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Cipven 500mg Tablets contains ciprofloxacin which belongs to the group of medicines called fluoroquinolones. It is an antibiotic that is used in various bacterial infections.
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Uses of Cipven 500 MG
- Lower respiratory tract infection
- Treatment of COPD (lung disease)
- Treatment of pneumonia
- Ear infection
- Sinus infection
- Urinary tract infection
- Genital tract infection
- Intestinal infection
- Stomach infection
- Skin infection
- Bone and joint infection
Contraindications of Cipven 500 MG
- If you are allergic to ciprofloxacin or any ingredient of this medicine
- If you are taking other quinolone medicines like moxifloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin or nalidixic acid
- If you are taking tizanidine (medicine used to treat muscle spasm)
Side effects of Cipven 500 MG
- Nausea
- Diarrhoea
- Mycotic superinfections
- Decreased appetite
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Sleep disorders
- Taste disorders
- Vomiting
- Stomach ache
- Dyspepsia
- Flatulence
- Rash, Itchy skin (Pruritus)
- Urticaria (pale, red bumps on skin)
- Muscle pain
- Joint pain
- Kidney impairment
- lack of energy
- Fever
Precautions and Warnings of Cipven 500 MG
Can I take Cipven 500mg Tablets during pregnancy?
- It is preferable to avoid Cipven 500mg Tablets if you are pregnant, think you may be pregnant or are
- planning to have a baby as this medicine may harm your baby
- If you conceive while taking this medicine, stop taking this medicine immediately and inform your doctor
Breast Feeding
Can I take Cipven 500mg Tablets while breastfeeding?
Cipven 500mg Tablets can pass into human breast milk and harm your child. Hence, breastfeeding should be discontinued while you are taking this medicine.
Can I drive if I have consumed Cipven 500mg Tablets?
This medicine may affect the reaction time, which is crucial for driving, hence it is advised not to use this medicine while driving or operating machines.
Can I consume alcohol with Cipven 500mg Tablets?
You should avoid drinking alcohol while taking this medicine, as alcohol may worsen the side effects like dizziness.
Other General Warnings
Talk to your doctor if
- You have kidney diseases, as this medicine will then require dose adjustment
- You have a history of fits
- You have diabetes as your blood glucose can drop when you are on this medicine
- You have myasthenia gravis, this medicine can worsen it
- You have any history of tendon problems
- You have heart diseases, very slow heart rhythm, heart failure
- You have liver diseases
- You have mental health problems
- If you have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (an inherited disorder that affects red blood cells)
- You experience any sudden severe allergic reaction, pain or swelling in joints and tendinitis, stop taking this medicine and contact your doctor immediately
Mode of Action of Cipven 500 MG
How Does It Work?
This medicine prevents bacterial growth and kills the bacteria.
Directions for Use of Cipven 500 MG
Swallow the whole medicine with a glass of water.
Interactions of Cipven 500 MG
Interactions with other medicines
- Medicines that increase the QT interval e.g., medicines that belong to the class anti-arrhythmics, tricyclic antidepressants, macrolides, antipsychotics
- Medicines or dietary supplements that contain calcium, iron, aluminium, magnesium, sevelamer, lanthanum carbonate, antacids or sucralfate. Ciprofloxacin should not be taken within two hours of taking this medicine as they reduce the effect of this medicine....
- Medicines used for treatment of gout like probenecid
- Medicines used to treat nausea and vomiting like metoclopramide
- Medicine used to treat acidity like omeprazole
- Medicine used to treat muscle spasm like tizanidine
- Medicines that may affect your kidney functions like methotrexate
- Medicine used to treat respiratory diseases like theophylline
- If you are using medicines known as xanthine derivatives
- Medicine used to treat epilepsy or fits like phenytoin
- Medicine used to treat skin conditions, rheumatoid arthritis and in organ transplantation like cyclosporin
- Medicines that are used as blood thinner (Anticoagulants) like warfarin, acenocoumarol, phenprocoumon or fluindione
- Medicine used to treat depression like duloxetine, agomelatine
- Medicines used to treat Parkinson's disease like ropinirole
- Anaesthetics like lidocaine
- Medicines used to treat mental health like clozapine
- Medicines used to treat erectile dysfunction like sildenafil
- Medicines used to treat sleeping disorders like zolpidem
Interactions with food items
Dietary supplements or mineral-fortified drinks like milk, yogurt, calcium-fortified orange juice should not be taken with this medicine as they reduce the absorption of this medicine.
Storage and disposal of Cipven 500 MG
- This medicine does not require any special storage conditions.
- Try to keep it out of the reach of children.
Dosage of Cipven 500 MG
- If you take more medicine than prescribed, this medicine may cause confusion, tremor, headache, tiredness, dizziness, hallucinations, fits, liver or kidney impairment, blood in urine, difficulty in urination ...
- Contact your doctor immediately in case of overdose, or rush to the nearest hospital
Missed a Dose
For optimum effect, doses of antibiotics should not be missed. If you missed any dose of medicine, take it as soon as you remember. If it's time for your next dose then skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take double dose of medicine to compensate for the missed one....
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What should I be careful about while taking Cipven 500mg Tablets?
- If you notice tightness in chest, difficulty in breathing, or fainting episode, immediately seek medical help
- If you notice pain, swelling in any joint, immediately stop taking this medicine, take rest, avoid exercise and report to your doctor
- If you are suffering from depression, it can worsen
- If you have diabetes, this medicine can cause a drop in your blood sugars, which can be dangerous
- If you experience sweating, hunger pangs, headache, tremors, immediately have a juice/ sugar. Inform your doctor about this episode
Q: What should I avoid while taking ciprofloxacin?
- Avoid exposure to direct sunlight. Wear a protective covering or use a sunscreen (SPF 30 or 40) to prevent sunburn
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Will Graham Preaching Jesus at Jersey Shore
William Franklin Graham IV will be preaching at Jersey Shore this weekend at the same age his grandfather, Billy Graham, first preached in the same venue in 1955.
At the age of 36, the younger Graham has already preached the Gospel to more than 50,000 people. Beginning Friday, he'll speak to thousands more with the hope of changing lives.
The Jersey Shore Will Graham Celebration kicks off at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove Friday night with popular Christian artist Matthew West. The three-day event is just the first part of a longer process of bringing people to Christ.
"We are going to start the event and we will still have some work to do with following up on people and the local churches," Graham told The Christian Post. "We are only half-way through this whole process."
Although he will be carrying the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association banner with him, he wants people to know that he is part of the new generation that uses different means of communication when it comes to proclaiming the Gospel.
He stated, "No one can replace Billy Graham and I'm certainly not going to try," said Will of his influential grandfather, who is now 92. "I just need to be myself and do whatever God asks of me. Whatever the future holds is in God's hands."
His evangelistic approach for the most part is similar to that of his father, Franklin, and grandfather, he said, but with slight changes in music and illustrations that people can relate to, such as "Seinfeld" and "Everybody loves Raymond."
"My granddaddy's generation, people probably don't know about it, but for my generation I mean, 'Seinfeld,' I think I have seen every episode of 'Seinfeld' and it's just a great show. People close to my generation can relate to the same shows somehow," he said.
The younger Graham spoke to his grandfather last weekend, when he was released from the hospital after having complications with pneumonia. He shared that while living a few miles from him, he had to opportunity to visit him on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
"I went up to say hi to him. I wanted to give him three things," the 36-year-old evangelist recalled. "One, to give a report about where I had just come home from. I had just come home from Australia and then the Philippines and I just wanted to give him a verbal report on how that went."
"Second thing, I just wanted to give him and update about me coming to Jersey Shore, and he started smiling and said 'oh, I remember being there, I remember the great things God has done.' And then the third thing, I just wanted to sit there and talk with him."
"You know, he's my granddaddy and so I just wanted to sit there and talk, share what's on each other's hearts and I got to do that Sunday."
He is happy to report that although his grandfather still has pneumonia, he is responding extremely well to the antibiotics. The elder Graham was already sitting in his office the day he visited him.
While Will Graham had no comments about his father's recent controversial comments on President Obama or about his involvement in politics, especially from the pulpit, he does encourage Christians' involvement in politics.
"I do believe that Christians should be involved in politics. I don't think we should just be on the sidelines. When it comes to endorsing candidates, I think every Christian should be involved in politics in terms of voting and saying their piece on certain issues and stuff like that."
Beyond everything else though, his priority right now is bringing the Gospel to Jersey Shore, unity among churches, and taking the focus of Christianity as religion and replacing it with faith instead.
"I want to be able to preach that Gospel in the next three nights and talk about, not about being religious – because religion is anything that man does trying to earn his way to heaven – but Jesus; God sent his son to man."
One of his biggest concerns at the moment is people believing that there are multiple ways to heaven and multiple ways to God, and above all, multiple ways of mixing Jesus with something else.
It's not about Jesus plus good works, but rather about trusting in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins above all.
His biggest prayer this weekend is "that the community is better than when we first arrived. And what I mean is that it's not because the Billy Graham Organization was there, but that God moved His people and He worked in the heart of the people."
While going to Jersey Shore was only by invitation from the local churches in the area, he hopes that they continue to work together and unite and become stronger."
"It doesn't mean that we have to believe what each other believe," he added. "I believe it's important to have our distinctive but at the same time we have a lot more in common that we have in differences."
He said he is excited to work with some of the biggest Christian artists today such as Newsboys, Matthew West, Flame, and Chasen, whom he has not met before.
He shared that "when it comes to music taste, my taste follows my friends. I think I like their music more because I know them personally. My music taste is driven more by my personal relationships than anything else."
He concluded by encouraging Christians to bring their non-Christian friends to the event this weekend.
"That's my greatest desire. I don't want to fill up the arena with a whole bunch of Christians; I want Christians to bring people who are looking for hope, looking for peace, looking for joy."

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Frances Root Eareckson, formerly of Southampton, N.Y., died at her home in Coronado, Calif. on Nov. 1. She was 93.
Born Frances Eve Root in White Plains, N.Y. on Jan. 17, 1919, Fran was the second of four children born to Louis Denman Root and Eve Brostrom Root. Fran spent her early years in Bronxville, N.Y. until 1929 when her family moved full time to the ocean and their beloved "Cherry Hill" in Southampton, Long Island. She was a 1938 graduate of the Spence School in New York city. In 1940 she married Donald L. Mulford at St. Andrew's Dune Church in Southampton. Fran and Don moved to his home town of Montclair, N.J., where they had three daughters, Marcia, Sally and Sandra (Sandy).
With the ending of that marriage, Fran moved to another beachside community, Sarasota, Fla., where she lived until 1966 when her second husband, Eric Eareckson, passed away. Again drawn to the ocean, Fran moved to the San Diego area upon the advice of her father. She lived in several locations in Coronado and La Jolla, being most at peace by the sea in Coronado. She served as a Pink Lady Volunteer at the Coronado Hospital and was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, serving for a number of years on the Flower Guild. To all who knew Fran, she will be remembered as an elegant but quiet woman who always created and appreciated beautiful surroundings.
Fran was a great lover of animals and had dogs all her life, beginning with her beloved black and white Scotties, Nip and Tuck. She was comforted to the end by her little Susie who never left her side. Fran is survived by two daughters, Marcia Mulford Cini and husband William L. of Vineyard Haven and Sally M. Patrick and husband Chris LaTour of Salt Lake city, Utah; one sister, Susie Hodges and husband Bill, of Cupertino, Calif.; three grandchildren, Valerie, Christopher and Sarah, and two great-grandchildren, Cameron and Gunnar. She is preceded in death by daughter Sandy, sister Ann and brother Bud.
Fran will be interred in the Memorial Garden of Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado. A memorial service will be held at the church on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 11 a.m. The family requests that donations be made to a charity of one's choice in Fran's name.


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Like a ship circumnavigating the globe
«Everything flows», an insight which dates back to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, certainly applies to the movement of international trade. Maritime centres originated in the Middle East and thence moved to Asia via Europe and the USA. Will the westward transition continue?
Various waterborne means of transport have facilitated trade since the dawn of human history, and ships have been used to carry all types of goods since ancient times. Over the millennia, global trade flows have undergone increasingly rapid transformation, and in the meantime the maritime industry has become a thoroughly international business.
In this context it is particularly fascinating to look at maritime developments in an economic and political context. Conversely, shipping, as one of the most important drivers behind growth in international trade, also has a large impact on the overall economy.
As an essential aspect of globalisation, international transport is one of the main reasons behind the transition undergone by the world's economy from a national system to a closely intermeshed network. The transport business has thus always taken it for granted that the global perspective is the only way of looking at the business world.
Asia dominates the top ten
Europe has traditionally played a vital role in the maritime sector. Time-honoured trading centres such as Hamburg and London were long regarded as the unchallenged focal points of the maritime world. But conditions have been changing over the past century.
Today, nine of the world's ten busiest ports in terms of cargo throughput are in China. Shanghai once again led the field last year, although the industry's number two, Singapore, has repeatedly given it a good run for its money.
Parallel to this trend there is a shift in companies' business locations along the entire logistics and maritime services chain. A key factor behind this trend is the relocation of the manufacturing industry, in particular to China.
Although this mass migration of companies has slowed considerably, logistics firms, as well as providers of all kinds of services to the transport industry, are still swarming eastward. The Southeast Asian country Singapore, for example, has welcomed an uninterrupted flood of companies arriving from overseas and opening their regional headquarters there, or even managing all of their activities from the city-state.
Singapore's government has designated the maritime industry as one of its key economic sectors, adding attractive tax incentives to the advantageous geographical location as factors prompting companies to move to the island nation.
Dubai gaining ground
Nor is the competition standing still. Ninth-ranked Dubai, the only port in the top ten that is not located in the Far East, already stands out from the crowd. But if analysts are to be believed, ports in the Middle East are likely to play a much more important role as international hubs in the medium term.
Dubai in particular, with its Jebel Ali hub, is aiming high. By 2030, the emirate intends to overtake current leader Shanghai in terms of cargo throughput, and is backing up this ambition with massive infrastructure investments (see also ITJ 21-22 / 2013, page 27). DP World, which operates Jebel Ali, plans to increase the port's annual capacity from 14 million teu at present to 55 million teu in the year 2030.
Located between two continents
Like Singapore – which, incidentally, intends to build a new port capable of handling 68 million teu a year – Dubai seeks to leverage its favourable geographical location between continents. Along with easy access to Asia and Europe, Dubai sees a competitive advantage in its close proximity to Africa.
Dubai faces a headwind not only from Asia, however, but also from much closer to home. For example, the government of Oman recently gave the green light to the new South Batinah logistics hub. The centre will be located approximately halfway between the historic city of Muscat and the new port of Sohar, which will take over all activities of the former Muscat hub from August onwards (see ITJ 23-26 / 2014, page 16).
On the Westline
If Dubai's plans pan out, this would do more than just delight the rulers of the emirate. It would also provide new evidence to back the so-called Westline theory, put forward in the 1990s by Martin Stopford. The British economist and non-executive president of Clarkson Research argues that global trade has steadily drifted westward over the past 5,000 years, starting in what is now Lebanon in around 3,000 BC.
From there, the centre of maritime trade moved through Greece, Rome and Northern Italy before settling in northwestern Europe. This resulted in the formation of Hanseatic cities in Germany, and with the introduction of steam shipping on the east coast of the USA that region also played a key role.
The 20th century saw the ascendancy of the Pacific region, with a rise in importance of Japan, South Korea and China. The emergence of Singapore also supports this line of argument, and a transition to Dubai would be the next logical step. Each of these changes is linked to economic activity in the respective countries. As old centres go into decline, new ones surge to the forefront. According to Stopford, the world of modern trade is a bit like a ship circumnavigating the globe.
US ports in competition
Although they are not at the centre of global maritime trade at present, ports on the American continent are probably engaged in the most intense arms race among container terminal operators worldwide. They are jockeying for a better position ahead of the opening of the expanded Panama Canal – a development that represents one of the biggest upheavals in the history of maritime trade. Despite several postponements of the completion date (now expected in 2015 or 2016), the project already looms large on many a centre's horizon.
Once ships with a capacity of up to 13,000 teu can sail through the Panama Canal, then it may be worthwhile for ships carrying cargo from Asia to take that route to US ports on the US Gulf coast or the eastern seaboard. This has triggered infrastructure upgrade efforts at ports in these regions. Bridges are getting higher, berths longer and container cranes bigger, to prepare the gateways to handle larger vessels.
East versus West
Today, cargo for this part of the important US consumer market arrives in the country mainly via west coast ports, especially Los Angeles and Long Beach, before being transported to its final destination by road or rail.
Despite determined efforts by those ports to cling to their status, a shift in market shares between the west and east coasts of North America appears almost inevitable. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that Canadian ports have also been handling larger cargo volumes on the North American west coast in recent years, and play an ever-increasing role in the transhipment of goods destined for the US Midwest.
This has spawned new alliances, for example between erstwhile bitter rivals Seattle and Tacoma, who entered into a cooperative arrangement at the beginning of this year, with the goal of defending their market positions.
Jamaican hubs seeking opportunities
Port operators in the Caribbean, led by Jamaican hubs, also see fresh opportunities in the expansion of the Panama Canal. In addition to new ULCV-capable terminal facilities, a regional special economic area is being established.
On the other side of the world, China is currently striving to expand its business contacts, especially with emerging markets. This will increase the importance of south–south trade flows, especially between China and Africa and South America. The reason for this – as is so often the case – is natural resources. China is not only an importer of raw materials, but is also becoming more active in extracting minerals and other commodities in the source countries.
What is new, however, and motivated by entirely different aims, is China's intensified push into Europe. The state-owned shipping group Cosco is now extremely active in Greece, for example. The company sees great potential there, particularly in the port of Piraeus (near Athens), which it plans to develop into the largest port on the Mediterranean as well as the region's most important gateway. It will play a major role, especially as a gateway to the Balkans and southern Europe. The losers here might be other Mediterranean transhipment ports such as Gioia Tauro in Italy.
Backed by the state
China and Dubai have one thing in common: Firms active in the maritime sector there often have government backing for their activities. The economic order in these countries differs from that of the western democracies, with a different set of rules governing the players shaping business life there. The end of history has not been reached yet by a long chalk.
Trade flows shift and ports respond. But ultimately, these investments are a roll of the dice. There are too many factors influencing the routes open to shippers for their production and sales channels, and that won't change in the future (see also page 70). The most recent example thereof is the development of relations between Russia and the European Union.
However, economic development is an ever-present source of change too, as seen in the increase in near-shoring (from the USA to Mexico, for example) or an accelerating shift of Chinese production centres from coastal to inland sites. But as an old gaming saying goes – «nothing ventured, nothing gained».


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Tiger Woods' recent public apology came with much criticism, as the statement was issued without the opportunity for the media to ask questions. In a recent article published by ESPN, Sport Psychologist Mitch Abrams, author of Anger Management in Sport (Human Kinetics, 2010), explained that Tiger Woods' strategy in handling the apology was well thought out. "At least this way no one can stump him – he'll only be saying what his PR people have already vetted."
Abrams challenges the public to step back and remember that they are not the ones that deserve the apology – it is his wife and family that should be considered. In his Psychology Today blog as well as in his book, Abrams emphasizes that athletes are real people, and must handle their actions and attitudes as real men and women, rather than as the super humans they are portrayed as by the media.
"And we will wait and watch for any sign that he and any other superstar athlete may be a little less than human. Why? Probably because even being human is too much to ask. The cameras will be waiting and the reporters will be baiting, to find the next time that an athlete falls from grace..."
Mitch Abrams, PsyD, is a clinician administrator for University Correctional HealthCare/UMDNJ, where he is responsible for the delivery of mental health services for 6 of the state's 13 state prisons. Dr. Abrams co-coordinates the forensic track of UMDNJ's predoctoral psychology internship and has been involved with several aspects of advancing the quality of mental health services in prison systems. He is a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has held adjunct faculty positions at Brooklyn College, C.W. Post, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Since 2000, he has been in private practice providing sport, clinical, and forensic psychology services.


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August Alsina has revealed he's struggling with a liver disease.
The 24-year-old hip-hop star said in an interview with Jada Pinkett Smith that he posted on Instagram that he has an autoimmune disorder affecting his liver. He said in the caption of the post that he's "sicker than ever" and he's having a hard time accepting what his doctors are telling him.
He said his relatives have explained to him that "sickness & illness" runs in his family. He said his father and grandfather both died of "severe illness."
Alsina told Smith that he doesn't like to talk about his struggles because he's "not looking for anybody's sympathy."
Alsina won the Best New Artist at the BET Awards in 2014.
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Save Us from the Liberal Hawks
Syria's a tragedy. But it's not our problem.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of (humanitarian) war. That, at least, is what much of the U.S. policy elite seems to be pushing for these days in Syria. That many of the "permahawks," like Fouad Ajami, Max Boot, and Elliott Abrams, who championed the George W. Bush administration's decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein, are now calling for supporting the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship should come as no surprise to anyone. Nor should similar calls from most of the liberal writers and editors associated with the New Republic magazine come as a shock. They, too, have been remarkably consistent, and the magazine's current symposium on what needs to be done next in Syria is eerily reminiscent of the one it ran the year after the invasion of Iraq, which tilted so lopsidedly toward justifying the war, though not the way the Bush administration was prosecuting it.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of (humanitarian) war. That, at least, is what much of the U.S. policy elite seems to be pushing for these days in Syria. That many of the "permahawks," like Fouad Ajami, Max Boot, and Elliott Abrams, who championed the George W. Bush administration's decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein, are now calling for supporting the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship should come as no surprise to anyone. Nor should similar calls from most of the liberal writers and editors associated with the New Republic magazine come as a shock. They, too, have been remarkably consistent, and the magazine's current symposium on what needs to be done next in Syria is eerily reminiscent of the one it ran the year after the invasion of Iraq, which tilted so lopsidedly toward justifying the war, though not the way the Bush administration was prosecuting it.
What is surprising, though, is that despite the disaster of Iraq, looming withdrawal in what will amount to defeat in Afghanistan, and, to put it charitably, the ambiguous result of the U.N.-sanctioned, NATO-led, and Qatari-financed intervention that brought down Muammar al-Qaddafi's regime, is how nearly complete the consensus for strong action has been even among less hawkish liberals, whether what is done takes the form of the United States and its NATO allies arming the Free Syrian Army, opening so-called humanitarian corridors, or encouraging Turkey and a coalition of the willing within the Arab League to do so. British columnist Jonathan Freedland summed up this view when he wrote recently in the Guardian that the West must not "make the people of Homs pay the price for the mistake we made in Baghdad."
In reality, though, liberal interventionists were never as shaken by the lessons of Iraq as was commonly supposed. Anyone doubting this need only look at the extraordinary mobilization for some sort of humanitarian and human rights-based intervention in Darfur in 2005 and 2006. This movement included a number of figures who now occupy important positions in Barack Obama's administration, notably Susan Rice, now U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, and Samantha Power, now senior director for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council, and who are generally assumed to have played an important role (if not quite the central one sometimes attributed to them) in persuading Obama to intervene in Libya. Nothing is wrong with intervention, it seems (just as there is nothing wrong with drone strikes), just as long as it is done by good U.N.-loving, multilateralism-oriented Democrats from the coasts, rather than by ignorant, war-worshipping, vulgarly nationalistic Republicans from flyover country.
If anything, liberal interventionists now seem to feel they have the wind at their backs because of the acceptance by the United Nations of the so-called "responsibility to protect" (R2P) doctrine, which has been widely touted — including by many of the most important human rights organizations that are often at odds with U.S. government policy (notably Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and some of their most important funders, notably George Soros's Open Society Foundations network) — as resolving many of the ethical and operational problems that accompanied previous iterations of humanitarian intervention. In the words of Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University, who, until last year, was head of policy planning at the U.S. State Department, "R2P is a foundation for increased peace and respect for human rights over the long term, [and] each time it is invoked successfully to authorize the prevention of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave and systematic war crimes, and ethnic cleansing as much as the protection of civilians from such atrocities once they are occurring, it becomes a stronger deterrent against the commission of those acts in the first place."
Like so many of the fundamental assumptions of the human rights movement, there is something quasi-religious about all this. Writing recently on this site, Gareth Evans, the former Australian foreign minister who is one of the principal intellectual and institutional architects of R2P, argued that over the past decade there is "universal agreement that state sovereignty is not a license to kill." He concedes that the Russian and Chinese veto of the Security Council's Syria resolution demonstrates that "for every two steps forward on R2P there is usually a step back" — but Evans quickly dispenses with this caveat. He quotes U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, noting that henceforth the global debate will be about "how, not whether, to implement the responsibility to protect."
Welcome to the "End of History," human-rights style. Like Francis Fukuyama's famous argument, there is simply no basis other than our hopes and our preferences to make us think that though the road toward this radiant future, to use the old Soviet expression, will be neither straight nor smooth, nevertheless it only goes one way, and that is in the direction of progress, peace, justice, and rights.
It is this religious quality to the support for R2P that helps account for the odd reaction among those who believe that something must be done to stop the Assad regime's war against much of its own people despite the Russian and Chinese vetoes. Obviously, some of this is purely political posturing. But it is not only spin. The moral outrage, however misplaced, is real enough. In her contribution to the New Republic symposium, Suzanne Nossel — formerly Richard Holbrooke's deputy when he was the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, founder of DemocracyArsenal.org, former chief operating officer of Human Rights Watch, and now executive director of the U.S. branch of Amnesty International — illustrated this faith-based ethical triumphalism perfectly when she insisted that though the Russian and Chinese vetoes of the Security Council resolution had been "a sharp political defeat," it had also represented a "potent moral victory" and a "tectonic shift" in the advancement of a global human rights regime whose victory is now inevitable, no matter what kind of sovereigntist rear-guard actions the Russians and Chinese may continue to mount.
The implication is clear. Three years after the adoption of R2P by the U.N. General Assembly and more than a year after the beginning of the Arab Spring, not only is the Assad regime on the wrong side of history, but the Russians and Chinese are as well. In her New Republic piece, Nossel even goes so far as to imply that the Russians and the Chinese know this themselves. They cast their votes out of fear of this human rights-based future, she writes, claiming that the "bell of international condemnation and isolation tolling now for Damascus sounds an uneasy note in Beijing and Moscow." Even by the hubristic standards of the human rights movement, these are extraordinary claims. One doubts, however, that they will cause either Vladimir Putin or Hu Jintao to quake in his boots as this owl of Minerva flies by, presumably with a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights held in its beak.
Beneath all the incantatory bluster, however, a certain nervousness shows through. To judge by the fevered, angry response of U.S., French, and British officials, it seems as if they genuinely believed the Russians and Chinese would be obliged to truckle before the historic inevitability of the human rights revolution. How else to account for the spectacle of Ambassador Rice storming out of the Security Council chamber in fine, old, Khrushchev-era Soviet style once the vetoes had been cast, or her declaration shortly after that Russia and China had held the council "hostage" (one can only wonder how long until those words are thrown back at her the next time the United States vetoes a Security Council resolution on Israel-Palestine, as it has so often in the past).
Safely out of government, Slaughter was able to go further, demanding that the United States and its allies do something to bring the carnage in Syria to an end. Otherwise, she wrote, R2P would be exposed as a "convenient fiction for power politics or oil politics." So convinced is she of the positive value of the responsibility to protect as a force for peace and international security that she seems perfectly willing to envisage an end run around that pesky Security Council veto the Russians and the Chinese had the gall to invoke. To be legitimate, she writes, all that would be required from the United Nations would be the "authorization of a majority of the members of the [Security Council]," as an exercise of R2P, "with clear limits to how and against whom force could be used built into the resolution." Like the iconic U.S. officer in Vietnam who told a reporter that his troops had been obliged to burn the village in order to save it, Slaughter seems to be willing to undermine the structural foundations of international order, which, for better or worse, is based in large measure on the Security Council, in order to further it. Peace is war; war is peace. George Orwell, call your office.
Meanwhile, despite the astonishing propaganda barrage in the media (for once, CNN, the BBC, and Al Jazeera were all on the same page!) that for all intents and purposes endorsed the claims about dead and wounded made by the anti-Assad insurgents (the disclaimers tended to come at paragraph three or four of a print piece, or the tail end of a video segment), the reality on the ground in Syria was far more complicated. A McClatchy news story quoted U.S. government sources as confirming that the recent attack against a Syrian government building in Aleppo had probably been the work of al Qaeda, thus confirming at least to some extent the claims the Assad regime has made about the role of jihadists in the rebellion. Qaddafi made the same claim; it was dismissed at the time, but now appears to have had at least some foundation. In the Syrian case, though, there is no need to trust either Assad or anonymous sources in the U.S. intelligence world, because al Qaeda's support for the uprising has been confirmed publicly by Osama bin Laden's successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who, in a recent video, praised the "lions of Syria" for their rebellion. And even if al Qaeda's role is overstated, the degree to which what is going on today in Syria pits Sunnis against Assad's Alawite base was underscored by the early January testimony to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee by Israeli army chief of staff Benny Gantz, who said the Israel Defense Forces was already making contingency plans to cope with the thousands of Alawites likely to try to flee to Israel should Assad be driven from power.
These nightmare scenarios are anything but far-fetched. What is taking place in Syria may have begun in part as a democratic insurrection, but it has become a low-level (at least for the moment) interconfessional civil war. The last time we got involved in one of those was in Iraq, whose principal legacies, however unintended, are almost certain to be increasing Iranian power and influence — and setting the stage for the disappearance of Christianity in one of its most ancient homelands. There is simply no reason to believe that things in Syria will turn out any better and at least some reason to assume that the result will be even worse. But in the brave new world of R2P, this does not seem to matter very much to a born-again liberal interventionism eager to flex its muscles.
During the Bush administration, Democrats often boasted that — unlike the president and his aides, who were consumed by millenarian dreams of remaking the Middle East in the image of American democracy — they were part of the "reality-based community." In fact, the neoconservatives were paragons of modesty compared with the liberal interventionists and R2P supporters who saw in Libya and now see in Syria the chance to move one step closer to remaking the world in the image of the human rights movement. Infatuated by their own good intentions — and persuaded that their interventionist views incarnate a higher morality — those who view Libya as a triumph and Syria as an opportunity to cement the practice of humanitarian intervention are in full crusading mode. If the looming victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the failure of the democratic project in Iraq, and the fact that the most significant political outcomes of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Yemen, and Libya have been instability and the victory of political Islam have not chastened them — and clearly they haven't — nothing will. Welcome to the second decade in a row of humanitarian war.
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Nowadays, small business owners are starting to see the advantages of working remotely. Modern technology offers many tools for managing a business and interacting with employees or customers from anywhere. These tools were once limited to big businesses due to their cost and infrastructure requirements, but improvements in public networks and hardware have now brought them within reach of the small business owner.
By adapting some procedures and adopting new practices, small business owners have the option of maintaining their business while they travel, inspiring a more balanced lifestyle.
Here are some technologies available to the small business owner that will give them the freedom to travel while they work.
Chat and Notifications Apps
There are several chat and notification apps which allow a small business owner to communicate directly with their employees or customers and setup notifications. These apps allow direct communications or group chats to keep everyone connected. One of the top apps in this segment is Slack which works seamlessly on mobile and desktop machines allowing the small business owner to easily transition from office to travel and back again.
Video Conferencing Apps
Small business owners can video conference on the road with a variety of great video conferencing app options. On the simple end, apps like Apple's Facetime have been available for quite some time and the latest versions even allow multiple people to join the same call. Apps designed specifically for business applications include Skype, WebEX and Fuze. These apps have free and paid options and have features which you won't find in the consumer-oriented apps like Facetime. These features include cross-device operation so you can participate in calls from a desktop phone, mobile phone or desktop computer. Some of them also offer notification support to send follow-up emails automatically to those who participated in a call.
Project Management Tools
These tools help business owners manage several people over the course of a lengthy, challenging project. These apps typically include calendars, group chat services, activity tracking, task management, to-do lists and more. The current top apps in this arena are Basecamp and Teamwork. These are excellent tools which will allow a small business owner to manage, track and monitor all the projects in process at the office while traveling.
AI Virtual Assistants
There are a number of companies now offering AI virtual assistant applications which can help manage your business while you are traveling. These apps are similar to a Siri or Alexa application with many more features geared specifically toward business use. Some examples include X.ai, 24me, Assistant.ai, and Hound. These apps can handle anything from scheduling meetings to getting you an Uber or hotel room while you travel.
Keeping and maintaining notes on paper while traveling can be a nightmare. Instead, small business owners should look to high tech note-taking applications like Evernote or Trello. These apps get rid of the paper and bring all your notetaking to your mobile device. This makes notetaking and organization much easier, and it allows you to share your notes with other people in your organization. Notes can be synched across devices. You can even scan in hand-written notes, and store them alongside those entered by typing through the app.
Modern technology provides a myriad of powerful tools for the small business owner to operate their business while they travel. Nearly every aspect of managing and maintaining a small business can now be handled more efficiently than ever before from a remote location. These tools give the small business owner the ability to travel while still running their business, opening up a whole new world of possibilities.


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I started using linux about a week ago and chose ubuntu 12.10 to start out with.
I ran it dual boot with windows 7. Played with it for about a week and everything was going great then I loaded up minecraft and noticed it was running poorly.
So I thought I haven't done anything with my graphics yet so why not try installing new drivers. I removed my current drivers then went out and downloaded it from amd and extracted it then ran it through the terminal.
Everything went fine and it was successful so I rebooted. By the time it loaded back up I got to the purple screen and heard the login sound then nothing. Just purple screen. I'm using a Radeon HD 6950 if that is relevant to the problem.
I tried using recovery mode, my boot loader is unaffected by all this, to remove the new drivers and reinstall the old ones but quickly realized I was over my head and didn't make any changes.
I know how powerful the terminal can be and I'm still a bit hesitant to really dive into it without some direction.


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Treasury Is Lightning Rod for China, Banks and Debt
Whomever President Barack Obama taps to replace Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner is likely to face tough questioning from senators in both parties on the $16 trillion debt, Chinese currency issues and bank regulations, to name just a few topics.
But the good news for Obama is that the man rumored to be his top pick — current White House Chief of Staff Jacob J. Lew — is likely to be easily confirmed, regardless.
Still, the high-profile job will come amid a backdrop of success or failure in averting the fiscal cliff, a raging dispute over the future of the debt ceiling and sharply divided views between the parties and even within the parties about how to regulate Wall Street and the biggest banks.
Lew's résumé is among the most bulletproof in town — he's been a budget director for multiple presidents and an aide to former Speaker Tip O'Neill and has been confirmed before by the Senate. His past experience at Citigroup would be both a plus and a minus — showing he has Wall Street experience while also bringing up questions about the bailed-out bank and his role there.
"I think they'll beat him up in the hearings, and he'll sail through on the floor," a Senate Democratic leadership aide predicted.
Several Republican senators told CQ Roll Call they don't expect a big fight — barring some unexpected disclosure.
"That would be a logical choice for the president to make," Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind, said. "He brings credentials and experience with him that would be valuable, but in the end this really is the president's choice."
Still, he noted, "there's always an X factor that may occur … but Jack's been through the process."
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., predicted an easier time more broadly, suggesting Lew would be a good pick. "My view is the president has greater capacity to get second term appointments," he said.
However, he joked of a treasury nominee, "I want to hear that they disagree with the president on the fundamentals of the economy. That's not likely to happen."
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she doesn't know Lew well enough to have a position on confirmation. "From what little I do know, he is well-regarded," she said.
That's not to say that someone like Lew wouldn't have to face questions.
"What are we going to do about our $16 trillion debt?" Collins said would be the first on her list.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, wouldn't comment on a Lew nomination in particular, but said he'll press the next nominee on providing greater openness to Congressional oversight.
"I'd like to see them answer their letters fully the first time," he said. He noted he's already holding up confirmation of an assistant Treasury secretary over letters he's sought from Geithner regarding the scandal over alleged manipulation of the LIBOR, or London Interbank Offered Rate.
The ongoing negotiations over dealing with the nation's finances also would get a full airing, given that no one expects all issues to be resolved before inauguration day — when Geithner, who is leading the fiscal cliff talks with guidance from Lew, hopes to exit the administration.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, has clashed with Lew previously in hearings over the president's budgets and has taken issue with statements made by the administration that the president's budget would begin to pay down the debt — even though it never has a single year without a large deficit.
"That really worried me," Sessions said. "How can we negotiate with someone who says it's dark outside when the sun is shining? … We need people at the Treasury secretary [level] willing to look the American people in the eye and tell them the truth."
The White House has previously pointed to its budgets reaching balance when interest payments are excluded, as well as reducing debt as a percentage of the economy. But the nominal debt would still grow every year by hundreds of billions of dollars. And Republicans have repeatedly noted that the administration has never offered a plan that would deal with the longer-term entitlement problems that threaten to overwhelm the budget in coming decades.
Sessions and several Senate Democrats also have criticized Geithner for declining to label China a currency manipulator, something the Alabama Republican said would come up regardless of who is nominated to replace him.
"We need to have it right on the table," Sessions said.
Republicans also aren't happy with Geithner's pushing a plan to eliminate the debt ceiling as a practical matter and are sure to press the next nominee on the matter.
Top Democrats also predicted Lew would be easily confirmed.
"I can't imagine that he'd have any trouble," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the incoming chairwoman of the Budget Committee. "I have tremendous respect for him."
Other Democrats have been disappointed with Geithner and are hoping for a more liberal, more activist regulator of Wall Street to replace him. Lew can expect some questions on that front as well.
Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., had been urging former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles to allow himself to be considered for the job, contending that Bowles has shown he can bring the two parties together. But so far, Bowles has said publicly and privately that he's not interested, and Lew has repeatedly been reported to be in the mix.
"Either would be a very good pick," Carper said, adding that he hopes the GOP doesn't use the hearings to score political points.
"I hope it won't turn into a circus, even on a small scale," he said.


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Hello: I have always programmed in C for windows using either Turbo C or Borland C++.
Recently I am trying to dive into the Mac OSX/Unix world. I am learning how to use the gcc compiler in mac os x panther. The help files in apple's developer pages are not very concise, I have tried to look around for a very basic tutorial on gcc but no luck. Could anyone point me to a basic tutorial in this matter?
I also would like to ask if anyone can explain to me what libraries, standards and functions are compatible with which compilers? For example:
This works perfectly under windows when I use my Borland compiler. In mac os x I have tried to compile it:Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> void main(){ printf("hello"); getch(); }
$c++ hello.c
and it gives me a series of errors saying that it can't find conio.h and stuff like that.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.
A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. Would-be customers can then check their smartphones for real-time updates on the crowd size, average age and men-to-women mix to decide whether the scene is to their liking.
The Austin, Texas-based makers of SceneTap say the app doesn't identify specific individuals or save personal information. But in a city known for its love of both libations and civil liberties, a backlash erupted even before the first cameras were switched on from bar-goers who said they would boycott any venue with SceneTap installed.
SceneTap's ability to guess how old people are and whether they're men or women relies on advances in a field known as biometrics. A camera at the door snaps your picture, and software maps your features to a grid. By measuring distances such as the length between the nose and the eyes and the eyes and the ears, an algorithm matches your dimensions to a database of averages for age and gender.
SceneTap CEO Cole Harper says the app doesn't invade patrons' privacy because the only data it stores is their estimated ages and genders and the time they arrived — not their images or measurements.
"Nothing that we do is collecting personal information. It's not recorded, it's not streamed, it's not individualized," Harper said.
Whether the company's promises are comforting or SceneTap still seems creepy, it portends a near future when any camera-equipped smartphone will have the ability to recognize faces with a click of the virtual shutter.
Already the iPhone's camera app will highlight a person's face on the screen with a green box before the picture is even snapped. And Apple's iPhoto software will try to recognize the faces of the people in users' pictures to categorize photos automatically by who's in the shot.
Facebook also uses facial recognition software that tries to identify any friends in a photo a user uploads.
SceneTap's San Francisco debut came the same day Facebook went public. Privacy experts say social media has played a major role in making it easier to attach a face to a name.
"Ten years ago if I walked down the street and took a picture of someone I didn't know, there was little I could do to find out who that person was. Today it's a very different story," said Lee Tien, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who focuses on surveillance technology and privacy.
Tien says facial recognition technology has advanced to the point that having your picture taken potentially offers up the same degree of identifying information as giving someone your fingerprints. Computer programs can break down high-resolution images in minute detail to identify the distinctive features of individual faces.
Those patterns, rather than the images themselves, make possible the tracking of individuals even without knowing who they are. In theory, a program could also match that pattern to identifiable online images such as a Facebook profile picture.
The threat to privacy from an app like SceneTap depends not just on what's being stored but how easily the system could be converted to become more intrusive, whether by a hacker or under a court order.
"Even if everything is happening the way it is supposed to, then the next question is, gee, is that good enough?" Tien said. "Is that something that you're comfortable with?"
Along with the visual images being deleted nearly as soon as they're snapped, SceneTap's sensors aren't sophisticated enough to recognize individual faces in any case, Harper said. Detecting basic characteristics like gender and age takes much less digital work than identifying individuals, he said.
The 28-year-old CEO argues SceneTap doesn't come close to intruding on personal privacy the way many other ubiquitous technologies already do. Many bars already have video cameras that record customers' every move, creating an archive that could, for example, be subpoenaed in court. And anyone who uses Facebook or Gmail is turning over reams of sensitive personal information to large companies every day.
SceneTap's business plan also hinges on the data it collects. Facebook and Google make money by targeting individuals as precisely as possible. Harper says SceneTap only has the combined data on bar customers' genders and ages. The company hopes advertisers will ultimately covet that data to target bar-goers through the app. The bars themselves can use the statistics to determine what mix of people come in when to adjust their inventories, advertising and promotions, Harper said.
SceneTap is already in use in six other cities across the country, including Chicago and several college towns.
Charles Hall, general manager of Bar None in San Francisco's Marina District, said he decided to install SceneTap to give potential customers another way to interact with the business. He said his decision to use it depended on the company's promise that no information was being collected on individuals.
"I have nothing to gain from doing something that people are going to be up in arms about," Hall said the day before the official launch.
A few hours later, the bar briefly got cold feet because of the negative attention SceneTap had received in the local media. But as of 10 p.m. Friday night, Bar None was "lively," according to the app: a little less than half full, a nearly even mix of sexes, average age 22.
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We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make billions of his own.
I was just perusing an older but still very relevant report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, titled "Making of a Successful Entrepreneur." They surveyed 549 successful company founders across a variety of industries, and gathered their views on success and failure drivers. Many are predictable, all were interesting, and a few even surprised me:
Stick with the business area you know. We all have a tendency to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but 96% of these founders ranked prior work experience in their business area as an extremely important or important success factor.
It's the learning; not success or failure, that makes the difference. Successful founders try and try again. 88% attributed their success to prior successes; 78% attributed success to prior failures.
The management team is critical. In looking back on their success, 82% of the founders attributed their success to strength of the management team (not the idea, business plan, or money). No surprise here.
A little luck never hurts. Surprisingly, a full 73% said that good fortune was an important factor in their success. 22% even ranked this as extremely important. Perhaps we can discount this a bit for humility, but there is nothing like being in the right place at the right time.
Don't discount the value of your network. Professional networks were deemed important in the success of 73% of the founders. 62% of the respondents felt the same way about their personal networks.
Dropping out of school is not recommended. 95% of these founders had earned Bachelor's degrees and 47% had more advanced degrees. 70% said their university education was important, so only a few said skip it. Born to be an entrepreneur may not be enough today.
First-timers usually fund their own venture. Venture capital and private/angel investments play a relatively small role in the startups of first-time entrepreneurs. 70% said they had to use personal savings as a main source for their first business.
Advice from investors is not worth much. Of the entrepreneurs who received advice from their company's investors, only 36% ranked it as important, and 38% said it was not important at all. Surprisingly, even in venture-backed businesses, 32% said it was only slightly important. It sounds like founders want to make their own mistakes.
Willingness to take a big risk. When asked what may prevent others from starting their own business, the highest ranked factor by 98% was lack of willingness or ability to take risks. Founders clearly found entrepreneurship to be a risky endeavor.
Huge time and effort commitment. Along the same lines as the previous item, 93% felt from their own experience that the work and time challenges were a major barrier (no support for the part-time, work from home, get rich quick crowd).
Hopefully, by understanding what entrepreneurs think and believe, we can foster more successes, fewer failures, and better guidance, to those of you who haven't taken the big step yet. If you are already committed, take heed of the advice of those who have been there and done that. People who don't learn from other's experience pay a high price just to get to the starting point.
Marty Zwilling
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by eyetee | October 15, 2013 12:11 pm
By Scott Alwine, LEED AP
For its Portland, Oregon, offices, Providence Health & Services—a Catholic healthcare ministry—includes open park space on a tight urban site. However, one of its 'greenest' attributes may be its floors. A raised access floor system employed in five of Office Park II's six floors, is instrumental to the open-plan design, daylighting, and expansive views for employees of owner Providence Health & Services. The facility also boasts a U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification, exceeding the Silver originally sought by the building owner and required by the city.
The 21,925-m2 (236,000-sf) building is home to some of the organization's Oregon region departments, which provide healthcare, community services, and education to communities.
The six-story building includes one level of below-grade parking and a mixed-use ground level that includes café, conference center, commercial space, and employment center.
Upstairs, offices and meeting rooms surround a structural core including stairways and two elevator shafts. This core provides the entire building's seismic and lateral bracing.
"The structural core allowed us to eliminate cross-bracing throughout the building and raised access flooring eliminated the need for overhead ductwork," Tom Wesel, architect at Oregon-based Jon R. Jurgens & Associates Beaverton said. "As a result, when you step out of the core area, you always have access to natural light and an unobstructed view to the outside."
The raised access floor system consists of an understructure and 609-mm (24-in.) square, welded steel floor panels filled with lightweight cement. The understructure supporting the panels provides positive positioning, lateral retention, and leveling adjustments to ensure the floor is soundly supported on all contact points.
The resulting underfloor pathway created by the raised floor panels provides housing for the building's wiring, cabling and heating, and HVAC systems. Power-voice-data (PVD) terminations fed through the modular floor panels offer convenient, flexible access to all these services, while air diffusers supply fresh cool air from the underfloor plenum directly into the occupied space.
Along with the ability to distribute air from under the floor, comes improved comfort control in individual work areas, the result of diffusers placed in the floor that deliver conditioned air to the space.
"These diffusers enable employees to adjust the volume and the direction of air entering their work space," Wesel noted. "Using them helped us to achieve an important goal Providence Health & Services identified early in the planning process—to provide individual control over comfort by eliminating the hot and cold syndrome employees had experienced in other facilities."
Just as importantly, the underfloor air distribution (UFAD) system provides employees with improved indoor air quality (IAQ). This is because air is delivered directly to the occupied space, typically identified as the space from floor level up to 1.8 m (6 ft). During the process, older, warmer air is carried to the ceiling by natural convection and removed through return outlets, keeping it out of the occupied zone.
At the same time, the access floor system supports the flexible floor plan important to the building owner. Occupants are able to reconfigure or relocate work areas without having to move walls and rewire offices.
"In addition, the ability to run all the wiring and cables under the floor eliminated the need to purchase powered furniture, which can create another set of issues and challenges with respect to reconfiguring office space," said Wesel.
Energy costs have also decreased as a result of the access floor system.
"Oregon has a pretty high mandate for energy efficiency, so saving energy was certainly top of mind as we discussed plans for this building," said Richard Staley, regional director of construction services for the state's Providence Health & Services.
Additional energy-efficient design elements include:
Although Providence Health & Services used UFAD in computer rooms in other facilities, Providence Office Park II represents the first time the organization considered a raised access floor for office space.
"Using the mockup, we were able to demonstrate how the air moves through the space, allowing owner representatives to see and hear it," explained Adam Carlson, mechanical engineer with Interface Engineering, the firm responsible for the design of the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and lighting systems in the building. "We also presented them with a smoke video that showed airflow patterns and the positive impact a raised floor system has on indoor air quality."
Once construction began, great care was taken to maintain the integrity of the underfloor plenum. The design team agreed sequencing and maintaining a clean plenum were the two biggest challenges of installing an underfloor air distribution system. There was an extensive walk-through to ensure all the columns went down to the floor, and things were sealed before the floor's completion. The system was also tested.
Energy savings came in a number of ways, thanks in part to the fact air for an UFAD system can be supplied at temperatures between 16.6 and 18.3 C (62 and 65 F), as opposed to 10 and 12.7 C (50 to 55 F) in an overhead system. In Portland, the outside air temperature frequently allows for use of an economizer, providing cost-effective cooling to the building. This is because the air does not have to first mix with the warmer air at the ceiling level before descending to building occupants. As a result, the underfloor air system is able to provide more economization hours.
Additionally, ventilation air, brought into the building to make the space more comfortable, contributes to the structure's heating and cooling load.
"The calculation we use to determine how much fresh air to bring into the space takes into consideration how effectively the air is delivered to the occupants. So, in a system that delivers air from the floor directly to the occupied space, the calculation shows less ventilation air is required, resulting in additional energy savings," explained Carlson.
Only the 1.8-m high occupied space requires cooling, and the UFAD system can supply air at low pressure, paving the way for more energy savings. The static pressure required for UFAD systems is typically 12.5 Pa (.05-inch wg), which is significantly less than the pressure needed to force air through rigid ductwork in an overhead system. As a result, the HVAC system uses less fan energy. In the case of Providence Office Park II, UFAD provides a 30 percent savings in fan energy and a 15 percent savings in system refrigeration energy.
The underfloor system definitely helps, contributing to improved comfort levels, better IAQ, and increased efficiencies.
Scott Alwine, LEED AP, is a marketing manager with Tate Inc. He has more than 10 years of experience in the building products and services industry. Alwine holds a bachelor of science in manufacturing technology and a master of science in business administration from California University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP) and the Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA). Alwine can be contacted at email@example.com[1].
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Querry withdraws from US Men's Clay Court
Fourth-seeded Sam Querry withdrew from the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship before his second-round match Thursday because of a strained right pectoral muscle.
Querry, the top ranked American at No. 20 in the world, was about to play wild card Rhyne Williams of the United States when he decided to withdraw.
''When I was warming up today I went hard to test it and if I had one more day or maybe two, I think it would be good,'' Querry said. ''It's just extreme fatigue in my pec and when I go up to serve and on forehands it catches it and it's achy and painful and I just don't want to tear it.''
Querry won't play again for three weeks and doesn't anticipate an extended layoff.
''Because it's gotten so much better since Monday I think it three days it will be almost 100 percent,'' Querry said. ''I've got three weeks to get healthy and back on the clay.''
Querry said his next event will be in Madrid.


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The June Buchanan PTO is proud to present Jimmy Rose in concert! Rose will be performing at the Campbell Arts Center on the campus of Alice Lloyd College on Friday, February 21st, at 7 PM.
Jimmy Rose, a former coal miner and native of Pineville, KY, became a regional hero with his song "Coal Keeps the Lights On." He was one of the most popular contestants on the hit show, America's Got Talent, in September 2013, finishing in third place. Rose was also beloved for his service to our country (he is a former marine), genuineness, kindness to other contestants, and for remaining true to himself, all of which marked him as an excellent representative of eastern Kentucky to the world.
Following his experiences on the show, Rose had some advice to pass along to others: "It doesn't matter where you come from. It ain't how you were raised. It's how you get yourself back up. Go after what you want, no matter what life's dealt you."
General admission tickets are $25 (cash only). Tickets are available for pre-sale at the June Buchanan School Office, Fugate Family Chiropractic (both Hazard and Whitesburg locations), and Lizzie B's Café in Prestonsburg, KY.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for our PTO to make money that will go right back to our children,"said Amanda Clark, dean of The June Buchanan School.
For more information about Jimmy Rose, please visit him on Facebook.


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What is a Fiduciary?
- A Court appointed person who takes care of the needs or property of another person.
- Court appointed as guardian, conservator or personal representative of estates.
- Appointed only when there is no one else willing to serve – considered "fiduciary of last resort."
- Fees for the fiduciary and staff must be approved by the court and are paid by the person's estate.
- Fees may be delayed, waived or reduced if the ward's estate has insufficient funds.
- Licensed by the Arizona Supreme Court and regulated by the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC).
- Fiduciaries are not caregivers, but may assist in unique circumstances with the coordination of personal care services, such as, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, household chores and shopping.
Roles of the Maricopa County Public Fiduciary
A Guardian:
- Is appointed by the court for a person who is unable to take care of their personal and medical needs.
- The court determines the need for a Guardian when
- A person lacks understanding to make or communicate responsible decisions concerning his or her daily living needs.
- Usually occurs as a result of physical or mental illness, an accident or dementia.
- A person lacks understanding to make or communicate responsible decisions concerning his or her daily living needs.
- Only when there are no other alternatives or persons qualified, the Public Fiduciary will serve as Guardian.
A Conservator:
- Is appointed by the court for a person who is unable to manage his or her own finances or property.
- A Conservatorship may be required when a person's assets exceed $10,000 and the Court feels they are no longer able to manage their own financial affairs.
- The Public Fiduciary prides itself on serving the indigent population and will defer to private fiduciaries when appropriate.
A Personal Representative ("executor"):
- Is appointed by the court to manage the estate of a person who has died.
- Ensures a deceased person's estate is protected and administered properly to:
- beneficiaries,
- lien holders,
- and heirs.
- Most beneficiaries, heirs, and lien holders have priority over the Public Fiduciary.
- The Public Fiduciary will only serve as a last resort.


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Ron Paul's Campaign Gets to Have All the Fun
Ron Paul's got it made. While Mitt Romney is struggling to save his pretty-boy campaign, and Newt Gingrich is trying to clarify what "going negative" means, Paul is releasing these long, futuristic ads beating the dickens out of everyone (in this case, Gingrich).
Paul is in second place in Iowa. What are his opponents supposed to do with him, getting in the way like this? If they start going out of their way to trash him, then Paul will just declare an independent bid and hand Obama his reelection. Watch out for the old man. Watch out for all old men, really, as a general rule.


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La Première Wit / Eiken
Create your own style with the La Première II baby room. This baby room has a rural French style with wonderful details. The furniture grows with your child from baby to teen. This way you can enjoy this room for many years to come. The fronts are available in three different versions. Which style do you choose? Romantic rattan, sturdy oak or stylish white?


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Adieu -2010
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Lovely arrangements!!!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!!!
Pongal Feast Event
Best of your best :) looks classic :)ReplyDelete
Wish you a very happy new year :) and will be eager to see your fabulous creations next year too :)
Happy New year Smita! Wish you many new antastic creations ahead! Greetings from RussiaReplyDelete
Love the apple carvings best do send them to create n carve event at simply.food.Happy New year in adavance.ReplyDelete
HEY SUPERB DEAR WISH U TOO A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR & YET ANOTHER YEAR OF SUPERB CREATIONS.ReplyDelete
Wow that looks really fantastic dear....ReplyDelete
love it...
You scared me for a minute, It looked like this was your last post!! Glad to see that's not the case. Many of these creations I have not seen, they must have been before I started following you. I love the shark, what is it made of besides the bread? I hope you have a wonderful New Years!! Do you have plans for New Year's eve?ReplyDelete
:) Shera is my favorite!!ReplyDelete
happy new year smita. wish u n ur family a very successful year ahead.
Wishing you a wonderful year ahead.
Happy New Year to you in advance. Shera looks so cute. Loved the collection.ReplyDelete
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Happy New Year to you, too! What lovely sandwiches! What a treat to sit down and enjoy one of those beautiful creations... thank you for sharing... Come visit when you can and don't forget to check out my other blog, Rockin' Chair Reflections, too!ReplyDelete
Each and every creations are awesome Smita.. Eagerly waiting to see ur creations in upcoming years to dear. Keep going and I wish U and UR family members Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Lovely Smitha...Hapy New Year 2011 to you and your family.ReplyDelete
Wow! You are so creative and so full of imagination! You are making AMAZING stuff!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your kind words over my blog! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Happy New Year to you and your family!
Thx for dropping by Smita..Lund ur space n i will be ur regular visitor from nw on!! Hasppy new year to u n ur family.. ;)ReplyDelete
First time here. Wow! Your creations are wonderful. Ready to learn a lot of ideas from you!ReplyDelete
complimenti sei bravissima...auguri di buon annoReplyDelete
Greetings from Malaysia!!!ReplyDelete
Hi! Thanks a ton for dropping by at love2cook...am really thankful to U!
I'm amazed with your blog here...your presentations are so artistic! U are really creative..!!! Starting to admire your work now...;)
My best New Year wishes to U and family! :D
This is an awesome creation that I have never seen in my life before..Awesome and Fabulous..Thanks a ton for dropping by my space. Wishing you and your family a very very happy and a prosperous new year..Have a great year ahead and keep rocking with your great and THE BEST creations!!ReplyDelete
Complimenti! Il tuo blog è bellissimo e interessante.ReplyDelete
Davvero piacere di conoscerti, da te si può imparare molto. Ti inserisco nel mio blogroll così non ti perdo di vista. Scusa se scrivo in italiano.
Auguri per un sereno e produttivo 2011! Dana
Wishing u a happy and prosperous new year to u and ur family..Soo cute..ReplyDelete
wonderful creativity...i wonder why i didn't find ur lovely space earlier.i am happy that i hav, now:) i would like to try these for my son :)ReplyDelete
All the artworks are simply awesome..ReplyDelete
Wish you and your family a Happy & Prosperous New Year!!
I have been a silent reader of your blog, being mother of a 4 year old I like to create some good dishes for her, but more than me my lil one loves seeing your blog, she was drooling over your shera sandwich. Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving your wonderful comments. Happy New Year :)ReplyDelete
Love all your creations and feels good to have met you on the net. Happy 2011 to you, Smita!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for visting my blod.Awesome preparations.Wishing you n your familh a happy and prosperous New Year.ReplyDelete
What an amazing creations you have here! Thanks for stopping by my site and leaving your lovely comment. Wishing you and your family a Happy & Joyous New Year..ReplyDelete
Wow!!! You are all so creative! Fabulous ideas and so charming presentations! Thank you for dropping by!!! I would not have found your site and miss your dearest of creations!!! Be visiting again soon.ReplyDelete
Have a New year full of wonder and splendor! Cheers to all!!!!
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 8:24 PM
New meaning of "play with your food!" Have a great New Year, and Thank you for stopping by! I am now following your site!ReplyDelete
Smita, I'm so inspired to go make some cuter food for my nieces and nephews. Even though my kids are old, they would probably appreciate food that looks this good. You are a true artist. Wishing you a Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Smita, I am really impressed by the artistic presentation of food. I used to make an effort in the past when my elder daughter was a picky eater. I think both my daughters will enjoy eating food make like this. You are an artist! Wish you a happy new year!ReplyDelete
Wow! What adorable food creations you make! Too cute! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I wish you and your family a Happy New year!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! I loooove your blog. I can't wait to surprise my little one with fun creations!!ReplyDelete
Fabulous creations,Happy New Year SmitaReplyDelete
These all look so great! I don't know how you have the time to make such adorable treats. I especially like the chicken sandwiches :)ReplyDelete
I wanted to say thank you for stopping by my blog and commenting... I am now following and I look forward to reading more of your stuff.ReplyDelete
All the best,
Thanks for stopping by my blog, Smitha. You are incredibly talented! Adding you to my reader.ReplyDelete
My first time on your blog, Smitha! I could not help but go on clicking 'older posts'! You are amazing. All those lovely cartoons being brought to life, requires an incredibly imaginative mind!ReplyDelete


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Cancel all police leave! Prince Harry is expected home within days, according to a UK newspaper, and he's planning to hit the town to hard to make up for missing out on the Christmas party season.
The 28-year-old prince has been serving a four month tour of duty in the war zone as an Apache helicopter pilot. And while it had previously been confirmed that he'd return to the UK in January, the Daily Star now reports that his homecoming is expected "within days."
Down at the Arts Club, they'll no doubt be laying in extra supplies of vodka, champagne and skinny blonde socialites.
The Star says that the exact date of Prince Harry's homecoming has not yet been released. Sources say Harry's return flight is being kept top secret due to threats made against him by the Taliban, although we have our doubts that Kate Middleton and Prince William are planning a "boozy" welcome home party for the future uncle of their baby as the Star reports.
Prince Harry was deployed in September, just days after the nude photo scandal in Las Vegas. The prince was said to be marking his pending deployment then, but we suspect this homecoming will be celebrated without benefit of camera phones.
Prince Harry, aka Captain Wales in the British military, is an Apache helicopter pilot stationed at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan. He was accused of being a 'jackal' and of drunkenly killing innocents by an Afghan warlord this week.


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SOUTH BEND, Indiana (AP) - A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed on Sunday in an Indiana neighbourhood, leaving multiple people dead after it hit three homes, becoming lodged in one of them, authorities and witnesses said.
The Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet had left Tulsa, Oklahoma's Riverside Airport and crashed near South Bend Regional Airport in northern Indiana, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig in Oklahoma City said.
"Fatalities have been confirmed at the scene," said Deputy St Joseph County Coroner Michael O'Connell. He would not say how many people are dead.
The plane is registered to 7700 Enterprises of Montana LLC in Helena, Montana.
The company is owned by Wes Caves and does business as DigiCut Systems in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It makes window film and paint overlay for automobiles. Herwig said he did not know how many people were aboard the jet.
A woman identifying herself as Caves' wife answered the phone at their home Sunday and said, "I think he's dead," before hanging up.
In South Bend, Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said some people who were injured had been taken to the hospital, but he did not know how many or what their medical conditions were.
The presence of jet fuel from the aircraft made the situation "very dangerous," Corthier said. The plane was lodged inside a house.
"It's still a rescue operation," Corthier said about three hours after the crash.
Referring to one of the damaged houses, he said, "Because of the collapse in the house it's a very dangerous situation. We have to shore up the house before we can enter the house."
Part of the neighbourhood southwest of the airport was evacuated. Buses were transporting up to 200 people to a nearby shelter, Red Cross volunteer Jackie Lincoln said.
Mike Daigle, executive director of the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, said the jet attempted a landing, went back up and maneuvered south to try another landing, but eight minutes later the airport learned the plane was no longer airborne.


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Chapter One
September 4
Dear Diary,
Something awful is going to happen today.
I don't know why I wrote that. It's crazy. There'sno reason for me to be upset and every reason for me to be happy, but...
But here I am at 5:30 in the morning, awake and scared. I keep telling myself it's just that I'm all messed up from the time difference between France and here. But that doesn't explain why I feel so scared. So lost.
The day before yesterday, while Aunt Judith and Margaret and I were driving back from the airport, I had such a strange feeling. When we turned onto our street I suddenly thought, "Mom and Dad are waiting for us at home. I bet they'll be on the front porch or in the living room looking out the window. They must have missed me so much."
I know. That sounds totally crazy.
But even when I saw the house and the empty front porch I still felt that way. I ran up the steps and I tried the door and knocked with the knocker. And when Aunt Judith unlocked the door I burst inside and just stood in the hallway listening, expecting to hear Mom coming down the stairs or Dad calling from the den.
Just then Aunt Judith let a suitcase crash down on the floor behind me and sighed a huge sigh and said, "We're home." And Margaret laughed. And the most horrible feeling I've ever felt in my life came over me. I've never felt so utterly and completely lost.
Home. I'm home. Why does that sound like a he?
I was born here in Fell's Church. I've always lived in this house, always. This is my same old bedroom, with the scorch mark on the floorboards where Caroline and I tried to sneak cigarettes in 5th grade and nearly choked ourselves. I can look out the window and see the big quince tree Matt and the guys climbed up to crash my birthday slumber party two years ago. This is my bed, my chair, my dresser.
But right now everything looks strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.
I was too tired yesterday to go to Orientation.
Meredith picked up my schedule for me, but I didn't feel like talking to her on the phone. Aunt Judith told everyone who called that I had jet lag and was sleeping, but she watched me at dinner with a funny look on her face.
I've got to see the crowd today, though. We're supposed to meet in the parking lot before school. Is that why I'm scared? Am I frightened of them?
Elena Gilbert stopped writing. She stared at the last line she had written and then shook her head, pen hovering over the small book with the blue velvet cover. Then, with a sudden gesture, she lifted her head and threw pen and book at the big bay window, where they bounced off harmlessly and landed on the upholstered window seat.
It was all so completely ridiculous.
Since when had she, Elena Gilbert, been scared of meeting people? Since when had she been scared of anything ? She stood up and angrily thrust her arms into a red silk kimono. She didn't even glance at the elaborate Victorian mirror above the cherrywood dresser; she knew what she'd see. Elena Gilbert, cool and blond and slender, the fashion trendsetter, the high school senior, the girl every boy wanted and every girl wanted to be. Who just now had an unaccustomed scowl on her face and a pinch to her mouth.
A hot bath and some coffee and I'll calm down, she thought. The morning ritual of washing and dressing was soothing, and she dawdled over it, sorting through her new outfits from Paris. She finally chose a pale rose top and white linen shorts combo that made her look like a raspberry sundae. Good enough to eat, she thought, and the mirror showed a girl with a secret smile. Her earlier fears had melted away, forgotten.
"Elena! Where are you? You're going to be late for school!" The voice drifted faintly up from below.
Elena ran the brush one more time through silky hair and pulled it back with a deep rose ribbon. Then she grabbed her backpack and went down the stairs.
In the kitchen, four-year-old Margaret was eating cereal at the kitchen table, and Aunt Judith was burning something on the stove. Aunt Judith was the sort of woman who always looked vaguely flustered; she had a thin, mild face and light flyaway hair pushed back untidily. Elena landed a peck on her cheek.
"Good morning, everybody. Sorry I don't have time for breakfast."
"But, Elena, you can't just go off without eating. You need your protein-"
"I'll get a doughnut before school," said Elena briskly. She dropped a kiss on Margaret's tow head and turned to go.
"But, Elena-" "And I'll probably go home with Bonnie or Meredith after school, so don't wait dinner. Bye!"
Elena was already at the front door. She closed it behind her, cutting off Aunt Judith's distant protests, and stepped out onto the front porch.
And stopped.
All the bad feelings of the morning rushed over her again. The anxiety, the fear. And the certainty that something terrible was about to happen.
Maple Street was deserted. The tall Victorian houses looked strange and silent, as if they might all be empty inside, like the houses on an abandoned movie set. They looked as if they were empty ofpeople , but full of strange watching things.
That was it; something was watching her. The sky overhead was not blue but milky and opaque, like a giant bowl turned upside down.
The air was stifling, and Elena felt sure that there were eyes on her.
She caught sight of something dark in the branches of the old quince tree in front of the house.
It was a crow, sitting as still as the yellow-tinged leaves around it. And it was the thing watching her.


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Why videos go viral
Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on line next month as part of our TED-Ed launch. We can't wait ...)
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One second every day
There are so many tiny, beautiful, funny, tragic moments in your life -- how are you going to remember them all? Director Cesar Kuriyama shoots one second of video every day as part of an ongoing project to collect all the special bits of his life.
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Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals
Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.
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How YouTube thinks about copyright
Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles
At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.
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Capturing memories in video art
Using video mapping and projection, artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo captures and shares his memories and friendships. At TED Fellow Talks, he shows his charming, thoughtful work -- which appears to preserve the people in his life in jars, suitcases, blenders ...
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Jakob Trollback rethinks the music video
What would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker's concept? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment in the form.
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Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video
The band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine creation that quickly became a YouTube sensation.


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Le Sanctuaire now caters to fine dining restaurants and professional chefs. However, our mission to source the highest quality cooking ingredients and tools has not changed. Whether it is extra virgin olive oil, herbs and spices, molecular gastronomy ingredients, an immersion circulator, or the finest porcelain, we always go the extra mile trying to understand how and why the particular ingredient or tool is grown, created, or designed the way it is. We only select the best of the best. A lot of technical research data is involved in the process. We take that knowledge and share it with our clients. Hopefully they will be inspired, able to create amazing dishes and be the greatest chefs they can be.
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After a one day weather delay, space shuttle Enterprise is set to complete her journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
On Wednesday, June 6 at 10:15am, Enterprise will depart her New Jersey port. From there, she will make her way north allowing for what should be historic and spectacular photo opportunities, passing the Statue of Liberty at approximately 10:50am and Ground Zero at 11:30am. We expect good viewing locations to include the west side of Manhattan from Battery Park through the mid 40's and on the Hudson waterfront of NJ in Jersey City, Hoboken, and Weehawken.
Intrepid Museum invites onlookers to welcome Enterprise home, as she reaches the Museum at approximately 12:30pm. Subsequently, the space shuttle will be lifted from the barge, by crane, on to Intrepid's Flight Deck. The craning—a four-hour-plus—process will allow only limited viewing from neighboring piers. Intrepid's Space Shuttle Pavilion, including Enterprise, will open to the public on July 19th.
We encourage all onlookers to share their photos and experiences with Intrepid Museum via Facebook and Twitter.
Please note that all dates and times are subject to change, as this journey is weather and tide dependent. For up to the minute information, be sure to follow us on Twitter @IntrepidMuseum and Like us on Facebook.