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Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 01, 2011
D.M. Naidu passes away: A huge loss for the Indian disability sector
D. M. Naidu
He brought in the concept of community based rehabilitation of people living with mental illness to India and was a great believer in mainstreaming people living with mental illness in the society and community. He brought in a whole new dimension, a whole new understanding and thinking on mental health in the country. I do not think there is anyone who can aptly fill the vacuum created by his demise, Mabood added.
G. Syamala, Executive Director, Action for Ability Development and Inclusion (A.A.D.I.), another close associate said, Naidu had been a friend, philosopher and colleague to many. We shall surely miss him. He had been associated with A.A.D.I. for many years, joined the Governing Board recently and had taken on the position as the Chairman.
He has left behind him fond memories, a wealth of learning and a big void. It is indeed a very sad time for all of us. He was the bridge between many dissenting groups, upon whom many relied on to bring the voices of people with disabilities together. It is indeed a major loss to the sector, Syamala added.
Javed Abidi, Convenor, Disabled Rights Group (D.R.G.) recalled that he first met Naidu in 1994 and was struck by his calm demeanour. No matter what the issue, how heated or controversial, he would remain Gandhian and Buddha like, Abidi reminisced.
He was a very simple man, almost frugal. He dedicated his life to the rural and poor disabled, and then the latter part of his life to those living with mental illness, he added.
In his own quiet way, Naidu left a huge impression on many many hearts and minds. The Indian disability sector is certainly a lot poorer without him, Abidi said, echoing the feeling of loss that has engulfed the sector.
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Despite the fact that both actors are part of the Judd Apatow inner circle, James Franco and Jonah Hill have never shared a scene together. In fact, the only movie that they both appear in is Knocked Up and Franco's role in that was little more than a uncredited cameo. Both are signed on to star as themselves in the directorial debuts of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in The Apocalypse, but they will also be uniting for a real-life drama.
Both actors are now set to play the leads in True Story, a film based on the memoir by journalist Michael Finkel. Newcomer Rupert Goold is directing the project with Brad Pitt on board to produce. The story will feature Hill as Finkel, who worked as a journalist at The New York Times Magazine in 2002 when it was revealed that Christian Longo (Franco), a killer who had been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, was captured in Mexico. Making things even stranger, Longo had been living under the identity of Finkel in order to evade capture. Finkel was then fired from the magazine for reportedly falsifying information in an investigation but sees a chance at redemption when he learns that the only journalist that Longo will talk to is Finkel. Deadline says thatTrue Story is already out to financiers and could have a deal this week. Both Franco and Hill are actors who started in comedy and then proved themselves dramatically with Oscar-nominated performances in 127 Hours and Moneyball, respectively. Let's see if they can both pull it off again.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Eradicate Hunger
7 comments:
- TasmiyahNovember 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM
So true. And there are such cruel people out there, who treat their servants/workers etc like crap. Khud biryani khayeinge aur agar koi ghareeb dikhay ga tou usko kal ki purani baasi roti deinge aur samjhein ge k bohat bara kamal kar dia. How can we bring change when such filthy minded people exist within our society?
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If you cant feed 100 people, feed 1! -Mother Theresa! Besides (even if it is not "in" these days to talk abt leaders in Islam: Umar al Khattab always used be in this unrest, to go to sleep while someone may be suffering from hunger in his caliphate! No this is not Utopia (for those secular minded, who may think of it), this is the sense of responsibility. Just watched a disheartening report on Afghanistan of the poorest of the poor farmer sin the hilly area, who were harvesting land which used to be theirs, but they had to sell it for USD 40 for need of money!! Devastating!
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Everyone's been waiting for months, but it appears there's an actual end in sight to the return of Derrick Rose. After being medically cleared in February and sitting out the remainder of the regular season and playoffs, Rose said at an Adidas event in Madrid, Spain that he's going to be ready opening night of the season.
Rose had said earlier this season that he would only return at "110 percent" so you have to think he's still a little bit away. That last 10 percent above what is actually possible is the hardest, you know.
Recently on Twitter, I said that the league can't have the Bulls on opening night, based on the reasoning that they can't guarantee Rose's return. For opening night, you have to have the stars in place and ready to go. No matter what Rose says now, after the waiting game circus that last year turned into, you can't be certain he'll be out there. You have to see it first. (I advocated for his return to come in the first big Friday night game. It hedges the league's bet a little and sets up a huge Friday night to follow up on the Tuesday opener.
But there's nothing but good news here. Rose says he's ready to go, for the first time since his ACL injury over a year ago. Even Tom Thibodeau's excited, if in his usually cautious way:
"What the summer has done is it has given him more time to build confidence and strength in his leg," Thibodeau said. "He looks great. He's feeling as well as he has in a long, long time. His entire body is a lot stronger. He has put a lot of work into his shooting."
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Mission Mathematica: Making a Photo Booth App in Three Steps
June 23, 2011 — Yu-Sung Chang, Technical Communication & Strategy
Creating an interactive app could be a complex and painstaking task. Not with Mathematica. Here I will present how I created a photo booth program in three easy steps—mostly during my lunch breaks.
Step One: Architecture
The application will have four main stages. Stage one: We show live webcam images with different image effects applied (possibly multiple pages of them) as a preview, and let the user choose one. Stage two: The chosen image takes up the window, waiting for the user to click a button. Stage three: Count down. Stage four: Capture an image, apply the effect, and add it in a film strip. Repeat.
We also need nice photo effects. We are going to have three categories—three effects for each category. I chose three categories: color effects, transformations, and something else. But of course, you can add more later. We will discuss the details in the next step.
Now, it is time to think about user interface. I followed a popular UI that is pretty common in photo booth applications. The first stage will have a two-by-two grid that shows an original as well as three different effects in real time. Radio buttons at the bottom will provide navigation through the categories. The second stage is rather simple—just a big screen with the click button and the back button underneath it. At the third stage, there will be no interface change except that the counter will be shown instead of buttons. We'll keep a separate film strip (notebook) for results, in which captured images will be added at the fourth stage.
Step Two: Effects
Let's spend some time to come up with nice effects. The first category is "color effects". Here are my choices.
The transformation category requires a bit more effort. The first effect is a mirroring at the center. We crop the right half of an image, create a reflection of the left, then combine them.
Here is a wiggly effect to make you feel dizzy.
The final choice for this category is a "broken mirror" effect, created by our design director, Jeremy Davis. Essentially, we cut an image into vertical pieces and flip them before combining them back together.
Let's see how they all look.
They are very simple effects, yet very disturbing…
The last category is a mystery category. I will leave it to the readers to come up with their own. Here are my choices:
Erosion and Dilation are basic morphological operations that shrink (erode) or expand (dilate) areas which are not black (background). These give some funny effects that weren't expected.
Now we are ready to get to the details.
Step Three: Implementation
For capturing and playing webcam images in real time, CurrentImage combined with Dynamic will do the job.
Of course, you can wrap the CurrentImage with any image processing function to get the dynamic effect (or several effects together).
The main program will look roughly like this:
Interactive examples in Mathematica can be written in a more efficient way by localizing Dynamic and using TrackedSymbols to make it update only when a specific variable is changed. However, the program is efficient enough as is, so we will not go all the way to optimize it.
The whole process will be enclosed by DynamicModule and then CreatePalette so that we can generate a standalone palette.
There are a few things that have to be handled before running the process. For instance, filters have to be defined, and the film strip notebook has to be created. These jobs can be defined in the Initialization of the DynamicModule so they will run before the process. Also, when you close the palette, there is some housecleaning that has to be done. The Deinitialization option is useful to define such jobs.
Now let's look at the details. The two-by-two preview grid at the first stage looks like this:
filters and names are arrays of photo effects and their names. Overlay is a new function in Mathematica 8, which comes in very handy when you want to display multiple expressions at once. Here is an example.
At stage two, we show a webcam image with the chosen effect applied in real time. At stage three, we do the same thing, but we need to count down simultaneously. You can introduce Refresh or Dynamic with UpdateInterval, but as the documentation points out, it is not 100% reliable, especially when the notebook front end is busy with updating webcam images with the fast frame rate.
Is there a more reliable solution? Of course, yes. We introduced the concept of timed evaluations in Mathematica 8. Using this functionality, you can create a scheduled task that can be independently evaluated by specific time interval. For our example, we will create a task that will be evaluated every second to decrease the counter and, as an added bonus, to announce the remaining time.
The task should be created at Initialization and be removed at Deinitialization of the main Dynamic by using RemoveScheduledTask. The task will be triggered and stopped using StartScheduledTask and StopScheduledTask at the third stage.
Finally, at the fourth stage, we make a click sound, write the image into the film strip notebook using NotebookWrite, and go back to the first stage.
I created a notebook that contains all necessary code and resources for the app, including a sound byte for the camera click and some icons for buttons. Unfortunately, we can't provide it in Computable Document Format (CDF) for the free Wolfram CDF Player, since it is accessing webcams, which is restricted. For the folks who don't have Mathematica, here is a screen capture of me playing with the program.
So there you have it—mission accomplished! Stay tuned to the Wolfram Blog for more Mission Mathematica installments.
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Hello, I think this is really what users of Home Edition will appreciate. There is no tricky math neither physic. The author chose a very simple problem not to show his skill to solve difficult abstract things but to explain how to use Mathematica to create a clear user interface and a quite complex application. This post should by picked up and shown in the section "What You Can Do with Mathematica Home Edition" where, unfortunately, is nothing similar to encourage more people to experiment with Mathematica. I wish there were more posts like this. A good job.
Posted by Miroslav Štandera June 24, 2011 at 1:36 am
Very interesting post.
Posted by Dimitris June 24, 2011 at 5:25 am
Nice! Wish I had a camera though. :D Much purely UI-wise to appreciate anyway.
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Posted by Yu-Sung Chang June 27, 2011 at 9:15 am
… and then please also anti-aliasing on Linux, we've been waiting for that since M6, and running M on Linux as guest o/s. Anti-aliasing has been working on Windows since M6, but even in 8.0.1 it doesn't work on Linux, and M on a guest o/s doesn't work either.
Posted by Mooniac June 27, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Is Mathematica primarily aimed at tech hobbysists/enthusiasts? The marketing message seems very confusing because blog posts never seem to focus on real world commercial applications — therefore I'm assuming this is hobby software??? Also given that this sort of photo software is readily available and often bundled with products such as cameras and webcams, devotion of a blog to it in Mathematica also seems to suggest that this is primarily a hobby programming example. For hobby programming Mathematica looks interesting but I'd like to see Wolfram form some sort of technical group to create real world commercial examples. thanks D
Posted by Dudley Burns June 29, 2011 at 1:03 am
Dudley, the following is my own opinion, from someone who is very familiar with M as he has been using it ever since version 2.2 in 1993. The following is not an official statement, I am not a WRI employee (anymore — I used to be). M is CERTAINLY not "just for hobbyists", although in some other blogs (outside from this website) it appears as if only hobbyists are posting there. M is used in science and industry, at universities, at small and large corporations, it even runs on the space station. M has a few million users world-wide. Some applications are so powerful that the real problem is people not understanding what is happening, because they only have a traditional IT background, and when they see baffling results they think it's fake. "Hobby" or "Recreation" are definitely some applications, but is that a surprise with a system that has such a vast area of applicability? If you look at the demonstrations or the M library or read MathGroup, you'll see that most M users don't use M as "hobby". It's mostly about education and applications in science and industry. I definitely DO think M is underrepresented at the corporations, but that's their own fault. As far as this particular blog post is concerned, although it's definitely not on my "favorites list", the point of these blogs is to show people how to do neat things yourself with M, in a flexible and code-efficient manner. Just because something exists already in other software, doesn't make it a "hobby" blog post. You may have to pay money for the other software, it's "canned" (in the sense you can't modify it — if a feature wasn't implemented you don't have it), and by using it you don't learn anything. It's not about giving you this particular feature. It's about showing you how to get ideas, how to do things, so that you use (part of) these ideas for your own applications. You may learn something about the functional programming style or image processing in M. If you don't … read the next one. They're short.
Posted by Mooniac June 29, 2011 at 11:00 am
Total agree with Mr. Burns. Although it's funny to see the webcam direct link capacities on a photo software, I would prefer to see an application of this capacity, for example, on the monitoring or data collecting of a visual phenomenon (ex.: real-time tracing of a moving object), showing also the capability of visually overlapping simulation results with real-time experiment, etc ( I guess there are a lot of more examples, from different fields). Best regards,
Posted by Pedro Fonseca June 30, 2011 at 1:58 am
Mooniac pointed out some real facts about M but to really feel the ubiquitous presence of M in high tech and computationally intensive industrial problem solving one has to use M from earlier versions like 2.2 as he mentioned. I on the other hand work in HPC and in the field of mathematical modelling. I was in my 2nd grade in 1993. I and most of my young friends started to use M from at least version 5 or later. We noticed that most information about M in the internet are very outdated and mostly from 90′s. At that time as a pioneering CA system M came to lime light. But now how M is getting used in state of the art mathematical applications? Very little info one will find in the internet. Media presence of M has waned drastically and I guess patronizing the interest of the hobbyist has been one of the reason. Presenting M as high school math apparatus is the reason why "M is underrepresented at the corporations". I personally know M has much more power than what appears from most of the Blog posts here. I am sure talented people are in in no shortage at WRI and they can enlighten the vast internet community with example where some real world industrial scale challenges are tackled. No need of complete elaborate solutions but hints and creative approaches highlighting M's unique power in certain computational fields will suffice. M should prove its worth by solving problems that are novel and that will pave the way for more sustained development in future. Interest of the corporations will grow too. Media will open their eyes once again. The old glory will surely prevail one just need to come up with examples that are pertinent and appealing to 21st century scientific community. This Blog fits the best to show the world what M actually is capable of. For sure creating wonderful GUI based toy apps written with neat and compact code will not revive the charm of M among scientific community. The demonstration website is serving that purpose. This place must be for the best of the best. From the creators of M we expect their best creations which will be interesting from the state of the art scientific and mathematical aspect.
Posted by pratip June 30, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Just to clarify, I am not critical of this blog per se, it accomplishes what it sets out to do. The point I was making is that looking through the selection of blog posts there seems to be a consistent "gee whiz" hobbyist/enthusiast theme but very little related to the real world commercial environment, by which I mean as a commercial guy I can read this stuff and think, yeah that's cool but it bears no relationship to anything I do in my company. I can see some value in this stuff from an educational standpoint as well. So education uses seem to be clear. But you would never guess that this software has a commercial use based on how it is presented.
Posted by Dudley Burns July 1, 2011 at 12:49 am
Hi, is there any tutorial about computer vision/augmented reality in mathematica??? Please help.
Posted by mario July 31, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Very nice,
Posted by Jorge Gamaliel Frade Chávez September 8, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Nice work, Yu-Sung. I was wondering if you could help me with the following: I would *love* to be able to capture images from more than one webcam connected to a single PC via de CaptureImage[] command. I want to use this to try out Stereo Vision and motion capture with my high school students. Any hope CaptureImage[] will ever allow for that? Does it allow it already?
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@Dan, But, I think that there could be a way to use 2 kernels for instance. I will investigate it a bit and get back to you.
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Nanorheology⎯the study of deformation of matter, particularly complex molecules, at the nanoscale⎯is beginning to give a clearer picture of the mechanics of biological macromolecules such as proteins and short DNA strands, both of which can act as molecular springs.
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Karim Benzema scored twice as Real Madrid survived a scare to win 3-1 at Racing Santander last night to move seven points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona.
Goals from Benzema and Emmanuel Adebayor put Real 2-0 ahead at half-time but Racing fought back, Iker Casillas saving a penalty before being beaten by Kennedy Bakircioglu's assured finish. However, Benzema's second goal of the night restored Real's two-goal advantage with 15 minutes to go. Adebayor then had a penalty saved.
Elsewhere, Valencia came back from a goal down to defeat Mallorca 2-1 at the Iberostar Stadium. Valencia's David Navarro brought Pierre Webó in the area, and Ivá* Ramis slammed in the ensuing penalty into the top-left hand corner to give Mallorca a surprise lead. However, four minutes later, Pablo Hernández volleyed in to the bottom corner to equalise. In the 56th minute, Hernández's cool finish completed the turnaround and strengthened Valencia's hold on third.
In Italy, Internazionale executed a superb second-half comeback to defeat Genoa 5-2 in Serie A yesterday, reducing the gap between them in second and leaders Milan to five points.
Genoa took the lead five minutes before the interval at San Siro, Abdoulay Konko's pass exposing Inter defence for Rodrigo Palacio to send a powerful finish into the bottom corner. Inter's riposte, however, arrived in the 50th minute. Giampaolo Pazzini fired home a pinpoint Maicon cross to equalise before Samuel Eto'o tapped in to put them 2-1 ahead.
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The opening sequence of Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers paints the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., where the film was shot, as a buffet of beer, bare breasts and general bacchanalia. But that's just not so, says St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commissioner Jennifer Parramore: "We get a few spring breakers, but this is really a family destination."
In fact, when Spring Breakers went scouting for a location for its climactic bikini shootout, finding a neighborhood accustomed to such chaos wasn't easy. "We had to settle on a residential neighborhood," says the film's location manager, Sherrill Smith. "We shot for 24 hours on Good Friday and didn't wind up doing any actual gunfire until around 2 or 3 in the morning. People in the neighborhood knew it was coming, but they had already settled into their beds."
Undaunted by late-night gunfire, Florida has budgeted $296 million since 2010 to attract movies such as Spring Breakers. But since the state's 20 percent production tax credit is limited to expenditures of up to $8 million per project, the biggest film productions tend to spend only a few weeks in the Sunshine State. "We only get pieces of them because, unlike some states, we do have a cap," admits Florida Film Commissioner Shari Kerrigan.
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Iron Man 3, for example, shot for two weeks in Florida. 2012's Magic Mike, set in Tampa, was limited to some location work as well. Michael Bay's upcoming Pain and Gain was an exception to the rule, since it shot exclusively in Miami last year.
Television is the real driver of Florida's entertainment business. USA's long-running spy show Burn Notice, A&E's cop drama The Glades and Starz's period mob drama Magic City all film on location there. Miami will double for San Diego in USA Network's one-hour drama series Graceland, set to debut in the summer. And NBCU will begin shooting an as-yet-untitled pilot in South Florida in May.
And that's only a fraction of Florida's TV business. Spanish-language programming represents the bulk of television work in the state. "We call Miami 'Hispanic Hollywood,' " says Telemundo Media president Emilio Romano. "It's the gateway to Latin America. All the stars from the Spanish-speaking world love coming here."
Miami-Dade County film and entertainment commissioner Sandy Lighterman agrees. "Spanish-language is absolutely key to our market," she says. "Telemundo currently has three telenovelas shooting full time. They will have four by May. This is largely year-round work, so Spanish-language programming has been extremely lucrative for the county."
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In May, the network will expand beyond its news and telenovela base to debut a high-profile American Idol-style talent show for children called La Voz Kids.
Telemundo rival Univision does most of its production in Doral, Fla., even though its corporate headquarters are in New York. The network is partnering with ABC to launch Fusion this year; the 24-hour English-language news network in Miami will be geared toward attracting a growing Hispanic-American audience. It is expected to produce 400 cable jobs and will require the construction of a 150,000-square-foot studio. "We really believe South Florida is the news and entertainment capital of the world for Latin America," says Univision Networks president Cesar Conde.
Unlike Hollywood, where diversity remains an issue, Miami has no problem integrating Spanish-language and English-language talent. "The vast majority of my staff is Latino," says Chris Sloan, founder of the Miami-based production company 2C Media, which produces Animal Planet's Swamp Wars and Travel Channel's Airport 24/7: Miami, among other cable shows. "NBC invested so aggressively in Telemundo that it really helped bring in top talent from all over the world. The crews cross-pollinate back and forth with English-language productions very easily. Miami has become a sophisticated place and a world city -- not some backwater like it was back in the day."
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Raptors, birds of prey are well equipped to snatch and kill, as this Eurasian Eagle owl's talons prove.
All raptors have magnificent weapons in their keen eye sight, sharp hearing from ears that are located at variant angles to capture the slightest rustle, and sometimes silent flight.
However, they do not have a sense of smell, allowing them to capture skunks.
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cool shot
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What a terrific close up of those claws. Wow, are they sharp!
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Major talons!!! Great shot, Nancy.
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Wow, what lethal claws!!! I often wonder if an Owl or other big bird, like we have around here, captured the little black and white bunny that visited my yard, it just disappeared one day.
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Nature has equipped him with a great weapon and survival gear. Amazing shot, Nancy!
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In honor of the sense of touch, I made these word cards for Eva to use to help her practice writing. Given that she is only two, this is more for exposure than anything else, but she can write her name and she can read Mommy, Daddy and Woofer so I thought it can't hurt! I wrote the words on pieces of card stock and then traced over them with glitter glue. When they were dry, Eva was able to use her finger to trace over them and feel the texture.
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SEATTLE, WA - The Iona College softball team dropped its first contest of the 2014 NCAA Regional 8-0 to the host No. 12 seed University of Washington Thursday evening at Husky Softball Stadium.
The Huskies got on the board early, scoring five runs in the first inning. After a leadoff single and back-to-back walks opened the frame, Kylee Lahners brought in the first run when she reached on the third consecutive base on balls by Iona starter Carly Argyle. Ali Aguilar followed with a grand slam to left center, her sixth home run of the season.
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The grape arbor is lovely and shady and the grapes look plentiful this year.
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HOW DID IT FIND TROUBLE? "Luke, this is your father. "Yes, I was once a cute little boy with a passion for pod racing. The Force percolated in my blood, driving me to do impossible, crazy stunts years before I proved vainglorious enough to be seduced by the Emperor. But never would I have thought of paying over 300 times sales for an unprofitable Internet retailer!" OK, so Darth Vader didn't really say that. But investors who picked up shares of eToys after it started trading on May 20 have confronted the Dark Side of Internet IPOs. Though it rocketed to $85 from an initial offering price of just $20, it quickly fell back to Tatooine with the thud of the cocky Sebulba crashing his pod. Sure, eToys had a good story to tell. With smart venture capital funding from the Internet incubator company idealab!, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Highland Capital, and Sequoia Capital, the pedigree was right. Better yet, eToys had been a hit during Christmas '98, attracting 3.4 million visitors during the holidays, or three times as many as the Toys R Us (NYSE: TOY) website. The fact that eToys had been featured in Visa's credit card ads surely helped lend credibility to this startup. Before it went public, eToys had also managed to wrestle BabyCenter.com away from Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), indicating it was already diversifying its offerings to include a broad line of products for kids and their parents. Moreover, eToys picked a particularly auspicious time to go public. The building excitement over the May 17 premier of the Star Wars prequel pushed up shares of toy maker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) and sparked investor interest in out-of-favor toy retailers. In addition, Toys R Us had announced in April that it would spin off its Web operations, partly so ToysRUs.com would be able to compete aggressively against eToys. Investors read that as a sign that this upstart was already the market leader. Still, investors needed to consider the uncomfortable fact that on May 20, Toys R Us sported $11 billion in annual sales but an enterprise value of just $6.5 billion while, at its high, eToys carried an $11.4 billion price tag despite recording just $30 million in FY99 toy sales. Such a disparity suggested that traders were granting eToys a completely unjustifiable premium. BUSINESS DESCRIPTION Based in Santa Monica, California, eToys is a leading Internet retailer for children's products. It sells a broad selection of toys, software, books, videos, music, video games, and baby-oriented products. On July 1, eToys completed the acquisition of BabyCenter, which operates BabyCenter.com, a website that offers content, community, and products for expectant mothers and new parents. eToys plans to run this business as a separate subsidiary. On July 22, it signed a marketing deal with America Online (NYSE: AOL), which will feature BabyCenter on its health, family, and shopping channels. eToys already has its own marketing deal with AOL. After the IPO, insiders owned 39.4% of eToys, including a 7.4% stake held by CEO and founder Toby Link. idealab! and other venture backers controlled another 53% of the stock. These figures have since been diluted by the 18.7 million shares issued or reserved for BabyCenter shareowners. FINANCIAL FACTS Income Statement* 12-month sales: $34.7 million 12-month income: ($73.1 million) 12-month EPS: ($0.74) Profit Margin: N/A Market Cap: $4,976.0 million (*Pro forma, includes BabyCenter acquisition. Market cap based on 135.4 million fully diluted shares, including about 16.9 million shares related to exercisable options. Loss includes $5.8 million in non-cash compensation charges and $36.5 million in goodwill amortization.) Balance Sheet* Cash: $20.2 million Current Assets: $26.8 million Current Liabilities: $5.0 million Long-term Leases: $0.5 million (*As of March 31, before Baby Center acquisition -- which added about $9 million in cash and $0.5 million in lease obligations -- and IPO, which raised net proceeds of $155.2 million.) Ratios Price-to-earnings: N/A Price-to-sales: 143.4 HOW COULD YOU HAVE SEEN IT COMING? Although the valuation comparison to Toys R Us made the news stories on May 21, the more apt comparison might have been to Amazon.com, which then had trailing revenues of $816 million and traded for $20.5 billion, or a comparatively modest 25x sales. Amazon had sold a limited selection of toys last Christmas, but it clearly had plans to open a toy store sometime this year. That launch came on July 13. WHERE TO FROM HERE? There's no question that toys represent a huge market. Recent stats offered by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos put the domestic toy market at $28 billion and the worldwide market at $70 billion. Moreover, buying toys at Toys R Us, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Kmart (NYSE: KM), or Consolidated Stores' (NYSE: CNS) K-B Toys just isn't a lot of fun for many adults. An acquaintance recently described Toys R Us as the "house of pain" because some child always seems to be crying. The Web, then, offers a relatively attractive way to buy toys and related children's products. Though Bezos recently claimed that Amazon has already taken the lead in the sales of children's products on the Web, eToys appears to be doing a super job. During the 1998 Christmas season, over 98% of eToys' orders were shipped within 24 hours, and 95% during the December crunch time. That's darn good. I also recently compared eToys with Amazon and ToysRUs.com, searching for six items: an Arthur's Computer Adventure video, the Star Wars Landspeeder by Lego, Anakin's Pod Racer by Lego, the Star Wars Racer PC game by Lucas Arts, the Queen Amidala paper dolls, and the Wrebbit (of Puzz 3D) puzzle of Florence's Il Duomo cathedral. Frankly, I was shocked by the way eToys blew away these other sites. I found all six items at eToys with no problem. Yet, just three of the items turned up at ToysRUs.com and only two at Amazon. For the matched items, prices were comparable. But eToys' site was much easier to navigate and offered a stellar selection, including 32 Puzz 3D puzzles versus just 5 titles on the rough ToysRUs site and, depending on my search terms, either 9, 20, or 27 titles from Amazon (but still no Duomo). eToys is also preparing distribution capacity for the holiday season. It's signed a deal with Federated Department Stores' (NYSE: FD) Fingerhut unit to use that firm's million square foot Provo, Utah, facility starting this fall. It has also leased over 400,000 square feet of space in Danville, Virginia, for use as an East Coast fulfillment center. Former L.L. Bean exec Lou Zambello runs the operations. The company has also done a good job of rolling out new products. In the last month, eToys has added a children's bookstore with 80,000 titles and its Baby Store with 3,000 items, such as car seats, clothes, bottles, and nursery decor. Still, eToys' very name carves out a large but still limited niche in line with its ambition to be the leading Internet provider of children's products. That could prove a misguided approach in a marketplace where the capacious Amazon is racing to add customers and multiple product lines under the theory that scale matters, both for maintaining gross margins and for reducing operating expenses as a percent of sales. Although eToys is a legit e-commerce contender, it's likely doomed to operate deep in the shadow of Amazon, which should quickly improve its own online toy store. ToysRUs.com may eventually get its act together, too. I like the eToys site, but the company's $5 billion price tag still seems awfully rich given the other pods it faces in this race. With 2.3 million shares shorted (roughly a fourth of the float), there appear to be plenty of other skeptics. -- Louis Corrigan (email@example.com) --------
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It's the pool party of the year! With fabulous food, refreshing libations, wacky entertainment and a wet-and-wild celebrity auction pool toss…benefiting TNDC's programs for children and families in the Tenderloin! Join us on October 8, 2013 at the historic Phoenix Hotel/Chambers Eat + Drink.
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This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.29 / 5.00 4,222 ViewsHello Newgrounds, it's been a while. I have been studying animation this year at University in Bristol, England :)
A friend of mine is making a documentary film about my struggle and quest to get at least one flash animation on the Newgrounds Front Page. He asked me to make a small flash to accompany the movie and this is it.
I have been making animations and trying to get noticed on Newgrounds for years and this animation is a parody of my struggle (as we all need to poke some fun at ourselves sometimes).
It is a mixture of traditional pencil drawn animation and digital flash animation. I hope you enjoy it!
[UPDATE] Front Page/daily 2nd!?! Thank you so much!
A HUGE thank you to everyone who watched/voted/reviewed, I appreciate everyones views and comments. I didn't make this with any intention of pleading to get on the front page, it is just a parody and a bit of fun :)
Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
It was a nice animation, but if you were truly trying to get to the front page with this particular animation, it was certainly very shallow of you to hock it so. While it's arguably high enough quality to pass as low front page material for a day, that carries about as much honor as if after giving some people Nobel Peace prizes, the awarder realized they had one extra, and you stood up and said "I'll take it, here's twenty dollars."
Kind of shameful to outright ask so. If you deserve it you deserve it, and it will come, you shouldn't have to ask. Now you just look like a self entitled, erm, how would the British say it.... "wanker".
You're just too cheesy and plead too much for your own good. Just make some funny crap. Easy enough.
YHEA MAN! You Make Goood!!1
Nice strategy XD, of course you can get the front page, good work in animating and good luck ^_^!, you got a nice dog ^_^!
Very influencing.
You showed me that anyone can be frontpaged. the fact that this actually did make the front page makes the video even more influencing.
Awesome :D


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Athens has long been a historic place where many famous philosophers have surpassed the test of time. What better place to spend a day like Valentine's Day then Athens, where love and immortality were once the reigning topics. A place that is as old as love its self. Think about it, it would be a very romantic date that any girl would envy.
Romantic dinner for two, cocktail and dancing until dawn, relaxing massage or cuddling on the duvet, overlooking the lights of Athens? Hilton Athens, Greece, offers you many options for an unforgettable experience with your other half. This year, especially since Galaxy Restaurant operates also during the winter, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a special five-course menu with a view of the city lights in a spectacular setting reminding you of the stars and planets. Furthermore, Galaxy Bar has prepared cocktails inspired by Valentine's Day, which will be accompanied by finger food.
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Creator: | Clayton, Eva M. |
Creator: | Nasstrom, Kathryn L. |
Title: | Oral history interview with Eva Clayton, July 18, 1989 |
Date: | 1989 July 18 |
Description: | Activist and politician Eva Clayton grew up as the daughter of a successful insurance executive in Savannah, Georgia. She came with her husband to North Carolina, and while raising four children and working toward advanced degrees, she became a leading figure in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. Her activism experience drew her to service, and she spent years working with economic and social development organizations in and out of North Carolina government, including the Soul City Foundation and the Warren County Board of Commissioners, on which she was serving at the time of this interview. Three years later, in 1992, she would win a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where she would serve until 2003. In this interview, Clayton remembers a career spent in community development. In addition to helping lead the effort to establish Soul City, an attempt to create a new kind of rural community, she served as assistant secretary at the state Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. This interview follows the career of a successful black woman who sought to share her vision of economic possibility and social progress with her community. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
Types: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
Subjects: | Clayton, Eva M. | Women in politics--North Carolina | African American women in politics--North Carolina | North Carolina--Biography | African American politicians--North Carolina | African American women--North Carolina | North Carolina--Officials and employees | Community development--North Carolina | City planning--North Carolina--Soul City | Civil rights movements--North Carolina | Soul City (N.C.) | Soul City (N.C.) | Warren County (N.C.) |
Collection: | Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement |
Institution: | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Contributors: | Southern Oral History Program | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library | Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) |
Online Publisher: | [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. | 2006 |
Original Material: | Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 14, 2008). Interview participants: Eva Clayton, interviewee; Kathryn Nasstrom, interviewer. Duration: 01:03:58. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. |
Related Materials: | Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. |
Persistent Link to Item: | http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0084/menu.html |


text: Hunters, Stop Arming Your DogsAnna North12/12/11 6:10pmFiled to: AnimalsDogs shooting peopleGunsHuntingHuntersDogs huntingshutterstock40EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkA Florida man is in critical condition after a hunting accident in which his dog knocked his gun and shot him in the thigh. And earlier this month, a Utah man's dog jumped on his gun and fired 27 rounds of buckshot into his butt. Clearly, man's best friend has become his worst enemy, rivaling Dick Cheney as a dangerous hunting companion. Be very afraid.AdvertisementImage via Baevskiy Dmitry/Shutterstock.comReply40 repliesLeave a reply


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By Jason KUROSU
Though they are increasingly adept at utilizing social media resources, some teenagers' social media habits are hurting their future career opportunities or even implicating them in crimes, according to school district and police officials. A GUSD hosted parent forum on internet safety examined the latest issues regarding social media use, including a growing trend of teens sharing sensitive information online.
Detective Donald Tucker of the Glendale Police Department, Violent Crimes Bureau, spoke on the rising prevalence of sexting, or sending nude photos, something which could be legally construed as the creation, possession and distribution of child pornography.
Even when sexting occurs between two minors, California law considers the act equivalent to creating and sharing child pornography, a felony which in addition to jail time, could force the involved minors to register as sex offenders.
Though the pictures are often shared with the understanding of privacy and discretion, Tucker said that when those pictures fall into the wrong hands, they can be used to threaten the subject of the pictures in terms of blackmail.
"Recent trends with sexting is the use of explicit pictures against the teen who sent them. Sometimes they can be pressured into sending more graphic pictures," said Tucker. "Just remember, you may think you can trust the person that you're sexting, but once those pictures are out, they're always out."
Tucker suggested parents speak to their children about sexting and its risks, saying that talking with your children will not increase sexting activity, but rather dispel the mystery.
Additional social media concerns include cyber bullying and other public threats against students, teachers or themselves, which have led GUSD to begin monitoring computer activity at their campuses.
The Glendale Unified School District began working with Geo Listening in 2013, allowing the company to monitor any public social media posts made on school campus computers and report suspicious posts to the school district. GUSD entered into an agreement with Geo Listening, emphasizing that student safety was the primary focus of using the service.
Dr. Scott Anderle of GUSD Student Support Services reviews Geo Listening's daily reports on all secondary schools (junior high and high school) within the district. Anything posted publicly is detected by the monitoring service and the district is sent daily reports on activity which triggers their list of around 50 keywords on a range of topics. A typical day's report could include anything from rumors to outright evidence of bullying, cheating on tests, illicit drug activity, violent threats or suicidal thoughts.
Anderle said he mainly looks for "students who are threatening to hurt themselves or hurt others" as well as what topics are popular and potentially dangerous amongst the student body, such as e-cigarettes and street racing.
At the event, Anderle said that teenagers often harbor misconceptions about the public nature of their social media posts.
"I always hear two things. Number one, 'What I post and send privately, stays private.' Number two, 'This stuff won't hurt me in the long run.' Those things are not true. Private stuff does not stay private."
Anderle also said that public posts can reflect upon a student well past their school years, as conversations with college and job recruiters have indicated that universities and employers search online through social media sites when evaluating prospective students or hires.
"Companies don't want to have sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuits," said Anderle. "If they think that you're going to be someone who's going to harass other people and not get along with other people, they're not going to hire you."
Anderle said that consequences, as long as they will not involve the police, are left to the discretion of the respective school sites, but police involvement is not out of the question when danger to oneself or others is suggested, even if the intent was not serious.
"Jokes are no joke," said Anderle. "I've got a student who posted one of those jokes who's wearing an ankle bracelet. He's being monitored by the police as a possible threat to society because of what he posted on the internet, which was supposedly a joke."
Tina Givrad, who has a biomedical engineering doctorate and teaches at Cal State Los Angeles, delved into the decision making process of teenagers from a biological perspective, noting the fluid development of the teenage brain.
Givrad said that much of the brain's development occurs between puberty and adulthood. One part of the brain which is not fully developed during adolescence, yet is crucial to decision making is the frontal lobe. However, the amygdala, which controls instinctive "fight or flight" type responses, is extremely active during the teenage years.
"The amygdala gets active when there is a change in our environment. By definition, teenage years are the years that the body goes through both emotional and physical changes, so the amygdala is superactive here."
Givrad recommended understanding and guidance for teens trying to manage busy school lives with rapid changes in brain chemistry.
"Just because they are taller than us, just because they can drive, just because they 'don't need us anymore,' it does not mean that they really do not need us. Your teenagers need you more than ever in their lives."


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MONDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Could gastric bypass weight-loss surgery raise the odds for alcohol abuse afterwards?
That's the finding from a group of Swedish researchers who were slated to present their data this past Saturday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in Chicago.
A team from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm tracked more than 12,000 patients who underwent primary bariatric surgery between 1980 and 2006. The patients were matched against a control group of almost 123,000 patients from the general population.
The study found there was greater risk of hospitalization for depression, attempted suicide, substance abuse and alcoholism following weight-loss surgery. (The bariatric patients also had a greater risk than the general population of hospitalization for psychiatric disease before their weight-loss surgery.)
The researchers also found that people who undergo gastric bypass surgery, in particular, faced double the risk of inpatient treatment for alcohol abuse vs. those who have restrictive surgeries (such as stomach "stapling" and the gastric banding technique).
"Patients undergoing gastric bypass should be carefully counseled on alcohol consumption," study lead author Dr. Magdalena Plecka Ostlund said in a news release from the meeting's sponsor, the American Gastroenterological Association. "In addition, caregivers should be aware of the greater potential for alcohol abuse after surgery so treatment can be sought if problems arise."
But Ostlund also stressed that any increased risk for alcohol dependency following gastric bypass should be weighed against the numerous health benefits of the procedure.
Findings presented at meetings are considered preliminary since they have not undergone the rigorous peer review of data published in reputable journals.
More information
There's much more on bariatric surgery for obesity at the Weight Control Information Network.
-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
SOURCE: American Gastroenterological Association, news release, May 9, 2011.
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The Bradford Tornadoes basketball team lost Monday's neutral tournament game against First Coast by a score of 68-57.
Game Details: Ed Waters - MLK Classic (Jacksonville, FL)
The First Coast Buccaneers (Jacksonville, FL) basketball felled the visiting Bradford Tornadoes (Starke, FL), 68-57 in Monday's non-league test.
The Buccaneers (13-8) will now prepare for their test against White (Jacksonville, FL). The Commanders go into the 7A District 2 test with a 16-3 record. In their last test, White defeated Doral Academy (Doral, FL), 43-36, in a non-league test.
The Tornadoes now own a 11-9 record. They take the field next when they travel to Fort White for a 4A District 5 test on Thursday, January 19. Bradford will clash with a Indians squad coming off a 72-55 league loss to Williston (Williston, FL). The Indians record now stands at 7-4.


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WSF Staff is Web Service Framework for C++, AJAX, and J2ME that is based on Apache Axis2/C. WSF Staff wraps Apache Axis2/C code into C++, and also provides many additional features: a stateful Web services implementation in C++ with instance support, a synchronous and asynchronous client implementation in C++, AJAX, and J2ME, a service-component architecture implementation, support for RESTful Web services and clients, WSDL support with xsd import and export, J2ME client support (based on ksoap), a flexible and extensible code generator to generate any sort of Web service related source code (not only in C++), security support (users, groups, sessions, ACLs, etc.), and a Web application toolkit (webapp) with widget support.
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Check out these pictures from the BKc Tweed Ride a few Sunday's ago in New York City. I think the only requirement was to wear tweed- clearly everyone went all out. The ride started in Prospect Park and ended with a full English breakfast at Flatbush Farm. Amazing. (oh yeah- and over 150 people participated!)
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I would like to lift the outer corners of my eyebrows to make my eyes more almond shaped. Can boox do this and if so what are the best positions around the eyes to achieve it. How many units? Thank you!
Can Botox Make my Eyes More Feline?
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I agree with Dr. Rueckl that Botox would not be good for this at all. The treated areas with Botox specifically avoid the eye area to prevent ptosis, or eyelid droop. As Dr. Gidon notes you can get somewhat of a brow lift with Botox, but at times this feature can be unwanted and result in a more "startled" (Mephisto) look. The main use of Botox is for removing wrinkles, not reshaping. I hope this is of some use!
Hello, Botox can lift your brows but it can not change the shape of your eyes at all. It is best that you consult with a Board Certified Occular Plastic Surgeon. Good luck to you.
Botox is used for a brow lift to lift the outer eyebrows because it relaxes the muscles that pull down the outer brow. Dermal fillers can also be used under the outer eyebrow to give a lift but neither of these procedures will change the shape of your eyes. You would require surgery.
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This is not an ideal usage for Botox and would be very hard to determine appropriate dosing for each person. Botox works to stop muscle contractions, so this isn't going to be easy to do or recommended. If you really want to change the shape of your eyes, you're going to need to undergo surgery and see an ocular surgeon. Botox simply isn't a good choice for this.
This question has been answered recently. The outer corner of the eyebrow can be raised slightly with the use of one to three units of Botox in the downturned orbicularis oculi muscle. This is close to the insertion of the top of the three common crows feet Botox injections.
Web reference: http://www.thenyac.com/botox/index.html
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.