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|The young Jiro meets Caproni in a dream
While flying is Jiro's ambition, he is too nearsighted to become a pilot. His compromise is to become an aeronautical engineer and design the planes that he is unable to fly. While he is interested in planes for their beauty, his work is financed by the Japanese military establishment that has other plans for the machines.
Just as Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima is the Japanese perspective on events depicted in his movie Flags of our Fathers, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises is in some way a Japanese perspective on William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. In both films, ordinary people pursue their goals but are caught up in World War II. Both films have a similar image near their conclusions: a graveyard of ruined aircraft.
Two events early in the film are the story in miniature. The first is the Tokyo earthquake and fire of 1923. While a disaster overall, it prompts heroic action and the rebirth of the city. Then there is Caproni's dream plane, built after World War I, which crashes on its test flight. The first disaster is beyond human control and the second is the result of human failure. In each case, there is disappointment and tragedy, yet people persevere and continue to pursue their goals. In a dream, Caproni asks Jiro if he would prefer a world with or without pyramids. The implication is that their construction created both human suffering and beauty. Both Jiro and Caproni prefer a world with pyramids, a statement that creation is worth suffering for. As the earthquake shows, there will be suffering in any case, creation or no.
The Wind Rises is both profoundly realistic, unafraid to recognize the disasters and suffering (both natural and man-made) that people must endure, and also profoundly optimistic, in that people continue to follow dreams despite their troubles. It is a film made by an old man, one who understands that there are no unequivocal happy endings. Tragedy and disappointment are inevitable in each life. The pursuit of creating something beautiful stands in opposition to that, the only thing that elevates people beyond mere survival.
It is not a film for children, not because there is anything objectionable in it but because I suspect it would bore most children. The film is about adult concerns: the workplace, marriage, politics and death.
I'm curious as to why Disney has decided to distribute this film and also curious as to how they will market it. Given how hard they worked to shield children from seeing Pecos Bill smoking, Disney can't be happy that several characters in The Wind Rises are chain smokers. Advertising this as "from the director of Spirited Away" may be literally true but will not represent this film accurately to the family audience. I doubt it's going to appeal much to weekend moviegoers at the mall as this is not what general audiences have been trained to expect from animated entertainment.
Miyazaki has broken new ground for himself here, stepping away from fantasy to offer a perspective on Japan's past and the value of creativity to human existence. This film will not please all his fans but he knew that this film would be his final statement. He chose to address his society about the things that he values and those he disdains. That the film has provoked some controversy in Japan is evidence of Miyazaki's decision to take risks.
I don't know if I'd consider the film a masterpiece. Is it as good as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away or Ponyo? I'll need more viewings to solidify my thoughts. However, it is an important film, both as part of Miyazaki's body of work and as another advance for mature animated films.
Miyazaki's retirement, while inevitable, is a tragedy for animation as a whole. His exit will leave a gaping hole in the animation landscape. We've been blessed to have so many films from him and his compatriots at Studio Ghibli. The Wind Rises might not be Miyazaki's best film, but it might be his most important.


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Gallery » How to Furnish a Victorian Parlor
Linda Jennings has dressed her 1881 home's living room's windows with draperies she made from wedding dress fabric, which was the perfect texture and weight to balance the height of the windows in an elegant fashion. By Meryl Schoenbaum; photo by Mark Tanner.
Cathie and Dennis Caldwell call their front parlor the "Lady of the House†room. When their Orange, California, home was built in 1886, the parlor was for receiving guests, and the room's accessories were used to emphasize the owner's relative wealth. The two settees are original antiques: on the right, the "Fainting Couch†was used for ladies who succumbed to the pressure of their corsets. The other couch has been reupholstered with fabric suited to the period, but it retains the original goosedown pillows and horsehair padding in the backs and arms. By Dennis Myers; photo by Mark Tanner.
Steve Goodyear redecorated his neglected Queen Anne cottage's parlor with layers and layers of color and fabric to conjure a luxurious aura. The reproduction sofa and chairs are accented with pillows made with antique fabrics, while the footstool is covered in a vintage tapestry. By Rebecca Ittner; photo by Jaimee Itagaki.
According to Heritage House Museum curator Lynn Voorheis, "The parlor was reserved for very formal affairs and, similar to today's living room, would probably have been used infrequently. [It] was a room where [lady of the house] Mrs. Bettner would have served formal tea to her visitors.†Photo by Jaimee Itagaki.
Wilma and Tony Burton's Victorian home was built in downtown Riverside in 1893. Fully restored, their parlor now features period furnishings, including this gold Queen Anne chair. Tony, an avid chair collector, believes that all chairs are special works of architecture that need to cooperate with their home's architecture. By Melissa Quinlan; photo by Jaimee Itagaki.
The front parlor of Chris Mullen's Queen Anne home has a relaxed, comfortable feel with its French-style leather sofa and velvet loveseat. A large armoire near the side window is the first antique Mullen ever purchased. The draperies were styled after some he had seen in an issue of Victorian Homes. By Karen van Alstine; photo by Mark Tanner.

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My dear K. took some pictures of our beautiful garden last weekend. The gardening season is more or less over for this year - we picked our last tomatoes and aubergines/eggplants a fortnight ago, this weekend we harvested the last of beets, carrots and potatoes, as well as Jerusalem artichokes (the latter could stay in the ground until the Spring, but we wanted them out from a certain raised bed).
Despite the cold nights and heavy rains, the garden still has some amazing colours on display.
Cornus alba "Sibirica" aka red bark dogwood or red twig dogwood:
Quercus rubra aka northern red oak or champion oak:
The bright red and ripe fruit of Podophyllum emodi aka Himalayan mayapple or Indian may apple:
Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora' aka panicled hydrangea:
The autumn look of Ligularia stenocephala aka leopard plant:
Hylotelephium spectabile (Sedum spectabile) aka showy stonecrop or ice plant in its full glory, Echinacea purpurea aka Eastern purple coneflower or purple coneflowe is finally loosing its beautiful colour:
One of my favourite apples back in Scotland was Egremont Russet - perhaps because it's very dissimilar to all the popular apple varieties in Estonia. The russet apple is often described as having a sweet and dry "nutty" flavour, and I agree. When establishing our garden 4 years ago, we ordered two Egremont Russet plants from England to complement some of our local varieties. Although we got 2 beautiful ripe apples last year, then this year we've been blessed with almost twenty large and perfect russet-coloured dessert apples:
Aster novae-angliae aka aster "New England" is still looking pretty:
Sambucus nigra or black elder (lace black elder), variety 'Dissectum', has really been thriving in our garden. Earlier this year I used the blossoms to flavour raspberry jam and make several bottles of cordial for the forthcoming winter. Now the berries are ripe and I hope to make some black elderberry jam next weekend:
And last, but not least - our beautiful Rosa rugosa aka rugosa rose "Ritausma" has began to blossom again, for the third time this season, if I'm not mistaken:
Here's the garden update from May 2012, and here's the garden update in Estonian.


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March 14, 2008
OXFORD, Ohio - Behind a bevy of fantastic individual efforts, MIT is in 20th place heading into the final day of the 2008 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Senior Doria Holbrook is in first place after six dives on the three-meter, as MIT looks to finish strong on Saturday.
Holbrook has already secured another terrific championship. The Yakima, Wash., native picked up her seventh All-America honor in as many tries after netting a third-place finish in the one-meter competition on Thursday. Holbrook scored 428.65 to hold off Calvin's Erica Duer, who made a late push for the bronze.
Senior Sasha Brophy delivered an electrifying performance in the 200 free, shaving nearly three seconds off her personal best to finish sixth in Friday's prelims with an Institute-record and NEWMAC Open-record time of 1:52.64. Brophy finished eighth at finals in 1:53.86.
Freshman Amy Jacobi has also enjoyed a good first trip to nationals, finishing seventh in the consolation finals on Friday in the 100 fly. Jacobi split 57.67 in the morning and 57.71 at the evening session.
Brophy swam 5:06.65 to finish 24th in the 500 free and Jacobi split 24.47 to close in 21st in the 50 free during Thursday's prelims.
In addition to the conclusion of three-meter diving, Brophy and Jacobi return to the water on Saturday for the 100 free.


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Passenger Steals $300 From Flight Attendant's Purse
"Gott kvöld and good evening. We are now making our final descent into Boston Logan International Airport. Please put your tray tables up, return your seats to the upright position, and could the passenger who took $300 out of Chief Purser Dagbjört's purse please return it? Once again, thank you for choosing Icelandair for all your mile-high pickpocketing needs."
That's probably not how the announcement went. But it's pretty much what happened: Massachusetts State Police say they arrested passenger Torry Johnson after he disembarked from Icelandair Flight 631 on Sunday at 5 p.m., accusing him of stealing $300 from a flight attendant's purse mid-flight.
He was actually confronted by the flight crew in the air, at which point he returned a handful of Icelandic krónas, then spun around and locked himself in the bathroom. Police think he flushed the rest of the missing money down the toilet. [AP, Photo via Nick Bock/Flickr]


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OK, we admit that seeing a Camaro in the process of being saved from the scrap heap of history warms our hearts. So, one can only imagine how our collective hearts swelled when we spied what's going on over at Holohan's Hot Rod Shop in Mooresville, North Carolina. As owner Dan Holohan told us, "Even though they all pretty much look the same, these F-body projects are different in the level of build, and like the owners, each car has taken on its own personality." The Camaros in Dan's shop do share a few common traits though. For one, they are all getting the g-Machine treatment and LS engines from either Mast Motorsports or Chevrolet Performance will power each one. They'll also all field varying levels of Detroit Speed Inc. suspension systems. Where they will differ is in regards to the amount of custom bodywork being done and fabrication bits such as rollcages, custom headers, and exhaust.
To check out the shop or to see how this bevy of Camaro beauties are progressing, be sure to click on over to holohanshotrods.com.


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From major product introductions like Microsoft's Windows 8 to major embarrassments like Apple's botched mobile map application and Hewlett-Packard's Autonomy debacle, 2012 was a busy year in the software industry.
The industry continued to undergo some major transformations with the shift away from on-premise software to cloud computing and the explosion of new software technologies to handle "big data." And some major players in the IT industry took big steps to increase their software footprint -- Dell's $2.4-billion acquisition of Quest Software being the prime example.
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Brad Paisley and Hank Williams Jr. 'Get Drunk and Play Hank Williams' at 2012 CMT Awards
The 2012 CMT Awards, which took place tonight (June 6), were too big for the auditorium, metaphorically speaking. Therefore, the live duet of 'I'm Gonna Get Drunk and Play Hank Williams,' performed by Hank Williams Jr. with an assist from Brad Paisley, was too much to be contained by a venue with a roof, so the superstars performed it outside. What a treat for fans!
The song refused to be contained by a building, and as a result, it was quite an electrifying collision of both classic country and modern, as it featured two of the genre's most respected and notable players.
The song appears on Hank Jr.'s forthcoming platter, 'Old School, New Rules,' which drops on July 12. Only Hank Jr. could get away with a song such as this and prevent it from becoming cheesy, since it's somewhat self-referential, as he is paying homage and tribute to his father and namesake, a true country music pioneer.
Maybe one day Paisley -- known for his dry sense of humor -- will write and perform a song 'I'm Gonna Get Drunk and Play Brad Paisley' with one of his sons.
Watch Brad Paisley and Hank Williams Jr. Perform 'Get Drunk and Play Hank Williams'


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Result: Canucks vs Capitals/
Congratulations go out to the Washington Capitals' secondary logo tonight for being named by the voters here at NHLToL as the best in the league! The Capitals finished the final poll with a 52% of the more than 2,200 votes.
Thanks to everyone who voted!
As far as what's next, you guys have been putting in your nominations over the last few weeks for the NHL's worst logo. Stay tuned for news on which logos will make it into the bracket on the way to being crowned the worst in the league.


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One of the hottest musicals last decade was A Chorus Line, and one of the best songs from it was called "Dance: 10, Looks: 3," which told the story of a great dancer who needed plastic surgery before she could get hired. In many ways the current crop of Smartphones is much like this. They have a lot of capability, but they aren't particularly attractive or easy to use.
With the first generation of the iPhone, Apple has turned this market on its ear, but much like the blond heiress who is cooling her heels in jail this month, the phone — while good-looking — lacks the critical features that make for a great phone. This isn't inconsistent with other generation-one products, but does reflect on the fact that Apple has a unique spin on what is a common industry problem and why most of us who buy a lot of technology tend to avoid first generation offerings.
What's Wrong With iPhone 1.0?
If it wasn't for Apple's excellent marketing, this section would likely be titled, "What is Right?" Apple does a great job of containing information, but if I would have told you that, say, Sony was coming out with a $500 phone that had no removable battery, sucked at texting and e-mail, was large when compared to the market leading (and often free) Motorola RAZR, and was nearly as fragile as fine china, you'd be asking who in their right mind would buy such a thing. Well, evidently, if you put the Apple brand on it, a lot of you folks.
This is the power of Apple marketing. They can actually bring out a product that would have been a complete failure for anyone else and get folks lining up outside of stores to buy it. Of course, much like it was with those who paid $2K and up for a Playstation 3 in December, I'm thinking a large number of folks are going to feel rather foolish days after they buy one of these things and realize that what they saw the phone do on TV not only isn't consistent with what the phone can actually do, it may not even be anything they really want to do.
For devices like phones, first-generation products are almost like Beta releases, and Apple has a bad history with first-generation products. This is how a new vendor learns about a market, and they get you, the user, to pay to help them learn. While I wish private schools and universities operated that way, this P.T. Barnum way of approaching a market does have its risks, and the buyer takes most of them.
Remember, you have to commit to this thing for 2 years of expensive phone service on top of the $500 price of admission, and if this thing is a dud, that's two years you'll be hearing about what a gullible idiot you were.
Advice For iPhone Buyers
If you decide to buy one of these, there are a couple of recommendations you should take to heart.
First, don't text or dial this phone while driving, and if you are a parent and buy your kid one of these, you should have a long talk about this. Unlike a phone with a keypad where you can "blind dial" (dial or text without looking at the phone), a touch screen doesn't give good positional information, so you'll want to look at this while using it. This is the fastest way I know to meet someone new on a road or freeway and forcibly move body and soul into his or her trunk. Do not actively use this phone while driving. You can use it to listen to tunes, but don't manage your library either (just leave it on shuffle). Even answering a phone like this could be dangerous. Invest in a good cell phone headset like a Plantronics or Jawbone and use it to answer calls.
Buy a protective case like an Otterbox. With a glass screen and a metal case, this phone is incredibly fragile compared to other phones. Drop it and you'll likely have phone pieces to remember your expensive phone by (and don't forget, you have a two-year contract, so replacing it could cost upwards of $700, because you generally can't subsidize a new phone until your old phone's contract runs out).
Pick up a spare external battery like the Charge 2 Go Pocket Socket (once they have an iPhone adapter). This should keep you running when the non-replacable battery (you'd think Apple would change this policy after being successfully sued) in the phone goes south, either for the night or permanently.
Get AT&T phone breakage insurance. A metal phone, a glass screen, and a tile floor will likely not be happy together. Especially if you don't get a case like the Otterbox mentioned above, buy the breakage insurance, because having to pay full price for a new phone on top of breaking your $500 wonder will be incredibly annoying.
Don't leave this phone lying around. Devices like this are attractive to thieves, and if you leave it in plain view in your car, you are likely to lose a window and your phone. Keep it in a secure pocket or pouch, or leave it in a very safe place and make sure you know the process to make the phone useless to thieves.
Wrapping Up: Wait For Version 2
With a replacement for the iPhone already in the works and due before year's end, let someone else buy the first ones, or at least wait a month or two for all of the problems to work their way out of the initial device. You really don't want an iffy phone.
Remember, the first iPod sucked (mine, and a large chunk of the other initial products, broke within weeks of being sold), but follow-up products generally benefit from the knowledge gained with the initial products and become much better.
Remember the old saying, "Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land"? You may want to be a settler rather than a pioneer with this one. Use the money to buy an LCD TV or other device that won't be as risky as a generation-one technology product.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.


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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
New Year's Eve Feast
On New Year's Eve, six couples from our neighborhood have a progressive dinner. The tradition started when progressive dinners were a new thing, and it has continued even though it may now be passe. But why should eating good food with good friends ever be passe?
This year, we started at the Beiers' house.
Jim doesn't really like to take pictures of people, so you will not know what the Beiers look like. They are like us, a handsome couple of a certain age. And Betty is an excellent cook. For the appetizer course, Betty made marinated shrimp:
Beautiful, aren't they?
And cornbread crab cakes:
These were fabulous. Betty said that she was dubious about the crab and cornbread combination, but she needn't have been. They went together like love and marriage. (And we know whereof we speak on the love and marriage front, by the way. All six couples are still on their first marriage, and among us, we have about 250 years of marriage. A bizarre thought).
This huge wheel of brie with pecans and figs was not a bizarre thought, however, but a very happy one:
There was also a small bowl of caviar. I don't know why Jim didn't take a picture of that. Maybe he didn't want to suggest that we are caviar-eating, latte-drinking liberals. Although we are.
The second course was soup, at the Wolfs' house. That's us.
I'll admit that I worked all day on my assignment. I made white whole wheat rolls from Maggie Glezer's book:
I recently bought some white whole wheat flour, and when I saw this recipe, it seemed like kismet. Honestly, I was underwhelmed by the results. They were hearty and flavorful, but the overall effect was perhaps a little too hearty. They seemed like little discs that you might want to use in a food fight. No one did, but it was, after all, only the second course, and nobody had had enough to drink to start a food fight. Not that they would.
This is a picture of The Green Head. She comes out on New Year's Eve as a travelling prize to be awarded to the person who gets the most predictions right. I won it last year. This year I was more careful to be wrong in my predictions so I wouldn't get it again.
Back to the soup. I made a roasted yellow pepper soup and a roasted tomato soup, drizzled with serrano pepper cream. It turned out to be an all-day process, but worth every minute.
As you can tell from the recipe and the photograph, it's two different soups, both made basically the same way--lots of fresh vegetables are roasted and added to a base of shallots softened in butter, herbs, and chicken broth. This mixture is pureed and strained, and cream and more chicken broth is added. The serrano cream is made with creme fraiche, salt, garlic and a bunch of chopped serrano peppers.
The recipe warns that if you process the creme fraiche too much, it might curdle. And so it did. Curdled creme fraiche is not a pretty sight. I had to run to the grocery store and get more creme fraiche and more peppers, which I processed very, very lightly. Both soups were very good--fresh-tasting and flavorful--on their own, but dynamite together. And the presentation, which is a result of just pouring two cups from either side of the soup bowl, was quite dramatic. The serrano cream added the right punch.
We went next to the Niemiecs' house. They live on Harriet Avenue, not Garfield Avenue like the rest of us, but they are also allowed to participate because we are nothing if not inclusive.
Joan did a salad bar:
Although we had already eaten too much food, we trundled off to the Delorias' house for the main course.
Laurel is a collector.
She collects antiques, masks, and many other things, including Department 52 Snow Village houses.
It takes her and her three helpers a full day to put up these houses, and another day to take them down. Some might call this an obsession, and Laurel has hinted darkly that this is the last year she's going to put all these houses up, but no one really believes it.
Jim was quite taken with their creche-and-wine combo:
Laurel did a nice, light hunk of roast beef with horseradish cream, with a side a gooey, cheesy potatoes provided by the Papanicalaous:
So delicious! But I was in pain from all the food, and dessert was still to come.
We moved to the Logelands' house for dessert:
Note The Green Head, now in residence with the Logelands until next year. Doug is the dessert chef at the Logelands' house. Mary weighs about 20 pounds, and thinks that a nice piece of fruit is the perfect dessert. Doug--well, he weighs more than 20, and he thinks that if you're going to have fruit, you might as well make pie. And so he made these two Key Lime pies with perfect meringue.
In case anyone was disappointed with a fruit-based dessert, they also thoughtfully provided bowls of chocolates and nuts.
And that, dear friends, was how Breadbasketcase and her faithful spouse, Jim, spent New Year's Eve. It couldn't have been better. We hope that you were also surrounded by good food and good friends, and that you have a most excellent new year.
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- Melinda said...
I like this progressive dinner thing!
How fun, and everyone has to clean up their own messes!
It's a grand way to draw out a meal and feel like you've traveled as bit!
Everything looks delicious too. Betty's prawns and crab...well, gorgeous. My mouth is watering.
Your soup looks festive and professional. How pretty it was, with the two colours and swirls and dabs of Jackson Pollack serrano pepper cream. So flash! The bread rolls looked great.
Happy New Year! It's a good start, as you don't have to live with the green head!
- mary said...
HI, Marie:
Thanks for recording the menu of the 2007 Progressive Dinner. Every course - both the description and the picture - are great, perhaps even better than the real thing.
I can't believe that we have 250+ years of marital bliss among us. If we've survivied that long, I think our marriages will last at least as long as our future progressive dinners. I can't image life without Doug - how would I find another New Year's Eve date who can fit in and make such delicious pies?
The soup was excellent!
I've of three coarse progessive dinners but six sound like even more fun. What a better way to end the new year than to spend it eating great food and in the company of wonderful friends. You are blessed! Wishing you a year of good food shared with great friends.
- pinknest said...
what a splendid idea!! do you all walk to the houses or drive? it must be a good way to help digest, no? everything looks spectacular. and the all-da soup you made is gorgeous.
- breadbasketcase said...
You would love the food and the people, I'm sure. I was aiming for something less Jackson Pollock-y and more professional looking, but it's very kind of you to suggest that the serrano splatters were deliberate.
Not better than the real thing! And you will notice that I never claimed marital BLISS--just marriage.
And the same to you!
We walked--we live in four neighboring houses, plus one house across the street, and then there's the odd couple one block away. Even when it's twenty below zero, nobody could justify starting a car just to go next door.
I hadn't really thought about the digestion aspect. I have a feeling that the digestion part doesn't start until we get home and flop into bed.
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
That sounds like magic. Wonderful to see all the houses and decorations!
Your soups sounds and looks totally wonderful! I'm liking the KA white whole wheat but I haven't been able to substitute all for white like it suggests. But I do like it. Sorry bout the rolls. I think the soup more than took center stage!
- breadbasketcase said...
The rolls weren't a disaster--they just weren't as good as I thought they'd be because the other breads I've made from Maggie Glezer's Artisan Baking cookbook have been so spectacular. I do like the taste of the while whole wheat flour, but I don't think you could use it as a substitute for white flour either.


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Flat RaceContested on level ground as opposed to a steeplechase.
Flatten OutA very tired horse that slows considerably, dropping its head on a straight line with its body. Some horses, however, like to run with their heads lowered.
FloatingFlat plate or wooden implement (float) dragged over the surface of a wet track to aid in draining water.
Foal(ed)1) A horse of either sex in its first year of life. 2) As a verb, to give birth. Also known as "dropped." 3) Can also denote the offspring of either a male or female parent -- She is the last foal of Secretariat.
Founding SiresThe Darley Arabian, Byerly Turk and Godolphin Barb. Every Thoroughbred must be able to trace its parentage to one of the three founding sires.
Fractional TimeIntermediate times recorded in a race, as at the quarter, half, three-quarters, etc. The "quarter time," for example, refers to the time after the first quarter-mile, not the first 25 percent of the race.
Front RunnerA horse whose running style is to attempt to get on or near the lead at the start of the race and to continue there as long as possible.
Full SiblingHorses that share the same sire and dam.
FurlongOne-eighth of a mile, 220 yards, 660 feet.
FuturityA race for two-year-olds in which the owners make a continuous series of payments over a period of time to keep their horses eligible.


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Classroom Rules
An activity to teach children that the world and their classroom is a much better place because of rules.
Obedience, Responsibility, Sin
Poster board,Different colored markers, Glue,
Approximately 10 minutes
Before class find pictures or clip art that will relate to the classroom rules. For an example of a finished
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Explain to children that they will help you create the classroom rules. Have the children make suggestions on what they think would make good rules for the classroom. You may want to have paper and a pencil ready to jot down the children's ideas. After all the children have had a chance to voice their opinions, compile a list of the rules you have decided to use on a separate sheet of paper. Share these rules with the children, ask them which ones they think are more important.
Take the poster board and write the rules you have decided to use in your classroom, starting with the ones the children thought were most important. Since most children at this age can't read, have the kids take turns gluing a related picture next to each rule. This will help the children remember the rule even if they can't read.
Knowing that there are rules will help the children feel safe and secure.
Tell the boys and girls that God has a set of rules that people are to follow as well. When people follow God's rules the world is much better place. When we don't follow God's rules, it's called sin.


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Human Trafficking
Macy's and Bloomingdale's, affiliates of Macy's, Inc., require all of our suppliers to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the United States, and those of the respective country of manufacture or exportation. In accordance with the California Transparency Supply Chains Act (SB 657), Macy's and Bloomingdale's efforts to address human trafficking and slavery in the direct supply chain, which include both private and national brands, are described herein. In addition to the efforts described, the company maintains an open dialogue with non-governmental organizations and socially responsible investor groups regarding developments in this arena.
Macy's and Bloomingdale's supply and legal executives meet on an annual basis, and informally as needed, to assess the risk of human trafficking and slavery in our supply chains and to assess whether our policies and procedures appropriately address those risks.
At Macy's, independent third party monitors conduct annual compliance audits of our private brand suppliers to identify possible areas of non-compliance with our Vendor and Supplier Code of Conduct (the "Vendor Code") or potential risks in Macy's private brands supply chain, while contractually holding our national brand suppliers to the same level of due diligence. Macy's will not tolerate, and will investigate, any reports alleging human trafficking and slavery in the supply chain. Action is taken against any supplier for non-compliance, resulting in possible termination of the business relationship. Indeed, from 2011-2013, non-compliance with the Vendor Code has resulted in termination of over 70 factories. Macy's does not conduct audits of suppliers that provide us with national brand products.
At Bloomingdale's, independent third party monitors also conduct annual compliance audits of certain private brand suppliers under the same process outlined above. Bloomingdale's contractually holds our national brand suppliers and certain other private brand suppliers, who supply the vast majority of the products we offer for sale, to the same level of due diligence. Bloomingdale's will not tolerate, and will investigate, any reports alleging human trafficking and slavery in the supply chain. Action is taken against any supplier for non-compliance, resulting in possible termination of the business relationship.
All Macy's and Bloomingdale's suppliers must adhere to our Vendor Code, which includes language strictly prohibiting human trafficking and slavery. The Vendor Code incorporates local laws and is based on international standards, such as International Labor Organization (ILO) and United Nations (UN) regulations. The Vendor Code states that all suppliers must also comply with the country of manufacture's labor laws, whichever is stricter.
Macy's and Bloomingdale's also include requirements of adherence to the Vendor Code in our Vendor Standards and Purchase Order Terms and Conditions, and we send periodic communications to suppliers making them aware of new laws or revisions to existing laws as appropriate. By accepting each and every purchase order, Macy's and Bloomingdale's suppliers confirm their understanding and agreement to the standards set forth in the Vendor Code.
Human trafficking and slavery verbiage is also included in the Master Contract we enter into with Macy's private brand suppliers and certain Bloomingdale's private brand suppliers. Suppliers that produce these private brands agree to comply with the Vendor Code through confirmation and acknowledgement in writing.
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Macy's and Bloomingdale's associates adhere to an employee Code of Conduct that informs them about the requirements of the Vendor Code of Conduct relating to human trafficking.
The issue of human trafficking is addressed annually in Code of Conduct or General Legal Compliance Training. Over the past 3 years, more than 20,000 Macy's, Inc. employees have received this training each year. Employees responsible for supply chain-related decisions for private brands at Macy's and certain private brands at Bloomingdale's receive more detailed training on identifying and addressing human trafficking and slavery in our supply chain.
Our Policy in Action
Macy's, Inc.'s commitment to addressing human trafficking and slavery in the supply chain is illustrated by our relationship with GoodWeave™ Rugs.
In spring 2011, Macy's introduced a collection of decorative area rugs that have been certified by GoodWeave™, an international organization that works to ensure rugs made by hand in Nepal and India are free of child labor. The collection is carried in 10 Macy's stores nationwide. By buying a beautiful hand-crafted rug at Macy's with the GoodWeave label, shoppers are helping to support families and build sustainable communities in Nepal and India, nations where poverty is widespread. GoodWeave-certified rugs are woven by skilled adult artisans, permitting educational opportunities for children who otherwise might be required to work. More information about GoodWeave is available at www.goodweave.org.


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Two exclusive tracks from this now sadly defunct three-piece.
"Desert Rock. Post-Rock. Anti-pop. Anthemic post-prog-rock. Ambient-tech-jazz muzak. It's still rock n roll to me... Sydney trio do not write three minute pop songs instead they explore eight minute aural soundscapes that would seem more at home on a soundtrack album than a rock LP. Still, taken in small manageable doses, El Caballo Rojo can be simply brilliant."
"...Dead Letter Office waltzes to a morbid mystery..."
"...the melodic side of the band formerly known as 2 Litre Dolby appears with Dead Letter Office again featuring Mullins' vocals in what is a more traditional song setting..."
All good things come to those who wait. 2 Litre Dolbys first record, El Caballo Rojo was released in 1999. Yet here we are, a third of the way through the year 2000, and its only just appearing on The Electric Newspaper, your friendly (or not so friendly depending on the quality of music) daily music review site. Whats up with that? Well, not much really. Needless to say, El Caballo Rojo is an awesome record, and a very assured one for a band that had only been for a short time before its recording.
Starting at the start is an impossibility with El Caballo Rojo. It doesnt start at the start, which seems illogical but actually makes perfect sense once all is explained. You cant just put the red disc into the player and press play. You have to put the red disc into the player, press replay and then press rewind until you think youve reached the beginning of the track. Ah, a hidden track! Magical. Tricky. Confusing. Why not just put it at the end of the disc after six or seven minutes worth of silence? Surely that makes more sense? Apparently not. With todays modern technology, unnamed tracks (although this one does have a name and is called Honey Von Cuttule, which previously appeared on the wonder from a quarter acre compilation) can go at the start of the disc and thus confuse the buggery out of everyone. Cool, huh?
2 Litre Dolby have a history, with principle singer/bass guitarist Leo Mullins coming from the Sydney pop band the Welcome Mat. Perhaps thats where their mature sound comes from, but you wouldnt pick it. The sound of 2 litre dolby is, on the whole, pure unadulterated math rock. Its got it all: pounding drums, buzz-saw guitars, fluid bass lines and some screamed/some sung lyrically obtuse musings. Its unsurprising to think then that prior to the recording of El Caballo Rojo, 2 Litre Dolby moved to Melbourne, where their sound is part of a burgeoning underground scene.
But its not all June of 44-isms on El Caballo Rojo. Yes, the eleven minute opening track (not including the hidden one) The Fish + the Drowned Man is similar in some respects to June of 44s Anisette or perhaps even more so Sharks and Sailors. But the next three are decidedly different. Frida Kahlo has been heard before on the wonder from a quarter acre compilation, albeit in truncated form. Good Morning Hal is as esoteric as you can get, coming off sounding like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, hence the title. But then the greatest of great 2 Litre Dolby tracks emerges. Dead Letter Office is as good as music gets these days. Six minutes of restrained beauty, its as good if not better than anything written by any post-rock legend.
But can 2 Litre Dolby really be so easily categorised as post-rock? Hardly. Their sound is too varied and too dynamic to simply be pigeonholed with a bunch of bands who they really hold no relevance to. Yes, there are elements of the likes of Slint in there, particularly on a track like album closer Johnny Bombay, but theres a lot more going on during the sixty-three minutes of El Caballo Rojo than a more mundane post-rock band could muster. The Paper Dawn and Mystery of Sixes are some of the most brooding tracks youll ever here, whilst Nostromo revisits the electronic landscapes already visited on Good Morning Hal. And, as people whove already heard the wonder from a quarter acre compilation will know, Frida Kahlo could almost be considered a pop song, although its too slow to really be a pop song and perhaps Dead Letter Office could be considered a pop song too, but it too is simply restrained brilliance.
2 Litre Dolby have a lot to offer Australian music. Recorded with Nick Carroll (of sandro fame), El Caballo Rojo has a great feel and sound to it. Loosely translated as the red horse, El Caballo Rojo is a little like a filly. Its all over the place dynamically, but its alright because it grows into a fine, well rounded beast. Where 2 Litre Dolby go from here is anyones guess, but they appear to have the potential to be in the top class of bands around the world. - The Electric Newspaper
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A New World of Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Our national palate has evolved-we snack on chicharrones and kimchi, we sup on risotto alla Milanese and miso ramen. So as Sarah Karnasiewicz argues on Lunch Break, there's no reason Thanksgiving dinner should stay stuck in the past.
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Detectives recovered Dr. Phil McGraw's stolen vintage car — a 1957 black Chevy Bel Air — Tuesday morning, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Since the TV host's car was stolen from a Burbank repair shop in August, the Taskforce for Regional Autotheft Prevention — supervised by the Los Angeles County Sheriff — has been targeting car-theft rings throughout the county.
The investigation also led to the recovery of 13 other stolen vintage cars. In each case, the identifying number was changed to avoid being identified as stolen, officials said. Five of the cars are still being identified.
Numerous suspects have been arrested, police said.
Officials declined to say where exactly McGraw's vehicle was found, said Los Angeles County Sgt. Richard Pena.
The vintage Chevy had minor body damage, but was in good condition, police said.
McGraw estimated that with its upgrades, the car was worth about $100,000, Burbank police told the Los Angeles Times in August.
Police encourage anyone with information about the thefts to call Lt. Greg Jones at 626-572-5620.
-- Alene Tchekmedyian, Times Community News
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Apr 28,2009
Hollywood Exclusive: Ask Stacy
by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smi
DEAR STACY: I would like to know what other TV or movie roles have been played by the beautiful Bridget Regan from "Legend of the Seeker." — Keith F., N.Y.
Bridget Regan
DEAR KEITH: Clearly the 27-year-old actress from San Diego is making her mark as Kahlan — a woman with the power to make men confess their sins — on the syndicated "Legend of the Seeker" series based on Terry Goodkind's popular "Sword of Truth" fantasy books. Her credits also include the "Sex and the City" movie, "Is He Dead" on Broadway, and roles on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Six Degrees," "New Amsterdam" and "The Black Donnellys."
DEAR STACY: Whatever became of the planned movie version of the "Beauty and the Beast" series that starred Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton? — Robin P., Casper, Wyo.
DEAR ROBIN: The idea never made it beyond the talking stage.
DEAR STACY: Is it true that my favorite singer in the world, Josh Groban, is seriously dating Katy Perry? Can't stand her. — S.H., Santa Ana, Calif.
DEAR S.H.: They've certainly been seen together a lot. However, "We're buddies," Perry told MTV. They're not dating, according to the often-controversial "I Kissed a Girl" pop singer.
DEAR STACY: I know none of the major actors on "ER's" last season were original cast members. But were any of the supporting characters around from the beginning? —Dianne D., Staten Island
DEAR DIANNE: Four actors who played nurses (Yvette Freeman, Deezer D, Laura Ceron and Lily Mariye) and two who played paramedics (Montae Russell and Emily Wagner) were seen in all 15 seasons of the show.
DEAR STACY: Whatever became of actress Joanne Dru? — C.D., Kearny, NJ
DEAR C.D.: Dru, best-known for such films as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "All the King's Men" died in 1996 at age 74, of lymphedema. She was survived by her son and two daughters from her marriage to Dick Haymes, and by her younger brother, former "Hollywood Squares" host Peter Marshall.
DEAR STACY: Just revisited Harrison Ford in his 1985 Amish adventure, "Witness." What struck me was the musical background, particularly the farm-building scene. Can you name the work and author? Sounded like Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring." — Steve K., Woodlawn, N.Y.
DEAR STEVE: That score was written by revered French composer Maurice Jarre, who passed away from cancer at age 84 on March 28. The selection, "Building the Barn" is included on "Witness: the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," available at Amazon.com and elsewhere. Jarre's abundant body of memorable work includes the scores for "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Passage to India" — each of which won him an Academy Award .
DEAR STACY: How tall is Leonardo DiCaprio? I was told he's rather tall, but I always thought he was average-to-short. — Pam S., Chattanooga, Tenn.
DEAR PAM: The star stands about 6 feet tall.
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First Annual Pledge of the Computing Professional
On Sunday, May 19, 2013, the Grinnell Computer Science Department hosted its first annual Pledge of the Computing Professional, a rite of passage ceremony that provides graduating seniors with an opportunity to reflect on their ethical and social responsibilities. Grinnell College is the second node in the state of Iowa. We were honored by the presence of Nathaniel Borenstein '80, who is one of this year's honorary degree recipients.


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The U.S. Postal Service has made improving the customer experience a priority. Postal officials see a positive customer experience as a key to revenue generation because customers are more likely to return if their experience was good. As Deputy PMG Ron Stroman noted to a gathering of postal officials in August, "Our customers have choices, they don't have to come to us. How people are treated makes all the difference in the world."
Customer service strategies could include something as simple as a menu of services and prices on display in each Post Office. Or, a quick resolution of a customer complaint can turn a negative experience into a positive one. Other efforts might require more substantial changes, such as reconfiguring the retail space or offering extended hours in some locations. In some cases, the Postal Service's goal of rightsizing its retail network might run counter to the customer experience, at least initially.
For commercial customers, a positive customer experience might be entirely different from the retail customer. A simplified or more automated mail acceptance process may appeal to bulk mailers. Changes in service standards might not please all commercial customers, while others may be able to adapt to the changes more readily. New dropship points for mail entry and the changes these can cause to internal processes might stress some mailers. For other mailers, fewer mail entry points might help them gain efficiencies.
Given the different needs and expectations of customers, the first step to a successful customer experience would be to know your customers. "One size fits all" might work for the Snuggie®, but not for the Postal Service. Commercial mailers, in particular, have urged the Postal Service to get to know their businesses and operations better. The Postal Service has worked hard over the past few years to reach out to customers and engage them in discussions on improving operations.
How can the Postal Service build strong relationships with its customers and encourage customer loyalty? Would consumer and business mailer online rating systems, similar to Yelp, be a useful tool for gleaning information about customer experiences?


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Mee's final journey, 1988: at work
Mee at work in the field, May 1988, Río Negro
On her final journey in 1988, Mee searched for and sketched the cactus Selenicereus wittii in an igapo of the Río Negro. The expedition was recorded for a TV film and the final chapter of Margaret Mee, In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests (1988).
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Purchased the Ripcord for some security when my yaks are roof top in public places. Added a security bar to the yak and simply thread the RC through the bar when using it as a tie strap to the "J" cradle. Doing this allows 1 pair of RC to secure 2 yaks. The RC can be used to secure to a cradle like a std strap, just be prepared for a bit more effort while doing so. They are quite stiff and have a memory of the coil shape as they are packaged. BTW security bar must have at least 1 inch of width to thread the rip cord as there is no fitting it through an opening narrower than the cord width. They are not very compressible
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Miss Mexico has been crowned Miss Universe.
After competing in a swimsuit and evening gown round as well as navigating a question about the effect of unsupervised Internet use on today's youth, Jimena Navarrete, 22, bested 82 rivals to win the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe beauty contest.
In the end, it came down to Navarrete and 24-year-old Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillipps.
Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell, 19 won second runner-up, while 23-year-old Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska was named second runner-up.
After dodging a question about her biggest mistake, 22-year-old Miss Philippines Venus Raj, was named fourth runner-up.
Contestants from Ireland, Albania, South Africa, Guatemala and Puerto Rico were ousted after making the top 10.
Miss USA Rima Fakih, a 24-year-old Lebanese immigrant from Dearborn, Mich., did not make past the first round Monday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Believed to be the first Muslim crowned Miss USA, Fakih made headlines hours before the "Universe" pageant by saying she disagreed with the decision to put a proposed Islamic community center "so close to the World Trade Center."
"We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion," she said.
Navarrette, of Mexico, will receive a package of prizes including an undisclosed salary, a luxury New York apartment with living expenses, a one-year scholarship to the New York Film Academy with housing after her reign, plus jewelry, clothes and shoes fit for a beauty champion.
She replaces Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez, who gave Venezuela a second consecutive win by taking the title at age 18 last year. The South American country has won six titles since the pageant started in 1952.
Online voters chose Miss Thailand as Miss Photogenic Universe, while the contestants themselves select Miss Australia as Miss Congeniality Universe. Each award comes with a $1,000 cash prize.
Miss Thailand also took the prize for best national costume.
The headline-grabbing pageant hosted by rocker Bret Michaels and NBC correspondent Natalie Morales was being aired live on NBC and Telemundo and distributed in some 190 countries and territories.
The contest, co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, was judged by celebrities including 2010 Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek and actress Jane Seymour.


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The Eli Young Band Make Award Show Debut With 'Crazy Girl' on 2011 American Country Awards
While their performance of 'Crazy Girl' at the 2011 American Country Awards may have been the Eli Young Band's first at a major country music award show, it sure didn't look like it. The Texas based quartet took the stage like old pros and the live audience ate it up.
The performance began with lead singer Mike Eli appearing alone on the dark stage. He sang the first few lyrics before the lights flashed on, illuminating his bandmates. Eli walked the catwalk shaking hands with fans and smiling at the camera. He didn't have much room to roam as this stage is considerably smaller than those used for other award shows. Their performance was cut a little short by commercials; it appears the 2011 ACA's must have been running a touch behind schedule.
The Lee Brice-penned 'Crazy Girl' was a No. 1 for the Eli Young Band. The band was up for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, but lost the award to Chris Young earlier in the night. Fans were able to sound off their votes by Nov. 11 for all categories but Artist of the Year.
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Deharde is committed to the quality-oriented and economical production of "flying components" for the aerospace industry - Hermle's C 60 U, 5-axis CNC performance center makes that possible.
The portfolio of Deharde Maschinenbau Helmut Hoffmann GmbH from Varel in North Germany is very varied: At first, the areas of plant manufacturing, aerophysics (wind tunnel models), aerospace, tool manufacturing and the automotive industry seem to have little in common. But they are united in one thing: the need for highest precision in reproducible quality.
The company near the Frisian coast fulfills these requirements through consistent investment in the latest technology. At the very latest since Helmut Hoffmann took over the firm in 1968, Deharde has been delivering service and technological performance with an emphasis on machining technology for the North German aerospace industry.
Precision machining on a large scale
With its ability to deal with "large parts", Deharde has acquired a special status. This has had the effect of attracting customers first from Germany, then Europe, and finally from all over the world and also a corresponding investment in machines, halls, QA and, of course, specialist staff. Markus Stocker, who supervises the company's machining tasks, explains: "To find a better response to globalized production, we have adapted our business model. That means broadening out on the one hand, but also becoming more focused. In other words, we're moving away from conventional machining towards highest-precision manufacture of complex parts. This has consequences for the plant, and in purchasing new equipment we didn't make any compromises." In concrete terms: Deharde went for 5-axis high-performance CNC machining centers from Hermle's C series, so as to be sure of being able to meet the exacting requirements associated with aerospace and automotive components. The first step was taken in 2011 with the purchase of Hermle's flagship, the high-end C 60 U machining center for processing workpieces up to 2500 kg. This move immediately proved to be successful, and meant that even more capacity was needed. Within a short space of time, Deharde ordered a C 42 U, a C 22 U and another C 60 U. Everyone from managerial staff to the machine operators are impressed by the high levels of quality and performance. "In combination with the very high and completely reproducible positioning and repeating accuracy we can achieve extreme precision and supply the parts in unvarying, optimal quality. Previously, we had to rough-work model parts with two or three hundredths overmeasure and then rework them to the final size. These days, we can achieve ready-to-dispatch precision and surface quality in a single process," says Markus Stocker. A specific example? A 1000 mm long wing section that displays a precision tolerance of 0.01 mm - milled! - over its entire length, i.e. contour.
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Within a very short period, Deharde expanded its high-performance 5-axis CNC machining center to four units with a view to becoming the benchmark for precision manufacture of complex workpieces. On the basis of thousands of "flying components" of aluminum, titanium, Inconel, steel and ceramic, an increasing number of automotive components and milled workpieces for plant construction, the technology integrator Deharde is achieving genuine synergetic effects. And that is just how its customers see it, as Boeing's award of the title "Supplier of the Year" in 2009 confirms.


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SOURCE: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
January 22, 2013 08:00 ET
Promoting Open Innovation in a Major Emerging Country
Promoting Open Innovation in a Major Emerging Country
TOKYO--(Marketwire - Jan 22, 2013) - Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TSE: 7752) (President & CEO: Shiro Kondo) announces its financial endowment and industry partnership for the creation of the Design and Innovation Centre ("DIC") at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar ("IITGN"). The partnership is planned for three years starting April 1, 2013. As part of the agreement, Ricoh will take part in joint research projects at the Center. This cooperative effort will further the company's aims of promoting Open Innovation, accelerating research and development using global resources, and studying market needs in India and similar markets. The technologies and services deployed in the Indian market can form the groundwork for solutions in other large emerging regions including Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, which together constitute a market of over 2.5 billion people.
The Indian Institute of Technology ("IIT") is the collective designation for the sixteen national higher educational and research institutes in India. With a student admission rate of less than 2%, IIT is an exclusive internationally acclaimed educational body. IITGN was set up in 2008. Located in the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India, IITGN is ideally situated at the intersection of leading-edge IT infrastructure, traditional culture, scholarship and industry.
In February 2012, Ricoh established Ricoh Innovations Private Limited ("RIPL") in Bangalore in southern India. A subsidiary of Ricoh Innovations, Inc. ("RII") in Menlo Park, California, RIPL was created to combine market-oriented technology development with regionally optimized research to pioneer new business tailored for the Indian market and similar emerging countries. Ricoh's collaboration with IITGN began with RII's study of the application and validation of advanced IT technologies in educational fields.
"We are thrilled to promote Open Innovation in India by locally researching solutions relevant to specific markets," stated Terumoto Nonaka, Corporate Senior Vice President at Ricoh in charge of R&D. "Becoming the founding industrial partner for the new Design and Innovation Centre is a major step toward achieving this goal."
"This partnership with Ricoh will enable the students and faculty of IITGN to work with the colleagues from Ricoh in an inter-disciplinary and an inter-cultural environment, which is most conducive for design and innovation. We are excited with the opportunity and expect that our relationship with Ricoh will grow in time as both sides start to see the tremendous value of such a partnership. Moreover, we believe that this is an interesting model of collaboration between an academic institute and a large company, which may later be emulated elsewhere," added Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Director of IITGN.
The newly established DIC will have both educational and research functions. Full-time and part-time faculty, full-time technical staff, and students will conduct research in a collaborative environment. The following proposed research projects are under consideration by Ricoh:
In addition, three representatives from the Ricoh Group will be invited to join the center's Advisory Committee. The committee will consist of academics from various disciplines who will review progress and the direction of research.
"There is an opportunity for innovative breakthrough when industry and researchers from a variety of disciplines come together to solve problems," stated Dr. Nikhil Balram, President and CEO of RII. "The Design and Innovation Centre is groundbreaking in India for its holistic approach to the whole process of creating new products and services, with an eye toward advanced design."
New solutions adopted in an emerging market may also yield innovations in advanced countries, a trend known as reverse innovation. Ricoh continues to aggressively promote Open Innovation in India with these mid-and long-term goals in mind.
About Ricoh
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).
The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.
Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.
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Elegant HDMI display for Full HD entertainment
This elegant, 224E2 HDMI Full HD Multimedia display with stylish SmartTouch controls is ready to immerse you in the Gaming and Movie world See all benefits
Elegant HDMI display for Full HD entertainment
This elegant, 224E2 HDMI Full HD Multimedia display with stylish SmartTouch controls is ready to immerse you in the Gaming and Movie world See all benefits
An HDMI-ready device has all the required hardware to accept High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) input. An HDMI cable enables high-quality digital video and audio to be transmitted over a single cable from a PC or any number of AV sources (including set-top boxes, DVD players, A/V receivers and video cameras).
You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images. Philips advanced video processing combined with unique extreme dimming and backlight-boosting technology results in vibrant images. SmartContrast will increase the contrast with excellent black level and accurate rendition of dark shades and colours. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colours.
SmartTouch controls are intelligent, touch sensitive icons that replace protruding buttons. Responding to your lightest touch, SmartTouch controls, for example, power up your monitor or brighten and sharpen your display with SmartImage Lite. When activated, SmartTouch icons glow to indicate that your commands have been implemented.
Philips easy picture format control on OSD switches from the 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen mode and back again to match the display's aspect ratio with your content; it allows you to work with wide documents without scrolling or viewing widescreen media in the widescreen mode and gives you distortion-free, native mode display of 4:3 ratio content.
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July 27 – In Washington's Stuart Range, Blake Herrington and Jens Holsten free climbed 5.12 routes to the summits of Colchuck Balanced Rock, Dragontail and Prusik Peak in 23 hours and 40 minutes. It was over 4,000 vertical feet of technical climbing and required 20 miles of hiking. Read Herrington and Holsten's thoughts on the day.


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Originally drop boxes were attached to pillar boxes and, therefore, painted red to match. Nowadays, they are separate free-standing boxes usually close to a postbox generally painted grey, although red stand-alone boxes are also to be seen.
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Balancing the Mind
A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention
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"A spectacular cross-cultural presentation of techniques for achieving meditative states." —Jeffrey Hopkins, author of Maps of the Profound
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2011 East Coast 4Runner JamboreePosted in Events on June 1, 2012
It seems like summer 2011 was a toasty one, but we found a respite from the hotter temps in the densely forested trails just outside Joliett in central Pennsylvania. Our destination was Rausch Creek Off-Road Park for the 11th annual East Coast 4Runner Jamboree. We joined fellow wheelers from up and down the eastside of the U.S. for a few days out on the trails.
The park has grown in recent years, and the crew there has added more trails to bump the overall land space up to almost 3,000 acres. Trails range from easy dirt roads to gnarly boulders and steep slab faces. It's also the site of several rockcrawl competitions each year, along with a qualifier race for the King of the Hammers race.
Though the event is called a 4Runner Jamboree, it is open to all varieties of Toyotas. We wheeled with trucks, 4Runners, Cruisers, and a few buggies. The camaraderie couldn't be beat, and we had a great time camping primitively onsite and swapping trail stories. For information on the event where you can meet and wheel with other Toyota enthusiasts, look for the information thread in the forums at midatlantictoyotacrawlers.com.


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After earning his master's degree at Illinois, Mark T. Bohr joined Intel Corporation and initially worked on charge coupled device (CCD) memories at Intel's Santa Clara, California facility. In 1978, he transferred to Portland, Oregon to become one of the founding members of Intel's Portland Technology Development group. Since then, he has been the architect and innovator for every Intel CMOS logic technology for SRAM and microprocessor products since the dawn of high performance CMOS in the early 1980s. He was the early development program manager for Intel's 45nm microprocessor technology featuring revolutionary high-k + metal gate transistors and is presently directing early development activities for the 22nm generation microprocessor technology.
For more than 25 years, Bohr has shared his innovation and knowledge with the technology community worldwide through many courses inside of Intel, presentations at major IEEE conferences, and numerous publications. His inventions have been documented in 50 patents on integrated circuit processing, and in 2002 he was elected to the position of Intel Senior Fellow, one of only four in the corporation at the time.
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Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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By order of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on 4 November 1956, a quarter million Soviet troops, supported by hundreds of tanks, drove into the Hungarian capital of Budapest and suppressed the Hungarian revolution.
In Budapest an estimated 30,000 people were killed by the communists and approximately 3 million refugees fled from their homes in Hungary. Communists claimed to have "crushed the forces of reactionary conspiracy against the Hungarian people". Criminals from the communist party still live in Russia. No one has ever been sentenced or jailed for this massacre of Hungarians.


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Season one loser David Fioravanti just was indicted by a Massachusetts grand jury on seven counts of insurance fraud -- he allegedly tried to insure $63K worth of jewels that he already had reported as stolen a year before, reports the Boston Globe. And he tried to perpetrate this scheme not once, but twice, says the DA.
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PHILADELPHIA – Police are looking for leads in the murder of a 35-year-old pediatrician whose body was found bound and burned inside her downtown Philadelphia home.
Firefighters responding to the home Monday afternoon found Melissa Ketunuti's body on fire in the basement, with her ankles and wrists bound. The body was found with a rope around the neck and police believe she was strangled.
A $20,000 reward is being offered in the case.
Homicide Capt. James Clark says police don't know if she knew her killer, but that there were no signs of forced entry at the home. Clark says her boyfriend has been ruled out as a suspect and she had no known disputes with anyone.
Ketunuti was a second-year infectious diseases fellow and researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.


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Subways and Dogsleds: Dean and Chancellor Present Retreats Near and Far
January 28–29, 2011 • March 6, 2011 • Off-campus Events
Last year, our Dean and Chancellor traveled extensively—to local parishes and international colloquia—delivering the Good News of the faith and spreading the news about our seminary, its programs and progress. Archpriest John Behr, dean, logged 44,449 in land and air miles, while foreign and domestic miles traversed by Archpriest Chad Hatfield, chancellor, totaled 59,416.
As Great Lent approached this year, Frs. John and Chad renewed their eagerness to reach out to communities near and far by presenting pre-Lenten retreats, as preludes to several other retreats being offered by St. Vladimir's Seminary faculty during the Great Fast.
In January, Fr. Chad acted as retreat master at a gathering for Alaskan clergy wives in the Village of Napaskiak, hosted by the village priest, Fr. Vasily Fisher. The retreat theme was "Mary, Mysteries, Mission, and Matushki." Fr. Chad, who is the former Dean of St. Herman Seminary in Kodiak, wasted no time in adding to his travelogue by employing local transportation: dogsled. See a gallery of photos of his trip and view a video of Fr. Chad "mushing" up the tundra (give the video 30 seconds to load: Fr. Chad is standing in the sled).
Closer to home in the Big Apple, Fr. John delivered a retreat at the historic Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, at the invitation of Fr. Christopher Calin, dean of the cathedral. On the Sunday of the Eve of Great Lent, commemorating the "Casting Out of Adam and Eve from Paradise," Fr. John spoke on the topic "The Lenten Journey to the Cross," with a special emphasis on Melito of Sardis' treatise On Pascha, a second-century work. View a photo gallery of the retreat.
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Xcel Files For Rate Hikes In Minnesota
ST. PAUL (AP) - Xcel Energy is seeking permission to raise Minnesota electricity rates by 4.6 percent next year and 5.6 percent the year after.
The increase would bring in about $291 million. The utility's 1.2 million customers would face an average increase of a bit more than $10 a month.
State regulators have typically cut Xcel's rate increase requests in half in recent years.
Xcel's Minnesota CEO, Dave Sparby, said the company is investing in nuclear power plants, transmission and distribution lines and other projects including new wind farms. The company is eying additional rate hike requests from 2016 to 2018, but lower than those proposed this week.


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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Chorizo Made Easy" Chorizo, the succulent pork sausage seasoned with chiles, spices and a touch of vinegar, is the "bacon of Mexico" - the perfect accompaniment for eggs and, like bacon, a versatile ingredient for cooking that can give any dish a serious head start on flavor. At his neighborhood Mexican grocery in Chicago, Rick shows us fresh-made chorizo sold at the butcher counter and talks about how it is made. Buying a batch of the sausage to take home, he quickly turns it into a Caramelized Onion and Chorizo to use for a taco filling. D
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Kimchi Chronicles "The Pork Chronicles" As opposed to the lean-is-better preference in the United States, Koreans love their pork full of fat - and flavor. In this episode, Marja, her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, and an expert food blogger named Daniel eat classic pork barbeque at Heukdonga restaurant in Seoul. They also stop by Songgane Gamjatang, where Seoul's taxi drivers convene for pork bone soup and the grand pork dish known as bo ssam. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Shake and Bake Reinvented" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the best Nut-Crusted Chicken Cutlets. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews food processors in the Equipment Corner. And finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the ultimate Crisp Pan-Fried Pork Chops at home. D
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Ciao Italia "Roast Pork, Tuscan Style/Arista!" Mary Ann travels to Tuscany to host a group of eager students who want to experience terrific Tuscan-style cooking. They team up to create Tuscan Black Cabbage Soup -Ribollita, Roast Pork, Tuscan-style, called Arista, Sauteed Mushrooms, a delicate Zucchini Tart, and for dessert, what else but Tuscany's most famous cookie, Biscotti di Prato. D
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Lipscomb baseball fans will have an opportunity to celebrate the Philadelphia Phillies World Series Championship at this month's "Forehand and Friends" lunch Nov. 19.
Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton, who put his name in the World Series record books with a home run in game four against the Tampa Bay Rays, will be the guest speaker.
The lunch is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Room in Allen Arena on the Lipscomb University campus. George Plaster, sports director for WGFX-FM (104.5 "The Zone"), will serve as the emcee. The cost for lunch is $5 per person. Guests are asked to RSVP by clicking here.
With two down in the fifth inning of game four Blanton hit a solo home run. It was the first time a Phillies pitcher had hit a home run in a World Series game. It was also the first time a pitcher had hit a home run in World Series game since Ken Holtzman in game four of the 1974 World Series.
It was the 15th home run by a pitcher in the history of the World Series. Both Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals and Bob McNally of the Baltimore Orioles hit two World Series home runs.
Blanton was acquired by the Phillies in a trade with the Oakland A's on July 17. The Phillies gave up three players in the deal.
Blanton, a right-hander, was drafted by the A's in the first round after acquiring the pick from the New York Yankees after leading the Southeastern Conference in strikeouts with 133 in 2002.
In three seasons with the A's he was 12-12 (2005), 16-12 (2006) and 14-10 (2007). This season he was 9-12 for the Phillies with one World Series game win in game four.
The bat Blanton used in the game will be placed on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. as part of a World Series display.
Blanton, born in Nashville, played high school baseball at Franklin-Simpson in Franklin, Ky., and the played college baseball for the University of Kentucky.
The World Series flavor will continue at next month's "Forehand and Friends' lunch on Dec. 12 when outfielder Ben Zobrist of the American League Champion Tampa Bay Rays is the guest speaker.
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Neo FreeRunner
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Neo FreeRunner
The Neo FreeRunner (internal codename GTA02) is the second phone designed to run Openmoko software and is the direct descendant of the earlier FIC Neo1973. Hardware specs are at Neo FreeRunner GTA02 Hardware.
FreeRunner is released!
The FreeRunner can be purchased from the Online Store as of July 3, 2008. The software available on the phone makes it suitable for power users and developers only, it is not ready for the general consumer yet. Email announcements and found on the announce mailing list. For frequently asked questions please check FAQ and GTA02 FAQ.
Intended use and users
The Neo FreeRunner is a Linux-based touch screen smart phone ultimately aimed at general consumer use as well as Linux desktop users and software developers.
Linux users and software developers will appreciate the total freedom they have to use and design software for the FreeRunner.
General phone users will eventually appreciate the high spec and performance of the phone and the wide range of free software packages expected to emerge. These will allow users to make the maximum use of the hardware and tailor it to their particular needs. Since launch, the pace of software tweaks and improvements has increased as both the Openmoko team developers and the wider community work together.
The specs share some features with the previous Neo1973 such as:
- A very high resolution touch screen (1.7" x 2.27" - 43mm x 58mm) 480x640 pixels
- 128MB SDRAM memory to allow operation of many applications at once
- Internal GPS module for map and tracking programs
- Bluetooth for local data exchange
- Physical appearance will be the same as the Neo1973. See openmoko.com for more.
With the following additional features:
- 802.11 b/g WiFi for fast web browsing and data transfer
- A faster 400Mhz processor (up from 266MHz)
- 2 3D accelerometers so that the phone can know its orientation for example switching to landscape mode automatically
- 2 LEDs illuminating the two buttons on the rim of the case (one bi color [blue|orange] behind the power button, 1 uni color [red] behind the aux button)
- Tri-band GSM and GPRS for North America (850/1800/1900 Mhz) and the rest of the world (900/1800/1900 Mhz)
- USB Host function with 500mA power allowing you to power USB devices for short periods (will drain the FreeRunner battery faster)
A full list of the hardware specs and components of the Neo FreeRunner (internal codename GTA02) can be found at Neo FreeRunner GTA02 Hardware.
A comparison between Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner is available at Neo 1973 vs Neo FreeRunner.
What is the price?
The device is being sold through multiple channels (including Openmoko.com), the official price has been set to 399$ but it could slightly vary in some countries (due to taxes).
How usable is it?
As the hacker's dream toy: it is fully functional. As a GSM phone: some people have been using it to receive and place phone calls and SMS for months, but with currently shipping software the battery life is only one day. As a GPS device: critical bugs have been ironed out and there is nice software to know where you are using OpenStreetMap. As an alarm clock, media player, internet browser, game console, email reader and contacts manager: software is not stable yet.
If you want fully functional smart phone, then download the Qtopia distribution. If you want to help OM develop it's end user applications, then download 2008.8. It's still "Alpha", which means its not feature complete, but it will give you an idea of the direction we are headed. Read more about these and other distributions, then choose for yourself.
Please see the FreeRunner: Selected Blogs and Articles to get more reviews. The Freerunner Hardware Issues page may also be of interest.


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