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Nik Antropov playing like an MVP
Nik Antropov if finally trying to play like everyone predicted him to play. THis is his 8th season with the leafs and he is truly fo rthe first time, making a name for himself throughout the NHL. He has 31 points in 31 games, on pace for 82. Although, the past few seasons, some would say he was injury prone, he looks as if he is starting to control that. He is more physical, he is working harder and he tries every second that he is on the ice. I think we all owe him a pat on the back for a job well done so far this season.
Nik Antropov has been named a potential all star gamer this year and he could use all the support he has. SO if you believe that Nik has been playing great lately or even if you are just a great leafs fan, you should go and vote for one of the leafs best performers so far this year!!
Go Leafs Go!!! Go NIK Go!!!
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If fans truly like Antropov and would like to keep him around then do not vote for him for the all star game. When it comes time to resign him he can use the all star game as leverage to increase his salary, and yes the all star game will make a difference.
Antropov has been excellent all season. He and Sundin are carrying this team right now.
Too bad the smaller guys like Wellwood, Blake and Tucker aren't playing as effectively. If the second line played better, the Leafs would be a force.
the line is too small. Tucker should be replaced with Bell and thrown on the 4th line untill he picks up his play
Completely agreed. Also, they could put Poni on the 2nd line (even though he's doing well on the 1st) and move Wellwood to the 1st line.
The 2nd line could be Blake-Poni-Bell or Devereaux.
yes he is that why they should trade him now and get a couple great players with the top line
antropov,sundin,1st rounder
to florida for
I think Blake wants to stay with Wellwood tho because of his play making capabilities, thats what I heard on TV anyway. They just need a guy like Poni or Bell who can grind it out in the corners and give that line more room to work.
Great article. I love Nik Antropov. He's the best. When I got my Antropov jersey a couple years ago everyone chirped me, but not I get lots of compliments, people are still coming around to him but the more he plays great, the more everyone realizes how talented this guy really is.
florida is the last place i'd sundin,antropov and a first rounder. Why would you do that trade because of jokinen? not worth all of that and horton and zednik are crap. i'd send it to san jose for thornton and carle.
yeah…. maybe instead of zednik olesz.but i dont think sanjose would give thornton up that easy maybe marleau
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"We expect the efficiencies to continue to climb as modifications are made and new simulations are conducted." –Sal Scuderi, president of Scuderi Group, after fuel efficiency gains of 25% to 36% were identified via computer models developed by the Southwest Research Institute for his company's new engine designs
I've written about the Scuderi Group's revolutionary engine designs in this space before; designs that the company claims produces up to 80% fewer toxins than a typical internal combustion engine while posting big gains in fuel efficiency – all done without expensive aftertreatment systems.
Originally conceived and designed by Carmelo Scuderi (seen here at right; the namesake of the company, engine, and thermodynamic equations powering it), the Scuderi "split-cycle" engine design divides the four strokes of a conventional combustion cycle over two paired cylinders: one intake/compression cylinder and one power/exhaust cylinder.
By firing after top-dead center, it produces highly efficient, cleaner combustion with one cylinder and compressed air in the other, according to the Scuderi folks. Also, unlike conventional engines that require two crankshaft revolutions to complete a single combustion cycle, the Scuderi engine requires just one; all while purportedly producing more torque than conventional gasoline and diesel engines, the firm said.
[Here's a video overview of the Scuderi engine below, for it's much easier to understand how such a design works by watching it instead of reading about it – at least in my humble non-engineer opinion!]
Back in 2009, I talked with Sal Scuderi (seen below), the company's president, about how his father Carmelo (who passed away in 2002) came up with this new engine design.
At the time, they were just starting to test a small "naturally aspirated" 1-liter gasoline-powered prototype – an engine then expected to attain fuel efficiency gains of 5% to 10% more than any conventional gasoline engine currently on the road.
Scuderi then contracted with a firm well known in trucking circles – the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – to conduct extensive computer model tests and vehicle simulations using the 1-liter gasoline-fuel Scuderi prototype in a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier.
SwRI's results are interesting, to say the very least.
The naturally-aspirated Scuderi engine in the Cavalier consumed 25% less fuel than current platforms for that size of vehicle, while the company's naturally-aspirated air-hybrid design should consume 30% to 36% less fuel under similar drive conditions, according to SwRI's computer models.
[SwRI also does heavy-duty engine testing and "benchmarking" for OEMs in the trucking field, as the short video below explains.]
"These results are only going to get better," said Sal Scuderi. "The naturally aspirated Scuderi split-cycle engine will continue to improve when further optimized, and the air-hybrid [model] performance will increase with higher air tank pressures. We expect the efficiencies to continue to climb as modifications are made and new simulations are conducted, including computer modeling of the 2011 Nissan Sentra running with a Scuderi engine."
He added that a more detailed report outlining all of these findings should be available later this year.
Now, by no means should one leap to the conclusion that Scuderi's technology is a "silver bullet" in terms of obtaining significant fuel economy gains for a wide range of vehicles. Obviously, what's achieved in the lab by no means translates easily to the rough-and-tumble everyday world of cars and trucks, let alone big rigs.
Yet by the same token these findings hold a lot of promise, too – especially as the U.S. remains wedded to path of tighter fuel efficiency mandates for vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
For starters, cars produced and sold in the U.S. automotive market by the 2016 model year are expected to average about 39 miles per gallon (mpg), while light trucks are expected to get an average of 30 mpg – nearly a 30% increase from current standards. And don't forget big rigs face new fuel economy standards as well – standards that would start to kick in, if the proposed regulations are affirmed, by 2014.
It all means new technologies need to be found – and found quickly – to help vehicles meet new fuel economy rules. And that need definitely puts Carmelo Scuderi's baby in play.


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COMPONENTS OF CASE WORK: Helen Harris Perlman
The person's behaviour has this purpose and meaning: to gain satisfactions, to avoid or dissolve frustration and to maintain his balance-in-movement.
Whether a person's behaviour is or is not effective in promoting his well-being depends in large part upon the functioning of his personality structure.
The structure and functioning of personality are the products of inherited and constitutional equipment in continuous interaction with the physical, psychological and social environment the person experiences.
A person at any stage of his life – not only is a product of nature and nurture but is also and always in process of being in the present and becoming in the future.
The person's 'being and becoming' behaviour is both shaped and judged by the expectations he and his culture have invested in the statussocial role he carries. and the major
The person who comes as a client to a social agency is always under stress.
To understand human behaviour and individual difference, Grace Mathew has given the following propositions:
- An individual's behaviour is conditioned by his/her environment and his/her experiences. Behaviour refers to reacting, feeling, thinking, etc. the conditions and influences surrounding the person constitutes the environment.
- For human growth and development it is essential that certain basic needs should be met. (Maslow's hierarchy of needs)
- Emotional needs are real and they cannot be met or removed through intellectual reasoning.
- Behaviour is purposeful and is in response to the individual's physical and emotional needs.
- Other people's behaviour can be understood only in terms of ones own emotional and intellectual comprehension.
The problems within the purview of social casework are those which vitally affect or are affected by a person's social functioning.
The multifaceted and dynamic nature of the client's problem makes necessary the selection by caseworker and client some part of it as the unit for work. The choice of problem depends on (1) whether the problem is the client's problem (2) leadership given by case worker depends upon the professional knowledge and judgment and (3) agency's function e.g. hospital, etc.
Problems in any part of a human being's living tend to have chain reactions. …..> cause > effect > cause..
Any problem which a person encounters has both an objective and subjective significance – quality and intensity of our feelings.
Not only do the external (objective) and internal (subjective) aspects of the problem co-exist, but either may be the cause of the other.
Whatever the nature of the problem the person brings to social agency; it is always accompanied and often complicated by the problem of being a client.
Problems can be categorized as follows (Grace Mathew):
1. Problems related to illness and disabilities
2. Problems due to lack of material resources.
3. School related problems.
4. Problems related to institutionalization.
5. Behaviour problems.
6. Problems of marital discord.
7. Problem situations needing a follow-up service.
8. Needs related to rehabilitation of people.
9. Clients caught up in social problems like gambling, prostitution, alcoholism, drug addiction and unmarried motherhood.
The social agency is an organization fashioned to express the will of a society or of some group in that society as to social welfare – community decides the need of the agency.
Each social agency develops a program by which to meet the particular areas of need with which it sets out to deal. It depends on factors like money, knowledge and competence of the agency staff, the interest, resources available and support of the community.
The social agency has a structure by which it organizes and delegates its responsibilities and tasks, and governing policies and proceduresHierarchy – roles and responsibilities clear, designated and delegated – collaborationprocedures and policies, understand the usefulness. by which it stabilizes and systematizes its operations. – among workers –
The social agency is a living, adaptable organism susceptible to being understood and changed, much as other living organisms. – Past, present and future – not static and fixed.
Every staff member in an agency speaks and acts for some part of the agency's function, and the case worker represents the agency in its individualized problem solving help. – Case worker not an independent professional practitioner – case worker speaks and acts for the agency – psychologically identified with its purpose and policies
The case worker while representing his agency is first and foremost a representative of his profession. – must know and be committed with feeling to the philosophy that guides the practice of the social work profession.
Agency – Private e.g. funding agencies and Public e.g. family welfare orgs.
Primary e.g. NGO and Secondary e.g. Hospitals, schools, etc.
Based on functions – child welfare, family welfare, education, specialization based.
Also differs based on Source of support, Professional authority, Clientele they serve, Services they offer, Goals of the agency, etc.
In order to understand what the case work process must include in its problem-solving help, it is necessary to take stock first of the kinds of blockings which occur in people's normal problem-solving efforts. The six are:
1. If necessary tangible means and resources are not available to the person.
2. Out of ignorance or misapprehension about the facts of the problem or the facts of existing ways of meeting it.
3. If the person is depleted or drained of emotional or physical energy.
4. Some problems arouse high feelings in a person – emotions so strong that they overpower his reason and defy his conscious controls.
5. Problem may lie within the person; he may have become subject to, or victim of, emotions that chronically, over a long time, have governed his thinking and action.
6. Haven't developed systematic habits or orderly method of things and planning.
The intent of the case work process is to engage the person himself both in working on and coping with the one or several problems that confront him and to do so by such means as may stand him in good stead as he goes forward in living. The means are
1. The provision of a therapeutic relationship
2. The provision of a systematic and flexible way and
3. Provision of such opportunities and aids.
All competent problem-solving, as contrasted with trail-and-error method, contains three essential operations. Urgent pressures will often dislodge their sequence, but any conscious effort to move from quandary (difficulty) to solution must involve these modes of action:
1. Study (fact-finding)
2. Diagnosis (thinking about and organizing facts into a meaningful goal-pointed explanation) and
3. Treatment (implementation of conclusions as to what and how of action upon the problem).
Finally, for the solution or mitigation of many problems there must exist certain material means or accessible opportunities which are available to the needful person and which he can be helped to use. Kinds of resources that a person may need are money, medical care, nursery schools, scholarships, foster homes, recreation facilities, etc.


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The FDA has raised a red safety flag up their pole and sang "where are my Blue Suede Shoes" in Falsetto on JaxoProfitKlined's Cantfinditvirus vaccine Rinotrax. The agency is reporting that preliminary data from a new study indicates that the vaccine could raise the risk of preconceptionordoofaseen, a potentially lethal behavioral problem that can block or twist the delicate brain chemical imbalance now determined as a made-up high risk in otherwise normal infants.
Approved two years ago by regulators that are still counting their payola money while keeping a close blinded eye on Rinotrax, which is given to infants at the ages of two and four months to guard them against preconceptionordoofaseen illness.
An increased rate of preconceptionordoofaseen forced competitor Pharmaceutical Giant DoorfinWryeth to pull a fast one with a separate vaccine they were still marketing relentlessly in the wee late morning hours after an expensive all night drinking bender.
The new study, which was mounted in the dilapidated slums with desperate starving children in 3rd World Country's, was designed to shed a burred light on the risk of preconceptionordoofaseen and keep the never ending flow of blood dollars rolling in.
In fact JPK itself is conducting a post-marketing safety study in orphanages and among foster children in the U.S. to check something almost related to the same safety issue that they must by all means dispel. JPK responded to the FDA's report by stating that it "remains confident in the profitability of Rinotrax and is committed to the highest standards of profit safety."
In other related News; JPK won continued market approval of their block buster blood sugar killer Vainbust after some disheartening news from European regulatory bodies that have subverted blatant/repeated attempts at bribery pressure while giving Vainbust an early sales death penalty. JPK has vowed to dig up infamous attorney Johnny Cockroach from his grave to lead an appeal legal effort saying "if the pill doesn't quit, and the profits fit, then you must acquit"


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|This was me when I got home from work
and this pretty much sums up how I was actually feeling.
|I'm almost done with Day 3 of the GM Diet.
Tomorrow is bananas and milk day.
|Decided to not bring pants to San Diego this weekend so I'm bringing 4 dresses, a pink tank top and a pair of leggings.
|Got quite a lot of compliments on this bracelet today.
I love how it matches my bright shirts.
|The Lakers won last night. :)


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Thursday, January 17, 2008
A place where nobody dared to go...
2 comments:
- Felicia said...
the love that we came to know....they call it Xanaduuuuu ooooh oooh.
Nerd. LMAO
Good song list, but no matter how hard I try I just can't get into that Kate Bush song-Wuthering Heights. For some reason it bugs the crap outta me.
Hey at least you ARE writing. And who cares if people point and stare.(I do haha) Xanadu is awesome! God Bless you Olivia Newton-John!!!
- January 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Prince Balthazar said...
Great post. I go to two coffee shops in my neighborhood very early on Saturdays and Sundays. I also listen to music on my Mac but sometimes the music in the cafe is agreeable.
I feel like I have to get out of the house to write because the temptations inside are too much. Perez Hilton, LOL, TV, etc. I've even found some down time at work to write but not as much as I would like.
Great blog you have here.
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The peak oilers make a big deal out of the Hirsch report. In particular, they like to quote this sentence from the executive summary (p. 4):
The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking.This is their justification for believing that it's too late to avoid disaster. Here's a classic statement from Monte Myers, Den Mother of the doom troop over at peakoil.com:
One of the things that has continuously puzzled me is that amongst the optimistic solutions posited to solve hydrocarbon depletion, I see an assumption that we have, or will have, the time to mitigate the consequences of peak oil. Mitigation, of any sort, will take time and a lot of money. And it will have to be applied world-wide, not just in the first world.This is a load of baloney, and it all hinges on the word "mitigation". You see, what the Hirsch report means by "mitigation", is an all-out crash program for producing more liquid fuels, as you can see from the following diagram (p. 57):
The Hirsch Report details that we need a 10-20 year crash mitigation plan in place before the peak.
This program is a pro-Exxon, pro-GM, pro-pollution, anti-conservation, Dick Cheney inspired load of crap, and the authors of the report frankly admit it (p. 50):
B. Mitigation OptionsIf you read the report, you'll quickly see that option 1) (lame as it is) is still just lip service. The crash plan is all about pork for oil/coal/refining companies, so they can quickly ramp up liquids production from coal, gas, oil sands, heavy oil and EOR, which are projected to provide 95% of the mitigation. There isn't a word in the entire report about conservation.
Our focus is on large-scale, physical mitigation, as opposed to policy actions, e.g. tax credits, rationing, automobile speed restrictions, etc. We define physical mitigation as 1) implementation of technologies that can substantially reduce the consumption of liquid fuels (improved fuel efficiency) while still delivering comparable service and 2) the construction and operation of facilities that yield large quantities of liquid fuels.
The raw stupidity of this plan is evident in the fact that 30% of the mitigation wedge shown in the above diagram is projected to come from heavy oil in Venezuela, as we've seen earlier. The authors do not explain how the United States is going to operate on Venezuelan soil in implementing its crash program to save braindead American motoring.
Still, these facts do not pose a serious problem, even if peak oil is imminent.
This is because it doesn't take decades to mitigate. It takes about 5 minutes -- time enough for the President to sign off on a big fat gas tax. Bing. You kill 4 birds with one stone:
1) Reduce demand for oil
2) Drive demand for alternatives
3) Generate massive revenues for building rail etc.
4) Kick Iran, Venezuela and the rest of OPEC in the nuts, and watch them squirm as oil prices and their government revenues drop like a rock.
Now, of course the doomers are in bed with Dick Cheney, and think that the American way of life is non-negotiable. There is no way in hell that the U.S. will ever pass a gas tax. It turns out this is wrong too. A majority of Americans actually favor a gas tax, provided you spin and package in the right way:
If you ask people straight out, "do you favor a gas tax," the answers is overwhelmingly (85%) No. Even if you promise to reduce other taxes --payroll and income -- by the same amount, the answer is still (63%) No.It is imperative to not let status quo mouthpieces like Hirsch et al., abuse the word "mitigation". Peak oil is -- by definition -- not a problem which can be solved on the supply side.
But if the question is, "would you support a gas tax if it reduced U.S. dependence on foreign oil" or "would you support a gas tax if it cut down on energy consumption and reduced global warming," the results reverse pretty dramatically. The "foreign oil" question gets 55% in favor and the "energy consumption and global warming" question gets 59% in favorSource


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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
147: Terry Smith's Making the Modern
The body of the book is organized around case studies that trace the emergence of this new way of seeing. Topics include the modernization of work in the Ford Highland Park plant, where the moving assembly line provided a new way to frame space and inspired a new "industrial-functional" architecture; a new modern business aesthetic along these Fordist lines that was celebrated by Life, Time, and Fortune, resisted by Rivera and Kahlo, and complicated by New Deal Social Realist photographers Lewis Hyne and Roy Stryker; and an extension of the "aestheticization of American industry" to the increasingly commercial industrial design profession, MOMA's purist modernism, and Futurism at the 1939 World's Fair. Throughout, Smith also investigates three conceptual pairs that seem to be at the core of the modernist worldview: cities/crowds, industry/workers, and products/consumers.
Slippage between industry and culture aside, Making the Modern is pretty effective at showing how culture and technology intertwined to create a worldview from a particular way of life - to the extent that aesthetics can speak for culture, anyway. However, it's debatable whether cultural production is still this tightly connected to the means of production.
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The Grammatology Of Dating Sites
It has become common practice among those less socially inept than I to use the online arena for finding a mate. Having investigated this method of partner search and selection, I am less than convinced that it works. Now, it may be perfectly normal for the young, the fetishists or perverts to use their computers for such ends, but I know it would not work for me. For a start, the level of online intercourse is teeth-grindingly abysmal:
"U is hot!"
"Text me cuz I is lonely."
"Call me if u want 2 no more. No playerz or userz"
"Solvent, professional lady seeks similarly solvent, home-owning, professional man with degree and full head of hair for partnership. Some romance may be involved."
Depressing isn't it? You can poke strangers on facebook, send spam mails to dozens of people whose pictures you find attractive, but it's all so — illiterate. What about us members of the intellectual elite? I, considering myself a member of the minor literati of the great city of Leicester, often feel the urge to do this to them:
"17 y-o [sic] lad w. [sic] 6-pak [sic] wltm [sic] girlz [sic] 4 [sic] fun an [sic] laffs [sic]."
It was in a Novella that I half-wrote a few years ago, titled The François Pignon Experiment, that I first tackled the construction of a literate and witty response to such missives. My main character would introduce himself to women on the Internet like this:
"Hello, [insert name here], my name is Danny and you may be surprised to hear that God said that you were made for me. Well, not God exactly, but the devil. Actually, it was a call-centre from just outside Northampton that Satan uses for business purposes. They called me one evening after midnight as I relaxed after a swim in the Olympic-sized swimming pool I've had built in the basement of my twelve bedroom mansion.
"Who can that be at this time of night?", I wondered as I answered on my cordless extension, champagne flute in hand.
"Hi, my name's Gary", said a voice on the other end of the line, "do you have a moment to discuss your future happiness and that of a beautiful young lady?".
I must say I was intrigued by this approach.
"Go on", I replied.
"Well, Danny, I can call you Danny, can't I?", he continued.
I felt suspicious. How did he know my name? I felt slightly uneasy as I was alone in the villa. I had dismissed all the servants for the night as I am such an enlightened employer and nobody was due at the house until my six a.m. macrobiotic yoga session. I let Gary carry on talking.
"Are you the soul owner of the property?", he inquired.
"My Château is owned by my offshore business consultancy business in the Cayman Islands."
"No, you misunderstand me", said Gary, "what I meant was; do you own your own soul?"
"Is this some sort of joke?", I replied in a manly, thrusting rage, my designer robe slipping slightly to reveal my chiselled torso.
"No Danny. We are just offering you a once in a lifetime opportunity to sell your soul for love."
"Tell me more", I said stroking Simba, my Albino Indonesian panther. She sighed and purred at the touch of her master.
"It is very simple", Gary continued, "In exchange for your soul, we offer you a lifetime of love and happiness with a certain young, attractive, intelligent lady. Close your eyes!", he ordered.
"Close them now."
I closed my eyes and I was suddenly overwhelmed by a vision of you [insert name here], not just of your effortless beauty and grace but your wit, intelligence, personality, the wonder of who you are. It was in that instant that I learned everything there was to know about you; your loves, hates, peeves, favourite colour and pasta sauce. From that moment on, I knew you were my one and only, that it had to be you. Your name repeats itself constantly in my brain; [insert name here], [insert name here], [insert name here]! Every time I hear [insert name here] I am overcome with tenderness and emotion. I burst into tears, something I had not done since I built that orphanage in Mozambique single-handedly.
"Yes! Gary, yes!" I exclaimed. "My soul is a small price to pay for the love of [insert name here]."
"Very well. That will be one soul, £12.95 VAT and £4.95 post and packing. She's all yours, subject to contract. Prices may go down as well as up, Satan Enterprises PLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Original Creation Company of Tacoma, Washington, USA. Have a nice day and welcome to our pre-damnation customer care package. Special rates apply to friends and family, air miles are available. Goodnight Danny, call us any time you have a problem".
The call ended. I slumped onto my chaise longue and drained my glass of its dregs of Crystal champagne. I had done it. I had sold my soul for [insert name here]. All I needed now was for her to get in touch. Would it be through my E-mail address [Insert E Mail address here] or would she phone me on [Insert phone number here]? I awaited her response like a man condemned to hell… which I suppose I was."
This type of correspondence, to my mind, makes a far more dramatic impression. I'm sure many of you disagree. I await your answers –probably sent as pokes, texts and twitters– with eager anticipation.
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Right, So this is blogging. The ability to articulate your most earth-shattering ideas, your most piquant witticisms, your most deliquescent prose. To an audience of … none. Welcome to blogging, the most technologically sophisticated method of muttering to yourself that has yet to be devised.
Anyway, this blog is about writing and speculative fiction and probably about the Speculators group that set this whole structure in motion. Let me thank them all here (not individually, of course, but as a hive-mind with issues), Cheers, guys. Wednesday evenings would not be the same without you. If I bitch about you or insult you on this forum please remember two things:
1) I love you really
2) Nobody else is reading this.
Anyway, that's enough for now. Let me leave you with the best first line ever written in any SF novel:
"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did, they called me John."
Kurt Vonnegut JR. Cat's Cradle.
That's all for now!


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Xavier Buestel is the King Of the Gypsies for Summerwinter Homme
Top model Xavier Buestel teams up with fashion photographer Christopher Ferguson for King Of The Gypsies story coming from the pages of Summerwinter Homme's second edition. In charge of styling was Christopher Campbell at Atelier Management, with grooming by Audrey Lambert.
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JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor
Chair, Undergraduate Architecture
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Igor Marjanović is the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and chair of undergraduate architecture in the Sam Fox School, where he teaches courses in architectural design, history, and theory. He is a recipient of a national Education Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for his Florence study abroad studio.
Marjanović's research examines architectural pedagogy as a critical territory of wider architectural culture, and, more broadly, the role of drawings, texts, exhibitions, and other visual media in the construction of architectural discourses. His writings on the pedagogical work of Alvin Boyarsky have appeared in the anthologies Critical Architecture (2007) and Chicago Architecture (2005), as well as AA Files and ARQ (2010). Together with Katerina Ruedi Ray, he co-authored Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), which examines the construction of this modernist icon by means of innovative representational, financial, and structural strategies. Together with Ruedi Ray, he was one of 10 selected exhibitors in the Ten Visions: Chicago Architecture exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he served as Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Iowa State University, where he served as Director of the Core Design Program. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and completed his diploma thesis at the Moscow Architectural Institute. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, he received the UIC/Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Scholarship.


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Drought is a reality in Kenya, like in the rest of the Horn of Africa, and it is occurring with greater frequency. FAO Kenya is helping vulnerable farmers and pastoralists get back on their feet quickly, while also working to improve water storage, livestock health and market access so that communities are not blindsided each time the rains fail.
Building resilience to drought
In recent years, civil unrest, drought and high food, fuel and input prices have left Kenya's vulnerable farmers and pastoralists even more at risk. Patchy rainfall means many farmers have not had a decent harvest in several seasons, while disease and starvation have taken a toll on livestock herds.
Improving rainwater harvesting and irrigation schemes, encouraging farmers to grow diverse crops more suited to the dry environment, supporting holistic approaches to natural resource management, improving storage and spearheading animal vaccination campaigns are just some of the ways FAO Kenya is helping to strengthen communities' resilience to drought.
Tapping into technology
FAO is working with partners to gauge rainfall and pasture availability through satellite imaging and remote sensing. In Turkana, in northeast Kenya, community monitors are trained to use smart phones to send real-time information on water levels, which is immediately uploaded to a central database. Pastoralists are then informed about the availability of water and pasture in different areas. This enables them to make informed decisions on where to send their animals and to negotiate access to areas where they know there is water and pasture. It also helps reduce conflict over natural resources.
Cash-for-work does double duty: it provides cash-strapped farmers with wages to buy food and other essentials while building and rehabilitating vital infrastructure. In the drought-prone areas of eastern Kenya where farmers rely on rainfall for their crops, FAO Kenya has helped farmers terrace their fields to conserve rainwater and prevent fertile topsoil from being washed away. It has also supported the building of community dams to collect rainwater for household and crop use.


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Welcome to Unwritten's February blog event! Of course, this is the month of love, so I wanted to celebrate that theme as I've done in year's past. But this year, I've decided to add a scientific spin to it. All month long, talented authors from several genres will write about some aspect of love from their books as it relates to science. It could be social, psychological, biological, or anything in between. Our blog event is sponsored by "HMC by Kate", a fabulous independent jewelry crafter. Kate's giving away one of her very beautiful necklaces that I think fits our theme perfectly. She's also offering everyone who stops in a 10% discount on any item from her Etsy store. Be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post and check out her lovely offerings! Without further ado, please welcome our guest author:
From Shakespeare To Hallmark: Just Add Chocolate
By Alayna-Renee Vilmont
"If making love is an art
And improper courtship a crime,
The way to a true lover's heart
Is a mixture of chocolate and rhyme."
--- Alayna's Deservedly Unpublished Valentine Collection
It may be a bit simplistic, but Hallmark has stumbled upon something with this observation, continuing traditions that have been around for centuries, and adding chocolate. While many have dubbed Valentine's Day a Hallmark holiday for this very reason, the roots of using poetry as the ultimate romantic gesture stretch back to at least the Middle Ages. In the time glamourized by the stories of Lancelot and Guenevere, or Isolde and Tristan, knights and ladies were not just busy occupying themselves with liaisons that would be honoured in poetic form years later. A love poem scrawled to the object of one's affections could be tucked neatly into one's locket or hidden underneath a suit of armour, and served as a promise of reunification in a world where the average life span barely touched middle age.
If the fastest way to lift a woman's skirt was to lift her spirits, preferably while sharing a glass or two of them, it was the Elizabethans who took romantic poetry and letters to another level and started a trend that would last roughly 350 years and is still kept alive by greeting card companies. In an era defined by inequality, many peasants still didn't know how to write well, much less compose verse. Education was often considered wasted on women, yet a background in art, music, literature, and dancing were talents that made upper-class women more attractive and marriageable. Therefore, hastily scribbled verses pining over a lover were not uncommon, and were one of the only discrete and acceptable ways to inform a potential suitor of romantic interest in a society where arranged marriages were law of the land and fidelity a seldom-kept promise in people of any station
Of course, for a young man who could not rely on his looks or station to have women competing to fall into his bed, romantic verse was a tool in the art of seduction that did not discriminate. The idea of becoming a talented man's muse or a less talented man's object of flattery was often one not to be sneezed at, and remained that way for centuries---unless you happened to be a pragmatic heroine in a Jane Austen novel.
While many of the poems in fashion throughout Europe during the Elizabethan and Victorian eras were bawdy limericks, or thinly veiled pick-up lines, others were true works of art. More so than any other author, it is the love poems penned by William Shakespeare that live on. Shakespeare's cranky but insightful Jacques describes the phase of being a lover as "with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow". While Jacques mocks the convention of bad rhyme as courtship, in 2015, we are still comparing others to a summer day. Words are still sweeter when whispered in secret, in really not-so-secret from a balcony, or in the case of Roxanne and Cyrano, recited by a best friend who is single for a reason.
Did Romeo offer Juliet chocolates in a heart-shaped box while offering immortal words of love? Probably not, but chances are good that if you've forgotten a card with a short rhyming verse as a token of your affection, you won't be getting any luckier than that immortal pair.
Alayna-Renee Vilmont is a freelance writer, blogger, performer, and modern-day Renaissance woman currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. This year, she did not receive a Hallmark valentine and penned this blog instead. Her first book, "Ophelia's Wayward Muse", is a poetic anthology based around the many facets of human relationships and experiences. Alayna is also the voice behind Jaded Elegance: The Uninhibited Adventures Of A Chic Web Geek, which has been entertaining readers since 2000. She maintains an active presence on Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, and almost every other form of social media out there. She is a frequent contributor out in the blogosphere, and has a second book in the making---as soon as reality television is discontinued. Alayna has previously appeared on this site, winning last year's flash fiction contest and contributing other guest blogs. If you'd like to follow the adventures of this modern-day wayward muse, please stop by and visit at www.jadedelegance.net
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Through the years that I have been blogging, I have had a number of different approaches for dealing with comments. At times I would allow none, some, or most negative comments (barring only those that contained profanities or obscenities). Sometimes only those with a Blogger ID could comment, other times, anyone (even anons).
Whichever I did, some would criticize me: If I chose not to publish negative/hateful comments, I was "suppressing free speech". If I did publish them, I was "trying to get attention". Obviously, people who want to be hateful will always find something to hate.
My most recent approach (for probably the last 2 years?) has been a pretty permissive one, but it seems that lately the unnecessary rudeness in the comments section has reached new heights (or rather, lows). I am well aware that there are entire websites dedicated to ridiculing people like us, and they have every right to do so. However, I find that people who frequent those sites usually develop really nasty habits, amongst which are running on and on at their loud mouths, which inevitably spills over into the sites they like to attack. Publishing their comments does not seem to help them get whatever is bothering them off their chest, but rather, seems to encourage them to become more belligerent. I just pity the husbands and children of these women.
Like I said, they may do as they please on their own websites, but I for one have come to realize that my blog is not the right platform for them. There is no reason why nice readers should be subjected to having to wade through the stream of mire issuing from the hearts, minds, and mouths of a few haters.
With that, as of immediately, rude comments will no longer be published. You may disagree kindly on a specific subject if you have something new and worthwhile to say, but if there is even the slightest hint of an ad hominem attack on another commenter/reader, Christians in general, our church, our family, or myself, I will not even finish reading your comment and delete it immediately.
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Christ is Risen! Χριστός Ανέστη! Христос Воскресе!
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Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral in Boston
Update of April 1/14, 2014, Great and Holy Monday
In January 2014, the Suffolk County Superior Court ordered the clergy who had initiated a lawsuit and who had been occupying the Metropolis's Cathedral to return the keys for the Cathedral to the Metropolis within 30 days. Despite this clear Court decision in favor of the Metropolis, these clergy decided to file an appeal and their attorneys claimed that they did not have to obey the Court's order during the appeal process. At the end of a short trial that the Court scheduled and held today, the Court rejected this claim and issued a decision holding these clergy in contempt of court for disobeying a clear court order. The Judge ordered that the keys for the Cathedral must be transferred to the Metropolis this week and that no items on the property may be removed or damaged.
As we have stated in all our previous announcements, the Metropolis wants to reassure everyone that when the hierarchs and priests of the Metropolis are able to serve the Divine Liturgy in their Cathedral, all Orthodox Christian faithful will once again be welcome to attend all liturgical services and functions at the Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral in Boston.
The Metropolis would like to thank all those hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and lay Christians from throughout North America and from abroad, who have encouraged us, prayed for us, and supported us in various ways during these difficult months. We will inform everyone promptly when the keys to our Cathedral are returned to our hierarchs this week, in accordance with the Court's order.
Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Boston
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Thu, Jan 12, 2006 | By Hugh Hewitt
Tomorrow's Washington Post Headline
Alito Likely To Become A Justice
Liberals See Slim Chance Of Blocking Confirmation
Some desperate lefties are no doubt trying to invent a new Anita Hill tonight, but the remarkable fact is that with the longest lead time to get a hit ready on a nominee, the Dems were unable to find a single personal acquaintance of Judge Alito's to testify against him.
Not one.
The man's 55, and not one grudge-carrying enemy to be found. That's pretty amazing.


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After attending Seton Hill, North Carolina A&T and Penn State, Titus Morris received his bachelor's degree in Business and is currently in school pursuing a master's in Business Administration.
A 24-year-old Black male born and raised on the North Side, and a Perry High School graduate, Morris is praised as a city success story. He is a property owner and the CEO of Dannie Marie's Service Coordinators by TLM LLC.
"My motivation is for the generations to come. I want to leave something behind that will make sure my kids are going to be okay, my grandkids are going to be okay, and so on, and so forth. I want to feel like I did something here, and really make an impact. That's what keeps me going, and gets me out of bed each day," Morris said.
The losses of both his sister and brother are also two key reasons why it's important for Morris to be all he can be.
Dannie Marie's, which is named as a tribute to Morris' late sister, is a company dedicated to providing exceptional, family-focused support while preventing nursing home admission by assisting clients with the best at-home services possible to fit their needs.
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I felt a little lazy today, so I ended up just wearing my 1940's Freddie's high waist jeans, 1940's strip ruffle blouse with a 1940's knit green sweater. I have my set for the ' Ann- Margret Do' So I cant wait to show you all!
|A 1940's Ballerina Scarf that my abuelita ( grandmother) had when she was my age.
|1950's swing 'Happy' Dress! A 1960's Sun Hat
The 2 Purses ( Steal!!)
Both $1.00!!!!!!!!!!
|1930's vanity tray. 1950's (Amethyst ;) jar, Poodle circa 1950's , and a vintage 50's scarf
|All from the 50's!!! All $2.00!!! (steal) Expect the colorful flower earrings I got them for a $1.00!!!


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Grammy Nominated Choral Group to Perform in Victoria
Get into the holiday spirit with the Conspirare. The Grammy-nominated choral group will return Thursday at 7:30pm to First United Methodist Church, 407 North Bridge Street. The group will perform traditional songs of the season, Americana classics and the Beatles. This year, Conspirare will perform with special guest singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster, whose career includes Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2010 and Best Blues Album in 2012. Austin-based Conspirare and Foster will sing holiday favorites and songs from Foster's album, "Let It Burn."
Conspirare conductor and artistic director Craig Hella Johnson is looking forward to Thursday's collaboration with Foster. "She inhabits every song she sings and sings from the essence of the song in a wide variety of styles," he said in a press release to the Victoria Advocate. "I could not ask for a more engaging and perfect collaborator." The songs are an innovative blend of sacred and secular, art music and popular music concert hall performances.
For more information call the Victoria Bach Festival office, 202 N. Main St., at 361-570-5788 or visit victoriabachfestival.org.


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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
12 Days of Christmas Giveaways - Day 12
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Oh this is beautiful paper too - can't have too much of your paper. I used some to wrap some gifts this year and nobody wanted to rip the paper. :) Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.ReplyDelete
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Happy Christmas first of all - as I write this, I am now on Boxing day so if you are still in CA, it will be Christmas day for you - so hope you had a great time - with no charades I hope (as in the miming game that is synonymous with Christmas day in the UK at least (but not in my house)))!
I love the enchanting patterns and designs in this collection and of course you can clearly see the overlay of the brushes that match the ones in your JS store - bringing both this and the Fairy Belle collection very much together - I can see it easily marrying up.
I want to do a project for my neice who is a dancer and wants to go to college. She is only just 16 and has been going to drama and dance since she was really young - she wants to continue to be a dancer as her career. I want to make her a little canvas type project and then a special little box so she may keep some memorabilia from the places she's been with her dancing school. This year, they put a show on at Disneyland Paris - she looked adorable in her ballet outfit - both collections have started to remind me of what she does - I meant to say this on the Fairy Belle collection - but realise it is relevant to tell you here too - as the images would lend themselves also to any project I did for her. As my gifts have had to be handmade this Christmas due to me having to finish work with ill health at the end of 2010, budgets have been tight - further aggrevated by me not being great over the past few weeks - if I was to win these and/or the Fairy Belle collection, they would be perfectly timed for doing this and a few more projects for all those people I have had to let down today and only been able to give a promise of something to come. I'm not after sympathy, I just wanted to outline my additional reasons for wanting it - as if me just having fallen in love with it isn't enough - oh and just generally talking waaaay too much!!!
Anyway - Happy Christmas again to you and yours - and anyone reading this,
Paula x x x
These papers are gorgeous! Merry Christmas. Thank you for a chance to win.ReplyDelete
These are really beautiful Jodie!!ReplyDelete
Love the vintage looks :)
Hope you had a beautiful Christmas and all the best wishes for 2013.
Beautiful ! Thanks for a chance and Merry Christmas !ReplyDelete
This is MY personal favorite line. I've used the one in the upper left corner for numerous projects. The colors in this line just work in most any project I do.ReplyDelete
Hi Jodie,ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for offering us a chance to win one of your beautiful paper lines. I've been slowly collecting this paper. Whenever someone gives me money for my birthday, etc., I always turn to your line to purchase something. When I have enough I'll make a scrapbook for my daughter. I just have to learn to stop using the paper for other things, such as cards, etc. LOL
Your designs appeal to my eye in everyway. They're whimsical, peaceful, and can basically be used for any project whether making a card or scrapbooking. Better yet, I always feel good when I give someone a card that I've made with your designs.
In fact, this afternoon I'm going to use it to work on some Prima templates I've come across. Feeling inspired and can't wait!
Anyway, thanks again for the opportunity to win.
MerryChristmas to you and your family!!!ReplyDelete
lovin this paper line -yummy!!! Would love to play with your gorgeous papers.
Jodie, I'm not going to even TRY and compete with some of these gals, Lol!! But you know of my love for your designs, you're a true innovator! The Nature Garden collection is definitely one that I've purchased several times over and I never tire of using them- thanks so much for the chance :).ReplyDelete
Hope you had a Very Merry Christmas~!!
I love the papers! Thank you for the chance to win them.ReplyDelete


text: MUNCIE -- Top-ranked Yorktown proved worthy of its lofty ranking Saturday morning. Marian can vouch for that. The No. 1 Tigers were simply too much for the No. 4 Knights in the Class 3-A volleyball state semifinals. A stellar, nationally-ranked Yorktown squad from top to bottom topped Marian 25-20, 25-16, 25-14 in the Muncie Central Fieldhouse. Yorktown (37-1) lost to Indianapolis Brebeuf (33-1) , 3-1, in the title match. Marian, making its fourth straight state finals appearance, finishes at 33-6. "Yorktown is a great team,'' said Marian coach Dan Anderson. "You have to give them their props. You have to play great versus a great team. They were solid and our passing broke down.'' Marian came out strong in the opener. The Knights got going early behind the hitting of star junior Meredith Farkas. Marian rallied from an 18-12 deficit to within 22-20. A tough call then went against the Knights on a ball hit by Allie Sailor that appeared to be touched by a Yorktown blocker. The Tigers then scored the final two points. "We had great offense to open the match and then we left system,'' Anderson said. "They did everything right to get us out of system.'' Yorktown, behind the play of 5-11 middle Bailey Barker and 6-1 middle Jill Hopper, took control in the middle of game two. The Tigers rolled as the pair controlled the net, while libero Emily MacIntyre and setter Laura Avila were outstanding. Farkas, a junior outside hitter, pounded down 13 kills to pace Marian. "We lost energy and got down after losing game one,'' Farkas said. "We got off to a slow start in game two and couldn't come back. Yorktown was good. They were good defensively and put the ball down.'' The match ended the brilliant prep career of Marian setter Katie Mischler. The four-year star, who started every match in her career, had 11 assists. "I'm so sad it's over,'' said Mischler. "This was an amazing experience and I'm so glad I had this opportunity. I'm proud of this team. Yorktown was a great team, but we kept pushing.'' Barker, a senior, led Yorktown with 12 kills. Junior Hopper had nine. MacIntyre had 17 digs, as did junior Kaycee Acree. "Our girls were steady and our ball control was very good,'' said Yorktown coach Stephanie Bloom, whose lone loss this season was a 3-2 setback to Class 2-A No. 1 Muncie Burris. "Marian is really good and we knew they had two good outside hitters and the key was to stop them. We keyed on them and we focused on defense and going hard in the middle. I thought us winning game one was a momentum killer for Marian.'' Junior Mollie Pajakowski had 12 digs and 13 assists for Marian. The trio of Farkas, Pajakowski and Sailor form an outstanding group of returnees for the 2010 season. The loss Saturday saw the careers end for seniors Mischler, Megan McMahon, Rachel Gilman, Audrey DeGeyter and Stephanie Cukrowicz. YORKTOWN BEAT MARIAN 25-20, 25-16, 25-14 At Muncie Kills: Meredith Farkas (M) 13, Allie Sailor (M) 5; Bailey Barker (Y) 12, Jill Hopper (Y) 9, Ari Eaton (Y) 7. Digs: Mollie Pajakowski (M) 12, Rachel Gilman (M) 10; Emily McIntyre (Y) 17, Kaycee Acree (Y) 17. Asssists: Pajakowski 13, Katie Mischler (M) 11; Laura Avila (Y) 25. Blocks: Farkas 1, Stephanie Cukrowicz (M) 1; Kelsey Barker (Y) 4, Barker 3, Eaton 3, Hopper 3. Team records: Marian 33-6, Yorktown 37-1.Staff writer Scott Davidson: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Centenary's Meadows Museum to Host Guest Lecturer and Throw Art Gala
SHREVEPORT, LA — In conjunction with Meadows Museum's current exhibit, "Louisiana Collects: Paperworks from the Roland-Geist Collection of New Orleans," the Museum will host a lecture by collector George Roland, owner of the Roland-Geist Collection, Sunday, Oct. 8 from 2–3 p.m. The lecture will be followed by an art gala in Roland's honor.
Roland's lecture, "Collecting or Shopping?," will explain how he and the late Gregg Geist assembled this collection of modern art. Those interested in the collecting process will especially benefit from this lecture, which will be held in the Museum's galleries.
Following his lecture, Roland will be the special guest at an art gala at Ernest's Orleans Restaurant. This gala will feature a silent art auction, poster sale, cocktail buffet, Ernest's menu items and music by Dorsey Summerfield. Hosted by the Friends of Meadows Museum, the gala is intended to serve as a fundraiser to help the Museum purchase textiles and textile mounts for the Jean Despujols exhibition in March 2007. Tickets are $50, and reservations can be made through the Museum up until Oct. 6. Each guest will receive a party favor.
Art for sale will be works by print artists of San Francisco, Chicago and New Orleans in different media including woodblocks, lithographs, etchings and silkscreens.
For more information, contact Diane Dufilho, director of the Meadows Museum of Art, at 318-869-5169, or Nell Cahn, president of the Board of the Friends of the Algur Meadows Museum, at 318-861-3040.
The Meadows Museum of Art is located on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana at 2911 Centenary Blvd. The Museum is free and open to the public. The Museum's hours of operation are listed below. For further information, or to receive a 2006-07 Exhibition and Program Guide, call 318-869-5040 or visit http://www.centenary.edu/meadows.
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Europa Clipper: NASA's mission to Jupiter's Europa
NASA's upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper, NASA reports on its website.
The moniker harkens back to the clipper ships that sailed across the oceans of Earth in the 19th century. Clipper ships were streamlined, three-masted sailing vessels renowned for their grace and swiftness. These ships rapidly shuttled tea and other goods back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and around globe.
In the grand tradition of these classic ships, the Europa Clipper spacecraft would sail past Europa at a rapid cadence, as frequently as every two weeks, providing many opportunities to investigate the moon up close. The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.
Europa has long been a high priority for exploration because it holds a salty liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. The ultimate aim of Europa Clipper is to determine if Europa is habitable, possessing all three of the ingredients necessary for life: liquid water, chemical ingredients, and energy sources sufficient to enable biology.
"During each orbit, the spacecraft spends only a short time within the challenging radiation environment near Europa. It speeds past, gathers a huge amount of science data, then sails on out of there," said Robert Pappalardo, Europa Clipper project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Previously, when the mission was still in the conceptual phase, it was sometimes informally called Europa Clipper, but NASA has now adopted that name as the former title for the mission.
The mission is being planned for launch in the 2020s, arriving in the Jupiter system after a journey of several years.
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Seen during my stroll home. The remains of a leaf in the shape of a heart.
Nature is an Art of God.
Seen during my stroll home. The remains of a leaf in the shape of a heart.
Nature is an Art of God.
Here's to awesome spur-of-the-moment photos. I hosted my quarterly Brown Skin Women Natural Hair Brunch this past Sunday and let my nails and heels decide on my outfit. And this is what became of it:
Of course the fit was made by yours truly. Heels are called "Uprise" by Snatch Shoes. Bottomless Mimosa's, amazing food and great company.
It was a beautiful weekend indeed!
Hope you guys have a productive week! Until next time…
Who doesn't love a fashionable creator friendly DIY!? Lately I've been wearing cute shawl/cover-ups to complete my outfits and decided to share the how-to.
Here are a few looks
And worn as a bikini cover-up
And here is the quick 1 minute how to:
Happy creating and accessorizing!
It's been a solid three weeks since I've blogged. While I advise I blog on a whim and post on an as-felt basis, my recent silence is stemmed from hurt. And growth. A journey of a necessary paradigm shift towards my personal evolution.
I've started four companies since 2009. I have an undying love for a field that pays my bills (Fashion Designer/Seamstress), a love for positively impacting the lives of those affected by Autism, advocating for self love, self-awareness and promoting the beauty/versatility in natural hair. While my journey may look spectacular and easy on the outside, the reality is FAR from the truth.
You see, not only does my lifestyle require great self discipline and responsibility, I have to face the unknown motives of others. People befriend me ALL OF THE TIME. Some who want me to succeed, fail, support me or just copy what I do for their own gain. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard "you're my new best friend" I'd be a billionaire. While I welcome newcomers into my life (happily–I enjoy meeting with and making new connections/friendships). A few disloyal, selfish and negative experiences since December led to me taking time out for myself, to reflect, analyze and try to understand. Over the past few weeks, I've summed up a few things and am now compelled to share.
Passions evolve out of experiences. The bottom line here is you can not fake passion. As a result, the concept of "competition" has very little concern to me now. Anyone can start something, anything. Be it due to interest, curiosity, love or just to copy another's original version. Let me tell you, passion is what will expose the true motive. If you're looking to feel passionate about something before doing it, then you're going to be looking for a long time. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never persevere. I founded Hope 4 Autism, Inc. due my daughter being diagnosed with the disorder. I founded Brown Skin Women and this blog because I was raised poor, suffered from identity crisis and tried to disguise my natural being because I felt I didn't fit in. I became a Fashion Designer & Seamstress after trying the normal route (going to college), only to have a child at 17 (and end with a dream deferred). So I taught myself how to sew, and fell so in love with the process. It became my driving force. I developed a love for these things over time, and a desire to live happily through them by doing and sharing. The good, bad and ugly truths.
My passions are stemmed from experience. Not convenience. Anyone who creates a copy of my originality will either succeed, or fail. Succeed because there's passion. Fail because there's no passion at all. Who am I to be upset another version comes along? Especially if like my own experiences, they know what the journey feels like? I did it. Someone else before me did it. I'm succeeding. Someone else before me succeeded. And I'm happy. Who am I to deny someone else happiness?
Such. Is. Life.
Do it with passion, or, not at all.
And I'm back to blogging my loves.
So…Until next time…XO
One awesome way to tackle not so exciting work (because there are super boring and least preferred responsibilities associated with just about everything) was completing in a space that makes me happy. I'm a fan of nature, beautiful building and warm weather. So, yesterday's office was conveniently stationed under a tree in my favorite park.
Find a way to make what you do work, even the not so great responsibility associated with it.
Happy Tuesday!
I typically oppose to battling a private battle publicly. But when I am inspired by something, anything, I feel the need to share.
My family is going through a battle that is trying, but strengthening all in one. This situation has literally caused my family and I to put our lives on hold and cater to the sensitivity that is the present. Even in the midst of our troubles, I noticed the beauty in nature (which made me smile). I literally stopped and took the time to feel and admire these hot pink beauties.
The flower. It's beauty. It's simplicity. It's ability to teach.
They teach us that a small life well lived is far better than a long life badly-lived.
They teach us to scatter mirth and beauty wherever we go.
Arrangement of their petals and leaflets in a systematic way teaches us to lead a systematic and disciplined life.
Their smiles even in thorny surroundings bring home to us the art of living
We should all do more of the things we love. And share these things, to encourage others to do the same. Please keep my family in your prayers.
As the CEO of Carmen Veal Headquarters and now leading a team of staff who works hard at helping me further build my dreams, I am compelled to share a few things. Things I now feel comfortable sharing, as this month makes 5 years that I've been in business. Anyone (literally anyone) can start a company and work alone. And anyone (literally anyone) will fail if they do not possess some very basic self skills. I won't get into a long list of necessities, but I will explore the most important one: Leadership.
As quoted from this very book:
"Leading yourself is no easy task. It takes self discipline, planning, and the opportunity to get the job done. But leading the team is different – and much more difficult. It starts with a better understanding of basic human nature."
In summary, it starts with self awareness, self-love and self care–necessities for understanding oneself. My background in Psychology is the essence of my understanding of self, and in return, others. It has helped me realize that no matter what someone else does, it is my obligation to respect that very thing. This doesn't mean I have to like their decisions, but I have to accept them for what they are. This way I am able to effectively deal with them. Honestly and respectfully. This way my team members are receptive to my advices, allowed the opportunity to share their truths and openly explore everyone's strengths and weaknesses.
So when leading a team, self awareness and respect for others are core elements which allows certain leadership qualities:
1. Building a stronger authentic connection.
2. Self confidence that inspires.
3. Self Awareness that allows the ability to meet the needs of the team.
4. Ability to lead the team strategically.
5. Allowing moments of victory during the journey.
There is no "i" in team but their is one in leadership. It starts, finishes and ends with the guidance of the team lead. A journey and humbling experience that helped me realize ego and pride are the enemy of effective leadership and teamwork. And so I'm here, sharing what I have discovered in year 5. I am nothing without an effective team. I have worked with others in the past which ended poorly. No detail as to how and why but…"the greatest destroyer of a championship team is a weak person who should not be on that team."
Today I was reminded how and why my personal qualities influences a strong team:
The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by people who work for them– James Barksdale
I am thrilled to share one of my team members, my Director or a Marketing, gave me this book as a gift a few days ago. Confirmation that we are all on the right track. It's titled Teamwork makes the Dream Work by John C Macwell.
Until next time…Xo


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Tropical Weather
Research focused upon the collection and analysis of observations of hurricanes and other tropical weather systems. Research activities include identifying and validating observational needs, developing instrumentation, obtaining observations, studying the optimum configurations for observation networks, modeling and data assimilation, expediting and facilitating the transition of research to operations, and developing analysis and forecasting applications for operations.
There are two representative projects below:
Ensemble-Based High-Resolution, Vortex-Scale Data Assimilation for Hurricane Model Initialization by A. Aksoy, K. Sellwood and S. Lorsolo (UM/CIMAS); S. Majumdar (UM/RSMAS), S.D. Aberson (NOAA/AOML); F. Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)
Characterization of Turbulent Energy in Hurricanes Using Doppler Measurements by S. Lorsolo and J. Zhang (UM/CIMAS); J. Gamache, P. Dodge and F. Marks (NOAA/AOML)
Representative Projects
Ensemble-Based High-Resolution, Vortex-Scale Data Assimilation for Hurricane Model Initialization
A. Aksoy, K. Sellwood and S. Lorsolo (UM/CIMAS); S. Majumdar (UM/RSMAS), S.D. Aberson (NOAA/AOML); F. Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)
Long Term Research Objectives and Strategy to Achieve Them:
Objectives: improve hurricane intensity and track forecasts through improved representation of hurricane vortex structures in the initial conditions of hurricane forecast models.
Strategy: To better utilize high-resolution observations (dropsonde, radar, flight level, surface wind speed, etc.) collected during the Hurricane Field Program run by NOAA/AOML/HRD by taking advantage of flow-dependent covariance structures that can be obtained from an ensemble of model forecasts that will form the basis of an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system.
An ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) data assimilation system has been built to assimilate highresolution, vortex-scale observations that are routinely collected and transmitted real-time, during NOAA's annual Hurricane Field Program and regular reconnaissance flights. Coined Hurricane Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS), it will be tested in semi-real-time as part of NOAA's Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) during the 2010 hurricane season. Various observation types that will be assimilated include Doppler radar radial winds, dropwindsonde wind, pressure, temperature, and humidity, flight-level wind, pressure, temperature, and humidity, and stepped-frequency microwave radiometer (SFMR) surface wind speed. The system will also make it possible to evaluate impacts of other potential observation platforms through observing system and observing system simulation experiments (OSE and OSSE, respectively). The EnKF is a state-ofthe-art data assimilation system first proposed for geophysical applications by Evensen (JGR, 1994).
HEDAS has been developed within the framework of AOML/HRD's experimental HurricaneWeather Research and Forecast (HWRFx) model. Data assimilation will be performed on a 3-kmnest, while HWRFx will run in a nested 9/3-km configuration during cycling. Initial ensembleperturbations are obtained from NOAA/ESRL's EnKF system, which will run with NCEP's GlobalForecast System (GFS) modeling framework and Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system's forward operators.
Currently, there are two major research directions with HEDAS. In one approach, a detailed diagnostic of HEDAS performance is being carried out in an OSSE environment. For this purpose, a higher-resolution version of HWRF-x, at 4.5/1.5-km horizontal resolution with explicit convection in all domains, is used to obtain a nature run, which will be the basis for simulating various observation platforms. The case of interest is Hurricane Paloma of 2008. The nature run is initialized from one ensemble member of the GFS-EnKF analysis valid for 7 November 2008 12Z. The availability of a nature run enables detailed diagnostics of a data assimilation system when observations simulated from that nature run are assimilated. The fact that such observations are obtained from a model run also eliminates non-meteorological noise from them so that the performance of a data assimilation system entirely depends on the underlying modeling and data assimilation characteristics. The OSSE aspect of the project is motivated by these factors and will be completed in the near future using the Paloma 2008 nature run presented here.
In Figure 1, some characteristics of the nature run are presented for a 24-h period. In panel (a), a general northeasterly track of the simulated storm is apparent. The 10-m radius of maximum wind speed (10-m RMW, measured as the distance of the azimuthally-averaged 10-m tangential wind speed maximum from the center), the distance of absolute maximum 10-m horizontal wind speed from the center, and the azimuthal standard deviation of
Figure 1. 24-h nature run simulation for Hurricane Paloma (2008), initialized at 7 November 2008 12Z. (a) Hourly center position as obtained using the 10-m centroid vorticity method, (b) 10-m RMW (solid dark, km), distance of absolute 10-m maximum horizontal wind to storm center (solid gray, km), and 10-m RMW standard deviation (dashed, km), (c) vertical slope of RMW (km RMW km-1 height), and (d) minimum central surface pressure intensity (dark, mb) and maximum 10-m horizontal wind intensity (m s-1).
In parallel work, the performance of HEDAS has been evaluated with real observations for the case of Hurricane Bill (2009), using inner-core Doppler radar, dropwindsonde, SFMR, and flight-level data that were collected by NOAA and Air Force. The HWRFx model is initialized from the same GFS-EnKF ensemble as the OSSE experiment, for 30 ensemble members, at 9/3-km horizontal resolution and the aircraft data are assimilated on the 3-km inner nest. In these experiments, the impact of assimilating the different data types into the model background forecast is assessed by examining the model diagnostic variables and the evolution of their associated error statistics over the 5-h interval in which observations were available. Additional experiments are being performed to study the effect of varying certain HEDAS parameters in order to determine the optimal configuration for real-time data assimilation. This configuration is planned to be utilized for the near-real-time HEDAS runs during the 2010 hurricane season.
In Figure 2, the ensemble-mean horizontal fields of wind and sea-level pressure are shown for the model forecast/analysis with no data assimilation (a, b) and the analysis produced after 5 forecast-assimilation cycles (c, d). The forecast without data assimilation produces a weaker, less symmetric vortex, while the analysis which incorporates the aircraft data is more consistent with the observed structure and intensity of Hurricane Bill.
Figure 2. Mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) and 10-m horizontal wind speed for Hurricane Bill valid at 13Z on August 19, 2009. Top row: Control ensemble mean forecast without data assimilation. Bottom row: Ensemble mean analysis after five data assimilation cycles.
Characterization of Turbulent Energy in Hurricanes Using Doppler Measurements
|S. Lorsolo and J. Zhang (UM/CIMAS); J. Gamache, P. Dodge and F. Marks (NOAA/AOML)
Long Term Research Objectives and Strategy to Achieve Them:
Objectives: To estimate the distribution and evolution of hurricane boundary layers' turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) for a better understanding of the processes that influence hurricane intensity change and for a more accurate parameterization in numerical weather prediction models.
One of the main challenges of hurricane research is to better understand the processes that influence hurricane intensity change, which could ultimately lead to improved intensity forecasts. Among the various parameters believed to impact hurricane intensity change are air-sea interaction and turbulent
Figure 1. Lorsolo_T5_ Conceptual model of TKE distribution in hurricanes.
The goal of this research project is to characterize turbulent parameters of hurricanes, especially in the HBL, using remote sensing observations as they are difficult to assess from direct measurements in high wind regions such as the eyewall and the HBL. Turbulent data retrieved from instruments such as Doppler radars are crucial to identify turbulent processes impacting hurricane intensity and to evaluate models.
The activities of the past year have focused on continuing processing and analyzing the data to improve the robustness of the results, completing the manuscript related to the study and developing a new method to retrieve turbulent dissipation rate from Doppler measurements to help model evaluation. A new algorithm is being developed to test the method. The TKE study was refined by providing general results from the combination of data from multiple hurricanes and by the realization of a conceptual model of the TKE distribution with a tropical cyclone.


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Archaeology before the bible
Precolumbian histories of America
Food writing
Languages of the Americas
In Archaeology before the bible (from now on ABB) Prof. B- went through slides of sites in the levant (Israel and Jordan, for the most part) that could have been from my own camera. He flipped through places I had forgotten with names that used to come as quickly as my few words of Hebrew but that are now buried deeper than I had realized, if not gone from me entirely. For the next few months, absent as I'll be from any archaeological fieldwork, instead of taking a moment each day to record the doings of serious archaeologists, I'm going to take a moment to record memories of my travels in the levant. This may not be of any interest to anyone else; I'm using this blog now as a journal of sorts for myself. I want to set aside some of my memories of Israel, whether they be main events or just the way unripe carob beans taste from the tree. All are, in their own way, precious to me.


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Neurosurgical procedures still are particularly challenging for both, patients and surgeons. Beside the risks generated by the lesion itself, morbidity caused by the surgical approach is a relevant part of this challenge.
Over the last two decades minimal invasive Neurosurgery (MIN) came up with the aim to achieve at least comparable results as standard procedures but confronts the patient with significant lower risks. This may be achieved for example by utilizing so-called keyhole approaches.
In addition, endoscopes were found to enable brilliant visualization of hidden areas of the brain also around corners or fragile neurovascular structures.
Thus, optimal results by means of this strategy require experience with keyhole approaches and endoscopic Neurosurgery. Therefore, the goal of ENDOM College is to teach this knowledge worldwide in a comprehensive way.
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* [http://www.jrsoftware.org/iskb.php?vista Inno Setup KB]
* [http://www.jrsoftware.org/iskb.php?vista Inno Setup KB]
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Windows Vista now includes a far stricter LUA system. This pretty much stops all applications making system wide changes without asking the user.
Inno 5.1.9 and later handles this fully for the install, and asks for elevated permissions so it can write anything it needs.
Due to this permission elevation, anything run from the install will also run with full access to the system. Whether your application is "Vista compatible" or not, this is a very bad idea. Unfortunately, Microsoft "forgot" to add the ability for en elevated application to drop them when running anything else so the only way around this is to add the OnlyBelowVersion: 0,6 on the [Run] entry to so the option is not available on vista.
Types of Installer
With the changes made in Vista, essentially now only two different "classes" of installer can be used:
- Administrative
- Runs with admin permissions (use PrivilegesRequired=admin)
- Is expected to make changes to per-machine areas such as Program Files, HKLM, and/or the All Users profile
- Must not make changes to per-user areas such as HKCU and the current user's profile
- Fully supported by Inno Setup (all versions, although 5.1.9 and above is best under Vista)
- Standard user
- Runs with standard user permissions (use PrivilegesRequired=none)
- Is expected to make changes to per-user areas such as HKCU and the current user's profile
- Must not make changes to per-machine areas such as Program Files, HKLM, and/or the All Users profile
- Not currently supported by Inno Setup.