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Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles finals, winning once. She has qualified five times for the round-robin stage of the WTA Tour Championships but has never qualified for the semifinals.
Her first Grand Slam title came at the 2004 US Open, making her the third Russian woman to win a Grand Slam title, after Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova who won at the 2004 French Open and 2004 Wimbledon tournaments respectively. Kuznetzova's second Grand Slam title was the 2009 French Open, defeating Serena Williams in the quarterfinal, Samantha Stosur in the semifinal, and compatriot Dinara Safina in the final in straight sets. At the 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open singles tournament she was the runner-up, both times to Belgian player Justine Henin. As a result, Kuznetsova obtained her new WTA ranking of No. 2, her best to that date. Kuznetsova has won a total of 13 WTA and 1 ITF singles titles and 14 WTA doubles titles to date and US$15,935,608 in prize money, making her the second top Russian earner on court and number 11 of all female tennis players to date and No. 5 of active players, after only Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Kim Clijsters, and Maria Sharapova respectively.
Early Life
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova was born in Leningrad. Her father, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, has coached five Olympic and world cycling champions. Kuznetsova's mother, Galina Tsareva, is a six-time world champion and holder of 20 world records in cycling, and her brother, Nikolay Kuznetsov, was a silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and coach of the Russian cycling team Lokomotiv. Svetlana Kuznetsova began to play tennis at the age of 7 and moved to Spain 6 years later for better training and coaching. While there she became fluent in Spanish.
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FEATURE-PRESERVING SIMPLIFICATION AND SKETCH-BASED CREATION OF 3D MODELS by Pei-Ying Chiang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Pei-Ying Chiang
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|A prototype of an innovative 3D thumbnail system for managing large 3D mesh databases is presented in this research. The goal is to provide an online 3D model exhibit page where the user can browse multiple 3D thumbnails interactively and efficiently. ❧ ❧ An overall system framework for a large scale 3D repository is described. It includes an offline process and an online process. For the offline process, a 3D mesh is first decomposed into several significant components. For each decomposed part, its skeleton and body measurements are extracted and saved as the shape descriptor. Subsequently, its thumbnail is created according to the shape descriptor and saved as the thumbnail descriptor. In the online process, according to user's preference, the system can either render the 3D thumbnail directly with its pre-generated thumbnail descriptor or re-generate the 3D thumbnail descriptor based on a pre-generated shape descriptor without starting from the scratch. As a result, the data size of a thumbnail descriptor is much less than its original mesh and can be downloaded quickly. Rendering a simplified thumbnail demands less hardware resource, and the online thumbnail viewer can display multiple 3D thumbnails simultaneously within a few seconds. ❧ ❧ Furthermore, we develop two feature-preserving thumbnail creation techniques. They are the surface-based and the voxel-based methods. For the surface-based technique, a 3D polygonal mesh is decomposed by a visual salience-guided mesh decomposition approach that identifies and preserves significant components. For each decomposed part, its skeleton and body measurements are extracted after the PCA transformation. Then, a coarse-to-fine primitive approximation algorithm is used to create the 3D thumbnail. Moreover, a customized deformable primitive, called the d-cylinder, is designed for approximating the shape better and fining the appearance of the resultant thumbnail. We generate the 3D thumbnail with a different number of d-cylinders so that the thumbnail can represent a simplified mesh in different level of details successfully. The processing time of each process and the file size of the 3D thumbnail descriptor are given to show the efficiency of the surface-based approach. ❧ ❧ In the voxel-based approach, a polygonal model is first rasterized into a volumetric model and a coarse skeleton is extracted with a thinning operation. The skeleton derived from the thinning process is further refined to meet the required accuracy. Subsequently, the skeleton is classified to significant groups, and the volumetric model is decomposed into significant parts accordingly. As compared with the surface-based approach, the voxel-based approach can preserve more features of the model and decompose the model more precisely. Thus, the significant components of the original model can be preserved better in the 3D thumbnails while the model is extremely simplified. A thorough performance comparison between the surface-based and the voxel-based techniques is conducted. ❧ ❧ Finally, the framework is extended to sketch-based 3D modeling. We present a sketch-based 3D system that provides a set of tools for users to create simple 3D models from 2D sketches easily. A user-drawn 2D sketch is refined and then approximated by 3D fitting primitives. There are five new customized elements developed for approximation: the open-tube, the closed-tube, the ellipsoid, the prism, and the complex-prism. When a 3D model is composed of multiple parts, they can be grouped hierarchically using editing tools. Furthermore, the system embeds a 3D character with a hierarchical skeleton for the purpose of animation.
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The Royal Opera is much saddened by the death of Sir Colin Davis, Music Director of The Royal Opera from 1971 to 1986, who worked closely with many leading singers, directors and musicians here, during more than fifty years of his association with The Royal Opera House.
Early career
Sir Colin studied clarinet at the Royal College of Music. His first conducting position was as conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He became Chief Conductor of Sadler's Wells in 1959 and Music Director there in 1961. His first appearances at the Royal Opera House were for The Royal Ballet. He conducted La Valse in 1960 and Le Baiser de la fée in 1960, and several ballets in 1962, including The Rite of Spring.
Dame Monica Mason, former Director of The Royal Ballet, remembers:
'I first met Colin when he conducted the opening performances of The Rite of Spring in 1962. I was the Chosen Maiden and he was the most wonderfully encouraging conductor for the entire cast at that time. Fifty years ago he was a young man of 35, and he went on to make an enormous international career. We had remained friends ever since, and I am very sad to think I won't see him in the Royal Opera House again.'
In 1967, Davis was appointed Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. His first performance for The Royal Opera was conducting Le nozze di Figaro in 1965. He went on to conduct Der fliegende Holländer, Don Giovanni and Fidelio with the Company in 1967, and in 1968 conducted The Midsummer Marriage by Tippett, a composer he championed. In 1969 he conducted Peter Grimes for The Royal Opera, and in the same year conducted the first performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens staged in one evening in French for The Royal Opera, recording the piece the same year. More Tippett followed in 1970 with the world premiere of The Knot Garden.
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In 1971 he joined The Royal Opera as Music Director. Sir John Tooley, who was General Administrator (later General Director) of the Royal Opera House from 1970 to 1988, has very happy memories of Davis's time here:
'With the death of Sir Colin Davis, we have lost a remarkable musician, and conductor who contributed hugely to all the organizations for which he worked. He arrived as Music Director of The Royal Opera with the reputation of being something of a firebrand. There was little evidence of that, but Colin, knew what he wanted orchestral musicians and singers to give, in terms of a performance which he would have regarded as true to the composer. And this was the case particularly in those early days of Mozart and Berlioz in the performance of whose music he already excelled. Colin was no slouch, and took on a repertory at the Royal Opera House much of which was not familiar to him at the time but which he wanted to explore.
'Colin's early days at Music Director at the Royal Opera House were not easy for him, as they had not been for his predecessor, Sir Georg Solti. There were some doubts that he could deliver and that he could begin to match some of the world's greatest conductors. In all of this, the doubters were wrong and proved to be wrong by Colin as he widened his repertory and excelled in much of what he undertook. One of his biggest challenges was the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen from 1973 to 1976, in which he collaborated with director Götz Friedrich. Not an easy relationship, but one that nevertheless flourished and resulted in some remarkable performances. As I look back over Colin's life and particularly his 15 years at the Royal Opera House, he seemed to be on a journey through music in which he was constantly re-examining and developing his interpretations. Colin was an immensely humble person, for which he was to be admired, and never allowed himself to become an obstacle between the music and the audience. He was generous in that he allowed us to engage many of the world's great conductors and was in no way disturbed by the success they might have had; in fact, he rejoiced in it.'
During his time as Music Director, Colin Davis conducted a wide repertory. It included all the major Mozart operas, Der Freischütz, Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Der Ring des Nibelungen, Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini and a revival of Les Troyens, Verdi's Nabucco, Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Falstaff, as well as Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Werther, The Rake's Progress, Pelléas et Mélisande, the UK premiere of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, Eugene Onegin, Ariadne auf Naxos and Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg and Eine florentinische Tragödie. Many members of the staff of The Royal Opera have warm memories of working with him both during his tenure and after.
Peter Katona, Head of Casting, remembers:
'Sir Colin was Music Director when I joined the Royal Opera in 1983. Over the years that followed we became close. He was a wonderful and warm musician, devoted to the music he loved and free of all pomposity. Once or twice a year I would sit at his kitchen table in Highbury, made welcome by him and his wonderful wife Shamsi, and we would take a tour d'horizon of life in general and of his forthcoming projects, at Covent Garden in particular. With few artists does one have such a direct, human and honest contact. An occasion I will never forget was an orchestra rehearsal of Così fan tutte a few years ago – the singers in front of the curtain, no production to distract, and the music speaking with a richness and depth, an emotion and clarity such as I have very rarely experienced. Mozart himself would have been moved to tears, I am sure. Thank you, Sir Colin. You will long be remembered by those who had the good fortune to work with you as an artist and to know you as a man.'
David Syrus, Head of Music for The Royal Opera, worked closely with Sir Colin on many productions:
'On the day Colin started as Musical Director here I started as a fledgling répétiteur. He was my first and most stimulating professional teacher – singing bel canto in every language, using text as the driving force (in the first Friedrich Ring Götz talked music, Colin text!), discovering the rhetoric in accompanied recitative (not to mention the first two chords of the 'Eroica'!). But most of all he taught humility – towards the pieces and towards colleagues. He was staggeringly erudite, but never flaunted his knowledge, he was very funny, always ready for good exchange of ideas (though if it was about appoggiaturas, you'd run up against a brick wall eventually!). The modesty and humanity of the man irradiated his music. We loved him and we miss him badly.'
Many of the singers who worked with Sir Colin Davis here also have fond memories of him.
Thomas Allen worked with Sir Colin many times at the Royal Opera House, first as Melot in Tristan und Isolde in 1973, then in roles including Pelléas, Wolfram, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and Don Alfonso. Allen remembers Sir Colin's tenure as a very fruitful time:
'He was Music Director of The Royal Opera at the most crucial stage of the Company's history and development, one that happened to coincide with my own arrival in WC2. Led by him, I will always remember the strength of the Company in visits to La Scala, Milan, South Korea and Tokyo and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, key moments in creating and establishing the international standards for which the company is renowned. Colin Davis led The Royal Opera through all of that vital period.'
Heather Harper also had a fruitful collaboration with Colin Davis, singing Ellen Orford and Nadia in The Ice Break for him with The Royal Opera, and other roles elsewhere:
'Colin and I started almost at the same time, just two years from each other; those years were his beginnings and also mine. We worked together quite a lot. I remember singing Vitellia with him at a performance of La clemenza di Tito in London when very few people had heard this opera. Much later when we were both established we worked together on many occasions, notably in Britten's music and also Tippett's. I remember the happy occasion when Elijah Moshinsky's production of Peter Grimes had its premiere in 1975; there was such a good atmosphere and he was so serene. Although Colin could be very emotional. When we went together to La Scala and Claudio Abbado came to London with the La Scala company, Colin showed in Italy much more of the fire and character associated with the Italians than Abbado, who was always cool. He laughed so much when I told him about it. It was he who got me to almost shout the word 'answers' in the recording of Tippett's Third Symphony. He was not only a well read intellectual but also a good motivator and colleague, as well as a sensational musician. He has gone, but those like me who were lucky to have known him and work with him will keep and treasure these memories.'
Later career
After he left The Royal Opera in 1986, Sir Colin went on to hold positions with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He was made Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle in 1990, and Principal Conductor of the LSO in 1995. He became President of the LSO in 2007. He continued to appear regularly
with The Royal Opera, conducting Ariadne auf Naxos and Fidelio in 1987, Don Giovanni in 1988 and Die Zauberflöte, La clemenza di Tito and Der Freischütz in 1989.
The soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow sang Ariadne under Sir Colin in 1989, and remembers him warmly:
'It was with the greatest regret that I heard the very sad news about the great loss of the beloved and much valued Sir Colin Davis. I will never forget the wonderful possibilities that I had to collaborate and make music with him in numerous performances and concerts, at Covent Garden, in Munich and elsewhere. His enormous commitment, always searching for the truth in music, will forever give direction to new generations of musicians. May his memory be full of light. He will always be in our hearts!'
Sir Colin's appearances with The Royal Opera in the 1990s included Turandot, La Damnation de Faust, Manon, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and The Turn of the Screw. From 2001 onwards he largely conducted Mozart with The Royal Opera, though he also conducted Hansel and Gretel in 2008.
Opera director David McVicar worked with Sir Colin when Sir Colin conducted his Royal Opera productions of Die Zauberflöte (2003 and 2011) and Le nozze di Figaro (2006 and 2011) and his new production of La clemenza di Tito (for Aix-en-Provence, 2012):
'When I first started listening to opera and especially listening to Mozart, it was Sir Colin's recordings I first listened to. So when it came to working with Sir Colin on Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro and La clemenza di Tito, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to me. He was completely inspiring to work with, gentle and wise and he didn't give a damn about following fashion in Mozart. He followed his own heart and belief. His way with Mozart was the way I learned Mozart – and the most natural way to work on these operas. Everyone who worked on these productions benefitted from all his wisdom and experience: it was magical and very special.'
Simon Keenlyside, who sang Papageno for Sir Colin with The Royal Opera, has similar memories:
'In an age of ever more marketed, and image conscious musicians... Colin was always clear that first and last, music was 'the Thing', the only distraction worth driving for. His music making was fierce and uncompromising, but away from the podium, he was a mischievous, irreverent and deeply inquisitive man. We will miss him, even if his wonderful recording legacy remains often as a benchmark for excellence.'
Sir Colin Davis's last appearances with The Royal Opera were conducting Die Zauberflöte (2011) and Così fan tutte (2012).
Christopher Maltman sang Papageno in 2011:
'Great conductors don't simply keep orchestra and singers in time, they bind them together with an overarching artistic vision that imbues tempo with meaning and purpose, and mystically facilitate the sometimes convoluted process of lifting music from page to public. Sir Colin was a truly great conductor. Even more remarkably, he was one who managed his Herculean tasks with profound integrity, humility, depth and class. An example for us all. I was fortunate enough to work with him on music ranging from Mozart to MacMillan, including both my Covent Garden debut and The Royal Opera's 2011 incarnation of the eternal Zauberflöte, and, although the sparkling, rejuvenating energy he brought to each, even into his eighties, may have now departed, all of those pieces will for me be haunted forever by his warm, benevolent spirit.'
Sir Colin, thank you for so many years of marvellous music-making with The Royal Opera. You will be fondly remembered and much missed.
If you would like to leave a tribute to Sir Colin Davis, please do so using the comments form below.


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A lifetime of introspection, education, and related jobs sparked Carol's passion for people watching, and one thing became clear: most of us are simply trying to cram too much into our days. She just knew there must be a better way than living with so much stress, and she's been trying ever since to help herself and others slow down, simplify, and relax more.
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An important beginning.
The most healing, reassuring words your fragile heart can hear right now are these: "It won't always be this way. You won't always feel like this." This knowledge will keep your spirit alive and help keep you plugging on to the next day. If this is your first experience with such heartache, you can cling to these words until they're true for you.
Loss is a life experience that we all have in common; there's really no way around it. And we all have to cope with it in our own way. Since we've been coping with loss all our lives–ever since we had to give up that warm, cozy place inside Mom's belly–you'd think we'd get used to it. After all, most major changes in life carry with them a loss… of the way it used to be… of the person we used to have in our lives. Eventually, we all have to adjust when loved ones die, dreams disappear, health turns sour, or relationships change. We lose moms, dads, children, husbands, wives, siblings, grandparents… our soldiers… our unborn. We lose pets, jobs, our nest eggs, and sometimes even our sanity. The volume of pain is stunning. Some have anguished for a lifetime.
Some losses are so devastating you're sure you will never be the same again... and you may not. But the pain will lessen as you begin to adjust your life around the change.
Hundreds of experts have written volumes about the common stages of grief and our reactions to loss, but you'd probably pay just to get a good night's sleep about now. Instead of more advice, I want to offer real solutions.
During the promotion of my first book, A Patchwork of Comforts: Small Pleasures for Peace of Mind, I discovered how many people have been devastated by grief and loss. I was then bent on helping readers un-devastate. Through research, interviews, and my own experiences, I've discovered which strategies are most helpful to people struggling with a major loss. In Emerging from the Heartache of Loss, I pass on to you the solutions that have worked so well for others.
The list of ways people help themselves through the grieving process is long, but three things are clear: seek comfort, cry often, and wait. Most important of all, be kind to yourself. Running from pain makes it grow, eventually dousing creativity and sucking the joy out of life. How ironic that when we stop running, the pain softens and we can see that it will finally pass.
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DailyDirt: Making Computers More Like Humans And Vice Versa
from the urls-we-dig-up deptAs artificial intelligence projects get more advanced, the questions of how to measure general intelligence become increasingly more important. Tests such as beating humans at chess and conversing with people naturally are somewhat crude ways to judge the improvements in silicon-derived cognition. And as many point out, when AI projects do succeed in beating humans at chess (or other intelligent tasks), people move the goal posts and say that chess isn't really an intelligent task or that the computer's approach is fundamentally different from a human's mind. Here are just a few links about humans and computers improving by copying off each other.
- Computers playing chess can beat over 99% of the human population at the game (and humans are arguably better at calling a draw). This situation hasn't decreased the popularity of chess, and in fact, it's made humans play more like computers by learning new tricks from chess programs. [url]
- Silicon-based computers are quite energy inefficient as they perform calculations, but how efficient are human brains or other biological computation mechanisms? There are fundamental computational limits for any kind of computer (silicon based or DNA based), but we've only started to quantify the biological limitations. [url]
- Silicon chips designed to mimic the known mechanisms of brain neurons and synapses could create an artificial neural network that processes a multitude of parallel instructions simultaneously. IBM is working on this kind of artificial brain that will require a completely different kind of programming, but it may produce a machine that processes information more like biological systems do (and make more mistakes?). [url]
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When Jawbone released its health-monitoring band, Up, more than a year ago it was beset by problems. Now, just in time for the holidays, a new-and-improved model can keep track of all your calories, says WSJ's Katherine Boehret.
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Economists imagine that average consumption is going to increase, so we must also consider a projected annual world economic growth of approximately 1.5% in wealthy nations and 10% in China and other developing nations. Economists consider anything below 3% world economic growth to signal a global "recession."
Humanity is trapped in a dilemma. Our economic theories suggest we can't stop growing without economic collapse, but unfettered growth also leads to collapse. We cannot rewrite the laws of nature and calculus for our own convenience.
Exponential growth - any percentage growth in nature, includingpopulations, economies, or mold in a petri dish - subsides by one oftwo paths: (1) the growing organism will overshoot the nutrient andenergy base of its host and collapse, or (2) it will discover ahomeostasis with its host and settle in to live off the capacity of itsenvironment in symbiosis with everything else that has found a niche.
We were warned. Thomas Malthus - maligned by the cheerleaders of endless growth for his failure to predict fossil fuels and pesticides - got the basic math right 200 years ago. Petroleum and agricultural technologies postponed the breaking point, but did not overturn nature's laws. The Club of Rome warned humanity in the 1972 Limits to Growth report, also allegedly refuted by growth economists. William R. Catton wrote Overshootthirty years ago, diligently explaining all this. Rachel Carson, PaulEhrlich, Greenpeace, and many others pointed out that we, gulp, live ona finite planet, subject to the rules of living systems.
If we assume a "low" annual economic growth rate of 3.6%, then human activity will double in 20 years (72 divided by the % growth = doubling time). Is this economic doubling possible? Maybe once. Could we double the world economy twice, to four times our present consumption, in 40 years? Not likely. Will "technology" make this possible? No. Remember how computers were going to save paper? Never happened. Computers haven't saved any rivers either, nor slowed soil erosion or desertification. Nor does technology increase energy, but rather costs energy. Throughout all human history, including the computer age, new technologies increase resource depletion. The "technological fix" dream represents ecological denial.
The word "deep," was first associated with ecology by Norwegian naturalist and philosopher Arne Naess at the Third World Futures conference in 1972 (Greenpeace was just being born). Naess remarked that environmentalism had already diverged into (1) a "deep," ecocentric, long-range movement advocating respect toward wild nature for its own intrinsic value; and (2) a "shallow," anthropocentric ecology that treated nature as a "resource" for human economics.
Dolores LaCapelle, Paul Shepard, Gary Snyder, Lynn White, and others built on this theme that nature possesses intrinsic value independent of human needs. Some environmentalists felt insulted by being depicted as shallow, and criticised the deep ecology movement as elitist. Naess, however, simply intended to distinguish core ecological values from human concerns. He referred to his approach as "ecosophy," approaching wisdom from nature's point of view.
Paul Sears called ecology the "subversive subject" in 1964, because it signalled a shift in awareness that would revolutionise all human enterprise, economics, politics, biology, cultural mythologies, engineering, everything about human habitation on the Earth.
We either learn ecology, deeply, or experience a drastic crash. And by "learn" ecology, I don't mean 10% recycled paper cups, solar panels on the ski lodge, and hybrid cars. I mean learning that we remain a natural species that must find our place, in peace with our host, fully integrated with the systems that sustain us. This will mean redesigning human technologies to a scale appropriate with a living Earth. Learning from nature means shifting focus from consumption to the authentic qualities of life.
Naess articulated this well four decades ago as "simple means, rich goals." Ivan Illich, about the same time, wrote Tools for Conviviality, advocating that we "invert" technological society from massive, centralised systems, to simple tools that foster "independent efficiency." Illich depicted optimum human technology, for example, as the bicycle.
So-called "deep" ecological awareness refers to humanity's reunion with nature. We are animals, and regardless of our technologies, we live from the bounty of a wild habitat. Even as we learn ecology and the laws of exponential growth, we still cannot engineer or "manage" the planet solely for human enterprise and benefit.
During the whale campaigns of the 1970s, Greenpeace did not set out to protect whales or seals for human enjoyment. We pointed out that whales possess their own inherent value, their own communities, and vital needs. We protected whales, seals, and forests for their own sake first.
An ecological renaissance does not mean a planet engineered for 12 billion humans, mining nutrients from every acre of soil, diverting every river, and burning the last coal deposit. An ecological renaissance means honouring nature and experiencing the joy of being a natural being in a paradise that once fed us without any farms, oil, or computer chips.
Some of the ideas below have been articulated by Naess, Chellis Glendinning, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter, and others. A summary of the values that we might associate with a non-human-centred, genuine ecological awareness include:
1. The inherent value of wildness, nature, diversity, symbiosis, and complexity, independent of humanity's desires or existence. 2. Systems: Everything in nature exists in interlocking systems. No species operates independently. The survival unit of evolution is a "species-in-an-environment," co-evolving with all other living systems. 3. An ecological-self: The human sense of "self" expanded to include these living systems. The popular economic notion that people act as "private" pursuers of "happiness" remains a tragic conceit, destined to fail. 4. Biocracy: extending the idea of "rights" to all things, but more importantly to the ecological system itself, and therefore, limiting human interference in nature. 5. Nature, not a "resource": The elements of nature that we call "resources" also (1) provide resources for everything else that lives, and (2) possess value in themselves, in situ. A river is a living part of a system, not simply a "resource" for human purposes. 6. Ecological design: Our tools must mimic and work with the habits, laws, and designs of nature: 100% recycling, lowest possible energy use, integrated living systems, low impact, and so forth. 7. Addressing human trauma: The destruction of the supporting ecology has traumatised humanity and led not only to poverty and desolation among the poor, but to anxiety, addiction, and violence among the comfortable. Witness the "holiday" to a mountain, seaside, or forest, as self-medication for this trauma. As I write, I'm watching a pair of Wilson's warblers, who have nested in the thicket behind my house. I cannot quantify how therapeutic this is. Every lost wild place reduces human well-being. 8. Social justice, gender equality, and international peace: War, sexism, racism, and injustice not only cause direct suffering, but also contribute to ecological catastrophes. 9. Decrease Human population: A human civilisation that understands nature will limit its interference by reducing its numbers. A positive step would be a target (perhaps over two centuries) of reducing human population to, say, a billion people, roughly the 1800 population. Global women's rights and contraception would contribute to achieving this. The population discussion invokes fear for human rights, cultural rights, racism, and immigration. Who has the right to tell other humans not to reproduce? The answer is that the living Earth has the right and will impose that right if we don't. Excessive human population reduces the quality of life for humanity and everything else. 10. Simplicity: learning to enhance the quality of life with the simplest means and least interference in nature. This requires a shift in expectations, to rediscover the joy of simplicity and a supportive environment - the joys of nature, peace, community, family, and creativity. Less stuff, more peace of mind. 11. Action: We won't solve our dilemma with philosophy or slogans. The new environmental human society requires action at every level. Primarily, we need a massive protection of wilderness and relocalisation of human survival. 12. Worship the miracle: Since the advent of empires, agriculture, and urban living, humanity has searched for paradise in all the wrong places, in wealth, power, money, and invisible realms beyond time and space. Humans appear to possess an innate sense of mystery and the more-than-human sacredness of life, but we have failed to worship - to "ascribe worth" to - the one thing that sustains us, the living Earth.
If we claim to work for the Earth or if we presume to negotiate with governments or corporations on nature's behalf, we owe ultimate allegiance to our client. We dare not sell her cheaply. If ecologists represent the Earth's voice at the table of human society, we must point out that nature has its own values and purposes. Those two warblers are going about affairs as noble and important as my own affairs feel to me. No matter how powerful and clever we appear, we are not in charge of how nature will evolve on Earth.
Ecologists must help prepare human society for the depth and breadth of the authentic shift at hand: Nature possesses values, laws, and limits beyond human purposes. Wise design is essential, but we won't simply engineer ourselves out of our economic dilemma, without changing our habits of excessive consumption. We won't consume ourselves to freedom by tacking "green" onto every enterprise like a postscript. Nature's own laws will be our primary guidance.
Ecology remains the subversive science. Humanity may flourish in a long run with nature, but only by revisioning human society as a benign guest of the Earth's living systems.
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12. Worship the miracle: Since the advent of empires, agriculture, and urban living, humanity has searched for paradise in all the wrong places, in wealth, power, money, and invisible realms beyond time and space. Humans appear to possess an innate sense of mystery and the more-than-human sacredness of life, but we have failed to worship - to "ascribe worth" to - the one thing that sustains us, the living Earth.


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Over time, individual fandoms often become known for story types that are rare in other fandoms. Other fandoms became known as the place that a new fannish trope began.
Examples include:
- Age of Sail: Amputation and other Disability fic.
- Blake's 7: PGP futurefic, set right after the end of the series; Beat Up and Rape Avon.
- DC Comics: Sex Pollen; Identity Porn; retcon-fixing AU; superteam orgy fic; Alien Kink; Voyeurism; Cross-dressing; Virgin!fic.
- Due South: Huddling for Warmth; Buddy Breathing; Post-COTW stories; Return of Victoria.
- Forever Knight: Last Knight Story (set right after the end of the series); Conversion Day stories.
- Harry Potter: Futurefic; Epilogue? What Epilogue?; Next Gen; Cross Gen; Veelafic; Animagus!fic (see also Animal Transformation); Death-Eater orgies; time-travel; detention; Aurorfic; Muggle fic; potion accidents; Fuck or Die; torture; re-sorting; Severitus fic; Fanon Draco; twincest/Weasleycest; Snape-as-virgin; vampire!Snape; Bondfic (voluntary or not); Veritaserum; X-is-still-alive AU; Lie Low At Lupin's; One Big Happy Weasley Family; legilimency/occlumency.
- Highlander: Hurt/Hurt; OCs as story protagonist with limited use of canon characters; Mary Sue; Master Manipulator Methos; Bronze Age slavefic torture epics.
- Homestuck: bloodswap, guardianswap, post-Sburb, post-Scratch fic, Human A/U, all-troll A/U, "stabdads" A/U
- Inception: Team fic, job fic (cf (casefile), Limbo fic, forging, Mal Was Right/It Was All A Dream, AUs, Crack, catboys, animal transformation, bottom!Arthur, age difference, underage
- IT: Alpha/Beta/Omega/Heat Fic/Knotting, Amnesia, Angst, Apocafic/Zombie Apocalypse, Boarding School/High School/University AU, Bodyswap/Genderswap, Childhood Friends (Canon: The Losers Club), Disability Fic/Mental Disorder Fic, Domestic Fic, Enemies to Lovers/Friends to Lovers, Fix-it/Reset Button, Hatesex, Historical/Regency/Royalty AU, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Pirate AU, Punk AU, Role Reversal/Mirror Universe, RST/UST, Soulmate AU, Superpowers/Vampire/Werewolf/Witch AU
- Crossover/Fusion:
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- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: WAFF-iness (Warm and Fuzzy Feelings) - stories with no angst but plenty of sappiness.
- The Lord of the Rings: Tenth walker Mary Sue stories; one of the characters claiming the One Ring (and then raping other characters); Hobbit hurt/comfort and curtainfic; Boromir/Faramir incest; "Boromir lives" alternate universes; Legomances; hobbit/human interspecies, Fourth Age stories.
- The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: Illya torture (of course, canon did that a lot, too).
- The Magnificent 7: The Cartwright Syndrome; The Hollow Man Syndrome; one-shot AUs that become fandom-wide shared universes (ATF, werewolves, etc.)
- Merlin: Arthur finds out; Modern AU; futurefic; animal transformation; Magic made them do it; role reversal (Merlin in charge, Arthur as servant); OT4; Winter in Camelot; Modern Royal Family AU; Arthur Conquers Ealdor.
- Naruto: Touchstone or Lifeline fic, Sexy no Jutsu, Clone!sex
- NCIS: Kink, kink, and for variety, more kink and then some woobiefication on top of the kink. Don't Ask Don't Tell and genderswap also feature prominently.
- One Direction: OT5; Tour fic; X-Factor era fic; future fic; Dark!Harry (though this is generally associated with badfic); Non-Famous AUs with some or all members not famous, or famous for different careers.
- The Phantom Menace: Denial of canon death.
- Popslash: Wingfic; Genderswap; magical_realism; busfic; Group Slut Fic/GSF; portmanteau pairing names.
- The Professionals: The Game; bizarre AUs; My Partner's Dead, Just Kidding (MPDJK); Elf AUs and Inappropriate Elf stories.
- seaQuest : Evil Lucas Fiction (ELF), in which high angst, h/c, and everything from child abuse to self-mutilation abound.
- The Sentinel: Domestic Discipline; soulbond; Smarm; Everyone Is Gay; the Office Betting Pool; originated the Sentinel and Guide trope.
- Smallville: Clark Kent out-of-control on Red Kryptonite; trying to fix things with time travel; futurefic; kidfic.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Bring back Jadzia
- Star Trek: The Original Series, especially Kirk/Spock: Cave stories; Spock-as-virgin; Pon farr; Ancient Vulcan slave stories; Mirror Universe stories; Bondmates; Aliens made them do it; Anal Penetration (very focused in its psychological implications and gender/power as per Kirk/Spock fiction), complicated alien genitalia - especially Spock's e.g. Tentacles[[1]; Hand Porn; Mirror Universe fic.
- Star Trek (2009): The Mind Meld Gave Me Feelings (wherein Spock Prime's canon mind meld with Kirk also transferred over scenes of he and Kirk Prime in a relationship); Spock Prime as matchmaker
- Stargate Atlantis: Don't Ask Don't Tell (including lots of post-DADT fic); Internalized homophobia; kidfic; teamfic; OT4; genderswap; aliens made them do it; Sentient Atlantis; Atlantis-goes-independent fic; The Post-Trinity Phenomenon; anaphylaxis fic; apocafic; mathy!fic; penguinfic; strong crack including a lot of anthropomorfic; Same Actor Crossover, sex pollen, and many Alternate Universe stories with Earth AUs.
- Stargate: SG-1: early on: Jammies; later seasons, Apocafic; slavefic; Aliens made them do it.
- Starsky & Hutch: Futurefic; Post SR; h/c; many other tropes are mapped here.
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A common query to the 0800FARMING line relates to employees living in employer-provided accommodation.
The service tenancies raise some tricky issues, merging laws covering employment and landlord/tenant relationships.
The tenancy relationship exists because of the employment, so it should end at the same time, although there are exceptions.
Service tenancies are fully covered by the Residential Tenancies Act but have some special rules.
Section 40 and 45 - the landlord and tenant's responsibilities, including cleanliness and repair and ensuring reasonable peace and privacy of all tenants.
Section 48 - the landlord's rights of entry. Rights are limited to being only by consent of the tenant immediately before, or at the time of entry, in an emergency, or to undergo inspections, maintenance and repairs if notice is given beforehand.
Section 51 - the requirements for landlords terminating a tenancy. The notice must be in writing, identify the premises, specify the date when the tenant is required to leave and be signed by the landlord.
Section 53 - extra provisions for tenancy termination. Landlords, or tenants, must give a minimum 14 days' written notice to terminate, unless the landlord reasonably believes the tenant will cause substantial damage to the premises, or the landlord has to appoint a replacement employee needing the accommodation. Tenant employees cannot be forced to leave before their employment ends.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's building and housing group's website, www.dbh.govt.nz, has a full guide to the rights and duties of both parties.
Common questions
My employee has abandoned their employment and the house, leaving some of things. I urgently need to house new tenants. Can I remove their things?
Before removing any property from the house, the tenancy must be terminated. Ensure you give the two weeks' notice to vacate the property when employment ends. This can sometimes be shortened when there are incoming tenant employees.
When a tenant abandons the house and stops paying rent, apply to the Tenancy Tribunal for a termination order on the grounds of abandonment.
Once the order is given, the tenancy has been terminated.
The Residential Tenancies Act 1986 allows landlords to dispose of perishable goods left behind.
For other items, landlords must make all reasonable efforts to contact the tenant to agree on a period for the goods' collection.
Where impossible, landlords must securely store personal documents such as passports and power bills.
Items such as furniture, books and televisions can be assessed for market value. If values are below storage, transport or selling costs, you can dispose of the goods in any way.
If the value is above the costs, you must store them for 35 days, so the tenant can claim them, if reasonable storage costs are paid.
If unclaimed, you can store or sell the goods for a reasonable market price.
Personal documents must not be sold. Hand them into the local police station.
My tenants let their dogs live inside, which I would not have allowed if I had known about them. Can I make them keep them outside?
Federated Farmers' standard agreement provides for disallowing animals inside houses. If you used this agreement, enforce its terms by giving tenants written notice of the breach of the tenancy agreement. They must rectify this within 14 days.
You can state they will be liable for damage occurring as a result of that breach and, if they fail to comply, you may apply to terminate the tenancy.
If you have not used the Federated Farmers' agreement or similar, there is little you can do. You could try to renegotiate the tenancy agreement's terms but there is nothing you can do if the tenant refuses to play ball. You are entitled to recover damages if the animal caused excessive damage inside.
If you have any questions about service tenancies, call 0800 FARMING for access to free, independent legal advice.


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South African-born short story author Michelle Sacks has turned her considerable writing skills to a full-length novel and the result is this stunning psychological thriller… a toxic, teasing, twisted tale of marriage, motherhood and friendship, so chilling and stomach-churning that it will have you reaching for the smelling salts.
Blending an ingenious brand of guilty voyeurism with an intriguing and utterly addictive storyline, Sacks sweeps us away to rural Sweden and into the lives of three of the most complex characters you could hope to meet in fiction.
Merry and Sam Hurley are building a new life for themselves far from the traffic, pollution, noise and crowds of Manhattan. Their home now is a little red wooden house nestled cosily in the woods of a beautiful nature reserve in the wilds of Sweden.
It's a year since they left New York and they can hardly believe how lucky they are on their 'island of three.' What perfect new lives they have built for themselves, away from the big city and the events that overshadowed their happiness there.
Doting wife Merry adores baking, gardening and caring for their eight-month-old son Conor while Sam, a former professor of anthropology at Columbia University, pursues a new career in documentary film-making.
'You were made for this,' Sam tells Merry, but then Merry's closest friend, high-flying career girl Frank, announces she is finally flying over from her home in London to stay with them.
All their lives, the two women have been more like sisters… they're childhood friends, 'the most dangerous kind' of friends because Frank sees things that others might miss, the treacherous things that happen behind closed doors.
But within no time, Frank is part of the family. She bonds with Conor and Sam, she befriends the neighbours, and she even finds herself embracing the domesticity she has always claimed to scorn.
However, it's soon clear that everyone inside the house has something to hide and as the truth begins to show through the cracks, Merry, Frank, and Sam grow all the more desperate to keep their picture-perfect lives intact…
This bold and wickedly seductive debut is straight out of the top drawer as Sacks' taut, treacherous but exhilaratingly psychotic thriller drags us mercilessly and unrelentingly through an emotional wringer in which we witness the unfolding of a gut-wrenching tragedy.
Even as we hide our eyes behind one hand, the other is desperately turning the pages to discover the dark secrets simmering at the heart of a perfectly imperfect marriage… and the shocking fate we feel increasingly sure awaits these deeply flawed characters.
Sacks drip feeds the menace and uncertainty with exquisite precision, using a triple narrative that weaves between Merry, Sam and Frank. As we learn a series of explosive truths about each of the principal players, the tension ratchets up to boiling point and only disaster would seem to ensue.
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CAD for SANs
New automated design tools can help you build the SAN of your dreams.
Designing a large storage area network (SAN) fabric is a complex job. Overprovisioning a SAN will run up the costs substantially, and an underperforming SAN can be equally costly. SAN design tools from Computer Associates, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and other companies are starting to appear, and these products can take some of the guesswork out of constructing a well-tuned SAN.
"As users move to heterogeneous, fabric-attached storage environments, the complexity of managing the increasingly diverse number of devices and the associated levels of software versions increases the effort required to define a solid design and to test the impact of any change," says Carolyn DiCenzo, research VP of storage management software, at Gartner Inc. "There is clearly a need for software to automate this effort, supporting the design and reducing the risk as changes are made to the environment."
|What to look for in a SAN design tool
To help design its internal SANs, Hewlett-Packard (HP) developed a set of tools collectively called "Appia, after the Appian Way, one of the networks of roads leading to ancient Rome," says Julie Ward, project scientist at the decision technologies department, HP laboratories, in Palo Alto, CA. HP recently renamed Appia, and it is now called HP SAN Designer.
HP SAN Designer can design Fibre Channel (FC) SANs and in the "near future," Ethernet SANs, an HP spokesperson says. It works with a variety of storage products, not just HP gear. Ward claims that HP SAN Designer can reduce the cost of a SAN by a factor of three over a manual design.
"But even more important than the cost savings is that the designs can be built--they honor the physical constraints of the system and produce the desired degree of reliability. It is very difficult to verify correctness when designing a large-scale SAN manually," Ward says.
Even if a manually designed SAN works, it may not work optimally if the fault-tolerance aspects are not fine tuned. And in many cases, it's difficult to grow a poorly designed SAN to include hundreds--or even thousands--of storage devices.
HP SAN Designer's algorithms and similar SAN design tools balance SAN criteria such as work loads, device performance, protection levels, disaster tolerance and overall performance demands to configure the storage fabric. HP SAN Designer can analyze data flows at a granular level. From each host to each storage device, it suggests the preferred data paths and load balancing. In addition, HP SAN Designer can automatically modify the SAN as it grows and evolves, according to Thomas Goepel, HP's portfolio manager for storage services.
HP SAN Designer isn't sold or licensed. "The use of the tool is part of the standard HP SAN design delivery," says Goepel, adding, that in the future, the tool will be "more tightly integrated into HP's sales tools."
EMC is also jumping on the SAN design tool bandwagon with SAN Architect, a new Web-based software program for SAN design, modeling and validation. The template-driven SAN Architect is particularly suited for customers with rapidly changing SAN environments, planned multiple server, switch or array rollouts and consolidations and even those who simply need to validate changes or implementation plans without interrupting production systems.
SAN Architect guides storage architects and IT administrators through the design and validation of a fully functional SAN. It ensures that proposed changes are accurate and precise by modeling and validating hosts, host bus adapters (HBAs), switches and storage arrays, producing a final design that's 100% supported by EMC.
According to Randy Carter, a SAN architect at Radian Group Inc., in Philadelphia: "Before SAN Architect, SAN design involved consulting numerous compatibility reference sources, manually white boarding out the flows, building a Visio presentation and, finally, creating an Excel spreadsheet to fit everything together. What used to take 24 hours now takes four."
That is, if your company is an EMC shop. Presently, SAN Architect only works with EMC arrays and switches from Brocade, Inrange, McData and coming soon, Cisco, according to an EMC spokesperson. "At the end of the year, we will support Hitachi Data Systems, HP and IBM," the spokesperson adds. SAN Architect is available as a one-year subscription with an entry-level list price of $2,400.
In February, Computer Associates (CA) acquired Netreon's SANexec Designer and integrated the product into BrightStor. Now called BrightStor SAN Designer, the product contains a large repository of SAN component knowledge and industry best practices. "It works with just about every component out there," says Eric Pitcher, divisional VP of BrightStor solutions.
BrightStor SAN Designer helps a storage architect implement a reliable SAN, and document all components in the SAN, including their make, model and firmware versions. BrightStor SAN Designer can also be used to design a SAN from scratch, to improve a working SAN or to audit a SAN implementation. In its current version, the product follows the best practice guidelines of the individual component manufacturers. In other words, BrightStor SAN Designer can't recommend a Brocade switch over an Inrange switch or vice versa for performance goals. It can only tell you how a specific switch or other SAN component will work with another SAN component. However, according to Pitcher, CA is working on BrightStor SAN Designer's algorithms so that in the future, the product will be able to recommend various SAN components based on user goals such as performance or cost.
All three of these SAN design programs have pretty much the same objective--to save the user time by automating the tedious task of designing a SAN. The SAN design problem becomes progressively more complicated as more and more components are added into the SAN. The job of the SAN design tool is to make sure all the parts of the SAN work together, and then to optimize all the components of a SAN based on user goals, such as performance levels and cost restraints. To do so, for example, the user of HP SAN Designer selects a set of fabric nodes (switches and hubs), a set of links connecting pairs of nodes (hosts and devices), a topology with which to join these together and a single path through the network for each flow. The single-path restriction arises from SCSI request-ordering constraints.
Of course, the resulting fabric design must be feasible--that is, it must satisfy constraints that ensure it can be built, and it must support the connection and performance requirements. These constraints are: the number of links connected to a host, the device or fabric node must not exceed the number of ports available there (these restrictions are called degree constraints) and the flow routing must honor the bandwidth limitations of links and fabric nodes. And "it has become increasingly important to honor the interoperability constraints among vendors in designing heterogeneous SANs," says HP's Ward.
Obviously, no design tool is better than the inputs it is given. However, it's easy to build a certain amount of slack into the SAN design to allow for errors or anticipated future growth. Indeed, it's better to have the slack specified up front as part of the goal, rather than trying to build in slack after the fact by adding excess SAN elements in places where they may not do the most good, Ward says.
The HP SAN Designer algorithms run fast enough so that they can be used in interactive what-if scenario exploration, in conjunction with manual input from a SAN design expert. In most cases, it's important to use this tool--and other SAN design tools--in conjunction with a SAN design expert, so they can modify or further refine the output.
Ward says HP SAN Designer "is extremely valuable as part of an interactive SAN design process. It frees up the human SAN designer's time to explore interesting trade-offs between cost and other SAN features through multiple scenarios."
However, it's important to remember that most SAN design tools are in their first generation and don't offer all the bells and whistles to create the SAN of your dreams. But as they get better, designing a SAN will become much easier.


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