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News from
Office of Communications
Stanhope Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5264
Telephone 609-258-3601; Fax 609-258-1301
Contact: Marilyn Marks, 609-258-3601
Nov. 6, 2000
Princeton dedicates Richard Serra sculpture
"The Hedgehog and the Fox" viewed as major addition to outdoor art collection
Princeton, N.J. -- Princeton University will dedicate its dramatic new sculpture by internationally renowned artist Richard Serra, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," on Friday, Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m. Serra will attend the dedication ceremony.
The sculpture, three vast ribbons of rust-colored steel, was donated by Peter Joseph, a member of the class of 1972 who died in 1998. Before he died, Joseph, a New York art enthusiast, had commissioned the $1 million sculpture for the university in honor of his children, Danielle and Nicholas.
Serra is considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, and perhaps the most significant American sculptor to emerge since the 1950s. His work, standing 94 feet long and 15 feet high, was erected between Peyton and Fine halls on the Princeton campus and is a major contribution to the university's well-known collection of modern outdoor art.
Serra has "extended the space of sculpture more creatively, and explored the experience of sculpture more critically, than any other artist in the post-war period," said Hal Foster, a Princeton professor of modern art.
Like other Serra works, "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is understood not merely by viewing, but by walking through it -- encountering different glimpses of sky and light and experiencing new spatial sensations. His works have a reputation for demanding interaction and reflection.
The sculpture creates an experience "that renders us more sensitive not only to facts of material, principles of structure, and terms of building, but to our own human sensorium as it engages its surroundings," Foster wrote.
The name of the sculpture, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," refers to an essay by Isaiah Berlin, who quotes from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one great thing." Serra explained, "It points to how scholars either become free thinkers and invent or become subjugated to the dictates of history. This is the classical problem posed to every student."
Serra does not grind, polish or paint the metal used in his sculptures, but allows them to rust and bear the scrapes and scratches that occur during creation. His work is displayed in leading galleries and museums across Europe and the United States.
Joseph, the former chairman and chief executive officer of the merchant banking firm Rosecliff, Inc., graduated from Yale Law School after attending Princeton. Throughout his life, he was a great patron of the arts, serving as chairman of the governing board of the American Ballet Theater and member of the board of the directors of the Second State Theater in New York. He was a leading collector of studio art furniture and established the Peter Joseph Gallery in New York to showcase that art form.


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Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization
ပအို႔၀္ အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႔
Armed Wing: Pa-Oh National Liberation Army
Founded: 2009
The PNLO is the combined force of the Pa-O People's Liberation Organization (PPLO) and
The two groups were offi cially united at a Pa-O National Conference held on 7-9 Dec. 2009 that formed the newly structured PNLA and PNLO, and drafted the PNLO constitution. Attendees included the Pa-Oh Youth Organization, Pa-Oh Labor Union and individuals such as U Khun Myint Tun (Thaton MP in 1990 election) and Khun Tin Swe (member of NCUB
The fi rst PNLO congress held in Laybwer military camp on 16-20 May 2013 elected new central committee members in which Khun Myint Tun was appointed the new chairman. Previous chairmen Col. Khun Okker and Brig. Gen. Khun Ti Soung have since become patrons.
The PNLO's current headquarters is located near the Thai-Myanmar border opposite Mae
Central Committee Members:
Ceasefire &Peace Process
13th ceasefi re signing group.
Official delegation teamPNLO Peace-Making Group
State level: 7 members
Union level: 12 members
PNLO Peace-Making Group
Membership: PPST, PPWT, UPJDC, JMC
Liaison offices
1. Taunggyi (26/01/2013)
Alliances: PPST, PPWT/CT, UPDJC, JMC member.
|Armed Group Rep
|Govt Rep
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Khun Okkar
|Aung Min
|Informal peace meeting for both PNLO and UNFC leading to preliminary talks. PNLO Chairman Khun Okkar said that his group will observe talks involving other ethnic organization that are members of the UNFC and met with the government separately in order to study the issues being presented.
|Chiang Mai, Thailand
|Khun Myint Tun, Khun Thurein, Khun Tun Tin
|U Aung Min
|Preliminary meeting
Both sides plan to hold a formal state level meeting in the following month.
|By Phone
|Khun Okkar
|U Aung Min
|Preliminary meeting
Both sides plan to hold a formal state-level meeting in the following month.
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Khun Okkar, Khun Myint Tun
|U Aung Min
|Preliminary meeting
Agreement to sign a 7-point draft agreement.
Other PNLO delegates: Khun Myint Tun
Other govt delegates: Minister of Immigration and Population U Khin Yee
|PNLO peace delegation led by Khun Myint Tun and Col. Khun Thurein
|U Aung Min
|Preliminary meeting
Discussed ideas for the upcoming official meeting for State level ceasefire agreement. Meeting followed an exploratory trip by the PNLO peace delegation inside the country (Taunggyi, Thaton township).
|Taunggyi, Shan State
|PNLO peace delegation led by Khun Myint Tun and Col. Khun Thurein
|U Aung Min
|State Level ceasefire agreement signed
Other government delegates: union Ministers, representatives of the Lower house and Upper house, Shan state Chief Minister Sao Aung Myat and state government members, Commander of Eastern Command Maj. Gen. Soe Htut and senior military officers
|Myanmar Peace Center, Yangon
|Col Khun Okkar, U Khun Myint Tun, Col Khun Thurein and CEC members
|U Aung Min, Union Ministers U Khin Maung Soe, U Win Tun and U Ohn Myint, Shan State Chief Minister U Sao Aung Myat
|Union Level
The two sides reached an agreement in ten major sectors including relief, social affairs, anti-drug, and regional development, most important of all continued ceasefire. The two parties also agreed to continue political dialogue.
|Shwe Mann, Thein Zaw, Gen. Aung Than Htut
|Informal meeting
Shan state government asked for 50% of Shan state revenue to spend in Shan state
|U Aung Min (UPWC)
|Informal meeting
U Aung Min met delegations from RCSS, SSPP and PNLO at the sidelines of the Shan-Kayah-Mon state Trust Building Conference between Sept 21-23, 2013.
|PNLO delegation led by Khun Myint Tun and Khun Tin Shwe Oo
|U Aung Min, U Khin Yee, U Win Tun, U Soe Thein and U Than Htay
|Informal meeting
Both parties discussed the continued implementation of union level peace agreements, nationwide ceasefire, participating in national census.
- State level ceasefire agreement signed on Aug 25, 2012 and Union level ceasefire agreement signed on March 23, 2013
- Agreed to open liaison offices - Taunggyi, Thahton, Maukmai, and Hsi Hseng and Mauk Mai
- Nationwide ceasefire will only be done through the NCCT
- PNLO and Myanmar government will continue to hold informal meetings in the pursuit of peace
- to maintain the location of PNLO/ PNLA troops
- both sides agreed to be positioned at designated areas
- both sides agreed not to take arms to other regions except in designated areas
- discussions will take place regarding any violations of the signed in the code of conduct
- to jointly manage food, clothing and shelter for troops
- cooperate on agricultural projects
- To cooperate in establishing Pa-Oh media *requested setting up an independent Pa-Oh news and media organization
- cooperate on public security *22/07/2012: As per the invitation from U Aung Min, seven members from PNLO's peace delegation visited Myanmar for ten days from July 22 -31 to hold several consultation meetings with individuals, the state Pa-Oh political parties, religious leaders, and Pa-Oh activists. They visited PNO patron U Aung Kham Hte, as well as the PNO chairman and other PNO senior leaders; held consultation meetings with Pa-Oh CBOs and CSOs at the PNO headquarters, and met with the abbot of Taung Kyaung Kyi monastery; traveled to Thaton Township in Mon state to hold several consultation meetings with the Pa-Oh community, senior Pa-Oh monks, and National League for Democracy Thaton (NLD-Thaton).
- To cooperate on solving the drug problem Informal partnership with KNPP and ABSDF to combat drug addiction and rehabilitation.
Nippon Foundation donated 1,200 rice bags to PNLO (January 2013)
Dec 11, 2014 - PNLO released a statement to commemorate the 65th Anti-Feudalism anniversary
Jan 12, 2014 – Message to 51st anniversary revolution day of T'ang (Palaung)
May 21, 2013 – Statement of PNLO 1st Congress
Mar 26, 2013 – National Day Message
Mar 23, 2013 - PNLO Union Level Agreement (Burmese)
Mar 23, 2013 - PNLO Union Level Agreement (English)
Jan 01, 2012 - PNLO 2012 New Year Statement
Jan 31, 2011 - Statement of PNLO Annual Meeting
Sep 21, 2010 - PNLO Statement on International Day of Peace
Feb 27, 2010 - PNLO Statement on Pa-Oh-National Day
Feb 27, 2010 - PNLO Honorable Message for Pa Oh National Day

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Bubble Carriage
The Bubble Carriage was a concept/prototype vehicle that appeared in a dealer catalogs from Germany (1987) and Italy (1987). The vehicle could be coupled to one of the Rebel Horses. The image featured in the catalog started much controversy. One of the characters in the picture is the famed picture that started the rumor of a new character known as the Bubble Maiden. Nothing was ever confirmed. The mysterious woman could possibly be Tallstar or Mermista.
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Set on the soil under the plant, the red crater will increase yields and make the fruit set earlier. (Research done by a number of universities has shown that red reflects a certain spectrum of light back to the plants, which in turn triggers photosynthesis to stimulate rapid growth and development.)
Made in USA from heavy-duty plastic, the craters can be used over and over for many years. 11" in diameter. Set of three craters.


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Poll Results
How much of a financial burden does paying for all of your diabetes supplies place on your family? Extremely high burden - we can't afford some needed diabetes supplies 9% 9 Very high burden - we struggle to make ends meet because of diabetes 9% 9 High burden - we do without many things because of diabetes 13% 14 Modest burden - we do without some things because of diabetes 31% 32 Minor burden - we chose less expensive things because of diabetes 14% 15 No burden at all 24% 25
Total votes: 104
How much of a financial burden does paying for all of your diabetes supplies place on your family?Poll dates: July 11 - 18, 2012
Total Votes: 104
Caring for type 1 diabetes is an expensive endeavor. Essential medical supplies, such as glucose test strips, lancets, syringes or pump supplies, and insulin cost many thousands of dollars per year and are non-optional. While many industrialized countries in the world provide national health care coverage that includes diabetes supplies, the United States does not. A family caring for someone with diabetes is therefore at the mercy of their company's health insurance plan to help pay for these supplies, and many families have no coverage at all.
31% of our readers report that paying for diabetes supplies places a high, very high, or extremely high burden on their family finances. The same number report experiencing a modest burden. That means that, for mnore than half of our readers, paying for diabetes supplies places a measurable burden on their family.
For more information, see Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2007 [Diabetes Care 31:596-615, 2008] (full text also available in PDF format) and Estimating the cost of type 1 diabetes in the u.s.: a propensity score matching method (free full text available in HTML and PDF formats - PDF link in HTML full text).
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Monday, April 15, 2019 - 7:00pm
Elliott Library, Room 507
Join Leader Anne Klaeysen, Membership Coordinator Maggie Determann and Society members for dessert, and to find out who we are and what we do! Ask about the Society and our philosophy, social ethics, programs and membership. Please RSVP by calling ext. 113 or at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Panthers got their public money for stadium upgrades by promising to stay for at least 15 years.
The city of Miami wants something the Dolphins can't deliver on their own.
According to the Miami Herald, Mayor Carlos Gimenez is suggesting that he wants a promise of a Super Bowl before public money is committed to Sun Life Stadium.
"I don't want to be eligible for anything," Gimenez said. "I'd like to see the results and actually land something."
The mayor and the Dolphins announced a plan to let voters decide whether to use hotel tax funds, a vote which could happen before the owners meeting in May when 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls are awarded.
It's a cart-before-the-horse idea by Gimenez, as the league uses Super Bowls as the carrot for new stadiums or upgrades. And while Miami has legitimate competition for those Super Bowls (San Francisco and Houston), it's hard to imagine South Florida ever falling out of the rotation for the game.
While voters in Miami are still sore about buying the Marlins a new stadium only to see a competitive team gutted, the Dolphins say their polling indicates the measure for a hotel tax increase would pass.


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Gluten-free Restaurants in Tel Aviv, Israel: Review of Vegetarian fare at Fresh Kitchen
When I found myself in Tel Aviv for a week with dear Toddler Yum and the DH occupied at work most of the day and evening, I was initially a little overwhelmed. Here I was, in a foreign land that I knew very little about, where labels were written in a script I couldn't read, and addresses and the secrets of public transit were a complete mystery to me. I never did figure out the public transit. But, with the help of google maps, I did figure out addresses, and I was able to create a map of gluten-free destinations like health food stores and restaurants with gluten-free menus. Early on I found a very good post by Danny the Digger listing gluten-free restaurants and this was immensely helpful. I marked several restaurants that looked interesting to me, found them on Google maps, and then hiked over to them. I probably would have gone to more, but I found the Israeli sun quite blisteringly hot, especially with a toddler on my back.
Fresh kitchen
With locations at
Dizingoff 149, 03-5239933
Ben Yehuda 77 03- 5292687
Yehudah Hamacabi 40, 03-5447701
Bazel 37, 03-5445050
More Branches*
I happened across one of the Fresh Kitchen restaurants when I walked to the Dizengoff Center. It was on the right side of the street as I walked from the Port Area towards the center, just a few streets away from the mall entrance. Like most restaurants in Tel Aviv, they had a handy and easy to navigate English menu. Best of all, each gluten-free dish was marked clearly with a little toast icon. I later found another location at Ben Yehuda that was even more convenient to our hotel near the Tel Aviv Port, so we went to that location one evening after Justin got back from work. We were all hungry, so I ordered a salad with cheese, which had a 5% grated cheese, roasted peppers, young lettuce, arugula, baby greens, tomatoes, cucumbers and toasted almonds as well as one of their quinoa-lentil dishes. I picked the one with more middle-eastern flavors and a tahini sauce, and had them add tofu.
The DH absolutely loved the salad, which surprised me a little. He raved about the combination of the dressing, roasted peppers, and cheese. I think he also enjoyed the almonds. It may have been because he was hungry, but he practically inhaled the salad. I was just glad he liked my vegetarian friendly restaurant. Sometimes I feel bad dragging him to the chains with gluten-free menus when there are so many cool, quirky little restaurants that we could go to if only I could feel confident in getting gluten-free food. I ended up having the salad without dressing but with tahina because the thoughtful waitress said that they couldn't confirm that the dressing was gluten-free. I appreciated her candor, and felt even better about eating there after she cautioned me about the dressing. I thought the salad was nice, but the real star for me was the healthy and hearty quinoa salad.
The quinoa salad came in several flavor variations, from mexican, to italian, and middle-eastern. I chose middle eastern flavors because, well, we were in the middle-east and it just didn't seem right to order mexican or italian. I appreciated the vegetarian protein in the tofu, but found it a little bland. The combination of red quinoa and lentils was a real winner, though, and it inspired me. I was surprised at how filling the combination was in a relatively small serving. I was happiest of all by the fact that unlike some of the more chancy meals I had in Israel, this one didn't hurt my tummy at all, and in fact gave me great energy and a satisfied tummy for the rest of the evening. I would definitely go back and have this dish again- maybe even in a different flavor variation, although I do love my tahina.
*Put the link in translate.google.com and set it to translate from Hebrew to English if you can't read Hebrew like me
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Mr. and Mrs. David Woodin of Malta will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Feb. 27.
Carol Dresser married David Woodin on Feb. 27, 1954, at Advent Christian Church in DeKalb.
They have three children: Jean (Robert) Sandman, Ted (Sandy) Woodin and Dale (Debra) Woodin; four grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
An open house will be held at a later date.


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New Super Smash Bros Screens Star Rosalina and Luma
Did anyone ask for an avalanche of new screenshots? Because Nintendo has just released a slew of Super Smash Bros. screens starring Mario Galaxy's Rosalina and Luma.
The 10 new screenshots feature Rosalina in all kinds of action shots. In a few shots, we see her making nice with the other combatants, like Princess Peach. Then again, we also see her backflip-kicking the crap out of Donkey Kong, so her benign demeanor can be a bit deceptive.
Not much is known about her moveset, but these screens, as well as the previously-released trailer, indicate that she'll be using Luma for remotely-controlled attacks and to set up combos. We can dig it. Check out the screenshots and look forward to playing as this celestial heroine in 2014 on Wii U and 3DS.


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How to Use
the Readings
Inquiry Question
Reading 2: The Landscape--Art and Nature.
Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn, President of the Horticultural Society, took primary responsibility for laying out the landscape of the new cemetery in 1831 and 1832. He sent to Europe for books and maps illustrating and describing the landscapes of English gardens as well as Père-Lachaise Cemetery, a burial ground established in 1804 outside Paris which combined a pleasant site with artistically distinguished monuments. With the assistance of a surveyor and a committee of learned Bostonians, Dearborn laid out the roads and paths following the natural features of the land, naming them after trees and plants. He established an experimental garden where the latest varieties of fruits, flowers, and vegetables as well as exotic specimens were cultivated for demonstration. More than 1,300 trees were planted in the 1830s, creating the framework for the later arboretum. In 1835, the Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Horticultural Society separated and Mount Auburn became the private non-profit corporation it remains today.
Early descriptions of the site stressed the beauty of the natural landscape and the need for only slight embellishment. The nature that was valued by Mount Auburn's founders was a civilized landscape, enhanced by subtle manipulation of the hand of man. It was based upon English 18th-century ideals of scenery--a pastoral or domesticated landscape rather than a sublime wilderness. An observer in 1831 recorded:
The tract of land which received the name of Mount Auburn, is situated on...the main road leading from Cambridge to Watertown,...Its distance from Boston is about four miles.... The inner portion, which is set apart for the purposes of a Cemetery, is covered throughout most of its extent with a vigorous growth of forest trees, many of them of a large size, and comprising an unusual variety of kinds. This tract is beautifully undulating in its surface, containing a number of bold eminences, steep acclivities, and deep shadowy valleys. A remarkable natural ridge with a level surface runs through the ground from the south-east to north-west, and has for many years been known as a secluded and favorite walk. The principal eminence, called Mount Auburn in the plan, is one hundred and twenty-five feet above the level of the Charles River, and commands from its summit one of the finest prospects which can be obtained in the environs of Boston. Country seats and cottages seen in various directions,...add much to the picturesque effect of the scene.The first burial took place in July 1832, and within a few years hundreds of family lots and single graves were sold, and many monuments and tombs were erected. Some families purchased large lots and built expensive memorials; other people were buried in single graves with simple markers.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What did the founders of Mount Auburn Cemetery use for inspiration?
2. How was the landscape first changed after the cemetery was founded?
3. What elements of the landscape were mentioned as very important?
4. Why do you think the views from the highest hills of the cemetery were important?
Reading 2 was compiled from John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis, editors, The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820 (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1988); Walter T. Punch, ed., Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992); and Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1860).
¹Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1860).
¹Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1860).


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Work Out the Most Suitable Mac Keylogger by Examples
Keylogger for Mac is widely developed and used in many aspects. But it seems that most of the people don' t know what kind of keylogger can assist them to the utmost extent. Now the following examples will tell you exactly which Keylogger for Mac to buy.
Case 1: Your kids always take advantage of your working and shopping time to use your computer. But you never see the website history. They are pretty young so you really want to know what they are doing on the computer in your absence.
Solution: Since you are the administrator of the computer and have all permissions, you can install a Mac keylogger software in your computer to track your kids' behavior online. You can use Aobo Keylogger for Mac, it can record keystrokes, log website visited and capture screenshots. The Professional Edition even can record passwords.
Case 2: Your husband has been going out almost every night and sometimes came home the next morning. He changed the admin password of his Mac to the one you don't know. He has been real rude to you and refused to talk to you. He has been acting so strange that you want to know if he is cheating on you.
Solution: It would be better you use a Keylogger for Mac which supports remote installation because you have no physical access to his Mac. Aobo Remote Keylogger for Mac can be installed remotely. It can send logs to your email or FTP place. With password protection your husband will be unable to uninstall it.
Case 3: You are a chief leader of a small office and catch your personnel visiting irrelevant websites during working time. You want to find out what sites they usually go to and block the sites out of your office computer, but you can not afford expensive network management system.
Solution: What you need is a keylogger with blocking function. Use Safe Eyes' Keylogger for Mac in your office. It can record websites visited and block sites as well as programs by logic. Moreover, it can limit time online and alert you when inappropriate content is accessed.
Learning the above cases, you must have understood how to choose different keylogger in different circumstances. The next you should do is just letting them help you more.
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trew wrote:What is this "Sergey Petrov experimental SRC" thing I keep seeing?
I'm sensing placebo effect, not sure...
Yes, if all the true knowledge is already in The Holy Book, an alternative Holy Book may only produce a "placebo effect".
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trew wrote:What is this "Sergey Petrov experimental SRC" thing I keep seeing?
I'm sensing placebo effect, not sure...
hiro wrote:Do you want to give us more and more truisms, or will you share your actual experiences?
trew wrote:I couldn't agree more with hiro ...
Disregard all that, I found FreeBSD 8+ resampler better suite for me and my project. It is at least twice, triple or quad better than the current "Production quality" of what OSSv4 can offer, both in term of speed and quality.
hiro wrote:
Isn't that the same? grc3 is fromm OSS...
igorzwx wrote:Many thanks for very interesting information!
Is it available as a standalone converter?
igorzwx wrote:Would you be so kind as to provide some recommendations for testing scenarios, or a kind of "howto"?
hiro wrote:
Isn't that the same? grc3 is from OSS...
hiro wrote:@trew How did you "measure" quality? Have you by any chance also compared to libsamplerate?
hiro wrote:According to this site oss production quality creates distortions at about -110db.
hiro wrote:Yeah, it says grc3 is fixed point.
According to this site oss production quality creates distortions at about -110db. If you have a good system and ear you should hear it. But only if you listen to very quiet 24bit files!
Try out this nice internet radio station: http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac
libsamplerate has a very linear phase and distortions under 150db, which is not even inside the dynamic range of 24bit.
I'll consider using Z on my ARM, which is very slow with floating points. Thanks for bringing this up again.
in practice, a signal can never be perfectly bandlimited, since ideal "brick-wall" filters cannot be realized. All practical filters can only attenuate frequencies outside a certain range, not remove them entirely. In addition to this, a "time-limited" signal can never be bandlimited. This means that even if an ideal reconstruction could be made, the reconstructed signal would not be exactly the original signal. The error that corresponds to the failure of bandlimitation is referred to as aliasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2 ... iderations
It can be argued that analog formats retain some inherent advantages over digital formats. The advantages of analog systems are summarised below:
Absence of aliasing distortion
Absence of quantization noise
Behaviour in overload conditions
Unlike digital audio systems, analog systems do not require filters for bandlimiting. These filters act to prevent aliasing distortions in digital equipment. Early digital systems may have suffered from a number of signal degradations related to the use of analog anti-aliasing filters, e.g., time dispersion, nonlinear distortion, temperature dependence of filters etc. (Hawksford 1991:8). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_rec ... advantages
Each numerical value measured at a single instant in time for a single signal is called a sample; samples are measured at a regular periodic rate to record a signal. The accuracy of the conversion process depends on the sampling rate (how often the sound is sampled and a related numerical value is recorded) and the sampling depth, also called the quantization depth (how much information each sample contains, which can also be described as the maximum numerical size of each sampled value). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_rec ... _recording
The [Nyquist] theorem also leads to a formula for reconstruction of the original signal. The constructive proof of the theorem leads to an understanding of the aliasing that can occur when a sampling system does not satisfy the conditions of the [Nyquist] theorem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2 ... ng_theorem
Now we get into the real voodoo. Audiophiles have claimed since the beginning of digital audio that vinyl records on an analog system sound better than digital audio. Indeed, you can find evidence that analog recording and playback equipment can be measured up to 50khz, over twice our threshold of hearing. Here's the great mystery. The theory is that audio energy, even though we don't hear it, exists as has an effect on the lower frequencies we do hear. Back to the Nyquist theory, a 96khz sample rate will translate into potential audio output at 48khz, not too far from the finest analog sound reproduction. This leads one to surmise that the same principle is at work. The audio is improved in a threshold we cannot perceive and it makes what we can hear "better". Like I said, it's voodoo. http://www.tweakheadz.com/16_vs_24_bit_audio.htm
delude yourself if you must believe that digital contains more information than analog... If you listen to crap played through crap, how can you possibly ascertain quality reproduction? http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=vinyl&m=5232
The current crop of AD [analog-to-digital] converters utilized in music can sample at rates up to 192 kilohertz. High bandwidth headroom allows the use of cheaper or faster anti-aliasing filters of less severe filtering slopes. The proponents of oversampling assert that such shallower anti-aliasing filters produce less deleterious effects on sound quality, exactly because of their gentler slopes. Others prefer entirely filterless AD conversion, arguing that aliasing is less detrimental to sound perception than pre-conversion brickwall filtering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to- ... _recording
hiro wrote:I took the grc3 results for granted. It doesn't seem trivial to test, so I probably won't.
I already told you the reason I haven't tried that resampler: I don't have the source (I don't run random stuff not even knowing where it's coming from).
Also, why should I test something nobody would ever use or know. What's the use of it? We all know it can't be "perfect" and we all still have converters which are good enough.
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text: At 09:22 AM 2/16/2005, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, David Mathog wrote: > > > In most universities services like electricity, water, and > > A/C are paid for by the school. To do so they take "overhead" > > out of every grant. Partially as a consequence of this they > > typically have a very poor ability to meter usage on a room > > by room basis. > > > > >I don't have a really perfect solution to this dilemna, and indeed I >think it is a bit premature to expect one. When SOME institution does a >real CBA on the total cash flow associated with grant-funded >cluster-based research projects, including the more esoteric benefits >such as "institutional prestige" (which is serious business, don't >forget -- a weight factor that affects ALL grants submitted from an >institution) perhaps we can start to think about which clever idea for >recovering costs is realistic and fair. In the meantime, budgets of the >groups that actuall pay these costs continue to get a wee bit strained >as the number of nodes and associated costs continue to spiral upward. > Such issues come up ALL the time in any government funded research. And, the more govermnent oversight, the more data you have to collect on such "burden" and "overhead". An extreme might be a Defense Department (or NASA) Cost Reimbursement type contract (Aka Cost Plus... note well.. There are NO government contracts that are cost plus percentage of cost.. they're illegal... The fee amount is fixed, or based on award criteria, but does not depend on on the amount spent, except perhaps in a negative fashion (bust a spending cap, and your award/incentive fee gets smaller)) In such cases, the funding source is VERY interested in just how you calcualated "cost", and therein lies much accounting. There's a sort of pendulumn type swing back and forth for certain types of costs (and management philosophies). Do you count telephone service as an overall burden (raising your "overhead" percentage, but reducing the project's "Other direct costs (ODC)") or, do you chargeback the project for the cost of the phoneline, plus usage, plus some management "tax"? The latter reduces your overhead percentage, but increases the "direct costs". Same dollars flow either way, but in the latter case you WILL spend more time accounting for the other direct costs. I suppose that in academia, the grantee might be sheltered a bit by the institutional processes, but in most other environments, it's been a reality for a long time. Different companies have different philosophies on the approach, and either works, and will generally pass muster with the auditors. It does make evaluating proposals a bit trickier. Taken to an extreme, we have the health care industry approach of "code and cost every item", so that the acetaminophen they give you after delivering a baby or having your gall bladder removed shows up on the bill as "Dispense acetaminophen, 2 tablets at 100mg" and "Administer acetaminophen, 100mg", each with separate charges near $10. Sadly, that $10 probably is a realistic cost, too, considering that some non-zero amount of time was spent to enter the transactions into a database, requiring the use of trained "medical coders" who know the procedure codes for everything, as well as the capital and operating costs of the terminal and computer they're using. I'm sure that clusters in industry face the question of Cost/Benefit analysis, including infrastructure impact. Certainly this is the case for desktop PCs and mainframes in at least one industry where my wife is employed. Questions such as David raised are only going to become more and more common as the drive for "accountability" increases. Even within government agencies, such as NASA, the drive for "Full Cost Accounting" (which essentially imposes the same controls that have always been imposed on vendors on cost reimbursement contracts) is causing great pain, not because the costs actually change, but because it is a huge cultural and mental shift in how one plans ones work. James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Vertical farms
A new book by Dickson Despommier posits the farm of the future as a vertical farm over 30 floors in any city centre. Powered by renewable energies a vertical farm could meet the food needs of 50,000 people, consume 70-95% less water, restrict the use of harmful agro-chemicals and ward off weather-related crop failures
UN report urges Asian nations to re-focus on agriculture
The UNDP's 'Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2006: Trade on Human Terms' is an effort to look at trade in the region from a human development angle. Analysing the position of different countries in the region, with regard to food imports and exports, the report finds that the poorest countries in Asia have become the most dependent on agricultural imports for their basic food supply
47% of children in India are underweight: Unicef
Over half the world's underweight children live in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, says a new Unicef report on the global progress on children's issues. About 5.6 million children worldwide die every year for lack of adequate nutrients
Malnutrition amongst Maharashtra's tribals: How bad is it?
A survey of 22 tribal villages in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district throws up disturbing facts about levels of malnutrition among children. The root of the problem is the absence of sustainable livelihoods
644 farmer suicides in Maharashtra since 2001, says TISS report
A comprehensive socio-economic investigation into the issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences finds that while the victims hailed from diverse class, caste and income categories, the reasons for their poverty and indebtedness were remarkably similar
Mapping food insecurity
The shift from a food deficient economy to a food surplus one has been cause for complacence in official circles. Yet, the absolute number of people living in impoverishment and the number of hungry and malnourished are on the rise
Mid-day meals responsible for leap in female enrolments in primary schools
A new study by the Centre for Equity Studies in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Karnataka underlines the positive impact of the mid-day meal scheme
Cooked midday meals in only 12% of Maharashtra's surveyed villages
Even where cooked meals are provided, they do not meet the nutritional requirements stipulated by the Supreme Court, according to a survey of food security schemes in Maharashtra conducted by the Anna Adhikar Abhiyan Maharashtra
Food and education: Background considerations for policy and programming
Food helps children concentrate and improves their attendance and overall performance in schools. This report looks at the use of Food and Education (FAE) initiatives -- designed to take place before, during and/or after the period of food assistance -- that offer direct benefits towards bringing about both short and long-term changes in school students.
Food for All -- Can hunger be halved?
The report released during the World Food Summit in Rome, in November 1996, examines why so many people are still going hungry. It explores the links between hunger and poverty and the policies formulated to reduce both


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Grilled by the Justice Department and plaintiffs suing the oil giant he once ran, former BP chief Tony Hayward fought off accusations that he sought to prop up the company's falling share price through his subordinates' daily briefings on the Gulf oil spill, and that the firm failed to keep its promise to share its data on how much crude was spewing into the sea, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
During a sworn deposition by Hayward last month in London, an attorney for the state of Louisiana pointed to an email Hayward sent to an aide asking him to arrange a media briefing to counter information that was hurting BP stock. The share price rose after the briefing.
The deposition was part of ongoing litigation against the British firm and other companies involved in the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon disaster. The government is among the parties suing BP, and is expected to impose fines for Clean Water Act violations potentially totaling billions of dollars. Hayward is considered a critical witness, since he headed BP during and after the disaster until he was ousted in October.
The deposition, which has not been publicly released, was taken over several days in London beginning June 6.
During the deposition, attorneys raised questions about Hayward's sincerity when he said he had the best interest at heart of all those hurt by the Gulf oil spill. Hayward famously infuriated Gulf residents during the height of the spill with his comment, "I'd like my life back."
In the deposition, an attorney for the state of Louisiana, Allan Kanner, asked Hayward about a June 25, 2010, email to BP's former head of exploration and production, Andy Inglis. According to Kanner, it said, "Andy, can you make sure we get the technical briefing on the relief well out today? There are all sorts of ridiculous stories going around. It's the main reason behind the share price weakness."
At the time, the well was still spewing oil into the sea. It wasn't capped until three weeks later. And it wasn't until September that a relief well finally sealed what had become the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The day of the email, BP's stock price closed at $26.53, a 6 percent drop from the previous day's close. A BP executive, Kent Wells, held a media briefing three days later saying the relief well was only 20 feet away from the blown-out well. He also told reporters that the company had a high degree of confidence in the relief well and a backup one it was drilling.
By June 30, 2010, BP's stock was back up to $28.35 -- slightly higher than what it closed at on June 24, the day before the Hayward email.
Kanner asked Hayward if he remembered writing the email. He said he didn't.
"Was one of the goals of the technical briefings and the media blitz, if you will, to keep the share price up?" the attorney asked.
"No," Hayward responded. "The objective of the technical briefing was to provide clear, coherent factual information as to what was and was not going on at any moment in time, and then people could form their own view as to whether that was good or bad for the share price."
"If it was informational, as you said earlier, why were you buying ads in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, in California papers, in Connecticut papers, Ohio papers?" the attorney asked.
"So the American people knew what we were doing," Hayward responded.
A BP spokeswoman had no immediate comment on Hayward's statements.
During the deposition, Justice Department lawyer Michael Underhill questioned Hayward about why BP has not turned over key flow rate data to the government even though it promised it would share everything it had.
"As we sit here today, June 6, 2011, are you aware that BP has still not provided that data to the United States government, including but not limited to the flow rate technical group?" Underhill asked.
"Well, I was not aware that that was the case," Hayward responded. "I'll take your word for it, that it is the case. But I wasn't aware of it."
Hayward said he did not give much thought during the crisis to the amount of oil that was flowing, and that the amount would not have changed the way BP responded. Both BP and the government early on gave the public flow estimates, and those estimates turned out to be significantly lower than what was actually flowing. At some point, BP stopped discussing flow numbers, and more than a year later still has not provided its own total for the amount of oil spilled. The government has estimated that some 206 million gallons of oil spewed from the well a mile beneath the sea.
"The bottom line was that I concluded early on that we had very few ways of coming up with any sort of credible flow rate, frankly," Hayward said. "So, it wasn't impacting what I was trying to do day-to-day. I mean, it really wasn't ... I didn't have time to worry about any curiosity of whether it was 5, 10, or 20,000 barrels a day or even more."
Underhill questioned Hayward extensively about the annual report that BP filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for 2010. In it, BP estimated its total liability for the oil spill at $40.9 billion, and it said it based that figure on cleanup costs, compensation to victims and on potential civil penalties. The report said BP projected the potential fines based partly on its analysis of how much oil was spewing.
The problem, Underhill said, was BP's failure to reveal how much oil was spilled. He also questioned how BP could determine potential fines when the issue of whether BP acted with gross negligence had not been determined. If such a finding were made, fines would be significantly higher.
"Do you understand there are legal consequences if there are material misrepresentations in a document such as this?" Underhill asked Hayward.
"Yes," Hayward responded.
Hayward was no longer CEO when the report was issued, but he was CEO for three-quarters of the year covered by the report.
In another part of his deposition, Hayward was reminded of his testimony before Congress in which he talked about attending a memorial service for the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig. Asked during the deposition if he could remember the men's names, Hayward misidentified one man and could name only two others.
A plaintiffs attorney, Robert Cunningham, grilled Hayward about whether he told the truth during the Congressional testimony.
"You proceeded to testify falsely under oath on multiple material issues, didn't you, Dr. Hayward?" Cunningham asked.
"I certainly did not," Hayward responded.
"Did your PR people congratulate you on how you did after your testimony was concluded?" Cunningham asked.
"No one congratulated me after that day, thank you very much," said Hayward, who is currently involved with a firm that is going to invest in oil and gas opportunities in Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
Harry R. Weber, Associated Press


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We've collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in January. Whether you're interested in Mac, iPhone, Web, Android, Windows, or iPad apps, there's bound to be something you didn't spot over the course of the month. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you've never seen before!
Thanks for reading AppStorm, and I hope you enjoy looking over some of our favourite posts from last month!
Best of Mac.AppStorm
Turning Mail.app Into the Best Mac Email App
In 2012, the Mac community lost one of the Mac OS X mail clients that many considered to be the best on the market: Sparrow. Development has stopped (which doesn't mean you can't still use this app, though, at least for now) since the team has been acquired by Google.
Some claim that the whole email concept needs a refresh and solutions are offered, and the previously reviewed Mail Pilot and its upcoming Mac client, or the upcoming .Mail app are proof of that. Others still prefer to use web-based apps like the popular Gmail.
I, for one, still think that Mail.app, since its OS X Lion revision, is the best. It's built-in, offered at no cost, and is completely integrated with OS X. I've customized it to fit my needs and developed my own workflow to deal with emails.
In my humble opinion, you should be able to jump into your emails, process them quickly, and then get back to work. A mail client, for me, is just a way to send and receive emails, not a big messy, clunky, filing cabinet with hundreds of manually created and sorted folders. Read on to find out why, in that case, Mail.app is the best for me, even when processing hundreds of incoming messages per day.
30+ Apps That Use Your Mac Hardware in Unique Ways
Did you know your MacBook Pro has a motion sensor? The hardware in your Mac – no matter which Mac you own – has some great features that you might have not even ever realized. We keep coming across fun apps that show some of the more unique ways you can use your Mac's hardware, so we decided to put them together in a roundup.
Before we start though, we would like to point out that there are a couple handy articles throughout this roundup. These articles will help you enhance and customize the way you use some hardware features on your Mac. The rest of the roundup is filled with fun and useful apps that can make your Mac even more useful. With that, let's begin!
ReadKit: The Best Way To Use Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability On A Mac
When Pocket hired the developer of Read Later — my favorite 'save for later' client for Mac — in October 2012, support for Michael Schneider's brainchild was dropped in favour of developing Pocket's own app. As a user of both Pocket and Instapaper this left me in quite the predicament as the latter is unsurprisingly not supported by Pocket. That was until I heard about ReadKit.
ReadKit provides the same offline reading function as the Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability mobile apps; however, if you use multiple services, it also allows you to combine all of your accounts right in one app. Join me after the break to find out how it sets itself apart from the crowd.
Napkin: The Simplest Way to Sketch Your Thoughts On Your Mac
What's the best way to quickly annotate a picture or sketch out an idea graphically on your Mac? A couple years ago, most of us would have quickly responded "Skitch", but after Evernote bought out the popular image annotating app and redesigned it last year, it's not quite the exciting and useful app it used to be. There's always Preview, but it's a bit too structured (and limited) for free-form idea sketching.
Aged & Distilled has entered the fray with their new app Napkin. It's a totally new way to communicate visually on your Mac – using the old metaphor of sketching an idea on a napkin – that's good enough to already be listed as the Editor's Choice in the App Store.
Best of Android.AppStorm
Telly vs. Viddy: The Battle for the Instagram of Video
It's well known that visual media is extremely popular online and this is especially true when it comes to social media. While it's cool to read about what someone is doing, it's even cooler to see a picture of it. This is why photo sharing has been such a huge hit recently. Instagram was already the hot topic in social before it was even acquired by Facebook. So where can you go next?
Many believe the next logical step after pictures is moving pictures and there are a few Android apps vying to make that market pop such as Telly and Viddy. There are a number of other contenders, but these two are almost blatantly trying to give their users that Instagram appeal. From the layout of the interface to the availability of fancy video filters, Telly and Viddy are definitely going head-to-head, and we'll be following them with a thorough comparison.
The Best Galleries and Photo Browsers for Tablets
I was really excited to get a tablet because I was finally able to show off my photography portfolio to clients in a sophisticated manner — no clunky laptops or slow-to-load websites and galleries to worry about. It's also a great way to accompany your vacation stories when you meet friends and family, discuss a mood board with colleagues, and enjoy pictures from your social networks.
So what's the best app to view images with? Today, we're taking a look at the cream of the crop of galleries and photo browsers available in the Play Store that are designed with tablets in mind, in the hopes of finding the ultimate photo viewer, taking into consideration performance, features and UI.
Paper Monsters: An Adorable Platformer
I'm always suspicious of traditional platform games on a touch screen, because it's one of the genres most dependent on a physical joystick and buttons. However, Paper Monsters is one of the rare platformers that not only works with a touch screen, but also thrives on it.
It puts you in control of a cardboard crusader, on a mission to save the paper kingdom from an evil tyrant. In the process, you stomp and jump and run your way through four worlds, collecting buttons and traversing platforms. Paper Monsters is adorable and fun, and I'm rather besotted with it.
What Are NFC Tags and How Do You Use Them?
Near Field Communication, or NFC, has been mentioned a few times here on Android.Appstorm, including a few articles by yours truly. The topic really fascinates and excites me because of the endless possibilities it affords us. About a year ago I wrote an article entitled Near Field Communication and the Future of Mobile, where I outlined what's in store for NFC-enabled cell phones, of which Android has a few.
However, NFC isn't only for phones. There are devices called NFC tags, and they can really shake up the way we do things.
Best of iPad.AppStorm
Foldify: Draw, Print, Fold and Repeat
To be honest, I typically only use my iPad for Reeder, streaming videos and my email, but every once in a while an app comes around that I get a little obsessed over; Foldify is such an app. Foldify is a really clever (and addicting) combination of Papercraft (it's a real thing!), your iPad and Apple's AirPrint. I seriously spent hours doodling on this thing over the holidays … hours!
Ready to get hooked?
1Password: The Best Password Manager Just Got Better
Passwords are a giant pain in the behind (pardon my language). First and foremost, passwords need need to be secure, and in order for them to be secure they have to be a long string of letters (random mix of uppercase and lowercase), numbers and symbols (for good measure). When you create a strong password they're nearly impossible to remember, the theory being that if you can't remember it how will anyone trying to hack your account crack the barrage of characters you created.
So, when you create these 15+ character passwords, how are you to keep track of them? There are certainly a number of options available (I know some opt for a good old-fashioned spreadsheet), but if you want a secure, user friendly experience 1Password has been to the go-to choice for quite some time. In December 2012, AgileBit released version 4 of 1Password, which includes an impressive list of new features. Hit the jump to take a peek at what the new 1Password has to offer.
Karateka: Resurrecting a Classic
Jordan Mechner, later responsible for the Prince of Persia game franchise, released his first game in 1984 for the Apple II. This game was Karateka. It's a side-scrolling game featuring industry changing one-on-one combat about a lover trying to save the Princess Mariko from Akuma's castle fortress. It's a simple, classic video game story.
Mechner returned to his independent roots earlier this year to remake the game in HD. First appearing on consoles, the remake has an all-star developer team: Screenwriter John August (who is listed as a producer), Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin, and artist Jeff Matsuda were all involved in the production. I never played the original, so I'm walking into this with fresh eyes. And I was not disappointed.
What's on our iPads? – Appstorm's Favorites
Well, 2012 has come and gone, and we at AppStorm have seen and used many great apps on iOS. Though we surely couldn't ever go through each and every quality app recently released, we've put together a list of a few of our most treasured titles that have earned a permanent spot on our iPads.
If you were one of the lucky ones that received a shiny new iPad this holiday season, you'll find many gems worth downloading here. Some are free, some are not, but they're all guaranteed to be worth your time. Take a look!
Best of Windows.AppStorm
Tips to Get You Started With Office 2013
Microsoft plans to roll out Office 2013 in the early part of the year. In the meantime you can try it out by grabbing the beta or the 60 day trial of the RTM (release to manufacturer) or by shelling out the money to buy the Windows Surface RT tablet. Regardless of how you get it, or if you wait for the public release, there are a few tips that can make your experience with the app suite a little smoother and easier to deal with.
In many ways, Office 2013 has not changed much from its predecessor, the 2010 version. The ribbon interface, once loathed by many users, is here to stay and has grown on most of us. In fact, Microsoft likes it so much that the company incorporated it into the Explorer in Windows 8.
Spyglass: A Stunningly Good-Looking Way To Visualize Your Data
Windows Explorer is a ñ mostly ñ functional, if slightly, dull way of viewing the data you have stored on your hard drive. If you are looking for a particular file or folder, Explorer is a practical, non-nonsense tool that lets you get the job done.
But if you yearn for something more attractive, if youíre looking for something a little out of the ordinary, if beauty is what you crave from your utilities, Spyglass is the sort of tool for you.
Cord Cutters Part 1: Media Center and Alternatives
This is the first in a series of posts to show you ways to cut the cord from your cable or satellite TV provider and save yourself that monthly fee. To start off this little series, we are going to look at Microsoftís Media Center software and some of the alternatives for it that are available.
Of course, a simple set top box is really all you need to get started, but to really get into this it becomes a bit more complicated. The best thing to have, in my opinion, is a home theater PC (HTPC). For the majority of users this will mean running Windows Media Center ó preferably with Windows 7 since Windows 8 has mostly kicked this software to the curb.
Track Work and Bill with Time Cockpit
Billing by the hour can be both a blessing and a curse for freelancers and contractors. Although not so common in publishing professions such as web development and consulting live and breath this method.
Long term contracts in particular where the freelancer is basically an employee prefer hour-by-hour billing. Thereís many different programs to keep track of the time. The most basic offer little more than a jazzed up calendar while other go the whole hog with automatic tracking and analytics.
Time Cockpit offers individual users and teams a middle-of-the-road solution with their new combination of desktop app and web portal. Letís check it out.
Best of iPhone.AppStorm
Hundreds: Touchy Feely Numbers
I have mixed feelings about most games that I play on my iPhone. Sure, they're fun, particularly for quick spells here and there, but put me in front of something that takes more time and I just lose interest.
But then there are games that go above and beyond the normal. They're easy to pick up and play, yet addictive enough to lose yourself in for hours. They're puzzlers, yet there's something still beneath the surface. That, in essence, is Hundreds.
Noble Nutlings: Get Nutty
Ever walk into a mall and see some kid wearing an Angry Birds T-shirt? Maybe there's a friend of yours who has a stuffed animal shaped like the red bird in the game. Possibly your dad is hooked on the app like crack — you get the picture.
That game was developed by Rovio, and recently a few of their developers spun off to create their own company, Boomlagoon. Their first release is called Noble Nutlings, and it's the tale of three squirrels, a car and a bunch of acorns. Did they create the next Angry Birds or will these rodents go feral? Let's find out after the jump.
The Best iOS Apps, Reviews and Roundups of 2012
We're right on the cusp of February, but that doesn't mean that we've spent our 2013 sitting down. No, we've been sifting, combing and hunting through our archives to find you the very best posts from 2012 throughout the iOS ecosystem. Like games? We've got 'em. Roundups? Yup. Opinion pieces and editorials? Check and check. It's all here, right now.
So what are you waiting for? See what the best iOS apps of 2012 are all about!
Learning a New Language is Fun and Easy with Duolingo
Looking for a fun and effective tool to teach you a new language for free? Duolingo is a little app with big goals: teach users a new language and use this data to translate the web. The interface is a game with levels to pass, points to earn and other users to compete against. Currently the app offers courses in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English, with more to come.
Learn a new language while standing in line, riding the bus or during your lunch break with an app that uses pictures, audio and text delivered in short lessons. Keep reading to find out more about the most unique language tool in the app store today.
Best of Web.AppStorm
WorkFlowy – How it Improves my Productivity
As a web developer, I have to keep track of an awful lot of things at work, not to mention my life and projects outside of work as well. With a wife and small child thrown into the mix I really have to make the most of my time! I need a way to ensure that the tasks that I have to do get done at the right time and in the right order and somehow still leave me time to enjoy being with my family.
I've tried a lot of different web apps for organisation and task management, and WorkFlowy is how I choose to organise a lot of my life, both inside and outside of work. I want to give you an insight into how I use it for everything from keeping up to date with my personal projects to keepings tabs on who has asked for what for Christmas. I'm not dictating how you should use it, as the beauty of it is that it is what you want it to be, I'm merely sharing my techniques for keeping track of things, hopefully there will be a few things that you haven't thought of doing.
Facebook Graph Search: Search Just Got Personal
If you use Facebook, chances are you've written about what's going on in your life, RSVP'ed for events, liked your favorite groups, posted photos, and more. You might have your education, employment, relationships, religion, and favorite quirky quotes listed for all the world to see. If you've tagged photos with location and people, you'll have quite a clear record online of the people you spend time with and the places you've been. Or, you might just have a history full of spamming your friends for help growing carrots on your flourishing fake farm.
Either way, there's a ton you can find out about yourself from your Facebook profile, data that's sitting there ready to be mined. It used to take going to each of your friends' profiles to find out this info, but with Facebook's new Graph Search, it's just a click away. We've just gotten access to it, so here's a quick look at the newest iteration of the world's most popular social network, and how it might affect the way you use it.
Cloudship: The App To Help You Never Be Disorganised Again
Most of us have a lot we need to do each day. We need a way to record everything that needs to be done, and be reminded with our tasks are due. In the past, people would have used a diary or a notepad, but nowadays we need something more sophisticated to keep up with our bustling lives.
For a while now, I have been looking for the best app for this, and while there's many nice ones, I never could find the perfect app for me. That is, until a few weeks ago I discovered Cloudship, an app which looked as good as it performed — for me this was the perfect application.
Two weeks on and I'm using Cloudship everyday to manage and organize my everyday life. Read on to find out where Cloudship can fit into your everyday life.
Livestream: The Video Streaming Service Your Events Need
Ever wanted to let your family, friends, colleagues, or anyone else join you in an event that they can't make it to? Or perhaps you want to start a liveblog for the next Apple keynote event. Either way, you need a way to stream video, text, and pictures in real-time. Suddenly YouTube just doesn't quite cut it.
There's several web apps out there for live video streaming, but the new Livestream is the one you should check out. With a free account, you can stream unlimited video, text, and images, and with a paid account, your visitors can see the livestream without even logging in. Plus, it's simple to use. Let's take a look.
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September launch for LDC Via
We are delighted to announce our first product, LDC Via a migration utility aimed at liberating your Domino data for a variety of use cases. See the new site for more information.
LDC were in full attendance at the ICON UK conference, which was a great success. Mark has provided some slides for his talk on IBM Connections integration.
Runner up!
The 'CMP' sytem - a Procurement Quality Management System - was runner up in the "Innovation of the Year" category of the Tata Steel Projects Business Excellence Awards.
"The application has delivered positive outcomes of successful implementation and improved control on projects from the start."
"The innovation leads to lower costs, improving efficiency"
LDC nominated for award
We are delighted to be able to announce that 'CMP' - a Procurement Quality Management System - created by LDC in late 2013 for Tata Steel Projects, has been nominated for "Innovation of the Year" in the Tata Steel Projects Business Excellence Awards.
The Tata Steel Projects Business Excellence Awards provide an opportunity to celebrate the great things the business and its staff have achieved through innovation, dedication and hard work. They recognise the inspiring work their people are delivering to help create a successful business for the long term and provide an opportunity to thank each and every colleague who has contributed to the business.
The 'Innovation of the Year' category is to recognise individuals or a group of individuals who have demonstrated innovative initiatives, solved client problems, reduced costs or changed the way TSP do business in some way.
CSC Event 2
LDC and our colleagues the Turtle Partnership are hosting the second CSC event in London in July. You can find out more about the event at cscevent.com, and we hope to see you there.
Engage by BLUG, Breda
We'll be heading to the new Engage conference in Breda, Netherlands from March 17th. Mark and Matt will be presenting an hour long version of their IBM Connect session about Connections development for Domino developers. Come and see how fast they can talk!
LDC will also be sponsoring the bar at the Speedsponsoring event on the Monday evening, so have a drink on us.
Collaboration Stack Community Event, London
LDC and our colleagues the Turtle Partnership are hosting a new kind of technology-agnostic event in London in March. You can find out more about the event at cscevent.com, and we hope to see you there.
IBM Connect 2014, Orlando
As ever, we'll be in Florida in force in January 2014. This year we will, again, be sponsoring the Great Geek Challenge, hopefully we'll see you there.
Mark and Matt were among the first wave of sessions to be pre-announced. They'll be presenting a Show and Tell session about Connections development for Domino developers. Stay tuned to see if any of our other sessions get approved.
September: ICON UK slide decks
Mark's Slide Decks from UK ICON are up: UK ICON
August: ICON UK is almost upon us
Julian and Matt have been organisers at UKLUG for the last few years. The name has changed to ICON UK, and this year the conference will be in Brighton, starting on Monday 2nd September. We shall be there in force—will we see you there too?
(We helped develop the new ICON site, using XPages and Twitter Bootstrap. if you need something similar then we can definitely help out!)
May: Meet me in St. Louis
Continuing the year of LUGs, Matt will be heading to IamLUG at the start of May to present a new session about web frameworks. Hopefully he might bump into you there.
March: BLUG and DanNotes Calling
After the craziness of IBM Connect-o-sphere where all the LDC members were busy little bees, Mark and Matt headed to BLUG. Both of them presented a session discussing web frameworks and Matt also reprised XPages Blast for one last time. After Belgium, Mark then headed over to Copenhagen to present four information-packed sessions at the annual DanNotes meeting.
Our IBM Connect sessions
Both Mark and Matt presented two sessions apiece at IBM Connect. Mark's sessions covered Java development and getting at your data in different ways, while Matt covered XPages development and deployment.
The LDC also sponsored a couple of events: UK Night has become one of the hot ticket events at Lotusphere over the past few years and we were proud to be sponsoring once more. We also sponsored the Great Geek Challenge which is a great event to show off your knowledge of all things geek.
New Mobile Project Released
Matt has been working for a couple of months on a new set of XPages mobile custom controls for use, primarily, with the Teamstudio Unplugged product. You can read more about the project here.
IBM Connect: we'll be there in force
Mark, Ben, Julian and Matt will all be in attendance at IBM Connect 2013 (formerly known as Lotusphere). Mark and Matt will both be presenting two sessions each, we'll be sponsoring UKNight, and of course there will be the famous LDC giveaways, though this year we've decided to go for something a little different. Find one of us to know more!
UKLUG: Cardiff, 3 - 4 September 2012
We will be out in force at the UKLUG conference in Cardiff: be sure to come and see us!
Podcast time!
In July 2012, Mark and Matt were invited onto the Taking Notes Podcast to talk about starting XPages from a Java developer's point of view.
New Mobile CRM Application Released
We've recently been working on a mobile web implementation of a CRM System called VMobile. It was released at the start of June 2012, the press release is here.
Plenty of new XPages101 content
Matt has been a busy bee with the XPages101 site so if you haven't visited for a while, be sure to do so. Lots of good content (75 videos) including tips on XPages development with Git, Jasmine and more!
Lotusphere 2012
Following a successful Lotusphere in Orlando this year, be sure to check out the goodies page for updated wallpaper, presentations, and the like.
LDC: The year in review
A week before IBM Lotusphere / Connect we realised this was by far our biggest conference yet, with 2 speakers, 3 sessions, 2 sponsored parties and bleeding t-shirts everywhere. So, what have we been up to during the last year?
Well, bucking the global slowdown for one thing, new clients now include one of the world's largest media websites, another multi-national insurance company, and myriad smaller interesting clients, with some monster projects in the pipeline (fingers crossed).
International clients are now the norm rather than the exception, with contact coming in from all over Europe and the US. To cater to these requirements our skills set has diversified even more. Adding to bleeding-edge IBM and Microsoft stuff, we have had large client implementations using Spring and Spring webflow, PHP and advanced HTML5.
Nearly every new project contains a mobile element and all coding now caters to this as a matter of course.
This was especially true of our XPages work which seemed to really reach a tipping point in 2011. Like other projects, everything we're doing with XPages also has some mobile aspect to it, but the interesting thing is that there is now a constant stream of new applications being created with XPages (NB: that's "new new", not "new upgrades"). And 2012 doesn't show any sign of slowing down.
2012 will be more of the same, providing more for our clients and keeping pace with the ever accelerating rate of change in both IT and business requirements.
It's time to kick arse (we're British) and write / delete code (remember: less is more, and more code means more test cases!).
LDC will be at Lotusphere 2012 in force
The LDC will be making a good showing at the premier Lotus Notes and Domino conference. Mark Myers and Matt White will be presenting sessions covering various aspects of development best practices. We are also sponsoring a couple of events in the form of the ever popular "UK Night at Shula's Bar" and the "Great Geek Challenge" where some of our sought after t-shirts will be spot prizes for the evening.
Podcast: A View Into the World of NoSQL, with Mark Myers
Mark got to take part with the Taking Notes podcast No142 chatting about the new generation of NoSQL databases—why not pop over and give it a listen!
Helping out Auntie
Ben is working into the new year for a certain British media organisation in MediaCityUK, which is going well, with interesting work to boot.
First case study published
As promised case studies are y-comen'! The first one is now live, and takes the reader through an offline-capable mobile web application project we worked on.
XPages Training Course in Austria
Matt will be running a new four day training course in Vienna next month (October), covering everything from the basics right up to Dojo, Server Side JavaScript, Java and Managed Beans. You can sign up for the course on-line.
August: New XPages Training Course
Matt White ran a new one-day training course, "XPages201 - Intermediate XPages Development", after IamLUG in St. Louis at the beginning of this month. If you'd like the same course run in your company, please contact us.
July: case studies coming soon!
LDC members have completed a number of interesting projects recently—look out for some case studies on this site soon.
June: Matt White becomes an IBM Champion
Congratulations to one of our founding consultants, Matt White, for becoming an IBM Champion. Great recognition for all the fantastic work he has done for the IBM community over the years.
May: London Developer Co-op co-sponsor UKLUG
We were delighted to co-sponsor the UK Lotus User Group (UKLUG) conference held in late May at the Manchester Museum Of Science And Industry. Plenty of LDC goodies were given away and appreciated, and the conference was a big success. Well done to organiser Warren Elsmore and the rest of the team!
February: Our very own Mark Myers won Lotusphere Idol at Lotusphere this year
Lotusphere Idol started a few years back, in a bid to find new speaking talent for the venerable conference. Auditionees are invited to give a five minute presentation before a panel, with the winner going on to give a full one hour presentation based on their initial submission. To qualify for LS Idol, auditionees must not have spoken at the conference before. You can read more about the session in Ed Brill's post about it.
LotusUserGroup.org also covered Mark's performance in their "2 Minutes With" Interview Podcasts series, talking to Bob Stephan and Eric Nolan of SMT Corporation.
February: "This year's best Lotusphere T-shirt"
Volker Weber has posted about the London Developer Co-op's recent fund-raising efforts with Bruce & Gayle Elgort of Elguji Software and Steve McDonagh at Lotusphere's recent UK Night. We commissioned some fabulous "pixel art" showing the Lotus world in all its finery (it was entitled "It's a small Lotus world", in keeping with the Disney venue for Lotusphere). Bruce then had the brilliant idea that this should become part of a charity drive, and so limited edition prints of this work were put up as prizes in a raffle, along with some wonderful original artwork from Mr. McDonagh.
To date, we have raised over $3,500 for the Children's Cancer Association, so many thanks to all who contributed!
Read more: Volker Weber, This year's best Lotusphere T-shirt.


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A grape varietal, most notably known as Pinot Gris, used in the production of white to slightly pink wine. Believed to have originated in the Alsace region of France. It is a clone of the red Pinot Noir varietal. Also grown in Friuli Italy (largest producer), limited amounts in the United States (primarily California and Oregon), Germany, Austria, Rumania and Hungary. Alsace, France produces the highest quality Pinot Gris; it is of average quality when produced elsewhere. It is blended with a wide range of varietals, such as Pinot Noir, to add richness and lightness.
Also known as: Pinot Grigio, Malvoisie, Pinot Beurot, Ruländer, Pinot Gris, Tokay d'Alsace, Auxerrois Gris, Petit Gris, Pinot Buot, Rülander, and Szükerbarát.
Characteristics: The characteristics of wine produced with Grauer Burgunder is dependent on the vinification technique used. It could possess oak, vanilla, smoke, mineral, and butter flavoring as well as flavors of citrus, pine, nuts, and a mild floral. It can vary from dry to light and tangy to honeyed. Typically rich and full bodied.
Ageing: If vinified into a higher quality dry wine, it has the potential to age well. Typically drunk young.
Serving temperature: Serve at a temperature of 50º-55º F.
Food pairings: Antipasto, cajun and BBQ shrimp, calzone, cannelloni with ricotta, garlic chicken, stir fry chicken, chicken chow mein, egg rolls, Chinese orange sauce dishes, corned beef, crab cakes, Greek dolmas, deviled eggs, quiche, escargots, smoked fish, Greek cuisine, guacamole, gyoza, fish Tandoori, chicken Tandoori, Indian samosas, Indian pakoras, jambalaya, pad Thai, pasta with garlic and oil, chicken pâté, goose pâté, duck pâté, poultry pâté, vegetable pâté, potato salad, Caesar salad, salmon, smoked salmon, oysters, smoked shellfish, cheese soufflé, Spices (thyme, chives, fennel), chicken tajines


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by Pat Palleschi, Ph.D
"Fired," "right-sized," "terminated," "severed," "we've gone in a different direction," "we've changed strategies," "you get two weeks severance," "good luck in your next opportunity…"
These are all words that can bring any adult to their knees. And in Los Angeles there are millions of people who have heard them.
Here are the 8 things you need to do to retake control of your career:
- Take control of your finances. Put in a safe place (ha!) the equivalent of what you will need to live on for ONE YEAR. Can't do that? Learn to be cheap. VERY cheap. Take on roommates; take your lunch to work; read a book you've borrowed from a friend.
- Use every means possible to learn and make yourself more valuable to your current company or the next one. Learn on the job by talking with friends who happen to be experts in a field, go to conferences (volunteer to help, so you don't have to pay), take online programs, etc.
- Grab anything your company has to offer that can teach you new skills. Take on new projects, work on enterprise-wide systems, in-house Facebook pages, kick-ass presentations, etc. Have the people you work with document what you've done and write a recommendation for you on Linkedin.
- Learn how to use social media to position yourself as an "expert" (see above note on Linkedin).
- On your own time (weekends, nights, etc.), learn NEW skills. Then use them to get results in a volunteer activity.
- Become invaluable to your current job. Become the expert in sustainability, social media, artificial intelligence, analytics – any skill that your company needs to become a leader in the field.
- Lose your ego. If you get fired, take ANY job while you WORK to get another job. Drive a taxi (and write a blog about the weird stories you learn while driving!). Volunteer. Even if you were worth $1 million a year, you must find a way to re-value yourself.
- Remember that any job change affects your whole family. Get your whole family involved in this "new adventure" of finding work.
It may sound self-serving for me to say "get a good coach" – but I will say it anyway. Get a CAREER coach who has done job placements. DO NOT spend money on "life coaches" (unless you have extra money and need a life).
No one at your company has the ability or time to watch out for you, your desires and your long-term goals. A company cannot afford to become your family (with some very, very few notable exceptions).
TAKE Control of your career. NO ONE else can do it, except you.
Guest Blogger Pat Palleschi is the President of The Executive Agency. She has devoted the past 25 years to creating HR strategies that help organizations and individuals succeed. As VP of Human Resources Development at Disneyland, she helmed the Disney University, where she and her team made it their mission to attract, develop and retain Disney Cast members who were "pumped to perform." Before Disney, Pat served as Senior VP of Training for Bank of America. She earned her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts and chaired the Speech Communication Department at Loyola Marymount University.


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In all things legal, there's no barter for the admonition of a able lawyer. However, a accepted abstraction of area the law stands on bank and poker is a acceptable abode to alpha if you acquire apropos about arena poker for money online.
The aboriginal affair you should apperceive about US bank laws is this: contempo challenge acquire brought a lot of absorption to online wagering and the casual of the Safe Pot Act, which included an important statute about online betting, will accomplish sports action and a lot of online wagers involving money transfers, illegal.
The additional affair you should apperceive about bank and poker: there is a big aberration amid something like sports action and bank in a abilities bold like poker or bridge. There's aswell a abundant aberration amid action in roulette or on a aperture machine. As yet, these altered forms of bank acquire not been advised in the aforementioned way by the law; a cardinal that applies to sports action doesn't necessarily administer – at atomic not yet – to online poker.
The bearings is still actual ambagious though.
One of the arch bank law authorities in the US had this to say afore the casual of the Actionable Internet Bank Enforcement Act of 2006: "No United States federal statute or adjustment absolutely prohibits Internet gambling, either domestically or abroad." However, the Wire Act contains the afterward subsection: "Whoever getting affianced in the business of action or wagering advisedly uses a wire advice ability for the manual in artery or adopted business of bets or wagers or advice acceptable in the agreement of bets or wagers on any antic accident or contest, or for the manual of a wire advice which entitles the almsman to acquire money or acclaim as a aftereffect of bets or wagers, or for advice acceptable in the agreement of bets or wagers, shall be fined beneath this appellation or confined not added than two years, or both."
It's adequately simple to see why this statue, the Wire Act, was a lot of generally citied as the law that makes online gambling, accurately sports betting, illegal. Yet, even this important statute doesn't absolutely accompaniment that online gambling, let abandoned online poker playing, is illegal. The diction of the bronze suggests that it abandoned applies to the abandoned complex in the "business of action or wagering" not to the abandoned bigger or, in poker, to the abandoned player. See the case of Jay Cohen for more.
In 2006, the casual of the Actionable Internet Bank Enforcement Act afflicted the bearings for online sports betters and, probably, for poker players as well. The act looks set to accurately ambition the alteration of money in the action world.
Free amateur and forms of bank that don't absorb the alteration of money will be artless by the bill, but just about every added anatomy of bank is, although it's still advised absurd that abandoned bet makers, let abandoned poker players complex wagers, will be targeted by accompaniment or federal governments.
Most of the absorption in the Actionable Internet Bank Enforcement Act and the Wire Act is accustomed to money transfer. As per the 2006 Act: "No being affianced in the business of action or wagering may advisedly acquire any money transfers in any way from a being accommodating in actionable Internet gambling…[which]…includes acclaim cards, cyberbanking armamentarium transfers, and even cardboard checks. But it is bound to Internet bank businesses, not simple players."
The apprehension is that all online transfers or affairs of money will crave participants to accommodate accurate and absolute ID so that the transaction can be tracked and assessed.
When it comes to allotment or abandoning from an online poker account, for example, with a acclaim card, check, or wire transfer, the 2006 Act will apparently accomplish things added complicated for the player. Ultimately, it will depend on how readily the new laws are activated and how readily the individuals sites accede to comply.
Playing poker online has not been advised actionable either by law or by consensus, but it's important for anyone with apropos to argue with a advocate for added advice about how this new bill, the Actionable Internet Bank Enforcement Act, will affect the situation. Everyone should break abreast of developments that may change the cachet of either online bank in accepted or online poker playing. The Act hasn't been active yet but it will be and the regulations it proposes will go into affect by the alpha of 2007. You should aswell analysis the laws for the accompaniment in which you live.


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Before the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden existed, the space was a formal garden, a playing field and, once upon a time, a swamp. As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, it is only fitting to comb through the archives and dust off some maps, memos and moments from the garden's pre-history.
On the layout of the Lowry Hill Area in the late 1800s, Minnesota's first ornithologist, Thomas Sadler Roberts, recalls a forest perfect for bird watching and fishing.
"The oak woods that is now Loring Park was in the country and the lake near by… had a considerable outlet—deep enough for bass and pickerel to come and go—which crossed Hennepin, the old territorial road, about where Harmon Place now joins that avenue. This stream ran into the weedy lake which with the surrounding meadow occupied most of the present Parade Ground. Ducks bred there and in 1877 it was still a meadow…" (Shotgun and Stethoscope, 1991)
These first recollections of water and swamp would haunt the early history of the space. The Parade Ground, first called Hiyata Park, was an early name for the ten-acre plot that is now the Sculpture Garden. Minneapolitans constructed a magisterial Armory on the site with crenellated, stone walls for the Spanish-American War National Guard volunteers at the turn of the century. The area soon was to house athletic fields and demonstration gardens.
The Armory would play host to many budding gardeners, eager to trade notes on floriculture in a hardy and challenging environment. A 1913 florist and horticulture convention would "demonstrate," as park superintendant Theodore Wirth put it, "to the out-of-state visitors that the Minnesota climate is not so adverse to successful achievements in floriculture as some people from other parts of the country are inclined to believe." Who knew the Minneapolis Florists' Club Baseball team defeated the reigning All Star champs? Florists all over the country used to enjoy the bat-and-ball sport. By 1940, with field lights and bleachers installed, the Parade was "the place to play."
A commercial plane landed in the Parade grounds from New York in 1920, setting a world record for freight transportation. In 1928, the year before the Armory was deemed unfit for usage, a public programming extravaganza was staged within its walls. This included an old time fiddlers' contest, a "midnite frolic," and a dance "Bearcat" marathon that lasted over 974 hours. Much like the Internet Cat Video Film Festival, "folks say it's the silliest thing ever witnessed, BUT they all come back to watch the marathon." (Journal advertisement,1928). In 1933, the Armory was torn down after sinking nearly four and a half feet into the ground.
It was to change names many times. After the Armory sank, and the space was simply a garden, ideas were thrown around: the delicate "Parade of Flowers," the formal "Cathedral Gardens," and the rather academic-sounding "Park Board Demonstration Gardens."
The space that the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden inhabits has been of horticultural interest for over a century. While gardens were present for most of the first half of the 1900s, in 1967 the Parade's flowerbeds were removed for construction of the highway. By 1973, there were only a "few fine elms" dotting the landscape.
In a memo from 1988, Martin Friedman announces, "It's not everyday that we can grow a garden together—metaphorically, as well as actually." It is hard to imagine that Minneapolis's crowning jewel of horticulture and art was once a swampland frequented by ducks.
All images courtesy of the Walker Art Center Archives.


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Holly School has announced the opening of school for the 2014-2015 school year.
Teachers report for testing and inservice on Mon. Aug. 11. School will begin full-time for the 7th through 12th grades on Thu. Aug. 14 and Fri. Aug. 15.
School will begin at 7:55 a.m. and end at 4:02 p.m. Lunch will be served.
Kindergarten through 6th grade will being on Mon. Aug. 18 beginning at 7:55 a.m. and ending at 4:02 p.m.
Pre-school students will begin on Mon. Aug. 25 Open enrollment for all students, including any new students, will be on Mon. Aug. 11.
Registration and enrollment
8 a.m. - 11 a.m.; 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. - PreK through 6th grade
8 a.m. - 10 a.m. - 7th/8th grades
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - 9th/10th grades
1 p.m. - 4 p.m. - 11th/12th grades
Students and parents enter the building at the main entrance at 206 N. 3rd St. Registration will be held in the Commons Area.
K-6 students will eat breakfast from 7:55 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. Classroom teachers have mailed welcome letters and supply lists. If you did no receive yours please contact the office beginning on Aug. 4 to get an extra copy.
Breakfast and lunch prices
Breakfast: $1 for everyone
Lunch: $2.25 elementary students; $2.50 grades 7-12; $3 adults
Fall sports practices will officially begin on Mon. Aug. 11, 2014. All athletes must have physical exams on file before they will be allowed to practice.


text: It seems one of the latest crazes in snowboarding is raising the maintenance awareness levels of riders everywhere. It used to be cool to beat the crap out of your stick back when everyone thought wax was for weenies, but now it's cool to know how to take care of your ride. Well, say hello to Burton's answer to the tuning craze-The RED Deluxe File Kit. It has eight quality tools to get you started on taking care of your edges. A heavy-duty Cordura(r) carrying case houses a Sandvik Oberg self-cleaning file, Sandvik mill-bastard file, DMT diamond stone, Sandvik metal scraper, gummy stone, mini stone, extra-fine sandpaper and a file cleaner. The only thing you should have to add to this complete kit are some file guides to help you get just the right bevel. With all the consumer tuning kits available on the market, its nice to finally find one that someone has put some thought into and given the consumer some quality tools to work with.


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Cookie Recipes
Mint and Chocolate Filled Rose Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are similar to sablé cookies. They both have the texture of shortbread. The characteristic thumbprint shape is created by pressing down on the cookie with a spoon half-way through the baking process. A sweet filling is placed in the resulting cavity. The cookie itself has a mild sweetness that goes very well with the sweeter filling. The filling can be jam, preserves, caramel or even chocolate.
I chose a pink mint filling because of my little five-year-old sister-in-law. She came to me with the cutest request. She adores Cookie Monster, and often shares her cookies with the Cookie Monster doll we got her. Today, she came to me, hid her face with the stuffed animal and said in her best Cookie Monster impersonation, "Cookie Monster is hungry, I want pink cookies." My heart melted; I can't say no to my little munchkin.
All the girls gathered in the kitchen and pink cookies it was. I looked in the pantry and found several choices for a pink-colored cookie. Some pink-colored mint chocolate chips from Guittard, raspberry and strawberry extracts or rose paste. The girls voted and we went for a rose-flavored cookie dough with pink mint chocolate filling. Sunny, my 13-year-old eldest sister-in-law wanted to create some fun design in the filling, so we melted some bittersweet chocolate and vanilla chips as well. This has to be some fun designs.
We were all very happy with our unique cookies and needless to say, Cookie Monster also enjoyed our creation.
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Sable Cookies (French Buttery Shortbread)
Sablé cookies are very famous in Brittany on the West Coast of France. They are very similar to shortbread, except they are made with egg yolks. They also have a characteristic sandy outside edge and they are very rich in butter. Sablés have a mild sweetness that is a perfect complement for sweet mousses or parfaits.
These cookies take me back in time to my childhood. I remember coming back from school and inhaling them with a huge glass of milk.
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Rose and Strawberry Malt Cookies
Rose and Strawberry Malt Cookies are inspired by Dorie Greenspan's amazing cookbook, Baking: From My Home To Yours. When I cook, I like to find inspirations in all sorts of places. Dorie Greespan's original cookie recipe is Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops. I made some green pandan cookies a few weeks back and I thought that I could experiment and add rose paste and strawberry extracts to the the malt ball candies.
I discovered Dorie Greenspan through Pierre Herme's work. She wrote his cookbook, Dessert by Pierre Herme. I'm a big fan of Pierre Herme, he's the Master when it comes to patisserie (baking). If you get a chance to stop by one of his stores in Paris, I highly recommend that you do and enjoy a French macaron. Oh I miss Paris...
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Merry Christmas!
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Pandan Pistachio White Chocolate Chip Cookies
No one can argue with the fact that American cookies are the best. When I lived in Paris and came to the US, I kept bringing a ton of American cookies home to my friends and relatives. Cookies are always a nice treat no matter the age of the cookie monster or the occasion being celebrated. We thought Santa would appreciate and taste some of our homemade cookies with an exotic twist (pandan extract) for a change.
Today is Christmas Eve and the girls decided we would leave some milk and cookies for Santa tonight. My little munchkin thinks she'll get more presents this way.
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text: Are you considering graduate school? It is never too early to start planning your next step, and educational opportunities beyond your undergraduate experience are often strongly encouraged or even required in many fields. When appropriate for your career goals, Southeast Missouri State University encourages you to consider furthering your education through graduate or professional school. Whether you choose to pursue graduate-level work right here at Southeast or at another university, we encourage you to utilize the resources below to prepare for and navigate the graduate school admissions process.