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Weather Jeebus smiled upon us this morning and blessed his minions, for his is a powerful deity, with one of those very rare days when it's an absolutely perfect for a morning bicycle ride. Sunny, but not too sunny, temperate, very light breeze. Altogether, couldn't really ask for anything better. I think that Mother Nature, who I believe is secret married to Weather Jeebus (per Dan Brown?), is rewarding us for suffering through the rain last week.
I like to check the twitters before leaving in the morning because occasionally someone will point out some detail about local traffic conditions that will give me good reason to change my route. This morning, I saw this and decided to skip the massive inconvenience that would probably meet me upon trying to bike through the area. Bike lanes quickly turn into driving lanes whenever there's any kind of road closure. Plus, I'd rather not have to worry about commingling with gawking and/or peeved drivers, distracted and/or upset by caution tape and fire trucks.
Speaking of gawking and/or peeved drivers, sometimes drivers gawk and/or get peeved when interacting with bicycle and pedestrian traffic at the intersection of Lee Highway and Lynn Street. I don't know if I've mentioned it previously (wink wink), but there's a meeting tonight at 6:30 at said intersection where you can learn about (and presumably suggest) safety improvements to the area. My proposed solutions aren't exactly that exciting (ban right turns on red), but they're also pretty cheap. Another place I would ban right turns on red would be the intersection of Lee Highway and Fort Myer, where I heard a yellow-shirted cyclist scream at some driver after a close call, wherein the front of the driver's jeep Grand Cherokee peaked around the corner and the bicyclist was coming down the hill and starting to cross the street. A few thoughts on this: Yes, a driver shouldn't hit you with his car and the driver is under an obligation to not do so. But, I question the wisdom of riding along this part of the trail at a very high rate of speed, which Mr. Yellow Shirt was doing. Yes, it's the trail, but it's not really "traily" (not a word) there. See:
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I'm really not blaming the cyclist (he was doing nothing "illegal"), but I suggest to users of this stretch of trail to go slowly and with ample caution because drivers around here, in spite of the plethora of signs alerting them to the presence of bicyclists, really aren't looking and I think it's a good idea to operate under that belief than the perhaps foolish one that relies on equating "trail" with "safety." Another issue at the intersection is bike traffic coming up Fort Myer, most of which is one the sidewalk (trail) and a bicyclist, if not paying attention, might inadvertently ride into path of someone coming down the hill. It's kind of a blind corner there, made worse by the shrubbery. Maybe there should be some sort of bike stop sign painted on the sidewalk (wait, that's not a good idea). The better solution would be, I think, a painted bike lane on Fort Myer that runs from the bridge to Wilson. But I'm not holding my breath.
Fun times as usual in Georgetown. A charming jogger sort of tried to race me uphill, but from the opposite sidewalk. I "won." The usual traffic hullabaloo has only gotten worse and my exasperation has only gotten more visible. My head-shaking and shrugs per mile are way up. So is my almost falling, but I won't tell you about that per this. There's a giant divot (maybe 3 feet long and a foot down) on 36th street between R and S that's a real hazard to bicyclists. It's also full of light brown mud, which is odd. There's probably a baby Sarlacc down there (unconfirmed).
So, I've recently been thinking about the massive inconvenience my biking causes to the drivers around me, in that sometimes they have to slow down a little bit so as to not hit me. And because math tends to be a solution for things (figuring out your grocery bill, sending astronauts to space, etc.), I've turned to it to try to give me some perspective on the deleterious effect I'm causing. From the base of New Mexico Avenue to the top, the last part of my ride, is .8 miles. The speed limit along here is (supposed to be) 25 miles per hour. That means, at a consistent rate of speed (thus, discounting the stop lights), a driver should make it up the hill in about a minute 55 seconds. But sometimes, there are bicyclists there (me, mostly) and a driver might have to reduce his rate of speed in order to safely get around the bicyclist. To be prudent, let's say that the driver drops his speed for 25 mph to 10 mph for, let's say, 100 feet. Now, .8 miles is 4224 feet, meaning that the driver will go for 4124 feet at 25 mph (2200 ft/min) and 100 feet at 10 mph (880 ft/min) for a rough time of 1.87 minutes and .11 minutes respective and a total of roughly 1.97 minutes or 1 minute and 58 seconds. So, that's that. The difference between slowing down slightly on New Mexico to pass a bicyclist and not doing so is 3 seconds. (Someone please check my math). Is your 3 seconds worth my safety?
So, I don't know how much I'll be riding and blogging this week since I might be headed out of town. I will keep you, my loyal cadre of readers, posted as best I can, either through the blogging machine or through the twitter machine (I have two separate machines, both of which take up entire rooms and are full of giant cathode ray tubes). On the off chance that this is my last ride on my current route- wow, that really sneaked up on me- it's been a pretty good route and I'll sort of miss it. Arlington is a wonderful place to ride a bicycle (though it could be better still) and I heartily encourage you to try it some time.


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The "30 For 30" about Vlade Divac And Drazen Petrovic premieres tonight. It's called Once Brothers, and depending on who you ask, it's either powerful or tripe. Quality aside, we'll be watching because we like Vlade and Drazen.
Vlade Divac was an incredibly fun player to watch during the late-90s runs of the Sacramento Kings. He passed like a point guard, played like a pitbull, and—most importantly—never backed down from Shaq. Furthermore, he was a large part of the influx of international players we have today. While that may include Frédéric Weis, I'll still be talking about Dirk Nowitzki twenty years from now.
But the person I should have been talking about decades hence was Drazen Petrovic. I remember reading Basketball for Dummies and there being a really lengthy section on Petrovic by Digger Phelps. Phelps wanted Drazen to come play for him at Notre Dame; he almost did, but ended up remaining in Europe to play professionally. When he finally did make it to the NBA, first with the Blazers, then as a legitimate star for the Nets, it looked like he was destined for greatness. He had a memorable showdown against Michael Jordan in 1992, months after getting a Silver medal in the Barcelona games playing for the only team that came within a hairsbreadth of the Dream Team.
I mean, this is akin to Reggie Miller against the Knicks.
We all know the rest of the story: What might've been? These days, Petrovic is known more for haunting NBA Jam. But it's nice that "30 For 30" is using their power and reach for a story like this, instead of Four Days In October, even if there's the possibility that this ends up as the documentary-ized Brian's Song. So, let's all sit down and pray that this has some rare footage that we couldn't just find on YouTube.
Or we could all just watch the baseball game.
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. See you tomorrow? I'm not sure if Emma's here later or not. Now, for something from a band that sounds Eastern European-y.


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A slight majority of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say it's unlikely that Eastman Kodak Co. will be able to achieve its goal of emerging from Chapter 11 as a profitable and sustainable business.
When Kodak and its U.S. subsidiaries filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions last Thursday, the company said the move would enable it to pursue the sale of non-strategic intellectual property assets and resolve legacy costs while reorganizing to focus on its most valuable business segments.
"The process will allow Kodak to continue normal business operations while we accomplish our objectives and emerge a profitable and sustainable enterprise," the company said.
Fifty-three percent of respondents say it's unlikely Kodak will achieve its goal of emerging from bankruptcy, including 12 percent who say it's not at all likely.
Thirteen percent are very optimistic about Kodak's survival, and 34 percent say it's somewhat likely.
Nearly 650 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted Sept. 20 and 21.
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Very likely: 13%
Somewhat likely: 34%
Not very likely: 41%
Not at all likely: 12%
(Antonio Perez) has ruined an American icon company with his decisions. He missed the boat that Kodak was/is a "chemical company," not a digital electronic company like HP. Unless they replace him with a brighter mind that can mine the IP and patent portfolio, Kodak is doomed.
—Daniel Driffill, Condee Vending
I'd say yes if they were not selling off their patents. But that is too much like killing the goose.
—Jay Ross
As a former 35-year employee, I find it extremely depressing and disappointing that management was so lacking in proper forethought and innovation. When I joined the company in 1963, it was like being part of a family. We worked hard to gain the trust and admiration of our "parent," and in return we received care, support and a gainful future. Today, through disregard of our sincere efforts, we have become orphans to inept "parents." I, along with thousands of employees and retired folks, mourn the death of our family. Too bad Kodak wasn't in the energy business; we'd probably get a sizable government loan.
—Warren Geller, North Las Vegas, Nev.
With the current executive team, their current strategies are destined to fail. They still are having their heads in the sand. They can cut costs, eliminate employees and continue to shrink Eastman Kodak as a business; their current business model will not bring Kodak back. If Antonio Perez is willing to learn from Steve Jobs by taking $1 per year in salary, this would be a good start.
—Patrick Ho, Rochester Optical
The digital and social media era is in its infancy. Unfortunately B&L, Kodak, Xerox Corp. and other large U.S. corporations did not listen to their technical visionaries. They invested too late to be competitive in this new market. … Too much focus on near-term revenue at the sacrifice of the future. Unfortunately, the only people who will profit from intellectual property sales and licensing are the lawyers and financial backers. Thank you, Kodak, for the investment in Rochester growth.
—Ed Schlueter, president, Medgraph Inc.
Being an ex-employee (third generation), I want Kodak to succeed. After being terminated, I looked at Kodak from the outside in and listened to many people give me their opinion of what went wrong in my travels since 2005. The one reoccurring message that successful innovative companies kept telling me speaks to their possible success after bankruptcy for Kodak is to create a vision that knows itself and knows what creates value based on its strengths. I knew Kodak to be almost "Jobsian" in its ability to know what people wanted in film; in fact, Steve Jobs always spoke about photographic innovation as his model. Fuji has done an excellent job in this regard in growing revenue based on non-photographic applications of film technology. I would like to say that I see Mr. Perez's vision. I still have emotion for Kodak, hopefully without being emotional.
—Dave Lincoln
Kodak has repeatedly missed the boat and has a management team stuck in the 1900s. Write it off.
—Joe Fabetes, Rochester
Kodak will only survive and return to profitability with the resignation of its entire board of directors and the appointment by the Bankruptcy Court of a CEO with a proven track record of turning companies around—someone with vision and a plan.
—Harry Caruso, Caruso Asset Management
The horse left the barn so long ago, it's gone. The legacy costs are staggering and likely insurmountable. I predict in the end Hilco will buy the trademark and park it next to Polaroid.
—David Fiegel, Blackbird Asset Services LLC
Guess a Rochester-based company doesn't qualify as "too big to fail," huh? What is the problem? Why didn't the government just throw a bunch of cash at it, leave the broken model in place and write down their debt and tell everyone that things are all better now? Isn't that the role of government?
—Devon Michael, Chili
Thanks to George Fisher and his ilk, you can stick a fork in Kodak. It's dead.
—Jim Duke, Victor
Unable to give Kodak's management for being able to come up with a sustained plan to keep the company alive. Sad to say for remaining employees, just hope "captains" remain aboard until the ship sinks.
—Erin Schmerbeck
I don't think they have a chance unless they lose Perez pretty quick.
—Grant Osman
I hope all this is a wakeup call to the board and current management. I can't help but think there is a substantial "improvement opportunity" for both.
—Bob Worden, Penn Yan
Personally, I think Eastman Kodak's only hope is for someone to buy them out and move them forward. The past management and boards have allowed it to slip beyond the point of no return.
—JA DePaolis, Penfield
My opinion is based upon an expectation that there is a change in top management, which will consist of leadership that will want to restore the company, not just eradicate it.
—Bruce Bowen, retired
We hope.
—Ed McDonnell
I hope Kodak can see the err of its ways and see its the Rochester people that made what it was and that they find their way back to manufacturing in Rochester. Local support. Local product that will reach out globally to the new economy.
—David DeMallie
Why do people continue playing Monopoly after they are forced to mortgage their important properties? No one has ever won the game of monopoly after this happens. But it seems to be human nature to play on until the gory finish despite the fact that they can't come back. Unfortunately, the Monopoly scenario is most likely the destiny for Kodak. The stupid moves of several past leaders has the current leaders mortgaging their most valuable assets to try to launch a commodity business; wow, what a grand strategic direction! Seems like the main objective of current leadership is continue playing to sustain their own compensation as long as possible to the inevitable end. Of course, they seek to eliminate "legacy costs" (company commitments that past employees made decisions around) to lengthen that milking process. We can just hope that "what comes around goes around" is true.
—Bob Moyer, Eastman Kodak retiree
I believe that Kodak has set the table for what their future may look like by reorganizing into two business segments: consumer and commercial. I believe the consumer segment will be sold upon emerging from bankruptcy and the New Kodak will be much smaller and only serve the commercial world. The consumer division is not profitable and behind the technology curve and carries too many legacy costs from the film days. The commercial segment should be profitable where Kodak holds some competitive advantages and is far better positioned without the legacy costs from the film days. Filing for bankruptcy protection will allow Kodak to execute this type of strategy.
—Mike Guche, CFO, Canfield & Tack Printing
There are many things that are not in support of Kodak becoming a profitable and sustainable business. The internal structure, if left untouched, does not support this premise. The senior leadership, if left untouched, does not support this premise, and one could possibly say the quality of the products does not support this premise. Kodak has always been an innovative company, sometimes in a lagging mode, but always regaining and positioning themselves as a world leader. The occasional price paid to do this is the quality and longevity of the product. Kodak was THE world leader in imaging. I believe one will have difficulty capturing what the company's identity is today. Many new imaging innovations have been devised and I believe Kodak does not know how to capitalize on them. They are not working these new innovations to their advantage. Years ago they lost the concept of workers being assets to the company. The current senior leadership does not convey any skill or proficiency at managing a global company at global standards. Until Kodak recognizes the global market they CAN compete in, the likelihood of success will remain very low. To take 130 years of history and destroy it in a way the current leadership has does not support the thought that this leadership can lead the company into the future. It is very sad.
—William Nash, Ultrafab Inc.
It can survive only if Antonio and anybody related to his team goes. Selling patents is idiotic. That's how they got here. Bring in an innovator who can leverage the intellectual property—what is left of it. Damn the stock value. Save the company. The ruin of Kodak started with Kay Whitmore and all who followed, who were concerned only with daily stock value and not long-term viability. SO many Kodak inventions that didn't come to market because of that type of leadership. No real vision. Take what's left, dust off the patents get some additional venture capital and build it back up. All it takes is a little vision.
—Karl Schuler
There has never been a strategy to take advantage of what used to be one of the best known brands in the world, and some very good intellectual property. That is lost now, Kodak is known in Rochester, but generation Y has had no exposure to the brand, and it is now worth a fraction of what is was 15 to 20 years ago. As for product, there is nothing left. All the jewels have been sold. Cheap ink-jet is not a growth strategy, just a small flotation device holding up some hope.
—Sergio Ruffolo, JR Language Translations Services Inc.
Unfortunately, Eastman Kodak's ship has sailed into the night. They let the technological revolution pass them by. Kodak was a good provider and corporate citizen to Rochester for more than a century, but the time has come to shut turn off the lights and move on. There is nothing wrong with that, we all need to be thankful for all that George Eastman built and gave to the great Rochester community!
—Tony Schmitt, self-employed
Eastman Kodak will emerge as a smaller company capable based upon a court submitted plan to become profitable. They will not be profitable coming out of Chapter 11. Kodak needs a serious make-over and a focused strategy into new market niches or areas where they can leverage certain patents. I think Kodak's days as primarily a consumer company are numbered and not a viable business to be in any longer. Kodak needs thinking, experienced, innovative leadership that no longer relies on consultants to reinvent Eastman Kodak.
—Dave Rusin
I do not believe the current CEO, Antonio Perez, has the leadership skills necessary to promote the company to recovery from Chapter 11. While looking to convert the company into a digital entity, Perez overlooked the last chance the company had to turn it into an IMAGING company, when he allowed Kodak Health Imaging to be let go. I believe that entity would have allowed Kodak to maintain the imaging business it was best at. I realize that many people say Kodak was a materials company, but imaging materials was the mainstay. As health care continues to be the highest growth area in the U.S., keeping Health Imaging would be the platform which, coupled with the graphic markets (printing) entity, could have saved the company, and kept its iconic image in imaging! Not only did Kodak have the IP, but it had the R and D people, who could have continued the pioneering Kodak did in the early part of the 20th century in imaging science. The spinoff of Health Imaging came on Perez's watch, indicating to me that he lacks leadership vision on the course Kodak needs to take. I think it's toast!
—Hutch Hutchison, In T'Hutch Ltd.
It's time for Rochester to be thinking about the current drivers of our local economy, the local leaders and visionaries who will help create our regional future. Kodak, while it played a central role in this region, will never play the role it did in the past. It's time to move on!
—Brian A. Kane, Three Lakes Consulting
I certainly hope so. It would be sad not to see them be able to keep going.
—Karen A. Buesing
Unless there is a leadership change.
—L. Monaco
Kodak's survival depends upon its developing innovative products and re-acquiring a share in the imaging (formerly photographic) market. Kodak fumbled in the late eighties, early '90s after it developed some of the best digital cameras. Now it seems that Kodak may sell some of its patents in that field so what's left? Hopefully they continue to sell good cameras with the good glass optics that has always made a Kodak camera one of my first choices.
—Michael F. Kloppel
Not while Perez in the building—throw him out with the bad memories to create a new Kodak Moment.
—Ray Del Monte, Wolff/SMG
The only hope this corporation has is a takeover by something resembling competence and will to live; free of its decades of mismanagement, arrogance, nepotism, senseless, costly acquisitions and over-indulgence. To avoid organized labor, Kodak allowed itself to be governed without accountability from within or out. It paraded as an untouchable entity while competitors —and some not so quietly—chipped at its core business unabated. To the end—and even today as it struggles and gasps—EK would not accept the reality of change and that the digital society long ago left it behind, and whatever propriety it claims is a sad dream of culture set in another generation.
—Bruno Sniders, Webster
They need to fire Perez and the board of directors as well as freeze all executive compensation to have a chance. We hope for employees and retirees that they do.
—Bob Rutt, Kodak Retiree
With the present mindset and "business plan" of the present Kodak management the only outcome can be the death of the company. It need not be, but hope for a better outcome is slim. I have been a well-known scientist and product developer in photographic research and science. In this capacity, I followed all competing technologies to film. Thus, I feel that I am one of very few scientists, researchers and product-related people who can talk about the competing technologies with confidence. I know for sure that Kodak's demise is not the result of digital photography appearing. They tried and failed due to lacking money, technology, manufacturing know-how, marketing know-how and skills and management support. Kodak has made many attempts to get into other peoples' businesses in me-too approaches, including the present one into digital imaging. They almost always failed. They ignored in this process checking out their actual and potential competitors, their competitors' financial status, and the state of the
competitors' technical expertise in the area that Kodak tried to invade. Historical examples of their failures are their futile attempts to get into Xerox's and Polaroid's businesses, another one was their costly attempt to get into the pharmaceutical area with Sterling. Kodak's present business plans fall exactly into the same patterns that has cost them dearly in the past. Kodak's only native strength is and has been in the chemical area. Look at Eastman Chemical, which is doing very well. Film is a highly sophisticated chemical system and allowed Kodak to occupy a monopolistic place for a long time. They had only two competitors that counted (Fuji and Agfa) and who could compete with them. Kodak even failed living with this competition. Kodak still has the chemical strength to compete in the chemical imaging area. In the electronic and digital area Kodak has proven to be totally incompetent. In the inkjet area they also will be failing considering the competitors. I am doubtful under the present management that Kodak will focus on its chemical based system and make it work again for them. Film, especially movie-film is a very viable product which needs support. Will Perez ever support their film producers in Hollywood to continue using Kodak's film? Previous CEO Carp told us that he was going to kill it. There is still a niche for film systems out there which digital cannot touch and which would allow Kodak to survive. Kodak has to stop trying to force their film into digital-technology dominated areas. Based on my experience, I published the potential for film vs. other imaging technologies in 2006 at the Rochester International Conference for Imaging Science. I am challenging Kodak to check this out. I am also available and willing to present this information to them. Thus, with the present mindset and "business plan" of the present Kodak management the only outcome can be death of the Company. It need not be, but hope for a better outcome is slim. A previous competitor to Kodak in Binghamton wound up making roofing paper.
—Ingo H. Leubner, Crystallization Consulting
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 2014 between WMC, IFMA and UN Women in order for the organisations to use their best efforts to collaborate for the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment, in particular in preventing violence against women and girls. This collaboration centers on awareness-raising and advocacy of the joint campaign among the member national federations, athletes, youth and other constituents.
Buakaw, He for She Ambassador
The Muaythai athletes play an important part in social responsibilities, especially as role models which can educate others. Elite athletes are role models to many and idols for youngsters which have a huge social network which can be used in so many ways. Our athletes commission encourages the Muaythai athletes on participation and promotes the IFMA principles that athletes are united for common goals. It is part of the Muaythai sport on excellent sportsmanship and this is why Buakaw one of the Muaythai superstars has been nominated as the He for She ambassador. At a recent press conference in which the Muaythai world celebrated their IOC recognition, Buakaw proudly carried the cooperation flag between Muaythai and UN Women and stated that it is every athlete's responsibility to be champions in and out of the ring and Muaythai is one family where we all stand strong together.
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The first HP T300 IHPS line installation in China. This includes an integrated soft cover book binding line and second line is coming soon.
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I tried to dump the content of www.stackoverflow.com using Lynx, but I got the following output.
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We're sorry... This IP is only allowed to access our API. To protect our users, we can't process requests from this IP address. If you believe you have reached this page in error, [1]contact us. References 1. mailto:email@example.com
Why is the content restricted? It is an open site and should be accessible by Lynx.
Do I need to do something else to fetch the content with Lynx?
What's wrong with my IP? I am using Amazon EC2 instance.


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Illinois enacted new
legislation effective Jan. 1 that calls for swimming facility
engineers, architects and contractors to be prequalified by the
Illinois Department of Public Health. There will also be a new fee
structure for swimming facilities to ensure inspectors can respond
to complaints and inspect public swimming facilities more frequently
and in a timely manner. Swimming facility fees in Illinois have not
increased in almost 40 years.
Schools and municipal pools will only pay a
fee for building aquatic features -- water slides, spray pools, play
structures and other similar features. Certain tax-exempt
organizations like the YMCA or United Way will pay lower fees than
other commercial swimming facilities.
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By requiring engineers, architects and contractors to be
prequalified and trained, the department anticipates seeing
better-quality plans to build or alter a swimming facility
submitted, which will allow the department to approve permits more
quickly. Better-quality plans reduce the possibility of having to
resubmit plans due to errors or noncompliance with the Swimming
Facilities Code. Prequalified engineers, architects and contractors
will also help people make better and more cost-effective choices
when planning to build a pool.
IDPH licenses and inspects more than 4,000 swimming facilities
annually. For more information, visit
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Mother of Achievement
In the tradition of success dating back to 2004, the 2018 World Nutrition Forum will bring the knowledge of BIOMIN and experts from across the world to the African continent in order to address some of the most important issues facing the industry.
These invitation-only biennial summits are consistently well rated by attendees. Each occurrence draws upon the uniqueness of the location, speakers and participants while maintaining the highest quality standards for both content and organization. This held true for Salzburg, Vienna, Mayrhofen, Salzburg, Singapore, Munich and Vancouver – as I am sure it will for Cape Town.
The idea of sharing our knowledge with our customers, discussing current and future challenges in the food and feed industry and presenting solutions has made the World Nutrition Forum a key event in the industry calendar.
Through on-site visits, participation to scientific and industry conferences and events, and the World Nutrition Forum, we have cultivated strong customer relationships based on shared understanding, cuttingedge science and service support – improving our ability to help you achieve the best long-term results. Commonly known as the 'Mother City' and recognized as a top global destination, Cape Town offers a vibrant, multicultural setting and modern infrastructure well suited for meetings and conventions. Attractive sights, unmatched hospitality, an eclectic mix of cuisines and the world-class Cape Town International Convention Centre are just a few of many attributes that will make the 2018 World Nutrition Forum experience unforgettable for everyone.
On behalf of BIOMIN, we look forward to welcoming you to the 2018 World Nutrition Forum. See you in Cape Town.
S.C.O.P.E. Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in the Protein Economy
The nature of science requires creativity, curiosity and the ability to break free of conventional approaches to problem solving in order to push boundaries and make genuine progress. This capacity for thinking and investigation fuels our ability as an industry to wield technology in a way that furthers economic development, drives e ciency, promotes sustainability and delivers safe and nourishing products to a growing population — now and in the future. In that vein, we invite you to join us to explore the Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in the Protein Economy (SCOPE). Our theme marries mental agility and inventiveness with the practicalities of conducting business in a global network of purchasers and suppliers that demands competitiveness throughout the feed and food chain.
In both business and science, the term scope can hold a variety of meanings.
- SCOPE suggests orders of magnitude — as in the laboratory work of recording of cell counts, or in a company's size and economies of scale.
- SCOPE speaks to vision — as in what is visible versus what requires magnifi cation in order to be detected, or in the calls to enhance transparency.
- SCOPE demarcates boundaries — as in the upper limits of an animal's genetic potential, or in the role regulations and consumer demand play in how animals are reared.
- SCOPE highlights the areas of expertise that drive the protein economy, from economics and chemistry to bioscience and agriculture: a testament to the interdisciplinary nature of our industry.
The 2018 World Nutrition Forum offers top industry professionals the opportunity to engage with peers from across the globe in the discussion of scientific challenges and opportunities in the protein economy. In addition, species-specific breakout sessions will provide a platform to delve further into topics concerning poultry, swine, ruminants, and aquaculture.


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It will be grungy, grimy, ghoulish and full of crime – and it will happen right in the middle of Kingston.
But there is no need to trouble the police.
Students at the Anstee Bridge project have thrown themselves into a new exhibition at the Kingston Museum, creating a dungeon displaying 500 years of crime and punishment in the borough.
It will run for three weeks, from March 27.
Rachel Turner helps Chloe Cunningham with her costume
Anstee Bridge coordinator Katherine Greening said: "We went up to the Clink Museum in London and that's our inspiration.
"It is not as if we have had artists in who have made it for them.
"We have taken over the top of the museum – it is going to be a grisly exhibition."
Reprehensible behaviour from Tudor times through to the Victorian era will be represented, with an eye-watering attention to detail.
"History is really fun when it's hands-on. As you walk through you will be able to touch things on the wall, you will be able to hear things.
"But you have to watch where you step, because there will be poo and animals around, and eyeballs and severed heads."
If visitors really want a taste of old-time justice, there will be a ducking stool and stocks where they can be pelted with rotten fruit – made of sponge, of course.
Student Katie Thomas, 16, said: "It's hands-on so it's really fun. It's not just writing so I enjoy that.
"We're going to put together an acting performance.
"We all picked different characters out of a hat and we're going to show individual crimes. My character stole some boots."
Artist Zoe Thomas paints some grazes on Ben Bird
The students' performances will be shown on a film loop in a specially-constructed Victorian-style cinema section.
Kay Keogh, Zoe Thomas and Andy Grzybkoski
It is not all dark and dingy over at Anstee Bridge, however.
The students have also helped organise a full-scale fashion show to raise money for the mayor's charities.
Featuring models, magic, a silent auction and the chance to have your caricature drawn, the show hopes to lend a hand to the Alzheimer's Society in Kingston and Princess Alice Hospice.
The show will take place on Friday, March 21, at the Guildhall, with doors opening at 5.30pm.
Entry is just £5 – so get your gladrags on.


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Crafted from elegant woody accords and alluring notes of leather, My Land Eau De Toilette (30ml) by Trussardi pays homage to Italian grandeur and delicacy. A rich and timeless fragrance, the scent resonates with the greats from the past without losing a sense of the here and now. Opening with fresh citrus notes of green mandarin and bergamot, the fragrance leads into the sweet, breezy notes of lavender, violet and calone. The prominent base notes comprise a woody blend of leather, vetiver and tonka bean, boasting a powerful, sophisticated scent for the traditional yet modern man. – N.P.


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When Takako Ouchi's elderly mother died last December, tradition dictated she be laid to rest in a cemetery near her home.
But the cemetery, like her old house, lies in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, rendered unreachable – perhaps forever – because of radiation. Instead, Ms. Ouchi has constructed a shrine to her mother in the bedroom of her new home, 40 miles away.
Her mother's final resting place remains in flux – as does much of Ouchi's life. "I think about different plans every day, and it's driving me crazy," she says, sitting cross-legged on the floor at a low table in her living room. "I cannot see when this uncertainty will lift."
A year after the triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown – that slammed northeastern Japan, recovery has been painfully slow. Roads and railways have reopened, most debris has been cleared, and the gyms and schools that served as shelters in the first days of the crisis now ring once again with the voices of athletes and students.
But longer-term prospects for the region and its inhabitants are still hazy. Few of those who lost homes know where they will be living this time next year, or where the money they need to live on will come from. Recovery efforts have been hampered by the scale of the disaster and "a lack of leadership," says Masaru Kohno, a political analyst at Tokyo's Waseda University. "The authorities have not done what they needed to."
Decisive leadership has not been easy for a government constrained by an opposition-controlled upper house that has blocked many of its initiatives. But even when decisions have been made, they have often become bogged down in Japan's notorious bureaucracy. Only a fraction of the funds for reconstruction has been spent.
Though Ouchi says she does not know how long she will stay in the rented house she found last October, one thing she is sure of: Although her husband still works part time at the nuclear plant that went into meltdown following the tsunami last March, she will not be returning to live in Okuma, her village.
"I've seen a documentary about Chernobyl," she says. "Nobody lives there, and that was 25 years ago."
'we just live day to day'
Ouchi's situation is similar to those of the 78,000 people ordered out of an "exclusion zone" stretching 12 miles from the reactors. Nor is the future much clearer for the other 264,000 people displaced by the earthquake, tsunami, and wider concerns about radiation. Officials up and down the battered northeastern coast say that complications of finding safe land and sufficient funds mean it could be five years or more until they are rehoused.
"I can't think about being here for five years," exclaims Chikako Nishihara, a grandmotherly physiotherapist whom the authorities have squeezed with her husband into a tiny prefabricated housing unit in the city of Iwaki. "We just live day to day."
The barracks-like compound is the sixth place Mrs. Nishihara has laid her head since she and her husband left their home in Tomioka, next door to the nuclear plant, last March 11 for a series of schools, gyms, and relatives' homes. Now their plans are on hold until the government decides whether their village can be made habitable or until TEPCO, the plant operator, compensates them.
For now 'we are in-between'
The company has so far resisted property compensation, saying it is not yet clear if some homes might be usable in the future, and that assessors cannot reach the empty houses in contaminated areas to value them. TEPCO is, however, paying the salaries of all those who lost their jobs to radiation, though how long that will last "has not been decided yet," says spokeswoman Mayumi Yoshida.
"We can't move now because neither the government nor TEPCO has said clearly where we can go or what plans they have for us," Nishihara says. But financial questions are not the only issue. "I can't think about moving at the moment because I'm still stuck on March 11," she says, almost apologetically.
When the earthquake hit at 2:46 p.m., Nishihara was caring for elderly patients in a day-care center. She stayed with them and helped move them to a shelter; they survived. But she feels guilty that she could not return all of them to their families, as she normally would have done. "I didn't finish my job," she says. "Psychologically I'm still in a kind of limbo. My husband and I had a plan [for] what we'd do with our lives when I retired, but those plans changed in an instant, and now I just can't make up my mind about things."
Taeko Ouchi, Takako Ouchi's daughter-in-law, is finding it difficult to make plans, too, as she tries to cope with her two boys, 6-year-old Kazuhito and 4-year-old Yuto, in a dilapidated public housing apartment in Iwaki that had been slated for demolition before the earthquake. "Please just tell us ... if we are not going to be able to live in Okuma again so we can focus on making a new life," she pleads. "For now, we are in between."
Government response
Government experts are still reviewing radiation levels in the exclusion zone. The Okuma village council is hoping some residents may be able to return. But Taeko's husband, Masaru, says he will not go back to the house he finished building 18 months before the quake.
He still has his old job as an electrician at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, now helping to shut it down. "Every day I go back to Okuma, and I have to wear coveralls from head to toe and a respirator," he says. "How am I going to take my children to live in a place like that?"
The government will pay his rent for another year, he has been assured. He does not know what he will do after that.
The Okuma council would like to house as many former residents as possible in one place. Officials are seeking land outside the exclusion zone. "Villagers are asking us when and where we are going to settle them, but we cannot give them a specific answer yet," says Hisashi Suzuki, head of the council's planning section. "It will be at least three to five years before we've built everything we need."
That's the sort of timeline that officials in the port of Ishinomaki, 115 miles up the coast, are also thinking of as they seek to rehouse the 17,000 people living in prefab housing.
The city government has banned new construction near the seashore, and most of the buildable land in town is already full of temporary housing. Planning chief Hiroshi Goto says he has identified two districts on the outskirts and has been negotiating with more than 300 landowners to buy their plots. "It has been very hard agreeing on a price," he says.
But until he has secured the land and created an urban plan, he cannot apply for government funding, he says. Then it could take years to build. "Maybe people could move in around 2017 or 2019," Mr. Goto predicts.
Back in Koriyama, Takako Ouchi lights a joss stick in memory of her mother and her former life, and sighs. "I'm not sure I have the courage to face a new world," she says. "I feel like a caged bird."


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"Unbreak My Heart," Melissa Walker's novel for young adults, is refreshingly clear-eyed, a frank look at the jagged aftermath of a romance gone wrong.
Clementine is shattered after being caught with her best friend's boyfriend (nothing more than G-rated; Clementine and the boy, Ethan, never do more than kiss, if that; it's vague). she can't forgive herself for betraying her best friend, can't understand why she allowed herself to fall for the boy, who somehow remains blameless for much of the story.
She sorts things out, slowly, on a summer river trip that's enforced family time on a sailboat. She is predictably unenthusiastic about the idea of spending summer with Mom, Dad and her little sister. Clementine wanders two steps forward, one step back, in her journey toward forgiveness, aided by a charming redhead who's on a journey of his own.
Walker nails the confusion, rage, self-pity and self-accusations that are part and parcel of a dumpee, and equally astute in characterizing Clementine's slow, choppy return to reality. It's a great book for a reader struggling with her (or his) own heartbreak, terrific especially because true healing requires both accountability and contrition.


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Journal Article
An Analysis of Collaborative Group Structure Technological Facilitation from a Knowledge Management Perspective pp221-228
© May 2007 Volume 5 Issue 2, ICICKM 2006, Editor: Dan Remenyi, pp131 - 254
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A range of collaborative group structures are analysed from the perspective of knowledge management enabling technologies. A framework is developed demonstrating the application and role of specific technologies in supporting collaborative group structures including Communities of Practice, Centres of Practice, Special Interest Groups, Centres of Competence and Communities of Competence. In evaluating the utilisation of such technologies, the nature, purpose and capabilities of such group structures are analysed.
Keywords: communities of practice, knowledge management, communities of competence, knowledge management technologies
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We offer a true quality nobody has; and for a price nobody is offering you for a comparable quality. This print was photographed using the latest technology, colour matched to the original illustration and then reproduced at the original plate size. A Museum Quality Limited Edition print, original size, signed, numbered and blind stamped. Indistinguishable form the original when glazed and framed.
Title of the print: Hibiscus Indian Sorrel
Prints publication: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Author: Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1713)
Prints Artist: Maria Sibylla Merian
Paper size: 48 x 34 cm
Edition: The edition will be limited to 150 prints, numbered 1/150 to 150/150, signed and stamped with a blind embossing.
Certificate of Authenticity: On demand
Original: In 1699 the city of Amsterdam sponsored Merian to travel to Surinam along with her younger daughter, Dorothea Maria.
Before departing, she wrote: In Holland, I noted with much astonishment what beautiful animals came from the East and West Indies. I was blessed with having been able to look at both the expensive collection of Doctor Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam and director of the East Indies society, and that of Mr. Jonas Witsen, secretary of Amsterdam. Moreover I also saw the collections of Mr. Fredericus Ruysch, doctor of medicine and professor of anatomy and botany, Mr. Livinus Vincent, and many other people. In these collections I had found innumerable other insects, but finally if here their origin and their reproduction is unknown, it begs the question as to how they transform, starting from caterpillars and chrysalises and so on. All this has, at the same time, led me to undertake a long dreamed of journey to Suriname. (foreword in Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium)
Merian worked in Surinam (which included what later became known as the French, Dutch and British Guianas) for two years, travelling around the colony and sketching local animals and plants. She also criticized the way Dutch planters treated Amerindian and black slaves. She recorded local native names for the plants and described local uses.
In 1701 malaria forced her to return to Netherlands. Back in the Netherlands she sold specimens she had collected and published a collection of engravings about the life in Surinam. In 1705 she published a book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium about the insects of Surinam.
Source of the original : This Heritage Facsimile Edition print is made from an extremely well-preserved early museum original subscription which has been cared for in the hands of this one owner only – Teylers Museum (the oldest museum of the Netherlands).
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My code is as simple as follows
LaSymmMatDouble A(N, N);
LaVectorDouble v(N);
LaGenMatDouble Eigenvectors(N, N);
LaEigSolve(A, v, Eigenvectors);
However, I find that N can not be more than 40000. I feel puzzled about this. From the Internet a lot of people said LAPACK supports large matrix. Also, it is a little bit slow to calculate eigenvectors.
My problem is simply to calculate eigenvectors and eigenvalue for matrix as large as 40000*40000. Any idea on this?


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I don't know what you folks out there in readerland have been doing to your cameras lately, but there seems to be a trend at the moment for making cameras that are able to withstand the kind of heavy-duty treatment previously reserved for Land Rovers and very expensive wristwatches.
First we had Pentax with its range of waterproof but stylish compacts, the Optio WP, WPi and W10. Then Ricoh got in on the act with the industrial-looking Caplio 400G, which is water resistant and has a rubberised body to resist damage. Now Olympus has decided it wants to play rough too, and has hurled the rugged µ (mju) 720SW at an unsuspecting market.
Of course all of the previous cameras in the Olympus mju range have been water resistant, which has made them very popular with that section of the travelling public whose idea of a refreshing summer break is lugging a dayglo rucksack through the jungles of South-east Asia. They can be used in the rain or in the spray of ocean waves, or washed under a tap if they get dirty.
However the new 720SW raises the stakes somewhat. It is fully waterproof to a depth of three metres, conforming to "IEC Standard publication 529 IPX8", and is also shock proof "according to Olympus test methods".
In case you were wondering, "IEC 529 IPX8" simply means that it can be used continuously while immersed in water. It turns out that there are several competing international standards for just how waterproof something is. For example the Pentax W10 conforms to "JIS class 8", which means it's good for 30 minutes at a depth of 1.5m. The Ricoh 400G is compliant with "JIS class 7", so it's OK in the rain or being rinsed under a tap, but should not be used while swimming.
As for the "Olympus test methods" for shock-proofing, I have been unable to find out exactly what these methods are. The press release claims that it can survive being dropped from a height of 1.5m, but doesn't state onto what kind of surface. So I decided to test it myself.
I hope nobody from Olympus is reading this, because I took the brand-new £230 camera that the company had entrusted to my care and deliberately dropped it several times from head height onto a variety of different surfaces, including carpet, lino and a hard wooden floor. I stopped short of concrete because I didn't want to mark the case, but I'm happy (and relieved) to report that it survived the ordeal apparently unscathed.
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Gone fisin': Kids hear better than they speak
Q. Is there much difference between what young children hear and what they can say? Asked another way, have you ever heard of the FIS phenomenon? –J. Fariello
A. This was first reported by psycholinguists Jean Berko and Roger Brown in 1960: "One of us spoke to a child who called his inflated plastic fish a 'FIS.' In imitation of the child's pronunciation, the observer said, 'This is your FIS?' 'No,' said the child, 'my FIS,' and he continued to repeat the adult's imitation until he was told, 'That is your fish.' 'Yes,' he said, 'my FIS.'"
This fascinating effect has been referred to as the FIS phenomenon ever since, says David Crystal in How Language Works. Reports indicate that children know far more about adult phonology than their own pronunciation suggests, leading to some intriguing conversations between young children and adults (as many of you parents have discovered for yourselves).
Q. How early in life did the "Father of Geekdom" get his first hint of who he might become? –B. Gates
A. Called also the "Father of Computer Science," retired Stanford math professor Donald Knuth may just be the world's most renowned geek, says Dave Wieczorek in Think magazine of Case Western Reserve University. Knuth has authored more than 30 books, including The Art of Computer Programming, already into its fourth volume and fifth decade. He is also editing Selected Papers on Fun and Games, which will include his own short story, The Chemical Caper, where every word is a chemical formula.
"A geek is not something you learn to be," Knuth says; "you just are." An early indication of this was the candy bar contest he entered as an eighth-grader. A local radio station had challenged contestants to see how many words they could make out of the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar."
"I devised a systematic way to go through the dictionary and find all these words. So I pretended to be sick and stayed home from school for a whole week. I found 4,500 words even though the judges had only 2,500 on their master list. (I won two candy bars and a toboggan.) That was an early indication of my geek streak."
Q. Can you think of a long word with only one vowel? –L. Carroll
A. "Rhythms" is a strong candidate, "strengths" is even stronger, growing more so if you turn it into "strengthlessness," a 16-letter word with only one vowel used repeatedly (from Anu Garg's The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two).
Q. You probably know about whole numbers, positive and negative numbers, fractions, decimals– all of which are "real" numbers. But what are "imaginary" numbers, which were initially treated with suspicion? –U. Clid
A. Because the square of any real number is positive (+3 times +3 = +9; -3 times -3 = +9), for centuries mathematicians thought it impossible for a negative number to have a square root, says Clifford Pickover in The Math Book. Then in the 16th century, the notation for taking the square root of -1 was introduced, and two centuries later came its symbol "i" for the first letter of the Latin word "imaginarius," which is still in use.
Today, imaginary numbers have become essential tools in microchip design and in digital compression, explains Michael Brooks of New Scientist magazine. Your MP3 player relies on imaginary stuff. Even more fundamental, imaginary numbers underpin quantum mechanics, which gave rise to the electronics revolution. "And without imaginary numbers," Brooks says, "you won't get an answer that reflects the reality of the physical world, and you won't get an iPod either."
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A sluggish manufactured housing market and a slowdown in motorhome sales were the main reasons given for Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. reporting its earnings declined 53% during the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2000, which ended April 30.
The company earned $11.4 million during the February-through-April period, compared with $24.5 million earned a year earlier.
During its entire fiscal year 2000, Fleetwood earned a total of $83.5 million, a 22% decline from the $107.1 million it earned during its fiscal 1999.
Fleetwood's total sales declined 6% during its fourth fiscal quarter to $893.9 million but its revenues for its entire fiscal year 2000 were up 6% to $3.71 billion.
The company's motorhome shipments declined 2% during the February-through-April period to 4,379 units. However, its travel trailer and fifth-wheel shipments were up 1% to 11,018 units and its folding camper shipments increased 7% during the quarter to 5,536 units, according to the company.


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Create a website layout for a Tucson start-up company that'll disrupt the entire Southern Arizona real estate industry! Start-up already has an A grade team and staff, and all we need now is your winning website design! Be a part of Tucson real estate history!
I need a home page and an internal page designed. I need a professional layout designed that looks great, and is incredibly easy to navigate. Like Geico, a caveman should be able to use TREDaily.com.
You see, my website right now... It's kinda like... a Louis Vuitton Store in the ghetto. People know it's a great resource but they're afraid to venture through the concrete jungle. So I need a relocation to happen with this website design. Relocate me to 5th Avenue. Relocate me to Rodeo Drive. Or how about Ginza? Maybe Champs Elysees?
TRE Daily is the new breed. We bring service back into real estate. We put our clients before our interests. We're the company that's going to make every useless, non-performing real estate agent packing their bags for a new profession and industry.
How are we going to do this you ask?
All of our agents have sold 20+ homes in their careers, and we're a small company where we all work together. We know each others' names and help each other out with information and assistance.
But when it comes to selling? We market properties over 25+ video sites and 30+ real estate listing sites. We create individual websites for each property, have 50+ full size high quality photos, and da-dum, VIDEO! We really do what real estate agents are supposed to do. Provide value to the Umpteenth degree. Notice the U is capitalized.
So, yes, you're designing a website that's going to be a major player in the Tucson real estate industry. I wouldn't doubt it... Doubt what? Doubt that we're going to get airtime on news channels because of this disruption. Get magazine to mention, or even cover us, about what we brought back into the industry.
If we shine, you shine. So help us polish ourselves. You scratch my back, your portfolio will love you for it!
Here is the logo of TRE Daily. It's 98% done, me and the designer are going to go through some last minute changes with extremely tiny details, but that is the idea and color scheme that I'm going with.
I've uploaded sketches for what I had in mind, and you can check them out here:
Briefing Video
Main Page
Internal Page.
As you can see, the Internal Page is the header and footer of the Main Page with a customized sidebar.
You do not have to follow the sketches to the T. That's what I had in mind, but if you are going to put in your two cents, creativity, and your effort into it to create something grand? Blow me away with your genius. I've done that with my logo contest, might as well allow you to do it for this right here and receive the same results.
For the Main Page:
As you can tell from my sketches, I value my real estate website's real estate. I'd like you to value it too in your concepts.
- For the header, I'd like to have my logo, phone number, and a CSS customizable navigation bar.
- In the middle, I'd like to have a client menu. A blog box with recent posts; a Search the Entire MLS for Free box, a Get the Most HOME for Your $$$ box, a Sell Your Home Fast and for Top Dollar (with a small tagline *click to find out how listing with other agents can have you losing 1,000s of dollars*), and a newsletter opt-in box.
- Under the menu, I'd like to be able to have these boxes that I can edit in the future within my Wordpress CMS. Have a nice box design, but at any given time, I can change the titles and contents within the boxes.
- And last but not least, a footer.For the Internal Page:
The Internal Page is the same as the Main Page's header and footer, but it has a sidebar with graphic buttons. These are the buttons that I was looking for:
- A TRE Daily Blog button with text inside -Up to date market news, trends, and more...- and it's divided with an RSS subscription button
- A "Latest Tucson Market Report" with a tagline -Find out the overview of what happened in Tucson's market last month-
- A Buy button, can have the offer: Get the most home for your money
- A sell button, Sell your Home Fast and for Top Dollar
- A Search Tucson MLS Button
- A "TRE Daily VS The Traditional Real Estate Agent" button with the tagline -Find out who obliterates the competition!-
- Tucson Resources button, with tagline of Dining, Outdoor Activities, and more...-
- Answer Our Survey and Win Dinner for 2 buttonThat's it. Take what I need and create a masterpiece. Once again, my sketches are what I had in my mind. You're a designer. Take it to the next level. Take it to the next level, but remember this has to be easy to navigate. Easy to use. Valuable to someone from ages 21-80. An all around beautiful website.
My team can take it to the top with our service and value. Just create a site that keeps the visitor engaged just long enough so that we can deliver our message and have them wake up that we're the best.
We don't tell them we're the best by saying we're the best. We're the best because we deliver 2010 real estate company values.
Thanks and good luck everyone, I know me and my company will not be disappointed!
As long as you follow the above desires, we'll be good.


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|Instrument: CERES-FM2 : Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 2
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Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument Subtype: Radiometers
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Spectral/Frequency Information
Number Channels: 1
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 0.3 ?m - 100 ?m
Wavelength Keyword: Infrared > Reflected
Number Channels: 1
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 0.3 ?m - 5 ?m
Wavelength Keyword: Infrared > Thermal
Number Channels: 1
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 8 ?m - 12 ?m
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CERES consists of two broadband scanning radiometers that measure the Earth's radiation balance and provide cloud property estimates to assess their role in radiative fluxes from the surface to the top of the atmosphere.
CERES is a broadband scanning thermistor bolometer package with extremely high radiometric measurement precision and accuracy. The Terra spacecraft carries two identical instruments: one operates in a cross-track scan mode and the other in a biaxial scan mode. The CERES Terra cross-track scanning data greatly extends the CERES data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) to achieve complete global measurements by adding mid-latitude and polar observations (see CERES-FM1). TRMM data is restricted by its orbit to roughly cover 40S to 40N. Terra crosstrack data also adds observations at different times of day than TRMM (and later Aqua) in order to increase the accuracy of measuring the large diurnal cycle of the radiation fields from day to night. Finally, the CERES Terra biaxial scan mode provides new observations of the angular radiation fields in order to greatly improve the accuracy of the final fluxes of solar and thermal energy used to derive the Earth's radiation balance.
Each CERES instrument has three channels--a short-wave channel for measuring reflected sunlight, a longwave channel for measuring Earth-emitted thermal radiation in the 8-12 µm "window" region, and a total channel for total radiation. Onboard calibration hardware includes a solar diffuser, a tungsten lamp system with a stability monitor, and a pair of blackbody sources. Cold space and internal calibration looks are performed during each normal Earth scan.
CERES is a Principal Investigator instrument provided by NASA and managed by NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) in Hampton, Virginia. The instrument was built by TRW in Redondo Beach, California. The CERES Team Leader is Norman Loeb.
Information obtained from http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/ceres/terra/
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MEDWAY -- Medway Community Education is offering fall programs for all area residents, and is introducing a varied selection of new classes while continuing to offer all-time favorite programs for all ages.
For preschool-aged children, programs include art, sports, dance and swim lessons, as well as a stroller boot camp for parents and children.
Youth programs include cooking, safety, sports, dance, music, a night out at Molly's Apothecary, as well as a new program all about drones.
A variety of programs are available for teens and high school students, including a first aid/CPR course, driver's education classes, college SAT test prep courses, and more.
For adults, there is something for everyone, including fitness, crafts, cooking, sports, photography, and wine and beer, among others. There are also programs on career assistance, college funding, estate planning, organizational skills, first aid/CPR, and English as a Second Language.
Medway Community Education is also offering three day trips: A Day in New York City, a holiday tour at the Newport Mansions, and the Providence performance of "An American in Paris."
Registration is required; space is limited. Visit Medway Community Education online at www.medwayce.org and browse the fall brochure for detailed information on all programs.


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Padres had 11 arbitration-eligible players unsigned on Monday. As of Tuesday, all but 2 are signed. Only Clayton Richard and Dustin Moseley remain.
If the MLB.com depth chart is to believed, both pitchers are expected to be members of the 2012 rotation, along with Tim Stauffer, Cory Luebke, and Edison Volquez. With Mat Latos and Wade LeBlanc traded, San Diego doesn't have many fall-back options should they not sign either or both. Of the non-roster invitees, only Matt Palmer has major-league starting experience, which amounts to 20 starts over 4 years. He's also only thrown 49 innings in the majors since the end of the 2009 season. Not much of a stop-gap option.
Casey Kelly and Joe Wieland are the long-term solutions (as well as possibly Anthony Bass), but the former 2 are at least a year away and the latter one is slotted for more bullpen experience. Many have argued Bass is not yet ready to be a full-time starter. As time permits I hope to take a look at that.
If nothing else, the good news is Padres payroll is headed up. They had the third-lowest payroll on Opening Day 2011 and likely will be in the bottom quarter of all teams this season. They still have a ways to go to be competitive, but at least the team is trending in the right direction.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Plot & ThemesComposition of Book Descript. of chases or violence 20%planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20%Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places 20% FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story Spying & Investigations - Yes What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal) - unraveling a conspiracy - finding a spy/saboteur Magical Beings/Mental/Magical/Powers - Yes Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Main CharacterProfession/status: - champion of justice Age: - 20's-30's
SettingSpaceship setting: - futuristic human warship A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society Planet outside solar system? - Yes Takes place in spaceship? - Yes
Writing StyleAccounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment scientific jargon? (SF only) - a fair amount of scientific explanation How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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TalkingEconomics: Global markets summary July 2015
Five years on from the world economy's initial rebound in 2010, it is clear that the growth environment is best described by a square-root sign.
Flatlining global growth
The initial U-shaped upswing has given way to a world of flat 2.5% growth, well below the performance prior to the financial crisis.
The comparison with the pre-crisis world highlights the absence of a global locomotive and means that we are unlikely to break with the square-root recovery.
The recovery in growth from the Global Financial Crisis can best be described by a square-root sign.
Following the initial collapse and rebound, global growth has flat-lined at a steady, but sub-par, rate of 2.5%, which is half the rate achieved prior to the financial crisis.
This slowdown is largely accounted for by the emerging markets, where growth has slowed as a result of weaker demand from the West for emerging market exports.
However, we expect a continued recovery in Europe and Japan, as well as steady growth in the US, to push global growth up to 2.9% in 2016. This in turn should feed through into better exports for the emerging markets.
Looking for a global locomotive
In general though, we are doubtful that global growth will return to its pre-crisis pace, largely because the US is no longer the global locomotive that it once was.
With subdued credit growth, an ageing workforce, increasing inflationary pressure and looming interest rate rises, the economy is not in a position to reprise its role as the driver of global growth.
It is difficult to see who might take on this responsibility:
- The eurozone is only just escaping deflation and, like Japan, is relying on currency depreciation to reflate activity.
- China is in fact too small – we estimate that China represents less than 10% of global consumption compared to the US's 25%.
- Hopes that India may become the new driver of global demand look a tad optimistic as domestic consumption is little more than 2.5% of the global total.
The comparison with the pre-crisis world highlights the absence of a global locomotive and means that we are unlikely to break with the square-root recovery.


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Some 20,000 people attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-sponsored Celebration of Family History Thursday night in the LDS Conference Center Auditorium.
It was a spectacular presentation that combined music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, video shorts showing real people talking about what family history means to them, and talks from LDS president Henry B. Eyring and historian David McCullough. McCullough is the author of the books The Johnstown Flood, 1776, John Adams and others. Each element flowed smoothly into the next, in a seamless and inspiring program.
This is a picture I took with my phone before the celebration got underway:
One of my favorite moments came after a video about a man whose family came to appreciate their Scottish heritage when one young son decided to take up the bagpipes. The video's sound faded as the choir launched into Amazing Grace and out marched a quartet of bagpipers—including the real live boy in the video, now all grown up.
Hearing McCullough was a real treat. Growing up in Pittsburgh, he said, all the kids would make gravy lakes in their mashed potatoes, use a fork to break the side and say "Johnstown Flood" as the gravy flowed into the peas—having no idea what they were talking about. That tragic flood was the topic of his first book.
At dinner time in the 1940s, his hard-of-hearing dad (who detested president Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and his equally hard-of-hearing grandmother (who believed that next to Jesus, FDR was the best human being to walk the earth) would debate the New Deal at unforgettable levels.
McCullough spoke about the importance of history and the wonderfulness of journals as sources. If you want to be immortal, he advised the audience, keep a journal, and when you think the curtain's about to come down on your life, give it to the Library of Congress. Your journal will be famous because it will be the only one in existence from this era.
To get to know your ancestors, besides studying their records and reading what they wrote, you should read what they read, McCullough said. There's no such thing as a self-made man or woman—we're all made from the people before us and the people before them and the people before them. There's no such thing as the "forseeable future," our ancestors no more knew how things were going to turn out that we know.
The phrase shouldn't be "gone but not forgotten," he said, but rather, "if not forgotten, then not gone."
You can read more about the Celebration of Family History here and here , and see a video about it here.


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Last I counted, there are at least 15 USB flash drives scattered across my desk. We get them when public relations companies send over review units, at press events, or as swag at industry parties. If USB flash drives became currency one day, technology journalists would be the richest people in the world.
But they're not. Flash drives are a way for PR companies to consolidate information into a compact package so we can pay attention as we try a new product, instead of taking spec notes. Unfortunately, after the article is said and done, the USB drive goes back into a drawer where many of its cousins reside, never to be touched again. It's a waste of plastic and perfectly good technology.
To combat this uneconomical practice, Andrew DePaula and team have invented the intelliPaper. At first glance, it looks like your average cardboard paper with silver prints at the end. But tear this perforated edge out and stick it into your computer's USB slot and you have a functioning, flash drive. It's an ingenius response to the increasing use of USB technology in a recyclable, disposable way. And in turn, we no longer have to feel guilty for hoarding little plastic drives.
The intelliPaper team sent over a press kit to visualize how practical paper USBs can be. In it, we find a university pamphlet with a detachable intelliPaper strip at the bottom for more information, a postcard, and a few business cards. There's also a stone-shaped reader that connects to your computer via mini USB cord if you're uncomfortable with jamming a cardboard strip into your drive. These sample applications allow companies to provide additional information without the bulk and waste of plastic, and customize them in a practical and effective manner.
"We've been selling the product to a handful of companies since April. These are real projects that companies paid us to do," DePaula tells us. "Right now, the samples are read-only, but there's no reason anyone like yourself can't get them and do whatever you want."
With his Indiegogo project freshly launched, he aims to create a version where people can write their own files to the drives and print them on pamphlets or business cards of their choice.
The secret to intelliPaper's design is to strip a traditional USB drive to its core. DePaula did away with the bulky plastic housing and embedded the same silicon flash memory in the paper, thus creating a paper-thin USB drive.
In our initial use, we found intelliPaper quite intuitive. For disposable, one-time-use purposes, intelliPaper is an excellent way to curb manufacturing costs on drives. Not that there is a mobility issue with USB drives, but flattening it to the thinness of paper also makes it mailable in a regular envelope. Why is this important? Let's be frank: People are curious. Even if you don't care about the info kit that was sent to your house, if it comes with a paper USB, you'd at least want to stick it in your computer and see what's up. From a business card standpoint, this is also a unique way to program your portfolio, website shortcut, or resume into the intelliPaper strip instead of where QR codes may currently be.
That's not to say intelliPaper doesn't have some problems left to resolve. In rare instances, intelliPaper managed to instantly boot me off my computer upon USB insertion – a problem DePaula guesstimates to be my MacBook's older version of Mountain Lion. He also notes that my case is the first he's ever heard of intelliPaper's bugs, and the team is working hard to resolve any possible glitches. "There's some [Mac] update that makes our product not work. It just doesn't show up on your screen even though the system hardware shows it recognizes the flash drive," he says. "We've made some changes to keep the product up to date, though why it didn't work in the first place is still a mystery."
One could argue that all this could be resolved if we just resorted to Web addresses. But the truth of the matter is, USB drives – outside of their storage utility – have become a way for companies to advertise and reach new audiences. Although the drives are still somewhat expensive at the Indiegogo funding of $100 for ten 8-32MB drives, like any new product, the price should go down with scale. The possibilities seem infinite. When those days come, the only plastic USB drives I'll own are the ones I actually want, use, and need.
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