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The Catholic anti-Obama election year roll-out continues? Super-lawsuit filed by 43 dioceses, universities, and Our Sunday Visitor
Back in the heady days of 2010 and the health-care reform debate, I wondered if there was a "Monday morning conference call" during which Catholic GOP activists got together to work out how to scuttle any reform deal. (Anyone remember Bart Stupak? Didn't think so.) I wondered if I hit a nerve when a prominent member of the conservative Catholic political class emailed me the next day.
As this current election year heats up, I find myself wondering the same thing about that conference call, as first Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio bravely canceled its student health insurance plan over "religious liberty" fears--better to have them uninsured than trouble your conscience--and today Our Sunday Visitor, along with the University of Notre Dame, trumpets joining a massive federal lawsuit simultaneously filed in 12 jurisdictions against the HHS "contraceptive mandate."
Two major announcements in two weeks--and this one accompanied by the communications apparatus of one of the country's largest Catholic publishers, whose head, Greg Erlandson, is also president of the Catholic Press Association. (OSV also has a nice selection of "religious liberty products.") This is all speculation, of course--and I have no direct knowledge that there is a coordinated conservative Catholic campaign to defeat President Obama in November. But if I was planning one, I don't think I could have done it any better.
Granted, the administration gave its Catholic opponents some red meat with that mandate, but since HHS has totally backpedaled since the outcry, I hardly see the point in spending so much money--and forcing the government to spend so much taxpayer money--too oppose a regulation that may or may not go into effect, especially given the Affordable Care Act's almost certain destruction by the Supreme Court.
Then again, I have argued--and I am fairly certain that I am right about this--is that every U.S. diocese, parish, and Catholic grammar and high school; some universities, including Steubenville; and most (if not all) Catholic publishers, including OSV and U.S. Catholic, would have been covered under the very first version of the religious exemption from the mandate, much less all the subsequent revisions.
Notre Dame President John Jenkins seems more circumspect about the lawsuit than Our Sunday Visitor, but whatever the intentions of either organization, I fear this further insertion of Catholicism in its various expressions into this election year is bad for the church. Most Americans--including most Catholics--do not like this kind of direct mixture of religion and politics, and I see no reason to pursue this matter in the courts now given the uncertainty surrounding both the reform as a whole and the mandate. If you're going to get what you want without all the legal drama, why instigate the legal drama?


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Shoemakers market, Safranbolu, Turkey.
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(June 30, 2011) An international team including University of Pennsylvania paleontologists is unearthing the appearance of ancient animals by using the world's most powerful X-rays. New research shows how trace metals in fossils can be used to determine the pigmentation patterns of creatures dead for more than a hundred million years.
The research was conducted by an international team working with Phillip Manning, an adjunct professor in the School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and Peter Dodson, a professor in both the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and the School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Animal Biology. They collaborated with Roy Wogelius of the University of Manchester, Uwe Bergmann of Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and other researchers.
Their work will be published in the journal Science on July 1.
Manning and Dodson have long studied fossils of the earliest birds, including Confuciusornis sanctus, which lived 120 million years ago and was one of many evolutionary links between dinosaurs and birds, and Gansus yumenensis, which is considered the oldest modern bird and lived more than 100 million years ago. Their partnership with researchers from Manchester and Stanford, however, has opened a new avenue of investigation.
"Every once in a while we are lucky enough to discover something new, something that nobody has ever seen before," said Wogelius, a geochemist and the paper's lead author.
The team's discovery is rooted in a new technique, using technology based on synchrotron radiation to identify copper-bearing molecules in the fossilized feathers of these ancient birds.
"There is an intimate relationship between trace metals and organics. When you're getting a good suntan, melanin forms in your skin. There are many forms of melanin, and some are found in the dark feathers of birds, but copper is always bound into its structure," Manning said. "You can see this in living animals, but it's only since we've been using a synchrotron -- a vast accelerator that generates intense X-rays a hundred million times brighter than the sun -- that we can see the chemical detail in fossils and show that the copper complexes we found were originally part of the animal."
Metallic compounds can survive in these fossils for hundreds of millions of years because they are unpalatable to microorganisms. But to distinguish the copper that was bound in melanin with copper that might have been geochemically produced requires the precision that only a tool like the synchrotron can provide. By measuring the energy released by atoms when they are bombarded with high-powered X-rays, researchers can get an accurate picture of the molecules in which they reside.
"We're able to map absolute quantities, to parts-per-million levels in discrete biological structures, which we compare with living organisms and see they are comparable," Manning said.
The new technique paints a richer picture of the lives of these ancient creatures.
"While our work doesn't yet allow you to diagnose color, you can get the concentration and distribution of pigments," Dodson said. "In other words, you can work out monochrome patterns, which may tell us something about camouflage or other traits relevant to natural selection of the species."
"If we could eventually give colors to long extinct species, that in itself would be fantastic," said co-author Uwe Bergmann, deputy director of the Linac Coherent Lightsource at SLAC. "But synchrotron radiation has revolutionized science in many fields, most notably in molecular biology. It is very exciting to see that it is now starting to have an impact in paleontology, in a way that may have important implications in many other disciplines,"
The team is confident that further research with this technique will enable them to fully diagnose color via fossil chemistry, and they also believe that this is only one of many applications the technique will have.
"This synchrotron research is really important as it gives us the first clue to really understanding what happens with organic debris when you bury it in the ground," Manning said. "For example, there are huge implications for understanding the mass transfer of buried waste; trace metals can be bad if you get too much of them, so we can spatially map and give images of exact loadings of these metals in both living and extinct organisms. No one else can do this. It's not just contributing to a field, it's creating a whole new discipline."
In addition to Wogelius, Manning, Dodson and Bergmann, the research was conducted by Holly Barden, Nick Edwards and William Sellers, of Manchester University; Peter Larson of Manchester University and the Black Hills Institute of Geological Researc, Inc.; Kevin Taylor of Manchester Metropolitan University; Sam Webb of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Hai-lu You of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences; and Li Da-qing of the Gansu Geological Museum.
Support for this research was provided by the United Kingdom's National Environmental Research Council and an anonymous private donor.
Fossil samples were provided by the Black Hills Institute Museum and the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt University, Berlin. The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at SLAC is a Department of Energy Office of Science national user facility which provides synchrotron radiation for research in chemistry, biology, physics and materials science to more than a thousand users each year.
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While European carriers are facing turbulent times, some Asian airlines are hoping that a cut-price long-haul model will find a ready market in Asia's growing middle class.
Globally, low-cost carriers have been the industry's success story over the past decade, with their market share rising from 8% of all seats sold in 2001 to nearly 26% this year, according to the Centre for Aviation.
Budget airlines have largely focused on short- to medium-haul routes, with their success in winning passengers through low fares forcing many full-service "legacy carriers" to launch their own low-cost options in response.
Efforts to apply the low-cost model to longer-haul travel -- most notably on trans-Atlantic routes -- have repeatedly met with failure, as witnessed in the collapse of Laker Airways in 1982, and Zoom Airlines in 2008.
But now, in Asia, an increasing number of operators are beginning to offer long-haul air travel for low fares, opening a new frontier in the fiercely competitive aviation market.
Singapore Airlines' budget offering, Scoot, will begin operations later this year, joining Malaysia's AirAsia X and Australia's Jetstar, a Qantas subsidiary, in flying long-haul in the region. Scoot plans to fly to five destinations in Australia, Japan and China in its first year, before targeting other routes. Cebu Pacific, a budget carrier from the Philippines, will enter the market next year with a long-haul service targeting the Filipino Diaspora in the Middle East and further afield.
Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson told CNN's Richard Quest that the low-cost market was rapidly growing in Asia. "In eight years in Singapore, it's gone from nothing to about 25% of Changi's (Airport) throughput. There's a market that wants to travel no frills and wants to travel further afield."
Wilson denied that Scoot would simply cannibalize Singapore Airlines' existing customers, saying it was targeted to appeal to a separate, price-conscious customer base oriented towards leisure travel.
"I believe there's a whole market that doesn't even consider some airlines because of their positioning in the market, because of the perceived expense of flying, and because of the bells and whistles that they might not want," he said.
But some have questioned the viability of low-cost long-haul as a business model. Scoot's launch will come on the back of news that AirAsia X is pulling out of its long-haul routes to Europe, after three years of flying into London and one year into Paris.
AirAsia X CEO Asran Osman-Rani told Quest that the decision was due to specific issues with the European market, rather than with the low-cost long-haul model itself.
"That's unfortunately the reality of where Europe is today," he said. "What we've seen over the second half of 2011 was that the number of Europeans in our passengers were steadily declining as a reflection of the economic situation. People were more worried about jobs, and leisure travel becomes one of the first things that gets cut back."
AirAsia X has subsequently announced it will suspend its services to Christchurch, New Zealand, from the end of May -- a decision it blamed on the spiralling cost of jet fuel. But Osman-Rani said the airline had proven low-cost long-haul worked in markets like China and Australia.
"I think there's nothing structurally wrong with the model," Osman-Rani added. "I think it can work."
Andrew Cowen, managing partner of Mango Aviation, an advisory firm specializing in low-cost airline start-ups, agrees.
He said Asia was a logical market for long-haul budget carriers to succeed, as a natural outgrowth of the low-cost short-haul carriers that had proliferated in the region in response to deregulation of the aviation industry.
"You've got an emerging and growing middle class in Asia, with increasing aspiration and ability to travel," said Cowen. "It's also an extremely price-conscious market."
He did not believe that the lack of service and legroom provided by budget airlines would necessarily be a fatal turn-off for customers facing a 10-hour long-haul flight -- as long as the fares were low enough.
"No entertainment? You can solve it by having your own iPad or PSP. Free food on a flag carrier, or buy it yourself on a low-cost carrier? It's not an issue. Most of us will have a bite to eat at the airport and can purchase something extra on board if necessary," he said. "Besides, in economy class on the flag carriers there's not a lot of leg room to begin with."
Cowen added that low-cost carriers could pack up to 25% extra passenger seats in their aircraft, and also had a "big advantage" in not facing the substantial infrastructure costs borne by the legacy carriers, who were being forced to get into the low-cost sector themselves. "They've realized if they don't, they're going to lose the market anyway," he said.
Cannibalization needn't be a problem, according to Cowen. The success of a budget carrier like Jetstar in operating alongside its full-service counterpart Qantas shows how the two brands could collaborate to serve different segments of the market without poaching each other's customers. "All of us don't drive a Mercedes Benz and all of us don't drive a Volkswagen Golf," he said.
He predicted that Asia's four budget long-haul carriers would all succeed in the market. And, in a prediction likely to be welcomed by travelers the world over, he said that other low-cost, long-haul carriers were likely to follow in Asia, and in other regions when market conditions were right.
"I think we're going to see a lot more low-cost long-haul coming into the market," he said. "It's only a matter of time."


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Even if you're up in arms about the new series of Watchmen prequels, aren't you a bit curious to see what DC has in store for the early adventures of the Minutemen? Now that we've seen the Before Watchmen covers, DC is offering a sneak peek at the interior artwork.
DC showed these images today at C2E2, and will have them up on the Before Watchmen website later today. We'll get better quality images in as soon as they're available.
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The Automatic Software Update option in the TV menu should be set to On to keep the software updated to the most current version.
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- Do not unplug the AC power cord (mains lead) from the outlet because the software update will stop.
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- A software update is available if a notification message for new software appears when you turn on the TV (the message will disappear automatically).
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- For Android TV: [Home] > [Settings] > [TV] > [Storage and Reset] > [Factory data reset].
- For non-Android TV: Press the HOME button on the remote > [Settings] > [System Settings] > [Customer Support] > [Factory Settings] > [OK].
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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
Thanks for the update Joe! Good to see that the Mets are winning more lately!
Joe it's Friday and I am going through withdrawal. Where are this weeks pictures?


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A guide for Relaxation.
Posted: Fri 31 Aug, 2012
Thank you to Sakoda, the original creator of this idea, whose colourbreathing technique has been adapted below.
Thanks also to Wakerife and x Puffycloud x for not letting the idea die, and continuing with the guide.
Their Progressive Muscle Relaxation technique has been included below.
Final thanks to Eilatan for providing me with helpful tips and edits.
Many people find it difficult to stay in lucid dreams because they cant keep calm. They get over excited and find themselves losing lucidity. It is important to remember that it is not about straining your will to relax, and become lucid, but rather about letting go and gently drifting to it. By using relaxation, a person can find it easier to stay in a lucid dream. Alongside many tried and tested techniques (Spinning, rubbing your hands together, etc.), this can be quite helpful.
Generally relaxation will go hand in hand with the
technique, whilst also complimenting some others. This is great, but it is worth mentioning that, when WILDing you are not trying to blow up rocks into a thousand splinters. Whilst this prospect is attractive, it is not wholly beneficial in maintaining your lucidity and should be attempted at perhaps, a later time.
Basic meditation.
This is just to relax your body and compliment the techniques listed below. However this alone can be used to improve the efectiveness of the
technique. Once you feel relaxed, proceed to do any
or relaxation technique you are comfortable with.
Find a position you are comfortable with, be that lying down or sitting up, however you prefer to be.
Start by taking long deep breaths.
Relax muscle tension and senses. This can be done however you please. One way is by letting go of the feeling of your body by relaxing the idea of that feeling. Another is to feel your muscles separately, and gently relax them one by one. In doing this you should aim to feel nothing but the slow rhythm of your breathing, however it is important to hold this idea lightly, not strain to achieve it
Block out thoughts and feelings, do not struggle to achieve this, but hold it lightly in your mind. Concentrating on the steady in, out of your breathing is a good way to achieve this.
Proceed to use whichever
technique you prefer.
Note:- this is not essential in WILDing, merely a step to relaxation.
(Breathing) Technique
This is best done with a breathing exercise, and can be done in conjunction with the basic meditation outlined above. It is easy and strain free, making it accessible for those with muscle handicaps. It will also provide you with an interesting experience.
Begin by getting into a comfortable lying position and close your eyes. For all who keep asking this question in the chatroom, YES you
close your eyes when doing
Now start drawing deep breaths, ( but don't start hyperventilating! ) Do that for about 30 seconds while having your thoughts on relaxing scenes and topics. If thirty seconds does not suffice then do so for as long as your estimation takes you.
Now you can begin to add the colours in: Begin by imagining a quiet, relaxing, soothing colour you like. Generally
gentle pinks
are found to be the most relaxing, but it can be whatever colour you enjoy.
Let the colour you chose form into a mist, entering you and relaxing every part of your physical and spiritual self with every breath, until you feel totally relaxed and drowsy. Continue till
's appear.
From here you can proceed with whichever
variation you prefer.
If this is too arcane for you, then perhaps our next technique is more for you.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
This technique relaxes the body, one step at a time, by working on different parts of the body at a time to create a final, over all relaxed effect.
Close your eyes.
Begin with your toes. Feel the weight in them, and slowly let them sink into your bed (or wherever you may be when using this technique). Feel them get heavier and heavier, until all tension is released.
Repeat this process with your lower and upper legs, your abdomen, chest, upper and lower arms, shoulders, neck, and finally your face and jaws. Some people like to tense each part of their body before feeling it start to get heavy.
This is helpful for sensing extra tension you may not have noticed before and helps you to relax your body further.
However, this is not necessary. The jaw tends to have the most tension, so spend a little extra time trying to relax that part of your body.
Mentally scan your body for any tension you may have missed. If you find any tension, repeat the second step on that part of your body.
61 Point technique
This technique is a successive practice that aims to relax through the awareness of your body.
It works on the practice of memorising each point in turn by focusing your mind and your energy on each point, like locating yourself there. Whilst 61 points seems daunting it is actually not as difficult as imagined as there is a pattern to it. I will break it down in to step by step pieces to make it easier to get to grips with.
Start your concentration, your energy, if you will, at your forehead, then work down to your throat.
Next to the right side of your body. From the throat go to your right shoulder, down to your right elbow, your right wrist. From there to the tip of your thumb, the tip of your index finger, the tip of your middle finger, the tip of your ring finger, the tip of your little finger.
From there, back to your right wrist, up to your elbow, then to your shoulder, and back across to your throat again.
From there to the left side, and repeat, left shoulder, to elbow, to wrist, to thumb, to index finger, to middle finger, to ring finger, to little finger. Back to wrist, to elbow, to shoulder, and back across to the throat.
From your throat move down to the sternum, (the area between your breasts,) then to your right breast, back to the sternum, to the left breast, back to the sternum, down to the naval, and then to the lower abdomen.
Now it is the right lower body. From the lower Abdomen to your right hip, then to your right knee, followed by your right ankle.
From your right angle focus on the tip of your big toe, then onto the tips of the second, middle, fourth, and little toe's respectively.
From your little toe up to your right ankle, to your right knee, to your right hip, and back to your lower abdomen.
Proceed to do the same on the left side. Lower Abdomen to Left hip, to left knee, to left ankle, to big, second, middle, fourth and little toes respectively.
From little toe to left ankle, to left knee, to left hip, to left lower abdomen.
From your lower abdomen, up to your naval, up to your sternum, up to your throat, and back to your forehead.
Whilst it seems like a lot, the pattern is simple to remember. Think of it as a flowing action with your mind, going centre, right, centre, left, centre and repeat lower down. In this way you can use this technique to great effect in relaxing yourself.
Autogenic progressive relaxation.
As the title suggests, this is not a conventional 'One Hit Wonder' relaxation technique. It's more or a progressive idea. By using Autogenic training 2/3 times a day your body becomes more and more relaxed the more it becomes used to the process. Autogenic training works on the principle of restoring balance in the Autonomic nervous system, (thus the name.) This guide will show one type of Autogenic training you can do which functions by 'isolating and locking,' different parts of your body and 'unlocking' them. Note, it is important to have a cancel word to relax yourself. (This simply put, is a word that cancels any effects you have put on yourself, like a trigger effect.)
Get into a comfortable meditative position.
Close your eyes and put yourself in a relaxed state. (Using basic mediation can help achieve this.)
Scan and feel your body with your mind, feel each part and speak as such, willing yourself to respond to the words.
My arms and legs are heavy
Repeat 3 or more times.
My Heartbeat is calm and regular.
Repeat 3 or more times.
My forehead is cool.
Repeat 3 or more times
My neck and Shoulders are heavy.
Repeat three times.
"My core is warm."
Repeat 3 or more times.
If you wish to further emphasise the effect you can say I am relaxed and
Repeat this until you feel it.
Use your cancel word to relax your entire body.
Optionally after cancelling repeat from step three
Generally this process should be done 2/3 times a day to maximise effectiveness, once you achieve this state successfully several times it can give you an easier, more relaxed feel and more access to lucidity.
Any one of these techniques of relaxation can work, but it is very much dependent on the person using it. I hope this has provided you with an insight into relaxation in regards to dreaming and I wish you many lucid dreams
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8. When leaving the garage door open for a pet, make sure the door is not high enough for a thief to slide under.
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I can't back up this info with more than this http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=20004968 - in portuguese - but it appears they traveled to Salvador, Brazil's third largest city, on April 24 and 25. One of the tasks was to rappel down the Elevador Lacerda, a city landmark (the white structure). The source is a local newspaper.Hope it helps.
24/04/2008The bahian capital is the scene chosen for the writings of reality American show "the Maratona", an international competition where teams cover some countries fulfilling a series of tasks. The program, that counts today on a hearing of more than 50 million people per year, already is being recorded in some of the main tourist points of Salvador. In the morning of this thursday (day 24), the competitors of reality show had had that to go down, in the style rappel, the 70 meters of the Lacerda Elevator. To carry through the test, that called the attention who passed for the place, the filming team installed a net to the long one of the elevator. The presence of the program in the city, initiative that counts on the support of the Agency of Economic Development of Salvador (Adesa), through the project Salvador Film Commission, promises to result in an important national and international promotion for the bahian capital. For the superintendent in exercise of the Adesa, Loyal Leonel, "productions as this, besides guaranteeing income and chance of work for the technician and the local population, are an excellent card-postcard to attract new tourists and more investments for our city". In its 13ª edition and shown by net AXN of the United States, reality show will take the beautiful landscapes of Salvador for diverse parts of the world, through the closed canals of TV. Still inside of the actions of the program, new writings are foreseen tomorrow, of this time in the Maritime Terminal of Salvador, in the Commerce. Until the moment, already they had served of location for the international production the Square of the Sé, the Inclined Plan Gonçalves, the Order Third of the San Francisco (Historical Center), the Slope of the Carmo and the staircase of the Paço. It is not the first time that attractive the tourist ones of the city serve of scene for great televising productions. In the end of the passed year, Salvador was palco of the writings of the program Xuxa Connection, that covered points as the Lighthouse and the Port of the Bar, the Corridor of the Victory, the Square of the Campo Grande, the Market Model and the Tip of the Humaitá. The team also used as scene Fort Serrat the Mount and the Fort Is Marcelo. Film Commission Exactly before its official launching, the project Salvador Film Commission already offers to institucional support the audiovisuais productions, facilitating to information regarding licenses and necessary authorizations for filmings. To make possible the production of reality show "the Maratona", the Adesa intermediated, together the municipal agencies, the document release that the producer Planet Film needed for the writing of the program.The Adesa, after the total implantation of Salvador Film Commission, will give services, such as survey of bank of images and visits the locations, qualification and cadastre of technician of the area, institucional support e, mainly, will continue working to attract new productions that can use to advantage the natural beauty and the urban historical quantity of Salvador as scene. Fonte:Camaçari Notice
Ainda dentro das ações do programa, estão previstas novas gravações amanhã, desta vez no Terminal Marítimo de Salvador, no Comércio. Até o momento, já serviram de locação para a produção internacional a Praça da Sé, o Plano Inclinado Gonçalves, a Ordem Terceira do São Francisco (Centro Histórico), a Ladeira do Carmo e a escadaria do Paço.
Quinta-feira, 24 de Abril de 2008Reality show internacional grava especial em Salvador Durante três dias, Salvador será o cenário do reality show americano A Maratona, programa produzido pela Planet Film Produções e visto por mais de 50 milhões de pessoas por ano. Trata-se de uma competição internacional de times que rodam o planeta atrás de tarefas que, quando cumpridas, indicam o próximo destino para os competidores. Ao final, a equipe que chegar na frente leva o prêmio milionário. As cenas do programa na Bahia serão feitas em diversas localidades turísticas e tradicionais de Salvador, como o Terreiro de Jesus, Praça Municipal e Comércio. A iniciativa conta com o apoio da Agência de Desenvolvimento Econômico de Salvador (Adesa), através do Projeto Salvador Film Commission.
Thursday, 24 of April of 2008 Reality international show records special in Salvador During three days, Salvador will be the scene of reality American show "the Maratona", program produced for the Planet Film Productions and visa for more than 50 million people per year. One is about an international competition of teamses who twirl the planet behind tasks that, when fulfilled, they indicate the next destination for the competitors. To the end, the team that to arrive in the front takes the prize millionaire. The scenes of the program in the Bahia will be made in diverse tourist and traditional localities of Salvador, as the Place of fetichism of Jesus, Municipal Square and Commerce. The initiative counts on the support of the Agency of Economic Development of Salvador (Adesa), through the Project Salvador Film Commission.
gosh I leave for a few hours and you guys have dug up a second leg on TAR, There is a picture of two people climbing that rope ladder is that a team if so can we get an enlargement???
I've run this paragraph through a couple of translators and I can't decide if it describes other TAR13 places or locations for other productions. QuoteAinda dentro das ações do programa, estão previstas novas gravações amanhã, desta vez no Terminal Marítimo de Salvador, no Comércio. Até o momento, já serviram de locação para a produção internacional a Praça da Sé, o Plano Inclinado Gonçalves, a Ordem Terceira do São Francisco (Centro Histórico), a Ladeira do Carmo e a escadaria do Paço.
Do you think Planet Film Productions is Earthview? and its just translating that way?
Just got off the phone with a friend of mine. Apparently - though I can't prove one way or the other because they don't have a camera and I'm stuck at uni - there's a flag on top of an office building on Elizabeth Street right now. The only likely task, if any, would be one of those 'look out the window and find a flag' deals. I'm thinking there's also a cluebox set up right now on the Rialto Towers Observation Deck, which would make sense because there's a new tower with a higher observation deck, and this gets fewer spoilerhunters like myself.Firstly, crappy task, even if it's one I just speculated about, and secondly, evil making them visit Melbourne in the middle of a cold snap - currently it's around 1:20pm local time, and temperature is 10.2 degrees Celsius. [Americans, that's just a tiny fraction over 50 degrees Fahrenheit by my count - and yes, that is a cold snap by local standards.] Still, both Sydney and Cairns (and Darwin too?) were rainy when TAR came, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.
Could it be the Melbourne Amazing Race, peach?http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=13046
I don't know about the building, his phone cut out at precisely the wrong moment. I've been trying to get a hold of him since I posted for more, but... yeah.But he did tell me it was a 'gold and red flag like that show you obsess about'.
more from raceguy...QuoteI don't know about the building, his phone cut out at precisely the wrong moment. I've been trying to get a hold of him since I posted for more, but... yeah.But he did tell me it was a 'gold and red flag like that show you obsess about'.
ETA: He's the sort of person who would play a trick on me like this, so there's about a 50% chance he's sitting at home laughing his frozen arse off at me right now.
Thanks, Puddin. One says the 21st, one the 23rd, and one the 25th: but the guy in the red helmet (Branament?) hasn't moved an inch. Maybe the single lines went down first as support or guide lines for the cargo net.
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California teen offers GPS challenge to speeding rap
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A California teenager is contesting a speeding ticket which claims he was doing 62mph in a 45mph zone, since a GPS system fitted to his Toyota Celica appears to show he was actually within the limit.
Shaun Malone, 17, was caught on 4 July by a Petaluma police officer using a radar gun, AP reports. The lad had in the past enjoyed "putting the pedal to the metal", so his mother and stepdad Roger Rude - himself a retired police deputy - decided to fit his car with a GPS which "monitors the location and speed" of the Japanese wheels.
Malone was apparently none too pleased with the device, "originally designed for trucking companies, rental car agencies and other businesses with fleets", which "sends a signal every 30 seconds that records his whereabouts and travel speed" and alerts his parents by email if he tops 70mph.
He'd already lost his privileges once after breaking the rules, but when his stepfather downloaded the log pertaining to the time of the alleged incident, it "showed Shaun was going the speed limit within 100 feet of where a Petaluma officer clocked him speeding". He then encouraged his stepson to fight the ticket.
Rude said: "I'm not trying to get a guilty kid off. I've always had faith in our justice system. I would like to see the truth prevail and I would like Shaun to see that the system works."
He added: "Radar is a pretty good tool, but it's not an infallible tool. With the GPS tracker, there is no doubt about it. There is no human interference."
Petaluma police Lt. John Edwards said "he could not discuss Shaun's case", but disputed Rude's accuracy claim. He countered: "GPS works on satellite signals, so you have a delay of some type. Is it a couple-second delay? A 30-second delay? Because in that time people can speed up, slow down."
A Sonoma County traffic commissioner is "expected to rule within the next two weeks whether to dismiss Shaun's ticket based on Rude's written argument that the motorcycle officer's radar gun was either improperly calibrated or thrown off by another speeding car". ®
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To maintain their commitment to deliver the industry's best customer experiences, the Mercedes-Benz.io teamed with Accenture to create a unified digital presence and a much faster content-delivery capability. Together, they re-imagined digital marketing and sales solutions for their customers across the globe.
Mercedes-Benz's leaders recognized that it had a fragmented and inefficient online presence, with multiple customer facing views and online portals. They set out to unify its environment and believed that the cloud would enable them to roll out new content, functionality and features–such as its car configurator and test drive booking app–more quickly.
The company worked with Accenture and Amazon Web Services to bring its vision of a unified online experience to life through a consolidated cloud-based solution in order to meet customer demands. The solution was deployed within four months, to 18 countries – with more than 30 additional markets planned.
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In the coming year, Mercedes-Benz.io and Accenture expect to expand the platform to more than 30 additional markets. The solution will enable Mercedes-Benz.io to continually and quickly develop new content and functionality for an ever-growing number of customers. Further, the agile organizational capabilities that characterize the solution's success are paving the way for greater digital transformations throughout the organization.
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treosolutions necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We are a healthcare focused data services company, and while we have a good number of very talented web programmers and database analysts, we do not have a top flight graphical designer who can create knock-your-socks-off site design mockups and user interface (UI) schemes.
We are looking for a redesign of an existing online report library interface. We need a fresh, new, modern, intuitive interface design for our library. This is a UI design project only – we will take care of hooking up the winning interface design to our datasets and building the underlying website application. You create the look and functionality, we'll handle the application.
The key needs are ease-of-use, logical functionality and intuitive process flow for users, and modern, clean design. Solutions for HTML/CSS/scripting/Flash/Adobe Flex sites are all equally OK and encouraged for the design, we can code around all of these. Other design solutions may also be OK, but check with us first.
Treo Services Report Library
Detailed Description:
To get an understanding of the current state of our report library, we HIGHLY recommend you view our online video at
The basic operation of our report library is as follows:
1. User enters the report library via a link in another of our online applications.
2. User chooses from a variety of parameters to define their desired report(s) (for example: pick a report category, then pick a report from within that category, then pick a year, then a hospital, then a physician). Some reports can be run in batch mode, where users can select multiple versions of a report to be run at once (for example, user wants the same overview report for 50 different physicians at a selected hospital).
3. After all parameters have been chosen, user runs the report(s).
4. If the user wants a single report, the report is generated on the fly, and once generation is complete, the user is given a link to click on to open their report (all reports are delivered in .pdf format). If the user runs a batch for multiple reports, the user gets nothing immediately, but rather is told via a message on screen that the reports will be delivered to them via e-mail (in this scenario user must enter an e-mail address - up to three addresses - where the reports will be sent).
Some other features of the report library, while not essential to the basic operation of picking and running a report, but adding significant user value, include:
1. A report archive area where each user's recently run reports can be retrieved again in the future.
2. The option to schedule reports to be run at a later time (most often, to be run when the underlying report data is refreshed by us) and sent to one or more user-entered e-mail addresses.
3. A report preview area where users can learn about and see sample snapshots of all our reports before running a report.
Again, to get a better idea of how the library works now, watch our video.
Who is the target audience for the new report library?
There are a few assumptions we make for the target audience: our users are smart people in terms of understanding the information we present in our reports, but they are not necessarily web-savvy.
The report library should be intuitive and able to be usable to first time visitors who are very distracted, busy, limited-attention span type folks in general. If a user has to go read instructions on how to run a report, they will leave. We do not want that, obviously.
So what do we need?
We are looking for entries to design a one or multiple screen solution – if you can build it on one screen, go for it, if you think more than one screen is best, go for it. We are not beholden to any specific approach, such as a requirement for traditional HTML dropdown lists and buttons, or a complete iconic/graphical approach. We aren't designers, you are. Wow us.
How we will pick the winning design?
All ideas are fair game...knock us over with your creativity and ability to create something intuitive and usable. We'll be judging entries on three key areas:
1. Usability – Can a new visitor come to the report library, and without having to read a tutorial or FAQ, or any directions at all, be able to preview, run and retrieve reports the first time and every time? That's what we expect from this UI design.
2. Visual appearance – We're looking for something clean, slick and polished. We think interactive icons and buttons and dynamic Flash interfaces are cool, but ultimately we won't sacrifice usability and functionality for coolness. If good old fashioned web graphics and HTML does the job best vs. all other entries, we'll go with it.
3. Creativity and completeness of solution – Can users easily preview and access descriptions of all our sample reports? Are users able to easily understand all options available to them (such as a report being able to be batched or scheduled to be run later)? What's the best way for users to select report parameters – from text lists or by clicking on well-designed icons, or a combination of both? We'd like users to be able to start selecting another report without having to wait for the first one to finish being generated – what can you design that makes this self-evident to the user? Should users have the option of a novice mode (wizard, query-based functionality) and an expert mode (just pick the parameters and go)? The more you can help us work through the best approach, the better.
We hope we won't have to, but we reserve the right to end the contest at any time without declaring a winner if no designs meet our requirements and needs.
Other helpful info:
If you've watched our video, you've noticed we make extensive use of dropdown lists to select report parameters. To aid in your design, here are the report categories that are used now, and will be used in the report library in the future:
Report Categories:
- Physician
- Market
- Financial
- Quality
- Exception Reports – Monthly
- Other Reports – Monthly
- PPA Reports (PPA = Performance and Payment Analysis)
- CRG Reports (CRG = Clinical Risk Groups)
The first four categories are our "Annual" hospital reports, and next two are our "Monthly" hospital reports. The PPA and CRG categories are report categories for separate product offerings.
Helpful Links:
Our corporate website (see our Business Intelligence page for descriptions of our products): http://www.treosolutions.com
You can download a .zip file containing images of our corporate logo, our product logos, and our current report library logo (feel free to use any and all of these images in your design entries). The file is available here: www.treosolutions.com/contest.zip
Other sites that do things we like, and you might want to check out for inspiration:
We are NOT saying the sites below are how we want to do our report library. We are saying certain things in the sites below appeal to us for various reasons, and may help you gain insight into what we think is neat and cool.
we like the way users see the video screenshots next to the text descriptions of the vidios. Can this be adapted to report samples?
we like how you are presented easy, intuitive choices when looking for a car report. Pick new or used, pick a car category, pick a brand, pick a year. We like obvious choices when deciding on what report you want.
we like the step-by-step nature with where-are-you-in-the-process tabs, we also like how descriptions or the report are given once a category and procedure/diagnosis are selected.
this is just a really cool use of Adobe Flex to pick and choose items for a comparison report
Artwork, Icons, Stock Photography:
Must be original artwork, our graphics (see link above), or with a license available from stock photo sites such as iStockPhoto.com.
Final Deliverables Required for Payment:
We will need final winning UI design mockups ready to be coded for HTML/CSS, javascript, Flash, or Adobe Flex, or any combination thereof. If you have ideas for other formats, ask us about them up front, we may be OK with them. We will use your design as the front end to our databases and web programming.
All images/icons/skins should be made available in native Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash form, as well as web-ready in .gif/.jpeg/.png
Have Questions for Us?
Good! We like questions and love giving feedback – we worry when designers don't ask us lots of clarifying questions. Post to the site contest or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com
Best of luck to all entrants!
see above detailed description
nothing, everything is fair game


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TORONTO - Dr. Donald Low, the infectious disease specialist who shepherded Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, made a videotaped appeal prior to his death for Canada to legalize assisted suicide and let people die with dignity.
The emotional video was shot eight days before Low's death from a brain tumour last week at age 68.
In the YouTube video produced by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and posted Tuesday, Low says he is not in pain but his vision, hearing and strength are waning and he worries what will happen before the end.
Low says he would like the option of choosing when he will die, before the disease renders him incapable of walking, swallowing food or using the bathroom without his family's assistance.
"What the end is going to look like, that's what's bothering me the most," he says in a weakened voice, one eye closed, the other held open by a small bandage.
Low says he's envious of people living in some U.S. states and countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands, where assisted dying is legal.
"They give you a very simple way out. You drink a cocktail and you fall asleep and you do this in the presence of your family. In countries where it's legal, it's quite easy to do. In countries where it's not legal, it's pretty well impossible.
"In Canada, it's illegal and it will be a long time before we mature to a level where we accept dying with dignity," he says, pointing out that there are people who oppose assisted dying, among them "a lot of clinicians."
Those who oppose legalizing assisted suicide argue against it on several grounds: from a religious belief that only God can take a life; that society has a responsibility to preserve life; that assisted dying is a slippery slope toward euthanasia without consent of people with mental illness, physical handicaps or the elderly; and that it violates the doctors' Hippocratic oath to "first, do no harm."
But in his video, Low pleads with those who are against assisted suicide to rethink their stance.
"I wish they could live in my body for 24 hours and I think they would change that opinion," he says. "I'm just frustrated not to be able to have control of my own life. Not being able to have the decision for myself when enough is enough."
The Canadian Medical Association, which represents 78,000 of the country's doctors, prohibits physicians from participating in assisted suicide.
At the CMA's annual meeting in August, delegates voted against a motion calling on all levels of government to hold public hearings into "medical aid in dying."
The reasons were varied: doctors couldn't agree on what the term means; some view it as a medical act, while others see it as simple euthanasia; and delegates also were uncomfortable in telling provincial governments, which are responsible for health care, what their policies should be.
Even so, Canada's doctors are split on the issue. In 2011, a survey of CMA members found that 38 per cent believe assisted suicide should remain against the law, while 34 per cent said it should be legalized.
Canada's law banning doctor-assisted suicide is currently under review by the courts. The B.C. Supreme Court ruled last year that the law is unconstitutional, but the federal government appealed that decision; a ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal is expected later this year.
Meanwhile, the Quebec government recently introduced its right-to-die bill 52, which would legalize medically assisted dying in the province.
"I think we are on the cusp of change," said Wanda Morris, executive director of Dying With Dignity Canada, calling Low's posthumous video "very poignant."
She said his desire to control the circumstances of his own death is in keeping with the view of the majority of Canadians: an Angus Reid poll last year found 80 per cent of adults support the idea of assisted dying.
"And as people knew and respected and looked up to Dr. Low, we encourage people to act on his wish, to educate their MP, to join Dying with Dignity and add their voices to ours and try to make his dying wish a reality," Morris said from Vancouver.
Lee Fairclough, a spokeswoman for Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, said Low and his family approached the organization about recording a video, one in an upcoming series that presents different patients' views on issues related to palliative end-of-life care.
"Given the circumstances of his passing, the family wished it to be released and so we thought that it was appropriate that we would share it at this time," she said.
In the video, Low asks: "Why make people suffer for no reason when there's an alternative? I just don't understand it."
He says he hopes for a painless death surrounded by family, falling asleep and not waking up in the morning.
A statement on the video says: "Don did not have the death he had hoped for, but he died in his wife's arms and he was not in pain."