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From a stakeholder - what is #IA? We don't need that…
To the project team that asks the Business Analyst or Designer to design a feature and "not to worry how the user will access it." IA is at the core of how our users interact with the awesome features we put in our products and websites.
I've always believed that the best designers in our profession are able to bridge big-picture thinking with hands-on work. User experience is an encompassing field that includes research, strategy, information architecture, interaction, and visual design.
Oooo, yes, please.
I am the online content editor for a collegiate website in the middle of a redesign. I'm really interested to know how we can use IA, UX, responsive design and content creation to maintain a site that makes sense to 17- and 18-year-olds but still satisfies the academic needs of our faculty and administration. I'm fairly new to this job (and these concepts) but I know there has to be a happy medium, and I'm determined to find it.
I'm trying to help change the online news industry by empowering everyday people and keeping journalists honest through Maater. Maater is a system that acts as a tool to correct inaccuracies and biases in online news articles by leveraging the power of crowdsourcing. Hope this is not too sales-y, but check it out at http://maater.com/
I've volunteered with the non-profit Girls on the Run program (http://www.girlsontherun.org/) to help them promote their mission and to just give back to an organization in need. I help my local chapter promote their events with print design work, keep their website up-to-date, and provide event photography services as well. I'd love to win the free ticket and take a trip to Baltimore!
I think that in our current moment in history, the task of making the world a better place includes making the web a better place for its users—and that a good information architect almost always goes some distance towards achieving the latter.
I hope I don't flatter those in our trade by comparing such beliefs to the altruistic passions of architects and industrial designers, automotive crash-test researchers and food-safety investigators. Though they all get paid for their work, the people in these roles must also hope that it leads to some greater good.
My work in IA and usability has neither saved a life the way a safe car can nor enriched one quite as much as the best-designed smartphone does (as far as I know). However, I do humbly hold on to the idea that it serves a similar purpose.
When we discover order buried in complexity, when we turn confusion into comprehension, we make real lives better. None of us who's been a heavy user of some site or system through an effective rearchitecting could deny the difference such changes make in our day-to-day experiences of work and leisure.
Sadly, we don't have anything as gratifying as federally compiled automotive safety data; we have only our own usability tests and analytics-crunching and coffee-shop ethnography to help remind us we make a difference.
That's also the value of a conference like the IA Summit: We get exposed to other people who have their own evidence, get to talk to them about how they know. In turn, whether we're presenting, going for coffee, or just asking good questions from the crowd, we get to help them figure out where they're headed. And while those connections persist from year to year (thanks Twitter!), there's no substitute for the in-person dynamism of the conference environment. Hint, hint.
We web designers, developers and web geeks, we are privileged to have an uncanny ability to navigate one of the World's biggest and vast resources of info: the Internet. It's only right. We are the ones that create it, curate it, make lov…uhmmm…you get my point.
What I like to do is bring those around me a little closer to a World they may not be able to see clearly. I keep my friends and family, as well as everyone with a web browser, abreast the latest that is happening with Standing Dreams (http://standingdreams.com). I try to keep the site as concise as possible. Music, fashion, tech, cool vids, pics and stuff…it's all right there for your daily consumption.
I feel it's our job, duty, and rights of passage to ensure that everyone around us "web geeks" know how to utilize the Internet properly and get the opportunity to see what we see and how we see it. Standing Dreams is my attempt at that (as well as being my portfolio and personal outlet.)
A beautiful website isn't enough - it must also be usable (and accessible). A user must be able to navigate from point A to point B (and beyond) with complete confidence that they will get there. Now, with desktops no longer the only point of access, we must consider different types of access and use their strengths to give the user the best experince.
I would fly from Australia for this.
I am a college student studying computer programming (focusing on Ruby on Rails). I make a difference by applying my business skills volunteering as "business manager" at a local non-profit.
I've been a Business Analyst for 6 years with a very large logistics/package delivery company. Most of the systems I worked on were mainframe, back-end billing/invoicing systems. Last year, I transferred to the Information Security department and was given the responsibility to re-design our Access and Provisioning application. This is a heavily used, web based application. The original scope of the project was to give the application "a face lift" and make it "prettier". Being new to the group, and the application, I started to realize that it wasn't the "look" of the application that was the problem (even though that was pretty drab too). The problem was usability. I am not (or should I say, I wasn't) a UX designer. Being a BA, I immediately started to document the As-Is process and identified gaps, inefficiencies, and redundancies in the application. There was too much jargon in the content. The work flows were very non-intuitive. If I was struggling to learn how to use the application, what were our users (many of whom are not technical) experiencing? I suggested to my management team that this re-design project needed to be more than a "facelift". It needed to be a true re-design. It needed to be re-thought from the user perspective, not the application developers perspective (no offense to the many application developers that are UX advocates out there). I also volunteered to be the UX designer and asked the company to send me to UX training and conferences. To their credit, they sent me to Atlanta to attend An Event Apart. The experience was mind blowing. I also attended a 2 day class on UX Design Principles in Boston. Many of the things I had been thinking were being validated by these UX experts. Now, our application redesign has taken on a User Centric approach. We have engaged our users and started to create personas. We are beginning to address our content strategy. We are thinking about things like responsive web design and mobile. We may not be able to achieve all of the things we want with this initial re-design, but I truly feel like I have begun to create a culture of User First in my department. It may not be much, considering how large my company is, but it's a start.
Let's be honest. I work in advertising. I'm not changing the world by helping sell things. However, I like to think that outside of my job, I use my time and/or resources to help make a difference. Volunteering when possible. Donating when not. The job pays the bills and enables difference making.
I'm trying to give back to humanity as a whole by using my development skills to tie several knowledge storage and parsing services together in one location. I'm working with a researcher at UCSD to create a way for all human knowledge-based projects to contribute to each other so we can grow and learn as a society much faster. My skills are only so good but the impact they can have is huge!
In the past year, I've found that I've been cringing at the sound of my own title at my job…Web Designer. How simple it sounds, almost fanciful and artsy. My clients, my friends, my family all consider my work to be purely visual.
But Information Architecture, User Experience, and Conversion Optimization drive my passion for design. I care less about how good one of my sites looks, but rather how good it makes someone feel, whether through the small details of microcopy, the ease of navigation, or the accessibility of the content.
While I could list of a half dozen of the nonprofits I've volunteered my skills or provided consultation, I'd like to think that the most important work I've done as a Web Designer is to make my small corner of the Internet a happier place.
Before I got into user-centered-design and its ilk, I worked with college students. Back then, it was very easy to understand how my work changed the world… one person at a time.
Now that my work is a lot less community-focused, I struggle with understanding how what I do makes the world a better place. Easier to navigate and understand? Or course. But better? I can only hope.
I believe some of the underpinnings of design thinking - in particular, active listening, building empathy and understanding, and collaborating on solutions - have a lot to offer humankind in general.
I've been experimenting with articulating and sharing a lot of what I've learned - not just for a design audience, but outside it. You can see some of that at my blog, zhaus.quora.com
Speaking is the arena I have my sights on, once I get my 'voice' down as a writer. I understand that the IA Summit is a place many speakers get their start - and where I hope to get mine when ready.
I believe it's important to share our ideas so that together we have a higher chance to succeed. I hope that I can attend the conference to partake in that.
I think it's really easy to caught in the details. Check this off the list of tasks and tickets. Implement that feature. I've been wanting to grow beyond the daily trenches of implementation and get a chance to see the bigger picture.
I've seen those same blurring of lines with friends who are IAs or UX professionals. Those particular problem solving skills can be applied across the board, because they're ultimately about framing the problem at scale.
I've had a strong interest in usability and user experience since my college days in the early 2000s. The class I most looked forward to was human-computer interaction, which I was finally able to take in my last semester, spring 2006. In light of my local job market, I pursued jobs in programming rather than in my much stronger interest, usability.
I spent a little over 5 years as a software developer. In my last 3 projects, I looked forward to my front-end design - not because it was easier from a coding perspective, but because it had the biggest and best difference on our products' users. Each of these teams had brilliant programming minds who, when they were given design work, talked about "the user" as a reflection of themselves and built interfaces that pleased them. Each company's sales suffered as a result. In this environment, I always had a usability-related book on my desk and championed the cause of our real users in organizations that did not embrace UX. I also performed my front-end design work with an attitude of always leaving the interface cleaner and more professional when my tasks were done.
Last year, I left my previous company. Wanting to relocate in the next 1-2 years, I decided that starting my own company would be the best path and allow me to best budget my spare time to work with charities. Several changes in strategy later, I'm now working on becoming the amusement industry's go-to UX consultant/designer within the next several years.
I'm currently working on five projects, all volunteer. I have enough income from one-off projects on the side to pay the bills, but not really any spending money yet. One of the projects is a redesign of my own site using Zurb Foundation 4. Three of my other projects are with the same client, which operates a network of fansites for theme parks throughout the eastern and middle US. The redesigns aim to really raise the bar for roller coaster fan clubs and make them appeal more to the general public.
I'm also redesigning my church's website. We recently lost our pastor, and many of our members left with him. I took a 2-month break from that redesign after that happened to focus on helping them stay afloat (I am a deacon there) and then resumed it. The church has been around for 2 1/2 years, but its original website never got done. So I took on that project as a pro-bono side project to help our community become more aware of our church. I could sum myself up as someone who is actively trying to make a difference using UX design, both in my main target industry and for nonprofits that want to have a positive effect on their communities.
I've been learning quite a bit from each project, blogging about it at http://dalandanconcepts.tumblr.com, and tweeting about it at @DalandanUX. (By the way, I signed up for ALA via Twitter; email: dalandanconcepts [at] gmail.)
I am currently local to Baltimore and quite interested in attending the IA Summit.
I work at a major research university (Emory) where I've gradually been able to introduce user-centered design, and I think it's having a great amount of impact on the way web stuff is built there, which in itself has a potential impact on medicine, public health, the college experience of undergrads, etc.
Outside that, I try to share my skills with non-profits, innovative faith communities, and so on. Certainly I help them think about their web efforts, but introducing them to design thinking also helps them think further about what they do and why they do it and how to do it better.
The Boys & Girls Club in my area has an annual competition to honor the young leaders in their programs. As part of the competition, the youth must give a speech. This year, I had the chance to volunteer as a speech coach. I spent a few afternoons listening to a high school senior tell her story of overcoming personal struggles associated with her father's death and living with twin sisters that have autism. I also got to hear her dreams of a future career that allows her to help others. I helped her identify common themes and a great structure that could appropriately contain the details of her amazing stories. Then I sat by her side while she typed away at the keyboard bringing her speech to life.
I'm happy to say that she won the local Boys & Girls Club competition and received $15,000 in college scholarships!! Now she has gone on to the state competition.
I got into this type of work because I believe that stories are powerful and I want to help others tell their story. It was an amazing experience to see that belief once again proven true.
These comments are fantastic. Thank you so much!
I work full time in IT but I volunteer almost the rest of my time to work on websites (and do graphic desgn) for a small number of different GLBT and other non-profit oganizations. I've been able to re-design their websites so they are accessible on mobile devices and I've found a passion for IA/UX. I learn a little bit from everything I do and I'm always trying hard to learn more and to get better (and truthfully I am trying to get into IA/UX as a career).
Part of what inspires me is knowing I'm making a difference. After releaseing a new responsive website design for one of my orgs, I actually had someone say "Thank you! Thank you for making this site work on my phone. We can't afford internet access at our house so all I have is my phone and so for me mobile websites are really important." I read about the stats (I read everything /laughs) and I know how fast mobile access is growing, but it was incredible to hear that comment for myself - it really hit home and made me feel like the little bit that I do really does make a difference.
I've been designing websites and other print media since 2007 and I've always been obsessed with the end user's experience with my designs. Turns out IA/UX is a passion I've had for a long time - I just never knew it had a name.
I can honestly say day in day out I'm contributing and dedicating my time to a good cause outside of my discipline. I like giving my time to helping. Be it volunteer for the habitat for humanity or package 100K plus meals for kids in Kenya, East Africa. If its labor intensive count me in. Although, I'm not new to UX, I'm fairly new to IA. I would really appreciate the opportunity to attend. Thanks for doing this KMH.
Luckily, years in design (and oddly, art school) teach you a lot of things you can use to make the world better. Here's a few things I do/have done, that make me feel like more than just my day job:
• Lots of work for a kick-ass NGO that educates people in resource-poor places to become community health workers and care for and educate their neighbors. This is a case where design actually saves lives, which is gratifying.
• In my own community, I built a giant camera obscura out of a local landmark building and invited people to come and learn about photography on the most fundamental level—and have their photo taken by the building. It's an art, project, yeah, but art + science + community = good stuff.
• This past winter I volunteered to mentor a team of urban farmers working on food justice issues as they went through a start up accelerator program. Years helping businesses to communicate (through design, on the web, etc.) have taught me a lot, and it felt good to pass on a lot of these ways of thinking and organizing and communicating to these two awesome farmer women. They won some money in their final pitch and are now now building an urban farm in a low/mixed-income area, building community vegetable gardens and doing a lot of education around nutrition and food accessibility. I don't know much about farming, but it was so cool to work with these guys and help them get their message out!
Those are what pops into my head first. Good question! Thanks!
I've tried to make the world a better place by making the things I work on easy to use so that the people using them can focus on the task at hand and not deciphering the interface. So, for example, a professor using a library website can find the research they need.
My efforts also include starting a local chapter of IxDA, helping local non-profits improve their websites, and talking with anyone who will listen about the many ways each of us can improve the world by thinking about the people who use the things we make, regardless of the discipline.
First off, I loved reading everyone's comments. We are aiming to leave our mark on the world in a good way, and I love it. Here's what I'm up to:
Designing a conference website dedicated to facilitating a discussion about the face of philanthropy. We are hoping to reach the millennials and impact their thoughts on giving of their time, talents, and money, etc.
Working for a foundation giving my time to companies (mostly non-profits) in need for "pro bono".
Giving financially to the local Boy & Girls club, and supporting children there.
Supporting local initiatives such as giving away my fancy formal wear to girls in need of prom dresses in the local area. :)
I support http://letsdoitworld.org/ in my country. It is a civil society movement of taking stewardship of the place we call home - our regions, our country, our world. This is the action for clearing waste locations: by mapping and cleaning up the waste littering our countryside, as well as for raising awareness for proper waste management.
Last year was the first time I attended the IA Summit. What struck me was how many types of thinkers there were. Some attendees are extremely visual, some are excellent verbal communicators, some are team managers and some are more analytic and organizational. Most surprising was how often the conference asked us to think about the moral and social implications of our work. I'm just beginning to see how these varied minds can come together and produce greater good.
I work as a ux consultant and began working in this field in order to help improve the daily life of workers around the world.
Having a seamless experience with software is the most important thing we can do to increase the efficiency of humans as well as discovering our own pitfalls. Robotics and computers are the future of human civilization and the ability of humans to interface with those systems is the key to advancing innovation and our understanding of our world .
IA - in various forms - has been a passion of mine since I was very young. Perhaps it was growing up in a chaotic large family that led me to try to impose order and structure around me. The first system I learned, I recall vividly, Myers-Brigg Personality Typing. It opened my eyes to the potentials of various personalities and especially my own.
I've been working the web development field for over a decade. In the various positions I've held, I've always evangelized good design, tried to spark interest in this in others, and often mentored other developers on my team. My slogan has been, "to the user, the application IS the interface".
I've always been fascinated with business systems and in my career have helped various businesses streamline their processes through web and data projects.
Information should be "accessible" and available to everyone. I always wanted this to be true so I worked in an initial prototype to help handicap children with hearing loss to improve their speech in a fun way hoping to break a little bit the barrier between these two worlds: the minimum and full hearing!
I've spent so many years explaining to people that they're not 'stupid', it's the design of the app they are using that is making them frustrated. The more work we do in this field, the less barriers there will be to people achieving their goals, and the happier we will all be.
I've planned a lot of community events & conferences that went a lot more smoothly as a result of UX experience—everything from curation to wayfinding to content strategy to a planning a fun party where meaningful relationships are formed. In particular, organizing two TEDx events was a great way to create a platform for world-changers to spread their ideas far and wide and raise awareness for their cause.
In addition to that, I've put my facilitation skills to work helping with a variety of design thinking workshops:
- encouraging high school students from disadvantaged neighborhoods to identify and improve problems in their community with technology & mobile apps
- gathering community leaders in the civic / maker / hacker community to brainstorm ways to increase engagement and participation in the Schuylkill River trail system
- helping a major City department begin the processing of creating an Institute to share their nationally recognized environmental initiatives on a larger scale
Client work & volunteer work play off of each other nicely, and taking the time out to absorb what your peers are inspired by keeps the momentum going. I'd love to be at IA Summit this year!
Will this comment be my golden ticket to Baltimore?! Either way, keep rawkin'!!
magic, lightning bolts, words, structures: use your powers for good #ux
Just did a complete redesign for a client that brought up questions about their application processing. This lead to a conversation about revising their policy, procedures, and ranking order because the information was directly relevant to what was being posted to applicants. Therefore, while my task was mostly design related, it led to a greater conversation about they organization's structure and practices for the better. It's my hope that it opened lines of communication on that team, in addition to delivering what the client asked of me.
The huge county community college I used to work at did not consider their students to be the primary audience of their website - thus the site was designed for "all things to all people". I made it my mission during my time there to re-organize and redesign the website to focus on and help these first-generation college students get the information they needed to succeed. I designed and executed testing for the student audience with my team, adopting student terminology for navigation, and giving them a voice in the process. It was never easy, and always political, but it was important. I have since left the organization, but I'll always be proud that I helped in some small way.
My profession is librarianship. Most of my day to day is spent working on our website and designing marketing materials. In between times though, I get to work with patrons. So far I've taught social media to a local business that is fighting to stay competitive, broke down HTML and CSS for parents who want to learn how to code and teach it to their children, and helped a veteran rediscover a land and long-lost comrades he left behind decades ago via digitizing his slides.
So while my title is to be a user experience librarian, my real job is helping people succeed. What success is to each person differs, but the crack of a smile on someone's face when they finally get it—that's when I know I've transformed someone.
(I tried to create an ALA account, but the website kept timing out)
I need the networking opportunities IA Summit represents, and also the topics being presented pertain to my work. I am doing a project to increase the number of free accessible WordPress themes: Cities. We need more theme teams. We also need more people engaged in helping to make WordPress accessible. If you have even an hour to devote to improving a great open source resource please join us. Also please follow @WPAccessibility.
Cannot admit to changing the world in a big way, but feel that I have helped a lot of people look at their issues with navigation, search and other information seeking problems just through casual conversations.
For example: my niece works in HR at a large biotech co. She was expressing extreme frustration at how she & her co-workers were overwhelmed with requests for a certain form every year at this time (tax time) when the form is "easily findable on the intranet". She kept referring to the form by name - the HR dept name - which was some random string of letter and numbers. I pointed out that the form name sounded pretty random to me and is that the same name people use when they call and email about the form? She said no, they call it the form for dependents or children. I asked what the form was called on the intranet and could see the lightbulb go off in her head.
I have a lot of stories like this over the years of talking to people outside of the workplace - frustrations for them that would be pretty obvious to us with a little context. I guess that besides giving some insight with these small "unofficial" conversations, we are also widening our potential audience.
(Like Amanda - I tried to create an ALA account, but the website kept timing out)
Second attempt to post after the site timed out. I hope I'm as eloquent as I was first time around.
Over the past 17 years, I'm mentored and guided younger practitioners. Recently I've switched from crushing sacred cows on twitter to speaking at community events. Getting our work actually implemented and changing the world seems to be the biggest challenge we face. This year I'm helping designers actually get their work implemented, teaching influence and persuasion techniques that have served me well.
I've been working on a mobile app to promote ridesharing by connecting users in a given city. The initial research we did showed that commuters are concerned about the environment, but often not enough to seek out greener commuting options. By lowering barriers to ridesharing and carpooling, we hope to promote more conscious commuting (less traffic would be a nice side effect too, though!).
I'm relatively new to the field of UX, but IA is near the heart of what I'm most passionate about in improving products and experiences, and I would love the opportunity to attend this conference.
would love to go!
Spaculus is one of the leading Website Development Company from India. We are 5 years old website design, Development and Internet Marketing services provider Company. We are master in website development in Core PHP, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Prestashop, Cake php, ASP.Net etc.
I'd really love to attend, and thanks for the offer. I'm about an hour from Baltimore. We develop websites and try to stay current on what interaction and usability designers are doing. I missed the 3/19 deadline for a freebie by quite a bit and I'm sure you must have already announced the lucky winner, but I will try to attend nevertheless.
I love ALA for articles like this, not just your long-form tutorials. Thanks for being such a great resource to the community.
Isn't there an axiom that the design of a piece of software reflects the structure of the organization creating it? So it's no wonder that organizational issues often show up as IA issues. The question, Why doesn't our site have a single point of contact with the client? turns out to be another way of saying, Why does our process require two groups to contact the client rather than one?
By raising questions like this, the IA person can sometimes be the catalyst for (usually small-scale) organizational change. Let's not get cocky, though. When the focus shifts from wireframes and taxonomies to process re-engineering, the IA-ers are not likely to be in charge, nor (usually) should they be.
But IA-ers and other web professionals can do their own jobs better when they understand how their organization's characteristics necessarily affect them.


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In case you hadn't already heard, I've made the trip across the Atlantic and have landed in France once again. This time around, I'm living in a 5,000 population town called Cluny (as in "Clooney" but sadly, without George) in southern Burgundy. The town is so small that it has no train station. It is however, located not too far from the TGV (High-Speed Train) rail lines, and I'm pretty sure that while riding the trains, if one should blink, he/she is sure to miss Cluny – it is that small. I've been living here just over a month now, and figured it was about time to update this blog (I've also noticed that I've neglected posting about my Spring travels, and I assure you that those will be up soon!). However, my first order of business is to explain how I find myself in my current situation – again!
During the 2010/2011 school year, I was working as an English language Teaching Assistant in Mâcon (about 25 km south of Cluny). I had such an enjoyable and rewarding experience, that when I was given the option in February to have my contract renewed, I immediately sent out my application. New applicants are given priority, so I kept my fingers crossed all Spring hoping for good news. Then, in late June I received word that my application had been accepted, and was offered a position teaching at a high school in Cluny, and at an elementary school in the nearby (and even smaller) town of Lugny. I gladly accepted and began preparing the necessary paperwork, including booking my Visa appointment at the French Consulate in Toronto (and managed to book an appointment in mid-September – time slots fill up months in advance and cancellations are rare). Before I realized, Summer was over, and it was September and I had yet received my work contract from France; a document I needed to ensure that my Visa application would be accepted. I decided to wake up early one morning and give my contact at the Académie de Dijon (Education Authority in Burdgundy) a call. She explained to me that she had received my documents while on holidays (for the entire month of August) and had just sent my documents to the organization responsible for issuing the work contract. I explained to her how my Visa appointment was quickly approaching and that the next available appointment was in early October (after my October 1st job start date). She said she would do all that she could to ensure that my documents arrive on time. And with that, I began to patiently wait. Each day, I eagerly checked the mailbox, finding nothing but bills and flyers. About a week before my appointment I decided to email the French Consulate to explain my situation. The response was less than assuring. I was basically told to cancel my appointment and reschedule for when my work contract arrived as my application would not be accepted without it. The next available appointment was now in mid-October. I emailed my contact at the Académie again to relay the news. In her reply, she attached copies of my work documents and a note of encouragement. I kept my original appointment, and arrived for the interview with the photocopies. Let's just say that the authorities at the Consulate looked less than pleased. However, once they realized that I was issued a Visa for the same job just the year before, and once I explained that my documents arrived in France during the month long August holidays they became much more understanding. To my relief, my application was accepted on the condition that I present my original documents upon passport pickup. That took place on September 13th. My documents finally arrived on September 23rd! I immediately contacted the French Consulate and was told to come on the 27th to pick up my passport and Visa. Now that I had a clearer idea of my earliest possible departure date, I started researching flights. Sometimes booking a last minute flight has its advantages in incredible deals. However, this was not the case for me as I saw flights that I had researched a month ago up at least $200! At that point I was ready to shell out over a grand to fly into France on a one-way ticket. On the morning of the 27th, I was woken up early by a phone call from my Dad who like me, was monitoring flights to France. He found an incredible price on an Air Transat flight to Paris, that I immediately got out of bed to book the flight. With my flight booked (I got the last seat at that price point!), it hit me; I was going back to France! I packed my suitcases (keeping in mind my 25 kg weight limit – seriously, I'll be gone for 7-months, packing winter coats and boots, and I have the same weight restriction as someone going on a 2 week holiday?!) and took care of last minute preparations.
Finally, and after nearly a month of anticipation, on September 29th, I boarded a flight to Paris, France just as I had done exactly one year ago (this coincidence was not planned, I swear!). This time, however, I was travelling alone, marking my first solo long haul flight (I flew solo to Chicoutimi, Quebec in 2008 when I participated in the Explore language exchange program). But I felt confident. Unlike the first time I flew into France, I was much more familiar with the country and so didn't feel like a tourist anymore. The flight went well (despite the minor cold I was nursing), and upon landing in Paris and after waiting for my one luggage to emerge from the conveyor belt, I made my way to the train station and bought tickets to Lyon, and then to Mâcon (if you told me a year ago that I'd be back here, I wouldn't have believed you!) where two Teachers from the high school in Cluny I am working at were waiting to pick me up. We drove to Cluny together and they helpled me get settled into my new apartment which just happens to be above the Tea Room to Cluny's largest and perhaps most well-known Pastry Shop – Pâtisserie-Chocolaterie Germain (the owners of which happen to be my landlords).
I've been in Cluny just over one month now, and things seem to be coming together. For most of that month I was without internet (oh the horror!) which made the transition to life here slightly difficult as contact from home was limited. Add that to the fact that I know not a soul in this town apart from my landlords and flatmates (who don't seem to be around much), I find myself quite lonely – I'm the new girl in a town where everyone knows everyone and everyone's dog… err… cat (I've come to the conclusion that out of the town's 5,000 residents, 90% are seniors and the last 10% cats). But, when my landlady smiles at me from behind the pâtisserie counter when I walk by outside, or when my students say "hi" to me on the street, I realize that I'm not a newcomer anymore, I'm becoming part of the "everyone".


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The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Frederic Rzewski
Ole Kiilerich, piano
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! is a massive set of
piano variations based on a Chilean folk song by pianist and composer Frederic Rzewski. Structurally, it
resembles Beethoven's "Diabelli "variations, or Bach's "Goldberg"
variations. Like the former, it's a virtual catalog of compositional
technique. And like the latter, its 36 variations are divided into six
groups of six.
The People United begins and ends with the same simple
folk tune -- but this is a work that's more about the journey then the
destination. After hearing it transformed by Lisztian piano flourishes,
complex counterpoint, atonal reinterpretations, aleatoric passages, and
extended piano techniques, the listener gains new appreciation for this
tune when it returns intact in the final movement.
Frederic Rzewski is a virtuoso pianist as well as a composer. Like Bach
and Beethoven, he knows -- and continues to push -- what's possible on
his instrument. And that technical command gives the work a sense of
coherence. Like the "Diabelli" and the "Goldberg" variations, this piece
is a marathon -- although more for the performer than the listener.
The variations of The People United have a rhythm and flow to
them that pulls the listener along. The each of the six sections have a
feeling of arrival, although only in the final movement does one get a
sense of completeness.
In the liner notes pianist Ole Kiilerich writes, "I had this odd feeling
that the piece was written just for me to fulfill my conception of
musical expression and I felt an urge to instantly dig deeply into this
overwhelming piece of art right away..."
That compulsion works to his benefit. The performance captured in this
recording is engaging and exciting. Kiilerich has indeed made this
composition his own.
The People United can be listened to in installments. The six
sections provide logical places to enter and exit the composition. But I
recommend hearing the work the way it was intended -- from start to
finish. As I mentioned earlier, "United" is all about the journey. And
it's one that's well worth the time invested.


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It's not often I do an article about a new frame in the store, but this one I am really proud of and I think you'll like it. Introducing the R450 Spider Quadcopter…
The R450 Spider Quadcopter is a high permance 100% CNC cut frame that has its sights set firmly on the FPV and aerial filming market. It was designed around the Tarot 2D gimbal for GoPro style camera so that it could compete against the likes of the DJI Phantom and TBS Discovery. So before we go any further you should probably just watch the product video…
So why design it?
I felt that my R630 design (the one with the 12″ props that used the Turnigy Talon hardware) had failed to deliver on its promises. The frame was large and unweildy, it needed larger motors, props and batteries, yet it was still unable to carry a gimbal and even had jello issue with the fixed camera. It could only use a specific FPV camera and I had concerns that one or two good knocks and it would all be over.
In short, it looked great but it wasn't the high-performance machine I had wanted.
The R450 took it's inspiration from a number of sources – the SK250 that I produced for a client, the HobbyKing Maltese, the KongCopter AQ450, and of course the Exo440. It was espescially these simple flat-plate designs that just screamed strength and durability.
I didn't want anything complicated on this frame but I wanted it to be full of options. To keep it as light as possible, and knowing that I was going to be using a hanging gimbal I opted to not use a clean/dirty setup and I stuck with the common 1.5mm and 3.0mm material thicknesses.
After a few false start I finally settled on a design I was happy with. The R450 is not quite an X frame with the front arms raked back an extra 10 degrees to give a clear forward view. That said, with the positioning of the flight controller I have found no mixing was need at all and the frame is perfectly balanced with a quad X layout on my Naze32 Acro board.
Frame Features
It's hard to be unique in the multirotor world these days but this frame has a few features that I think make it just a little bit special.
For a start the flat design with 3mm arms and 3mm base plate is very tough. Even the legs, despite looking a bit lightweight I designed to be braced by the small standoffs into a strong box section. These then lock into the arms via tabs and steel screws to prevent twisting and shearing.
Multiple Mounting Options
Both flight controller and onboard cameras have plenty of options for mounting.
The top plate is pre-drilled to accept a direct mount Naze32/CC3d size board and also a KK2.1.x size. You can also choose to fit a vibration isolation plate if you wanted to mount something like an APM instead.
For cameras there is holes to screw mount the Tarot 2D Gimbal but if you wanted to fly purely FPV you could always fit the anti-vibration plate for a Mobius style camera. There are even holes to fit this plate underneath! The frame is drilled to suit a cased FPV camera and you can mount that on top or underneath the frame as well.
As you would expect with any multirotor frame you have plenty of space, slots and holes to mount your gear with lots of cooling airflow available with the plate design.
Easy access
Don't you just hate it when you build a frame and then realise you need to change something or fit the standoffs for your flight controller and you need to tear it all apart again? I was keen to prevent that happening with the R450 so whenever you see a 3mm screw hole in one of the plates you'll find that the other plate has a mirrored hole that is slightly larger so that screw heads and screwdrivers can fit right in there!
Being a nice size the R450 doesn't need anything special to get airborne. For the V1 prototype I used some gear out of another similar sized quad I was taking apart at the time – NTM2826 1100kv motors, Multistar 30A ESCs, 9″ props and a Naze32 Acro board. This setup with a 3600mah 3S LiPo gives me a 50% hover and 8 or so minutes of flight time, which is a good start and something I could certainly improve on with a 10″ 4S setup in the future.
In fact, the V1 was so simple that I didn't even use a PDB. There is 9mm between the plates so a small PDB isn't out of the question but I just used a 4-way breakout cable with some extra GST leads to power the VTx and Gimbal.
Well, you've seen the video (I hope). The R450 flies like it is on rails. The Naze has not been tuned at all and the frame is so responsive and easy to fly that I had strapped on my goggles within only a few minutes of testing.
The gimbal footage from the GoPro says it all really. The frame is solid and gives you smooth, jello free footage. In fact, before I fitted the gimal I mounted the GoPro directly to the frame and still got rock solid footage with no jello.
What are you waiting for?
This is an unashamed marketing piece but it is done for a reason. The R450 is just one of those frames that ticks all of the boxes (for me at least) and I'd love to see what others can do with it.
At $212 for the pure carbon version it isn't going to break the bank and you'll end up with a machine that can compete with the big boys.
I hope you like it as much as I do! You can find it in the store by clicking the link below.
R450 Spider Quadcopter – Red20RC Store


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Aftercare – Piercings
Approximate healing times:
– Earlobe: 4 to 6 weeks
– Ear Cartilage: 3 to 12 weeks
– Lip/Labret: 2 to 3 months
– Tongue: 1 to 2 months
– Nostril/Eyebrow: 2 to 6 months
– Genital Piercings: 1 to 12 months
– Other Piercings: 6 to 12 months
Supplies needed:
– Antibacterial soap
– Cotton swabs
– For oral piercings, an antiseptic mouthwash or salt solution (1/8 teaspoon sea salt with 8oz warm water) is required.
Aftercare Recommendations:
Wash hands. Using warm water and a cotton swab, remove any matter that may have dried on the jewelry and around the opening of the piercing.
Next, use antibacterial soap on the jewelry and piercing, lather it up, then gently work the jewelry back and forth at least 6 times. Leave the cleansing agent in contact with the piercing for 1 minute. Rinse cleansing agent off very thoroughly with warm water, again working the jewelry back and forth. Any cleansing agent left on the skin or in the piercing can cause problems.
For lip, labret or tongue piercings, you should rinse your mouth with antiseptic mouthwash or salt solution for 30 to 60 seconds. Some mouthwashes may need to be diluted with distilled water. Continue the rinses 4 to 6 times a day for 6 to 8 weeks.
Additional considerations:
Piercings usually heal without difficulty, but problems arise from not following
aftercare instructions or becoming too rough too soon with the piercing. Always wash your hands before touching the new piercing. Every night, remove any crusty matter with cotton swabs and use salt solutions to soak the piercing for 10 minutes. No oral contact should be made with your piercing without an appropriate barrier for at least 3 months.


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(New York--NY) You spoke, and though I'm at the age where I now have as much hair growing out of my ears and nose as the top of my head, I listened. You voted, and unlike the 2000 election, we counted every vote...once...even mine. So Amber Colt will be the new co-host of Ed-E-torial.
New Ed-E-torials will be coming to TheSpoof soon!
Check out the debut of Amber Colt.


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Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar:
J&K Ball Badminton Association is going to conduct selection trials for the upcoming 64th Junior National Ball Badminton Championship for Boys and Girls 2018 at Indoor Stadium Srinagar at 4 pm on 23 July 2018. The coaching camp will also begin from 24 July 2018 which would culminate on 6 August-2018.
The championship is scheduled to be held at Erode in Tamil Nadu) from 11 August 2018 to 15 August 2018.
The association has asked all the under 19 district level players who have participated in respective State championship to reach venue of trials on scheduled date at time.
The selected players will undergo through coaching camp till the departure of the team.
The players have also being asked to come along with passport size photograph and age proof certificate. For More information, the players can contact 7006533375.


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Worship and small groups encourage us to serve Christ and the world. Service is done through special projects and our annual mission trip.
Small groups help students connect with Christ and with one another. Small groups meet at various times throughout the week.
Your donations will help support the work of Christ through the Wesley.
Thank you for your generosity.
Tuesday Night Worship is the focus of our week at the Wesley. Our weekly worship includes, music, prayer, a message, and Holy Communion.
For more than 80 years the Wesley@SWOSU has encouraged students to grow deeper in relationship with Jesus Christ.


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Russian opposition leader is attacked on the campaign trail
MOSCOW – The Russian opposition Parnas Party says its leader, Mikhail Kasyanov, has been attacked while on the campaign trail in southern Russia.
Kasyanov's party is one of the few opposition forces allowed to run in Russia's Sept. 18 parliamentary election.
A party spokeswoman told The Associated Press that several dozen men attacked Kasyanov and his supporters when they arrived for a campaign event Wednesday in the southern city of Stavropol. The party press office said the same group follows Kasyanov on his campaign trail and confronts him and his supporters outside events, either shouting abuse or physically attacking people.
The party said no injuries were reported Wednesday.
Attacks on opposition leaders in Russia have become widespread in recent years as state-owned media often brand them as "fifth columnists" and "traitors."


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Bergamos was born out of a love for learning how to best treat ourselves. Since our opening in 2001, we've been pouring everything we know about skin and body care into the highest quality treatments for you. That knowledge has bloomed into the four pillars of wellness -- nutrition, exercise, mental wellbeing, and skin & body care -- expanding the ways in which we help you treat yourself.
We've traveled the world, seeking out treatments in world-renowned spas and salons to bring them back to you. This has largely influenced our Italian-inspired nature, which we've garnished with our own Texas flare. With plunge pools, steam rooms, saunas and more inspired by Roman baths and culture, it'll be hard not to say "Ciao" as you pass others throughout the Retreat.
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Greg Lyle: Put the country first
It doesn't matter what the government says in this budget. What matters is what Carole Taylor says.
It is clear the Harper government made a grievous error in its economic statement by seeking partisan gain in an economic crisis. Its attempt to advance the war of attrition by taking away government funding of parties almost saw the government defeated just weeks after the last election. Yet while the immediate impact of that error was to throw the government into crisis, the opposition made its own miscalculation with the coalition and the Conservatives were able to rebound outside of Quebec.
Voters have had enough of politicians and their games. Canadians are looking for all parties to put country first and party second. They are looking for a budget that helps Canadians who have already been impacted by the financial crisis and they want a budget that will protect those who have avoided negative effects so far.
Substantively, there needs to be immediate aid for Canadians in economic distress. That assistance should not be just to workers and companies who have been harmed by the slowdown. It also needs to include industries that were already in trouble due to global trends, particularly forestry, which is in trouble in every corner of the country.
The government also needs to be seen to be getting stimulus dollars out the door quickly and in a way that leaves some lasting good. Mayors such as Dianne Watts in Surrey, B.C., have prepared wish lists of projects that can start in weeks and will provide benefits for years. The federal government needs to take up those offers and flow its cash quickly.
How will voters decide whether the budget has met the test? What matters is not what Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty or Michael Ignatieff say. What matters is what Carole Taylor says. The government set this bar when it established the Economic Advisory Council led by Ms. Taylor. This blue-ribbon panel of eminent Canadians will provide voters with an independent and non-partisan view on the budget. If the Economic Advisory Council supports the budget, the opposition will be hard pressed to oppose it. But if the government ignores the advice of the council, the government's days are likely numbered.
Greg Lyle is managing director of the Innovative Research Group, a public-opinion research and strategy firm based in Toronto
Terrie O'Leary: Get back to basics
Start with a step back to the basic principles of budget making. The foundation of a credible budget must be the restoration of the integrity of the numbers. If the assumptions do not stand up to scrutiny, the budget will be a failure. The uncertainty among the experts about the length and depth of the current recession means that re-establishing the contingency reserve and reinserting the "prudence" buffers are critical.
This budget is the most important since 1995-96. It will contain big actions and large deficits. The period from the fall update to now should have been used to engage Canadians in a broad public-consultation process and real debate about the options and measures. Progress, especially improved consumer confidence, would be more likely if there were a consensus in the country about an economic plan and the measures required to implement it. Currently that consensus does not exist.
This budget must lay out a plan for restoring growth and confidence. The quality of the initiatives matters, not their quantity. An essential ingredient in that plan is a credible track to a return to budget balance. The pitfalls of five-year forecasting were evident in the lack of progress on deficit elimination from 1975 to 1995. While a return to balance may take five years, a fiscal track that shows most of the progress based on economic growth and occurring in the fifth year should be unacceptable. The government that takes Canadians back into a deficit has a fiduciary responsibility to restore the nation's finances.
These extraordinary times require the opposition parties to take their responsibilities seriously. Knee-jerk and preordained opposition will not do. If the budget, on balance, moves in the right direction they should support it, even if the mix of measures is less than ideal in their view. If the budget is as deeply flawed as the fall statement, the economic crisis places on the opposition parties an obligation to provide an alternative set of options, including a redesigned coalition that inspires more confidence among Canadians than the fall version did, or an accord on the measures to be introduced.
Terrie O'Leary was chief of staff to Liberal finance minister Paul Martin from 1993 to 1998.
Leslie Campbell: Show some empathy
If a budget and stimulus package is to instill confidence among voters and not further stir the parliamentary pot, the government should admit that it underestimated the scale of the downturn, show empathy to a public scared for their jobs and retirement nest eggs and demonstrate some respect for a combined opposition which commands more seats in Parliament than it does.
The ideological battle lines are quite clear -- the NDP wants to protect the vulnerable, save homes from foreclosure, and protect jobs -- particularly in the "real" economy such as manufacturing. It wants infrastructure spending, tightened regulation and modest tax benefits in the lower income categories.
The Liberals will be easier to please since Michael Ignatieff is seeking the flimsiest of fig leaves to cover his retreat from the coalition deal. Even a sniff of gaining power is an aphrodisiac that overwhelms any desire to co-operate with the NDP. No one should be expecting a no-confidence vote and coalition government.
The NDP will look like a cuckolded lover after the Liberals fail to defeat the budget. It would be better to break off the relationship now and remind the public of which party provides real opposition. Rather than wallow in the betrayal, the NDP should get to work on building a more durable centre-left alternative that includes those Liberals bound to be discouraged by a return to co-operation with Stephen Harper.
Many Canadians, even if not pining for an election, get a degree of satisfaction from seeing the Prime Minister squirm. Strenuous and principled opposition forces the government to be more attuned to the opinion of voters and encourages the exploration of all policy options, not just the ones ideologically comfortable for the current PM and cabinet.
Perhaps Mr. Harper's route to a win-win scenario is to harmonize Canada's fiscal plan with U.S. President Barack Obama's economic plan to the degree possible. Mr. Obama promises tax credits for the lower income brackets and green infrastructure spending -- a plan the public and the opposition can embrace.
Leslie Campbell is a former chief of staff to federal NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin and assistant to Manitoba NDP Leader Gary Doer. He is now a Senior Associate at the National Democratic Institute in Washington.


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CL-A2LAS is a unique hand-crank charger unveiled by Sony. Similar to Eton Hand Crank Radio and Eton Microlink FR-170 Emergency Radio, this Sony CL-A2LAS battery pack offers a 4,000mAh battery, 2x USB ports that allow you to recharge multitude of your mobile electronic devices.
From early this year, we see an increasing trend where gadget manufacturers are aware of potential market for emergency solution for electricity and power especially post disastrous time as we have witness from various earthquakes and Tsunamis on several countries during the last decade.
CL-A2LAS battery pack also allow users to stay away from the power grid while still able to get necessary power or electricity for keeping their mobile electronic devices alive. Sony has designed this CL-A2LAS battery pack with detachable crank that could be removed once the battery is charged.
For three minutes of manual hand cracking, you will be able to get one minute talk time using the battery power. Scheduled for release sometime within June this year, Sony CL-A2LAS will initially appears in Japan for a price tag of approximately USD100.
[ Source: Verge ]


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16/06/2011 | Peter Andre is winner of Premier Inn Celebrity Dad of the year 2011
The 38 year old dad of Junior, Princess and step-father to Harvey said "This feels so great. It was an honour to win last year but to still have the public's support and best wishes is a tremendous feeling. This means a huge amount to me as being a dad is my most important role."
Fans of Peter commented on the Premier Inn Facebook page that his TV programme, Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, has shown Peter as the perfect example of a hands on and down to earth dad making him the first celebrity to win either celebrity mum or dad of the year twice in a row.
With thousands of votes cast, the top spot was the most hotly contested to date. Peter battled off competition from this year's nominees which included David Beckham, James Corden and Jonathan Ross. This year also saw the competitions first gay celebrity entrants with Elton John and David Furnish joining the shortlist only to be pipped at the post at the final hurdle.
Claire Haigh, spokesperson for Premier Inn said, "We are delighted to announce Peter as the winner of the Premier Inn Celebrity Dad Award for 2011. His attitude towards work, spending quality time with his kids, and his likeability factor has clearly struck a chord with the voters. Premier Inn would like to congratulate Peter on his fantastic achievement of being voted the celebrity dad of the year!"
Peter fought off fierce competition from the following nominees to be crowned Premier Inn's Celebrity Dad of the year 2011:
1. Peter Andre
2. David Furnish
3. Elton John
4. Wayne Rooney
5. David Beckham
6. Jeff Brazier
7. Gary Barlow
8. Kevin Pietersen
9. Rod Stewart
10. Frank Lampard
11. James Corden
12. Kris Smith
13. Michael McIntyre
14. Gavin Henson
15. Jonathan Ross
The official Premier Inn Celebrity Dad of the Year award aims to reward the celebrity dad who has impressed the nation by balancing a hectic public life with the demands of parenting.
Head over to our Facebook page to see the specially recorded message from Peter Andre at www.facebook.com/premierinn.


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Igor Petričević
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Igor Petričević is a PhD student at the Department of Social Anthropology since September 2016. His doctoral research will explore the intersections of the economic crisis and migration crisis in Zagreb, Croatia.
After finishing his BA in Sociology and Anthropology (2009-2012) at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, he received his MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2013-2015) at the University of Leuven in Belgium with the thesis: "Navigating the Crisis and Negotiating Mobility: Trajectories of Highly Educated Southern European Youth in Uncertainty". This thesis explored the meaning-making processes accompanying mobility of young people from Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Croatia during the uncertain times of crisis and austerity on the EU's periphery.
He also holds an MA in European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives (2016-2016) from the University of Leuven where he started delving into the interrelationships between recent international migration flows across the Balkan route and Croatians' memories of the 1990s war.
Working Title: "Chronicity of Crisis and Negotiation of Marginality: Victimhood, Belonging and the Migrant/non-Migrant divide in Zagreb"
During the summer 2015, migrants moving along the Balkan route started to cross Croatian borders which were (re)created in the context of the 1990s war that itself displaced many Croats and resulted in the increased importance of national identity. The collective memories of the 1990s Homeland War in Croatia have been at the forefront of making sense of the migration both in terms of solidarity and xenophobia towards the migrants. Albeit the state's migration policy has remained restrictive mirroring other EU member states, the increasing presence of new non-EU migrants in publics and discourses has attracted a lot of attention. This 'crisis' has once again placed the people living on the "margins of Europe" at the centre of the western gaze simultaneously as their marginality is (re)produced by the ongoing economic crisis unravelling throughout the EU's periphery.
In the places experiencing rapid social changes such as contemporary Croatia ‒ where we can observe the conjunction of the dissolution of communism, war, postsocialist transition, economic crisis, and migration ‒ crisis can become socially and experientially 'chronic'. The lived experience of the crisis becomes part and parcel of the processes of social reproduction. Thereupon, through intergenerational transmission of memories and circulation of imaginaries, the (re)construction of group boundaries occurs in the context of uncertainty, vulnerability, and unpredictability.
The research will attempt to answer the following: what can the ways in which the chronicity of the crisis is experienced by the ordinary people living in Croatian neighbourhoods affected by migration reveal about how they negotiate their marginality in Europe after the accession to the EU? This question proposes three subquestions. First, how are the present social changes in Croatia ‒ related to the economic crisis and migration ‒ moulded by the Croatian's memories and imaginaries of the past crises in the region ‒ most notably the 1990s war and postsocialist transition? Second, what can this assemblage of temporalities reveal about people's identity-making processes in the margins of Europe? And third, how is the 'migrant/non-migrant' categorical divide a site where these processes are played out, reflected, and (re)produced in everyday life?
- International "Border Crossings" Student Conference 21-24 April 2016, University of Zagreb, Croatia: "Ethnographies of (un)certainty, (in)equality, and hope(lesness): Challenges and Possibilities for Anthropology Today". Presented the paper "Navigating the Crisis and Negotiating Mobility: Trajectories of Highly Educated Southern European Youth in Uncertainty".
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2014 Formula 3 Europe Skinpack by Sylphide
Install: Just drag and drop the GameData and rFm folders into your GSC2013 folder.
All cars are not 100% accurate since the actual car in the F3 Europe series is the Dallara F312 and this is the Dallara F309
however they are fairly similiar.
All skins done by me, Do not alter skins without my permission.
Credit to Reiza Studios for the driver helmets and suits since i couldnt be bothered to try
to do them.
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This comes as its own standalone rfm.
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The latest checkup for Minnesota's premiere aquatic artery — the Mississippi River — was both reassuring and alarming.
Healthier populations of fish, eagles and mussels continue to reflect the river's gradual recovery from less enlightened eras when it was treated as a convenient garbage dump. But this world-renowned waterway faces pollution threats old and new, according to the landmark State of the River report released this week. If Minnesotans want to leave a river future generations can enjoy and tap for drinking water, greater contributions are needed from individual consumers and, in particular, a powerful state industry — agriculture.
The report is a joint project of the Friends of the Mississippi River advocacy group and the National Park Service's Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. It's the partnership's second examination of the Mississippi's run through the metro. Like the first report in 2012, this one provides a valuable public service to the state by breaking down water-quality science into metrics that inform and inspire. An accompanying teacher's guide also merits wide use in schools.
The report pragmatically recommends everyday steps to improve the river's health. A new type of pollution highlighted is linked to synthetic fabrics that release plastic fibers that wash down the drain. The concern is if they build up in fish tissue. Choosing natural fabrics helps avoid this.
Practices such as picking up pet waste, reducing salt use on winter sidewalks, and disposing of prescription medications by methods other than flushing them down the toilet are important individual actions, too. One jaw-dropping report datapoint: 73 percent of male smallmouth bass caught in Lake Pepin have reproductive mutations, which may be linked to human drugs in the water.
Costly but critical upgrades to municipal wastewater treatment plants after the 1972 Clean Water Act merit much of the credit for the river's improved health today. Improvements to these plants still have a role to play in improving river health, but it is a diminishing one because of the good work already done.
Reducing the still significant amount of river pollutants will require much greater assistance from agriculture, an industry exempted from the Clean Water Act. Pollutants such as bacteria from manure spread on fields, and sediment and fertilizer swept downstream, pose serious challenges to the future of the Mississippi and its tributaries.
The conversation about agriculture too often falsely boils down to this: either farmers prosper or we have costly clean-water regulations. While stronger regulations are needed, more market-based policies, such as those that reward farmers for growing runoff-reducing cover crops and perennials, are also valuable and have a shot at passage in this political climate. Minnesota's new "Working Lands Restoration Program" strikes this valuable middle ground. Policies that strengthen this program and build on its strategy should find ample support in our state.
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I opened a JPEG file once with the HEX editor
bless. Now Nautilus and GNOME in general have associated all JPEG files with
bless. How do I get it to go back to
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The president of a pro-coal industry group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, argues that coal is more reliable than natural gas for power generation, because 80 days of coal can be stockpiled onsite at coal power plants, whereas natural gas must be transported via (unreliable?) pipelines. The conclusion (he says) is that the Clean Power Plan should not be made into law, nor enforced. see link to Washington Examiner story of 5/9/2017.
Somebody bring a screwdriver, because there are more than a few screws loose in this one.
It is fine for the president of a coal-industry coalition to argue for more use for coal. That's what he is paid to do. However, it is laughable to bring that particular argument.
For instance, how many remember the recent near-miss in coal-powered generation near Chicago, when more ice than usual on the Great Lakes (and much later in the year) prevented coal-carrying ships from delivering their cargo? see link to April, 2013 article
And this, the lack of adequate rail capacity, from oilprice.com in October, 2014: "Part of the reason (for power plants having below-average coal stockpiles) is the country's oil boom. Moving oil by rail has become so widespread that train backups are making it hard for utilities to receive shipments of coal, which in some cases is leaving power plants critically low on fuel supplies. . . Coal stocks were inordinately depleted during the unusually long, cold snowy winter in the U.S., which saw an elevated level of electricity demand. Months later, coal-fired power plants are still struggling to replace their coal supplies."
So much for coal being ultra-reliable.
Now, as to natural gas-fired power plants having their gas supplies curtailed due to pipeline problems. Yes, that did occur in California when El Paso Corporation (the gas supplier at the time) reduced pipeline flows that resulted in a few power plants not running. That resulted in a great many lawsuits and Federal investigation, and a huge fine was assessed.
As I wrote in February, 2016 on SLB, see link "A few years ago, an artificial shortage of natural gas was created in the El Paso Natural Gas Company fiasco, and California experienced electrical shortages, rolling blackouts, and outrageously high electricity prices. Part of that fiasco was due to the untimely shutdown of a natural gas pipeline that brings natural gas to California from Texas. ( see link to a copy of the settlement agreement between El Paso Corp and various parties. This describes some, but not all, of the activities that created the electricity shortage.)"
And, there was a time decades ago when a widespread cold period created a natural gas shortage across Texas because the infamous Coastal Corporation of Oscar Wyatt, had over-sold the available natural gas. Colleges and businesses were shut down so that power plants would have enough gas to keep the grid running. See 1973 winter gas shortage in Texas.
But, it is clear that natural gas-fired power plants enjoy a clear advantage in reliability of fuel supply. Pipelines are not affected by ice on Great Lakes, nor on overcrowding on rail lines.
Roger E. Sowell, Esq.
Marina del Rey, California
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Our customers often ask us how to turn shredded tyres into business. This series of articles enlightens the future possibilities of utilizing end-of-life tyres (ELTs) and also presents productive and environmental friendly applications that are already commercialized. - Picture: 50x50mm tyre shreds work best as lightweight material. Tyre derived aggregates (TDA) have been used as lightweight in constructing roads, embankments, noise barriers, building foundations and bridge and road banks on soft grounds for decades. Technology is well-tested but true commercial brakethrough is... + continue reading
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There are many innovative ways to give a new life to the end-of-life tyres - in a way which is profitable both to the waste handler and the environment. This introductive article gives a big picture about this relatively new business area. Recycling used tyres is a global challenge. In the United States alone, an average of 250 million tyres are discarded as waste annually. The figure is the same for Europe, and in Australia it is 48.5 million. Traditionally, used tyres have either been disposed of in landfills or incinerated for energy. However, the material extracted from used tyres could... + continue reading
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CHENGDU, China The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies is diminishing and major economies should deepen coordination to promote sustainable, balanced growth, China's Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said on Saturday.
Lou was speaking at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu.
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