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Is 2010 the year that the mobile browser will finally overcome the mighty app to proclaim dominance in the mobile space?
Not likely. At Digiday: Mobile in New York on Monday, it became clear that while the mobile web has made a lot of progress over the last year, apps aren't going away any time soon.
Moreover, there are a lot of mobile marketers who believe one cannot exist without the other. For those of you who had hoped to save some money by focusing mobile dollars in one space — sorry.
Much of the success of mobile applications sprung from the limitations of the mobile web. When smartphone browsers proved insufficient for handling smartphone users' demands, brands and publishers started creating platform-specific applications. But as the mobile web has developed and acquired more and more capabilities, it's starting to make dedicated apps look more like accessories than necessities to some.
Like Erica Chriss, VP of strategy and business development at Greystripe, who says:
"Browsers are improving. They are becoming more of a platform choice for content owners."
As more consumers take to smartphones, browser usage is growing. Over the last year, there has been a 40% growth in browser usage.
According to Jeff Sass, VP of business development at Myxer, the mobile web is more versatile than platform specific apps:
"In the end, the mobile web wins. There will always be apps, but there's always more and more on the web."
Sass says it really comes down to a question of reach:
"There is a limitation with
apps [because of different mobile platforms]. On the web, you are able
to reach consumers as long as they have internet access."
Despite the strides that mobile browsers have made over the last year, some functionality and features available in the app environment still haven't transfered. Patrick Mork, CEO of GetJar, made a good point:
"In general, the handset technology advances much faster than the networks they're on."
That's why he concludes:
"You're always going to do much more on a handset through an app than on the mobile web."
But creating an app and launching it in on a mobile device doesn't guarantee consumers will see it. According to Mork, there are now nearly 50 different app stores, and over 400,000 apps in the top three stores.
When mobile apps were nascent, it was easier for brands and publishers to got noticed for their mobile products. Now, it's easy to get lost in a pile of apps.
Katie Juhl, manager of National Geographic Mobile breaks down the marketing spend requirements:
"You need to spend at least as much marketing the app as you spend creating it…what we need to do is make sure people know we're in this space."
And despite all the debate over which platform will dominate, it looks like the best approach in mobile might be to use apps and browsers together as marketing tools. Bryson Meunier, associate director of content solutions at Resolution Media, suggests the following:
"If you're going to build an app, you should also build a mobile website, even if it is just to promote that app. Otherwise, you're missing the boat."


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What We Do
What We Do
Our Mission: connecting neighbors with craft and literature
We help form inter-generational circles that meet regularly, learning their craft from a skilled artisan, while listening to stories read aloud. Our goal is the long-term support of these groups, as we believe this engagement creates stable environments for people to truly get to know each other, learn a useful skill and deeply explore ideas together. We've found that these activities strengthen people beyond the skills themselves, helping them face challenges with hope and resiliency
Jaime Gjerdingen, Board Chair
Tohr Vorvick, Vice Chair
Jan Bros, Secretary
Sara Kaufman, Treasurer
Michele Boone
John LeMay
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Workshop on Sustainable processes & practices using Organic cotton & natural dyes
Have you ever wondered how fabrics are made, have you ever wanted to create your own colors with things around you. In this 2 day workshop join Mr. Arun Baid and our master dyer to learn about organic cotton and natural dying. Workshop participants will learn about fiber to fabric conversion process, recipes for making dyes, dyeing techniques, future commercial prospects and much more.Visit to the factory premises , get a chance to see the industrial processes of natural dyeing techniques.
What's more you get to make your own t-shirt or scarf using these natural dyes to take home.
All required supplies and lunch will be provided.
There are limited seats so register now to ensure your spot. Calling in all enthusiasts to join our efforts to create a safe, pollution free and a sustainable living.
This is our way of knowledge sharing covering various aspects of Organic textiles & natural dyeing like . This workshop will be great for any one who wants to know the textile processes as well as interested in how natural dying works in small as well as large scales.
We would like to invite designers , students and design academicians to participate.
Below is the plan. We are sharing our years of experience with the students & hope it come to use to them.
Suggestions are welcome
Subjects & activities covered are as below
- History
- Eco friendly/organic dyeing
- Impact on environment
- Ingredients
- Limitations
- Future prospects
- recipes
(2) Knowledge of fibers (Different Fibers) Fiber to fabric conversion processes
(3) (A) Preparation of fabric for (Organic) dyeing: General /Organic Processes
(B) Demonstration of fabric preparation
(4) (A) Different techniques of dyeing
(B) Dyeing with natural colors.
(C) Variation in dyeing and QC.
(D) impact on environment of various processes
(5) Demonstration of fabric dyeing
(A) Blue , Yellow , Red , Black, Brown.
(B) Plain dyeing / Tie – dye in the dye bath.
(C) Souvenir Choice and preparation.
Day 2.
(1) Textile Printing Technology
(2) Demonstration of Printing (Screen Printing, Block Printing)
(3) Painting
(4) Testing of raw materials
(A) Fibers / Yarns / Fabrics
(B) Herbal Products / Mordents etc,.
(C) Laboratory trials
(D) Spectro photometric evaluation
(5) Fastness Properties
(A) Light fastness
(B) Wash Fastness
(C) Rubbing fastness
(D) Perspiration fastness
(6) (A) Demonstration of Bulk Dyeing of fabrics on machine
(B) Product Development Scarf / T-shirts
(7) Question – Answer session
Conclusion Meeting
This is our 2nd work shop & hope to have many more. We shall soon be coming up with residential design courses for designers & students.
Pictures & write ups on the workshop will be added. keep reading
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Learning 2
Been thinking more about learning. Added a lot of things the model (you can find in earlier post) - and now I need to sort and find the patterns. Currently it is just a mess and would provide very little meaning to show here. Hopefully I can find some patterns and make something meaningful out of it.
Meaningful to me at least.
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Searching is useful
The process "search" can be seen as harmful since it takes time and can consume resources. The search is not the goal - but to FIND is.
But while searching you will find other things. And you will most likely learn a lot.
Searching can find not only what you are looking for - but much more!
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Sunday, 7 November 2010
Started to think about learning. Far from finished. Just uploading a 1st model to encourage myself to continue...
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Saturday, 6 November 2010
Create knowledge
You cannot really transfer knowledge. You need to create knowledge in every mind.
Just like a growing tree you need to provide directions to the tree. Remove things that shade and show where the sun is. Make sure that roots will get water. Possibly support the young tree when it is blowing. Maybe scare away the rabbits trying to eat the tree.
When the tree gets the resources it will grow. You just need to make sure resources are provided.
Do not force it. Provide & support & guide - and let the magic happen.
Sometimes we provide too much resources when trying to build knowledge. "Here, these are all the documents you need". That is the same as giving the young tree a whole lake of water. The result will be a drowned tree and no growth.
Same with too much sun.
All knowledge is created in the mind. Just like the wood in the tree. And it takes time and must happen from the inside.
Let resources be available, support the growing, show some directions and watch the tree, eh, knowledge grow.
So, do not transfer knowledge. Create and grow knowledge.
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Just Wait Until You See The Difference.../
Most times a renovation starts with one thing you know drives you nuts…it just HAS to go! For my clients that thing was the original countertops that were put in when they built their house.
They found them to be drab, along with the tile floor and all of its hard to clean grout lines.
As we talked, it seemed that other things were bugging them too--like the kitchen felt cramped, even though it was far from small--and their old kitchen table that they had owned for decades owed them nothing. It was time for that to go, too.
And what about making it easier to entertain?--something they love to do and do often. You can see in the above picture that a console table was used for a bar on such occasions, and I knew that that wall would be the perfect place to incorporate more storage and counter space for a more permanent party solution.
The adjacent family room's carpeting was worn, but my clients' sectional and custom window treatments were still in good shape, and they wanted them to stay put. I knew that with some added accessories and the new paint and flooring that was part of the upcoming renovation, the kitchen and family room could be pulled together visually into one stunning space.
For the expert craftsmanship needed to make all of the physical changes and updates to the rooms, our favorite contractor Victor Burgos was called in for the renovation.
SO, let's look at how the rooms look now that it is completed :)….
New hardwood floors throughout both rooms unifies the spaces, and along with the new granite countertops, create a much more upscale feel. You may also notice that the shelf/raised piece of countertop between the eating area and main kitchen has been leveled off, contributing to the spaces feeling less chopped up and giving a more open feel. Nothing like adding the feeling of additional square footage without having to build one more inch on!
The new bar area gives added storage and function, and beautiful new lighting (recessed, under-cabinet lighting, as well as dramatic decorative pendants) makes everything sparkle...
A change in the upper cabinetry allowed for the microwave to be elevated and free up valuable counter space….
And a new table and chairs, as well as a neat-o new rug beautify the eating area. The original sideboard remains but looks completely different now with its new surrounding accents.
In the family room area, I wanted to create a resonance with the kitchen's decorative elements. A new rug, lamps, pillows, and artwork pull everything together and create a welcoming place to spend time and put your feet up...
It is always fun to find the little things that are such a delight and add so much to the finished product. Things like the perfect mugs...
or the most lovely plates to adorn the table...
I think Cisco approves of all of the changes. We based the color palette off of his handsome good-looks after all!


text: I was never a big fan of Moleskine notebooks. They always seemed so damn precious and overpriced with their pretentious history printed inside and that fancy-dan knicker elastic to keep your place. But someone gave me one for nothing a couple of years ago, and since it was free I used it. A lot. And I have to admit I ended up liking it. Almost enough to actually pay for the next one.


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26 April 2012
Technology VS. Friendship
Technology is our friend or is it frenemy? I have returned from vacation. Like most vacation travelers, I have returned with pictures. Like most vacation travelers, I have returned with 3 good pictures and 162 pictures that look like crap. (See above.)
Before I left on vacation, I had the opportunity to pull out an old Polaroid camera from an unopened desk upstairs. I had hunted it down because a company named Impossible (with a twee backwards "p") is making film for Polaroid cameras. Impossible (again with that twee "p") is a good name for it. For those of us not born in THIS century, we may just remember Polaroid cameras. Truth be told, not a one of them ever made a picture worth saving. (I know, you have a whole album just chocked full of glorious Polaroid photos. I am sure it sitting in your attic with the still in box, original Barbie Doll -- wait, your mother threw away that Barbie Doll, your book of baseball cards, AND...your album of glorious Polaroid photos. OK, I believe in Santa...send them along or post them on your site and we will have a exhibition.)
But I digress, so, before leaving on vacation, I downloaded all the cool, hip, retro, I have an iPhone, apps to take vacation pictures. I did not, however, really learn how to shot with them before I left.
The good news is...there is no cost to DEVELOP hipinsatpix.
The bad news... there is no cost to DEVELOP instacoolhipsterprints.
That means that there is nothing...nothing to stop you from taking 165 vacation photos that suck. And...(and here is the bad part for you, my gentle readers) nothing to keep you from sharing them with others.
In fact, I believe there is an app for that. Be forewarned!
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On October 20, 1994, the Improving America's Schools Act (P.L. 103-382; 108 Stat. 3518) became law.
It significantly revised the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It was the last major alteration of the law before the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Below is a copy of the law as enacted—it is not the statute from the U.S. Statutes At- Large.


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Review by Chris Geidner
Rating: (2 out of 5)
Sunday, 10/16/2011, 2:45 PM
Feature presentation, $12 at Navy Memorial Heritage Center
Arabic and English with English subtitles
OUT LOUD HAS the feel, script and performances of a run-of-the-mill "gay film" from the 1990s. Generally, that would be a very bad thing in 2011. The saving grace of Out Loud is that it is an important film that shows by its presentation alone that the world continues to move toward inclusion of LGBT lives and, however slowly, understanding of LGBT issues.
Samer Daboul's film – set and filmed in Lebanon – is tough to get through at parts. Many of the characters seem, at times, to be playing simplistic parts that push over into caricature. Some scenes present unclear motives or objectives for those characters, or present questions that are never resolved. And, sometimes, the acting is downright bad.
But the overarching theme – that loyalty born of familial love, whether by blood or by choice, is stronger than hate and intolerance – comes through loud and clear.
The first commercial Lebanese feature-length film to explore homosexuality openly, the relationship between Rami (Ali Rhayem) and Ziad (Jean Kobrously) is as touching as any of the delightful gay relationships present in those '90s gay films. But, the ever-present danger that they face because of their relationship's still-taboo nature in Lebanon somehow makes the few tender moments that the viewer sees between them all the more intimate – and moving.
Ziad, who was in the military, first appears in the movie after his relationship with Rami already has been the topic of much discussion among the other characters – several of Rami's straight friends (who each has his own unique character attribute) and Nathalie, a woman who one of the straight men meets online and invites to join them. In addition to being the love interest for all three straight men, she also provides an outlet for Rami to discuss his relationship with someone other than his straight male friends.
As the six celebrate a birthday, there is a moment when, beneath the table, Ziad and Rami hold hands in a private moment. It is a simple moment, easily taken for granted in most 2011 movies. But, here, that moment is a real spark of change in the world that minimizes the importance of the filmmaking flaws present in the movie.


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After over 225 submissions from all over the East Coast and South East, our esteemed jury of eight Charleston artists have narrowed down the competitive field to just three fabulous finalist which will receive partial staged readings of their works at our 6th annual Playwrights Festival on Saturday June 24th. One of these three works will win the chance of having their play receive its world premiere at our 2018 Play Festival next year.
A String Between Man & The World
by Paige Zubel
The Playwright:
Paige Zubel is a recent graduate of the University of Houston where she received her BFA in Playwriting and Dramaturgy. She is an internationally produced playwright, with notable productions in her hometown of Houston, TX ($12.50/Hour, Sunday Flowers), New York City (In Full Bloom, Gel Us, The Pull of the Moon), and Scotland (Under Covers). Her plays and prose have been published through One Act Play Depot, Every Day Fiction, and Hashtag Queer. She is currently a Literary Intern at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. See more at paigezubel.com.
The Play:
Miles Alloway appeals for his release from a mental health facility to a board of unseen doctors (the audience). He claims his admittance to the facility was all one big misunderstanding; he's not really crazy. His story of how he came to be there grows wilder and wilder, from timelines that don't add up, to government conspiracy theories, to a revelation on God himself. Ultimately, unbelieved, Miles breaks. We're left wondering if he really is insane or if maybe--just maybe--everything he said could be true.
Mrs. Harrison
by R. Eric Thomas
The Playwright:
R. Eric Thomas is an award-winning playwright, humorist and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia. His most recent play, Time Is On Our Side, was the recipient of two Barrymore Awards including Best New Play and was named a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. He writes a daily humor column for Elle.com in which he "reads" the news. In addition to ELLE.com and ELLE magazine, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, W Magazine, Man Repeller, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine and more. rericthomas.com
The Play:
Mrs. Harrison is about two women and one story. At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Is this the first time or has it just been a long time. They can't agree. Aisha is a black, successful playwright; she's on the cover of the alumni magazine. Holly is a white, struggling stand-up comedian; she's here for the free drinks. They both have a story that they've been telling themselves about what happened all those years ago and they're both willing to fight for the truth in the present.
Giant Box of Porn
by Patrick Flynn
The Playwright:
Patrick Flynn is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and webseries creator based in Washington, D.C. His series I Live With This won Outstanding Series and Outstanding Writing at the 2012 L.A. Webfest. His series Long Distance Relationship took home Bronze at the 2016 TIVA-DC Peer Awards. The Capitol Fringe production of his play Giant Box of Porn was hailed by The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and was named "Best of Fringe" by DC Metro Theatre Arts. His plays have been part of the DC Source Festival, the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival, Bethesda Play-in-a-Day, DC One-Minute Play Festival, and New York Fringe. He is a 10-year veteran of the 48 Hour Film Project and has received several awards including Best Film for his short For Whom the Whistle Blows. His first book Visual Literacy: A Practical Text on the Analysis, History, and Creation of Visual Media is available from Kendall-Hunt. He is a professor at American University's School of Communication and host of a podcast about original cast albums called The Original Cast available on iTunes.
The Play:
Young couple Ron and Kate return home to find a giant box of porn in their living room. This comedy explores life's most important questions: What kind of burglar breaks in and leaves porn? Is it okay to buy baby paraphernalia just because it's on sale? And, most importantly, who still has a VHS player?


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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Jon Watson <address@hidden> wrote: > All, > > I have been playing with two simple flow-graphs in gnuradio-companion, one > for dbpsk transmitter and other for dbpsk receiver. The transmitter > flow-graph is: > > vector source -- > packet encoder -- > dpsk modulator -- > uhd: usrp sink > > The receiver flow-graph is: > > uhd: usrp source --> low-pass filter --> dpsk demodulator --> packet decoder > --> file sink > > The vector source is given a vector {10,20,30} as input, repeat is set to > "yes"; in the packet encoder, samples/symbols is set to 8, bits/symbols is > set to 1 (because dbpsk scheme is to be used), pad for usrp is set to "yes" > and payload is set to "0"; in the dpsk modulator, samples/symbols is set to > 8 and all other parameters are left unchanged. > > At the receiver, I use matching/appropriate parameters inside the dpsk > demodulator and low-pass filter blocks. And the sampling rate is set to be > 1M Sps on both transmitter and receiver. > > Now, the issue is that I do not receive any decoded symbols in the file > sink. Previously, when I was running the two flow-graphs on two computers > with Ubuntu 11.04 and gnuradio-3.4 on them, everything was just fine, but as > soon as I have upgraded the OS and gnuradio to 11.10 and 3.5 versions, I do > not get anything in the file sink. > > Could someone provide a suggestion in this regard? > > Thanks. > Jon Jon, I'm not sure why this would change between 3.4 and 3.5, but my guess is that it's something to do with the frequency offset, which tends to be the biggest problem with these things. I've attached a GRC example that runs what you want in a loopback simulation (you need gr-qtgui installed for this). It looks good here, but I haven't tried going over the air. This was just to make sure the data and everything were passing through the algorithm blocks correctly. Try figuring out what the frequency difference is between your two USRPs (to about 100 Hz or so) and correct either the transmitter or receiver to more closely match them up. Also, when you were using 3.4, were you using UHD or libusrp(2)? Tom
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The village of Chipman was founded in 1835, and was made up of portions of the older parishes of Brunswick and Canning. The first settler in what would become the Parish of Chipman was Alexander McClure of County Tyrone, who arrived in 1820 with his wife, Mary McLeod and their five daughters. Earlier settlements upriver at Gaspereau, and downriver at the Range, existed prior to 1820, consisting of local settlers and Maine businessmen who established the first sawmills on the Salmon and Gaspereau Rivers. Immigration to the Chipman area escalated rapidly in the 1820s through the 1850s, with the large majority of new arrivals hailing from the northern counties of Ireland, in particular: Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone. The rapidly growing lumbering and sawmill industries were the primary impetus for this growth, which continued through most of the 19th century. The Parish of Chipman quickly became prominent because of its large population in comparison with the surrounding parishes, aided by the lure of employment from the burgeoning lumber mills, the coming of the railways, the development of the coal mining industry, and later in the 1930s, the establishment of L.E. Shaw's brick and tile plant.
The first census, taken pre-Confederation in 1851, has not survived. The 1871 census, taken the year the first sawmill was established in Chipman proper, showed that the parish contained some 1,765 people. Compared to the nearby parishes of Brunswick and Cambridge, this was 1,315 and 267 more residents, respectively. By the late 19th century, Chipman and its surrounding area boasted several lucrative lumber mills, large company stores, shipyards, a large scale coal mining industry, covered bridges, a bank, a grocer, a hospital, a cheese factory, a post office, a grist mill, several churches, schools and other businesses, and a passenger and cargo railway. By 1881, the population had maintained itself, and the census recorded numbers of 1,772. Throughout most of the 20th century, Chipman also benefitted from a coal mining boom.
Despite its prosperity, economic growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was insufficient to provide employment for all the population at a time when families typically produced several children. As a consequence, Chipman experienced its own exodus of surplus labour force, particularly young men who had gained valuable experience in lumbering and milling. Chipman-area natives became pioneering founders of the embryonic sawmill industries in Montana, Washington State and California, as well as leading businessmen in other ventures in the new western U.S. territories and states.
Chipman maintains a peaceful, rural setting while offering year-round recreation, community events, and easy access to all needed services.
Historically, Chipman's industrial base was grounded in forestry, coal and brick. The tradition continues with the ultra-modern facilities of J.D. Irving Woodlands Ltd. and Grand Lake Timber Ltd, which process much of the abundant local timber, which is still the main focus of the area's economy.
Chipman is centrally located, a hub to the major cities of Fredericton, Moncton, Saint John and Miramichi.
But what makes it really special is its fine people and outstanding community spirit.


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Sometimes it's hard to keep track of which countries the US is at war with, or to guess who might be next. Without understanding the global picture, morons often believe the justification for each war individually: Afghanistan was because of 9/11; Iraq was about WMD; Libya was about protecting civilians… and so on.
Last week's Economist magazine (a great read if you haven't tried it) included a handy little table showing known oil reserves by country. Surprisingly (for morons anyway), the table correlates tightly with US foreign policy. As well as the bar showing the absolute number of barrels, the number on the right shows how much longer the oil will last, based on current rates of extraction.
A key statistic here is the size of the US reserves: only 11.3 years of home-produced oil left. Given that the US is hopelessly addicted to oil, and is by far the world's largest consumer, it becomes easily understandable why America spends so many dollars (and military lives) on securing those territories that have most of the remaining oil.
Let's run through the top ten countries in the list:
- Saudi Arabia: the US maintains a conservative Islamic dictatorship with a terrible human rights record. The presence of 5,000 US troops in Saudi Arabia led to the 9/11 attacks (15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi).
- Venezuela: as every moron knows, Hugo Chavez is an evil dictator. Except in reality he's been elected repeatedly in free and fair elections. In 2002, the Bush Administration attempted (and failed) to have Chavez removed in a military coup. America can't tolerate a democratic regime outside its control sitting on 200bn barrels of oil – watch this space.
- Iran: they're trying to make nuclear weapons! And the free world can't have that, can we? Iran's last democratic government was toppled by a CIA-backed coup in 1953. Sorry Iran, we simply can't afford to let you have democracy.
- Iraq: over 100,000 civilians and 4,780 US troops have been killed to secure these 100bn barrel reserves.
- Kuwait: a US "ally" like Saudi Arabia (meaning a dictatorship backed by US military). Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 triggered the first US Gulf War).
- United Arab Emirates: another US "ally" (two of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE).
- Russia: these reserves are probably beyond US military reach. Sorry America!
- Libya: we're only bombing to defend the poor civilians, honest! (On the other hand, civilians in Syria, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and elsewhere will just have to look after themselves).
- Kazakhstan: borders both Russia and China. Perhaps this reserve partly explains the long-term US presence in nearby Afghanistan.
- Nigeria: a country corrupted almost beyond repair by its large oil reserves. Other West African countries such as Ghana are also finding large amounts of oil. Watch out Africa, China and the US like the look of your oil!


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Survey of turf experts unearths little-known benefits, common misconceptions, developing trends
(HIT) – Grass Seed USA, a national coalition of grass seed farmers and academic turf specialists, found consensus among academic experts about the benefits of a natural lawn. In an annual qualitative survey of the nation's leading authorities on natural turf, Grass Seed USA identified four consistent themes including how lawns enhance communities, its environmental benefits, common misconceptions on water and fertilizer usage, and the dawn of drought-tolerant grass.
Enhanced Sense of Community
First, experts like Thom Nikolai of Michigan State University agree that, "maintained lawns provide a sense of community, belonging and pride, and therefore, enhance self-respect." He cites a study performed in Flint, Mich., in which residents were found to interact more with their neighbors and felt safer when the lawns of abandoned homes and lots in the neighborhood were mowed weekly.
Environmental Benefits Abound
Turf experts are in agreement that a natural lawn is good for the environment: it's one of the most efficient and inexpensive ways to control erosion, and it aids in fighting pollution. "Dense, well-established turf will prevent wind erosion of soil as well as solid erosion when it does rain," says Brad Parker of Rutgers University. The extensive root system of a thick lawn effectively absorbs rainfall and virtually eliminates any runoff.
John Stier at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has found that consumers assume that lawns contribute to pollution. "In fact," he says, "multiple studies show that lawns can actually reduce urban runoff and soil and water pollution, as well as help to capture compounds that would otherwise contribute to global warming." A lawn of just 50 square feet effectively captures carbon dioxide and releases enough oxygen to meet the needs of a family of four.
Ease Back on Care
As Clint Mattox of Oregon State University notes, "lawns are often unjustly thought to need a great deal of water and pesticides just to survive." Most survey participants indicated that consumers tend to use more water, fertilizer and other treatments than are required. Overwatering is one of the biggest downfalls, and lawns need a thorough watering just once or twice a week. Depending on their variety and the climate, lawns may need fertilization only once a year, but it's important to confirm a schedule with a turf expert at a local garden store.
The Future of Grass
Finally, as new varieties of grass are developed, drought-tolerant varieties are among the most highly anticipated in the industry. Mattox explains that, "The breeding of new varieties of salt-tolerant and drought-tolerant grasses will allow consumer lawn owners to benefit from the advantages of a home lawn while actively participating in fresh-water conservation."
About Grass Seed USA
Grass Seed USA is a national coalition of grass seed farmers and academic turf specialists with a wealth of experience in studying, growing and harvesting grass and grass seed. The coalition seeks to inform and educate residential and commercial customers about the benefits of grass and best practices for responsibly growing and maintaining healthy turf. For more information, visit www.weseedamerica.com, or follow on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest.


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A Ravenna woman has pleaded guilty to a low-level felony charge in connection with a police raid on her residence after a methamphetamine lab was discovered there in August.
Megan L. Myers, 30, of 825 Cleveland Road, recently pleaded guilty to permitting drug abuse, a fifth-degree felony, before Portage County Common Pleas Judge Laurie Pittman. Sentencing is pending a pre-sentence investigation.
Myers remains free on bond on the condition she remain a Portage County resident while her case is pending in court.
Myers was indicted by a Portage County grand jury in August on five felony drug manufacturing and child endangering charges that could have sent her to prison. Instead, it is likely she will receive probation or minimal jail time at sentencing.
Myers, Bruce L. Riley, 30, and Natalia N. Ellis, 26, were arrested after a Ravenna police officer and a caseworker from the Portage County Department of Job and Family Services went to Myers' residence on Aug. 9 to conduct a welfare check on children living there.
The agency had received a complaint that methamphetamine was being "cooked" inside the residence, according to Ravenna police.
Myers let the caseworker and the officer inside, and they found chemicals typically used to manufacture methamphetamine inside the house, along with some of the finished drug, police said.
Riley and Ellis, who also were living in the home, also were arrested.
Four children belonging to the two families living in the house were exposed to the chemicals and drugs and officers removed them from the home for their safety, according to Ravenna police.
Riley and Ellis are scheduled to go on trial on four felony drug and child endangering charges apiece in Pittman's courtroom on Tuesday, Nov. 20.
Follow Dave O'Brien on Twitter at @RCCrimeWatch. Contact this reporter at 330-298-1128 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tips on Becoming a Top Amazon Reviewer
Tell a Story
Everyone likes to hear a good story--especially if your story involves the product or book being reviewed. Put your experience into play and help the reader learn from your experience.
Make the Story Brief
The idea is, to provide interesting information quickly. While some background information is helpful, do not ramble on; the viewer is not interested in your life story. Some of the most effective reviews are only about one page long.
Make the Story HELPFUL
Your review most provide cogent, useful information. It has to be relevant, and it has to be correct. The best stories are both interesting and relevant to the product.
If you are reviewing a "how to" book, such as a diet plan, explain how you tried the author's recommendations--even if they didn't work out. If you are reviewing a gadget, explain how you tried the product in some interesting way that showcases its value (or illustrates its limitations.)
Maybe you have found some huge defect--or better yet, a way to fix the defect. One well-received gadget review I wrote was for a hose water timer. The product had broken after one season, which was bad, but I knew how to fix it. I took a few photos of the part, and how to fix it, and put those in the review. Many readers voted for my Review of Hose Timer, and some even wrote comments appreciating the fix.
Read the Other Reviews
This might not seem obvious, but this is an important step. Read the other reviews on that product to make sure you haven't overlooked some big flaw or unusual feature.
Naturally, if you see some unusual notes by other reviewers, check the information yourself. I once reviewed a kid's R/C car, which was dreadfully slow. Another top reviewer had praised the speed of the same car! After a few emails, the other reviewer admitted he got the car mixed up with another car.
Correct Mistakes
Sometime or other, you will make a mistake in your review. I have made mistakes on more than one review. Yes, it was indeed embarrassing to admit that the soccer socks did actually fit, when I had just assumed they were way too big (they weren't.)
Hone your reviewer skills--especially your writing skills. If you are a poor writer, it is unlikely you will be a good reviewer. Read lots of other reviews by highly-rated reviewers. See how they do it.
It will not be a quick and easy journey to a top Amazon reviewer--but it is possible. By concentrating on quality content that helps the reader make a decision, you will have a good chance of seeing that Amazon "Badge" next to your name soon.


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Kate Upton is a prominent American model and actress who is known best for being a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model. Kate was born Katherine Elizabeth Upton on June 10, 1992, in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. She is of American nationality and white ethnicity. She was born to parents Shelley and Jeff Upton. Her mother Shelley was a Texas state tennis champion while her father was a high school athletics director. Kate Upton family has various elite personalities. Her great-grandfather was the co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation while her uncle was a U.S. Representative. Kate Upton family moved to Melbourne, Florida where she spent most of her childhood days. Upton attended Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy.
Career, Net Worth and Salary
Kate Upton began her modeling career by joining EliteModel Management in 2008. Eventually, she went on to sign with IMG Models. In 2011 she went on to appear in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue after which she was seen in many of its issues. She has appeared in magazines like LOVE, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and more. She has worked for many high-end fashion brands like Victoria's Secret, Express, Bare Necessities, Guess? Sam Edelman and Bobbi Brown. She has appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine many times. Kate was seen in the 200th anniversary of Vanity Fair. She modeled in the advertising campaign of Game of War: Fire Age.
Apart from her career as a model, Upton has also appeared in many films like Tower Heist, The Three Stooges, The Other Woman, The Layover and The Disaster Artist. She appeared in an episode of Saturday Night Live. Also, she has been seen in various episodes of Tosh.0, Sports Illustrated: The Making of Swimsuit 2012, GTTV Presents MLB 2k12 The Perfect Club and Lip Sync Battle.
Kate Upton net worth is estimated to be $ 20 million which has made her one of the highest paid models in the world. Kate Upton net worth has been amassed from her huge salary of $ 7 million annually.
Personal Life
Kate Upton dating history shows that she was in a relationship with Detroit Tiger baseball player Justin Verlander. The couple got engaged in 2016. Kate Upton married Verlander on 4th November 2017 in Tuscany, Italy. Kate Upton affair with other of her boyfriends has not been quite significant. She does not have any children till date. Kate Upton married in 2017 and also got herself a boxer named Harley the same year. Naked pictures of Kate Upton were leaked on the internet in 2014 along with various other celebrities.
Height and Weight
Kate Upton has a body measurement of 38-26-37 inches from the breast, waist to hips which result in an apple shaped figure. She has a shoe size of 8.5 and a dress size of 6. Upton has a bra size of 34D. She stands tall at the height of 5 feet 10 inches and has a weight of 66 kgs. AskMen ranked her third in their Top 99 Women for 2013 list. She has also been on Maxim's Hot 100 list numerous times.
Wiki and Facts
Kate Upton wiki shows that she has been the recipient of many awards and nominations. She has won a Style Award Model of the Year in 2013 and a People Magazine Awards People's Sexiest Woman in 2014. She has furthermore been nominated for Teen Choice Awards and MTV Movie Awards. Kate Upton wiki and details are available on various social media sites. Kate Upton bio is available on Wikipedia and IMDB.


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A good Vantage Point and a Long Lens
"Dad, the light is great. You should get out there with your camera". As you can tell she is a great help in getting me away from my computer and house tasks. The words were spoken this past Sunday evening and I hurried out there. I picked one of my favourite spots with a great view of Vernon close to where we live. As it turned out my choice of focal length was my 300mm lens paired with a 1.4x tele converter giving me a focal length of 420mm. The images are captured with with a Canon 5D Mark III.
Link to more photos from: Vernon and The Okanagan


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Not content with turning the IRC into a circus of ARGanauts, Zoey now seems intent on taking on the rest of the world with her " Juggling For World Peace" movement. Watch out Resistance, there is a new game in town! And its name is Zoey.
From the creative mind of Jeromy Barber we bring you a World Fiiiiiirrrrrrrsssttttttt............
"Joggling For Word Peace"
Heja puts her own spin on Juggling for World Peace (watch at you own risk:)
Monday, September 3, 2007
Juggling for world peace
Posted by modelmotion at 3:37 AM
Labels: Juggling For World Peace, Zoey Rocks
2 comments:
zoey, what the hell is the point of all this?! The only way we can get "world peace" is if we kill all the British People ahahhahahahahahahhaha!
- August 12, 2008 at 2:18 AM
- Liza said...
Good words.
- November 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM
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This was a good dance choreography video to start the morning off with enjoy and have a great day.
Dance Studio
Pitbull Celebrate- Dance choreography by LaurenDance Choreography, Dance Instructor, Dance Music, Dance Skills, Dance Studio
This was a pretty dance choreography video. There was a lot of high energy in this song. Just feel good vibes. Enjoy the video you might learn a thing or too.
Dance: Freestyle Dance HallCreative Dance, Creative Director, Creative Express, Dance, Dance Choreography, Dance Skills, Dance Studio, Dancers, Dancing
This is a Dance Choreography video that I found while surfing the web. This video was pretty good as the performer put a lot of passion and energy into the performance…its amazing to mean the type of music that speaks to people at different times. Well enjoy.
Jerkin Music 2015Choreography, Dance Music, Dance Performance, Dance Skills, Dance Studio, Dancing, Jerkin, Jerkin Dance, Jerkin Dance Music, JErkin Footork, Jerkin Footwork, Jerkin Music, Jerkin Sound, Jerkin Success, Jerkin Team
This is another jerkin music mix that I created or remixed up a little. So jerkers and footworkers of thee world enjoy. That's all.
Red Cafe – All Night Long – MywayGroove – Dance Centre MywayChoreography, Creative arts, Creative Express, Creative Music, Dance, Dance Studio, Underground
Once again these kids in Kiev are getting it. Check the video out and see for yourself.
DJ ZEBO – Rowdy Arabia choreography by Anya Guarana –Choreography, Dance, Dance Skills, Dance Studio, Fancy Footwork, Hiphop Dance, Kiev, Timing, Ukraine
Found another video from Dance Centre Myway in the Kiev of Ukraine. These girls are amazing. Amazing. Gotta give it up. Great is Great. Enjoy.


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Tomorrow is the big day and YES you still can purchase tickets for our
Spring Fundraising Gala!
Stop in or purchase at www.athensartsgallery.com!
Spring Fundraising Gala!
Stop in or purchase at www.athensartsgallery.com!
Friday, April 25, 2014 5-9pm
Now's your chance to help GROW THE ARTS and CULTURE
in Montgomery County!
in Montgomery County!
Our theme this year is draped in Grecian dress…Ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city in the 5th century. The capital and largest city of Greece, Athens was the height of its cultural achievements. Known to be the center of the arts and learning and sometimes referred to as the cradle of Western Civilization.
"Known as the Athens of Indiana since the early 1900's for its culture, progressiveness, and abundance of nationally known writers, Crawfordsville today still embodies many of these same qualities. Two of our most treasured cultural amenities are the Lew Wallace Study, where the famed Civil War General wrote the novel Ben-Hur; and Wabash College, an all-male private liberal arts college founded in 1832." (http://crawfordsvillechamber.com/)
Growing the Arts and Culture
Guests will be entertained with artistic surprises at Athens Arts 5-7 pm before moving to the Crawfordsville Country Club for a creative dining experience.
The evening's festivities include Silent Auction with Buy-it-Now opportunities.
Guests will be entertained with artistic surprises at Athens Arts 5-7 pm before moving to the Crawfordsville Country Club for a creative dining experience.
The evening's festivities include Silent Auction with Buy-it-Now opportunities.
Thank you to our Current Sponsors!!!
• Title Patron - Art League of Montgomery County with special thanks to Dept. K and Groups H, I, J, & L
• Benefactor - Crawfordsville Main Street
• Curator - Wabash College
• Curator - Jon & Anne Dantzig
• Curator - Eli Lilly & Co. Foundation, Inc.
• Curator - In-Kind Crawfordsville Country Club
• Director - Elizabeth Justice, Attorney at Law
• Director - Halter Ferguson Financial, Inc.
• Director - Diane Hammill
• Director - Chris Bouwkamp State Farm Insurance
• Director - Cindy and Jerry Smith Green Street Gallery
• Director - Jackson Hewett Tax Service #2377
• Director - Crawford Industries, LLC
• Director - Nucor Sheet Mill-Crawfordsville
• Director - Johnson Williamson Insurance
• Director - Gregory H. Miller, Attorney at Law
• Director - Aaron Morgan, Morgan's Glass & Paint
• Director - J. M. Thompson Insurance
• Director - In-Kind Smartpig Recording and Sound
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Featured Artist
Karen Patton
Opening reception April 11, 6-8pm
For the last ten years Karen has had the desire to paint a series of paintings on gateways, windows and doors. Doors and gateways represent our desire to see what is on the other side if we should we choose to enter. What adventures will happen to us if we risk entering? Will it change our lives? Will we see things in a different way? What does the architecture of an entryway say to the viewer? Is it inviting, intimidating, awesome or threatening?
"I hope you are as excited about the paths in your life as I have been in mine and are willing to go through that door." - Karen Patton


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- Improves overall flexibility and balance.
Improves your skin's elasticity and tone.
Improves blood flow and circulation.
A great detoxifier.
Boosts your natural endorphins.
Improves digestion.
Increases your metabolism.
Burn calories, resulting in weight loss.
Builds muscle strength.
Alleviates stress, promoting relaxation.
Alleviates pain.
Improves concentration and focus.
Aids in meditation.


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BRASILIA, March 27 (Reuters) - Brazils securities regulator on Thursday suspended the offer of shares of telecommunications company Grupo Oi SA saying its chief executive officer Zeinal Bava had breached a mandatory quiet period ahead of the offer by making comment to the press.
The suspension will last 30 days, the Securities and Exchanges Commission said.
The planned combination of Oi and Portugal Telecom advanced earlier on Thursday when shareholders of the Brazilian carrier approved a capital increase that will facilitate the merger. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle. Editing by Andre Grenon)


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Saw Paul Begala in front of the Loews Madison Hotel.
Updating the list.
Updating the list.
The division of labor is the essence of civilization, the underlying source of practically every good thing about the material conditions of the modern world. It is why civilized countries do not have famine any more, why we are surrounded by technological wonders, why things like air travel and mobile phones go from being restricted to millionaires to being ho-hum over a short course of years. Most of the technological ingredients for the Industrial Revolution had been in place not only in Britain but in Spain, France, Italy, etc., for years. But British subjects and American colonists had the opportunity and the inclination to begin a finer and more robust division of labor than did their European counterparts. They were just a little bit more free — and a little bit more determined to be free — and that little bit made an incalculable difference, not only to them, but to the world.
I mentioned last week that the president has taken to filibustering, to long, rambling answers in planned sit-down settings—no questions on the fly walking from here to there, as other presidents have always faced. The press generally allows him to ramble on, rarely fighting back as they did with Nixon. But I have noticed Mr. Obama uses a lot of words as padding. He always has, but now he does it more. There's a sense of indirection and obfuscation. You can say, "I love you," or you can say, "You know, feelings will develop, that happens among humans and it's good it happens, and I have always said, and I said it again just last week, that you are a good friend, I care about you, and it's fair to say in terms of emotional responses that mine has escalated or increased somewhat, and 'love' would not be a wholly inappropriate word to use to describe where I'm coming from."
When politicians do this they're trying to mush words up so nothing breaks through. They're leaving you dazed and trying to make it harder for you to understand what's truly being said.
In October, Clinton was campaigning, with characteristic futility, for Martha Coakley, the losing candidate for Massachusetts governor, when she said:
"Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs."
Watch her on YouTube. When saying this, she glances down, not at a text but at notes, and proceeds with the hesitancy of someone gathering her thoughts. She is not reading a speechwriter's blunder. When she said those 13 words she actually was thinking.
When the jihadists stand and fight, as they have done in the northern Syrian town of Kobane, they get pounded. U.S. officials estimate the jihadists have lost 400 fighters in that battle.
When the American rebels stand and fight, as they have done in the Battle of Long Island, they get pounded. Crown officials estimate the rebels have lost 3,000 fighters in that battle.
Haters insist that Humanities majors graduate with no marketable skills. But what about the ability to bullshit?
I just need to meet a girl who smells of campfires and whiskey.
Politics is slow drilling through hard boards. It is a series of messy compromises. The core functions of government are negative — putting out fires, arresting criminals, settling disputes — and much of what government does is the unromantic work of preventing bad situations from getting worse.
It has been 25 years since teachers and students at Cranbury Elementary School buried a metal time capsule behind the school's main building, in ground now overrun by the root network of a tree that is flush with late spring greenery. [...]
Though they couldn't retrieve the original time capsule because of the position of the tree, parents, teachers, students and administrators last Friday afternoon celebrated the school's 50th Anniversary by burying a second time capsule -- this one made of plastic -- on the Cranbury grounds.
"This pragmatic liberalism," Mumford writes, "was vastly preoccupied with the machinery of life. It was characteristic of this creed to overemphasize the part played by political and mechanical invention, by abstract thought and practical contrivance. And, accordingly, it minimized the role of instinct, tradition, history; it was unaware of the dark forces of the unconscious; it was suspicious of either the capricious or the incalculable, for the only universe it could rule was a measured one, and the only type of human character it could understand was the utilitarian one."
A Florida developer interested in remaking the shuttered Revel Casino Hotel told Reuters his vision for the empty Atlantic City property includes a university that would ideally be attended by students who are "white and over 21."Next sentence:
Glenn Straub made the incendiary remark, which was his way of describing someone with no financial obligations, during a larger interview about his ambitious plan for the vacant property, Reuters reported.
Despite his unsavory comment, his $90 million bid remains on the table.Now, it is unambiguously clear where the reporter stands. FLG is fine with that, but the language at the beginning is trying to keep it objective, only at the end does the reporters personal feelings get outed.
There's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed and smoke weed all day and watch cartoons and old movies. I could easily do that. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid and outwit that guy.
in an MRI study of cortical volumes Kennedy et al. found normal sex differences in the parietal lobe, but although left and right hemispheric measurements were obtained, the authors did not specifically examine sex-by-hemisphere interactions (Kennedy et al., 1998). As sex-based asymmetries in the IPL have not previously been examined, we thus made the following hypotheses: (i) males have greater total IPL volumes compared to women, (ii) males have larger left versus right IPL volumes and (iii) males have larger left IPL volumes compared to women.
If you can find the people who generate alpha, and convince them to give you some of it, then that's great. If not, probably stick to indexing.
it appears that technical abilities are highly valued among recent graduates, which explains why a student who graduates from an engineering program at California Institute of Technology will likely be better compensated, at least up front, than a Harvard graduate with an English degree. It also seems that those specialized skills offer a comparative salary edge for only a handful of years before that advantage begins to dissipate--and the salary benefits of a holistic, liberal arts education begin to catch up.
Enter the "nano-degree." If you can't "disrupt" education through innovation, the thinking goes, just downsize it so much that it becomes training for just one task that a particular company wants at one particular moment.
We've seen this many times before in American history. As I recently pointed out in Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, Booker T. Washington wanted to help ex-slaves acquire practical skills so they could become self-sufficient after the Civil War. And around the time of World War I, chambers of commerce and labor federations united to back legislation for a dual secondary educational system. According to that plan, some young people would be trained for specific jobs, while others would get a broad education allowing them to continue their studies in college. The movement led to the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 to finance vocational instruction.
Those who opposed this vocational turn certainly realized that people needed skills to get jobs. But they also realized that this kind of tracking would only exacerbate social and economic inequality. As John Dewey wrote, some of us "are managers and others are subordinates. But the great thing for one as for the other is that each shall have had the education which enables him to see within his daily work all there is in it of large and human significance."
Education should aim to enhance our capacities, Dewey argued, so that we are not reduced to being somebody else's tool. "The kind of vocational education in which I am interested is not one which will 'adapt' workers to the existing industrial regime; I am not sufficiently in love with the regime for that."
This is what Udacity is missing in its willingness to tailor its program to the existing industrial regime's immediate needs. "You'll learn skills that match industry demands," the company promises on its website. "With the credentials to prove it." Fiona M. Hollands of Teachers College Columbia University voiced cautious approval, telling the Times: "We still need rounded people, which you can't get through mini-certificate courses. But we also have an economy to run here." Those who make the most lasting contribution to the economy, however, will be the "rounded people."
It is important that this point should be clearly understood. A particular study may be useful to the literature of a people without being appropriate to its social and political wants. If men were to persist in teaching nothing but the literature of the dead languages in a community where everyone is habitually led to make vehement exertions to augment or to maintain his fortune, the result would be a very polished, but a very dangerous set of citizens. For as their social and political condition would give them every day a sense of wants, which their education would never teach them to supply, they would perturb the state, in the name of the Greeks and Romans, instead of enriching it by their productive industry. It is evident that in democratic communities the interest of individuals as well as the security of the commonwealth demands that the education of the greater number should be scientific, commercial, and industrial rather than literary. Greek and Latin should not be taught in all the schools; but it is important that those who, by their natural disposition or their fortune, are destined to cultivate letters or prepared to relish them should find schools where a complete knowledge of ancient literature may be acquired and where the true scholar may be formed. A few excellent universities would do more towards the attainment of this object than a multitude of bad grammar-schools, where superfluous matters, badly learned, stand in the way of sound instruction in necessary studies.
She was surprised to see the stubborn power of politeness over time. Over time. That's the thing. Mostly we talk about politeness in the moment. Please, thank you, no go ahead, I like your hat, cool shoes, you look nice today, please take my seat, sir, ma'am, etc. All good, but fleeting.
One way to be polite is by not touching people unless they specifically invite it.And perhaps this is where the politeness versus charm divide is so striking. FLG thought of the passage from Primary Colors about the handshake:
The handshake is the threshold act, the beginning of politics. I've seen him do it two million times now, but I couldn't tell you how he does it, the right-handed part of it—the strength, quality, duration of it, the rudiments of pressing the flesh. I can, however, tell you a whole lot about what he does with his other hand. He is a genius with it. He might put it on your elbow, or up by your biceps: these are basic, reflexive moves. He is interested in you. He is honored to meet you. If he gets any higher up your shoulder— if he, say, drapes his left arm over your back, it is somehow less intimate, more casual. He'll share a laugh or a secret then—a light secret, not a real one—flattering you with the illusion of conspiracy.If politicians are anything, they're charming. And then there's the Pick-up Artist community, which while not concerned with charm in the traditional sense or for its own sake, is on the other side of the not touching people divide:
Short for kinesthetics, "kino" is PUA language for light touching in order to get a lady in the mood.
The person with the higher status uses the word "I" less.
FLG found this fascinating because, just the other day, one of his newer coworkers was drafting an email to a very senior financial executive and asked FLG to review before sending. FLG's comment was to drop as many "I"s as possible. Sounded too submissive.
We use "I" more when we talk to someone with power because we're more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves — how we're coming across — and our language reflects that.
Here is some market intelligence for you: Don't insider trade in short-dated out-of-the-money call options! Come on.
It's hard to see how anyone gets out of the euro without at least a deep local crisis, and quite possibly another round of global crises, as the chain reaction melts down markets around the world.
That doesn't mean that it won't eventually happen; I still think this remains a real risk. But if it does, public officials will probably be denying the possibility right up to the bitter, unpleasant end.What makes McArdle's post interesting is that even though the creation, continuation, and dissolution of the euro is fundamentally political issue, it doesn't mean there won't be economic and financial pressures on and consequences of those political decisions. FLG brings this up because it's easy to be confused, and many people are, that the euro is an economic issue because of this interaction.
Like Israel, Singapore can mobilize a force that can defeat any of its neighbors.
President Obama is impatient. Congress won't act on immigration, he says, and therefore he will.
We're at the crest of a swelling wave of nostalgia for vast corporate bureaucracies, which are easier for vast government bureaucracies to heavily regulate without driving them out of business entirely.
When the government abolished the need to annuitise, it was hailed as a great populist move. I worried at the time that this was a mistake; annuity rates are low because bond yields are low and people live longer. If people think that they can beat what is, in essence, the risk-free rate, they will have to take risk. And who will they blame when the risk goes wrong and they run out of money in their late 70s, as will inevitably be the case for some people? Not the independent advice centre, one suspects
All through your army career you men have bitched about what you call 'this chicken-shit drilling.' That is all for a purpose—to ensure instant obedience to orders and to create constant alertness. This must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who is not always on his toes.
I don't want any messages saying 'I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. We're advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding anything except the enemy's balls. We're going to hold him by his balls and we're going to kick him in the ass; twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all the time. Our plan of operation is to advance and keep on advancing. We're going to go through the enemy like shit through a tinhorn.
"The women of America . . . are saying it: It is not our boss's business, it is our business what kind of health care we need"
12) What if my employer says it has a sincere religious belief in human sacrifice -- can he kill me?
Yes. If your employer has a deeply held religious belief in human sacrifice, they can strap you in a cage, reach into your chest with their bare hands to pull out your still-beating heart, then drop the cage into a fiery pit. It's a tough break, but from time to time, the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots. Sorry about that.
The naive reading of that chart is: "We have a lot of institutional investors and very limited predatory trading in our dark pool." But the correct reading of the chart is: "We have software that allows us to produce this chart." The chart is a perfectly self-referential object, demonstrating only that the chart exists. The chart is a chart of how much chart there is.
Overall, we found no evidence that the use of grammatical violations in text messages is consistently related to poorer grammatical or spelling skills in school students.
This is the sort of thing that drives me nuts. Of course "smaller investors are being penalized." They're being penalized all the time, in everything that they do. They get worse research, worse service, worse allocations, worse customer perks, worse everything. There are volume discounts on bonds, as there are on most things in life. Is this unfair? I really don't care.
The SEC's job is to regulate the financial markets. One way to approach that job would be to put a priority on optimizing market efficiency and stability. Another way to approach it would be to put a priority on protecting retail investors and preventing two-bit frauds. Obviously both are good but one is more important. If you think about bond market structure in terms of protecting the little guy, you will make one set of choices; if you think about it in terms of providing a stable liquid platform for massive flows of capital, you will make a second, probably somewhat different, set of choices. The second set of choices is probably right.
Russ: Well, when you are steering the car, you dowant to know the GPS (Global Positioning System) to be very accurate. You want to get a measurement every second. So, the more often, the better. Guest: Well, the more often, the more often you are going to be very badly wrong. Because the short run data are just too unreliable. What those data are useful for are really to give you much more of a long run verdict. Which system is better: a system based on individual rights or a system based on technocrats and dictators? And there I think the long run evidence is very conclusive. The gigantic reductions in child mortality have come mainly in free societies, and not in autocratic societies. It came much earlier and much bigger in free societies than they came in autocratic societies. That's what I think the data is telling you. And so the data is really weighing in on this big debate that Bill Gates is completely ignoring and avoiding, about: Is the autocrat of Ethiopia actually a big part of the solution to development in Ethiopia? Or is he actually a part of the problem? I think the big long-run picture says he's actually part of the problem, not the solution. Russ: Well, we had an episode with Morten Jerven on the unreliability of data, often--in the long run and in the short run. So, one of my concerns is that in many of these poor countries, data collection--it's not so great in the United States sometimes. So in a wealthy country that has lots of resources-- Guest:Yeah. But it's not just the long run and the short run. You can't equate the two. The great saving value of the long run is that no matter how big the measurement error is--and it is very big--but if it's just unbiased and just sort of fluctuating up and down even by a large amount, over the long run that tends to average out. And so you do tend to get a more accurate measure even with measurement error when you go to longer run data. That's one thing this book really insists on repeatedly, is that to really get the right evidence for what's working in development and what's not. You really need to go very long run and not over-react to kind of short run episodes of improvements in either development or child mortality or whatever. Those are just really not reliable. But the long runis reliable.----------------------------
In the old days, we did not know what the central bank was up to, and it was easy to believe that it had access to information of which we are not aware. Now it publishes all the numbers and we can see it's often wrong. Dorothy has found out that the Wizard of Oz is an old man behind the curtain.
I see a social revolution that has brought good and bad, intermixed, and whose supporters could profit from the realization that some of the human goods they seek are actually more clearly visible behind us, somewhere back in a cultural past they still insist they're fighting to overthrow, whose actual details the darkness of forgetting has almost swallowed up
Oh I see. So Pax World Gender Analytics will subjectively rate companies on their commitment to women, Pax Ellevate Management will then choose a list of the companies that Pax World Gender Analytics rates highly, Pax Ellevate Management will give MSCI that list, MSCI will call that list an index, and Pax Ellevate Management will then invest its index fund in that index.
we will not, as others urge, enter nuclear bunkers and live as mole people
one of the most fundamental yet still under-appreciated truths of human existence, which is this: everyone is totally just winging it, all the time.
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
It happens every semester. A student triumphantly points out that Jean-Jacques Rousseau is undermining himself when he claims "the man who reflects is a depraved animal," or that Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for self-reliance is in effect a call for reliance on Emerson himself. Trying not to sound too weary, I ask the student to imagine that the authors had already considered these issues.
In campus cultures where being smart means being a critical unmasker, students may become too good at showing how things can't possibly make sense. They may close themselves off from their potential to find or create meaning and direction from the books, music and experiments they encounter in the classroom.
there not only shouldn't be constraints on human desires, but the only constraints are economic and the present state technology. Both of these are theoretically rectifiable. It lends to the idea that the eventual and proper state of human life is one with no constraints on human desire. Therefore, any constraint is by definition an obstacle to be overcome.
I agree that the 77 cents on the dollar is not all due to discrimination. No one is trying to say that it is. But you have to point to some number in order for people to understand the facts. And what it represents is the fact that women on average are put in situations every day that for a variety of reasons mean they earn less. Much of what we need to do to close that gap is to change the constraints that women face. And there are things we haven't tried.
Microsoft, to take one example, wastes so much money getting into new businesses looking for growth that FLG thinks shareholders would be better off just milking Windows and Office and call it a day.A recent piece on Marketplace about how Facebook is transforming into a venture capital/holding company makes FLG think this might be a uniquely and especially problematic issue with regard to tech companies:
Victor Hwang, CEO of T2VentureCreations, a Silicon Valley Venture firm puts it this way: "On Wall Street, the biggest fear is missing the numbers, not making earnings. In Silicon Valley, in the startup world, the biggest fear is obsolescence. Because obsolence is the equivalent of death."
It's not clear from the data why women might be more sensitive to grades than men are.
"Maybe women just don't want to get things wrong," Goldin hypothesized. "They don't want to walk around being a B-minus student in something. They want to find something they can be an A student in. They want something where the professor will pat them on the back and say 'You're doing so well!' "
"Guys," she added, "don't seem to give two damns."


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I must say I went into tonight thinking that no one but Phil Stacey could pull off a Bon Jovi song... and if the truth be told, I was probably right.
Let's get right on down to it, shall we? My throat is hurting like the dickens - whatever that is - and my benedryl just kicked in. Yeehaw.
Phil - Rocked. The. House. Seriously, he could NOT have picked a better song. I KNEW that he was gonna kick some butt tonight. He has pipes. He gets my award for most improved contestant. Most everyone else peaked WAY too early... but not Phil. He waited until just the right moment (which, imho was "Every Breath You Take") to pull out the big guns and join the competition for realsies. I like this guy. He's nice. He loves his wife and kids. He's a Christian. And boy, can he sing. (Funny: Abbey watched with me for the first time all season. She said "He's good, but he screamed that last part." I said he didn't. We got into a mini-argument about it. Tee hee.)
Jordin - Is that Sanjaya? What the...? Ohhhh, we're halfway there... Whoa-oh, Jordin's now living on a prayer. Her singing that song was so dang uncomfortable, I wanted to fast-forward through it. I haven't had that urge since Scott Savol and Anthony Federov were in it. It just wasn't good. That's 2 weeks for Ms. Sparks. I think she has enough fans to push her above Lakisha and Chris... but you never know at this stage in the game.
Lakisha - My first thought with Kiki was "What the heck is she wearing????" And then she said she didn't want to sit so people could see her slimmer side. Honey. No. Now, I have no room to talk... but come on. Not a flattering outfit. She sang the song better than any she has in awhile... but for Simon to kiss her? He slaughtered Phil - which was highly uncalled for, I might add - and was giddy that Lakisha sang well. Blah. Too little too late, I say. She should've been singing like that the past 2 months.
Blake - I was sooo nervous going into his song! Jon Bon Jovi made it seem like he was going to do the polka or something. I actually liked it, but I want to go back and watch it again because I was so scared of what he was going to do, I couldn't enjoy it. It was original. By FAR the most original thing anyone has done on Idol ever. Yes, he was very pitchy throughout the song... and yes, his stamina seemed to slip towards the end. BUT... he pulled it off. I say, kudos to Blake for having some guts.
Chris - I was a little scared for Chris tonight. He has such a pinched voice, and Jon Bon Jovi's is so open... I had no idea what he was going to do. Now... let's get something straight. If Lakisha wants to resurrect Carrie Underwood and Fantasia, then whatever. But for Chris R to attempt a song that Chris Daughtry rocked out on last year? Not his smartest move, I was thinking. Here's the deal. It wasn't horrible. SOME of it was even original and good. But when he would sing "ALIVE" from the back of his throat... I wanted to claw my own eyes out! (I'm hormonal, can anyone tell?) Project and focus that sound, Chris! Cover the vowel a little, for heaven's sake. Don't that have a vocal coach? Anyway, hopping down off of my soap box... definitely not the worst of the night. That spot belongs to Jordin, unfortunately. Until...
Melinda - I didn't dare to predict what song Melinda was going to sing... I just knew she would give it her all and make it her own. I was not wrong on that... I just didn't love it. She tried. She really did. Worst Bon Jovi song to pick, I think. That didn't help her. The section of the song where she was dancing back to back with that awkward guitarist was just straaaaange. Aaron walked in during that part and we had a good laugh. That guy was trying so hard to be cool and it just wasn't working. Melinda looked more "rock" than he did, if that tells you anything! As always, it's hard to pick on her voice... except that I didn't think it fit the song at all.
Here is my ranking for tonight's show:
1) Phil
2) Melinda
3) Blake
4) Chris
5) Lakisha
6) Jordin
Who SHOULD go home? (Remember it's TWO this week!) Chris and Lakisha
Who WILL go home? I honestly have no idea.
Love to all!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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Can daily news headlines be used to accurately predict movements in the stock market? This is the challenge put forth by Jiahao Sun in the dataset featured in this interview. Jiahao curated the Daily News for Stock Market Prediction dataset from publicly available sources to use in a course he's teaching on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing and share with the Kaggle community.
In this open data spotlight, Jiahao talks about why sharing the dataset on Kaggle's open data analytics platform makes sense as a teacher, some of the great benchmark predictions made by Kagglers so far, and whether he really thinks it's possible to use daily headlines to create an effective trading algorithm. As a researcher and engineer with experience in founding AI startups, he is an active proponent of open source platforms and communities like Kaggle's Datasets. Opening up his dataset to invite creative approaches and new ideas from data scientists on Kaggle was thus a natural move.
Getting started
Can you tell us about yourself and a little bit about your background?
I am a researcher and also an engineer focusing on Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. After graduating from the University of Oxford, I joined Entrepreneur First, Europe's best startup incubator (well, at least I think so). During my time in EF, I founded my first startup trying to build an AI for social media marketing. After that, I joined a FinTech company as their Chief Data Scientist focusing on AI solutions for credit risks. Experiences in startups really brought me a deeper view of how the newest academic research can be applied in industries. That is also why I am very active in open source platforms and communities. Recently, I was headhunted by the innovation lab of a high-street bank in the city of London. Thus, I am now very interested in financial innovations (and data).
In terms of community contribution, I am very active on Kaggle, GitHub, Stack Overflow, etc. I am also a lecturer at JulyEdu (http://www.julyedu.com) teaching Deep Learning and its cool applications.
Deep in the data
What motivated you to share this dataset?
The idea of using news feeds to predict stock market movement is not something new. My master's thesis was based on this idea as well. It was easy for me to get free and high quality data when I was in an academic institution. However, there are rarely free lunches for real-life industries. Most news providers do not want to open their data resources. Instead, they charge expensive monthly subscription fees to their "premium" clients.
I really do not want a fantastic idea to be turned down only because people cannot afford to pay for the data.
I really do not want a fantastic idea to be turned down only because people cannot afford to pay for the data. Hence, I tried to look for alternatives in public domain. Luckily, there is Reddit, where people discuss and re-post news everyday in certain channels. Thanks to Reddit's crowdsourcing power, we can now (well, it is still tricky to work with reddit's API) get these expensive data in a free and legal way.
How are you using the dataset to teach your students (and Kagglers!) about natural language processing and deep learning?
First of all, this dataset sounds cool. People get excited when they think they can predict the market (although it is rarely practical in the real market by using simple algorithms). However, essentially, it is still a typical NLP problem: textual classification. Textual news data will be the input, and stock movement becomes a classification label. I used this dataset in a course called deep learning in natural language processing to teach my students solve this problem by using deep learning algorithms, such as CNN.
Do you have recommendations to other educators who may be interesting in using the open data platform for teaching or research?
Yes, of course. In an open data platform, educators can get feedback from not only their students, but also the whole community. New ideas will come out when people are talking and sharing together. I am a strong supporter for open data. That is also why I open my data on Kaggle.
How did you collect and clean the data?
Well, it is a bit tricky. I can write a tutorial about it later. (Dont worry, there is no illegal crawlings)
The community
Tell us about your favorite kernel (so far!) made using the data
Andrew Gelé is very good. He wrote a very detailed solution, which is very useful for beginners.
Likewise, most of current kernels are using very fundamental solutions (in other words, import XXX solution). I know, simple solutions are still working given the complexity of this dataset, but my expectation is that people can apply more complex theories to this problem, i.e. Facebook's newly released FastText. I am going to have a course teaching how to use FastText to play with this dataset.
What's the most interesting insight you've learned about using headlines to predict the stock market?
"Don't daydream":P
Many students and friends tell me that their algorithm performs good in this dataset, but not really useful in the real market. Well, of course. First, you really need a very scientific evaluation method, such as cross validation. Otherwise, when you think you are tuning your algorithm to a certain dataset, you are actually falling into overfitting trap. Secondly, there are only 8 years' daily news-stock data, which is roughly 2500 data points and is definitely not enough for any serious evaluation process. Last but not least, in real market, news data represents only one dimension of the world. A better solution is to put multiple data sources from different dimensions.
How would you like to see the data used by your students and other data enthusiasts?
Try whatever you want!
Thoughts on open data
In what ways do you see easy access to open data like the dataset you've shared changing the world?
As I mentioned before, some datasets are really expensive. Of course, I never support for those who leak copyright data. That is not politically right. However, I am in favor of using open and legal alternatives to get around the barrier. It will be a shame if a promising project is turned down because of expensive datasets. Therefore, ideally, while premium users paying for premium datasets, open platform contributors could provide similar quality alternatives. This is still a healthy ecosystem, where everyone is happy.
If you could make any other data freely available for analysis, what would it be?
Things that can excite people.
Jiahao Sun is a researcher and engineer focusing on Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence as well as financial innovations and data. He is active in open source platforms and communities such as Kaggle, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. He is also a lecturer at JulyEdu teaching Deep Learning and its applications.


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WBUR Poll: Coakley maintains lead in Democratic primary
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Last but not least from our new poll for WBUR, the governor's race. Attorney General Martha Coakley is still far ahead of her Democratic rivals, with 51 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary. Her closest competitor is State Treasurer Steve Grossman, but with only 7 percent, he is barely the other three candidates in the field. Thirty percent of potential Democratic primary voters remain undecided.
Coakley's margin over Republican Charlie Baker is 9 points, down somewhat from previous polls. Baker has gained in some demographics but still trails Coakley by 20 points among women, a key voting bloc in recent statewide elections.
Apart from Coakley and Grossman, the other Democratic candidates in the race continue to suffer from a lack of name recognition among voters. Some lesser-known candidates have likened their efforts to those of other outsiders like Elizabeth Warren and Deval Patrick, but as we have noted previously, both Warren and Patrick had much higher name recognition and favorable ratings at this point in their first campaigns than Juliette Kayyem, Don Berwick and Joe Avellone currently enjoy.