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The New York Times recently ran a piece by Natalie Angier called "Sorry Vegans, Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too". It was categorized under the "Science" section, with the further distinction of "basics". In other words, the author wants to let us know that making an ethical argument to curtail the science-fiction and horror-movie-like indignities and atrocities that animals endure in exchange for a plant-based diet is flawed because plants want to live – and duh, that's just basic science.
"…plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot."
That may be true, if it's aspirations we're talking about. And following this line of logic, we may as well throw in that lightning does not aspire to illuminate a bulb, a mountain does not aspire to be a car-frame, an island does not aspire to be a tourist destination, or a child does not aspire to get heart disease.
Can you imagine if Angier said "plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a woman aspires to be raped"? It is consistent with this line of logic where no one is safe, and one wrong justifies another. When I was four, I learned that two wrongs don't make a right. Eating plants doesn't make eating animals okay (if eating plants were even an equal "wrong" as Angier suggests). The optimal inner-dialogue she wants us to have upon reading her article goes something like this: "well, if plants are that hell-bent on surviving, what's the point of trying to spare animals when clearly they are just as deserving of consideration – and we have to eat something, so we may as well just eat what we want because it's such a big gray area".
"It's a small daily tragedy that we animals must kill to stay alive. Plants are the ethical autotrophs here, the ones that wrest their meals from the sun. Don't expect them to boast: they're too busy fighting to survive."
So let's humor Angier, even though plants are lacking a brain, and even though we know that while someone who is brain-dead (a vegetable), though bio-chemical reactions still persist, does not respond to bodily injury that would typically cause the type of pain most animal advocates seek to alleviate. Let's say that plants can suffer in a similar way as do people and animals. Let's just say that ripping a carrot out of the dirt is along the lines of forcibly impregnating (raping?) dairy cows, then tearing the baby away (which is met by hours and days of a howling, distraught mother), sentencing the calf to a veal crate (where he can not even turn around or lie down) and stealing the milk for ourselves. Does the former justify the latter? I don't want to live in Angier's world where potentially causing pain justifies certainly causing pain. Mustn't that also justify inflicting pain upon people? This is a messy, messy road to go down.
I wonder if Natalie Angier is aware of what farmed animals eat? I also wonder if she knows what the ratio of plant-based animal feed converted to meat and dairy is. Or how much land is used to meet the demands of producing animal products? If she did know these things, and she were a vehement "plants' rights activist" she would still be making the most ethical choice by going vegan because the most plants would be spared, instead of being converted into animal protein and graze-land at a losing ratio.
How about some clarity? Most animal advocates are talking about actively avoiding causing incredible amounts of suffering, ecological devastation, and health and social problems in relation to using animals for food, clothing, research, and entertainment. This can result in legislation, direct action, grassroots activism, lifestyle changes, and other advocacy with the aim of alleviating preventable suffering, decreasing environmental impact, and improving health and human welfare. Natalie needs a lesson in "basics", herself. Far from the recent, trendy food discourse she invokes exists the response to her confusion, as laid out by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1789. "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
To frame the moral dilemma in "Killing animals for human food and finery" as being about aspirations is to fail in understanding the agenda of many animal activists. The intention of many vegans I know is not moral purity – yet this consistent misconception isn't responded to as clearly by animal advocates as it should. It is more often a social justice issue involving individual animals who actively dissent by vocalizing and struggling to escape sources of pain and suffering, defending their young, mourning the death of and separation from family and friends, maintaining a preference for complex and communicative social structures, and seeking out comfort when faced with pain.
Like many critics who consider animal advocates self-righteous cow-huggers, and whose first response to finding out that someone is vegan is typically "well, what's your belt made out of?", the author of this article exemplifies this misconception about the purpose of veganism. Is it political? Yes. Is it about moral puritanism? Not usually. Nor is it about preventing death. Of course plants strive to live, but everything living eventually dies. It is about preventing preventable suffering. It is about not choosing the duck or the lamb because they have brains and bodies that register suffering in a way with which we can empathize.
Angier blabs, as if her audience were the confessional:
"I still eat fish and poultry, however and pour eggnog in my coffee. My dietary decisions are arbitrary and inconsistent, and when friends ask why I'm willing to try the duck but not the lamb, I don't have a good answer."
If the title itself didn't make it obvious enough that the purpose of the article was to rationalize her whimsical diet and piss off vegetarians who live in the "moral penthouse", as Angier refers to it, then the content itself does the job. Angier neither offers insight into her inability to exert self-control in face of cheese and duck, nor does her artless and callow argument to consider the will-to-live of vegetation on same playing field as the suffering endured by animals with consciousness, brains, and nervous systems have any defensible logic. It is riddled with the anthropomorphizing of plants (something of which animal advocates are commonly accused), and it is creepily reminiscent of the joke website VRMM.
"Just because we humans can't hear them doesn't mean plants don't howl."
Is it valid to point out that plants fight, cooperate, and evolve to optimize survival, like any other living organism? Sure. Plants, fungi, bacteria, and all living organisms are amazing, complex, and have spent billions of years evolving into performing delicate and not-so-delicate dances with everything around them. Whether homeostasis is the Earth's aspiration (as proposed by James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis) or the destruction of everything is the Earth's Aspiration (as proposed by Peter Ward's Medea Hypothesis), or if the Earth or universe even has aspirations are not the issues at hand when we talk about veganism or animal advocacy.
Angier claims "This is not meant as a trite argument", yet her purpose in writing the article seems as trite as rationalizing her own, flimsy food choices.
Joshua Katcher is the brains and brawn behind The Discerning Brute. He lives in Brooklyn where he is a writer, artist, vegan chef, and television producer.


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STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) -- An autopsy conducted Tuesday on an 11-year-old girl found in a river nearly a week after she disappeared failed to determine how she died, frustrating a community anxious for answers.
Further toxicology tests and investigation are needed to determine how Celina Cass died, Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said at a news conference.
"Despite the findings, the attorney general's office continues to investigate her death as suspicious," Young said. "A criminal investigation remains ongoing into the circumstances of her death."
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department divers found Celina's body Monday near a hydroelectric dam that spans the Connecticut River between Celina's hometown, Stewartstown, and Canaan, Vt., ending an intense search that at its peak involved more than 100 federal, state and local law enforcement officers.
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Young said "visible observations" of Celina's body in the water and once it was removed prompted investigators to consider her death suspicious, but she declined to be more specific. She also declined to comment on whether there were any suspects in the death or say who was in the girl's house the night before she was reported missing July 25. Police have said there was no sign of a struggle and there was no indications she ran away or someone took her.
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Earlier Tuesday, investigators combed the area along the river, which divides Vermont and New Hampshire, above where Celina's body was found.
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Celina's stepfather, Wendell Noyes, who reportedly was hospitalized hours before her body was recovered from the river, returned to the community Tuesday.
Witnesses said Noyes was taken away by ambulance Monday after lying down with his face in his arms outside a home where he had been staying in Stewartstown, a community of 800 residents.
Hospital officials declined to say whether he was a patient. Towle, owner of Towle's Mini-Mart, said she sold him cigarettes Tuesday morning.
In the first days after Celina disappeared, Noyes had described her as a quiet girl who would not have left home on her own, but he had declined to comment further.
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New Official Raspberry Pi DSI screen launches
The official 7 inch DSI Raspberry Pi screen is now launched and available for purchase. It's been a long time in the making, but the B+, the A+ and Pi2B have all been responsible for pushing this display to the back-burner.
When there finally was some 'engineering time' to get on with it, hurdles were faced with EMC compliance and chip availability. But those hurdles are now overcome and the screen is now launched. And it looks great (click any photo for higher resolution).
Video Overview
Here's a video overview. There's more detail in the text below…
Killer Features?
- Fantastic price
- Capacitive Touch
- Uses DSI connector
- Can Power a Pi from the driver board
Fantastic Price
It's going to retail for around £50, depending on where you buy it. The official headline price is $60 + shipping and local taxes. For a long time I've thought it would be awesome if there was a decent screen available for the Pi at the £50 price point. Now there is.
It Has Capacitive Touch
It has capacitive, 10-finger touch. This will be most useful in applications where people want to create their own graphical user interface (GUI). It will enable the Pi to be used for controlling all manner of systems with no need for keyboard or other interface peripherals. Touch works in LXDE if you update/upgrade on the latest Raspbian.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Note that there is no 'pinch to zoom' like you have on tablets. (There would need to be GPU accelerated X for that.)
Uses DSI Connector
Because it uses the Pi's DSI connector, you can still drive another display from the same Pi at the same time. This can be either composite or HDMI. You'll see a demo of this in the video.
Can Power a Pi from the Driver Board
As long as you are using a decent power supply and connector lead(s) you can run a Raspberry Pi and the DSI screen from just one supply. You can power the Pi via GPIO jumper leads, the USB power port on the driver board, or separately.
What Are The Specs?
- 800 x 480 WVGA
- 7 inch
- 10-finger capacitive touch
- 24 bit RGB industrial quality display with wide viewing angle
- Viewable screen dimensions 155mm x 86mm
- Overall dimensions 194mm x 110mm x 20mm (35mm with a Pi2B attached)
- Weight (I measured this) 277 g
- Power consumption (I measured this) 2.23 Watts
What's It Good For?
Apart from pretty much any application where a 7 inch screen is a good size, I think it's going to be perfect for…
- point of sales (POS) displays
- control panels
- Pi-based cameras
- in-car systems
- applications needing a clean, simple, controlled user interface
- digital photo frames
- dual-screen setups
And someone's bound to find a creative way to slim it down and hack it into a tablet. With a Pi2B on the back, the total depth is 3.5cm, which is a bit 'tubby'.
Can We Trim It Down A Bit?
I think we can. You could 'lose' a lot of z-axis depth if you didn't need the USB power port. I can see that being the first way people hack the driver board to get it slimmer.
From measurements I've made, if you're willing to butcher away the USB power port, you could potentially position the Pi 7mm closer to the board. You could also save another ~6mm by using an A+ instead of a Pi2. (The highest point on A+ is the GPIO pins – you could potentially shave another 2mm there.) So, in theory, you could save 1.5cm of that depth with some butchery. There may well be other creative solutions using longer ribbon cables and placing the Pi next to the driver board. It'll be interesting to see what people come up with.
Anything Else?
Yes. It needs something to mount it to. A case, a box, a panel or some sort of stand is going to be necessary for most applications or we'll see broken bezels before long. There are four threaded mount holes on the LCD back. You could also use an adhesive to glue the bezel into some kind of panel.
Pimoroni have designed a lovely perspex layer case with integral stand that will be available to purchase from them separately. It's £10 including VAT, and is available in Noir, Flotilla Blue, Tangerine, Coupé Red and Green.
There are some rubber 'feet' that fit into the cutouts in the stand. I forgot to put those on before I took this photo…
First Batch Self-Assembly
The first batch of these displays comes as a self-assembly kit. Future batches will be assembled. It's not a difficult assembly. I managed to work it out with no instructions and I made a little video to help you…
What About In Use?
As long as you have updated/upgraded your Raspbian, it should all 'just work' out of the box. The display will be automatically detected and the login screen will appear on it with no additional software tweaks.
Colours are vibrant and the screen is clear. 800 x 480 pixels is enough for most applications and the 7 inch size is great for portable use.
Even watching HD video looks a lot better than I expected. It scales down perfectly with no issues.
As long as you've allocated 128 Mb RAM to GPU, dual-screen use is flawless. I plugged in my 23″ Samsung HDMI TV and sent a video through HDMI with
omxplayer --display 5 filename.mov This then played flawlessly while I messed around using the camera module on the DSI display. I had it showing live camera video output and also made it wrap live video round a spinning 3d teapot to try and stress the GPU. Neither display skipped a beat. You can see that in the video.
Is It A Power Hog?
No. I measured the display's power usage with my Emeter while powering the Pi separately. The display used 2.23 Watts. (0.43 A at 5.19 V). A Pi 2 model B uses about 1.5 Watts, so this would give you a system using ~3.75 Watts altogether.
Where Can I Get One?
ThePiHut and Pimoroni, Farnell, CPC.
It's an awesome little cap-touch screen done properly. For ~£50 I think it'll be very popular for portable applications. It will need some sort of case or support though.
44 Responses to "New Official Raspberry Pi DSI screen launches"
Thanks, great video's again! Iterested to see how and when the tutorials on the touchscreen part appear!
Great video!
Have you tried it with Windows Core IoT? It will be interesting to see if the display and the touch feature both work out of the box.
Nice product and nice video!
What is the technology used to have captured video mapped on 3D object (rotating coffee pot)?
Have a good day :-)
Is it possible to put the display into a low power sleep mode? I have a mobile application which doesn't require full time display. Being able to save batteries by letting the display go to sleep, but be able to wake it via touch is a critical feature. Thanks!
how many hats do I wear?!?!?
So, say, I just got A Witty Pi, and it fits nicely….now how does this fit on top of it?!?!?Are we talking like the cut out of a CRT and stuff?!?!?!what case is gonna fit this?!?! just asking…..(dear god, my Pi is gonna look like a CRT with all of the hats i've installed….) Just, Effing, saying…..
You can also pick one up from ModMyPi along with their own case/stand http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/screens-and-displays/raspberry-pi-7-touchscreen-case–plus-stand
I am looking at the driver board, and I have a couple of questions related to it.
1. Can I connect things like a flash drive to that usb port, or is it only power?
2. The little header that you can use to power the pi has four or five pins on it. What are those used for? I am guessing it is not factory use because they give you four jumper cables.
is it suitable for outdoor use? (is it ok in direct sunlight?)
I'm paraglider, I'd like to use it as instrument in flight…
Rather than removing the USB from the Pi, why not just turn the board over… Would instantly make in thinner…
Just got mine and tried it out, works great! I was wondering though if there was a way to make scrolling more touch friendly – I am planning to use it with a full screen browser and having the ability to scroll by dragging would be amazing!
Mine is not working at all! There is no clue that the display is powered gets any power. I connected it via gpio: What am I doing wrong. Or is it broken?
I got mine running, but it's upside down. I have the display copper colored ribbon cables on bottom. Any thoughts, also how did you get 2 displays running?
Sorry english is not my mother tongue, so i didn't understand some things.
I have buy this screen, i have a raspberry pi model B rev 2. I have plug everithing scl, sda, +5V and GND, i have up to date the raspbian, i connect the powersupply to the screen but nothing appear.
I have change the config.txt and add the "ignore_lcd=0". but it still not wroking.
Can some one advise me to undestrand whats happen?
I have a 7" screen from my nexus 7 2012 and I was wondering whether I could adapt this screen with the card provided here.
I would like to unmount the screen and then plug it to the board here. Do you know whether this is feasible or not?
Thanks for your answers.
I like the screen, but eventually don't want to use is for showing the bootscreen and the desktop, but have a "silent" boot directly into a UI of an app. Would this be possible with eg: appjs or node-webkit?
I've not used either of those apps, but there's plenty of info in Google about configuring a silent boot https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=raspberry+pi+silent+boot
Is it supported with Windows 10 IoT?
It is supported in Win IoT 10 insider preview…
I just got mine recently and I am trying to boot up a simple "buildroot" os and the display doesn't seem to show anything but the color box. Do I need special software to drive this? Where would I find that source?
I find it extremly useful if your HDMI port does not display


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Wow great story. Curious do you think selling books is better on Amazon.com than it would be on ebay?
Back in January, I looked at my contract work for the spring and realized things were going to get a little sparse for a few months. I also was cleaning house and realized my books were not only double rowed on the shelves but tripled in some places. I had to stop the madness and also be able to still pay bills. Enter Amazon.
After six months I can safely say that I've had a variety of experiences with various features and exchanges with customers and the Amazon monolith itself. Here's what you need to know.
You aren't really going to make that much money off of Amazon unless it's your life and you have nothing else to do and you have unlimited access to books you can sell. My goal was cleaning out the garage and getting my bookcases down to single rows with no extra file boxes full of books anywhere. My financial goal was being able to buy plane tickets and paying off one credit card. So far I'm about 65% in meeting those goals. It'll take another 3 months to meet all of them.
Out of 2,000 books in my private collection I listed about 1,500. In a good month, I made about $600. In a low month I cleared $150. Not too shabby, but not worth quitting the day job. What sells well? Recent edition text books, small print run collectibles on small or interesting presses, and collectibles. If you go book scouting to yard sales and library sales pay attention to presses. No one wants to buy something that Costco is pricing under $10 and is a best seller with a million copies out there. Those are going to come up worth a penny when you look them up. But a hard to find photography book might yield $50 or a recent translation or reissue of something from the 1940s on New York Review of Books Press consistently sells for ten bucks.
I have good luck selling Grove Press books, the aforementioned NYRB, and any small press or university press books. If you see a philosophy book at a library sale for fifty cents, pick it up — philosophy texts are not revamped every year and have limited press runs. Someone donated a book of philosophy text books and our local library had them in a corner destined for the dump. I picked them up and each has sold for at least $10 a piece. Steer away from any textbooks on technology or English composition if they are more than a year old — they aren't going to really be worth anything and will be too heavy to ship economically. Small run poetry books don't really lose too much of their value over time because they are hard to find and have a very steady audience. So if you are at your Friends of the Library Sale, pick up the book from the poet you never heard of but put down that copy of Eat, Pray, Love. Too many copies of that one floating around.
If you look up prices of books on Amazon enough you'll realize that there's a heck of a lot of books being sold for a penny and shipped for $3.99. Amazon is going to take about $1.99 of that. So, while you want to be competitive, don't get in the position of paying the customer to take the book of your hands. If I kind of wanted to keep the book anyway I listed it at a highly competitive price. If it is something I'm trying to get out of here I priced cheaply. I find if you can give a good description of the book and maybe not be the cheapest price you still fair well because customers like descriptions.
Take the time to browse books you like and are familiar with. You are going to have to invest at least a weekend or two in this. Don't just price by the other sellers because their goals might not be the same as yours. I have one book listed at present for $99 because it is out of print, hard to find, and that $99 is 5 dollars cheaper than my next competitor. I have at least 100 listed at $5.99. It's all about which book it is and how rare it is. I tend to price karmically. Many of the expensive books I list could sell for $20 more but if I got them for cheap I sell them at that discount. I don't want to gouge anyone. At the same time if you sell a collectible too cheap then you cause a spiral of downward pricing that will get every seller on Amazon angry at you.
If you have only a few items you are trying to get rid of then listing single items takes a dollar an item. If you have tons you might want to take advantage of Amazon's $39.99 a month plan. Sell one good art book and you have the month covered.
Amazon abides by the customer is always right mode of operation. It sounds like a great idea until you have customers that are less than ideal. I've had three crazy customers and one rational one that gave me negative reviews out of hundreds of sales. For the one guy with a legitimate complaint (creases on the backcover I didn't notice) I'm truly sorry. However, in case of the woman who canceled the order and then wrote a complaint that I never sent it, I'm kind of mystified. Most people do not leave feedback if they liked the transaction. People who like to complain or had a negative experience do leave negative feedback. You know how it takes thousands of A assignments to maintain your A and only one F to bring it all down when you're in school? Same thing applies here. I had two of these in one month that made my ratings go way down but thankfully that was a few months ago and now they are back up to almost 100%.
You can invest way too much money in packing materials and tape. We didn't want to do that so being the saver I am, I had boxes of envelopes and boxes and packing material. I've yet to have to buy anything to ship anything in. I also asked the two store owners who went out of business if they had extra stuff they wanted to get rid of and got more packing materials that way. People are always wanting to get rid of packing materials. Don't buy them unless you really need to. I just buy mailing tape which is expensive enough as it is. Also keep in mind how much Amazon credits for shipping. If you have a heavy book it's going to be over the $3.99 credit they give you so make sure you can make up that difference in the price of the book itself. Make it easier on yourself and your postmaster and start a stamps.com account or something similar if you think you are going to be shipping 50+ books a month.
I think my best sell was a book I picked off of a free giveaway table. It was a French textbook and turned out to be worth $75 and I was able to sell it for $50. My husband found a brand new house design book for a dollar that sold for $89 (it's listing price was $125). I'm just glad I was able to buy plane tickets to bring my kids to visit my grandmother without breaking our budget, that the credit card is now under control, and that while the bookcases are still double rowed, I've at least been able to get rid of ten file boxes of books.
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Wow great story. Curious do you think selling books is better on Amazon.com than it would be on ebay?
I debated that when I had a couple of books to sell. I went with Amazon since you don't pay the listing fee until it actually sells. From what I could see, I had to pay ebay upfront to list, then a percentage of the sale.
What I liked is that with Amazon, they pay Amazon and then Amazon gives you your cut so you don't have to deal with that aspect.
I've sold books on Amazon for about five years now after two years selling on eBay. The fee structure is much better on Amazon and the daily maintenance is much lower. When a book gets down to where my profit margin is too low, I use a paperback trade site to trade what I have for something else. Very often I can find books of higher value in a good enough condition to sell. More often I find something I'd really like to own!
I really enjoy selling on Amazon. I have been selling books there on-and-off for a few years. I actually just sold a book called 'coil winding' that had been sitting on the shelf forever, and it got me a good amount of money!
Don't bother with low-balling. Often times a book will sell that is more expensive if it has a good description, as opposed to those that write 'great customer service' and that is it.
Great post.
I would buy all my college texts online and mostly always on amazon. I would always be willing to pay a little more for a book with a good description. I was always a little weary of buying from a no description offer, and I always needed the book asap so I didn't have time to mess with returns.
I love buying books on Amazon, then selling them back when I'm finished with them for the semester or whatever. I buy all my textbooks off of there because it's much cheaper than buying from the school store. Then, at the end of the year, I try to make a slight profit back. I can't believe you listed 1,500 books though!
That's cool. i've got a whole bookshelf of books where I probably wouldn't realistically need half of them. Unfortunately most of them are probably more garage sale material and not the type where it'd be worth my while to set up all the listings and such.
I found Amazon personally easier to manage for bookselling and I liked that so much was built in you didn't have to reinvent the wheel every time you list something. And yes indeed, 1500 books listed. I'm a little bit of a book nerd, I admit.
Amazon is indeed my vendor of choice to sell not only books but other things as well. here's my experience with Amazon at http://www.mewithoutdebt.com/2009/07/clutterless-way-to-lower-your-debt....
I would be interested to know where the relationship between the author and Amazon is now. I am a small time seller selling my used photography gear as I trade up. I have only had 2 bad customers out of more than a hundred transactions. These two customers, the dollar amount's at issue, and Amazon's crazy unilateral and arbitrary enforcement of its policies caused me to call it quits and encourage others to do the same.
I detailed my situation here: http://blog.dassaro.com/2011/08/24/amazon-seller-nightmare-part-i/ in a three post series (so far). In short, Amazon admits that the customer bought the item from me to borrow it (e-mail is posted in Article II I think) and now wants her money back. How crazy is that? Amazon even told me that customers can file chargebacks 90 days later and keep the product and get a refund from the seller.
Anyway, I am duking it out with Amazon and even have an attorney onboard. I would caution people from selling on Amazon.


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Listening to Democrats and the media, you could be forgiven for thinking the point of a deal over the looming "fiscal cliff" wouldn't be to reduce the deficit so much as to reduce the influence of one man — Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.
Known to one and all simply as Grover, he is the keeper of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge signed by almost all Republicans committing themselves not to raise taxes. For this offense, Grover is deemed the enemy of all that is right and just.
The pollster and ABC News commentator Matthew Dowd said on "This Week," "Norquist is an impediment to good governing. The only good thing about Grover Norquist is that he was named after a character from Sesame Street." Not everyone has been as juvenile, but Dowd captured the gleeful spirit of the anti-Norquist pile-on.
The idea that we'd have "good governing" only if more tax increases were thrown on top of poorly designed, out-of-control entitlements, wasteful subsidies, rotten schools and an ever-growing mess of regulation is fanciful. ObamaCare increased taxes by more than $500 billion, and our governing did not noticeably become better as a result.
Grover has three insights that are absolutely correct: 1) Revenues from tax increases will almost invariably be spent. Does anyone believe that if George W. Bush had not cut taxes early in his first term that the Tom DeLay and Nancy Pelosi Congresses wouldn't have, in their collective wisdom, found ways to spend the additional revenues? 2) The typical structure of the Washington budget deal is tax increases now in exchange for promised spending cuts over time that don't materialize. 3) The Republican brand is dependent on its status as the anti-tax party.
These aren't alien beliefs foisted on the Republican Party, but represent GOP orthodoxy. Nonetheless, everyone acts as if Grover is the instrument of the party's Babylonian captivity. If only the dastardly Norquist didn't make Republicans say they won't raise taxes — and put it in writing — the party could fulfill its role in the "good governing" of Washington, namely joining Democrats to raise taxes.
The proof of the supposed perversity of Grover's influence is the widely cited hypothetical example of a Democratic offer to cut $10 in spending for every $1 in new tax dollars. In one presidential-primary debate, every Republican candidate indicated that he or she would oppose such a deal. Of course, it's all academic because such a deal will never, ever be on offer.
Hypotheticals work both ways, or they should. What would Democrats be willing to accept in exchange for signing off on a premium-support plan for Medicare? Nothing.
The press isn't scandalized by this particular intransigence. It isn't a favorite topic on the Sunday shows whether the influence of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who opposes all meaningful spending cuts, will be broken in the Democratic Party. No one is outraged that the left is mustering a lobbying campaign to keep President Obama from giving anything on entitlements in the talks over the fiscal cliff.
But whenever a Republican says he won't abide by Grover's pledge, the media act like a choir of angels celebrating another saved soul. So far, it's only the usual suspects in the party, although House Speaker John Boehner has signaled a willingness to raise more revenue if the president will cut entitlement spending.
What makes this time different than prior budget showdowns is that Republicans can remain technically compliant with the pledge by doing nothing, and taxes would still go up on everyone automatically at the end of the year. A deal, then, could make sense, depending on the parameters.
As the cliff approaches, all the pressure within Washington and within the media will be for Republicans simply to cave to the president. Grover will make it as painful as possible for them to do it, and should wear the resulting elite obloquy as a badge of honor.


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Apple had no knowledge that publishers were engaged in a conspiracy in December 2009 or at any other point, the company said in its appeal against a district court ruling which found Apple and five major U.S. publishers had conspired to fix ebook prices.
The district court's findings show that Apple offered a retail business model to the publishers that was in the company's independent business interests "and was attractive to the publishers, who were frustrated with Amazon," Apple said in a filing Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
"It was not unlawful for Apple to take advantage of retail market discord by using lawful agency agreements to enter the market and compete with Amazon," Apple said in the filing. The discord over Amazon.com's ebook pricing had reached the point where some publishers had by September 2009 begun delaying some ebook versions of new releases, a practice known as "windowing."
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled last year that Apple and the publishers had conspired to raise prices in the ebook market to counter Amazon.
The U.S. Department of Justice and 33 states and U.S. territories brought a lawsuit charging that Apple and the publishers conspired to raise ebook prices in 2010.
The publishers allegedly teamed up with Apple to counter Amazon's strategy to lower substantially the prices of newly released and best-selling ebooks to US$9.99, a price that the publishers saw as a challenge to their traditional business model, the DOJ said in its complaint in 2012.
The district court's decision was based "on a fundamentally incorrect theory of antitrust liability," Apple said in the filing. The court had acknowledged that the "record is equivocal on whether Apple itself desired higher ebook prices than those offered at Amazon," yet found that Apple entered into a conspiracy with the publishers at initial meetings in December 2009, the company said.
As Apple prepared to launch in 2010 its iPad and the iBook store, it proposed to the publishers "an agency model," which would allow each publisher to set its own prices and provide Apple with a 30 percent commission, similar to the commission it was earning in its App Store.
"If allowed to stand, the ruling will stifle innovation, chill competition, and harm consumers," Apple said in the filing. It has asked the appeals court to overturn the district court's judgment and injunction and enter judgment for Apple, or grant a new trial before a different district judge.
Its entry into the ebooks business created a competitive market where output grew and average price dropped, and changed a market where Amazon had dominated by "controlling" nine out of every 10 ebook sales, Apple said.
Self-published ebook sales got a boost from Apple's model, which Amazon immediately emulated, as self-publishers were eager to retain 70 percent of an ebook's price, which was twice the amount Amazon previously offered, Apple said in the filing.
The DOJ and Amazon.com could not be immediately reached for comment after business hours.
Earlier this month, the appeals court refused to stay the appointment by the court of an "external compliance monitor" to review Apple's antitrust compliance and training policies during Apple's appeal. The ruling, however, set boundaries for the monitor with whom Apple had many issues.


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Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise and other changes associated with warming temperatures.
A new examination of urban policies by Patricia Romero Lankao at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., in conjunction with an international research project on cities and climate change, warns that many of the world\'s fast-growing urban areas, especially in developing countries, will likely suffer disproportionately from the impacts of changing climate.
Her work also concludes that most cities are failing to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that affect the atmosphere.
\"Climate change is a deeply local issue and poses profound threats to the growing cities of the world,\" says Romero Lankao. \"But too few cities are developing effective strategies to safeguard their residents.\"
Romero Lankao\'s studies appear this month in a special issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and in a synthesis article in an upcoming issue of European Planning Studies.
The research was conducted in association with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NCAR\'s sponsor.
\"Cities are major sources of greenhouse gases, yet at the same time urban populations are likely to be among those most severely affected by future climate change,\" says Sarah Ruth, program director in NSF\'s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funds NCAR.
\"The findings highlight ways in which city-dwellers are particularly vulnerable, and suggest policy interventions that could offer immediate and longer-term benefits.\"
Romero Lankao, a sociologist specializing in climate change and urban development, surveyed policies in cities worldwide while drawing on a number of recent studies of climate change and cities.
She concluded that cities are falling short in two areas: preparing for the likely impacts of climate change and cutting their own greenhouse gas emissions by reducing fossil fuel use.
With more than half the world\'s population living in cities, scientists are increasingly focusing on the potential impacts of climate change on these areas.
The locations and dense construction patterns of cities often place their populations at greater risk for natural disasters, including those expected to worsen with climate change.
Potential threats associated with climate include storm surges that can inundate coastal areas and prolonged hot weather that can heat heavily paved cities more than surrounding areas.
The impacts of such natural events can be magnified in an urban environment.
For example, a prolonged heat wave can exacerbate existing levels of air pollution, causing widespread health problems.
Poorer neighborhoods that may lack basic facilities such as reliable sanitation, drinking water or a dependable network of roads, are especially vulnerable to natural disasters.
Moreover, populations are increasing most quickly in small- and medium-sized urban areas, which often lack the services and infrastructure to manage the rapid influx, according to Romero Lankao.
The number of urban residents worldwide has quadrupled since 1950, and cities are continuing to grow rapidly, especially in developing nations.
Romero Lankao cites projections that, by 2020, there will be more than 500 urban areas with 1 million or more residents.
Many residents in poorer countries live in substandard housing without access to reliable drinking water, roads and basic services. Neighborhoods sometimes spring up on steep hillsides or floodplains, leaving them vulnerable to storms.
But even on the heels of deadly catastrophes that scientists say will become more common with climate change, such as flash floods in Rio de Janeiro or heat waves in Europe, leaders are often failing to reinforce their defenses against natural disasters.
Romero Lankao cites three reasons for the failure to prepare: fast-growing cities are overwhelmed with other needs, city leaders are often under pressure to downplay the need for health and safety standards in order to foster economic growth and climate projections are rarely fine-scale enough to predict impacts on individual cities.
\"Local authorities tend to move towards rhetoric rather than meaningful responses,\" Romero Lankao writes.
\"What is at stake, of course, is the very existence of many human institutions, and the safety and well-being of masses of humans.\"
Cities are also failing in many cases to curb their own emissions of greenhouse gases, the study finds.
Instead of imposing construction standards that could reduce heating and air conditioning needs or guiding development to emphasize mass transit and reduce automobile use, many local governments are taking a hands-off approach.
\"Cities can have an enormous influence on emissions by focusing on mass transit systems and energy efficient structures,\" Romero Lankao says. \"But local leaders face pressures to build more roads and relax regulations that could reduce energy use.\"
The study also cites efforts in some cities to reduce emissions as part of a larger strategy to ease traffic and other problems.
For example, central London\'s Congestion Charging Zone is intended to encourage more use of mass transit. And several Latin American cities, such as Curitiba, Brazil, and Bogota, Colombia, are integrating new development with mass transit systems.
As cities attempt to meet the needs of their low-income residents, some strategies-including moving residents away from risk-prone areas and improving housing and services-may also improve their readiness for a changing climate.
\"As hubs of development, cities have shown that they can become sources of innovation,\" Romero Lankao says.
\"The good news is that policymakers can discover ways to improve sanitation, health and safety as they try to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impacts.\"


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Web Design Classes in Birmingham for Groups
If you have three or more people that need Web Design training in Birmingham, Alabama, AGI offers live, on-site training at your location for your group. We also have dedicated classroom space at our offices in several U.S. cities if you prefer to hold the course in one of our training centers.
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Dreamweaver Training Class - Introduction
Wed, Oct 04 2023 to Thu, Oct 05 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction
Wed, Oct 11 2023 to Thu, Oct 12 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
WordPress training course - Introduction
Mon, Oct 16 2023 to Tue, Oct 17 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
WordPress Bootcamp
Mon, Oct 16 2023 to Thu, Oct 19 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Advanced HTML Course
Wed, Oct 18 2023 to Thu, Oct 19 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Photoshop Class for Web Design & Web Graphics
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Advanced
Wed, Oct 25 2023 to Thu, Oct 26 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Responsive web design class
Fri, Oct 27 2023 to Fri, Oct 27 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Adobe Creative Cloud course for web design
Mon, Oct 30 2023 to Wed, Nov 01 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
HTML Course - Introduction
Mon, Nov 06 2023 to Tue, Nov 07 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
WordPress training course - Introduction
Wed, Nov 08 2023 to Thu, Nov 09 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Javascript Training Class for Web Design - Introduction
Wed, Nov 15 2023 to Thu, Nov 16 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Responsive web design class
Fri, Nov 17 2023 to Fri, Nov 17 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Advanced HTML Course
Mon, Nov 20 2023 to Tue, Nov 21 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
WordPress training course - Advanced
Mon, Nov 20 2023 to Tue, Nov 21 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
HTML Course - Introduction
Mon, Dec 04 2023 to Tue, Dec 05 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
WordPress training course - Introduction
Wed, Dec 06 2023 to Thu, Dec 07 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction
Wed, Dec 13 2023 to Thu, Dec 14 2023
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Photoshop Class for Web Design & Web Graphics
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Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Web Design
UX prototyping training
UX Design Course
Once the structure of the content has been prioritized, participants sketch and prototype their design. All along the way, iteration and testing is implemented so as to learn how to incorporate feedback from others.
This UX design class provides a strong foundation for creating user-centered designs, whether in web design, app design, interface, or product design.
UX Class: User Experience for Mobile Devices and Touch Screens
HTML Course - Introduction
Advanced HTML Course
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Introduction
CSS Training Course for Web Design - Advanced
Photoshop Class for Web Design & Web Graphics
WordPress training course
WordPress Training Course - Advanced
Dreamweaver Training Class - with HTML
Dreamweaver Training Class - Introduction
Dreamweaver Training Class - Advanced
Adobe Animate training class - introduction
JavaScript Training Class for Web Design
Adobe XD Course for Prototyping
HTML Email Class
Responsive HTML email class
Google Analytics course for beginners
Design Thinking Course
Learning Web Design in Birmingham
American Graphics Institute offers Web Design training in Birmingham. These professional development courses make it possible for individuals in Birmingham to learn Web Design quickly and easily. Benefit by participating in live Web Design classes led by instructors with extensive experience using and teaching Web Design, all without needing to travel to a classroom. These regularly scheduled professional development Web Design courses are live, and occur in real-time. These small-group sessions make Web Design classes accessible to those in and around Birmingham. Enrollment for these regularly scheduled public classes is available under the class dates section. Learn Web Design in Birmingham with classes and training from American Graphics Institute.
Private Web Design training in Birmingham
Groups, such as companies, organizations, and departments that need live, in-person Web Design training in Birmingham can have a live instructor come on-site to their company to deliver an in-person course. AGI can deliver a Web Design workshop in Birmingham that is customized to your specific needs, or the training can be delivered using standard curriculum. Scheduling for private Web Design training in Birmingham can occur on specific dates that align to your schedule requirements, and the Web Design class time can also be adjusted to accommodate your organization's needs. Private online Web Design courses are also available, and can be tailored to specific requirements for scheduling and curriculum. Contact AGI to discuss options if you are interested in arranging private Web Design training or call 800-851-9237.
Corporate and Onsite Web Design Training in Birmingham
Improve the skills of your team with Web Design training for your company or organization. Private Web Design courses can be delivered through live online sessions, or can occur onsite at your location in or near Birmingham with an instructor that comes to your location. With corporate or onsite Web Design courses near you, employees do not need to travel. Corporate and onsite training is adapted to the specific needs of your group. Our instructors meet with you in advance of a private training session and adjust the materials to meet your training objectives. Use the contact form, call us at 800-851-9237, or the chat option in the corner of this page to learn more.
Discounted training vouchers are also available for employees to enroll in the regularly scheduled public Web Design courses offered on specific dates either at AGI's classrooms or through live online sessions.
About AGI's Web Design Courses in Birmingham
For more than 25 years, American Graphics Institute has been providing Web Design classes and training in Birmingham. AGI offers live courses at client sites in Birmingham as well as live online training accessible from anywhere. The expert instructors are highly skilled Web Design professionals and are also experienced educators, helping others to learn new skills.
Choosing the right Birmingham Web Design Class
Although there are many options for learning Web Design, there's a reason that American Graphics Institute is considered the top provider of Web Design courses for those in and near Birmingham. This includes expert instructors with many years of practical Web Design experience, as well as extensive experience in teaching Web Design.
There are Web Design courses of various durations, with shorter one-day and two-day programs, along with options for day and night courses. Longer-term bootcamp and certificate programs are also available for those wanting a more intensive, in-depth approach to learning new skills.
In most cases it's best to start with a foundational, introductory Web Design course. Even if you have previous experience, the introductory class serves as a cornerstone. From there, you can move on to learn more advanced Web Design skills and concepts.
The delivery format for Web Design Classes in Birmingham should also be considered as you decide which course to attend. Both in-person and online courses are led by a live instructor. AGI offers regularly scheduled live online courses. These allow you to see the instructor's screen, ask questions, and share your screen if you need assistance. You can also retake the Web Design course at no cost if you need additional practice or if you don't end up using your new skills right away. These Web Design courses are offered at regularly scheduled dates. If you prefer in-person learning, you can request an instructor to come on-site to your business or organization, or you can travel to one of AGI's in-person training centers.
If you need guidance, our expert training consultants can help you choose the best Web Design course for you, whether you are looking for a course in Birmingham or online. Call us at 800-851-9237, reach us on chat, or find all options to contact AGI.
In-Person Web Design Classes in Birmingham
There are many options for in-person Web Design courses in Birmingham. For those looking to provide training to the employees or corporations and organizations in Birmingham, AGI can have an instructor come on-site and deliver Web Design training at your location. This can be more cost effective than having a group travel to a classroom. Training can be delivered in a conference room or meeting space, and laptop computers can be supplied if needed.
For individuals looking for in-person Web Design training in Birmingham with a live instructor in the same classroom, options include the state university system and Birmingham area community colleges. With continuing education programs for adults, these can be cost-effective ways to learn over a full semester.
Web Design Classes Online
Online courses provide a convenient and high-quality option for learning Web Design without needing to travel, allowing learning to occur at home or office.
Live online Web Design courses from AGI are interactive, with a live instructor and small group sessions, making it possible to get your questions answered in real-time, share your screen and projects, and receive immediate feedback on your progress.
American Graphics Institute has set the standard for live online classes. With more than a decade of experience in offering live online Web Design classes, AGI has developed the process, infrastructure, and methods for effective online learning that is engaging, interesting and effective. Learn through explanations, demonstrations, and class projects you complete as well as through the ability to ask questions during the live class.
AGI's Web Design courses are available for introductory through advanced topics. Those new to Web Design can attend foundation-level courses which provide the essential skills along with an on-ramp for additional learning, with advanced courses available for those with existing skills and experience.
With courses for beginners who need to learn the fundamentals of Web Design as well as advanced courses, bootcamps, and certificate programs, American Graphics Institute provides options for learners at all points in their careers. From those looking to start learning Web Design, to experienced professionals, AGI is a trusted resource for professional development.
Web Design Courses for All Ages and Skills
While most Web Design professional development courses are for adults, there are some graphic design programs for high school students. These programs provide career exploration while learning the tools used by professional designers. These programs are primarily offered during the summer, with some available after school hours during the academic year.
About Web Design Classes and Training in Birmingham from AGI
The regularly scheduled public Web Design courses, workshops, and seminars provide hands-on learning from expert instructors. Small classes with practical exercises and projects help you to quickly learn Web Design as it relates to your specific needs. Our instructors have extensive experience with the applications they teach and in leading classes. Instructors are reviewed after each course, and undergo continual professional development and testing. Our full-time instructors pass the rigorous Certified Technical Trainer exam, and Adobe Certified Expert exams. Our instructors have been hired by Adobe to write their certification exams, and have developed official Adobe training courseware.
Prerequisites for enrolling in Birmingham Web Design courses
For the introductory Web Design courses, no previous experience is required. For the intermediate and advanced Web Design classes, the introductory course is required, or knowledge of all topics covered in the introductory Web Design class. We recommend that you have a copy of apps or software for you to use for projects and exercises as part of the Web Design courses. If attending the Web Design class online, no-cost, limited-time versions of apps are generally available and can be used for the class.
Course materials for Web Design classes in Birmingham
The instructors at American Graphics Institute have authored more than 50 books on digital design, including several Web Design training books. Course participants receive a copy of one of our books or related course materials which are yours to keep following the class.
Web Design Certification Training
A certificate of completion for the training is provided upon successful course completion.
Web Design Training Courses for Birmingham area Governments
American Graphics Institute offers Web Design Courses under GSA contract 47QTCA19D003Y for federal, state, and municipal governments. As a GSA contract holder, GSA pricing is available for government agencies and employees for both private and public Web Design training workshops. Contact an American Graphics Institute representative for additional information or to register by calling 800-851-9237.
Web Design Related Certificate Programs
For those looking to build a set of skills that can be useful for a career, as well as creating a portfolio of completed projects, consider the Web design certificate.
The in-depth certificate program provides you with intensive coursework, in-depth projects, portfolio development, and career counseling to help build a career with Web Design skills. For a similarly comprehensive program without career guidance, consider these bootcamp programs: Video Editing Bootcamp, Premiere Pro Bootcamp, After Effects Bootcamp, Graphic Design Bootcamp.
Graphic Designer in Birmingham: $50,000
UX Designer in Birmingham: $80,000
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International/EU: £16,385 for the course
Course summary
- Be part of an interdisciplinary design programme which promotes an ethos of social and cultural innovation.
- Develop your specialist skills and knowledge in a collaborative studio environment.
- Innovate with materials, technology and conceptual thinking.
- Extend existing material practices in response to the needs of our rapidly changing world.
Placing emphasis on personal research, this course gives giving you the chance to develop your own interests and ideas in a challenging and supportive environment. Academic staff are design specialists, researchers and practitioners who will support you to expand your practice whilst developing an independent and autonomous approach.
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We are members of Creative UK, which means our art and design students are also members until they graduate. With 10,000 members in its network, Creative UK represents, champions and supports the UK's creative industries, advocating on the issues that matter the most to creative communities.
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'The content of this course was inspiring and thought provoking. It helped me to establish my purpose as a designer, and gave me the confidence to continue my research at PHD level.'
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How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
This course is part of the Sheffield Institute of Arts — our creative community within Sheffield Hallam.
The initial modules are taught to all postgraduate design students, and you'll focus on gaining a critical understanding of design thinking, theoretical studies, research methods and making practices. In subsequent modules, you will follow your own personal practice, supported by key specialist staff. You are encouraged to consider identified social and cultural contexts when positioning your creative outputs. The aim is to develop accessible and marketable products, services, interventions and other forms or propositions.
You learn through
- immersive learning alongside peers in a studio environment
- practice-based research
- project work
- individual and group tutorials
- lectures
- seminars
- constructive critical debates
Course leaders and tutors
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Applied learning
Live projects
We embed an understanding of and dialogue with the creative industries and the world of professional practice beyond the postgraduate studio. Live projects are embedded into specific modules, and you're encouraged through advice and support to seek industrial sponsors or collaborators for individual projects. The long-established link with our Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) supports a continuing tradition of graduates from the Masters courses working as research assistants and/or continuing their studies to PhD
Field trips
There are opportunities to participate in study trips and visits to design conferences and debates.
Networking opportunities
You benefit from studying within a cross-disciplinary, vibrant, international, collaborative and supportive postgraduate environment. You can work alongside our Design Futures consultancy, and with researchers from the ADRC. We also have contacts with leading design agencies and organisations, museums and practitioners and we encourage you to work collaboratively with them.
Your Fashion Design tutors have connections and knowledge in specialist areas including; innovative pattern cutting, CAD and fashion technology, fashion marketing, fashion entrepreneurship, fashion craft and sustainability.
Student work
Fashion design students showcase their work at Graduate Fashion Week 2022.
Future careers
This course prepares you for a career as a
- independent design practitioner
- designer
- design manager
- maker or manufacturer
- company-employed designer
- postgraduate student at PhD level
The primary intention of the course is for you to achieve your personal employment ambitions whether as a design professional in the creative industries, or in related areas such as research, retail, marketing, and education.
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
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On this course, you will have access to specialist resources and facilities and will be able to independently develop and extend your skills with
- 3D printing for rapid prototyping
- state-of-the-art hardware and software
- laser cutting
- well-equipped workshops for jewellery and metalwork, fashion, ceramics, wood, plastic and other materials
- studio spaces
- photography studios
- a creative media centre
- gallery and exhibition spaces
- an award-winning Learning Centre featuring a specialist art, design and media library and extensive online resources
Entry requirements
All students
Normally you need
• a 2.2 degree or equivalent in an appropriate subject or significant relevant experience
• appropriate study plans, including an indication of possible project topics and clear, appropriate and realistic learning aims
• a high level of creative ability, as evidenced by a portfolio of work
• ability to discuss design issues critically and confidently
For information on applying, the interview process and your portfolio, download our MA Design application support.
Overseas applicants from countries whose first language is not English must normally produce evidence of competence in English. An IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills (or equivalent) is the standard for non-native speakers of English. If your English language skill is currently below an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English level.
If you do not have such academic qualifications we may consider your application individually, based on your personal, professional and work experience, and other formal qualifications. You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam. Find out more
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
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Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.
|Module: Creative Design And Positionality
|Credits: 60
|Module: Ma Project (Fashion)
|Credits: 60
|Module: Methods For Research And Practice
|Credits: 60
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Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time study in 2023/24 is £9,910 for the course. The tuition fee displayed above is for the full course. If the full course is more than one year in duration, the fee will be divided into annual payments which will then be rounded. This may mean the total fee you pay is slightly higher than the fee stated above. If you take a break in study or have to re-take part of the course, you may also be charged an additional fee and will be notified of this at the time.
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Blog Archive
- ► 2011 (122)
- Cricut Ott Lite, Silly T-Shirt
- Flower Power Layout
- I'm a Hallmark Scrapbook Guest Designer!!
- Winner of Basic Grey Sugar Rush is...
- NEW Happy Easter Layout Kit
- Basic Grey Valentines and Blog Candy!!!
- Cha-Ching! Check out THIS blog candy!!
- And the Winners Are.....
- Guest Designer, Wendy Lawrence - and Blog Candy AG...
- DVD Review: Above Rubies Studio "Cricut A-Z"
- New Limited Edition Kit: "Bee Happy"
- Manly Valentine & 5 More Layouts
- Simple Scrapbook Pages
- ▼ February (13)
- ► 2009 (60)
Btw, this uses just the Paisley cartridge, and it's available at the Hallmark Scrapbook store HERE.
Thanks for visiting! I've got more stuff coming soon - promise!!
49 comments:
- sledkitten said...
I can't take this any more. All these adorable layouts and no kits. Your killin' me girl. I just love love love alllll your work.
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- February 24, 2010 at 12:10 AM
- yvette said...
I absolutely love the paisley cart, and I love the layout you made with it! This summer, when the garden is in bloom I gotta take some pics of the girls with all the flowers and scraplift this lo :)
- February 24, 2010 at 2:44 AM
- Melissa said...
Monique....you never cease to amaze me. More beautiful work!
MelissaAllore on the Cricut Board
- February 24, 2010 at 3:29 AM
- Ohhh Snap said...
What a great layout! I have this cart and was starting to think it would never "speak" to me, and now it has. TFS : ).
- February 24, 2010 at 3:34 AM
- Mom2Fiveplus3 said...
Love this layout. I loved this paper as soon as I saw it.
- February 24, 2010 at 3:57 AM
- Sandi Clarkson said...
Oh, Monique this is adorable. Love your owl, mushrooms and critters! I have used that paper myself and just love it! Beautiful design as always!
- February 24, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Leanne said...
Hey Monique! I left you something on my blog (give it just a minute to pop up working on it now!) Hugs!!
- February 24, 2010 at 8:11 AM
- Sandy from Ukiah said...
You are just so amazing... this is adorable. (did you get my e-mail about the question I had on the "Hugs and Kisses layout??)
- February 24, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- Linda said...
I don't have the paisley cart and this makes me want it all the more. I love the flower power. Way to cute.
Linda in Stanwood
- February 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Cricut Critter said...
I have this set of paper from IMAGINISCE, they are soo cute, now all I need is the cartridge and I can scraplift this totally CUTE design from you... love it!
- February 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- flowerdisco said...
Beautiful, and as flowerdisco I sure love flower power :-)
I also noticed your white shadow on the owl, mushroom and the title. I believe your intention was making them look like stickers and I tell you they did fool me. Clever technique especially since that type of stickers seems to be "in".
- February 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- shari said...
Your layout is so pretty.
I'm nominating you for an award, visit my blog to receive it. Shari (cricutrookie)
- February 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
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- February 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- quiltnsuzn said...
It's so cute, and cheery, happy! You did another great job!
- February 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again - taking you feeds also, Thanks.
- February 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- Megan said...
Love this layout Monique! :) Sooo stinkin' CUTE!
- February 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- Crafty Sue said...
Monique, love your l/o's. So full of color and lots of cuts. Nice to see how to use the carts too. TFS
- February 24, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- shari said...
Monique, I left you a message earlier. I goofed on my wording. I was supposed to say I'm presenting you with an award, not nominating. Sorry. Shari (cricutrookie)
- February 24, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- Kwilt said...
Monique...Another MASTERPIECE!!! Luv it!
- February 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- moknowsall said...
I'm cryin' cuz I don't have Paisley..... and Flower Power is so darn cute! Peace girl!
Still laughin over your CHA video with the hair tossing!!!
- February 25, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- Hand Me a Stamp said...
I love this!!! The Paisley cartridge is one of my favorites!Beautiful layout :)
- February 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Micki said...
I will have to get the paisley cartridge, as this one is so nice!
- February 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Melanie said...
OMG another absolutely gorgeous layout - you do the best work! I left you a little something on my blog!
- February 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Lori (THCEO) said...
Your pages are AMAZING!!! Just love your work. I gave you a blog award. You can get it by heading over to my blog. Thanks for all the inspiration!!! :)
- February 28, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- Unknown said...
love this LO
- March 1, 2010 at 12:41 AM
- Amy said...
This is such a cute layout!! I always enjoy your work. I've left you an award on my blog. When you get a minute, stop by and check it out. :-)
- March 1, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- Deena said...
I really love these layouts!! Your color choices are so bright and happy!! Thanks for inspiring me!
- March 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- My Adventures in Crafting said...
Monique, this one is just too cute.
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- The Monique Griffith Design Team consists of 4 Cricut Designers: Monique, Wendy Lawrence, Susan Rees and Becca Rees. We specialize in making Cricut Project Kits that you can make on your own with your Cricut, learning more about your bug in the process. You just need your Cricut Expression, the required cartridge(s), and a few basic tools. The directions come with a Cricut Cut Chart that shows you line by line exactly what you'll need to cut on your machine, with all of the settings for each cut. There are also well-organized written instructions and color photographs. We pride ourselves on our detailed designs, and on teaching others how to most effectively design with the Cricut. Currently, we have have downloadable directions on sale for only $5, and there are over 50 projects to choose from.


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Monday, July 10, 2006
U.N. gun confab ends in frustration
Small arms conference fails to agree on final document
Posted: July 10, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: The United Nations Small Arms Review Conference concluded its two-week conference Friday. Jerome R. Corsi attended on behalf of WorldNetDaily and files this report.
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
NEW YORK – On the entrance path to the United Nations, it's hard to miss the large statue of a handgun whose barrel has been twisted into a knot – symbolizing eloquently the U.N.'s attitude toward the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
However, in opening the U.N. Small Arms Review Conference, Secretary-General Kofi Annan took pains to claim the conference's purpose was not to trump the Second Amendment with a U.N. international declaration with which the United States would have to comply.
"Let me note that this Review Conference is not negotiating a 'global gun ban,'" Annan insisted in a written statement, "nor do we wish to deny law-abiding citizens their right to bear arms in accordance with their natural laws."
Despite its being couched in United Nations' "bureaucratese," some experienced U.N. observers took Annan's statement as just further confirmation of the conference's true purpose – to abrogate the Second Amendment.
Indeed, the position of the United States was made unequivocally clear by Robert G. Joseph, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, in his June 27 speech to the General Assembly on the second day of the small arms conference:
The U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of our citizens to keep and bear arms, and there will be no infringement of those rights. The United States will not agree to any provisions restricting civilian possession, use or legal trade of firearms inconsistent with our laws and practices. Many millions of American citizens enjoy hunting and the full range of firearm sports, and our work will not affect their rights and opportunities. As an officer of the executive branch of my government, I took an oath to protect the Constitution – a duty that is an honor to uphold.
Most of the conference consisted of two weeks of member states making proclamations in the General Assembly, almost completely intended as public posturing. Indeed, some of the most elaborate statements were carefully crafted by experienced public relations wordsmiths from the very states most active in profiting from and engaging in the true worldwide trade in illicit weapons.
But the real work went on behind the scenes, as conference participants labored to craft technical provisions whose ultimate impact would be to chip away at Second Amendment freedoms, while making equally sure no weapons get in the hands of oppressed peoples who might overthrow the corrupt, dictatorial regimes of the U.N. member states the technocrats were paid to protect.
During those backroom conferences closed to public view, technocrats spend countless hours arguing over drafts of conference resolutions whose true intent often belies the official U.N.-style language in which the resolutions themselves are drafted. Working papers typically are submitted by the gun-control-advocating NGOs (non-governmental organizations) who appoint themselves to participate as "expert advisers" – even though their true purpose remains the advancing of their anti-gun political agenda.
Largely due to U.S. unwillingness to compromise on Second Amendment issues, the conference ended without agreement on a final document. The final press release from the conference noted that Finland's speaker, on behalf of the European Union, expressed extreme disappointment, deploring "the lack of progress on the priority areas."
Even though the 2006 meeting ended in a technical failure to get a final document, the U.N. resolved to hold more meetings to advance the agenda of international gun control. Undeterred, Canada called for "an informal intercessional meeting of States to discuss concrete measures to accelerate implementation" to be held in Geneva in the spring or autumn of 2007.
Success in blocking any one United Nations small arms conference from abrogating the Second Amendment can at best be looked at as a U.S. holding action. The 2006 event was itself a follow-on conference to the previous conference on small arms held by the U.N. in 2001, and more attempts at global gun control will follow.
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