A brother of the U.S. soldier who slaughtered 16 Afghan civilians last year began making the case Wednesday for why he should one day be eligible for parole, portraying him as a patriotic American and indulgent father who let his son put ranch dressing on chocolate chip pancakes. 'There's no better father that I've seen,' William Bales said of his younger brother, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. 'If you brought the kids in here today, they'd run right to him.' Sgt. Bales, 39, pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty, acknowledging that he slaughtered 16 people, mostly women and children, during unsanctioned, solo, pre-dawn raids on two villages March 11, 2012. A jury is deciding whether he should be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, or without it. The picture painted by the first defense witness, William Bales, 55, severely contradicted that portrayed by the soldier's admissions as well as by the testimony of nine Afghan villagers - victims and their relatives - about the horror Bales wrought. Defense attorneys hope the contrast will convince jurors that Bales simply snapped after four combat deployments and deserves leniency. William Bales repeatedly referred to his sibling - once the captain of his high school football team and class president in Norwood, Ohio, where they grew up - as 'my baby brother' and 'Bobby.' He described how as a teenager his brother cared for a developmentally disabled neighborhood boy, assisting him with basic life functions. The boy's father also testified how helpful Bales was. 'I don't know too many 16-, 17-year-old boys who could do that,' William Bales said. He also described how the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed 'good-time Bobby' and how he soon thereafter enlisted in the Army. Prosecutors noted, however, that Bales was also facing a fraud lawsuit when he enlisted. An arbitrator eventually imposed a $1.5 million judgment against Bales and his former stockbroking company. One of Bale's lawyers, John Henry Browne, said after court Wednesday that his client will speak to the jury at the end of the case, and he will offer an apology for his crimes. On Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, nine Afghan villagers who traveled about 7,000 miles to testify at the hearing in traditional garb spoke of their lives since the attacks. Haji Mohammad Wazir lost 11 family members, including his mother, wife and six of his seven children. He told the six-member jury that the attacks destroyed what had been a happy life. He was in another village with his youngest son, now 5-year-old Habib Shah, during the attack. 'If someone loses one child, you can imagine how devastated their life would be,' said Wazir, who received $550,000 in condolence payments from the U.S. government, out of $980,000 paid in all. His son, now 5, 'misses everyone. He hasn't forgotten any of them.' 'I've gone through very hard times,' he added. 'If anybody speaks to me about the incident ... I feel the same, like it's happening right now.' Wazir and a cousin, Khamal Adin, didn't get to say everything they wanted to in court. Each asked for permission to speak after the prosecutors' questions were finished, but the judge said it wasn't allowed. On Tuesday, a farmer who was shot in the neck cursed Bales before pleading with the prosecutor to ask him no more questions. 'This bastard stood right in front of me!' the farmer, Haji Mohammad Naim, testified, through an interpreter. 'I wanted to ask him, `What did I do? What have I done to you?' ... and he shot me!' Browne said Wednesday that what Naim actually said involved exacting revenge upon Bales' mother, but the interpreter gave a far milder version in court. Bales' attorneys, who have said the soldier suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, didn't cross-examine any of the Afghan witnesses. Two military doctors testified Wednesday, describing the treatment of Bales' victims, including a young girl who had been shot in the head and spent three months undergoing surgeries and rehabilitation at a naval hospital in San Diego, relearning how to walk. Bales, 39, a father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., was serving his fourth combat deployment when he left the outpost at Camp Belambay in the pre-dawn darkness. He first attacked one village, returning to Belambay only when he realized he was low on ammunition, said prosecutor Lt. Col. Jay Morse. Bales then left to attack another village. The massacre prompted such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations, and it was three weeks before Army investigators could reach the crime scene. A former brigade commander in Afghanistan, Col. Todd Wood, told the jury about arriving at Belambay the morning of the attack to find an angry crowd outside, with four makeshift trucks carrying 13 of the bodies. Halting combat operations in the area allowed Taliban personnel to openly carry weapons and lay roadside bombs, Wood said. At the time of the killings, Bales had been under heavy personal, professional and financial stress, Morse said. He had complained to other soldiers that his wife was fat and unattractive and said he'd divorce her except that her father had money. He had stopped paying the mortgage on one of his houses and he was upset that he had not been promoted. During his plea hearing in June, Bales couldn't explain to a judge why he committed the killings. 'There's not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things I did,' he said. If he is sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, Bales would be eligible in 20 years, but there's no guarantee he would receive it. He will receive life with parole unless at least five of the six jurors say otherwise. Thursday's testimony is expected to focus on Bales' mental health. --- Follow Gene Johnson at https://twitter.com/GeneAPseattle.


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After graduating with a degree in graphic design, I was DJing in the early rave scene and doing tons of rave flyers for promoters all around the country. In late 1996, I founded a company called Factory Design Labs to handle all the flyer work. Meanwhile, I was the resident DJ at The Church nightclub in Denver. By 2003, I had grown Factory from a flyer firm to a more organized and legitimate branding agency with 20 employees. In early 2003, a friend of mine, Eloy Lopez, came to me with an idea for a new company. He had purchased Final Scratch and was buying vinyl and recording it into his computer so that he could play it. He thought there had to be an easier way. Together with Eloy, myself and another partner, we came up with a business plan for Beatport (www.beatport.com). In May 2003, we decided to make a run for it.
My experience as a DJ, CEO, creative director and entrepreneur helped me understand the complex world of growing great companies from scratch. It is incredibly challenging to do things right. There is a great book called Good to Great by Jim Collins (HarperCollins, 2001), and the first sentence of that book summarizes the challenge of starting a new business. It is simply, "Good is the enemy of great." I live by that every day. It is so much harder to do it great — and so tempting to settle for good or worse. At Beatport, we have a culture of excellence that has helped us when times were tough, when we desperately wanted to cut corners. It is our fundamental belief that doing so will hurt us more than the extra effort that it will take to be great. That is the advice that I would give anyone starting a business. Don't be sloppy. The results you get from your business will be in direct proportion to the effort that you put into it. Starting a new label is no different. Young labels or old established labels with deep catalogs all have the same opportunity — to put out great music that is relevant to a market audience. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right.
How can a label sell tracks through Beatport?
The process is simple. You contact our label sales team and request an application. We just want to make sure that the label applying is serious about business. We look at the application and make a decision as to whether or not we could effectively sell the applicant-label's music (labels are paid quarterly for their sales). If we think we can, then we sign them up. If not, we ask them to continue working on their label and check back with us when they have more commercially viable releases. Our philosophy is to focus on the user experience; there is nothing worse than having to listen to 100 tracks to find one that you want to buy. So we work hard to get only the most relevant content on the site so that our customer can find great music very quickly. And it is a partnership between Beatport and our labels. We believe in promoting them as much as possible when we know that they have something special. Watching their sales grow is what motivates us.
How can you improve the visibility of your label promoting through a digital download service such as Beatport?
We can tell when a small label is really trying. We monitor our referral links to see where our traffic is coming from. It makes us happy to see the smaller labels doing great marketing of their music. The best way to get continuous sales is to have aggressive release schedules and to promote those releases effectively. On Beatport, a label that pushes a new release almost always sells additional back catalog that was on the site. It does not take long for them to realize that the benefit to new releases is twofold.
Keeping in mind that Beatport is a service designed for DJs, how can a label make its tracks stand out from the rest and get on DJs' playlists?
It is superimportant to make music that moves you. Don't focus on making music that you think will sell. That is the wrong philosophy. If you pay attention to the charts on Beatport, you'll see the trends. But the music is always in motion, and the producers that make good music will always find a customer because people are passionate about the music they love, especially DJs who are trying to buy songs that will make their sets more interesting for the dancefloor.
Keep your label's sound consistent, and you will find longtime repeat customers. Change your sound every release, and you are confusing the DJs that liked the last release but don't like your new release. The concept is pretty straightforward — your label is your brand, and your brand stands for something. If you look at the labels that have stood the test of time, it was because they did not vacillate around and chase the hottest trend. They focused on a solid sound and production.
What are some mistakes that new labels make?
Your brand is everything. The number-one mistake young companies make is that they don't understand how important image is to the customer. Even if you just want to use a weird name, it will over time start to stand for something, good or bad. I always tell clients to manage their brand's reputation by design, not by default. If you want to be known for something, tell people what it is that you want to be known for. Don't wait for them to decide for you. Good marketers don't risk being misunderstood. And the results are always better for the companies that constantly invest in their brand.


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Penalty Fever
Pure drama! One can hardly imagine how much responsibility a penalty taker carries on his shoulders at the crucial moment. Inside the stadium, thousands of spectators have gathered, the television cameras of the world are directed on the ball and the shooter, the hope-filled eyes of the team members do not want to be disappointed. In such moments, each pro soccer player probably wishes he had never turned professional. To bring you closer to this feeling, you will take on the role of such a penalty-shooter in Penalty Fever. At the beginning of Penalty Fever, you get to choose between a total of 32 club teams. Within a major tournament, the teams compete for the victory in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out. You alternate between acting as a striker and a penalty-killing goalie. In the shooting mode, an arrow first moves to the floor, which you can stop by clicking on the left mouse button. Eventually, a second arrow appears, with which you influence the flight altitude and flight direction of the ball in a decisive manner. After another left click, the shot is performed. Hopefully, you will score a goal according to everyone's wishes. For each goal scored, a hit is added to the point account at top of the screen. The team with the most hits makes it to the next round. For the loser, all that is left is to return home. If you act as a goalkeeper, a red dot will appear just before the opponent´s shot. This point indicates where the opponent is going to place the penalty kick. Despite this advantage, it is difficult to resist the shot. In Penalty Fever, a certain sensitivity for the mouse in addition to your coolness and your reaction speed are of the utmost importance if you want the tournament to be decided in your favor. For successful players like you, a Hall of Fame can be accessed. There you can find the best players in terms of their points achieved. How long will it take you to make history in this hall?