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Andrew W. Moore
Personal Website: www.cs.cmu.edu/~awm
University of Cambridge, B.S., mathematics and computer science
University of Cambridge, Ph.D., computer science
Research Interests:
Data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithms and theory
Dean, CMU School of Computer Science
August 2014–present
Vice President of Engineering, Google Commerce
October 2011–July 2014
Director, Google Pittsburgh
January 2006–July 2014
Professor, Computer Science and Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
September 1993–present
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Andrew W. Moore is the fifth dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He began his new role Aug. 18, 2014.
A member of the CMU faculty since 1993, Moore's appointment as the new dean of SCS marks a homecoming of sorts for the professor of robotics and computer science. He has been on a leave of absence from CMU since January 2006, when he opened the Pittsburgh office of Google Inc. While at Google, Moore has led projects to improve user experiences in advertising and shopping and to help combat fraud.
In October 2011, while continuing to serve as leader of Google's Pittsburgh office, Moore was named vice president of engineering of Google Commerce, where he became responsible for developing new products and services.
Moore's tenure at Google Pittsburgh has been characterized by the office's rapid growth both in size and importance. Google Pittsburgh started with just two employees in a rented office on the CMU campus. It now includes more than 275 employees in 140,000 square feet in East Liberty's Bakery Square development, located just a few miles from Carnegie Mellon. Work being done at Google Pittsburgh includes everything from the company's signature search engine to shopping, advertising and the Android mobile platform.
Moore's research interests broadly encompass the field of "big data"—applying statistical methods and mathematical formulas to massive quantities of information, ranging from Web searches to astronomy to medical records, in order to identify patterns and extract meaning from that information. His past research has also included improving the ability of robots and other automated systems to sense the world around them and respond appropriately.
From 2002 to 2005, Moore served as co-director of the Biomedical Security Center at the University of Pittsburgh, and along with Michael M. Wagner and Ron M. Aryel, he was editor of the Handbook of Biosurveillance, a guide to detecting and fighting outbreaks of communicable diseases in real-time.
In 2005, Moore was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his significant contributions to machine learning, data mining and statistical artificial intelligence, as well as for his role in transferring those technologies to industry and government.
A graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and computer science, Moore was born in Bournemouth, U.K., Jan. 15, 1965, and began his career working for Hewlett-Packard's Bristol research lab. He returned to Cambridge in 1986 to earn his Ph.D. in computer science.
Moore spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the CMU faculty. From 1995 to 2001, Moore served as co-founder and chief technology officer of a small, Pittsburgh-based consulting company specializing in data mining technology.
He received a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1991 and joined the CMU faculty in 1993 following two years of post-doctoral research. In 2005, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Andrew lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Mary, and two children, William and Lucy.
Moore succeeds Randal Bryant, who will return to the CMU faculty after serving as dean since 2004.
In addition to Bryant, deans of the School of Computer Science have included founding dean A. Nico Habermann, Raj Reddy and James H. Morris.


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Anthony Bourdain Has No Reservations About Being a Hypocrite
Anthony Bourdain has a big problem with food bloggers. He doesn't see why someone would want to eat food, document it, and then have other people view the results of that experience. Pot, meet kettle.
Anthony Bourdain picks and chooses who he likes. He likes cooks (like himself), he does not like people who analyze and critique food (like himself). In a very interesting No Reservations, Bourdain interviewed various real foodies that are maniacally obsessed with the likes of beef, cheese, fish and pork. Bourdain paid his respects to these masters in their respective culinary fields by eating the $26 Black Label Burger at Minnetta Tavern, locally caught fluke at Esca, and crispy pork belly at Kampuchea.
When things took a weird turn for the worse is when he decided to delve into the world of food blogging by interviewing three food obsessed members egullet.com (now egullet.org). The founders, Jason Perlow and Steven Shaw, and former board member Steven Plotnicki. Bourdain claims that these three men are so obsessed with food, it's come to the point of disillusionment about what food actually means.
And in the middle the interviews with the each blogger, they each took out their cameras to photograph the food. This is where Bourdain, for some reason, berated them. He voiced serious disapproval when it comes to taking pictures of their food for the purposes of posting those photos to their blog. "It's like keeping a diary while you're having sex!" Wait, what? You're telling someone to sit there and enjoy their food instead of photographing it while you have a camera crew huddled around you, recording everything you say, do and eat? For some reason it's fine for Bourdain to host a TV show documenting his culinary experiences through various exotic locales, discussing the culture and food he is served, but when a blogger does it for the exact same reason, all of the sudden it's inexcusable? Perhaps if the blogger hired his own photographer out of pocket it would be tolerated by Bourdain? His stance on the subject is baffling.
Sometimes it's as simple as people enjoy taking pictures of the food they're eating, and then they go ahead and eat it. Someone needs to tell Bourdain that a dining experience does not necessarily always need to be a visceral exercise. Maybe he could look back on past episodes of No Reservations to figure that out.

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Crude oil reserves in the U.S. grew for the fourth straight year, reaching the highest level since 1976, according to an Energy Department report released Thursday.
The report says reserves grew 4.5 billion barrels, or 15 percent, to 33 billion barrels in 2012. It was the biggest one-year jump since 1970.
The U.S. consumed 6.9 billion barrels of crude-based fuels last year.
Drillers have learned how to unlock oil trapped in rock formations once thought too expensive to tap, using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, a process known as fracking. North Dakota and Texas, home to the two most prolific of these formations, accounted for the vast majority of the increase.
The oil reserves reported represent crude that can likely be produced in the future with current technology and prices.


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Patients may continue to feel weak despite medications. The goal of treatment is to improve strength, but this may take time. Medications like Cellcept, cyclosporine or Imuran may take months to work. Mestinon often does not return strength to normal. You may need to discuss whether there has been adequate time for treatments to improve your strength or whether other medications need to be used with your neurologist.
There are several reasons this could occur.
The best treatments for severe symptoms are plasmapheresis, steroids in high doses, and IVIG. The initial response can be slow (taking months). Most patients with MG do eventually respond. Also, other medications like Cellcept, azathioprine (Imuran), and cyclosporine often need to be started. These take months to work but eventually allow patients to be treated with lower doses of prednisone.
This information can be found through the National Institutes of Health at http://clinicaltrials.gov/.
Every time a physician uses a drug, benefits and risks have to be weighed. I look at each case individually and each choice of medication in this way.
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It's Memorial Day weekend: the unofficial start of summer and an excuse to hang out outdoors. Instead of the typical barbecue, freeze up some adult treats, toss together some picnic-friendly sandwiches and salads, and invite your friends over for a fun popsicle party!
• Bright Shapes Melamine Plates, West Elm, $4.50
• Popsicle String Lights, Anthropologie, $24
• Stained Coasters set of 4, CB2, sale $14.95
• Evergreen serving bowl with bamboo lid, Target, $11.39
• Martha Stewart Collection Acrylic Wine Glasses, Macy's, sale $12.50
• Evergreen tall drink sticks set of 2, Target, $11.39
• Blue Glass Yorkshire Dispenser, World Market, $19.99
• Ice Popping Bottles Opener, Mod Cloth, $11.99
• Grownup Popsicle Recipe: Boozy Campari Citrus Pops
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We've been having discussions on how to improve the quality of the site and how to deal with trolls. I posted that ^ in addicts and it was discussed for awhile. It was suggested that something like this also be PMd to every new addict....but that idea was shot down. It was also suggested that this could be made into a "curtain" forum or something so it forces people new to Addicts forum to read it before they have access. I think a sticky that looks special somehow be authored by an administrator and placed in Addicts with some sort of catchy subject line like "Read this or die". The body could be a far more professional version of what I wrote, plus anything someone would like to add. It has to be short and to the point though b/c stickys just don't get read b/c they're long and boring... I would *love* to see this happen, and I don't even ask to be given credit for it.Originally posted here by keezel
We could establish an actual policy (or "renew" one) that would say something like "If you see a troll, do not respond with anything other than a neg. If you see someone, *anyone* responding to a troll with a post, neg them too". I submit that someone make a general policy for all addicts and seniors and make it a sticky in the addicts forum that states something similar to that. The author of this sticky thread would need to at least be a moderator, preferably an administrator. Something like "You are an addict now, so you are held to a higher standard and you are expected to neg the sh*t out of useless posts, trolls, and people that respond to trolls". That'd be a great first step toward making the self-moderation abilities of this site more effective.


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Doug Tomlinson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 117 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Need to be careful of Mac / Apple trademark infringement.
MacIT Solutions / macITsolutions / macit
I'd like a relatively simple logo but something I can be proud of in terms of "branding". I'm fairly new to the self-employed game but a friend led me to this site for help.
My business does IT consulting, installations, repairs, training, etc. Basically a small-time-jack-of-all-trades IT guy with a strong primary focus on Mac / Apple.
I hope to incorporate the name into the logo but I'd like something that stands nicely alone as well (that could be cool for mugs or hats or something)
You can see my original "store bought" logo on my website at: http://www.macitsolutions.com although please don't use that as a reference of what I like :-)
I do like the blue and orange but that's not a priority.
I'm thinking that something "mac-like" such as a widget, iphone button-ish kinda design could be cool if it represented me & my business.
- Item 1...Not 100% sure but something that somehow represents what the business does.- Item 2...Want to be able to incorporate design into new business cards, website, print, etc (guessing vector image??).
- Item 1...Don't want something cheesy and "non-profit" looking like my current- Item 2...Nothing that will violate copyrights (such as an APPLE) as I am affiliated via the Apple Consultants Network
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This is a quilt I made to benefit Charlie's school. I donated a custom baby quilt to a silent auction, to be made according to the buyer's preferences. He said green was his favorite color, and he especially liked the frog fabric I'd used in one of my sample photos. So green and frogs it is.
I used Allison's Chain Reaction pattern from Cluck, Cluck, Sew. I like her version very much, and the pattern's nicely written and illustrated — no complaints there. But something about my version...doesn't...speak to me. I don't know if it's because I made a smaller version with fewer blocks — probably! — but the proportions don't feel right. It was improved by widening the edges so that the binding doesn't come right up against the framed blocks, but not solved entirely. I didn't have time to play with it more than that. I might make another quilt from this pattern and experiment, but, well, probably not. World enough and time.
Still, it's kind of cute.
For the binding, which is entirely machine-sewn, I used Rita's tutorial from Red Pepper Quilts. I haaaated the first side I sewed; there was way too much fabric left flapping over on the back. But I easily discovered my problem: I was pulling the binding far enough to actually fill the binding, which resulted in too great an overlap hanging over the stitching line. If I pulled it much less, pinning it just past the binding's seam line, the overlap was a lot neater.
This was obvious, but unsatisfying. I like my bindings to be nicely filled, and for some reason — technique? different batting loft? — this binding isn't great in that respect. I need to cut my strips much narrower than Rita suggests. (She uses 2.25" but recommends beginners use 2.5". I split the difference and used 2.375" and found it too wide.)
So this will take some more experimentation, but once I have my own preferences solidly addressed, wow, is this going to revolutionize my quilting life. It ends up looking very tidy and professional on the back, and I am nothing if not tidy and professional.
...Except on the back. I just don't know any good, easy way around this, the dark thread on light fabric on the back. It offends me, but I'm not enough of a perfectionist to do what's required to avoid it. In other words, my laziness eclipses my craftsmanship on a shockingly regular basis.
Nevertheless, it's finished, it's froggy, and I hope the auction winner will like it for his grandchild-to-be.


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Over the past decade, tremendous strides have been made in the treatment of adult lymphomas -- a group of blood cancers that begins in the white blood cells that fight infection in the body. Personalized and targeted therapies are resulting in higher success rates and patients living longer. Ongoing progress continues to offer hope and healing for patients facing this disease.
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At the Frontier of Lymphoma Care
The University of Chicago Medicine has been at the forefront of this great move forward in lymphoma care. Here, the brightest minds in medicine work every day to advance the care of patients with lymphoma. Our lymphoma experts are committed to developing new therapies for this complex disease and to bringing the latest treatments to our patients as quickly as possible. In fact, we are the first medical center in Illinois to offer CAR T-cell therapy, a breakthrough immunotherapy for the treatment of certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia. One of the busiest lymphoma programs in Chicago, we manage care for thousands of patients and see approximately 250 new cases each year.
Top Diagnostic Expertise
Our hematopathologists (physician-scientists who analyze blood samples and tissue to identify lymphoma) have extensive knowledge and expertise in accurately pinpointing the different subtypes of lymphoma -- some of which are particularly difficult to diagnose. Physicians from around the nation and the world regularly consult with our hematopathologists on complicated lymphoma cases.
We also use the newest technology for diagnosing and staging lymphoma, including a combination PET-CT scanner.
Nationally Designated Cancer Center
Our lymphoma specialists are members of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC), one of only two National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Illinois. Here, teams of physicians and scientists work across disciplines to discover new methods for detecting and treating cancer through laboratory studies, prevention research and clinical trials.
»Learn more about lymphoma research and clinical trials.
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We take an aggressive approach to treating lymphomas that return after initial treatment. In some cases, blood and bone marrow stem cell transplant offers the best chance of cure for patients with relapsed lymphoma. »Learn more about blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation.
Individualized Treatment by a Multidisciplinary Team
Each patent's care is directed and managed by physicians and nurses dedicated to the treatment of lymphoma. At the same time, patients benefit from the knowledge and expertise of many other specialists and researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine. Here, a group of experts meets weekly to discuss each patient's case and to design individualized care plans. The multidisciplinary lymphoma team consists of:
- Hematologists/oncologists who specialize in lymphoma care
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Specialized Care for Adolescents and Young Adults
Lymphomas (Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin) are the third most common cancer in adolescents and young adults. The Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Program at the University of Chicago Medicine addresses the unique personal, psychosocial and medical needs of this age group. »Read more about our AYA program.
We offer long-term follow-up and care for adults who were treated for lymphoma as adolescents or young adults. Patients receive an individualized survivorship plan to help them address any medical or psychosocial issues they experience as a result of cancer or its treatment.
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More than 40 years ago, University of Chicago physician John E. Ultmann, MD, and his colleagues were instrumental in defining an approach to the diagnosis, staging and treatment of lymphomas that still guides lymphoma care today.
Today, our lymphoma specialists carry on Dr. Ultmann's legacy -- in their ongoing research and in their dedication to understanding and sharing their knowledge of the disease. Each year, specialists from around the world gather at the International Ultmann Chicago Lymphoma Symposium -- co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and dedicated to the science and clinical care of lymphoma.


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Batting expertise enhance national technical team
In the year under review, Grant Flower joined the national technical team as the batting coach and former West Indies batsman Brian Lara was contracted for a period of five months to conduct three spells of seven day batting clinics.
Local and international coaches join forces
The franchises also saw an injection of expertise as internationally acclaimed cricketers joined each franchsie in a bid to expose players to international standards. Andrew Hall joined Mash Eagles, David Houghton joined Matabeleland Tuskers, Allan Donald joined Mountaineers, Jason Gillespie joined the Midwest Rhinos and Monty Lynch became head coach at Southern Rocks. Gary Brent has also joined the Zimbabwe Cricket as a coach based at the High performance Centre.
It has been felt that the missing link within our development program has been that of quality coaching. To alleviate the problem a National Coaching Manager Andrew Waller was appointed to assist with improving coaching standards by upgrading the current coaches as well as monitoring and supervising their day to day activities. He, together with Development Coaching Co-coordinator Ian Tinker and National Development Manager Nick Singo, an assessment programme with over 100 coaches was conducted nationwide in an attempt to assess the current level of expertise and plan for future needs.
Coaching courses
Uplifting the standards of cricket in the schools has remained as one of our major objectives. In order to improve the standards we have run several coaching courses for both school masters and school coaches. Towards the end of October some national development coaches started assisting and coaching in the high density areas. Some have already been to private schools like Lomagundi, Peterhouse and Ruzawi.
Also through the development programme, army sports masters undertook a Basic/Intermediate Cricket Coaching Course.
All courses were designed to further the knowledge of the current coaches/teachers in the various franchises and schools and to keep them updated with new ideas, coaching skills and techniques.
Spin Doctor Terry Jenner's visit to Zimbabwe
We learned with great sadness of the death of world renowned wrist spin coach Terry Jenner in May 2011.
Young Zimbabwean cricketers were able to – if only for a moment- benefit from the expert coaching and mentoring that helped shaped the careers of Australian greats like Shane Warne.
During three coaching clinics held in Harare and Bulawayo, Children from Prince Edward High School, St Georges College, St John's College and junior spin bowlers from Takashinga Cricket Club were treated to some top class training by the man who will always be affectionately remembered as "the spin doctor."
The 66 year old coach believes he still had a lot to offer Zimbabwean players especially at the franchise level, he wrote on his personal blog soon after his visit "My passion is for Spin Bowling and I live this through assisting to develop spinners by enhancing their gift," a lucid indication of an assertive man who was on a mission.


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Lypiatt Park: Lynn Chadwick's Gothic Mansion
Much of our inspiration comes from books and magazines, and because Linda and I are out yard saling and flea marketing just about every weekend, the overwhelming majority of that material is not very recent, and our bookshelf is a rainbow of aged, oxidized, antique whites.
This post was going to be all about white, but as we were looking at the shelves we thought about all the information in those pages and how little of it can be found on the internet, since in order to be Googled, someone has had to have scanned it, typed it out, and html'd it — so we thought we'd share at least a bit of one favorite article. From Vogue magazine, August 1st 1963, an article titled "Castle Tomorrow" about the fantastic British sculptor Lynn Chadwick's sprawling Gothic mansion of Lypiatt Park, written by the great art critic John Russell, and photographed by the legendary Lord Snowdon and Norman Parkinson.
Lynn Chadwick worked as an architectural draftsman before serving as a pilot in World War II, after which he began designing furniture, textiles, and architectural projects. He also made abstract kinetic mobiles, then soon just stationary kinetic sculpture, with some kind of streamlined or pointed element to them, likely based on his experience as a pilot.
Chadwick won the Venice Bienniale award for sculpture in 1956, which brought him international fame and enormous financial success. He soon after bought the "cavernous, evil-smelling, dilapidated" Gothic Castle Lypiatt Park and proceeded to refurbish it, room by room.
The photo captions from the Vogue article Castle Tomorrow:
• 1 Just a portion of one of Wary Meyers' bookshelves.
• 2 The Dining Room, one of sixteen rooms in which the Chadwicks now live. On the heated floating raft: Lynn Chadwick and one of his two daughters, Sarah, plus a Chadwick Lion, a Chadwick Beast, and an absolute absence of what had been the room's ancient pomposities. Above: A rather formidable view of Lypiatt Park.
• 3 Opposite page: In a sunwashed Gothic corridor at Lypiatt, where space that was once just space has taken on fresh beauty, a Chadwick sculpture, two Chadwick children.
Left, top: Lynn Chadwick, who was, not incidentally, trained young as an architect- in his studio at Lypiatt.
Left, centre: The kitchen, with its cantilevered stove, its natural pine cupboards. The carved design on the canopy was taken from the Chadwick's Chinese Chippendale bed.
Left, below centre: Frances Chadwick, a young woman whose looks reflect her clean imagination, her vitality.
Left: A cast terrazzo basin designed by Lynn Chadwick: simple, forthright, one of the details that helps to focus the eye in the vast but newly controlled spaces of Lypiatt.
• 4 Left: Two small Chadwicks tricycle around Lypiatt's great vaulted gallery, a place where, as Lynn Chadwick said, "the Victorians used to walk after lunch, getting up an appetite for dinner" In those days, the gallery was dark, lined with tables and busts, oppressively narrowed by clutter; now, like each of the rooms that the Chadwicks have colonized, it is airy, whitewashed, patterned with shadow and stains of amethyst and emerald glass; a place where Chadwick's spikily beautiful sculpture is oddly but exactly at home.
• 5 The Chadwicks' own bedroom, above, is dominated by a zebra skin rug, an immense black-and-gold four-poster bed. In the bathroom off that bedroom, right a bath is scooped directly into the heated terrazzo floor. (The little splashers: Sarah and Sophie Chadwick). The heated floor, incidentally, is typical of the Chadwick treatment: throughout the house, electric coils in vital places-certain floors, the dining room raft, the terrazzo dining table-help solve that biggest of all problems in any old English house, heating. Because the bath involves a shower spraying free in the room, a shower-taker can look not only all around the room but out the window, down the valley, filled with beeches and laid out like a park. Of that Chadwick said: "Who could use a shower curtain after seeing Psycho?"
Images: Wary Meyers, Lord Snowdon and Norman Parkinson/Vogue
John and Linda Meyers are otherwise known as Wary Meyers Decorative Arts, which focuses on interior design, object design, painting, illustration, and soft sculpture (coming soon). Their new book, Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs is a DIY trip through their world of yard saling and resourceful repurposing. Out now from Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.


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Sony announced at CES Tuesday that a new streaming service, PlayStation Now, will bring PlayStation, PS2, and PS3 games to a variety of devices in 2014. The service will stream games to the PS4 and handheld PS Vita, as well as other devices like HDTVs, tablets, and smart phones.
None of this comes as a surprise. Sony purchased video game streaming company Gaikai in 2012. PlayStation Now is simply a new public brand for a cloud-gaming product we've been hearing about for some time now.
Having old PlayStation/2/3 games available on your TV without a console at all sounds great, so long as you have the internet connection for it. It certainly expands Sony's gaming reach and transforms other Sony products—phones, TVs, etc.—into video game systems overnight.
One question that remains is whether your own catalog of PSN games will somehow be recognized by the service and "credited" somehow to your account, or whether you'll have to pay twice. I've reached out to Sony to see if they have any comment.
The PlayStation Now closed beta begins at the end of this month, and the service is expected to begin rolling out sometime this summer. CES attendees will be able to play Naughty Dog's The Last of Us and Quantic Dream's Beyond Two Souls on Sony Bravia TVs at the show.
Sony's Andrew House also noted that there will be multiple payment models for the service, including rentals and subscription plans.
House also discussed Sony's upcoming live-TV streaming service, which blends the concept of TV and online-streaming and allows users to watch TV on just about any device, from the PS4 to an iPad.
Sony has similar plans for PlayStation Now.
"Eventually the service will expand beyond PlayStation platforms and Sony devices, allowing users to stream PlayStation games on numerous other Internet-connected devices," Sony said in a press release. That's an interesting business strategy, effectively shifting Sony's game business away from hardware and toward a service model.
Could there come a day when you could stream all your PS3 games to your Xbox One?
Shifting from hardware to entertainment services is a risky but perhaps inevitable move. PlayStation as a universal service might have greater reach than PlayStation as a hardware brand, though given the early sales success of the PS4 it would appear there's still a real market for gaming hardware.
It does make you wonder if we'll ever even see a PS5, however. If PS Now works as well as advertised, the next Sony console might just be a subscription and a controller.
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Set in Miami, Moonlight follows the story of a young boy named Chiron through three phases of his life. As a kid, he is nicknamed Little (Alex Hibbert) and lives with his drug-addicted mother (Naomie Harris). He is seen running away from school bullies and meets drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali), who mentors him and invites him into the home that he shares with his girlfriend Theresa (Janelle Monae).
As a teenager, Chiron (Ashton Sanders) continues to be bullied at school. He questions his sexuality as he spends time with Kevin (Jharrel Jerome). Ten years later, Chiron, now referred to as Black (Trevante Rhodes), is a changed man on the outside. He looks tough but is still the same emotional kid. Old feelings come back when he reunites with Kevin (Andre Holland).
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Integrating Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience
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JOHN J. BOLAND is a professor emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His fields of research include water and energy resources, environmental economics, and public utility management. Dr. Boland has studied resource problems in more than 20 countries, has published more than 200 papers and reports, and has coauthored two books on water demand management and three others on environmental management issues. Dr. Boland is a registered professional engineer. He has served on several NRC committees and boards, most recently the Committee on Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration, and was a founding member and past chair of the Water Science and Technology Board. He is a life member of the American Water Works Association and past chairman of its Economic Research Committee. Dr. Boland received his Ph.D. degree in environmental economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Raymond J. Burby
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
RAYMOND J. BURBY is a professor emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Burby is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been an author or editor on 14 books and published extensively in planning and policy journals including, among others, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. He is currently principal investigator on a study of urban growth boundaries funded by the National Science Foundation and P.I. on another NSF-funded project designed to improve the quality of applied research on disasters and mitigation of natural and technological hazards. He received his Ph.D. degree in planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Dr. Julian Wolpert
Princeton University
JULIAN WOLPERT (NAS) is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Geography, Public Affairs and Urban Planning (emeritus) at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has written on such topics as location theory, the provision and delivery of public and nonprofit services, urban development, and environmental policy. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Guggenheim fellow, a Russell Sage fellow, and a Wilson Center fellow. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He held offices with the National Research Council, the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, and the Regional Science Association. As an adviser he has worked with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the National Institute of Mental Health, and various departments of New Jersey government. Dr. Wolpert earned his A.B. in Economics and Geography from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Ross B. Corotis
University of Colorado at Boulder
ROSS B. COROTIS (NAE), Denver Business Challenge Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has research interests in the application of probabilistic concepts and decision perceptions for civil engineering problems, and in particular to societal tradeoffs for hazards in the built infrastructure. His current research emphasizes the coordinated roles of engineering and social science with respect to framing and communicating societal investments for long-term risks and resiliency. He was on the faculty at Northwestern University for 11 years, established the Department of Civil Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University???where he was also Associate Dean of Engineering???and was Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science in Boulder. He has numerous research, teaching and service awards, chaired several committees on structural safety for ASCE and ACI, was Editor of the international journal Structural Safety and the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, and chaired the Executive Committee of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability. He has served on the National Academies Building Research Board, the steering committee of the Disasters Roundtable, and chaired the Assessment Panel for the NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory. He is currently the founding chair of the Committee on NIST Technical Programs, and Chair of the Civil Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the author of more than 200 publications. Dr. Corotis received his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. (in civil engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Lewis E. Link
University of Maryland, College Park
LEWIS E. (Ed) LINK is a Senior Fellow in the R.H. Smith School of Business and a senior research engineer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Link was a senior executive in various research and development positions in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1986 to 2002, rising to the position of Director of Research and Development. Dr. Link???s principal area of work is in water resources management and natural disaster mitigation. He has published numerous papers on water resources related remote sensing and water policy and natural hazard mitigation. Dr. Link served as the director of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force charged with providing scientific and engineering answers to questions about the performance of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System during Hurricane Katrina, and was the recipient of the McGraw Hill Engineering News Record Award of Excellence in 2006 for leading the forensic analysis of hurricane Katrina. Dr. Link received his B.S. in Geological Engineering from North Carolina State University, his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Clive Q. Goodwin
FM Global
CLIVE Q. GOODWIN is assistant vice president and manager, flood and wind peril underwriting, for FM Global, one of the world???s largest business property insurers. In this position, Goodwin manages worldwide underwriting of wind, flood, and collapse perils. Prior to his current appointment in 2007, Goodwin served as assistant vice president and manager of natural hazards engineering. Goodwin has held several engineering positions in the U.K., the Netherlands, and the USA, since joining FM Global in 1988 as a field engineer. He has been the leader of FM Global???s efforts to collaborate with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies to highlight the concerns regarding the aging inventory of levees while supporting their efforts to change U.S. national policy concerning the levee risk. He was instrumental in forming the Flood Risk Education Alliance to address public and private sector concerns. Mr. Goodwin is a Chartered Engineer and holds an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy from Manchester University, England.
Mr. Tony Bennett
Ontario Power Generation
TONY BENNETT is the Director of Dam Safety and Emergency Preparedness for Ontario Power Generation and serves on a number of committee and panels in Canada related to dam safety. His expertise is in the area of dams and reservoir operations. He is the President of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Chair of the International Commission on Large Dams, Committee on Public Safety around Dams, and of the Canadian Dam Association Working Group on Public Safety around Dams. He is a member of the Government of Ontario advisory panel developing regulations and technical guidelines for dam safety. Mr. Bennett recently completed an 8-year term with the Canadian Dam association and served as its president during 2006-2008. Mr. Bennett graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering degree and is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Martin W. McCann
Jack R. Benjamin & Associates
MARTIN W. MCCANN, JR. is President of Jack R. Benjamin & Associates, Inc. and is a consulting professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where he is the director of the National Performance of Dams Program (NPDP). His areas of expertise and professional experience includes probabilistic risk analysis for civil infrastructure facilities and, probabilistic hazards analysis, including seismic and hydrologic events, reliability assessment, risk-based decision analysis, systems analysis, and seismic engineering. Currently, Dr. McCann is the project technical manager of the Delta Risk Management Strategy project that is conducting a risk analysis for over 1100 miles of levee in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta. He is also a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers??? IPET Risk and Reliability team evaluating the risk associated with the New Orleans levee protection system. Dr. McCann received his B.S. in civil engineering from Villanova University in 1975, an M.S. in civil engineering in 1976 from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in 1980, also from Stanford University.
Dr. Stephen J. Burges
University of Washington
STEPHEN J. BURGES is professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Burges's research interests are in surface water hydrology; urban hydrology; water supply engineering; the application of stochastic methods in water resources engineering; water resources systems, design, analysis, and operation; water resources aspects of civil engineering; and ground water hydrology. He is a fellow member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. He is the immediate past president of the hydrology section of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Burges was a member of the Water Science and Technology Board from 1985 to 1989. Dr. Burges received a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics and a B.E. in civil engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1966. He received an M.S. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1970 in civil engineering from Stanford University.
Ms. Rita E. Cestti
The World Bank
RITA E. CESTTI is currently a Senior Rural Development Specialist in the Quality Assurance and Compliance Unit at the World Bank. She has managed the identification, preparation and supervision of a number of water-related, natural resources, environmental and disaster management projects in several countries and has led the preparation of several pieces of economic sector work and implementation of technical assistance activities. She has conducted extensive economic studies in the context of sector work and project analysis as well as in-depth research in the areas of economics of water resources management and development, demand management, water allocation, water pricing, water pollution control and integrated planning. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree and Professional Degree in Civil Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Cat??lica, Peru; a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Administration from the George Washington University; and a Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the George Washington University. She is a registered Professional Civil Engineer in Peru.
Mr. Hillman Mitchell
King County Office of Emergency Management
HILLMAN MITCHELL was appointed the King County (Washington) Director of Emergency Management in July 2010. In this role, Mr. Mitchell oversees a budget of $23 million and supervises employees at the Emergency Communications and Coordination Center in King County and the Emergency 9-1-1 office. The Office of Emergency Management works in partnership with cities, counties, state and federal agencies, community and other private organizations to develop a regional approach to disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery related to hazards including those associated with dam failure (including potential failure of the federally owned Howard Hanson Dam and 86 other dams in the county), flooding, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and other events. Prior to joining King County government, he worked as the City of Tukwila (Washington) Emergency Management Coordinator and was well known to many county employees and regional emergency managers for his outstanding work with Tukwila and in his previous role as Government Liaison Specialist for the American Red Cross. Previously, Mr. Mitchell ran a business as a developer of component software for the digital imaging industry, spent five years as a managing consultant at Microsoft, and provided direct technical management to a more than 40-member team of people worldwide as a senior computer scientist for DuPont Research. Mr. Mitchell earned his bachelor???s degree in management science and computer systems from Oklahoma State University and has done postgraduate work at the University of Denver, Colorado University, and Colorado State University in finance, communications, project management, and process management.


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Center Ossipee mother charged in daughters' truancyBy LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
June 12. 2013 8:56PM
OSSIPEE — Police charged a 34-year-old Ossipee mother in connection with the chronic truancy of her two daughters.
According to Ossipee Police Department Detective Sgt. Robert King, Mandy Patch of Center Ossipee was charged with two violation level counts of "Duty of Parent; Compulsory Attendance by Pupil," by failing to cause her two children to attend school. The children, a 12-year-old Ossipee Central School student and a 14-year-old Kingswood Regional Middle School student, have been absent or late more than 40 days this school year, according to police.
King said Patch was ordered to appear for arraignment in 3rd Circuit Ossipee District Court on July 17. The charges are violation-level offenses punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
Police rarely intervene in truancy cases, said King, adding that this was the first time the department has filed this charge against a parent. Previously in school truancy cases, police would file a "Children in Need of Services" (CHINS) petition with the court's family division, said King, but that practice has been abolished. Requirements for filing a CHINS petition changed in September 2011.
In the Patch case, King said he received complaints from both the school district's truancy officer, Lloyd Wood, and Ossipee Central School Principal Beth Hertzfeld after officials unsuccessfully attempted to resolve the truancy issue with the mother.
King said the children were not being home-schooled, and that police were not provided with any justification or excuse for the extended absences.
"The school reached out to her several times," he said.
Police intervened as a "last resort," he said.
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August 02, 2016, Flagstaff, AZ - A
paper published today by Nature Plants
finds that climate change will result in more male plants in species with
separate sexes, known as dioecious plants. This shift to a higher proportion of
males for many dioecious plant species could be extreme, disrupting normal
reproduction and affecting insect and other animal populations that depend on
these plants.
findings indicate that dioecious plants are more sensitive to the effects of
climate change than other plant species," said lead author Kevin Hultine,
research ecologist at the Desert Botanical Garden and NAU adjunct professor.
"We anticipate that females will die off at a higher rate as conditions become
drier, which could result in extreme male-biased sex ratios for a significant
number of populations."
from Phoenix's Desert Botanical Gardens, Northern Arizona University and the
U.S. Geological Survey reviewed some 83 published studies to explore the
effects of increased aridity on dioecious plant species. There are
approximately 21,000 species of dioecious plants, examples of which include asparagus,
spinach, dates, mulberry and juniper.
>Media Release
Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems, a Northern Arizona
University award-winning documentary, will be broadcast on more than 150 PBS
television stations during the fall. The film will be shown in some of the
country's largest markets, including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas and
Phoenix. This documentary examines whether one gene in one plant or animal can
change an entire ecosystem. The conclusion is surprising: "The effects of genes
extend beyond the individual to have community and ecosystem consequences,"
according to the documentary's science advisor, Thomas Whitham, who is also a Regents'
Professor and the Executive Director of the Merriam-Powell Center for
Environmental Research.
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the newsletter of NAU's Research Division, highlighted the contributions of the
Colorado Plateau Biodiversity Center in its fall 2012 edition. The article
highlighted not only the value of the CPBC's biological collections for
students and the research community, but also the CPBC's outreach activities.
Additionally, the article provided a close-up look at efforts of the Deaver
Herbarium. "If anyone is interested in plants and studying diversity, this
is the place to do it," said Tina Ayers, assistant biology professor and
Deaver Herbarioum curator. "Anybody can walk in here and ask, 'What's
this?' and we will help them."
> Article
Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) project brings together the
Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity and nine other arthropod
collections in the Southwest to create a virtual information network on
ground-dwelling arthropods—ants, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders. SCAN
received a three-year, $1.9 million grant through the National Science Foundation's
Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program in May 2012.
This grant will allow the cooperating collections to create digital images of
15,000 specimens, develop new electronic identification techniques, and produce
a virtual library with data for more than 750,000 specimens. The network will
not only improve the understanding of arthropod biodiversity, but also help
researchers detect changes in distribution as climate changes.
> More
Loss of
biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution
and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a research study
published in the journal Nature. "It has been clear for some time that species
loss affects ecosystems, but the impacts we found were very surprising," said
Bruce Hungate, co-author and director of the NAU Colorado Plateau Stable
Isotope Laboratory.
National Science Foundation has awarded Northern Arizona University's College
of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences a four-year, $2.5 million grant
to create the Southwest Experimental Garden Array, or SEGA.
garden array will be a system of 10 experimental gardens across northern
Arizona that includes habitat types from desert to alpine forests. The gardens
will be used to examine how climate change will affect the ecology and
evolution of individual plant species, plant communities, and ecosystems.
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Study Shows Progesterone Shots Do Not Reduce Preterm Delivery in Twin Pregnancies
By: PR Newswire
Feb. 14, 2013 12:02 AM
March of Dimes Award Abstract at SMFM Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 33rd annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers will report findings that suggest that 17P, a form of progesterone, is not effective in preventing preterm birth among women with twin pregnancies — and may possibly be harmful.
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While 17P (17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate) has been shown to prevent premature delivery among about one-third of women with a singleton pregnancy who have experienced a prior preterm delivery, this latest research shows that 17P prescriptions can't do the same for moms having twins, the authors say.
"We found that 17P was not effective in women with twin pregnancies and a short cervix (defined as less than 25 mm between 24 and 32 weeks)," says Philippe Deruelle, MD, with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hopital Jeanne de Flandre, Universite Lille 2, France, and one of the study's authors. "We actually seemed to have found an increase in the rate of preterm delivery before 32 weeks in the treatment group when compared to the non-treatment group."
For the study reported in the abstract, entitled: Prevention of preterm delivery by 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate in asymptomatic twin pregnancies with a short cervix: a randomized controlled trial, Dr. Deruelle and his colleagues conducted their trial on 165 women over the age of 18 at 10 university hospitals between June 2006 and January 2010. Outcome data was available for 161 of the 165 (97.6%) women.
"Twins are very high risk for preterm delivery, in fact, 60 percent of twins are born too soon. We can't assume that what works for singleton pregnancies will work with multiples such as twins or triplets," says Edward R. B. McCabe, MD, Ph.D., March of Dimes senior vice president and medical director. "This research finding is valuable because it will guide the care of women with a multi-fetal pregnancy, and highlights the need to better understand how to prevent preterm births for multiples."
Dr. Deruelle recommends that women who know they are pregnant with twins get an ultrasound to measure their cervical length, as this factor has shown to predict which women with twins are at higher risk for premature pregnancy.
Dr. McCabe will present Dr. Deruelle with the March of Dimes award for Best Abstract in Prematurity at the SMFM's Annual Meeting. 2013 marks the 10th year the March of Dimes award has been presented.
In addition to Dr. Deruelle, the study was conducted by Marie Victoire Senat, Hopital Bicetre, Hopital Antoine Beclere, APHP, Paris Sud, Faculte de Medecine Paris XI, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Clamart, France; Norbert Winer, Hopital Mere-Enfant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Nantes, France; and Patrick Rozenberg, Hopital Poissy Saint-Germain, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Poissy, France.
A copy of the abstract is available http://www.smfmnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/1-8.pdf and below.
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (est. 1977) is a non-profit membership group for obstetricians/gynecologists who have additional formal education and training in maternal-fetal medicine. The society is devoted to reducing high-risk pregnancy complications by providing continuing education to its 2,000 members on the latest pregnancy assessment and treatment methods. It also serves as an advocate for improving public policy, and expanding research funding and opportunities for maternal-fetal medicine. The group hosts an annual scientific meeting in which new ideas and research in the area of maternal-fetal medicine are unveiled and discussed. For more information, visit www.smfm.org or www.facebook.com/SocietyforMaternalFetalMedicine.
In 2013, the March of Dimes celebrates its 75th Anniversary and its ongoing work to help babies get a healthy start in life. Early research led to the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines that all babies still receive. Other breakthroughs include new treatments for premature infants and children with birth defects. About 4 million babies are born each year in the United States, and all have benefitted from March of Dimes lifesaving research and education. The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies®, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org.
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|2013-04-02, 21:04
|Link #2445
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
As for him being "poo poo," nothing could be further from the truth. He's had more character development in this arc than possibly the rest of the story. And he's bound to have even more the next time he sees Gengo, can't wait for it.
|2013-04-24, 05:38
|Link #2450
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
If he was supposed to be the pointless weak human, then make him a weak human don't give him a strong power and then make him never use it, when anyone with half a brain would. He should be a lot more useful than he is and it undermines his character in every battle he exists in.
It's gotten so bad other limters do more in battles than he freaking does, and he's supposed to be stronger and have more potential than any of them and yet does barely anything. He's a rather extreme example of an author who has no idea what to do with a character, (then again the author never had any idea what to do with this plot to begin with, hence the over a hundred chapters of monthly manga with fuck all plot progression). It's quite sad really.
|2013-04-24, 06:40
|Link #2451
Working the bags...
Join Date: Mar 2009
The sad thing like THT mentioned is that Kazuya is supposed to be this extra special character with all the stigma he has in his body, but jack shit is really done about it. I hear the argument from some b-but he's Satellizer's emotional support and....so what? If I wanted that I'd go read some sappy shoujo. I wanna see him kick ass and not cry like a little girl who lost their barbie all the time. He wasn't that bad early on when he actually did something, but it's been all downhill ever since...
It just goes to show that Dal-Young doesn't know how the hell to write a character that doesn't have boobs and a vagina. Sure there's Aflame Inferno, but look where that's at and technically he does have a female in him...
|2013-04-24, 08:09
|Link #2452
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Geez, what happened to the Kazuya that using Freezing on regular joe smucks who assaulted his classmates (with a gun no less) and punched the guy out? Sure he collapsed right after but that cemented some hardcore respect for him back then.
"Where have all the good men gone~"
@ Johnny - heh, that's so true for Aflame. Sure, guy acted like an ass but there were other males in the story who, despite being bad, were good characters in their own right. And Gehenna is still my favorite of Dal-Young's characters.
|2013-04-24, 08:31
|Link #2453
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
I think it really came to to author realizing that if Kazuya was even mildly competant with the abilities he had Satelizer's importance will be diminshed (because combat wise there really isn't anything remarkable about her in comparison to other pandora) so if pretty much went fuck Kazuya and gave all development to Satelizer. I could never understand why he couldn't just you know develop both characters..
|2013-04-24, 08:39
|Link #2454
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Ah, talking about Pandemonium? Kid that handed Gehenna her ass when they fought? XD Yeah.
It's like Dal-Young gets scared of having a strong male character sometimes that doesn't have to rely on a woman. Sure, getting Thanatos's girl and making her into one of his Modded Templars was a dick move but in context and in terms of strategy, it was a brilliant move too.
We all know he draws great-looking girls but seriously, many of them are messed up in the head.
|2013-04-24, 10:15
|Link #2455
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: world of devilman lady
I agree kazuya was a decent character back int he beginning but now. he just went from great to pathetic. I can't believe he didn't think of freezing stella then talking to her she wasn't in state for any normal approaches and look what he got for his trouble impaled by his bestfriend/girlfriend
|2013-04-24, 12:19
|Link #2456
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Drooped this crap for the same reason, dont put a male char that has the "potential" to be the most powerful and never use it, except to cry and looks weak and pathetic... it tired me to no end.
I dont like any of the main cast of girls also, their reasoning is stupid, beyond the common boundaries and acknowledgment that this is a manga/manwa whatever.
|2013-04-24, 16:33
|Link #2457
Working the bags...
Join Date: Mar 2009
Curiously I glanced at his newest one Ace Maid and it's just another Freezing but with maid outfits. The MC guy is the typical pathetic Dal-Young male as well...
|2013-04-24, 17:36
|Link #2458
Senior Member
*sighs* it's sad that the MC finds himself not getting stronger, mature, smarter, knocked around, and he still barely does a thing especially if his GF is getting her butt kicked . Did the author just forget about Kazuya's development? It's getting really tired that the MC starts to take action more real late in the story or even in the middle after all that worry, crying, depressing, etc. It's really troublesome if Kazuya never had the chance to really shine until a out of nowhere moment THIS FAR AHEAD in the plot.
It's a bad idea to keep a character rolling around the bend, not doing much of anything and never accomplishes a moment worth watching until the end or never at all in the manga, after all the potential he can do and work together with his love interest whose also strong.
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This presentation is aimed at both audiences. A pluggable type system can give a compile-time guarantee of important properties. We will explain what it is, how to use it, and even how to create your own. You can create a simple pluggable type-checker in 2 minutes, and you can enhance it thereafter.
The demo uses the Checker Framework, which enables you to create pluggable type systems for Java. It takes advantage of features planned by Oracle for Java 8, but your code remains backward-compatible. The pluggable type-checker can be run as part of javac or via an Eclipse plug-in, and integration with build tools such as Ant and Maven is provided. The tools are "freely available":http://types.cs.washington.edu/checker-framework/.
The Checker Framework provides 12 pluggable type systems that are ready to use, including nullness, immutability, and locking checkers. The presentation will first develop a simple declarative type checker that checks the consistency of method signature strings. The presentation will then discuss the design and usage of more advanced checkers.
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Exploring Our Woodlands
26 September 2007,
Hello everyone! I've decided to start a blog about the newest and (in my opinion) coolest project here at St Fagans: National History Museum. I have been appointed 'woodlands facilitator' and it is my job to facilitate the woodland as much as is humanly possible.
First I think I might tell you a bit about my own background. My name is Gareth Bonello and I am 26 years old. I am originally from Cardiff and despite living in the city I developed a deep love of nature which led me to study Zoology at the University of Bristol. After graduating in 2002 I worked for the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) conducting bird surveys throughout the North West of England. I returned to Cardiff in 2003 where I worked as a Natural History Facilitator at the National Museum Cardiff for three and a half years.
I began working at St Fagans National History Museum in May 2007. I also have an interest in Photography and Film and I and am about to complete an MA in Film at the University of Wales Newport. If I ever have any spare time I like to play my guitar, eat and sleep!
The Project
Enough about me, what about the project? Well it has three main branches:
- Education
- Nature Path
- The Web
Firstly, the project is an educational project aiming to teach people about the natural history of the forest, sustainability and a lot more besides. During the school term I shall be running workshops for schools inside the woodland here at St Fagans. The workshops will incorporate such activities as mini-beast identification, tree biology, PE and Art. During the school holidays I will be running activities for families based on a woodland theme.
Secondly, the project aims to put a new nature path in place. This will run through Beech woodland to the rear of the Celtic Village where a new entrance shall be in place. Along the path there will be interpretive panels with information about the natural history of the Beech Wood and uses of woodland throughout history. I'm also hoping to get a chainsaw sculptor in to make some interesting carvings and the new Celtic Village interpreter Ian Daniel is hopefully going to make some wooden carvings of figures from Celtic mythology.
Thirdly, the project will go online. Wildlife camera specialists Eco-Watch (who did BBC Springwatch) are going to help put in nest box cameras, bird table cameras and pond dipping cameras ready for the spring. In addition I shall be filming and taking photos throughout the year and posting pictures and movies on the web to keep you abreast of the latest developments.
The wildlife here is pretty impressive with Lesser Horseshoe Bats roosting in the barns, Great Crested Newts in the ponds and mind boggling varieties of Insects, Birds and Mammals; I think I've got my work cut out for me! The website will also feature educational games and resources for teachers as well as links to this blog and to other websites dedicated to woodland wildlife.
I'm going to aim to write on here once a month, but I'll write extra bits when really interesting things happen! In the meantime have a look at these websites to find out more about woodlands and the animals that live there:
BBC Autumnwatch
BBC Springwatch
The Woodland Trust
Nature Detectives
Here are some photos that I've taken recently:
The Exploring Our Woodlands project is funded by Legal & General and Cardiff Council through Cardiff Council Communities Landfill Trust;


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|1h Answer my mail
|30min Work on PR application - write neat version (paperwork)
|Make wontons
|30min Explore Org timeclock reporting (WickedCoolEmacs)
|30min Work on the book some more - write about Planner timetracking (WickedCoolEmacs)
|30min Work on book (WickedCoolEmacs)
|10min Scan my certificate (paperwork)
|30min Work on book
|30min Work on the book some more - write about Planner timetracking
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|1h Answer my mail
|Make wontons
|30min Work on PR application - write neat version
Day began: 11:22:10, Day ended: 21:09:48 Time elapsed: 9:47:38, Time clocked: 8:48:28 Time clocked ratio: 89.9%
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Whether you submit detailed timesheets to clients or not, it's a good idea to estimate and keep track of the time you spend working on tasks. I find that this helps me focus on the task at hand, and the schedule feedback allows me to get a better idea of how much time it will take to do something in the future. It's also a good way to find out where your time goes, of course.
It's easy to clock work time under Org. When on a TODO item, type C-c C-x C-i (org-clock-in). Work on the task. When you're done, mark the task as done with C-c C-t (org-todo), which automatically calls clock-out. You can also clock out of a task manually by calling C-c C-x Co (org-clock-out). The elapsed time will be added to the task headline. To review the time summaries for your project, type C-c C-x C-d (org-clock-display). If you want to add notes when you mark a task as done, add "#+STARTUP: lognoteclock-out" to the beginning of your file.
How would you use this to keep track of your day? One way is to keep track of the difference between your planned schedule and your actual schedule. Add time estimates to your tasks. For example,
** TODO 20min Respond to mail
could represent twenty minutes of handling mail. Clock in and out of tasks as you do them. To review the day's accomplishments, type 'l' (org-agenda-log-mode) from the agenda view. This shows the completed tasks and the time it took to accomplish them.
(Now I'm tempted to write an easy way to filter the Org task view by estimated number of minutes. ;) Another nice little hack before that would be to have a modeline countdown based on the estimate of the currently-clocked-in task. Hmm. And then there's displaying the list of tasks for today and choosing which one to clock in on... That would be fun to do, too. And then there's calculating velocity and doing evidence-based scheduling... The list goes on!)
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Planner uses timeclock.el, which is part of GNU Emacs. To make sure that all of the relevant libraries are loaded when you start Emacs, add the following to your ~/.emacs:
(require 'planner-autoloads) (require 'planner-timeclock)
To start the clock on a task, type C-c C-i (planner-task-in-progress). The task will be marked as "in progress" and the timer will start. To clock out, mark the task as done (C-c C-x, planner-task-done) or clock out manually with C-c C-o (timeclock-out).
To see a summary of your time use for any day, call M-x planner-timeclock-summary. To see a summary of your time use for a range of days, call M-x planner-timeclock-summary-show-range. The range function is particularly useful for weekly time reports, which I find myself now doing.
For even more fun, call M-x planner-timeclock-summary-show-range-filter, which filters plan pages and descriptions using the specified regular expression. For example, to show only the time entries from the last seven days that included the keyword "@work", call M-x planner-timeclock-summary-show-range-filter and specify "@work" as the filter, "-7" as the start date, and "." for the end date. You'll get a quick view of all your work-related time-clock entries.
If you use this often, you might want to create a shortcut to show the timeclock summary for the current file. The following code defines a function that displays the timeclock summary for the current page (day or plan), and binds this function to C-c C-s in Planner mode files.
(require 'planner-timeclock-summary) (require 'planner-timeclock-summary-proj) (defun sacha/planner-timeclock-summary-show (page) "Show the timeclock summary for PAGE (defaults to the current page)." (interactive (list (planner-page-name))) (if (string-match planner-date-regexp page) ;; Day page (planner-timeclock-summary-show page) ;; Plan page (let ((data (planner-timeclock-proj-make-alist page))) (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create planner-timeclock-summary-buffer)) (erase-buffer) (insert (planner-timeclock-proj-build-report data))))) (define-key planner-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-s" 'sacha/planner-timeclock-summary-show))
This allows you to see how much time you've spent for the current day or project.
If you like seeing this, you might want the timeclock information automatically inserted into your Planner pages. To do so, add the following to your ~/.emacs:
(planner-timeclock-summary-proj-insinuate) ; For plan pages (planner-timeclock-summary-insinuate) ; For day pages ;; It's easier when both of them overwrite the same report (setq planner-timeclock-summary-section "Timeclock" planner-timeclock-summary-proj-section "Timeclock" ;; Modify this to include your other template sections planner-day-page-template "* Tasks\n\n\n* Schedule\n\n\n* Timeclock\n\n\n* Notes\n\n\n" planner-plan-page-template planner-day-page-template)
The sections are updated only if they exist, so you can remove the sections or add them to your Planner files any time you want.
CAUTION: Because the time information is stored in a separate file, Planner gets confused if you edit the task details. Make sure you use the built-in functions for editing the task description (planner-edit-task-description) or changing the project associated with a task (planner-replan-task).
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I find it useful to keep track of which tasks I've started. Adding the following line to the start of my Org file adds STARTED to my to-do status keywords.
#+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) STARTED(s) WAITING(w) | DONE(d)
Here's some code to make it easier to clock in and out of tasks:
(defun sacha/org-clock-in-if-starting () "Clock in when the task is marked STARTED." (when (and (string= state "STARTED") (not (string= last-state state))) (org-clock-in))) (add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook 'sacha/org-clock-in-if-starting) (defadvice org-clock-in (after sacha activate) "Set this task's status to 'STARTED'." (org-todo "STARTED"))
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Summary - In terms of my goals from last week:
|Organize information
|Haven't rearranged our group Activity yet.
|Plan external blog
|Brainstormed names. Now to brainstorm topics...
|Plan podcast
|Done. Several ideas, even.
|Library run
|Done. Picked up more books.
|CASCON presentation
|Meeting with Gordon Lee
|Done. Scheduled another meeting this week.
|Emacs blog entries, pages
|Blog entries done, not yet laid out into pages or merged into text
|CAS dinner
|Dogear podcast script, audio
|Drafted, but not satisfied with quality
|Dogear podcast video
|Waiting for script
Next week's goals:
UP: My second week of work was dominated by CASCON, the conference organized by the IBM Toronto Center for Advanced Studies. I presented a short paper about my thesis, summarizing 72 pages and 1.5 years of my life into five minutes and what really amounts to this sentence: "Blogs, bookmarks, and people-tags may be able to help people find expertise within their company, so let's make a search engine that combines all three." I also enjoyed helping out with Stephen Perelgut's Second Life workshop, even though only half of the people could get on the metaverse. Aaron, Bernie and I met a couple of times during the conference, and I did manage to squeeze in some "real work" as well. I also had my two-week check-in with my manager. We're thinking of making those weekly, just to keep everyone in the loop. A couple of market scans here and there, some podcast plans... work is good, and getting even better.
UP: I got back in touch with Gino Ledesma, a friend of mine from university. We had a lot of fun catching up. I was thrilled to hear about what he and my other batchmates have been up to, and particularly by the way he's been giving back to the Philippines. His company is very impressed by him and is looking for more Filipinos to hire. That's gotta be something. =) That reminds me: I need to introduce him to Winston Damarillo, who might be interested in having Gino give some presentations to his Java folks.
DOWN: Trapeze lessons have been postponed. It was an informal class in somebody's loft, and that somebody needs to now focus on med school. Ah well. Time to look for another form of exercise. I don't really feel like spending money on this, and I'm sure I can find plenty of free, fun ways to exercise around the house. Winter is coming, so running might not be my cup of tea. I'll look around for ideas.
DOWN: The paperwork requirements for the permanent residency application are a little bit intimidating, aren't they? I felt overwhelmed earlier. W- gave me a wonderful hug and helped me remember to divide and conquer.
UP: I've found a good way to get more material for my book. =) It's easy for me to write if I think of things as blog posts. Even basic information is fun to share. But I need to protect that time. I managed to write a little bit during the evenings, and more during the weekends. Let's see if that works out next week too.
DOWN: The downside to this is that I'm not sure how to make the time to meet my friends face-to-face. I'm growing a lot more protective of the rare four-hour chunks I can carve out of my day, so I tend to keep the weekends for myself. A wonderful home life makes me want to spend more time at home instead of going to cafes and meeting friends. Blogs are easy to fit into the spaces in my day, but what about the friends who don't blog? I'll try tweaking my schedule a bit this week. Tomorrow I'm going to go to DemoCamp, but only the pub night part, and I'm planning to go after dinner. It doesn't make that much sense to go back and forth considering I'm working from downtown, but I can do productive things on the subway (hmm, rush hour, so that means listening to a podcast or doing blue-sky thinking), and I do like being there when J- comes home from school. =)
DOWN: E-mail is also lower on my priority list. It's becoming easier to tell myself, "I'm going to do one hour of e-mail, and that's that." Or 30 minutes, or whatever time I can set aside. I'm a little mixed about this because a number of books I've read recommended quick responses as a way of showing you care, but as long as expectations are also adjusted, I think things will be fine. If I take a long time to reply, it's just that I have other priorities.
UP: And somehow I still found the time to read library books and encode more notes, too! =) I probably won't be updating my Booksnake blog for a while (again, other priorities!), but my workflow is getting better.
UP: I'm happy with the overall balance of this week. My 50,000-feet view is becoming clearer: I want to become a practice evangelist, business practice maven, or whatever the proper term is. On the ground-view, I manage to complete most of my planned tasks without feeling as if I'm wasting time. In terms of personal stuff, I'm doing well, too. =) Happy with this week, can't wait for the next.
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University volleyball team opened up its 2014 preseason camp with a high amount of enthusiasm heading into the season.
Head Coach Karrin Moore has brought in 10 new players for the upcoming season and is optimistic about the upcoming season. "We are excited to be back on the court in preparation for our season. We are looking for our newcomers to mesh with our returning players during camp," said Moore. The Setters open their season at the Dowling College Tournament on Friday, Sept. 5 and Saturday, Sept. 6. They will take on host Dowling and New York Tech on Day one and conclude the following day with Nyack. Pace's home opener will be on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m., against Nyack at the Goldstein Fitness Center. For the full 2014 Pace Volleyball schedule, click here.


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Two forms of identification are required for admittance to all written and skills examinations. Photo identification and proof of Social Security number are required for admittance to all written and skills examinations. Occasionally, exams must be canceled. Please confirm your preferred test date with the Recruitment and Examination Division. Office hours are 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. All customers must vacate the building by closing time.
Customer parking is available in the Florida Street parking lot of the City-Parish building. Additional parking is available in the rear lot accessible from North 18th Street. Please do not park in the private spots next to the Human Resources Office.
Testing Notes
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Electronic Devices
The City-Parish is committed to protecting personal privacy, ensuring organizational security, and maintaining a pleasant and productive work environment for all employees and citizens. In this effort, all examinees' cellular phones, personal data assistants, pocket computers, and other audio and/or video recording or transmitting devices are banned from the examination room.
Examinees are asked to leave banned electronic devices in their vehicles during examination. When this is not an option, the devices are checked at the front desk and returned to their owners at examination completion. Applicants found in possession of such devices in the examination room are subject to disqualification from employment opportunities for three years.
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Qualifying applicants wishing to take a written exam for a position currently open for recruitment will be admitted to the exam room on a first-come, first-served basis according to seating and test booklet availability. Not all classifications require a written exam.
Applicants wishing to take a written exam for a position currently open for recruitment must submit a completed employment application (PDF), along with necessary documentation, to the Recruitment and Examination Division between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on the morning they wish to test or between noon and 12:30 p.m. for afternoon exams. Examination time limits will be determined by the classification you are testing for.
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Stationary Engineers & Boiler Operators
Also called: Boiler Operator, Boiler Technician, Building Engineer, Stationary Engineer
What they do:Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment, such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.
On the job, you would:
- Monitor and inspect equipment, computer terminals, switches, valves, gauges, alarms, safety devices, and meters to detect leaks or malfunctions and to ensure that equipment is operating efficiently and safely.
- Activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, to adjust supplies of combustion air, and to control the flow of fuel into burners.
- Monitor boiler water, chemical, and fuel levels, and make adjustments to maintain required levels.
Engineering and Technology
Arts and Humanities
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
Education and Training
Basic Skills
Problem Solving
Hand and Finger Use
Ideas and Logic
People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
You might like a career in one of these industries:
See more details at O*NET OnLine about stationary engineers and boiler operators.


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If you're craving great food in Huntersville, North Carolina, then we've got exactly what you're after. Check out our guide to the area's best eats.
If you're looking for a classy eatery that's perfect for a special occasion, Dressler's Restaurant fits the bill quite nicely. Here, old-school service meets classic cuisine. From the crab dip to the mac and cheese, juicy steaks to roasted chicken, there's not a single bad dish on the menu.
Huntersville sushi lovers agree: Eez Fusion is hard to beat. At Eez, traditional dishes mix and mingle with inventive fusion plates. Try a new flavor like Blackened Ahi Tuna Nachos, or go with an old favorite. Either way, Eez is sure to impress.
Live entertainment, a dazzling array of drinks, and great service are just a few of the things that make Killingtons special. The food is delicious, too. The wings are great, but be careful if you're not big on spicy dishes – they have quite a kick. If you're still hungry, order up the Guinness Ribeye, the smoked duck sandwich, or the black bean burger, and you're sure to leave satisfied.
Noodletasia is more than the name would suggest. Yes, the Canton noodles are wonderful, as are the Pho and Lo Mein. If you're not into noodles, you can get sushi, rice bowls, or choose from an excellent selection of traditional Chinese dishes.


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Fairfield Endowed Junior School is in the final stages of raising funds to buy a defibrillator for the school.
So far, the children have raised £1,300 through various fund raising events organised by the PTA, including a recent 'Ramp up the Red' event, and now only need £200.
School governor Cally Barker said: "It has amazed me how generous the children have been giving up their time and pocket money to help us reach our target, and also the support from the parents who have attended our events."
To make a donation or get involved, call the school on 01298 22551.