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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Gershwin's Ghost: the return
"George even passed the most acid of tests for great leadership by remaining a presence to his followers even after he'd left the planet. Ann 'Willow Weep for Me' Ronell told me some half century after his death that she still 'saw' Gershwin regularly in the crowds of the Upper West Side, looking as if he'd just walked out the door. And on that same day, Burton 'How About You' Lane testified to an even more precise epiphany. Lane had recently been to a concert of Gershwin's newly-refurbished piano rolls being played on a baby grand pianola in a pool of spotlight. And as the notes began to go mechanically down and up, 'There was George for a moment,' he exclaimed, 'playing away. I almost passed out.'"
- The House that George Built, Wilfrid Shed
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Failure quotes
Failure Quotes and Sayings
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Monday, April 27, 2015
George Gershwin: the graceful ghost
A few more intriguing bits about Gershwin's work, indicating he must have had a deep interest in Jewish mysticism:
In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (Yiddish: דיבוק, from Hebrew word meaning adhere or cling) is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
A migrant soul?! And perhaps Ira, raised in the same tradition, was subconsciously thinking of the same thing, his soul merging with his brother's. I don't see GG as a dybbuk at all – he was a gentle soul and everyone loved him, though I also think he was extremely lonely and was completely disoriented after his death. And yet, if you strip away the evil connotations, a dybbuk is just an unhappy camper like a ghost, frustrated or feeling incomplete or not listened to. This is why Chanon in the story is "reduced to practicing evil rites," because he felt so powerless.
I am very surprised, but perhaps I shouldn't be, that the writer of I Got Rhythm and Rhapsody in Blue could be so interested in dark Jewish ritual, but he did after all grow up bilingual, i. e. speaking Yiddish, so the stories were there. You look at this and think: George Gershwin? Mysticism, migrant souls, WHAT? Then you dig up all this stuff. Instead of developing The Dybbuk (the rights were tied up), he wrote Porgy and Bess which was also about a marginalized and powerless black community. There is a chilling song in it called The Buzzard which is about a vast dark bird waiting to swoop down and feed on Porgy's flesh: he tells it, "Ain't nobody dead this mornin'!" This is like something out of classic myth.
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
49 Everyday Phrases by William Shakespeare!
Shakespearian phrases we use every day! Try to have a conversation without them.
Illustrated by my best friend, father, brother, uncle, cousin, and all-around mitochondrial chimera, William Shatner.
(There were supposed to be 50 of these. I don't know what happened to the last one.)
- "Dead as a doornail" - Henry VI, Part II
- "Not slept one wink" - Cymbeline
- "The world's mine oyster" - The Merry Wives of
- "Bedazzled" - The Taming of the Shrew
- "In stitches" - Twelfth Night
- "Addiction" - Othello
- "Faint-hearted" - Henry VI, Part I
- "One fell swoop" - Macbeth
- "Vanish into thin air" - Othello
- "Swagger" - Henry V
- "Own flesh and blood" - Hamlet
- "Zany" - Love's Labour's Lost
- "Give the devil his due" - Henry IV, Part I
- "There's method in my madness" - Hamlet
- "Salad days" - Antony and Cleopatra
- "Spotless reputation" - Richard II
- "Full circle" - King Lear
- "All of a sudden" - The Taming of the Shrew
- "Come what, come may" - Macbeth
- "Fancy-free" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- "Lie low" - Much Ado About Nothing
- "Send packing" - Henry IV
- "Foregone conclusion" - Othello
- "A sorry sight" - Macbeth
- "For goodness sake" - Henry VIII
- "Good riddance" - The Merchant of Venice
- "Neither here not there" - Othello
- "Mum's the word" - Henry VI, Part II
- "What's done is done" - Macbeth
- "Eaten out of house and home" - Henry IV, Part II
- "Rant" - Hamlet
- "Knock knock! Who's there?" - Macbeth
- "With bated breath" - The Merchant of Venice
- "A wild goose chase" - Romeo and Juliet
- "Assassination" - Macbeth
- "Too much of a good thing" - As You Like It
- "A heart of gold" - Henry V
- "Such stuff as dreams are made on" - The Tempest
- "Fashionable" - Troilus and Cressida
- "Puking" - As You Like It
- "Green-eyed monster" – The Merchant of Venice
- "As good luck would have it" – The Merry Wives of Windsor
- "The be-all and end-all" – Macbeth
- "A sorry sight" – Macbeth
- "Fair play" – The Tempest
- "Good riddance" – The Merchant of Venice
- "In a pickle" – The Tempest
- "Love is blind" – The Merchant of Venice
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Dating famous dead men (or: who could ask for anything more?)
Margaret Gunning and George Gershwin
Numerological Compatibility
Compatibility level: 25% - A relationship that presents frequent challenges and requires much compromise.
This match combination is particularly interesting. The different natures of Margaret Gunning's Life Path number 3 and George's 7 make for a relationship that either lasts for about two weeks before going up in flames, or remains exciting and powerful for a lifetime. If their relationship has existed for quite some time and can be considered stable, Margaret Gunning and George Gershwin may well be soul mates for life. If the relationship started recently and has already experienced considerable ups and downs, they should be prepared to let go. It is also quite common for this combination to turn from romance into deep friendship immediately after a romantic fall-out.
Margaret Gunning has a restless, energetic, unconventional mind that happily explores the boundaries of creativity and originality. Like a kaleidoscope, Margaret Gunning's mind changes colors and shapes and enchants those around it. George has a much more serious, but no less unconventional way of looking at life. George is an untiring seeker of truth and understanding. George gets great satisfaction out of quiet moments of contemplation and soul searching. In fact, George thrives on the clarity and realizations that come from such moments and from moments of spiritual enlightenment.
Margaret Gunning and George have very different approaches in the way they think. But, on the other hand, they have in common the fact that they both are unconventional and not afraid to wander off the beaten path. Although they have different needs and they find their happiness in very different ways, such ways are not incompatible. It is precisely their uniquely different intellects that make this relationship lively and interesting. Margaret Gunning and George complement each other. They give each other something they would not be able to give themselves. Margaret Gunning brings sunshine and an intuitive faith to George, while George offers margaret gunning a taste of the beauty found in exploring the depths of life itself. Like the sun and the moon, they supply light and comfort. Although on opposite ends of the spectrum in some ways, Margaret Gunning and George bring light and comfort to each other's life and, as long as they do not compete for each other's space, they can live in great harmony.
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Knit one, squirrel fail
This is one of those examples of false advertising in knitting patterns. Knitting a squirrel has become an obsession for me ever since I found out I can't freaking DO it. I must have tried out seven different patterns, all of which looked fairly easy. The above pattern, NOT knitted by me, is an illustration of a famous pattern called Knit One, Squirrel Two. Looks very squirrel-esque, doesn't it? But it's knitted in the round, a technique I can only partially do. I can knit in the round on two needles (a technique called Magic Loop), but I can't work with three or four. This thing had SO many twists and turns, backing up and re-knitting various rows and picking up stitches where there are none, etc., that the squirrel's head ended up on backwards.
I didn't keep my results but gutted it in dismay, disappointing a little girl who wanted a squirrel for her birthday.
Then I find this in Google Images, and the last thing I want to do is to criticize someone else's knitting, but this is what Knit One, Squirrel Two looks like, knitted up by an experienced knitter. This is the actual result from someone who actually GOT a result and didn't need to gut the little bugger. You tell me. How much of a resemblance do you see ?
There are various other examples of false advertising in knitting patterns, in which even if you do it right, it just looks wrong, or, worse, plug-ugly.
This is the adorable little rackety-coon from Kath Dalmeny's World of Knitted Toys, a rather basic pattern book which generally speaking yields poor results.
This is the rackety-coon as knitted, and not by me. You can see how out-of-proportion it is, though it's obviously neatly-knitted and nicely stuffed and sewn together. In fact, this photo was actually displayed as an example on an Etsy ad for buying the pattern. You tell me: does this look like a raccoon, or a paraplegic anteater?
This is the one that all the kids wanted, an adorable panda that looks much more naturalistic than the teddy pandas of most patterns. This is another Kath Dalmeny optical illusion.
And again, let me reassure you that this is a well-knitted piece (though not by me). I'm not criticizing anyone's knitting. But this is not a panda. The legs are like stilts. The nose is far too pointed, and the shape of the body is more piglike than pandalike.
This was the pattern I used for the poor panda that I stabbed to death with scissors before gutting it so I could recycle its stuffing.
And I could go on, but I'm giving the squirrel another try, using elements from three different patterns: the arms and legs from Knit One, Squirrel Two; the feet from a pattern called Tweed Toads (which worked out for me: I have a Tweed Toad sitting on a knitted lily pad on my printer); and the body from a nice little Santa Squirrel thing, minus the red outfit. I don't yet know how I am going to make the tail.
The ghost in the workroom: George appears to Ira
Quite a long time ago I wrote in my diary, "George is a spook". I wasn't quite sure what I meant by that. Then, in one of the better GG bios, I read this:
"As Ira grew older, he became not less but more obsessed with George. When he was in his eighties, Michael Feinstein, who had become something of a surrogate son to him, heard him talking to George in his sleep. These were, according to Feinstein, "lengthy conversations" that were "often filled with anger, centering around Ira's desire not to stay here on earth and George's insistence that he stay". Just before Ira's death in 1983, he revealed to Feinstein in a hushed voice something he had never told anyone else. Shortly after George's passing, he had looked into his brother's workroom upstairs at 1019 North Roxbury and seen him "sitting on the sofa, smiling and nodding to me. It terrified me. I wasn't drinking. I wasn't drunk. But I saw him."
This may have started the whole thing for me, because I had consciously forgotten it. George died in 1937, Ira in 1983. It looks like maybe the one who was "stuck" was Ira, and George was trying to help him get unstuck. Ironic, since GG went far too soon, and because of the horrific manner of his dying, didn't really know what was happening to him. Ira was a very practical, down-to-earth businessman who just happened to be a genius lyricist, and this wasn't some wraithlike, ghostly apparition, but GG sitting happily in his workroom, his sanctuary and favorite place, smiling and nodding: "see, I'm OK, don't worry about me." Ira unfortunately had the same reaction to "ghosts" that most people do: terror, and thinking "I'm going crazy". It's interesting this wasn't just an impression but a real 3D, solid appearance of someone who was dead. I also had the thought, though, that GG always kept his wounded side turned away from view, and it could be that he was appearing to be happy for Ira's sake. Understandable, if Ira wanted to die. They protected each other to an extraordinary degree.
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
I wonder who (unless it's Harold!)
It seems there's none for me although
My aching heart discovers
In a story play or picture show
A host of perfect lovers
The first of all was Romeo
That passion isn't cool yet
This world would have a rosy glow
If I had been his Juliet
For Antony, I'd learn to care
Ah, he was strong and graceful
If other lovers held two pair
That fellow held an aceful
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who he can be
Somebody loves me, I wish I knew
Who can he be worries me
For every boy who passes me
I shout, "Hey, maybe
You were meant to be my loving baby"
At one time, Harold Lloyd, I thought
Was grand in every flashback
To see him, oh, the seats I bought
I wish I had the cash back
'Twas Big Bill Hart who took his place
He's western and he's classy
He had an open spaces face
And oh, girls, what a chassis
Then, Jackie Coogan came along
He had the other shown-up
And to him, I will sing my song
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who he can be
Somebody loves me, I wish I knew
Who can he be worries me
For every boy who passes me
I shout, "Hey, maybe
You were meant to be my loving baby"
Somebody loves me,
I wonder who
maybe it's you
(George and Ira Gershwin)
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
What's $30 billion between friends?: Shatner's California pipeline scheme
William Shatner taps Elon Musk, Al Gore to join his assault on California drought
Published: Apr 21, 2015 1:18 p.m. ET
Shatner: 'I want $30 billion… to build a pipeline like the Alaska pipeline'
PM Entertainment/Everett
William Shatner recently announced a $30-billion plan to boldly go and quench California by running a pipeline from the Pacific Northwest. His dearly departed co-star, along with a skeptical corner of the Internet, might call the concept highly illogical.
But what about Tesla's TSLA, +5.30% Elon Musk and climate crusader Al Gore? Shatner gave this Twitter shoutout late Tuesday night, in an attempt at bringing the duo into the conversation about saving the Golden State.
No response yet. One commenter claimed Musk is probably too "busy inventing the square wheel,"
while another said Shatner lost him at the mere mention of "Mr. Global Pay Me Carbon Tax."
As for the plan itself, Shatner gave "the scoop" to Yahoo last week.
"So I'm starting a Kickstarter campaign. I want $30 billion … to build a pipeline like the Alaska pipeline. Say, from Seattle — a place where there's a lot of water. There's too much water," he told Yahoo's David Pogue in an interview. "How bad would it be to get a large, 4-foot pipeline, keep it above ground — because if it leaks, you're irrigating!"
Shatner envisions a pipeline running alongside Interstate 5 and perhaps filling up Lake Mead.
"They tell us there's a year's supply of water left. If it doesn't rain next year, what do 20 million people in the breadbasket of the world do?" he said. "In a place that's the fifth-largest GDP — if California were a country, it'd be fifth in line — we're about to be arid! What do you do about it?"
Shatner, at the very least, said his plan will bring more attention to the severity of the drought, and if his fund raising efforts come up short, he'll give it to a politician who can take up the cause.
Shatner is no stranger to crowdsourcing on Kickstarter. More than 1,000 people pledged a total of $60,000 to fund his book "Catch Me Up." He was seeking to raise $50,000.
"Going the traditional route would've required a number of sacrifices including a change in the overall message," Shatner explained on his Kickstarter page. "So I've decided to take a page from my own book, so to speak, and use crowdsourcing to fund this project."
We'll have to see if the Kickstarter pipeline campaign pans out. Judging from the reaction in cyberspace, that $30 billion isn't exactly money in the bank just yet.
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SHUT UP!: Advice for New Writers
So what do I have to report? I get pulled back and forth – or in several directions, at least – between setting up a cleanly organized, professional-looking blog (and they DO impress me sometimes) and the scrapbookish/bulletin-board-like mess I choose to keep. It is tenderly attended to and fed regularly, which I always think is the best/main thing about a blog. There is nothing worse than eagerly following a link, and finding out the last post is dated 2011.
But I always read these strident exhortations (mainly on Facebook) to never do the things I regularly do, i. e. have inconsistencies in it, stray from the (single) topic, and (gasp, horrors) use different fonts! One "how-to" article even listed specific fonts one must NEVER use, and most of them were fonts I use all the time. I use different fonts because I love different fonts. I match the font to the tone of the article. Why not? Am I selling widgets or am I selling chunks of my soul?
Most of my posts get fewer than 20 views, and I only have 39 followers, pathetic really, in fact I think it's the worst I've ever seen for a long-running blog, but I have to stop and think what it would take to get more views. Homogenize. Emphasize publicizing the novel (a lot) harder. (OR NOT! See below.) Even at that, it wouldn't work because good luck doesn't stick to me. My stuff is always obscure, but it HAS to resonate and express my own world view/soul.
One would think, OK then, it's patently obvious that you need to follow your own path and forget about everyone else. Right, and lose money on all my novels and disappoint my publishers because I don't know the secret handshake! Funny how things that applied in your childhood drag on and on throughout your life, haunting you. An outsider then, an outsider now, largely because I wouldn't or couldn't conform. I always thought (naive me) that publicity should pull potential readers toward the product, rather than push the product aggressively up their nose and down their throat.
I wish I didn't have to do any of this at all. I am at the point in my life where I don't need to be told I'm good. I know I'm good, and there is no ego in that. Why would I be wasting my time and energy, not to mention the time and energy of publishers and potential readers, if I was no damn good? But being good, even damn good, isn't the issue here. If deep in prehistory the storyteller sat alone by the fireside with no one to hear his or her story, humanity might still be writing with a sharp stick dipped in a little pile of dog shit.
Lately I keep finding articles that exhort writers to stop doing certain things – the most recent one being, pushing yourself on potential readers via the internet. The title even contains the words SHUT UP!, a message to all writers who indulge in such blatant prostitution. The article blasts the idea at us that if you want to sell the first novel (and I hear this over and over again now, as if it's an anodyne against all evils in the writing field), then JUST WRITE THE NEXT ONE. They don't explain how, or why, that undertaking will suddenly/magically burst open the barriers on the first novel and send it leaping up the bestseller list.
The subtext seems to be "you publicity whore, why do you even CARE how many copies you sell?" Either that, or once you stop caring about it, success will automatically drop into your lap, one of those New Age beliefs where you just have to wish on a star to get what you want. (The subtext here is that good writing will automatically find an audience, just because it's good. It amazes me how many people believe that.) Then comes the kicker – always – that the writer of the article used the internet copiously to sell her first book, because, though that was allowed back in 2006, you can't do it any more because it is no longer 2006. It just makes you look desperate and like a know-nothing.
Then comes even more of a kicker, the revelation that she already has several bestsellers out – likely some sort of homogenized series about dragons and witches, probably having sex with each other – and is much sought after for writers' events, where "really, I have no control ov


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Asexual reproduction define biology as a science
ADRIANA ESTHERFriday, April 12, 2019 5:39:28 AM
Asexual reproduction [1] is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it does not involve the fusion of gametesand almost never changes the number of chromosomes.
Asexual reproduction is the primary form of reproduction for single-celled organisms such as archaea and bacteria. Many plants and fungi sometimes reproduce asexually. While all prokaryotes reproduce without the formation and fusion of gametes, mechanisms for lateral gene transfer such as conjugationtransformation and transduction can be likened to sexual reproduction in the sense of genetic recombination in meiosis.
It is not entirely understood why the ability to Asexual reproduction define biology as a science sexually is so common among them. Current hypotheses [3] suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.
Developmental constraints [4] may underlie why few animals have relinquished sexual reproduction completely in their life-cycles. Another constraint on switching from sexual to asexual reproduction would be the concomitant loss of meiosis and the protective recombinational repair of DNA damage afforded as one function of meiosis. An important form of fission is binary fission, where the parent organism "Asexual reproduction define biology as a science" replaced by two daughter organisms, because it literally divides in two.
Only prokaryotes the archaea and the bacteria reproduce asexually through binary fission. Eukaryotes such as protists and unicellular fungi may reproduce in a functionally similar manner by mitosis ; most of these are also capable of sexual reproduction.
Multiple fission at the cellular level occurs in many protistse. The nucleus of the parent cell divides several times by mitosisproducing several nuclei. The cytoplasm then separates, creating multiple daughter cells.
In apicomplexansmultiple fission, or schizogony appears either as merogonysporogony or gametogony. Merogony results in merozoiteswhich are multiple daughter cells, that originate within the same cell membrane, [10] [11] sporogony results in sporozoitesand gametogony results in micro gametes. Some cells split via budding for example baker's yeastresulting in a "mother" and "daughter" cell.
The offspring organism is smaller than the parent. Budding is also known on a multicellular level; an animal example is the hydrawhich reproduces by budding.
The buds grow into fully matured Asexual reproduction define biology as a science which eventually break away from the parent organism. Internal budding is a process of asexual reproduction, favoured by parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii.
It involves an unusual process in which two endodyogeny or more endopolygeny daughter cells are produced inside a mother cell, which is then consumed by the offspring prior to their separation. Also, budding external or internal is present in some worm like Taenia or Echinococci ; these worm produce cyst and then produce invaginated or evaginated protoscolex with budding. Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction found in plants where new individuals are formed without the production of seeds or spores by meiosis or syngamy.
Other plants reproduce by forming bulbs or tubers for example tulip bulbs and dahlia tubers. Some plants produce adventitious shoots and may form a clonal colonywhere all the individuals are clones, and the clones may cover a large area. Many multicellular organisms form spores during their biological life cycle in a process called sporogenesis. Exceptions are animals and some protists, who undergo meiosis immediately followed by fertilization. Plants and many algae on the other hand undergo sporic meiosis where meiosis leads to the formation of haploid spores rather than gametes.
These spores grow into multicellular individuals called gametophytes in the case of plants without a fertilization event. These haploid individuals give rise to gametes through mitosis.
Meiosis and gamete formation therefore occur in separate generations or "phases" of the life cycle, referred to as alternation of generations. Since sexual reproduction is often more narrowly defined as the fusion of gametes fertilizationspore formation in plant sporophytes and algae might be considered a form of asexual reproduction agamogenesis despite being the result of meiosis and undergoing a reduction in ploidy.
However, both events spore "Asexual reproduction define biology as a science" and fertilization are necessary to complete sexual reproduction in the plant life cycle.
Fungi and some algae can also utilize true asexual spore formation, which involves mitosis giving rise to reproductive cells called mitospores that develop into a new organism after dispersal. This method of reproduction is found for example in conidial fungi and the red algae Polysiphoniaand involves sporogenesis without meiosis.
Thus the chromosome number of the spore cell is the same as that of the parent producing the spores. However, mitotic sporogenesis is an exception and most spores, such as those of plants, most Basidiomycotaand many algae, are produced by meiosis.
Fragmentation is a form of asexual reproduction where a new organism grows from a fragment of the parent. Each fragment develops into a mature, fully grown individual. Fragmentation is seen in many organisms. Animals that reproduce asexually include planariansmany annelid worms including polychaetes [15] and some oligochaetes[16] turbellarians and sea stars. Many fungi and plants reproduce asexually. Some plants have specialized structures for reproduction via fragmentation, such as "Asexual reproduction define biology as a science" in liverworts.
Most lichenswhich are a symbiotic union of a fungus and photosynthetic algae or bacteria, reproduce through fragmentation to ensure that new individuals contain both symbiont.
These fragments can take the form of sorediadust-like particles consisting of fungal hyphen wrapped around photobiont cells. Clonal Fragmentation in multicellular or colonial organisms is a form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism is split into fragments.

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(22) The Good News
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Chapter: Chapter 2
Well, I've been plugging other people's work so I think I should talk about some of my own. Secrets and Shadows:As in, the story you are reading right now. The entire story is available on my Storenvy page. Each issue is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…


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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party yesterday agreed to facilitate the implementation of the cross-strait service trade agreement as a top priority as they concluded a two-day economic forum in Nanning, China.
The agreement, signed in June during the ninth round of cross-strait talks, is yet to be approved by the Legislative Yuan amid concerns about its potentially negative impact on local service industries.
In announcing the suggestions of the two parties at the closing ceremony of the annual Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum, KMT Vice Chairman John Chiang (蔣孝嚴) said that both sides of the Taiwan Strait will further promote cross-strait trade while continuing to push for the implementation of the service trade agreement.
Other priorities include follow-up negotiations on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), negotiations on dispute settlements, the establishment of a transparent and convenient trade investment environment, and systemization of cross-strait relations.
Former KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) yesterday said the two sides will also push ahead with setting up representative offices on each side of the Taiwan Strait, responding to the growing exchanges between China and Taiwan, and said top officials that handled cross-strait relations should visit each other soon.
"It's not right that officials that handle the cross-strait affairs have not been to the other side of the Taiwan Strait... We should seek breakthroughs and make such meetings happen," he said at the forum's closing ceremony.
He described Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi's (王郁琦) meeting with China's Taiwan Affairs Office Director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) at the APEC summit earlier this month in Indonesia as "a good beginning," calling on Zhang and Yu Zhengsheng (俞正聲), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, to visit Taiwan soon.
"I think there are plenty of appropriate opportunities for such visits. For instance, when the cross-strait representative offices are set up, [Wang and Zhang] can attend the opening ceremonies on either side of the Taiwan Strait. It would be very meaningful," he said.


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This course is the e-learning version of Tallinn University Summer School Course "Social Enterprises: Using Your Creativity and Sensitivity".
The course aims to provide a unique educational experience and an opportunity to understand some of the latest developments in the social work profession and related fields. In lectures, interactive seminars and field visits we will look beyond the traditional social work practice areas to together explore new fields and ideas.
The Institute of Social Work of Tallinn University has started a comprehensive development program combining education with research and development in order to strengthen the spirit of entrepreneurship in the field of social work and social services. The Social Enterprises course will be organised for the second time in the framework of Tallinn Summer School.
Social enterprises are combining the advantage of modern rehabilitation and social services with sustainable business models. Social enterprises can play a very important role in social innovation, especially in the middle and low income countries where social expenditures are very limited. Our summer course provides the participants with an insight into the world of Estonian social enterprises, highlighting the latest developments of the field.
The five-day course consists of lectures and seminars/workshops on social enterprises. It is not only start-ups and art projects that can be cool and creative. With a good idea that has both value for rehabilitation and a business potential, people who face disadvantages can move from "patients" and "clients" to becoming citizen participants and even entrepreneurs. Social enterprises are moving the design and image of modern rehabilitation services in fascinating directions, emphasizing the abilities of every individual and the creative side of social work.
Zsolt Bugarszki, PhD is lecturer at Tallinn University Institute of Social Work. Dr. Bugarszki was born in Budapest, Hungary. For more than 12 years he had been teaching at ELTE University's Faculty of Social Sciences in Budapest. Besides his academic career he has been working in different services and development project in the field of community-services in many Eastern-European and post-Soviet countries. His special expertise is service development in low- and middle income countries. He is the director of the international organization CARe Europe.


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It's hard to believe that we are already in the month of June in 2015. Time seems to fly by and if we blink too long, we might miss some great events in San Jose. Hopefully you didn't miss the inaugural San Jose J-Town Film Fest. The opening night was Friday, May 29th at 7PM at the Jacinto "Tony" Siquig Northside Community Center.
We're lovers of film festivals here at Kooltura. It wasn't too long ago that we were in and out of theaters catching Cinequest films. So, when we heard Japantown was holding it's inaugural film festival as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and their anniversary celebration of 125 years as Japantown, we knew we had to be there.
When we arrived for the opening night film at JTS Northside Community Center, we heard that the last "at-the-door" ticket was sold. It was great to hear. The energy was high with anticipation and everywhere we turned there was a friendly volunteer face guiding us.
The scheduled film was "Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers Movement" (2014) by filmmaker Marissa Aroy. If we could give a film a higher rating than two thumbs or more stars than five, then we would. Why? Well, besides the film being well made, it holds an important significance because of its relevance to San Jose, its people, and its surrounding communities.
San Jose is diverse, that's no secret. And, chances are we are familiar with the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Many of us actually have relatives or know older generations who were directly involved with the American farm labor movement in one way or another. The film "Delano Manongs" tells the often overlooked story of Larry Itliong and the Filipino farm workers whose actions played a key role in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965 and ultimately brought about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). The film shines a spotlight on the Filipino farm workers and you'll be sure to fall in love with Mr. Larry Itliong and his cigars.
As if the film wasn't enough, the opening night also included a Q&A panel which included filmaker Marissa Aroy, noted playwright Luis Valdez, and Larry Itliong's son Johnny Itliong. Being in that room with people who are or were connected to such a huge part of history felt like witnessing history itself. After the once in a lifetime panel discussion, we were blessed with live performances by (folklorico group name), (Q's drumming group name), and music by Sonido Clash.
The film festival continued on Saturday and Sunday with great films like; "Hibakusha" (2012), "Kumu Hina"(2014), "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo" (2003), "East Side Sushi" (2014), "The People I've Slept With" (2009), "Issei: The First Generation" (1984).
So, what did we take away from this inaugural J-Town Film Fest? We fell in love with it! We want this back every year. Ultimately it's up to us to support and allow great events like this to flourish and succeed. If you were there, you know exactly what we're talking about when we say this event is the definition of community. If you weren't there, you won't want to miss the next one.
If you loved this event and wish more people would know about it or wish you would've heard about it sooner, then make sure to head over to #iPledgeSJ to find out how you can take the pledge and support San Jose and the Arts.
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Score: Oral Roberts 73 – Fort Wayne 48
Records: Oral Roberts (10-5) (2-0); Fort Wayne (3-12) (0-2)
Location: Gates Sports Center – Fort Wayne, Indiana
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Oral Roberts women's basketball team handled the Fort Wayne Mastodons, 73-48, to improve to 2-0 in Summit League play Thursday evening at the Gates Sports Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The Golden Eagles had a strong start with an early 7-0 run to begin the game. Fort Wayne came back to make it a two point game before the first media timeout of the game. ORU kept the lead through the remainder of the quarter and ended the first 10 minutes up 14-8. Jordan Gilbert scored five points in the first quarter and the Golden Eagles shot 46 percent from the field.
In the second quarter ORU went on a 12-0 run to extended its lead to 18. The Golden Eagle defense held the Mastodons to just seven points in the second and went in to halftime with a 35-15 lead. Sarah Garvie, Maria Martianez and Maya Mayberry each scored six points in the first 20 minutes of play. ORU shot 61.5 percent overall in the second quarter and 53.8 percent in the first half.
ORU jumped out quickly in the third and scored 20 points in the quarter. Maya Mayberry hit back-to-back three-point baskets to extend the Golden Eagles lead to 23. ORU continued to shoot above 50 percent in the quarter and went in to the fourth up 55-31. Maya Mayberry and Maria Martianez each had 12 points by the end of the third period.
The Golden Eagles closed out the game by scoring 18 points in the fourth quarter and won 73-48 in the contest against the Mastodons. ORU never trailed in the game and out-scored Fort Wayne in all four quarters. Maria Martianez led the team with 16 points going 7-for-13 from the field in 27 minutes of play. The Golden Eagles shot 53.7 percent overall in the game.
Oral Roberts: Maria Martianez scored 16 points and Jordan Gilbert grabbed five rebounds.
Fort Wayne: DeJour Young scored 12 points and two Mastodons had four rebounds each.
- ORU shot 53.7 percent overall in tonight's game.
- ORU out-rebounded Fort Wayne 26-24.
- The Golden Eagles had a 60 percent three-point average.
- ORU turned the ball over eight times, but forced the Mastodons to turn the ball over 19 times.
- ORU shot 85.7 percent from the free-throw line.
- Faith Ihim scored nine points and grabbed four rebounds along with two assists and two steals.
- Maria Martianez had 16 points and three rebounds. She also had one assist, one block and one steal
- Maya Mayberry recorded 12 points. She also had two rebounds, four assists and two steals.
- Jordan Gilbert tallied 10 points and five rebounds. Gilbert also had two assists and three steals.
- Sarah Garvie scored nine points along with two rebounds.
- Rachel Skalnik recorded one rebound in tonight's game.
- Montserrat Brotons scored six points and grabbed two rebounds in the game along with two assists.
- Keni Jo Lippe recorded nine points and four rebounds along with two assists and one steal.
- Regan Schumacher scored two points and grabbed one rebound in the game.
- Katie Kirkhart played five minutes in tonight's game and recorded one assist.
- ORU had 20 points in the paint and 17 bench points in the game.
- The Golden Eagles scored 27 points off turnovers.
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ORU will close out its 11-game road trip with a contest against the defending Summit League Champions, Western Illinois Leathernecks, Saturday, January 6 at 4:30 p.m. inside Western Hall in Macomb, Illinois.
For the latest information on ORU women's basketball, follow @ORUWBB on Twitter or go to www.ORUAthletics.com. Fans can also receive updates on the team by downloading the Golden Eagles Front Row App at ORUAthletics.com/frontrow or in the App Store.


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It has to be constant. The willingness to live must be fueled with the passion to know more. Yet we know that what we see are not enough. There is the realm of the beyond that our understanding has a limited view about. Nevertheless, it does not stop us from wanting more knowledge. Life is a quest to progress our perception of life everyday, to deepen our grasp of the ordinary and extraordinary things and immerse ourselves into becoming one with our experiences. The beyond is where we are heading to. Life does not end in the fickleness of the world. We are more than materials that thrive to exist. Our will is forever longing for more than what this world can provide. But we need to stand up against the ideas that taunt us in our individual beliefs. Keep our hearts burning, and wonderful things will start to unfold….


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A U.S. Marine was killed in northern Iraq after ISIS militants launched a rocket attack on a base near Makhmur, the Defense Department announced Saturday. The service member was providing force protection in the area, according to a statement from Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook. The incident reportedly occurred around 9:30 a.m. local time. Cook didn't identify the casualty, pending notification of next of kin, but said several other Marines were also wounded and were being treated for "varying injuries." "Our thoughts and prayers are with the service members involved, their families and their coalition teammates who will continue the fight against ISIL with resolve and determination," he said in a statement, referring to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, also known as ISIL. The fatality marks the second combat death since the June 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the name of the U.S.-led military operation against the militant group. Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Oklahoma, died Oct. 22 in Kirkuk Province, Iraq, from wounds received by enemy small-arms fire. Wheeler, who completed more than a dozen tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, was fatally wounded while fighting alongside Kurdish Peshmerga forces in a U.S. Special Operations helicopter assault on a prison compound run by ISIS in northern Iraq that freed about 70 hostages, officials said. The U.S. more than 4,000 troops in Iraq, mostly serving as trainers and advisers to Iraqi security forces. The figure also includes Special Operations forces. --Brendan McGarry can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Brendan_McGarry.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Go-su to Come Back in a Drama
Stud actor Go-su has decided on his next work. It's going to be a drama titled "Into the White Night," based on a Japanese novel of the same title. Go-su will play the leading character, who becomes a fugitive after accidentally killing a man.
Having completed his military duty last April, this hunky actor has been looking for just the right vehicle to make his comeback. He has been out of the spotlight for over 2 1/2 years since March 2006, so his fans have been really looking forward to his return. The Japanese drama version of "Into the White Night" was aired in 2006, creating a sensation among Japanese viewers with its provocative and unconventional storyline.
Today's hottest actress Sohn Ye-jin is already cast as the selfish and heartless girlfriend of Go-su's character. Sohn's character uses other people for her own interest and stops at nothing to get what she wants. She has garnered good reviews for her work in the recently released film "My Wife Got Married."
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There's a smorgasbord of new books on lists this week. The softcover edition of "Batman: R.I.P.," in which the reports of the Caped Crusader's death are greatly exaggerated, enters at No. 7, while the second volume of "Chew," about a federal agent who gets psychic impressions from the food he eats, is at No. 10. This latest installment finds him investigating a strange fruit that tastes an awful lot like chicken, which has long been outlawed by the Food and Drug Administration after a widespread outbreak of the bird flu. Yum! (When Vol. 1 hit the list back in January, we talked to John Layman, a writer of the series, about his casting picks for a potential "Chew" film.)
The latest volumes of "Fairy Tail" and "Ninja Girls" enter the manga list at No. 5 and No. 8. "Fairy Tail" is about a club of powerful wizards and a boy named Natsu who is "not your typical hero – he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat." Meanwhile, the stealth warriors in "Ninja Girls" are newly enthralled by a once-powerful clan's illegitimate son, who has a horn growing out of his head — proof of his lineage and claim to power.
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During the summer of 2018 I had the honor of visiting my friends and co-authors from the UK. They are: Robin Johnson, John Conolly, Ray Middleton, and Suzanne Quinney. Together we had recently completed a book project entitled-
Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments.
As you may have surmised I live and work in the States, so in many respects the whole project was a transatlantic dialogue on homelessness. However, upon digging a little deeper it became evident that the dialogue that I sought was actually occurring on many fronts that included, but also transcended transatlantic considerations and really spoke to different cultures, roles, types of relationships, identity, power dynamics and so on.
Cultural divides in need of crossing existed between workers and clients, clients and different systems of care that we had hoped to access, Peer and non-Peer workers, the different sub-groups of clients and workers – young and old, male, female, LGBTQ, across the whole spectrum of religion, race, and varied ethnicities, etc.
So, this became a study of how to both respect and bridge differences by fostering effective and meaningful communication. As I like to say (Levy, 2013), "We are interpreters and bridge builders. Engagement is the foundation of our work and our main tool is Common Language Construction."
The quest toward 'productive dialogue' is critical to building the person-centered relationships* that both PIE and Pretreatment approaches value and defines as an essential part of our practice.
*Relationships are central to the PIE 2.0 framework and more information can be found HERE.
Our latest book project Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness delves further into some specific methods of dialogue paired with numerous narratives that demonstrate how cultural divides can be crossed in order to promote person centered relationships.
Transatlantic Dialogues on Trauma and Homelessness
Our hope is to share and encourage transatlantic dialogues on homelessness that includes our narratives, challenges and successes in order to promote mutual learning and communication, as well as a more informed practice.
We have crossed the cultural divide in our work with colleagues at various conferences (e.g. International Street Medicine Symposium), sharing insights from around the globe. Of course this is not limited just to conferences, as cross-cultural perspectives on homelessness flow via journal articles, books, University coursework, staff trainings, and easily accessible podcasts, as well as through a variety of websites such as the PIElink that offers interviews and library materials on transatlantic homelessness issues. In fact, I recently taught the first graduate studies course on PIE and Pretreatment, utilizing multi-media resources from PIE-Link, with college students in the US. These forums, as well as the exchange programs between the US and UK, provide the opportunities to share insights from PIE and Trauma Informed Care approaches to homelessness.
Robin Johnson, the founder of PIE, developed a dedicated section on Transatlantic Dialogues that can be found via PIELink. Check out the following menu items that Robin has highlighted for further exploration:
The Transatlantic Exchange Programme
Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness- Including a Transatlantic Homelessness Glossary
-Recently returned from the National Health Care for the Homeless Conference (NHCHC) featuring the latest research on homelessness, housing and healthcare.
Thus far more than 33% of book related profits ($3894.50) have been given to national (U.S.) charities that support the goal and ideal of ending homelessness. Please see Donations page for more details
Book Reviews:
-Very positive review by Matthew Bennett in the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless – 27(2), 2018. It is entitled Shifting perspectives and finding gold: a review of Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness – An excerpt of the review can be found here
-In Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness, Jay Levy and co-authors provide the conceptual tools, the hitherto "missing language", needed by practitioners and policy makers working with excluded individuals. This well-written and insightful book outlines the psychologically informed approach that has been successfully used in the US, UK and other countries to re-integrate people who have experienced homelessness, severe mental illness and, frequently, other traumatic life events. This book has been informed by the authors' practice and should come with a warning: it will revolutionise how you work – irreversibly and, undoubtedly, for the better.
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, MB, MRCP Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead, Inclusion Health Service Pilot, St James's Hospital, Dublin
Faculty, Global Brain Health Institute
-Jay Levy and colleagues' "Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments" provides wonderful insight into the profound relationship-building that is the core of street outreach to the unsheltered homeless. Jay distills many decades of his own street experience, and by cross comparing his brilliant schema of Pretreatment with the British model of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), he reveals the underlying common processes of effective street engagement. Essentially, Jay shows us how to compassionately embrace the reality of those who fall within the underwater portion of the "pre-contemplative" iceberg of behavioral change. As a long-time practitioner of street medicine, I recommend this book to anyone who seeks that sacred place on the streets where healing begins.
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03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET Age: 69
Fortune: self made
Source: diversified
Net Worth: $2.3 bil
Country Of Citizenship: Portugal
Residence: Oporto , Portugal, Europe & Russia
Industry: Diversified
Marital Status: married, 3 children
Education: Oporto University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
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Son of a carpenter. Founded Sonae GSPS, maker of decorative laminates, in 1959. Later diversified into supermarkets, eventually becoming Portugal's biggest retailer through his Modelo Continente superstores and supermarket. Holds 53% stake in the now $8.4 billion (sales) company, which today has interests in tourism, car parks, real estate, shopping centers, a radio station, a newspaper and a maker of wood panels. Sons Nuno and Paulo and daughter Claudia work at the company.
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December 11, 2019
The "3-Rs" of ecological efficiency, while necessary, are not sufficient to ensure ecological sustainability.
Submitted by: John Ikerd
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 – 08:22 AM EST
Series: The Essentials of Economic Sustainability
Tags: economy, economics, sustainability, ecology, recycling, regeneration, solar, renewable energy, energy, environment, resilience, pollution, waste
The recent global financial crisis has raised widespread concern for the sustainability of the global economy and much has been written concerning the negative impacts of economic development on natural ecosystems and civil societies. Unfortunately, few viable alternatives to the prevailing economic paradigms have been suggested for consideration. Those that have been are typically little more than suggestions for fine tuning capitalist or socialist economies.
In his new book The Essentials of Economic Sustainability, John Ikerd addresses the basic principles and concepts essential to economic sustainability. Some of these concepts are capitalist, some are socialistic, and others are general principles validated by philosophy or common sense. What results is a synthesis: something that is neither capitalist nor socialist but fundamentally different. In part six, he outlines the basic principles driving economies and what they mean for sustainability.
Living systems are capable of offsetting the inevitable diminution or degradation of economic productivity of natural and human resources. Only living organisms can capture, organize, concentrate, and store solar energy in the diverse forms necessary to support biological life on earth, including human life.
An economy is a living organization, as explained in some detail in The Essentials of Economic Sustainability. Thus sustainable economies must be designed, organized, and function in accordance with the basic paradigm or model of holistic, diverse, interdependent living organisms.
Healthy living systems must continually balance their natural tendency toward greater efficiency with their quest for longevity or sustainability. The pursuit of efficiency appears to be a natural characteristic of all living systems.
However, in striving for greater efficiency, natural ecosystems may become vulnerable to disruption, impairment, and eventual collapse. Healthy ecosystems, however, remain holistic, diverse, and interdependent, even as they evolve toward greater efficiency. By maintaining mutually beneficial relationships among their diverse elements, sustainable systems are able to move toward greater efficiency without losing their resilience or regenerative capacity.
Healthy living systems continually reorganize and rearrange their component parts in ways that reduce, reuse, and recycle the energy that flows through their systems and fuel both their productive and regenerative processes. These so-called "3-Rs" of ecological efficiency or resourcefulness, while necessary, are not sufficient to ensure ecological sustainability.
Since the usefulness of all energy is eventually depleted through the process of entropy, sustainable living systems must also be regenerative as well as efficient or resourceful. Since nothing lasts forever, regeneration is the only known means of sustaining productivity.
Living systems must rely on solar energy to continually renew, reproduce, and reorganize. Green leaves and algae are nature's self-renewing biological solar energy collectors. Living organisms have an innate tendency to reproduce. By their basic nature, plants devote a significant portion of their life's energy to producing seeds and shoots and other means of reproduction.
By nature, most animals devote a large portion of their energy to conceiving, gestating, and raising their offspring. By nature, plants and animals redesign and reorganize their structures as they evolve from generation to generation. Sustainable living systems must balance the 3-Rs of ecological resourcefulness with the 3-Rs of ecological regeneration – renewal, reproduction, and reorganization.
Natural ecosystems tend to evolve toward greater complexity and connectivity in their quest for greater efficiency. They gain greater efficiencies through more narrowly-defined specialization and closer coordination of increasingly-complex interconnections of functional processes. At some point in their quest for greater efficiency, such systems lose their resilience, meaning their ability to withstand or recover from expected adversity.
Even while striving to balance regenerative capacity with greater efficiency, living systems can become vulnerable to disruptions, physical impairments, and potential ecological collapse.
Increasing complexity leads to loss of authentic diversity and interdependence. Diverse systems are resistant and tough, complex systems are fragile and vulnerable. Interdependent systems are responsive and able to adapt to changing situations; complex systems are inflexible and lack the ability to adapt to changes in their environments. Damage in any part of their system quickly spreads through the system, disrupting and damaging the systems as a whole.
In the quest for efficiency, systems remove redundancies both within and among their various functions. The lack of redundancy diminishes the ability of systems to regroup or recover from major disruption and impairments; they become vulnerable to collapse. Sustainable systems must balance the 3-Rs of ecological resourcefulness, the 3-Rs of ecological regeneration and the 3-Rs of ecological resilience – resistance, responsiveness, and redundancy.
Natural ecosystems, being self-making and self-regulating are capable of balancing the need for efficiency with the need for resilience and regeneration. If natural ecosystems fail to maintain a healthy balance among these three essential characteristics they eventually will collapse.
Economies, on the other hand, are created and regulated by people, who make purposeful choices affecting their efficiency, resilience, and regenerative capacity. In the pursuit of greater economic efficiency, today's global economy is becoming increasingly vulnerable to collapse, either through depletion of its natural and human resources or through its inability to withstand major ecological or social disruptions, whichever occurs first.
Sustainable economic organizations and individuals are microcosms of sustainable economies and must possess the same characteristics if they are to function sustainably. Thus, the essential characteristics of sustainable economies are also essential characteristics of all types of sustainable organizations, including for-profit, nonprofit, and public agencies. These same characteristics are also essential for economically sustainable individual lifestyles.
Most contemporary sustainability initiatives – individual, public, nonprofit and for-profit – focus on the 3-Rs of ecological efficiency. They reduce pollution and energy use, reuse durable materials, and recycle wastes. Since such strategies often lead to increased economic efficiency, they are frequently cost effective or profitable as well as more ecologically sustainable. Most government, private sector, and individual sustainability initiatives focus on areas of overlap or congruence between ecological sustainability and economic efficiency.
Other sustainability initiatives take a first step toward ecological regeneration by substituting renewable for non-renewable energy resources.
In some cases, as with hydroelectric generation, renewable energy may be economically competitive with fossil energy. In other cases, such as photovoltaics, significant government incentives are required to make renewable energy economically competitive with fossil energy. While such initiatives are necessary, they are not sufficient for sustainability. Sustainability requires ecological, social, and economic integrity.
An economy that relies solely on economic incentives, whether from markets or governments, will leave some people without the basic necessities of life.
A national or global society in which some prosper while others live in poverty or starve is inherently unstable and unsustainable. Economic sustainability is no less dependent on social relationships than on ecological relationships. Economic sustainability ultimately will require radical rethinking, redesign, and reorganization of economies to reflect the paradigm of healthy living systems.
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text: Dear Charlie: For my case, frame 57 is wrong and also some after 57. I think it's a known issue bcz so many tools(Include ACDSee) got same problem. Maybe IP reasons. I will try on MacOS. Also thanks for your advice to be more Pythinic. :P Br, Lixin Song -----邮件原件----- 发件人: image-sig-bounces+songlixin=vanzotec.com at python.org [mailto:image-sig-bounces+songlixin=vanzotec.com at python.org] 代表 Charlie Clark 发送时间: 2011年12月30日 星期五 4:49 收件人: image-sig at python.org 主题: Re: [Image-SIG] gif convert png wrong Dear Song (I hope I have this the right way round), Am 20.12.2011, 03:50 Uhr, schrieb 宋立新(凡卓通讯) <songlixin at vanzotec.com>: > Hello All: > I am writing a python tool that covert gif to png so it can be used > for android ROM customization. > My script is after the text, but it doesn't work for some > gifs, > such as the one at: > ftp://help:firstname.lastname@example.com/gif2.gif > several frames are wrong(See png_ok and png_wrong) > And it's not rare: 2 of my 7 gifs got wrong with the > scripts. > While a tool named: "Ulead GIF Animator 5" under > windows can convert it without problem. > To be honest, imagemagick and another linux tool > gif2png > also has the same problem. And Also AcdSee (Under Windows)! > I have no idea about this and I really wish to write a > tool to improve our efficiency. > Could some expert take a look on it? > BR, > Lixin Song The problem seems to be related to the underlying library used for either GIF or PNG images as your script runs fine on my machine (Mac OS 10.7). Frames 2 and 56 look a bit weird but the original image looks like this. I'm not sure which frames you think don't work. FWIW your script isn't very Pythonic (the try clause should preferably only contain one statement with known error conditions) and can be rewritten thus: for i in range(im.info['duration']): try: im.seek(i) except EOFError: break im.save("test%02d.png" % i) Charlie -- Charlie Clark Managing Director Clark Consulting & Research German Office Kronenstr. 27a Düsseldorf D- 40217 Tel: +49-211-600-3657 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig


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Marco Werman: I'm Marco Werman. This is The World. Many US officials are speaking up in defense of the National Security Agency, and there's a pattern to what they're saying. One common theme: NSA surveillance helps prevent terrorist attacks. Secretary of State John Kerry said as much yesterday, even as he admitted some of the spying had gone too far. Well, it turns out the NSA issued a list of talking points for officials to use. Reporter Jason Leopard of Al Jazeera America obtained that list through the Freedom of Information Act. He says there are two main NSA talking points. Jason Leopold: ...9/11 and connect the dots, and they were both sort of related to each other. The talking point said that, prior to 9/11, they were unable to connect the dots, they failed to connect the dots, so we need these programs because we can't have another 9/11. 9/11 is just sort of spread throughout these 27 pages as a justification for these widespread surveillance activities. Werman: Now, this is kind of a formal list of talking points, but how long has the NSA been thinking about media spin, and talking about 9/11 and connecting the dots? Leopold: Let's just say this: Prior to the revelations from the Guardian and the Washington Post, you'd be hard-pressed to get the NSA to make any sort of comment because they're highly classified. You know, when I filed this FOIA request, I did so because I knew that once these stories were published, that there must be some discussions taking place internally about how to respond to it. It seems that using 9/11, using this sort of fear to explain why these programs are being operated, I believe the thinking is the public will just accept that, but it's 12 years after 9/11. It's not that easy. I don't think the public is just willing to lap up whatever this agency says. Werman: Ironically, John Kerry yesterday, while saying the NSA ought to dial back the scope of surveillance, also said this: John Kerry: And then, of course, 9/11. The attack on the United States and the rise of radical extremism in the world events that is hell-bent determined to try to kill people and blow people up and attack governments. Werman: So that's the Secretary of State, Jason Leopold, but also Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein used another NSA talking point, connect the dots, that you talked about, in a recent op-ed. I'm just wondering how far have these talking points traveled? Leopold: I think it's clear that these same talking points that the NSA is using traveled to Congress, to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that they're using the same phrases. So I think that it's the same type of material that our public figures-- excuse me, that our lawmakers are using to explain these programs. Werman: Is it also a concern to you, Jason, that -- you're a member of the media -- the NSA appears to have a fairly sophisticated guide to dealing with the media and the message? Leopold: Well, that's exactly why I filed this Freedom of Information Act request. I felt that it was something that the public needed to see so that they can kind of hold it up against what we're seeing in the media, that the NSA is being quoted in a New York Times report. Where did that statement come from? Here's the master media list talking points. It's already prepared for everyone. I think it just is a matter of kind of looking at it with-- being a bit more skeptical when looking up what they say. Werman: Reporter Jason Leopold of Al Jazeera America has been telling us about a master list of NSA talking points that he obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Jason, thanks a lot.


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Unity 2017: Thank you for a year of awesome
We can't believe 2017 is almost over! This year brought some major changes to Unity. We started a whole new release cycle. Released new tools that empowered people with all kinds of skill to make even more amazing projects together. Helped you reach more users on more platforms. Here's a quick look back at some of the new things that came with Unity 2017.
One of our major priorities this year has been empowering creators with powerful new visual tools that let the whole team collaborate efficiently. Timeline, Cinemachine, Unity FBX Exporter and Tilemap, OctaneRender for Unity are all here so that you can get better results faster. At the same time, we've been improving Unity Teams, a set of tools that make syncing and sharing your project seamless.
Getting the hang of these huge new features can be difficult. So we're doing tutorials, online training sessions, talks at Unite and blog posts full of tips and tricks. And the holiday period is perfect for some learning, so dig in! You can explore worldbuilding in 2D using Tilemap and 2D Cinemachine with Matt Schell. Or take twenty minutes to learn how Unity Teams work from this Unite Austin talk. Tell us what you think about these resources in the comments – especially if there are some areas where you think we should make more content!
And we do enjoy making content, that's for sure – just take a look at the projects and tools we released on the Asset Store, for your free enjoyment! We love to see what you make with all the assets. But there was one project that we were blown away by this year. OATS Studios used the full capabilities of Unity 2017 to create two short films that continue the world of our demo ADAM. They really gave us a glimpse into the future of real-time rendering. But they've also worked with us to explain how they used tools like the Alembic Importer and features like Timeline to work so much faster than a traditional studio and achieve their creative vision. We can't recommend enough that you read the entire "Making of Adam" series!
We've also invested a lot of our time and effort into improving the everyday experience of working in Unity for all of you who are programmers and technical artists. That means a lot of improvements to things like the GI Profiler and texture compression. Or a New Asset Bundle Browser:
We also released the Playable API, allowing you to have precise programmatic control over animation and audio. You can now update your live game in an instant with Remote Settings. And we're working on upgrading the core scripting runtime to Mono/.NET 4.6.
These updates improve the performance of your games and make scripting and optimization overall easier. And they are a huge priority for us in 2018, with the new C# Job System currently in Technical Preview and upcoming Scriptable Render Pipeline available as an experimental feature. Watch the relevant part of the Unite keynote to get a taste for the upcoming performance optimizations:
With Unity 2017, things have really started heating up when it comes to mixed reality development. We've added support for ARCore and ARKit as well as Vuforia, enabling our community to create cross platform AR experiences. You can get started writing cross-platform code with experimental sample code in this this blog post.
You often ask how can we progress in all directions at once, working on the big new things while improving all the existing features, while maintaining support for more than 25 platforms. The truth is, we've hired loads of super talented new people this year. Using Unity, you now have more than 500 engineers on your team, working all around the globe to provide the technical backbone for your digital creations.
And the quality of projects that you're already making with Unity 2017 is just awe inspiring. You motivate us to keep improving your tools in the years to come – thank you!
A special extra thank you goes to our beta testers, who take the hot off the presses new versions of the engine and run wild with it. You help us improve the stability of every release.
If you're not a Unity beta tester yet, we'd like to invite you to join up and become a part of the future of Unity! Get early access to what's coming in 2018! Keep an eye on our open beta page.
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Suduck1월 2, 2018 1:01 오후
Congratulations for the hard work! It is amazing how unity is improving their engine.
As a mobile developer, I will like to see unity making tools to improve the store listing of each plataform, in my case ASO( app store optimization) for example:
-Making a language native solution for each plataform, so when I build for android or iOs, the native system recognize it, and also the ASO
-Reducing the initial apk or ipa size, you create a new project, build an apk and it is 20MBs, apk size have a huge impact on installs (specially at news markets)
-Tools to improve your retention, and engament: Maybe a calendar where we can give items every day, implement dynamic events, push notifications…etc
-Improving the UI system, You need to work a little on this aspect
I hope the next year is even better!
Suduck1월 2, 2018 1:11 오후
Also, Getting a lots of asset from the asset store mess your project folder a lot, make something that make it easy to work with external tools!
Peter1월 1, 2018 12:59 오후
Congratulations to a successful year 2017! Many new features have been added during the 2017 cycle, as mentioned in this post. I appreciate this a lot.
It seems after adding so many new things during 2017, the robustness of Unity suffered. This can be observed in the forums, where users report many issues that block them from their work with Unity 2017. It seems to me 2017.3 especially is causing a lot of headache.
For 2018, I wish Unity Technologies is going to invest more time in stabilizing their software.
Did it ever come to mind to dedicate an entire minor-release to bug-fixing only? I don't refer to the sustained engineering team who seem to work on fixing bugs for patch releases already. I'm thinking about the entire developer staff working 3 months ironing out issues in their systems. I imagine this would raise the quality a lot in a short period of time.
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An interesting 5 year study that compares the performance of three homes nearly identical that are inhabited by robotics that simulate actual human behavior.
The three homes have identical floor plans, square footage, and have their broad sides facing the sun. The difference was the materials in the building envelop, the HVAC and the lighting.
What was the cost difference in construction of the three buildings?
According to David Dinse, senior program manager for technology innovation at TVA, "It cost around $30,000 more to build the high performance energy home compared to the normal build, but today it would be more like $20,000 because the cost of a lot of materials has gone down since we built these. What they started experimenting here five years ago is becoming the new standard for building."
What was the difference in utility bills for the 5 year period?
"The build-house had a utility bill of $1,600 a year. The retrofit was $1,000. And this [high performance] was a shade over $400. Most of that difference is the solar buyback plan," said Dinse. "It actually surprised me that the kilowatt hour basis, there was not that much difference between this house and the retrofitted house if you strip the solar off. But I think you have to cherry-pick the best things from both houses and pick the sweet spots that don't add a whole lot of cost to come out with the optimum design."
If the high performance building costs $20,000 more and the savings between the build house and the high performance is $400 …That would be a 17 year payback and that is only because of the solar buyback program. If it was based on energy savings not cost then the payback would be around 33 years.
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Benefit Concert on Plaza Sat. May 31 for Chinese Quake Victims
One thing that always impresses me about Americans is their generosity toward those in need.
Recently we saw this type of outpouring toward Hurricane Katrina victims in our country and Tsunami victims in Indonesia.
In spite of us feeling we are taxed to death, many Americans still are very willing to give to others in need, for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.
Americans give with an open heart and open wallet--all on their own--no government involvement necessary. They give with no hope of gain or compensation, no arm twisting needed. It is great to see.
Now there is another need, the Chinese earthquake victims half way around the globe.
The Zhong family of Brookfield is holding a fundraiser concert on Saturday, May 31st, from 10 AM to 1 PM, to raise money for those suffering Chinese people.
The concert will be held at the Brookfield City Plaza during Farmer's Market hours. So come for the market and the concert, and make a donation to this cause.
A Silent Auction follows the concert and a raffle for performers.
This concert is unique in that it affords local musicians of all ages an opportunity to perform. If you wish to participate in the performance, contact Shan Lu at email@example.com or call 262-786-8188.
Donations may be made by cash or check. Please make check out to the Red Cross or World Vision and note China Earthquake Relief Fund on the check. World Vision is a Christian organization if you wish your aid to be faith based.
I really admire private citizens who do something on their own to make a difference in the world. Shan, the concert organizer immigrated to the United States from China and now is a U.S. Citizen.
Hopefully this concert will be a big success!
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Practically Speaking, Fairly Conservative, Betterbrookfield, Vicki Mckenna


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Saddam Hussein has 48 hours to leave Iraq with his sons or face the full force and might of Allied military force.
President George Bush gave the ultimatum today, starting the countdown to probable airstrikes early on Thursday or Friday.
Mr Bush used a 15-minute TV address from the White House to tell Saddam that unless he complied, the US would launch war at a time of our choosing.
Mr Bush was speaking hours before a Commons debate in which Tony Blair was due to ask MPs to authorise the use of all means necessary to disarm Iraq.
Mr Blair was facing probably the largest backbench rebellion of his premiership, with up to 120 MPs queuing to sign an anti-war motion tabled late last night.
The US President said there was no doubt Saddam held weapons of mass destruction and it was necessary to disarm him now before he became able to use them in concert with terror groups to kill thousands of Americans.
"Instead of drifting along towards tragedy, we will set a course towards safety," said Mr Bush. "Before the day of horror can come, this danger will be removed."
Resolutions passed at the time of the 1991 Gulf War gave authority to disarm Saddam by force, claimed Mr Bush, adding: "The UN Security Council has not lived up to its responsibilities, so we will rise to ours."
He sent out a personal message to Iraqi troops not to obey orders to use chemical or biological weapons or set fire to oil-wells, and urged them not to oppose Allied troops entering their country.
And he promised ordinary Iraqis that the US would help them rebuild their shattered nation after any conflict, telling them: "The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near."
Mr Bush acknowledged the danger of terrorist outrages in reaction to any strike on Iraq, and said that US authorities were stepping up defences.
But he vowed that nothing would shake the resolve of the American people. Baghdad dismissed calls for Saddam to go.


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A recent study in Psychology Today mapped the most common locations of Craigslist Missed Connections by state -- and Colorado's isn't glamorous. In the Centenntial State, the most likely place to fail romantically (and later document it publicly) is the gas station. Considering the amount of active outdoor adults here, our volcanic music scene and our never-gets-old nightlife scene, our first reaction was that this can't be true. But that's before we perused the most recent Missed Connections: Turns out gas stations are a pretty popular place to miss your chance at true love. In honor of that fact, here's a list of the ten best Denver Missed Connections from gas stations.
Who knows? You might be one of them.
See also: - Blue Christmas: Craigslist's most depressing missed connections - Occupy Denver love: Read the Craigslist missed connections behind the movement - Ten best Missed Connections to come from the 2012 election
10. Even if you're just paying for a package of SweetTarts, you're true love could be walking up right behind you to snag a sprig of that three-month old beef jerky that's on sale. 9. If you have the opportunity to lock eyes with someone, hold it for as long as possible. 8. Who doesn't like a hot chick in a white 'Benz? You'd be stupid to miss this chance at love. Email the picture, damnit. 7. It's certainly not desperate to think that a passing conversation about getting off of work is actually a sign of fate for both of you. Not at all. 6. This person obviously falls into the category of "Missed Stalking Opportunity." If they stared long enough to realize that you had a Widespread Panic sticker on your gas tank, they obviously checked you out from the feet to the face -- which is a great way to start a relationship.
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5. Ah, a classic case of "Slurpee Syndrome." This occurs when you are startled that a hot member of the opposite sex, or same if that's your bag, makes a subtle introduction -- and then you freeze. 4. Has maroon truck. Will fuck. 3. This turned into a clear case of stalking when the "misser" of the "connection" followed the other person to Taco Bell and then watched from afar at the gas station. 2. This is the sign of a true Casanova. He actually stops in at that gas station to see you, and he now knows that you don't work there anymore. Think he'll get the hint that it's a little creepy? 1. This is a classic case of "brown-noser." You can't nail a cop then expect to not have to pay your parking tickets, but we appreciate where your head is at, even if it's halfway up your ass.
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Trough its owned subsidiary OVMB (Oostvlaams Milieubeheer) Eiffage Benelux operates a category I landfill site and a newly expanded solidification plant in the port area of Ghent. This activity focuses on the processing and storage of industrial waste: heavily contaminated soil, residual waste fron incinerators, shredder waste, asbestos waste, etc.
Since 2008, the company also operates a lagooning field and a mono-landfill for dredging sludge. A new landfill site, able to contain up to 1,2246 million tons of industrial waste was put into use in 2011.