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Tulu Nadu
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Tulu Nadu
The erstwhile district of South Canara is the core of the Tulu speaking region called Tulu Nadu.
|Coordinates: 13°00′N 75°24′E / 13.00°N 75.40°ECoordinates: 13°00′N 75°24′E / 13.00°N 75.40°E
|Karnataka, Kerala
|Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasaragod
|Largest city
|No. of districts & Talukas
|3 District and 16 Taluk's
|• Total
|10,432 km2 (4,028 sq mi)
|• Total
|• Density
|356.1/km2 (922/sq mi)
|• Official
|Kannada and Malayalam
|• Spoken
|Tulu, Konkani, Kundagannada, Beary
|Time zone
|Telephone code
|0824, 0825
|ISO 3166 code
|Vehicle registration
Tulu Nadu or Tulunaad, is a region in India where the Tulu language is predominantly spoken. The Tuluva — a Dravidian people — are the dominant ethnicity in this region. The erstwhile district of South Canara is the core of the Tulu speaking region. The Old South Canara district is currently divided into Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala. This region is not an official administrative entity but there has been a movement in the region demanding statehood for Tulu Nadu within the framework of the Republic of India. Mangalore, Udupi and Kasaragod are its important cities.[3][4][5]
Alupa dynasty
Ptolemy, the 2nd-century geographer identifies the Tulu Nadu region as Olokhoira which is widely believed to be a corruption of the term Alva Kheda, 'the land of the Alvas'.[2] Historically, Tulu Nadu included the two separate lands of Haiva and Tuluva.[6] The longest-ruling and oldest known native dynasty of Tulu Nadu was that of the Alupas (c. 5th - 14th century C. E.).[7] Their kingdom was also known as Alvakheda. They initially ruled independently and later were the feudatories of the prominent dynasties. The Kadamba dynasty of Banavasi was the earliest, under which the Alupas flourished. Later the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, Chalukyas of Badami, Chalukyas of Kalyani, Hoysalas of Dwarasamudra (Halebidu) and Rayas of Vijayanagara were the overlords. The Alupas, however, were independent and their subordination was nominal at best. They ruled until the Vijayanagara Empire took control of Tulu Nadu from 14th to the 17th centuries.
During the rule of Vijayanagara, Tulu Nadu was administered in two parts – Mangaluru Rajya and Barkuru Rajya. Tulu Nadu was the original homeland of the dynasty that founded the Vijayanagar Empire based in eastern Karnataka. Tulu Nadu was governed by the native feudatories of the Vijayanagara Empire until the 18th century. These feudatories gained power towards the end of the Alupa period.
Notable among them were[7] the Chowtas of Ullal and Moodabidri (c. 1160-1801 C.E), Ajilas of Venur (c. 1418-1800 C.E), the Savanta or Samantha Rajas of Mulki (c. 1411- 1700), the Bhairarasa Odeyas of Karkala (c. 1240-1650 C.E), the Tolaharas of Suralu (c.1139-1800 C.E), the Bangas of Bangadi (c. 1410-1800 C.E.), the Rajas of Kumbla (c. 12th century - 1800 C.E) and the Rajas of Vitla (c. 1436-1800 C.E).
The region became extremely prosperous during the Vijayanagara period with Barkur and Mangalore gaining importance. After the decline of the Vijayanagara Empire, the Keladi Nayakas of Ikkeri controlled much of Tulu Nadu. Over the following many centuries, more ethnic groups migrated to the area. Konkanis from Goa arrived by sea, as Mangalore was a major port that served not only the Portuguese but also the Arabs for maritime trades. Jains were already a prominent group and even today are uniquely preserved in Tulu Nadu. Though small in number, the Jains left behind indelible reminders of their glory with temples (bastis) in (Moodabidri) and monolithic statues of Bahubali in Karkala, Venoor and Dharmasthala. In the 16th century, there was a large influx of Catholics to Tulu Nadu from Goa. The Muslim community of Tulu Nadu were Arab traders who married local women and settled there. Some came from Kerala. They speak the Beary dialect, which is a mix of Tulu and Malayalam, and the others speak Urdu.
Under Portugal, the region was called the Misao do Sul (Mission of the South). In the 18th century, it was conquered by Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore. After the British defeated Haidar's successor Tipu Sultan in 1799, the region was attached to the Madras Presidency before being reverted to the state of Mysore after independence. Mysore has since been renamed Karnataka. At the end of the 18th century, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan controlled the region. Mangalore played a prominent role in Tipu's battles with the British. The British gained full control in 1801, after Tipu's death in 1799. The British ruled the region with Madras (now Chennai) as its headquarters. Tipu conquered the region and the British conquered it from him. Under the British, the region was organised into the districts of North Canara and South Canara respectively.
When the states were reorganised on linguistic basis in 1956, Tulu Nadu (South Canara) which was earlier a part of Madras Presidency and North Canara which was a part of Bombay Presidency became part of the newly formed Mysore state, which was later renamed as Karnataka. Kasargod became part of the newly formed state of Kerala. The Tuluvas began demanding official language status for Tulu and a separate state named Tulu Nadu for themselves. Organisations like the Tulu Rajya Horata Samiti have taken up the cause of the Tuluvas and meetings and demonstrations were held at towns like Mangalore and Udupi to voice their demand.[10][11]
According to the 2001 Census of India, the population of the region was 3,005,898.[3] The majority of the population in Tulu Nadu are Tuluvas, Other native ethnic groups include Kannadigas, Konkanis and Bearys.
The most widely spoken Language is Tulu which belongs to the Dravidian family of languages, and whose native speakers are referred to as Tuluva. The number of Tulu speakers was estimated to be about 1.7 million in 2001,[13][14] although some sources quote as many as 3 million.[15] The other languages spoken in Tulu Nadu include Kannada, Malayalam, Konkani, Koraga and Beary.[15]
The Tigalari script, bears partial similarity to the Grantha script. It was used by Tuluvas for centuries before it was eventually replaced by the Kannada script. Most Sanskrit works and Tulu classics are present in this script, with a few in other scripts. This script was used by Brahmins.[16]
Geography and climate
Tulu Nadu lies along the Konkan Coast.[17] Tulu Nadu is bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea and on the east by the Western Ghats. Tulu Nadu spans an area of 8,441 km2 (3,259 sq mi), roughly 4.4 per cent of the total geographical area of present-day Karnataka.
Tulu Nadu also experiences heavy rainfalls during Monsoon season. The coastal area of Tulu Nadu is very rich concerning rainforests and backwaters. The region has a tropical climate; summer and winter months experience similar temperate conditions, with average temperatures ranging from 24 °C to 33 °C.
The Yakshagana is a night-long dance and drama performance practised in Tulu Nadu with great fanfare.[19][20] Pilivesha is a unique form of folk dance in the region fascinating the young and the old alike, which is performed during Marnemi (as Dussehra is called in Tulu) and Krishna Janmashtami.[21] Karadi Vesha (Bear Dance) is one more popular dance performed during Dasara in Tulu Nadu.[22] Daiva Kola (Spirit worship), which is usually done at night is practised here. Kambala (Buffalo race) is conducted in water filled paddy fields. Korikatta (Cockfight) is another favourite sport for the people. Nagaradhane (Snake worship) is practised in the Tulu Nadu according to the popular belief of the Naga Devatha to go underground and guard the species on the top.[23]
Udupi cuisine is popular across South India, mostly due to Udupi restaurants, which are primarily vegetarian. Apart from Southern India, there are famous Udupi Hotels in Mumbai and New Delhi too.
Historically, Tulu Nadu was primarily dependent on agriculture and fishing. The main crops grown were rice, Bengal gram, horse gram, vegetables and fruits. Plantation crops like coconut, areca nut, cocoa, cashew nut, and pepper are also grown. In the early 20th century, the Mangalore tile industry, cashew nut processing, and the banking industry grew substantially. Tulu Nadu is called "the cradle of Indian banking".[24] Five major banks of India (Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, Corporation Bank, Vijaya Bank and Karnataka Bank) have their origins here.
|Founded by
|Canara Bank
|Shri Ammembal Subba Rao Pai
|Karnataka Bank
|Vijaya Bank
|Shri A B Shetty
|Syndicate Bank
|T M A Pai, Upendra Pai and Vaman Kudva
|Corporation Bank
|Khan Bahadur Haji Abdulla Haji Kasim Saheb Bahadur
In the early part of the 21st century the area has been transforming itself into a hub of the information technology and medical services industries. There has been large-scale decline in agriculture and related industries due to the non-availability of labour and preference for white-collar jobs. Agricultural land is being converted to commercial and real estate properties, and environmental pollution is increasing drastically due to large-scale deforestation and increase in automobile use. A public sector petroleum refinery (MRPL) was established in the 1990s. Some chemical plants (e.g., fertilizers and pesticides) have been established. This region contributes the second highest revenue to Karnataka state after the city of Bangalore. This region has an international airport at Mangalore which is well connected to the rest of India and middle eastern countries. New Mangalore port (NMPT) is one of the major port of India located at Panambur, Mangalore.[30]
Tulu Nadu is the most prominent Educational Hub on the western coast of India. There are hundreds of professional colleges in Tulu Nadu. Thousands of students from all over India and countries abroad study in these institutions. Mangalore and Manipal are the major cities that accommodate these students. National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK, Surathkal, owned by Central Government) is ranked as one of the best engineering college in Karnataka and is one among the top ten engineering colleges of India.[31] KMC Manipal is one among the top ten Medical Colleges in India and stands at sixth position[32][33]
See also
- ^ "Tourism in DK District". National Informatics Centre, Karnataka State Unit. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
- ^ "Tour to Udupi". Tourism of India. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
- ^ a b c "Census GIS India". Census of India. Archived from the original on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
- ^ http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/tulu-nadu/
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Tulu Nadu, Kasaragod, Kerala, India | Kerala Tourism". www.keralatourism.org. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ a b Bhat, N. Shyam (1998). South Kanara, 1799-1860: A Study in Colonial Administration and Regional Response. Mittal Publications. pp. 17–45. ISBN 9788170995869. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "Tulu Nadu: The Land and its People by Dr. Neria H. Hebbar". Boloji. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Brahmins of Tulu Nadu - MADHWA SAMAJAM KOLLAM". sites.google.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "News headlines". DHNS. 21 October 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ "Tulu organisations to meet soon". The Hindu. 6 March 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ "ScriptSource - Tulu (Tigalari)". scriptsource.org. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Census of India - Statement 1". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009), "Tulu", Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.), SIL International, retrieved 12 November 2009.
- ^ a b D.N.S. Bhat (1998). Sanford B. Steever (ed.). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge. p. 158. ISBN 0-415-10023-2.
- ^ Dr. K Padmanabha Kekunnaya. "Tulu Language and Script - Shivalli Brahmins". Shivalli Brahmins. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ Lozupone, Patsy; Beehler, Bruce M.; Ripley, Sidney Dillon (2004). Ornithological gazetteer of the Indian subcontinent. Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International. p. 82. ISBN 1881173852.
- ^ "Madhvacharya | Udupi Philosopher | Personalities". Karnataka.com. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Yakshagana". SZCC, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2007.
- ^ Plunkett, Richard (2001). South India. Lonely Planet. p. 53. ISBN 9781864501612.
- ^ Stanley G. Pinto (26 October 2001). "Human 'tigers' face threat to health". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Stephen D'Souza. "What's in a Name?". Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd Mangalore. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Nagarapanchami Naadige Doddadu". Mangalorean.com. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/15944/12/12_chapter%204.pdf
- ^ "Canara Bank :: About Us :: Profile". www.canarabank.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ "Welcome to Karnataka Bank Ltd". www.karnatakabank.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ "Vijaya Bank". www.vijayabank.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ "Syndicate Bank- ourprofile". www.syndicatebank.in. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ "History | Corporation Bank". www.corpbank.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ Gavin Shatkin (14 August 2013). "Chapter 10 : Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City". Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-29584-7.
- ^ "NITK Surathkal - Info, Ranking, Cutoff & Placements 2016 | College Pravesh". College Pravesh. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Top ten Medical Colleges of India". Tack-in.com. 31 July 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Top Medical Colleges in India". Knowurcollege.com. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
Further reading
- Bhat, P. Gururaja (1975). "Studies in Tuluva history and culture: (from the pre-historic times upto the modern)". Cite journal requires
External links
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Money Smart Week® @Your Library (April 2-9, 2011) and ID Theft Resources
Posted by Robert J. LackieThe American Library Association (ALA), the Federal Reserve, and I hope that many librarians and their libraries are participating in the first ever national Money Smart Week® @Your Library this week, April 2-9, 2011! Money Smart Week (a registered service mark of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) events are taking place now at member libraries across the country covering topics from learning how to apply for a mortgage to teaching young people about credit to ID theft protection, with many resources uploaded to the Money Smart Week® @Your Library official site, linked above. Visit this site for information on this initiative and for news and important links you can use this week, right now!
Additionally, Rider University's Center for Business Forensics (CBF) has hosted several free interactive panel presentations for the general public (students, staff, community members, etc.) and law enforcement personnel focusing on the major issues surrounding identity theft—including financial literacy—and providing insight into the widespread, varying, and serious nature of identity theft.Dr. Drew Procaccino, a professor of computer information systems at Rider, has organized and led these Identity Theft: What You Need to Know sessions with panels of experts from law enforcement, banking, legal, library, IT, CIS, and health care organizations. As a panelist several times and as a new member of the American Library Association's Academic MSW@Your Library Committee, I want to again provide everyone with some frequently repeated "best practices" from the panel experts for detection and protection, especially since this week (until April 9, 2011), we are officially celebrating the 10th year anniversary of Money Smart Week. Here are the 10 best practices/advice from our panel of experts at Rider's CBF sessions:
1. Shred with a crosscut or micro shredder pieces of mail that contain any personal information before throwing them in the trash at home or at work.
2. Place outgoing mail and retrieve incoming mail via a locking mailbox or official Postal Service box.
3. Use a virtual credit card number (available through most banks) for online purchases, rather than your "real" credit card—connected to your card, the virtual number can be set up to only be used once, for that one online purchase (or for longer, but only if you wish).
4. Keep an eye on your credit card when you are paying for something—don't allow it to disappear out of your sight (skimming of your card could occur).
5. Inventory/photocopy what is in your wallet/purse and place that photocopy (back and front of cards) in a locked cabinet—if your wallet/purse is stolen, you have all the info.
6. Never respond to an unsolicited email from your bank, medical organization, etc., and don't unsubscribe—don't even click on the link, just delete it.
7. Cover the ATM keypad from prying eyes and cameras with one hand while you enter your PIN.
8. Review your credit reports (you can get a free one each year from each of the three credit reporting agencies, and if you stagger requests, you can get one every four months).
9. Clear private data from your browser (i.e., Firefox, IE, or Safari): delete temporary files, browsing history, cookies, cache, saved form information, and saved passwords, especially when using a public computer or kiosk at a library, hotel, airport, coffee shop, etc., and then shut down your browser.
10. Use different passwords for different sites—and try changing/updating your passwords to passphrases.
Last but least, my annually-updated free website, Personal Profiles and Other Publicly Available Information: An Internet Hotlist on Detecting and Protecting Your Digital Footprint, contains some of my favorite ID theft protection, privacy information, and financial assistance sites, among other things, found on experts' sites on the free Web, including our Identity Theft: What You Need to Know seminar project's 29-page handout from Rider University, available to all.
Remember, according to Terri Cullen, author of The Wall Street Journal Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America, ( "…Identity theft covers several different specific crimes, and collectively,…is one of the easiest crimes to commit, one of the hardest to prosecute, and one that is drawing increasing attention from the media." So, feel free to share this information with all of your patrons and students, especially because proactively protecting your digital footprint and your finances is much easier than dealing with them after the fact as a victim—being a victim can be a very emotional, time-consuming, and financially-unrewarding process. Again, prevent it from ever happening to you, and help others do the same.Anyway, I hope this all helps you during Money Smart Week® @Your Library this week, April 2-9, 2011. Enjoy partnering with and/or sharing pertinent information from your community groups, financial institutions, government agencies, educational organizations, and other financial experts this week to help all of our consumers learn to better manage and protect their personal finances!
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Hi, all. I got an email recently from an attendee of my GIMP and Inkscape workshop (which I've had the pleasure to give on behalf of a few of New Jersey's finest Library Consortiums). This attendee asked how I had performed a particular effect in Inkscape during the workshop in which I use a bit of text as a brush in order to render a portrait. An example follows:
Instead of writing out the answer in text (I myself am a visio-audio/experiential learner, and tend towards those kinds of solutions), I decided to use the question as a starting point for an entry in a daily project I've been working on at http://365sketches.wordpress.com, in which I'm trying to make a quick sketch a day in 2010 using free software to demonstrate the power of those tools.
You may want to check it out from time to time (or subscribe to the feed, if you're into that kind of thing) to get ideas for how you can use free software like Inkscape to create interesting designs for your library's fliers, posters, and other advertising materials and platforms.
If you've seen me talk on the topic of Best Practices in Design, you also know that I feel strongly that design, and tools like Inkscape, can change your life, your attitude, and your view of the world.
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Hi, everyone! One of my favorite librarians and open source advocates (Nicole Engard) just Tweet DMed me and asked if I ever shared officially the tools I mentioned in a discussion session on Presentation Tools and Techniques at Pres4Lib at Princeton Public Library. I replied no, with regrets. I figured if she's wondering about it, maybe you are too!
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I use a pretty well structured, personally vetted workflow for developing presentations and blog posts that involves developing an outline, collecting images, preparing images, research and citations. Let me share some of the tools that I use to accomplish these tasks just about every time.
Google Docs Presentations
I stopped using Microsoft PowerPoint a few years ago and have not looked back. While I would consider using the open source alternative of OpenOffice.org's presentation tool, by instead choosing a presentation tool in the cloud, I get the ability to edit and present anywhere where I'm connected, the ability to edit offline with Google Gears installed on Firefox, the common ability to add images, draw pictures, embed my slideshows (!), allow people to automatically see the latest greatest embedded versions of my presentations up to the second after I've updated them, allow for collaboration and co-viewing and if I absolutely must, export to a PDF for offline sharing and presentation disaster backup. I can even make a PPT for someone who insists on it.
I typically log in to Google Docs, create a title slide for my topic, and then immediately develop an agenda slide, which I then begin to outline with the topics (and slides) that I want to cover in my talk. My style emphasizes simple broad topics which I elaborate on in spontaneous ways. I try to keep the number of words on slides to an absolute minimum. I usually make a slide for each of my topics, and I then try to look for stories, photos, and illustrations that lead the people in the audience to start thinking about my topics before I introduce them verbally or textually.
Creative Commons vetting via Google Image Search
Google Image Search is far and away the best image search tool I've come across (with the ability to search for line art, faces, and by color, etc.), especially now, since the recent addition of the license search feature in the advanced image search tool, which allows me to search according to Creative Commons licenses applied by designers and photographers to their images all over the web. This is especially important for me because I don't just want to just use other peoples' images in my work without their consent. I want to respect the wishes of image creators. By using the license restrictions, I can quickly find images available for commercial use, images allowed to be modified, images that simply require attribution, and even images in the public domain.
When we respect the rights of creators and innovators, and celebrate others' work properly, I believe we engage in modeling important aspects of information literacy, if not common humanity.
I'll search for a topic keyword, often choosing CC-attribution licensing, which allows me the greatest flexibility with which to use the images, to modify them, use them in commercial situations, and promote creative commons licensing, while simply being required to include attributive references to the original image author. I will very often name the file locally with the name of the author of the image, in the format "by username.jpg" or "from nameofwebsitedotcom.jpg" so that I have a built in back-reference.
Once I have the images I want to use in my presentation saved to my local hard drive in a project folder, I often need to tweak, categorize, combine, title, tag, and integrate the images. While I can do this in a myriad of different utilities, tools, and applications, none of them have quite the combination of speed, comprehensive toolset, ease of use, functions, smoothness, or slickness of Google's Picasa. Once you have downloaded and installed this free tool, you can use a Google account to store images in free named online galleries and keep them synchronized for free. With the number and variety of images I work with in my design and presentation work, I am thrilled that I have Picasa to help me wrangle them all.
I use it to tag, group, move, geocode, describe, upload, tweak, collage, print, and watermark my images for presentations, design work, papers, and everything else. It is a free, versatile, and irreplaceable tool in my personal tool set.
Zotero is a Firefox extension that allows for the single click based collection, categorization, tagging, editing, and even full text storage of web based database entries, books, articles, presentations, images and other standard citable sources. The amazing thing it that it automatically recognizes and collects metadata when it is present in a form that Zotero understands. This might sound like a difficult thing for content providers to implement, but all I had to do to make my WordPress blogs compliant was to install a single metadata-providing plugin (COinS) that offers my name, the title of posts, the publication date and other automatically generated metadata in blogging to Zotero users. Other sources who provide the relevant metadata to Zotero include major scholarly databases like Ebsco, newspapers like the New York Times, online booksellers like Amazon, and blogs and wikis around the world.
If I haven't hooked you in to using Zotero yet, did I mention that with two clicks, you get properly formatted bibliographies in APA, MLA, and other citation styles? After I've visited books on Amazon and collected their data, or after I've found articles on Google Scholar and collected their data, or after I've grabbed creative commons licensed images from Flickr and collected their data, I can simply select all of them in my Zotero database, right click, and choose "Make bibliography from selected sources" which I then choose to send to clipboard, then paste right into my final slide, reference area of my paper, or wherever else I need to respect copyright or usage license. It is also a phenomenal way to meet the requirements of CC Attribution.
Number 5, QuoteURLtext (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4292) is another Firefox Extension that does one thing, but does it exceptionally well. It copies the highlighted text on a page along with the date and time, URL, and page title to the clipboard so that you can easily paste some casual piece of information (such as a tasty tech tip, a quick statistic, a delicious quotation, or a little known fact) into a slide, paper, or post without having to go so far as to reference it in APA style. It's like a casual little sister utility to the powerhouse that is Zotero.
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Finally, Zemanta (a play on semantic) is another Firefox extension that shows up in a sidebar when you are using supporting applications, such as Gmail, Blogger, WordPress, and other applications (check out their site for more). I desperately wish it worked with Google Docs Presentations, but nothing hints at that yet. Here's why I care: All of the photos, captions, tags, post story articles, and even some of the links to referential sources were all suggested, generated and placed with a single click each using Zemanta. As I type, Zemanta autoscans sources with CC licensed imagery, content, and resources related semantically to my content. Let me reiterate: As I type. All I need to do to add it to my post is simply to click. Clickety-clickety.
A pleasure to speak with you as always, I hope you learn to love these great free tools for developing your presentations just as much as I do.
John LeMasney
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Unconference? – Pres4Lib – A Review
Pres4Lib2009: Registration now Open!
Looking to hone your presentation skills, become a better speaker, or develop your training/presenting toolkit? If so, you will not want to miss the inaugural Pres4Lib Camp on June 12, 2009 in Princeton, NJ. The camp, hosted by the bloggers of Library Garden and friends, is being sponsored by SJRLC, CJRLC and the Princeton Public Library. The camp is open to anyone who works in libraries or with libraries and librarians.
Pres4Lib2009 is a presentation camp and will be conducted as an unconference. This will be a great opportunity for presenters and trainers (and those interested in presenting and training) in the library community to network and share their tips, technologies, best practices, and experiences.Highlights of the day will include two rounds of lightning talks, three breakout sessions, and a chance to witness Battle Decks in action.
A Pres4Lib2009 wiki (http://pres4lib.pbwiki.com ) has been established to answer questions about the camp, allow for collaboration and suggestions prior to the day and to record the happenings on the actual day.
Registration is limited and the cost is free, except for a nominal $25 charge to cover the cost of food (breakfast, lunch and snacks). The day will culminate with an optional dinner outing to The Triumph Brewing Company, a local favorite in Princeton.
Don't delay and register today at http://tinyurl.com/pres4lib2009
… and remember, you heard it here first at the Library Garden!
Giving Effective Presentations
Aaron Schmidt has a really great post over at Walking Paper on "How to Give a Good Presentation." It's definitely worth reading through, including many super comments.
A few months back I posted a collection of links, "Talk Good: How to Give Effective Presentations". In addition to those links though I'd like to add a few of my own thoughts to this conversation. First, let me say that I prefer to frame this as giving "effective" presentations rather than "good" ones because effective implies that you're actually trying to, well, have an effect. And I think that one of the most important elements of any presentation — the element that makes it much more likely that your presentation will be effective — happens before you've written one word or found one cool image for your powerpoint. The most important element is asking the question, "What do I want people to do as a result of seeing/hearing my presentation?"
Should your slides be graphic heavy? Text Free? Should you provide handouts? Should the presentation be posted, and if so in what form? Should additional information be included in the posting? My answer is, it all depends. I think it makes absolutely no sense to dictate the answers to these questions without first asking, "what am I trying to achieve?" The next question of course is, "and how can I best achieve it?" How you answer this question dictates your content and sequencing.
There are also many variables that will affect how you craft your presentation: Just a few variables of the top of my head:
- Who will be in the audience? Is it heterogeneous or homogeneous? Are there certain people in the audience with more influence that I would like to reach?
- How large is the audience? Will I get to mingle? Am I miked, or is it more intimate?
- What is there outlook?
- What is their predisposition to change their behavior? Are they a friendly or resistant audience?
- What is their knowledge level?
- How much time will I have to present?
- How much other information is being thrown at them (am I the main act, or one presentation of many?
- What technology tools do I have at my disposal? Live internet? Projector? Just a microphone?
- What is the room setup?
- Will the presentation, or parts of it, be archived or made available online after the fact? Do I intend this to ever be seen again?
- Is the presentation intended to be instructional? provocative? informative? heretical? inspiring? challenging?
I'm sure you can think of more variables that you've considered when crafting your own presentations. The important thing while preparing is to continually refocus yourself on what you are trying to achieve and critically evaluate the content and sequencing of your presentation to make sure everything supports and nothing detracts from your goal.
A few other ideas that may enhance the effectiveness of your presentation:
- Share your presentation with others before you do it and get feedback to see what's working and what isn't. Inevitably, you will have written things that are clear as crystal to you, but clear as mud to others.
- If it's appropriate to the presentation, try to make it as interactive as possible. Ask questions. Encourage audience members to talk to each other. Doing this early in the presentation with a provocative question can create an immediate buzz and get a lot of energy flowing.
- Conclude the presentation with a challenge or a request. Ask something of the audience. Ask them to commit to doing one thing differently.
What are your tips? What's worked for you?


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Sometimes a peaceful weekend is what you need to refresh your soul and kick your muse into action.
This morning I sat on the deck and looked at , I mean REALLY LOOKED at the poplar tree. I have "seen" the poplar many times. I had never noticed the growth pattern of the leaves. The poplar has leaves that grow in a radial pattern and make circular patterns.
I don't expect to paint a poplar tree anytime soom but sitting peacefully just really observing the common...the things you DON'T really look at can soothe the soul.
Go and soothe your soul
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Peaceful Weekend
Posted by Gene Black at 7:42 AM
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- ~jolene said...
How wise it is to STOP.
Why is it we feel "guilty" when we do?
And yet, it is in these moments when we "let it be" comfort comes to us.
We live in such a fast moving world, where even a microwave dinner seems 'to take forever' these days because our lives are so busy with 'things to do'.
To sit on the deck, SEE the tree...you just gave yourself a wonderful gift.
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Once back from Naples, I took my son on his raincheck over to one of my childhood favorites: Venetian Pool in Coral Gables on De Soto Road. Now, granted it has changed over the years – the hole in the cave that we swam through is holed up and the wonderful coral diving stand is condemned and forbidden to divers – it is still one of the most gorgeous pools I have ever been too. Set in an old coral quarry and opened as a pool in the 50s (my grandpa was one of the first midnight skinny-dippers!), it is lush in landscape (palms, mangroves, and airplants abound), it maintains a Venice-inspired look with the little bridge over the kiddie pool and the various painted gondola posts around and about. The aforementioned kiddie pool is a fantastic area that is rather narrow (probably about 4 m across) long in front of a tiled step (probably 10m long) and only 2 feet deep. This is where I first learned to not be afraid of water. Perfect for 3-5 year olds. Unfortunately, the rather paranoid management has banned kids under 3, which explains why my 2-year old daughter was not with us. It is separated from the "deep end" (5-8 feet deep) in front of the old diving platform by a island (plastered with a few tanning girls) and from a huge 5 foot pool which must be about 25m x 40m in size roughly. This is where I learned to swim (and my dad before me). The highlight of this part is the cave I mentioned earlier complete with stalactites and a small waterfall. Above this to the left, is a cascading fountain with a little 1 foot circular bath spilling then into the main pool. There is also a beautiful waterfall by the old diving area which is the widest part of the pool (maybe 60m across). All told, it is a small tropical paradise just a stone's throw from the Biltmore Hotel that I reviewed last summer. Entry is a steep $11 for adults and $6.50 for kids over 3. The lockers need to be paid for at the ticket counter and are a whopping $10 for which you get $5 back as you leave and hand in the token. There is also a sunny café in the back courtyard (with a wonderful coral fountain) but it seems to only be open on weekends. There is even a sandy beach area. It is a nice place for an afternoon and when we went on w Wednesday, there was almost no one there which was great as well. My son said afterwards that it was his favorite pool. I couldn't agree more!
While in the neighborhood, we headed to Allen's Drugstore and in particular the amazing S&S Diner. I grew up three blocks from here and used to eat a quick breakfast on the way to 2nd and 3rd grade here. It is an authentic diner serving eggs, bacon, super burgers, milkshakes and – not kidding – ice cream floats. It is a wonderful trip back to the 50s and somehow hanging on to business despite the general Miami trend of ubiquitous chain restaurants. It is located on the intersection of Red and Bird (SW 57th Ave SW 40 St). If you are in the vicinity, please head by there and keep them alive. It is a truly rare gem.


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The song was inspired at the 40th birthday party of Yoel Weiss at Tierra Sur restaurant at the Herzog Winery in Oxnard CA on 12/18/2016.
May this song bring happiness to us all this Chanukah and bring Moshiach now and in this z'chus let it be a refua shelaima for Chaya Yehudis Bas Dina Faiga!
Lead Vocals and Guitar: Moshe Storch
Backup vocals and lead guitar: Duvid Swirsky
Backup vocals and percussion: Gidon Shikler
Keyboard: Michael Bogomolny
Violinist: Chris Woods
Video and Audio all recorded and edited by the grammy award winner talented David Greenbaum
iTunes coming soon


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The regimental air defence battery in the early 1980s consisted of 4 ZSU 23-4 and 4 SA 9 Gaskin, together with some command and supply vehicles. At 1:3 this is represented by 1 ZSU 23-4 and 1 SA 9.
The second vehicle in the battery is also from S&S and is the SA9 Gaskin which was used by BMP, BTR and tank units. It was replaced in BMP and Tank units in GSFG by the SA13 Gopher from 1980 having come into service around 1978.
The open window visors on the SA 9s are made from thin plasti-card superglued in place. The S&S SA9 uses the standard BRDM 2 hull that shaun makes and an SA9 launcher which is produced in white metal.


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Verizon Wireless will open many of its 2,000 retail stores early on Friday for first day sales of the Droid smartphone, adding to the marketing hype already begun for the Android 2.0 device from Motorola Inc.
Some stores will open at 7 a.m. and others at 8 a.m. A list of stores is available on Verizon's Web site although the site doesn't say which will open earlier and advises calling the store in advance to be sure. The QWERTY keyboard slider device sells for $200 after a rebate and a new two-year contract.
Also, with Droid sales, Verizon is coordinating an unusual Times Square event in New York City this month to allow nearby voice callers to control two large digital billboards there, with some of their voice search results for nearby restaurants and attractions displayed on Google Maps on those billboards.
Google Inc., Motorola and the Verizon, the nation's largest wireless carrier, started the Droid campaign with an unusual TV ad that belittled missing features, such as a physical keyboard and multitasking, in its chief rival, the iPhone.
It's fair, then, to wonder whether first-day-of-sale hoopla and other creative (and expensive) advertising are becoming what's required to do well in the competitive smartphone world. Or maybe this kind of campaign is what's required by carriers and manufacturers who dare to attempt to catch up with the iconic Apple iPhone, which has been on the market for more than two years and is in its third version.
"No, you don't have to conduct this kind of Droid campaign to sell a new smartphone," said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at market research firm IDC today. "Look at BlackBerry, which has had some success for its devices without all the hype. But I'd say if you want to plant a stake in the ground, you do this kind of [Droid] campaign."
In a sense, Motorola has the most at stake with the Droid launch, since it has pinned so much of its smartphone future on the Android platform and a variety of new devices in coming months.
"For Motorola, this is one of the ways they get back in the game," Llamas said.
It's uncertain whether the early TV ads and other hype will generate interest and crowds on Friday, or whether the Android operating system, with its open source allure might have drawn some crowds anyway.
Llamas said he expects some crowds for sales of the Droid on Friday. "The reaction has been very positive already," he said. "It's interesting to see how much hype they are generating. When they open the doors, I would bet you'll see lines from buyers and also people who are curious and close to the end of a contract and want a demonstration."
While early hours and other gimmicks might steal a little from the slick methods of Apple Inc.'s marketers, Llamas said there's nothing wrong with "taking a page out of the playbook of somebody who's been successful."
Apple has attracted hundreds, and even thousands of customers to its stores for launches of its three iPhones, although successive versions have resulted in fewer numbers.
It might help that Apple has fewer stores than Verizon, but the iPhone is also on sale at AT&T stores, which are also plentiful. Still, even AT&T hasn't attracted the first-day crowds of Apple stores, where customers have said they feel they get more personal attention.
Verizon spokeman Tom Pica said he couldn't predict how big Verizon's crowds will be on Friday, but noted that when the BlackBerry Storm went on sale Nov. 21, 2008, there were lines in advance of the opening. One man stood overnight at the Toledo, Ohio, store to get the original Storm, with its touchscreen display.
"We're prepared for crowds for Droid," Pica said in a telephone interview. "The buzz with Droid has been bigger than the first Storm."
Pica said the "Droid Does Times Square" digital billboard event in Times Square will allow a passerby to call from any phone to a toll-free number, asking through voice commands for a nearby location, such as the nearest pizza shops. The results of that search will be displayed on Google Maps on the large Nasdaq and Reuters signs in Times Square several times a day for most of November with advertising for the Droid included.
Llamas said the marketing for smartphones, including Droid, might almost seem "strange" but could be just the kind of fun that consumers respond to in a recessionary time.
"Smartphone releases aren't just releases anymore," Llamas said. "They have become full-fledged events and I'd say a pretty good thing to have. It's kind of fun in a recession to have that kind of hype. It's like getting ready for a new Star Wars movie."
This story, "Verizon Cranks Up Droid Hype for Friday Launch" was originally published by Computerworld.


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Strategic Business Forms Enjoying Success With New A.B.Dick Equipment
Monday, November 04, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyCHICAGO, IL - Peter Mai knows about change. President of Strategic Business Forms (SBF) in Ocala, Florida, he and his wife, Sharon, started the printing company as a business forms distributorship in 1979. Sharon ran the business while Peter worked at Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, then later at Tandy Corp. Peter came on board full-time in 1990 and, like the industry and the Ocala area, has experienced many changes in the last 12 years. As business at SBF evolved with a demand for commercial printing, the Mais' have made a series of changes in their choice of equipment. But no decision was as big as the one made in mid-2002. With only 25% of their business in Ocala, they took the company to another level with the purchase of A.B.Dick's DPM2340 direct-to-plate system and 9995A-ICS twin tower portrait press. The results have been very impressive. "In most ways, this equipment has exceeded our expectations," said Peter Mai, who employs 25. "We've experienced a tremendous savings in costs with faster make-ready and turnaround times. We've also reduced our stress level since adding the DPM2340." The bulk of SBF's work is one and two-color, but that's about to change. The company won 20 awards from the Printers Association of Florida in 2001, which triggered research into CTP systems and automated presses to build the bridge for future four-color work. "Most of the direct-to-plate systems were high-priced and not proven products," recalled Mai. "We established a relationship with A.B.Dick when we bought presses from them in 1996, and we wanted a turnkey system from prepress to press. That's what the DPM2340 and the 9995A-ICS (Automated plate-loading and Ink Control System) press provides." Mai's transition from traditional to digital prepress has been seamless. With the DPM2340, Mai, pressman John Mueller and prepress manager Jim Egert, the self-proclaimed "metal plate believers", rarely use metal any more. Instead, they run paper and 8-mil polyester plates, saving the 15,000 square-foot operation $3,000 a month. "The quality is tremendous. The DPM is very consistent, the registration is great on paper or polyester, and it is very reliable. We've had no problems with its consistency. Some people we asked said the paper plates would stretch, but with the automated plate loading on the 9995A-ICS, that hasn't happened to us," said Mai. "This press makes us more productive. The registration is perfect, the automation improves productivity, and our short-run, four-color work looks great. We handle runs of 5,000 or less with two passes on polyester plates, and we are turning it faster." That is important since Mai bought the equipment with an eye on the future. He admits the company has grown comfortably into its four-color roster of work that includes brochures, catalog sheets and postcards for his vertical niche market. With small private practices and large teaching institutions among his medical clients, Mai sees greater opportunities on the horizon. "Most medical forms are one or two-color but the industry is slowly moving to electronic forms. "The automated features of the DPM2340 and 9995A-ICS can handle downloaded files. We can use the Internet to tie in our Service Center and do it for less money." A.B.Dick Company is a leading worldwide supplier to the graphic arts and printing industry, manufacturing and marketing equipment and supplies for all stages of document creation -- prepress, press and post-press -- as well as continuing service and support. For more information contact Scott MacKenzie, Vice President, Marketing, 7400 Caldwell Ave., Niles, IL. 60714. Telephone (847) 779-1900, fax (847) 647-6940, web: www.abdick.com.
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text: Patent protection goes further than the VM and programming language. Vendors who have implemented Android on their devices have been sued by Microsoft (with varying degrees of success) for infringement of patents that include the approaches to internationalisation, virtual keyboards and much more besides. If someone just reimplements the Android design in a different language, the ported code would be equally "guilty" of these alleged infringements.


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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has appointed Azeem Ibrahim as his strategic policy advisor, who would develop comprehensive policies which can be implemented as soon as Imran takes office in case of an electoral win.
Scottish-born Ibrahim, who holds a PhD degree from Cambridge University and has served as a scholar at Harvard and Yale, was named as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009 by the LSDP European Social Think Tank. He has also advised over half a dozen world leaders.
Commenting on the appointment, Imran said "We are delighted to have Ibrahim at the heart of our operation."
Ibrahim, who also serves as a Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Social Policy Understanding said: "Imran Khan's honesty and sincerity in a country where such traits are seriously lacking amongst the political elite clearly mark him out.
He further added that he was impressed by "Imran's ability to absorb complex information and immediately understand what needs to be done to take Pakistan forward in these challenging times."


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At last, a Nice Kicks video featuring someone of a similar age to myself and has similar views as myself on shoes. I couldn't agree more on Patricks views on price/quality and sheer number of releases nowadays. I don't want to come across as a grumpy old man, but it just isn't the same as it was in my day. I miss quality shoes at reasonable prices and the feeling of hitting a mom and pop store and finding a gem.
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The projection mapping "bioluminescent forest" is made by artists Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad.
The artists spent six weeks in the forest fascinated by the silence and natural occurrences in nature, especially the phenomenon "bioluminescence". They personified the forest to accentuate the natural beauty by creating luring luminescent plants and glowing magical mushrooms that speaks volumes to any visitor that enters the minds of the artists through viewing "bioluminescent forest".
More information on the project: bioluminescent-forest.com
Friedrich van Schoor: vanscore.com
Tarek Mawad: tarekmawad.com
Another shoe I foolishly slept on. I personally prefer the contrasting make up of this one from the pack. I really like the contrast of the poppy red against the black/grey, and the subtle but effective use of the speckle on the mudguard sections instead of the sole is a really nice touch.


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Winter forces us to hide within modern caves. Its bone-shattering cold and blankets of ice force us deep into dark places, nowhere to gaze but within ourselves. Deep within there is supposedly an unchanging essence that defines us as unique entities. Some call this essence a soul. Is it real? Is it eternal? Can it be rewarded or punished or born again? It's hard to say because all of these claims are impossible to prove. For the moment, let's accept the idea of a deep essence, and call it our soul.
Saying someone is without a soul is normally a great insult, for it means they are evil, doing harm to others, without redemption. Yet even by our religious standards we know this is wrong. Everyone has a soul, and it's that soul which is judged to be good, or evil.
As I sit here by the fire, watching another layer of snow blanket my yard, and sip on an extremely good IPA, my thoughts turn to a well-known tycoon. This tycoon is Warren Buffett, whom many call the "oracle of Omaha," but whom we will call simply, WB. WB appears before me an a regular basis because of his popularity in the business media. A recent Bloomberg article profiled one of his newest, and youngest, trusted advisors. This advisor was making news because she's only 29 years old. She started working for WB at the ancient age of 25, and within four years already holds the Chairman position in several companies in the WB empire. Her name is Cool.
Now Cool earned her way to this position, and has worked an extremely hard and focused life. Under her guidance weak managers have been replaced and companies that would have been ignored or jettisoned are now being properly attended to within the WB empire. The article quotes WB saying certain companies wouldn't have been bought if it wasn't for Cool. The WB empire is now comprised of many dozens of companies with a total annual revenue of 160 billion dollars. Almost any way you look at it, this is a large company.
But I'm not here to discuss the business empire; we're here to study behavior. The behavior of large groups are normally most meaningful, but we can learn something by taking out the microscope and putting the occasional individual on the slide.
What kind of person is obsessed to the extreme with accumulating wealth, building an empire, and growing only for the sake of growth? If this person was a cell in our body, we'd be worried. As a member of society, we laud them as leaders and brilliant meta-managers, even calling them "wealth creators" from time to time.
As we adjust the microscope's focus it's doubtful WB or Cool are any of these. They are popular, but are they of value to society? A proper evaluation would require an article for another day. For now, we want to see if we can zoom in on their soul and describe it.
The soul of WB is bent on conquest, is insatiable, and highly focused. His wealth allows him all his allotted hours to spend with his children and grandchildren. Yet he chooses to spend time with business associates instead. He's near death, and every moment becomes more precious than the last.
Meanwhile, Cool has been blessed with riches, power, and publicity. This seeming blessing may be a curse, for it puts her on course to value board meetings over board games with her future children. Even if she chooses to start a family, there's a good chance she'll have her children later in life, and fewer in number. The amount of time she'll spend with them will be less than average, and there's a better chance their values will be heavily influenced by material goods, superficial relationships, and an obsession with wealth.
Remember that this site strives to be impartial observers of behavior, of human nature, and unbiased scientists as much as possible. The above observations and expectations are grounded in evidence, precedence, and experience. They are not meant to be judgements; for there is no good or bad delineation here. WB is ambitious, and Cool is his protege. These are given. What we want to address is their essence. Deep inside, once all the trappings of society, technology, and the superficial layers of skin and time are removed, what is it that is left?
Not surprisingly, we are left with a soul reeking of ambition, a soul without empathy, and a soul unconnected to the rest of us. These souls are rooted in the present, solidly looking to their immediate left and right. These souls choose to ignore the past as irrelevant to their existence. They choose to ignore the future they could do so much to create. And they choose to ignore the other souls around them, not only those of their family, but of their fellow humans as well.
As souls go, these are exceptional qualities, but not uncommon. Installed in a lesser vessel, souls such as these become psychopaths, embittered divorcees, or worse. But placed in a healthy body with an extraordinary mind, coupled with a charismatic persona and then given a push by an unpredictable universe, this type of soul has been known to stamp great slices of history with their name.
The greatest of these souls was Alexander the Great of Macedon. When he began his career he was younger than WB, even younger than Cool. He charmed both his army and even the conquered across the known world. 2,350 years ago, this 20 year old sought nothing less than world domination. He would have achieved it as well, but for an errant arrow he met somewhere in today's India. Part of his charm was that he led his men into battle, being up front where they knew he was working as hard as they were, taking the same risks. Had that unlucky archer known, he would have missed Alexander. Had he missed, his city would have been conquered, an older Greek soldier would have become his Governor, and life would have continued under a new master.
As it was, this archer may have smiled for a moment as he watched the dreaded Alexander fall from his wound. What he didn't see coming was the power of the soul within Alexander, a soul that had bound his legions both in duty and love. That archer awoke the monster of vengeance within the army, and not a single defender or citizen survived. There was no life to continue under any master, and that city was lost, known to us only as Alexander's farthest reach East.
And what does the soul of Alexander, one of our greatest military leaders have in common with WB? They are the same. Nothing could stop Alexander or his army, errant arrows included. WB has not stopped his quest for growth. Which sounds more impressive? Owning a large portion of a holding company whose portfolio includes companies with a combined annual revenue of 160 billion dollars? Or conquering the world from the Mediterranean to India? There is no city named after today's tycoon, WB. Alexander founded at least 30, many of which still survive, and at least one still bears his name.
So what of the soul of WB? Is it good, or evil? Would he have been an Alexander if he'd been born 2,300 years ago? Is what he is doing good for humanity? These are all questions for another day.


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RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's IPO market is dead.
Once the hottest emerging market for initial public offerings after China, Latin America's biggest economy isn't even in the top 15 anymore. The nation's lone IPO this year – FPC Par Corretora de Seguros SA – brought in just $229 million. That's less than the amount raised in tiny markets like Poland or Trinidad & Tobago and it's not even 1 percent of the total from 2007, the very peak of Brazil's go-go days. Three other would-be issuers – all of them state-backed – have scrapped their plans to go public in 2015.
It's a dramatic turnaround for a country that was once the place to be for foreign investors seeking to take advantage of massive oil discoveries, surging agricultural exports and an up- and-coming consumer base that's the second largest in the Americas. These days, Brazilian companies are more likely to de- list than go public as a sweeping corruption scandal, a crippling recession and political turmoil wipe out $290 billion in market value this year alone.
"We've gone through bad scenarios before, like the 2009 global crisis, but this problem is all Brazilian – we created it," said Fausto Gouveia, a money manager at AZ Legan, which oversees about 1 billion reais ($260 million). "The window for IPOs is closed, and I don't see that changing in the next year."
Across emerging markets, the value of priced IPOs has dropped 27 percent to $48 billion this year as the commodities bust and specter of rising U.S. interest rates prompt investors to flee riskier assets.
Brazil's collapse has been especially striking. The economy is forecast to shrink almost 3 percent this year, followed by a 1.2 percent contraction in 2016, which would be the longest recession since the Great Depression. Add to that unemployment that has crept up to 7.6 percent and inflation that's running close to 10 percent. All of that has sent the Ibovespa tumbling 36 percent this year in dollar terms, the most among major indexes worldwide.
Until this month, bankers and issuers had held out hope that a few more transactions could still get done before the end of the year. But in the past month, insurance companies Caixa Seguridade Participacoes SA and IRB Brasil Resseguros SA postponed their plans, the latter according to a person familiar with the matter who had asked not to be identified discussing private matters.
BR Distribuidora, the gas-distribution unit of embattled state oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA, also put off a deal, another person said. Petrobras said in a statement that it's seeking a strategic partner for the business.
Par Corretora, the sole IPO of the year, has declined 18 percent since its debut in June, or 33 percent in dollar terms, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The downturn has hit Sao Paulo's investment bankers hard. Foreign banks including UBS AG and Barclays Plc trimmed their Brazilian teams starting in 2013. Another one of banks' core businesses in Brazil – mergers and acquisitions – is set for the worst year in a decade. Perhaps the only growth segment in the nation's investment banking industry is restructuring. Rothschild & Co. and G5 Evercore are among firms adding bankers as companies struggle under foreign debt taken on during the boom years of the past decade, according to two people familiar with the matter.
At the heart of Brazil's troubles is a graft scandal that spread from Petrobras to builders, service providers and politicians and left Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff fighting for her political survival. That's fueling investor concern that corporate misconduct is widespread, said Josef Schuster, who invests in IPOs through his company Ipox Schuster LLC.
"The corporate governance situation has been a problem in terms of enticing foreign investors to look at deals," he said from Chicago. "Given that Brazil has done miserably in terms of the overall market, obviously the IPO market is going to do poorly as well."
Brazil's IPO market is unlikely to rebound anytime soon as cautious investors will continue to shun new deals in favor of better, less speculative opportunities in stocks that already trade, said Marcio Guedes, a Sao Paulo-based investment banker with Pangea Partners.
Brazil's Ibovespa now trades at 10.9 times projected earnings over the next 12 months, below the average for the last three years.
"Anybody who is interested in Brazil is going to look at the stock exchange, not at IPOs," Guedes said. "How can I justify buying at a price that's actually higher than what I can get on the exchange?"
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But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health. ---->>>
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply. ---->>>
The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. ---->>>
We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in. ---->>>
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it. ---->>>
I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. ---->>>
The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially. ---->>>
This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that. ---->>>
I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case. ---->>>
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord. ---->>>
Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much. ---->>>
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident. ---->>>
We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do. ---->>>
We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience. ---->>>
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. ---->>>
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged. ---->>>
I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems. ---->>>
I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year. ---->>>


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Assalamualaikum . .
This Surah is called Al-Fatihah, that is, the Opener of the Book, the Surah which prayers are begun. It is also called Umm Al-Kitab (the Mother of the Book), according to the majority of the scholars. In an authentic Hadits recorded by At-Tirmidhi, who graded it Sahih, Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said ;
Al-Hamdu lillahi Rabbil-`Alamin is the Mother of the Quran, the Mother of the Book, and the seven repeated Ayat of the Glorious Quran.
It is also called Al-Hamd and As-Salah because the Prophet said that his Lord said ;
The prayer (i.e., Al-Fatihah) is divided into two halves between Me and My servants. When the servant says, "Al praise is due to Allah, the Lord of existence" and Allah says, "My servant has praised Me".
Al-Fatihah was called the Salah because reciting it is a condition for the correctness of Salah - the prayer. Al-Fatihah was also called Ash-Shifa' (the Cure).
It is also called Ar-Ruqyah (remedy), since in the Sahih, there is the narration of Abu Sa'id telling the story of the Companion who used Al-Fatihah as a remedy for the tribal chied who was poisoned. Later, the Messenger of Allah said to a Companion ;
How did you know that it is a Ruqyah?.
Al-Fatihah was revealed in Makkah as Ibn 'Abbas, Qatadah and Abu Al-'Aliyah stated. Allah said ;
And indeed, We have bestowed upon you the seven Mathani - seven repeatedly recited verses (i.e., Surah Al-Fatihah) (15:87). Allah knows best.
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You Are a Kite
You've always been a dreamer, and you started dreaming at a very early age.
You can get lost in a fantasy. As a kid, you were happy to let your imagination go wild.
The smallest things can spark the biggest ideas. You can get lost in your own inner world simply by flying a kite.
As a kid, you didn't even really want toys. You would much rather play make believe than play with an expensive toy.


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However, 250,000 people commute into Orange from three different counties: Los Angeles and San Bernardino/Riverside Counties, the last two making up the Inland Empire Orange County supports over 1,250,000 jobs with quite a few openings. It is positioned within the coronary heart of downtown Boston, on the Boston Common, at the gateway to the Theatre District and in close proximity to main media retailers. The Greater Chicago HERC consists of 24 schools, universities, and analysis organizations in and around the Chicagoland tri-state space.
These states have a big share of jobs in the mining industry, which has misplaced 171,000 jobs nationally since 2014. Oregon's Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) is looking for extremely qualified candidates for our University Finance Director. For an earlier poster, there are now several thousand jobs in CPA and associated occupations – try the recruiters Hays and Michael Page companies. Utah developed fifty four,500 new jobs in 2006, or a full 5 {3646df83047b2fb247e6be389bdf79064977365019c9f2147e7000ad4acd48eb} of all the jobs created in America. ARRA funds may be used for brand spanking new trucking jobs related to infrastructure development.
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The short answer is that you can, and it certainly provides a level of protection.
But your safety net has a hole in it.
There are definitely things you're missing that a managed backup would catch and back up for you … things you'll really care about should the worst happen.
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Copying C: to another drive
To be clear, the scenario here is that you're attempting to backup C: by just copying all of it to another drive, like F:. If you're familiar at all with the Windows Command Prompt, it might be something like this:
C:> xcopy /e /h c:\ f:\
There may be other options that would make sense, but I've included the important ones to copy the contents of all files and folders from the root of the C: drive to the root of the F: drive, and copy hidden and system files as well.
In theory it seems simple, and in many ways it's fairly close (at least in concept) to what a backup program actually does.
But there are some important things missing.
What copying misses
There are files that will not be backed up by this approach.
Most importantly, any files that are "in use", meaning opened in running programs, will not be copied.
And some files are always in use. Like the Windows registry – the storehouse for millions of Windows and other application settings and configurations. If Windows is running, the operating system keeps the files that contain the registry open and locked from outside access.
If your hard drive were to die – even if you've backed up everything else on your machine – without the registry, you're still looking at a complete reinstall of Windows, plus your applications, onto a replacement drive.
The registry is just the most obvious example, but it's only the tip of the iceberg. Windows may have other files open that you can't back up with a simple copy. In addition, other applications you may be running could also have files open, and those files will not get copied.
A back-up program catches more
A back-up program uses Windows functionality specifically designed to gain access to the protected files.
In other words, a back-up program will back up everything that a simple file copy cannot.
There are a couple of other benefits to using a back-up program that aren't quite as critical, but still very handy.
I personally find back-up programs easy to "set and forget". Once configured, they simply run and back up automatically. Depending on where you're backing up, you won't have to waste much energy thinking about your backups on a regular basis – they just happen.
But there's an interesting scenario in which a back-up program can save the day that doesn't involve a hard disk crash or other catastrophic failure.
Backing up incrementally
Let's say on day one you create an important file, and that night your "file copy" backup places it on your back-up drive.
On day two, you make some changes to the file, perhaps deleting a section that you figured you no longer needed. At the end of day two, your back-up software once again copies the updated file to your back-up drive, overwriting the previous day's back-up copy.
On day three, you realize the changes you made the day before were a huge mistake. Ideally what you want is the copy of the file at the end of day one, before you deleted everything. Unfortunately, even your backup no longer has that, as it dutifully overwrote it with day two's work.
Back-up programs almost always include a feature known as "incremental backup", which would solve this potential snarl. Each night, they back up only those things that have changed since the previous backup.
I'll use my Windows configuration as an example.
On the first of every month, my back-up program takes a complete snapshot of my entire C: drive, a "full image backup".
Each day thereafter, it saves the changes that happened since the previous day's backup. For example, on the second day, only files that have changed since the first day are backed up. On the third day, only files that changed since the second day are backed up, and so on. This is called an "incremental" backup, and each is carefully tracked and stored separately (which means each can be accessed and restored separately).
The result is that on my machine, a full backup is about 45 gigabytes, but each day's incremental backup varies between 2 and 6gb, depending on how busy I was on that particular day.
At the end of the month, I have the complete snapshot of the 1st as a starting point, and around 30 of these collections of incremental changes from each day to the next.
The downside is that if, on the 30th, I need to restore my hard disk to its most recent backup, the restore software needs to start with the full image of the 1st, and then apply each incremental change from 2nd through the 30th in turn. Fortunately, that only happens on a full restore.
The huge upside, from my perspective, is this: if, on the 30th, I decide I need a copy of a particular file as it was on the 15th, I can simply use the recovery tool to only apply the changes through the 15th, and pick up that file as it was on that day.
Now, aside from the files in use that I talked about earlier, you could probably devise a system using batch files and copy operations to mimic all this. In fact, that's pretty close to what I did for a long time. But let me tell you, a back-up program that does this as its job is much more reliable, easier to use, and, in my opinion, worth every penny.
File copies can work
To be fair, there are some scenarios where simple file copies work, and work well enough.
For example, I have a couple of drives that contain only data, and no files are in use in the middle of the night, when my back-up scripts run. So I do indeed copy those drives to other drives each night, using a simple file-copy operation, much like the command line example shown earlier. There's no need to set up a more sophisticated backup, and rather than being in a potentially proprietary backup format, the mirrored back-up drive is simply there, on my network, ready to be used at any time.
Copying files to back up can also be a space saver, under two conditions:
- You know – and I mean really know – what files should be backed up and which ones you don't need. Often that's as simple as having all of your data on a separate drive or partition.
- Your system drive is either backed up using a back-up program, or you plan on reinstalling the operating system and all applications from scratch in the case of a catastrophic failure.
It's important to realize that for many people, a complete reinstall would be a couple of days of lost work that a back-up program could have taken care of in an hour or so.
And that actually brings me to my final point about using copy operations as backups: restoration.
Restoring your copied files
As we've seen, a "reverse copy" of the original example, of D: back to C: would not restore your system. Certain critical files, such as the registry, would be missing. Your "restored" drive won't boot. You can recover data files reliably, and perhaps some other files, but that's about it. It won't be nearly enough to restore your entire system.
If your intent is to back up everything, so that in the case of a failure you can simply and quickly replace a hard drive and restore everything, then a back-up program is really the only way to go.
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Specimens obtained in accordance with the procedure section of this practice may be used for preconstruction studies of shotcrete mixtures, to qualify nozzlemen and equipment, or for quality control, or compressive or flexural strength testing, during the progress of a project.
1. Scope
1.1 This practice covers procedures for preparing test panels of dry-mix or wet-mix shotcrete and for testing specimens sawed or cored from the panels.
1.2 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each system shall be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in non-conformance with the standard.
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C42/C42M Test Method for Obtaining and Testing Drilled Cores and Sawed Beams of Concrete
C78 Test Method for Flexural Strength of Concrete (Using Simple Beam with Third-Point Loading)
C125 Terminology Relating to Concrete and Concrete Aggregates
C138/C138M Test Method for Density (Unit Weight), Yield, and Air Content (Gravimetric) of Concrete
C143/C143M Test Method for Slump of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete
C171 Specification for Sheet Materials for Curing Concrete
C231 Test Method for Air Content of Freshly Mixed Concrete by the Pressure Method
C457 Test Method for Microscopical Determination of Parameters of the Air-Void System in Hardened Concrete
C511 Specification for Mixing Rooms, Moist Cabinets, Moist Rooms, and Water Storage Tanks Used in the Testing of Hydraulic Cements and Concretes
C513 Test Method for Obtaining and Testing Specimens of Hardened Lightweight Insulating Concrete for Compressive Strength
C642 Test Method for Density, Absorption, and Voids in Hardened Concrete
C995 Test Method for Time of Flow of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Through Inverted Slump Cone
C1018 Test Method for Flexural Toughness and First-Crack Strength of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Using Beam With Third-Point Loading)
C1399 Test Method for Obtaining Average Residual-Strength of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
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