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This module allow your employees/users to create Purchase Requisitions.
Product/Material Purchase Requisitions by Employees/Users
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Product/Material Internal Requisitions by Employees/Users
This modules helps to print inventory Valuation Report for perticular date with Excel and PDF both option
Real time Stock Inventory Valuation Report (PDF/EXCEL) in odoo
This apps helps to generate included transfer stock report with opening stock and closing stock.
Stock Rotation Report Odoo
The tool to make inventory data essential and comfortable for elaboration
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The "Styler" plugin for Geoserver promised flexible styling of your data, using the GeoExt library:
The user guide tells you to first install the REST plugin, and then extract the styler zip file into the /data/www Geoserver directory. However, the download page for Geoserver 2.2 does not include the REST plugin. Installing older versions (I'm using Geoserver 2.2) failed for me, with one error saying "This web site needs a different Google Maps API key" (from /geoserver/www/styler/ - I have a Google Maps API).
REST seems to have disappeared recently: versions up to 2.0.3 contained the option to download the REST zip package, whereas after that there is no mention of REST, and the installation guide remains.
I did find some evidence that REST may have died, however:
This feature is no longer updated as an independent GeoServer download, but is available as part of the OpenGeo Suite. For more information on its development see OpenGeo project page
If Geoserver's "styler" plugin really is dead, then I should probably change the question to something more general like "how do I make OpenGeo's Styler work on Geoserver?" Just wanted to check with others who've had similar experience.
Context I've set-up Geoserver on an AWS EC2 instance (testing map can be seen here). What I'm trying to do is to make those boring grey polygons colourful and interesting, based on their attributes. I've tried exporting the sld that discribes the style below into Geoserver, but, at present, this does not work.


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A dismayed Gov. Bob McDonnell conceded Monday that a federal shutdown is just hours away and announced state safeguards against fiscal mayhem in Virginia - a state heavily dependent on Washington spending.
With Congress again unable to agree on a way to keep the government open, McDonnell has two options to ease the state's crisis. His response depends on how hard the state is hit by discontinued federal funding for joint federal-state programs and how the unpaid furloughs of non-essential federal personnel affect state tax collections.
A new Federal Action Contingency Trust, or FACT Fund has about $13 million in reserve. It was created by the General Assembly in 2012 with just such a federal calamity in mind.
McDonnell can also allow state agencies that rely on federal money to continue operations using "authorized deficit loans.'' The state treasury will make the loans, secured by pledged federal reimbursement whenever Washington gets its act together.
McDonnell didn't bother concealing his disdain for both a Democratic White House and the U.S. House for paralyzing political brinksmanship. He faulted President Barack Obama for a lack of leadership and the House's GOP leadership for a stunt intended to eliminate funding for the Obama-backed 2010 health care reform law.
"The president has failed to engage in any serious discussion with Republicans on entitlement reform, which everybody in the world knows is the key to getting our fiscal house in order,'' McDonnell said. "At the same time, my Republican friends have got to understand that there's no way on earth that the president and the United States Senate are going to vote to defund Obamacare.''
McDonnell, an opponent of the Affordable Care Act, said the initiative will ultimately collapse of its own cost and bureaucratic inefficiency, "but it is absolutely wrong to shut down the government and to threaten to shut down the government over this issue.''
"Shame on everybody. A pox on both houses for letting this happen,'' McDonnell said.
More federal defense money flows into Virginia per capita than any other state with major military installations, including the Pentagon and the world's largest U.S. Naval base at Norfolk.
Also, the federal government and federally-dependent contractors are a major employer in state's economic bread basket, the Washington, D.C., suburbs of northern Virginia.
Of approximately 172,000 civilian employees of the Defense Department in Virginia, McDonnell's administration estimated that as many as one-third could be subject to furloughs.
Essential federal services, including active-duty military, mail delivery, Medicaid and children's health insurance programs, would not be affected by the shutdown. But discretionary federal spending such as national parks, some block grants and jointly funded social services programs and home weatherization initiatives, would be curbed until Congress reaches an agreement on reopening them.
McDonnell said the administration will know by Friday how extensive the fiscal blow will be to the state and which discretionary federal services Virginia will have to shoulder until a divided Congress can compromise. Congress has not passed a budget in 4{ years and kept the government operating through a series of continuing spending authorization resolutions.
"There are solutions. The primary solution is democracy and the ballot box. That's how you resolve these issues,'' McDonnell said.
The looming federal shutdown also dominated Virginia's gubernatorial race.
Democrats, including gubernatorial nominee Terry R. McAuliffe, sought to tie Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli to the tea party leaders who insist on using Monday's vote to defund the Affordable Care Act. Chief among them is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who waged a 21-hour, 19-minute filibuster against continued funding for conservatives call Obamacare. Cruz will campaign with Cuccinelli on Saturday.
Cuccinelli says he opposes a federal shutdown, but neither he nor his campaign will say - as McDonnell clearly did - whether Cuccinelli supports House Republicans' continued demand that funding for the health reform law be stripped as a condition for passing legislation to keep the government open.
McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, supports the new health care law and expanding Medicaid in Virginia to about 400,000 working poor.


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Mexico's I.T. offshoring industry ranks as #3 in Gartner's global rankings, lagging behind only Indiaand the Philippines, according to analyst Frances Karamouzis. Its ambition is to take second place. Given that Mexico now claims to graduate 130,000 engineers every year—which is more than the U.S.—this may not be impossible. At an event hosted by Mexico's I.T. confederation, CANIETI, I was asked for advice on how the country can achieve this objective. The challenge, as it was described to me, is twofold: that Mexico's engineering education is not uniform in quality and that the curriculum is in any case incomplete, leaving graduates without necessary skills.
I told CANIETI that its challenge is the same as India once faced. India's education system has the same problems of inconsistency and incompleteness. To compensate for this weakness, Indian industry developed a surrogate education system. But even if Mexico learned from India and reeducated its graduates, it would face another big hurdle: that the market for I.T. outsourcing has plateaued.
That's because the I.T. departments that the outsourcing companies sell to are losing their power. With users having home access to iPads, social media, and downloadable apps—all of which are more sophisticated than what I.T. departments usually offer—user departments don't need I.T. as much as they used to. They are themselves choosing solutions from companies such as Salesforce.com, Google, and Microsoft—which use cloud computing to provide the infrastructure. As a result, the hundred-million-dollar outsourcing deals are fewer and further between. And the trend toward user control is accelerating.
My advice was that Mexico target another emerging market, one that is likely to be bigger than I.T. services and that it is in the catbird seat to own. It can leapfrog Indian I.T., which is busy defending its outsourcing turf and has become complacent because of its size.
The opportunity is to help America re-automate its manufacturing industry. I have written previously about Chinese manufacturing's having peaked and about why it is nearly certain that manufacturing will come back to the U.S. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing are going to savage China's labor-cost advantage.
Take the Baxter robot, which Rethink Robotics announced recently. It has two arms, a face that displays simulated emotion, and cameras and sensors that detect the motion of human beings that work next to it. It can perform assembly and move boxes—just as humans do. It will work 24 hours a day and not complain. It costs only $22,000. It's just one of many advances to come.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is making it possible to develop self-driving cars, voice-recognition systems such as Apple's Siri, and computer systems that can make human-like decisions. A.I. technologies are also finding their way into manufacturing and are powering robots such as Baxter.
A type of manufacturing called "additive manufacturing" is making it possible to cost-effectively "print" products. 3D printers can create physical mechanical devices, medical implants, jewelry, and even clothing. The cheapest 3D printers, which print rudimentary objects, currently sell for between $500 and $1000. Soon we will have printers for this price that can print toys and household goods. By the end of this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods. In the next decade we may be 3D-printing buildings and electronics.
These technologies are becoming available and cheap, but America's manufacturing plants aren't geared up to take advantage of them. This is what opens the opportunity for Mexico. It can set up automated factories across the border that manufacture at costs comparable to China. Mexican services firms can master the new technologies and help American firms design new factory floors and program and install robots. This is a higher-margin business than the old I.T. services.
Rather than focusing on yesterday's markets and technologies, Mexico's firms can be focusing on tomorrow's advances and become America's automaton workshop. With Mexico's growing skilled workforce and its proximity to the U.S., this could be a big win for Mexico and for the U.S.
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Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
Self-Portrait, 1887
Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
41 x 32.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1954.326
Vincent van Gogh painted his first known self-portrait in 1886, following the model of the 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt. But by the time he made this work, a year later, he had clearly shifted his allegiance from the Old Masters to the Parisian avant-garde. Under the influence of Neo-Impressionist color theory, he based this painting on the contrast of complementary colors. The overall blue-green tone of the background serves as a foil to the orange-red of the artist's hair and beard. While the intensity of the colors is enhanced by the brushwork, the painting's energy and turbulence hint at the inner life of the artist.
— Permanent collection label
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Cologne, Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler zu Cöln 1912, May 25–September 30, 1912, cat. 11.
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, 10. Ausstellung, May–June 1914, cat. 28.
Frankfurt-am-Main, Galerie M. Goldschmidt, Vincent van Gogh, March 15–April 15, 1928, cat. 18.
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Vincent van Gogh: Gemälde, January 1928, cat. 29.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, cat. 25, ill. frontispiece.
Amsterdam, E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Exposition d'art française: Peinture du XIXme et Xxme siècle, January 7–February 4, 1933, cat. 13.
Amsterdam, E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Zomer Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche en Fransche Schilderkunst der XIXe en Xxe eeuw, July–August 1933, cat. 32.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Vincent van Gogh, November 5, 1935–January 5, 1936, cat. 20 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein and Co., Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism: a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, March 1–29, 1938, cat. 45.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints From Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, cat. 53 (ill.).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting From David to Toulouse-Lautrec: Loans From French and American Museums and Collections, February 6–March 26, 1941, cat. 64A.
New York, Wildenstein and Co., The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, October 6–November 7, 1943, cat. 22 (ill.).
Cleveland, Museum of Art, Works by Vincent van Gogh, November 3–December 12, 1948, cat. 4 (ill.).
Chicago, Art Institute, Great French Painting: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, January 20–February 20, 1955, cat. 20 (ill.).
Chicago, Art Institute, European Portraits 1600–1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8–September 11, 1978, cat. 20 (ill.).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Van Gogh in Paris, February 2-May 15, 1988, cat. 37 (ill.).
Detroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh: Face to Face, March 12-June 4, 2000; traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 2-September 24, 2000 and Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 22, 2000-January 14, 2001, cat. 92 (ill.).
Chicago, Art Institute, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002; traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, February 9-June 2, 2002, cat. 19 (ill.).
Toledo Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Fields, February 23-May 18, 2003, cat. 1 (ill.).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Le Néo-Impressionnisme de Seurat á Paul Klee, March 14- July 10, 2005.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 57 (ill.).
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1912 – Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–30 December 2012, cat. 3 (ill.).
Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Faces of Neo-Impressionism, June 13–September 7, 2014.
Publication History
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh: Catalogue raisonné (Paris and Brussels, 1928), vol. 1, cat. no. 345; vol. 2, fig. 345.
Martha Davidson, "Impressionist and Later Portraits," Art News 36, 23 (1938), pp. 24, 10 (ill.).
Jack Levin, "Homage to Vincent," Art News 17, 8 (1948), p. 26 (ill.).
Katharina Bromig-Kolleritz von Novisancz, "Die Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Gogh: Versuh einer kunsthistorischen Erfassung der Darstellungen," Ph. D. diss. (Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1954), pp. 46–48, 101–102.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1954–1955 (Chicago, 1955), n.p. (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1956), p. 36.
Abraham Marie Hammacher, Van Gogh Self-Portraits, exh. cat. (Merlborough Fine Arts, London, 1960), fig. d.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) pp. 181–182, 331 (ill.).
Frank Th. Gribling, A Detailed Catalogue with Full Documentation of 272 Works by Vincent van Gogh Belonging to the Collection of the State Museum Kröller-Müller (Otterlo, 1966), under no. 198.
Abraham Marie Hammacher, Genius and Disaster: The Ten Creative Years of Vincent van Gogh (New York, 1968), pp. 37 (ill.), 183.
Fritz Erpel, Die Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Goghs (Berlin, 1963), no. 22 (ill.); English trans. Greenwich 1969, no. 22 (ill.).
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886–1888 (Utrecht and The Hague, 1976), p. 225.
Vincent van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings From the Collection of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, exh. cat. (Hayward Gallery, London 1986), under no. 91.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1977), p. 94 (ill.).
Jan Huskler, The Complete van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (New York, 1977), pp. 278, 279 (ill.), no. 1249.
Paolo Lecaldano, ed., L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici: Da Etten a Parigi vol. 1 (Milan 1977), no. 369.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), no. 70 (ill.).
Robert H. Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media (New York, 1985), pp. 182-3, fig. 7.22.
Susan Alyson Stein, ed., Van Gogh: A Retrospective (New York, 1986), p. 15 (ill.).
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, 1986), p. 54.
Richard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 8 (ill.), 9.
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Vincent van Gogh & Paul Cassirer, Berlin: The Reception of van Gogh in Germany from 1901 to 1914 (Zwolle, 1988), pp. 89 (ill.), 149, 150, 157.
J. D. McClatchy, ed., Poets and Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets (Berkeley, 1988), ill.
Ronald Picavance, "Van Gogh en het pointillisme," in Ellen Wardwell Lee, Neo-Impressionisten: Seurat tot Srtuycken, exhib. cat. (Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, 1988), p. 94 (ill.).
James N. Wood and Katherine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1988), p. 63 (ill.).
Pascal Bonafoux, Van Gogh (Chene, 1989), pp. 52-3, ill.
Hans Bronkhorst, Vincent van Gogh (New York, 1990), pp. 27, 29 (ill.).
"Special Advertising Section," Life (May 1991), np. (ill.).
Carol Zemel, Vincent van Gogh (New York, 1993), ill. 1.
Bernard Denvir, A Complete Portrait: All of Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portraits, With Excerpts From His Writings (Philadelphia, 1994), p. 34, ill.
Margherita Andreotti, "The Joseph Witerbotham Collection," in Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), pp. 122-3 (ill.), ill. on the cover.
Uwe M. Schneede and Christoph Heinrich, Van Gogh: Die Pariser Selbsbildnisse, exhib. cat. (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1995), p. 128, no. 10.
Carol Zemel, Van Gogh's Progress: Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Art (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997), pp. 146-7 (ill.).
Naomi Margolis Maurer, The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin (London 1998), p. 58, pl. 94.
George T. M. Schackelford, Vincent van Gogh: the Painter and the Portrait (New York, 2000), p. 22, pl. 18.
Patrick Shaw Cable, Questions of Work, Class, Gender and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebotte PhD. diss. (Case Western Reserve University, 2000), p. 114, 311, fig. 67.
Chris Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam and Leiden, 2002), pp. 11 (ill.), 54, 130, 169 (ill.).
Walter Feilchenfeldt, "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel: Cézanne und Van Gogh (Wändeswil am Zürichsee, 2005), p. 114 (ill.).
Araxie Toutghalian, Le Néo-Imoressionnisme de Seurat á Paul Klee, Exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2005), p. 284, ill. 285.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 57, pp. 122–23 (ill.).
Ownership History
Mme Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the artist's sister in law, Amsterdam; sold through Frankfurter Kunstverein to Leonhard Tietz (died 1914), Cologne, in February 1912 [see records in van Gogh-Bonger's account book: "19/2 2-1912 'Kunstverein Frankfurt portret' 2942.50 [guilders]" and "95/15 2-1912 'ontvangen uit Frankfort Kunstverein voor portret' 2942.50 [guilders]" in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002; see also Cologne 1912 where Leonard Tietz is listed as the owner]; by inheritance to his son, Alfred Tietz, Cologne until at least 1930 [acc. to Amsterdam 1930]. E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, 1933 [it was included in two exhibitions at van Wisselingh]. Bignou Art Gallery, New York [based on undated photograph of the painting no. 2156 in an album of French paintings and drawings that passed through the Bignou Gallery preserved at the Frick Art Reference Gallery]; sold to Joseph Winterbotham, Burlington, Vermont by at least 1935 [see Joseph Winterbotham's letter to Robert Harshe, dated June 10, 1935, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1954.


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"A mind blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, intertwine and break all the rules..." –NY Newsday
For more than 40 years, the visionary dance troupe Pilobolus has defied gravity, dazzling audiences with superhuman flexibility and fascinating forms that audaciously challenge the limits of the human body. With choreography rooted in physics and engineering, this company of acrobats and athletes revolutionized the dance world with a startling mix of humor, invention, and improvisation that weaves together illusion and reality in jaw-dropping productions filled with stunning physical feats.
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Stephan Schneider SS11 'Collect'
5 comments:
- Snappylifestyle said...
Great interview, always enjoy hearing other designers point of view. It was good catch up with you at the Converse press day too.
snappy x
- 5 May 2011 at 13:11
- Little Sable said...
I love your blog !
With love Little Sable
- 6 May 2011 at 15:33
Very much enjoyed Mr Schneider's words.
I really like the school photo element of the seated pictures, and almost exact repetition of the stance in the standing poses. Even the background has that school photo feel (if a little more interesting).
It appears that the aim was to make it look as contrived as possible, but it strangely looks good.
Yeah, the clothes are good as well.
- 7 May 2011 at 11:26
- Christina said...
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- 10 May 2011 at 17:58
- janine giorgenti said...
Great interview. I love your blog.
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I see you considered backing off of your comment that "Jesus slammed the publicans". At the very least, in the instance I quoted to ghost, the publican was set in contrast to the Pharisee who was bragging on himself and that he was not as bad as that publican (much like the sanctimonious fruit inspectors of our day who think they are not as bad as the man sitting next to them).
In response to your post...
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.
Romans 15:8 KJV Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
He was preaching the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:16-19 KJV And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
He came unto His own and His own received Him not.
John 1:11 KJV He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
"Repent" (change your mind about WHO Jesus Christ is) would be a part of the gospel of the kingdom. So of course we would see Jesus saying,
Mark 1:15 KJV And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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Princeton Alumna Susan Patton Urges Women to Snag Husband on Campus Before Graduating
(PRINCETON, N.J.) -- Princeton University alumna Susan Patton, who is a member of the class of 1977, is sharing some wisdom with female students, but not everyone is taking kindly to it.
"Here's what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate," Patton wrote in an open letter to the Daily Princetonian that has since gone viral.
Patton was one of the first women to graduate from the Ivy League school, which her son currently attends, but her open letter has drawn scathing headlines, including one: "Princeton Grad Warns Undergraduates to Find Their Husbands Now, Because the Rest of the World Is Too Dumb."
"It was just intended to suggest to these women who are on campus today, again, keep an open mind. Look around you. These are the best guys," Patton said. "If the women's movement has done what it has supposed to do, it should enable all women to make whatever choices are appropriate for them, even if their choices are seemingly retrogressive."
In the letter, Patton also says although "men regularly marry women who are younger and less intelligent…ultimately it will frustrate you to be with a man who just isn't as smart as you."
The letter was met with mixed reactions by students, some of whom felt Patton did have a point.
"I don't think her entire point is completely wrong. Girls do want to date guys who are as smart or smarter than them, but in practicality, we are all way too young to be getting married now," one female student told ABC News.
Although the advice may sound like something mothers told their daughters in past generations, Karin Ruskin, a marriage and family therapist, said Patton may be on to something.
"If you have similar value systems and you both are intellectuals, is it going to increase the chance that you'll have a successful relationship?" she said. "Of course. That's a given."
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OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists have made a strong, lightweight wire from carbon that might eventually be a rival to copper if its ability to conduct electricity can be improved, Cambridge University said on Thursday.
They said it was the first time that the super-strong carbon wires, spun in a tiny furnace that looks like a candy floss machine with temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 F), had been made "in a usable form" a millimeter (0.04 inch) thick.
Krzysztof Koziol of the University's department of materials science and metallurgy told Reuters in a telephone interview that commercial applications were still years away but that "our target is to beat copper".
Wire made in the laboratory from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) - microscopic hollow cylinders composed of carbon atoms - is 10 times lighter than copper and 30 times stronger, the university said in a statement.
Among advances, the scientists found a way to solder CNTs to metal, something that had previously not been possible.
A big drawback for CNTs is that a kg (2.2 lbs) of copper is 2.5 times more conductive than a kg of CNT.
For the next few years, Cambridge University would focus on copper and CNT hybrids, a programme to create "ultra-conductive" copper that is supported by the copper industry. In some blends, tiny amounts of carbon improve copper's conductivity.
The International Copper Association, representing producers of more than half the world's copper, said that mass production of ultra-conductive copper could be 10 years away if the science can be improved.
But development of pure high-conductive CNT carbon that could supplant the metal in wiring is a remote prospect, said Malcolm Burwell, the Association's director of technology in North America.
"It's a long way off. The industry doesn't stay awake at night worrying" about carbon nanotubes supplanting copper, he said. He said 60 percent of all copper sold worldwide was to carry electricity.
Koziol, however, said pure CNT wires could have more immediate uses because they are more flexible than copper. That could be valuable in moving parts such as robot arms or in planes or cars where flexibility is more important than conductivity.
Weight can be crucial. About a third of the weight of a large space satellite, weighing 15 tones, is typically copper. A Boeing 747 jumbo jet uses as much as 215 km (135 miles) of copper wiring, weighing more than 2 tones, the university said.
The UK National Grid said a benefit of CNTs, if developed at commercial scale at a competitive cost, was that they can operate at high temperatures.
"A potential application ... is the ability to produce a conductor that operates effectively at high temperatures, reducing fatigue on our assets and extending the useful life of the conductor," spokeswoman Gillian West said.
"CNT may also be beneficial as it is lightweight and so much easier to transport to our sites," she said.
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Is Billy's Pan Pizza in the Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy Real? Yes, It Is
If you've read Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (who hasn't?) and are a pizza fan, you may have wondered, Is Billy's Pan Pizza for real?
Yes. It is.
Along with sandwiches (they are awfully fond of eating sandwiches in those books, arent' they?) Billy's Pan Pizza is referred to several times throughout the course of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
Don't worry, all two of you out there who have not read these Swedish crime thrillers, this post contains no spoilers. Just some Billy's commercials after the jump.
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Western Digital, a company best known for its internal and external hard drives, is entering the wireless networking market: as of today, it is offering a range of simultaneous dual-band wireless N routers. There are three basic models: the $79.99 My Net N600, which includes 4 fast Ethernet ports and 300 Mbit wireless on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands; the $119.99 My Net 750, which gets you gigabit Ethernet as well as 450Mbit wireless on the 5GHz band; and the $179.99 My Net 950, which includes a whopping seven gigabit Ethernet ports and 450Mbit wireless on both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands.
The real feature of interest, given Western Digital's extensive experience in both the hard drive and home NAS market, is included in the My Net N900 Central, which combines the features of the N900 router with a built-in 1TB or 2TB hard drive (for $299.99 and $349.99, respectively). Devices outside the user's home network can access files stored on these routers either through Western Digital's Web portal or the company's iOS and Android apps. The WD SmartWare software will also provide computer backup for Windows computers, while Time Machine compatibility is included for Macs.
Western Digital's press release for the routers also highlights a technology called "FasTrack" that prioritizes video traffic from sites like YouTube and Netflix, though most routers in this price range already offer quality of service (QoS) features that do essentially the same thing.
The N900 Central promises reduced cable clutter and complexity compared to existing home NAS units and USB-attached external hard drives, but otherwise these routers face an uphill battle—Western Digital is entering a crowded market with competitive but not especially disruptive solutions, and the N900 model without a hard drive has an MSRP equalling that of some new 802.11ac routers. Still, the company's reputation in the storage market makes these products to watch.


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Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade.
Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC's epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defence games, the latest instalment is an action game in the vein of Cartoon Wars: Gunner. The player maneuvers the stick figure hero about the field, unleashing sharp-edged justice against waves of heavily-armed foes. Earn money to upgrade weapons, purchase stat-boosting helmets (I am gunning for the bunny hat), and repeat until you find something better to do, which isn't as easy as it might sound.
Gamevil made a lovely video explaining how the game works, and you can certainly waste six minutes watching that instead of heading directly to the App Store and spending $.99 if you so desire.
Cartoon Wars: Blade [iTunes]


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Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?
- 05 February, 2010 08:01
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.
That pressure was ratcheted up a notch this week, with the news that Google has IPv6-enabed YouTube, its video streaming site. Google already offers IPv6 access on its main search service and many other popular Web services. (For details on how seven of the largest sites are doing, see our list below.)
IPv6-enabled Web content is "one of the things we need to have," says Timothy Winters, a senior manager at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), which provides IPv6 product testing. "As all of these LTE and wireless broadband networks go to IPv6, the content providers have no choice but to create mobile content and make it IPv6 aware."
Winters said Comcast's recent announcement that it is running IPv6 trials is another sign that it's time for popular Web sites to support IPv6.
"We are starting to see these major Web sites embracing IPv6," Winters says, pointing out that Netflix demonstrated IPv6 access last year. "It's pretty easy to turn a basic Web server on to support IPv6…The biggest problem is the client software. That's why a lot of Web sites create separate IPv6 sites like Google and Netflix where you go if you have an IPv6 address because they don't want the site to [be slow.]"
For example, eBay is running IPv6 in its lab and plans to deploy the new protocol on its internal corporate network this year. The public-facing eBay Web site will be upgraded for what's called dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 access in 2011.
"IPv6 is the next generation. It's the future of the Internet, at least for those people who want to see the Internet continue to grow and continue to be part of the infrastructure," says Peter Manzella, senior director of global network services for eBay. "We are obviously on board with that."
Manzella says eBay's network services team has experienced no problems with its IPv6 testing so far.
"We do not expect any difficulties," he says. "We need to understand it. We need to make sure when we transition to it, it's seamless. … There are security concerns that we need to test … .We need to take the precautions that are necessary to ensure our community has a safe experience on the site."
IPv6 solves the problem that ISPs and other network operators face as the Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses, which is expected to happen in 2012. Less than 10% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated as of January.
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressable devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support so many devices that only a mathematical expression -- 2 to the 128th power -- can quantify its size.
John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, is urging Web sites to enable IPv6 access to their Web sites by Jan. 1, 2012. ARIN doles out IPv4 and IPv6 address space to ISPs in North America.
Here's where seven of the Internet's top Web sites stand in terms of IPv6 development:
1. Google
Google is the undisputed leader in IPv6 adoption. Google supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps, Wave, Chrome and Android products. Last week, Google added IPv6 support to YouTube. Google engineers have said they want to be ready with IPv6-enabled content when ISPs begin giving their customers IPv6 addresses.
2. Facebook
With more than 350 million active users -- 65 million of them accessing the site through mobile devices -- Facebook is planning its deployment of native IPv6 to its network backbone. Facebook says it wants to support both IPv4- and IPv6-aware clients. A company spokeswoman says Facebook "fully expect[s] to support native IPv6 user requests by the midpoint of this year."
3. eBay
Leading e-commerce site eBay has IPv6 running in its lab and will deploy IPv6 on its internal corporate network in the next six to eight months, Manzella says. "In terms of the Web site eBay.com, we will begin a phased approach of moving to IPv6 by the end of this year," he says. "It will be completed by the middle of next year."
4. Yahoo
Yahoo is an active participant in the IPv6 community, discussing the topic at Internet Society and North American Network Operators' Group (Nanog) meetings. Yahoo has started IPv6 peering around the world with various ISPs. It isn't serving up Web pages to IPv6 users yet, but a company spokesman says the popular portal plans to support IPv6 "as soon as possible."
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5. Microsoft
Microsoft operates two of the Internet's most popular Web sites: Windows Live, with its Bing search engine, and the Microsoft Network, also known as MSN. While Microsoft wouldn't respond to our queries about when these two sites will be IPv6 enabled, we were able to find IPv6 traffic coming from the autonomous system numbers that power these Web sites. We also found Microsoft engaged in IPv6 peering arrangements with at least nine carriers worldwide including Hurricane Electric, the Internet's leading IPv6 backbone network.
6. Wikipedia
The free online encyclopedia won't say when its main Web site will support IPv6. But Wikipedia IPv6-enabled its mail server and bug tracker application in 2008. Other miscellaneous services such as lists.wikimedia.org, svn.wikimedia.org and download.wikimedia.org also can be reached via IPv6. Back in 2006, Wikipedia briefly turned on IPv6 services but shut them down because of performance problems.
7. Twitter
Twitter wouldn't comment on its IPv6 plans. As of August 2009, 19% of Americans said they used Twitter, according to a Pew Internet Life survey. These Twitter users are more mobile than average Internet users, with 40% of them accessing the Internet via cell phones. This trend means Twitter is under the gun to provide IPv6 support before carriers such as Verizon roll out their next-generation mobile networks, which mandate IPv6 support.
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April 5, 2013: Scandal in State Drug Crime Lab
Bill Fine, WCVB-TV President and General Manager
The escalating scandal at the State Drug Crime lab has us thinking about onion metaphors; many layers, lots of tears, and all of it stinks.
This week a new layer is revealed; state inspector general investigators discovered more evidence pointing to a crime lab in complete disarray.
In an attorney general's confidential report obtained by Team 5, investigators uncovered drug samples scattered; in supervisors' desks, taped to cabinets, with some samples dating back more than 10 years.
This new revelation casts doubt, not only on the 34,000 cases touched by indicted chemist Annie Dookhan, but on close to 200,000 cases processed by the lab since 2003.
In a criminal justice system predicated on dismissing charges in light of "reasonable doubt," the flood gates are officially open; and they well should be. Facing criminal charges and 27 counts tied to evidence mishandling, alleged "rogue chemist" Annie Dookhan has been portrayed as the central figure in the crime lab scandal.
State Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach owned up to his responsibility by resigning last September. But with these new revelations, it's clear that neither Dookhan nor Auerbach are the only two deserving scrutiny.
It stretches credibility that any organization could become so dysfunctional without many layers of complicity or neglect. We urge Governor Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to open up the windows on the crime lab scandal; swiftly address the affected cases and let's start again with a clean slate. With so many lives impacted, it's important this investigation is conducted in full public view.


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Commentary: Taking a cue from Sweden on taxes and spending cuts
There's little argument that the $800 billion-plus stimulus bill that was President Barack Obama's first "accomplishment" soon became one of his biggest political liabilities. The recovery that began in mid-2009 has been the weakest since World War II in terms of GDP growth and nearly the weakest in terms of job growth.
An explosion of government spending didn't do much to stimulate the economy, yet liberal economists keep popping up, demanding more stimulus.
Last week, Peter Orszag — Obama's first budget chief — was out with a piece saying, in effect, ignore all that debt piling up, just shovel more money out the door. Orszag says, "Those who are most worried about our long-term fiscal health shouldn't fret too much about additional stimulus today, if it is combined with future budget cuts." In other words, trust Congress to cough up the cuts later.
Yet the Obama stimulus has become a potent rebuttal to Keynesian economics — the notion that you prime the economic pump by boosting government spending.
I wonder if Orszag ever read that paper that came out last year by a couple of academic economists, Timothy Conley of the University of Western Ontario and Bill Dupor of Ohio State. They looked at the progress of the stimulus up to that point and found that it created or "saved" a measly 450,000 jobs — while killing or forestalling more than a million.
Much of the stimulus money was trundled off to state governments, where in many cases it didn't result in increased spending. Instead, states used federal dollars to replace spending they had planned anyway.
Which makes you wonder: What if the entire amount of the stimulus had been plowed into permanent tax cuts instead?
There's no way of knowing with precision, but you'd be safe in assuming that the economy would be significantly larger, that more people would be working and paying taxes, that the deficit would be smaller and we wouldn't have piled up quite so much debt.
Crazy? Not really. Tax cuts — combined with spending cuts — helped revive Sweden's economy and stabilize its government finances, beginning a half-dozen years ago.
Sweden was once the exemplar of the overspending welfare state, but last year its economy grew at a 4.4 percent clip, and its deficit vanished. As the London-based Spectator magazine noted in a recent article, when the panic hit in '08 and everyone was screaming that stimulus spending was essential, Sweden stuck with its policy of supply-side tax cuts.
The program was developed by Anders Borg, a libertarian economist known for his ponytail and earring.
"Look at Spain, Portugal or the UK, whose governments were arguing for large temporary stimulus," he told Spectator magazine. "Well, we can see that very little of the stimulus went to the economy. But they are stuck with the debt."
Sound familiar? Borg's perspective is bracing stuff, given the staleness of the political debate in this country, where one of our major parties has poisoned itself with wealth hatred and our president has become obsessed with "fat cats" and millionaire jet owners.
Borg doesn't loathe entrepreneurs. He wants more of them. So he scrapped a wealth tax and most property taxes, moves that were controversial and caused his party to lose support. But Borg says economic recovery begins with entrepreneurs and "ownership is a factor of production." If you want the production and jobs, you have to draw the owners.
At the same time, Sweden cut taxes for lower-income brackets as well and unlike the Bush administration, it insisted on deep spending cuts along with the tax cuts.
While some people would tag any policy mix involving spending cuts as "austerity," it seems to have worked effectively in Sweden, and there's little reason to assume the same prescription wouldn't help our own ailing economy.
If you want jobs and prosperity, a big part of the solution is to curb the growth of government and encourage entrepreneurs — rather than threaten them with higher taxes if they succeed.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The Birmingham-Southern men's basketball team shot a season-low .333 from the field on Sunday afternoon, falling to Rhodes 68-55 on the road to snap a six-game win streak.
BSC falls to 12-4 overall and 5-1 in the Southern Athletic Association; Rhodes moves to 11-6 overall and 6-0 in the SAA, clinching its spot at the top of the standings.
The first 10 minutes of the first half were close, with the teams trading leads four times and tying twice. At the 10:14 mark, Rhodes led 15-13 and then scored seven unanswered points to go up 22-13 by the 7:42 mark. The Lynx led by as much as 10, twice, but the Panthers came back to cut it to 31-27 at the half.
Rhodes steadily pulled ahead in the second half to a small but comfortable lead, and held on to eventually win by 13.
Sophomore Larry Thomas led the Panthers off the bench with 12 points, followed by senior Blaise White with 11 and junior Griffin Schamp with 10. Senior Zac Richards led with 11 rebounds.
Andrew Galow led the Lynx with 26 points, and Theo Hartwell led with 10 boards.
The Panthers shot 18-54 (.333) overall and 5-23 (.217) from beyond the arc, and were 14-15 (.933) from the free throw line. The Lynx shot 21-46 (.457) from the field, 6-20 (.300) from three-point range, and 20-23 (.870) at the line.
BSC pulled down one more board than Rhodes with 32 while turning the ball over 16 times, three more than the Lynx.
The Panthers return home next weekend for more conference action, facing Berry on Friday at 8 p.m. and Oglethorpe on Sunday at 3 p.m.


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Were all those numbers really true? Yes!
- Which of the following is the oldest?
ALA was "born" on October 6, 1876, in Philadelphia, at the Centennial Exposition. For whatever it's worth, that makes us older than the IRS, which is kind of fun. Hopefully this little nugget of information will help you win a bet someday.
- ALA puts on two conferences each year - "Midwinter" in January and "Annual" in June. How many individual sessions are there at Annual?
It's mind-boggling to think about it, but ALA's Conference Services Unit has to coordinate 2,500 meetings, even at the "smaller" Midwinter Meeting. That number can go as high as 2,800 at some Annual Conferences.
- What was the most challenged book in libraries in 2006 as tracked by ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom?
In 2006, 546 books were challenged in libraries across the U.S., but And Tango Makes Three topped the list. Learn more about censorship and intellectual freedom issues from our Office for Intellectual Freedom unit's website.
- How many "executive directors" are there on the ALA staff?
It's kind of crazy, but it's true that there are 12 staff members with that title - one heading each division, plus, the executive-executive-director-big-kahuna, Keith Michael Fiels. In addition, there are four "associate executive directors." There may actually be more of them that we don't even know about....
- How many books, audiobooks, and videos come into the "Booklist" office each week?
The Booklist office is like a fort, because there are piles and piles of schtuff everywhere. Everywhere. Imagine receiving 12,000 items a year and trying to track, store, and manage all of them in a space no bigger than the first floor of a personal home. It makes for great browsing on your lunch break, though!
- How many Congressional visits did ALA's Washington Office make in 2006?
Staff from our Washington Office bent the ear of legislators on behalf of ALA members and libraries across the country an amazing 102 times in 2006. That's an average of two visits per week, which is saying something considering how often Congress is on break. Visit our Washington Office online or take a tour and meet the staff there.
- How many divisions are there in ALA?
Sometimes it seems like a lot more, what with all of the acronyms, but there are 11 divisions in ALA. Here's a list of all of them.
- ALA's Conference Services unit is already planning where the Annual Conference will be in what year?
It's shocking to think about, but it's true. When the rest of us were worrying about Y2K, ALA's Conference Services staff was planning where conferences a decade into the new century would be held. Right now, they're scouting for the year 2019. Here's an up-to-date list of conference dates and locations, and here's a Word document that explains how sites are chosen.
- How many councilors are there on the ALA Council?
Since ALA is a membership organization, it is guided by 183 elected councilors from across the membership. Such a large number is arrived at by adding together 100 elected at large councilors, 53 from state/regional chapters, 11 from ALA's divisions, 7 from roundtables, and the 12 members of the Executive Board. Learn more about Council here and meet your current councilors here.
- American Libraries magazine turns how many years old this year?
AL turns a grand 100 years old in 2007, which of course is 700 in dog years. However, this year AL shed its 20th Century skin and let down its hair. It is leading ALA forward with a new redesign, a new approach to content, and a magazine for the public in the works. Meet the AL staff or reminisce about the last 100 years of the Association's memberhsip magazine on the CentenniAL blog.


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March 6, 2005
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Michelle Cozad scored 22 points and Santa Clara beat Gonzaga 77-66 on Sunday, snapping the nation's longest winning streak at 23 games and winning the West Coast Conference tournament.
Gonzaga was trying to become the first team to go unbeaten in the WCC regular season and tournament, but now the No. 24 Bulldogs will have to hope to be invited to their first NCAA tournament. The men's team has gotten that far every year since 1999.
The Bulldogs trailed by as many as 25 before making a late run against the Broncos.
Santa Clara (17-13), the conference tournament host, will be making its first NCAA appearance since 2002 when it lost in the first round. It is the Broncos' third WCC title and first since 1998.
Ashley Graham had 17 points, all in the first half, and Quinn Thomas added 14 points and six rebounds for Santa Clara, which tied a school record with 14 3-pointers. It is the fourth time this season the Broncos have made 14 3s in a game.
Ashley Burke scored 28 points and had eight rebounds for Gonzaga (27-3), which didn't have WCC player of the year Shannon Mathews in the starting lineup because of a right ankle sprain.
The point guard was injured Saturday midway through the first half of Gonzaga's 58-40 semifinal win over Pepperdine. Mathews, whose scoring average of 11.6 points ranks second on the team, didn't return against the Waves and wasn't expected to play against the Broncos. But she checked in at 15:27 of the first half.
Mathews scored just six points and wasn't a factor in the game, spending much of her time riding a stationary bicycle behind the Gonzaga bench.
Santa Clara led by 14 at halftime then opened the second half with a 20-9 run to take control for good. Thomas made three 3-pointers during the stretch and the Broncos opened a 66-41 lead.
Santa Clara stretched the advantage to 71-48 before going scoreless the next six minutes. Gonzaga responded with a 14-0 run to pull within nine points, but couldn't get closer.
Graham hadn't reached double figures since Jan. 8 but she had three 3-pointers and made three free throws during a 21-9 run in the first half that gave the Broncos a 37-26 lead.
MVP - Michelle Cozad, Santa Clara, Jr., Guard
Ashley Burke, Gonzaga, Sr., Forward
Jennifer Lacy, Pepperdine, Sr., Forward
Ashley Graham, Santa Clara, So., Guard
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The Architects' Registration Board (ARB) looks set to follow through on its earlier promise to ramp up its 2014 annual retention fee by £6.50 to £105
The increase, which is almost certain to be rubber-stamped at a board meeting on Wednesday, follows a 20 per cent hike in this year's fees (compared to 2012's rates) which took the cost from £80 to the current charge of £98.50.
In a statement ARB said the new £6.50 rise was necessary to '…ensure that it could deliver its 2014 business plan and meet the objectives of protecting the users and potential users of architects' services and supporting architects through regulation.'
On Wednesday the board will also vote on a proposal to cut the cost of re-registering by £10 and also whether to significantly boost the cost for those who wish to have an 'application for a prescribed examination referred to a lead examiner' from £230 to £300.
Currently, in addition to the annual retention fee, architects also pay £35 to register with ARB.
There are also plans to boost the retention fee again in 2015 by another £5.
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20% ARB fee hike approved
The ARB board has unanimously approved an increase in its annual retention fee from £80 to £98.50.
Equivalent to 36 pence per week, the increase would see architects paying £18.50 more to remain on the register in 2013.
The rise followed a 'significant increase' in costs relating to misuse of title and complaints referred to the Professional Conduct Committee which threatened to breach the organisation's minimum cash reserves level.
The increase was criticised by architects including AHMM's Simon Allford who called for mass resignations from the register in response.
RIBA president Angela Brady has however given her support to the fee rise.The RIBA fees were also recently increased by 3.5 per cent to £383.
Increases to application, readmission and exam fees were also ratified at today's ARB board meeting (20 September).
University of Bath architecture head Alex Wright and Bartlett School of Architecture director of professional studies Susan Ware however both voted against the proposal which would see the cost of the prescribed examination rise from £1,390 to £1,671. John Assael of Assael Architecture abstained.
The ARB board also voted to establish an investigations oversight committee to report on the progress of its newly established investigations pool.
ARB chair Beatrice Fraenkel said: 'No regulator likes having to increase its retention fee, but we recognised that a failure to do so on our part would have a severely detrimental effect on our ability to deliver our statutory duties under the Architects Act. We were, however, resolute about keeping the increase to the barest minimum, while still ensuring that we could meet our obligations under the Act. ARB's retention fee has always been one of the lowest fees paid by any professional, and we were determined to keep it that way to minimise as far as possible the financial burden on architects."
RIBA president, Angela Brady, added: 'The retention fee should be seen as an integral part of a practice's overheads, and ARB has done well to hold the fee at the same level for two years running. They are making every effort to contain costs through careful budgeting and by investing in technologies that deliver efficiency savings. I appreciate that increasing the fee was a difficult decision for the Board to take, but it is a decision that I fully support. Now we all face the real increased costs of providing the best service for consumers and architects which adds value to our profession and to the public.'
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Like most underground hotspots, walking past The Garment Room is a very easy thing to do if you don't know it's there, especially because it's literally underground. Located in the lower level of 112 Greene Street (between Prince and Spring Streets), the façade of the building is extremely unassuming and its only form of advertising are a poster in the window reading "The Garment Room" and a sign stand that says "Vintage Vintage Vintage."
Though advertised primarily as a boutique featuring highly sought after vintage garments from haute couture designers, The Garment Room is not merely another trendy SoHo clothing store. In fact, it's probably the one of the larger and more diverse testaments of street art in New York City. This becomes evident as you descend the staircase into the lower level (where you are first hit with an explosion of grunge-style art and are swept back into what a punk club or a subway tunnel must have looked like in the 80s). Inside The Garment Room, the juxtaposition of haute couture with the colorful street art is definitely unexpected.
Once known as the infamous 112 Workshop in the 70s and 80s, 112 Greene Street originally offered exhibition space for the first generation of conceptual and performance artists who emerged as the Vietnam War and racism were ripping the country apart and the economy was tanking. It was there that new genres of art such as installation and performance were invented and some of the most influential artists of the day came to create and collaborate. Most of the work was made on site and artists were given almost complete control to curate their shows and create works to challenge and inspire the public. Embodying the very nature of street art, artists used found and ephemeral objects to site-specific installations, accepting that their work would probably not last the week.
About a year ago, before The Garment Room moved into 112 Greene Street, monster street artist and Harlem native Royce Bannon (a central figure in the Endless Love Crew collective) curated a show with music producers Steven Loeb and John Robie that was intended to allow the space to reclaim its original purpose: being an alternative space for the exhibition of art. This show, in effect, created the backdrop to what would eventually become The Garment Room. The show "Work to Do," featured dozens of street artists (many of whom are also associated with the Endless Love Crew collective), remained intact as the property was transferred. With paintings on the pillars, walls, floors, and ceilings, The Garment Room continues to be a veritable explosion of visual stimulation. Rather than delete this important part of 112 Greene Street's history, owner Tiffany Nicole has maintained the pieces as a tribute to the spirit of collaboration and lively discourse inherent to this space. In this way, The Garment Room definitely stays true to the idea and history of 112 Greene Street.
The Garment Room's website states that they have worked to fuse the "respect for expression and color, passion and dreams, hustle and triumph, and most importantly, respect for those who dedicate their life to the creation of beauty. The Garment Room is a tribute to any and everything creative. We are the sanctuary that welcomes the freedom of exploration and originality, a refuge void of restraints where nothing matters but the irrepressible passion for art and the desire to immerse oneself into the world around it."
Tiffany Nicole is not only the owner of The Garment Room, but curator of current art exhibitions there as well. Staying true to the ephemeral nature of the space, she is constantly updating the space by inviting artists to add their creativity to the space by spraying on the walls (such as NME and Leif), creating installations (such as with the lightwork of Dean Radinovsky), and showcasing their artwork (such as Victor Koslov and Fernando de Souza) in The Garment Room. Adhering to the tradition of creation, a section of The Garment Room has even been retained as an exhibition room and active studio space for visiting artists.
Most people go to 112 Greene Street with the intention to shop, but to those who come specifically to look at the paintings and installations, the employees are very helpful in assisting with inquiries and are as knowledgeable in talking about a piece or an artist as they are in talking about clothes and designers. They let you poke around and explore the hidden corners of the shop which is covered to the last square inch.To take pictures, they ask only for a small donation that will go to funding visiting artists. I talked with Jason, who was able to give me some insight into the history of the establishment and point out some of the pieces, and Dean Radinovsky, an artist who dropped into The Garment Room as we were talking.
Although we can't characterize this collection as street art because it does not influence the urban landscape, it is worthy of mention and a visit not only because the work of several dozen urban street artists are prominently featured in this space, but because it represents street-artist collaboration and a non-traditional collection as well. Whether you enjoy art, design, or fashion, there's something for everyone who values culture to enjoy there. Normally open Friday to Sunday 1-7, The Garment Room is definitely worth a visit.
Special thanks to my good friend Ryan, who came exploring with me and took about 70 awesome pictures of this space. I only posted a selection because you really need to see this place for yourselves!


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Barack Obama was one of the first to see this change coming and to put himself forward as leader of the next wave. He told us that in his infamous 2008 meeting with the Reno Gazette-Journal op-ed board, when he described Ronald Reagan as a transformational president whose achievement he hoped to emulate.
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Safety, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of PC-515 for Vaginal Use as a Possible Microbicide
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00213031
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 21, 2005
Last Update Posted : August 14, 2017
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The primary aims of the study were to assess the safety and acceptability of PC-515 when applied vaginally at least three times weekly for 12 months. Secondary aims were to gather preliminary data on Carraguard's effectiveness in preventing male-to-female transmission of HIV, and other STIs.
The hypothesis was that Carraguard would cause little or no significant irritation, including lesions; and that women would find Carraguard acceptable. The study was not powered to determine effectiveness, but based on safety, acceptability and feasibility parameters, the outcome of the Phase 2 trial would enable a decision whether or not to proceed to a Phase 3 trial.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections Chlamydia Trachomatis Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Trichomonas Vaginitis Syphilis Herpes Simplex
|Drug: Carraguard (PC-515)
|Phase 2
Carraguard™ (PC-515), the Population Council's lead candidate microbicide, was tested in a triple-masked, randomized, placebo-controlled trial fielded in one site in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. The primary aims of the study were to assess Carraguard's safety (toxicity) - including signs of local irritation, such as itching or burning; changes in vaginal flora; and incidence of abnormal external genital, vaginal, and cervical findings - when applied vaginally for 12 months; to evaluate acceptability; to assess feasibility of conducting a large scale microbicide trial in a non-sex worker population; to gauge women's reactions to a non-contraceptive microbicide; and to explore microbicide use dynamics in a Thai population.
Secondary aims were to investigate HIV infections averted (preliminary indications); other sexually transmitted infections averted - including C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae, T. vaginalis, and T. pallidum (preliminary indications); and effect on cervical cytology.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|165 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Trial to Assess Expanded Safety, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of PC-515 (Lambda Carrageenan) for Vaginal Use as a Possible Microbicide
|Actual Study Start Date :
|February 2000
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2001
- Safety: Genital exam & interview for symptoms after 14 days & monthly thereafter; colposcopy done throughout trial at clinicians' discretion; monthly testing to detect changes in vagina flora.
- Compliance: collection of applicators and interview(monthly)
- Acceptability: interview (quarterly)
- Preliminary effectiveness: Swabs taken to test for sexually transmitted infections - gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis and for genital ulcer disease, if ulceration was detected; blood drawn for syphilis and HIV testing and for HSV-2 Pap smear to det
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- In good health as determined by medical history, physical examination and results of laboratory screening tests
- Aged 18 years or older
- Resident in the area for at least one year and planning to stay for at least 12 months
- HIV-seronegative at baseline
- Willing and able to comply with the study protocol (including being tested for HIV, learning the results, and undergoing clinical evaluations)
- Able to achieve a score of 80% or better on true-false test of key study concepts
- Able to give informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or desire to become pregnant at time of study participation
- Delivered or aborted a pregnancy within the six weeks prior to screening
- Male sex partner known at enrollment to be HIV positive
- History of surgery on external genitalia, vagina or cervix in the six weeks prior to screening
- Recent history of non-menstrual vaginal bleeding with intercourse
- Clinically detectable genital abnormality (including presence of warts, or a structural or congenital abnormality)
- Clinical suspicion of a reproductive tract infection (RTI), defined as the presence of a genital ulcer visible to the naked eye, an abnormal vaginal discharge or purulent cervicitis, or untreated positive STD result (Women could be enrolled after treatment of identified RTI. Women with persistent genital epithelial disruption, i.e., ulcer, abrasion or fissure, were not eligible.
- Women with other persistent abnormal signs, such as vaginal or cervical discharge, despite treatment of identified RTI, were eligible)
- Abnormal Pap smear (Class II or above)
- History of sensitivity/allergy to latex
- Concurrent participation in another trial of a vaginal product
- Injection of recreational drugs
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00213031
|Chiang Rai Health Club
|Chiang Rai, Thailand, 57001
|Principal Investigator:
|Janneke HMM van de Wijgert, Ph.D.
|Population Council
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00213031 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Population Council #271
CDC & Prevention #2485
|First Posted:
|September 21, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 14, 2017
|Last Verified:
|August 2017
HIV prevention
sexually transmitted infections
female-initiated protection
expanded safety trial
HIV Seronegativity
Herpes Simplex
Trichomonas Vaginitis
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Skin Diseases, Viral
Skin Diseases, Infectious
Skin Diseases
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
Neisseriaceae Infections
Vaginal Diseases
Treponemal Infections
Spirochaetales Infections
Trichomonas Infections
Protozoan Infections
Parasitic Diseases
Anti-Infective Agents