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Alternately titled: GAWD ROLLERGIRAFFE, JUST GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER ALREADY.
My brain is such an asshole sometimes. I went to the cultural capital of the entire universe (New York City), narrowly escaped the storm of a lifetime, a major election happened, we moved our bees, and I had a traveling salesman come to my door selling art in a goddamned snowstorm. But may brain is all "we got nothing." "No blogs up here, my friend." Brain: you are a dick.
I made a muppet y'all. And it looked like it was being asphyxiated in my hotel room for 5 days, and my brain STILL DIDN'T WANT TO BLOG ABOUT IT.
Good question. I don't know really. When I posted about my rut a while ago, and all went fucksticks crazy on my blog for a few weeks, it felt like I was on a roll. But that's not necessarily reality for someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, and is the mayor of peanut butter. The reality is that I spend my days stealing the kids' Halloween candy and being sad, or at least vaguely dissatisfied. I have some reasons for this, but not nearly enough to justify the depth of it.
Cathy at Large Self posted this quote a few weeks ago that struck a nerve with me.
"If we can get to the place where we show up as our genuine selves and let each other see who we really are, the awe-inspiring ripple effect will change the world."— Terrie M. Williams
This has been rolling around in my head for weeks. It was just one of those timely quotes that has embedded itself in my head and I can't let it go. I haven't really been my genuine self. Not that I haven't been genuine with you all, just that I haven't been the person that I really want to be. Or taken the time to really figure that out. And all that I really want out of life is to rock the shit out of it. I want to find a way to make those ripples, I just don't really know how right now.
So here is my genuine self, right now:
But these are also things that I am confident can be fixed. In a strange way, I feel like I am moving toward some unidentified future that will fulfill me. Or maybe it's just
delusion blind hope. Hell, maybe I am just drunk (thank you, Joyce Winery, your San Benito Pedregal something something is totally whateversszzzzsfzsdsdddfffffffffffffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz).
So in the spirit of me wanting to look forward and move toward something better, look for posts in the weeks ahead about people and things that inspire me. The world is good out there, I just need to find my way into it again.
And because I don't like being serious: FUCKBALLS.


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Publications 2007
Affeld, S., H. Waegele, C. Avila, S. Kehraus and G.M. Koenig (2007). Distribution of homarine in some Opisthobranchia (Gastropoda, Mollusca). Bonner zoologische Beitraege, 55: 181-190.
Allen, J. and R. Podolsky (2007). Uncommon diversity in developmental mode and larval form in the genus Macrophiothrix (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Marine Biology, 151: 85-97.
Almany, G.R., LF. Peacock, C. Syms, M.I. McCormick and G.P. Jones (2007). Predators target rare prey in coral reef fish assemblages. Oecologia, 152: 751-761.
Anthes, N. and N.K. Michiels (2007). Reproductive morphology, mating behaviour, and spawning ecology of cephalaspid sea slugs (Aglajdae and Gastropteridae). Invertebrate Biology, 126: 335-365.
Anthes, N. and N.K. Michiels (2007). Precopulatory stabbing, hypodermic injections and unilateral copulations in a hermaphroditic sea slug. Biology Letters, 3: 121-124.
Arvedlund, M. P.L. Munday and A. Takemura (2007). The morphology and ultrastructure of the peripheral olfactory organ in newly metamorphosed coral-dwelling gobies, Paragobiodon xanthosomus Bleeker (Gobiidae, Teleostei). Tissue and Cell, 39: 335-342.
Atkins, B. (2007). Larval fish in the fast lane. Explore, 4: 22-23.
Baldwin, C.C. and J.M. Leis (2007). Rainfordia opercularis, a liopropomin serranid (Teleostei: Serranidae: Epinephelinae): corroborative evidence from settlement-stage larvae. Ichthyological Research, 54: 193-197.
Boyett, H.V., D.G. Bourne and B.L. Willis (2007). Elevated temperature and light enhance progression and spread of black band disease on staghorn corals of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology, 151: 1711-1720.
Bray, R.A. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Monostephanostomum nolani sp. n. and M. krusei Reimer, 1983 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from carangid fishes from coral reef waters off Australia. Folia Parasitologica, 54: 19-26.
Bray, R.A. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Holorchis gigas n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from the yellow-striped sweet-lips Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, with observations on Aephnidiogenes major. Zootaxa, 1517: 63-68.
Bray, R.A., T.H. Cribb, A. Waeschenbach and D.T.J. Littlewood (2007). A new species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea, Acanthocolpidae) with a bizarre oral sucker: S. adlardi sp. nov. from the common coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepede, 1802) (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Acta Parasitologica, 52: 206-212.
Burger, M.A.A., T.H. Cribb and R.D. Adlard (2007). Patterns of relatedness in the Kudoidae with descriptions of Kudoa chaetodoni n. sp. and K. lethrini n. sp. (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida). Parasitology, 134: 669-681.
Campbell, S.J., L.J. McKenzie, S.P. Kerville and J.S. Bite (2007). Patterns in tropical seagrass photosynthesis in relation to light, depth and habitat. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 73: 551-562.
Cheney, K.L. and I.M. Cote (2007). Aggressive mimics profit from a model-signal receiver mutualism.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274: 2087-2091.
Costa, F.O., J.R. deWaard, J. Boutillier, S. Ratnasingham, R.T. Dooh, M. Hajibabaei and P.D. Hebert
(2007). Biological identifications through DNA barcodes: the case of the Crustacea. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64: 272 - 295.
Craig, M.T., J.A. Eble, B.W. Bower and D.R. Robertson (2007). High genetic connectivity across the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the reef fish Myripristis berndti (Holocentridae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 334: 245-254.
Depczynski, M., C.J. Fulton, M.J. Marnane and D.R. Bellwood (2007). Life history patterns shape energy allocation among fishes on coral reefs. Oecologia, 153: 111-120.
Evertsen, J., I. Burghardt, G. Johnsen and H. Waegele (2007). Retention of functional chloroplasts in some saccoglossans from the Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean. Marine Biology, 151: 2159-2166.
Feary, D.A. (2007). The influence of coral degradation on tropical fish community structure. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Feary, D.A., G.R. Almany, G.P. Jones and M.I. McCormick (2007). Coral degradation and the structure of tropical reef fish communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 333: 243-248.
Feary, D.A., G.R. Almany, M.I. McCormick, and G.P. Jones (2007). Habitat choice, recruitment and the response of coral reef fishes to coral degradation. Oecologia, 153: 727-737.
Fulton, C.J. (2007). Swimming speed performance in coral reef fishes: field validations reveal distinct functional groups. Coral Reefs, 26: 217-228.
Gagliano, M. and M.I. McCormick (2007). Compensating in the wild: is flexible growth the key to early juvenile survival? Oikos, 116: 111-120.
Gagliano, M. and M.I. McCormick (2007). Maternal condition influences phenotypic selection on offspring. Journal of Animal Ecology, 76: 174-182.
Gagliano, M., M.I. McCormick and M.G. Meekan (2007). Survival against the odds: ontogenetic changes in selective pressure mediate growth-mortality trade-offs in a marine fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274: 1575-1582.
Gagliano, M., M.I. McCormick and M.G. Meekan (2007). Temperature-induced shifts in selective pressure at a critical developmental transition. Oecologia, 152: 219-225.
Gottschalk, S., S. Uthicke and K. Heimann (2007). Benthic diatom community composition in three regions of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 26: 345-357.
Grzymbowski, Y., K. Stemmer and H. Waegele (2007). On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology. Zootaxa, 1577: 3-16.
Guenther, J. (2007). Natural antifouling defences of tropical sea stars. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Guenther, J., G. Walker-Smith, A. Waren and R. de Nys (2007). Fouling-resistant surfaces of tropical sea stars. Biofouling, 23: 413-418.
Haendeler, K. and H. Waegele (2007). Preliminary study on molecular phylogeny of Saccoglossa and a compilation of their food organisms. Bonner zoologische Beitraege, 55: 231-254.
Hamdani, E.H. and K.B. Doving (2007). The functional organization of the the fish olfactory system.
Progress in Neurobiology, 82: 80-86.
Huffard, C.L. (2007). Ethogram of Abdopus aculeatus (d'Orbigny, 1834) (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae): can behavioural characters inform octopodid taxonomy and systematics? Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73:185-193.
Jackson, D.J., L. Macis, J. Reitner, B.M. Degnan and G. Woerheide (2007). Sponge paleogenomics reveals an ancient role for carbonic anhydrase in skeletognensis. Science, 316: 1893-1895.
Jawad, L.A. (2007). Comparative morphology of the otolith of the triplefins (Family Tripterygiidae). Journal of Natural History, 41: 901-924.
Johansen, J.L. (2007). Flow refuging by coral reef fishes in wave-swept habitats. MSc thesis, James Cook University.
Johansen, J.L., C.J. Fulton and D.R. Bellwood (2007). Estimating the sustained swimming ability of coral reef fishes. Marine and Freshwater Research, 58: 233-239.
Johansen, J.L., C.J. Fulton and D.R. Bellwood (2007). Avoiding the flow: refuges expand the swimming potential of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs, 26: 577-583.
Jones, C.M. and A.S. Grutter (2007). Variation in emergence of parasitic and predatory isopods among habitats at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology, 150: 919-927.
Jones, C.M., L. Nagel, G.L. Hughes, T.H. Cribb and A.S. Grutter (2007). Host specificity of two species of Gnathia (Isopoda) determined by DNA sequencing blood meals. International Journal for Parasitology, 37: 927-935.
Kassahn, K.S., M.J. Caley, A.C. Ward, A.R. Connolly, G. Stone and R.H. Crozier (2007). Heterologous microarray experiments used to identify the early gene response to heat stress in a coral reef fish. Molecular Ecology, 16: 1749-1763.
Klanten, O.S., J.H. Choat and L. van Herwerden (2007). Extreme genetic diversity and temporal rather than spatial partitioning in a widely distributed coral reef fish. Marine Biology, 150: 659-670.
Leis, J.M (2007). Behaviour as input for modelling dispersal of fish larvae: behaviour, biogeography, hydrodynamics, ontogeny, physiology and phylogeny meet hydrography. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 347:185-193.
Leis, J.M., K.J. Wright and R.N. Johnson (2007). Behaviour that influences dispersal and connectivity in the small, young larvae of a reef fish. Marine Biology, 153: 103-117.
Maddams, J. (2007). Influence of parental effects on production and larval quality of a serial spawning reef fish. Honours thesis, James Cook University.
McCormick, M.I. and M.G. Meekan (2007). Social facilitation of selective mortality. Ecology, 88: 1562-1570.
Miller, T.L. and T.H Cribb (2007). Phylogenetic relationships of some common Indo-Pacific snappers (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on the taxonomic position of the Caesioninae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 44: 450-460.
Miller, T.L. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Two new cryptogonimid genera Beluesca n. gen. and Chelediadema n. gen. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from tropical Indo-West Pacific Haemulidae (Perciformes). Zootaxa, 1543: 45-60.
Miller, T.L. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Two new cryptogonimid genera (Digenea, Cryptogonimidae) from Lutjanus bohar (Perciformes, Lutjanidae): analyses of ribosomal DNA reveals wide geographic distribution and presence of cryptic species. Acta Parasitilogica, 52: 104-113.
Miller, T. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Coevolution of Retrovarium n. gen. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in Lutjanidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes) in the Indo-west Pacific. International Journal for Parasitology, 37: 1023-1045.
Miller, T.L. (2007). The Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea), with emphasis on taxa infecting Indo-west Pacific Lutjanidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes). PhD thesis, University of Queensland.
Munoz Cerda, G.I. (2007). Patterns in the infracommunity and component community structures of parasites in Wrasses (Labridae): the importance and some biological characteristics of hosts and parasites. PhD thesis, University of Queensland.
Munoz, G., A.S. Grutter and T.H. Cribb (2007). Structure of the parasite communities of a coral reef fish assemblage (Labridae): testing ecological and phylogenetic host factors. Journal of Parasitology, 93: 17-30.
Murphy, B.F., J.M. Leis and K.D. Kavanagh (2007). Larval development of the ambon damselfish Pomacentrus amboinensis, with a summary of pomacentrid development. Journal of Fish Biology, 71: 569-584.
Murray, A. and G.W. Rouse (2007). Two new species of Terebrasabella (Annelida: Sabellidae: Sabellinae) from Australia. Zootaxa, 1434: 51-68.
Nagel, L. and A.S. Grutter (2007). Host preference and specialisation in Gnathia sp., a common parasitid isopod of coral reef fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 70: 497-508.
Nilsson, G.E., J.-P.A. Hobbs and S. Ostlund-Nilsson (2007). Tribute to P. L. Lutz: respiratory ecophysiology of coral-reef teleosts. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 210: 1673-1686.
Nilsson, G.E., J.-P.A. Hobbs, S. Ostlund-Nilsson and P.L. Munday (2007). Hypoxia tolerance and air-breathing ability correlate with habitat preference in coral-dwelling fishes. Coral Reefs, 26: 241 - 248.
Nilsson, G.E., S. Ostlund-Nilsson, R. Penfold and A.S. Grutter (2007). From record performance to hypoxia tolerance: respiratory transition in damselfish larvae settling on a coral reef. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274: 79-85.
Pears, R.J., J.H. Choat, B.D. Mapstone and G.A. Begg (2007). Reproductive biology of a large, aggregation-spawning serranid, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskal): management implications. Journal of Fish Biology, 71: 795-817.
Pearse, V.B. and O. Voigt (2007). Field biology of placozoans (Trichoplax): distribution, diversity, biotic interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47: 677-692.
Pratchett, M.S. (2007). Dietary selection by coral-feeding butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 14: 171-176.
Pratchett, M.S. (2007). Feeding preferences of Acanthaster planci (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) under controlled conditions of food availabliliy. Pacific Science, 61: 113-120.
Roberts-Thompson, A. and N.J. Bott (2007). Exploiting mimicry: Prosorhynchoides thomasi n. sp. (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from the fang blenny genus Plagiotremus (Bleeker) (Blenniidae) from off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 1514: 61-64.
Rees, S.A., B.N. Opdyke, P.A. Wilson and T.J. Henstock (2007). Significance of Halimeda bioherms to the global carbonate budget based on a geological sediment budget for the northern Great Barrier reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 26: 177-188.
Ryen, C.A., 2007. Sex-specific growth dynamics in protogynous hermaphrodites. MSc thesis, James Cook University.
Siebeck, U.E. and N.J. Marshall (2007). Potential ultraviolet vision in pre-settlement larvae and settled reef fish - a comparison across 23 families. Vision Research, 47: 2337-2352.
Thompson, V.J., P.L. Munday and G.P. Jones, (2007). Habitat patch size and mating system as determinants of social group size in coral-dwelling fishes. Coral Reefs, 26: 165-174.
Walker, S.P.W. and C. Ryen (2007). Opportunistic hybridization between two congeneric tropical reef fish. Coral Reefs, 26: 539.
Walker, S.P.W., C.A. Ryen and M.I. McCormick (2007). Rapid larval growth predisposes sex change and sexual size dimorphism in a protogynous hermaphrodite, Parapercis snyderi Jordan & Starks, 1905. Journal of Fish Biology, 71: 1347-1357.
Wong, M.Y.L. (2007). The evolution of animal societies: monogamy, group-living and conflict in a coral-dwelling fish. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Wong, M.Y.L., P.M. Buston, P.L. Munday and G.P. Jones (2007). The threat of punishment enforces peaceful cooperation and stabilizes queues in a coral-reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274: 1093-1099.

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The names of the new polishes are cute – named after – shall we call them qualities?! My three shades – Honourable, Virtuous and Chic.
First off let's talk about the packaging – I like! Far more chic then how it was before.
Honourable is a grey:
The new Maxi Brush is interesting too – it's very wide which I personally like because it gets the nails done quicker, but I am sure it takes a bit of getting used to from ladies who are used to the standard brushes.
The formula at first I found a little thick…
Although once I got the hang of it I got a really even finish and it didn't take too long to finish either.
I like the glossy finish of the polish too – prefer it to matte anyway!
Virtuous – this shade is a pale yellow, and it RULES, it looks amazing with the Barry M Effects thingy on top:
Finally Chic is a brown, a very rich chocolate pudding brown (but isn't too stodgy either):
2 Coats on each nail.
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Another Christmas without a universal 4G service will cost the UK economy £120 million in lost sales, according to a study.
Slow connection speeds are set to pose a barrier for many consumers wanting to shop via their mobile phones, and a nationwide roll-out of 4G would have boosted sales from £373 million to £493 million, the report by online auction site eBay claims.
More than half of consumers (55%) plan to use their mobile to browse the web this Christmas, while 39% say they will use their device to get gift ideas and check prices.
And eBay.co.uk said it expected to see around a third of items in its Christmas campaign bought through a smartphone.
It said the top three barriers preventing consumers from shopping on their mobiles were slow connection speeds, payments timing out and network reliability - all problems effectively eliminated by 4G.
EE, formerly known as Everything Everywhere, has started to launch its range of 4G products and services in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Southampton and Manchester.
The network, which offers speeds up to five times faster than 3G, will be available on the Apple iPhone 5 as well as devices from HTC, Samsung, Nokia and Huawei.
Clare Gilmartin, vice president of eBay Marketplaces Europe, said: "Mobile devices have become virtual stores in our pockets, giving us the ability to shop anytime, anywhere. But for consumers, it's critical that the experience is quick, seamless and simple. Slow browsing speeds and breaking connections are now significant barriers to mobile commerce - and this comes at a high price.
"While we welcomed the move by Ofcom to bring the 4G spectrum auction forward to early 2013 there's no doubt, as this research shows, that for the UK economy the cost of another Christmas without universal 4G is huge.
"Consumers are increasingly demanding a better experience, regardless of their network. We hope that the Government will work quickly come the New Year to ensure its promise to deliver 4G for all by the end of 2013 is realised."


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I am currently working in a 3 month trial position in Internal Medicine. It's an emergency room-like setting where I evaluate patients, treat them and either admit them to the hospital or send them home.
Many patients ask me if I am from the Faroe Islands. This is a big compliment, because people from The Faroe Islands grow up learning Danish. I guess compared to most foreigners, I don't have much of an accent. That's probably becasue I learned Danish by hearing it and not by reading it. In fact, most of my knowledge of the language comes from Danish pop music. For example, I am very good at saying "How did you get that ass in those pants?" but the occasions I can say that to patients are quite rare.
So the slight accent and the fact that I look like a Dane, makes my language mistakes even more disturbing to patients:
First, I have difficulty with my placement of "not" in sentences. "Your dad does need to take that medication not."
And then there is a problem with pronouns. "Let me ask the nurse if her can help you to the toilet."
These two mistakes are always met with the same confused/disturbed look and Hvad siger du? (what say you?)
Finally, I have a problem with occupations. I have to ask everyone what they do and it is so rare that I understand. I have only been in Denmark 7 months, so job titles are not something I have necessarily learned. It is quite disconcerting to a patient when he says "I work in a printing press" and his doctor (me) says, without much of an accent "What is a printing press?" So he thinks to himself, you're supposed to figure out what is wrong with me?
And sometimes it's less of a joke. It is always hard to find the words to explain that a young woman's cancer has metastasized to her brain. Or to explain to parents that their child has tried to kill himself.
I recently had yet another patient with an intentional drug overdose and I was trying to explain to his mom the treatment we were giving and what we were and weren't worried about. It was 5 am and I had been up all night and this was the 14th patient I was admitting. The nurses and I had given him a treatment that would most likely save his liver and perhaps his life. But the mother was upset he had me as a doctor because I had trouble explaining the situation and thus, she concluded, I didn't know what I was doing. As I left the patient's room and went into the physician room, I could feel the tears in my eyes. "What the hell am I doing here?" And I found myself asking "Is me okay?" Yes, even my English is confused. Because if me is not okay, how can I help the patients?
Sometimes I come through a shift feeling as if I have been through a war. But there was no war. And it's not a 3rd world country. I get no praise; instead, I get attendings asking why I can't remember the BMI on that diabetic patient.
But I couldn't say life is not good. There is, after all, quite a bit of time off here. And today, such a gorgeous day, I went on a run down towards the coast and ran into this:
It is called Gavnø Slot (Gavnø Castle) and is not too far from our home in Næstved.
And then I went and picked up this guy:
Running Song of The Day: Easily Bruised by Matthew Barber


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Following strong demand from the automotive sector, SMC Pneumatics, which operates in 32 European countries, has delivered a net income of 63.25 million € and net sales to 512.8 million €, across its European business.
Tokyo, Japan, June 23, 2015: SMC, the worldwide leading expert in pneumatics, announced globally, a 21% increase in net income to 920.65 million € and a 16% increase in net sales to 3,302.9 million €.
The company's main priority is to satisfy its customers' global needs. This is demonstrated by an increased focus on developing high quality products at competitive prices. Over the last 12 months, SMC has also increased domestic and foreign investment in production equipment, Research and Development (R&D) and its sales force.
In FY14, R&D investment was up 13% at 126.9 million €, with a further 5% increase planned in the new financial year.
SMC is also committed to delivering outstanding customer service and has recruited an additional 1,300 employees in the last 12 months alone. In FY15, the company, which currently employs 17,000 people worldwide, plans to continue this trend with a particular focus on recruiting more sales engineers.
Looking forward, as one of the world's leading suppliers of pneumatics, SMC plans to concentrate on global production with a 27% increase in investment in production equipment to 206.2 million €. The company will also improve its infrastructure to drive global cooperation.
To cater for increasing demand from its customers, SMC is providing additional resources in equipment, infrastructure, research and human resources which are vital for its continued growth. This will include strengthening production capabilities, with additional investment planned for its European manufacturing facilities in the next 12 months.
European Financials
• Net Sales 71,119 million Yen – 512.8 million €
• Net Income 8,773 million Yen – 63.25 million €
Global Financials
• Net sales 458,081 million Yen – 3,302.9 million €
• Net income 127,686 million Yen – 920.65 million €
Foreign currency exchange rate applied: 1 Euro – ¥ 138.69 (average rate FY 14 – As per in Consolidated Financial figures published by the Corporation, May 15, 2015.
Content summarised from SMC CORPORATION home page.
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Lovely and Livable Connecticut Home
Louise Brooks' New Canaan home grows with her family
They're like old friends. Louise and Ned Brooks and their circa-1932 brick Colonial in New Canaan have spent 18 happy years together, growing and changing and reacting to each other in what has proven to be a beautiful friendship. When they purchased their home in 1985, the young couple had a 1-year-old, and Louise was a nascent architect, fitting in work when she could. (Ned works in finance.) "I was 90 percent mom, 10 percent work," says Louise. That didn't stop her, however, from attending to her own home. The house, she recalls, was very charming but very tired. With just a few updating touches—like adding a mantel over the living room fireplace—she made the house "lovely and livable." Likewise, she terraced the backyard and breathed new life into the gardens. During this busy time, Louise and Ned had two more children.
By 1990, Louise had started to expand her architecture practice with the conversion of a screened porch on the back of the house into a glassed-in office. And when their children—Bickford, now 27; Maddie, 25; and Avery, 23—went to boarding school, Louise turned her attention to several projects she had been putting off, including the kitchen. "I had designed a new kitchen three different times over the years, but I just never could find the time to actually do it," she says. Probably just as well, because the plan she ultimately used is quite different from the one she would have built when her children were toddlers. Now that her children are older, she says, "I no longer need the other things that are essential for a young growing family, like a family room off the kitchen."
Louise appropriated and extended the existing garage to encompass her new kitchen and butler's pantry. The old kitchen was incorporated into the dining room. The 500-square-foot kitchen includes an intimate dining spot and a cozy seating area with fireplace. A wall of French doors opens up to a new covered porch made possible by extending the old garage. It's a favorite spot for Louise and Ned to dine and to entertain friends. Upstairs, above the kitchen and porch, Louise designed a new master suite with a balcony overlooking the terraced backyard.
"We have created our own little nest," says Louise. "Everything Ned and I need is at the new end of the house: the cozy fire at night, our bedroom area above the kitchen."
By extending the house to the rear and attaching the new garage with a porte-cochère, Louise was able to maintain the original symmetry of the structure. The only other change she made to the front exterior was to give it a bit of a facelift with a new portico over the entry and a charming new door designed with nine panes of glass and a double S-curved top. The graceful columns holding up the portico are a repeat of the columns used to support the roof of the covered porch in the rear. One amusing addition to the exterior is a birdhouse that was custom built directly into the peak of the new garage following the line of the roof. It is supported by an antique corbel—one of many that Louise has collected and incorporated into the house.
As for that screened porch that became a glassed-in office, it has been converted again—to a terrific family/television room. And because it is at the opposite end of the house from the kitchen and bedrooms, it is a perfect spot for the Brookses to have privacy and entertain friends. This third life proves not only the flexibility of the space and Louise's thinking, but it also demonstrates the house's continuing generosity in fulfilling the needs of the Brooks family.
Photography: Jeff McNamara
Produced by Bonnie Maharam
Mantel Details
The bright and sunny seating area off the kitchen, shown on the previous slide, boasts a Rumford fireplace designed with a herringbone brick pattern. The new mantel is detailed with fluted columns and dentil molding. The surround is Delft tile.
Living Room
With the exception of the mantel, the living room is little changed since Louise and Ned bought the house 26 years ago. Louise describes the room as having "old comfort." The fireplace's Delft tiles were carried back from Europe after World War I by the home's original owner.
Living Room
With just a few changes to the home's interior, Louise has made it "lovely and livable."
Family/TV Room
The family/TV room, which was originally a screened porch, became a home office when Louise went back to work full-time. Then, when she moved her office, it became a place where her teenagers could relax and enjoy privacy while entertaining their friends.
The new kitchen is a bright, breezy mix of Delft tile, gray-veined white marble, and creamy white cabinets.
Kitchen Pantry
When she designed the new kitchen, Louise also added a pantry. Fashioned for utility, it still offers plenty of charm with its glass-front cabinets, honed marble counters, and a dish rack to display Louise's delft china.
The kitchen's dining area opens to the new covered porch.
The new covered porch is a favorite spot for dining and entertaining.
Master Suite
The Brookses built their new master bedroom suite over the kitchen but extended it farther into the backyard to create a covered porch below it. Now French doors lead out to a balcony overlooking the terraced garden Louise designed.
Master Suite
Another view of the master suite shows the ceiling detail.
Clustered columns frame the covered porch and support the deck off the master bedroom.
Louise designed a whimsical built-in birdhouse in the eave over the garage.
Click here to see another of Louise Brooks's successful kitchen remodels in our presentation of "Finding Space."


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peteoc needed a new coded website design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We require a digital based design, but also to incorporate a war based theme to it.
We require the result to be submitted in .PSD format, or vector based graphics.
Dysis Wars
Desired Style:
Digital yet war based.
Accepted File Formats:
.psd or vector based graphics
As described in the summary we require a digital war based site. This will be for an online game under the name of "Dysis Wars".
We would like a login page like the following
Also we would like to have images created for buildings, vehicles, people within the game. These can be like the robots on the above sites screenshots. A front facing 2d image would be fine. This is the same for the buildings and vehicles.
Only a sample of the buildings, people and vehicles can be shown which would lead onto a bonus of $50 for the additional images to be created. The images for the units etc do not need to be of great detail, just to simply show what they are.


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"Cultivating the Homestead Community"
Ok… fine. I admit it: "Taking is easy" isn't my strongest trait… And unfortunately, it's not my husband's either, so we make quite the pair! Last week, we decided to take a rare "day-off" mid-week to head to town to run some errands, but somehow we found ourselves mysteriously building a fire ring in the front yard after we got home a few hours later. I have a batch of homemade marshmallows made up (recipe coming to the blog next week!), so let the campfires begin!
This hop is hosted by The Prairie Homestead, New Life on a Homestead, Weed Em and Reap, and The Elliott Homestead.
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Polka Dot Wedding Inspiration: Fun and Fabulous!
I told you polka dots could be fun! Have I convinced ya? I hope you enjoyed this pretty round up! If you follow me on Pinterest then you know that I'm totally a polka dot girl. Because what's not to love? I can't get enough of these polka dot bridesmaid dresses. Oh, and spots on stationery? Mark me down for a YES! Dots on desserts? The more the merrier, I say! Such a fun and unique way to add visual interest if you ask me!
So what do you think? Are you liking the way these ideas pop? Also, I have to point out that I'm a huge Kate Spade fan and so this pattern totally reminds me of her designs. And so that's just another one of my reasons for being totally obsessed with this look. I guess it's true that what's hot in fashion does seem to influence wedding trends! Or is it vice versa? In any case, I don't think it's any secret that I'm smitten with spots!


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- Year: 2018
- Material: Forex print with acrylic overlay, stoneware ornaments
- size: 140 x 100 cm (print)
How Art Works
The art world, with its vast array of possibilities, can feel overwhelming in the beginning. You can fill libraries with books written about what art is, how the art world works and where to buy 'good' art. But we believe that the beginning is pretty simple: Art is fun, let's show it off. And if you love it, why not buy it?
We've come up with a few simple steps, that will clarify some of the basics to help you on your way.
Art is not democratic, some is just better than others. But apart from that, we think that all that matters is that you like the work. If a painting makes you feel all kinds of
warm-and-fuzzies, that is a good painting to you whether or not the books agree. At Show Off you will find artists that probably haven't made it into the books yet, we want to introduce you to new artists that excite us. We do handle the criteria that they must all have won a prize of some sort. By this method we can insure you that we offer a certain level of quality. That way, you don't have to worry about securing quality and you can focus on finding something that you love in our selection.
How art is priced can also seem like a mystery at first. We like to keep this transparent, so here is how it works: All the artists work with a 'factor'. The price is based on the size of the work (height + width) multiplied by the factor. For example, if a painting is 50cm by 100cm and the factor of this artist is 10, that makes the price of the work (50 + 100) x 10 = €1.500,-
When the artist takes a step forward in their career, the factor grows a step as well. Such a step can be that they won a prestigious price, that they were bought by an important collection or that they had a successful exhibition that gained them attention. That is why the price of a work can go up all of a sudden. It's really fun to keep an eye on the prices and estimate the factor now you know the system, it will tell you something about the career of the artist. To give you more insight in this system, we mention the factor used for each of the artists in our exhibitions and on our website. Transparent prices will help you concentrate on the fun!
What part of the price goes to the artist? In general, we will split the total amount 50/50. This seems much, but keep in mind that the gallery will pay for all the costs. So material, exhibition space, communications, staffing, gallery-fees and everything else will all be paid out of our share. The other half is fully for the artist. We want to help them grow, so part of that is to pay them fairly for their works.
If you decide to buy a work online or in our gallery you can expect a pretty simple process. Usually the work will be part of the exhibition, so it is custom to keep the work there until the show is over. We will list the work as sold and ask you for your address and billing info. We will use this to make an invoice for the work. After the show is finished, we will make sure that the art is packaged neatly and ready for transport. After you've paid the invoice, we will make an appointment to deliver it.
We can bring the artwork to your home, office or cabin in the woods. Wherever you want to keep it. Depending on the distance from the gallery, we can offer you transport. Because we are a starting gallery and work with new artists, we don't have the means to offer this for destinations outside of the Rotterdam-area.
You will have to provide the materials to install the work yourself (mainly, because every wall is different), unless it is a very exceptional object that needs unusual contraptions to keep it in place. In that case we will provide you the needed materials. And of course, we are always happy to help you install it.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The troubled U.S. Postal Service has reached its own debt ceiling and will go out of business this year unless Congress rescues it, the inspector general said.
"The choices are that it would cease to exist or it would need a bailout," David Williams, the chief postal watchdog, told Britain's The Guardian newspaper.
The service -- one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution -- has reached its $15 billion credit limit with the U.S. Treasury and has effectively run out of money, said Williams, whose job is to prevent fraud, waste and program abuse and promote USPS efficiency.
"This is the year that they borrowed so much that they can't borrow anymore," he told the newspaper.
The post office bailout would not require taxpayer dollars, Williams said, but rather congressional intervention to reduce USPS pension payments, which are about $5.5 billion a year.
The post office has paid some $330 billion for benefits, but the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which manages civil service in the federal government, recently told Williams the USPS would need an additional $64 billion to satisfy legal requirements.
U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Ruth Goldway told The Guardian the pension payments, which the postal service had to go into debt to pay, are largely responsible for the service's dire financial condition.
"They wouldn't be in the situation they're in without having borrowed all this money," she said.
She noted with irony USPS pension payments go to the Treasury, which has been lending the service money to make the payments -- so for the past five years the USPS has been borrowing from the Treasury to pay the Treasury.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has suggested USPS employees be required to pay into their health and life insurance benefits, like other federal workers.
The USPS lost about $16 billion last year and about $41 billion in the past five years, the Postal Regulatory Commission says.
The price of a first-class stamp goes up a penny to 46 cents Jan. 27.


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Barnes Collection - PBS Arts
Barnes Collection - PBS Arts Previous Broadcasts
KQED Plus: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 -- 11:00 PM
This program uses the relocation and renaissance of the Barnes Foundation as a vehicle for telling the story of the quirky, quarrelsome, question mark of a man, Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his astounding art collection. For the first time, public viewers will get an exclusive look at Dr. Barnes' collection - thousands of magnificent works of art by some of the most famous names in art history such as Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir and Matisse - and the new museum that now houses it.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Plus: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 -- 5:00 AM


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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 108th Congress
Description: This report discusses one major element of the energy debate in the 108th Congress, which has been whether to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeastern Alaska, and if so, under what conditions, or whether to continue to prohibit development to protect the area's biological resources. The Refuge is an area rich in fauna, flora, and commercial oil potential. Current law forbids energy leasing in the Refuge.
Date: November 1, 2004
Creator: Corn, M. L.; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
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Aggressive as kudzu and nasty as stinkbugs
You know kudzu, that invasive vine driven by heat and humidity to devour whole communities. Now meet the kudzu bug.
The small, flying bugs are as wide as long, resembling yellowish brown or olive-green ladybugs with many small, darker brown spots and ruby-red eyes.
Vine and bug grew up together in Asia. This summer the creatures, aka brown ladybugs — are on the rise in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince Georges and St. Mary's counties.
Costly little critters good at eating and mating, they tend to swarm in mass numbers. Just like their namesake vine, they can create colossal problems.
At one test site at Clemson University, kudzu bugs destroyed 77 percent of the soybean crops. No GMOs for these gourmets. They like organic soybeans best.
Kudzu bugs suck out plant juices from leaves and stems. They reduce soybean yields by reducing pods per plant, beans per pod and seed size.
Kudzu bugs may also infest other leguminous crops, such as alfalfa and other beans. But so far in Maryland, they're sticking to kudzu.
"We want farmers to be aware that the kudzu bug is here and that it is another insect they may have to manage as the season progresses and in the years ahead," says Deputy Agriculture Secretary Mary Ellen Setting.
Learn how to control kudzu bugs on the farm at www.kudzubug.org/grower.html.
Like brown marmorated stinkbugs, the kudzu bug stinks when crushed. They can also cause skin irritation and stain surfaces. Kudzu bugs invade homes in fall and make a second nuisance in spring, on leaving. Find evasion tips at www.kudzubug.org/homeowner.html.


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Each of the 6 units of PROLOG addresses a major area in obstetrics and gynecology and consists of two parts—an assessment book and a critique book. Put your knowledge to the test and earn 25 CME credits for this volume!
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Surprise! cheap disks cure slow backup
Why new ATA/IDE arrays, which are cheaper than tape libraries, might be a better bet for backup.
- W. Curtis Preston, Druva
Just when you thought you knew how to design a backup system - everything changes. A new category of disk array products promises to revolutionize how backups are performed. However, before describing how they work, and what they cost, it's appropriate to explain the problems that they're trying to solve. And it's important to review why backups are performed, and why they are usually sent to tape.
Everyone knows that the only reason we perform backups is to be able to perform recoveries. Recoveries are done for three reasons:
To restore damaged files, file systems or individual systems to their point of failure. Most real-life recoveries aren't done because a data center has been destroyed, or because someone needs a file that was deleted over a year ago. Most recoveries are performed because someone inadvertently deleted an important file, a RAID array was damaged or a database administrator accidentally dropped the wrong table.
To restore a damaged data center to its last available off-site backup. Although recent events have increased the number of people that have actually performed a disaster recovery, most people only worry about having to perform such a recovery. Obviously, the only viable option to recover from a disaster is to store a copy of all backups off-site.
To restore a file, file system or system to an earlier point in time. Sometimes data is corrupted or damaged, and a significant amount of time passes before anyone notices that the data is no longer available. Other times, the answer to an important question lies only in a file or database, as it existed 18 months ago. The biggest difficulty with archival restores is storing that much information for that length of time.
For a long time, tape drives and tape libraries have been the only acceptable method to accomplish all three purposes of backup. Optical media's (e.g., MO, CD, DVD) cost per megabyte is usually too high to compete with tape in most environments. Ditto the cost of SCSI disks. Only tape meets all of the criteria mentioned next.
Tape is permanent enough for long-term storage. Because tape is so economical, you can store data that probably won't be needed. And because tape libraries can be expensive, they can be filled again and again with tapes that cost approximately one-tenth the cost of magneto-optical media. Tape can be easily shipped between locations. The most common method of disaster recovery preparation is to create an extra copy of each backup tape and ship it off-site.
The downside of tape
Given the unique capabilities of tape, it's still the best method for accomplishing the disaster recovery and archival purposes of backups. However, these types of restores don't comprise the bulk of restores. Most restores could be better handled by disk - if it were only cheap enough.
Using tape for backups is sometimes a challenging proposition. Many of us have grown use to these challenges, even to the point of pretending they don't exist. For example, tapes are now too fast. Even without compression, the 9840B (19/38 MB/s), AIT-3 (15/30 MB/s), LTO (15/30 MB/s) and Super DLT (11/22 MB/s) drives are all too fast to stream using a single Fast Ethernet connection. In order to stream them, many drives support multiplexing. Multiplexing lets you send multiple backup jobs to a single tape drive simultaneously. These multiple data streams are then multiplexed, or interleaved, onto the tape to supply the tape drive with enough throughput to keep it streaming. However, multiplexing hurts restore performance. Restoring one stream of data that has been interleaved with other streams of data doesn't allow the tape drive to stream, significantly slowing a restore.
Tape-to-tape copying takes too much time. Due to details beyond the scope of this article, copying from tape-to-tape isn't easy - it's difficult to keep two tape drives streaming simultaneously, when one is the source and the other is the destination for a copy. The result is that many people don't make off-site copies.
|Sampling of disk backup products
There are a number of companies that manufacture large, multiterabyte, SCSI, and Fibre Channel addressable, ATA/IDE-based arrays, and there is at least one software manufacturer making a product specifically designed to utilize these arrays for backups. The following is a sample of some of these products (in alphabetical order).
ALACRITUS SECURITUS I. This is a tape library virtualization product. That is, it takes one or more disk arrays and presents them to your backup server as one or more virtual tape libraries. This product is the first independent software product of its type.
BAKBONE NETVAULT. The makers of NetVault also have a tape library virtualization product built into their software. Similar to the Alacritus product, it allows you to treat disk arrays as virtual tape libraries.
LEGATO NETWORKER'S disk staging feature has been around for some time, but has not been widely used - perhaps due to the high cost of disk. However, with the advent of these new ATA-based disk arrays, this "old" feature is now in vogue.
NETWORK APPLIANCE NEARSTORE. Network Appliance recently released the 12TB R100, (9TB usable) the first appliance in the NearStore product line. It offers all of the functionality of a traditional Network Appliance filer at a fraction of the cost, according to the company. This is the first Network Appliance product to use ATA disk drives.
MAXSTOR MAXATTACH SVS. The MaxAttach product is called a storage virtualization solution, as it allows you to create a larger virtual filer using smaller, inexpensive arrays. They have recently announced that they are certified to work with BakBone's product.
QUANTUM/ATL DX30. Imagine over 4TB of ATA disk drives that fit into 2U (3 1/2 inches), and appears to your backup server as a tape library. That's the DX30. An interesting twist is that Quantum is using RAID3 to stripe the drives together. RAID3 performs extremely well when presented with large sequential I/O operations such as backup.
In addition to the above products, there are many disk vendors that are now producing ATA-based, Fibre Channel and SCSI addressable disk arrays. They are often available as JBOD, RAID or NAS. These vendors include, but are not limited to, 3ware, Atto, ExaDrive, LSI Logic, Nexsan, Raidzone, and Zzyzx.
Another common problem is the way incremental backups work with many backup software packages. An incremental backup of a large file system may run for over an hour, supplying only a few hundred megabytes of data. This, of course, makes it impossible to stream the tape drive. And even though dynamic drive sharing software - such as Legato's DDS or Veritas' SSO - allows the sharing of a tape drive between multiple servers, these programs don't permit writes to the same tape drive simultaneously from multiple servers.
As mentioned previously, a single bad tape can cause a large restore to fail. The more tapes your backup resides on, the chance is greater that a single tape will cause a restore to fail. And, of course, you never know if a tape has failed until you need it - probably one of the biggest disadvantages of tape over disk.
ATA/IDE disk arrays
Disks can solve the limitations of tape mentioned above, but server-class SCSI disk drives cost too much to use as a backup device in most environments.
However, someone realized that SCSI disk drives aren't the only game in town, and ATA/IDE disk arrays were born. Ranging from $8,000 to $10,000 per terabyte, ATA/IDE arrays (see "Sampling of disk backup products") are inexpensive when compared to other disk arrays - approximately one-third to one-fourth of their cost. When comparing these arrays to tape libraries, you must include the price of the tape library and its accompanying media. The robot is often the most expensive part of a tape library, and the more slots the robot can manage, the less it costs per terabyte. Consequently, you will find prices ranging from $10,000 per terabyte for smaller libraries, all the way down to $3,000 per terabyte for larger libraries.
On the software side, almost any backup package is capable of backing up to tape; however, some have better overall solutions if you are going to use disk. For example, Legato NetWorker's disk staging feature is nice, and BakBone, NetVault's tape virtualization feature - which uses disk like it's tape - works well, too.
What to do?
OK, here's the punch line: Suppose you need to store about 3TB in your on-site tape library, and you need room for about 1TB of off-site copies. Instead of buying a 4TB tape library, purchase a 3TB disk solution and a 1TB tape library. Make all your on-site backups to disk and leave them there. Just as you would make on-site backups to tape and allow the tapes to expire and be overwritten, you will do the same with the virtual tape library on disk. All on-site recoveries then come straight from disk. There are no tapes to swap, and no robots to be repaired - just a fast virtual tape library.
For off-site and archival purposes, copy each night's backups from the virtual tape library to the real tape library. Those tapes are then ejected and stored off-site for archival restores, to be used in case of a disaster that destroys your virtual tape library. This virtual tape library system has a number of advantages over a traditional library. It doesn't require a constant data stream. Disk drives can go as fast, or as slow as you need them to. The drives don't need to be multiplexed - since you don't need to stream them, you don't need to multiplex them.
These drives can be shared among servers. Some of these arrays let you create as many virtual tape drives as you could possibly need, allowing each backup client to be given their own virtual tape drive. Disk drives are quicker to copy from. Unlike copies from tape-to-tape, copying from disk-to-tape allows the tape drive to easily stream at its maximum throughput, since it's a local copy coming from a random access device.
There seems to be some controversy about whether disk-to-disk restore is really as fast as people think. During a restore operation, a disk will be faster than tape simply because the disk does not have to be loaded, fast-forwarded and skipped through. The load/fast forwarding accounts for 30 to 250 seconds per tape in a restore, depending on the drive type. The skipping through has to do with multiplexing. Since people tend to send several backups to one tape drive simultaneously, the restore of a single backup from that tape must read data, skip data, read data, skip data and so on. First, you probably won't need to multiplex to disk, so there will be no need to skip/read/skip. Second, even if you did, the skip/read/skip would be lightning fast because it's disk.
Disks don't require media management. There are no tapes to load. And, last but not least, you don't have to perform full backups as frequently. A virtual tape library might actually give you greater capacity than a similarly sized tape library. That's because performing full backups less often doesn't increase restore time, or decrease the integrity of your backup.
The Gartner Group says that backups are still the most expensive storage application. Maybe that's about to change. Imagine the time and money you could save if you only had to swap tape for off-site backups. The possibilities are limitless.


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"Tape up the glass, don't replace now," building manager told the handyman while inspecting the damage, "I have important visitors today, don't want the entrance messed up."
Building is up for sale. New investors are sending their team for due diligence today. As luck would have it, stone had to be thrown on this date only in the middle of the night!
"Tough neighborhood!" Mr B and his colleague commented entering the meeting room, "is this a regular occurance?" Relishing apologetic face of the building manager, Mr. B thought "here is an opportunity for hardbargain and bring the price down."
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This is an effort to write aflash fiction effort with the Friday fictioneers, 18th, Jan, 2019, using picture prompt provided by host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Other stories can be found here
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A logo is needed for the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities conference next June in Ottawa, Ontario - pls see full description
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A logo is needed for the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities National Conference next June in Ottawa, Ontario.
COCA: Capitalized is the name of the conference... and it can include city and 2008 or 08 in it as well should you choose.
This logo MUST be able to be duplicated to have the french name (OCAC: Capitalis�e).
This is not something that should feel corporate at all. The demographic of COCA is mostly 18-30 yr olds who are heavily involved in pop culture, music, concert promotion and events.
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Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang is doing what he does best – trying to talk up Tegra. In a recent interview he said the company has high hopes for car infotainment systems and Shield, Bloomberg reports.
Nvidia started taking orders for Shield just a couple of weeks ago and Huang says it is going quite well.
"The reception has been great," said Huang. "If we sell some, that's fantastic as well, but it's not the fundamental purpose. The fundamental purpose is to get great games on Android on Tegra."
In addition to bringing great games to Android, Shield could help Nvidia peddle its reference designed phones and tablets in the future.
Huang also said Nvidia's revenue from car infotainment systems is doubling every year and it now stands at $100. He believes it will eventually hit $1 billion, which sounds very impressive given the relatively low volumes and the fact that Nvidia isn't the only provider of chips for such systems.
Cheap cars still don't ship with fancy infotainment systems as standard, and if Huang is right, we could see powerful systems trickle down to entry level cars over the next couple of years.


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Round the Alhambra
Albaicín quarter
A trip round the Alhambra in Granada, one of the most important and popular monumental sites in Spain, is a unique experience in itself. We suggest completing this experience with a series of special visits planned for discovering the urban and natural setting of this gem in Andalusia.
Specifically, there are five existing tours that include visits to spaces that are not usually open to the public. All these routes start at the Alhambra and go down though the historic quarter of the city of Granada, to the popular Albaicín neighbourhood and provide the chance to contemplate the landscape. Each route has a special theme: The Alhambra and the Granada of Charles. The emperor's dream. It takes place on Mondays and Sundays. You'll discover impressive buildings such as the Palace of Charles V, the Royal Chancery, the Monastery of San Jerónimo and the Royal Hospital. This route is perfect for understanding how Charles V wished to turn Granada into a large imperial city. The Christian City. A new political, social and religious order. It takes place on Tuesdays. It will show you how Granada was transformed after being incorporated into the Crown of Castile, with buildings such as the Parish Church of San Gil and Santa Ana and the Casa de Castril house. Women in the Granada of Al-Andalus and the Renaissance. Private and relationship spaces. You can go on this route on Wednesdays. Get ready to discover the spaces where the women of Moorish and Renaissance Granada lived and how their role evolved in society. Fascinating places await you, such as Las Infantas Tower, the Harem and the Queen's Dressing Room. The conquest of water. The water landscape in the Spanish-Moorish and Christian culture. It takes place on Thursdays and Saturdays. If you are interested in discovering the engineering works that were built in Granada to make use of the water, with examples such as the orchards of the Generalife, the Aqueduct, the Water Tower, Calle Real street and the Termal Baths of Muhammad III, this is your route. The Alhambra: land, space and city. Artistic and functional patterns of the Nasrid culture. It takes place on Fridays. You'll be amazed to see how "two parallel cities" evolved in Moorish Granada: the bourgeois Granada (of the merchants and artisans) and the palace life of the Alhambra. The Wine Gate, the Gate of Justice or the Casa de los Girones house are part of this visit. Things to remember: The visits are guided by tour guides who are experts in interpreting the cultural and natural heritage, they take place in the morning and last about four hours. The routes are in small groups (of about 15 people) in Spanish and English. You can get more information on times and prices on the oficial website .
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Reasons I wasn't interested in paying for radio, 'F' bomb common on the comedy channels (funny about 12%? of the time) and advertising on paid subscription...I reminded girl that cable TV of 35 years ago was brought in because no commercials...(what happened? No I don't have cable, satellite or even broadcast TV). She said she was told to say that they don't have commercials they have only PAID SPONSORS, I laughed my rear end off, even I got her laughing, I guess she had a hard time saying it. I invited her into the 1984 world of Orwellian Double Speak! Told her she made my day and earned a post here! Awesome (and she said it with a straight face, I guess) lol Normally they insult my intelligence but not today!
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Jasper, Georgia (3 July 2011)—The Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance (RIGS Alliance) will present a week-long workshop at the National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas (26-30 September 2011).
RIGS Alliance workshops are designed for genealogists, historians, and librarians with a general genealogical or historical grounding who want to learn skills and techniques for researching original records at national and regional archives. To ensure a quality experience, enrollment is limited to eighteen participants. Although the workshops focus on records within the region, many of the record types are available at other NARA regional facilities.
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Now, where are those organic chemicals
NASA has extended the Mars Rover mission by five weeks after confirming it had found water in a soil sample on the rocky red planet.
Evidence of water on Mars had already been picked up by the Odyssey orbiter, and Phoenix had spotted evidence of the sublimation of water last month.
However, the space jockeys confirmed yesterday that the Phoenix Mars Lander have now identified water in a soil sample. Or, as William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA, puts it: "This is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."
The soil sample in question, came from a trench approximately two inches deep - that's the point at which the robotic arm first hit a hard layer of frozen soil. The icy soil has caused problems for the lander, with samples twice getting stuck in the scoop.
The sample analysed on Wednesday was exposed to the air, allowing some of the water to vaporise, and making the soil easier to handle.
With the presence of water confirmed – not to mention touched and tasted – NASA has decided to fund the operation through to the end of September, extending the 90-day "prime mission" by five weeks.
"Phoenix is healthy and the projections for solar power look good, so we want to take full advantage of having this resource in one of the most interesting locations on Mars," said Michael Meyer, chief scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
While finding water on Mars might seem to be enough of a highlight for the mission, NASA said it was trying to determine whether the water ice ever thaws enough to be available for biology and if carbon-containing chemicals and other raw materials for life are present. Which would really prompt some soul-searching back on Earth. ®
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Saddle Creek must be one of the better known labels around right now; despite their relatively small size there is still something inherently cool about putting out your mates records and being very successful. Despite the gaggle of feature writers queueing up to profile them they aren't backward at coming forward; 2003's _Saddle Creek 50_ double CD celebrated their half century of releases with two songs from everyone on their roster, while Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek marks their first ten years with what pretty much amounts to a South Bank Show on themselves, only without Melvyn Bragg bookending things in a sports jacket and wafting cologne.
If Belle and Sebastian hadn't already used the title then this could have been called Fans Only. Want to see the recording of Lifted...? Check. Mike Mogis as a preppy student? Check. Which leads quite neatly to Conor Oberst in a crew cut, glasses and polar bear knitted jumper recording and playing shows in his early teens; his enormous success can't have given him that much of an ego if he's happy to have such copious footage of himself as a gawky high school kid be put on general release. Coming as it does amid a sea of uber-indie haircuts (can these people even tell each other apart?), it's pretty refreshing.
Structure-wise the main focus is on the big three; Bright Eyes, Cursive and **The Faint** all receive their own fairly lengthy sections after a good half hour on how the label came about. This is as entertaining as it is constricting; The Faint in particular are good value but it does leave the likes of Azure Ray, Rilo Kiley and Now It's Overhead crammed into soundbites at the end. Still, with a roll call like this the DVD could easily run to ten hours rather than one and a half, so they were never going to please everyone. The uniform arty black and white does get a bit wearing, especially when slowly panning over multi-coloured record sleeves like Letting off the Happiness, and while there are many snatches of fantastic songs, they tend to cut to another talking head just as you are getting into it. This last criticism is pretty much nixed by the extras, however; a bootlegger's paradise of rare recorded live shows from almost all those involved, giving this a shelf life well beyond the one or two plays the main feature probably warrants.
Essentially the people who buy a DVD like this will already be pretty big fans of the bands featured and it's likely to do it's job in getting them to dust off their Blank Wave Arcade CDs and scouring Soulseek for **Lullaby for the Working Class**. As for the rest, see it round your mates house or just buy the records.
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Shoot me. In the eyes. With blinding acid. Every time I use yelp for more than just finding a location or business hours, I die a little inside. But, just when I thought I'd lost all hope, in comes Vanessa defending ramen with the fury of a thousand chopsticks:
Oh wait. Now I feel worse. You can find me at Rai Rai Ken using tears to salt my broth.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The American Petroleum Institute said hydraulic fracturing of shale oil and natural gas deposits spawned an "energy revolution" in the United States.
"America is in the midst of a game-changing energy revolution," API Chief Economist John Felmy said in a statement Monday.
He was commenting on a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which predicted record-setting levels of oil and natural gas production in the United States.
The EIA in its Monday report said crude oil production in the United States should reach 9.6 million barrels per day by 2016, equaling a record set more than 40 years ago. Crude oil production is expected to decline after 2020, though EIA said natural gas production should increase steadily through 2040.
"This potential has been unlocked by innovations in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have made America the world's top energy producer," Felmy said.
Hydraulic fracturing, known also as fracking, is a controversial drilling practice that's given energy companies access to oil and natural gas deposits that were previously out of reach. Some of the chemicals used in the process are viewed as threats to the environment.
Daniel Yergin, vice president of energy consultant IHS, backed API's sentiments.
"This is not only about energy, but also is proving a big boost to the U.S. economy at a time when it really needs a boost," he said in a statement Monday.