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Christine Debrosky: 'Arid Pathways' Desert
Forms in PastelExhibit September
As an impressionist painter Christine Debrosky's interest in the landscape is not just in merely rendering a particular view, but more about the way light plays across her chosen subject at a particular time of day. Having relocated to Arizona fairly recently from the verdant Hudson River Valley of upstate New York, the contrasting subtle desert hues, exposed earth , and the varied textures and forms of arid plants , at first, seemed otherworldly to her. She quickly set out to complete much work on location, plein air painting often as possible, to become accustomed to her new surroundings.The Arboretum is pleased to host a solo exhibition of her new works and desert landscapes in our visitor center gallery during the month of September.
Have you ever seen a pastel painting in a gallery or museum, and wondered about just how they are done? Pastel is pure pigment in stick form; Christine finds the dusty, dry material perfectly suitable for rendering the brilliantly illuminated hues of the arid landscape. Debrosky, a pastel master, will be presenting a "meet the artist" informal talk, demo and reception at the Boyce Thompson arboretum on Saturday, September 14, from 1-3p.m.. She will be working on a painting, right before your eyes, with her rainbow assortment of pastel sticks, using the set up that she takes out on location plein air painting. Attendees will be able to meet her, ask questions, and view her work first hand, as it is created, in conjunction with her exhibition of original paintings in the gallery.
This presentation is geared for all generations of art lovers.
She has exhibited her award-winning paintings extensively across the US and Europe, garnering rainbows of ribbons along the way, with such prestigious groups as the American Impressionist Society, the Oil Painters of America, the Societe des Pastellistes de France, and in numerous solo gallery exhibitions. Her work has been featured in national and international magazine articles, as well as five books on painting. Public collections that feature her work are those of Standard & Poor's, McGraw- Hill, and Pfizer Inc., as well as numerous hospitals, universities, and nursing facilities. Her work has been selected for the sets of "Nights in Rodanthe" , a Hollywood film, and "Hart of Dixie", a popular television show. Since 1995, she has been listed in Who's Who of American Art.
Recently, she was honored with the selection of one of her Sedona desert paintings chosen as the image for the pastel society of France's exhibition posters , invitations , and billboards for this year's international exhibition. Another milestone this year was induction into the International Association of Pastel Society's Master Circle.
"My work celebrates the rhythm of life in everyday moments transformed by the dance of sun light and shadow," said Debrosky. " I am delighted to share my interpretation of the beautifully varied mosaic of desert life."
Debrosky's original paintings will be available at prices ranging from $180 to 3250; works chosen for this show range from small pieces six-inches-square to a large 24-by-36 inch work. Tto inquire about specific pieces or else email Christine Debrosky or call the artist at 845-658-9250; see more of her work at christinedebrosky.com
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is at highway 60 milepost #223 near the historic copper mining town of Superior, a drive of about 45 minutes due East of Mesa. From September-through-April visitors are admitted from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., and the Arboretum closes at 5:00 p.m. May-through-august hours are 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. New exhibits begin each month and may be seen daily during business hours; the Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where our gallery is found. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit.
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Jean Sullivan November, 2007
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Fred Charlton May, 2007
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Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
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Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
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Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
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Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
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Curry Noodles With Chicken (Kuai-Tiao Kaeng Sai Kai) From 'Simple Thai Food'
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Scratch-made chicken curry is a thing of beauty, with far greater complexity than anything that comes out of a jar. Add supple rice noodles and an array of toppings, and consider me satisfied for the next week. Leela Punyaratabandhu's curry noodles with chicken from her new cookbook, Simple Thai Food, are especially good. She provides options for making the dish using store-bought curry paste and for making everything from scratch. If you've got the time, I'd definitely recommend going for the fully homemade version; her curry pastes pair especially well with the array of toppings for the dish.
Why I picked this recipe: Give me a bowl of curry and noodles, and I'm happy.
What worked: The finished curry is quite complex when made from scratch, and it clings to the rice noodles with comforting ease.
What didn't: No problems here.
Suggested tweaks: Making the curry pastes from scratch is definitely a chore, but the fresh stuff really can't be beat. Consider making at least one of the two—you can freeze the leftovers for your next curry night. I made a second batch of the curry sans chicken and fish sauce (and using vegetable broth) for a vegan friend, and it was quite good. I'd suggest adding extra salt and lime juice, in addition to upping the tofu, if you choose to go that route.
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YossiH necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
SYNAQ (http://www.synaq.com)
SYNAQ is a pioneering technology company situated in South Africa that develops email services and solutions for small to medium sized businesses in Africa. Our solutions are all delivered via "the-cloud". Meaning that we've invested in all the technical stuff (the hardware, the software, the people, the systems, etc) so that our customers can get all the good stuff (spam free email, email archiving, email collaboration, branding and more) without having to worry about the technicalities behind it or the cost.
We are a young company passionate about what we do and changing the world in our own small way. Our company mantra is "reducing the barriers to technology" and we're passionate about making technology simpler, more affordable and more accessible for our customers in Africa.
We're designing this infographic for two reasons.
1st reason is that we've entered into a prestigious competition where our business will be judged by 3 sets of judges and we want a slick infographic that can explain what it is that we do to impress them like crazy! The final is taking place on the 11th of November so we've got to be ready then!
The 2nd is that we want to use the same infographic to describe our services to potential customers and partners for the next while.
There are two target audiences for this project.
Target audience number 1:
6 judges of entrepreneurial businesses. Each of which are successful business owners and entrepreneurs themselves. They will be assessing our business based on our ability to scale, uniqueness, competitive advantage and if they think we're making a difference. We want the infographic to explain what it is that we do without it being too technical but still coming across as extremely professional, well thought out and like we're a company that gets it. This will be printed on high quality paper and given to them during the interviews.
Target audience number 2:
The second target audience is for our customers. They are typically Internet Service Providers or Mobile Network Operators that want to offer their customer base email services and solutions without having to make the necessary investment in the infrastructure themselves. We allow them to white label our services and earn high ongoing margins for every customer that they've signed up. The platform we've built does all the billing, provisioning of services, white labelling and management - all they need to do is sell! We want the infographic to be able to explain this to them very simply but again in a very professional manner.
We're not a design house, we're a bunch of techies trying to change the world in our small way so we need you to be creative in how you can package what it is that we do into a succinct info-graphic that will impress!
We've done some hand drawn mock-ups that tries to explain it, feel free to use these as the basis of the design or deviate completely.
You will see in the hand drawings that we've tried to design two different types of envelopes. The one is a normal envelope, the other is an envelope that tries to look like the African continent with South Africa at the bottom. We're about bringing mail and breaking the barriers to technology in Africa (hence the second design). We're not sure which will work better so we'll leave that up to you.
To explain what we do.
We have 4 major services that "live" on the cloud.
1. Email and collaboration that has chat, document sharing, calendar sharing and address book (the envelope)
2. Email security (the shield)
3. Email archiving (the filing cabinet)
4. Email branding (the squigly looking thing)
These services can be accessed, anywhere (home, office, road), anytime, on any device (iphone, blackberry, mac, pc, linux, android).
We then speak about our ISP or Reseller and what they get.
Automated billing and provisioning to the customer, rebranding the solution, ability to earn margins, etc
Good luck and knock our socks off!


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Welcome to Boodler, the open-source soundscape tool.
|Boodler water collection
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|Boodler wind collection
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|Boodler rain collection
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|Boodler thunder collection
|Sept. 2, 2012
|Boodler frog collection
|Sept. 2, 2012
I've just released an iPhone app which is based on Boodler. It's my own rendering of the one-hour thunderstorm concept: Pocket Storm.
You'll notice that I've uploaded new sound packages to the site, as well. These are the sound files that make up Pocket Storm. They're all freshly downloaded from Freesound.org, with clean license and attribution information in the package metadata. (For a one-page summary of the sounds in Pocket Storm, see this page.)
This app does not contain Boodler itself -- that would require compiling Python for iOS, which is not impossible, but I didn't want to do it. Instead, I've ported a subset of the Boodler algorithm, plus the native C code in the sound mixer, to Objective C.
I'm not releasing that ObjC port as open source, I'm afraid. (This is a money-grubbing sort of app.) However, I do want to give something back to the community. The new sound packages are one part of that. Also, a percentage of the App Store revenue from Pocket Storm will be donated to the Freesound project.
This is a very minor update.
(Артём Попов, putting together a Debian package, nudged me to remove the ".py" suffixes. It makes sense; I just never thought about it.)
Oh, almost forgot -- I updated a couple of the packages, too. Just bug fixes. See the package list on the front page.
listen module to work on Windows, unless the --stdinevents option is used. (That option requires the
fcntl module, which is not available on Windows.)
Axel Gross posted a bash tab-completion script for Boodler modules. If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it -- you're not a command-line Unix geek. If you are, this allows you to do tab completion on the packages and agents in your collection. Drop the file into
/etc/bash_completion.d to use it.
If you're reading this on the http://boodler.org/ web site, look up one line to see the new toy. If you're on RSS, click through... I'll wait...
The front page now shows the most recently added Boodler packages. It links to a complete, if simple, web-site database of the package collection. No search yet, but I'll get to it.
Notice that the package database has its own RSS feed.
Tuukka Hastrup has written a small Python script which acts as a GUI for Boodler, listing your installed agents and letting you select one to play.
This requires the PyQt4 library (Qt toolkit, Python interface), which you're not likely to have unless you're a Linux user. So it's not mass-market, but it is the very first graphical Boodler interface, and that's cool. Thanks!
Download the script: boodle-ui-qt.py
EDIT 9/25: The author is maintaining a source directory at http://github.com/tuukka/boodle-ui-qt.
Only very minor cosmetic changes, but all-new software underneath. Please let me know if you see any problems. You can email me personally or on the mailing list.
At some point over this weekend, I will take Boodler.org down to upgrade the server software. (I'm installing the latest versions of Django and Sphene.)
Expect erratic behavior and random failures until I get it all working again. I've been testing the upgrade on a dev server, so it should all work smoothly, right? Right. I'll post again when life is good.
Fixed a few annoying glitches which prevented Boodler from working under Python 2.3.5.
I've also added Boodler to the Cheese Shop, Python's central registry of Python software.


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Kim Kardashian's mother urges her not to marry Kanye West?
TV personality Kris Jenner has reportedly asked her socialite daughter Kim Kardashian not to rush with her marriage plans with rapper-boyfriend Kanye West. Jenner has also used examples of celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt...entertainment Updated: Jul 11, 2013 11:22 IST
Jenner has also used examples of celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who have been in a committed relationship without saying "I do".
Kim, who has two failed marriages behind her, welcomed her first daughter North West, with West June 15.
Jenner feels a third divorce can ruin Kim's reputation, reports contactmusic.com.
In 2000, the 32-year-old married music producer Damon Thomas, but their relationship ended after four years in 2004. She was then married to basketball player Kris Humphries, but after 72 days of marriage, Kim filed for divorce. Their divorce was finalised last month.
"Kris is encouraging the couple to not get married," a source told gossip website naughtybutnicerob.com.
"After Kim's last, 72-day marriage, Kris feels like the Kardashian brand does not need another marriage disaster on its hands. She is telling them to take their time, to really think about it. A third divorce for Kim, is not something Kris wants for her daughter or her family business," the source added.
According to a source, everyone in the family wants to see Kim happy, but at the same time they are assuring her that she doesn't need to be married to find happiness.
"Kim adores Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, which is why her mom is using them as an example of how you can be a solid, committed couple, without having to say 'I do.' Kris originally used Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell as an example of a great couple that never got married, but Kim had no idea who these two were!," said the source.
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The Butler County Commissioners say they might not have to raise the property tax rate due to the budget being balanced for 2014, but they would have to go over their figures first. That tells me raising property tax is the normal procedure for them anytime there is a deficit.
The first people they go after for more revenue are the property owners. Just how many more property tax increases are we able to afford year after year after year? Quit taxing the homeowners.
People are losing their homes because they can't afford to pay the taxes.
We need an independent company to audit the corruption in this county and to oversee the funds that are being paid by homeowners. These repeated property tax increases year after year are a crime. There will never be a day in politics when these criminals will ever say they are in the black and don't need our tax money. They will always find a way to squander it away rather than let us keep our money.
The people need to stand up and start speaking out. Governments were formed to be the voice of the people. But now, governments no longer care about the people, but instead rule the people.
Wake up people. Your home just might be the next one up for sheriff's sale if we keep allowing these folks to tax you out of your home.


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Letter of Thanks from Hunger Relief International
His Grace Bishop Basil recently recieved this letter of thanks from Hunger Relief International, the recipient of DOWAMA's 2011 charitable contribution as recommended by Fr. Seraphim Gisetti of St. John Chrysostom Church in Golden, Colorado and decided upon during the General Assembly at this summer's Parish Life Conference in Shreveport, Louisiana:
Dear Bishop Basil:
Our thanks to Bishop Basil and all the faithful of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America (DOWAMA) for the generous gift of $500.00 donated to Hunger Relief International. These funds will be utilized to provide food staples to the school-based feeding program run by the Orthodox Church in Port au Prince, Haiti. We will be providing rice, beans, pasta and oil to the school in early September, right before classes begin.
We appreciate your compassion and generosity in helping us to assist children living in extreme poverty in Haiti.
Rachel Zelon
Executive Director
Hunger Relief International, Inc.


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- Longmont Hackathon winner to finish calendar app this summer
- Jester's trying to liven up Friday nights in Longmont
- Take Two: Longmont man's medical problem leads to legal run-in
- Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters' owners hope downtown Frederick will become destination
- Take Two: Scott Fraser's work reaches new heights
- Longmont's Crossroads School to move this summer
- Boulder County 'Coffee for Carpoolers' program reduced Diagonal traffic
- Take Two: Longmont says new detectors helped winter road clearance
- Take Two: Longmont teen teaches music, attends Front Range Community College
- Take Two: Frederick High School's main office hole repaired
- Take Two: Fitness for all ages at Frederick's Xtreme MMA
- Longmont's Burch Lake now has 1,800 muskellunge; more to come this year
- Take Two: Niwot High School mascots dedicated to increasing spirit
- Longmont Surgical Mission's free surgeries help uninsured
- Items from Lafayette outhouse show class differences among home's residents
- Take Two: Pacific Auction's new site creates new opportunities
- Longmont musician finds new rhythm after Novus Folium folds
- Longmont lawyer Brandon Shaffer plans to stay in city
- Frederick Recreation Area mural the reel thing: Longmont artist hooking visitors
- Mead High School graduates take on college at CU, CSU
- Longmont's Tyler Hoog continues to make physical strides; eyes college in the fall
- Longmont woman who robbed bank is looking for work, hoping for second chance
- Take Two: Barefoot runner who visited Longmont completes her cross-country trek
- Emma Wallingford: Idol crown propelled singing career
- Boulder County artisans honor champion Hygiene-area cottonwood tree
- Take Two: Longmont to review trash pickup now that some alleys are clear
- Longmont's long-shot presidential candidate withdrew his bid weeks before Election Day
- Longmont man still recovering from pit bull attack in May
- Longmont Symphony Super Conductor William Benedict reflects on stepping up to podium
- Longmont teenager's suicide prevention foundation reaches milestone
- Niwot High custodian faces new health challenge after cancer surgery
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times-Call's series Take Two revisits people we have written about in the past year. Take Two stories will run on Mondays.
BERTHOUD -- When Rick and Nancy Hammans decided to downsize from their Lyons home, workshop and 7-acre lot in February, they moved to a new house just west of Berthoud.
By car, it's just a 14 mile drive.
But the Hammans left behind a lifetime in Lyons, where Rick grew up and Nancy taught school. And since his new house was just a few miles north of the St. Vrain Valley School District boundaries, Rick had to resign the school board seat to which he'd been re-elected in November 2011.
"Nancy misses the kids; I really miss the board," Rick Hammans said last week in the living room of his home. This is the first year neither of them has not been involved in education, he said.
"I keep up with stuff, but it's not the same."
The two aren't sitting around staring at each other, though.
Rick Hammans has turned what was a recreational vehicle garage in to a woodshop so he can continue his decades-long hobby of woodworking. His specialty is custom-made rocking chairs, which he has shipped to customers as far away as New York and Florida.
"It probably keeps me more busy than I want to be," he said.
Rick Hammans Woodworking
On the web: hammanswoodworking.com
By email: email@example.com
By phone: 970-532-2623
The products of his hobby can be found in the Hammans' living room, where a child-size rocking chair awaits a visit from their grandchildren; a bathroom, home to an oak cabinet; and bedroom, where an alder chest holds blankets at the foot of their bed and a curly maple jewelry chest keeps Nancy's treasures.
"This is so good for him; he loves it," Nancy Hammans said.
Rick's chairs come in several sizes to accommodate people of different heights. He takes sample chairs to Breckenridge and Steamboat Springs to show potential customers.
"I'll take them and they'll sit in them, and I'll make the right size for them," Rick Hammans said.
Selecting the right pieces of wood is important, because Rick Hammans is particular about the look of the grain.
"I really like the symmetry," he said while pointing out the details in a chair seat that he carved.
While he loved teaching, Rick Hammans finds a distinct satisfaction in his hobby. As an educator, he often couldn't see the results of his work for years.
"At the end of the day, I have something in my hands that I know I've done," he said.
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That quote from slan is the sole reason why I started this whole conversation about Guts using a beherit
The God Hand would presumably have less power over controlling the causal web of existence after the Blast. Material reality is the most objective layer of existence in which substance denies desireyou can stare at a door all day willing it to open but it won't budge. But the higher you go on the layers the more substance conforms to desire and the less objective reality is. So the God Hand would be more powerful in a micro sense, but they would be less powerful in a macro sense by having less power over all causality.
Sorry Walter, I'm not a mindreaderthough that would be niceand there is plenty of semantic content in what anyone communicates. Not sure specifically what 'that' you're referring to. Could you explicate a little bit more?
I view the God Hand and Idea of Evil as metonymies of one another...whatever actions the God Hand take are indistinguishable from what the Idea of Evil wills, and whatever the Idea of Evil wills is indistinguishable from what the God Hand enacts
What if Guts uses a crimson/ regular beherit to gain power to hopefully defeat Grififth.
It's also a miracle that Guts lived through his first time in the Berserker Armor, who knows how many pounds of blood he lost from that experience, surely no normal man could accomplish a feat such as that.
Then of course from there it's an uphill, losing battle that Guts has to fight to defeat all 5 of the Godhand, but isn't that what he's been doing all along?
You never know what sort of circumstances Guts and Casca is gonna be in. Maybe she wants Guts to sacrifice her to beat the living fuck outta Griffith for all of the evil he has commited. You're right about Guts already having immense power as it is, but after he gets a power boost from a Beherit who knows what kind of havoc and carnage he may be capable of.
And I never said Guts had a supernatural supply of blood. What I was saying is something to support my original statement that Guts can break free of the control of the Godhand
Listen if Guts can persevere through having his bones crushed and most of his blood supply ran dry and then kill a giant dragon whose skin is "harder to break through than diamond" then he can surely take on the Godhand by himself.
And yes, I do think Guts will eventually take on Femto himself. That's a given. But I certainly don't think he has to abandon his humanity, the series' message, and everything he stands for in order to do so.
Am I right or am I wrong about everyone not knowing what kind of situation Miura gonna think up, so Idek why you brought that up.
Even if Guts became a demon/ apostle through the Beherit I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he said "Fuck you I'm still a human" so it's basically just a power boost for Guts to lessen the gap between him and Griffith.
And plus Guts went through A LOT more shit than volume 3 bro
It's all about the barites, I'm sure they'll be usefull in the end. I hope we get more info on them.
That's ... a little thin.
This whole category is based off "ya never know bro" that's why it's called speculation.
I'm pretty confident I've laid out a pretty possible outcome/ way Guts could beat the Gohand singlehandedly
I don't think I'm ignoring and don't understand the story....I'm not saying that Guts would use a Beherit to gain power, all I'm trying to say here is that he could do it and still be himself and not be evil.
You guys are acting like it's impossible for Guts to do that.
all I'm saying is don't say that "Guts is never gonna use a Beherit bc that's against his morals" because there's a possibility that he just might.
In my original post I also stated that guts could find a way to cut off their power so they would just be like any average being. Your thoughts on that?
Hey I ain't tryna start an argument with y'all just wanted to hear your guys thoughts on it. In my original post I also stated that guts could find a way to cut off their power so they would just be like any average being. Your thoughts on that?
To preserve the message of Guts keeping his humanity and not bow down to the temptations of the Beherit (which could happen but would be a load of horseshit with how the story is set up)
he should just have a 5v1 battle with the Godhand with the berserker armor and any other thing Miura might give Guts to help him out. Like its his battle alone he shouldn't have anyone else helping him out. But I honestly think it's just gonna come down to Guts' rage being too much for them to handle (which is saying a lot after volume 3).
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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 6 07:48:26 EDT 2009
One thing to not about dc's is that different dcs give different sizes for the same text. The dc you've used below is a canvas-dc% object, ie one for drawing on the screen. It will be the same as a bitmap-dc%. But a post-script-dc% and a printer-dc% will give different answers. Robby On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote: > The key to width of text is: > >> (define dc (send c get-dc)) >> (send dc get-text-extent "123456787" (make-object font% 24 "Chess Adventurer" 'symbol)) > > 264.0 > 32.0 > 0.0 > 0.0 > > This while the dc in question exists... > > --hsm > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote: >> Added to list: >> >> Care and feeding of Status Line---a subject worth a guide in of itself: >> >> Create a status line >> Open a status line >> Write to a status line >> Close a status line >> Remove a status line >> >> Note that the overall status line is partitioned into writable areas. >> For instance for a chess board, I would want to show the move text, >> the move number and the move ply (move number without regard to color; >> ply 1 is move 1 as is ply 2 [white's move followed by black's move >> etc.]). Perhaps also information on castling, draw information etc. An >> example rich environment. >> >> --hsm >> >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks for the pointer to dc% What you mention seems like a logical >>> (heaven forbid) arrangement given the concepts involved. Having >>> survived the age of roll-your-own gui (usually text), original >>> windows, and then MFC this should be just another notch in my >>> gui-belt. Even as we e-speak I'm in the middle of investigating frame% >>> which has some of the answers in my shopping-list. I think one of the >>> things that will be in my version of 'GUI Editor Guide' will be a list >>> of what all can be set/modified for a given window. Sometimes it is >>> easier to pick and choose from such a list than to comb a detailed >>> reference--- I think as a guide, this approach might be the one to go >>> with. >>> >>> --hsm >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ryan Culpepper<ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >>>> Hugh Myers wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Am solving some of these as I try and think of questions to ask. Some >>>>> of the answers raise questions about what is or isn't do-able. For >>>>> instance given fixed width symbol font (like all chess fonts) it would >>>>> be nice to ask how wide and how tall a given text string is. This >>>>> could be used to 'size' the window before display. Nothing I've seen >>>>> yet even hints that this is possible, yet it seems quit reasonable. >>>> >>>> I think you want 'get-text-extent' in 'dc<%>' (drawing context). >>>> >>>> Here are some rough guidelines: >>>> >>>> - 'editor<%>' and 'text%' deal with the text, its styles, modifications to >>>> the text, high-level display concerns (word wrapping, visible/ region, etc). >>>> >>>> - 'canvas<%>' and 'editor-canvas%' deal with the gui concerns: dimensions >>>> of the editor widget, its auxiliary gui elements (scrollbars), etc. >>>> >>>> - 'dc<%>' deals with rendering issues, like how big a string in a >>>> particular font will be rendered on screen. >>>> >>>> Browsing those classes and interfaces is a good way to get an idea of what >>>> functionality is available and how it's provided. Remember to look at the >>>> superclasses and superinterfaces, too. >>>> >>>> Ryan >>>> >>> >> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >
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"Affordable housing" for Water Street, and Ypsilanti's dreams of gentrificationSubmitted by murph on 21 January 2014 - 7:24am. planning | ypsilanti
I was asked for my thoughts on this proposal for Ypsilanti's Water Street property, which would put a 76 apartment development on a 3 acre chunk (pdf) at the rear of the site. The piece of ground in question is fill, and requires extra work to build on -- I'd be pretty surprised to NOT see it linger vacant as the last piece of land left vacant -- and the development would also construct several blocks worth of new city streets, water, and sewer to serve itself. Following is my (lightly edited) response to that ask:
Family Dollar on E. Michigan Ave?Submitted by murph on 22 March 2013 - 7:27pm. urban planning | ypsilanti
Ypsi has had a lot of discussion lately about whether it would be appropriate to sell an acre of city-owned land on East Michigan to a developer to build a standalone "Family Dollar" dollar store. Much of the conversation has involved turning up noses about a dollar store "not setting the tone we want" or "not being the kind of development we want" or the like.
In that context, I was tickled yesterday to step out of a meeting and notice the street in front of me.
What's this RTA thing I'm suddenly hearing about, and what does it mean for Washtenaw?Submitted by murph on 9 December 2012 - 8:37am. ann arbor | detroit | trains | transportation | ypsilanti
Edited to add, Jan 7, 2013: The original framing of this post was inflammatory -- unnecessarily so -- towards the Ann Arbor City Council. I saw them on the brink of taking an action that I perceived to be itself pretty inflammatory towards some of our regional partners, potentially hurting our (Washtenaw County transit supporters') interests, whether the action had its intended effect or not. City Council, to their great credit, did modify their stance to more clearly focus on their actual interest and ask, and I specifically thank Mayor Hieftje and Councilman Warpehoski for their leadership here.
In turn, I'd like to turn off my flamethrower, and acknowledge that we are all in fact on the same side here: we're champions of our transit system, AATA, and want to see it continue to grow its ability to serve our residents; we want to see better connections into the rest of metro Detroit, especially in the form of the proposed commuter rail connecting Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti to Dearborn, DTW, and Detroit; and we want to make sure that the transit system meeting our train on the far end is adequate to get our riders to their ultimate destinations.
We have had some differences on the best ways to reach those goals, but I'm looking forward to finding agreement on our shared interests that we can work together on. Specifically, I have been named as one of Washtenaw County's appointees to the RTA Board since I originally wrote this post, and am committed to using my background and knowledge of the situation to ensure the RTA is advancing, rather than hindering, our interests. I've struck-through the original, hostile framing text below, but leave it readable for the historical record.
This past week, the Michigan legislature passed bills to create a Regional Transit Authority for metro Detroit—Oakland, Wayne, Macomb and Washtenaw Counties. This long-overdue legislation has been under discussion and in the news for over a year, and received statewide, bipartisan support. While it's not perfect, it will address many of the thorny issues that have held back transit in metro Detroit for years and years—and the remaining issues are generally best addressed by the communities sitting down at the table together, not mandated from Lansing.
As somebody who's been working on this legislation for the past year and talking to all of the players involved, I'm hoping I can answer a few questions:
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W(h)ither the electoral college?Submitted by murph on 11 November 2012 - 9:58am. maps | math | politics
All this is available elsewhere, but as a trusted source, I'll oblige an election night party request for a math-with-murph explaining the electoral college, the short form is that the EC exists because the Constitution says so--Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
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Ypsi area home prices, 2006-2012Submitted by murph on 2 November 2012 - 7:47am. data | housing market | ypsilanti
Just realized it's been a year since I posted a compilation and chart of Ypsi-area home sales prices from the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors monthly reports. Here's the updated chart, with the latest year's data added:
Clearly, I have a tendency to get excited and want to share whenever the data hits peaks -- it looks like my post a year ago happened at a local maximum, with the 3-month average price peeking over $100k for just a single month. This time, it's the 6-month average price up over $100k for the first time since 2008 (just barely as of August, more solidly by September). Again, the 3-month average peaked even higher, at $117k in June, but summer prices didn't fall off nearly as quickly this time, allowing the 6-month average to move $12,000 higher than its peak from a year ago.
Full data link at the bottom of the post, and also includes moving averages of sales volume and days on market. (6-month average sales volume is also at its highest in 2 years.)
Economic development benefits of street treesSubmitted by murph on 28 April 2012 - 11:45am. data | trees | urban planning | ypsilanti
Over on MarkMaynard.com, there's an interview with Ypsilanti City Planner Teresa on all things street tree: the trees added to West Cross as part of the recent streetscaping project, the city's tree inventory and urban forestry plan, and the public tree nursery project underway.
Mark asked whether street trees have economic development benefits, on top of the obvious quality of life benefits, and Teresa pointed to a round-up by the Arbor Day Foundation; I decided to go a little further and dig up some primary sources. Copied over here for my own future reference, plus just a little bit of math based on the first source:
$50k median taxable value in Ypsilanti * 3% increase from street trees * 33.67 mills for all local property taxes = $50.51 / year tax revenue increase due to each street tree added to an Ypsilanti home that doesn't have one.
Houseone history: the Schellinger family, 1940Submitted by murph on 24 April 2012 - 8:26am. census | history | houseone | ypsilanti
Records from the 1940 Census were released earlier this month, 72 years after the Census was taken, and you can find full, house-by-house data online via the National Archives, in the form of scanned record sheets filled out by the census takers. Simply fill in your state/county/city/street, et voila! ...you have 50 pages of scanned, 70-year-old, handwritten pages to read through to find your house. (That last step is the time-consuming part.)
Our house was inhabited by one Theodor Schellinger and his family, who apparently relocated from Flint to Ypsilanti sometime between 1935 and 1940, and paid $35/month in rent for our house.
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Ypsilanti: consider cash bounties for vacant/foreclosed home rehabSubmitted by murph on 15 April 2012 - 10:53am. data | housing market | municipal budget | ypsilanti
I'm going to make a suggestion that sounds absurd on its face, in Ypsilanti's current heated battle over cutting costs vs. raising taxes: the city should hand out $10,000 cash grants to people who purchase, fix up, and occupy vacant and foreclosed homes. Why? Because it's a net fiscal gain for the city. (Obviously, this should be treated as a starting point for discussion, rather than a fine-tuned proposal.)
As a timely case study, let's look at the properties owned by local landlord David Kircher, whose entire portfolio was recently put on the market by the trustee appointed in his bankruptcy proceedings. I understand most (perhaps all?) of these properties to also be subject to tax foreclosure by the county for unpaid property taxes.
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Ypsi (city) foreclosure rate curving downwardsSubmitted by murph on 5 November 2011 - 11:20am. data | housing market | urban planning | ypsilanti
A few posts ago, I suggested that sale prices of houses in Ypsilanti are starting to swing up over the last few months. How about the other popular metric of the housing market--the foreclosures?
Foreclosure activity, as we expect, is a downward force on home values, because the bank-owned homes dumped on the market soak up buyers. Over the last few years, from city assessing records, we can see that bank sales in the city go for half or a third the price of private sales:
With average MLS sale prices bumping along at $80,000 during that entire two year period, we can see that it was the bank sales dragging down the price. Fewer foreclosures means fewer bank-owned homes glutting the market, meaning prices can start recovering. Fortunately, Ypsi (the city, at least) is on the right side of that curve.
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Link dump on municipal consolidations underway in MichiganSubmitted by murph on 2 November 2011 - 9:02am. linkdump | michigan | planning
Several communities around the state are having conversations about mergers between municipalities, ranging from Onekama Village and Township (total population < 1,000) to Grand Rapids & Kent County, which, as a single municipality of 606,000 people, would be the 24th largest city in the United States, right between Seattle and Washington, DC. No time to process right now, but some assorted links...
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FIBER International Symposium is intended to discuss and debate actively most-advanced chemical findings for biomolecular chemistry and biomolecular engineering with international researchers.
FIBER International Symposium is intended to discuss and debate actively most-advanced chemical findings for biomolecular chemistry and biomolecular engineering. The symposium will have four invited speakers from Europe and the United States, who are frontier scientists in the field of nucleic acid chemistry. In addition, since this symposium will allow quite a lot of time for free discussion, young scientists and students can have a chance to discuss directly with the invited speakers.
Period: November 6 (Sun.) – November 8 (Tue), 2011
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According to this forum post on the NeoSmart message boards, there's a new "0-day vulnerability" that they've discovered in the phpBB message board system.
Our research team has discovered a new (aka 0-day) vulnerability in phpBB, that affects all existing versions (including the Olympus CVS as of May 18th, 2006).
This phpBB security vulnerability has been scaled at a threat level of 6/10; allowing normal members access to privileged and restricted-access content on a phpBB forum. The bug lies in the email notification system and can be used to track comments made on any hidden posts that were once user accessible.
Since this bug has just broken today, there's no response from phpBB as of yet with a patch, but expect it soon if this issue is as important as the post mentions.


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- The Authority's function is to arrange for the elimination of blighted areas which are beyond the control of normal regulatory processes by acquiring such properties through the power of eminent domain granted it, planning redevelopment projects for them in conjunction with private firms, and aiding in financing them through the issuance of its own bonds.
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- Created as a corporate body in 1945 under the provisions of the several Acts of May 24 of that year and directed by a five-member board appointed by the Mayor.
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Perv 'Stache and a Pompadour
Robin Thicke and his wife Paula partied at Butter last night. Robin also brought along his perv 'stache and rocked a pompadour. Not exactly the sweetest look ever.
Perv 'staches are for sexual predators. In his case, perhaps a sexual predator who went to boarding school, but a sexual predator nonetheless. Seriously… does a perv 'stache, or any 'stache for that matter, quiver your loins?
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Were you one of the 100+ million fans watching the Super Bowl yesterday? How about that 34 minute power outage? It was a potent reminder of the reliance we place on an uninterruptible supply of electricity to maintain our lifestyles, our entertainment, and our economy.
I'm reading an interesting book which (slightly tongue in cheek) catalogs everything we should worry about. This is my short and quite serious list of things we should worry about with our energy infrastructure policies for electricity.
1. Energy surety. This is similar to energy autarchy – a concept and practices that ensure national self-sufficiency and independence. For some, transitioning from imported sources to domestic sources of oil and natural gas delivers energy surety. That's a correct assumption only if we decree that domestic oil and gas cannot be exported overseas, which gets to an extremely intertwined item number two in my list of energy concerns. One of the primary objectives and benefits of the Smart Grid is the incorporation of domestic renewable sources of energy that build true energy autarchy and independence from polluting commodity fuels.
2. Economic surety. Fuels that are importable, like oil and gas, are also exportable. And guess what? These commodities go to the highest bidder – on or offshore. That's how capitalism works. Some American manufacturers like Dow Chemical, which consumes significant quantities of electricity for their operations, are already raising concerns that American natural gas will go up in price as more infrastructure is in place to make it easier to export. Sixteen applications are sitting with the Department of Energy to build export terminals to ship natural gas to countries that don't have free trade agreements with the USA. Promoters of unrestricted exports include companies like Exxon, one of the beneficiaries of the annual $4B in subsidies lavished on them by our current federal tax code. What odds would Las Vegas bookies put on the current low price of natural gas remaining steady? Or is it's currently low price merely a temporary reprieve for a fuel that has shown extensive volatility over the years? Utilities aren't betting on it as a single source of energy for electricity.
If we really want intertwined energy and economic surety, we need to seriously bulk up on energy sources for electricity that are not exportable. Sun and wind are two prime possibilities, and biomass and water – whether innovative tidal or traditional dam – are others. And in the cases of solar and wind energies, the extraction costs are relatively stable or even declining.
3. Grid brittleness. Our electrical grids, and even our grids for supplies of natural gas to power plants are extremely vulnerable to disruptions from weather as well as from cyber attack. The recent devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy is just the latest illustration that reliance on remote generation or extraction sources can play havoc on communities and regional economies. And when it comes to natural gas, our current supplies overwhelm the existing infrastructure, creating new congestion points and requiring pipeline buildouts. These undertakings are not fast nor cheap, and likely to be slowed down by legitimate concerns about pipeline safety. Building distributed energy resources (DER) that range from locally produced and consumed renewables generation, energy storage, and negawatt plays in energy efficiency and demand response can deliver resiliency as well as increased reliability into our grids to withstand and recover from natural or human-caused disruptions.
Widely and massively distributed and small scale energy resources that use or store electricity produced from domestic renewables address this short list of concerns. We have a good understanding of the range of technologies, policies, and financing that are required and will be topics of future articles.


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HAT tip: researchers map African sleeping sickness
In the 1960s, we very nearly eliminated 'Sleeping Sickness', known today as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (1). But in the latter half of the 20th Century there was a marked resurgence, and although cases are now falling once again, an estimated 70 million people are still thought to be at risk (2).
Knowing exactly how many people have the disease, or are at risk of contracting it, is difficult, as cases tend to be concentrated in areas with little or no access to health services. But researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations and Edinburgh University, have been working to map the levels of HAT risk in affected populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Their study, published in October 2012, provides both a striking visual representation of the reach of HAT and a mine of information for those working to eliminate the disease.
HAT is one of 17 neglected tropical diseases identified by the World Health Organisation. The disease, which is unique to Africa, is caused by two sub-species of the blood parasite Trypanosoma and is transmitted to both animals and humans by the bite of the tsetse fly. In its advanced stages it causes neurological disorders and, if left untreated, is ultimately fatal.
Advances in GPS technology have prompted the development of new methodologies to map the risk of disease. In 2011, as part of the WHO's Programme to Eliminate Sleeping Sickness, scientists pioneered a way of combining epidemiological data with human population figures. The result was a series of maps showing estimated levels of HAT risk in six Central African countries. Now, the same team of researchers has applied this methodology at a continental level to all HAT endemic countries.
The researchers combined data on sleeping sickness cases from the latest Atlas of HAT report with that from Landscan™ databases on how the population is distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the resulting maps, they estimate that an area of 1.55 million square kilometres – that's six times the size of the United Kingdom – is at some risk of HAT.
When tackling disease on this scale, the ability to accurately target appropriate response to different areas according to how they are affected is a great advantage. The maps clearly show, for instance, that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the country with both the highest number of people at risk and the largest at-risk area, accounting for half of the total population at risk of HAT.
The maps could also allow us to target interventions according to the level of risk in a given area: "intensive control measures" for the 21 million people at moderate to very high risk, "cost-effective and adapted measures" to control infection in areas where there the risk of infection is low.
As well as informing their action on the ground, the bold, colourful maps could help the WHO to raise awareness of disease risk and garner support for their Programme. If regular updates can be made using the latest data, these maps will be a useful tool for those who are working to monitor, control and eradicate the disease.
(1) The WHO Programme to Eliminate Sleeping Sickness: Building a Global Alliance Ref: WHO/CDS/CSR/EPH/2002.13
(2) Pere P.Simarro et al. (2012). Estimating and Mapping the Population at Risk of Sleeping Sickness. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6 (10) PMID: 23145192


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Doing Development Differently - A Chimera?
A lot has recently been written about "doing development differently" from crowdsourcing the next Millennium Development Goals (a la ONE's Jamie Drummond) to the Copenhagen Consensus and their 16 investments with the biggest payoffs for development (listed here).
Enter Ha-Joon Chang, a noted Cambridge economist, who sees development as a different game altogether –the analogy he uses is that current development thinking is like "Hamlet without the prince." According to Duncan Green's recent blog post, Chang believes that with all the focus on health, education, poverty reduction, we are missing the elephant in the room (the prince): We are missing what poor countries really need, which is "productive capabilities" and an important focus on upgrading skills and industry, which has largely been set aside since the 1980s by donors and international organizations.
In his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Chang states, "It is not mainly because of some unalterable structural factors…that poor countries are poor. Human decisions, especially by those in power to set the rules, make things happen in the way they happen…" He goes on to note that, "Given this, we need to ask whether the decisions that the rich and the powerful take are based on sound reasoning and robust evidence. Only when we do that can we demand right actions from corporations, governments and international organizations."
With this in mind, the Bank's recent Localizing Development report is a promising step to inject some rigor into the decision-making process in the area of community-driven development. The report draws on more than 500 studies and shares evidence-based lessons on the challenges donor agencies face in inducing civic engagement in development. The report challenges the common belief that poor communities have ample social capital and can be mobilized quickly to act collectively in their own interest. According to Vijayendra Rao, a co-author of the study along with Ghazala Mansuri, "Rarely is much thought given to how difficult it is to effectively organize groups of people to act in a way that solves market and government failures." As a result, participatory projects sometimes struggle to build cohesive and sustainable organizations. Mansuri adds, "Genuine efforts at inducing civic engagement require a sustained long-term commitment and a clear understanding of the social and political forces at all levels of society."
They conclude that by thinking through local development policy with civil society in mind, practitioners and policy makers can better understand when civic participation is likely to solve a development challenge, as well as what may be needed to successfully organize the disadvantaged to act in their own interest. In the final analysis, participatory development is critical to ending poverty, and involving communities is the key to bring lasting change and ensure that development is truly inclusive.
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Stress: A Modern Day Killer
Not managing and coping with the 'little stuff' and difficult life events have emerged as one of the most significant contributors to accidents, loss of memory, attachments, the decline in mental and phsyical health, and productivity. Prolonged stress deeply affects all aspects of our lives.
What if this is true?
The experience of being stressed is very personal, as is how we respond to it, and more importantly, what we believe about stress. Research at Stanford reports that if we believe that stress is bad, it does effect the heart and immunity -- more so than if we allow the emotions and then take the appropriate actions to deal with them. People report the same amount of stressors, but the people who had more casual beliefs that it will pass, that they can do whatever they need to, or that stress happens, had reduced heart damage and other damaging influences to the body.
Here are some other things to consider:
First, we are conditioned by family and culture on what is to be considered stressors and how to behave when stressed if we are to stress at all. Example: Mom is afraid of storms; children can learn to become afraid of storms.
Symptoms vary from person to person and are dependent on many factors -- mental conditioning, personal resources, culture, inherited family stresses, lifestyle demands, and the health of your mind/body. Basically, what happens in your life and how you responded to the events -- your beliefs, inner resources, and external support system, will determine how well you cope with life shocks when they occur in the future.
Dramatic and unwanted shifts in life can appear suddenly and can be confusing because we want life to always be going well. Current stressors can awaken old feelings and patterns and you feel added psychological, physical and environmental stress in your life all over again.
Not to be ignored, generational stress, trauma, and stressful events can surface during critical milestones, transitions, ages or events, and have a profound effect on your life whether you want to realize the connection or not. Some of these stressors are repeat burdens of the family ancestry.
Examples of stress that can impact our lives:
Current life: Money and business losses, grief, "giving too much," fears, sadness, worry, accidents, trauma, illness, surgery, conflicts, fights, a medical diagnosis, to name a few.
Inherited trauma: A mother who died young; "...granddad failed in his career like I did"; three family members who committed suicide; aunts and uncles with addictions, childhood abuse, emotional and lifestyle patterns, rejected family members, illnesses, to name a few.
Symptoms of Stress: Any pain, discomfort or changes that affect health, mind and emotions, habits and behaviors, career and lifestyle that influences your well-being.
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RARIK (Iceland State Electricity) was established on 2nd April, 1946, and started operations in January the following year. RARIK has worked on developing various power projects throughout Iceland, such as the electrification of rural areas and interconnecting districts with high voltage system. RARIK also laid extensive system of transmission lines between the country's various regions, constructing an integrated power grid stretching around all of Iceland. RARIK has been the leading force behind these developments, and thanks to the extensive interconnected power grid, the whole country can now benefit from every harnessed hydro-electric or geothermal power source.
The history of RARIK is closely connected to the republic's own history, as electrical and industrial development went hand in hand in Iceland. By devoting its energy to building an electric power transmission and distribution system for the country's rural as well as urban areas, RARIK has played an important role in the development of individual regions in Iceland.
RARIK ltd, a corporation owned by the government, was established August 1st 2006. It then took over management of The State Electric Power Works.
On establishment the company's main objective was to procure sufficient electrical power to the general public and industries in a favourable manor. The company has had an important role to play in procuring, distributing and selling electric power.
With the onset of new energy laws in 2003 and privatization and monopoly regulations it was decided to establish a subsidiary, Orkusalan. Orkusalan's principal function is to generate and sell electric energy on RARIK's behalf. Orkusalan, 99.8% of which is owned by RARIK ohf, was founded in the beginning of 2007. It manages 5 power plants, the Rjúkanda power plant, the Skeiðfoss power plant, the Grímsárs power plant, the Lagarfoss power plant and the Smyrlabjarga power plant. The total capacity of these power plants is 36 MW, the Lagarfoss power plant being the largest. The company's shares in power plants are worth 7 billion ISK.
With changes in electric power laws RARIK quit selling electricity. Landsnet hf was established on January 1st 2005, it's primary role being transmission of electricity in the country. A majority of RARIK's main line system was sold to Landsnet hf. RARIK now owns a 22% share in the company.
Today the company's main objective is distribution of electric power and has gradually been working on building distribution networks in rural areas, 90% of which belong to RARIK. RARIK's distribution network reaches to Western, Northern, Eastern and South Iceland. It also reaches 43 urban areas all over the country. The length of the high voltage distribution network is about 8.700 km. Originally all high voltage distribution was via overhead power lines, but now 57% of the system is underground cables. RARIK's shares in utilities are worth about 17 billion ISK.
RARIK also owns and runs five heating plants, geothermal power plants in Búðardalur, Blönduós and Siglufjörður and district heating systems in Seyðisfjörður and Höfn in Hornafjörður.
In 2008 RARIK established a special organization called RARIK Energy Development Ltd. Its purpose is to handle projects already in production locally and abroad and also find and develop new projects locally and abroad.
RARIK has about 200 employees. Fifty employees work at the main office in Reykjavík, the rest are working at about 25 different district company offices.Tryggvi Þór Haraldsson is the Managing Director of RARIK.
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Opening hours for RARIK offices in Reykjavík and district offices: 8:00-16:00.
To report power problems:
Western Iceland - 528 9390
Northern Iceland - 528 9690
Eastern Iceland - 528 9790
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This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.
Responsible for providing local market strategic leadership for provider optimization, service, network competitive intelligence, engagement and contracting for Medicaid Nationwide, including local cost of care and trend management, provider contracting, implementation and local oversight of all types of payment innovation programs, and provider relations and education.
Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
Delivers competitive cost of care trends in assigned area
Develops provider networks that provide a competitive advantage.
Aligns Medicaid contracting strategy with medical management strategy. Integrates quality metrics and incentives into contracting process.
Serves as Medicaid Provider Solutions local single point of accountability and is the Medicaid lead for the Integrated Cost Management (ICM) committee.
Ensures compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
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Bodner said she feels blessed to have the opportunity as a student to work for a reputable company. "It's every girl's dream to be a princess. Children's theatre is so rewarding; it is so wonderful to have the opportunity to teach children valuable life lessons in a fun environment."
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O'Neil found encouragement from faculty and staff in the Department of Cinema & Digital Arts. "I wouldn't have known about this internship opportunity without Professor Maitre's guidance and support. She helped me so much along the way. I'm so excited to live and work in the Big Apple this summer."
As for Nemec, working for the CLO is a dream come true. "I began going to CLO shows when I was a child. I received tickets to see Sally Struthers in Annie for my birthday, and that's what set me on the theatre path," he said. "This internship program has always been a dream for me and I'm very happy to say that I will get to work on Annie with Ms. Struthers, it's surreal and I couldn't be more excited. I couldn't have made it this far without the help from COPA faculty and staff."
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William Self served as an executive at 20th Century Fox where he oversaw such now-classic TV series as Batman, Julia, and M*A*S*H and was an Emmy-nominated producer of the 1991 Hallmark Hall of Fame production Sarah, Plain and Tall. Self died on November 15 at the age of 89.
William Self's Archive interview was conducted on March 27, 2001.
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William "Bill" Self was interviewed for three hours in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Self started off discussing his early acting career in movies that led to his extensive television producing career. He talked about producing the series: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, The Frank Sinatra Show and the pilot of The Twilight Zone. He then discussed his brief executive position at CBS and his executive producer position at 20th Century Fox Television. Self talked about his promotions at Fox to the eventual positions of President of 20th Century Fox Television and Vice President of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, where he oversaw such shows as The Adventures of Dobie Gillis, Batman, Daniel Boone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Peyton Place, Lost in Space, M*A*S*H, Julia and Room 222, among others. He ended the interview discussing his relationships with various producers and directors and his partnership with actress Glenn Close on the Sarah Plain and Tall movies. The interview was conducted by Jeff Abraham.


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TAMPA, Fla. — The Devils were just seconds away from claiming a crucial victory last night, only to surrender a goal by the Lightning's Alex Killorn with 15.1 seconds left in the third period and then drop the shootout as Tampa Bay recorded a 5-4 victory to give new coach Jon Cooper a victory in his NHL debut.
"How about that?" a smiling Cooper said. "The wave of emotions I had from when there's 17 seconds left to 15 seconds left was unbelieveable. It's almost like it happened in slow motion. It was awesome."
Not so much for the Devils.
"It's disappointing when you're 15 seconds away from getting two [points], but at the same time we've got to put points in the bank and keep moving forward," Devils coach Peter DeBoer said.
The Devils did manage a single point in the standings and remain in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, three points ahead of the eighth-place Rangers.
The Devils are is 2-6 in shootouts, including 0-3 with Martin Brodeur in goal.
"It's unbelievable," Brodeur said. "I haven't practiced at all. I've got to bring myself to get out there and practice it more. I haven't been playing much and we don't practice a lot, but it's something we have to start doing. These are tons of great points we're laying out on the table. We have too much talent to let go of these kind of points."
The Lightning pulled even at 4 when Killorn scored from the right circle. Teddy Purcell and Victor Hedman scored for Tampa Bay in the shootout.
Steven Stamkos scored his 24th and 25th goals this season and added an assist on Killorn's goal. Nate Thompson had the other Tampa Bay goal.
"Made it exciting," Stamkos said.
The Devils got goals from Andrei Loktionov, Tom Kostopoulos, Andy Greene and Ryan Carter. Martin Brodeur made 21 saves.
After blowing a two-goal lead, Greene's power-play goal put the Devils up 3-2 with 6:02 left in the second. Carter's short-handed goal made it 4-2 at 2:39 of the third.
Stamkos cut the Lightning deficit to 4-3 on his second goal of the game at 7:11 of the third.
The Devils took a 2-0 lead in the second when Loktionov (5:50) and Kostopoulos (6:41) scored 51 seconds apart. Kostopoulos stopped a personal 30-game goal drought, dating back to Feb. 25, 2012, against Philadelphia — when he beat Mathieu Garon on a penalty shot.
"I know Matty Garon pretty well, so I knew that's where I wanted to go," Kostopoulos said. "The puck kind of hopped on me, so I was getting a little nervous. I just wanted to try and get above his pad and below his blocker."
Garon stopped 21 shots.
The Lightning tied it at 2 midway through the second on goals by Stamkos (8 minutes) and Thompson (10:26).
Stamkos scored when he swatted a waist-high rebound into the net after Brodeur made a strong save on the Lightning center. Thompson's goal came after he got through two New Jersey defenders and had a rebound of his own shot go off his leg and past Brodeur.
Brodeur late in the second got a piece of Cory Conacher's point-blank shot that also hit the post.
Cooper was hired as the eighth coach in Lightning history Monday, one day after the team announced the firing of Guy Boucher. Cooper had been coaching Syracuse of the AHL, Tampa Bay's top minor league team.
"A huge win, especially for Coop, a new coach coming in," said Killorn, who played for Cooper in the minors. "I think it just shows the confidence a lot of guys have in him. The swagger he has, we kind of all rallied behind him."
NOTES: Tampa Bay improved to 2-17-1 when tied or trailing after the first period. … The Devils are 12-1-3 when scoring the game's first goal. … New Jersey activated LW Alexei Ponikarovsky (lower body) from injured reserved. He sat out three games. … Devils D Bryce Salvador (lower body) and C Stephen Gionta (upper body), who were both hurt in Monday's 3-2 shootout loss to Ottawa, played. … Lightning D Andrej Sustr made his NHL debut. … The Devils' top minor league team, Albany of the AHL, signed LW Reid Boucher and D Jon Merrill to amateur tryout agreements.


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Last night we brought you the Nokia Lumia 920 service manual, a necessary guide for breaking down and building up your device should you want to replace a part (and void your warranty). Now, our same tipster has passed on the Lumia 820's guide for those who are in need.
The 31 page guide comes in at around 4MB and features lots of details and tips for disassembling your 820 should you need to replace the display (a common request) or we suppose if you just like tinkering with electronics. You'll also find the necessary schematics and part numbers, which is also useful if you need something specific to replace on your device.
Should you want the guide, just head to the link below (hosting site) and you'll be redirected to download the zip file, which contains the PDF.
Nokia Care Service Manual Nokia Lumia 820 (RM-824, RM825)
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Turn Your E-waste Into New Opportunities.
We all know those old TV sets, computers, printers and other electronic stuff (known as e-waste) can reek havoc on the planet if tossed into the landfill.
What you might not know is that, by donating it all to Goodwill's E-waste Solutions program, you'll be providing job training and green jobs to people with disabilities and other barriers--while helping to save the planet. That's what we call turning your e-waste into a brand new opportunity.
Since 1924, Goodwill has pioneered our own "Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Renew" manifesto by creating a sustainable platform that provides jobs, revenue and a greener environment. We make it easy to be green by providing a safe and free service to the community, where we in turn are able to recycle computers, TVs and other electronics.
- Reduce:By making recycling easy, we reduce the amount of toxic materials that would otherwise end up in our landfills
- Reuse:We repair what we can and re-sell to bargain-driven families in the community who can't afford the latest electronics
- Repurpose:What we can't repair, we disassemble and separate the metals that is in turn sold to reputable state recyclers
True to its mission of creating new opportunities, Goodwill of Orange County has been a 'green' business long before the term was coined.
Our e-waste events are always a great success with terrific turnout from the community. Everything is top-notch, from the Goodwill staff to the signage to the documentation. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Goodwill!
All Goodwill Locations Accept E-waste at No Charge
As a California State Certified e-waste collector we'll gladly accept all your electronics, working or not, at one of our Orange County donation centers. Tax receipts are provided.
Click here to see what items we can accept and what items we cannot accept.
Community Events Help Clean Up E-waste
Goodwill partners with many Orange County communities so that people can easily drop off their e-waste items. On average we collect 25 tons of electronics — items just like those stored in your home or office — at these events.
Check out our upcoming e-waste recycling events in Orange County.
Goodwill's e-waste program offers you a way to get rid of all that stuff, easily, painlessly and with a significant up-side. Remember that with each donation, you're helping people with disabilities and other obstacles gain job training and employment in our E-waste Solutions program as well as many other critical life-changing programs and services. You'll be helping people — and the environment.
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It's easy being green, thanks to Goodwill.
For more information about our community e-waste events or business services please contact us:
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Eddie Spaghetti, 'The Value of Nothing' – Free MP3 Download
Never one to subscribe to conventional genre wisdom, Supersuckers leader Eddie Spaghetti is back with his sophomore solo album, 'The Value of Nothing,' and once again, he's blurring lines between classic rock, punk and country.
'The Value of Nothing' is the follow-up to the rocker's 2011 solo debut, 'Sundowner,' which included covers of tunes by everyone from Johnny Cash to the Dwarves, as well as some of his own songs. While the combination worked as a perfect representation of his divergent influences, 'The Value of Nothing' gives listeners an all-new, all-original helping of Spaghetti.
As frontman for the Supersuckers, Spaghetti has enjoyed a long career of breaking genre boundaries and creating tongue-in-cheek tunes. Those signature elements are present on 'The Value of Nothing,' even though the singer-guitarist originally wanted it to be an "authentic country" album. After partnering with Jesse Dayton, who has worked with the likes of Cash and Willie Nelson, they changed the record's direction, ultimately melding classic rock and country and tying it all together with Spaghetti's humor.
We're giving away the album's title track as a today's free MP3 download. It's a relentless roadhouse anthem, but Spaghetti's gravely yet restrained vocals act as an anchor, as they have on all of his musical endeavors.
"I made up the song in about 20 minutes back at the hotel room, and I started thinking about this record and the type of songs I wanted to have on it," Spaghetti tells Diffuser.fm. "This song isn't about anyone in particular, it's more about everyone in general. I like that."
"'The Value of Nothing' was the first song written for my new record," he adds. "I was in Australia and I read this Oscar Wilde quote about how people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and bam! Just like that, it hit me. A song was born."
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Vale of Glamorgan Trading Standards Officers are warning residents of a scam involving calls offering to reduce council tax bills.
Callers claim to be able to do this because the house may be in the wrong band. They also say that refunds can be claimed for any previous overpayments.
The caller requests payment details to process a £50 upfront fee to open the file.
Residents should be aware that if their property is in the wrong band it can be corrected free of charge by contacting the Valuation Office on 03000 505505. In addition some of the properties involved were in the lowest priced band "A" and could not possibly have bills reduced.
It is not clear whether any reduction is ever obtained for residents but the scammers are then in possession of important bank or credit card details.
Principal Trading Standards Officer Christina Roberts-Kinsey said: "Vale residents are urged to refrain from offering important data such as bank details to anyone unless they are completely sure that it is safe to do so.
"If you are in any doubt, or you require information relating to your council tax account, you are advised to contact the Vale of Glamorgan Council Tax Section on 01446 700111."
Residents who have already given their account details over the phone are advised to contact their banks as soon as possible.
If you believe you have received one of these calls please report it to Citizens Advice, by calling 08454 04 05 06. This information is immediately sent to the Council's Trading Standards Service.