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Edmund paced the floor of the great hall in his father's castle. He held a letter, which he had written himself, copying his brother's handwriting and signature. He was harbouring some very strong feelings as he paced. He went and stood before the huge mirror that dominated one end of the hall. He nodded. Nature was his guide and it was her laws he followed.
Why should he have to put up with the stupidity of convention and let the idiosyncrasies of an old fashioned society deprive him of his rights, just because he was some twelve or fourteen months younger than his brother? Why should he have to carry the stigma of "bastard"; why should he accept that he was inferior? He half turned and looked at himself in the mirror. His body was as compact, his mind as intelligent, and his figure as good as the son of his father's legal wife was. Why did they brand people like him with the word "inferior"? With inferiority? Bastardy? Inferior, inferior? – They had stronger constitutions and were more red-blooded as a result of the lust and passion that accompanied their conception than a whole tribe of fops conceived between bedtime and morning in a boring, tedious matrimonial bed had.
So, legitimate Edgar. He would have his brother's inheritance. Their father loved the bastard Edmund as much as the legitimate Edgar. Fine word, " legitimate "! Well then, legitimate brother, if this letter proved effective and his plot succeeded, Edmund the bastard was going to oust the legitimate. He raised his arm and made a fist in the mirror. Grow! Prosper! Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
The Duke of Gloucester walked into the hall, talking to himself. He was shaking his head and tutting: 'Kent banished like that!' he said. 'And France departed in anger! And the king gone tonight, his power reduced to ceremony. All done on the spur of the moment!' He looked up and saw his son.
'Edmund! Hello. What news?'
Edmund flashed the letter so that his father should see it then made a show of slipping it hastily into his pocket. 'May it please your lordship, none,' he said.
Gloucester pointed to his son's pocket. 'Then why are you trying so hard to hide that letter?'
'I have no news, my lord.'
'What was that you were reading?'
'Nothing, my lord.'
'No? Then why the great hurry to shove it in your pocket? Something that's nothing has no need to hide itself. Let's see it. Come; if it's nothing I won't need spectacles.'
'I beg of you, sir, excuse me. It's a letter from my brother that I haven't finished reading, and from what I've seen so far I don't think it's fit for your eyes.'
Gloucester put his hand out. 'Give me the letter, sir.'
Edmund frowned. 'I'll offend you either to give it to you or withhold it. The contents, as far as I can follow them, are offensive.' He half extracted the letter then stopped.
'Let's see, let's see!' Gloucester snatched it.
Edmund stepped back. 'To be fair to my brother, I hope that he wrote this to test my loyalty.'
Gloucester had put his glasses on. He opened the letter and read aloud. ' This custom of revering old men leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of young men. It keeps our fortunes from us till we're too old to enjoy them. I'm beginning to find it's a useless and stupid slavery to be controlled by an old tyrant who rules, not because he's powerful, but because we're willing to put up with it. Come to me so that I can explain it further. If our father would sleep till I awakened him you would enjoy half his wealth forever and live to be beloved of your brother. Edgar.'
Gloucester looked up at Edmund. His features expressed enormous conflict. 'Hmm!' he exclaimed. 'Conspiracy? "Sleep till I awakened him you would enjoy half his wealth?" My son Edgar! Could he have done this? Has he got the heart and mind to instigate it? When did you get this? Who brought it to you?'
'It wasn't brought to me, my lord. That's the cunning of it. It was thrown in through the window of my room.'
'Are you sure this is your brother's handwriting?'
Edmund appeared to choose his words carefully: 'If the contents were good, my lord, I would dare swear it was his, but in respect of those contents I'd like to think it isn't.'
Gloucester studied the letter. He nodded. 'It is his,' he said.
'It is his hand, my lord, but I hope his heart isn't in the contents.'
'Has he ever sounded you out in this business before?'
'Never, my lord,' said Edmund. 'But I've often heard him maintain that it would be more suitable for sons, on reaching maturity, and fathers fallen into decline, the father should be in the custody of the son and the son should manage his affairs.'
'Oh villain, villain!' Gloucester shook the letter. 'That's exactly what he says in here. Despicable villain! Unnatural, unspeakable, brutish villain! Worse than an animal! Go, sirrah, look for him. I'll arrest him. Abominable villain. Where is he?'
'I'm not sure, sir. If you could manage to contain your indignation against my brother till you can get a better picture of his intentions, it would be better because if you're mistaken and over-react it would greatly damage your honour and shake his loyalty to the core. I'd stake my life on his loyalty: I think he's written this to test my affection for your honour, and without any harmful intention.'
Gloucester's eyes appealed desperately to his son: 'Do you think so?'
'If your honour thinks it appropriate, I will place you where you can hear us discuss this and by hearing for yourself, settle it in your mind, and we can do this without any further delay – this evening.'
'He can't be such a monster…' said Gloucester.
Edmund put his arm around his father's shoulders. 'I'm sure he isn't.'
There were tears in Gloucester's eyes as he accepted his son's embrace. '…to his own father, who loves him so tenderly and entirely. Heaven and earth!' He clenched his fist. 'Edmund, find him. Let me hear this. You decide how to do it. I'd give everything I have to be assured of his innocence.'
'I'll look for him straight away, sir, do my best to arrange things, and keep you fully informed.'
Gloucester shook his head vigorously. 'These recent eclipses of the sun and moon don't bode well for us,' he said, 'though wise men can explain it away as this or that, nevertheless we still have to suffer the consequences. Love cools, friendship dwindles, brothers are divided – riots in cities, civil wars in countries, treason in palaces and the bond between father and son broken. This villain of mine falls into that mould – son against father. The king goes against his own nature: there's father against child. Our best years are behind us. Plots, hypocrisy, treachery and chaos follow us distressingly to our graves. Investigate this villain, Edmund – you won't lose anything by it – do it discreetly. And the noble and loyal Kent banished! His offence, honesty! It's strange.' He patted Edmund's back and stumbled away, shaking his head.
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French 3M workers, who on Tuesday barricaded their boss in an office in protest at jobs cuts, have released their prisoner following successful negotiations to secure more cash for redundancy packages.
3M decided to shed 110 jobs at the pharmaceutical products plant at Pithiviers, near Orleans, due to falling demand. The plan cost industrial director Luc Rousselet more than a day confined behind a wardrobe by employees demanding "more money for departing staff, guarantees for those remaining and salary payment for those who had gone on strike over the redundancy plan".
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Loney Could be the Rays 2013 Hidden Gem
I am hearing some pretty sweet music from friends who follow the Los Angeles Dodgers on the Tampa Bay Rays recent signing of veteran James Loney. Some have proclaimed Loney a shining MLB gem that gathered some unusual dust, rust and lost a bit of his luster in 2012, but easily could easily show up to Port Charlotte, Florida this February polished, glimmering and shining like a diamond in the rough for the Rays.
Immediately some will see the signing of Loney as a logistical offensive and defensive addition in the ever-changing Rays roster fabric. I mean the guy has maintained a career .282 average and is just 105 hits from the "1,000 hit" plateau, but this signing has as much to do with on-the-field Rays movements as it does up the tunnel and behind those double clubhouse white doors. Loney is a leader, and that should take some of the command burden off the shoulders of Evan Longoria, James Shields and David Price. I am one of those who firmly believes you can never have too many positive vibes flowing in a clubhouse
We all know without reservation that Loney brings with him a nifty glove (career .944 Fielding Percentage), an immediate improvement to the Rays anemic offense situation (108 hits in 2013 between Boston and LA), but his energetic aura will help most in filling the void left when certain members did not return to the Rays. With Carlos Pena and B J Upton gone, the team had a void in their team leadership, and Loney definitely fills that void to overflowing. I some might forget with all the changes over the last few years with Dodger personnel, Loney has appeared in 752 games since 2008 for the Dodgers which would in retrospect rank Loney in a solid 4th place All-Time for the Rays with Carl Crawford (1,235), BJ Upton (966)and Aubrey Huff (799).
Loney does come into St. Petersburg with a lifetime batting average of .282, there is hesitation for me to strike up the bandwagon and greet him with open arms. Some will say Loney might finally be feeling his MLB age as he saw his batting average free fall from healthy .288 in 2011 with some power (12 HR) to an All-Time low in 2012 of .254 in 114 games with the Dodgers before his trade to the Boston Red Sox where Loney produced a .230 average with 2 HR and 8 RBI in the season's final 30 games. Still, that average is way superior of Carlos Pena's .197 batting average in 2012.
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Hidden deep below those compelling anemic 2012 stats is a few speckles of a glimmering gem that could help the Rays a lot in 2013. Loney hit for a .294/.351/.441 line against right-handed pitching while also grading out as one of MLB's best defenders at first base over the last 3 seasons. Considering the Rays signed Loney to a 1-year $2 million dollar deal with a chance to amass another $1 million in incentive bonuses, the deal is not a financial killer to the Rays if Loney doesn't become the needed weapon for the team.
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Arts and crafts aren't just hobbies. Three London Fashion Week designers show that, with the right vision, they can be used to create genre-defying designs
In the early morning of the second day of London Fashion Week last September, a bleary-eyed audience assembled in the elegant Portico Rooms of Somerset House and proceeded to have its socks knocked off by an anarchic collection, courtesy of knitting collective Sister by Sibling. Supersize pom-pom dresses, sequinned leopard print and intarsia skull cardigans were interspersed with more commercial pieces, such as fine knit tennis dresses and pencil skirts. Lacy skull caps – some embellished with more pom-poms – extended into full face masks tied with a bow under the chin. In short, this is not knitting as your nana knows it.
But it's not just knitwear that has had a modern make-over of late. Simone Rocha's acid-bright crochet daisies – cut into oversize biker jackets and peplum skirts – were a stand-out of the season, while James Long's womenswear debut was made all the more personal by his use of embroidered odes to the women in his life. Is it a coincidence that these bright young things are pushing the boundaries with homespun techniques?
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"I don't have any knitwear training," confesses James Long, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, which may come as a surprise for a designer whose offering has been knit-heavy since its debut for 2011. "I think that's why it's interesting – I couldn't sit and knit you a jumper, but I could draw you how I want a jumper to work. I think sometimes when you know how to knit, for example, you restrict yourself to a certain level."
Long's monochrome collection for spring/summer was notable for his use of embroidered graffiti, threading his collection with extremely personal notes: odes to his family, his seamstresses and mentor Lulu Kennedy; Patti Smith words and PJ Harvey lyrics. But this was a happy accident: "I did some knit drawing that I wanted to have writing on," says Long. "But that's really difficult and expensive. Sometimes I do draw something and it can't be done. So it has to turn into embroidery or something.
"With embroidery, I always want it to be three-dimensional, I really want the pieces to live. It's about making them all-encompassing." Long has members of his family working for him. "My mum got really ill, she had a brain haemorrhage and gave up work and she learnt how to knit as part of her rehabilitation. She became a bit of a demon at it and now she has a knitting business. I'm a big fan of someone who has amazing knowledge, I'm always willing to listen and take advice."
The importance of passing down practical skills, then, is something all these designers share, before using them to push things forward and develop a new way of presenting things.
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Simone Rocha, thanks in part to the legacy of her father designer John Rocha, is one of the more established names among the young up-and-comers. In fact, it was working for her father that first brought her the skill which is becoming something of a signature. "I learnt to crochet originally when I was assisting in my dad's studio," she says. "I think I was 13. It was one of the autumn/winter shows he held in Claridges. The collection had charcoal-grey ankle socks which had a line of crochet running up the back of them – that's where I originally learnt, putting that chain stitch in the socks. Then I did a lot of hand crochet in college, developing dresses."
Rocha studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, before going on to gain a Masters from Central Saint Martins under the of renowned talent spotter Professor Louise Wilson. "I learned all my technical skills in Dublin," says Rocha. "How to pattern-cut, draft patterns, sewing, machine knitting – it was very skills-driven which was great. It was a very different kind of learning to what I picked up from my father: it was a sensitivity to fabrication and an understanding of silhouette but also a respect for craft and handwork."
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Although most modern collections are produced on industrial machines, there is a real benefit to being able to create something by hand. "By producing pure knit collections we hope we are showcasing what can be achieved through hand and machine knitting," explains Cozette McCreery, one-third of the knitwear collective Sibling. Together with knitting supremo Sid Bryan and pattern cutter Joe Bates, McCreery has produced some of the most technically and visually creative work of late. "We all were disappointed with the knitwear for men both on the catwalk and in store," says McCreery of the brand's origins. "Joe, possibly fed up with hearing us all whine about it, put the idea that we do our own collection."
And as necessity is the mother of invention, combining their varying levels of skills – from Bryan and McCreery, who first picked up needles and yarn as children, to Bates, who doesn't knit – the trio embrace the limitations of the medium. "Sometimes actually knowing less about the techniques can help because it makes us question what we want as a finished garment. We like tradition, it is the foundation of our brand, but then we have fun messing around with it – like a collage almost.
"The fact that we know about knit helps," McCreery adds, "but often the 'jolly' is thrown in by Katie Grand, who adds her magic to the collection. The catwalk is the essence of all the ideas but in the end we are a business and our selling rail is the catwalk stripped bare. In the end we want to sell nice jumpers."
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It's a role sure to make other singer-dancers green with envy, that of Chistery, the head flying monkey in the musical smash hit "Wicked."
But for a young performer who lived in Huntington Beach, it's all part of a soaring career that also included a recent stint with the national company of another hit musical, "Cats."
KC Fredericks lived in Huntington Harbour while attending Orange Coast College just a couple of years ago, so when "Wicked" opens this week at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, it will be a homecoming of sorts.
"Oh, I'm sure a lot of my HB friends will be showing up for this," he said recently while on the road with the show in Texas. "I'm not sure it's just me, though, they're coming to see. 'Wicked' brings people out no matter what. But either way, getting the guest list together is going to be a challenge. A lot of people!"
While living here, Fredericks maintained a busy schedule singing, dancing and giving dance lessons. And he was already highly accomplished, having competed regionally and nationally, earning him the titles of Mr. Teen Dance America, Mr. Dance USA and Mr. Global Dance. He also earned numerous scholarships allowing him to train at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway in New York.
But living here was special.
"I loved living in HB," he said. "It's such a peaceful place. I always felt like I could escape from all of the craziness of performing when I got back to my home in Huntington Beach."
I wondered if it's easier or tougher to perform when you know a lot of people in the audience.
"I prefer having people there I know, friends and family," Fredericks said. "It makes the show that much more special for me. When I don't know anyone out there, it's still great; there's a high level you always maintain on stage. But there's an extra jolt of energy with friends and family in the house. I'm constantly thinking, 'How are they enjoying the show?'"
While living in Huntington Beach, Fredericks would see shows in the same hall where he'll be performing in "Wicked."
"I saw the National Ballet of China there, 'Sweet Charity' and a few other things, as I remember," he said. "And I also performed there once before in 'Cats.' It's an amazing theater, just stunning. And what's interesting, this is the only theater where I've ever seen a show as a spectator and have also performed in before. So that's special too."
And he encourages everyone to come to see this production of what's become one of the world's most beloved musicals.
"It's important to let people know that 'Wicked' is an important show because everyone can relate to it on some level," he said. "It has tons of comedy, tons of touching moments, incredible music and incredible costumes. It has the power to change the way people look at live theater."
The show runs through April 3, and there's something to keep in mind regarding some of the best seats in the house: A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for "Wicked."
Each day, two and a half hours prior to show time, people who present themselves at the box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum, and 30 minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.
Regular tickets start at $38.75 and are available at https://www.scfta.org, by calling (714) 556-2787 and at the box office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa.
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Also, a heads up for Angels baseball fans: A new TV commercial for the team has started running for the 2011 season. It features my son and I talking about a special moment that occurred at the ballpark years ago involving Tim Salmon.
We also just got back from a spring training trip to watch the team in Tempe, Ariz., where we had a chance to see Huntington Beach High School's Hank Conger work behind the plate. Here's hoping he has the chance to catch a lot of games this season. We'll be catching up with Hank in the column here once the season starts.
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Falling Up with their hit "Hotel Aquarium," which is No. 1 on WAY-FM's Hit List, will be at Regis University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 along with The Afters and Everyday Sunday. The progressive rock artists are the first rock groups to play at the Chapel on the Regis University Campus. A donation of $10 is suggested. For tickets visit I-Tickets.com or call 800-965-9324.
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If they made that remark about science those people are completely lost to reality. Any 'evidence' you put forth regarding the molestations and rape will be disregarded.
What they are doing is making a conclusion (The Pope is great) , therefore anything that refutes that conclusion is by necessity invalid. It's how creationists work and also how many religious work.
Ironic that they would ever say anything so insane about science when they have not a clue what proof actually means. *Facepalm*
They sound more like evangelical Protestants than Catholics. Tell them that they are morons if they believe in ID or biblical creationism because Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have both spoken out to say that biological evolution by means of natural selection is how life started and that Genesis is just a story, written by people who didn't understand science.
Second, and I may butcher this as I am a student of social sciences and not hard sciences, rotation in space is caused by vectoring angles. Gravitation caused by larger bodies creates a pull on smaller ones which may be moving in different directions. In the accretion discs of solar systems most everything starts moving in the same direction and thus begins to have orbits in the same direction due to gravity caused by high mass at the center where the star will form.


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China uses several strategies in its state-controlled media to blot out Taiwan from reality, even though Taiwan is real and here to stay.
In addition to the recent episode across the Strait where the Xiamen Business Newspaper photoshopped a Republic of China (ROC) flag out of a photograph showing Chinese nationals landing in the disputed Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台) — while leaving the People's Republic of China (PRC) national flags intact — Beijing propaganda officials also use a Western punctuation device (so-called "scare-quotes") to blot out Taiwan's dignity and geopolitical space.
The use of scare quotes has a long history in the West, where the term was first coined in the early 1900s and used by academics as a punctuation tool while doing textual analysis. Basically, scare quotes are words or phrases put inside quotation marks — double quote marks in the US and single quote marks in the UK — to put some distance between the word or phrase and the writer.
Scare quotes were originally used as a distancing tool, but the tool is now so ubiquitous and embedded in the English-speaking countries that it threatens to become a "punctuation epidemic'' in news articles, blog posts and BBC headlines.
In Chinese print media, these are not "quotation marks'' but "double bracket marks'' that signal to the average reader that the words inside the brackets stand for something else that the Chinese Communist Party dare not mention: the reality of Taiwan as an independent, sovereign nation with its own president, premier, currency and legislature.
I only became aware of China's use of Western-style scare quotes to sort of "photoshop'' Taiwan out of existence after the Central News Agency reported on how the Xiamen Business Newspaper apologized in a post on Sina Weibo — China's Twitter-like microblogging platform — "for having inappropriately photoshopped the flag, thereby hurting the feelings of its readers.''
In the original CNA Chinese-language report from Taipei, it was noted that Chinese netizens use the initialism of "PS" to stand for the act photoshopping photos. The same story noted that ''another Sina Weibo user suggested online that the Chinese news media should also stop using double quotation marks when referring to the titles of Taiwanese public agencies or senior officials such as the Executive Yuan, the Control Yuan, the premier and the president."
This very self-aware and savvy netizen in China added to his initial Sina Weibo post: "Adding quotation marks around those titles is a form of blotting-out, since those public institutions and official titles [in Taiwan] genuinely exist."
And the term he used in the Chinese-language post for "blotting out" was "PS," meaning that in his mind, and probably the minds of many other Chinese netizens, there is little difference between photoshopping [digitally altering] a photo and "photoshopping" text. By using the initialism "PS'' in his note about blotting out Taiwan's reality, he was signaling to other readers in China and around the world that Beijing is fooling no one by its use of Chinese scare quotes in Chinese-language news articles about Taiwan, Tibet, the Dalai Llama and other verboten subjects.
Another way to more liberally and better translate the Sina Weibo poster's words might be like this: "Friends have suggested to me that when the Chinese media write about Taiwan news, responsible reporters and editors should not put words like President, President of the Executive Yuan and other names related to Taiwan in double quotation marks because this is another form of PS. Those titles and departments in Taiwan really exist! When the Chinese media use double brackets to PS Taiwan's reality out of the news, we netizens know exactly what is going on and you are fooling only yourselves, Beijing!"


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It's a familiar experience: you're walking through a crowded area, when you spot someone staring intently at some distant spot. Do you stop to look as well? How long do you look if there's nothing obvious there? Early research had suggested we often do stop to look, and as more join in on the stare, the crowd will eventually reach a tipping point, with the vast majority of its members staring off in the same direction. Now, researchers have revisited the question with modern imaging technology, and found that there isn't a tipping point. In fact, in circumstances where some terrorism-obsessed authorities say we should look, men actively avert their gaze.
The original experiments were done back in the 1960s, using the streets of New York as a lab. It had suggested that crowds show a tipping point behavior (also referred to as "crystallization"). Once a sufficient fraction of the group started to stare, nearly everyone would follow along.
In the new work, the authors turned to the streets of Oxford (where some of the team was based) and updated the techniques, using high-resolution video imaging and a computer analysis that figured out the vectors that described pedestrians' gazes and direction of motion.
The video camera was perched high above a specific area of a shopping street. The authors worked with a set of assistants who, on cue, would all stop within a small area of the street and stare up at the camera. In different experiments, the assistants were sent out in groups of various sizes, anywhere from a lone staring individual to an entire group of 15 that would all stop and stare at once. Afterward, the video was analyzed to figure out how many of the surrounding pedestrians stopped and stared along. All told, over 2,800 pedestrians were present during various iterations of the experiment.
Maybe we've become more indifferent, or maybe the British hate to stare, but the new researchers saw nothing like the contagion of attention seen back in the 1960s. Instead of drawing in nearly 90 percent of the crowd, attention maxed out at somewhere around half the surrounding pedestrians. And there was no tipping point. Instead of a sudden leap in attentiveness, the fraction of pedestrians staring along went up gradually in direct proportion to the number of assistants sent out to stare. The more people that stared initially, the more likely others were to join in.
There was no indication that there was a saturation point—that is, the numbers were still going up when the researchers reached their cutoff point of 15 assistants staring at once. One trend that was apparent, however, was that slower-moving pedestrians were more likely to follow the gaze of the assistants. There are plenty of reasons why this might be the case (more time to notice the assistants, less pressing matters on their minds, etc.), and the authors weren't able to discriminate among them.
The next set of experiments seemed to have been informed by the age of terrorism. Two men were sent either back to the shopping street or into a train station; one scribbled notes on a hand-drawn map, while the other used a videocamera as if he were getting images of the surroundings. This is exactly the sort of thing we're supposed to report to the local constabulary as suspicious activity. (As a control, two men were sent to stand near each other, but not interact or perform any actions.)
On the shopping street, the pair did attract a bit more attention, primarily from those closest to them. As pedestrians passed further from them, they were more likely to ignore them. By the time a pedestrian was further away, they were no more likely to look at the suspicious behavior than they were at the individuals in the control situation.
Something else entirely happened in the train station. Here, the control pair attracted a fair bit of attention from those closest to them, with that attraction again fading by three meters. But for the pair doing suspicious things, the exact opposite was true: those closest to them were likely to avert their gaze. Within a meter, essentially nobody looked at the pair, and things only matched the attention given the control pair by 2.5 meters.
Perhaps even more oddly, this lack of attention was driven nearly entirely by males. The authors speculate that men were concerned that an aggressive stare would be seen as a challenge, and would provoke a confrontation.
Overall, the authors conclude that, at least as far as where to direct our attention, we humans don't engage in spontaneous group decision-making. They note that there are indications we do in other circumstances—they cite the fact that people tend to cross the road in a group that often includes members who are largely unaware if doing so is actually safe. What they can't distinguish is whether the shared attention they do see is a matter of social conformity (staring along to fit in) or if there's an expectation that staring will provide some valuable information.
All of this leaves lots of room for further experiments. I expect exit interviews of random pedestrians who inadvertently ended up being part of an experiment to follow shortly.
PNAS, 2012. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116141109 (About DOIs).


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Who: Ralph Schmitt, Fortson, Ga.
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How they're faring: Schmitt saw his savings drop by a third in the crash, but didn't sell any of his and his wife Kathleen's investments, believing in the economy's resiliency. His faith was rewarded: Today, the couple's portfolio is above where it was in 2007 and they feel secure enough to fulfill their retirement dream of traveling extensively.
"When the financial crisis hit, I continued working longer than I had planned, and we cut back on fine dining, theater, and travel," says Ralph. "But once I felt the recovery was underway, I retired, and we began to kick up our spending to do the things we always wanted to do in our retirement."
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Qt is a cross-platform application and widget toolkit that uses standard C++ but makes extensive use of a special code generator (called the Meta Object Compiler, or moc) together with several macros to enrich the language. Some of its more important features include:
- Running on the major desktop platforms and some of the mobile platforms.
- Extensive internationalization support.
- A complete library that provides SQL database access, XML parsing, thread management, network support, and a unified cross-platform application programming interface (API) for file handling.
The Qt framework is emerging as a major development platform and is the basis of the KDE software community, among other important open source and proprietary applications such as VLC, VirtualBox, Opera, Mathematica, Skype, Maya and many others.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Default Qt Toolkit
- 3 Appearance
- 4 Development
- 5 Resources
Two versions of Qt are currently available in the official repositories. They can be installed with the following packages:
- Qt 5.x is available in the qt5-base package, with documentation in the qt5-doc package.
- Qt 4.x is available in the qt4 package, with documentation in the qt4-docAUR package.
- Qt 3.x is now available from the AUR in the qt3AUR package, with documentation in the qt3-docAUR package.
Default Qt Toolkit
By installing qtchooser you can restore the usual bins (e.g. qmake) in /usr/bin and setup the Qt toolkit to use. By default Qt5 is used.
Using Environment variables
For example, to set Qt4 export
QT_SELECT=4 in
Using configuration files
For example, to set Qt4 symlink
/etc/xdg/qtchooser/4.conf to
Qt application will try to mimic the behavior of the desktop environment they are running on, unless they run into some problems or hard-coded settings. For those who still want to change the look and feel of Qt application, the Qt Configuration (
qtconfig-qt4 or
qt3config) tool is available. QtConfig offers a very simple configuration for the appearance of Qt applications that gives the user easy access to the current Qt Style, colors, fonts and other more advanced options. QtConfig was removed in Qt5. If you want to force Qt5 to use a specific style, set the
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE environment variable to your preferred style (e.g.
Although not part of Qt, the KDE System Settings offer many more customization options that are also picked up by Qt applications.
Several styles are already included with Qt, such as a GTK+ style, a Windows style, a CDE style, etc., but others can be installed from the official repositories or the AUR (most are written for the KDE desktop):
- Oxygen — A desktop theme that comes with the KDE desktop.
- QtCurve — A very configurable and popular desktop theme with support for GTK+ and Qt applications.
- Skulpture — A GUI style addon for KDE and Qt programs that features a classical three dimensional artwork with shadows and smooth gradients to enhance the visual experience.
- Polymer — A port of the KDE Plastik Style to Qt3.
- Bespin — A very configurable KDE theme.
Qt fonts can be configured from QtConfig under Fonts > Default Font.
There is no way of setting the icon theme from QtConfig, but since Qt follows the Freedesktop.org Icon Specification, any theme set for X is picked up by Qt.
Manual configuration
Qt keeps all its configuration information in
~/.config/Trolltech.conf. The file is rather difficult to navigate because it contains a lot of information not related to appearance, but for any changes you can just add to the end of the file and overwrite any previous values (make sure to add your modification under the
[Qt] header).
For example, to change the theme to QtCurve, add:
... [Qt] style=QtCurve
Qt Style Sheets
An interesting way of customizing the look and feel of a Qt application is using Style Sheets, which are just simple CSS files. Using Style Sheets, one can modify the appearance of every widget in the application.
To run an application with a different style just execute:
$ qt_application --stylesheet style.qss
For more information on Qt Style Sheets see the official documentation or other tutorials. As an example Style Sheet see this Dolphin modification.
GTK+ and Qt
If you have GTK+ and Qt applications, their looks might not exactly blend in very well. If you wish to make your GTK+ styles match your Qt styles please read Uniform Look for QT and GTK Applications.
Supported platforms
Qt supports most platforms that are available today, even some of the more obscure ones, with more ports appearing every once in a while. For a more complete list see the Qt Wikipedia article.
The following are official Qt tools:
- Qt Creator — A cross-platform IDE tailored for Qt that supports all of its features.
- Qt Linguist — A set of tools that speed the translation and internationalization of Qt applications.
- Qt Assistant — A configurable and redistributable documentation reader for Qt qch files.
- Qt Designer — A powerful cross-platform GUI layout and forms builder for Qt widgets.
- Qt Quick Designer — A visual editor for QML files which supports WYSIWYG. It allows you to rapidly design and build Qt Quick applications and components from scratch.
- QML Viewer — A tool for loading QML documents that makes it easy to quickly develop and debug QML applications.
- qmake — A tool that helps simplify the build process for development project across different platforms, similar to cmake, but with fewer options and tailored for Qt applications.
- uic — A tool that reads *.ui XML files and generates the corresponding C++ files.
- rcc — A tool that is used to embed resources (such as pictures) into a Qt application during the build process. It works by generating a C++ source file containing data specified in a Qt resource (.qrc) file.
- moc — A tool that handles Qt's C++ extensions (the signals and slots mechanism, the run-time type information, and the dynamic property system, etc.).
Qt has bindings for all of the more popular languages, for a full list see this list.
The following examples display a small 'Hello world!' message in a window.
- Package: qt4
- Website: http://qt-project.org/
- Build with:
g++ $(pkg-config --cflags --libs QtCore QtGui) -lstdc++ -o hello hello.cpp
- Run with:
#include <QApplication> #include <QLabel> int main(int argc, char **argv) { QApplication app(argc, argv); QLabel hello("Hello world!"); hello.show(); return app.exec(); }
- Package: qt4
- Website: http://qt-project.org/
- Run with:
qmlviewer-qt4 hello.qml
import QtQuick 1.0 Rectangle { id: page width: 400; height: 100 color: "lightgray" Text { id: helloText text: "Hello world!" anchors.horizontalCenter: page.horizontalCenter anchors.verticalCenter: page.verticalCenter font.pointSize: 24; font.bold: true } }
- Package:
- python-pyqt4 - Python 3.x bindings fot Qt 4
- python2-pyqt4 - Python 2.x bindings for Qt 4
- python-pyqt5 - Python 3.x bindings fot Qt 5
- python2-pyqt5 - Python 2.x bindings for Qt 5
- Website: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro
- Run with:
python hello-pyqt.pyor
python2 hello-pyqt.py
import sys from PyQt4 import QtGui app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) label = QtGui.QLabel("Hello world!") label.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())
- Package:
- python-pysideAUR - Python 3.x bindings
- python2-pysideAUR - Python 2.x bindings
- Website: http://www.pyside.org/
- Run with:
python hello-pyside.pyor
python2 hello-pyside.py
import sys from PySide.QtCore import * from PySide.QtGui import * app = QApplication(sys.argv) label = QLabel("Hello world!") label.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())
- Package: kdebindings-qyoto
- Website: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Qyoto
- Build with:
mcs -pkg:qyoto hello.cs
- Run with:
mono hello.exe
using System; using Qyoto; public class Hello { public static int Main(String[] args) { new QApplication(args); new QLabel("Hello world!").Show(); return QApplication.Exec(); } }
- Package: kdebindings-qtruby
- Website: http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/
- Run with:
ruby hello.rb
require 'Qt4' app = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) hello = Qt::Label.new('Hello World!') hello.show app.exec
- Package: qtjambiAUR
- Website: http://qt-jambi.org/
import com.trolltech.qt.gui.*; public class Hello { public static void main(String args[]) { QApplication.initialize(args); QLabel hello = new QLabel("Hello World!"); hello.show(); QApplication.exec(); } }
- Package: kdebindings-perlqt
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/perlqt4/
- Run with:
perl hello.pl
use QtGui4; my $a = Qt::Application(\@ARGV); my $hello = Qt::Label("Hello World!", undef); $hello->show; exit $a->exec;
- Package: libqtluaAUR
- Website: http://www.nongnu.org/libqtlua/
- Run with:
qtlua hello.lua
label = qt.new_widget("QLabel") label:setText("Hello World!") label:show()


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Explainer: 7 ghoulish archaeological discoveries
Remember the haunted house in grade school where your hand was guided into a bowlful of "brains"? Those skinned grapes have nothing on what happened to Rachel Cubitt of the York Archaeological Trust in England. As she was cleaning a 2,000-year-old skull unearthed during a campus expansion project into a prehistoric farm, she "felt something move inside the cranium. Peering through the base of the skull, she spotted an unusual yellow substance," read a press release announcing the discovery of the oldest surviving human brain in Britain. The skull was found alone in a muddy pit. Researchers believe it may have been a ritual offering. In this image, Cubitt is using an endoscope to examine the remains. Click the "Next" arrow above to learn about six more ghoulish archaeological discoveries.
Bricks thwarted vampires
A wooden stake in the heart is one well-known way to thwart a vampire, but the method was insufficient in the 16th century. Back then, a sure-fire vampire slaying entailed putting a stone or brick in the suspected vampire's mouth so that it would starve to death. The remains of the 60-year-old woman found in a mass grave near Venice, shown here, was one of those purported vampires, according to Matteo Borrini, a forensic archaeologist and anthropologist at Florence University. At the time, plague ravaged the region. People were buried in mass graves that were often reopened to add new bodies. When they did, bloated bodies with blood spilling from their mouths and holes in their head shrouds were often revealed. These corpses were thought to be vampires.
Ball and chain tied to gruesome tale
A 17th century iron ball and chain pulled from thick, black mud on the banks of the River Thames in London may have a gruesome tale to tell, according to scientists. The 18-pound shackles were found with the lock fastened and no key, suggesting the prisoner either slipped out of custody or drowned while attempting to escape. Kate Sumnall, an archaeologist with the Museum of London, shown here, told reporters the iron is of high quality and was unlikely discarded on purpose.
Unearthed Greek vessels contain human remains
Human remains found in one of two large, silver vessels in the heart of Aigai, the ancient capital of Macedonia, have thickened a murder-mystery plot. The unidentified remains, thought to date to the end of the 4th century B.C., were unearthed a few steps away from what some archaeologists speculate are the bones of Alexander the Great's murdered teenage son. What's odd is both burials are outside nearby cemeteries, suggesting either a form of punishment or an illegal act, archaeologists told the Associated Press. "Either way, it was an exceptional event," archaeologist Stella Drougou of Aristotle University, told the news service. "And we know the history of the Macedonian kings is full of acts of revenge and violent succession."
Urine-filled 'witch bottle'
For those afraid a witch may have cast a spell upon them, follow this recipe: pee in a bottle, toss in some fingernail clippings, strands of hair, iron nails, brass pins and a heart-shaped piece of leather pierced with a bent nail and then bury it upside down. If all goes well, the trick will cast the spell back on the witch, perhaps killing her — or so goes a 17th century witchcraft belief. Such a bottle was discovered in Greenwich, England, and dates to a time when witchcraft beliefs were more common, according to British Archaeology magazine.
Bog body preserves tale of violent death
Someone in the first century had it out for Lindow Man, a 25-year-old found face down in a northwest England moss bog. Examination of the well-preserved body shows that the otherwise healthy gentleman suffered two blows to the head and a swift knee to the back. A cord tied around his neck was likely used to strangle him and break his neck. Then, just to make sure he was dead, his throat was slit. The sequence of events, some scientists suggest, is consistent with a ritualistic killing, perhaps a human sacrifice carried out by Druids.
Gory sacrifice found at Teotihuacan
In 2004, a grisly scene was unearthed outside of modern-day Mexico City. Decapitated bodies were found tossed to the side of a burial tomb, their hands tied behind their backs. The discovery suggests the little-known culture that built the giant Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan held bloody, sacrificial rituals. Two other bodies decorated with beads and greenstones, as well as animals and other offerings, were also found in the tomb. "Whether the victims and animals were killed at the site or a nearby place, the foundation ritual must have been one of the most terrifying acts recorded archaeologically in Mesoamerica," archaeologist Saburo Sugiyama of Aichi Prefectural University in Japan said in a statement announcing the discovery.
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White Papers and Application Notes
A Study into the Acoustic and Vibrational Effects of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic as a Sole Manufacturing Material for Acoustic GuitarsJ. O'Donnell[1], G. McRobbie[1]
[1]University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
This study will research a modern design of acoustic guitar by analysis of the vibrational modes. The guitar that will undergo testing has been provided by Emerald Guitars and is solely constructed using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). With the use of COMSOL Multiphysics© the soundboard of the guitar will be simulated and analysis will be carried out to determine the first 10 eigenfrequencies and the modal shapes these create. This paper will detail the preliminary results obtained using the physical data collected through experimental testing in a previous study. The paper will demonstrate an application of the finite element method in the field of musical acoustics.
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The Herald-Tribune examines how Florida certifies police officers, prison guards and probation officers
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How to determine if a given f(n) and g(n) is in theta, omega, big oh, little omega, or little oh.
- I think one way of doing it is by plotting graphs of both functions f(n) and g(n). Even by plotting graphs how do we say when a f(n) is in theta, omega, big oh, little omega, or little oh? Am not clear on that. Can someone throw more details on that?
Also I am not sure if this is the correct way. Can anybody tell me if there is any other simpler way of doing this.
Say example:1. f(n) = sq root(n) and g(n) = n^sin n
2. f(n) = 1/square root(n) , f(n) = 1/logn


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Pictured: Noam Mills won eight bouts at the Ivy League
Championships, Part II, and earned a spot on the All-Ivy League
first team.
Photo courtesy: DSPics.com.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.- The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams picked up three wins at the Ivy League Championships, Part II, and suffered three losses. Valentin Staller led the team with a perfect 9-0 record in the sabre while Noam Mills posted eight wins in the epee on the day. Harvard placed five fencers on the All-Ivy League first team and three on the second team. Staller and Ben White made it from the men's squad while Mills, Shelby MacLeod and Caroline Vloka represented the women's squad on the first team. Thomas Kolasa, James Hawrot and Karl Harmenberg all earned a spot on the All-Ivy League second team.
Harvard cruised past Brown in a convincing fashion on both sides. The Crimson women rolled to a 24-3 victory while the men posted a 20-7 win in the opening round of the Ivy League Championships, Part II. The men claimed 8-1 victories in the sabre and epee while the Bears edged the Crimson 5-4 in the foil. The women earned 8-1 decisions in all three weapons.
In round six of the Ivy League Championships, Part II, the Harvard men rolled past Columbia 21-6 while the women suffered their second conference loss, a 14-13 decision to the Lions. The men won all three weapons against Columbia, sweeping the foil, earning a 7-2 win in the epee and edging the Lions 5-4 in the sabre. On the women's side, Harvard dropped the epee 5-4 and the sabre 7-2 but clinched the foil 7-2 in the loss.
In the final round of the weekend, both squads lost to Princeton. The Harvard men bowed 18-9 and the women narrowly fell 14-13. The men claimed a 5-4 win in the sabre but the Tigers picked up 7-2 victories in the foil and epee. On the women's side, the Crimson slipped past Princeton 5-4 in the sabre and foil. However, the Tigers won six bouts to Harvard's three to clinch the match. Princeton captured the Ivy League title in both the men's and women's competitions.
The Harvard women's squad concluded Ivy League Championships with a 3-3 record. The men's squad went 3-2 against Ancient Eight opponents.
The Crimson will compete at the NCAA Regionals, held in Providence, R.I., March 14.


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Is your enterprise ready for Linux-based messaging?
Exchanging vendor lock-in for Linux and freedom of choice in messaging software sounds like a good idea. But it will flop if enterprise-strength messaging applications aren't available on Linux. Also, it will fail if your company isn't ready for Linux. Never fear! Top tools and good decision criteria are covered in this interview with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com messaging expert and Scalix CEO Julie Hanna Farris. Click here for part 1 of this interview.
Historically, that has been the case. In the case of Exchange, Active Directory has an added layer of complexity that is daunting above and beyond what a normal mail migration might be. With Active Directory, you have to plan your whole directory infrastructure, deal with domain controllers and your mail topology, and a lot of other pieces. If you don't get that design right and then you implement it, you are really stuck. So people spend, literally, six to 12 months on planning and design.
At Scalix, we've simplified the process. We have worked on interoperability of components, and we have a GUI-based migration tool that allows you to drag and drop users and data over to not just e-mail but to calendar, data directory, distribution lists, etc. Also, as you are migrating your users on the new system, you can still work with the users on the old system. There's no degradation of e-mail between the two environments. That really takes a ton of the pain out of it.
FEEDBACK: What is your company's favorite open-source alternative to Exchange for its messaging needs?
Send your feedback to the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com news team.
Because messaging is a mission-critical application, the most appropriate companies have already deployed Linux somewhere in their organization. E-mail shouldn't be the first application that they move over to Linux, because messaging represents more risk and is mission-critical.
On the other hand, a company that has a lot of in-house Unix expertise might be in good shape to start with messaging because the difference between Linux and Unix is so small.
So, with Linux and/or Unix expertise as a given, any company on older generation e-mail platforms and at a decision point is a good candidate to move a messaging platform to Linux.
Also, a good candidate is a company that wants to move a part of the company to a Linux desktop and wants the ability to support multiple clients on multiple platforms with one back end. That company could then have, for example, its customer-support organization running on Linux desktops and its knowledge workers on Windows desktops and still have one e-mail back end that drives all of those. What are some of the most viable and enterprise-ready open source messaging tools and applications available today?
SpamAssassin is widely deployed, and people say it does the job. Sendmail is an obvious one, also widely deployed. Customers tell us that Sendmail is highly reliable and highly configurable.
Mail Scanner is a product that provides perimeter protection for both antivirus and antispam and integrates with many antivirus engines. We have just taken advantage of Mail Scanner in our own product to enable customers to plug and play their choice of antispam and antivirus products into Scalix using an open source product. Then they are not limited to just one or two products that we might support -- you have the whole range of products in the market.
Directory integration is a key element of messaging, too. LDAP directories, such as Open LDAP and iPlanet, are very helpful. With LDAP and PAM (pluggable authentication modules), you can authenticate against any external directory.


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Tom Clancy's film legacy: Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck
You say Jack Ryan, I say Harrison Ford.
Superspy Jack Ryan was the creation of Tom Clancy, who died this week at age 66.
Clancy was the king of the Cold War thriller. His titles "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games," and "Clear and Present Danger," all centered around CIA operative Jack Ryan, sold millions of copies. He was one of those authors whose name appeared in massive type above the title on his book covers. The titles themselves took second billing.
But it was never just about books for Tom Clancy and Jack Ryan. It was about Hollywood, too.
The Clancy-Tinseltown love affair started in in 1990 with "The Hunt for Red October," which paired Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in a undersea thriller that has Connery playing a disgruntled Soviet captain who defects, with his submarine, to the US. CIA Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) gets sucked into the action.
Jack Ryan wasn't done with the big screen. Read more…


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Inked Digital necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 172 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a logo that is edgy, artsy, bold, eye catching, simple but NOT your mom/pop cafe style. Must be modern and able to stand alone.
Music Roasters
Music Roasters is a music licensing company that will work with musicians in every style. Will be providing music for TV/Film/Video/Websites and others. Our target buyers will be cutting edge, 16-40, hang out at Starbucks and love Apple computers... come on, we all know those creative types!
We're looking for a logo that is:
- Bold
- Edgy
- Simple
- Tattoo
- Grungy
- Eye catching and aesthetically pleasing
- Most likely looks like a coffee logo… NOT a café logo
- Edgy / arty, not cute 'mom and pop' café styleMost of the logo examples that we like:
- Are monochromatic (NOT multi-colored)
- Could work as a stamp
- incorporate browns, blacks, coppers, silvers, neutrals, or earthy colors
- feel hand-crafted
- Font plays a KEY ROLE in the overall design and feelThe image should be original and strong enough to represent the company without the entire logo.
Perhaps it would be in the middle of the logo, like the drip in Organic Coffee Works, bean and leaf in Coffee Bean, the leaf and coffee in Lutheran World Relief and the frog in the Rainforest Alliance.
We've created a PDF of some logos we like and some stuff we don't like. PLEASE take a look at this for some direction. Download PDF Here.
- Colors we like are browns, blacks, coppers, silvers, neutrals and earthy colors
- Want colors that look clean and have a sheen to them
- Strong image that could stand alone
- No mom & pop cutesy logo
- no cartoon looking fonts
- Stay away from images or colors that look "flat"
- No Wings
- No Birds
- No Cartoonish Graphics
- No Heavy Metal
- No Flames
- No Instruments
- No Music Notes (possible uses would be like the star/note in the pdf)
- No Coffee
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Streamline Solutions:
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Streamline Solutions has been providing hospitals, healthcare facilities and other commercial laundries throughout the United States and Canada with recyclable soiled linen bags, laundry hamper stands, laundry supplies, medical supplies, medical cart covers, disposable cart liners and a wide range of other quality, cost-effective product solutions since 1999. We also supply infectious waste bags, autoclavable plastic bags and biohazardous waste boxes for medical waste transporters as well as generators, and offer custom printing of your name, brand or logo on just about everything we sell. Call us at 866-244-7700 for quick quotes on these products and more:
- Soiled linen bags made from durable disposable recyclable plastic.
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Through our soiled linen hampers, laundry bag recycling and facility needs analysis programs, Streamline Solutions creates win/win partnerships with a growing base of satisfied customers from coast to coast by helping them save time and money while conserving precious natural resources. To learn more, expand and access our mobile-friendly navigation menu at left. For questions or quotes call 866-244-7700 today!


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Ready for a crash course on life in Australia's cultural capital? Melbourne's exciting, energetic mix of culture, style, and flavor makes it a great place to study and live. In fact, last year's QS Best Student Cities index ranked Melbourne the #2 city in the world for students, second only to Paris.
Study abroad programs at Melbourne's universities range from summer terms to a full academic year, with plenty of variety across areas of study and program type. In your free time between classes, you can dive into all the incredible activities and sights of Melbourne, including world-class art, amazing restaurants, some of the country's best coffee, lively nightlife, and thrilling sports. And if you ever do get sick of the city, just head out along the breathtaking Great Ocean Road for some of the best coastal views on the continent.
With some of Australia's top universities, including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT University, and La Trobe University, Melbourne offers a wealth of academic choices for international students.
Program Providers
Many of the major study abroad providers have programs in Melbourne. Arcadia University runs exchanges with several major Melbourne universities, including the University of Melbourne. ISA offers programs with both University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and API just started a >brand new program at La Trobe. These programs offer course options across dozens of fields, from business to indigenous studies.
Direct Enrollment
If you'd rather not go through a program provider and want to have total independence in your study abroad experience, you can look into enrolling directly in a local university. Most of the major universities, including the University of Melbourne, La Trobe, RMIT, and Victoria University, allow international students to enroll directly in courses. Going the direct enrollment route gives you more freedom over your study abroad coursework, but also means you have to take on more responsibility for the enrollment and registration process, since you don't have a provider taking care of all the logistics for you. You also may have to pay a small additional fee as an international student, but it's typically much less than what you'd be paying for a program.
Program Length
Most programs at Melbourne universities are either a semester (fall or spring) or a full academic year. A few providers also offer summer programs, and USAC's program at Deakin University, includes a J-term option.
Australia is one of the most expensive study abroad destinations, and Melbourne is no exception. It may not be Sydney, but it's still the country's second most expensive city. An average meal costs around US$15, and a weekly student grocery budget is about $60. A monthly local transportation pass costs about $100. If you're planning on getting a local cell phone plan, expect to pay about $45 a month. In total, a semester in Melbourne will probably cost $6,000-$7,000, not including airfare and program fees
It is possible to stick to a budget while studying in Melbourne. If housing is provided through your program, you'll save a hefty chunk of money that would otherwise go to paying the city's expensive rent prices. The city is relatively bike-friendly, so investing in a good bicycle can help cut down on transportation costs -- plus it's a great way to see the city from a different angle!
It's worth considering getting a part-time job to help offset costs, if it works with your schedule. The Australian student visa allows students to work up to 40 hours per 2-week period, so you can at least have some pocket money to help you enjoy your incredible host city.
Most program providers offer accommodation, either in student housing (dorms or apartments) or with a host family placement. If you're doing direct enrollment, start by contacting your host university to ask about housing options or recommendations for international students. You can also look for housing on your own through sites like EasyRoommate or Gumtree, popular housing sites in Australia.
Unless you're doing a J-term or short summer course that's less than 90 days, you'll need a student visa. If you're going through a program, your provider will usually help arrange your visa application and include the cost in the program fee. If you're doing direct enrollment, you'll need to go through the visa application process once you have confirmation from your host institution, and before you go to Australia. Student visas cost about US$400, and are usually granted for the length of your course of study. Remember, you are allowed to work part-time with this visa.
For more information, look at your government's travel information for Australia, or get in touch with your local consulate.
Studying in Australia is expensive, but you don't have to pay for it all on your own. There are tons of scholarships out there for students headed abroad -- some are just general study abroad scholarships, while others are specifically for students that meet certain requirements or study in a particular field. Before hitting Google, talk to your university to see if your financial aid can apply to your study abroad program, and visit your study abroad office to find out about other funding that might be available through your home institution.
Other external scholarship opportunities:
- The Australia Awards Endeavour Scholarships are competitive, merit-based scholarships and fellowships providing opportunities for overseas citizens to study or do research in Australia.
- IES Abroad offers several scholarships for participants in their programs - including some just for Australia!
- USAC study abroad scholarships provide more than $1 million each year for students enrolled in USAC programs.
There aren't really any major health or safety concerns in Melbourne, other than the general fact that Australian wildlife is deadly and/or poisonous. As long as you avoid hugging any creepy crawlies, you should be fine, but as with any travel, it's worth checking with your doctor to make sure all your immunizations and prescriptions are up to date before you go.
Many program providers offer insurance for students abroad -- otherwise, you may want to consider getting health insurance to cover you while you're there, just in case you do run into any of the less friendly fauna.


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NORWICH � David Kimmel�s life on the edge of culinary exploration has taken him into scientific fields of study from physiology to cultural anthropology.
The latest venture for the creative mind behind the Smart Juice brand and an organic baby food chain is Connecticut�s burgeoning medical marijuana industry under his Ledyard-based company Vintage Foods Ltd. It has given the Montebello, N.Y. entrepreneur a new career aspiration.
�Our concept is so specific. At the end of the day, it�s all patient driven and whatever I can do to achieve that goal, I�m on the right path,� Kimmel said during a interview with The Bulletin last month. �This is not just about growing cannabis. There�s a much bigger picture, and it involved the ability to design, launch and manage a facility that is multi-faceted, and the skill sets required to bring that together.�
Kimmel�s is one of two companies hoping to build a medical marijuana production plant in the former Decorative Screen Printers at 9 Wisconsin Ave., in Norwich�s industrial park. The other is Bloomfield-based Nascent Sciences. Officials from the firm could not be reached for comment.
Kimmel, who has worked on his business plan for four years, initially targeted a site in Wallingford. But in late October � just two weeks before the Nov. 15 license filing deadline � Norwich Community Development Corporation Vice President Jason Vincent emailed Kimmel after learning of his difficulties in winning the Wallingford�s support.
With a standalone building and triple-redundant power grid, Vincent believed Norwich would be an ideal host site for Kimmel�s operation.
�We spent some time reading about what the industry was doing around the country and how Connecticut�s proposal was different,� Vincent said. �Ultimately, you needed a large enough building, power and security for power. �They�re indoor growth facilities, they need lighting for the plants, natural gas systems to extract carbon dioxide and they need ventilation.�
The sales pitch worked, Kimmel said.
�Norwich has an ability to supply power at a competitive rate which I want to translate to the patient. It�s all about how to make this medicine affordable,� he said. �Because there�s so much baggage around �marijuana� to find people who open their arms and say �we understand there�s really something here,� it�s enough to make me move here.�
Frank Blanchard, owner of Prime Electric in the industrial park and chairman of NCDC�s board of directors, said he welcomes Kimmel�s business.
�I definitely think it will improve the stature of the park. Empty buildings do nobody any good and it�s been very open to all businesses that the covenants allow. This is something very new, but I�m approaching it with an open mind,� he said.
Connecticut doctors have been allowed to prescribe medical marijuana for chemotherapy-associated nausea and glaucoma since 1981, but a measure signed into law by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in the summer of 2012 enables the drug to be used for a much wider set of ailments. It also cleared the way for between three and 10 licenses to be issued for in-state production of medical marijuana.
With a 76- page Department of Consumer Protection rule book to follow that regulates everything from record keeping to security requirements at storage and production facilities (no less than four types of alarms and a motion detector among them), Kimmel said he was drawn to Connecticut�s emerging market.
�I believe that the DCP wants to tightly manage and regulate the industry. That is critical, and my hat is off to them,� Kimmel said. �That�s why I came and said, �I�m doing it in Connecticut,� because I wanted a program that was excessively regulated because it means it�s strictly medical and not recreational.�
With nearly $3 million secured through private investors, Kimmel said his PharaFarm would employ up to 30 people. Among those on staff, he said, would be a chemist who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to having at least $2 million in escrow payable to the state, Kimmel had to pay a $25,000 licensing fee and $75,000 permit fee for his application to be considered.
As of Oct. 28, there are 1,343 certified medical marijuana patients in the state � including 91 in New London County and 51 in Windham County, according to Department of Consumer Protection statistics.
Kimmel believes that number will continue to grow as the product becomes more widely available locally and now that doctors have more latitude to prescribe it for medical use.
�I expect that we�re going to need to expand and once this program is live, you will see patient enrollment grow substantially,� Kimmel said. �The investors who have come to me understand the revenue stream but these people are coming to me because they understand what I�m trying to do is different. I�m a fledgling pharmaceutical company, I am not a marijuana grower.�