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Cibeles fountain with the Puerta de Alcalá arch in the background
Caixa Forum in Madrid
Prado National Museum
Outdoor terrace in the Plaza Mayor
Puerta del Sol
Plaza de Oriente square and Royal Palace
You can do a lot of things in one day in Madrid. Visit the largest art gallery in Spain, stroll around the gardens and rooms in the Royal Palace, enjoy a range of gastronomic delights... We have a few suggestions to help you discover the centre of Madrid on a route through the city.
At a leisurely pace, because we're on holiday, but with a carefully planned schedule to make the most of our day of culture. Let's get going
PRADO MUSEUM: a must-see (approximately 2 and a half hours. Suggested times: 9.30 a.m. to noon)A good time to start the visit would be at 9.30 a.m. That way we avoid the crowds and can make the most of our time in the museum. Our aim is to see all the most important works in a single morning. If we are planning to spend a whole day in Madrid, one option would be to visit the permanent collection for two hours and save a little time for the rooms that most interest us, or for the temporary exhibitions. On our route around the museum we should be sure not to miss the towering works of European masters such as Hieronymus Bosch, Goya, Roger van der Weyden, Fra Angélico, Velázquez, Tintoretto and Rubens.Things to remember The use of audio guides is highly recommended, as not all the paintings have descriptions in English.You can hire a private guide for your visit. You'll find these guides at the entrances to the museum, wearing an identifying label from the Madrid Region on their jackets.The group entrance is through the Puerta de Murillo Gate, after collecting tickets at ticket offices 1 and 2.It is essential to pick up a map at the information point.Admission is free for the last two opening hours every day.The museum opens every day of the week.FORTIFY YOURSELF AS THE SPANISH DO: STOP FOR A "PINCHO"We finish the visit at around noon, which is the perfect time to have a bite to eat or a "pincho" (light mid-morning snack). The Prado has a café where you can do so and an outdoor seating area that is open from March to October, but there are also options in the area. For example, in the Plaza Cánovas del Castillo square there are cafés with pavement terraces with views of Neptune's fountain. And, if we continue for a few metres along the "Art Walk", we reach the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum which has a well-known restaurant with an open-air terrace, ideal on a sunny day. Other options are the Spanish potato omelette, "patatas bravas" (potatoes with a spicy sauce) or potatoes with alioli (a garlicky mayonnaise), Iberian cured ham, croquettes, squid or marinated anchovies. The usual custom in Madrid is to enjoy them with a small glass of beer or wine.
A WALK UP TO THE PUERTA DEL SOL SQUAREThe best way to get to know a city is by strolling through its streets and, as this point is so near the Puerta del Sol, it's a good time to take an hour-long walk around the area known as "Madrid de los Austrias".Right in front of Neptune's fountain there is a tourist information point. where you can pick up a map of the old part of Madrid.We continue along the Paseo del Prado. On the way we pass some distinctive buildings. First, we see the Madrid Stock Exchange on our right. Then the Plaza de la Lealtad square and the Naval Museum, next to the Navy Headquarters.We reach the Cibeles Fountain, a perfect spot for taking photos. Amongst the most popular images are the fountain with the Cibeles Palace, currently the Madrid City Council Building, as a backdrop; the Linares Palace and the Banco de España. In the background, we have the Puerta de Alcalá and the well-known Gran Vía is to the left.We continue on along up Calle Alcalá on the same side of the street as the Banco de España, and we see the Cervantes Institute in front of us. We continue on and turn into the Calle Marqués de Cubas, which brings us out in the Plaza de las Cortes (Parliament Square), opposite the Congress building. A few minutes' walk along the Carrera de San Jerónimo brings us to the popular Puerta del Sol. By the way, don't be surprised if you see a group of people staring at the pavement under the clock in the Puerta del Sol; they're looking for Km 0, which marks the point at the very centre of the country. TYPICAL MADRID FOOD It is about 1.30 p.m. The perfect time for lunch. There are numerous restaurants serving typical local fare around the Puerta del Sol. Most of them are to be found in streets such as Tetuán, Carmen, Carretas, Victoria, de la Cruz and Mayor, among others. If you really want to enjoy the local gastronomy, you can have a canapé beforehand accompanied by a glass of vermouth on tap. When it comes to lunch, we recommend trying dishes such as "cocido madrileño" (chickpea casserole), "callos" (tripe) or baked blackspot seabream. If you would like something a little faster, a "bocadillo de calamares" (squid roll). And to drink, we recommend sangria, a glass of beer or a good wine.A tip: leave your dessert for a little later and have a coffee in the Plaza Mayor. If it's sunny, this is a perfect opportunity to get to know this square at length.
SUNSET IN THE COMPANY OF KINGS AND QUEENSAfter lunch, we can visit Madrid's Royal Palace and its magnificent surroundings. At about 4 p.m., we reach our first stop, about ten minutes' walk along the Calle Mayor and through the Plaza de la Villa square.Things to remember in the Royal PalaceIt's a good idea to arrive at least 45 minutes before closing. The visit lasts about an hour and a half.Guided visits are only to the royal quarters, and are in groups (maximum 30 people)The ceremonial changing of the Royal Guard takes place every first Wednesday in the month at noon inside the Palace (except in January, August, and September, days when there is an official event, or when the weather prevents it).On all other Wednesdays, the changing of the Royal Guard is held at the Prince's Gate between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.The audio guides include explanations of the royal quarters, the Royal Armoury and the Pharmacy.The descriptions of the items on display are given in English and Spanish.PLAZA DE ORIENTE SQUARE AND THE ROYAL PALACE GARDENS We will end our visit to the Royal Palace at about 6 p.m. This is a good time to stroll around and relax in these beautiful surroundings, including the Sabatini and Campo del Moro Gardens, the Plaza de Oriente square, the Royal Theatre and the Almudena Cathedral. We can stop off for a rest in one of the bars in the square, from where we have a good view of the palace.Things to remember Sunset is a perfect time to visit this area and for strolling along Calle Bailén and through the Plaza de Oriente square.The most beautiful views of the Royal Palace are to be had from the Campo del Moro and Sabatini gardens.The best views of the Almudena Cathedral are from the Vistillas gardens (a few metres past the Cathedral along the Calle Bailén, moving away from the Palace) or from Calle Rebeque or Calle del Factor.
By this time we will be wanting something a little more leisurely, maybe some shopping in the shops and a quiet dinner in the centre. A good place to find gifts is the Calle Arenal and the surrounding area, including the Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol squares. The Calle Arenal is completely pedestrianised and at this time (about 8 p.m.) it has a wonderful atmosphere.A TAPAS SUPPER AND SHOW We are now right near one of the main areas for tapas in Madrid. We get there by crossing the Plaza Mayor and taking the arch leading to the Calle de Cuchilleros. From this point, along the streets of Nuncio, Segovia and particularly the Cava Baja and Cava Alta we can find restaurants serving all kinds of cuisine, and numerous bars and traditional taverns where we can sample a wide range of tapas. Their traditional methods have meant that their appearance has survived unchanged for several generations.To end up our cultural day out in Madrid, a good option is to enjoy a drink or two while we take in a live show. There are numerous places in Madrid to do this. For example, Café de Chinitas or Corral de la Morería are very well-known flamenco venues, but there are many other places where you can hear live music.It is probably best not to recommend any specific time to return to your hotel, as Madrid has so many options on offer that you choose what time you want to end your night.
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Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2010 - Italy came away with a 3-0 victory (25-20, 25-15, 25-22) against Serbia in their semifinal match for the 5-8 positions at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday evening. The Italians prevailed over a tough Serbian team who just couldn't seem to find their rhythm.
Leading the Italian scoring was Simona Gioli with 14 points, while Francesca Piccinini and Valentina Arrighetti added 12 and 11 respectively. Serbia's top scorer on the day was Milena Rasic who posted eight. Italy dominated at the net, scoring with 11 blocks including three apiece by Gioli and Arrighetti.
Serbia jumped out to a three-point lead early on after strong attacking play from Jovana Brakocevic, but Italy recovered to tie it at 8-8 after a wonderful block by Valentina Arrighetti. A pair of spikes by Simona Gioli put the Italians up by four, but Serbia hung close as a Jelena Nikolic spike brought them back within one at 19-18. But Serbia committed errors late on, giving Italy a chance to finish, which they did as Gioli dropped a bomb to take it 25-20.
Italy continued to control in the second set with a great spike by Francesca Piccinini and a clever tip by Eleonora Lo Bianco putting their side up by four at the first TTO. Antonella Del Core put up two stubborn blocks on Serbia's Natasa Krsmanovic, plus a cheeky spike down the line to extend the lead to 12-6. Italy stayed in front as Lo Bianco and Arrighetti connected on a beautiful combo that saw the latter drive a kill down the line to make it 20-15. Italy scored five more in a row to finish the set 25-15.
Serbia seemed to wake up at the start of the third set, with Sanja Malagurski dropping consecutive bombs from the right side to take her team to a 6-1 lead. But solid attacking by Serena Ortolani and Arrighetti brought the Italians back level at 14-14. It stayed tight until Del Core and Ortolani edge Italy out front to close it out 25-22.

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Stupid question, but has My Dying Bride ever been evaluated for PA ?
I think their releases is prog, although I am not sure what kind of prog.
This band needs no more introduction. It is like introducing Moses to God in my view. But my views is not always right so feel free to disagree. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dying_Bride
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My Dying Bride was not only evaluated, but added and shortly afterwards removed from the database.
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It´s a doubtful honour that they share with Katatonia. Personally I find both acts progressive and had I been a part of the Progressive Metal Team in the days when they were evaluated I would most definitely have voted yes. Both acts would IMO fit PA perfectly. I can see from the votes on the PM chart on ProgFreak that most of my PMT collegues don´t feel the same though, so it´s probably a lost cause ( http://progfreak.com/home/progarchives?path=pm/rejected&block=6 , http://progfreak.com/home/progarchives?path=pm/discuss ( well there are actually more yes votes for My Dying Bride that I had anticipated)). I would be very interested to hear if anyone can remember why those acts were deleted again after being added. Something that to my knowledge has not happened to any artists before or since on PA? Had the persons who decided to delete them listened to the full discographies? Had they been listening to the wrong albums before taking this decision?
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Who the hell is My Dying Bride?
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Based on their two first EPs and three first albums; My Dying Bride should be included. Maybe not in Prog Metal. Perhaps more in Prog Related.
The first two EPs is more symphonic prog than ELP ever was. I am not joking !
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I´d say Turn Loose the Swans, The Angel and the Dark River and especially the often scolded but in my world wonderful 34.788%... Complete would more than qualify them.
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I voted Yes on My Dying Bride, I think they'd fit fine in Tech/Extreme. The only problem is that the majority of the team do not agree with Jonas and I.
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Sorry, if that youtube clip should have been a proof they're "more symphonic than ELP ever was" , then it failed miserably!
But to be fair, if the rest of their catalogue is more or less on the same "level of progressivenes" as that song, I say they deserve a place on Prog Archives,IMHO.
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I like them a lot but not sure if the y would fit here. Surely they started off in a similar vein with Anathema but they remained closer to their doom roots - not conventional doom but not sure if this is prog enough
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I don't understand why they were deleted... they're doom but could fit in prog-metal... A definite yes from me for a re-evaluation.
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God was the cranky one that gets an attitude change in Testament 2: Electric Boogaloo, right?
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On a related note, the Finnish death/doom/whatever band Swallow the Sun, heavily influenced by MDB, have their new record out and as soon as I get my hands and ears on it, I'll possibly suggest their addition. There's been a lot of prog talk in recent interviews, and they even got Steve Rothery to play on one of their new songs. Too bad the tapes had already been sent to the pressing plant when they got his guitar track, but they're releasing the Rothery version of the song as a digital single at some point.
I'll get back to this in a better thread.
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As the shock of Tuesday's tragic violence settles into grief, many people are writing to the Sentinel, or posting online, messages that go something like this::
Our town has been overrun by criminals, because we've tolerated aberrant behaviors. This so-called tolerance has not only cost two police officers their lives, but is ruining our beautiful coastal paradise.
Oh, that it was that simple.
To start with, the awful chain of events that led to the deaths of Sgt. Loran Baker and Det. Elizabeth Butler lead back into what our reporters are finding in the disturbed and disturbing life of Jeremy Goulet, the man who killed the two detectives and who died himself in a hail of bullets shortly after.
Unlike many such individuals who commit heinous crimes, Goulet's trail is not all that difficult to follow, but, almost inevitably, there is a sense of missed chances that would have diverted him from this fateful encounter with the two Santa Cruz police officers. Goulet's odyssey through the criminal justice system in Portland, Ore. — ironically, another city know, and often mocked, for its "tolerance" — leaves a number of "what if" questions. Why would Oregon not have a statute that would have identified him as a sex offender? Was any attempt made to separate him from his guns? Why would he have been jailed for his threatening behavior toward law enforcement officials in that city, but then be released with seemingly little follow-up? Why did he not end up in prison?
His arrest only last Friday in Santa Cruz — he bailed out of jail — may or may not have triggered alarms that a guy with a violent past involving guns and sex offenses was on the prowl here and may have led to Tuesday's encounter with the two detectives.
While we'll continue to dig into Goulet's past and his run-ins with the law, what we've found already is unsettling — Goulet came here not that long ago, he was again apparently acting out his deviant sexual behaviors toward women, he was angry and resentful, and he owned guns. His own father told reporters today his son was a "ticking time bomb."
It's certainly true that in the wrong circumstances in any town, anywhere, a deranged person bent on violence will be able to carry out his wicked revenge fantasies. And while it's also true none of what went on before made these awful events somehow inevitable, it's hardly a stretch to look in the rear-view mirror and see the potential for something really bad happening involving Jeremy Goulet was coming this way.
So back to the thought that Santa Cruz is a mecca of sorts for criminals and disturbed individuals.
Certainly, events of the past year or so seem to indicate just that. The horrifying murder on a public street in broad daylight of local shop owner Shannon Collins by a deranged homeless ex-con last May seemed to open a new chapter of violence and fear in Santa Cruz, the city and the county. Subsequently, more violence, including a recent downtown killling, home invasions, gang retaliations, shootings, rapes, homeless encampments and assorted other crimes and situations have set the community on an even more precarious edge. Add to that recent Sentinel coverage of a mostly unregulated needle exchange program that dovetailed with increasing community outrage over an epidemic of heroin and methamphetamine use and dealing, and there began to be a noticeable shift of public perceptions. Our well-known and sometimes relished weirdness and tolerance had turned on itself.
But the truth is that this present darkness is not something altogether new.
In the early 1970s, and proceeding grimly into the '80s, Santa Cruz, city and county, was the scene of a series of grisly and demented mass murders; some were tied to the drug counterculture, some to what has become almost commonplace in today's news: a breakdown in the mental health system that even then allowed dangerously ill violent predators to wreak evil on a law-abiding, but often naive, local population.
The names of some of the killers still resound in a macabre and hideous hall of shame: Edmund Kemper, Herbert Mullin, John Linley Frazier, David Carpenter (aka "The Trailside Killer"). And that's just the most infamous ones. There were others. Santa Cruz had to live down, or outlive, a sordid reputation as the "murder capital" if not of the world, certainly of California.
My point, though, isn't that Santa Cruz, so beautiful and so blessed in terms of geography and people, has some sort of evil curse hovering about, or that the excesses of the '60s somehow landed here and settled in to inflict more and more misery and suffering.
But clearly, several threads run through our story that continue to weave into this latest tragedy.
One is the drug culture that took root here long ago and continues today. The Sentinel has reported ad infinitum on the epidemics of hard drugs in this community and the cost in terms of ruined lives and associated crimes. But — and here's where the increasingly reviled "tolerance" label sticks in the craw — people are still drawn here by the availability of drugs such as heroin and meth along with the prevalent street and underground culture that has caused a strong counter reaction among citizens and neighborhood groups.
Another is that while police have been supported — and the outpouring of tributes and grief toward the two slain officers is proof — this support has historically been tempered with a wariness about too heavy a presence, which might scare away tourists, or students, or people buying expensive homes. While law enforcement in this county is committed, well-trained, even well-paid, no one who lives in Santa Cruz County would ever say there are "too many cops" or their presence is too pervasive. That's just the way it's been for a long time
.Santa Cruz also suffers because the county jail is just off downtown and the homeless shelters are near downtown. Since the area also attracts what seems to be a higher-than-almost-anywhere-else number of backpack-toting transients — some drawn here by the drug culture, others by the high level of services — along with people with serious mental issues, the mix has created a long-standing tension downtown and in other parts of the city.
With the violent gang subculture also mixed in, along with the prevalence of guns, the results can be volatile.
The deaths of officers Baker and Butler — senseless and horrifying as they were — will not be in vain if all of us who live in Santa Cruz County are willing to have an honest and open discussion about what is acceptable — and what is not. There's a cost in terms of saying we don't want to be a haven for drug dealers, street criminals and people who think by coming here they can act out some sort of demented fantasy that would not be tolerated anywhere else.
Butch Baker and Elizabeth Butler can no longer speak into the Santa Cruz story. We who remain can bring meaning to their sacrifice and honor their memories if we confront even the painful chapters and begin a new narrative.


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The National Wildlife Federation has updated a 2010 assessment of offshore wind development along the East Coast in a report that calls for states bordering the Atlantic Ocean to set ambitious offshore wind power goals, invest in research and establish a competitive market for that power.
Before I run through all the details, let me try and tell this story in two images. Here's the gist of the NWF report: As you can see, the circled area indicates the "East Coast energy gold mine" located close enough to one-third of the country's population, just off the coast.
So far, the federal government has designated areas off the coast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia as wind energy areas, which the report said could generate more than 16,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 5 million homes.
For the Maine-based take, the Natural Resources Council of Maine in its press release included statements from nine commentators — state politicians, senators, environmentalists, business people and people in the on- and off-shore wind industry.
To aid digestion, I've entered their collective comments (732 words) into a word cloud, which I think conveys the tenor of the discussion (click to zoom in and see delightful vertical collisions like 'state champions local american fumble grave'): But on to the details:
The report identifies offshore wind as a potential salve to the region's energy needs as coal-fired and nuclear power plants come offline and natural gas-fired power plants face capacity constraints, particularly in the winter when heating needs take priority and put pressure on the gas available to generate electricity (also the subject of a PUC case generating controversy).
Among the report's key findings and arguments:
- Putting 1,200 megawatts of offshore wind power onto the grid would reduce annual energy costs by $350 million (development costs aren't included here).
- Europe is a model for offshore wind, with 6,500 megawatts installed that support more than 58,000 jobs and $20 billion of investment lined up in the next 10 years.
- Offshore wind turbines can be placed in locations that don't harm wildlife. Again, Europe is an example.
As for the states making the most progress, the report groups Maine with the Carolinas and Georgia, which "have offshore wind research and preliminary planning activities underway."
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which have leases, permits and contracts in place for two projects to start construction in 2015, are identified as leading the way. (Besides any regional benefit to the grid, there's an economic boon for Maine there in that Pittsfield-based Cianbro won a $100 million contract to build platforms for the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. They're also a partner on the UMaine-led Aqua Ventus project, which didn't get all of the federal money it wanted, but a smaller $3 million allocation to continue studying its floating turbine concept.)
Maryland is identified as having "significant momentum" through state incentives to develop up to 200 megawatts of offshore wind power and Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Delaware have made progress toward proposing projects, designating federal Wind Energy Areas and completing necessary studies, the report said.
New Hampshire, Connecticut and Florida, it termed "states to watch," nothing no activity in the offshore wind planning arena. Aside from meeting energy needs, the report suggests offshore wind as a way to meet the EPA's new emission reduction targets for power plants (Maine would have to reduce emissions 13.5 percent under the rules) and would slow the pace of global warming.
An analysis by Reuters published Thursday found instances flooding along the Eastern Seaboard have become more frequent in recent years. Digging into the comments published Thursday, the sharpest barbs came from the Natural Resources Council's Clean Energy Director Dylan Voorhees and Environment Maine's Director Emily Figdor. Figdor criticized Gov. Paul LePage for "obstructing the development of wind power" and causing Norwegian company Statoil to scrap its Maine-based pilot project.
A post at the NRCM website Thursday emphasized the way the barb cuts:
The subtext of a Thursday morning press release from the Natural Resources Council of Maine is that the biggest roadblock to sustainable wind power is Gov. Paul LePage.
Rather than rehash all the details, I'll just link to related reading on the political battle over Statoil, which announced last October that it had called off its proposal for the Gulf of Maine after LePage administration officials last May had email conversations about stopping that project, according to The Associated Press.
Jake Ward, UMaine's VP for innovation and economic development, said in the release that the university remains optimistic about the potential for its project. "The extensive work that the UMaine lead team has completed to date, including the now-13 month successful deployment at Castine of the only floating offshore wind project in the Americas connected to the grid, is very important to meeting these goals," Ward said.
The release also included statements in praise of the industry's potential from Maine Rep. Barry Hobbins, Maine Sen. Roger Katz, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, Maine State Chamber of Commerce President Dana Connors and Maine Wind & Ocean Industry Initiative Coordinator Paul Williamson.
For those, I'll refer you back to the word cloud.
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St. Petersburg, 7 December 2011 -- Following eight different exhibitions in Europe that attracted over half a million visitors, a new selection of masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum collections are on show at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, from 9 December 2011 to 26 February 2012.
The exhibition is the first created from the Aga Khan Museum collections to centre on architecture in the Islamic World. The exhibition, sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), has been organised in close cooperation with the Hermitage.
An agreement was signed spelling out future collaboration between The Hermitage and the Aga Khan Museum in areas of mutual interest such as conservation, exchange of technical expertise and exhibitions.
The exhibition is divided into six sections: "Sacred Typographies", which explores the sites and monuments of Islamic pilgrimage through paintings and drawings; "Religious and Funerary Architecture", which examines mosques and commemorative shrines; "The Fortress and the City", which encompasses forts and fortified towns; "The Palace", which looks at the residences of royal families; "Gardens, Pavilions and Tents", which discusses the arts of shelter; and "Architecture and the Written Word", which focuses on architectural spaces contained in miniature painting.
The catalogue contains essays on these themes by Nasser Rabbat, David J. Roxburgh, Kishwar Rizvi, Renata Holod, Sussan Barbaie, James L. Wescoat, jr. and Margaret S. Graves.
Among the highlights of the exhibition are: a miniature entitled "Emperor Jahnagir at the Jharoka Window of the Red Fort in Agra", painted in 1620 by Nadir a-Zaman, and a folio from the most famous series of paintings in Muslim art, the celebrated Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp; architectural elements like muqarnas and ornamented wood pieces from fifteenth century Spain as well as glazed turquoise earthenware elements from Central Asia; tiled arches from fifteenth century Egypt and ornamental doors from ninth century Iran; sixteenth century Iznik tiles from Turkey and other objects including inkwells, a carpet and a lamp holder.
When it concludes its run at the Hermitage, the "Architecture in Islamic Arts" exhibition will move to the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, and the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.
The masterpieces in the exhibition are part of the collections of the Aga Khan Museum, which is currently under construction and due to open in 2013 in Toronto, Canada. As the first major educational and exhibition centre in North America dedicated to Muslim arts and culture, the Museum's mission is to inform, educate, and inspire audiences from all cultures by presenting art created in the Islamic world throughout the past fourteen centuries, along with current paths of artistic practice and cultural development.
The Museum collection contains over one thousand artworks spanning over a millennium of history. The objects – in ceramic, metalwork, ivory, stone and wood, textile and carpet, glass and rock crystal, as well as manuscripts and miniature paintings on parchment and on paper – present an overview of the artistic accomplishments of Muslim civilisations from the Iberian Peninsula to China.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is the cultural agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. Through education and cultural initiatives in music and the arts, AKTC aims to highlight the contributions of the Muslim world to global cultural heritage. It also implements programmes aimed at the physical and social revitalisation of communities with the aim of improving the quality of life and, through its architectural programmes, promotes debate about contemporary design problems.
For more information, please contact:
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This question is inspired by, but is independent of: Sheaf Description of G-Bundles
Line bundles are classified by $H^1(X,\mathcal{O}^\times_X)$. We also know that in general that $H^1(X,G)$, where $G$ is a sheaf from open sets in $X$ to $Grps$, classifies $G$-torsors over X.
With this insight in mind: $\mathcal{O}^\times_X$-torsors should correspond to line bundles. Indeed, if $P$ is one, then $\mathcal{O} _X \times _{\mathcal{O} _X^\times}P$ gives the desired line bundle, and all line bundles are achieved this way (see the question I linked to).
My question is about the more mundane $H^1(X,\mathbb{C})$, which can be thought of as $H^1(X,\underline{\mathbb{C}})$ where $\underline{\mathbb{C}}$ is the constant sheaf $\mathbb{C}$ (which I think of as a sheaf going to $Grps$). These should supposedly correspond to $\mathbb{C}$-bundles over $X$. Which appears to be line bundles. But of course there's no reason for $H^1(X,\mathbb{C})$ to equal $H^1(X,\mathcal{O}^\times_X)$... My intuition is that this should correspond to the more naive version of fiber bundles that doesn't involve a structure group. Do you have any thoughts?


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It's that time again, when SXSW asks the public to vote for their favorite panel topics for the next SXSW Interactive event in San Antonio, Texas. Adobe has three panel topics selected for the SXSW PanelPicker this year and we need your votes to convince SXSW to put our panels on the schedule.
Please show us your support by selecting our panel topics, which range from interaction design to digital advertising on tablets to the accessibility of digital broadcast video.
A complete listing of Adobe's proposed topics for SXSW can be found here, but here's a quick look at the titles:
- Mickey's 10 Commandments of Interaction Design
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- The Future of Access to Digital Broadcast Video
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Following Gromov, take a metric space $(X,d)$ and consider $C(X)/\mathbb{R}$ the set of continuous functions to $\mathbb{R}$ with the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets after taking the quotient by constant functions (i.e. two functions are equivalent if the difference is a constant). Embed $X$ into this space by means of the map:
$x \mapsto f(x) = [d(x,\cdot)]$
A horofunction is an element of the closure of $f(X)$ that is not in $f(X)$.
In $\mathbb{R}^d$ all horofunctions are given by inner product with a unit vector.
In the upper-half plane model of the hyperbolic disc the function $h(z) = \log(\text{Im}(z))$ is a horofunction and all others can be obtained by composing with hyperbolic isometries.
What other spaces have well known horofunctions?
For example, are horofunctions of the model geometries $\text{Nil}$, $\text{Sol}$, and $\widetilde{\text{Sl}(2,R)}$ in dimension $3$ known relatively explicitly?
I know there is a general relationship between horofunctions and geodesics (Busseman functions) in non-positively curved spaces. However I'm interested in spaces where one can compute relatively explicitly (e.g. spaces where one knows what the distance function looks like).


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Rear-ended: In more ways than one
If Pam Vozsonyi could go back to Monday, March 10, she definitely would have called the police– and spared herself at least part of the frustration she's lived with ever since.
Vozsonyi was driving east on Route 250 when the car in front of her braked suddenly for a left turn and she was rear-ended by the truck behind her. The driver didn't speak English– but since the truck bore the name and phone number of a business, Lakeview Landscaping, Vozsonyi called the owner, Steve Adkins, on his cell phone.
"He asked that I call him later that day," Vozsonyi emailed me, "so that we could discuss the 'next step.' Since it was minor damage and he volunteered his name and address, I didn't call the police. During our second conversation, he asked that I get estimates." She did and called back to say that they ranged from $590 to $605. At that point, she claims, he said that he'd "like to see the car himself," but allegedly never make arrangements to do so.
Instead, according to Vozsonyi, they settled into a pattern in which Adkins would either ignore her messages or, if they actually spoke, offer more excuses. She claims that on April 18, Adkins stated that he didn't have the money and asked if he could make payments. When she agreed, he said he'd call the next week– but, Vozsonyi asserts, he didn't. Eight weeks after the accident, she's still trying to collect.
There's more: Vozsonyi claims that during one early-April call, Adkins told her he was insured by State Farm. When she called State Farm to verify that, however, she "was told he was not covered by them any longer."
I tried numerous times to reach Adkins, who, after hanging up on me during our first conversation, declined to respond– except to finally refer me to his attorney, who also remained mum.
If you're having déjà vu, it may be because this is Adkins' third appearance in the column.
In the first ["Mulch ado," October 30, 2002], Adkins had collected $320 in August 2002 from a woman I called "Ms. Harrison" for mulch that was never delivered. Harrison sued in Fluvanna General District Court and, on January 6, recovered her $320 (but was out the $36 filing fee).
In the second ["Slow Dig: When the Leyland Cypress didn't show," November 14, 2002], Don Collins gave Adkins a deposit of $522 in November 2001 for shrubs that, like the mulch, never materialized. Finally, in February 2002– after three months of the kind of phone tag described by Miller and Vozsonyi– Collins received a check. The check bounced, but ultimately Collins took it to Adkins' bank and was able to cash it.
I spoke to Mike Andresen, management analyst with Vehicle Services at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), who began by saying that Vozsonyi "lost a lot of leverage" by not calling the police. He then explained what a motorist in Vozsonyi's situation– i.e., in which it appears the other motorist may not be insured– can do: Fill out an FR200 form, which is available on the DMV website, dmv.state.va.us; it asks for details on the accident and both drivers.
The DMV sends a copy of the form to the other driver and asks for insurance information, which the agency then confirms with the insurance company. If the person turns out to be uninsured, the DMV suspends driving privileges and all vehicle registrations; reinstatement costs more than $500.
The "most critical person" to get involved, Andresen says, is the affected person's insurance agent. The agent has an incentive to compel a resolution; otherwise, the motorist could file a claim for damages, which the company would end up paying.
Stay tuned: I'll report the resolution– if there is one.
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I reported last week ["Trench foot: Refilling wasn't so Speedy"] that city resident Greg Nelson was still waiting for Speedy-Rooter to properly fill a trench they'd dug in his front yard on March 14. I'm pleased to report that Speedy finally came through, and Nelson is "relieved to have the job done, and done right."
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Hamilton's Victoria Street Restaurant and Nightclub Agenda have added the titles Best Restaurant and Best Bar to their growing collection of awards this week.
The news came Wednesday with results of the Waikato Times Tempo People's Choice Awards being published.
Owners Heidi Jordan and Logan Hughes are ecstatic with the news and say the awards are a reflection of hard work and a fantastic team of staff.
"We've worked really hard over the past three years to operate not only one but two successful businesses under the one roof, we've learnt a lot and we've seen a lot of changes. We're glad to hear that people are enjoying what we do," says Heidi.
Proving that good things come in threes or in this case the businesses' third year of opening, Agenda has been recognised for numerous achievements in recent months.
The 2012 Hamilton Central Business Awards named Agenda runner up in Hospitality Excellence for displaying outstanding proficiencies during their restaurant service.
Judging categories included service manner, knowledge and experience of staff, as well as overall presentation and atmosphere.
Furthermore, as one of Hamilton's most popular nightclubs for under 30's, Agenda was announced a national finalist for Best Music Entertainment Venue in the Hospitality New Zealand Awards for Excellence 2012.
"The entire team are so proud of our achievements this year but what we appreciate most about the Tempo Awards is that they're entirely determined by public voting. The fact that we have customers that like us enough to take the time to vote means the world to us," says Logan.
The restaurant's next eagerly awaited awards are the New Zealand Beef and Lamb Awards in January which celebrate excellence in the preparation and service of New Zealand beef and lamb products.
Agenda foresees busy months ahead with Christmas functions filling December and renovations planned for 2013, while the nightclub team are already in planning mode for next year's events.


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It's been one of those weeks.
Students have been very, shall we say, energetic to say the least. I don't normally have to call administration to help me with discipline matters but this week I called twice. Knowing that I don't call that often they came a runnin'. One young man decided to lay in the hallway when he learned that he would be staying in study hall instead of going out for recess. His offense? He head butted a classmate, he opened up the hand sanitizer and let it flow on my classroom carpet, he told me to shut the f- up, and call me crazy, but I can't allow students to lay in the hallway. Non teachers would probably say, "Oh let him...he'll eventually get tired and come in the room." It doesn't work that way. If I leave a student alone in the hallway and something happens I'm responsible. It was bad enough that he wouldn't get up....it was a definite write-up when he told me to shut up along with the f-word.
Earlier in the week another student decided I wasn't lining up for lunch fast enough and he wanted to leave the room. Out he goes with me saying, "Come back", "Stop", "Don't". Once he was three-fourths of the way down the hall I gave the ultimatim, "You've left me no chance. I'm calling." When I have a problem with kids I give them two choices---one choice is the behavior I want them to exhibit while the other is calling the AP or resource officer. Most of the time they choose the behavior I want because I'm consistent and they know I will call everytime. Well, this particular young man turned the corner and at that point I didn't know where he was. I called the office. Luckily he had decided to sit on the bench around the corner, but when the rest of the class and I reached his spot he still wouldn't go with me. The AP had reached us by then and he handled it from there. I really love that guy and I hate for other educators who don't have supportive administrators.
We've had some wonderful lessons this week regarding Daniel Boone and the settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee. We've discussed the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. In order to review on Friday I drew an impromtu map on the board and labled the original 13 states, the Appalachian Mountains, the Northwest Territory, the Mississippi, and the Louisiana Purchase. I also indicated British Canada and Spanish territory in the west and Florida. As I reviewed the settlers crossing the mountains and spreading to the frontier I drew arrows showing their movement. As I reviewed the Louisiana Purchase I drew more arrows crossing the Mississippi. One young man commented, "Finally! Our map is beginning to look like the United States should."
My main focus of Friday's lesson was the Battle of Tippecanoe. So I asked students to look at the map and remind me about what was going on with Native Americans. They correctly stated that as settlers moved westward the Native Americans were forced to move westward and give up their land. This placed us at the starting point I wanted. I used the fact that some Native Americans got tired of being pushed around and they wanted to make a stand. Enter Tecumseh and the Prophet to our story.
I teach this battle because I can bring in the fact that many Americans felt the British Canadians encouraged Native Americans to fight the frontier settlers and provided weapons through trade. I asked students, "Why do you think the British were doing this?" I was very please when a large majority of them assumed that the British would like to get their hands back on the United States.
At any rate by bringing in the British interference with Native Americans I have set the stage to begin talking about the impressment of soldiers during the early 1800s and will set up the causes of the War of 1812....one of my favorites.
Thank goodness "Turn Off the TV" week is over. We are working on an author study using Roald Dahl books and as a kick off we had watched the first part of Matilda. Now maybe we can finish it. Student groups will begin this week working on The Twits, The Magic Finger, and George's Marvelous Medicine in small groups. They will read a few pages each day and draw a symbol to represent what they read. We will be comparing and contrasting the characters and themes. I am also reading The BFG aloud. Our chapter from Friday detailed what the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) drinks-----a fizzy drink called Frobscottle which is similar to Coke but instead of the bubbles doing up they go down in the glass and form foam in the bottom. As I read the chapter's description of how Frobscottle works on the body some of my smarties starting giggling. I love to look up and see those "Ah ha!" moments come across their faces. You see, the bubbles in Coke travel up so in the body and escape as burps. The bubbles in Frobscottle travel downward and escape through the.... well...let's just say you end up with fanny burps. The BFG has quite a way with words and calls the Frobscottle results "whizzpoppers". The kids talked about whizzpopping the rest of the day.
Yes, it's been quite a week.


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For the last few months, I have been talking about the seismic shift in the application development world thanks in part to the accelerating momentum behind tablet computing. But even with these new client user interfaces, there remains the need to connect to a remote back-end to allow the clients to do something interesting and worthwhile. If your needs are specific and highly targeted, and you also want to benefit from a quiet running computer with very low power needs, Israeli-based CompuLab has an attractive offer for developers to consider. Its Linux-friendly Trim-Slice desktop system is available in an aggressively priced developer configuration that is worthy of a closer look.
Figure 1:The Trim-Slice can be used as a compact Linux desktop computer.
Trim-Slice is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor running at 1 GHz. The Tegra 2 also sports a peppy GeForce GPU with 1 GB DDR2 RAM to bring snappy, fluid graphics to life via Trim-Slice's HDMI 1080p and DVI-D video outputs. And yes, this is the same processor found in a number of Android tablets on the market today.
The Trim-Slice package also features a Gigabit Ethernet port and built-in 802.11n WiFi. Bluetooth is available via a USB dongle bundled with the package. Speaking of USB, the Trim-Slice has 4 USB 2 ports as well as a micro-USB port and a mini connector for RS232 connectivity. The Trim-Slice H model can also be configured with a 2.5" SATA drive.
Figure 2: The front of the Trim-Slice consists of an RS232 adapter port, SD card slot, power button/indicator, 2 USB ports, and 1 Micro USB port. There's also a Kensington lock on the side.
Trim-Slice ships preinstalled with Ubuntu 11.04 (aka "Natty Narwhal") stored on the built-in 32-GB SATA SSD. In addition to Ubuntu, several other ARM-based Linux distributions are also being tailored for the Trim-Slice, including Fedora and Slackware. Even Oracle is in on the game, optimizing Java SE to run on ARM-based systems like Trim-Slice.
If you need more than the 32-GB on-board SSD, you can populate the dual SDHC slots (one standard and one micro-SD sized) with SD. Since SDHC supports up to 32-GB SD and micro-SD cards, Trim-Slice can be configured with 96-GB of Flash storage even before adding the 2.5" SATA drive. Given its low-power chip and storage configurations, Trim-Slice can run with as little as 2W of power consumption. And its low-power, fanless operation provides developers with a quiet, cool-running set-top box ready for customization.
Figure 3: The back of the Trim-Slice consists of a WiFi antenna port, 2 more USB ports, an S/PDIF Line-in, 12V DC power, Line-out/Video-in, GigE network port, and an HDMI primary and DVI-D secondary display ports. There's also a micro-SD slot on the side.
Using the Trim-Slice
The first thing you'll notice about the Trim-Slice is how small it is compared to other computing alternatives. Indeed, for the price of an Apple Mac Mini server, you could buy two Trim-Slices and they will fit in the same physical space that the single Mac Mini consumes. Of course, the NVIDIA TEGRA 2 computing power of the Trim-Slice can hardly match the Intel Core i5 processor in the Mac Mini, and the sluggish user interface of the Ubuntu 11.04 desktop proves this. However, these performance aspects will hopefully be improved with the upcoming release of the Ubuntu 11.10 (aka "Oneiric Ocelot") optimized for the Trim-Slice environment.
While the unboxing, set up, and initial boot went smoothly (though boot-up times off the SATA2 drive is a bit on the pokey side), the system exhibited some problems. The built-in WiFi drivers failed to load unless I booted the system with all USB and display devices disconnected. Next, the GPU optimized graphics were only applicable to X11, not any of the GStreamer video playback codecs. The 2D performance was functional, but not very fun to use.
Then things went off the deep end when I ignorantly accepted Ubuntu's repeated suggestion of upgrading to the 11.10 release. Having not read in advance CompuLab's forum posts that 11.10 was not ready for prime time on the Trim-Slice, I proceeded to perform the upgrade unaware of the consequences. Two and a half hours later, I was left with a non-bootable mess. Fortunately, CompuLab offers a Trim-Slice friendly Ubuntu 11.04 image download from its website. After dd'ing the image onto an SD card, mounting the card in the front SD card slot, powering the Trim-Slice back up, copying the image to the SATA drive and rebooting, the reimaged Ubuntu system had returned Trim-Slice back to its originally functioning state. I then followed CompuLab's advice of adding the Trim-Slice developer repository to the system. All 11.04-related file updates since have proceeded without incident since.
A Work In Progress
The current state of Trim-Slice is definitely usable from a simple server or automated back-end controller of sorts. I continuously tested the Trim-Slice as a wireless node on my network for a week for this review (I could have easily extended the duration, but I had a posting deadline to meet), and it was rock stable the entire time. The test was mostly under the moderate load of frequent git pushes and pulls, cron'd Python scripts running every couple minutes. Trim-Slice never failed.
That said, Trim-Slice is still evolving, which is why CompuLab is seeking to add dedicated programmers to its developer program to accelerate its broader adoption. The upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 release later this month along with the port of Android 4.0 some time in the next month or two should prove to be great catalysts to achieving this goal. In the meantime, Trim-Slice is quite stable in its current state and should keep developers busy and satisfied while they wait for these new OSes to be made available to the platform.
For Serious Developers Only
The discount offered by CompuLab for the developer model is significant considering the number of high-end components assembled into such a small package. As such, CompuLab only offers the developer discount to those who will help further propel the platform forward, either by using the unit as a prototyping system for future Trim-Slice-targeted applications, by contributing to the ARM open source codebase that Trim-Slice relies on, or by promoting the open hardware principles espoused by CompuLab.
It's also in CompuLab's best interest to work closely with developers, and the company has responded to developer requests such as adding a debugger board with Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) support for testing. And because the Trim-Slice is an open platform, mechanical and SBC diagrams are freely available for download from the Trim-Slice Wiki along with the U-Boot, Linux kernel, firmware updater, and OS installer images.
CompuLab is actively promoting NVIDIA's chipset for desktop Linux use. It also has a louder collective voice for developers seeking assistance, patches, and modifications from the vendor. For example, when the first batch of Trim-Slices shipped to developers, requests for display drivers with ARM hardfloat support were fielded by CompuLab and, thanks to its close NVIDIA partnership, were able to have the drivers working within days for builds of ArchLinux and MeeGo. CompuLab also plans for future Trim-Slices to have an analog video input port in the design once the software supports it. One additional factoid of interest to Android developers is that CompuLab is working on a port of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) to run on the Trim-Slice hardware. Doing so could make the Trim-Slice a useful Android target to use for Android application development and deployment purposes.
For the non-developer (i.e., hobby enthusiast, corporate user, etc.), Trim-Slice can be purchased at the regular price, which is still a bargain given the fact that a comparably configured desktop computer would have cost twice as much a year ago, consumed far more electricity, and undoubtedly been a lot noisier.
Ideas Aplenty
According to CompuLab, Trim-Slice is already in the hands of some very well-known commercial customers in the automotive, digital-signage, entertainment, and thin-client markets. My personal computing expectations for Trim-Slice include an inexpensive yet full-featured office desktop client machine, an ultra-quiet dedicated low-volume server, a home automation controller, and a Git repository. Once the NVIDIA drivers have been optimized for GStreamer hardware acceleration, I'm also looking forward to seeing how Trim-Slice performs as an ultra-quiet MythTV box.
In the meantime, I set up and successfully used the Trim-Slice as a back-end development server and code repository that I paired with my tablet configuration from my Post PC articles. That scenario worked beautifully. I didn't have to worry about the wasted energy needed to power a full-size server for this type of back-end task. And because the Trim-Slice is so small and quiet, I was able to mount it between my cable modem and router. From a physical systems management perspective, this made it easy to visually check that all systems were go and all lights were literally green.
While some may think that the Trim-Slice awaits a killer app to bundle the hardware with, it has already found a place in my application development-centric universe. Progressive programmers and those interested in promoting open hardware solutions may be just as satisfied as I was with the range of possibilities and the future development potential that this small yet powerful Trim-Slice box provides.


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We're a nation of gadget lovers, everything from electronics to egg slicers cluttering our cupboards and drawers, often unused.
Apparently we all use 31 gadgets every day, according to a new survey.
But the nature of the gadgets we love has changed.
Electronic gizmos now top the poll, apparently, with the wifi router, smartphone and plug-in charger topping the list of our favourite gadgets.
In fact, more people use these gadgets daily than use standard kitchen equipment such as kettles and dishwashers.
The computer mouse, tablet computer, desktop PC, laptop computer, and headphones all also make the top ten.
Only two non-technology related gadgets appear in the countdown - the television and the kettle at numbers four and five respectively.
Dan Hutchinson, editor-in-chief for Gadget magazine, said: "Since before the Great Exhibition in 1851, the UK has been at the forefront of both innovating new technology and jumping at the chance to use it. Us Britons just love gadgets."
He defined what a gadget is: "The term gadget is a catch-all for useful items that help us complete tasks and errands," commenting: "as a race we humans just can't get enough of them.
"The incredible growth in people's use of gadgets shows no sign of abating," added Dan, "and the journey of products from fanciful glimpses of the future to unquestioned features of daily life is happening more quickly than ever."


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Top 10 Qualities of a Great Auto Mechanic
Top 10 Qualities of a Great Auto Mechanic
Source: http://automotiveschools.com/resources/top-10-qualities-of-a-great-auto-mechanic
A mechanic can be a car owner's best friend or worst nightmare. When car problems arise, people depend heavily on their mechanic to diagnose and repair the issue in as little time as possible. They expect mechanics to work quickly and ethically. To be a great mechanic, you should have the following qualities:
- Strong Customer Service Skills
Great mechanics are able to relate well to customers. They are able to communicate effectively with them and put them at ease about the diagnosis and repair suggestions.
- Strong Communication Skills
A good mechanic has excellent communication skills and is able to translate complex technical jargon into plain English for the average customer.
- Good Diagnostic Skills
A great auto mechanic is able to quickly identify the source of a problem and other related issues. He is aware of diagnostic resources and takes advantage of them as necessary.
- Problem-Solving Skills
Good mechanics can quickly suggest possible ways of addressing problems. They should be able to find the best solution in a limited amount of time.
- Solid Work Ethic
A great mechanic has a solid work ethic. He is committed to quickly solving and repairing problems and is honest with customers.
- Strong Technical Aptitude
Mechanics should be able to use a variety of technical tools to diagnose and address a wide variety of vehicular problems.
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Vehicles and technology are continually evolving, and great mechanics stay on top of these changes so they can best serve their customers. As hybrids become more popular, for example, mechanics will be knowledgeable on the most common problems or what could be the most common problems.
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Kotaku caught a GDC presentation by Masato Kuwahara, Nintendo's DSi Hardware Group leader, where he ran through some Game Boy concepts that fell off the fast track at one point or another.
The nearest miss is the dual-card DSi, apparently rejected for being a little too fat. Also shown was a 1998 Game Boy Advance SP touchscreen "concept" which never made it past the "let's bolt a touchscreen on and see what happens" phase.
The most interesting not-quite in the whole presentation is the lard-assed Game Boy Advance predecessor from 1995, which was shelved for terrible performance and, well, the fatness. That's a DS next to it, in case you were wondering. Check out the full story at [Kotaku]


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Reynaldo "Rey" A. Gallegos is an actor who had a brief appearance as an Enterprise crewman in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Strange New World".
Gallegos is probably best remembered for his role of Diaz in the 2008 action sequel Rambo.
Among his first acting parts was a featured role as a Gee Boy in the 1994 comedy Monkey Trouble which features fellow Trek performers Christopher McDonald, Kimberly Cullum, Aaron Lustig, Marcy Goldman, and Frank Welker. Since 2000 he appeared in several television series, including guest and recurring roles in The King of Queens (2000), Bette (2000, with Suzie Plakson), The Practice (2001, with Mark Rafael Truitt), Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (2001), Angel (2001, with Daniel Dae Kim), Strong Medicine (2001, with Tina Lifford), NYPD Blue (2002, with Gordon Clapp, Michael Spound, and John Vickery), 24 (2002, with Leslie Hope, Jude Ciccolella, Terrell Tilford, and Penny Johnson), 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003), CSI: Miami (2005), Without a Trace (2005, starring Enrique Murciano), Monk (2005, with Jason Alexander and Stanley Kamel), Charmed (2005, with Cullen Douglas), CSI: New York (2006, starring Robert Joy and with John Prosky), and Standoff (2006).
Film roles include the comedy You Got Nothin' (2002, with Brian McNamara), the comedy Wish (2003, with Josette DiCarlo and Scott Klace), the crime comedy Malibu's Most Wanted (2003, with Greg Grunberg, Damion Poitier, Josef Cannon, and Justin Rodgers Hall), Michael Bay's action thriller Bad Boys II (2003, starring Gabrielle Union), the comedy American Wedding (2003, with Angela Paton, Lawrence Pressman, John Cho, and Loren Lester), the drama Frozen Stars (2003), the horror film Voodoo Moon (2005, with Jeffrey Combs, David Jean Thomas, Frank Collison, and David Keith Anderson), the mystery thriller Death Row (2006, with Marco Rodriguez and Henry T. Yamada), and the comic adaptation Spider-Man 3 (2007, with Kirsten Dunst, James Cromwell, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Papajohn, Gregg Daniel, Robert Curtis Brown, Paul Terrell Clayton, Christopher Jude, and Ron King).
More recent performances include guest parts in episodes of Numb3rs (2008), Raising the Bar (2008, with Jim O'Heir), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009, with Wallace Langham, Liz Vassey, and Carlos Carrasco) and recurring roles in Prison Break (2007-2008, along with Wade Williams, Robert Knepper, Leon Russom, Castulo Guerra, Mike Gomez, and F.J. Rio) and 24 (2009, with Annie Wersching, Bob Gunton, Jeffrey Nordling, Connor Trinneer, Henry Kingi, Jr., Troy Mittleider, and Mark Casimir Dyniewicz).


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City of GlendoraHome Menu
Helmet, Bicycle, and Skateboard Safety
The law requires all persons under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle, a non-motorized scooter, a skateboard, or while wearing in-line skates or roller skates. It also requires passengers under 18 years of age to wear helmets.
Nearly 50 percent of children 14 and under who are hospitalized for bicycle, in-line skating and skateboarding-related injuries are diagnosed with a brain injury. Bicycle injuries and deaths affect children and young people more than any other age group.
The Glendora Police Department wants to ensure the safety of your child and has created the "Notice of Bicycle/Skateboard Equipment Violations" as an educational reminder to help your child understand the importance of wearing a helmet and obeying traffic laws and municipal codes while operating a bicycle or skateboard.
The program was initiated for your child's safety. These violation notices are not citations. The sole purpose of the notice is to remind the child of important safety issues. If the child commits the same violation again, it could result in an actual citation which can consist of a fine and/or court appearance.
If you have any questions regarding helmet safety, please contact the Glendora Police Department Traffic Division at (626)914-8250 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Model G278-30-400 Grinder with Feed Roller Assembly is the largest and the latest generation of Warren & Baerg's high production, virtually dust free round bale grinders. While the G278-30-400 Grinder model is designed specifically for round bales, it also handles square and mid-size bales as well.
With their new Feed Roller Assembly system, it makes it possible to effectively process round bales in excess of 20 tons per hour, in a much cleaner environment than the traditional tub grinder. The Feed Roller Assembly eliminates material slugs eliminating amp draw spikes increasing production output through better utilization of power.
Many of their new customers are switching from a tub grinder to their Horizontal Grinding Systems to reduce or eliminate their dust problems as well as reduce their 1%-6% material losses. The Grinder can be either a high volume pre-grinder or a one-step single grinder system.
Warren & Baerg Grinders provide easy mechanical loading, which is less labor intensive and lower maintenance costs.
The Warren & Baerg Grinding Systems consists of a bale feed conveyor with hood, Feed Roller Assembly, Grinder, Screens, and either an air discharge chute or takeaway conveyor system depending on customer specific needs and grind size. The Bale Feed Systems can also be semi-automatic to fit application needs. The grinder is electrically powered with two 200 horsepower motors and lower horsepower motors on the conveyors. On lower tonnage applications, the grinder can be sized with lower horsepower motors.
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Fruit nail transfers
I have made these nail transfers from my original fruit drawings, there are 24 to cut out from the sheet, and they look great on bare nails or over pale varnish. They come carefully and neatly packaged in a clear cellophane packet with full instructions printed on the label. The transfers are applied with water and then coated in clear varnish.
I have lots of other designs to choose from too! They can all be seen in the Nail Art section of my shop here
– Carefully cut around your chosen design, remove the top film and put the design face down in the position you want it to be on your nail.
– Get a damp tissue/cloth and press down onto the paper backing of the transfer, leave for 30 seconds and the paper backing should come away to leave the design on the nail.
– Coat the nail with a couple of layers of clear varnish and wait for the nails to fully dry.
– Use nail varnish remover to take off.
Use on bare nails or over pale varnish.
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What do you do if it's a little to hot for your favourite pie tea?
If the temperature has got you baking, you're not the only ones, because our friends at Holland's have come up with the ultimate nibble to make you hap-pie in the sunshine.
Nicknamed "Pies-cream", you'd be forgiven for thinking someone's had a little too much sun.
Summer treats don't come much more northern than this; a wafer cone, creamy mashed potato, lashings of gravy and a sprinkling of Holland's infamous shortcrust pastry.
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Light Switch on Vehicles with Halogen Headlights
Lights switched off
Welcome Home Function
Parking lights, side marker lights, license plate light, instrument illumination
Low beam, high beam
Only with ignition on
Fog light in addition to parking lights or low beam (not on Boxster Spyder)
Pull switch to first click.
Indicator light on.
Rear fog light in addition to fog lights
Pull switch to second click.
Indicator light on.
Warning chime
If the ignition key is withdrawn and the door is opened while the lights (not the Welcome Home lighting) are on, a chime warns of possible battery discharge.
In some countries, differences are possible due to provisions of law.
Vehicles with the Sport Chrono Package Plus
Further individual light functions are available in vehicles with the Sport Chrono Package Plus.
Daytime driving lights
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The daytime driving lights can be activated/deactivated in the on-board computer.
Welcome Home Lighting
Switching on
For improved visibility and security when you get in and out of the car, the fog lights and the tail lights remain on for a certain period of time:
– When you get out of the car, the lights are turned on for approx. 30 seconds after the door is opened. The off-delay time
resumes when the vehicle is locked.
On vehicles with the Sport Chrono Package Plus, the PCM can be used to set the off-delay time. This setting also changes
the lighting period for unlocking the vehicle.
Please observe the chapter "Individual Memory" in the separate PCM operating instructions.
– The lights are turned on for approx. 30 seconds when the vehicle is unlocked.
The lights go out if the ignition is switched on or when leaving the Welcome Home lighting.


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Understanding Common Crawl Errors
Search Engine Visibility V1 crawls your site using a Web crawler that makes HTTP requests to the server that hosts your site.
There are times when Search Engine Visibility V1 cannot complete the crawl. The following sections describe the most common reasons a crawl resulted in an error.
Broken Home Page
Your home page returns an HTTP status other than 200. While an HTTP status of 200 is a good status, all others mean there is an error somewhere. This error indicates that most search engines can't index the home page's content or follow its links. Redirects are OK as long as they end in a 200 status.
Home Page Infinite Redirect
Your home page loops indefinitely in a redirect. Most search engines consider pages like this broken because they can't get to valid content. Some common causes of this error are:
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No Response from Server
We didn't receive a response from your server when we requested your home page. As a result, search engines can't crawl your site. Some common causes are:
- You set up a new domain for hosting within the last 48 hours and DNS is still propagating. Once your DNS propagates, we recommend recrawling your website with Search Engine Visibility V1.
- The URL and/or domain does not exist.
Your robots.txt File is Blocking Search Engine Visibility V1
Your robots.txt file explicitly blocks Search Engine Visibility V1 from crawling your home page, your home page is redirecting to a page that is blocked, or your home page's content location is blocked.
HTTP Protocol Violation
Your server committed an HTTP protocol violation so we could not properly crawl your home page. Search engines can't crawl your site.
Crawl Timed Out
We were unable to complete your site crawl within a four-hour period. Search engines can't crawl your site properly, which means many of your pages aren't being crawled or indexed. Some common causes are:
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The Cleveland school board, interim CEO Peter Raskind and Mayor Frank Jackson will interview the three finalists vying to become the district's chief executive officer on May 31. The board hopes to announce its choice shortly after that.
Here is a brief look at the profiles of the three finalists and a brief overview of the CEO search. For more Plain Dealer news about the Cleveland Municipal School District, visit cleveland.com/education.
Age: 52
Current job: Superintendent of Lorain City Schools.
Among other professional experience: Worked in the administration of the Kansas City and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school districts.
Personal: Learned to play golf to have time with her husband and three sons, all three of whom attended Lorain schools.
Age: 45
Current job: Superintendent of the Lowell, Mass., school district.
Among other professional experience: Former superintendent of Norfolk, Mass., schools.
Personal: From Nova Scotia, Canada; Co-authored books in Lowell and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, about historical and cultural highlights of the areas.
Age: 51
Current job: Superintendent of the Grand Rapids, Mich., school district.
Among other professional experience: Former superintendent of the Kansas City, Mo., schools.
Personal: Born a Steelers fan. Won a charity dance competition.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders said goodbye and thank you today to central office employees. He also introduced them to the banker who will serve as his interim replacement.
Sanders, whose retirement takes effect Tuesday, remained vague about his plans for the future. He is a candidate for president at Bowling Green State University, his alma mater, but both parties have said he is not a shoo-in.
"People are so anxious to know what I'm doing," said Sanders, whose mid-December retirement announcement came as a surprise. "Tomorrow, I'm sleeping in."
Sanders, CEO since July 2006, left employees with some good news, saying preliminary indications are that the district's 54 percent graduation rate will increase, perhaps by double digits, when new state report cards are released later this year. He also predicted the schools will achieve a "continuous improvement" rating for a second year in a row.
Interim CEO Peter Raskind has been asked to stabilize the financially troubled district before a new chief executive is selected, probably in June. He stipulated that his salary be just $1. Read More
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The findings are scant and preliminary, but early indications are that people want the next leader of the Cleveland schools to come with classroom experience, a feel for the community and ability to bridge differences in students and families.
A crowd of about 75 turned out Thursday for the first of three public meetings aimed at finding out what type of chief executive officer should succeed Eugene Sanders, who retired Feb. 1.
Many at the West Side's Michael Zone Recreation Center sit on a 28-member committee that Mayor Frank Jackson assembled to draft a profile, but they were just there to listen. Jackson, who presided, pressed others to offer their thoughts.
"We are here to hear from you," he said. Read More
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Roderick Chu, ex-chancellor of Ohio's higher-education system, are among 126 applicants seeking to be the Cleveland schools' next chief executive.
Also on the list is LaVonne Sheffield, a top aide to Michael White when he was Cleveland's mayor. Sheffield is resigning as superintendent of the Rockford, Ill., schools amid criticism over layoffs and school closings.
The Cleveland schools this week released the names and other information on would-be successors for Eugene Sanders, who retired Feb. 1. Consultants and a screening committee will quickly winnow the list so the school board and Mayor Frank Jackson can install a new CEO by June. Read More
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland schools' search for a new chief executive officer has narrowed to three candidates.
A search committee agreed Thursday to conduct second interviews with superintendents Chris Scott of Lowell, Mass., Cheryl Atkinson of Lorain and Bernard Taylor Jr. of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The selections came after two days of video interviews. Others in the field included two internal candidates -- Chief of Staff Christine Fowler-Mack and Chief Academic Officer Eric Gordon -- Des Moines, Iowa, Chief Academic Officer Michael Munoz and Patrick Cooper, a former superintendent who heads the Early Childhood and Family Learning Foundation in New Orleans.
Committee members seemed to like that Scott, Atkinson and Taylor are sitting superintendents, said Cleveland State University President Ronald Berkman, who co-chairs the panel with former school board member Arnold Pinkney. Read More
Mayfield Heights -- Peter Raskind is winding up his run as interim chief executive of the Cleveland schools, but it would be a mistake to say he is winding down.
Raskind, pressed into service after Eugene Sanders retired Feb. 1, has been more than a caretaker. He closed seven schools, engineered the layoffs of nearly 900 employees, canceled management perks and slashed spending by $75 million, enough to keep the district's head above water for at least two years.
Speaking Wednesday at a Corporate Club Luncheon, Raskind said his remaining agenda includes reviewing policies for paying employees for unused vacation and sick leave when they retire. Nearly 270 employees have collected almost $5 million this fiscal year, The Plain Dealer reported Monday. Read More
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One thing Peter Raskind won't do as
of the Cleveland schools is make them worse.
It's tough to foul up a system that's about to run out of money and already owns one of the nation's worst graduation rates.
But without some help, another thing Raskind won't do for the schools is make them a whole lot better.
Raskind's appointment was an inspired choice by Mayor Frank Jackson and his handpicked school board. In his six-month stint as interim head of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Raskind won rave reviews for halting the waste of tax dollars and instituting sound management practices.
It's a safe bet that Raskind, who assumed his new job last week, will be appalled by the school district's long-standing management practices and spending policies. Because he's a talented guy with a supportive school board and mayor, Raskind should be able to clean up some of the mess he's waded into.
But no one should expect Raskind to make significant progress in improving student performance. That won't happen until this community figures out a way to relieve children from the tragic amount of social baggage they drag to school with them each morning. And it won't happen until the state expands school choice and gives districts like Cleveland more flexibility in dealing with underperforming employees. Read More
Clevelanders can disagree on whether the next chief of the city's public schools should be a business leader or an educator, someone who is solidly behind Cleveland's transformation plan or someone who wants to tweak it.
But there should be full agreement that a district facing a $47.5 million deficit this school year and budget cuts from the state should not give the next schools chief the golden platter of perks enjoyed by just-departed CEO Eugene Sanders and his predecessor, Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
As reported last week by The Plain Dealer's Thomas Ott, Sanders could walk away this month with a bundle, including $110,000 in vacation pay for 100.6 days of unused vacation.
That really rubs salt in the wound, after Sanders' announcement in December that he was retiring in mid-contract and in the midst of his transformation plan's inaugural school year.
The next CEO contract ought to cap the number of vacation carry-over days and end perks that, for many private-sector executives, have gone the way of first-class airline tickets and country club memberships. Read More
Reality bites hard. And the reality at the Cleveland public schools, that last year's school-closure plan did not assuage, is this: This shrinking district still has too many teachers, staff and schools.
That isn't interim CEO Peter Raskind talking, although he took the brunt of the bitter comments at Tuesday night's board meeting after announcing a plan to close seven elementary schools and lay off 835 employees.
That dose of reality comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, which reported recently that Cleveland's population had fallen 17 percent, to 396,815 from 477,472 a decade ago. No wonder 44,000 students are enrolled in buildings with capacity for many more.
So, the painful recovery plan outlined by Raskind, which the Cleveland school board could vote on in early April, makes sense.
Raskind says the $74 million in cutbacks will wipe out deficits projected for 2012 and 2013. The fiscal certainty will be worth the pain. Read More


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Once a rugged outpost, the serene and surprisingly balmy city of Victoria, British Columbia, is an island home to bicycle trails, whale pods and Native American culture.
Author Melissa Nix
VICTORIA IS QUIET. ALMOST TOO QUIET. Stand near the grandiose Parliament building at the Inner Harbor, and it's impossible to imagine that this perfectly mannered island city was once a rough-and-tumble gold mining hub, a sprawling carnival of disorder populated by industrious native Inuit and Métis traders, miners, Chinese opium smugglers, thieves and all manner of accompanying riff raff .
But today, all that remains of those times are the First Nations, descendants of the area's original tribal inhabitants. The carnival is gone, replaced by a town as charming and peaceful as it was once restless. As for the riff raff, let's just say they retired. In fact, of today's 78,000 resident Victorians, a disproportionately large number are seniors, drawn by the region's remarkably mild weather, which allows for year-round gardening and golf. Some call Victoria "the Boca of Canada," but anyone who expects swarms of battery-powered Rascal scooters and blue-hairs lining up for the early-bird special will be surprised. The city exudes youthful energy. Cyclists, kayakers and avid joggers abound. And if there is an early-bird special to be found, chances are it's made with organic, locally grown produce.
Victoria still retains some of its frontier town DNA. Sure, the tempo is a touch more subdued, but First Nations people remain an integral part of Victoria's community and cultural life, and the area's roots can be seen in its raw, breathtaking surroundings: the jagged Olympic Mountains, the dramatic Strait of Juan de Fuca and the rolling Pacific beyond. There are still pioneers here; they're just better fed and far more civilized.
Victoria is a fantastic place, but Francis Rattenbury was murdered in Bournemouth, not London, and Willie's Bakery isn't exactly the oldest in British Columbia if you count the several decades when it was out of business. No local calls our most historic and prominent hotel the Fairmont — it always has been and always will be known as the Empress.


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Bicyclist dies after crash last week
Crash occurred last Wednesday
MADISON, Wis. — A bicyclist has died after he was pinned beneath a car following a crash Wednesday evening in Madison.
The Dane County Medical Examiner said Sunday Tyler Knipfer, 21, died. An autopsy will be completed on Monday. Knipfer was from Madison.
City of Madison firefighters and paramedics responded at about 5 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a crash at the intersection of Aberg Avenue and Huxley Street.
They arrived to find Knipfer pinned beneath a car. Crews extricated him using inflatable bags to lift the weight of the car, according to a Madison Fire Department news release.
The Madison Fire Department recently completed updated training in the use of the bags for extrication and completed the job within minutes, according to the news release.
Knipfer was transported via Med Flight to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
A Madison Metro bus driver witnessed the crash, and police said they hope to get video from the bus to help in their investigation of the crash.


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Date: 1860 - 1929
Remarks: She was the eldest daughter of General Alexander Stewart Webb and Anna (Remsen) Webb of NY. For many years her father was President of the College of the City of NY. She was married to John E. Alexandere, who was part owner of the Alexander Steamship Lines. The couple had 3 daughters: Helen L., M. Civilise, and Anna Remsen. The family's city residence was at 26 West 38th Street. Mrs. Alexandere was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution.


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We recommend the following OSHA safety plans, videos, and training programs to help make your company compliant with the required OSHA Government standards for Formaldehyde Safety in the workplace.
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If I told you that Formaldehyde is a chemical that is toxic, known to cause cancer and a variety of other health problems would you use it? Yet it is routinely found in thousands of products including glues, preservatives, antiseptics, resins, paints, film processing, You'll note that these are all common elements in the manufacture of some type of "widget". Oh yes embalming, If it can be used to preserve you in Death what do you think it can do to you in life. Its especially dangerous to children who are exposed to it. These safety plans and safety videos take you through the awareness of "Formaledhyde" and how to avoid it.


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Yanks get positive reports on Tex, D-Rob
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Yankees have received positive reports on first baseman Mark Teixeira and closer David Robertson, both of whom participated in a Minor League game on Saturday at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla.
Teixeira went 2-for-4 with a walk and a double and played seven innings in the field, and expects to be activated from the 15-day disabled list on Sunday -- the first day that he is eligible. Teixeira strained his right hamstring on April 4 in Toronto.
"We feel that he's ready to go," manager Joe Girardi said. "We'll talk about it tonight. I want to talk to him when he gets here, see how he's feeling, and then we'll go from there."
Robertson threw 16 pitches in one inning and is eligible to come off the DL on Tuesday, when the Yankees open a three-game series at Fenway Park.
Girardi is not sure whom the Yankees will trim from the roster to make room for Teixeira. Infielders Scott Sizemore and Dean Anna both have Minor League options and are possibilities.
In addition, the Yankees had infielder Brendan Ryan take six simulated at-bats on Saturday in Tampa. Ryan had been scheduled to play in a Minor League game but was bumped to simulated action because of a tight hamstring.
"That's probably normal," Girardi said. "I think all guys probably go through it in Spring Training. We thought we'd be cautious and say, 'Just take your at-bats and don't run.'"