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The impact of computers to increase efficiency has been fairly widespread; try to imagine an architect, accountant, or administrator working without one in 2008. But some occupations seem to be holding out, and the medical profession is one of those. A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine paints a disturbing picture of just how slow adoption is.
Electronic health records (EHRs), as I found out recently while researching an article, are a byzantine and complex field, with tens of different platforms and products, both proprietary and open source. The US, unlike many other developed nations, lags behind in the widespread adoption of EHRs. Exact figures have been hard to come by in the past; numbers ranged between 9 and 20 percent among the sources I found, but those are actually overestimates, according to the NEJM report.
The researchers conducted a national survey of 2,758 physicians, a larger sample size than previous studies, and I must admit that I found the numbers a little shocking. Only 4 percent of respondents were using what was defined as an "extensive, fully functioning" EHR system, and in total, 13 percent were using a basic system. The definition of fully functioning or basic was arrived at with the help of an expert panel, and the differences can be found in the article. The survey didn't take into account physicians working in federal hospitals (including the VA, which has an EHR system that has been widely praised), Osteopaths, residents, and a number of specialties including anesthesia, psychiatry, pathology, and radiology.
Physicians who did have some form of EHR system were more likely to be young, working large practices, mostly in hospitals or health centers, located in urban areas, and mainly in the western region of the US.
When the benefits of EHRs were examined, physicians who used a fully-featured system reported more benefits over those with a basic system, but both groups reported having prevented drug allergies, dangerous drug interactions and being alerted to critical lab results. The vast majority (>88 percent) of physicians with EHRs reported being satisfied with their systems.
As for those without, they were much more likely to be older physicians, and working in much smaller practices. The most common reasons for not adopting an EHR system was cost, followed by fears of obscelensce, and finding a suitable system. Interestingly, concerns about interoperability and compatibility didn't feature at all as an impediment to adoption; this is in contrast to frequent complaints I encountered when discussing the subject with medical professionals in the past.
The authors address the disparity between previous studies and theirs, with regard to adoption numbers; using the less stringent criteria from a 2006 study that reported 9 percent uptake, their data arrived at a figure of 13 percent, which at least shows the trend line moving in the right direction. Still, there's a long way to go.
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The first key area involves protecting your physical computer hardware and physical connection to the Internet and other networks, disk drives, and devices.
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Lastly, we'll explain making good, informed choices when browsing the Internet, installing applications, and transmitting or storing personally sensitive information (such as bank account, credit card, store card account numbers, social security numbers, passwords, etc.). We'll also cover avoiding scams and other situations where criminals attempt to obtain information and how to deal with those threats, as well as password technology.
One of the easiest ways to protect yourself from criminals and computer viruses or other malware is to install a physical (hardware) firewall/router. These devices are your first line of defense and can be purchased at almost all major electronics retailers and local computer shops. They work by blocking incoming, unsolicited network or internet requests. For example, a virus trolling the Internet wouldn't be allowed to enter your network under its own power if a hardware firewall was in place. A firewall/router may NOT be able to block malware, however, if you [un]intentionally download it; that's where section two and the "software firewall" are covered. Expect to pay $40 to $80 for entry-level hardware firewall/router models with an adequate 3-4 year life span. More expensive models will have features such as wireless connectivity.
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A race to stop a killer begins when a piece of mail is delivered to the wrong person in "Tell No Lies," the latest thriller from Gregg Hurwitz.
Daniel Brasher gave up a high-paying job to marry the woman of his dreams. She successfully battled a rare form of cancer and now works as a community organizer. They love each other and are happy together.
Then a piece of mail with no return address arrives in Daniel's inbox at work. It warns him to admit what he's done or he'll bleed for it. There's a deadline, but that deadline has passed. Daniel shows the letter to his wife. They search for the recipient's name on the Internet and discover that he's been murdered. Other pieces of mail with deadlines are delivered to Daniel's inbox. He must convince the police that the threats are real.
Hurwitz has a gift for creating characters and elaborate plots that start with something simple and then explode. In "Tell No Lies," the setting is San Francisco instead of his usual Los Angeles area, and he wraps the story in the landscape of the region, making the city a character as well.
Menace, treachery and intrigue have never been more exciting.
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Martin Hatch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 174 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
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I am an experienced and much sought after young professional who has recently setup a new private limited IT consultancy business, specialising in IT architecture, software development and consultancy.
I have decided to start up in the contract market after spending over 7 years in various professional software companies.
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I will mainly be targetting specialist IT agencies, as well as professional software houses and large corporations across all markets.
Due to the nature of my work I will mainly be targetting technical consultants as well as recruitment agents who will be looking to employ my services on their projects.
These people typically dislike overly "fussy" designs and tend to prefer more conservative colour palletes (although I am still keen to get some colour in my logo).
I am looking for a crisp, clean and professional design, am I am quite keen on circular designs (e.g. Google Chrome / Sony Ericsson)
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A few Sunday morning notes:
— From the Twitter account of Nate Haber, agent for Raiders rookie sixth-round draft pick Brandon Myers: "Long day ahead… TE Brandon Myers will sign his contract today in Oakland. He was a non-combine invite out of Iowa, drafted in round 6."
Will the Raiders announce any signings, or just wait until they all show up at camp? Doesn't matter much either way, their track record of getting players in on time (other than one notable exception) is pretty good . . .
I hesitate to call Myers' the Raiders first signing, because they could have signed everyone but Darrius Heyward-Bey by now and simply chose not to say anything about it . . .
— ESPN's Len Pasquarelli warns not to be surprised if the Raiders still deal defensive end Derrick Burgess to New England.
Be very surprised, however, if it's a dump job (fourth-round pick or later), because Al Davis still regrets the Randy Moss deal. Moss' name is probably somewhere prominent in the thousands of pages of legal notes compiled in the Lane Kiffin file.
— If the Raiders do trade Burgess, do they try and sign Stryker Sulak? Teams dump undrafted free agents all the time and bring them back. From a business sense, the Raiders would pay little or no signing bonus instead of the $80,000 or so they were facing.
Of course, if there's another offer out there, Sulak is going to take it after being placed on the waiver wire without any notice from the Raiders.
— Was asked whether Ray Guy, Ken Stabler or Cliff Branch would make it to the Hall of Fame and if all three players would eventually make it to Canton for a Page 2 feature.
My response?
"The best chance of the three probably belongs to Ray Guy, and even then it would probably be with the veteran's committee deciding to let in the sport's all-time best punter. Stabler's problem is that he had several mediocre years and a short time as a premier quarterback. Branch's numbers have been devalued by the inflated numbers of today's wide receivers because of strict rules regarding pass defense."
Before I get buried for Raider hating, keep the question in mind. I wasn't asked if I thought they should be in the Hall of Fame, I was asked if they would eventually make the Hall of Fame. Two very different things.
Whether old-guard football-types like it or not, a punter is part of a football team and the best one ever should be in the Hall of Fame. At some point, I think this will be realized _ hopefully while Guy is still alive _ and he'll make his way to Canton.
Branch was a more productive player than Lynn Swann in every area except Super Bowl highlights (although Branch had some Super Bowl moments of his own). He should be in, as well, certainly before Tim Brown, for example.
Don't see it happening, however, with the flood of receivers with bigger stats that don't mean nearly as much.
I think of Stabler at his peak and my knee-jerk reaction is that he was a Hall of Fame quarterback, one of the best that ever played. But Stabler's peak also coincided with the time I was a fan, not part of the media, and was skewed by the fact that I was sitting in the Coliseum in some of his greatest moments and had a rooting interest.
A lot of people revel in Stabler's days as a hard-partying quarterback who led comebacks while hung over, and it does make for a great story. But it also made him old before his time, and the way he played in later years with the Oilers and Saints are part of his overall legacy.
As the biased guy who sat in the stands and watched Stabler play as a Raider, I think, yes, he's a Hall of Famer. But as a detached sports writer, I can see the other side.
Besides, Davis is pushing harder for Jim Plunkett, anyway.
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A recent survey conducted by New England Clean Energy revealed that many individuals who use solar energy believe it is a good investment.
The survey of 100 previous customers of the company found that seven out of 10 believe solar energy is a better investment than a major property renovation or buying a car.
"Solar yields immediate, no-maintenance dividends, and boosts the home's value," said solar customer Eric Fix. "Renovations can be hit-or-miss."
The survey also revealed that saving money is the main reason people install solar energy systems on their homes. Helping the planet and increasing the country's energy independence were also commonly cited reasons.
Additionally, the survey found that the 30 percent federal tax credit for solar electric systems is a strong motivator for going solar. Seventy percent of respondents said it was a major consideration in their choice to install it.
According to SolarEnergy.net, the average homeowner saves over $1000 a year on electricity by installing solar panels on their roof. However, there are other ways consumers are making their homes more energy efficient as well.
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The U.S. Department of Energy reveals that heating accounts for about 30 percent of the energy used in the home. Homeowners can increase their energy efficiency and save money in a number of ways when it comes to heating their homes.
Experts say furnaces, boilers or heat pumps that are more than 20 years old are worth replacing, even if there is nothing wrong with them. Newer, more efficient heating systems can increase the comfort of the home, while cutting annual costs. In fact, many modern heating systems are as high as 99 percent effective.
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By Amjad Baker
Twenty-three racing cars set off Thursday morning from King Abdullah Garden, Amman speeding to the finish line of the two-day Jordan's International Rally.
Middle East champion Mohammad Ben Sulayem and his Dutch co-driver, Ronan Morgan were the first to start.
But Ben Sulayem had an unlucky start as he failed to keep his leading position in the first special stage (SS1) and finished sixth.
Unlucky for another reason, Kuwaiti Mohammad Al-Sarraf dropped out of the race due to mechanical problems, to be joined later by Jordan's Ayat Abdul Rahman who had to leave the race at Abu Nseir suburb north of Amman, due to a mechanical failure.
However, at SS2 in Tal Al-Rumman, UAE's Ben Sulayem recovered his spectacular performance, and recorded the fastest time in this stage.
The Emirati champion finished the stage by 8 seconds a head of the lead driver Michael Saleh managed to maintain first position ahead of Australia's Ron Cremen who moved to third, replacing Qatar's Nizar Shanfari who finished in fourth position.
Jordan's only hope Marouf Abu Samrah finished the SS2 fifth.
One of the two Cypriot cars crashed in the second stage when Daniel Leny's Subaru car rolled forcing him to retire.
At the SS2, two other teams retired due to mechanical problems leaving them on the show-side, and only 18 speeders remained to compete in the SS3 (Special-Stage-three-Dead Sea).
Jordan's rally is a very competitive and special one, compared to other similar events in the Middle East, according to Bader Rashid, the rally's chief media officer said.
Rashid said the race contains a variety of challenges where the drivers travel through desert for 254.88 km, ride up hills and even down to the lowest point on earth, the Dead Sea driving for 431.42 km.
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News Release 08-190
Advancing Transparency
NASA joins NSF in posting grant information on Research.gov
October 27, 2008
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in having a presence on Research.gov, a Web portal reflecting a partnership among federal research-oriented grant-making agencies.
Led by NSF, Research.gov was launched in December 2007, in part to make government research spending more transparent to the research community, Congress and taxpayers.
Research.gov offers detailed information on federal support of scientific research around the country. Research awards are easily searchable by agency, awardee, award amount and date, and key word. An advanced search option offers additional ways to examine awards, including by congressional district. Information can be reviewed online or exported to various file formats, such as XML and electronic spreadsheets.
"We are excited to have both NSF and NASA award information in Research.gov," said Kathie L. Olsen, NSF deputy director and chief operating officer. "Now anyone can easily find how federal research dollars are spent, giving the general public, the scientific community and Congress a better window into the results achieved with federally-funded research."
In addition, having visibility of federal grants can help institutions find new opportunities to collaborate and maximize resources. Any visitor to Research.gov can review awards and find names of principal investigators, abstracts about the research, and citations of any research papers or publications associated with the work. Headlines at the lower portion of the home page link to highlights about research activities. There is also a "policy library" providing links to statutes, regulations, agency-specific policies and other information relevant to research grants.
NASA's grant information was added to Research.gov in September 2008.
"This partnership is an example of NASA's efforts to increase ease of access to our work, especially for the research community that is so essential to NASA's mission of inspiration, innovation and discovery," said NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. "Research.gov will make the results of scientific research more accessible than ever before, fostering better collaboration among scientists, research institutions and federal agencies."
In addition to providing valuable information, Research.gov is also intended to help institutions who are applying for and receiving government funding, giving them an easy way to check on the status of their proposals and submit grant financial reports. Research.gov is being delivered in a phased and research community-focused manner consistent with the way NSF built and deployed FastLane, NSF's web-based grants management system used by over 250,000 scientists, educators, technology experts, and administrators.
NSF is engaging the community by inviting institutions to participate in a Beta release of these new services. Feedback from the Beta groups will be used to further refine the initial services prior to launching them for all customers.
Research.gov offers a menu of services that will grow more robust over time. Future services include several aimed at government agencies and the research community: a capability for researchers and reviewers to maintain and update profiles in the system; tools for program officers to find information and manage their grant portfolios; and online tools for submitting research performance reports in the new format used government-wide.
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TOOLS : Barspoon
GLASS : Old Fashioned
EXTRAS : Lime wheel for garnish
SERVINGS : 1 cocktail
1 ½ oz. Irish Whiskey {Bushmills, Jameson, Tullamore Dew, Kilbeggan to name a few}
¼ oz. fresh squeezed lime juice
2 oz. Ginger ale
• Add Irish whiskey and lime juice to an Old Fashioned glass
• Using barspoon, stir gently to combine
• Fill glass with ice – all the way to the top!
• Add Ginger ale and use barspoon to combine
• Crown the cocktail with a lime wheel
Since the annual holiday of St. Patrick's Day has become a wonderful reason to enjoy a cocktail or two, this drink provides you a chance to taste a little of the Emerald Isle while sharing one thing in common with all Irishmen ~ Irish Whiskey! All that's left now is to raise your Queen of Clubs cocktail, toast your friends and shout "Erin Go Bragh" (Ireland Forever)!


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amy parmenter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
The ParmFarm
I am an award winning reporter launching a website that will be driven by - but not limited to - interviews with people who have achieved some measure of success in their field. The goal is for visitors to learn from and be inspired by the work of others - in business, in the arts, in sports, in life - in general. I hope to highlight not just the successes they've achieved but the failures they've overcome. Ultimately, all interviews will be sponsored and a donation made to the foundation of choice for the interviewee so...the parmfarm is, in a sense, a co-op of information and ideas, which is why i am aiming for oprah.
This is the mission statement:
The mission of THE PARMFARM is to promote professional and personal growth by learning from those who are outstanding in their 'fields': entrepreneurs, artists, authors and activists. Award-winning journalist Amy Parmenter invites her guests to bring water from their wells and tools from their sheds, dig deep and plant seeds of inspiration, providing food for thought to all who stop by.
broad audience because there will be a broad range of topics so...men and women...let's say 30-80. but, if i had to guess...more likely male than female...more likely older than younger.
i want the parmfarm logo to be warm, yet professional. l like the feel of the logo for the parkerhouse inn in vermont, just as an idea.
obviously, the name parmfarm is a play on my name...amy parmenter. and, i like the idea of a farm as being a very nurturing place where we 'grow'. the tag line will be 'Stop by. Grow.' Though that does not have to be included in the logo.
i definitely like simple rather than busy.
i have noticed that the clip art of an old microphone looks like an ear of corn, or rows of corn if lined up...perhaps that could be incorporated...but certainly not a must. i have noticed that i like goudy stout, castellar, algerian, and wide latin fonts.
the one thing some of the designs have been missing, which isn't critical but it would be good if i fell in love with a design that had it is a microphone or some reference to it being an interview/media site.
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Obviously some other things are missing from this crash diet, so I will need to modify. I'll let you know what I come up with.
Just got back from a bike ride with The Bois. I'm trying to return to a car-free life. Now that the weather is nice, it should be easier. Last year I went 6 months without filling my car with gas (before I met SR) and I'd love to be able to do that again. Ideally, I'd like to live completely off the grid, but that would not be easy, especially when it comes to convincing the step kids. I do contemplate what the world will be like in a few short years when we can't travel by car, when our resources have run out. Of course we talk about alternative energy, but the world is going to change dramatically as fuel runs out.
I've been slowly weaning myself from buying new things (craigslist makes this much easier), but there are certain things it's hard to go without buying new (running shoes for example).
In other news, The Bois has begun to laugh like a little sheep.
He is being held here by a friend who we call Magma.
(You're probably thinking I bought his outfit new, but I haven't bought any new clothes for him... again, craigslist is great!).
Finally, the blog has become even less anonymous. Today I was sitting in an auditorium at the hospital before SR gave a Grand Rounds presentation and one of the residents shouted to me "SLG, my wife loves your blog! She was so upset when you made it private!" I got incredulous and intrigued looks from the many members of the audience, some of whom may be reading this right now.
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DOVER -- Baby Ben's Coffee House, based in Dover Point, announced one of their long time Barista's Hannah Celeste Rogers placed 3rd runner up in the Miss Teen Maine competition.
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WICHITA — The fourth annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy will be presented to former Cessna Aircraft Company Chairman Russell W. Meyer, Jr.
Meyer was selected by the Club's Selection Committee from among 15 nominees.
The WAC Trophy will be presented at the Wichita Aero Club's annual Trophy Gala at the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton at Wichita Airport on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014.
"The selection of Russ Meyer for this award surprises no one," noted Dave Franson, Wichita Aero Club President."Russ's contributions to the aviation industry and to the local community are so numerous and so extensive that it would take a book just to list them. He is, without question, a great choice for the Wichita Aero Club Trophy."
The citation which accompanied the nomination read: "During his more than 25 years as CEO of Cessna Aircraft, Russ Meyer not only led the company to pre-eminence in the global business jet industry, but his industry leadership has been proclaimed as the most far-reaching and effective in the history of general aviation."
For nearly 40 years Russ Meyer has been "the face" of Wichita's heralded general aviation industry…and for very good reason, according to club officials. Under his tutelage Cessna designed, developed, built and delivered more business jet aircraft, worldwide, than any other global manufacturer.
Perhaps even more significant are his community and industry achievements, according to club officials. Examples include his initiative to establish a training facility for unskilled workers, which led to jobs and hope for hundreds of Wichitans and their families. Also, his efforts were instrumental in leading to Congress' enactment of the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, which after a decade, re-opened the doors for aircraft manufacturers to produce single engine aircraft, again, creating hundreds of new area jobs, club officials noted.
Meyer's national awards include: the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, the Collier Trophy (twice, once jointly with Cessna), and election to the National Aviation Hall of Fame. A 14,000 hour pilot, he is type rated in all Cessna products.
A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, Meyer served as a Marine Corps jet fighter pilot from 1958–1961, practiced law in Cleveland for five years, then served as CEO of Grumman American Aviation Corp. from 1966-1974, before joining Cessna in 1974, rising to chairman/CEO the following year. He is also the only executive to serve as Chairman of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) three times.
He was elected into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 1996 and was named Kansan of the Year in 1998. Meyer and his wife, Helen, have been among Wichita's most generous philanthropists, leading and donating to causes supporting underprivileged children, education and the arts.
"We are extremely pleased to honor Russ Meyer in this way. He actually received multiple nominations for the WAC Trophy. As one of the nominations said, 'There is no one in the history of Kansas aviation who has achieved as much for aviation and the community as has Russ Meyer.' We know this is one of many awards Russ has received during his extraordinary career, but we're still looking forward to an exciting and enjoyable event in January when he is officially presented with this recognition from his many friends and neighbors in the Air Capital," Franson added.
The Wichita Aero Club was established in 2008 to foster and promote interest in aviation, provide a forum focused on the industry's issues and achievements and bring together those with a passion for flight in an environment that expands and enhances professional relationships and furthers cooperation and understanding.
The WAC Trophy is awarded annually to a living person, group, or existing organization with a strong relationship to the greater Wichita area, who have distinguished him, her or themselves in the field of aviation or aerospace within the most recent calendar year or during a cumulative career of significant achievements and contributions.
For more information: 316-681-4491 or WichitaAeroClub.org


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Read a transcript of this video. All photographs in the video copyright George Osodi.
Internationally-acclaimed Nigerian photographer George Osodi has spent more than six years documenting the injustices occurring in the Niger Delta, a region rich in natural resources and beauty.
For more than five centuries the fortunes of the Niger Delta, a southern region of Nigeria in West Africa, have been closely tied to those of the global economy: from its slave ports, then palm oil industry, through to the discovery of crude oil in the 1950s.
Oil multinationals soon came to the fore, working in alliance with a local elite to strip the region of its wealth. Since then over 400 billion US dollars of wealth has been pumped out of the fertile grounds and remote creeks of the world's third largest wetland.
The region's impoverished inhabitants have been left with a poisoned environment caused through uninterrupted gas flaring and oil spillage, which has devastated traditional livelihoods. They are also at the mercy of a government that does not care, and the victims of rival armed militant groups laying claim to this oil-rich land.
The ten photographs in this exhibition explored the realities of daily life along the Niger Delta. They were accompanied by a slideshow featuring a further 200 images from George Osodi's work. Sometimes graphic, they revealed the human tragedy and ecological destruction being visited on the Niger Delta and its people.
"It is amazing how people carry on with their lives, with their daily routines against all odds. I want to put a human face on this paradise lost. I do not wish to offend, but to draw the viewer near my images in order to provoke a feeling and be inspired or trigger a deep sense of change within the observer." George Osodi
Osodi's work carries on the cause of Nigerian author, activist and member of the Ogoni people, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who fought against the oil giants and the Nigerian government for the rights of the people.
"To take away the resources of the people and refuse to give them anything in return is to subject them to slavery." Ken Saro-Wiwa
A young girl tries to cover her sister from the heat while their mother dries tapioca, 2006. © George Osodi
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Here's a fun one to try... (rightclick and save target, it's a gsim file)
5-planet system
Inner/Outer Reach values is from Jones et al. papers:
What's interesting about this system is that I ran it for about 8 hours last night (3.5 million years simulation time) and I lost all the planets except the innermost one!
However, when I removed GG4 (the green one) and ran it today for 9 hours with a 3 day timestep, all the planets were still there after 35 million years of simulation time. So it looks like the green one is the kicker that sends it over the edge.
Looking at the stats below, you'll notice that GG4's aphelion is within GG5's "Reach" (defined in the Jones papers linked below). "Gravitational Reach" indicates the 'ejection zone' of a gas giant - if a less massive object is in that region then it'll be tossed out of the system.
And sure enough in a five system run, GG4 is tossed out. Unfortunately, this happened while I was asleep
. What I think happened is that GG4 and GG5 started interacting after about 2.5 million years (which is when I went to bed), one got tossed out but in the process the other must have had a close pass with one of the inner GGs, and got tossed out as well, making the inner system unstable so that 2 and 3 got eventually tossed out later on.
GG2 and GG3 aren't the most stable system either, there's a fair bit of natural wobble in GG3's orbit so I would have said that those were the next most likely to get tossed out anyway... but given that after 35 Ma these two are still here if GG4 isn't, implies that it's fairly stable to me.
Anyway, from the calculated Reach limits, my money was on GG4 being the troublemaker, and sure enough when it's removed the system lasts a lot longer - so I think that's a fairly decent vindication of the gravity simulator program
F7 V primary: 1.177 solar masses, 2.02988 solar radii, 1.6657 solar luminosity
GG1 (purple):
semimajor axis: 6.218 AU
eccentricity: 0.064
mass: 0.309 MJ
radius: 62067.5 km
hill sphere: 0.272 AU
inner reach: 4.458 AU
outer reach: 7.433 AU
perihelion: 5.817 AU
aphelion: 6.618 AU
4:1 resonance: 2.467 AU
2:1 resonance: 3.917 AU
GG2 (red):
semimajor axis: 11.814 AU
eccentricity: 0.003
mass: 0.279 MJ
radius: 46636.0 km
hill sphere: 0.499 AU
inner reach: 10.280 AU
outer reach: 13.348 AU
perihelion: 11.777 AU
aphelion: 11.851 AU
4:1 resonance: 4.688 AU
2:1 resonance: 7.442 AU
GG3 (yellow):
semimajor axis: 15.358 AU
eccentricity: 0.037
mass: 0.136 MJ
radius: 41673.0 km
hill sphere: 0.511 AU
inner reach: 12.741 AU
outer reach: 17.463 AU
perihelion: 14.785 AU
aphelion: 15.930 AU
4:1 resonance: 6.095 AU
2:1 resonance: 9.675 AU
GG4 (green):
semimajor axis: 27.644 AU
eccentricity: 0.097
mass: 0.028 MJ
radius: 20116.0 km
hill sphere: 0.542 AU
inner reach: 22.259 AU
outer reach: 31.945 AU
perihelion: 24.969 AU
aphelion: 30.319 AU
4:1 resonance: 10.970 AU
2:1 resonance: 17.414 AU
GG5 (blue):
semimajor axis: 38.702 AU
eccentricity: 0.115
mass: 0.075 MJ
radius: 27734.0 km
hill sphere: 1.053 AU
inner reach: 27.912 AU
outer reach: 46.330 AU
perihelion: 34.233 AU
aphelion: 43.170 AU
4:1 resonance: 15.359 AU
2:1 resonance: 24.380 AU
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Here's a fun one to try... (rightclick and save target, it's a gsim file)...
You can also set up a file association between Gravity Simulator. Then you can run any .gsim file on your computer or on the web by simply clicking and choosing Open. To set up the file association, browse to a folder containing a .gsim file. Right click on it, choose Open With. Click "Choose Program", browse to gravitysimulator.exe, choose it and check "always use the selected program to open this type of file".
Unfortunately, this happened while I was asleep
Gotta hate that. No wonder you're trying to get the autosave to work. See the other thread where you reported the problem.
Thanks for the links to the papers. The formulas derived on page 6 should be very useful. The 2nd link only lets me get the abstract, so I'll have to look up this one in the library.
There's a new term I've recently learned. "Dynamically Full" is used to describe a star system that is maxed-out in how many planets it can hold. Our solar system is dynamically full. A planet placed between any 2 other planets would not be stable. It sounds like your 5-planet system is beyond dynamically full.
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I've been running your sim. The fun stuff starts at about 3.6 million years. The orbits of gg4 and gg5 are about to intersect.
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I've been running the sim for a few days now and @ TS=16384 its been completely stable for 6 myr.
I'm thinking that the only reason it flew apart at the higher TS was the accumulation of errors.
(7 am 10/16/2006)
8 Myr = still stable, although 2 & 3 are starting to approach much closer, as are 4 & 5. I suspect if it was run at even slower TS's < 1024s we might even eventually end up with [2,3] and [4,5] in that they would coalesce together. I will continue to observe it for a few more days yet.
(9 pm 10/16/2006)
only been running it part of the day today due to working on other projects. but I'm up to 9 Myr and it's still stable. I'm going to let it run overnight full throttle and see what its like in the morning.
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I've been running the sim for a few days now and @ TS=16384 its been completely stable for 6 myr.
I'm thinking that the only reason it flew apart at the higher TS was the accumulation of errors.
lol... I've been doing the same. You've got me beat by a few hundred thousand years. I might pump it up to 64K since you're doing 16K.
Simulations like this are very sensitive to chaos. If you think of all the orbital elements, a small difference of say 1% in eccentricity, inclination, LAN, Per, SMA will only cause a small difference in the size, shape and orientation of the orbit. But a 1% difference in SMA will cause a 1.5% difference in period, which means a ~1.5% difference in Mean Anomoly. But unlike the other orbital elements, the 1.5% difference in Mean Anomoly is per orbit, so the error builds. After several orbits, the planet could be anywhere along its orbit. So the first property to suffer in accuracy in simulations such as this is the positioning of the planet in its orbit.
Since ejections are caused by close encounters, and close encounters are dependent on planet positioning, I would guess that any difference in time step will lead to different ejection dates. It's possible that if the simulation were run at a timestep as slow as 512 that we'd see an ejection at 400,000 years. In other words, there may not be a trend that the faster the time step, the quicker the ejection. But it would be interesting to test that. If you can, keep up your 16K simulation. I'll try 64K and see what happens.
I think the best we can do in this type of simulation, after running it at various time steps, is to conclude that this system is not stable on timescales greater than a few hundred thousand years.
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Here's a 22,500 year slice of the sim at timestep 32K.
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Problem is, it'd also probably evolve totally differently if one of the planets was a degree further forward or back along its orbit when the simulation started. There's so many variables here it's almost mind-blowing.
EDIT: Heh, posted at the same time there! GG3 (the yellow one) is looking a bit wobbly there!
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**edit changed 32k to 64k **
At 64k time step, the fun stuff starts happening around 9 million years into the simulation.
On Feburary 20, 9130047, gg1 and gg4 should collide. At time step 64k, they do not collide as gg4 is travelling much more than the radius of gg1 + radius gg4 combined. The time step is too fast for this approach, and gg4 skips over gg1. But in the process, the heaviest acceleration it experiences in the flyby is extrapolated over an entire time step. gg4 is unnaturally accelerated to an unrealistic velocity and exits the system on a hyperbolic trajectory.
Slowing down the time step several decades prior to this encounter changes the dynamis of the flyby. gg4 completely misses gg1 although its trajectory is noticably bent. This illustrates how powerful chaos is in these types of simulations, and how at this point we're really just rolling the dice. gg4's fate is that it will get ejected, unnaturally ejected as described above, or collide. So the conclusion that this system is not stable is still very valid.
Slowing down the timestep a couple of months before impact yields the same trajectory as the first image, except that it plots more points each time step. gg4 now travels much less than the combined radius of gg1+gg4 each time step. This time it can not avoid its destiny, and it collides.
Try it yourself.
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Up to 10.5 myr and still stable, I would have to give a vote to the system is stable, but in order to be sure I want to go to at least 70 myr (1% of the lifespan of the system)
I'll continue posting every 5 myr and let ya know how it's coming
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Up to 10.5 myr and still stable, I would have to give a vote to the system is stable, but in order to be sure I want to go to at least 70 myr (1% of the lifespan of the system)
I'll continue posting every 5 myr and let ya know how it's coming
Well, numerically speaking it shouldn't be stable. GG4 is within the ejection zone of one of the other gas giants - according to the calculations (from papers by Jones etc al) it should be ejected as a result.
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Ok I also Decide to Run it @ TS=6 Days; and I must say the results were not what I expected @ all....
all numbers listed in x1000 years
0-800 Pretty normal orbits
800-830 feedback between 4,3 and then 5,4 starts
830-980 everything appears stable for the moment
980-1020 can see active gravitational energy transport between 3,4,5 (3 migrates inward, while 5 migrates outward)
1020-1100 orbit of 4 becomes more erratic, procession rate dramatically increased
1100-1150 interactions between 3,4,5 becoming more pronounced and 4,5 gaining eccentricity
1150-1200 this remain relatively unchanged
1200-1400 procession rate for 4 comes to an almost standstill. 3,4 lose some eccentricity
1400-1500 4,5 appear to be building up a resonance feedback
1500-1550 procession of 4 speeds up a little and appears to be undergoing oscillations of pro and retro grade
1550-1600 orbit of 5 gaining additional eccentricity and starting to take on pluto like characteristics. Orbit of 4 almost circular
1600-1700 pluto like pattern continues
1700-1800 active gravity transport between 1,2,3 (1 migrating outward, 3 migrating inward)
1800-1850 1 becomes more eccentric, 4 maintains almost circular orbit, 5 continues to gain eccentricity but slowly
1850-2000 things smooth out for a while
2000-2100 occassional interaction between 2,3 appears to be resonance related.
2100-2200 resonance feedback bewtween 2,3 becomes more noticable
2200-2300 4 gaining eccentricity, procession of 5 becomes almost nill
2300-2400 active gravitation energy transport between 3,4,5 again
2400-2500 1,2,4,5 all processing very slowly however 3 is processing wildly >2 deg per rot
2500-2600 4,5 gaining eccentricity, 3 starting to have strong flux in apo and peri distances
2600-2700 4 starts to occassional cross the orbit path of 5
2700-2750 4,5 starting feesback resonance again
2750-2900 procession of 4 speeding up again interaction between 4,5 becoming more pronounced
2900-3000 procession of 4 becomes strongly retrograde
3000-3010 procession of 4 stops
3010-3020 procession of 4 prograde and strong interaction with 3 noticed
3020-3050 3,4 resonant feedback noticed. procession of 4 gains speed again
3050-3100 3,4 interacting more frequently and the orbit of 4 changing dynamics.
3100-3150 interaction 4,5 causes strong shift in orbit of 5
3150-3170 4 becomes more eccentric and starts to interact more with 5
3170 4 ejected from system after close interaction with 3 followed by strong interaction with 5
3170-3400 3 ocillating wildly in both procession and peri, apo distances.
3400-3500 3 Apo distances and eccentricity fluxing wildly
3500-3600 1,2,3 all gaining eccentricity but 3 gaining the most
3600-3800 ecc of 5 now hovering around .3 (this is interesting later on)
3800-3900 procession of 3 slows, 5 increases and 3 becomes more ecc
3900-4000 system dynamics really start to change quickly now
4000-4100 3,5 start to interact strongly
4100-4200 procession of both 3,5 greatly accelerated
4200-4220 procession of both 3,5 return to more normal appearance. strong interaction between 2,3 noted
4220-4320 procession of 3 again accelerating. 3,5 undergo major changes to orbital params (5 migrates inward, 3 outward)
4320-4350 orbital migration reverses
4350-4430 3,5 gain eccentricity. 3,5 resonant feedback on 2 and stronger interactions with 2
4430-4500 chaos reigns, all remaining bodies (1,2,4,5) taking on cometary like orbits
4500-4540 all orbits becoming more erratic
4540-4550 1,2 ejected from the system
4550-4560 3 ejected from the system and
4560+ 5 remains with a final ecc of .6
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Wow, that sounds completely insane
. (thanks for writing all that up!). I think, as Tony says, we can definitely say that this is an unstable system.
By way of comparison, I tried removing GG4 from the mix and things seemed to be a lot more stable. I dunno if anyone has time or inclination to try that after they're done playing with the full five planet system, but it'll be interesting to compare results.
Of course, since this is pretty chaotic, all this depends on where the planets are in their orbits when the simulation starts - is this all just from using the file in the first post? Or have you tried this with the planets starting off in different positions?
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currently I'm just playing with your sim
I'm thing about doing a couple more writeup on high TS's on this sim I'm thinking 48 Days for the next one.
I'm up to 12 myr on the slower one (16Ks) and it's still stable
I plan on runing it atleast until 70 Myr. I may run it longer depends on if anything destablizes
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It would be nice to make a plot of timescales that a system remains stable vs. time step to study how the time step effects the quality of the data, and the quality of the conclusions. Any good science experiment needs to know the limits of the equipment.
Would anyone be interested in being involved in conducting such an experiment? Suggestions are welcome. I was thinking of something similar to what we're doing in this thread, but done in a more organized fashion.
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OCEAN CITY — As one major storm passed over the town of Ocean City last weekend, resort officials were putting the finishing touches on plans to clean up the damage left behind from last month's storm that hit Ocean City square in the face.
The first part of the emergency beach replenishment project will commence the first week of 2010, as town officials plan for the larger portions of the massive project to clean up the aftermath of last month's Nor'Ida storm, which ravaged the resort beach and dune, reportedly damaging or displacing over 600,000 cubic yards of sand.
City Engineer Terry McGean said this week that the bid for the first part of the beach replenishment project, which will entail moving excess sand in some areas of the beach to areas of the beach that were hardest hit during the Friday the 13th storm, will be awarded on Dec. 28 and the project is set to start sometime in early January.
"Once we award the bid, the crews will commence with tearing down pretty much all of the fencing that lies in front of the dunes so we can get in there and work on them," said McGean. "Then we will be trucking portions of extra sand in some areas to parts of the dune that were badly damaged and depleted by the storm."
McGean says that the hardest hit portion of the beach and dune system is 139th to 146th streets in uptown Ocean City, and he noted that large loads of sand, presumably to be taken from the downtown and midtown streets (near the Boardwalk and 60th Street), will be moved to compensate for the loss of sand on the stretch of beach known as "condo row", amongst several other streets such as 33rd Street and between 70th-80th streets.
McGean noted that the first phase of the project, which is estimated to cost $1.5 million (paid for with money saved in the Beach Maintenance Fund) is only the beginning.
"The actual replenishment part of the project, which will be putting tons of new sand onto our beaches will not be getting underway until at least the spring, and we are waiting on the Army Corps of Engineers for the final plans on that portion of the project," said McGean. "We will also be dredging the sand that was pulled out to sea that has created a large sand dune in the shallow waters sometime in May if all goes well."
The entirety of the project, according to the Army Corps of Engineers in the weeks that followed last month's three-day storm, is projected to cost almost $10 million when all is said and done sometime next summer, but McGean says that this first portion of the project should be completed in "about 75 days."
McGean said that Ocean City was spared a bit this past weekend, however, as the blizzard that blanketed many portions of the Mid-Atlantic region under copious amounts of snow, essentially left little to no damage to the already depleted beach and dune system.
"We fared pretty well, and as far as I know, the beach is in no worse shape after this storm than what it was prior to the storm," said McGean. "The storm moved through very quickly and the tides weren't nearly as high as what they were during last month's storm. It also helped us that we only got one day of a storm rather than three days in a row."
The scheduled beach replenishment project that was originally slated for May was projected to cost almost $11 million. Now, with almost $10 million in emergency maintenance costs looming, getting Ocean City's beach and invaluable dune system back to where it was is of the highest priority to the town, despite the high price.
"Once we get the dune repaired, we will probably wait to replace the fencing until the entirety of the replenishment is completed," said McGean. "We think we can really make a difference by essentially moving the sand that was blown all over town to the hardest hit places on the beach and the dune even before the replenishment portion of the project."
The beach replenishment project, which was started in 1991 as a way to protect Ocean City from catastrophic storm damage and debilitating beach erosion similar to the 1933 storm that famously broke Assateague Island and Ocean City apart, the infamous 1962 storm and Hurricane Gloria in 1985, has reportedly cost Maryland taxpayers over $100 million since its inception. However, it has reportedly saved an estimated $238 million in assessable properties from storm damage.


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Frustrated left-handed callers and skeptics are still butting heads over whether or not the newest iPhone is hampered by how you hold it. "Hold it differently" sums up Apple's company line, and recently it's been found that employees are told to downplay this left-handed calling business and to not supply free bumper cases (normally $30).
Steve Jobs himself said to "simply use one of many available cases" to help alleviate all this left-handed business. If that's what's making prospective buyers nervous, why not hook them up and look good doing it? Other companies have done much, much more. Check it out.
The Xbox 360 and its horrendous failure rate
No one really knows exactly how many Xbox 360s experienced the "Red Ring of Death," the error code the console flashes when it goes belly up. We do know that it was enough of them for Microsoft to enact a blanket 3-year-long extension for warranties just to be sure. The move cost the company (raising my Dr. Evil pinkie now) over one billion dollars. I had to take advantage of the policy myself.
The Nintendo DS vs. "stuck pixels"
If you're the owner of one of the iterations of the DS, the PSP or something similar, then you know how the joy can be sucked right out of a new purchase if there's something wonky going out with a few pixels on the screen. "It's just a pixel!" Sure, but a "stuck pixel," or one that's incredibly bright — or a black, dead pixel — can be super distracting. Nintendo, in one of the most polite messages ever, encouraged players to do the following: "We suggest that you use your system for a few weeks to determine whether this interferes with your enjoyment of game play." After that? Just send it in and the company would see what it could do. Again, I have personal experience here, and it was cleared up quick.
Palm pays out $134,200 to its app makers
You don't have to look that far back for a show of customer appreciation, either. Just this week Palm decided to waive the $50 App Catalog submission fee it previously imposed for app-makers who wanted to get into the Palm store. And, just to show that those who came before weren't forgotten, Palm went ahead and refunded the $50 to whoever paid the fee in the first place. With 2,684 apps, that means Palm was looking at a $134,200 bill. It's not a billion, sure, but it's six digits Palm didn't need to part with.
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I am sure you saw the fantastic box of goodies Hampton Art Stamps and Clearsnap sent me! (Click HERE for my YouTube Channel.) Here is the card I made with my new goodies!
I confess that I did not wait for my box to come before I started to make projects! Since I already had a lot of stamps and inks, plus I had this Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe paper on my desk, I got right to work!
I stamped the collage image (Hot Fudge Studio - On Butterfly Wings) with Graphic 45 Decades Triumphant Red Antiquing Ink, then placed the image behind the Graphic 45 chipboard frame.
I tied a bow with some sheer old gold ruffle edge ribbon. I found some flowers in my stash that were almost the same color as the ink, which was great as I did not have to color them myself!
The sentiment is a Hampton Art Stamp set called Celebrate and Thanks, which may be retired. I don't see it in the current catalog, at any rate. I think this came in one of my Graphic 45 DT boxes last year. I love all the different fonts in this set.
If you have not seen what Hampton Art Stamps has available, or if you only know them for their Studio G line of stamps, check out the new catalog HERE. They carry stamps from: Doodlebug Design, 7Gypsies, Graphic 45, Outlines Rubber Stamp Company, Diffusion Art Stamps, Art Warehouse, Hot Fudge Studios, Spellbinders Stamp and Die Sets, Hampton Art Signature Collection, and Ditto. There are clear, cling, and wood mount stamps! There really is something for everyone! Plus, Hampton Art Stamps carries all of the Clearsnap/Colorbox inks and paints! As a special bonus, there is quite a lot of my work featured in the catalog! You will probably recognize it from seeing it here on my blog. {wink}
Hampton Art Stamps: Hot Fudge Studio On Butterfly Wings (PS0397); Clear Stamps Celebrate and Thanks
Colorbox: Graphic 45 Decades Antiquing Ink: Photogenic, Venetian Lace, Triumphant Red
Graphic 45 papers: Olde Curiosity Shoppe: Exquisite Motif
Graphic 45 chipboard: Olde Curiosity Shoppe: Tags 2
American Crafts: Black Cardstock
Stampin' Up: Very Vanilla Cardstock
Wild Orchid Crafts: Flowers
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Old Gold Sheer Ruffle Edge
Artistic Wire: Gold wire
Spellbinders: Die templates: Nested Pennants
Tools: Spellbinders Grand Calibur; Bow Easy
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happy new year!
this photo isn't from NYE, but, close enough. (it was from pete's work Xmas party back on dec. 10th.)
i have been around, but busy. i also got an iPad and that derailed my blogging big time...went into deep media digestion mode and created virtually nothing in a virtual sense. pinterest and Flickr efforts excepted.
it was a crazy year, full of a tremendous amount of change. good change (moving, poppy growing up and getting potty trained (!), and starting at a new preschool), and bad change (health problems, peter's dad passing away, etc.).
but overall, the year ended on a good note, i would say.
-poppy's new school is great. very urban and forward-thinking, as well as kind of hip. her head teacher has pink hair! they even make a point to serve them healthy organic food and emphasize environmentalism, which is a nice touch. she's going 5 mornings a week and seems to love it. yay!
-poppy's school is about a mile away. i usually walk back home after dropping her off, and walk back over to pick her up. lately i've been taking the stroller with me to pick her up so i can walk us home too, so I get about a 3 mile walk in each school day. hooray for exercise! i need it, as it's been a non stop sweets and candy fest around here since Halloween...(maybe you can relate???)
-while poppy is at school, i usually head home to sew. i've been getting into quilting, big time. i made my parents a large quilt for Xmas, and also finished one baby quilt (for my newest niece marabel, born mid-dec), as well as a full size red and white zig zag quilt, which now resides on our bed. i've also finished multitudinous quilt tops in the past little while and have more ideas and quilts in the queue.
-on a quilt related note, i joined the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild in dec and met a fabulous group of ladies there...including one famous quilter, jacquie, who lives in my building. she and i have even gotten together a couple times since at her place to chat and sew. she's amazing. so happy to make a friend here, especially one as nice as jacquie, and especially one who sews/quilts!
-i signed up for a fabric silk screening class, it starts next week, and runs for ten weeks. so excited!
i'm off to do some sewing RIGHT NOW. a perfect way to start the new year. while i sew i plan to ponder my goals for 2012. still formulating plans. *smile*
what have you been up to? i've missed you. :)


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BrightLightVentures necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Luminous. Our site is http://www.luminouslenses.com.
Luminous Lenses is Bright Light Ventures' latest project. Bright Light created GreenPrint Software, ProgressiveRx.com, and phww.org. Luminous will hit the market sometime in September but we need a website immediately as we are already beginning to receive pre-launch press.
We will be selling to anyone who needs contact lenses anywhere in the world. We are looking for the brand, the site, and the packaging to be much more contemporary and stylish than what is currently on the market, but the site also needs to be extremely user friendly as many of our customers may not be very tech savvy. The site ideally would be a bold, contemporary design, yet simple and intuitive enough that my 93 year old grandmother could navigate it.
We are looking for a brand and a website that is much more contemporary and stylish than what is currently out there, but it also needs to be simple and intuitive to easily navigate. The aesthetic should resemble a trendy bar, an expensive contemporary furniture store, or the fashion design world.
The five, somewhat overlapping characteristics ideally the design will embody are: Contemporary, Elegant, Pure, Simple, Luxury.
All fonts used should be sans serif and very modern looking, as well as simple and professional.
The background should probably be white with accent color preference being blue, black and gray. The logo should be fairly prominent (although that doesn't necessarily mean large).
Sites that reflect some of the character we are going for: Apple's landing page, Design Within Reach (http://www.dwr.com), , MidTone Design (http://www.midtonedesign.com), Shoe Guru (http://shoeguru.ca/products/shoes/c…e-jp-white), LaLique (http://www.cristallalique.fr/v2/english.html).
The front page should say "High Definition Soft Contact Lenses for $9.99 a box". We'll tweak the wording later. Other items on the front page: Buy, FAQ, News, and About Us. We'll be using e-junkie as our shopping cart - http://www.e-junkie.com.
I have uploaded some style references for additional guidance but they shouldn't be seen as definitive.
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The Case for Doing Nothing in Iraq
The same people who got us into this mess want America to "do something." Ignore them.
Here we go again. Whenever there's a crisis anywhere in the world, you can count on America's pundit class to demand action—usually of the military variety. Don't just stand there, bomb something! After more than two decades of unchallenged American hegemony, Washington keyboards seem almost programmed to call for intervention halfway around the globe.
So it is with Iraq today, where the government has lost effective control of the Sunni Arab majority areas of the country. ISIS, the feared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has served as a vanguard uniting disaffected Iraqi Sunni Arabs into a fighting force effective enough to defeat larger and better-armed Iraqi government armed forces in certain areas. Chattering-class members from across the political spectrum see U.S. vital interests threatened, and are demanding that President Obama fire up the fighter-bombers.
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Eleven years after the invasion that precipitated the present morass, how should we think about all this? Should we listen to the very same people who called for the war in 2003, with disastrous results, and are now insisting on action?
The escalating civil war in Iraq, and the increasingly likely de facto partition of the country, should be assessed from first principles. The United States spent enormous amounts of treasure and considerable blood trying to turn Iraq into a functioning multi-ethnic democracy; this effort failed. The costs are sunk. Our analysis must begin from the present: We are being asked to pay new costs and bear new burdens. For what and with what hope of success?
A small but increasing number of U.S. scholars, policymakers and politicians are beginning to subscribe to a new view of U.S. grand strategy, which in a recent book I have called Restraint. We believe that the United States needs to restore discipline to its foreign policy—set priorities more rigorously and calculate both costs and chances of success with a more skeptical eye.
The term grand strategy gets bandied about in various forms; I define it as protecting U.S. territorial integrity, sovereignty and safety and the power position needed to secure them in an uncertain world.
So where does Iraq fit in? ISIS is full of bad guys—no question. But a divided Iraq at worst might threaten U.S. safety by providing a "safe haven" for terrorists who might plot against the United States. The world is, unfortunately, full of bad guys and safe havens. The United States now watches them in Pakistan, Yemen and across Africa with various intelligence means, and occasionally raids them, solo or in the company of friends. More importantly, the United States has hardened itself against terrorist threats. This combination of defensive measures, surveillance and the occasional raid buys a lot of safety. America need not throw in with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a power-hungry Shiite supremacist bent mainly on serving the interests of his own faction, to keep its people secure. Maliki's heavy-handed employment of surveillance, incarceration, and violence has driven Sunni Arab fence sitters into the arms of ISIS fanatics; he's part of the problem, not the solution.
That ought to make us cautious about meddling in Iraq's internal politics. Restraint strategists are alert to the costs of intervening in the internal politics of other countries and the low odds of success inherent to doing so.
In the first place, though the timing and the causes are murky, identity politics have surged across much of the world, a phenomenon that probably antedates the end of the Cold War. Here's how it works: Political entrepreneurs organize followers around appeals to national, ethnic and religious identities. This kind of politics makes compromise hard. Politically mobilized identities are deeply mistrustful and fearful of neighboring groups. And they are especially resistant to outsiders who come to visit with guns and explain to them how they should live. The United States has paid a high price for its efforts to reengineer the politics of others, efforts that have usually failed. Still, a little well-timed meddling could be useful. Identity politics does open the door for the United States practice a version of "divide-and-conquer" politics, but this only works if America patiently holds back, avoids making itself the problem and waits for opportunities. Mobilized identities may seem homogeneous, but they often contain deep divisions as well. That's an opening.
Consider Iraq. Sunnis and Shia may dislike one another, and dislike U.S. tutelage. But left to their own devices, these groups easily fall out even among themselves. Part of the hagiography of the Iraq "surge" is that the United States somehow played a magical tune that caused the Sunni "Awakening," and brought many Iraqi Sunnis to the U.S. side. Smart diplomats and commanders actually took advantage of extant divisions. Iraqi Sunnis turned on their foreign jihadi allies, who somehow thought that Islam would overcome local loyalties and permit them to run the show. What's the relevance to today? For those thinking of active participation on the side of the Shiite regime in Baghdad, a smarter strategy is to wait for the Sunni population's alliance of convenience with the jihadis to fall apart.