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New College Logic Meeting 2006
25th and 26th September 2006
The inner logic of VF
Take the language of Peano Arithmetic and add a new unary predicate T, where the intended meaning of T(x) is "x is (the Godel number of) a true sentence in the augmented language". VF is one of several established axiomatic theories which can be formulated in this language to express some of our basic intuitions about truth. In our talk we will look at IVF, the inner logic of VF, which by definition is the set of all sentences A such that VF proves T('A'). IVF is a demonstrably strong theory, but it is a challenge to provide a useful internal characterization of IVF in a way that reveals the source of this strength. We will discuss why this is an interesting question and report on progress to date.
On a problem of Skolem about many-valuedness
We deal with an old problem of Skolem (1957), concerning the consistency of the unrestricted comprehension principle in Lukasiewicz infinite valued predicate logic. We are not able to solve the full question, but we survey partial positive results and we consider variants thereof, applying semantical techniques as well as proof-theoretic methods.
Deflationism and conservativeness
We will discuss two desirable properties of deflationary truth theories: conservativeness and maximality. Joining them together, we obtain a notion of a maximal conservative truth theory - a theory which is conservative over its base, but can't be enlarged any further without losing its conservative character. There are indeed such theories; we show however that none of them is axiomatizable, and moreover, that there will be in fact continuum many theories of this sort. It turns out in effect that the deflationist still needs some additional principles, which would permit him to construct his preferred theory of truth. This will be the first part of the talk; in the second part we will discuss some open problems, which in our opinion are of crucial importance to the conservativeness debate.
Semantic generalizations about and in L
I consider how to give a theory of truth according to which languages
can express semantic generalizations about themselves. I focus on theories
that result from modifying the supervaluationist scheme.
Formal and Informal Provability
We will deal with informal provability, i.e., provability as it is understood in mathematical practice (rather than in proof theory). In particular, we will argue that
Computability and Absolute Undecidability
From the formalization of Church's Thesis in Epistemic Arithmetic plus some fairly reasonable background assumptions, we deduce that there are absolutely ndecidable propositions, i.e., mathematical sentences that are neither provable nor refutable (in the absolute, or informal, sense of `proof').
Absolute Generality and Mathematical Practice (tentative title)
At least two prominent positions in the philosophy of mathematics call for absolutely general higher-order reformulations of applied mathematical theories. The reasons are varied, but in each case, I will argue, the appeal to absolute generality gives rise to a difficult epistemological puzzle. The solution suggests itself to discriminate between acceptable and unacceptable absolutely general theories on the basis of a certain model-theoretic constraint. However, I will argue that the constraint is out of line with mathematical practice and provably unattainable in crucial cases. Finally, I will suggest what I take to be the moral of the puzzle in each case.
Games for dependency (tentative title)
We give a game theoretic characterisation for Hannes Leitgeb's notion of dependency. This is an epistemic variation on its characterisation over the standard model of arithmetic N as being Pi^1_1(N).
Such games have been given before (D.A.Martin?) for constructing the least fixed point for a truth predicate for Strong Kleene Logic. We provide an open game characterisation first for supervaluation over N, and thereby for Leitgeb's dependency set.
last change: 13 May, 2006
e-mail address (please replace "0" by the usual "@" symbol): volker.halbach at philosophy.oxford.ac.uk


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How Important is Motivation Alcohol Treatment Outcomes?
The Basics
Some people affected by serious problems with drugs or alcohol recognize the severity of those problems and express a self-generated desire to enter recovery and change. However, other people have mixed feelings about entering recovery or only consider seeking treatment because outside forces compel them to do so. Since motivation is typically viewed as a critical component in successful treatment, doctors and other treatment specialists often make efforts to improve their clients'/patients' perspective on the recovery process. In fact, a psychotherapeutic technique called motivation enhancement therapy is specifically geared toward helping people affected by alcohol, cocaine or opioid addiction overcome their internal conflicts about entering treatment and engage more actively in the recovery process. During this therapy, clients/patients express their concerns, participate in motivation-building discussions and learn to cope with highly stressful situations that may tax their ability to stay motivated.
The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale is specifically designed to help health professionals measure a person with serious drug or alcohol problems readiness to start altering his or her normal routine and participate in some sort of treatment. The questionnaire gathers information on three topics: the individual's level of self-recognition about his or her dangerous substance intake, the individual's level of ambivalence or uncertainty about entering treatment and the individual's willingness to actively take steps and engage in the treatment process. The original version of SOCRATES used 32 questions to probe these issues; a shorter version of the questionnaire contains only 19 questions. In addition, there are gender-specific versions of SOCRATES.
Impact of Motivation
In the study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the Swiss research team used the Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale to measure the level of treatment motivation in a group of 415 Swiss adults receiving treatment for alcohol dependence (i.e., alcoholism) in 12 separate residential programs. In addition, the researchers assessed the potential impact of a number of other factors, including the relative intensity of each participant's alcoholism, level of alcohol intake prior to seeking treatment, the presence and relative intensity of any additional serious mental health concerns, gender, employment status and level of belief in the ability to abstain from alcohol use at the end of treatment.
One year after each participant completed residential treatment, the researchers used three measurements to assess the success of that treatment: the ability to abstain from consuming alcohol, the amount of alcohol consumed by those who did not completely abstain and the amount of time it took for any given participant to lapse back into alcohol use. After analyzing all of the relevant factors, the researchers concluded that those motivated individuals who initially expressed a willingness to take active steps in the recovery process experienced a relatively modest but meaningful improvement in their treatment outcomes. In addition, they concluded that those individuals who believe they can control their drinking behaviors at the end of treatment also have greater success in maintaining their long-term recovery.
Significance and Considerations
The authors of the study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine note that two specific aspects of alcoholism recovery are impacted by strong initial motivation and a belief in self-control over alcohol intake: the ability to completely avoid alcohol use and the ability to limit the number of drinks consumed when abstinence is not maintained. All told, the authors emphasize the importance of the gains produced by active treatment motivation. They believe that treatment outcomes for people dealing with alcoholism or other substance addictions may be substantially improved by efforts to strengthen the particular aspect of motivation that leads people to take action on their own behalf.

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Definition of Deficiency disease
1. Noun. Any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral).
Specialized synonyms: Malnutrition, Zinc Deficiency
Medical Definition of Deficiency disease
1. Any disease resulting from undernutrition or an inadequacy of calories, proteins, essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, or trace minerals. (05 Mar 2000)
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1. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"It was on evidence of that nature that they formulated the view that this type of xerophthalmia is a deficiency disease in the same sense as beriberi, ..."
2. The Elements of the Science of Nutrition by Graham Lusk (1917)
"Another disease which, in all probability, is a deficiency disease, is pellagra. Funk1 states that in the United States between 1907 and 1912 20000 persons ..."
3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1922)
"Nor should.the domain of the deficiency disease be restricted to the narrow-confines of disturbances brought about by a lack of vitamins. ..."
4. The Journal of Biological Chemistry by American Society of Biological Chemists (1917)
"McCollum and Pitz demonstrated that scurvy in the guinea pig could not possibly be a "deficiency disease" in the sense in which Funk and his school employed ..."
5. American Medicine (1921)
"The same author has contributed an extended series of elaborate articles on the "Pathogenesis of deficiency disease." These consist mainly of experimental ..."
6. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Deficiency in a particular vitamin results in a specific vitamin deficiency disease, such as rickets (a bone deformity from lack of vitamin D) and scurvy ..."


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MANCHESTER, N.H., April 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mark Twain's oft-repeated advice for writers—"Write what you know"—is a passkey for some, and an obstacle for others. For novelist and essayist Benjamin Nugent—whose short story "God" has just been tabbed for inclusion in "The Best American Short Stories 2014"—a little of both is true.
A faculty member in Southern New Hampshire University's low-residency MFA program in fiction and nonfiction, Nugent is more temperamentally inclined to spurn that advice. "God" is set in a college fraternity house, and the house and its brothers are rendered so vividly that you wonder what the author's own Greek letters might be. In fact, Nugent attended Reed College, where there have never been fraternities.
"The scenarios that you find in my fiction generally have little to do with my life," Nugent said. "And I find that useful in my writing. If my conscious mind has little connection to the events being described, this sets my subconscious loose to define what's really going on in the story, and to let it go where it needs to go."
The same sort of magic holds true at the sentence level. The story's protagonist and first-person narrator—nicknamed Oprah "because there were books in my room and I asked questions"—has a voice that throws off sparks in its tensions between irony and earnestness, fear and bravado, innocence and experience. And its similes and nuances come out of deep left field.
Here is Oprah describing Nutella, the fraternity's alpha male: "He had the plaintive eyes and button nose of a child in a life insurance commercial, the carriage of an armored soldier .... He threw his arms around me and Shmash and Stacks, and the blond hairs on his forearms were short and dry. His elbow slid around my neck and it was like rolling on a fresh-mowed August lawn."
The story achieves its own weird poetry, in no small part, said Nugent, because of how alien Oprah's voice is to his own. "If I set out to write lyrical or poetic prose, it's dead on arrival," he explained. "But if I get my conscious mind out of the way, and turn my imagination over to the character, the lyricism happens by itself."
But even the subconscious needs the raw material of experience—if only of the second-hand variety. And so it was that one of Nugent's writing students provided the premise for "God." "It might not seem possible that a girl would write a poem describing a romantic experience with her boyfriend, and that someone in her poetry workshop would share the poem with his fraternity brothers, and that they'd start calling her God for her role in that experience," Nugent said. "But it really happened, and that made me not afraid to try it."
In Nugent's story, Nutella is the first to fail with Melanie—a.k.a. God—and then so does another mighty brother of Delta Zeta Chi. Finally the story's unexpected ending owes something to Arthurian legend—at least as it was dramatized in "The Sword in the Stone." "I think I saw that movie seven times when I was a kid," said Nugent.
So the tale at last is a combination of hearsay and Disney myth and the dark harmonies of unconscious thought—an assembly in other words, of what the writer heard, what he already knew, and what he could only imagine once freed of all that.
The story was published in the fall 2013 edition of the famed Paris Review. Each year a team of editors at Houghton Mifflin scour through the thousands of stories published in magazines and literary journals, and they forward the best of these to a new guest editor-in-chief. For the 2014 edition, those duties are being handled by Jennifer Egan, whose novel "A Visit From the Goon Squad" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
"Ben read a portion of 'God' aloud at our last winter residency," said writer Richard Adams Carey, the assistant director of Southern New Hampshire's MFA program. "It was entirely hilarious. You need that ending, though, to appreciate the deep artistry of the story, the splinter of heartbreak it contains—and the power of the short story as a literary form, when it's done right."
Nugent is also the author of a novel, "Good Kids" (Scribner, 2013), and a nonfiction cultural history, "American Nerd" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and on the newspaper's op/ed page.
Many are called, but only twenty are chosen by Ms. Egan. "I got the good news in an email from Heidi Titlor at Houghton Mifflin," said Nugent. The anthology will hit the bookshelves in October.
A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=24736
CONTACT: Richard Adams Carey firstname.lastname@example.com 603.285.7064 603.716.4278Source:Southern New Hampshire UniversityMFA and Creative Writing


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Anyway, my little monkey has been acting like he wants to take those first steps...he cruises on furniture and stands on his own for a few seconds at a time. The thing is, whenever I take him by the hands to encourage him to walk - he pulls his little legs up in the air, or sits right down. No go.
As silly as it sounds, I thought I'd hop on Google and see if there were any ways I hadn't thought of to encourage babies to walk...
...and you know, as you're typing...suggestions come up in the search bar...
Wow...really? Teaching your child to wipe is just as popular as teaching them to walk and write? Where are our priorities, world?
Then I got to thinking...because I have a boy, does that mean his father gets to teach him how to wipe? Obviously he's going to teach him to pee standing up, but do the rest of the bodily functions automatically default to him as well?
I don't consider myself squeamish by any means (although a few of Elijah's turds have set off my gag reflex in the past. Truth.) but I'm all about passing off some *ahem* dooties to the husband.
Then I thought some more, and wondered WHY people would be wondering how to teach their child to wipe? Are there that many variations on front to back? How many grownups have not grasped the concept of wiping thoroughly enough to have to look it up on Google?
Too much? I guess I *was* looking up how to WALK, so I digress. Perhaps wiping is considered a 'fine motor skill'.
Moral of the story? Let's focus a little more on teaching our children how to walk and write. Skidmarks happen, but they won't prevent you from getting a job.
P.S. I feel another t-shirt coming on.
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Can we all get along peacefully? Please help to distribute this picture for the sake of attaining peace amongst religions. It favorably depicts Muhammad. Many Muslims have viewed it and approved of it.
The picture shows the messengers of God witnessing the entire history and the evolution of the universe and our varying perceptions of Allah/God; the beginning of physical rational life in the universe and the bonding of the first two souls that was the beginning of a spiritual unity; the development of mankind and man's first perception of God from the story of Adam & Eve; Abraham & Moses, their quest into spirituality, their interaction with God and the beginning of Judaism; God's interaction with Jesus & his life and death; the beginning of Christianity & the senseless killings in the Crusades; God's interaction with Muhammad, the beginning of the Islam faith and the senseless Twin Towers tragedy of 9-11-01.


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Weddings are such beautiful celebrations. I remember my own wedding like it was yesterday, and love getting my wedding album out and flipping through the photos. My wedding day is a day that I play over and over again in my mind, because it was such a wonderful day. Seven years later, I am reliving some of that same excitement with my best friend, as she plans her own wedding.
Mt friend is still figuring out the details for her wedding, but my organizational mind is going into full speed, remembering all that had to be planned when I got married. One of my favorites compontents of planning my wedding was selecting dresses for my wedding party. Perhaps the most enjoyable, aside from selecting a weding dress, was looking for flower girl dresses.
Flower Girl dresses are so beautiful, and there are endless options when it comes to what type of dress your special wedding party member might wear. My flower girl wore something simple, that resembled whar I was wearing, as the bride. The flower girl can really pull in the theme of the wedding or the wedding accent colors, through her dress.
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Summer Reading Program
It's hard to believe, but summer is nearly halfway over. CRAZY. The girls signed up for the summer reading program at the library the day after school ended. Our plan was to meet their goals by July 1, the first day prizes can be redeemed. They're excited to pick out their free books, and I don't want to keep track of their reading when it's time to leave town for vacation. We were only a day off. Big Sis finished her last book this afternoon, so I took them to the library today. They each chose a free book off the cart. Big Sis was super-excited to find Louis Sachar's Wayside School is Falling Down. She has read my sister's childhood copy of Sideways Stories from Wayside School not once, but twice! Little Sis was harder to please. She refused to look at any of the paperback picture books, insisting she needed a chapter book. My dilemma is that she isn't ready to read most chapter books on her own. I can't convince her to pick up Frog & Toad or Amelia Bedelia. She wants Junie B. Jones or something like that. There were two Junie B.s on the cart, but they were ones we already have. I tried to convince her to grab a Calvin & Hobbes treasury, thinking she and her daddy would have a blast with that, but no. She finally found a Goosebumps Horrorland book, and that is what she wanted. Sigh. Who knows when this thing will actually get read... I refuse to read a scary story before bedtime, and she isn't ready to read it on her own.
In addition to their books, the girls scored sacks of freebies: coupons for free mini golf games, free baseball and hockey games, kids' meals from various restaurants, free book from the library's used book store, etc. etc.
Are your kids participating in any reading programs this summer? I know there are bookstores and other businesses that reward kids for reading, besides libraries. Growing up, my babysitter only signed us kids up once or twice, but I loved it and always remembered it. I was such a bookworm, I didn't really care about the prizes. I just wanted to read more books than all the other kids. Competitive much? Yep.
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This page is meant to help you find examples of other players that are working on the same or similar things as you or if also you're a teacher and have a similar student. The words are links to primarily Lesson of the Week and Online Students videos that address these things in the lesson. Some are faults, some are fixes and there is an 'other' category as well, scroll down to the bottom for a way to find the videos that include a drill in the lesson. This list will be added to or adjusted as necessary.
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Girl Hits Gold SnatchersA woman who had her gold necklace snatched by 2 snatchers whilst riding her motorcycle with her friend chased after them and hit them when they reached a cross road.
PATTAYA – May 4,2015 [PattayaDailyNews]; at 20.00 pm Acting Sub Lt. Piaraya Tunkarn aged 23 was riding a motorcycle with her friend to her cousin's house in Jomtien when 2 men rode alongside them and snatched her gold necklace.
She then chased after them and shouted for help and when they reached a cross road she hit them causing her and her friend to fall to the ground injuring her friend. Fortunately, the police spotted the incident and radioed other officers on duty who quickly caught the men in front of the Kaew Ta Karaoke in Jomtien.
The thieves were identified as Mr.Amnartrad Chaichangreed aged 20 and a teenager. Upon searching them the officers found the stolen gold necklace with a gold amulet in a bag.; therefore the officers took them to police station in order to prosecute them for robbery. The suspects confessed that they had committed this type of crime 10 times before and had shared the proceedings.


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BioWare shook the MMO world with the December 2011 release of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It was like millions of voices suddenly cried out in elation and were then silenced… by the deafening clatter of keyboard-and-mouse clicking as a new subscriber base ground its way to the level 50 cap with the game's eight separate story-driven classes. I reviewed The Old Republic and I very much liked what I saw.
That was just the beginning, however. An MMO's development process doesn't really start until the game is fully released and backed by a fanatical community of players. The Old Republic, with its Star Wars underpinnings and trademark BioWare focus on story, was virtually guaranteed to reach that point, and it did so long ago. BioWare's done a good job post-launch of bringing out content updates. Perhaps not in the order that some players might prefer, but them's the breaks of dealing with a large fan community. The recently released update 1.3, referred to as the "Allies" update, is the biggest that The Old Republic has seen yet. We caught up with Daniel Erickson, the game's lead designer to talk a little bit about what's new, what's to come, and where things really stand in BioWare's ever-growing corner of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Perhaps the biggest of the additions coming in the near future to SW:TOR is a new planet, Makeb. Unlike other new planets added in earlier updates as part of one high-level mission or another, Makeb is a fully baked world that players can access via their ship's star map. "This is a new planet for the Star Wars universe and a new planet for our game," Erickson said of Makeb. "It's our first big return to the… storytelling of the main game."
The future update includes a level cap increase, from 50 to some as-yet-unrevealed number. Makeb will cater specifically to players reaching to bring their characters in line with the new bar that's being set. You can visit it whenever, just like you can any other planet in the game, but it's really recommended for level 50+ players. Erickson wouldn't tell me much about the planet beyond what we already know, that it's a Hutt-controlled world filled with entirely new content for the game.
This sort of addition has broader repercussions, as any Star Wars fan knows. All of the Star Wars fiction exists within a giant transmedia universe that is overseen by Lucasfilm and its assorted divisions. Which means that BioWare adding a planet to the game isn't as simple as just writing some code and letting players have at it. There's the larger Expanded Universe to consider, everything from how the planet's lore and history fits into the larger picture to where the physical ball of rock sits on the established star map. As tricky as it can be to introduce something as large as a new planet, Erickson has nothing but praise for the experience of working with Lucasfilm.
"They're incredibly good about all of that and we're probably the most diligent researchers and Star Wars experts of anyone in the EU creation system, because our fans are very particular and they will catch us," he said. It also helps that the dev team approaches their game with the attitude of franchise purists.
"We're not experimental Star Wars people," Erickson explained. "We must have sat down and watched Empire Strikes Back every other day for months when we were putting this game together. We're not trying to [add] samurai or… time travel. We are saying 'Let's get the most incredibly core Star Wars feel that we were so excited about as kids.' Which means we run into pretty much no issues with Lucasfilm."
Inspired by all of this Expanded Universe talk, I asked Erickson the same question that I frequently return to whenever I get to talk to someone about a Star Wars game: is there a place in The Old Republic for the Yuuzhan Vong?
Let me explain: the Yuuzhan Vong are an extra-galactic race of beings that were introduced in one of the more recent story arcs for the EU books. They show up several decades after the events of Return of the Jedi and proceed to wreak havoc on the universe that we know. Chewbacca's death is a notable moment in that series. The hardcore Star Wars fanbase has long been divided on the Yuuzhan Vong; some feel that it was a breath of fresh air, treading new ground that the franchise never had before, while others derided the arc for perverting the pure good vs. pure evil conflict that lies at the heart of Star Wars.
Based on Erickson's response, I think it's safe to say he belong in the latter group. Without even a moment's though, he replied to my question with a matter-of-fact "No," a word which he repeated several times — just to make it abundantly clear — before explaining the reason why. "At the point the Yuuzhan Vong come in, you've stopped the conflict. Star Wars is, at it's heart, the very quasi-fascist, controlled [approach of the Empire] versus the Republic's chaotic, tons of people working together, it's corrupt but at least it works [democratic ideal]. As soon as you introduce a third threat that is bigger and more powerful than all of us, you lose your core heart and you can't bring it back. Especially in an MMO where it's all working at once."
It's hard to argue with the reasoning there, even if you're an ardent supporter of the direction the EU went in with the Yuuzhan Vong. It would certainly be cool for hardened fans to explore that section of the larger fiction, but The Old Republic isn't the place for it, especially with its faction-based focus.
One fan-favorite corner that SW:TOR will return to is HK-47. The assassin droid first appeared in BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and he became an instant classic among Star Wars characters thanks to his penchant for murder and his affinity for referring to all humans as "meatbags." The HK-47 character is already in The Old Republic, as a boss in one of the game's Flashpoint missions, but "Allies" will allow players to recruit a newer model of the HK line as one of their companions, pending the completion of an extensive quest line.
"One of the things that was important to us was, HK-47 is, theoretically, a model like R2-D2. But he's also a specific character in the world. So we treated him like that in The Old Republic. We do not ever want to give everyone HK. So we introduce HK-51 as a model," Erickson explained.
"These were a model of droid that were created for the Great War and then they disappeared. So players are going to get to find a ship full of the HK droids and then go on a giant galactic quest to try to get one of them to respond. Basically, you need to repair one of them and then you need to get it to not shoot you when it wakes up. It's a core piece of our Legacy update and it's going to require characters on both the Republic and the Empire sides. It is the biggest galaxy-spanning quest we've ever done."
For those who don't know it, "Legacy" is an in-game system that allows players who have reached a certain stage of the game with one of their characters to choose a surname, and then tie any subsequently created character into that "legacy," as anything from a blood relation to a family friend. Through this, you unlock a separate set of levels to climb through and an assortment of unlockable abilities that are largely designed to give players running through second, third, and more playthroughs of the game an easier time. In the case of HK-51, players will be expected to have at least one level 50 character.
On the other end of the player spectrum are the noobs. "Allies" aims to make the process of playing The Old Republic feel less daunting for total newcomers with a revised tutorial system that explains basic concepts, everything from loot and vendors to social tools. This was necessary, in Erickson's mind, as the team prepares to accept a flood of new players when The Old Republic opens up its early game for free play.
"In July we're going 'Free to 15,'" he said, referring to the upcoming free-to-play initiative that allows anyone to level up any of the game's classes — or more than one — to level 15 without spending a penny on the game or a monthly subscription. "One of the things we've already seen is that people who are… excited about Star Wars [but don't necessarily play MMOs], the MMO tropes hit them really hard. So the new tutorials are very much an introduction. Things that we should have but didn't think about."
"What we always say is, before the game came out it was our game. As soon as it launched, it became the community's game," Erickson added. "The number one request we get with a bullet [in terms of] what people want more of, is story. They just want their story to keep going. They want to see more of The Old Republic, they want to see how the galaxy is developing, and they want to do it with their prime characters."
On the free-to-play front, Erickson refused to talk about the possibility of a larger free-to-play initiative for the larger game, something that many outsiders have been speculating is an inevitability, not just for The Old Republic but for all monthly subscription-based MMOs as premium free-to-play experience improve more and more. In his mind, at least for now, it's enough to put The Old Republic in front of a total noob and let the game do all the work to encourage a subscription.
"What we discovered is that people who play the game really like the game. We have the highest conversion rate with our free weekends, way beyond our predictions," Erickson explained. "Our friend trials, same thing. We didn't get as broad of a Star Wars group [at launch] because the message was MMO, and people have a negative connotation around getting into an MMO. So what we're saying now is we're going to find any way we can to get the game in front of people. Because when people play The Old Republic, they like The Old Republic. If we can get people to get in there, play it, hang out… we're really confident we're going to get a bunch of new players from that."
It's certainly a positive attitude, even if it's one that might have to change further down the line. It's not something that BioWare has to think about yet, however. Subscribers are still coming back for more, and fans are still getting excited about new, officially released content. There's also the possibility of global events, something that the dev team tried out with its limited-time "Rakghoul plague" scenario, which affected the entire galaxy and on both sides of the faction fence. Erickson insists that we can expect to see more events like that one — and unlike that one — but he pulls up short of offering any hints.
"No hints," he said, chuckling. "Here's the thing about world events. When we were planning to do the events, we put the team together and then we had to go and tell the marketing team [they weren't] allowed to talk about it. Then we had to go tell the line producers [that we weren't] going to put it on the test server. And everybody got really, really nervous. So we had to do a ton of internal testing, we had to get QA out there, we had to basically take the studio down and make everybody play it, BUT we did something that is core to the MMO experience, and that is not being done enough out there. We surprised our players."
"That's what events are going to continue to do. I've got a full time events team and they're gonna do little things, they're gonna do big things, they're not going to be in a pattern that you can predict, and the idea is to eventually make it to the time where [people are always checking in] just to see what happened today."


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Nice Guy likes to dash across the field like a speeding panther, WOOSH!
Then he usually disappears from sight into some bushes…
Maybe he is resting somewhere in the grass in private. Perhaps taking some time to be thoughtful of the day's events? Or even counting the petals on a dandelion?
Whatever it was that he was doing, it gets interrupted by mysterious water which falls from the sky. It has been raining a little bit more often, the summer was quite dry.
This will take some getting used to, Poor soggy kitty.


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The 7th Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFCEF-7) was held on 10 Feb 2017 in Singapore
Singapore (February 10, 2017) – Twelve clean energy projects across Asia were presented to investors in Singapore at the CTI PFAN Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFCEF-7)
More than 80 financiers, clean energy experts and representatives of financial institutions from across Asia and overseas were in attendance. The Forum was organized by Climate Technology Initiative's Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI PFAN), a global multilateral initiative dedicated to connecting clean energy businesses with financing and "bridging the gap" between clean energy projects and investors.
"CTI PFAN is a creative approach to facilitating access to private capital markets to finance and implement clean energy and other environmentally sound projects," said CTI PFAN Manager, Mr. Michael Rantil.
CTI PFAN screens business plans, selects the most economically viable and environmentally beneficial projects, and provides multiple rounds of coaching and guidance before projects are presented to investors. CTI PFAN is now working on more than 358 clean energy projects across Asia, Africa, Latin America and CIS & Central Asia. Globally, CTI PFAN has raised over USD 1.2 billion of investment for 87 clean energy projects and contributed to the establishment of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation of 2.6 million tonnes CO2 e.
The project portfolio showcased at the Forum features a total aggregate investment volume in excess of USD 145 million, spanning technologies such as solar, biogas, bio-fuels, hydroelectric, waste to energy, energy efficiency, thermal power and distributed & off-grid generation developed by entrepreneurs and companies from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines and Vietnam.
From the 12 showcased projects, a panel of independent judges selected Fourth Partner Energy, Rooftop Solar Systems (off-grid & on-grid) project in India, as the winner of the CTI PFAN Asia Clean Energy Financing Awards.
As first runner-up, PT. Entec Indonesia, Banea Small Hydro Power Project in Indonesia was selected.
As second runner-ups, ATEC Biodigesters International, Scaling up ATEC Biodigesters in Southeast Asia project and Kamworks Ltd., Kamworks PAYGO Solutions project in Cambodia were selected.
Mr. Andrew Mark Hayton of PT. Entec Indonesia said, "Participating in the AFCEF provided us the platform and the incentive to systematically prepare a business plan for our project. Without this challenge I doubt whether we would be as advanced with our project preparation as we currently are. It has been an excellent opportunity to work with experts in solidifying our project proposal and bringing it to the next stage."
Mr. Amitabh Tandon of Transtech Green Energy said, "CTIPFAN business plan competition is a great event that nurtures and builds your clean energy project and presents it to prospective investors in a serious and bankable manner. Their coaching and help during the business plan build up is very helpful, preparing you well to present your investment pitch and business plan in a serious environment to interested Investors."
For investors, AFCEF-7 was a compelling opportunity to access a select group of investment-ready clean energy projects with attractive potential returns, and verified environmental and development benefits.
"It was a wonderful day and I learned so much. PFAN is such an enthusiastic and engaged group. I want to thank all our partners for their support in this event. Mentorship and business plan competition have always main tools of PFAN activities so I take this opportunity to announce two call for proposals that is being launched through PFAN-Asia. One is for women-led clean energy projects or businesses. PFAN-Asia is also launching a call for proposals for smart solutions for adaptable and communities and cities. I look forward to learning how many investments have gone forward for these 12 finalists which were showcased at the Forum as USAID continues our commitment to policy development and planning in the energy sector," said Ms. Beth Paige USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia.
AFCEF-7 is sponsored by the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI), the CTI Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI PFAN), the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Energy for All Program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with support from the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT). It is organized in cooperation with Dawn Consulting, CSi Energy Solutions International (CSI), PPL International, the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).
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Radical Zen - The Sayings of Joshu — translated by Yoel Hoffman
More than 450 aphorisms and koans from The Sayings of Joshu - one of the outstanding Zen texts of Tang period China.
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This work collects important philosophical texts from each major Buddhist tradition. An ideal single book for an intermediate or advanced course in Buddhist philosophy.
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This work maps out the heart of all the lines of transmission of Dzogpachenpo from the primordial Buddha to the present day.
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Recognition of Dharma King - Who is genuine Karmapa — by Winston Lai and Felix Wan
Documents, testimonials etc, concerned to 'Karmapa Controversy'.
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A rich source of information on the religion, culture, and politics of Tibet during his times.
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Lewis Hamilton has welcomed the "amazing" news Michael Schumacher is out of a coma and has returned to Switzerland to continue his recuperation.
The 29-year-old was speaking after the German motor racing legend 's manager, Sabine Kehm, announced he had left the hospital in Grenoble where he has spent the last six months since crashing while skiing in the French Alps
"It's amazing news," said Hamilton while on a public relations duties for Mercedes in Hertfordshire.
" Everywhere I go people ask about him whether its the States, Canada.
"I always keep him in my thoughts and prayers.
Read our live blog of Schumacher's progress
"It's really positive to hear that there is some progress because I have been keeping an ear out for whats going on and not been hearing about much improvement other than he's twitching a little bit.
"He's now in that wake-up phase which is really encouraging.
"It's really exciting because hopefully this is the first step on that new ladder."
Manager Sabine Kehm said today: "Michael left the hospital in Grenoble to continue his long period of rehabilitation. He is no longer in a coma.
"His family would like to expressly thank the excellent work of all physicians, nurses, carers and therapists in Grenoble in the past months, as well as thanking the first responders on the scene of the accident.
"The family thanks to all the people who sent so many good wishes Michael. You have really helped him.
"For the future we ask for understanding that his rehabilitation will take place outside of the public eye."
170 days since he smashed his skull on to rocks while ski-ing at the resort of Meribel in the French Alps, Schumacher seems to have responded to the massive efforts to bring him out of the medically induced coma which first began four months ago.
But there is no telling how long his therapy might take or how much of his old self he can recover after close to six months unconsciousness.
Reports in Germany said 45-year-old father of two Schumacher can communicate with wife Corinne and Corinna,45, and children Gina Marie, 17, and son Mick, 14.
One report said: "The specialists in Grenoble thought his condition so stable that he no longer requires their help."


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Canadiens goaltender Price skates without equipmentby NHL.com Staff
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Finally I did software simulation, what is succeed. The simulation of analog circuits are very fast and exact, very easy to measure and analyze any parameters depending on the parts, easy to get result of parts modifications by graph or by simulated measuring devices. The best is, lot of AC sources and measuring instruments are available, like function generators and oscilloscopes. I used Multisim, because the simulation of Altium is more harder, and I cannot found good examples on the net how to use Altium for simulation. But as I see, the Multisim is very popular (because easy to use, I think):
This is the schematic of one filter from the UREI 546 parametric EQ. Function generator, one channel (yelow) of oscilloscope, and U3 AC voltmeter connected to the input. Second channel of oscilloscope (blue) and U2 AC voltmeter connected to the output. The power supply is the simulation of 2x18V DC power source. On/off switch, and bypass switch included. With simulation, all switches and potentiometers are working well and real time. To see the simulation result, the circuit is very exact, same as like datasheet of original UREI device, with really small differences. The bypass switch or the Cut/Boost potentiometer on center make the output voltage to same with input. I made a movie about simulation:
I wonder, the simulation result is same as the original datasheet, or have some differences. If the result is closed to the original datasheet, I don't need expression for the modifications.
I made new schematic with simple AC voltage source instead of function generator, and I deleted the scope from the output. I used AC analysis on the output point instead of scope. The result is more useful on the graph:
Here is the frequency response of the filter. All modifications can be analyzed and displayed with graph, for example new middle frequency, Q, and Cut/Boost function of EQ between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Later I analyzed the circuit up to 100 kHz.
With these simulations, I can't compare the results with the original datasheet. Therefore I made 4 bands with exactly same values with the original schematic. I made AC analysis with min, max, and middle frequencies of 4 bands, and compared the maximum and minimum points to the official datasheet:
The red line is the lowest frequency on all 4 bands, the blue is the another side of potentiometer, the possible highest frequency. This is the comparison with the original EQ, where is the upper frequencies are really same, the lower shows small differences. Now I think, because the simulation result and the datasheet are same with small differences, the simulation of this schematic is good idea to modify the original EQ (instead of math expressions).
This is the 5 steps of Q by the original schematic, what is same as than the graph in the datasheet:
The method of software simulation is really big help if I have to modify something. For example, this is the modified possible min and max Q with new values of parts, because for more bands I need better Q:
2 resistors are changed to make new Q values.
Here is the result of the first and last filter, from the lowest to highest possible frequencies of bands:
To make the lowest and highest frequencies of the band closer, the potentiometers changed from original 55 kOhm to new 4.7 kOhm. The lowest band on the graph have 680 nF on the integrators, the highest have 2.2 nF.
With this result, I analyzed the highest band with lower (80%) Q and compared to the result with maximum Q:
The max point of the highest band are much higher than the lowest band, I changed the possible maximum Q to lower, I modified the 80 Ohm resistor to 120 Ohm. To found the ideal resistor value for the maximum Q, I made analysis with several resistor values from 80 Ohm to original 390 Ohm:
This is the first step to design 8 bands parametric equalizer with new values.
See also:
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- UREI546 parametric EQ like URS VST EQ bundle
- 6 and 10 bands for UREI 546 parametric equalizer
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A little update... Another couple using Gladney who went on the wait list Jan. 4th received their referral for a little boy two days ago! This is good news because Joe and I went on the list Jan. 8th! So keep your fingers crossed we are getting closer even though the wait for girls is supposed to be a little longer then for boys. Soooo, wait mode still - but moving closer to our daughter everyday!
I know I've already asked a number of you already but... it doesn't hurt to ask again....If you (or any anyone you know) have any old suitcases that are still functional (i.e. can survive a flight to Ethiopia still closed!) that you no longer want, we would love to have them to pack humanitarian aid in when we do go to Ethiopia to pick up our little girl. Most importantly, if you have any new or slightly used cloths for children ANY size from 0 - 19 years you could send us to take along - including day clothes, pajamas, underwear, shoes - we would be very grateful for your generosity! All these clothes will be going to the orphanages that Gladney works with in Ethiopia and J and I would like to take as much as we possibly can!


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Amanda Aivaliotis
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Amanda Aivaliotis - Canadian Female Bodybuilder
Growing up in a Greek heritage, I was familiar with eating lots of protein and vegetables. When I got into bodybuilding protein was a big component of my diet, off season and pre-contest. I always keep my protein levels to 2grams / lb of lean bodyweight. My carbohydrate and fat intake varies from off season to pre-contest.
I usually start the dieting process 20 weeks out from a show where I will include red meat once per week until 8 weeks out. The rest of the time I usually stick to lean white meat as my main source of protein. In the off season I increase my fats through whole eggs, chicken legs, nuts/ almond butter, Greek yogurt and red meat. My carbohydrates pre-contest are always low glycemic. Off season, I incorporate other carbohydrates, such as, brown rice, rice cakes, potatoes, whole wheat bread etc.
Pre-contest diet
6 meals/day
- each meal consisting of 35-40g of protein, mostly egg whites, chicken breast, turkey breast, and whey protein powder.
-my carbohydrate intake is approximately 25g per meal of low glycemic carbohydrates (yams/sweet potatoes, oatmeal) for 4 meals, then fibrous carbohydrates for the last 2 meals (kale, broccoli, green beans, spinach)
-I do supplement flaxseed oil into my pre-contest diet, taking it twice daily.
-After a workout, I incorporate an amino shake mixed with whey protein powder, and some BCAA.
I find it most effective when I incorporate supplementation into my pre-contest diet, such as, protein and amino acid powder, BCAA, Ester C, and multi vitamins.
I have tried other diet plans which consisted of less protein and more Carbohydrates but did not work well getting me to the body fat that I needed to get for a contest.
Off season training
Day 1- Legs
Day 2- Shoulders
Day 3- back
Day 4- chest
Day 5- biceps/triceps
Day 6- full body light flush
Day 7- Rest
Cardio- usually stair master 3-4 day/week, 30 min each time
Day 1- Quadraceps-morning, Hamstrings- evening
Day 2- back-morning, chest- evening
Day 3- Shoulders-morning, bi's/tri's-evening
Day 4 - repeat day 1
Day 5- repeat day 2
Day 6- repeat day 3
Day 7- rest
Cardio- 30 min in the morning, 30 min in the evening, 6 days /week
With my nutrition, pre-contest, I tend to vary the carbohydrates depending on how I look and feel.
About my book: Get Real - The No Excuse Method For Weight Loss
Being a personal trainer and sports therapist for over two decades, my biggest challenge in my career was to change the emotional bingers' mentality. Most of my overweight clients could not understand the importance of making healthy eating a lifestyle and not a temporary solution. I decided to create a book that was easy to understand and would create solutions to binge eating. "Get Real" The no excuse theory to weight loss, is a book about changing your mental aspect towards food and finding solutions to overcome "the battle of the bulge." It does not have an eating plan in the book (we have enough knowledge on what we should and should not be eating), it does not have a workout routine (we have an overabundance of exercise programs at our fingertips), it is all about our distortive views towards food and how to change them.
I have included a few chapters of my book, I hope you will enjoy it.
Chapter 2. My Message to You
I wrote this book to help you gain control over your eating habits and weight issues. It will help you take responsibility for your eating situation, and acknowledge why you have a weight problem. Let us confront the issues and "get real" over why you are truly overweight. I want to help others similar to myself to start eating normally with proper portion sizes and build self confidence with their relationship with food. Instead of associating food with fear, regret and guilt, I want to help you create a positive relationship with food. You should concentrate on improving the quality of physical health in your life and make food your source of nutrition and well being and not an outlet for depression, tension and irritability. This can only be done by taking responsibility for your actions and changing your perception towards food.
You must take full responsibility for every aspect of your life and give up all the excuses and all the reasons why you can't or haven't been able to achieve your weight loss goal or keep it off. This book does not give you the quick answer and is not a quick fix. You will work hard to develop a healthy, habitual relationship with food and it will be a battle that goes on for the rest of your life. Yes. You heard me correctly. It is a battle that goes on for the rest of your life. At times the battle does get easier as you develop good habits; but that does not mean that it won't take work to stay on track and keep focused on your goal. If your weight has fluctuated all your life or you have never been able to lose those unwanted pounds and have tried millions of diets, you need to change the whole outlook of your eating. The only way you can do this is by acknowledging that you need to change your behaviour and not let your habits take over. You have developed bad habits with your eating and it will take work to change these habits.
This book will help you acknowledge some facts that you know are the truth about yourself and your eating habits. Don't avoid them. It's time to raise your standards of personal excellence. Actively work on improving your eating habits each and everyday. You must discipline yourself and not just "want to" or "intend to", you "have to"! There is no temporary fix or time limit to a healthy weight. It is a lifetime commitment. This does not mean you cannot enjoy certain foods and alcoholic beverages, this means you have to learn control. In time you will be able to build new habits and reprogram your eating habits to work for you instead of against you. In this book you learn not to "hope" things will happen, but to "make" them happen. You commit to this day in and day out. You will have good days and bad, but you cannot give up the fight of accomplishing that long-hidden hunger for excellence that lingers inside you. There will be days you will spiral into your old habits and you must create measures to bring yourself back into your new habits. Your past behaviours will be left in the past. You will focus on the present and the future. You are going to stop blaming others and take responsibility for your actions.
Don't hide the truth by telling yourself you are happy with the excess weight, you are only fooling yourself. Nobody likes to go to specialty shops because they cannot fit into a standard size of clothing, nor do they like to be looked at and singled out because they are obese. I've met many successful, confident, overweight business gurus and most of them had insecurities about their excess weight or lack of health and energy. They would ask "Why can I control a multi-million dollar business, but I can't control my weight?" Nobody is perfect. We are human and we make mistakes. My job is to teach every reader of this book that losing weight and keeping it off requires discipline and changing your habits. Once you create a habit it will become easier, but with the new habits come challenges. You have discipline to go to work every day and discipline to pay your bills and do your housework, now you must create the same discipline for your body, mind, and soul to achieve complete happiness.
Chapter 12. Beat the Battle Of The Bulge
To successfully beat the battle of the bulge and overcome the yo-yo dieting ritual, you must erase your old train of thought about food and create a new one. It's not easy to erase 30, 40, or 50 years of your way of thinking. It's like reading a self-help book that relays the message that "you can dictate how much money you make", meanwhile you've been stuck in the same job with the same old salary (except for the occasional menial raise) for 20 years. Changing your habits and thought process will be tough and will take perseverance and work. Just like changing your bad financial habits and decisions, you must change your bad food habits.
You view food as a happy moment, a stress reliever, a drug to keep you awake, and a way to get family and friends together socially. Your main focus is always on food. You talk about eating at the best restaurants for general conversation; you hold meetings around food (even the boardroom meeting usually offers donuts, bagels, and muffins), 70% of all television commercials are about food. Try being raised in a Greek family or any ethnic background for that matter; eating solves all of your problems whether you scraped your knee, broke up with your mate, or you won the gold medal at the Olympics, let's drown your sorrows or celebrate with food.
The obsession and passion you have with food will never change nor do you have to battle with yourself to change it, you just have to gain control of when too much of a good thing can be harmful. You then must ask yourself, is it normal behaviour to eat too much of a good thing? Why do you have to eat beyond that feeling of satisfaction? Why do you associate food with your emotions, your venue, your peers and your surroundings? Why can you not stop at one? Why do you feel the need to reward yourself with food? Now that you have built these habits, you have a battle on your hands and you must break them and form new ones. Again, this will not be easy, and like alcoholism, you must take steps by avoiding the surroundings that you associate with eating too much and eating too much of the wrong foods. Let the battle begin!!
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text: The company that created the first digital camera said it will phase out its digital device business in the first half of this year. "For some time, Kodak's strategy has been to improve margins in the capture device business by narrowing our participation in terms of product portfolio, geographies and retail outlets," said Pradeep Jotwani, president, Consumer Businesses, and Kodak chief marketing officer. Troubled Eastman Kodak Co., which filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 19, said the phaseout will save it more than $100 million a year. The 132-year-old company, which once controlled the photographic film market, has been on a slow, painful decline for years, closing 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs and reducing its workforce by 47,000 since 2003. It lost 88 percent of its value last year. At its peak in 1997, Kodak's stock was valued at nearly $30 billion. Today it stands at less than $145 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Shortly before filing for bankruptcy, the company said it was cutting its business segments from three to two to reduce costs. In 1975, Kodak employee Steven Sasson developed the first digital camera prototype, which weighed eight pounds and was about the size of a toaster. Over the next three decades, Kodak amassed a portfolio of more than 1100 digital imaging patents. The company has had no luck trying to find a buyer for those patents, which it said have generated more than $3 billion in licensing revenue since 2003. Kodak also filed a number of suits in January against companies such as Apple, Research in Motion Ltd. and Fujifilm Corp. for infringing those digital patents. Kodak's potential demise was on the minds of many at SPIE Photonics West 2012, held in January in San Francisco. "The collapse of one of our industry giants should be of concern to all of us," said Robert Edmund, CEO of Edmund Optics at an executive panel on optics and photonics. "There are lessons here for all of us." Michael J. Cumbo, president of Idex Corp.'s optics and photonics platform, began his career at Eastman Kodak. He said that the company didn't move fast enough to capitalize on its digital technology because it was reluctant to render obsolete its photographic film business, which had a profit margin of 75 percent. "Kodak's failure had lots of reasons, not just a lack of ability to manage products," said Ken Kaufmann, vice president of marketing at Hamamatsu. He added that, as a major employer in a small town, Kodak had an "ethical and moral responsibility" to keep employees. The economy of Rochester is much more diverse than it was in the early 1980s when it relied on Xerox, Kodak and Bausch & Lomb for the majority of employment opportunities, said Duncan Moore in a Rochester Democrat & Chronicle op-ed piece in February. He is vice provost for entrepreneurship and the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester. While Kodak shed 54,000 jobs over the past three decades, the community gained a net of 100,000 jobs in industries such as manufacturing, business, services, construction and higher education. The University of Rochester, with its medical center, is the area's largest employer, Moore said and, since 1996, 51 startups have been created based on the university's technologies. The challenge now is to head off a "brain drain" of twenty-somethings out of the area, Moore told Photonics Spectra. "Both Kodak and Xerox had national recruiting of twenty-somethings to Rochester," Moore said. "That's not happening now. The challenge as a community is how do we get the 70,000-plus students in the area universities to embrace our area and stay?"


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Is it just my wishful thinking that power is more evenly distributed? Am I hostage to my myopic view from the world of the fast-growing start-up? Why am I so convinced that something profound is changing in terms of where the power lies?
In Michael Moore's new diatribe, I mean film, "Capitalism – a Love Story", he talks about a discovery of a previously unearthed broadcast of FD Roosevelt's vision for a radically different America where everyone is guaranteed a home, a job, and healthcare. Michael laments that it "didn't have to be this way", and that capitalism must be overthrown.
Both Moore and Davos' vision of the world both have profound limitations in my opinion. They both focus on those at the top of the pyramid, but the real action is happening at the bottom.
It is business networks like Ecademy, which has 250,000 active members sharing information, building trust and transacting that interest me more than Davos now. Or the Fredericks Foundation – one of the most successful micro-finance organisations – helping people who have made bad decisions get their lives back on track to become micro-entrepreneurs.
At the launch of the Enterprise Alliance last week in the House of Commons, a new group focused on helping entrepreneurs establish themselves, I spoke again about Individual Capitalism – which reflects the social trend that most people would rather work for themselves, view themselves as their own P&L and bran. They don't trust their employers or their government, and feel that they are the best-placed to deal with their livelihood and their well-being.
Ah, but you say: "you have a skewed worldview, Julie – you hang out with too many entrepreneurs; that's why you feel that way". The people from the wrong side of the tracks or the disadvantaged – they're desperate to have a big cushy corporate job.
Check again. The internet above all has spoiled people rotten with the taste of freedom. Once you are free, you never go back to a model of hierarchical employment.
The way that Britain balances out and gets back into the black is not by discovering a major new industry which we dominate globally. It is by each unit – each family, each individual, each local community – getting into a stable, profitable mode. Then the sum of the parts will be in harmony. The world will look more like Ecademy and less like Davos in 10 years time. And the people will be far friendlier.
Julie Meyer is chief executive of Ariadne Capital and a Dragon on the BBC's Online Dragons' Den.


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* Nikkei up 0.15 pct, on track for weekly gain of 2.9 pct
* N.Korea missile launch not entirely unexpected, reaction calm
By Shinichi Saoshiro
TOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average inched up on Friday with the market apparently unruffled by North Korea's ballistic missile launch, wih the dollar remaining relatively stable against the yen despite Pyongyang's latest challenge.
Prior to the Tokyo financial markets' open on Friday, North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said.
The Nikkei initially dipped in a knee-jerk reaction soon after the open but pared the losses and last stood at 19,835.43, up 0.15 percent on the day.
The index was poised to end 2.9 higher on the week, helped by Wall Street's surge to record highs and a weaker yen.
On Thursday the Nikkei had risen to 19,918.39, its highest level since Aug. 9, rebounding from a four-month low of 19,239.52 set a week ago on North Korea and Hurricane Irma concerns.
Pyongyang's missile launch on Friday capped Japan's equity markets but was unable to trigger the sort of risk aversion seen last week.
"The Nikkei is holding up as currencies have reacted relatively calmly to the missile launch, with dollar/yen back above the 110.00 yen threshold," said Masahiro Ichikawa, senior strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management.
"Also, the missile launch did not catch the market entirely off guard, as North Korea was expected to react after the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions."
The dollar fell to as low as 109.550 yen after North Korea launched the missile but last stood at 110.200, unchanged from late U.S. trade on Thursday.
Oil producer Inpex Corp added 1.6 percent after it extended a production sharing agreement with Azerbaijan's state oil company. The duration of Inpex's production-sharing agreement on oil fields in Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea sector has been extended by 25 years until 2049.
Astellas Pharma Inc advanced 3.3 percent after the company and Pfizer Inc said on Thursday their blockbuster prostate cancer drug met the main goal of a key study that tested it for treating the disease in its early stages.
Shares related to bitcoin fell after the cryptocurrency remained volatile after it was reported that China plans to close all bitcoin exchanges by the end of September.
Financial information service provider Fisco Ltd, which operates a cryptocurrency exchange, fell 3.4 percent. Remixpoint Inc, which is also engaged in virtual currency trading services, lost 4.9 percent. Caica Inc, a systems company involved in blockchain technology research, dropped 1.5 percent.
The broader Topix was 0.15 percent higher at 1,634.63 after setting a two-year high of 1,642.56 on Thursday.


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Euro Truck Simulator 2 Discussion
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heres the methods that ive used
1st going to the main menu where i can see my truck in the background then press the option key then go the progress developement . dont work
2nd going to the profile page press the option key and then doubble click on my profile , as in your trainer video . wont work too .
then i came here to have some help my triner version is the lastest wich is 1.9.22 and the game version is 22.214.171.124 .
no damage / unlimited money / money editor all works but .... the add xp option dont work .
so can anyone help me plz
it will be greatly appreciated ty
Thanks a lot
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Still not updated :/
did you even look n the download page? because the current trainer posted IS for the current steam version and works 100%!
Still not updated :/
did you even look n the download page? because the current trainer posted IS for the current steam version and works 100%!
He could mean no trainer is available for the trainer for the 1.10.1 retail version, which I am also still waiting on.
Also. In the 1.10.1 trainer for steam, every time I press the key for No Damage, I also get heaps of skill levels added, so even that doesn't work 100% for me.
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Earth day 2014 is April 22, here are a few ways to help out and plan an earth day event with your dog friends!
1. Collect Used Towels and Blankets for a Local Shelter
Have towels that are getting a little thread bare or perhaps some themed bedding that your child has outgrown? Good news – these are like gold to your local animal shelter!
Homeless pets need some snuggly comfort too, donate your old blankets so they have something soft to lay on. Your old towels help to clean up the pets and their cages as well as provide bedding for smaller pets.
Ask your friends, family, and coworkers to gather up their old towels and blankets too (Facebook is a great way to spread the word) or ask your child's school to help with a donation drive.
Make sure the towels and bedding are nice and clean before your drop them off at the shelter – they have enough laundry to do and this is a big help for them! Continue reading


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1. Custom Hypnosis
Quit smoking, stick to an exercise routine, get a restful night's sleep and manage your stress levels better just by listening to these hypnotherapy sessions on your iPhone. It allows you to choose everything from the background music to the velvetiness of your therapist's voice. You are getting sleepy… £1.19 from iTunes. www.ipzndevelopment.com
2. Child Vaccine Record
Keep a handy record of all of your childrens' immunisations and allergies. An indispensible aid in the doctor's surgery when you've got a screaming child with a fever. £2.99 from iTunes. www.aucuba.net
3. Eye Test
Test your eyesight with this iPhone app that includes a Snellen chart – with eleven lines of block letters in ever decreasing sizes – among its 33 vision tests. Includes some socket-busting optical illusions, too. 59p from iTunes. http://ibokan.com/2009/eye-test
4. Lady Biz Period Calendar
Using discreet graphics, this tracker application for the iPhone allows you to mark your monthly cycle – and predict it more accurately. To the casual onlooker, it looks like a calendar, but subtly indicates keeps track of your cramps, migraines and breakouts. £2.39 from iTunes. http://www.ladybiz.net
5. IMapMyRide
Uses the built-in GPS technology to track your cycling distance, timings and pace – no extra hardware necessary. Free from iTunes. www.mapmyride.com
6. Meal Diary
This simple and effective app helps you stay on track with your diet by enabling you to monitor how much you've eaten. With just two taps, you can keep a log of an entire meal – and remind yourself of your running calorie intake. Free from iTunes. www.minimalistech.com
7. Yoga Trainer Lite
Not sure if you're striking the correct yoga pose? This handy app will help you perfect your Upper Plank and a myriad other positions, complete with step by step instructions and audio guides. Free from iTunes. www.apptism.com/apps/yoga-trainer-lite
8. Better Brain
Keep your mind sharp and build 'fluid intelligence' with these challenging audio and visual memory tasks. Games include remembering letters from a sequence. £1.79 from iTunes. www.schorn.ch/betterbrain.html


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Complete second series of the police drama, following maverick Jersey detective Jim Bergerac (John Nettles) as he solves crimes in the Channel Islands. In this series, Bergerac's daughter is kidnapped, a plot is hatched to burgle a fortune in diamonds, and Bergerac tries to solve the case of a Portuguese hang-glider found murdered on a deserted cliff face. Episodes are: 'A Message For the Rich', 'Always Leave Them Laughing', 'Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie', 'Prime Target', 'Almost Like a Holiday', 'Fall of a Birdman', 'Miracle Every Week', 'A Perfect Recapture', and 'The Moonlight Girls'.


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My father's cousin brother (Pangaali) passed away last week. Please let me know if we can perform all sorts of pooja, temple visits, functions etc. after 10 days theetu. It would be of help if you can provide as much info as possible as we are completely confused and have a few venduthal and functions lined up during this year. Thanks,in advance.
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DOTHAN—The Continuing Education Center at Troy University's Dothan Campus will offer an introductory Spanish course Oct. 12 through Nov. 23.
The class will meet on Monday's and Wednesday's from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Designed for beginners, the course will teach participants to communicate in Spanish and to learn more about the culture of Spanish speakers.
Participants will learn how to listen, speak, read and write the Spanish language in the present tense. Vocabulary and grammar will be internalized through the use of conversation, video, oral exercises, music and interactive activities. Reading and writing skills will be developed through stories, creative writing and written exercises.
The registration fee is $125 per person. The cost includes a book with a CD and materials.
To register, call 334-983-0005.


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