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We've been hearing for years that the energy efficiency industry needs to find its equivalent to the cell phone. These days industry folks refer to it as the 'killer app," the revolutionary product or service that consumers can't resist.
But lately, partly because I'm dieting, I've been thinking what energy efficiency really needs is something akin to a Weight Watchers dessert.
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My company, Building Efficiency Resources (www.TheBER.com) is--among other things--a HERS providership. We see a tremendous opportunity now and into the future for Raters on the retrofit side, and we are devoting considerable effort to exploring and developing ways for our Raters to seize that opportunity. We bring to that task a clear understanding that not all Certified Raters are highly knowledgeable about existing homes, and that the farther back we…Continue
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Looking at the list of the most EV-ready cities just released by Ford, it's no surprise many of them are coastal. On the east and west coasts energy is pricey, so the pressure is on to achieve innovation that will control costs and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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We all go through transitions in our lives. One of the biggest is choosing or changing a profession. As I mentioned in previous entries, my background for the previous 9 years was doing class action and warranty inspections on residential building products. This meant I became keenly aware of the lack of effort put into the finer details of building homes properly. One of…Continue
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Check out my revised blog over on Remodeling Magazine. It's an interesting story about learning from sloppy thinking . . . my own! Still, it turns out to be an interesting lesson.
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In 1997, I helped my parents design and build their home. Early in the construction process, I had suggested that the house be built 25 feet back from where we originally had it planned, and that the fireplace be moved to the back side of the living room. We had already put the stakes in the ground and were ready to start digging for…Continue
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The renewable energy business has done a remarkable job at positioning itself in the public psyche as the 'it girl' of our era. Just about everyone – politicians, celebrities, major industries – likes to be seen as pro-renewable.
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Product developers know that as energy costs rise, consumer's budgets get tightened, and people start to care more about their environment (the trifecta of sustainable drivers), those consumers are going to want products that help them save energy. But do all these products live up to their…Continue
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What makes a Green Home green? Is it the bamboo floors? Maybe it's the low-e windows or the extra insulation in the walls? What about a high efficiency heating and cooling system? Or maybe it's a plaque by your front door that says, "I'm Green!"?
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This is a cake that I made just last week for my goddaughter's First Communion! First Communion is a pretty big deal, and I have never made a religious cake before, so I was a little bit stumped on the design. My goddaughter, Kylie, is such a wonderful, talented, beautiful little girl and I needed to make something extra special for her big day! Luckily Kylie let me know that she wanted the cake color scheme to be purple, pearl, and black! Gotta love a girl who knows what she wants! Such a sophisticated choice as well!
It all started with the purple fondant. I really wanted a beautiful shade of lavender, but once I started the coloring process, I got more than I bargained for. I just could not get the shade that I wanted with my "go to" Americolor gel pastes. I tried both Americolor Royal Purple and Americolor Violet, but the violet was too blue, and with the royal purple I kept ending up with muted dull mauve colors that just looked dingy. I started adding Americolor Fushia to the mix and ended up with a slightly better shade, but it was still not ideal. I decided to try a completely different brand of coloring, Wilton neon purple. I'm not sure if you can buy this color individually; I had it as part of a Wilton neon colors set, so I thought I should give it a try. To my delight, the Wilton neon purple created a perfectly pretty shade of purple. The first four colors (starting on the left) in the photo above were created with Americolor Royal Purple and Americolor Fushia gel pastes combined. The two colors on the far right are colored with Wilton neon purple.
One more thing about purple…it fades like crazy! After coloring my fondant I wrapped it in plastic wrap and let it rest overnight. When I woke up the next morning, my beautiful shade of lavender had changed to cornflower blue. Argh! In the face of this disaster I went online to see what other people were saying. I found that this was a common problem that some said could be fixed with baking soda, if you add it before the fade occurs. I couldn't save the original batch, so I started fresh with some new fondant and added 1/4 tsp baking soda per 4 ounces fondant. I couldn't find any exact recommendations on the quantity, so this was a test. I again let this set overnight, and I woke up to fondant that was still lavender, but seemed to have darkened a bit more than normal. I determined that although the color was darker than I had planned on, it would work. During this process I got to thinking back on other purple cakes that I have made. I realized that my purple gumpaste has never faded. I don't know why this is, but it seems that when you add tylose to fondant (this is how I make my gumpaste) it protects it from fading.
Once I past the first hurdle, it was time to work on design. I took a cue from the invite and used a silhouette portrait of Kylie to make a personalized child praying silhouette. I used an x-acto knife to cut through the paper template and etch the silhouette outline into black gumpaste.
The shape of the invite lent itself to being the frame for the silhouette. The frames and silhouette are cut from rolled gumpaste using an x-acto knife with a new blade.
The background of the invite gave me the idea for stenciling the bottom tier of the cake. I found a damask cake stencil that I could stencil onto the cake with royal icing.
This was my first time working with a cake stencil, and it turned out that my cake was shorter than the stencil. I could have cut the stencil to the right height, but the stencil was expensive, and I still wanted to be able to use it on a taller cake. I masked off the portion that I didn't need with masking tape so that the top edge would be clean.
I made one batch of royal icing and thinned it slightly with water to use as my stenciling medium. I spread it onto the stencil with an offset spatula, and then removed the stencil. The stencil worked alright, but I found that stenciling on a round cake is much more difficult than stenciling on a square or rectangular cake. The stencil needs to have direct contact with the cake to make the stenciling come out crisp, clean, and uniform thickness. On a round cake, your sides need to be perfectly square all the way around so that there are no gaps between the cake and the stencil. My cake had relatively square sides, but there were some varying gaps, and as a result the stenciling was not a uniform thickness all the way around and there was some blurring. One length of the stencil was not enough to go around the cake completely, so I waited 15-20 minutes for the royal icing to dry and then applied the stencil to the remaining area of the cake. I overlapped the stencil so that the pattern would line up seamlessly. On a round cake, I can't see a way around having a seam. The place where the stenciling finally meets up will just be the back of the cake. Again, on a square or rectangular cake, you won't have this problem.
You can see the uneven thickness of the royal icing in this photo as well as some of the blurring. Even though this is an imperfection, it gives it texture, and adds some old-world charm to the cake. It feels like it could be part of a beautiful old cathedral.
I still needed to incorporate pearl into the cake, and the thought that gumpaste pearls would be lovely for the bottom border. I use a 4mm pearl mold to make the strands of pearls. The key to making pearls is to brush your pearl mold liberally with pearl luster dust. I used CK Products Super Pearl Luster Dust here. I make all of the pearls and then trim off the excess with an x-acto knife before applying them to the cake.
The pearls make a very elegant touch, and they are deceivingly simple to make. I wrapped the cake drum in a lavender satin ribbon. I am so fortunate to have such an amazing goddaughter, and it was such a pleasure making her First Communion cake!


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I'm jealous of the French two days in a row. McDonald's has commissioned designer Patric Norguet to redesign its 'restaurants' in France and he's come up with a stunning redefinition of the most popular fast food chain in the world. It's fit more for Michelin star restaurants than McDonald's.
Norguet wanted to change the conversation of McDonald's toward a more familial feel and away from the cheap, downtrodden look that's plagued Mickey D's for years. The main colour in the updated look is a crisp and clean white with pinches of wood, metal and concrete. It looks more like a trendy hotel lobby than a place where I order everything off the dollar menu for lunch. Which begs the question, is this too classy for McDonald's? I say no.
The redesign is starting in six restaurants in France and hopefully will bring more change along the way. [Patrick Norguet via ArchDaily via Hypebeast]


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Imogen Holst (1907-1984), the only child of Gustav Holst, was a composer and arranger of folksongs, writer on music, conductor, and administrator. She also acted as music assistant to Benjamin Britten, of whom she became a friend and close associate. She subsequently continued as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival until 1977, when she retired to devote more time to preparing a thematic catalogue of her father's music.
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This website was created to introduce you to the life and music of Gustav Holst, a British composer who was born in Cheltenham, England in 1874 and died in London in 1934. Holst was a composer of many choral part-songs, song cycles, operas and orchestral pieces. He is perhaps best known for his orchestral suite composed during the years 1914–1916, entitled The Planets.
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Who's Doctor Who's time-traveler going to meet next year? How does Supernatural follow that slam-bang conclusion? What shocking choice could await us on Fringe? Plus John Carter Of Mars, Spider-Man, Splice, Jonah Hex, The Gates, Chuck, V and Lost spoilers.
John Carter Of Mars:
Some pics of the landscape in Delta, UT where Andrew Stanton will recreate the look of Mars. There are a couple of large sets being built in this area, but there aren't any photos of those yet. And there's a rocky plain where Willem Dafoe's character, Tars Tarkas, will stride towards John Carter. More pics at the link.
Photos courtesy of John Carter Movie.
Spider-Man: Begin Again:
Alvin Sargent, who has worked on every Spidey movie until now, has been brought in to polish up the script. His polishes usually have to do with adding more emotional heft to the important scenes, so expect this Spidey to have weepy bits once again. [THR]
A new poster gives you a brand new look at Dren, the genetic hybrid baby who grows into a weirdly sexy woman. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Jonah Hex:
We've been seeing this TV spot on the air a lot, but I don't think we've featured it before.
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Lost Boys what now? No, seriously, they're doing a third movie. And here are some thrilling pics. [JoBlo]
Doctor Who:
Joanna Page, star of Gavin And Stacey, is going to play a "long-lost relative" of the Doctor in a couple of episodes of season six — and it could turn into a series regular deal, possibly. This is via the Daily Star, one of Britain's notoriously reliable tabloids, so grain of salt indicated. And yet, I wonder — could the "long lost relative" be Susan Campbell, nee Foreman? [Daily Star via Gallifrey News Base]
Jensen Ackles (via a translated Brazilian interview) offers some teases for season six that are both tantalizing and potentially troubling:
I'm excited about next season, because we're pushing the "restart" button... For the creative aspect, we need to understand we just got over a gigantic climax and we're getting into an unknown territory. The Apocalypse was avoided. That's why we getting forward a few years and see where the Winchesters are and how it's their lives. I can't help but think of the final scene of The Hurt Locker, when the main character sees himself in front of a shelf with several cereal boxes and doesn't know what to do. The guy disarms bombs in Iraq, but gets lost in the supermarket! That is not his reality, just like not being a hunter looks like a different world to Dean. All his life was dedicated to one single task, almost like a voluntary slavery, now it's time to face the monster of real world. That's totally new to me, through the acting perspective, and I'll explore a lot more of Dean's life, that's why I'm so excited. A kind of introspective tension, like inside monsters.
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John Noble says the finale will blow you away — and it's a very real possibility that Peter may choose to go with Walternate over "our" Walter. [E! Online]
The Ring once again targets Casey's daughter — the one we met a while back. And the Ring also figures out what Chuck is capable, forcing his dad to come to the rescue. [E! Online]
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The upcoming season opener is the bestest ever. And Rutina Wesley says Tara's got a vampire love interest — partly by choice, but mostly not. "He's tall, dark and handsome, with the emphasis on the dark, dark, dark part." And Tara is all over the place, playing with everybody, this season. [E! Online]
The title of tonight's season finale, "Red Sky," refers to something we'll find out about towards the end of the episode, and we'll want to know more about it, says Elizabeth Mitchell. And she hints it may not be the "red dust" weapon from the original series. "There will be some physical activities and there will be casualties on both sides, some pretty big ones, but it will not be just a verbal exchange." The only character who is probably safe is Father Jack, since he's already almost died a few times. [TV Guide]
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OMG what's going to happen? Here are some promo pics for episode eight. [Den Of Geek]
The Gates:
A new promo for ABC's "Desperate Vampire Housewives" show, airing on Sundays this summer. [SpoilerTV]
Possibly your final chance for officially sanctioned spoilers. The Lost cast interviews themselves! [Doc Arzt]
In tonight's episode, a longstanding character dies. (Widmore?) And we learn some cool news for Kate, which could also have implications for Sun. [E! Online]
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- This tax plan, if implemented, will provide the wealthiest 20 percent of taxpayers a significant tax cut, which would be paid for by increasing taxes on 60 percent of the state's taxpayers, primarily middle- and low-income taxpayers.
- The plan eliminates the personal income, corporate income and franchise taxes, which, combined, generate $12 billion in revenue for North Carolina schools, infrastructure and other public priorities. The revenue loss would be replaced via a higher sales tax that would cover more goods and services, a business license fee and a real estate transaction fee.
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Paramount returned from a 15 week dry spell with a global-best $56.7 million for "Paranormal Activity 4," the microbudget franchise that's billowing overseas but showing signs of giving up the ghost at home.
The chiller's $30.2 million domestic haul lagged estimates by at least $5 million, not to mention the high bar set by prior installments: "Paranormal Activity 3" opened to $52.6 million and "Paranormal Activity 2," which observers cite as a better comp, bowed to $40.7 million. But "4" got freaky overseas, where first place openings in nine territories including Australia, Germany and Mexico floated the in ternational haul up 11.5% from "Paranormal 3" and 28% over "Paranormal 2."
"We're focused a lot on that international growth," said Megan Colligan, Par's domestic marketing and distribution prexy. She added that despite lower-than-expected returns, the studio is pretty pleased with the film's performance. "The fact of the matter is, if we could make $5 million movies that open to $30 million every week, we'd make them," she said.
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This frame's other wide opener, "Alex Cross" from Summit, also wound up on the low end of expectations with $11.8 million.
Aud composition for the thriller closely resembled that of previous Tyler Perry starrers, despite the fact that the multi-hyphenate didn't direct or produce. As for potential crossover appeal from James Patterson fans, that crowd may show in greater numbers in coming weeks.
Summit distribution topper Richie Fay attributed the frame's underperformances to the strength of recent holdovers, namely "Argo" (see sidebar) and "Sinister." Other holdovers demonstrated strong legs with low week-over-week percentage drops. Sony's "Hotel Transylvania" fell just 22% and Universal's "Pitch Perfect" fell 24%, in addition to "Argo's" record-breaking 15% drop.
In its soph sesh, "Sinister," also from "Paranormal" franchise producer Jason Blum, dropped just 50%, a good hold given the genre. In the last two years, Par's "Paranormal" entries haven't been preceded by another horror film in the same month.
Scarers traditionally have shorter-than-average legs, particular this "Paranormal" with almost 40% of Friday's gross coming from late Thursday night screenings. With "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D" opening next weekend, "Paranormal 4" likely had its heyday this weekend.
Par has already greenlit a fifth installment to the franchise, as well as a bilingual spinoff catering to the Latino community and Spanish-speaking markets worldwide to bow early 2013. There is no word yet whether Henry Joost and Ariel Shulman, directors of the last two entries who were scooped up by Par after helming tonally-similar docu "Catfish," will be back for round five.
The partially Spanish-language spinoff is largely a response to strong Latino interest in the franchise and in the horror genre in general. The offshoot is teased by a brief, post-credit scene in "Paranormal 4" to spark online conversation, a routine marketing strategy for the franchise.
Only last week, Imax signed on to screen "Paranormal 4" in the premium format, contributing $1.9 million, or between 6% and 7%, of the film's total gross.
Marking Par's return to the 2012 slate, "Paranormal 4" is the first of eight films the studio will release between now and the end of December, nearly three times as many as any other studio in the same time frame.
On four screens, "The Sessions" unspooled with a per screen average of $30,000, roughly in the center of pre-weekend expectations. Distributor Fox Searchlight will be adding five additional markets next weekend, which will be a crowded sesh with openers including Warner Bros.' "Cloud Atlas," Fox's "Chasing Mavericks," Open Road's "Silent Hill" sequel and Par's "Fun Size."


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Research on sexuality and space emphasizes geographic and institutional forms that are stable, established, and fixed. By narrowing their analytic gaze on such places, which include gayborhoods and bars, scholars use observations about changing public opinions, residential integration, and the closure of nighttime venues to conclude that queer urban and institutional life is in decline. We use queer pop‐up events to challenge these dominant arguments about urban sexualities and to advocate instead a "temporary turn" that analyzes the relationship between ephemerality and placemaking.
Urban sociologists and gentrification scholars have long been interested in examining the combination of structural and micro‐level forces that result in the displacement and exclusion of low‐income residents from changing neighborhoods. However, the types of everyday activities and the social and spatial practices that exclude residents who remain in these neighborhoods are an understudied part of the gentrification story. How are exclusive spaces created? What are the specific social processes that lead to exclusive space?
Based on the case study of a Fringe theatre festival in a peripheral city in Israel, this article identifies and analyzes a moment of change in power relations between a peripheral city and the country's central city. It offers an alternative perspective to urban discourse, which analyzes art projects in peripheral cities as duplicating colonial relations. We adapted the Marxist concept of a class in itself and a class for itself, from the socioeconomic realm to the urban realm, by using Bourdieu's field theory as a link between the sociology of art and the urban realm.
Positioning itself against arguments that claim that the Model Cities program (initially known as the 1966 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act) was either an unmitigated failure, an attempt to co‐opt activists, or an effort to introduce the "carceral state" nationwide, this paper examines the implementation of Model Cities in a historically integrated suburb and argues that while the program was assuredly only a "limited success," it did provide both funding and social space in which residents could forge intergenerational and cross‐racial alliances, as well as launch chal
Some have questioned the financial wisdom of homeownership and, especially, Black homeownership. This is understandable because the mortgage crisis dealt heavy blows to Black homeowners. One concern is that home values may not appreciate as much where Blacks purchase homes. We examine how Black homebuyers fared compared to White and Latino buyers in terms of home appreciation during the 2012 to 2017 recovery. We examine appreciation rates by race and ethnicity across 15 metros.


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Chair umpire Bernardes faults McEnroe on
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By Michael Roddy
LONDON (Reuters) - Brazilian chair umpire
Carlos Bernardes has heard all about former Wimbledon champion John
McEnroe's call for doing away with umpires, and he doesn't buy it for a
If anything, Bernardes told Reuters, the pace of the game and the
money involved at the higher echelons have made umpires and linesmen
more necessary than ever - despite the technological advances like
the Hawkeye system that can check whether a ball is in or out with
greater accuracy than any human.
"The players used to do it (make their own calls) sometimes but then
there was not so much money involved, it's a different sport,"
Bernardes, 49, who has been a tennis umpire for 20 years, said.
"I think you need a referee. We know some guys will do it, okay,
they'll say, 'Let's play two' but how many will then say on match
point, 'Oh no, that point is out?' You cannot say that everybody
plays the same way."
Three-times Wimbledon champion McEnroe threw out his little
firecracker of an observation just before the start of the 2014
Wimbledon championship, where he is a tennis commentator for the
BBC, saying one way to make tennis more appealing would be to "do
away with the umpires and the linesmen completely".
It would make the game "edgier", McEnroe said, and it would have a
self-policing element where fans would boo a player who cheated.
Bernardes, who comes from the Sao Paulo region of Brazil, said
McEnroe's proposal would be totally unworkable except perhaps in the
top ranks of tennis, and even there he had doubts.
"His point is strange, when you don't see the whole thing. He is
talking about the top guys but tennis is not only Wimbledon or
Roland Garros."
He said the umpires needed to be there to rule not only whether the
ball is in or out, but also on code violations, like deliberately
breaking a racket, use of abusive language and other matters like
when to suspend a match for rain or impose a penalty on a player
taking too long a break.
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Bernardes lives in Bergamo, Italy with his girlfriend, which is far
from the World Cup in his native country, but he said his decision
to be at Wimbledon was intentional, and he does not approve of the
huge expenditures that have been made to stage the world's biggest
soccer event.
"I'm on the side of not doing it," he said, not because he wants to
deny Brazilian sports fans but because the country needs hospitals,
schools and roads more than a 40,000-seat stadium in Manaus where
there is hardly anyone to use it after the games are over.
"The thing is they didn't do this... as an opportunity to increase
our life standard," he said. "Some people will be rich, sure, but
most of them will not get anything."
(Reporting by Michael Roddy, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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A less known cause of climate change is the destruction of peatlands in primary forests to make way for production forests. This is another problem Greenpeace is committed to stop. Here, in this photo from November 2009, Greenpeace activists and local community finish constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland. This was part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia
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Shot Angles—Quartering-Toward
The quartering-toward shot angle is when the animal is facing toward you, but at an angle. Since the animal is typically looking your way, it most likely will spot your movements.
- Firearm: The quartering-toward angle presents a clean shot to the vital organs. An effective shot can be taken at this angle by aiming at the front of the shoulder of the near front leg. Caution: A light bullet may deflect off the shoulder bones of large game, such as elk, deer, or large bears. Be certain to use a firearm and ammunition adequate for the game you hunt and the angle of shot you might select.
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Dr. John B. Abbiss, aged 78, died suddenly from heart failure on Wednesday 23rd of June 2010 at his home in Irvine, California.
After receiving Bachelor degrees in Physics and Mathematics in 1952 and 1953, respectively, from the University of Wales at Cardiff, Dr. Abbiss joined the Guided Weapons Division of the former Bristol Aircraft Company (now part of British Aerospace) as a development engineer. He obtained a Masters degree in Physics, on Theory of the Solid State, in 1965 from the University of Wales. That same year he joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough (U.K.), where he developed laser anemometry techniques for high-speed wind-tunnel applications. The first-ever quantitative studies of supersonic flow with a photon correlation laser anemometer were carried out by his team at Farnborough in 1972. Subsequent development of this method for a wide range of applications, from highly turbulent jets and wake flows to transonic and supersonic separated boundary layers, included an extensive study of information extraction from photon-limited signals. He subsequently obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Surrey (U.K.) in 1982, on Photon Correlation Techniques. His investigations led to the development of innovative mathematical techniques for solving inverse problems, with applications such as spectral estimation, band-limited signal extrapolation and restoration of noisy images degraded by system aberrations and diffractive blurring.
Dr. Abbiss joined Titan Spectron, Costa Mesa, California, in 1985. His activities there included the design and development of software and instrumentation for laser velocimetry and optical spectroscopy in ground based and airborne sensor systems, and the further development of advanced digital techniques for signal and image recovery in satellite surveillance, including their implementation in neural network form. In 1995, Dr. Abbiss left Titan Spectron and formed his own consultancy, Singular Systems, in Irvine, California, specializing in innovative algorithms for image interpretation, restoration and super-resolution enhancement. In 2000, he joined MetroLaser, Inc., also in Irvine, where he was involved in a range of applications in holography, interferometry and spectral imaging, often with an emphasis on solving inverse problems with varying sensitivity to noise.
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Jesus shows us the challenge and invites us to learn how to be salt and
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for others is to walk on the path of the Lord as witnesses because we have
found the Lord.
The first reading today, from the Prophet Isaiah, also shows us the way to
be salt and light: by serving the poor. If we serve the poor, then our
light shall break forth like the dawn, and our wound shall quickly be
healed. Far too often our focus is on ourselves rather than on loving
others. We get caught up in our own pains and wounds and forget that
serving others is the best healing of all that ails us. Serving others
brings salt and light into our lives.
Saint Paul tells us in the First Letter to the Corinthians that he himself
had resolved to know nothing while he was with other Christians except
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[JURIST] Former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and his wife were sentenced Monday by a Tunisian court after being found guilty in absentia on charges of theft and unlawful possession of money and jewelry. The two were sentenced to 35 years in prison [Reuters report] and fined USD $65.6 million. The sentencing came just hours after the trial began [JURIST report]. The two were also charged with illegal possession of drugs and weapons, but the verdict for those charges would not be announced until June 30. Ben Ali fled Tunisia to Saudi Arabia in January during protests against his 23-year autocratic rule in which his family amassed substantial wealth [Reuters report] that many Tunisians say was at their expense. But Ben Ali said Monday that he was "duped" into leaving [AFP report] the capital Tunis, according to a statement released through his lawyer. He said that he was trying to get his family out of the country after assassination threats and that the plane left him in Saudi Arabia despite orders to wait for him. Ben Ali has denied the charges against him [JURIST report] which stem mostly from allegations that he authorized the use of force against protesters during the Tunisian revolution, resulting in more than 200 deaths. Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi [profile, in French] announced the issuance of an arrest warrant for Ben Ali in January, though the country has not received a response to its request to extradite [JURIST reports] the former leader from Saudi Arabia, where he remains in exile. The uprisings in Tunisia and ousting of Ben Ali were the beginning of similar uprisings across the Middle East also resulting in the ousting of former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive].
Chebbi announced that Ben Ali had been charged with 18 offenses in April. The announcement came a little over a month after Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy websites] called for the Tunisian transitional government to investigate incidents of police violence against protesters and end police brutality [JURIST reports]. In January, the Tunisian Constitutional Council officially announced that Ben Ali had permanently left the office of the presidency after he declared a state of emergency [JURIST report] amid nationwide protests, banning public gatherings and allowing police to fire on anyone refusing to obey orders, and fled the country. The leader of the lower house of parliament, Foued Mebezza, assumed power as interim president [JURIST report] and is expected to remain in power until elections are held, which Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi [Reuters profile] has indicated will be within the next several months.


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What does your CEO want from storage?
- Ellen O'Brien, Executive Editor
| Ask storage managers and their managers what users--from the CEO to the sales associates and summer interns--expect from their company's storage expenditures, and you'll get some obvious replies.
"For us, it is a simple answer: Our business wants to keep everything forever and they want us to retrieve it in two seconds, but they can't understand why we have to keep buying more storage," explains Barry Brunetto, VP of IS at Blount International, an industrial and power equipment company in Portland, OR.
Brunetto is exaggerating, but in a way that every storage pro can relate to. Dan Grosz, VP of IS at VIP Parts, Tires & Service in Lewiston, ME, sums up his firm's common business requests: "All the technical aspects are abstracted away and it simply comes down to cost and reliability [speed and downtime]."
Earlier this year, Grosz headed his company's efforts to find an iSCSI-based unit as its enterprise storage solution. When vendor shopping, Grosz compiled a list of criteria his business colleagues weren't really concerned with as long as the product allowed VIP to access data 24/7 without delay.
For his part, Grosz wanted a vendor that was on the VMware-compatibility list, had a track record of running clustered SQL servers in mission-critical applications and allowed for multiple RAID configurations (VIP uses RAID 50). Then he considered IO per second, scalability and the quality of storage management software included in the package. Eventually, Grosz purchased a 4.8TB (raw) iSCSI unit from EqualLogic.
| "We did mention our choice of vendors [to business executives], but it was more in terms of which other companies are using those vendors. It focused on financial viability rather than technology," says Grosz.
According to Hassan Kataf, network manager at Sole Technology, a $200 million global action sports footwear and apparel company in Lake Forest, CA, his business executives simply want "accessibility, reliability, speed, security and space.'' Of course, he adds, those expectations can only be fulfilled briefly before requests start pouring in for more space, faster speed and increased access. "They really don't care what we put on the back end. They just want to know whether it's going to be available, secure and fast," he says.
Sole Technology is embarking on an unprecedented, enterprise-wide, centralized storage project that involves business sponsors in corporate divisions ranging from the art department to marketing and global operations. The project, budgeted for 2008, began small with the IT department trying to meet storage and archiving requests from the marketing department.
"Every season we create catalogues of our products," says George Bock, Sole Technology's senior director of IT. "Each one of those shirts, snowboard shoes, belt buckles ... all of it has a picture associated with it. The problem is that they haven't been storing those photos in one spot. They're on servers, desktops, external hard drives, DVDs and microfiche from 20 years ago. You name it, it's out there."
With countless versions of the same photo and large media files stored several times over in various locations, help desk tickets for security permissions, lost files and slow retrieval were piling up. "Right now, for example, we are implementing an online order-entry system using CenterStone Technologies' platform," says Bock. "So we need pictures of every one of our products to put online."
| Bock and Kataf are comparing products from EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and evaluating software platforms that can access data from those storage products. It's a project with a nearly $500,000 price tag and the No. 1 promise the IT side of the house will be making to its business colleagues is "no downtime," according to Kataf.
"If I'm doing my job correctly, cost is a factor; but it's the solution--reliability and [fulfilling] long-term needs--that matters most," he adds. "The business needs to understand that IT will recommend the right solution."
The storage project could eventually mean "500 users would need 50TB to 100TB right out of the gate," explains Bock. "I've been in IT and storage about 20 years and I haven't had a project on this scale," notes Kataf. "It's just lately that data storage needs have been growing so much and the amount users want to store, and the amount of access they want, has changed."
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Get acquainted with the basics of pottery, right from understanding clay as a medium to hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling & slab work to make basic forms such as bowls, vases and masks.
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Yesterday was a good day.
We had nowhere to go and nothing we had to do. It was the first time we've had a day like that for a long time and we were looking forward to it.
We got up early, had breakfast and drove to a local equestrian/bicycle'/hiking park. It's all part of the Hillsborough River watershed area. The Hillsborough River is where Tampa gets its water so the land surrounding it is protected from building.
We stayed on the main road which was mostly dry and sandy. On the way back we saw an armadillo so I left the trail to take a picture…picture hasn't been downloaded yet.
We got back in the car after our 3 mile hike and I felt something crawling on my hand. I thought it was a tick, so I quickly grabbed it in a paper towel for Al to identify when we got to our next stop. Sure enough, he said it was a "Brown Dog Tick" which is the most common type of tick. Lyme disease is caused from tick bites so I certainly didn't want to see that! We had only left the main trail for a minute, but we figure that was when I got the tick. Florida does have a lot of ticks, so it's something to be aware of, both for people and pets. Al gets quite a few tick calls from the veterinarians that he sprays.
The tick hadn't bitten me (yet) but after that I kept feeling like bugs were crawling all over me! We came home and had showers. No more ticks were found!
After lunch our plan was to sit outside and read. It was in the mid 70's and sunny, so it was a beautiful day to be outside.
We decided to each take 5 minutes and straighten the house. Well that 5 minutes ended up lasting the rest of the day. Al decided to clean out all his storage bins and I pulled out the vacuum and cleaned up cat hair, did some laundry and organized. We're still trying to figure out how to best organize this place and constantly tweaking it.
Today we're meeting a bunch of other rv people that are in the area now. We're meeting in Lakeland for lunch. It was put together by Donna/Froggi and should be fun to meet other rv'ers/bloggers.
Did you know the saying "God willing and the Creek don't rise" was in reference to the Creek Indians and not a body of water? It was written by Benjamin Hawkins in the late 18th century. He was a politician and Indian diplomat. While in the south, Hawkins was requested by the President of the U.S. to return to Washington. In his response, he was said to write, "God willing and the Creek don't rise." Because he capitalized the word "Creek" it is deduced that he was referring to the Creek Indian tribe and not a body of water.


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How can we keep shark and ray populations strong? Find answers while exploring some of the world's most beautiful reefs.
Dr. Chapman is an internationally recognized shark expert and has published papers on shark genetics, virgin births, the shark fin trade, and shark tracking, among other topics.
Dr. Chapman has had a passion for sharks since he was a child in New Zealand. And now they need more protection than ever. As he told Popular Science, to conserve sharks, the individual countries where they are fished need to have laws in place to protect them. "The problem with the shark-fin trade is that so many different countries are participating," he says. "Anyone can do whatever they want. It's a Wild West show."
"Our volunteers interact with Belizeans involved with the project and local stakeholders," Dr. Chapman told Earthwatch. "They will be important project ambassadors and can assist us maintain a dialogue with local people. Our project is unusual in that our research staff is composed almost entirely of local Belizeans, many of which have been working with the project for more than a decade. Volunteers will learn the importance of including local people in all aspects of scientific research and have a chance to work as part of a diverse team immersed in a rich Caribbean culture."
A shark conservation team heads out to sea.
On February 15th, 2013, the Shark Stanley team from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies held an interdisciplinary symposium on shark and marine conservation. This is Demian's presentation from the event.
Shark abundance is measured noninvasively, with baited remote underwater video cameras.