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The Semiconductors sector is comprised of companies that make the components of electronic devices such as microchips.
These chips are effectively a bed of silicon covered with billions of transistors composed of a solid substance called a semiconductor. All smartphones and computers are powered by semiconductors.
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In this chapter, the interference management capabilities of future generations of wireless communication networks are explored. The contribution of this chapter will create a strong impact on the infrastructure developments for future generations of wireless networks, which facilitate the wireless high quality broadband access to everyone especially to the population residing in sparsely populated areas. Furthermore, the theme of the chapter is fully aligned with the European manifesto which ensures that everyone must have access to good broadband to a minimum of 2 Mb speed service by 2015. The proposal is fully aligned with Race Online 2012 manifesto, along with several other European projects under seventh framework (FP7) such as COGEU, QOSMOS, CROWN, SECARA, ARCOPILIS, WHITESPACECENTER, W-GREEN, and EARTH. The theme of this chapter is also aligned with several projects under COST actions such as IC0804-Energy for distributed systems, IC0905-TERRA, IC0902-HETNETS (Cost Europe, 2012; European Commission, 2012).
In this section, the technology behind the cognitive radio networks is presented, with a deep insight on its applications and trends along with an overview of the several spectrum sensing methods that are currently used. Then, the concept behind heterogeneous networks is introduced with a discussion on Small Cell Networks (SCN), its employment, benefits, problems and challenges.
The rest of the contributions of the chapter is organized as follows. Section 2.1 defines the Smart Cognitive-Femto Networks by recasting the two tier Heterogeneous network into the framework of the Cognitive Enabled Femtocell Network. Section 2.1.1 defines the environment in which the proposed system is being tested. Section 2.1.2 presents the network layout of such system; Section 2.1.4 presents the system model. Later in Section 2.1.5, interference suppression capabilities of the smart network are presented. Next, in Section 2.2, simulation results are presented to show the efficacy of the proposed smart network. Directions for future research are described in Section 3. Finally, conclusions are drawn in section 4.


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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Susie's Day
Mrs. G asked us to describe an average day. I didn't think you needed to see photos my dirty kitchen so I made you this little wordle. And yes, I do everything a day late. That is quite typical.
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Santa Claus Parade
On Saturday Ottawa Nerds On Site were participating in 2 Santa Claus parades. In the west our new nerd Mark Cassanto was in the Arnprior parade. He was joined by his wife and kids who handed out candy canes, as well as some boxes of Nerds, to the kids who were lining the route. (Wes has a scheduling conflict).
In the east end, Tony and I were entered into the Orleans Parade of Lights. We always enter this parade in partnership with the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard. While I drove the car Tony along with the GEFC volunteers handed out candy canes to all the kids lining the route. Thanks also to John Brule, his wife Anne and my son Allistair for helping with the decorating of the Nerdmobile.


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As teachers, not only do we strive to make an impact on students, but we also strive to continue learning. Sometimes this means trying new methods to see what works best for us as well as the students. George Szekely is with me today to talk about his hands-on approach with teaching art and how to expand your students' exposure to art.
Show Highlights:
- Why George says that Show & Tell should never die
- The difference between Art and Lecture
- The one method George could never get rid of
- The benefits of teaching Adult Art with Kids Art
- How to integrate more art into lesson plans
- Why it's important to give kids art they can physically handle
- Advice to Art Teachers about options for showcases
- George shares his thoughts on teaching art in high school
- Techniques on how to connect with teenagers
- The importance of letting students know they're artists
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munster.gaa.ie Hurling team of the year
Well done to Kilkenny on winning the All-Ireland Senior Hurling title. With the Hurling Championship fare at a finish, the team at munster.gaa.ie have put together our Hurling Team of the Year.
Unlike other selections, the rules for this team are focused primarily on Munster Hurling talent with the following criteria for selection.
a) Only players from Munster counties involved
b) 1 player minimum from each county in the Munster Championship
c) Players can be chosen based on the League & Championship performance
1. Darren Gleeson (Tipperary)
2. Stephen McDonnell (Cork)
3. Richie McCarthy (Limerick)
4. Seamus Hickey (Limerick)
5. Brendan Maher (Tipperary)
6. Padraic Maher (Tipperary)
7. Lorcan McLoughlin (Cork)
8. Colm Galvin (Clare)
9. Aidan Walsh (Cork)
10. John O'Dwyer (Tipperary)
11. Patrick Bonner Maher (Tipperary)
12. Austin Gleeson (Waterford)
13. Pat Horgan (Cork)
14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
15. Shane Dowling (Limerick)
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At a 12-step meeting I attend the discussion on the table one night was freedom. My fellow recovering addicts had many beautiful things to say about the kind of freedom that they've encountered since beginning to break from their addictions, several coming to new realizations even as they spoke about the kind of transformed experience of life they subtly now enjoy—new ways they experience their family, their environment, fragile passing moments of beauty they'd been blind to. (Indeed, this kind of process revelation is some of the wonderful magic of recovery groups.) I had a different take that evening.
Only days before, I had experienced my strongest temptation to relapse since re-entering recovery. I walked laps around my neighborhood for hours, and I smoked my pipe and prayed, and I sat on benches until it was dark and I was tired enough to feel like the worst had passed. The thing is, not only did I not want to act on my addiction; I had no desire to act on my addiction, no more than I'd desired to in months. Why would I? The thought of pornography only disgusted me. I knew it had nothing to offer. It's not that I wanted to feel anything particular or even to feel nothing. There was absolutely nothing I desired from it, yet I found myself desiring it, not anything it pretended to be but the addiction itself, because it was at least something, rather than nothing; it was the comfort of bondage.
Gerald May in Addiction and Grace puts his finger briefly on the problem of freedom for an addict. He suggests that freedom offers no normality. In all of its great unpredictability, addiction assures normality. Every day, you shall serve heroin. Whenever you have spare time, you will pursue the ideal, perfect sexual image. When you don't know what to do, you will act out; when you don't know who you are, you are an addict; when you don't know what orders your life, it's this. Exchanging one addiction for another is easy, chain-smoking AA attenders realize, because the problem wears another mask; the chains are a different color. Freedom is hard, because there is no system of a normal order; in freedom, everything is free, unpredictable. The addict's illusion of power (the focus of Step 1) is shattered, and she is confronted with how uncontrollable so much of life has always been all along. In freedom, nothing will ever be normal again.
One must live without chains, but how does one do that? must live without a master, but how does one live? Thus in at least one sense, freedom is hard because addiction is familiar (more, all one has come to know) at the same time that freedom is unknown, uncertain and certainly fearful. It seems perhaps like this is why Brooks can't make it on the outside in The Shawshank Redemption. Addicts have been 'institutionalized.' But this is to say not enough. It is not simply that freedom is too big a thing for the addict but that it might also be too small, that without an endless, infinite, insatiable ordering principle that makes demands on life (or demands my whole life) and orders my reality, freedom is shallow, unappealing, meaningless glitz. Bondage appeals. Maybe this too is part of why Brooks, not despairing but matter-of-factly, declined the option of life as a free man.
Sin operates in the same way. The Hebrew proverb says, 'Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.' Why do we return to habits of sin, to destructive patterns? May, in fact, identifies all sin and attachment as addiction, which is further than I would go. Yet his point about freedom from attachment I think carries over universally. He writes succinctly, 'God is never "normal,"' and this is what we struggle with. We miss our attachments; we're familiar with our old patterns, sure; but worse, Gød doesn't neatly replace them with a new normal. Gød does not give us our script, and we love to follow scripts. Gød does not tell us what role we are to play and how to play it, and we want to know who we are and how to be it. Freedom from our bondage means that we must become comfortable with improv, with responsibility, with getting it wrong, with grace. Bondage appeals. Freedom is hard. And in the absence of a compelling reason to hazard the costs of freedom, in the absence of a compelling freedom, we can long for old baggage like Israel longed to be back among Pharaoh's slaves.
That night my addiction appeared unmasked before my sober mind; I knew exactly what it was, and I loathed it. Yet it was honest on its bare face. It said, 'I will claim you. I will tell you what is important in your life. I will tell you what you will do tomorrow night and the next night and the next night. I will tell you lies, but they will tuck you into your reality. I will be your master and reward you poorly, but I will be your master.' Here is the 'voice' that had tempted me. I struggled to explain my trial to my meeting, how hard I'd found freedom then, the very thing we were celebrating that night, but I think in the end it was because I was using too many words and too many metaphors. It is simply this: we are tempted to exchange our freedom, however much we hate what we serve, however much we hate bondage, because our bondage pretends to be any kind of life at all. But this is just the final mask of addiction before its absence is unveiled. I empty my pipe beside the park bench and hear Jesus' call within my memory, 'Come, follow me,' and I find the demon has left me.


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Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has now missed 56 votes in the Senate because of his ongoing corruption trial.
Menendez is accused of starting to take bribes from a wealthy donor just before joining the Senate in 2006. Prosecutors argue that the donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, treated Menendez to lavish trips in the Dominican Republic so that Menendez could help him get away with $100 million in Medicare fraud. (RELATED: Prosecutors: Menendez Bribery Scheme Started When He Became A Senator)
Many Democrats and political allies have declined to say whether or not Menendez should resign if he is convicted of the charges, even as MSNBC host Ari Melber has called the case against him "overwhelming." (VIDEO: Sen. Sanders Dodges When Asked If Menendez Should Resign)
With Menendez missing 56 votes in the Senate because of the trial, Democrats may examine if he is too much of a liability to remain in the Senate even if he is acquitted of the charges. Polls show that 84 percent of New Jersey residents want Menendez to resign if he is convicted, and 50 percent say he should not be reelected regardless of what happens with the trial.


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I hosted a Pink Party on Saturday with a few sweet friends. We had such a wonderful evening, and I couldn't wait to share some of the pictures with you all. It was such a joy to decorate, plan the evening's treats, and celebrate the beauty of friendship.
To partake in the pink-party fun, guests were asked to dress in something red or pink and to bring a red or pink treat to share. ;)
Of course, you need hearts + sparkle for A Pink Party, right?! ;)
We had a variety of delicious treats to indulge in, including tea and hot cocoa, cake pops, strawberry ice cream pie, and sorbet with dark chocolate nibs on top. YUMMO.
And here are a few photos I snapped with my trusty iPhone:
My outfit for the night: Pink Radiant lipstick, pink ribbon on my polka-dot collar, and pink skinnies.
It was a lovely very pink and sparkly night. ;)
Happy Sunday, friends! Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next Staying Creative post! It's a fun one! :)


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Back To The Future: The Game
Episode 1…
"What's this?" you say, "a video game based on one of my favourite film trilogies of all time?". They sit proudly alongside my Indiana Jones and Star Wars DVDs, which speaks volumes about how highly I rate those movies. In the eighties, the next instalment of the trilogy was, for me and many other people of my age group, a big thing and so when a game pops up featuring it, two things happen at pretty much the same time. First of all, and quite sadly I might add, the first thought is "oh no, a video game based on a movie", not just any movie but a classic movie. It normally spells doom for the game as the majority of the time it's a quickly developed cash in. The second thing that would happen is I would start reading and looking into the game, thinking maybe it won't be as bad as I feared and may actually be fun to play. Nine times out of ten however initial worries are proven correct when these games turn out to be a second rate barely enjoyable game. So, having the same worries about this title, it was with some trepidation that I downloaded and went into Back To The Future Episode 1. Did the game disappoint or surprise me? Read on to find out.
The game starts off in a familiar setting which any fan of the movies will recognise, the parking lot of the Twin Pines Mall with Doc Brown unveiling his time machine to Marty, even going so far as to include my favourite line of dialogue from all three of the films – "Doc, you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean". But it is not long before Marty begins to experience a little deja vu, realising that he has been here and seen all this before, and then things begin to go a little awry. The time machine, along with Einstein on board, does not reappear when expected, followed seconds later by Doc disappearing into thin air. This leaves it to the player as Marty trying to figure out exactly what went wrong, resulting in a trip through time to the 1930s, to a time of gangsters and the prohibition.
The game takes the form of a point and click adventure, similar to titles such as Monkey Island or the Broken Sword games, as you move your characters through the playing area whilst at the same time moving a pointer around the screen, searching for interactive objects or characters. Interacting with other people in the game normally gives you enough of a clue to figure out what it is you are supposed to be doing. It then becomes a case of finding the items or manipulating the scene to achieve your goal. Some of the puzzles do tax the brain a little, but upon solving them you realise how obvious it was all along. For example, at one point in the game Marty needs to get his hands on some alcohol to be used as fuel. This may sound simple but in this time frame it was not so easy as to nip into your nearest corner shop. Instead it actually involved arranging a delivery and then manipulating three connected parts of a puzzle one after the other. Whilst trying to figure this out it was a little frustrating, but upon solving it you think to yourself that it was all so obvious. This is a genre of game which I have never really been a huge player of, The Monkey Island games of course being an exception along with the more recent Sam And Max title also on the PS3. But it has to be said I found myself enjoying Back To The Future more so than both of those games and I think it had a lot to do with the fact that it was based on the movie franchise.
What definitely helps is that the game is full of references and little in jokes which will have fans smiling all the way through and although this is only the opening episode with another five to follow over the coming months, this does an excellent job of setting up the games story and leaves you looking forward to the following episodes. Something else which helps no end when immersing you in the game is the sound and voice acting. The music score is both taken from and inspired by the music from the movies and the voice acting, although most of the voices in the game are supplied by voice over actors it has to be said they do an admirable job, especially the gentleman voicing Marty who does an excellent job impersonating Micheal J. Fox, so much so that during times in the game you could be forgiven for thinking it was him. All the other voice actors are overshadowed of course by Christopher Loyd returning to bring life back into Doctor Emmet Brown and it is so much joy hearing him back in that character.
The looks of the game take on an animated cartoon look, which in my opinion suits the game perfectly. But it also leads me to my one and only niggle with the game. The story takes place after that of the third film and although Marty was a young teenaged kid in the movies, it seems that they have made him look even younger in the game. I am not aware if this was a conscious effort from the developers or just something that came about. It does not detract from the game and is just one of those things that stuck in the back of my mind. On the whole however, the look of the game suits it perfectly.
And so we have it, Back To The Future Episode 1 from TellTale games is one of hose rare beasts, a game based on a movie franchise which is actually a lot of fun to play. The episode itself is not overly long and you will complete it within two or three hours, but with knowledge that there are more episodes to come. Paying the almost £16 may seem a little steep at first as you play through the first chunk of gameplay, but if the following episodes are as long as this one then the full season pass will be more than worth the money paid for it, making this a must buy for anyone who fondly remembers the movies, or if you are a fan of this game genre. It's a well written, well acted, fun game to play. Well worth giving it a go.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. – A'ja Wilson, considered one of the nation's top women's basketball recruits, picked South Carolina over offers from national champion Connecticut, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Wilson said the hardest part of the process was telling the coaches at the other schools of her decision.
The Gamecocks won 29 games in the just concluded season, and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, Coach Dawn Staley's team reached the Sweet 16 for the second time in three years.
South Carolina lost one senior from that team and Wilson's choice means the Gamecocks have signed four players ranked in the top 35 recruits.
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Knitting a Tension Gauge Swatch
How to Ensure Correct Tensions in Hand Knitted Items
Lots of knitters hate knitting tension squares. They want to jump in and start knitting that new project straight away and enjoy the lovely new yarn they've bought just for the purpose (or perhaps pulled from the yarn stash!)
Why Knitting a Gauge Swatch is Essential
Jumping in and getting started straight away with the knitting is all very well if the project is a scarf or something else where known gauge is not that essential. However, if it is necessary to know the finished size of an item, whether it be a sweater or a bag made up of different pieces which must fit together, then knitting a gauge swatch is a must. No two knitters handle yarn and needles in exactly the same way, and this can result in considerable variances in stitch and row gauge.
Almost all knitting yarns sold today come with a suggested gauge to aim for and needle size to use. To take one example, 4 ply yarns usually come with the suggestion to knit at a gauge of 28 stitches and 36 rows per 10 cm square, using size 3.25 mm knitting needles. If however the 4 ply yarn is being used to knit socks the needle size will usually be reduced to 2.5 mm. In this case there will of course be a change in stitch and row gauge and it will be essential to knit a swatch, using circular knit techniques, because it is usual for the knitter to want the sock to fit somebody.
Substituting yarn is another minefield. Quite often the yarn for a particular pattern will not be available and the knitter will want to use something else. Once again it will be helpful to know that the yarn being substituted for that in the pattern will work to the same stitch gauge and whether adjustments may need to be made to the needle size to ensure that the knitting tension will match.
It may be necessary to switch from circular knitting to flat knitting and vice versa. Some knitters do work to a different tension gauge when working flat to the one they will use when working circular knitting. The reason for this is that the purl row is often looser than the knit row due to the techniques used in making a purl stitch. Again the only way of knowing whether this will happen in any given case is to work a gauge swatch.
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December was a difficult month for all of us past, present and future Mountain School community members. The passing our iconic guard llama, Nigel, after he bravely defended our sheep for 14 years, weighed heavily on all of our hearts. We mourned for him, all the while knowing that in a few short months, it would be necessary – for the sake of the sheep – to begin the search for his successor, even as we acknowledge that there will never exist another creature as noble and sophisticated as Nigel. He is simply inimitable.
With the legacy of Nigel fresh in her mind, our fearless livestock manager Gwynne went on a quest to find The Chosen One. She journeyed far and wide, to a farm that tried to sell her seven llamas at once (a little excessive) and another farm that tried to talk her into taking a llama with an award-winning pedigree. You know, in case the Mountain School decides to pursue competitive llama showing as its next big thing. That connects to getting to know a place and working for common good, right?
Anyway. After careful consideration, Gwynne made a decision, and now our Chosen Llama is HERE, in the sheep barn, getting to know his new brethren. He was nameless for awhile (his previous barn called him "Hunter" but obviously that name is not going to cut it in the big leagues), and students debated between Albus, Axel, Wilson, Otis and Atlas for several weeks. Then, Gwynne stood up in school meeting and said, "So, we never finished discussing what to name Desmond," and after an official vote, that became his name. Sue loves his long curly eyelashes. Gwynne likes how expressive he is with his ears. Jack notes that he seems "more open to conversation" than Nigel. Alden waited awhile to see him because he was "not ready yet." As for me, I'm so excited.
Without further ado, I present our new legend, Desmond the Brave:
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Gordon Blair, of Lancaster University, launched a simple idea: connecting farm animals to Wi-Fi, to create a sort of rural version of the IoT (Internet of Things).
The concept has been tested with the help of the Sami people, that are nomadic shepherds. Animals carry wireless sensors with GPS and accelerometers: thanks to these devices, herders keep track of flocks. Internet access comes from relays mounted in backpacks or vehicles.
Wi-Fi enabled animals help humans to stay connected, even in rural countries where there's not broadband everywhere. The next goal is to put the wireless sensor in animals' ear tags, making them solar powered, to minimize the impact and the burden on animals.


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At its Congress 2016, held in Liverpool from 1-3 June, the University and College Union (UCU) set out the next steps in its dispute with university employers over pay. The trade union members working in higher education voted to escalate their action with a marking and setting-of-work boycott in the autumn term, if the dispute has not been settled. The dispute arose following a pay offer of 1.1 percent from the universities' employers.
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I usually don't use the Preview Panel, only open it up in certain cases where I'm not quite sure what the output will be.
While the visibilty of panels like TOC and References persists, the Preview Panel is always visible whenever I relaunch MMD composer or open a new document, and I always have to hide it.
Even worse: When browsing different versions of my document (File / Revert To / Browser all Versions…), the rather small right-hand-side window showing an older version also always shows the preview pane, leaving me with a really narrow editor panel – and a pupup dialog asking for read-only permissions to that version's directory. I've added a screenshot of that scenario.
I then can turn off the preview panel, but this keeps repeating for every version I switch to (confirm read-only access first, then turn off preview pane).
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The exciting news is that we did our first two 'Tree Awareness' workshops in Thornhill Square, Islington this week. St. Andrew's school Years 1 and 2 arrived full of the joys and they were all ready and willing to enjoy the sunshine and find out more about trees. One child said their favorite part was finding out about the giant London Plane tree planted there in 1847. They were also intrigued by the idea that this tree had been looking after people for one hundred and seventy one years, by absorbing polluted air, from coal fires to car fumes.
Of course they all loved the hot chocolate too and hearing about Little Fir Tree as well as a few new songs from the show.
We've got eight more workshops to go in October and I can honestly say I'm looking forward to every one… Fingers crossed the weather holds!


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Are you looking forward to Valentine's Day?
Yes! I am especially looking forward to the chocolate!
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be a building architect.
What is playing on your ipod right now?
"Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" by Marilyn Monroe
What do you like to do after school?
I like to practice gymnastics and cheerleading.
If you found a magic genie, what would you wish for?
I would wish for either a cure for cancer, or fearlessness.
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Samuel Yates began, and this site continues, a database of the largest known primes. Primes in that database are assigned a proof-code to show who should be credited with the discovery as well as what programs and projects they used. (Discoverers have one prover-entry, but may have many proof-codes because they use a variety of programs...) This page provides data on L2125, one of those codes.
Code name (*):L2125
Persons (*):1 (counting humans only)
Projects (*):1 (counting projects only)
Display (HTML):Greer, PSieve, Srsieve, PrimeGrid, LLR
Number of primes:total 143
Unverified Primes:0 (prime table entries marked 'Composite','Untested', or 'InProcess')
Score for Primes (*):total 49.4862, on current list 48.9028 (normalized score 114)
Entrance Rank (*):mean 966.36 (minimum 109, maximum 3781)
Display (text):Greer, PSieve, Srsieve, PrimeGrid, LLR
Display (short):Greer
Database id:5590 (do not use this database id, it is subject to change)
Proof program:LLR The primes from this code accounts for 0.285% of the (active) primes and 0.160% of the (active) score for this program.
Entry last modified:2020-04-06 00:20:16


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Freedom to Think
Politics is more often associated with lying than governing people. Most of us don't like politics, whether it is at work or in the news. Withholding information, misleading, and deception are all associated with politics. However, politics are necessary for people to live together.
Governing or leading people is not easy. People can be lazy, indifferent, and seemingly always irrational. Why is it that people can hold such different and opposing views, and yet always believe they are right? Wait a minute! How can I think that I am right in making that assertion?
Homosexuality and abortion are issues of today, and seemingly more and more people support them, notwithstanding that they are contrary to life. Even making that statement is enough to cause people to get angry and become intolerant and bigoted, claiming that people who make those kind of statements are hateful (although it is really the opposite). It is this sentiment that makes politics so difficult. People will never get along if they try to force people to believe the same things that they do, but that doesn't seem to stop many from trying.
Racism is generally agreed to be wrong, but we can never force someone to stop being racist. In fact, all efforts will prove futile, because inward beliefs are rarely changed by coercion. As the popular saying goes, "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." The only thing we can insist on as a society is that someone not practice their racism in an active sense. We can't stop them from sharing their opinions, because everybody has a right to do that, but we can stop listening to them. If somebody would like to start a store that only serves black people that is their decision, but as a society the only thing we can do is to stop going to that store. We can't force the people to stop being racist.
This is also true of homosexuality and abortion. Everybody has a right to believe that abortion and homosexuality are wrong, but that should not prevent them from running a business or holding their beliefs. Nobody should have a right to bully somebody into practicing something they don't believe. This is the fundamental problem with our society today. The intolerant bigots leading the moral revolution are insisting that not only everybody agree with them, but also think the same way as them. This is why freedom of speech is so important, because freedom of speech is really the idea of freedom to think.
Politics often stray into controlling what people think, which is why partial truths, deception, and coercion are the currency of today.
Politics often stray into controlling what people think, which is why partial truths, deception, and coercion are the currency of today.


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Robert Garcia, GM, CNNRadio Network, Atlanta, named VP.
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We all use it. We all love it, even when we don't really understand it. Fabric is a vital part of our lives. From clothing to couches, mattresses to pillows, fabrics are everywhere around us, but we seldom give them a second thought. Beckenstien Fabrics is on a mission to change that with our definitive guide to designer decorative fabrics. But before we can dive into the fabric that makes up upholstery, decorative pillows, and drapery, we need to understand what fabric is.
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Cloth, material, textiles… no matter what you call it, it's all the same thing. Fabric production began with early man as they wove flax fibers into simple cloths and dyed them with plants. Over time, sheep's wool, tanned leather skins, pelts, and spun cotton were used to create clothing, shoes, bedding, shelters, and furniture. With the introduction of synthetic fibers in the 1930's, fabric began to take on different textures, shapes, elasticity, and colors. Today, there is a fabric for every purpose from staying warm in winter to blocking UV rays out of windows.
Types of Fabric
As a whole, fabric can be divided into three broad categories – natural, synthetic or blends.
Natural Fabrics
Natural fabrics are made from plant or animal sources. The most common natural fabrics are cotton, wool, silk, and linen. A favorite choice of the environmentally conscious, natural fabrics do not require petroleum products for their manufacturing processes.
- Cotton is made from the cotton plant. Once one of the primary crops grown in the South, much of today's cotton is still grown in warm states in the US along with China and India. Cotton is known for its durability, comfort and ability to control moisture and is popular in clothing. Cotton can be washed with water and mild soap.
- Silk is made by a process called sericulture. Silk worm cocoons are dissolved in boiling water so the fibers can be extracted into long threads and woven into fabric. Since silk takes dye very well, silk fabrics have a tendency to be brightly colored. However, they are not known for their durability. It is best to have your silk goods cleaned by professionals.
- Linen is fabric made from fibers of the flax plant. Among some of the earliest fabrics known to man, linen continues to be a favorite material for clothing, drapery, upholstery, and other applications. Linen is very strong, dries quickly and is known for its slightly irregular color and texture. It can be cleaned using warm water and mild soap and hung to dry.
- Wool is the textile obtained from sheep, goats, rabbits, and even cattle. Wool grows from follicles the same way hair does, but it is more elastic with a higher protein content. Animals are sheered then the wool is separated into categories then washed to rid it of the animal sweat, vegetable residue, and lanolin from the animal's skin. From there it can be spun into cloth. Wool fabric is extremely durable, water repellant and warm. However, depending on the type of wool, it can also be scratchy and uncomfortable unless it is combined with another fabric. Wool furniture can be spot cleaned with warm water or solvent, depending on the type of wool.
Synthetic Fabric
With the introduction of nylon in the 1930's, synthetic fabrics began to take over clothing, upholstery, draperies, bedding, and other residential and commercial fabric applications. Inexpensive to manufacture, synthetic fabrics are an affordable alternative to natural fabrics that typically are more labor intensive to produce. There are hundreds of types of synthetic fabrics, many known by a brand name like Gore-tex or Kevlar, but the three most common types of synthetic fabrics are nylon, polyester, spandex, and rayon.
- Nylon is a thermoplastic polymer material that can be processed into elastic strands or sheets. In other words, it's stretchy and plastic-like. Famously used for women's stockings, nylon is wrinkle resistant and retains its shape well. It can be easily washed by hand in warm water with a mild detergent.
- Polyester is a type of polymer material that can be made into a variety of materials – not just fabrics. Strong and naturally stain resistant, polyester is often used in clothing, upholstery, cushions, tire treads, and seatbelts. It also stands up to washing in warm water with a mild detergent.
- Spandex is a synthetic fabric known for its elasticity. Also known as Lycra, Spandex is what makes athletic clothing, swimsuits, gloves, compression suits, and wetsuits stretchy. While it washes well, exposure to high heat drying often causes spandex to lose its elasticity.
- Rayon is made from purified wood pulp and is designed to mimic the look and feel of cotton, silk, wool or linen. Even though the majority of its composition is natural, it is considered a semi-synthetic material because it must be manufactured, not just spun or processed. Since it is made of cellulose, it may lose its shape or shrink if it is exposed to warm temperatures, especially when washing. Most rayon garments need to be hand washed in cold water and mild detergent or professionally cleaned.
Fabric Blends
Every type of fabric has its strengths and limitations. That is why many manufacturers have combined two fabric types to create a blend that offers the best of both worlds. Some of the more common combinations are:
- Cotton + Polyester – Look and feel of cotton with wrinkle resistance of polyester.
- Linen + Silk – Linen creases easily while silk retains its fluid shape. This combination tends to drape well.
- Wool + Polyester – Offers the warmth and water resistance of wool with a silkier feeling on the skin.
How to Determine Fabric Type
Most fabrics purchased by the yard or by the bolt come with a label that tells you precisely what type of fabric you are buying along with care instructions. If you are unsure, ask your fabric expert like those at Beckenstein Fabrics to help you determine the type of fabric you are looking for along with how to care for it. As you become more familiar with fabric, you will begin to tell what it is made from by the look and feel.
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The New Music Course is an inter-department organisational unit attached to the Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music, cooperating with other FCUM Departments and with selected higher education institutions. It associates the FCUM faculty members and students who are interested in widening their theoretical and practical knowledge connected with contemporary music in its aesthetical, practical and promotional dimensions.
The activity of the Course is carried out as part two fields:
- artistic – concerts presenting valuable contemporary music works,
- academic – national and international seminars and conferences being a substantial contribution to the development of knowledge about new music, resulting in publications issued as group or monographic works (publisher: Chopin University Press).
Artistic and academic events organised by the New Music Course usually have a specific profile focusing on selected technical, performance-related or philosophical topics. They are discussed by outstanding Polish and foreign scholars invited, such as Prof. Anna Mikołejko, PhD Hab. (University of Warsaw), Justyna Humięcka-Jakubowska, PhD Hab. (Adam Mickiewicz University), Prof. Sharon Kanach (Universite Rouen, France), Prof. Benoit Gibson (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Prof. Manuel Burgos (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Spain), lecturers of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music — Alicja Gronau-Osińska, PhD Hab., Edward Sielicki, DMus Hab., Prof. Marcin Błażewicz, DMus Hab. or Prof. Krzysztof Baculewski, PhD Hab.
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This post is one in a series about The Negative Canon.
Harry Blamires, as he shows us in 'The Penguin Guide to Plain English', doesn't care for sentences such as I'm making it sound like we didn't get on. The correct version, he maintains would be I'm making it sound as if we didn't get on. Here's his reason:
The objection to like used thus is that it is an adjective. . . . But the word like used as used in the faulty sentence . . . is made to function as a conjunction, hingeing on a verb and linking two clauses together . . . This is a function that the adjective like cannot perform.
He also considers the slightly different use of like in a sentence such as 'You get a bill a few weeks later like you would with a Visa.' He writes that:
The same judgement applies to this misuse. It treats like as a conjunction, as a word that can link 'You get a bill' with 'you would with a Visa'.
Is he right? R L Trask in 'Mind the Gaffe' seems to think so, when he writes:
In formal English, like cannot be used as a conjunction. Though common in speech, the usage illustrated by *'We should proceed like we did last time' must be avoided: write 'We should proceed as we did last time'.
Peter Harvey in his 'A Guide to English Language Usage' takes a similar view. Under the heading 'wrong uses' of like, he writes:
Like should not be used to mean, for example: Cities such as (not like) Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds . . .
It should not be used instead of as if: You look like you want a drink.
He does, however, add that 'Both of these forms are widely used by native speakers', and his advice must be seen in the context of a guide for foreign learners of English, who will not go wrong if they use as and as if .
The OED's comment on the use of like as a conjunction is:
Now generally condemned as vulgar or slovenly, though examples may be found in many recent writers of standing.
As always, however, the OED makes it clear that it does not necessarily share the condemnation.
Pam Peters, in her article in 'The Cambridge Guide to English Usage', and with corpus evidence to support her, is not among thos who condemn this use of like:
With all this evidence of conjunctive use, like seems to have regained much of the ground lost to prescriptivist objections of C19 and C20. They were not in fact endorsed by Fowler (1926), who distanced himself from condemnation at the start with 'if it is a misuse at all.' He invites 'the reader who has no instinctive objection to the construction [to] decide whether he shall consent to use it in talk, in print, in both or in neither.' There never was a general principle as to why like could not be used conjunctively, and it is now strongly supported by corpus data from around the English-speaking world. Fowler would have smiled.
'Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage' surveys the topic in its typically thorough manner, and it, too, comes down on the side of acceptance:
To summarize the controversy: like has been in use as a conjunction for more than 600 years. Its beginnings are literary, but the available evidence shows that it was fairly rare until the 19th century. A noticeable increase in use during the 19th century provoked the censure we are so familiar with. Still, the usage has never been less than standard, even if primarily spoken.
The belief that like is a preposition but not a conjunction has entered the folklore of usage. Handbooks, schoolbooks, newspaper pundits, and well-meaning friends for generations to come will tell you all about it. Be prepared.
In fact, I'm not sure that conjunctival like does now attract the hostility it once did, and it may therefore belong in the Negative Pool rather than the Negative Canon.


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Found a few very old aerogrammes that I used to send from Istanbul and from Greece,"back-in-the-days".
So a few on their way to you, perhaps they were the earliest form of my "mail art", as there were no greeting cards to be bought back then, so I had to decorate aerogrammes!:
Thanks for the memories :-)
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Thank you, Tofu...'lovin' the ATCs, fantastic colors!
something on its way to you soon.
I also blogged it here; http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tofu-recalls-color-mail-art-misplaced
I have blogged your color recall, FINALLY. In case you missed the post, I must have put it in my computer case before I went to america in July… Luckily I found it, but feel terrible that it wasn't acknowledged for so long! http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/tofu-recalls-colour.html
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