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About the Owners – Dave & Cara Smetana
Our journey to Olive the Lake started one Saturday morning in March of 2014 while we were watching an episode of our weekly hunting show. This episode was being filmed at Olive the Lake. The previous owner came on and started describing the property, the cottages, and the lake. We looked at each other and said 'We could own something like that!' Cara has always wanted to run a bed and breakfast, and Dave has always wanted to run a hunting and fishing lodge. This was the best of both worlds!
Fast forward to September 2014 and we came across a listing for Olive the Lake. After we stopped laughing at ourselves thinking back to the couch that morning in March, we thought this had to be fate.
Dave grew up in Canada's capital, Ottawa, with a passion for the outdoors. From the time he was old enough to fish and hunt, he was always out and about. He's been a guide for many years. The outdoors is where he thrives. Owning his own security business for the past 16 years took him away from his passion, but it was always inside of him. Cara grew up in northern Ontario and has always loved the fresh air and the friendly northern atmosphere. She moved to Ottawa to attend college and has been in the city ever since.
Having four boys who love camping, hunting, fishing, and anything to do with the outdoors, we made the decision to leave the city life behind and move to Marten River, on a lake with nothing but nature's beauty surrounding us. The best part is being able to share it with all of our visitors and guests. We are committed to providing all of our guests a vacation to remember. We look forward to hosting you and your family and friends in the near future.
Welcome to Olive the Lake Fishing and Hunting Lodge… We are very excited to meet you.

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San Jose Group, April 10, 2012
Big-box chains have been expanding their ethnic offerings to better serve general and multicultural consumers. Supermarkets and superstores have been increasing aisle areas for ethnic products, adding signage and bilingual staff, and even revamping entire stores in areas densely populated by Hispanics.
As big (general market) businesses advance into established ethnic neighborhoods, is there room for traditional bodega-style grocery stores to survive in this context? Read more...


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In my last post, I noted that all of the data provided by the reports in the British Parliamentary Papers on public drunkenness in Ireland would take a long time to unpack. Now that I have arranged most of the summary data for Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Belfast and Waterford county, I will make some tentative first steps into providing more context for the figures.
I will give an overview of some of my findings in the statistics for each period – roughly divided between the decades, along with where I have been able to find them, some newspaper material from the Munster Express which helps to add broader context for the view of public drunkenness in Ireland, and Waterford specifically, in each period.
The statistics began in 1877, and that November the Munster Express carried a report in which the Bill that started these statistics being collected was discussed in Waterford. The bill, which by its shortened name was The Sale of Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Act, came into effect in October of 1877. The Munster Express report was the evidence given in relation to Waterford at the Select Committee hearing on the Bill in April of 1877. Among the interesting things that are mentioned in the course of the evidence given is this from a Mr Marten who notes that, when compared with a similar sized port town like Dover, the figures for drunkenness there were 88.
As to whether this would be a guide to the figures to be expected in Waterford Marten responds that "If I had the charge of the constabulary I could either double these figures or halve them. The inspector general of [sic] constabulary, by giving directions over Ireland, can either double those returns for drunkenness or halve them. If he orders the police to take up every man that shows any sign of drink on him, he would double them. If, on the other hand, he ordered the police only to take up persons incapable of taking care of themselves, or were annoying their neighbours, who, I think, are the only class who should be arrested, he would not [have] half so many returns." This shows that some at least were alive to the potential subjectivity of these arrest figures.
Not alone that but Marten was also of the view that total closing on Sundays would have a negative impact, with people being forced to bring their drink home, or worse still, having to abstain altogether! Since it was only the public houses which were open, and there were no reading rooms or other places of recreation open on Sunday, people were in the habit of socialising in pubs on a Sunday. This is an interesting and important point when we consider the role that sport would soon come to play (and indeed had already been playing) in terms of drinking in Ireland. While for some sport would be a mode of encouraging greater temperance, sport and drink would prove in Ireland, as they did in Britain, cosy bedfellows. Indeed, Paul Rouse in Sport and Ireland has written that "In the 1880s leading GAA figures repeatedly sought to praise GAA players and specators for the manner in which they abstained from drink. There was more than a hint of wishful thinking to this." As Rouse goes on to point out, "In reality, the GAA was awash drink." The proof of this was in the "regularity of the rules passed at local and national level by the GAA calling for drunkenness at matches to be quashed."
So in those early days of the Act, and its enforcement, how did things fair out? in the first year, 1877, there was some 114 people arrested under the terms of the Act. Nearly all of the arrests, 80, were made between the hours of 7pm and midnight on a Sunday. The two single biggest days were 2nd December 1877 when some 6 people were arrested – one between 2pm and 7pm, and 5 between 7pm and midnight and the 5th of January 1878 when some 7 people were arrested. On this Sunday these arrests took place as follows: one between 8am and 2pm, five between 2pm and 7pm, and one between 7pm and midnight. There is every chance that in both cases where there were five people. this was a group rather than five separate individuals.
Out in County Waterford in the same period, that first year saw some 84 people being arrested for being drunk in public on a Sunday under the provisions of the new Act. This was not a great deal lower than the city. However, one suspects that in its first year enforcement was rather stronger than the two following, as the figures in county Waterford drop to just 22 the following year in 1878-79 and go up marginally to 39 in 1879-1880. There is a similar drop in Waterford 34 in 1878-79 and it rises once more in 1879-1880 to 84, a figure not unlike that quoted for Dover, so perhaps this was something more like the real or accurate figure.
The 1880s proved to be a much drunker decade, if we take this statistics at face value. From the middle of 1880 to the middle of 189o there was a total 1.013 people arrested under the provisions of the Act. From 1883-1886 and from 1888-1890 were the two worst periods. From 1883-1886 there was some 312 arrests, averaging out at just over 100 a year. From 1888-1900 meanwhile there 291 arrests, 150 in 1888-89, and 141 in 1889-90. Some dates in particular stand out from 1888. Take the 24th June, for instance. On that date, some 7 people were arrested between 7pm and midnight alone. During the same five hour period a few weeks later, on the 15th July, 8 people were arrested. Similarly, the 11th November and 23rd December, two days before Christmas, saw 6 and 4 people being arrested, respectively.
Not surprisingly this points to the fact that people were (and still are) more likely to drink excessively around holidays and summertime. One man, who was one of two arrested on Sunday 8th July, had it noted by his counsel that that particular Sunday was a "Pathron Day", a pattern or fair day, by way of defence. The judge was unmoved and fined the defendant 10 shillings.
The situation in county Waterford wasn't a great deal better. In the 1883-1886 period, there were some 282 arrests made, almost matching the figure in the city. And in the final two years of the decade, some 161 arrests were made. While this was well short of the city figure, it was still quite high. The total figure for the county in this decade was 747 arrests for Sunday drunkenness.
If the end of the 1880s seemed bad, then they were apparently merely a precursor to a particularly sozzled decade in Waterford city. For the whole decade, the numbers arrested for being drunk in public on a Sunday under the 1877 Act was 1,457. Taking the county figures into consideration, 958, the total for the period came to 2,415. Only in year was the figure for arrests under one-hundred, for the period 1891-1892. Even then, the arrest total was 98. The worst year in the city was 1892-1893, when some 186 arrests were made. 1895-1896 represented the worst period in the county, when some 237 people were arrested. This figure in fact represents the single biggest figure in the city or the county not just for the 1890s, but the entire period 1877-1912. Figuring out what was going in Waterford in this decade will be vital to understanding public drunkenness.
Looking more closely at the breakdown of figures for 1892-83, what becomes apparent especially about the summer of 1892 is that the arrests were consistent each weekend, rather than any mass occasion. In the most statistically significant timeslot, 7pm to midnight on Sunday, we see figures of 3,4,5,6 or 7 being arrested. The figure of 7 being arrested comes from Sunday 17th July, which as you'll recall was also a significant date back in 1888. This suggests that there is every chance that the highest figures will emerge consistently across the 3rd weekend of July, something I hope to eventually put to the test. Sunday 27th November saw the biggest single haul in 1892, when some 8 people were arrested in the 7pm-midnight timeslot from a total of 10 that day.
A quick look at just one Dungarvan petty sessions report helps to give some indication of the extent of the drunkenness, in the eyes of the law, in Waterford in the decade. In the sessions reported in the Munster Express on May 24th 1892, some eight men were fined variously for being drunk in the street (not all on a Sunday) while there was also heard at the same session a breach of the Licensing Act in a pub on a Sunday.
There was a big raid on a pub in Knockboy, Co. Waterford on 14th April 1895, where a publican was found to be serving some 63 people, most of whom gave false names, and only 11 of whom could prove they were bona fide travellers who lived more than three miles away. Of those identifiable out of the 63, there was just 29 who stood to be prosecuted. As it was reported in the newspaper, the judge chose to view the case as a test case, as much about the distance from the pub to Waterford, as to whether or not any breach of the law had occurred. For his part, the publican, claimed that the various men that the RIC constables had seen at the premises at different times of the day were different men each time, it was in his words, a shop where was "drink and go". Thus he claimed that some 121 individuals passed through the doors of the pub during the RIC constables two visits. One especially interesting aspect of the court proceedings was the class element and whether those in the pub were "respectable" or otherwise:
This was not just a test case for the judge, but is a kind of test case for understanding the various strands of drunkenness and its policing in general in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Ireland. The extent to which the loopholes that existed in the law were being used by publicans, by those in search of a drink, and the clear class bias displayed by the police and the courts towards those drinking on a Sunday are all apparent in this raid.
As the 1890s gave way to the first decade of the new century, there was precious little let up in the drinking in Waterford city, although the county did see a significant drop in arrests for public drunkenness on a Sunday in this period. The statistics for this decade differ greatly from the previous twenty-plus years as they begin to include from 1905 onwards figures from 9pm on a Saturday night, and the old time fram is broken down into further constituent pieces. So it is that the 7pm-midnight time slot is broken down into 7pm to 9pm and 9pm to midnight on a Sunday.
While it is dangerous still at this early stage to speculate overly about what these changes might be related to, it is possible that there was an observable shift in people's habits of drinking so that the majority was being done on a Saturday rather than a Sunday night. Similarly, the reasoning for breaking down the 7pm-midnight slot into two smaller time slots is not, to me at least, readily apparent. However, there is surely some rationale which lies behind the desire for more detailed statistics.
Not counting the Saturday figures (which are recorded only from 1905 onwards) , the first half of the decade is the worst in terms of Sunday drinking with 181 arrests being made between 1902-03. But from the time Saturday drunkenness begins being recorded, there is a noticeable drop-off in the arrests made on Sunday so that by 1910, there are just 43 arrests made for public drunkenness on Sundays that year. The figure that year is also low for Saturday night arrests, with the combined total just 85. The first year when Saturday arrests were included saw the figure for the whole year shoot from just 136 for Sunday drunkenness to a combined figure of 369 arrests that year running from 9pm on Saturday night to 8am on Monday morning.
In the county, there is a steady decrease from the end of the 1890s that is observable after the high point of 1895-1896, which suggests a strong crack-down on the exploitation of loopholes in the law like the bona fide traveller rule, as we saw in the Knockboy case. Even including Saturday night figures, by 1910, the total number of arrests for being drunk in public in county Waterford came to just 69.
This fall off continues into the last two years of the reports I am looking at, with figures in city and county at similarly low levels. This suggests that there was probably a complete shift away from Sunday drinking, a relaxation of the prosecution of Sunday drinking, or most likely some combination of both forces working together. In the city, for 1911, the total arrests for drunkenness on Saturday and Sunday was 100, 57 of those coming on a Saturday night. In 1912, the total figure was 144, with 102 of those arrests coming on a Saturday night. Likewise the great bulk of the arrests in the county for both years came on Saturday nights, 40 and 68 for 1911 and 1912, respectively. This might perhaps be the most readily discernible pattern over the 35 year span of these reports, the decline of Sunday drinking following its peak in the 1890s, when people attempted to exploit loopholes in the law so that they could drink more easily in the countryside than in the city.
These are just some initial observations on Waterford, but I still am unlikely to have done much more than scratched the surface of what these statistical reports can tell us, or indeed what we can glean from the newspapers or other sources.


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Becoming a member of P1 is an easy and straightforward process. All of the steps required can be completed quickly in order to work within your time frame.
Where possible we always like to invite prospective members to visit our facility in Esher, Surrey so that you can meet the team and view the extensive collection of supercars first hand. We are also happy to meet with prospective new members elsewhere (either at their work place or home) if a P1 HQ visit is not convenient or practical.
The next stage is to ascertain which membership level is most appropriate. A new member will need to consider their budget, requirement of time in supercars, and whether they will mainly be driving supercars at weekends or on weekdays. These different elements combined with the make and model of cars that the new member wishes to drive will help to determine the most suitable membership level for a new member.
At this stage we also like to answer any questions that a new member may have, discuss how the Club works and to see how we can provide the best and most convenient experience for each member. We have fifteen years of experience running our Club and so have dealt with pretty much every conceivable scenario before but every member has individual needs and therefore we always like to find a bespoke solution.
Once the new member is satisfied that they have chosen the most appropriate membership level and that he or she fully understands how P1 works, we then take the member through the application process. Once completed the member then pays the membership fees which can be paid by bank transfer, cheque, charge, debit or credit card.
The joining fee includes the cost of the Driver Training and Awareness course and this can be diarised at this point. At this stage the new member may also make a provisional booking in one of our supercars. This booking will become firm on completion of all paperwork, the driving course and on receipt of cleared membership funds.
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Lab News
March 2020
Our review on TARGETING MYC is online at Annual Review of Cancer Biology. Have a look if you like.
January 2020
We have a new PhD student - welcome Lorenz!
November 2019
We are looking forward to our 1st AG Wolf Retreat from 28th to 30th November 2019!
October 2019
And yet another reward for our multitalented Apoorva - Best speaker award at the Eureka_GSLS_2019. Congratulations!!!
We are pleased that Yiliam Cruz García joined our team as a senior scientist. Welcome Yiliam!
September 2019
Our interns joined as Master students - welcome Beril and Mahmoud!
We are looking for a HiWi with Felasa-B certificate to support our team. Just drop us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
August 2019
Two new papers by our collaborators Martin Sos (article) and Martine Roussel (article) in Nature Communications, within one month. Congratulations!
July 2019
Congratulations to Apoo on the Biozentrum-2019 Award for the exceptional achievements in natural sciences! See an article here.
We have an opening for a PhD student position in our team! For further information, please, check out: here
June 2019
Another great paper from the Gaubatz lab: Congratulations and thanks for the great collaboration!"
April 2019
Julia's and Apoorva's paper is online! Here find the paper at Molecular Cell and a press release from the University of Wuerzburg.
We have a new lab member: Welcome Tanja!
March 2019
Congrats to Steffi, Jacqueline and Gabriele for their Nature paper!
We also have a new lab member: Welcome Ayool
February 2019
We have a new HiWi: Welcome Heather!
January 2019
We have a new lab member: Welcome Jan Philipp!
November 2018
We are looking for a talented master student for 2019 (Biochemistry, Biomedicine, Fokus Life Science...) - mail to Elmar
July 2018
Würzburg gets a new cancer research center! We congratulate Prof. Eilers and our Dean, Prof. Frosch, for driving this. (find the news here)
April 2018
We welcome our new lab member: Bikash
March 2018
Lorenzos and Wolfgangs Paper is out in Plant Cell: Congratulations!
New lab member:
Welcome Nevenka and Pranjali
January 2018
New lab member:
Welcome Christine, Markus and Ashwin to support our team
December 2017
Apoorva got an Add-On fellowship from the Joachim Herz Stiftung (find their program here). Well done!
November 2017
Julia won the 1st prize in the Poster competition of the Eureka-Conference (organized by GSLS). Congrats, Julia!
October 2017
Peter Gallants and Jennifer Gerlachs Paper is online (link). We congratulate our collaborators.
September 2017
We thank the European Research Council (ERC) for our new funding! You can find a German article about the proposed project here.
"Happy our":Friday (14.09.) in our kitchen with "Federweisser". Guests are welcome!
August 2017
Theresa defended her Bachelor thesis. We wish Theresa all the best for her Masterstudies!
July 2017
How to have a congenial atmosphere in the laboratory - a few Do's and Dont's from Nature Press. Link to article
Vanessa started her Master project - good luck, Vanessa!
October 2016
Apoorva won the image contest at the EUREKA conference. You find his picture here.
September 2016
New lab member: Welcome Jessica!
July 2016
Francesca's paper is published in eLife. Congratulations to all authors! Link to article
David Levens wrote an "insight" about our work. Link to insight-article
April 2016
New lab member:
Our second PhD student started: Welcome Julia!
January 2016
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By directing people to read our articles, they're taking away our business. This just seems silly, it basically comes down to "Our business model isn't working online as well as it did in brick and mortar stores, so we're blaming google despite the fact it's the only way half the people would find our service in the first place"
I mean I'm sorry, but some people pay good money to get that kind of advertisement to their sites, and they're getting it for free. What are the bets google will remove them from all search indexes, subscription will drop further, and then they'll complain that google has stiffed them by directed traffic to competitors.


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Nquthu, a sleepy town in Umzinyathi District Municipality, in KwaZulu-Natal, may be off the beaten track and not on your radar. But today's local elections may give us a glimpse of the future of South Africa's electoral dynamics.
The local council, situated 24km southwest of Barklieside and 53km east of Dundee, and deriving its name from ingqutu ('flat-topped vessel'), describing a nearby hill, had to be dissolved by the provincial cooperative governance and traditional affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube in February.
This was after warring parties in the municipality failed to elect office bearers to constitute council since the outcome of August 3 local government election in 2016.
The relatively small municipality has 35 seats in its council. The inability to constitute council, a requirement in law after local election results are announced, was caused by cracks that occurred between the various alliances jostling for power.
Last year's local elections results, predicted by most political analysts, appeared to have caught the ruling party off-guard, as it shed voters even in some of its traditional rural strongholds.
READ MORE: KZN's Nquthu local municipality council to be dissolved – Cogta MEC
In this municipality, as the Independent Newspaper (IOL) reported at the time, the (IFP) formed a "loose" alliance with the DA and the EFF. This resulted in a one-seat majority over their rival alliance.
The rival alliance consisted of the ANC and other smaller parties. The IFP-lead alliance held 18 seats, while the ANC alliance obtained 17.
The council failed, after several attempts, to hold elections for the mayor, speaker, chief whip and MMCs due to what DA and IFP termed as "disruptions of council sittings by the ANC". The ANC seemed to have never refuted this claim.
The hung council descended into a governance crisis when it could not appoint a municipal manager. This could not be done without first finalising the executive authority positions in the council.
ALSO READ: Nquthu fails to elect leadership as EFF brings court order
What also compounded this situation was breakdown in service delivery as residents had no one to hold accountable for this dereliction of duty for almost 10 months.
Another difficulty, as The Sowetan outlined, was the repercussion the dysfunctional council was creating for the Umzinyathi municipality.
The district could not convene council meetings without Nquthu. In terms of local government legislation, all four local council have to elect officials before a district council is constituted.
The other three local municipalities in the councils are Msinga in Tugela Ferry and eNdumeni in Dundee (IFP-controlled) and uMvoti in Greytown (ANC-controlled).
MORE: Tossing a coin is not good politics, says ANC
This is when the provincial cooperative governance department placed the municipality under administration, and later the MEC used section 139 (1)(c) of the constitution to dissolve the council.
81 000 voters are today expected to unhinge their municipality. Provincial electoral officer Mawethu Mosery told the media this morning he received a "security breifing" that assured him all would be peaceful and orderly.
But The Sowetan reported that DA candidate Zanele Masondo "was allegedly attacked by a rival political supporter in her shop", while Sphamandla Ngobese' an ANC activist, was killed. The Hawks also arrested IFP and EFF candidates "after allegations of a plot to assassinate some ANC councillors".
Despite this, the rural town experienced an uncharacteristically robust campaigning generally associated with metro councils.
Political bigwigs were sent to woo voters. The ANC dispatched Cyril Ramaphosa, Baleka Mbete Gwede Mantashe' Zweli Mkhize, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and other NEC members.
The opposition responded with their big guns too.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Mmusi Maimane canvassed in the area, while Juliu Malema, with Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in tow, pleaded with local voters to vote for whoever they wished for as long as "it is not the corrupt ANC".


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Unlike the other Class III holders in Topeka, SFI obtained a Class III designation to serve your needs and we look forward to helping you, the average law-abiding citizen, obtain any NFA-restricted item you'd like.
Feel free to send your wish list to email@example.com with the subject, "NFA Wishlist" and I'll see what we can do.


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The spectacular power of Big Lens
There is a good chance, meanwhile, that your frames are made by Luxottica, an Italian company with an unparalleled combination of factories, designer labels and retail outlets. Luxottica pioneered the use of luxury brands in the optical business, and one of the many powerful functions of names such as Ray-Ban (which is owned by Luxottica) or Vogue (which is owned by Luxottica) or Prada (whose glasses are made by Luxottica) or Oliver Peoples (which is owned by Luxottica) or high-street outlets such as LensCrafters, the largest optical retailer in the US (which is owned by Luxottica), or John Lewis Opticians in the UK (which is run by Luxottica), or Sunglass Hut (which is owned by Luxottica) is to make the marketplace feel more varied than it actually is.
Now they are becoming one. On 1 March, regulators in the EU and the US gave permission for the world's largest optical companies to form a single corporation, which will be known as EssilorLuxottica. The new firm will not technically be a monopoly: Essilor currently has around 45% of the prescription lenses market, and Luxottica 25% of the frames. But in seven centuries of spectacles, there has never been anything like it. The new entity will be worth around $50bn (£37bn), sell close to a billion pairs of lenses and frames every year, and have a workforce of more than 140,000 people. EssilorLuxottica intends to dominate what its executives call "the visual experience" for decades to come.
For a long time, scientists thought myopia was primarily determined by our genes. But about 10 years ago, it became clear that the way children were growing up was harming their eyesight, too. The effect is starkest in east Asia, where myopia has always been more common, but the rate of increase has been uniform, more or less, across the world. In the 1950s, between 10% and 20% of Chinese people were shortsighted. Now, among teenagers and young adults, the proportion is more like 90%. In Seoul, 95% of 19-year-old men are myopic, many of them severely, and at risk of blindness later in life.
Del Vecchio paid $645m (£476m) for Ray-Ban. During the negotiations, he promised to protect thousands of jobs at four factories in the US and Ireland. Three months later, he closed the plants and shifted production to China and Italy. Over the next year and a half, Luxottica withdrew Ray-Ban from 13,000 retail outlets, hiked their prices and radically improved the quality: increasing the layers of lacquer on a pair of Wayfarers from two to 31. In 2004, to the disbelief of many of his subordinates, del Vecchio decided that Ray-Ban, which had been invented for American pilots in the 1930s, should branch out from sunglasses into optical lenses, too. "A lot of us were sceptical. Really? Ray. Ban. Banning rays from the sun?" the former manager said. "But he was right." Ray-Ban is now the most valuable optical brand in the world. It generates more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in sales for Luxottica each year, and is thought to account for as much as 40% of its profits.
Facebook has completely internalized its network and commoditized its content supplier base, and has no motivation to, for example, share its advertising proceeds. Google similarly has internalized its network effects and commoditized its supplier base; however, given that its supply is from 3rd parties, the company does have more of a motivation to sustain those third parties (this helps explain, for example, why Google's off-sites advertising products have always been far superior to Facebook's).
Netflix and Amazon's network effects are partially internalized and partially externalized, and similarly, both have differentiated suppliers that remain very much subordinate to the Amazon and Netflix customer relationship.
Apple and Microsoft, meanwhile, have the most differentiated suppliers on their platform, which makes sense given that both depend on largely externalized network effects. "Must-have" apps ultimately accrue to the platform's benefit.
Apple's developer ecosystem is plenty strong enough to allow the company's product chops to come to the fore. I continue to believe, though, that Apple's moat could be even deeper had the company considered the above Moat Map: the network effects of a platform like iOS are mostly externalized, which means that highly differentiated suppliers are the best means to deepen the moat; unfortunately Apple for too long didn't allow for suitable business models.
Uber's suppliers are completely commoditized. This might seem like a good thing! The problem, though, is that Uber's network effects are completely externalized: drivers come on to the platform to serve riders, which in turn makes the network more attractive to riders. This leaves Uber outside the Moat Map. The result is that Uber's position is very difficult to defend; it is easier to imagine a successful company that has internalized large parts of its network (by owning its own fleet, for example), or done more to differentiate its suppliers. The company may very well succeed thanks to the power from owning the customer relationship, but it will be a slog.
How much would you pay to keep using Google?
Part of the problem is that GDP as a measure only takes into account goods and services that people pay money for. Internet firms like Google and Facebook do not charge consumers for access, which means that national-income statistics will underestimate how much consumers have benefitted from their rise.
Survey respondents said that they would have to be paid $3,600 to give up internet maps for a year, and $8,400 to give up e-mail. Search engines appear to be especially valuable: consumers surveyed said that they would have to be paid $17,500 to forgo their use for a year.
Spotify has better technology, merchandising (like discovery playlists), and brand. Unlike Apple Music, being a pure-play (as opposed to being owned by a tech giant) gives Spotify more cred among purists, young people, and influencers. The instinct / T Algorithm cocktail has resulted in a firm with 170M users, 75M of whom are premium subscribers. The firm registered €1B this quarter, representing 37% growth. Spotify accounted for 36% of premium music subscribers globally.
What takes Spotify to $300B, and true horseman status? They launch video, and become the most successful streaming entertainment firm, full stop. Netflix's legacy is on the second most important screen, TV. Spotify was raised on the most important – mobile. Netflix needs to become Spotify before Spotify becomes Netflix. Nobody has cracked social and TV, and as half of young people no longer watch cable TV, if Spotify were to launch video and captured any reasonable share and engagement via unique playlists, then cable and Netflix would begin ceding market cap to Spotify.
The problem with these minuscule conversion rates is that it dramatically raises the cost of acquiring a customer (CAC). When only 1% of people convert, it concentrates all of that sales and marketing spend on a very small sliver of customers. That forces subscription prices to rise so that the CAC:LTV ratios make rational sense. Before you know it, what once might have been $1 a month by 20% of a site's audience is now $20 a month for the 1%.
There is a class of exceptions around Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon Prime. Spotify, for instance, had 170 million monthly actives in the first quarter this year, and 75 million of those are paid, for an implied conversion of 44%. What's unique about these products — and why they shouldn't be used as an example — is that they own the entirety of a content domain. Netflix owns video and Spotify owns music in a way that the New York Times can never hope to own news or your podcast app developer can never hope to own the audio content market.
It is this hardware dependency that makes it impossible to look at Apple Services as a stand-alone business. The Services narrative isn't compelling if it excludes Apple hardware from the equation. Apple's future isn't about selling services. Rather, it's about developing tools for people. These tools will consist of a combination of hardware, software, and services.
Apple currently has more than 270 million paid subscriptions across its services, up over 100 million year-over-year. Apple is in a good position to benefit from growing momentum for video streaming services including Netflix, HBO, and Hulu. It is not a stretch to claim that Apple will one day have 500 million paid subscriptions across its services. Apple isn't becoming a services company. Instead, Apple is building a leading paid content distribution platform.
MoviePass: the unicorn that jumped into Wall Street too soon
"The growth-at-all-costs strategy is being funded these days by the venture community, not the public market. The last time we saw the public markets fund a growth-at-all-costs strategy was the 1999 internet bubble, and we all know how that ended."
The prospect of steep declines in a company's valuations once it hits the public markets is one reason why U.S. companies are waiting longer to go public. Overall, U.S. companies that have gone public this year have done so at an average market capitalization of $1.1 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data, a 44 percent increase from the average market cap during the height of the dot com craze in 1999. At the same time, companies are now going public 6.5 years after receiving their first venture capital backing on average, more than double the three years between initial funding and going public in 1999.
Cerebras: The AI of cheetahs and hyenas
The specialist starts out with a technology optimized for one specific task. Take the graphics-processing unit. As its name denotes, this was a specialist technology focused on a single task–processing graphics for display. And for the task of graphics, graphics-processing units are phenomenal. Nvidia built a great company on graphics-processing. But over time, the makers of graphics-processing units, AMD and Nvidia, have tried to bring their graphics devices to markets with different requirements, to continue the analogy to hunt things that aren't gazelle. In these markets, what was once a benefit, finely tuned technology for graphics (or gazelle-hunting), is now a burden. If you hunt up close like a leopard and never have to run fast, having your nose smooshed into your face is not an advantage and may well be a disadvantage. When you hunt things you were no longer designed to hunt, the very things that made you optimized and specialized are no longer assets.
Intel is the classic example of a generalist. For more than 30 years the x86 CPU they pioneered was the answer to every compute problem. And they gobbled up everything and built an amazing company. But then there emerged compute problems that specialists were better at, and were big enough to support specialist companies—such as cell phones, graphics and we believe AI. In each of these domains specialist architectures dominate.
We are specialists, designing technology for a much more focused purpose than the big companies burdened with multiple markets to serve and legacy architectures to carry forward. Specialists are always better at their target task. They do not carry the burden of trying to do many different things well, nor the architectural deadweight of optimizations for other markets. We focus and are dedicated to a single purpose. The question of whether we—and every other specialist– will be successful rests on whether the market is large enough to support that specialist approach. Whether, in other words, there are enough gazelle to pursue. In every market large enough, specialists win. It is in collections of many modest markets, that the generalist wins. We believe that the AI compute market will be one of the largest markets in all of infrastructure. It will be the domain of specialists.
This $2 billion AI startup aims to teach factory robots to think
What sets Preferred Networks apart from the hundreds of other AI startups is its ties to Japan's manufacturing might. Deep learning algorithms depend on data and the startup is plugging into some of the rarest anywhere. Its deals with Toyota and Fanuc Corp., the world's biggest maker of industrial robots, give it access to the world's top factories. While Google used its search engine to become an AI superpower, and Facebook Inc. mined its social network, Preferred Networks has an opportunity to analyze and potentially improve how just about everything is made.
At an expo in Japan a few months later, another demo showed how the tech might one day be used to turn factory robots into something closer to skilled craftsmen. Programming a Fanuc bin-picking robot to grab items out of a tangled mass might take a human engineer several days. Nishikawa and Okanohara showed that machines could teach themselves overnight. Working together, a team of eight could master the task in an hour. If thousands — or millions — were linked together, the learning would be exponentially faster. "It takes 10 years to train a skilled machinist, and that knowledge can't just be downloaded to another person" Fanuc's Inaba explained. "But once you have a robot expert, you can multiply it infinitely."
China buys up flying schools as pilot demand rises
In September Ryanair axed 20,000 flights due to a rostering mess-up made worse by pilot shortages. This forced the low-cost carrier to reverse a longstanding policy and recognise trade unions and agree new pay deals — a move that it said would cost it €100m ($120m) a year from 2019.
China is on course to overtake the US as the world's largest air travel market by 2022, according to the International Air Transport Association.
US aircraft maker Boeing predicts China will need 110,000 new pilots in the years through to 2035, and its airlines are expected to purchase 7,000 commercial aircraft over the next two decades.
China's aviation market grew by 13 per cent last year, with 549m passengers taking to the skies, double the number who flew in 2010. Growth is being driven by the rising middle class, an expansion of routes by Chinese airlines and the easing of visa restrictions by foreign governments keen to attract Chinese tourists.
California will require solar power for new homes
Long a leader and trendsetter in its clean-energy goals, California took a giant step on Wednesday, becoming the first state to require all new homes to have solar power.
The new requirement, to take effect in two years, brings solar power into the mainstream in a way it has never been until now. It will add thousands of dollars to the cost of home when a shortage of affordable housing is one of California's most pressing issues.
If you save $5,000 a year for 40 years and make only 8% (the "small" mistake), you'll retire with about $1.46 million. But if you earn 8.5% instead, you'll retire with nearly $1.7 million. The additional $230,000 or so may not seem like enough to change your life, but that additional portfolio value is worth more than all of the money you invested over the years. Result: You retire with 16% more.
Your gains don't stop there. Assume you continue earning either 8% or 8.5% while you withdraw 4% of your portfolio each year and that you live for 25 years after retirement. If your lifetime return is 8%, your total retirement withdrawals are just shy of $2.5 million. If your lifetime return is 8.5% instead, you withdraw about $3.1 million. That's an extra $600,000 for your "golden years," a bonus of three times the total dollars you originally saved.
Your heirs will also have plenty of reasons to be grateful for your 0.5% boost in return. If your lifetime return was 8%, your estate will be worth about $3.9 million. If you earned 8.5% instead, your estate is worth more than $5.1 million.
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Walt Disney Studios has formed an alliance with Shrek producer John Williams' Vanguard Films to produce as many as four computer animated features. The announcement was made by Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook and Williams.
Independent production company Vanguard Films will become Vanguard Animation, a fully financed digital animation studio. Williams will oversee all aspects of the company as CEO, with Neil Braun acting as president. Braun, who has held the posts of president of NBC, chairman and CEO of Viacom Entertainment, president of Imagine Entertainment and Sr. VP of HBO, was instrumental in getting financing to expand operations. Also credited with pulling Vanguard Animation together are Directors Roy Furman and Tom Lewyn.
The first film on the slate is Valiant, about a ne'er-do-well prankster pigeon who aspires to the prestigious post of messenger homing bird for the Royal Air Force during WWII. Pre-production starts this month in Los Angeles. The production will then move to Ealing Studios in London. Disney plans to release the pic in fall 2004.
Valiant will be co-produced with Barnaby Thompson, producer/partner of Fragile Films and Ealing Studios. Eric M. Bennett, president of production for Vanguard Animation, will co-produce along with Curtis Augspurger and Buckley Collum of Menace FX, who are also overseeing the buildout of Vanguard's physical animation studio.


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The pharmacognosy is the oldest branch of pharmaceutical sciences! This science is to identify the plants used in herbal medicine.
Phytotherapy is responsible for studying the plants (medicinal) and to apply them in the treatment of diseases.
Phytopharmacy therapy is based on the use of medicinal substances extracted from plants.
The ethnobotanic is human interaction ring with the plant world.
Professor Salvador, distinguishes phytotherapeutic from phytopharmaceuticals:
"The plant protection products are medicinal products developed exclusively for medicinal herbal" on the other hand "the phytochemicals are substances extracted from plants […] with pharmacological activities."
The transformation process from a natural product in a phytochemical begins with the collection of plant material: collecting the plants or their habitat obtained by using cultured cells and plant tissues. Identification and incorporation of vegetable substances in a pharmaceutical formulation follows. Research and procedures (methods and technologies) pharmacists should be validated and legal for the development of a new medicine (such process takes years and requires major investments). It should be noted that, as a product of vegetable origin requires more years of research because there are factors which influence in particular the interaction between the different chemical compounds.
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Toxicology is the science that studies the adverse effects of chemicals on organisms.
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South Park The Stick of Truth: Western RPGs Can Work For Adults Where JRPGs Fall Short
I've mentioned before how much I loved Final Fantasy as a kid. I still love it as a concept but something I'm having to come to terms with as an adult is the insane amount of responsibility I now have to things that aren't video games and how that can and does effect my relationship with complicated games like Final Fantasy and JRPGs in general.
To be perfectly honest, I wasn't even aware that "Western RPG" was even a term, but when I saw which games fell under that category, The Stick of Truth included, things started to click and I began to think of my RPG experiences in terms of "from here" and "from there". What I'm learning is that the more games I play "from here," the more satisfying my experiences are; the more I try to get into JRPGs, though, the easier it is for my frustration to force me to stop playing.
My life as a 26-year-old is way more difficult than I thought it would be when I was fourteen. Combine working a day job, making all my various payments, taking care of my pets and, of course, spending time with my partner and you've got quite a bit of the day already planned.
When I was kid, there were no pressures stopping me from sitting cross-legged on the carpet and blasting through five hours of turn-based goodness in one go. Now, I have to actually schedule time to play video games or I'd run out of material to review and, ultimately, just fall completely out of the loop. I'm not kidding: I literally have blocks on my daily schedule that read "Play new Wolfenstein. Do it. You'd better do it, dammit."
So what does all this have to do with the difference between Western and JRPGs? Well, the reality of JRPGs is that they seem to be designed for what would seem to be the more "hardcore" audience. In this case, I'm referring to people who actually have the time to invest in grinding and farming gold and learning a million and one battle classes just to have that little smidge of an advantage in the next fight.
Compare that to, for example, The Stick of Truth, a decidedly non-JRPG. The game is easy to get into, doesn't have an overwhelming amount of ins-and-outs and doesn't really require you to fight very many random encounters in order to get ahead. I beat the game without ever actively looking for baddies to beat solely for the purpose of leveling up. I never even fought a boss that I couldn't beat on the first try!
Now, a lot of people would just tell me that the reason I enjoyed the game so much is because it's a "baby" game, that it's too easy to be fun, but I strongly disagree. The game IS challenging, it IS hard, just not designed to be too hard to beat on the first try. Is that so wrong? Is it wrong to let me feel like I'm making progress every time I sit down to play for that precious hour before bed instead of making me grind for an hour just to get to the next part of the story?
It's not like a) I haven't been trying or b) I'm an idiot: I do engage with JRPGs fairly often, I just don't finish them. Lately I've been trying to get into Monster Hunter Freedom Unite lately but I haven't even made it past the tutorial without feeling completely overwhelmed by all the systems. I just don't have the time to invest in something of this magnitude, especially knowing that so many others have become absolute shamans at the game already.
One of the other things that make The Stick of Truth good, and this isn't totally fair, is the dialogue. I realize that JRPGs suffer from a lot of translation issues (lip-sync, dialogue that sounds unnatural to Western audiences, etc), but I just can't handle the way stories in JRPGs are told. The amount of times characters have to recap plotlines or blatantly state their feelings is incredibly nerve-grinding. I can almost hear the gears of exposition grinding together in the background.
Compare that to the South Park RPG and it's night and day. The dialogue is engaging, witty, and most importantly, surprising. I realize that the South Park IP is known for being funny, but that's not all there is to it: the game respects the player in that it doesn't assume that we need things to be explained in detail, nor does it even presume to care about the details that aren't important to the story.
A perfect example of these unnecessary details in a story: I played the Vita port of Final Fantasy Tactics religiously for one summer and, even after investing so much time into that one game, I still found myself looking to the wiki page every so often just to keep the characters and plotlines straight. Oftentimes I would lose track of what my motivations were and that just ruins a story in my opinion.
I don't want to make it seem like there are NO good JRPGs that deliver story in a digestible way. Persona 4 was a good storytelling experience for me, despite suffering from the same translation issues as most JRPGs. I genuinely felt surprised at what happened in the story and found myself constantly forming theories of who the killer was and what everyone's identities and motives were.
But still, The Stick of Truth was an overall excellent experience, even more so than Persona 4 (fanboys, prepare your lynch-tools). At the end of it, I didn't feel like I had missed out on much, nor did I feel like I had wasted my time grinding or leveling (maybe it was the only-so-many-days-to-win-this-game of Persona 4 that curbed its monotony?). I'm not saying games like The Stick of Truth are the best games available, but maybe, to a busy dude in his mid-twenties with two jobs, it's pretty damn satisfying.


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Melanie Martin won Best of Show at the Manawatu Quilt Symposium 2015. She was absolutely gobsmacked and after the awards ceremony I came across her sitting there stunned with her friends happily congratulating her. I took the opportunity to ask Melanie for an interview, and while she was too overwhelmed to answer, her friends kindly agreed on her behalf!
|Is is Art? Best of Show, Manawatu Quilt Symposium 2015, by Melanie Martin
Melanie discusses what this quilt is about and what it means to her. We chat about her journey into quilting, her 'year of challenges' and where to from here.
We talk about another of her quilts, and you can see the Aotearoa Quilters Growth Challenge gallery here. Melanie's quilt is called 'Under Construction'.
I can't find the exact Michael James quote that I talked about, but here's another good one from him that fits in really well with what Melanie and I talked about:
"Quiltmaking has historically been an art of conformity. I think it's high time that we relegate that fact to quilt history, and move this art form fully into the 21st century where it should take its place alongside other exploratory and creative media."


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All staff, student and other parking will be accessible only by way of Langford Lake Road. The parking lot has an EMERGENCY access to Glen Lake Road that will be gated and locked.
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The background panel of my card uses a Hostess Reward set called Washi Wonder which you can see on page 6 of the Autumn/Winter catalog here. The greeting is from Card Chatter--Sympathy and was stamped in Olive ink. The brick pattern made by the Washi Tape stamps was stamped in Goldrush, Smokey Plum and Olive inks.
Are you up for this Color Dare? If so, please use a direct link to link your project up here. Please stop by and be inspired by what the rest of the Design Team have created. We would love to visit your blog and see what you create with these colors.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!
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Results of the first junior bass tournament trail event held on May 19,2012 at West Boggs Lake Loogootee , Indiana.
Sponsors were Indiana Bass Federation , Artesian baits Martinsville Indiana, Bass Boat Savors, Honey Creek Tackle, ELDON CRABTREE, Sports Channel, Darren Ashcraft.
I.B.F. Youth trail first event results:
Winners 15 to 18 age group:
1st place Brody McWilliams
2nd place Michael Hermann
3rd place Garret Clady
Big Bass Michael Herman 5.18 lbs
Winners 11 to 14 age group:
1st place Grant Clady
2nd place Nate Stamper
3rd place Scott Sledge
Big Bass Grant Clady 2.80 lbs


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The earlier you start to build these experiences the more appealing your CV will look when it comes to applying for your first job after you have finished your education.
Build up your skill set and gain valuable work experience – find out how with advice below.
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"If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity."Justice William J. Brennan - United States Supreme Court
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."Ronald Reagan
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Former Jets DE Muhammad Wilkerson has signed with the Packers, a source told Rob Demovsky of ESPN.
Wilkerson's contract is a one-year deal worth $5 million, with $3 million in incentives, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.
The Jets released Wilkerson in February after he was inactive for the final three games of the 2017 season due to what Jets coach Todd Bowles said was a coach's decision.
"Mo's was a business decision," Bowles said at the NFL Combine. "It wasn't disciplinary at all."
The 28-year-old defensive end totaled 46 combined tackles, 3 1/2 sacks and one interception with the Jets this past season.


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Hildegard Behrens died Tuesday in Tokyo of an apparent aneurysm at the age of 72.
The exceptional German soprano, highly valued for the strength and beauty of her voice, as well as for her intensity of expression, was especially successful in the works of Wagner and Strauss. She sang the music of Mozart, Puccini, Janacek and others, as well. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1976 and was a frequent performer there over the years (in 1990, she was injured by prematurely descending scenery during the finale of "Gotterdammerung" at the Met). I've posted the AP obit at the end of this entry.
The artistry of Hildegard Behrens is preserved on many recordings and filmed performances. To salute her memory, I chose this example of the soprano, at a peak of vocal and interpretive warmth, singing the ... "Liebestod" in a performance led by one of ardent admirers, Leonard Bernstein:
TOKYO (AP) — Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. She was 72.
Jonathan Friend, artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said Tuesday in an e-mail to opera officials that Behrens felt unwell while traveling to a festival near Tokyo. She went to a Tokyo hospital, where she died of an apparent aneurism.
Friend's e-mail was shared with The Associated Press by Jack Mastroianni, director of IMG Artists.
Her funeral was planned in Vienna.
Organizers of Behrens' visit said she was in Japan to perform at a music festival and then give lessons at a hot springs resort.
Miyuki Takebayashi, an official at the Kanshinetsu Music Association, said Behrens was taken to a hospital Sunday night and died there Tuesday.
"Her son and daughter were at her bedside when she passed away," she said.
Behrens was among the finest actors on the opera stage during a professional career that spanned more than three decades. She made her professional stage debut in Freiburg as the countess in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1971 and made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Giorgetta in Puccini's "Il Tabarro" in 1976.
One of her breakthrough roles came the following year, when she sang the title role in Strauss' "Salome" at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.
She sang 171 performances at the Met, where she appeared until 1999. She was most acclaimed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for her portrayal of Bruennhilde in the Otto Schenk production of the Ring Cycle, the Met's first televised staging of Wagner's tetralogy.
"She is the finest Bruennhilde of the post-Birgit Nilsson era," Associated Press critic Mike Silverman wrote in 1989. "Though she lacks the overpowering vocal resources of a great Wagnerian soprano, she makes up for that with dramatic intensity as she changes before our eyes from a frisky young Valkyrie to a passionate and then betrayed lover, and finally to a compassionate woman whose sacrifice returns the ring to its rightful owners, the Rhinemaidens."
A dramatic soprano, her Met career included Elettra in Mozart's "Idomeneo," Isolde in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," Senta in "Die Fliegende Hollander," Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni," Santuzza in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," the title roles in Strauss' "Elektra" and 'Salome," and Puccini's "Tosca," and Marie in Berg's "Wozzeck."
She was injured during the final scene of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" at the Met on April 28, 1990, when Valhalla collapsed prematurely and an overhead of foam rubber landed on her. Behrens walked off the stage under her own power and was taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
She missed subsequent performances because of the injury, and later sued the Met, according to a 1995 article in The New York Law Journal.
According to Behrens' Web site, she was born in the north German town of Varel-Oldenburg. Her parents were both doctors and she and her five siblings studied piano and violin as children. She earned a law degree from the University of Freiburg, where she was also a member of the student choir.
She received Germany's Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of the Merit Cross), Bavaria's Bayerischer Verdienstorden service medal and was honored by both the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna State Opera.


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The earliest attempts at flying machines looked to birds and insects for inspiration. Some of those devices worked; many didn't. Maybe inventors should have turned their eyes to the sea instead. That's what a team from New York University just did. Inspired by the way that jellyfish float through the ocean, the research team invented a tiny robot that flies by flapping its transparent wings 20 times per second. The innovation, though in its early phases, creates a remarkably stable flight pattern which could be of future use for surveillance robots, search-and-rescue devices or atmospheric monitoring.
The device was presented to the public on Nov. 24 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Pittsburgh.
The prototype device is inordinately small (it only weighs two grams) because it does not yet carry its own power supply or steering mechanisms. But it does contain four flapping wings – arranged kind of like the petals of a flower – that flap up and down like a cross between a jellyfish and a moth. The robot can rise, fly in a given direction and – perhaps most importantly – hover.
Flapping aircraft – as opposed to helicopters with rotating blades – are known as ornithopters. The abstract for the presentation says this type of device offers "maneuverability at small scales" and that the team's research results "show the promise of flapping-flight strategies beyond those that directly mimic the wing motions of flying animals." Flying animals, such as fruit flies, use too much energy constantly monitoring and adjusting their flying motion, so this alternative theoretically offers a different method of making much simpler flying robots.
Co-inventor Leif Ristroph, an assistant professor of mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, told NBC News that a device like this could have a great environmental role, saying you could build dozens of devices and set them hovering above New York City to monitor pollution or CO2.
The NYU device is only eight centimeters (3.14 inches) across. A press release about the research from the American Physical Society says other researchers have had a longstanding goal of creating robots just a centimeter in size, which would allow them to be either undetected or slip into very small spaces.
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Last Stop Coney Island
New Yorkers take the subway to the beach. The F or the Q train pulls into Stillwell Avenue and when the doors open you smell the ocean. The Lenape Indians called this place "the land with no shadows". The Dutch hunted rabbits "konijn" and called it Coney Island. In 1901 everyone's favorite ride was a voyage to a papier-mâché moon so popular they called the place Luna Park. On Surf Avenue is the original Nathan's where the hot dog was invented in 1916. Coney Island is one of our myths, the landscape of our carnival. With one eye on the map Rem Koolhaas calls it "the clitoris of New York." Ferlinghetti saw it as a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Century, "A Coney Island of the Mind." It staged our lurid spectacle of the masses: sardined beaches, freak shows, the gritty Brooklyn of immigrant America, the clarinet drenched fantasy of a midcentury where Woody Allen can grow up under the roller coaster in Annie Hall. The fortunes of Coney Island have risen and declined: like the stock market, like the urban crisis, like the eighty-foot drops of the Cyclone. The parachute jump, the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn," is a defunct amusement ride. The Dreamland Wonder Wheel overlooks housing projects and empty lots. Yet what remains is a structure, a space invested with memory, nostalgia, and doubt. Franck Bohbot captures a Luna Park in transition, caught between the long seediness of its past, fading like the ice cream pasteboards, and perhaps a glimpse of the American future, the privatized, sanitized austerity of a modern melancholia. And yet, as these photographs show, Coney Island may still surprise. In its lurid candy-colored glazes a fantasy still beckons. The dream has lost its fever, but there is no sign of waking up.


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WorldCatch.com to Acquire American Gem Seafoods
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WorldCatch, an online destination for the seafood industry will soon be practicing what it preaches. This comes as the Seattle-based company has signed a letter of intent to acquire American Gem Seafoods, Inc., a seafood marketing company with annual sales of approximately $100 million.
"The seafood industry is optimistic about the future role of technology and is looking for proven solutions," says Jim Hilger, CEO of WorldCatch. "The acquisition of American Gem will give WorldCatch the opportunity to demonstrate to the industry how technology applications can enable business to be conducted more quickly and efficiently with less risk than through traditional means."
Under the terms of the transaction, WorldCatch will acquire certain assets, assume trade liabilities, and absorb American Gem's operations.
American Gem's parent company will take an ownership position in WorldCatch and will join the Board of Directors following the completion of the acquisition. The combined company will operate as WorldCatch and will continue to be headquartered in Seattle.
But don't expect the company to abandon ship when it comes to its online marketplace. WorldCatch says that it will remain committed to its online marketplace and the daily publication of The Wave, the global seafood industry's most widely read daily newsletter, with a subscriber base of over 12,000 people.


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How to Shop for Marble
There's no denying the appeal of marble in the home—it's one of the most prized materials in kitchens and baths. To shed some light on the buying process, we interviewed expert Arthur Moloian, senior manager of merchandising at Ann Sacks Tile & Stone. He shares information on the increasingly popular strains of marble, advice on how to shop for marble, maintenance musts, engineered alternatives that offer the look of natural stone without all of the fuss, and words of wisdom.


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Ren Warom's Escapology is an amazing stylistic amalgamation of cyberpunk and anime, told at breakneck speed. As debut novels go, this is a extremely polished, hugely inventive and seriously intense rollercoaster ride for the imagination. Starting off at full throttle, there's a lot going on in Escapology including an intriguing plot, stunning worldbuilding and a cast of complex, individual characters.
In a future where most of humanity resides in orbiting hubs above the Earth, where the ocean has overrun the land and where humanity coexists in real life and in the 'slip', a virtuality just as important as reality, the Gung is of central importance to the planet. It's populated by a mix of shady underworld gangsters and Fails, and the rich and those termed Pass, useful members of society with a clean psychological evaluation. Escapology follows Shock, a Haunt and one of the best at hacking the Slip for information, and Amiga, a Cleaner for one of the more powerful gangsters ruling the Gung.
It's here that things intersect so brilliantly; the action is all-out anime violence, both physical and virtual whilst the worldbuilding has strong roots in the cyberpunk genre. Shock is a well considered and very complicated character whose history shapes so much of the story. Through him we get to understand what the Slip is and how it runs, what a Haunt is capable of along along with the myriad hustlers, hackers and collectives that work in the virtual ocean of information, but, most importantly, the importance of each person's avatar. Amiga, on the other hand, offers us a different look at the underworld, the physical one where gangsters and criminals run operations without mercy. Life is cheap and the Gung is a city of mile high skyscrapers, synthetic food, and a scrabbling, desperate population.
So much of Escapology is about power and control and, in the end, it boils down to Shock. The most beaten down, drug addled, cowardly victim imaginable but the toughest, hardiest and almost noble character out there; forced into a mission to break that which contains the Slip his courage and guile are impressive. Both he and Amiga are the downtrodden, each reacting differently to the adversity which respectively shaped them into introverted hacker and unstoppable killer. As their stories intertwine both must open themselves up to those things they'd turned their backs on; power and control, then, is not wielded over others but is about finding the keys to a true self.
Atmospheric writing, brutal action and the stunning imaginative visualisations of a broken world all wrapped up in an innovative and intriguing future history. Escapology has so much to offer as the characters develop under the pressure of the plot. I've hardly scratched the surface with this review but, believe me, if you are a fan of cyberpunk or just impressive sci-fi, this is a definite winner.
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