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How We Are Green
Information gathered at the module is transmitted to a database where it can be accessed by a suite of analytic, alerting, metering and maintenance applications. An intuitive web-based UI provides a comprehensive view of system performance which scales to the needs of installers, residential owners, and utility scale operators. The unprecedented level of information and guidance can lead to significant reductions in operating and maintenance (O&M) expenses. Tigo Energy is also able to address many of the safety issues that confront solar installations. Today's serial interconnection of panels ensures that when the sun is shining there is the potential of very high voltage (above 400 volts) on the cables – even when the DC shutoff is in the "off" position. The hazard to installers, maintenance personnel and firefighters is evident. The Tigo Energy system can disconnect each panel from the string, limiting the exposure to only the Voc of a single panel (usually <40v). In many cases this will streamline the permitting process and provide peace-of-mind to the home or business owner.
About Bay Area Green Business Program
The Bay Area Green Business Program, a founding member of the California Green Business Program, distinguishes small businesses that protect, preserve and sustain our environment. Our partnership of local environmental agencies and utilities assists, offers incentives, and verifies that participating businesses conserve energy and water, minimize waste, prevent pollution, and shrink their carbon footprints. Businesses that meet our standards are officially recognized as both Bay Area and California Green Businesses. Learn more at http://www.greenbiz.ca.gov/


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Warren Weinstein, former professor at SUNY Oswego, died Jan. 14, 2015, in a U.S. counterterrorism drone strike while being held hostage by Al Qaeda in Pakistan for four years.
Weinstein was a tenured professor who taught political science between 1970 and 1979. He left the position to help people of developing nations with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was abducted by Al Qaeda from his home in Lahore, Pakistan, on Aug. 13, 2011.
His SUNY Oswego colleagues remember him for being adventurous, energetic, open to new experiences and willing to take action.
"Dr. Weinstein devoted his life to making the world a better place," said SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley. "He left us to serve others in some of the world's most impoverished and troubled regions. His life was an inspiration that will not die."
Weinstein is survived by his wife, Ellen; his two daughters; a son-in-law; and two grandchildren.
—Aaron Wilson '17

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A leading air compressor manufacturer is seeking an Area Sales Manager to continue to maintain and expand their portfolio for their Northwest territory.
This Area Sales Manager would ideally be based in either the Seattle or Portland areas. The ideal candidate will be working alongside some of the most well known names in the industry with growth opportunities available outside of the role in the future.
Required skills include but are not limited to:
- Engineering degree
- 5-10 years of rotating equipment sales experience
- Experience selling to industrial markets
- Could be located anywhere throughout the Northwest territory
- Understand the technical aspects of the industrial market and associated equipment
The ideal Area Sales Manager will receive a base salary along with uncapped commission, health care and other competitive benefits. Given the growth potential of the company, expansion opportunities are available.
If you believe you meet the above criteria and are looking to grow with an expanding company, please send your most updated resume and I will contact you directly.
Sthree US is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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Aims & Principles
Revolutionary Organization
Workplace Organizing
List Protocol
Online Voting
UNITE HERE, the hotel workers union, has expanded boycotts across the U.S. The union is targeting Columbia-Sussex properties:
UNITE HERE has also launched a boycott of the Providence Westin in Rhode Island.
All Three Hyatt Hotels in Boston are still under boycott. Bring back the Hyatt 100
A complete list of all boycotted hotels can be found through hotelworkersrising.org
by Frotchie
My coat was born in the Lebow Clothing Factory in 1985, shortly before the owner closed it down, firing several hundred seamstresses and quietly knocking away one of the last bastions of manufacturing that stood in the way of Baltimore's inevitable transformation into a post-industrial wasteland. The factory was closed, locked, and boarded up, and no one bothered to remove anything from inside. Endless rows of sewing machines sat rusting, great hay-bale sized rolls of textile lay collecting dust, and this coat, along with twelve thousand of its brethren, hung neatly wrapped in plastic, unseen and forgotten. Like the women who made it, it became redundant, unwanted, a discarded relic of a dying era...
The Mount Olive Pickle boycott is over.
In the face of a growing boycott promoted by activists of many hues, but dominated by anti-capitalists and with a large anarchist contingent, the bosses have relented. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) has been recognized as representing the workers in the cucumber fields of North Carolina.
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Sharing a page today I created for Prima to showcase some of the Winter release flowers.
'Celebrate You'
For my layout I chose to use a few of the Peach flower bundle flowers. I was so happy when I saw that they were being released. Besides totally loving the colour of them, they are fabulous because they can be pulled apart and each petal has a wire stem, making them quiet versatile.
Materials List
#590055 Peach Flower Bunch
#590451 North Park Flowers
#963712 Mini Art Stones
#961404 Light Paste
#961466 Clear Gesso
#961442 Heavy Gesso - White
#588755 Colour Bloom 2 - Pot Marigold
Other - Dusty Attic chipboard & cotton thread


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Another New Hat Pattern
12 comments:
- zaza said... [Reply to comment]
hehehe...yang dulu tak sempat lagi..hehehe..i like...
- August 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- lia said... [Reply to comment]
wah!pandainya akak tulis pattern...samalah kita zaza, yg dulu pun tak sempat nak try lagi..hehe....takpe akak, sy pasti akan masukkan pattern ni dalam "to do list' saya...:)
- August 18, 2011 at 4:15 PM
beautiful, sweet hat, thanks for another pattern :D
Karen x
- August 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM
Thank you so much for the pattern:) I never tried an english written pattern before...I should...
Love the text of the end of ur post :)
Have a beautiful eve!
- August 19, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Aisyah Helga said... [Reply to comment]
Thank you and you're welcome, Karen & Angie :)
@Angie, you should try it!
- August 19, 2011 at 4:15 AM
- pangaloon said... [Reply to comment]
Wow what a beautiful hat, and I really would like to make it for my daughters. This hat conjures up images of children meeting up at the park for a picnic date. Perhaps 'picnic date' hat might be a nice name?
- August 19, 2011 at 6:05 AM
- Josie said... [Reply to comment]
Love this hat, Aisyah. Thanks for the pattern, definitely going into my "wish" book :-) xJosie
- August 19, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- MamaDaniel said... [Reply to comment]
wah... giveaway ke? cant't wait!! hehehe..
saya blom try lagi pattern hat.. tapi saya dah cuba buat headband... ngeee.. nanti saya tayang.. berjaya! hehe.. :D
- August 19, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Walnut Shoppe said... [Reply to comment]
Comelnye pattern die..insya Allah nanti nak try:)..kiut !!!!! :)
- August 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Yati said... [Reply to comment]
Cantik pattern ni. Sayang Yati masih tak pandai crochet, kalau tak boleh cuba. Keep it up, kak Aisyah! ^_^
- August 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Lee Ann said... [Reply to comment]
I love this hat - thanks for sharing. :)
- September 3, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Aisyah Helga said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, all you lovely ladies!
- September 3, 2011 at 10:07 AM


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advantages silentwind
The Silent Power Blades are made in Carbon, hand laminated, high resistant and low noise emissions.
Silentwind generators are light (6kg) built in Aluminum housing, powder coated for corrosion protection.
The Charge Controllers are developed for high efficiency allowing to start charging the batteries with 2m/s wind speed.
They are external, hybrid (wind and solar energy) with multifunctional display and integrated stop switch.
Settings can be changed with the available APP for Android and IOS or directly on the charge controller.
Amoung the available settings the storm brake module and the charge end voltage brake module.


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Activity Holiday: Trekking, Jungle Safari, Rafting, Mountain Flight & Kathmandu Heritage Tour
17 Days | October 2007
As a middle aged woman I was slightly apprehensive about taking this trip, trekking, whitewater rafting and safari I felt might be too ambitious. How wrong I was, I found the holiday challenging, awe inspiring and discovered I could rise to the challenges set but never felt over faced. I would certainly recommend this package and the staff could not have been more helpful. They led me by the hand and resolved any problems without fuss and with great expediency. Well done socialtours.com staff.


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Lower Body
Oh my glutes, quads and hamstrings! This is a great lower body burn all together, not just the butt. No worries, the booty is totally targeted though. This is great because you can do it anywhere since it requires no equipment!
Upper Body
You can change the 5 min run to 5 min of any cardio. The main goal is to get your heart rate up in between each exercise to increase calorie burn and improve cardiovascular fitness.
Advance Super Awesome Full Body!
This has it all. Cardio, upper, lower and core. And it's hard. This is a seriously awesome workout. If the 99 intimidates you, start with 55 and below, then you can increase each time from there!
Shameless Plug Workout
And because I couldn't post a bunch of work outs without a single one of mine!
Have you tried any of your pinned workouts?
Which ones are your favorites?
Send me links or blogs! I love trying new ones!
Happy hump day y'all! And don't forget to squeeze in a quick sweat sesh!


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Terence's folks had three china pheasants flying up the wall of their small living room. No ducks for these people, they were suburban aspirers. Terence was my school mate, and I'm not mocking their small house, it's just they were universally large people, and their small house must've needed love and patience in abundance. I'm not sure that there was any abundance – it was always a slightly tense atmosphere – which I always put down to just my normal feeling uncomfortable with strangers.
Getting back to the pheasants, sitting in the living room one day with Terence watching tv – which was in itself unusual, it meant his folks were away somewhere – my eye was drawn to the pheasants. Something was weird, but I couldn't quite figure it out. On closer examination I found that the biggest pheasant had been broken into a number of pieces, and glued back together. The overall effect was like looking at a pheasant with the Cubism filter slightly on. Terence admitted the pheasant had fallen victim to an unexpectedly accurate rubber band…
Philipp Blom writes about kitsch and its collectors in To Have and to Hold, along with a plethora of other collecting fetishes. I've commented before I'm not particularly oriented to collecting, and Blom is an inspiration not to start.
He does have a chapter dedicated to book collectors – bibliomaniacs – people for whom the idea of buying two copies of every book is reasonable – one to read, one to collect. Um, this is something I can understand. He writes about the collector who got a bigger house to manage his ever expanding book collection – this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. If memory serves me right, this is the same collection that is working through the auction houses 170+ years after the collector's death. Some of the books are still in the cases they were delivered in – never opened, never read. Now, at this point, this bibliophile and I part company – what's the point of having a book and not reading it?
I believe you should never fear to read a book and I've always been determined to take whatever book I could borrow from a library and read it – without fear or favour. The idea of 'forbidden' books is something of a horror to me (and an enticement to read them). I really like a quote Blom included:
For him that stealeth, or borroweth, and returneth not, this book from the owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.Curse on book thieves from the library of the Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona
I'm sad when I remember my friend, Terence. He was killed in a motorcycle accident on Xmas Day, 2001, at about 5:30 in the morning, going home to his partner and kids after working through the night so he could spend the whole day with his loved ones. After somewhat empty childhood and teenage years he deserved love, and life, longer.


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BB Creams everywhere! It seems like almost all of the skin care and cosmetic brands are already coming up with their own BB creams. Myra, a well-known skin care and health brand, also released one called the VitaGlow BB Cream. I was able to try out their BB cream when I got a gift from the company which even came with a customized brush set.
When I learned about Myra VitaGlow BB Cream, it reminded me of their tinted moisturizer. I'm not sure if they still have it though but I remember that it has a thick consistency, sheer coverage, dewy finish, and micro illuminating particles. I tried out the Myra VitaGlow BB Cream and it was almost the same as their tinted moisturizer. The only difference is that the BB cream has a thin consistency and the coverage is sheerer. They even have the same scent.
According to Myra:
Myra VitaGlow BB Cream is the perfect product for modern girls on the go who need to look gorgeous in a flash. This radiance-boosting tube is packed with multi-benefits for your skin that allow you to combine the prettifying power of skincare and makeup:
It's moisturizing. This lightweight cream hydrates your skin to keep it soft and supple.
It contains Vitamin E. This helps nourish your skin even more, so your complexion appears younger-looking and healthy.
It doubles as foundation. The tinted formula comes in two shades: Ivory and Beige, to help you even out your skin tone perfectly and hide pigmentation.
It contains skin-enhancing minerals. Staying late at the office? Use this unique BB cream to add a natural, glowing finish to your skin! You'll love how the subtle, light-reflecting shimmers in this cream will make you look like you've got a lit-from-within glow.
You can use it as concealer. Just pat an extra layer of Myra VitaGlow BB Cream to camouflage dark spots and blemishes.
It also has sunscreen. The SPF15 in this easy to bring tube will protect you from harmful UV rays that causes premature aging.
It's hypoallergenic. Girls with sensitive skin don't need to worry about breakouts, because this dermatologist-tested cream is proven safe for daily use.
It's the most affordable! There's no need to hesitate when it comes to purchasing this product, since you can score instant glowing skin for only P99 a tube. Such a great beauty steal!
Yes, I agree that it is moisturizing and I love that it has Vitamin E, skin-enhancing minerals, and sunscreen but can't agree that it can double as foundation and can be used as a concealer. The coverage is just not enough. In fact, it has little to no coverage at all.
Myra VitaGlow BB Cream has two shades, Ivory (lightest) which has yellow undertone and Beige (darkest) which has olive undertone.
The consistency of this BB Cream is actually like a moisturizer. When blended, the color disappears and it gets absorbed by the skin. So, for someone who has blemishes, acne marks, and other imperfections on the face, this won't help cover those up because it's too sheer. If you want extra hydration though and want a luminous skin, you can use this as a makeup base.
There's another downside to this product, by the way. It's not okay for people with oily skin. One day when I went to school, I used it as my makeup base then used a concealer to cover up my imperfections. I didn't use any cream or liquid foundation but I used a powder foundation to set everything and a translucent powder to keep oiliness at bay because I have oily-combination skin.
I didn't retouch the whole time I was out and I was gone for 5 hours and when I got back home, I checked myself in the mirror and I was surprised to see a very oily face.
My mascara also smudged under my eyes. So after that day, I decided not to use it as a makeup base anymore. I sometimes use it though to mix with my other foundations to neutralize the shade or if I want a luminous skin effect.
Based on the road test that I did, I bet you've already guessed. I'm not impressed with this BB Cream at all. I am actually frustrated because I love how the skin can benefit from it considering all its nutrients and Vitamin and sun protection. But hey! If you have normal to dry skin, maybe it might work on you.
Myra VitaGlow BB Cream costs P99.00 and is available in Watsons and all leading drugstore, grocery stores, and department stores nationwide.
Stay awesome and accomplish your mission! :)


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Neil's second decade :- Worth noting
I left the following comment at http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/worth-noting
As usual I await his answer with interest.
As a believer in truth and a critic of media coverage of any event or issue, I would say that in my country, balanced reporting on AGW is non existent, 99.99% goes the AGW is beyond discussion way, and very occasionally you may see something printed to the tone of "there are still people who do not believe in AGW in spite of the mountain of evidence against them"
Quite different from your statistics.
By the way did you cout the scientists at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/UN_open_letter.pdf
in your statistics?
Fortunately it does not take a PhD to figure out that there is something fishy about AGW. My site at http://rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com/ enables any lay person to start asking for real facts and information.
I have an open mind but I have not seen any definitive proof of AGW either, and most certainly not any where enough certainty to justify the ruining of our economies and way of life over it.
Neil said 4 hours ago:
Roger the Kiwi Troll is back. His science is no more convincing than it was last time. He still quotes the Oregon Petition for Christ's sake. He is a fuckwit. Same old, same old.
As I recently said, I am tired of suffering fools gladly.
I regret that Neil can only resort to name calling. Note that he avoids even adressing my question.
Neil at first spammed my comment on his site but he did leave me the following comment on the main page of this site.
Reproduced below with my reply.
Neil Says:
August 1, 2010 at 6:22 am | Reply edit
Go and change the minds of the present and past presidents of the Royal Society, Stephen Hawking, and just about every scientist of note in the world and I will be impressed. Or are they all part of some UN/communist plot to bring down civilisation as we know it?
August 1, 2010 at 10:29 am | Reply editNeil,There may be plenty of hypothesis around, and people who swear by them but it only takes one disproving factor to question anyone's hypothesis.Whether they are part of a plot or not is irrelevant.
I see you spammed my comment but it is faithfully recorded under your url and title right here on this site.
As for the Royal Society, lets keep an eye on them shall we?
August 1, 2010 at 10:34 am | Reply editYour comment was spammed by Akismet but I restored it. Don't bother coming back though, as I saw everything you have to contribute in March.


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We're running a competition for a £3,000 discount on fees for the MSc Psychological Research in 2018. Entries close 1 June 2018.
We are also offering a second prize of £1,500. All you need to do is tell us what psychological question you're burning to answer, and how you plan to do it.
Our MSc Psychological Research Methods gives students the opportunity to pursue their own research agenda. You will work with one of our 50 expert staff to conduct leading edge research; in recent years projects have examined action slips and involuntary movement, mechanisms of food choice and addiction; experiences of Burlesque dance; promoting pro-environmental behaviour, and have even persuaded us to eat more insects!
To enter the competition, you simply need to:
- Apply for the course via the normal process (note, this does not commit you to taking up the place, but allows us to assess your eligibility to study).
- Write a 300 word summary of what you see as the most interesting question to study in psychology, and how you might tackle it. We're not looking for polished research proposals — just creative ideas that demonstrate your enthusiasm for psychological science.
If you have any queries about the course or the scholarship, please contact Ben Whalley.


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officially official NOT YET!
I was hoping to be able to say that today we are "officially official" but it wont be today!
The last part of the paperwork is holding us up! (isn't it always paperwork!)
I kind of thought we might have had a call over the weekend or maybe it was because I was really hoping!?!?!
The kids are SO ready for "Foster" to come we have the room all ready! A single bed and a Cot!
So HAPPY about the Cot I FOUND it at a second hand furniture place for $10!! So I cleaned it, sanded it and put a new coat of paint on it!! And it looks brand new!
Ho hum... Maybe we will be officially official tomorrow!


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Lightly bruise half of the peppercorns in a mortar and pestle. Remove and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Add 1 tablespoon garlic, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, and then add the chicken. Mix and coat the chicken pieces well. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Bring a large pot to high heat and add the oil, remaining garlic, remaining peppercorns, and fry until fragrant. Now add the marinated chicken and sear both sides until slightly browned. Add the tomatoes, carrots, and annatto oil. Stir to combine, and then add the red shallots, onion, coconut juice, fish sauce, and remaining sugar and salt.
Bring the mixture to the boil and skim off and discard any impurities that rise to the surface. Turn the heat to medium-low and allow to simmer for 40 minutes uncovered.
Transfer to a deep bowl, garnish with peppercorns and serve with crisp baguette.
*Can be found at specialty Asian markets.


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Jet Real Fruit Smoothies bring exciting, bold flavors that help simply serve you something cool every time. They are made from real fruit puree, natural flavors and real sugar, and Jet contains no artificial preservatives like potassium sorbate or sodium benzoate found in other smoothie brands.
Delicious combination of fresh-picked blueberries, exotic acai berries and pomegranate.
Arctic Lemonade
The ultimate balance of sweet and tart creates the finest frozen lemonade.
Caribbean Colada
Tart and sweet combination of fresh pineapple and exotic coconut.
Green Apple
Refreshing flavor of sweet, ripe-from-the-orchard green apples.
Mandarin, Orange & Passionfruit
Tropical combination of juicy mandarin oranges and exotic passion fruit.
Exotic flavor of fresh picked mangoes.
Mouth-watering flavor of ripe peaches, everything but the fuzz!
Wild Cherry
Tart and sweet flavor of ripe, plump bing, rainer and montmorency cherries.
Delectable flavor of fresh-picked strawberries.
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Luscious flavor of fresh-picked raspberries, blueberries and strawberries.


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Anonymous on 08/16/2010
My mother who has lived in this large corner building for several years encountered a problem of bedbug infestation the summer of 2009. she began getting bit by what we thought were mosquitos. Turned out to be bedbugs, mom had caught one. she has very bad reactions to the bites causing severe swelling and scaring. Landlord sent his exterminator, not a bedbug professional. who sprayed around,and threw out mattress. We had to dry clean everything and bag them, what a pain in the neck! Still bedbug
s came back. Now get this, (not that this is a surprise to me considering this landlords history), he refused to pay exterminator to return, so I paid him 250 bucks to return and then another 250 cause they were still coming back and guess what? she still has bedbugs! I have heard numerous tenants complaining. Landlord is telling them, they need to find exterminator and pay for themselves! I checked on line to see how much it would cost to hire a professional bedbug exterminator, the cost would be 1,500 hundred dollars! I cant afford that. And it wouldn't help if the rest of the units are infested . It's so fustrating. I feel so sorry for my mom who is in her late 70's and remains living in this awful building with such a stingy heartless landlord. Desperately trying to find a way to get her out of there pronto!
230 bedbug reports near this address:
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text: THE WISDOM OF GOD IS REVEALED in both Old and NewTestaments, but it is impossible to appreciate that wisdom fully if the twoare read in isolation. Sometimes the New Testament quotes the Old asauthoritative. Sometimes it cancels things that the Old says. At other timesit indicates that the Old was a type that illustrates New Testament doctrine.How are we to understand and apply its teaching? Is the New Testament beingarbitrary when it tells us how to understand the Old, or do its careful interpretationsshow us how the Old was meant to be understood? Could it bethat the New Testament's many different ways of using some of its passagesprovide us with guidance for reading, studying and applying the whole of theOld Testament?


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Cooking With Cricut to make a project to show your appreciation for a teacher.
Another thing I know, is that many teacher's do receive a lot of appreciation in the form of gifts from their students and parents. These gifts can certainly add up over the years and while teacher's do cherish these gifts, they begin to take up a lot of room over time. Because of this I like to give my daughter's teachers a gift card so that they can buy a coffee or a dinner out, or a new book; whatever makes them happy and isn't another little apple that says #1 Teacher!
I made up this little card to hold a gift certificate in the pocket on the front. I was inspired by Tessa's card HERE, I hope I did her design justice. I altered the sweet little stickers on her card so that I could use Cricut embellishments instead.
Supplies used: Patterned Papers: Simple Stories; Cardstock: Bazzill; Ruler border: MME; Stamps: Stampin Up, Unity Stamp Co.; Ink: Palette Hybrid; Twine: Devine Twine; Paper Envelope: Devine Twine; Misc: Button, Embroidery floss,
I cut the apple at 5.5" from the Just Because Cards cartridge. Now that probably sounds really big but the apple is made to be a certain scale on the card so I had to make it 5.5" to be big enough for my card. I had to do a few trial cuts with some scrap paper to get it just the right size before I cut it with my red patterned paper. The little lable that is below the apple is cut from the Storybook Cartridge at 2.25".
Cooking with Cricut and play along with this week's challenge. Show some appreciation to a teacher you know. They deserve it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Your kind comments make my day.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
CWC: Thank a Teacher Challenge
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your card is so cute. And what child does not like a gift card!!
I love this card! Very well put together!!!ReplyDelete
Very cute! I love all your details!ReplyDelete
Great job. Love the front pocket idea.ReplyDelete
I so agree after 33 years of teaching. Gift cards are the best!!!! Love your card and really like the paper you used on the apple and the little button apple. Adorable!ReplyDelete
Simply perfect love the use of the envelope on this, it is the perfect touch!!ReplyDelete
Great card, Becky! Love the papers you chose and the little envelope on the front is perfect for your gift card.ReplyDelete
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Developed countries who have commitments under the Kyoto Protocol are negotiating loopholes for themselves that could lead to almost 400 Mt of extra emissions each year. After giving some background, I will describe the status of the negotiations, describe the loopholes, and quantify them. This will help us to see who the worst offenders are.
Emissions associated with land use are classified under the Kyoto Protocol as LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. This includes deforestation – which is when you log a forest and replace it with some other form of land use such as grassland; but does not include forest degradation – which is what occurs when you log a forest and allow a forest to grow back. Because unlogged forests can store large amounts of carbon, emissions associated with forest degradation can be quite significant, but not accounted for. This can lead to perverse outcomes, for example it is possible to log old growth forests, use the wood to generate electricity, and not account for any of the emissions.
As a way of addressing this, the Kyoto negotiations have been looking at how to have countries include forest management in their accounts – this would include emissions from forest logging. Forests naturally absorb carbon dioxide, so when including forest management, reference levels (baselines) need to be negotiated so that countries don't get credited for the removals that naturally occur anyway. Late in 2009, just before the Copenhagen negotiations started, countries submitted their preferred reference levels, as well as estimates of emissions in 1990, projections for the first commitment period (2008-2012) and projections for the second commitment period.
Each country proposed a reference level for itself, the numbers are given below (click on the image to enlarge it):
The problem with this approach is that each country has an incentive to choose a reference level that is generous to it. This is what has happened. Some countries who chose particularly generous reference levels for themselves include Russia, which chose a range between 0 and -177.8 Mt CO2-e of emissions, so that it gets credited if its forests are more of a sink than -177.8 Mt, but is only debited if its forests become net emitters and is projected to have emissions of -274 Mt in the first commitment period; New Zealand, who chose a reference level based on its forecast for 2013-2020, which is 19.4 Mt higher than its forecast for the first commitment period (over 23% of New Zealand's 2005 emissions); and Japan, which chose a reference level of 0. These numbers all add up to 213-391 Mt CO2-e of excess allowances per year for Annex I countries compared to their projected forest management emissions for the first commitment period (depending on which number is used for Russia).
There was some extensive discussions on this issue at the Bonn climate negotiations on June 7, 2010, in the contact group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol. These negotiations were not broadcast, but some of what happened was broadcast on twitter (look up the #COP16 or #UNFCCC hashtag). I don't know which countries did or did not have a constructive role in these negotiations, but would be very interested in finding out. The LULUCF negotiating text is here.


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share a fun tutorial to create this card!
What I love most about this card is that you can use small pieces of paper which allows you to use your scraps (or save bigger pieces of paper for more projects)!
1. Cut 1-1/4" x 3" strips of coordinating papers then cut triangle shapes out of the bottom of each. They do not have to be perfectly centered, in fact off setting some of the cuts adds to the cuteness!
2. Adhere two of the banner shapes to a white cardstock base as shown.
3. Adhere a third banner to overlap one of the already placed banners.
4. Place the last banner over the other three banners as shown.
5. Trim the white cardstock down leaving a small white border on three sides.
Next you will want to create a white cardbase and adhere a piece of ribbon in the center lining up the left edge. Attach your banner pieced card using foam adhesives and tie a coordinating ribbon in a bow and add in a piece of white twine to tie around the center of the other bow. Finish the card by adding in the 'friends' fabric button!
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Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Most nuclear encoded mitochondrial precursor proteins are synthesized with amino-terminal presequences that are characterized by positive charge and amphiphilicity. The post-translational targeting of mitochondrial precursors to mitochondria is often facilitated by cytosolic chaperones including members of hsp70 stress protein family. We have studied the interactions of various synthetic peptides with unfolded proteins and yeast cytosolic hsp70, Ssalp. We found that mitochandrial presequences could induce aggregation of the unfolded proteins, suggesting that mitochondrial presequences can interact with the mature part of a precursor during the folding process and cause aggregation. We next found that mitochondrial presequences could bind to Ssalp and that the interactions of presequences with Ssalp are directly correlated with the amphiphilicity of the presequences. Taken together, the present results suggest that hsp70 can prevent aggregation by binding to the presequence as well as the unfolded mature part. While associated with hsp70, the presequence should be prevented from interacting with the newly synthesized, unfolded part of the precursor and would not be able to induce aggregation of these proteins in the cytosol.It is known that in E.coli, the function of DnaK (bacterial hsp70) is regulated by two other heat shock proteins, DnaJ and GrpE.We have revealed here that Ygelp, a yeast GrpE homolog, is a soluble protein in the mitochondrial matrix. Depletion of Ygelp in yeast cells resulted in accumulation of the mitochondrial precursor proteins, suggesting that Ygelp is involved in protein import into mitochondria. These results and others suggest that Ygelp functions in cooperation with Ssclp, a mitochondrial hsp70, and facilitates protein import into mitochondria.
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What are the qualities required from an interest rate benchmark? What would a great pretender to the benchmark throne look like?
The qualities should include (in no particular order)
• Un-manipulable
• Observable
• Tradable
• Relevant
• Transparent
This does not need a lot of explanation. If you have to pay for something, you don't want that a someone else is able to decide how much you have to pay without your say.
By opposition to a random number, the benchmark should be based on real economically meaningful items that can be observed by the general public and not only the benchmark administrator. A guess by a self-selected group of benchmark setter, is not an acceptable approach. The best would be to base the benchmark on public information. But there is only a limited amount of public information available in a timely manner in finance. Nobody want to disclose in real time all its transactions. If the benchmark is based on actual transactions, it will probably be difficult to have it really observable.
It should be relevant, not only as an economical abstraction, but as a reality for the users. This is very difficult, as there are two parties in a contract, but here I will take the point of view of the end user, the retail borrower, the corporate, etc. Why would an interbank borrowing rate be relevant to a retail mortgage? For a very specific bank worker, it may be the case as his bonus is linked to the profitability of the bank which itself is negatively correlated with the interbank credit spread. For him, a reverse LIBOR spread mortgage may make sense. But beyond that far-fetched example, it is difficult to see why a retail mortgage would be linked to LIBOR. Similar remarks could be made for municipalities borrowing at rates linked to LIBOR or ICE swap rates (formerly ISDAFIX). See also the 'term' section below.
It should be possible to trade the benchmark underlying directly, not only derivatives on the benchmark. If we take today's LIBOR, you can trade futures on LIBOR 3M, but you can not trade the numbers used in the benchmark calculation. The numbers are abstract items existing only in the head of the rate setters, you cannot trade the neurons of the rate setters. An alternative approach would be to let the futures trade up to 11:00am and use the last traded futures price, not only as a settlement price for futures, but also as the fixing for the LIBOR. The LIBOR so determined would be used in other derivatives like swaps. This method of fixing as certainly many drawbacks, that I don't want to consider here, I just want to point one advantage: the benchmark is directly tradable. You can hedge the fixing and you can influence it, in the economical sense, by trading the future. I have done a similar proposal a couple of years ago for deliverable swap futures where the last settlement price would be used as a fixing for an index used in CMS-like products. In that manner, you need less additional compliance mechanism, the market is your compliance department.
The benchmark should be based on information that are public, with clear rules that can be checked by external parties, not only the benchmark administrator.
I will include also under the 'transparent' qualification an element that I have not seen in other places. The benchmark itself should be public information; the numbers should be made public as soon as known, no license or fee should be required to obtain the number. Any analysis, of current data or historical data can be run by all interested parties, including any party in a trade, academics, regulators, etc. All the data used for the computation of the benchmark should be fully public as soon as known, no delay in the publication is allowed. Allowing a license/patent/fee on benchmarks used by retail (I'm not speaking here of the interbank market, where professionals are on an equal footing and free to chose their weapons), is creating an undue legal protection to block the fair assessment of the situation.
In my definition of transparency above, I see a clash between free enterprise and freedom to inform. LIBOR values should be considered as news, not proprietary corporate secret. Full access to the data should be granted to all. Maybe this requirement could appear in some retail consumer protection requirement: if a retail product is linked to a benchmark, full transparency and access to data by all is required for that benchmark. For systematic benchmarks, data access should be granted to researchers (academic, independent) for public research on them. No patent can be declared on news, truth and formulas. The benchmark values should be considered as news. Academics and regulators — and in general any researcher — should be free to develop analysis, including writing code, of the benchmark and publish their results about it, including the code, the data, their findings and their opinions.
What do we need a benchmark for? For saving time in lending activities and related derivatives. Most of the lending is done for a term, i.e. the borrowing is planned to be reimbursed at a agreed date. Credit lines are different, but do not represent the majority of the borrowing activity. Most of the lending is for a period longer than a single day. The alternative rates that have been presented are all overnight based. In that sense they all fail to be relevant for most mortgage and corporate lending. I would prefer to have one of the new benchmarks related to term rates, like 3-month or 6-month rate, rather than all of them overnight.
Risk free?
Some discussion about the alternative rates mention 'risk free rates'. It is in particular the case of the Bank of England sponsored Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates. Why do we need a risk free rate when risk-free activities, like risk-free money lending, do not exist? It is useful to have a reference rate. LIBOR was a reference rate. The fact that its design was bad and opened the door to obvious manipulation does not remove the fact that it was a reference rate and it that sense did a good job for 30 years. We want to change it, fine for me. The first question is, what is the target. Certainly a risk-free rate is of no practical use to anybody in practice and miss all the above qualities. Can a practical benchmark be created on a risk-free rate? Another question altogether. To my opinion the answer has to be 'no'; risk-free rate is a theoretical concept, you would need a theory to compute it from practical measurements. Then someone else will need a potentially different theory to compute, from the reference risk-free rate, anything he wants to use in practice. I don't see any interest in there.
I confess I have used risk-free rates in theoretical development. But only as an intermediary step, as a guide to intuition. No final formula or price never depended on knowing it or estimating it.
Do we want a unique benchmark to dominate all of them, like the old king? Or several specific benchmarks? The first quality I mentioned was relevant. This implicitly mean multiple benchmarks. This will also mean that the multi-curve framework is here to stay ;)
In a comment to a previous blog, a reader asked about multiple fixing for same benchmark at different time of the day. I understand that this can be handy for professionals to have a fixing at a time which is convenient, like the time they revalue their books. But from a end user perspective, I'm not sure it make really sense. If my mortgage rate is fixed once a year, I don't really care if it is done at 11:00am or 3:00pm. Also multiplying the fixing time would multiply the derivative underlyings. Do we really want to create a basis swap market between LIBOR 3M 11:00am and LIBOR 3M 3:00pm? I would prefer not.


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It's about time this cruelty was banned in shelters - don't you agree?
PLEASE READ AND SHARE the news ..this will give people in the community further understanding about what's been going on behind many disgusting shelter's walls!
Heartsticking - there is a law mandating the animal be sedated first. The Heart stick is a painful practice in which nerve layers are penetrated with a needle and one jab doesn't always get the job done.
Here's what the AVMA says about heartsticking: Intracardiac injection is acceptable only when performed on heavily sedated, anesthetized, or comatose animals.
It is not considered acceptable in awake animals, owing to the difficulty and unpredictability of performing the injection accurately.
The AVMA, who thinks stuffing pets into a gas chamber in order to kill them is A-OK, considers heartsticking awake animals to be "unacceptable".
Gassing - In many shelters in the U.S, there is a cruel method of "euthanasia" involving placing animals in a gas chamber without sedation where they suffocate to death. In some shelters, cats are piled in with dogs, small dogs are mixed in with large dogs, they put live dogs on top of dead ones and they all fight each other for the last breath of air.
Note : We FULLY support the wonderful ladies who run the Take Action - Help Ban Animal Gas Chambers facebook page.


text: PHOTOREVIEW Published on October 23, 1995. New York: Christine Petrillo (2nd l.), manager of group marketing and sales for Lang Communications, moonlights as a stand-up comic, and performed her routine at a Lang-sponsored night of "Cocktails & Comedy" at Rebar. Among those cheering her on were Dale Lang (l.), chairman-CEO of Lang Communications; Don Nelson, print media manager, Grey Advertising; and Judsen Culbreth, editor in chief of Working Mother. Most Popular In this article: News


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An Orange County (Fla.) Sheriff's deputy was fatally shot in the head Wednesday afternoon, during an investigative traffic stop.
Deputy Brandon Coates, 27, served for 4 1/2 years with the sheriff's office. He worked in the Tactical Anti-Crime Unit and had been married to another deputy for about a year, reports News 13.
The deputy was shot after pulling over a white Chevy Silverado pickup at 8:30 p.m. at 45th Street and Orange Blossom Trail northwest of Orlando International Airport.
Suspect Brandon Lyals, 29, appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after deputies surrounded the Silverado at a nearby apartment building.


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Upcoming Sports participation Schedule
School Teams are going for the following Inter-DPS Events
1) Inter-DPS Swimming Tournament (Boys) at DPS Noida (5 th -6 th November 2017)
2) Inter-DPS Skating Tournament (Boys) at DPS Hisar (27 th -28 th October 2017)
3) Inter-DPS Basketball Tournament (Boys) at DPS Amritsar (27 th – 29 th October 2017)
4) Inter-DPS Fotball Tournament (Boys) at DPS Faridabad (11 th – 14 th October 2017)
5) Inter-DPS Athletic Meet (Girls) at DPS Greater Noida (26 th – 28 th October 2017)
The School Teams are going for the following CBSE Cluster Level Events
1) Athletics Team (Boys & Girls) at DAV Cheeka (1 st – 3 rd October 2017)
2) Swimming Tournament (Boys & Girls) at Cambridge School, Pathankot (8 th -10 th September 2017)
We at DPS Patiala believe that a healthy mind can only reside in a healthy body. Sports play an important role in the development of a child. Sport teaches the child life-skills which will last a lifetime. It also teaches us teamwork, sportsmanship, spirit, decor and handling failures positively. The key to achieving excellence in sports lies in integrating it with the regular curriculum. These activities are interwoven into our daily structure, thus giving the children an opportunity to choose one sporting discipline which enables them to discover their aptitude and perfect their skills in that discipline of sport. Sports & Games:- Sports and Games are an integral part of the life of school students. Students learn the fine nuances of life skills and develop a spirit of sportsmanship – something that will help them in every stage of their lives. We, at DPS-Patiala truly believe that Physical Education is the best discipline that teaches children to work in a team and also trains them to handle failures. Students of DPS Patiala are fortunate to have a multi-facet sporting facility in their school premises. DPS Patiala has one of the biggest outdoor playground with the objective of providing the right ambience for the students to develop physical coordination, strength, and flexibility. The playscape of the ground has a 200 mts Athletic Track, Skating Rink, a Basketball Court, a Lawn Tennis Court(Clay), a volleyball court and a Cricket Ground with a well-maintained pitch. . Also, a swimming complex, with 2 pools, caters to the students, right from kindergarten. From 2017-18, Archery has also been introduced for students of class IV-IX. Other than the routine games periods, students are given multiple options to choose the sport of their choice. Special coaches are appointed to hone the skills of the students. A play-park with a playhouse and swings provides the recreation and enjoyment for the kindergarteners Outdoor Games Athelics Cricket Football Volleyball Basketball Badminton Lawn Tennis Skating / Roller-Hockey Swimming Archery Martial arts Kho-Kho Kabbadi Indoor Games Table-tennis Chess Carrom
Archery Activity
Delhi Public School Patiala has launched archery course designed to teach target archery for interested students of class IV-IX. The students are being taught to shoot at bulls-eye targets placed in front. The core content of the program introduced in the zero hour activity program of the school intends to cover archery history, safety, technique, equipment, mental concentration, core strengthening, physical fitness and self improvement which is necessary in order to participate in and enjoy the sport of archery as a lifetime activity.


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What's a pogo, you ask? Well, they are delightful felt handmade bears. They are smaller than your usual stuffed animal, and they also seem a little more sporting than your average plump, plush bear. Often equipped with their own tiny woodland-inspired sweaters and backpacks, they seem ready for a hike rather than merely a squeeze.
As Ray creates each pogo, they seem to take on their own, distinct personality. What's more, she photographs the pogos in the woods near her home. In the pictures, they seem to inhabit their own, magical pogo world; pick one up and you have received an invitation to join them in their enchanted forest.
Q: What's your background? Have you always been an artist?
A: I had a long career as a first grade teacher. Trying to get children to think creatively and see themselves as artists was one of my things. But working as an artist, even though both of my daughters are professional artists, never occurred to me. Pogos have been quite a surprise. Living in the woods is also an important part of my background. Pogo Forest is where pogos are born and my home in the woods is heaven to me.
Q: When did you start making Pogos? How did the idea for them come about?
A: I started four years ago. My daughters remembered the silly animals that I made from remnants when they were children. Making something similar for an Etsy shop was their idea. Finding a way to combine my experiences with children, my love for the woods, and a way to create with sustainable materials has been serendipity.
Q: Why did you choose the name "Pogo"?
A: I wanted a name that was short, memorable and suggested fun. The name "pogo" seemed evocative, reminding me of childhood days outdoors trying to master that impossible toy, the pogo stick.
Q: How are Pogos eco-friendly?
A: I use repurposed wool sweaters to make them. They're stuffed with alpaca wool from my neighbor's farm.
Q: When we met at the Sustainable Midlands Holiday Celebration, you said that only about half of the people who buy pogos buy them for children - the rest buy them for themselves. What do you think it is about Pogos that makes them so appealing, even to adults?
A: It's hard to know, but I think it's something about their imperfections. Imperfections give them personality. It surprises even me that no two are ever the same. Online, I think their photos and bits of story draw people to them. People who find them at arts and crafts shows seem to love the small size and feel of them. They tend to bring out the child in everyone.
Q: I love to ask our artists for their suggestions for places to visit in South Carolina. Your etsy shop says that you love imagining the far off places that your Pogos will visit with the children who love them. So let me ask you this - where in South Carolina do you think Pogos would most want to explore?
A: Pogos are curious creatures and excellent travelers. But the forest holds a special place in their little hearts. I myself find it to be a healing place, especially when I get still and look closely. One spot in Columbia that totally surprised me when I found it was the River Trail and Woodlands Walk, between Riverbanks Gardens and Riverbanks Zoo. It's usually remarked upon for it's historical significance, but the beauty of the walk is striking too. It's like a mini trip to the mountains. When you walk the hilly riverside trail, it feels like you're on a mountain path. It's hard to believe that you're in the middle of Columbia. I could happily walk it every week. And definitely, stopping by to feed the giraffes on the way out would be a pogo thrill for sure.
See the pogos in their natural habitat (or choose a pogo to take along on your own adventures) by visiting Laura Ray's etsy store.


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Today is the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year (for those of us in the northern hemisphere). These are dark times, indeed, as nations still worship the false (nuclear) idols they believe provide security (through "deterrence") and bolster national pride. Nuclear weapons are truly a dark cloud hanging over humanity, and it has become increasingly clear that it will take a massive people's movement to convince our governments to take real steps to abolish these omnicidal weapons.
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference that will take place in May 2010 is a make-it-or-break-it gathering that will demonstrate either real resolve, or as in the case of the recent Copenhagen gathering, business as usual. In both cases, the world can no longer afford business as usual. We the people must pressure our governments to make the NPT a valid treaty with real and binding deadlines for disarmament.
There are many ways to get involved, through national and international coalitions (such as the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World), organizations (such as the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) and local organizations in your area. Here in the Seattle, Washington area we have Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (GZ), which has resisted Trident and worked for abolition for over 32 years. Over the next few months, leading up to the NPT Review Conference, there will be many opportunities to get involved.
In the next few weeks there will be a couple of events addressing the Trident nuclear weapons system. A group is planning to ring in the New Year in a novel way with a vigil at the gates of Kings Bay (Georgia) Trident nuclear submarine base. You can learn about the Alternative New Year activities by clicking here. On the opposite side of the U.S., GZ will honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, January 16, 2010 with a day of nonviolence training, planning, and a vigil and nonviolent direct action at the gates of the Bangor Trident nuclear submarine base. Click here for the poster and schedule.
Whatever you may do on New Year's or around the MLK weekend, be sure be engaged on some level in the coming months, and be sure to keep the pressure on as we approach the NPT Review Conference. We cannot be complacent; we have seen how things play out (Copenhagen) without massive grassroots political pressure. Let's start preparing now for May 2010. The stakes are high, but the rewards are great! Keep your light shining!


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1) I remember what started our friendship was a post you had written about Judaism and Zionism. I didn't agree with various points you made, and I e-mailed you to discuss. Do you remember your first recollections of our conversation (and don't worry if you don't, I really don't anymore either!)?
How could I forget?! I was still at work and received your email. The first thing that caught my eyes was the letters "IDF".
You were serving in the army then, if my memory doesn't betray me, and you mentioned that you wanted to "extend an olive branch." I remember I sat back and started thinking. Growing up in a country that was run by an anti-Israel regime, I started thinking if this was a scam, an email from Mossad trying to recruit an Iraqi or if it was a real Jewish person who wanted to become friends with me.
I remember I did not respond right away to give it more thought. I was still doubtful even when I replied later. I was mainly worried because you were in the IDF, which is something considered evil, brutal and even satanic in Iraq.
2) As we talked more, how did your impression of Israeli Jews - especially religious Zionist Jews - change, if it did at all?
Before we had started talking, I met the first Jews ever in my life at work. They were Jewish Americans whom I worked and became good friends with. During that time, I started realizing there is a difference between what I grew up knowing and what the real definition of "Jew" is.
Most Iraqis, especially my generation, thought that every Jew is an Israeli Zionist, someone who "hates Palestinians and who wants to get rid of them forever."
However, I realized that there is actually a difference between the word "Zionist" and the word "Jew". Mind you, we were not subject to question the difference or even learn there is a difference!
You were honestly the very first Israeli Jew I've ever known and talked to. I must say that despite the fact that I was doubtful of you at first, I was a bit excited that you contacted me. Of course, it is still something I never shared with any of my family members and friends. No one would understand where I come from.
As we became friends -as I like to describe it- I started learning about where you come from. I disagreed, and still do, with a lot of the things you agree on. However, discussing such issues with you made me think that it's OK to disagree and not hate.
I do not remember if I "hated" Jews but I remember hating what the Palestinians were going through, especially during the second Intifada, which of course made me a bit angry with the "Zionists". Keep in mind, the word "Zionist" is considered a very bad word. We even did not call Israel "Israel". Instead, we used to call it "The Zionist Entity".
Something you may not know is Iraqis are not huge fans of Palestinians, but we have a saying "I'm against my cousin but I support my cousin against the stranger."
3) Growing up in Saddam's Iraq as a minority must have been difficult. What stands out about your youth there?
I'm from a Shiite background, something I don't like to define myself with or with any other term other than "Iraqi" or "Arab".
Under Saddam, most Iraqis from all sects and religions suffered. It was only the elite group that was favored by the regime. It included those from all sects and religions who were loyal to Saddam and the Baath Party.
4) You made a comment once about how you were educated about Jews in school. Can you share a bit more about that?
Well, like I said earlier we were mainly taught that the "Palestinian Cause" is something important and that Jews are the ones who are killing Palestinians and stealing their land. So you can imagine what we considered Jews to be.
Unfortunately, this has not changed much even after the Saddam was overthrown. However, Kurdish Iraqis are a little bit more accepting, at least the politicians. Rumors have it in Iraq that Kurdish leaders are in touch with their Israeli counterparts but they don't talk about it, fearing public rage.
5) What was it like being a war zone correspondent around that danger? Did it create any issues for you or your family? Any regrets?
Working for this news organization made me a stronger person. It was very hard to be objective and unbiased since I was covering the horrors my country was going through.
6) How did you get to the US? What are your thoughts about the country?
I came to the US to pursue my graduate studies. An American friend of mine encouraged me to apply to study in the US. In 2006, I arrived and have been living here since.
The US is a diverse place of people and thoughts. I come across ignorant, racist and intolerant people sometimes but I also meet very open-minded people who are aware of what is happening in the world.
I believe that a lot of American still need to get out of the bubble they live in and understand the world in a better way. A lot of Americans still think it's "UnAmerican" to question what happens here. This needs to change in order to better solve the problems.
7) You're a big fan of Obama. How do you think the Arab world sees the man? Do you feel he can promote a strong relationship between the US and the Arab world? How do you feel he's handled the Arab Spring rebellions?
I'm an Obama fan mostly because he's Democrat which I lean to become when I become a US citizen. I think he really cares about the people who are struggling in the US, but the Republicans are not giving him the chance to help those in need because they think it's "socialism," which they consider a bad thing. I think socialism can be useful too if it is not abused.
With regards to the Arab Spring, I do not like where the US administration stand. On one hand it was completely silent with regards to the tyrannical oppression of protesters in Bahrain, while on the other hand it intervened in what happened in Libya. It's all a matter of interests and the victims are the people. I believe you either fully support protesters' legitimate demands in every country controlled by totalitarian regimes or you don't. It's too ideal I believe and it will never happen.
8) What are your thoughts on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad & Iran?
I pity the Iranian people because of him. I know a lot of Iranians inside and outside Iran who despise what he's doing. He's taking his country backwards and hurting whatever chance left to make Iran blend in with the rest of the world.
9) You recently got engaged, so congrats yet again. Do you wish to settle down in the US and build your future there? Or is there a hope to return home, to Iraq? What do you see for the future of Iraq?
Thanks for the kind wishes!
The future in Iraq is grim. It'll take a really long time to rebuild Iraq to at least how it was before 2003. I do want to go home and help rebuild but like we say, "One hand doesn't clap". We need a group effort which doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon.
I do intend to live in the US for now. Things change and you never know what the next step might be sometimes even if you plan it!
10) Last but not least - if you could control the powers that be, how would you end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Two states as a start. Both sides must compromise. Palestinians need to build their new country and stop saying "It's our land. You stole it from us" and the Israelis should compromise and stop the whole "We were here before you" ideology if they both want peace. If no one compromises, this conflict will never end._


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Most farmers typically don't think of themselves in terms of titans of industry, desk jockeys in expensive suits or highly compensated corporate bigwigs.
But the acronym CEO—for chief executive officer—certainly fits most farmers. They run complex, often highly leveraged businesses and frequently make million dollar decisions that could put those businesses at risk.
"CEO is a term that seems to convey a higher level of leadership," says Bruce Frasier, president of Dixondale Farms in Carizzo Springs, Texas. "I'm just the boss," he said, during a panel discussion on "How Today's Farmer CEOs are Reshaping Modern Ag," part of the recent Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio, Texas.
Water regulations are coming
The annual forum precedes the Commodity Classic, an event that attracts grain and soybean producers and the industries that support them from across the country.
Jeremy Jack, a partner in the Silent Shade Planting Company, Belzoni, Mississippi, and Chad Leman, co-owner of Leman Farms, Eureka, Illinois, joined Frazier on the panel and discussed the opportunities and possible pitfalls facing modern farmer-CEOs.
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Jack said the term CEO fits what he does, but his responsibilities go beyond management. "I consider myself a CEO but I'm also a general and a soldier," he said. "We have 30 employees, but there is nothing on the farm I can't do; nothing I can't learn how to do. But I can't do it all."
He depends a lot on his wife, who he considers the human resources and public relations expert. His mother and sister also play crucial roles in the family operation. "My sister handles the marketing and she does a better job than I could," he said.
Leman says he can make million dollar decisions in his operation. "If we want to change tomorrow, we can. It's up to me whether it's a good call or not."
The three commented on some of the positive changes they've made to keep up with fluctuating markets and other pressures.
Frasier runs Dixondale farms, which produces approximately 70 percent of the onion plants grown in the United States, as well as cantaloupes. He changed the way he markets produce. "We are now a price giver," he said. "We changed the business model and go direct to consumer."
Positive change
That change, he said, resulted in "five times the amount of sales. Find your niche," he advised. "Think about what you do." He said social media helps identify new customers.
Jack has turned the family cotton, rice, corn, soybean and wheat operation into a model of environmental stewardship. "We do show and tell," he said. Conservation and sustainability are "part of everything we do." That includes re-using irrigation water, which they collect in reservoirs and put back into the system. "We test water for nutrients as it comes off the field," he said.
Technology improves Silent Shade efficiency. Fewer workers and fewer trips across the fields mean time and energy savings.
Observation also pays off. He said an employee noted that he was losing a lot of time and burning a lot of fuel with a tractor running while the spray tank was filling. "Idling was wasting time and money," Jack said. By changing to a more efficient pump, they cut idling time by 75 percent.
Jack received the Bayer CropScience Young Sustainable Farmer Award in 2013. "We now have a demonstration farm," he said. "School kids follow us on social media." Silent Shade uses web cams to record what goes on at the farm.
Communication, he said, is a critical part of what a farm manager, CEO, needs to do. "We see a lot about agriculture (in the media) that's not true. If we don't tell our story, someone else will."
Leman said labor is one of his big issues. "We have a lot of trouble finding labor." He's the third generation raising corn, soybeans and hogs on Leman Farms, Inc. It's especially difficult to find employees for the hog operation. "No one wants to work with livestock," he said.
Technology helps. "Technology frees us up to do what we need to do, which is not sitting on a tractor. The next generation of farm labor will have to be tech savvy," he said. "Finding the talent will be difficult. The image of a farm is still antiquated. Urban kids don't understand the potential of a farm career."
Frasier said labor has not been a problem. He pays above going rate but contends that migrant labor is critical. "We need immigration reform," he said. "Without reform, we get amnesty. That's what we have now. And I really don't want a government big enough to round up 12 million undocumented persons and send them across the border."
He said a guest worker program would help. "Some workers are now coming in illegally because they can't get in legally."
Jack said good labor is hard to find in Mississippi. "We use the H2-A program." He's pragmatic about immigration. "My parents came from Canada," he said.
Leman said about 95 percent of his labor force is Hispanic. "They are the only ones willing to do the work."
Regulation challenges
Regulation poses challenges for all three. Requirements to use larger gestation pens, Leman said, will reduce profit. He was pressured by his buyer to put in the larger pens, which will mean an additional $3 per pig additional cost or 1.5 fewer pigs per sow per year. He asked the buyer if the change would mean he could get more for his hogs. "I will not get paid more," he said.
Frazier said he grew up in a regulatory environment. "I think I'm able to accept it a little easier than my predecessors. But if the Department of Labor visits my farm, they will stay until they find something wrong."
He said farmers and ranchers need to be watchful for new Clean Water Act regulations that "will define 'Waters of the United States.' We have to be ready."
Jack agreed that farmers have to stay up on regulations. "We record everything we do—seed, fertilizer, nitrogen rates, and irrigation. We analyze all the data. We spend a lot of time with it."
They talked about preparation for the future.
"I worry about the future of agriculture," Frazier said. "Where is the talent coming from? That's one reason we need immigration reform. No one wants to raise kids to be farm workers, but we need a younger generation. Farmers are getting older and farming is at the bottom of the hierarchy of jobs." He has two children who live in Austin who are interested in the farm, just not living on it. "They want to manage it from Austin."
Jack said he's tackled an issue no one wants to consider. "Three years ago we went through a series of what ifs. For instance, what if someone dies? Who is next in place to take over? We now have a succession strategy."
Leman said his four daughters could step in. "The rules have changed and I have no concerns about one or two of my daughters taking over. Our job today is mostly mental."
They also discussed challenges they've already tackled or that lie ahead.
"We've changed production practices that make us more efficient," Jack said. "Regulations will bring more challenges and I'm concerned about the public perception of what we do. We know about food; we have to go to the Internet or Facebook to tell our stories."
Leman agrees that regulations, such as the requirement to make gestation pens larger, pose problems. "I also wonder what the consumer is willing to pay for," he said. But he also appreciates the independence he has to make decisions and take responsibility for the outcome—good or bad.
Frazier said the biggest challenge he sees is succession. "Who will take over? It may not be family."
But in the meantime, he's content and expressed what he believes his fellow panelists and most people in agriculture feel. "Every day I work with people who truly love what they are doing and take pride in their work."
Also of interest:
Farm bill needs education updates
Secretary Vilsack says implementing farm bill will be challenging


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I also catch Ty reading to himself. It sounds something like this "yooooweee yoweee yoweeee, ummm yoweee yoweee"
Too dang cute for me to handle.
Most of our reading is done early morning in our pajamas or before bed in our pajamas.
I love that these books can bring a little bit of my family to life. I love that Ty remembers the farm when looking at the pictures. Riding the tractors, feeding the goats, the horses, hay and trucks.
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Clairemont Mesa Balboa Avenue Revitalization Action Program
- Clairemont Mesa Community Profile Home
- Community Planning Group Agendas and Minutes
- Current Community Plan
- Community Contact Information
- Parks & Other Community Services
The Balboa Avenue Revitalization Action Program (RAP) is the product of nearly nine years of community meetings, workshops and field observations, involving dozens of residents, planners, engineers and public officials from a variety of organizations, agencies and City departments. A group of citizens, the Balboa Avenue Citizens Advisory Committee (BACAC), has assumed a leadership role in attracting broad segments of the community and professional staff in the development of the Balboa Avenue RAP. The analysis, design concepts, recommendations, and implementation measures included in the Balboa Avenue RAP are intended to implement the Clairemont Mesa Community Plan by transforming the Balboa Avenue corridor into a pleasant and inviting environment for pedestrians, bicyclists and automobiles alike.
- Revitalization Action Plan - Full Version
A hard copy of this document is also on display at the Balboa Branch Library, 4255 Mount Abernathy Avenue.
Implementation of the Balboa Avenue Revitalization Action Program
Over the past several years, the Balboa Avenue Citizens Advisory Committee has worked with the City's Engineering and Capital Projects department and Council District 6 to develop the Balboa Avenue Streetscape Improvements Project, a comprehensive median enhancement and beautification program. With construction commencing in late winter 2006, this streetscape improvement project is expected to be completed by fall 2006. Improvements will include: landscaped medians with irrigation systems, decorative cobble paving, public artwork, community sign improvements, extension of turn lanes, as well as other enhancements, along an approximate 3.3 mile stretch of Balboa Avenue from Interstate 805 to Interstate 5.
Along with the streetscape improvement project, another implementation effort of the RAP is the Balboa Avenue Corridor Improvement Project to bring the corridor into compliance with City street standards and improve pedestrian and bicycle connections. With safety as its primary goal, this project will consist of a number of physical improvements in accordance with the community's vision to create an environment that encourages walking, bicycling and an overall sense of community. Preliminary engineering was completed in Fiscal Year 2003 and further project design is under way.
In addition to the two implementation projects listed above, implementation of the remaining recommendations in the Balboa Avenue RAP will be dependent upon a coordinated public/private funding partnership, leveraging City and private funding and improvements, along with state, federal and other grant funds. Beyond the specific implementation actions proposed in the document, it is the objective of the Balboa Avenue RAP to foster quality design and development throughout the Balboa Avenue corridor.
Let the Improvements Begin!
On March 2, 2006 , Mayor Jerry Sanders joined Councilmember Donna Frye and members of the Clairemont community to officially kick-off the construction process for the Balboa Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project. Also on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony were members of the BACAC, including current Chair Billy Paul and Chair of the Landscape Subcommittee Billie Hame, as well as community residents, including former Clairemont High School student Jade Fabares, who under the direction of art teacher Laura Berlin and former BACAC Chair Tom Alspaugh, created the artwork which is to become part of the improvements. The Project is the result of a combined effort of the City of San Diego's Engineering & Capital Project's Department, Council District 6 and the Balboa Avenue Citizen's Advisory Committee and is the first step in the implementation of the Balboa Avenue RAP.


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Self-Taught Learning to Deep Networks
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In the previous section, you used an autoencoder to learn features that were then fed as input to a softmax or logistic regression classifier. In that method, the features were learned using only unlabeled data. In this section, we describe how you can fine-tune and further improve the learned features using labeled data. When you have a large amount of labeled training data, this can significantly improve your classifier's performance.
In self-taught learning, we first trained a sparse autoencoder on the unlabeled data. Then, given a new example , we used the hidden layer to extract features . This is illustrated in the following diagram:
We are interested in solving a classification task, where our goal is to predict labels . We have a labeled training set of labeled examples. We showed previously that we can replace the original features with features computed by the sparse autoencoder (the "replacement" representation). This gives us a training set . Finally, we train a logistic classifier to map from the features to the classification label . To illustrate this step, similar to our earlier notes, we can draw our logistic regression unit (shown in orange) as follows:
Now, consider the overall classifier (i.e., the input-output mapping) that we have learned using this method. In particular, let us examine the function that our classifier uses to map from from a new test example to a new prediction p(y = 1 | x). We can draw a representation of this function by putting together the two pictures from above. In particular, the final classifier looks like this:
The parameters of this model were trained in two stages: The first layer of weights mapping from the input to the hidden unit activations were trained as part of the sparse autoencoder training process. The second layer of weights mapping from the activations to the output was trained using logistic regression (or softmax regression).
But the form of our overall/final classifier is clearly just a whole big neural network. So, having trained up an initial set of parameters for our model (training the first layer using an autoencoder, and the second layer via logistic/softmax regression), we can further modify all the parameters in our model to try to further reduce the training error. In particular, we can fine-tune the parameters, meaning perform gradient descent (or use L-BFGS) from the current setting of the parameters to try to reduce the training error on our labeled training set .
When fine-tuning is used, sometimes the original unsupervised feature learning steps (i.e., training the autoencoder and the logistic classifier) are called pre-training. The effect of fine-tuning is that the labeled data can be used to modify the weights W(1) as well, so that adjustments can be made to the features a extracted by the layer of hidden units.
So far, we have described this process assuming that you used the "replacement" representation, where the training examples seen by the logistic classifier are of the form (a(i),y(i)), rather than the "concatenation" representation, where the examples are of the form ((x(i),a(i)),y(i)). It is also possible to perform fine-tuning too using the "concatenation" representation. (This corresponds to a neural network where the input units xi also feed directly to the logistic classifier in the output layer. You can draw this using a slightly different type of neural network diagram than the ones we have seen so far; in particular, you would have edges that go directly from the first layer input nodes to the third layer output node, "skipping over" the hidden layer.) However, so long as we are using finetuning, usually the "concatenation" representation has little advantage over the "replacement" representation. Thus, if we are using fine-tuning usually we will do so with a network built using the replacement representation. (If you are not using fine-tuning however, then sometimes the concatenation representation can give much better performance.)
When should we use fine-tuning? It is typically used only if you have a large labeled training set; in this setting, fine-tuning can significantly improve the performance of your classifier. However, if you have a large unlabeled dataset (for unsupervised feature learning/pre-training) and only a relatively small labeled training set, then fine-tuning is significantly less likely to help.
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Hi! Holly from Southern Mom Loves recently got the chance to try out the Hamswan F60 HD Action Camera; A wifi-enabled video and still camera with a huge range of accessories, like a waterproof case and a wide range of mounts. She put it through its paces and she wants to give one of our readers the chance to win one for themselves! Check out her review here, then enter below and good luck!
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These thoughts quotes and beliefs quotes remind us of how important our internal dialogue is in attracting things into (or out of) our lives. Our thoughts and beliefs are probably second only to taking action in contributing to success in our lives through our goals. I hope these thoughts quotes inspire and motivate you to evaluate and change, if necessary, your thinking and your beliefs to complement and support your goals.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
(Marcus Aurelius)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
(Bruce Barton)
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
(Thomas Dewar)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
(Albert Einstein)
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
(Henry Ford)
Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
(Henry Ford)
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
(Mark Victor Hansen)
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
(Napolean Hill)
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
(Napolean Hill )
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
(John Locke)
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
(Earl Nightingale)
Change your thoughts and you change the world.
(Norman Vincent Peale)
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
(Norman Vincent Peale)
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
(Norman Vincent Peale)
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
(Peace Pilgrim)
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be.
(Anthony Robbins)
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
(Anthony Robbins)
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
(Anthony Robbins)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
(Robert Schuller)
Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."
(Robert Schuller)
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
(Dr. David Schwartz)
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
(Marsha Sinetar)
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
(Brian Tracy)
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
(A. Robert Turgot)
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
(Dr. Denis Waitley)
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
(Zig Ziglar)
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't, it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
I've tried to provide proper attribution to the original sources of these thoughts quotes. Please let me know if there are any that may be in error, or if you know some of the sources I have identified as "unknown". Thanks!
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The fratboy and magazine editors' reggae star of choice gets assistance from Sly & Robbie and Bill Laswell on his new EP, which comes packaged with a live DVD.
An interesting backstory can sell itself. It would be tough to invent a musician with a history as compelling and unlikely as that of Matthew Paul Miller, who grew up a wealthy Reformist Jew in White Plains, N.Y. He followed Phish on tour. He beatboxed. And somewhere along the line, he went through musical and religious awakenings, simultaneously immersing himself in the disparate but complementary worlds in Hasidic Judaism and reggae. He moved to Crown Heights and reinvented himself as Matisyahu, the world's first Hasidic reggae star. It's a powerful story of transformation, of finding oneself in older traditions. Orthodox Judaism connected Miller to a heritage thousands of years old. Reggae gave him a culture of apocalyptic Zionist imagery to draw upon. And the unprecedented combination of the two launched a thousand magazine profiles. With baggage like that, it's easy to overlook the watery, hookless cruise-ship approximation of reggae he's selling.
The big problem is Matisyahu's voice, a flat, weedy simulation of Barrington Levy's honeyed scatter-croon. He floats between singing and chatting without ever mastering either, and there's precious little vigor or conviction in his washed-out tenor. His band, the abysmally named Roots Tonic, pretends that the past 20 years of reggae never happened, anchoring themselves firmly in lite-lover's rock UB40 territory and letting their spit-shined lilt amble on without force or direction.
On the new quickie EP No Place to Be, Matisyahu enlists the legendary Jamaican production duo and rhythm section Sly & Robbie and works again with downtown legend Bill Laswell, and they're good moves; the space and push of their production is exactly what his previous records have lacked. But neither Sly & Robbie nor Laswell are afforded the space to breathe or stretch out; they're always stuck behind Matisyahu's nice-guy singsong and Aaron Dugan's processed guitar noodles. A cover of the Police's "Message in a Bottle" is revelatory; it actually made a more credible reggae song when Sting sang it, if only because he didn't hide the searching desperation in his voice behind layers of Rock Star Supernova guitar-crunches or staple on a nonsensical and churlish toast-rant: "There's no message in your bottle/ Emptiness, it's just hollow/ Think the way to wake up is through sex? That's just shallow." Finally, the humorless scolds of the world have a reggae star to call their own. But at least "Message in a Bottle" has an actual hook, more than I can say of the three rerecorded originals that make up the EP's first half.
Three remixes make up the second half, and all of them at least nod in interesting directions, though none of them quite get there. Laswell's dub version of "Message in a Bottle" has a slow, thick bassline and plenty of echo, but it never does more than pile on generic dub signifiers. The Small Stars remix of "Youth" cannily layers a tooting melodica over a half-decent drum-shuffle rap beat, finally granting Matisyahu some propulsion. It's the Swisha House Mix of "Jerusalem", though, that offers the most intriguing and unexpected hybrid, as Houston rap kingpin DJ Michael Watts slows the track down to a crawl, giving the beats enough space to resonate and giving the track a sense of psychedelic openness. Even at half-speed, though, Matisyahu's voice doesn't sound deep. It'll take more than a personal transformation to turn a jam-band kid into an avenging prophet.


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Read the full story in FastCompany.
One issue that the right and left agreed upon in the 2016 election? Infrastructure. The country's roads, bridges, highways, hospitals, railways, and water systems need immediate attention. President Trump promised to spend $1 trillion to improve the situation; so far, no comprehensive plan has been released–but the president is implementing policy that will impact how these projects are designed and built. And according to environmentalists and architects, it might make infrastructure weaker, not stronger.


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jQuery-ui 1.7 and Asp.net MVC
The news of a new jQuery-ui 1.7 release came in through twitter ! The asp.net mvc application I am working on at the moment uses various jquery-ui things, like the accordeon and the datepicker, and some of the icons, but it was a bit messy to actually get it to work. Some of the images were named wrong and the paths didn't quite work.
The Content and Script folder had become a big mess as well. Luckily with 1.7 that has all passed, I removed the previous version and all images, and inserted the 1.7 smoothness theme. Changed the css and jquery ui calls in the master view and it worked out of the box ! No need to hack around anymore, no image renaming etc… Gratz to the jQuery-ui team for delivering such a nice product.
<link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="../../Content/Theme_Red/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="../../Content/jquery-ui.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
If you want to make any changes to the ui, for example I added some padding to the ui-state-error and ui-state-highlight classes, make sure to put them in a seperate file and load them after the included jquery-ui.css file. That way if you change themes or if there is an update, your changes will remain.
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Cool you are using jQuery UI with MVC. I just got it working with a test MVC project of mine. I have a question. Are you able to use any of the navigation elements found in jQuery UI, such as tabs? I would be interested in your thoughts on how to implement this with going to different views, being that the content is expected to be in coorisponding div's on the page already loaded, and the views by default are in seperate pages.–Thanks,
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1987-88 Actions on El Paso vs. New Mexicoby Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., Rio Grande Compact Commission, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Planning Now for Irrigation and Drainage in the 21st Century
It has been determined by the City of El Paso that water wells near the Texas-New Mexico borders should be used to supplement their water supply in the years 2000-2020. Opposition to the production of El Paso wells has increased during the permit hearings of 1987 and 1988. The water rights fight has been extensive and has paralleled three wet water years in the normally arid area. Numerous options for water supply have been suggested for El Paso. The institutional aspects of these options are discussed in reference to surface water options in the Rio Grande Basin.
Subject Headings: Developing countries | Water rights | Water supply | Urban areas | Wells (water) | Arid lands | Legislation | Permits | New Mexico | United States | Rio Grande | Mexico
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Ryan Travis Christian
"Sad Sacks"
Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce "Sad Sacks", an exhibition featuring works by Ryan Travis Christian. This suite of works is a continuation of the works from Ryan's last show with the gallery in October 2010. Continuing his investigation of memory, the themes explored in this exhibition include sex, lawn care, parties, dreams, entertainment, petty crimes and cars – all common things which affect our lives, and all things which Ryan views as aesthetically pleasing.
Approaching his work as a painter, and finishing as a cartoonist, Ryan creates an abstract problem for himself when developing his pieces, solving them through the incorporation of representational elements. Including historically loaded figures like naked women, water birds and snakes, his works create new historical dimensions for these figures, as well as open the range of interpretation of them for viewers. Through patterns and comic art references, Ryan develops surreal narratives that include characters that represent everyone, no one or something amorphous.
Ryan Travis Christian has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Western Exhibitions in Chicago, POVEvolving in Los Angeles, and EBERSMOORE in Chicago. He lives and works in the Chicago area.
Chris Duncan & Jason Michael Leggiere
"Sound and Shape"
Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce the first collaborative effort by bay area based artists Jason Michael Leggiere and Christopher Robin Duncan. "Sound and Shape" is an audience participatory and optically challenging sound sculpture based on basic triangular shapes. The negative space of the sculpture is filled with stretched piano wire (think post-modern harp), intended to be touched, felt or played by visitors. A horn speaker at the base of the sculpture, powered by hand built tube electronics, emits resulting amplified tones. Resting upon a mirrored floor that revisualizes the sculpture's triangles into diamonds, viewers can easily become engulfed by the sonic and visual noise.
Chris Duncan has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions and Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, Motel Gallery in Portland, Lump gallery in Raleigh, and Nakaochiai Gallery in Tokyo. His work is included in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum. Duncan was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Jason Michael Leggiere grew up on the late eighties punk and alternative rock scene in Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco to study painting at the SFAI. He was the director of a small contemporary art gallery called Quotidian for five years. He continues to live and paint, as well as raise a family and build his own tube audio equipment, in San Francisco.
Over the duration of the exhibition, Guerrero Gallery will host several performances by local musicians invited by Duncan and Leggiere. While some performances will incorporate it as a primary instrument, others will include it as a conceptual invocation of sound by its mere presence.
March 12, Sat, 9pm: Jason Leggiere, Collin McKelvey, Chris Duncan
March 18, Fri, 9pm: Jefre Cantu
March 23, Wed, 9pm: Caryl Kientz
March 25, Fri, 9pm: Joe Colley
March 27, Sun 6pm: Julia Mazawa-Lissom
March 30, Wed, 9pm: Kadet Kuhne
March 31, Thu, 9pm: Joshua Churchill
April 2, Sat, 9pm: Danny Grody, Marielle Jakobson