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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan
Basically we have a story about a young man who has lost his job and has been searching for a new one, but in this economy, well, that is proving to be rather difficult. So he happens to come across a Help Wanted sign in a store front - specifically, the Twenty-Four-Hour bookshop located next to the strip club. He wanders inside and finds himself applying for the job and proving to Mr. Penumbra (bookshop owner) that he can indeed climb ladders and reach for books that are not within easy grasp. He lands the job and is told:
"This job has three requirements, each very strict."
1) "You must always be here from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. exactly. You must not be late. You cannot leave early."
2) "You may not read, examine, inspect, or otherwise touch any of the books in this store—unless you are retrieving it for a customer."
3) "You must keep precise records of all purchases. Time. Amount. The customer's appearance. His state of mind. How he asks for the book. How he receives it. Does he appear to be injured. Is he wearing a sprig of rosemary on his hat. And so on."
Talk about strange rules - working in a book shop where you can not read any of the books! That would drive me BANANAS! And keeping tabs on the customers, hmmm, suspicious! Anyhow, suffice it to say that our protagonist winds up uncovering some interesting facts about the owner of the store, the customers and the logbook - all with the help of computers, Google and technology. Yes, this is a story about how modern day techno gadgets and jargon have started to influence and affect the book world/industry. And let me just say that it is done rather well. I absolutely loved reading this story! From the beginning, you become completely engaged with the character and his struggle in searching for a job and once he starts working for Mr. Penumbra, you can't help but want him to figure out this bookshop's mystery and the truth about Penumbra.
The writing is great and the characters are fun to read about and the story itself is original and creative. I would highly recommend that you stop on by at Robin Sloan's site to read this story NOW! Check it out when you have some spare time - it does not take long to read and well, its FREE, so why not just give it a go. I love reading about books, book stores, etc - so this was definitely my cup of tea. If you give it a read, let me know what you thought of it! Enjoy!!
25 comments:
- Steph said...
This sounds like so much fun, though the job does not! Like you, I'd go absolutely nuts if I couldn't even touch a book, never mind read it... As much as I love the idea of 24-hour bookstore, clearly I could not work in that one!
- July 21, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Mrs. Fry said...
sounds interesting. I am going to have to check it out.
- July 21, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- B said...
Oh I am so happy this is starting to make the rounds! I loved loved loved this short story! I reviewed it a few months ago: http://literarymusings-blog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mr-penumbras-twenty-four-hour-book.html
- July 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Steph, I know! I could never work in that bookshop, but I loved the idea of being able to go to a bookshop at any hour of the day or night!
Brenda, definitely check it out! Its such a fun read!
Brenna, I'll have to check out your review it! It is such a great story to read - I loved it! I love when something like this comes along and starts making the rounds - its great to get more people reading it!
- July 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Stacy at The Novel Life said...
yeah!!! I'm so glad you loved it too!!! and wow to have it be making the rounds is way, way cool! I so loved this book - it was quick, and such an interesting concept! Thank you for sharing!!!
- July 21, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Amy DeTrempe said...
I will have to come back and read this one when I am not on my lunchhour.
- July 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Stacy, it is such a great book! I loved that it was such a quick and interesting read - perfect when you are trying to sneak some reading in at work :)
Amy DeTrempe, definitely try and read it when you have some more time - its worth it!
- July 21, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Julie G said...
I love it! Thank you for sharing - what a great way to pass the last few minutes of a long work day!
- July 21, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Julie, no prob! So glad you enjoyed it! And you are completely right - it is a great way to pass the time (especially at work). :)
- July 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Natalie~Coffee and a Book Chick said...
I'm jumping in anticipation to download this while on vacation!! I agree, too -- working in a bookstore but can't read the books! Perhaps a circle in Dante's world for me!! :)
- July 21, 2010 at 8:49 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Coffee and a Book Chick, this story is perfect for a vacay read! I know! To have all of those books at your fingertips, but you can't open them - AHHHHH! :)
- July 21, 2010 at 9:13 PM
- Lisa said...
Heading over to read it now--sounds great!
- July 21, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Lisa, can't wait to find out what you thought of it! I hope you enjoy it!
- July 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Unknown said...
love the background for the blog. we all love book, but it gives the place a nice clean look. good job! :)
- July 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Kalanna, thanks so much! I'm always a bit iffy on how to make the blog look clean, but nice - and I think this look works! Cheers!
- July 22, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- Meredith said...
Nadia, what a compelling review you've written! It makes me want to read it Right Now, but I'll wait until tomorrow as I won't be going on my morning bicycle ride in the 90 degree temps. Thanks for the link!
- July 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- Tom C said...
Well, its not often the book is provided for free alongside the review. Very useful!
I've got the link and will read it later.
- July 24, 2010 at 3:37 AM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Tom C, I hope you enjoy this read. It was definitely interesting and rather thought provoking with regards to technology and books. Such a treat to read.
- July 24, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- Matt said...
It will be the greatest torture not being able to touch any books in a 24-hour bookstore! Keeping a record of customers and transactions is not that difficult. I need my books! :)
- July 28, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Thanks for the great link, I have bookmarked it. I love the idea of a 24 hour bookshop! I agree with the other commenters that it would be a nightmare not being allowed to touch any of the books !
- July 30, 2010 at 4:58 AM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Matt, I know! I couldn't even imagine being in a bookshop and not being able to open one book - the horror, the horror!
MadlyBumBle, hope you enjoy the story!
- July 31, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Wallace said...
Oh this looks like a good one! How very, very interesting. I bet it would make a good book club selection -- stuff to talk about.
- July 31, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- A Bookish Way of Life said...
Wallace, it would definitely be a good one to chat about with a book club - there is tons to talk about.
- August 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Athira said...
I read your review quite a few days back, but forgot to comment. I loved your review .. and am eager to read this book. It sounds great!
- August 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Lizzi said...
I'm intrigued! I'm definitely going to read it this weekend.
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Virtual reality: An intervention for autism
Posted Sept. 8, 2010
Peter Mundy believes that because the brain continues to develop until a person is 18, intervention through adolescence is both a moral and neurodevelopmental imperative.
Mundy, the Lisa Capps Chair for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education, is a professor of education and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and the director of educational research at the UC Davis MIND Institute.
One goal of Mundy's educational research efforts is to find new ways to help high-functioning children with autism. Thirty to 45 percent of persons with autism are high functioning. Most attend schools where they may spend part of their time in the classroom with typically developing children, and they want to fit in. To that end, Mundy is leading a promising research project testing virtual reality that he hopes will teach these children to make eye contact more readily.
"Looking at other people, and especially making eye contact, improves social communication and social learning," said Mundy. "Making eye contact while talking can be difficult for many people. This is especially true for children with autism spectrum disorders."
The project, created in collaboration with UC Davis postdoctoral scholar William Jarrold and groups at the University of Southern California and Stanford University, brings study participants into the research laboratory and places them before a computer screen.
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The glasses they wear allow a computer to track their head movements and determine where their gaze falls. Then they're asked to read aloud and periodically look at each of three faces on the screen — or they'll disappear.
"We're exploring the use of virtual reality methods to help children with autism practice and feel more comfortable with looking at other people while talking," Mundy said.
Mundy's group has recruited 40 children aged 8 to 18 years to take part in the experiment. If the approach works, it could be adapted to multiple training protocols. Most importantly, such experiments help expand knowledge about the adolescent brain in general.
"We are just beginning to learn how the ability to talk and make eye contact changes and develops between 8 and 18 years of age in all children," Mundy said.


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British supermarket chain Asda released an ad with a "super mom" who does all of the holiday prep — everything short of greeting ye olde St. Nick with a hand job when he slides down the chimney. At the end of the commercial, after she's done getting everything ready for the holidays, she walks down and sees her whole family laughing and having a great time. So, hey, her super hard, unrelenting work was all worth it. Because in front of every great woman is a room full of people who can't do thing for themselves.
I know part of you is screaming at her to tell dad to get off his fat arse (I am being culturaly sensitive to our former colonial overlords) and get to shopping! And you know who always made the side dishes in my family? Me! Because my childhood obesity was seen as proof that I was the only suitable chef in the house. Holidays are a family affair, not just for the mom who does her unfair share of keeping her family in candy canes. And, let's be honest, no matter how hard you try, the scene at the end of the day isn't a happy party — it's more like your drunk uncle hitting on your friends, your dad sleeping upstairs, and your little brother playing DS in the corner. Family bonding!
So, yeah, is this a sexist piece of shit? Or do you think that in liberal America, where dudes are doing more at home, that women still carry the majority of the family burden? I remember a study that said even in homes where both parents work, women still end up doing like a ton more housework. I think perhaps the issue is that it's more on the nose than we're comfortable with admitting to.
This Christmas Ad With Super Mom: Sexist or No? British company forced to semi-apoplogize [sic] [Ad Week]


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As pointed out many times, The Spoiler is very well connected, with a mob of secret squirrels all over the country, listening through boardroom walls with mini-pint jugs pressed to their ears, smoking endless cigarellos.
Today, The Spoiler's top squirrel has filed a report regarding the truth behind England's so-called "rifts" during the World Cup.
Much was made about JT and Steven G not quite seeing eye-to-eye, but according to our furry little pal, there wasn't a massive feud, although they're in no danger of falling in love any time soon.
If anything, their only point of contention came from Wayne Rooney going from being BFF's with Steven G, to cuddling up to JT.
Apparently the pair were drawn together by a shared love - of what, it's no one's business to say. It could be a shared love of Renaissance architecture, or playing dominoes, or the poems of Keats.
Oh, and apparently, Capello's English isn't just bad, it's absolutely horrible.
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Well, you know what they say. The family that get's into an altercation with a 65 year old lady with big hair from Texas because she cut in line in front of us at the Nordstrom Santa photo booth together, stays together. And apparently goes to jail together too. I'll admit this is all a bit embarrassing, but as you can see, we were a little tied up so to speak this last Christmas. Not exactly how we envisioned spending the Holidays, but thankfully everything got cleared up and we are now back home. I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to do our annual family picture this year, but thankfully one of the guards took this for us, and it turned out pretty good. It is a part of our story now, so why pretend it didn't happen I guess.
Oh, and is it too late to say Happy New Year? Happy New Year everyone. I hope you enjoy the new Keatley Family Picture. And some of you thought we weren't going to do one this year. Please!
And one more thing. If anyone want's to help me pick up trash on the side of I-90 between Issaquah and Bend for the next 6 months, give a holler. I would love your help.


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Martin O'Neill has lifted the lid on what was said between himself and Roy Keane as they embraced upon the final whistle as the Republic of Ireland made it through to the Euro 2016 knock-out stage.
The manager and his assistant were all smiles as they hugged on the touchline at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille on Wednesday night after Robbie Brady had headed his side to the last 16 with a 1-0 win over Italy.
Asked what he had said to Keane, O'Neill replied: "I told him to shave his beard. It was rustling my chin and I don't want him to hug me again ever."
Questioned about the 44-year-old former Manchester United and Ireland skipper's response, O'Neill added: "He said, 'You are an ugly sod', and I agreed wholeheartedly. I then retorted and said he wasn't Paul Newman either."
Whatever was actually said between the two men, who agreed to lead the Republic into the new World Cup qualifying campaign before flying out to France earlier this month, may have to remain between them for now.
However, there were words of congratulation from veteran Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who was one of those rested on the night after recovering from a bout of flu.
O'Neill revealed: "He was very complimentary, which was nice considering he's been one of the great goalkeepers of all time."
Brady's goal sparked wild celebrations on and off the pitch as the thousands of Ireland fans who had made it into the stadium threatened to lift the closed roof.
It was an occasion which will live long in the memory for those who were there, and O'Neill was delighted to have given the supporters something to cheer after the disappointment of a 3-0 defeat by Belgium in their previous game.
He said: "We were delighted to win the game and be part of that evening and it was genuinely special. We felt that we were part of that evening, one not to be forgotten.
"To see the fans enjoy it, it more than made up for the Belgium game. Last night, players and fans together fused in a way that they kept each other going."


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This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about PBDEs. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-800-232-4636. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present.
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are man-made chemicals found in plastics used in a variety of consumer products to make them difficult to burn. Very little is known about the health effects of PBDEs in people, but effects have been reported in animals. PBDEs have not been found in any of the 1,647 current or former National Priority List (NPL) sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What are PBDEs?
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame-retardant chemicals that are added to plastics and foam products to make them difficult to burn. There are different kinds of PBDEs; some have only a few bromine atoms attached, while some have as many as ten bromine attached to the central molecule.
PBDEs exist as mixtures of similar chemicals called congeners. Because they are mixed into plastics and foams rather than bound to them, PBDEs can leave the products that contain them and enter the environment.
What happens to PBDEs when they enter the environment?
- PBDEs enter air, water, and soil during their manufacture and use in consumer products.
- In air, PBDEs can be present as particles, but eventually settle to soil or water.
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- Some PBDEs can accumulate in fish but usually at low concentrations.
How might I be exposed to PBDEs?
- The concentrations of PBDEs in human blood, breast milk, and body fat indicate that most people are exposed to low levels of PBDEs.
- You may be exposed to PBDEs from eating foods or breathing air contaminated with PBDEs.
- Workers involved in the manufacture of PBDEs or products that contain PBDEs may be exposed to higher levels than usual.
- Occupational exposure can also occur in people who work in enclosed spaces where PBDE-containing products are repaired or recycled.
How can PBDEs affect my health?
There is no definite information on health effects of PBDEs in people. Rats and mice that ate food with moderate amounts of PBDEs for a few days had effects on the thyroid gland. Those that ate smaller amounts for weeks or months had effects on the thyroid and the liver. Large differences in effects are seen between highly-brominated and less-brominated PBDEs in animal studies.
Preliminary evidence suggests that high concentrations of PBDEs may cause neurobehavioral alterations and affect the immune system in animals.
How likely are PBDEs to cause cancer?
We do not know whether PBDEs can cause cancer in humans. Rats and mice that ate food with decabromodiphenyl ether (one type of PBDE) throughout their lives, developed liver tumors. Based on this evidence, the EPA has classified decabromodiphenyl ether as a possible human carcinogen. PBDEs with fewer bromine atoms than decabromodiphenyl ether are listed by the EPA as not classifiable as to human carcinogenicity due to the lack of human and animal cancer studies.
How can PBDEs affect children?
Children are exposed to PBDEs in generally the same way as adults, mainly by eating contaminated food. Because PBDEs dissolve readily in fat, they can accumulate in breast milk and may be transferred to babies and young children.
Exposure to PBDEs in the womb and through nursing has caused thyroid effects and neurobehavioral alterations in newborn animals, but not birth defects. It is not known if PBDEs can cause birth defect in children.
How can families reduce the risk of exposure to PBDEs?
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Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
The EPA requires that companies that transport, store, or dispose p-bromodiphenyl ether (a particular PBDE compound) follow the rules and regulations of the federal hazardous waste management program. The EPA requires that industry tell the National Response Center each time 100 pounds or more of p-bromodiphenyl ether are released to the environment.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2004. Toxicological Profile for Polybrominated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
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Spencer Pratt Killed Playgirl
Posted by mattymoe on August 6, 2008
Even the mere thought of Spencer Pratt posing nude was enough to kill Playgirl.
Rumors floated around the Internet last week Pratt was considering an offer to pose for the mag. It took a few days, but sure enough Playgirl announced yesterday they were shutting down the mag and only focusing on their web site.
UPDATE: Too bad for you Playgirl! Spencer tell us he turned their offer down, adding "I was the last hope!"


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Two cartoonists win
The Hook is pleased to note that two of the national cartoons we publish won awards in the annual contest of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
"Slow Wave" by Jesse Reklaw won first place, and the "The City," by derf (John Backderf) came in third.
Kudos also went to "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow, which came in second; and "Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling received an honorable mention.
While the latter two cartoonists opted not to make the jump to the Hook when most of the creative staff left another Charlottesville weekly upon this paper's inception in 2002, we wish them well at this auspicious moment of victory.


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A study on the effects of video game violence is among the 23 executive orders President Barack Obama issued today on the topic of gun control.
"I will direct the Centers for Disease Control to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce (gun violence)," Obama said. "And Congress should fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds. We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence."
The Obama Administration is asking Congress to approve giving $10 million to the CDC "to conduct further research, including investigating the relationship between video games, media images, and violence."
Vice President Joe Biden met with representatives from the video game industry last week, as well as the film and television industries.


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The legacy of John Snow: Epidemiology yesterday, today & tomorrow
In Spring 2013, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine held a series of events to celebrate the bicentenary of John Snow's birth, his achievements and the new research that continues his legacy throughout society.
John Snow (1813–1858) is an iconic figure in public health – the forefather of epidemiology, the man who first proved cholera was water-borne by tracking an outbreak to a water pump in Soho, and a pioneer in anaesthesia who attended to Queen Victoria during labour.
Learn more about the work and legacy of John Snow in the School's March podcast
Event and exhibition details
13 March – 17 April Cartographies of Life & Death: John Snow and Disease Mapping Historical treasures and newly commissioned artworks inspired by science featured in a public exhibition celebrating Snow's work and legacy. Presented in the style of a disease mapping 'detective' trail, thousands of members of the public joined us for a drink at our pop-up water bar, saw weekly street performances from singers, tarot readers and geologists, and discovered rare items from the School's archives, including disease maps showing how scientists have tracked deadly outbreaks around the world from the early 1900s to the present day. Find out about the exhibition events or see the mobile map.
15 – 16 March Mapping disease: John Snow & Cholera To coincide with Snow's birth anniversary, a public lecture and day-long meeting looking at historical aspects of Snow's work were held at the School. View videos from the event (YouTube).
11 – 12 April Snow's legacy: Epidemiology today & tomorrow This two-day conference provided a contemporary evaluation of Snow's legacy and explored developments in epidemiological methods and their application in disciplines within and beyond the health sciences. A conference gala dinner took place at the Wellcome Trust on 11 April with after-dinner speaker and Channel 4 newscaster, Jon Snow. View videos from the conference (YouTube).
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Are Young Living essential oils certified organic?Young Living prides itself on offering the purest and most effective essential oils possible, and they are often asked if their oils are certified organic. The organic certification, while important, is far from the only standard of quality by which to judge essential oils. Young Living practices a unique Seed to Seal® quality process that goes beyond the current organic standard in many ways. At Young Living, they don't just rely on others to verify the purity of their oils. Young Living works directly with their farms, growers, and distillers to ensure the quality, integrity, and authenticity of every product produced. Their passion and commitment is to produce 100-percent pure, unadulterated essential oils that retain all of the natural constituents and therapeutic properties nature intended. Young Living's Seed to Seal process ensures the purest therapeutic-grade essential oils through careful monitoring of every step of essential oil production—from the time a seed is sourced until the oil is sealed in the bottle. Every batch of essential oils, whether cultivated on their own farms or by one of their carefully vetted partner growers, is rigorously tested and subjected to careful review through every step of production and meets or exceeds industry safety and purity standards. Young Living's dedication to quality ensures that they provide pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils with the complete, optimal blend of plant constituents to provide maximum potency and results. As millions of satisfied members and customers across the globe can testify, Young Living sets the standard for purity and quality in the essential oil industry. While standards and guidelines can vary and be modified, Young Living's dedication to providing the safest, most beneficial essential oils in the world will never change.
Does Young Living use pesticides?Young Living does not use pesticides at their farms or their partner farms. Both Young Living's farm practices and finished products are held to strict standards, and with the measures they have in place, Young Living feels confident that they offer their members the best, purest products available.
What tests does Young Living conduct on their essential oils?Young Living uses its own internal labs and third-party facilities to verify that Young Living purity and potency standards are met. Each batch of essential oil is sent through six rigorous tests and must meet established quality benchmarks to pass through successfully.
- Mass Spectrometer—Identifies the names of each constituent (plant chemicals) in the oil.
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New federal financial reports from Super PACs continue to show the use of hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals for impacting on the 2014 elections. However, the big exception is $250,000 from an unknown source that a Super PAC has not identified.
In a new filing from a Super PAC, New Republican.org reported it had receipts of $287,291 during April, of which $285,000 was contributed on April 24th by Californian John Jordan , CEO of Jordan Winery. The Super PAC spent $258,444 in April on independent expenditures supporting Monica Wehby, R-Ore., in the Oregon U.S. Senate race. The Super PAC was initially funded with $500,000 from members of the DeVos family.


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Many countries choose to adopt international accounting standards when converting to accrual accounting, IPSAS being the the most popular. Accrual IPSAS are based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), where the requirements of these standards are applicable to the public sector, and expand on them to tackle public sector-specific financial reporting issues. More and more countries are seeking to learn from each other's experiences and this becomes easier when common international accounting standards are being followed.
In the context of the 22 Arab League member states, at least five Arab central governments officially announced their implementation of accrual accounting IPSAS, with many more currently studying the conversion. To support these efforts, the availability of an Arabic language summary of IPSAS is intended to be a catalyst for further communication, learning and improvement.
Deloitte's Arabic IPSAS covers 31 IPSAS standards and one on cash basis. Furthermore it describes, where applicable, the relationship between each IPSAS and the relevant International Accounting Standard (IAS) and IFRS, as shown in the table below.


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July 10, 2013
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For the 5th session of its 2013 annual educational program in Paris, Magnum Photos is pleased to open in September a new unique five days' workshop with the British renowned documentary photographer Stuart Franklin.
From September 26th to 30th, Stuart Franklin, author of the iconic "Tank Man" picture will give the opportunity to 12 international participants to benefit from his advices and experience in the intimate atmosphere of the Magnum Paris' office. The workshop will be held inside the Magnum Photos' agency – 19, rue Hégésippe Moreau, 75018 Paris - from September 26th to 30th, 2013.
Through a daily program of shooting, reviews, group critiques, mentoring and editing sessions, participants will develop their own visual language and ability to tell a story visually.
At the end of the course students will have a broad understanding of documentary photography in theory and practice.
The Workshop
Students will engage in one of two possible directed photographic assignments in Paris followed by constructive criticism and support in photography, story-telling, photo-editing, and post-production.
"A Sense of Place"
: Students will learn how to develop their own subjective sense of documentary photography within the confines of a specific place, allowing them to develop an approach and style that works for them.
Ref: Thomas Struth – Museum Photographs, Lee Friedlander – Factory Valleys, Chris Killip – In Flagrante, Seacoal, Bruce Davidson – East 100th Street.
Objective: To produce a series of 12-20 photographs that describes a sense of place. This could be (some examples): a factory, a football club, a museum, an office, a shopping mall, a prison, a theatre or a ski resort. The aim is to use narrative and documentary skills to describe the place and to communicate effectively by engaging the viewer with the photographs. The work can be landscape-based or people-based, or both.
"Helping others"
: students will learn to work with people in sensitive situations and focus on understanding relationships in a photographic way.
Ref: Stuart Franklin – On their own two feet, Curing and Caring.
Objective: The aim here is to produce a series of 12-20 photographs that convey the message "helping others". The work could be done in (some examples) an old peoples' home, hospitals, in the home environment, in a school, a charity shop, alcoholics anonymous, at the blind institute. The photographs should draw the viewer empathetically into the predicament of the person or people being helped and explore the relationship photographically between the people involved. Sound recordings may be used in the final presentation. Pseudonyms may also be used (see: Agee, James: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men).
The course will provide a basis for students thinking of working in online or offline newspaper or magazine editing, photography, multi-media, publishing or journalism.
Thanks to the generous support of Blurb, participants will have the opportunity to make a collective book of the work produced during the workshop, accompanied by a projection to the Magnum staff.
Stuart Franklin
Stuart Franklin was born in Britain in 1956. He studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at the University of Oxford (BA and PhD). During the 1980s, he worked as a correspondent for Sygma Agence Presse in Paris before joining Magnum Photos in 1985.
Franklin's coverage of the Sahel famine from 1984 to 1985 won him acclaim, but he is perhaps best known for his celebrated photograph of a man defying a tank in Tiananmen Square, China, in 1989, which won him a World Press Photo Award. Since 1990, Franklin has completed over twenty assignments for National Geographic. His documentary photography has taken him to Central and South America, China, Southeast Asia and Europe. Since 2004 he has focused on long-term projects concerned primarily with man and the environment.
In 1999 he produced The Time of Trees, a photographic essay examining the social relationship between nature and society through the prism of trees. This was followed four years later by The Dynamic City, about the evolution and everyday life of cities. In 2005 he completed Hôtel Afrique, an exhibition on Africa's elite hotels (the book of the same title is in progress); the same year, aided by a grant funded by the National Trust, he published Sea Fever, a documentary project about the British coastline. Franklin is currently working on a long-term project on Europe's changing landscape, focusing in particular on the climate and on patterns of transformation.
This workshop is not about learning technical skills, but rather improving each student's own unique photographic vision. Workshops will be held in French/English and the class will be assigned an assistant who will facilitate the workshop and help students when it comes to technical or logistical issues. In addition what is sure to be a fruitful dynamic in class, there will also be ample informal time for forum, sharing and cross-pollination of ideas with other teachers and students.
Through the generous support of Magnum's educational partners, Blurb, workshop participants will also have the opportunity to further their editing experience through the production of a group Blurb books. The session will culminate in a projection of participant work at the Magnum Paris office.
Workshop participants should be able to show a good level of photographic aptitude. Candidates will be expected to arrive comfortable with their equipment and ready to photograph. The workshop is limited to just 12 participants and photographers will be subject to online applications. We recommend participants arrive with at least one realistic project idea they wish to develop during the workshop, and that preliminary research be conducted before the workshop begins. This should include contact liaison, access information and even early shooting – please refer to your teacher's specific requirements.
Due to the fast pace of the workshop, Magnum highly recommends that participants produce and edit their work digitally, using their own laptops. Individuals wishing to use film may do so, but at their own cost and during the time imposed. Lab services will be recommended.
950€ (does not include travel, accommodations or on-the-ground expenses). All fees must be paid within 7 days of acceptance or you will forfeit your space. Refund policies will be emailed with acceptance letter.
Please note: Magnum Photos reserves the right to cancel groups with less than 7 participants. Students will be given either a full refund or offered a place with an alternative photographer. In the event of a cancellation, students will be given at least 2 weeks advance notice.
Magnum Photos reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.
- If a participant decides to cancel for whatever reason, it must be confirmed in writing:
. Magnum Photos will reimburse all the registration costs except for €100 administrative fee, if the participant informs Magnum Photos of cancellation at least 3 weeks before the first day of the workshop. Beyond this time limit, Magnum Photos will charge the following:
. 50% of the cost if cancelled between 6 and 20 days before the workshop commences.
. 100% of the cost if cancelled less than 5 days before the workshop commences.
. All workshops that are commenced but not completed through the fault of either the contractor/or participant need to be paid in full.
- Magnum Photos is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance.
Travel & Accommodation
Participants are expected to make their own arrangements regarding travel and accommodation; a list of suitable accommodation options will be provided to successful candidates. International visitors can travel to Paris from most major terminals. Please ensure you have the necessary travel documents & relevant visas in order to attend the event. Magnum Photos can provide letters of support when necessary.
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The first deadline for acceptance is September 23rd, and qualified applicants will be selected through a combination of the merit of their work and their personal statement, and the order of their application's receipt. All applications received after September 23rd will be reviewed, space permitting.
For queries please contact:
Elsa Bizet
Stuart Franklin's portfolio on the Magnum website


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Butterfly People
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
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This chronicle of 19th-century America's fascination with butterflies traces the achievements of six naturalists who identified countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
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"The beauty of the world," wrote America's greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards, in 1725, "consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the Supreme Being. . . . This beauty is peculiar to natural things, it surpassing the art of man." In the nineteenth century, many Americans, including Edwards's great-grandson William Henry Edwards, encountered the butterflies, among the most evolved in terms of beauty, by some accounts, of all creatures. By beauty here is meant not merely the wings, however beautiful they may be, but the metamorphosis (from the Greek for "changing form") and life history of the insect, from the egg and caterpillar to the pupa and adult, as well as the butterfly in relation to a world full of other life. The encounter took place first with native American species, then with foreign or exotic ones, moths as well as butterflies, the "night" and "day butterflies," as they were called—or, collectively, the Lepidoptera, the order's name referring, in Greek, to the scales covering the wings. By the 1880s, it seemed as if everyone in America was chasing "flying flowers," to quote Augustus Radcliffe Grote, an American expert on moths. People from all walks of life—sheep farmers, shopkeepers, barbers, lawyers, actors, drugstore clerks, housekeepers, wallpaper hangers, priests, Wall Street brokers, glassblowers, miners, and mine managers—had taken up the butterfly net. At the end of the century a new kind of beauty would assume prominence, human-made and artificial; seen especially at the spectacular world's fairs of the age, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, it would expand the world's aesthetic palette, while at the same time challenging the "beauty peculiar to natural things." For a fleeting moment, however, the reign of the butterflies, and of all similar natural life, held sway in the imaginations of many American men and women.
Two phenomena were responsible, in particular, for this history, each ushering people into the natural world with unsurpassed effect. The first was economic and technological and was connected to the rise of capitalism; the second was cultural and institutional and was exemplified by the tradition of Enlightenment natural history, having at its heart a passion for the diversity and beauty of natural forms. One was extractive, the other adoring, and both derived from the thousands of years of experience the Europeans and English imported with them to America. Both existed in the same country and the same people, from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond. America was founded as a kind of European achievement, the beneficiary, as it were, of centuries of struggle, at once armed with the brilliance to build a new economic empire and endowed with the heritage to understand and protect the natural world.
The American economy had many aspects dependent on nature as landed wealth or property, and that brought Americans close to nature. No economic system had ever done this more thoroughly or swiftly. In what seems a twinkling of historical time, it carried people across the continent in search of land, minerals, virgin forests, and fossil fuels, a situation speeded up by a remarkable series of land surveys and revolutionized by the railroads, which by the 1880s had bound the country into a single market, condensing into only a few decades the expropriation of nature it had taken the Europeans and English many hundreds of years to carry out. As a fortuitous blessing, Americans experienced the country's flora and fauna, its native species of butterflies and moths. Later in the century, the United States joined other Western countries, England and Germany especially, in worldwide commercial trade and butterfly collecting, driven by imperialism and the spread of railroad lines from Canada and Argentina to East Africa and the Asian subcontinent, thereby putting Americans in touch with the foreign parts of the globe. Many individuals made a living finding and selling butterflies on the world market. Most tragic and complex of them all was Will Doherty of Mount Auburn, Ohio, who spent most of his brief life in pursuit of the rarest of species. Extraordinary collections of butterflies in America issued from this descent below the equator. The biggest private one was cobbled together by Herman Strecker of Reading, Pennsylvania, a poor stonecutter with a wild yearning for the "things of endless joy," as he called his insects.
Family farming, America's most widespread economic activity, also exposed Americans to butterflies, even while the majority of farmers had little interest in insects other than to eradicate them. As all the butterfly people came to realize, America had various natural landscapes, from the remote alpine meadows of the Rocky Mountains and the vast blooming prairies of the Midwest to the deserts of the Far West, the freshwater marshes of Connecticut, and the semitropical forests of Florida, alive with "flying jewels," to cite Augustus Grote again. But family farms, much nearer at hand and not fundamentally dependent on the railroad, did perhaps more than any other landscape to convert Americans into butterfly lovers. Farms were distributed throughout the country, and while they sacrificed virgin forests and ecosystems in the short term, they contributed over the long term to nature's vitality. Their distinguishing features were not just plowed fields or barns or silos but also ponds, woodlots, hedgerows, stone walls, open fields along roadsides, and meadows by streams or riverbeds for grazing cattle, all created for human purposes but also serving as likely habitats and hideouts for animals. Renewed by repeated mowing, the meadows, especially, teamed with many kinds of birds; sweet-smelling flowering plants, intoxicating in the summertime, such as milkweed, joe-pye weed, thistle, and clover; and butterflies. Black swallowtails (Papilio polyxenes) and monarchs (Danaus plexippus), among the most common and handsome of American butterflies, actually rose in number in direct relation to the spread of small farms. So did the pretty inch-wide meadow fritillary (Boloria bellona), first named by the pioneering butterfly man Samuel Scudder, in the 1870s, because it so often flew in the meadows of New England, and nowhere else. Authorities on butterflies today call these insects "pasture species."
A hallmark of this hybrid rural landscape (hybrid because it intermingled human nature with wild nature), was its "walking through" character, existing before property lines rigidly divided farms from one another, and making nature readily traversable by anyone interested in knowing it. Alpine or mountain meadows of the country's wilderness areas, carpeted by flowers and sometimes staggering in their array of butterflies, were often too far away or frightening for most Americans to visit, but this agrarian tapestry, resplendent with "winged wanderers on clover sweet," was everywhere and usually inviting. Just as the railroad drew people over the horizon to unusual insects, family farming performed a captivating magic of its own. The farm landscape was easily navigated. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, a French immigrant and farmer, took delight in it in the 1790s, as, decades later, did the English explorer and collector Edward Doubleday, who witnessed "in Ohio literally tens of thousands" of painted ladies (Vanessa cardui), a lovely, wide-ranging species with an intricate lacework of color and design on the underwing, fluttering "on the thistles by the road sides." The writer and reformer Thomas Wentworth Higginson remembered "vividly" as a boy in Massachusetts in the 1830s, "walking along [a] breezy, upland road, lined with a continuous row of milk weed blossoms and white flowering alder, all ablaze with butterflies. I might have picked off hundreds, so absorbed were they in their pretty pursuits." Forty years later, Walt Whitman walked his farm lanes in Camden, New Jersey, and in Brooklyn, New York. "As every man has his hobby-liking," he noted, "mine is for a real farm-lane fenced by old chestnut-rails," along which he saw "butterflies and butterflies, all sorts, white, yellow, brown, purple—now and then some gorgeous fellow flashing lazily by on wings like artists' palettes dabb'd with every color." "In the lane as I came along just now I noticed one spot, ten feet square or so, where more than a hundred had collected, holding a revel, a gyration-dance, a butterfly good-time, winding and circling, down and across, but always keeping within the limits."
Most of America's principal butterfly people would find many new species of butterflies in ecologically wild, relatively pristine places, but they also encountered butterflies living near or in nature that had been modified in some way by farming. Herman Strecker wrote wittily about this environment in his 1878 catalog, Butterflies and Moths of North America: "The best time to give [butterflies] chase and try to run them down is under a July sun, with the occasional slight obstacles of fences, creeks, rocks, logs, farmers' dogs and farmers' boys (just as bad)" blocking entry to "a grain or clover field" or to "gardens, marshes and meadows along edges of woods, and above all where plenty of thistles and sumac are growing."
Just as family farms helped Americans see and come to know butterflies, so the natural history tradition created the cultural context for butterfly collecting and study. It gave Americans the means—the language, the interpretative methods and skills—to recognize and understand the living things around them, and, by validating collecting as the cardinal activity, it led curious individuals into a realm of unforgettable sensuous experience. In countries without such a tradition, little existed—save folk taxonomies—to explain what lay within nature's kingdom or to promote collecting or to make of it anything more than a practical activity. In the West, however, natural history had a long lineage, dating from at least Aristotle, who inquired into all nature, from rocks and animals to plants and fossils. Between the late Renaissance and the mid-1700s, it entered a new phase, fresh with purpose and mission, and by 1800 had claimed many thousands of followers, reflecting the Western intrusion into the rest of the world. Natural history institutionalized collecting as a transcendent goal and invented the apparatus of collecting, from killing jars and nets to poisons, baits, and cabinets. It embraced, as well, a systematic approach to the study of nature, with two related aspects, each reliant on collecting. The first was devoted to taxonomy and nomenclature, or to the grouping and naming of organisms; the second, to the study of life histories and the interrelations of all organisms to one another and to the wider environment; this aspect came to be called ecology by the 1880s.
Carl Linnaeus of Sweden, Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon of France, Alexander Humboldt of Germany, and, later, Charles Darwin of England, major architects of modern natural history and all scientific autodidacts, commanded, in their books, healthy swaths of nature. Together they helped forge nature as a magnetic fulcrum of transatlantic Western culture, thrilling enough to keep people in its thrall for another 150 years.
Linnaeus was the great exponent of systematic order, establishing a binomial nomenclature, still standard today, that bestowed on all organisms two Latin words, one for the genus, or group, to which the individual organism belonged, the other for the species itself; the two words together represented the complete individual (thus, Homo sapiens for "wise man"). Early in his career, Linnaeus seemed to believe that every species was unchanging and God-created, although later he adopted "limited transmutation," and he never failed to root his understanding of species in concrete natural evidence. He looked foremost at plants and flowers, identifying them partly by sexual characteristics, but he also named and described animals, including numerous lepidoptera caught by a brave cohort of young field collectors he sent around the world.
Born around the same time as Linnaeus (1707), the Comte de Buffon, famous for his spellbinding, multivolume Histoire naturelle, was determined to cover all animal and plant life, to a degree far beyond Linnaeus. He was critical of Linnaean systematics and of the early Enlightenment, which he thought viewed nature as too fixed in its forms and development. To Buffon, natural organisms or species flowed in "a progression" that changed constantly through almost imperceptible "gradations," self-creating and self-propelled. He considered "Nature" an immense living empire, enfolding everything, animating everything, and urged naturalists to deal always with living organisms and to write their "life histories," describing fully and exactly every feature of their existence: their distribution, their outside and inside anatomies, their peculiar habits and everyday activities, their relationships with the life histories of other beings and to the surrounding environment. Species could not be recognized, Buffon argued, only on the basis of single visible sexual features, as was Linnaeus's practice.
Although historians have often seen these two sides of natural history as separate and even at odds, the two so often crossed as to form a whole perspective that grew ever more complex over time. Buffon and Linnaeus shared a belief that humans had a primary right to use nature, first and foremost, for their material benefit; each insisted upon the necessity of describing as well as naming and classifying; both saw the natural world as an interdependent whole; and each was awed by its profusion. "The starting point," Linnaeus wrote, "must be to marvel at all things, even the most commonplace." Still, rightly or wrongly, Linnaeus's fame rested on his binomial nomenclature and Buffon's on his descriptive talents, on the abundance of his engrossing life histories, and on his dramatic ecological vision, which addressed "the great operations of nature" and demanded a "quality of mind that permits us to grasp distant relationships, fit them together, and form a body of rational ideas."
Buffon's version of natural history reached a zenith of influence during the Romantic Enlightenment of the early nineteenth century, most memorably in the mind of Alexander Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat and the premier explorer of the time, whose multivolume masterpiece, The Cosmos, written in his old age and probing nearly every aspect of the universe, had a more profound impact on American views of nature than any other book in the nineteenth century. Humboldt journeyed down the mostly unexamined (for Europeans) Orinoco River in present-day Venezuela between 1799 and 1804, launching the "cartographic penetration of the continental interiors of the Americas." The trip culminated in Ecuador with Humboldt's sensational ascent with his companions—the botanist Aimé Bonpland, his Ecuadorian friend Carlos Montúfar, and an Indian guide—nearly to the top of Mount Chimborazo, an Andean peak then thought the highest in the world. Besides harvesting a huge number of plants, Bonpland and Humboldt collected butterflies, including one delicate but hardy creature above the snow zone—a yellow or sulphur species one inch in diameter (Colias alticola)—and two new species later named and described in 1805 by the French butterfly man Pierre Latreille as Heliconius humboldt and Cethosia bonpland. Despite these discoveries, Humboldt, like Buffon, had no desire, as he put it, to unearth "new, isolated facts" but "preferred linking always known ones together." Also, as with Buffon, he was convinced that "nature, despite her seeming diversity, is always a unity, a whole," and that a "holy, creative, primary force" suffused all. Nature was no "inert mass" but "an inextricable network of organisms," so gloriously fertile in places around the globe that it promised to endure forever.
A half century later, Charles Darwin's theories of natural selection and evolution (along with those of his countryman, Alfred Russel Wallace) would add a radically dynamic element to natural history thinking, conceiving of nature as an always evolving and unstable realm, working from within to create a new abundance of variable shapes, patterns, colors, and sizes: geographic, polymorphic (meaning many forms), and dimorphic (meaning double forms), and encompassing varieties, species, and subspecies—altogether a morphological spectrum never before revealed to naturalists in the same way or to the same degree.
The natural history of these men erected a route to scientific understanding and knowledge. At the same time, it occasionally mixed culture, fantasy, and myth with science; it sometimes treated nature anthropomorphically, told stories, and had literary as well as scientific content; and, most of all, it placed people in touch with the multifarious beauty of the world.
Throughout most of the nineteenth century, naturalists typically learned to draw or paint and, therefore, possibly to see and appreciate better the living beauty around them. We can trace this fruitful relationship to an abiding alliance between art and science, with roots in the late medieval period (if not earlier), when it was commonly held that the ability to pursue art or science depended on the same observational skills and perceptions, the same pair of eyes. This view can be seen in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Hooker, and William Harvey, among others, and found exponents in the late-eighteenth-century philosophy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schelling, and many of their contemporaries. It was an outlook, moreover, characteristic of a venerable tradition of artisan craftsmanship practiced by a large community of people outside the elite bastions of science who conjured up images with their own hands, a practice that helped increase the observer's sensitivity and responsiveness to the aesthetic character of nature.
In its heyday, natural history unleashed a stream of pictorial books of insects and other species, with handcrafted plates notable for their costliness as well as for their lively colors, although these sometimes bore little relation to the actual colors of the butterflies and moths depicted. In the early eighteenth century, the German-born apothecary Albertus Seba, then living in Amsterdam, published the four-volume Cabinet of Curiosities, a great prototypic catalog, with hundreds of exotic butterflies never before seen. Almost all of the copies were printed in black-and-white; those few that used color were set aside for the tiny royalty of northern Europe who were Seba's benefactors. Other contemporary works with plates, by such people as the Germans Maria Sibylla Merian and August Rösel von Rosenhof and the Dutchman Pieter Cramer, also served a small elite. By the early nineteenth century, both craftsmanship and natural science had overcome the obstacles of poorly executed shades and tints and of an exclusive market. Starting with the rise of lithography in the 1820s, artists and artisans began to depict the real thing in realistic color, and the audience was no longer elite.
Buffon, Darwin, and Humboldt themselves seemed indifferent to drawing lines between art and science. Their prose was often excellent and readable, so much so as to later seem unscientific. They often wrote on behalf of the artistic attractions of nature. "It is certain that natural history is the mother of all arts," Buffon affirmed. "All ideas of the arts have their models in the productions of nature. God created and man imitates." Although no naturalist had more faith in empirical science than Humboldt, he embraced "the ancient bond which unites natural science and artistic feeling." He also rejoiced in the beauty of nature as perceived through the medium of human subjectivity: "For it is the inward mirror of the sensitive mind which reflects the true and living image of the natural world. All that determines the character of a landscape are in antecedent mysterious communion with the inner feelings and life of man." Humboldt believed that anyone without the ability to see beauty would probably also be unable to see the chain of connections underlying nature.
Such a perspective on the natural world, lasting well into the nineteenth century, would be weakened by many changes, ranging from the professionalization of science and the attendant insistence on a rigid separation of art from science, to the invention of photography, which struck a blow at the human hand as the maker and shaper of images. Still, it held up (however hobbled) and finds advocates from all walks of life in the present day.


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Australia v Wales, Melbourne, June 16
Wales opt to inject experience
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Ryan Jones steps into the Wales back-row to replace the injured Toby Faletau © Getty Images
Wales have bolstered their line-up with a wealth of experience ahead of Saturday's second Test clash with Australia at the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne.
The return of former captain Ryan Jones for injured No.8 Toby Faletau is one of four changes to the side beaten 27-19 in the first Test in Brisbane last weekend.
Elsewhere, Alun Wyn Jones replaces lock Luke Charteris, hooker Matthew Rees comes in for Ken Owens and Ashley Beck will make his first start at centre in place of Scott Williams. Charteris and Williams, who needed stitches to a mouth wound midway through the second half on Saturday, both drop down to the bench.
George North retains his place on the left wing despite concerns about a dead leg injury suffered at the Suncorp Stadium as he is expected to make a recovery in time for the game. Wales have also confirmed Aled Brew will return home, with a hip injury ruling the wing out of contention for the next fortnight.
The tourists warmed up for their re-match with the Wallabies with a 25-15 victory over the Brumbies in Canberra on Tuesday night that caretaker coach Rob Howley hopes will prove to be a springboard to a series-levelling win on Saturday.
"After the first Test Australia are obviously in the ascendancy, but the tour is not over by any means and we have all to play for on Saturday," said Howley. "We are bringing three very experienced players into the pack, all three made an impact from the bench during the first Test which has justified their selection in the starting line-up this weekend.
"We were also impressed with the performances of Ashley Beck, Justin Tipuric, Richard Hibbard and Rhys Webb on Tuesday night and they have each very much played themselves into the squad. Having played two matches now on Australian soil we have acclimatised and are ready for another huge challenge this Saturday in Melbourne."
Wales: Leigh Halfpenny; Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Ashley Beck, George North; Rhys Priestland, Mike Phillips; Gethin Jenkins, Matthew Rees, Adam Jones, Bradley Davies, Alun Wyn Jones, Dan Lydiate, Sam Warburton (capt), Ryan Jones
Replacements: Richard Hibbard, Paul James, Luke Charteris, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb, James Hook, Scott Williams
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Research in Medical Imaging and Image Guided Surgery at Dartmouth
Alexander Hartov, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:30pm
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This seminar will present an overview of work in the field of medical imaging and image guided surgery that is taking place at Dartmouth, including the development of new imaging and instrumentation tools for breast cancer characterization, prostate cancer characterization, and intraoperative use of imaging during neurosurgery for tumor resection. Characterization of tumors with electrical impedance measurements is a primary focus and the development of this tool will allow contact-based delineation of some physical properties of the tissue composition. This work is all carried out collaboratively between the engineering school and Dartmouth Medical School, using personnel and tools drawing from both locations. Dr. Hartov, has worked on projects relating to biomedical engineering since his graduate student days at Thayer School, pursuing this field of interest for nearly 12 years.
About the Speaker
Alex Hartov was born in France, and completed his undergraduate studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College in 1991. After graduation, Alex worked in consulting as well as in several research companies in the Upper Valley. He was hired as an Assistant Professor at Thayer School in 1996, and in 2008 was promoted to full Professor of Engineering. He has published over 170 papers and abstracts, and carries out research in several aspects of biomedical engineering. At Thayer School he has taught courses in Instrumentation and Measurement, Electrical Network Theory and plans to teach Digital Image Processing this winter.


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Stuart is the Director of Internet Operations at WHO-HD. He's worked in this role since 1995 and was a part of WHO-HDs on-line efforts since the beginning of the project. Long time viewers would recognize Stuart from his Today in Iowa Sunday appearances on Computer Corner!
Before taking the reigns of WHOtv.com, Stuart was a news photographer here at WHO. He began with the station in the summer of 1983 and worked as a news photographer until 1995 when he became webmaster.
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Pasadena Fans Can 'Ride, Roll and Stroll' the Route Just before the World's Best Cyclists in the 2014 Amgen Tour of California
Published on May 12, 2014
Kaiser Permanente, 21st Century Fox and the City of Pasadena Invite Cycling Fans and Friends to a Community Ride before the Professionals Come to Town May 17
LOS ANGELES (May 12, 2014) – For the second time in Amgen Tour of California history, bicycling fans and enthusiasts of all ages and levels will have the opportunity to participate in the race experience by riding on the actual race course leading up to the Stage 7 finish of the more than 720-mile, Tour de France-style competition.
On Sat., May 17, the elite professional cyclists in the internationally acclaimed Amgen Tour of California will race from Santa Clarita to Pasadena. That morning from 11 a.m.– 1:30 p.m., the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll in downtown Pasadena will allow cyclists and fans of all abilities to ride, skate or walk the 2.7-mile, closed-circuit course along the famous Colorado Boulevard where the professionals will finish their race day just hours later.
Free to participants of all ages and experience levels, the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll begins and ends at Pasadena City Hall. Along the 2.7-mile course, riders will get to experience the cheers of onlookers as thousands of residents and fans begin to line the streets in anticipation of the best professional riders in the world blazing by to complete Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of California.
After departing from Santa Clarita and crossing over the San Gabriel Mountains, the professional riders will pass through the finish line on the first of three laps in downtown Pasadena around 3 p.m. with an expected finish to the 89-mile stage at 3:30 p.m.
"One the biggest requests our fans make year after year is the opportunity to ride on the Amgen Tour of California course like the pros. This year in Pasadena, they'll get to do just that," said Kristin Bachochin, executive director, Amgen Tour of California and senior vice president, AEG Sports. "If you enjoy riding a bike, you won't want to miss the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll."
Fans interested in taking part in the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll must register prior to the event on the Amgen Tour of California website.
"We are excited to offer this great opportunity to get some exercise on the historic streets of Pasadena with no traffic!," said Andy Gallardo, director of fitness for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. "It's a great opportunity to bring the entire family and be active in a safe environment."
21st Century Fox, sponsor of two-time defending Tour de France champions, Team Sky, is also a proud supporter of this event.
"Team Sky's mission is not only to inspire people to love the sport of cycling, but to get them on their bikes and participating in the sport," said Julie Henderson, EVP and chief communications officer, 21st Century Fox. "We cannot think of a better way to live that mission than to open the Amgen Tour of California stage in Pasadena and give fans the unique experience of riding on the same course that our pros will race through later that day."
Before and following the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll, fans can enjoy the free Amgen Tour of California Lifestyle Festival, the focal gathering point at the end of each stage. From 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. near the finish line on North Marengo Avenue between Union and Ramona Streets will be a giant, festive atmosphere for pre- and post-race entertainment. The festival will feature big-screen race viewing, health awareness education, cycling gear, family activities, food, entertainment and more. For the littlest cycling fans among us, the Pasadena festival is one of four that will feature Strider Toddler Racing, where tots over 18 months have the opportunity to get an early introduction to cycling "competition" on a Strider balance bike. More details will be available at the Strider booth.
On Sunday May 18, the 2014 Amgen Tour of California will conclude in Thousand Oaks, where a winner will be celebrated in a special awards ceremony. There are plenty of ways to take in the pro action, whether in person on the race course May 11 – 18, via dailybroadcasts on NBC Sports Network and NBC Sports (final Sunday), or by downloading the free Tour Tracker app, which features live race updates, rider background and full race results. More information on all of the ways to watch is available at www.amgentourofcalifornia.com.
About the Amgen Tour of California
The Amgen Tour of California is a Tour de France-style cycling road race created and presented by AEG that challenges the world's top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding course that traverses hundreds of miles of California's iconic highways, byways and coastlines each spring. The teams chosen to participate have included Olympic medalists, Tour de France contenders and World Champions. More information is available at www.amgentourofcalifornia.com.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high-unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be the world's largest independent biotechnology company, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
About AEG
AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Anschutz Company, owns or controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES Center, StubHub Center, Sprint Center, The O2, Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE and Best Buy Theater Times Square; sports franchises including the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), two Major League Soccer franchises, two hockey franchises operated in Europe, management of privately held shares of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race; AEG Live, the organization's live-entertainment division, is a collection of companies dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance, touring and a variety of programming and multi-media production. For more information, visit AEG today at www.aegworldwide.com.
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Recently I was installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition onto a virtual machine (VM) I was setting up to carry out some testing when I encountered the following error:
"The unattended answer file contains an invalid product key. Either remove the invalid key or provide a valid product key in the unattended answer file to proceed with the Windows Installation."
The error box is below:
The VM was hosted on VMWare Workstation.
I know I had a valid key, it was a key from my MSDN subscription. After a short trawl on the internet I found a few forum posts with people encountering similar issues.
The one I used can be found below:
From what was said in a few of these threads It seems that when setting up the VM using VMware Workstation but before I began the OS installation I had entered the Windows 2008 R2 product key as part of the VM setup wizard. VMWARE or Windows didn't like this and the forum post suggested I remove the product key.
OK no big deal, So how do I do that?
I looked at the VM settings in VMware Workstation but I could not see where the Product Key was stored and I could see no easy way to remove it. So I had to take some drastic action and delete the VM altogether recreate from scratch without entering the product in the VM setup wizard(see screen shot below).
You are warned that you may get prompted for the product key at a later time. Click <OK> or <Next> complete the wizard and the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation starts successfully.
Deleting the VM and re-creating it was no big deal for me but worth remembering for next time so I don't waste 10 minutes setting the VM before having to drop and re-create without entering the product key, unless somebody out there has a better way of removing the product key?


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There are two ways to introduce evidence given by a witness examined for discovery at trial:
- The party who carried out the examination can use the prior evidence to impeach the witness' evidence at trial where it differs from the evience given at the examination; or
- The party who carried out the examination can "read-in" portions of the transcript produced at the examination and those "read-ins" become part of the evidentiary record at trial.
The recent case of Urbacon Building Groups Corp. v. Guelph (City), 2013 ONSC 5773 (CanLII) – which by the way is producing lots of interesting caselaw re construction liens in Ontario – addressed whether an owner rely upon read-in evidence from transcripts of subcontractors' Examinations for Discovery against the general contractor. The City of Guelph took the position that it could read-in portions of the transcripts of the Examinations for Discovery of Urbacon's (the GC) subcontractors against Urbacon.
Much to my nerdy delight, Justice MacKenzie cited an earlier Ontario Decision and a B.C. Decision and ruled that (I paraphrase) discovery evidence can only be read in against the party who gave it. One can easily imagine the mischief that could result from one party relying on the evidence given by X against Y when Y may not have had a chance to challenge or counter X's evidence and I am glad that the door on this risk has been closed just a little further and, in particular, in the context of a multi-party construction lien action.


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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Found them! If you read the review of the Bush Tetras London show below, you'd have seen that I was on the hunt for the name of the opening band…Well, it turns out they were An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, and not obscure at all as it happens, I'm just behind the times – they seem to be the toast of Shoreditch at the moment, and are all over the recent Artrocker magazine (which, incidently is celebrating the current reign of darkrock & goth-esque music, reminiscent of the early post punk era ,while ferverntly trying not to put a label upon it, or call it "goth" or a movement at all for fear of killing it before it's had a chance…Hm, good luck with that when it's the theme of this month's issue!).
Anyhow, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump appeal to my obsession with the aforementioned era, and are also great to watch live, their performance at the Bush Tetras was totally arresting. The band is made up of 3 women, 2 of whom are sisters from the Philipines, the third being half Nepalese and half South Indian (yay)! Their ep, These Sins, was released on December 8th and is being favourably reviewed as sounding like a cross between the Bad Seeds and the Shangri-las. Check out their blog too: http://anexperimentonabirdintheairpump.blogspot.com/
I guess I'd better become a more frequent visitor to the trendy parts of London to catch them again.
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Many travellers are searching for Activities To Do In Thailand Koh Samui 3 Day, Traveling is full of many opportunities to go on all kinds of adventures where you can experience new people and cultures. One popular country that many people like to flock to is the Southeastern country of Thailand. While there are many spots to go to in this affordable island paradise, but the island of Koh Samui is where many people like to go to because it has so many activities and natural and manmade structures to view. You can find Activities To Do In Thailand Koh Samui 3 Day travel information.
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Activities To Do In Thailand Koh Samui 3 Day, Koh Samui is the second largest island in Thailand. It has many beaches filled with coconut groves and rain forests. In addition there are many spots for relaxation, exciting nightlife and tourist culture, and religious architecture.
Listed below are the most notable 7 things that you ought to do when in Koh Samui.
Wat Phra Yai
This really is found on a rocky island that is in the northern end of Koh Samui. It houses a 15-meter high Buddha Statue of the modern Buddha in Mara posture with the beautiful island sky surrounding him. Before visitors can enter into the area together with the statue, they must don the correct traditional clothing for your area.
Na Muang Waterfalls
While Koh Samui has lots of waterfalls, the Na Muang waterfalls located inland are among the most incredible because great for doing such things as swimming, exploring, climbing, or having a picnic. The lower first waterfall could be reached via the "staircases" created by the tree roots and rocks, and at the base is actually a large natural pool in which the water is cool and refreshing. Another waterfall is all about around 30 minutes away and is called Namtok Na Muang or "purple waterfalls" for the reason that rocks contain shades of purple. Between the two is definitely the Na Muang Safari Park where you could see monkey shows and continue on elephant rides.
Chaweng Beach
There is a lot of exciting activity with this popular spot. You can go swimming or simply relax on its beautiful sandy beaches flanked by clear and cool waters. Another thing that it area is known for is its cabaret shows, or even more specifically its kathoey cabaret demonstrates that feature transgender women or effeminate males who dress and perform in classic cabaret or Thai dancing garb. The shows usually feature the dancers lip syncing to popular music and often performing detailed choreography, making to have an enjoyable experience that is filled with glitz and glam.
Hin Ta and Hin Yai
They are also known as "Grandfather and Grandmother Rocks." These rocks are incredibly named because their natural formations look just like female and male genitalia. The website can definitely give someone with feelings of humor a giggle, along with the local legend that you will listen to locals of how they came about also can result in an intriguing trip.
Samui Aquarium and Tiger Show
It becomes an aquarium where you could see the vast majority of local wildlife of the area. The majority of the marine life is in the Gulf of Thailand like tiger sharks, manta rays, nurse sharks, various tropical fish, and many more. The zoo inside features many animals like monkeys, otters as well as other birds, with all the main attractions being the leopards and tigers who take the stage inside a live show. You can also pay a little bit more to obtain the picture taken together.
Samui Institute of Thai Culinary Arts
For those that tire of heavily physical exercises or people who would like to experience everything that local fare has to offer can attend some classes at this popular cooking school. SITCA offers courses that are a couple of hours long to create a multicourse meal. A number of the items covered in the class include understanding local ingredients and the ways to create intricate floral designs using various carving techniques on local fruit and veggies. Students may also be given a complementary instructional DVD to enable them to practice the strategies at home or anywhere else.
Secret Buddha Garden
In the interior hills in the island, you will find these beautiful religious structures set in a luscious jungle. Originally made by a fruit farmer named Khun Nim on his land, the garden features many large statues of Thai deities, animals, and humans in dynamic poses. The farmer also launched a statue of himself in the relaxed pose over a rock. Your garden is really a serene and quiet place having a waterfall and stream running throughout the jungle areas.
There are several more places to discover in Koh Samui, Thailand than simply those 7 stated earlier. However, they may be great places to start getting an understanding for many you can do and discover while on this beautiful, bustling island. Going to a number of these can even cause other exciting places. Activities To Do In Thailand Koh Samui 3 Day
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Marine ecosystems – especially in nutrient-starved areas of the ocean – are very sensitive to abrupt climate change, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
The research, which involved scientists from the University of Bristol's Earth Science department, Cardiff University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Columbia University, is published today in Nature Communications. The scientists have used evidence from deep-sea fossils to show that there were fundamental changes in the marine ecosystem during rapid climate change events, which ultimately changed how carbon was buried in the ocean.
The team studied algae known as diatoms, and some kinds of protists and sponges, which make their skeletons out of biogenic opal, a glass-like material made out of silicon. Using the chemistry of biogenic opal, the authors show that the physical and chemical structure of the North Atlantic Ocean was very different during Heinrich Stadial One, a rapid climate event approximately 16,000-19,000 years ago. During this event, the concentration of silicon in the ocean changed significantly and allowed for the growth of large diatoms. The expansion of large diatoms allowed more carbon to sink into the abyss and become locked into the sedimentary record.
Dr. Kate Hendry, a Royal Society Research Fellow and member of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol, said: "We know from climate records that there were abrupt changes in climate as the Earth warmed up after the last ice age between fifteen and twenty thousand years ago. These changes in climate had massive influence on the oceans, rapidly changing the physical circulation and essential nutrient supplies, which significantly impacted marine life.
"The implications of this work are that marine ecosystems – especially in nutrient-starved areas of the oceans such as the North Atlantic gyre – are very sensitive to shifts in ocean circulation that are brought about by climate change, and that these ecological changes can have a big impact in carbon burial."
Although evidence exists for increased diatom burial in the North Atlantic during deglaciation, this study provides the first quantitative evidence for changes in silica cycling during this millennial-scale climate change event. This new study also shows that changes in ocean chemistry and restructuring of the marine ecosystem helped to remove carbon from the ocean during a period where global atmospheric carbon dioxide was gradually increasing.
This research was funded by a number of research bodies, including the National Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Royal Society.
Further information: Paper "Silicon isotopes indicate enhanced carbon export efficiency in the North Atlantic during deglaciation" by Katharine Hendry, Laura Robinson, Jerry McManus and James Hays, is available in Nature Communications.
Source: University of Bristol


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