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Things That Are Neat: Ladies With Glasses!
Posted on : March 23, 2010 By Matt Keeley
Y'know what I like? I mean, aside from watching TV and all that stuff, but y'know, big and in general?
I like ladies with glasses.
Glasses are like, lady-enhancers.
Like, y'know who I thought was really, really cool? Bailey Quarters from WKRP. She was wonderful. She was pretty, and she was nice, and she was smart, and she was fresh out of journalism school and got a job at a radio station. She was awesome. I felt bad for her because she was really nervous and sometimes Herb'd try to bring her down, and then sometimes Les would sorta join in a little bit, or sometimes a lot, and she'd want to cry a little, and I just wanted to reach into the TV and give her a big ol' hug and let her know everything'd be all right. I wonder why Andy didn't do that more often. Or Venus, but he wasn't around as much, cause he was the night DJ, and Bailey usually worked during the day, but sometimes Venus'd just come down to the station to hang out or work on show prep or something. But then, he was usually with Dr. Johnny Fever, or Andy. But, anyway, though, I thought Bailey was awesome. She was probably my favorite, not to slight Jennifer, who was pretty cool too, or any of the rest of them really.
Her real name was Jan Smithers. She was married to James Brolin for a while, but then they got divorced, and she hasn't really been in TV or Movies since, which makes me sad, because, y'know, I liked her. I would watch WKRP and I totally had a crush on her. I wanted to marry her and not really take her away or anything, cause that'd be mean, but I'd just be all like "Hey, lay off, Herb, why don't you go get some more loud suits or something, huh?" and then Herb would be all sad, then I'd get kind of sad, too, cause even though Herb could be a jerk, he was still a nice guy deep down. And then he'd apologize, and Bailey'd go "Oh, heh, that's OK, Herb…" and everything would be back to normal.
I guess, to be honest, I didn't really have the crush on Jan Smithers so much as just Bailey Quarters. But I'm sure that Jan Smithers is equally wonderful.
Another pretty lady with glasses was Enid Coleslaw in Ghost World. I'm mainly talking about the movie, where she was played by Thora Birch, but the comic Enid was also very pretty too. She was another lady who I thought could use some hugging, too, but not as much as Bailey, because Enid would be a little more aggressive, and not quite as outwardly sweet like Bailey. But she's still nice. But I don't think that a hug would have really helped Enid as much, as it seemed like it would Bailey. But, y'know, at least it would be with good intent.
One thing that made me sad and angry was that one time the iMDB had Ghost World as their Movie of the Day (that part didn't make me sad, because it's a very good movie), but they referred to Enid as being overweight. This bothered me because not only did they imply that being overweight wasn't a terribly desirable quality (which I think is a flawed premise, cause y'know, there's lots of cool people who are overweight, and there's a lot of pretty people who are overweight, too, and I mean actually overweight, and not overweight like Enid is overweight, by which I mean not at all), but also (as I kind of said already) that she's not actually overweight. Like, she's not at all, and that really bothered me that someone who's a normal weight was considered "Overweight". I thought that was pretty stupid. I probably should have written a letter to the iMDB calling them on that being stupid, but I never did, so, I don't know, it's probably still up there somewhere. But anyway, though, I thought that Enid was a very pretty lady with very pretty glasses.
Anyway, though, I think that more ladies should wear glasses if they need to, cause I don't know, glasses are pretty, but also because contacts are kind of creepy when you think about it, cause not only are you putting your fingers in your eyes, you're putting little bits of plastic in there too. Like, I used to have to go see this eye doctor guy who's a total asshole, but anyway, they have to test my eye pressure because I'm at risk for glaucoma, and they have to numb my eyeball so they can poke it with this giant light donut thing. I still have to have the eye poked, but now it's a different doctor who is really nice and totally awesome. He asked me what my book was about once, and it was Infinite Jest and I said "About 1000 pages" and he laughed and said "I can see that", and I said "I wish I could!". Actually I didn't say the last bit, I just told him a rough synopsis of what it actually was about but this has nothing to do with anything, because there wasn't a whole lot about glasses in that, other than a NASA glass, but that's the wrong sort of glasses.
Anyway, though, back to the point about the eye-poking, the giant light donut only looks giant, cause, y'know, it's real close to my eye, and the eyes see, so things that are close to the eye look like they're really big. I think if I had to guess I'd say it's about maybe a centimeter across or so, but I'm not sure.
But anyway, even though the eyeball's numb from the eye drops which have cocaine in them, it's still really uncomfortable, cause, y'know, you can still feel the pressure and you're really afraid that your eye's about to come back to the land of feeling, but it doesn't, because of the cocaine cokes up your eye. Actually, I found out later, when I started seeing the good doctor, that if it's done right, you actually DON'T feel anything, which was really surprising to me, so I guess when you read this example, make sure that you're reading it with something like "If the machine is being operated by a jerk who's careless and mean besides and I've got other stories like how he would keep me waiting for like 2 hours even if there wasn't anyone else around to see him because he'd be busy bitching out the receptionists about the wrong 'ambience' in the waiting room from the lights, because I mean, that's so important, because y'know I only see the doctor if the ambience is right" implied, because otherwise it's just not true, since if the doctor knows what he's doing, you don't actually feel it.
So, anyway, though, when you use contacts, they don't coke up your eyes, so you can feel the chunk of plastic coming in contact with the eyeball and that's really gross, and then it can go and ride up into the top of the eye and that's so incredibly disgusting and I don't know why anyone would want to do that. Because not only are glasses pretty, but they're also better than the alternative of poking stuff in your eyeball. Because your eyes don't like that. Cause, y'know, no one would like to have stuff poked into them.
Also, there's a lot of other pretty ladies with glasses too, it's just that a lot of them are people I know personally and "Oh, yeah, one of my best friends and her girlfriend both look really good with glasses" wouldn't really hold a lot of sway with most people, because, y'know, no one here really knows who they are. So, you'll just have to take my word on that that they're both really pretty with glasses. Of course, they're really pretty without them, but I like them with glasses more. I've got other friends who are ladies with glasses, but I won't go into them, either, for the same reason.
This is why I also won't mention that this one time I saw this one lady who normally had glasses, only this time she didn't, and it was really weird, because without her glasses I could all see her face like a skull and it really creeped me out and I had to get out of there, because it was kind of weirding me out, cause I don't want to see no one's bones, OK? Anyway, though, I won't mention this, just because no one knows who I'm talking about and it wouldn't make a difference.
But really, I think when it comes down to it, most ladies are pretty anyway, and besides, it's not a good thing to judge people by their prettiness, because that's mean. Anyway, all the people I've talked about here are really good people anyway, glasses or not and whether they're real or not (like the TV characters. Even the skull-lady is really good too; it just was a little creepy.). And there's some ladies I've known who all the glasses in the world wouldn't make them pretty, and that's not because multiple pairs of glasses would look silly, but because they're not nice people and that's a really big major factor of prettiness is whether or not they're good people. I've known a lot of ladies who you would think would be pretty from the way they look, but really aren't because of the way they think and act. And that's not cool.
Especially cause some of them have even had glasses.
I suppose the shallow side of me says that they can wear contacts all they want, cause I don't care about how they look or if they poke out their eyes with chunks of plastic, but that's sort of mean, and, well, contacts really creep me out anyway, so, y'know, I'm not sure if I'd recommend anyone wear them, but I guess anyone can if they really want to. But, like, if you're on the fence between glasses and contacts, I would recommend you keep your glasses, even if you're a mean and bad person who doesn't think anything about taking advantage of people's generosity and feelings and stuff. But ultimately, it's your own decision, because they're your eyeballs and if you want to poke stuff in them, that's your prerogative, I guess. Even if I happen to think it's a silly prerogative.
So, anyway, I guess glasses are only lady-enhancers if the lady doesn't really need enhancing in the first place, because they're already very, very pretty from being a good person.
It's kind of funny how that works. I think most things that are like that work that way, how they only work if you don't actually need them to work. Oh well, I still like ladies in glasses, as long as they're good.
I like good people. And glasses.
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Atimia truncatella is een keversoort uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2007 door Holzschuh.

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Culicoides impunctatus, in Großbritannien Highland Midge genannt, ist eine blutsaugende Insektenart aus der Familie der Gnitzen (Ceratopogonidae). Das Verbreitungsgebiet ist Eurasien von den Britischen Inseln bis nach China.

Beschreibung
Auf den Flügeln trägt Culicoides impunctatus namensgebend charakteristische dunkle Flecken ( 'gepunktet'), die bei Vergrößerung zur Identifikation dienen können. Die Flügelspannweite beträgt 1,4 mm.

Da eine eindeutige Differenzierung von ähnlichen Arten wie Culicoides cubitalis schwierig ist, bedient man sich oft der Bestimmung mittels rDNA-Analyse.

Verhalten
Culicoides impunctatus tritt in Schwärmen in Moor- und Waldgebieten auf. Zur Beutesuche bevorzugen die adulten Weibchen die Morgen- und Abendstunden. Ihre Wirte im schottischen Hochland sind Rinder (38,4 %), Rehwild (23,0 %), Schafe (9,9 %), außerdem Menschen (0,3 %). Ihre Beute können sie auf eine Entfernung von bis zu 200 m ausfindig machen. Bei der olfaktorischen Orientierung spielen 1-Octen-3-ol, Urin, Phenolverbindungen, Aceton und CO2 eine Rolle. CO2 dient dabei der exakten Lokalisierung.

Ungestört entnimmt eine Blut saugende Culicoides impunctatus innerhalb von 3–4 Minuten etwa 2 µl Blut. Zur Eireifung des ersten Geleges ist eine Blutmahlzeit jedoch nicht zwingend erforderlich. Ein Weibchen legt während des Sommers 30–100 Eier auf feuchte Oberflächen. Nach 24 Stunden schlüpft die Larve, welche im Feuchtbereich omnivor oder Detritus fressend insgesamt 4 Larvenstadien durchlebt und im vierten überwintert. Das Puppenstadium im Mai oder Juni dauert nur 1–2 Tage.

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Als effektives Repellent wird Eukalyptusöl verwendet.

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Literatur
 M. A. Hill: The life-cycle and habits of Culicoides impunctatus Goetghebuer and Culicoides obsoletus Meigen, together with some observations on the life-cycle of Culicoides odibilis Austen, Culicoides pallidicornis Kieffer, Culicoides cubita lis Edwards and Culicoides chiopterus Meigen. In: Ann Trop Med Parasitol. Band 41, Nr. 1, Mai 1947, S. 55–115.
 John Boorman, Philip Goddard: Observations on the biology of Culicoides impunctatus Goetgh.(Dipt., Ceratopogonidae) in southern England. In: Bulletin of Entomological Research, Band 60, Nr. 02, 1970, S. 189–198, .
 A. Blackwell, A. Ritchie, J. R. Hillman, B. Fenton: Meanbh-chuileag- the Highland biting midge. PDF englisch, abgerufen am 11. August 2015.

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Panels and Workshops (Moderators: MPLe, Kava, ewu) >
Vintage Anime - Name That Year! - Returning for 2022
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Old School Gathering Host / Vintage Anime Panels
As this panel is largely dependent on audience participation, specifically timed presentation slides with a live competition, and lots of multimedia and discussion - we have opted to postpone until the in-person convention resumes in 2022.
The plan is to submit the panel for FanimeCon 2022 once panel registration opens for that year. We hope to bring it back again - with all new titles - and hopefully TWO HOURS with TWO FULL GAMES for 2020.
ALL INFO AT THIS TIME IS TO BE DETERMINED UNTIL PANEL REGISTRATION IS OPEN / PANELS ARE APPROVED
- INFORMATION BELOW IS CARRYOVER FROM 2019 AND WILL BE UPDATED ONCE 2022 PANEL REGISTRATION IS OPEN / APPROVED -
Returning for 2022 to bring classic anime love back to FanimeCon -
Vintage Anime - Name That Year!
Do you know your anime? Three attendees compete to identify pre-2001 anime openings to their respective years! Each classic anime opening is followed by a brief selection of information, including current availability and related works. Compete to win old school anime prizes and be crowned Otaking!*
(three contestant slots accepted from panel attendees - first come, first served)
*Otaking is not gender-specific, it's a term from the 1991 OVA "Otaku no Video" but if you're interested in this panel then you probably knew that already.
View the greatest anime openings of all time, listen to iconic music, and expand your anime horizons!
Saturday, May 25th at 9:00am in Panels 4
The first three panel attendees who wish to compete will sit at the front of the room across from the stage. They will each be given three cards, marked A, B, and C.
Ten rounds - Each round will have three years on screen, example: A.1982 B.1985 C.1989, and an anime opening / intro will play. At the conclusion of the anime opening, each contestant holds up the card that corresponds to the year they think the anime series premiered in. If their answer is correct, they are awarded a point. After a round, the next presentation slide will give the correct answer for the competitors and audience, brief information about the series, its current availability, and so on - as is done in a traditional information panel. After that the next round begins.
Whichever contestant has the most points at the end of the final round wins a vintage anime prize pack supplied by myself in the theme of vintage anime fandom. (the packages from previous years contained things like LaserDiscs, reference books, soundtrack CDs, video games, oddball bootleg DVDs and more - all vintage anime themed - like the stuff you'd find at anime cons in the 90's) In the case of a tie, there will be a tiebreak series opening, without multiple choice, where the contestants must write the year down. Closest to the actual year breaks the tie and wins. In the event of a continuing tie, co-champions will be crowned!
A twist on the "vintage anime" type panel with more audio / video and the addition of a competition between three attendees.
All contestants will receive a special parting gift!
All panel attendees will receive a commemorative badge ribbon at the end of the panel! (limit 80 ribbons)
Join us and... NAME - THAT - YEAR!
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Re: Vintage Anime - Name That Year!
With registration now open, I wanted to ping this thread as we plan on hosting this again for 2019! Due to positive feedback we're considering expanding to a second session depending on policy once panel registration opens.
Thank you to all our attendees and contestants from FanimeCon 2018 for sharing a bit of your Saturday morning with us and expanding your vintage anime knowledge.
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I guess I better brush on my old-school knowledge.
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Quote from: Barnes on November 07, 2018, 11:59:09 PM
Or just watch a lot of pre-2001 anime openings.
Last year we had a three-way tie at Round 8 that progressed to a two-way tie after the Final Round, so it went to a tiebreaker.
Re: Vintage Anime - Name That Year! - Returning for 2019
Submission is in, here's hoping.
We had a really good mix of attendees (and our three contestants) last year and I want to emphasize this panel can be enjoyed by anyone who likes anime, even if you only have a curiosity about titles from 2000 and earlier - not just the "hardened vintage retro otaku." As three year choices are given for each opening / intro, you can think through it and formulate a good guess as to the correct response - although I do like to make them somewhat tricky (but not frustrating) in that regard. That was actually really cool last year, watching the contestants work a bit of a process of elimination while the openings were playing.
Additionally I try to ensure the panel has a good mix of anime. At least one title that's really well-known commonly, a few that are very popular but not universal, one truly vintage title, one where the art style betrays its production year, and a general mix otherwise. I also attempt to utilize titles that have been recently licensed / relicensed or rescued, have a fansubbing project currently underway, have new productions based upon the property currently in work, are celebrating an anniversary, have a connection to a FanimeCon Guest of Honor, etc. So they are absolutely not thrown together at random - I really think through what to include in the panel as per what is going on with vintage anime currently and then I research to make sure my information is as accurate as possible.
With the panel listing now made official, we're set for Saturday morning at 9am in Panels 4. One Session.
Re: Vintage Anime - Name That Year! - Planning on Returning for 2020
If I'm able to get a two-hour Saturday morning slot, 2020 will feature two full games (two groups of three contestants), two awesome vintage prize packages, special parting gifts for all contestants, and a small special gift for EVERY attendee.
Alright, our submission is in for 2020, here's hoping!
Okay, it appears we have been accepted for 2020, Saturday morning, 9am - 11am in Panels Room 4. This will be TWO FULL games / sessions back to back - think of a game show shooting two episodes on the same day for example. That means there will be six total contestants, 3 for the first game and 3 for the second, with each game featuring completely different anime titles. Also means there will be two different vintage anime prize packages in the theme of vintage anime fandom, special parting gifts for all six contestants, and a small special gift for EVERY attendee.
The thread will be updated in the next week with more information. Thanks for your support, hope to see you at Fanime!
What a long strange trip it has been, ah? Previous post at the end of February 2020 was nothing but clear skies on the horizon for the 2020 convention, excitement and anticipation with a note that more information was on the way. A couple weeks later everything changed and Santa Clara County shelter-in-place began and the pandemic was well upon us.
So here we are, a week away from Memorial Day Weekend a year later. Things are looking up around here, and we commend FanimeCon for hosting a virtual convention this year, adding value for attendees who registered for 2020, and also providing some of the events that bring us all together at the end of May every year.
With that said, I hope everyone is doing well and that virtual Fanime 2021 runs smoothly. And of course I hope to see you all in a panel room on Saturday morning at FanimeCon 2022 to share our love of vintage anime.
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Hey everyone. I just submitted the panel for 2022, same as the plan that we were approved for in 2020 - two hours with two full games. Here's hoping it's accepted and goes through smoothly.

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研发报告详细内容
新型纳米材料有望提升电池效率,可在诸多可持续领域应用
独特的纳米网,集高孔隙率、出色的表面积体积比和易于制造于一身
比利时鲁汶,2019-3-12— 今天,世界领先的纳米电子、能源和数字技术研究与创新中心imec携手同为EnergyVille合作伙伴的KU Leuven,展示了一款新颖的纳米网材料,这意味着可能在各种可持续应用领域取得突破。这款新的纳米网材料为三维纳米级(金属)格栅结构,具有高度规则的内部尺寸。由于其独特的材料特性和易于制造的特点,有望在(可持续)工业领域中得到广泛应用。它将提升电池效率,改善催化转化器、燃料电池和氢气生产。
The nanomesh material is a 3D structure of nanowires that are horizontally interconnected on multiple levels, showing highly regular internal spacings and dimensions. As a result, it combines high porosity with an unprecedented surface-to-volume ratio. For each micrometer thickness, there is a 26-fold increase of available surface area. To visualize this: when filling a volume of a small can of soda, it would remain 75% empty while containing a surface area equal to the size of a football field. On top of that, the internal and external dimensions can be tuned to almost any specification, making it potentially compatible with a multitude of application requirements.
Many industrial processes build on chemical reactions that (need to) occur at a surface. The more surface available, the more reactions that can occur simultaneously, and the higher the speed or throughput of the process. Think about electrodes in batteries, for example, transforming lithium into lithium ions. Imec's nanomesh material can enable high-capacity and fast-charging batteries, because its large surface combined with high porosity features a high load of energy-storing material while it remains as a nanometer thin-film in close contact with the current collector. Also, in fuel cells, the metal nano-grid structure of imec's new nanomesh material could simultaneously act as a current collector and a functional catalyst. For example, in the electrolytic production of hydrogen from water, a few-micron of the new nanomesh material was shown to outperform a 300 times thicker nickel foam of about one millimeter thick.
As a bonus, this unique material can be quite easily manufactured through cheap anodization and electroplating processes. First, a mold is formed by anodization of aluminum foil. The secret for the regular perforation at the nanoscale lays in the controlled doping of the aluminum metal. The resulting structure acts as a mold in which a large variety of materials can be deposited. After consecutive chemical etching, the mold is being dissolved and a self-standing nanomesh structure remains. On a macroscopic level, the self-standing nanomesh is a flexible foil, giving it another edge over its closest competitors (metal foams and aerogels), which are often more rigid or brittle.
Prof. Philippe Vereecken, scientific director at imec and professor at the bio-engineering faculty of KU Leuven: "We have high expectations for this new nanomaterial. Its greatest strengths lie in the regularity of its structure, the large open structure and the conformability of its dimensions. We discovered the three-dimensional nanoporous structure almost 10 years ago, but only during the PhD research of Stanislaw Zankowski, the uniqueness of this material became clear. The spaces between the nanowires were small when using the traditional templated nanowire processes. Stan optimized the fabrication process to obtain the large porosity, so that it can now be optimally leveraged in many applications. We welcome all industrial parties who want to join us in transferring this very promising material into industrial applications."
Nanomesh. Top: 3D impression of the grid structure. middle: scanning electron-microscope image illustrating the highly regular structure. Bottom: on a macroscopic scale, the material is flexible.
Nanomesh can relatively easily be produced through electrochemical processes at atmospheric pressure. First a mold is created in which the nanomesh material can be deposited, After etching, a free-standing nanomesh remains.
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Imec is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.
As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 85 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2017, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 546 million euro. Further information on imec can be found at www.imec-int.com.
Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut"), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Flemish Government), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.) and imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.) and imec India (Imec India Private Limited), imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).
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KU Leuven is Europe's most innovative university. Located in Belgium, it is dedicated to research, education, and service to society. KU Leuven is a founding member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and has a strong European and international orientation. Our scientists conduct basic and applied research in a comprehensive range of disciplines. University Hospitals Leuven, our network of research hospitals, provides high-quality healthcare and develops new therapeutic and diagnostic insights with an emphasis on translational research. The university welcomes more than 50,000 students from over 140 countries. The KU Leuven Doctoral Schools train approximately 4,500 PhD students.
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EnergyVille is a collaboration between the Flemish research partners KU Leuven, VITO, imec and UHasselt in the field of sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems. Our researchers provide expertise to industry and public authorities on energy-efficient buildings and intelligent networks for a sustainable urban environment. This includes, for example, smart grids and advanced district heating and cooling.
One of the Objectives of EnergyVille is to become one of the top five European institutes in innovative energy research. In this context, the center was embedded in major national and international networks right from the start. It covers research, development, training and innovative industrial activities under one name and in close collaboration with local, regional and international partners.
EnergyVille aims to be a driver in the Thor science park in Genk in the areas of research, business development and employment creation. The research center is supported by the city of Genk, the Flemish Government, the Province of Limburg, LRM, Nuhma, POM Limburg and the European structural funds.
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Arch-terrorist Barghouti calls from his prison cell for a "Palestinian Authority Arab Spring" to force Hamas and Fatah to unify.
Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for the murder of dozens of Jews, continues to lead from his prison cell and calls for a "Palestinian Authority Arab Spring" to force Hamas and Fatah to unify.
"Neither history, nor the people, nor martyrs, or prisoners of any party, will forgive any leader who puts obstacles in the way of national reconciliation," he said.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh have been talking unity for more than a year, a move that could place in question American recognition of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, because Hamas has been declared an illegal terrorist organization.
Barghouti formerly has called for "peaceful" resistance in Judea, Samaria and Gaza against a Jewish presence in those areas.
He was convicted in 2004 of five counts of murder after he masterminded suicide bombings that left hundreds of Israelis dead and wounded.
Barghouti was acquitted of 21 counts of murder in 33 other attacks for "lack of sufficient evidence."


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Home News 3D printed Sneezometer helps asthma patients breathe easy
3D printed Sneezometer helps asthma patients breathe easy
by Emily Hughes
University of Surry researchers have created a 'sneezometer' that is sensitive enough to measure the speed of a sneeze and can also help to diagnose respiratory conditions like asthma
David Birch, of the University of Surrey's aerodynamics and environmental flow research group and the 3D printed Sneezometer
The 3D printed 'sneezometer', is an airflow sensor or 'spirometer'. Spirometers measure lung capacity and are used to diagnose chronic and acute respiratory conditions including asthma, obstructive sleep apnoea and hypopnoea.
However, current devices are expensive, cumbersome and lack the sensitivity required in difficult diagnostic situations, such as neonatal care, according to the University.
Surrey's sneezometer measures the flow of air through a patient's lungs. When the patient breathes through the fist-sized instrument, the sneezometer picks up tiny fluctuations in the breath's flow rate, which may be caused by a disease.
David Birch, of the University of Surrey's aerodynamics and environmental flow research group, said: "Breathing disorders are highly prevalent in the developed and developing world.
"The diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory diseases is key to proper treatment and we have now developed a simple, low-cost and non-intrusive diagnostic solution that will make doctors lives easier across the world."
Paul Nathan, the sneezometer's co-inventor, added: "We have created a portable, highly sensitive and accurate spirometer that can catch the speed of a sneeze.
"What's almost as impressive is that we created this innovative device using simple 3D printing technology, with all of the prototypes 'printed' around the internal electronics."
Prashant Kumar, from the University of Surrey, said: "Air pollution was recently placed in the top ten health risks faced by human beings globally, with the World Health Organization linking air pollution to seven million premature deaths every year.
"The availability of an inexpensive and portable diagnostic device such as this will assist in such diseases being diagnosed, and treated at earlier stages."
The Sneezometer is currently being trialled at Kings College Hospital, London. Manasi Nandi, senior lecturer in integrative pharmacology at King's College London, said: "The ability to measure the sensitivity of airflow detection and pull out other information from single breath is very interesting from both a research and clinical perspective.
"This is currently not picked out with conventional tests and we have already been using it to mimic testing of asthma."
The University of Surry said that it is envisages that the new device could be in clinical service as soon as 2018.
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Sagittarius horoscope for 2022
Are you a Sagittarius? Read your yearly horoscope for 2022!
The Sagittarius can have many choices to change his/her life this year, but each of these choices will determine how the next steps could be taken. Now is the time to build up a strategy that works in your life, but before you decide anything, try to think of your goals in life. Instead of always just opting for the easier way, try to choose the paths that will lead you to your goals. After all, when you're trekking in a forest, you don't just follow some random, easy paths, but instead you climb on mountain trails if that's what's needed to get to your destination. Why would it be different in your everyday life? You may also need to raise your voice and tell others your opinion sometimes because otherwise certain people could try to take advantage of your kindness and could try to use your silence as a way to justify their selfish actions.
Sagittarius career and health horoscope for 2022
In 2022, the Sagittarius may, or may not want to change the way things are at work. After all, this all depends on how well you feel at work. If you have some troubles, you're right to wish for a change, and luck will be on your side. Find your courage, and never give up if you want to change something in your life, and you'll succeed in the end. If you feel very stressed occasionally, you have every right to look for ways to lessen the pressure that burdens you. Apart from this, you will probably have a great year full of new experiences and situations which you can learn a lot from. By the end of the year, you'll become a wiser and happier person, and you can also work for a better future for yourself.
Sagittarius love horoscope for 2022
The Sagittarius can have controversial feelings and emotions when it comes to love and relationship, and it's possible that he/she can be in a real love and hate relationship - or at least could feel this way occasionally. It's important to look at the roots of these feelings and only then try to fix things - otherwise you may end up curing the wrong "disease". Thankfully, the problem underlying your worries will usually be a lot less severe than how you may fear it is. If you are currently single, you may find out it's best to look for a companion who has the same values and principles as you, as two people who are too different may match great at first, but then start to drift away. If you live in a long-term relationship, you may need to take more time with your partner, and it's not only the amount of time that should be considered, but also, the quality of it. Having a romantic dinner now and then or spending a weekend together once in a while will make your relationship fresh and passionate again.


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Daily life NEWS
The hidden poetry of the Chilean capital's skyline
Poet Rodrigo Rojas adds a level of artistry to the city's buildings through their names.
Tuesday 09 July, 2013 | Daily life
As Chile's economy grows, so do its skylines. The buildings get higher and higher, and many people fear the loss of culture and art in place of progress and efficiency. One poet, Rodrigo Rojas, teamed up with a development firm to bring something special to some of Santiago's newest high rises, a unique name.
Rojas, who describes himself as a literature professor who writes poetry, was brought in to give names to new projects — devising the name from plans and drawings in order to help preemptively sell the spaces before construction began.
"My job consisted of a very simple thing; I had to give a name to the building," Rojas said on the architecture radio show 99 percent Invisible.
But, as he explains, he went beyond static brainstorming.
"I had to walk around a lot, get to know the different neighborhoods and see what characteristics that neighborhood had and what characteristics the people who would buy those apartments be looking for," Rojas said.
"People aspire to be something else, they want a better life," Rojas added, "so they have a dream and I had to walk around the neighborhoods thinking of what kind of dream that person is looking for and I had to devise a name for that dream."
Rojas named over 40 buildings across Santiago in the course of a year.
"You might consider it to be my first publication of very short poems," Rojas joked.
In one case, he named a group of buildings located in a particularly humid neighborhood Cancún, imagining its inhabitants dreaming of the beach and sunshine. The developers were so excited about the idea they included palm trees in the design, not a typical sight in Santiago.
On another project, Rojas invented a story about a ship, The Zanzibar. This romantic tale follows a luxury cruise liner designed in the same era as the Titanic, but which avoided the notorious fate of its peer. The idea of naming a building from this was immensely popular with his clients.
"When you mix luxury with the survival of tragedy, it's very important for Chile. It's the search of status, and the survival of earthquakes," Rojas said.
Although a name may seem like a miniscule aspect of creating a building, by creating stories, poems for each new structure joining Santiago's skyline, Rojas was connecting with the dreams of what the city could become.
"I think it is a story that should be told because it is a story of the dreams of people," Rojas said.
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Upon their arrival at Hoosac, every student is sorted onto either the Antonian (named for Mount Anthony, which is to the north of the school) or the Graftonian (named for the Grafton Hills that bracket the southeastern edge of campus) team. Each team also reflects the school colors: red for the Antonians and purple for the Graftonians. These teams compete throughout the year for the most points, and the winning team is granted the prestigious Guilford Cup! Competitions include dodgeball games, swimming contests, and an entire day dedicated to Antonian/Graftonian events: Asado Day, in the spring. Participation in on campus charity events or other fun activities can also count towards each team's point total. Nothing brings out Hoosac spirit and pride like an Antonian vs. Graftonian competition.
One of the grandest and oldest traditions at Hoosac, the Boar's Head and Yule Log Pageant has been performed every year for one hundred and twenty four years straight. It is a school-wide production that celebrates the Christmas season in true medieval style. The show starts out solemnly, with songs representing the birth of Christ and several contemporary martyrs, followed by a feast of roast beef, greens, and an authentic boar's head. After dinner comes the fun portion of the evening: Father Christmas, the Mummers Play, and lively songs and dances entertain the crowd. It is also the time for the Jester, the Lord of Misrule, to appear. One Jester is chosen by the Headmaster per year and they have free reign to enact well-meaning mischief during the show and for a few weeks after. For more information on the Boar's Head and Yule Log, see our Boar's Head and Yule Log page.
Bleeze Banquet is one of the best nights on campus for the VIth Formers at Hoosac. The night begins with a church service where many of students either sing the school choir or serve as alter boys/girls. This is followed by a burning of the greens which signals the end of the Jester's misrule (see above), and the first step toward commencement. Students pose and take photographs in front of the large bonfire. The entire school then moves into the dining hall where both students and faculty sit at tables arranged in the shape of a cross, another time honored Bleeze tradition. In addition to the great food and fellowship, many students take advantage of the photo booth before giving their attention to an alumni keynote speaker. After an emotional speech, there are usually three or four musical performances by some of the school's best musicians. Students then close out the evening with a candle toast to the VIth Form, the prefects, the faculty, staff and alumni before joining in the school ode.
This time-honored custom is one that every generation of former Hoosac students has experienced. Every student is assigned a particular job around campus that they have to attend to throughout the week. Jobs include being a waiter or clearer at meals, stacking the books in the Chapel, and making sure the public areas such as the Squealery/Student Center and the Day Student Lounge are kept neat and tidy. Not only is the workjob program a character building exercise for students, it also unites them as part of the community - this is their home, our home, and we should take care of it. Additionally, the members of the VIth Form spend their final year planning and fundraising for a week-long service trip before they graduate. In the past, students have worked with Habitat for Humanity, the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, and several community centers up and down the east coast. The VIth Form service trip is a wonderful opportunity for Hoosac students to go out into the world around them and make a difference.
Before every meal in the Memorial Dining Hall, the Steward must ring the bells and call the attention to the Headmaster for a brief blessing. The bells must be struck in the same order they have always been struck, to create the same chimes. By the end of the year, every student knows the chime of those bells by heart, and cannot think of a meal in the dining hall starting without them.
Every Friday at Hoosac, during morning Chapel, there are Birthday Prayers. The Headmaster reads the name of every current student who has a birthday that week, they receive a small Hoosac pin, and a short prayer is said. What makes this so unique is that the Headmaster also reads the name and birthday of every student who ever went to Hoosac, often with memories and anecdotes in accompaniment. Without fail, if you attended Hoosac, your name is heard every year in that week's Birthday Prayers.


1st in TOP 9 of Foodbuzz, on the 28th of September 2011.
On the 25th of September I celebrated my birthday.
In this post I was thinking to write a ton of things about my feelings and thoughts, but when I sat down to create the post I decided that I just wanted to show my cake.
This is the first cake I ever made for me. I am so happy I created something just for me. MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!
A suitcase! Does this say anything to you???????
Below you will be able to find the decorating process.
Among other ingredients, I used cocoa powder and icing sugar to make the brown fondant.
It was not hard to make, and I really enjoyed it. From now on, I decided that each year a special cake will be created from me, for myself with lots of love!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! The cake looks wonderful, I hope your going on a trip somewhere.
very cute cake! and happy birthday.
This cake blew me away!
Happy birthday Efrychia - May God bless you with more creative years.
That's pretty awesome - and I'm curious about the inside of the cake! How did you do that?
Eftychia, this is a perfectly executed stunner! I'll say the suitcase says something...it says a travel holiday may be in store for you. Toy you I say Happy Birthday and a job well done on your cake. Brava!
OMG, this cake is absolutely beautiful! Happy belated birthday! You did a wonderful job!
Happy birthday! I love the cake... too cute.
Happy birthday!! I hope you had a great day to go with that beautiful cake!
What a beauty! Happy Belated Birthday! :D I love the pin & brown combo & what flavor is your cake? Looks sooooo good.
Yesterday was your birthday? Happy Birthday to you! Beautiful cake. Looks like we both celebrated wonderfully. Yeah!
Τhe cake looks very beautiful!! You deserve something for yourself and I wish you all the best.
Happy birthday! You made yourself a very beautiful cake!
Happy birthday Efty! The suitcase is stunning-another wonderful creation. I hope this means that you are planning a vacation soon! Have a great day.
Omg this cake came out perfect! I absolutely love it - so cute!! Happy belated birthday, I hope you enjoyed yourself!
WOW!!! That is an amazing cake!!! Happy belated!
the details on the cake are amazing! happy birthday!
Happy belated b'day eftychia , I just love...love...love the suitcase cake you made , what a perfect job on the cake . Out of all your cakes , now this is my fav , I have been wanting to try out a suitcase cake for a while now but too lazy to get going ;) .
Happy Birthday! This cake is so perfectly! I can't believe how realistic the straps look. Glad you made something for yourself!
Happy Birthday - the cake is incredible! Congrats on Top 9!
love this! So creative, beautiful and perfect. Bravo sou!!!
Wow,that's beyond impressive! I hope you thoroughly enjoyed your own birthday cake. Happy birthday!
WOW! That is gorgeous - doesn't look like cake - looks like a real suitcase. Do you secretly want to go on a fabulous holiday away from all the responsibilities? (smile) Happy birthday week! We always celebrate our birthday and birthday week. That way it is even more special!!
I hope you had a very Happy Birthday!!! Lovely cake, you deserve it! If your plans include traveling to Boston, let me know, & we'll have cake!!
Don't eat the desserts you make (SO hard)...but I do try samples.
Exercise 5-7 days a week. I try to get on the treadmill nearly every day...and go to yoga 2-3 times a week.
This cake is stunning - I absolutely love the colors pink and brown together!
Congrats on Top ! I am way to late to say Happy Birthday but I still want to wish you lots of happiness, peace and good health. The cake looks like real suitcase. Are you trying to tell us that you are leaving on a jetplane? LOL!
Happy belated birthday. Sorry for the late greetings & wish everything nice & more lovely cakes to come. I'm soo looking forward for your upcoming creations. This suitcase cake look sooo real... I'm speechless. Amazing!
That suitcase looks amazing! So perfect. The gold buckle is my favorite part.
What a beautiful cake--love the details! Happy belated birthday!
You are an amazing cake artist - your work is so intricate! Just awesome!
Beautiful work! My birthday is coming up next month and I'm starting to think about what I want. A birthday cake is always a must even though it's just hubby and I.
Wow, lovely cake, very clean work! I have decided that this year, for my own birthday, I will also create a stunning cake. I sort of ignore my own birthday because it just seems like needless work, but what better way to celebrate YOU than with a beautiful cake?
This looks amazing!! Keep up the good work!
this fabulous should try to make a cake but with the design of a classic Chanel purse.


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Q: Sharepoint information structure, as flat as possible or a hierarchy I have recently had a couple of clients that are adopting SharePoint that
for various reasons want as flat of a structure as possible.
Instead of building a site that mirrors the organization structure, or
different knowledge domains or anything else really they prefer to use
big lists (page, document, announcements) and tag the content and use
web parts to display relevant data to users, partially backed by term store.
Often this is driven by frequent organizational changes so they feel an
actual structure would be too restrictive.
On most prior projects discovering the basic structure has been part of the
early phase of the project.  Now this still has to be done for the term store.
So I am curious what your views and experiences are like.
Is the new trend as flat as possible?

A: 'It depends'[tm]
One project I've had periphery work on did go with a hybrid, where some structures wouldn't change that often (such as regions of a country), but managed metadata within a huge flag list for things that could be fluid with changes (like organisations and logical groups of organisations within a region).
I think you need to capture as early on as possible what the requirements are for the data stored, and also get requirements for end of life of that data, as well as operational requirements for day to day tasks.
If things change often, use a flatter hierarchy. For more rigid things, use a site hierarchy perhaps, but allow for provision for the hierarchy may changing, and find out what/how that might happen and what the best way would be to implement those changes (Workflow, Item Receiver code, simple re-parenting of sites, etc.).

A: I had a similar request also fairly recently. I advocated for a more traditional approach using sites and sub-sites, but they wanted to go with a more flat approach. As it turns out they ended up having to with my original suggestion due to various permission requirements.
If you have to restrict permissions then these types of configurations become more complex and messy where applying permissions at the site (or site collection level even) is a much cleaner approach. It also lends itself to future growth and scalability.

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When the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) was launched in 1985, a key issue in its integrated programme of action was environment and meteorology. Some significant steps were taken by the then leaders. These included the setting up of a technical committee for this specific arena of regional concern in 1987 and a Saarc Meteorological Research Centre in Dhaka in 1995. Two major regional studies involving experts and institutions were carried out for the first time in 1992. The first study, Greenhouse effect and its impact on the region recommended regional policies and projects on land and water use planning, mountain development, forestry and watershed, pollution control and hazardous wastes management, information exchange on low cost technologies and disaster warning system. The second study, the Study on the causes and consequences of natural disasters and the preservation and protection of environment also made some significant recommendations that included sharing of information and exchange of experiences on strategies on climate change impacts.
For the first time, a Common Environment Programme was adopted in the Colombo Summit in 1998 and a Plan of Action on Environment was undertaken. As a sequel, a Coastal Zone Management Centre in the Maldives and a Forestry Centre in Bhutan were also set up. A common Saarc position on climate change was also adopted in the 1997 New Delhi Declaration of Environment Ministers. This was later presented before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Special Session on the implementation of Agenda 21, the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Kyoto in 1997, and also at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. The Saarc Convention on Cooperation on Environment was also signed.
The 16th Saarc summit in Thimphu in 2010 issued a far reaching statement on climate change and collectively decided to face the dual challenge of addressing the negative impacts of climate change and pursuing socio-economic development. While noting that this region is particularly prone to climate change and related disasters, it determined to make South Asia a world leader in low-carbon technologies and renewable energy. It also decided to have a regional response to meet the challenge of climate change with the purposes and principles of regional cooperation as per its Charter.
Later it constituted an inter-governmental expert group on climate change to develop a clear policy direction and guidance for regional cooperation as envisaged in its Plan of Action on Climate Change. Promotion of the use of green technology and planting of 10 million trees over the next five years (2010-2015) as part of a regional afforestation campaign, and establishing institutional linkages among national institutions in the region to facilitate sharing of knowledge, information and capacity building and commissioning of initiative on mountain ecosystems were the core programmes.
While showing the region's commitment to comply with the provisions of the Paris Agreement at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP), these countries avowedly declared Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). These commitments indicate their likely renegotiations with renewable energy in the near future. This is likely to trigger tangible changes in the future energy mix. By 2030, India aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions for each unit of GDP by 33 to 35 percent from 2005 levels and also aims to produce 40 percent of electricity from non-fossil fuel sources. And though Pakistan has not given any measurable targets, it is committed to reducing its emissions after reaching peak levels.
A relatively smaller mountainous country, Bhutan plans to remain carbon neutral, in keeping with its transition in 2009 and is committed to keeping 60 percent of its territory forested. Similarly, Nepal aims to reduce dependency on fossil fuels by 50 percent by 2050 and achieve 80 percent electrification through renewable energy sources with an appropriate energy mix. It plans to maintain 40 percent of the total area of the country under forest cover. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh aim for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 7 and 5 percent respectively from business-as-usual levels by 2030, or up to 23 percent and 15 percent with international support. Even Afghanistan and the Maldives have committed to 13.6 percent and 10 percent emission cuts by 2030.
In order to achieve these goals, three critical instruments required by these countries are related to finance, technology transfer and capacity building. The Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan estimated that it will need to invest $40 billion from 2015 to 2030 in order to implement measures that address adverse impacts of climate change. On the other hand, India alone would require $206 billion (at 2014-15 prices) between 2015 and 2030 for implementing adaptation actions in agriculture, forestry, fisheries infrastructure, water resources and ecosystems. At the same time, NITI Aayog in India puts an estimate of $834 billion till 2030 at 2011 prices for the mitigation activities for moderately low carbon development.
Nepal, quoting the 2013 study on economic impact assessment of climate change in key sectors like agriculture, hydropower and water-induced disasters estimated the direct costs of current climate variability and extreme events to be equivalent to 1.5 to 2 percent of the current GDP/year (approximately $270-360 million/year in 2013 prices). This really does spell out the finances it requires to fulfil its commitment.
India, while making a strong case for adequate financing for the required cutting edge technologies, is asking for global collaboration in research and development, particularly in clean technologies and enabling their transfer, free of intellectual property rights costs to developing countries. Pakistan which has set up an exclusive Ministry of Climate Change, has provided a comprehensive menu of capacity building required in the crucial areas of energy, transport and agriculture.
environment, the Saarc member states have not shown any substantive collective headway in the last three decades. This becomes much more serious as some of the key regional institutions like the Meteorological Research Centre, the Documentation Centre in New Delhi, the Human Resources Development Centre in Islamabad, the Coastal Zone Management Centre, the Information Centre in Nepal, and the Forestry Centre have already been closed down.
The core of the Saarc model is based on two general provisions that 'decisions at all levels shall be taken on the basis of unanimity' and 'bilateral and contentious issues shall be excluded from the deliberations'. But bilateral and contentious issues have actually forestalled several Summit meetings in the past and made it a literal "political white elephant", a "talk shop of no consequence" and a "suffocatingly slow" institution. The most recent casualty was the 19th Summit that was to be held in Islamabad in November 2016. One would expect that the impact of climate change that is going to adversely and harshly affect communities, geographies, natural resources, livelihoods, cultural ecologies and human security across the region would be able to bring the region onto a common platform. As these impacts tend not to respect the geometric lines that are called borders, why not revive and resuscitate the Saarc process once again for the larger societal good.


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00:00:17 <defunctzombie> what about tomatoes?
00:00:31 <hij1nx> defunctzombie: exactly more.
00:01:17 <guybrush> hij1nx: sorry im really lazy didnt look at what its exactly but your node-chrome starts the browser with the app in it?
00:01:30 <hij1nx> so, if you want to make desktop apps, it should be a minimal investment. and by minimal i mean almost nothing.
00:01:32 <guybrush> like when i close the browser the app gets closed?
00:02:00 <guybrush> is it any different to appjs?
00:02:48 <hij1nx> oh, no url bar and no tabs etc. looks like a desktop app.
00:03:21 <hij1nx> correction; it works wherever chrome and node work. so, pretty much everywhere that matters.
00:04:17 <guybrush> and maybe chrome too if the user doesnt have it..
00:04:27 <hij1nx> guybrush: disk is cheap.
00:05:23 <hij1nx> defunctzombie: or 0. if you dont like node.
00:05:30 <guybrush> so you make it use global installs with npm or sth?
00:05:32 <hij1nx> defunctzombie: you can build everything out of hemp.
00:06:17 <hij1nx> actually, everything should be made out of hemp. cloths, gas, cars, even food. all food can be made from hemp.
00:06:48 <defunctzombie> guybrush: what type of app?
00:08:20 <hij1nx> `node-stuff` is a great name for a module.
00:13:07 <guybrush> everything else is just not "secure"
00:25:45 <dominictarr> is there overhead if you start a large number of them, vs just opening the tabs?
00:46:33 <Raynos> that's broken. You have "' and '"
00:50:17 <chrisdickinson> Raynos: ah! willfix.
02:50:21 <Raynos> Anyone have a library for postMessage?
03:13:07 <jjjjohnnny> should the same go for the event emitter?
04:12:37 <jjjjohnnny> what do you know about the speed of custom dom event creation and dispatch?
04:18:31 <defunctzombie> Raynos: have you seen analytics.js?
04:18:42 <defunctzombie> or segment io iirc?
04:58:19 <substack> are the updates one way or bidirectional?
05:02:25 <dominictarr> I'm thinking, and ArrayLike is anything that has a splice method.
05:04:00 <LOUDBOT> IRONY IS A FIRETRUCK ON FIRE!
05:28:36 <Raynos> second time `npm i process` fails for me.
05:34:01 <defunctzombie> Raynos: what happened to your browserify patch?
05:34:27 <defunctzombie> what do you mean npm i process fails for you? what does that patch have to do with npm installing the module?
05:45:32 <defunctzombie> Raynos: why does it mean that?
07:32:48 <substack> mbalho: have you written tests for phonegap apps?
08:00:29 <Raynos> How would I tdd?
08:21:14 <Raynos> Currently I optimize my testing and exampling infrastructure for instant feedback.
14:00:50 <ehd> fotoverite: your talk at reject.js was awesome :D did you practice a lot before that?
14:01:07 <fotoverite> Oh god no no it wash;'t I was so not happy with it.
21:30:32 <pkrumins> "We have completed the installation of your Mac mini called osx1."
21:30:41 <pkrumins> mobile browsers, and osx browsers are coming to browserling and testling!
22:14:59 <substack> mbalho: what about the special apis for accelerometers and such?
22:38:13 <CoverSlide> wut about android?


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Thanks I love Tom Petty and was so saddened by his recent death. Was in hopes he'd been like Willie Nelson an old man still cranking out the good music.
You're so right, dear Ben!!! :D ...and I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to see him performing live.
Brilliant man, gone too soon!!
Thanks Ben for sharing. Loved Tom Petty. RIP.
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Robin Palley, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
March. 8, 2004
It is a pleasure to talk about Rajiv Pant.
It is rare to meet someone who combines the breadth of engineering skills Rajiv brings to the table with great political skills and a solid comprehension of business process and business goals.
Best of all, Rajiv's unshakeable steady manner and his winning personality make strangers into friends, even in the heat of workplace crisis situations where he is adept at applying cross-functional approaches to delivering robust solutions on tight deadlines.
I have had the privilege of working closely with Rajiv quite a bit of the years in my positions as vice president of Marketing & Communications at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, vice president of Global eBusiness at GlaxoSmithKline, senior vice president of WebMD Health, and an editor and then health editor of Philadelphia Online (web home of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News). Our work together has spanned online publishing solutions, content management systems, and general problem-solving on deadline.
Rajiv brings mature solid leadership and business-focused problem-solving to everything he approaches. He is that rare breed of engineer / businessman who doesn't just say "Write me a specification and send it along." Instead (maybe from his years around reporters), he sits with the 'customer' for the project and asks enough questions to thoroughly understand the goal. Then he lays out possible approaches to the solution and collaboratively (to the business owner of the project) and picks the most effective and flexible path. As a side benefit, as I served as business lead on many projects with Rajiv, he has taught me enough about the conceptual framework of technologies I work with that I can work easily with other programmers, IT team leaders and consultants.
His solutions are informed by understanding of where the business is going and what the demands on software and technology will be in the future. And by his vision on the new directions technologies are making available and how 'ripe' new technologies are. Whether he's approaching conceptual solutions, programming, configuring or ordering hardware, Rajiv isn't just designing for today. He's looking at current and future needs and designing for them — educating his business customer about the practical pros and cons of each approach.
Most recently, Rajiv delivered extraordinary service in the wee hours of a cold January night to the national office of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — and to the children we serve. The organization had spent months preparing for the launch of its new website and Centennial Year Celebration. The launch plan was heavily tied to a new partnership with Yahoo! that would give BBBSA the front page of Yahoo!, with its 143 million impressions, for a critical 24 hour period. The date and time of launch were fixed with no chance of rescheduling.
But three hours before the site was to go live, disaster struck. The site was down. And no one really knew the whole scope of 'why'. Our organization's national IT team along with representatives of many of our vendors — from ISP to CMS, web hosting, et al — all were working on diagnosis. But despite the deep skills and good intentions of all, the situation felt like a circular firing squad. Effort and blame splattered everywhere, but the complex and thorny issues were not yielding to any of the proposed solutions. As the minutes crept by and the crisis deepened, the BBBSA management team worried that the opportunity would be lost. New ideas thinned down. Minutes ticked by. Tempers grew short, and we moved into the wee hours of the morning.
That's when I remembered to call Rajiv.
Within five minutes on the call, he had calmed down the rest of the frazzled team and begun teasing the problem apart. He listened in turn to each of the United Nations of participants on our 3-hour conference call, undaunted by the multiplicity of accents and sheer number of different perspectives on what might be happening (and by the fact that many of the players were already 'dug in' on their own theories). He asked careful diagnostic questions, gently challenged assumptions with probes. Listened carefully before he spoke. Knew when to crack a joke to ease the tension.
He quickly earned the respect of all and convinced all the strangers of his leadership. And his sense of humor and ease settled the grumpy rousted-from-sleep crowd and brought straight-line focus to the issues at hand. Each time the team effort led to a wall, he had a new angle to try. On the way through the thicket, he articulated three different fall-back positions in case Plan A didn't work. But in the end, they weren't needed. He kept at it until the site went live.
When our site appeared on the front of Yahoo! and generated 11,000 new volunteers to be Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the national organization on behalf of our 500 local agencies had Rajiv to thank.
And for Rajiv, that's not an extraordinary moment. It's just the way he works. I think he figures the really hard problems are brain candy. When my colleagues asked how on earth I'd persuaded him to help and to stay with it when things looked really messy, I could honestly answer that Rajiv would always willingly, helpfully, jump into the fray. And he's especially delighted to hang on until done when the problem at hand is really, really challenging and requires out-of-the-box solutions.
Rajiv brings a special combination of maturity and innovativeness to his work. He has enthusiasm for supporting the visions and plans of others but also the ability to opportunistically see and explain the places where technology can make business process more efficient or more effective.
In short, Rajiv is mature beyond his years, thoughtful, steady, likeable, a collaborative player, cheerful, willing and skilled.
He'd make a great addition to any team.
Robin Palley
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
www.bigbrothersbigsisters.org
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There was a time – and it really wasn't that long ago – when if you wanted to find out about information from the council, you'd pull out your copy of Yellow Pages and ring the telephone number of the relevant department.
In all probability, the relevant person would not be available to take your call and you'd leave a message, hoping someone would call you back… eventually.
It was a system of chaos and carnage, requiring a huge army of people to man the phones to support that level of interaction with the public.
Expectations are vastly different today. Today's citizens simply won't stand for such a shoddy, inefficient service. They want their query answered quickly. And the easiest way for them to do that is to use a mobile device or laptop to access council services online. They'll be able to find out what they need, almost certainly without talking to a council representative.
It's also quicker and vastly cheaper for councils.
We've all become used to this kind of quick response and our demands for more services online, delivered faster are accelerating all the time.
It's a double whammy for councils: the public expects more from them, and yet they need to provide more with vastly less funds, given the 40% budget cuts hanging over their heads.
One way to serve both those masters is to use technology to digitally transform the way councils deliver services, primarily through increased use of self-service. If they can find the answers they are looking for online, they will be happy with the service and they won't be clogging the council's call centre.
But to provide citizens with better services, councils need to get to know their citizens and everything about them in a more proactive way and to anticipate their needs.
Councils could learn a lesson or two from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. They put customers at the heart of everything they do, making suggestions about the kind of films, books or music they might like, based on the information gleaned from their previous purchases. They not only make it as easy as possible for customers to find what they want, but they suggest things that customers may not even have thought of.
Woe betide councils if they don't start putting customers first. Mess up your interaction with a citizen and you risk being named and shamed for all to see on social media. And if they decide to make a written complaint, you are legally obliged to reply to them, eating up all too precious time and money.
Far better to get that service right in the first place.
It's not just about servicing the public, councils should up their game with suppliers too. Councils deal with thousands upon thousands of invoices a year. While there will be the regular bills for utilities, the bulk will be small amounts.
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Great Expectations: The Perplexing Paradox of Women's Unhappiness
June 17, 2011 by Halee Scott Filed Under: Identity, Lead well
Oh 't ain't what you do it's the place that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
That's what gets results
~ Ella Fitzgerald
I began with the best intentions. This weekend, while the hubby was working in Sacramento, I planned to work at least 10 hours on dissertation, compose a 1500-word article plus two blog posts, prep for some upcoming interviews, dissect a single chapter of John Paul's Theology of the Body with a friend, and finally to read (and write a book review of) three other books. Sound crazy? Just a little over a year ago, this break-necked speed felt normal. Anything less and I was downright bored.
Enter Little Miss Marathon, who, on her very best days, slept 3-4 hours straight and ate only the minimum required for her age. For the last 6 months, we've been trying to figure out ways to get her to sleep and eat—but it seemed that all she wanted to do was go, go, go. Her energy levels made me feel like a century-old centipede. And all this came to a roaring head this weekend. After 24 hours of screaming and no sleep and fighting food at every turn, I finally wondered, "Does she have an allergy?" The next three days were filled switching from milk-based products to soy and finding ways to get her to sleep regularly. By Sunday, she was a new baby—sleeping 12 hours straight at night and eating a more normal amount. On one hand, I was ecstatic that my baby was now comfortable and content; on the other, I was exhausted, and rather than focusing on what I had "done right", I honed in on all that was left undone, namely, every single thing on my to-do list.
Every year since 1972, The United States General Social Survey poll 1500 men and women regarding various aspects of their lives. The participants cut across all education levels, income levels, and marital status. In one question, participants are asked "How happy are you, on a scale of 1 to 3, with 3 being very happy, and 1 being not too happy?" Across the globe, women's level of happiness has progressively declined. And this study is only a representative; at least six other studies conducted in this same time frame point to the same problem: in the face of unparalleled growth in educational opportunities, greater financial stability, and progress in the work sphere, women are more unhappy than they were pre-1970. Markus Buckingham at The Huffington Post aptly summarized: "Wherever researchers have been able to collect reliable data on happiness, the finding is always the same: greater educational, political, and employment opportunities have corresponded to decreases in life happiness for women, as compared to men."
These findings have understandably stirred up a great deal of discussion and debate with many voices trying to make sense of the data. Wharton Professors Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers scandalously speculate that women's level of unhappiness is due to women's rising expectations for themselves. It's no longer sufficient to be a devoted "stay-at-home-mom" or a "successful business women"—women feel intense pressure to be everything at once, all the time. Inevitably, they fail to achieve all that they set out to accomplish—be it in the home or the workplace.
As a new mom and an academic, Stevenson and Wolfers' assessment rings a chord with me. Take this last weekend as a case in point: despite my daughter's giggles and sighs of relief, despite deep moments of satisfaction and well-being, I could not shake the nagging burden of my own self-created to-do list. I wondered where all my time had gone. I wondered how on earth I was going to finish a dissertation while raising a young family, even with shared household duties. Rather than savoring the moment, I let my expectations get a hold of me. It's not that I think I can't be a mother and a professional; it's just that it's probably realistic for me to remember that I can't be all things excellently all at once. Even the Proverbs 31 woman probably did not accomplish all her feats in a single day.
I would take Stevenson and Wolfers' claim even further and say that for good or bad, our expectations are closely related to comparison. Working women sometimes envy the apparent easiness of life that stay-at-home moms have. Stay-at-home moms sometimes envy the apparent freedom that working women have. Many envy the women who appear to have both. Our own judgment of what other people have and do, however misinformed, directly impacts our expectations for ourselves and thus, our level of happiness. I can't help but think that given our basic necessities (food, water, shelter) and barring medical and/or mental problems, our level of happiness would improve if we really believed that less is more.
Mama's Got a Fake I.D.: A Map for Motherhood
June 15, 2011 by Halee Scott Filed Under: Identity, Love well, Motherhood
It was a quiet morning in mid-March of 2008. A fellow professor and I were softly chatting in Stamps Theological Library at Azusa Pacific University, savoring the lull in activity that always comes in mid-semester. The semester had been launched, lesson plans were written, and final exams were in the distant future. We talked about theology, about our students, about our stage fright when giving lectures. But most of all, we talked about our futures. Both of us had achieved significant accomplishments at a fairly early age: she had been the recipient of the only full scholarship that Fuller Theological Seminary provides for all four years of her MDiv program and I was a published writer wrapping up the final semester of coursework for my PhD program.
Both of us had been encouraged by mentors from early on throughout our academic careers, about our potential for contributing to the academic community, about charting new territories for women scholars. And we loved academia. We loved the life of the mind. And we never thought, in all our years of learning and studying and teaching and writing, that our gender would ever stand in our way. Both the feminists and our fathers had taught us that we could be anything we wanted to be, that the world was ours for the taking, that we were only limited by the things we never chose to do. But on that March morning, we secretly admitted that we didn't feel that the academic world was all we wanted out of life—we didn't just want to be scholars and writers and professors—we wanted to be mothers. And we wondered how on earth such two demanding, seemingly opposing spheres of life could ever be reconciled and how we could participate fully, incarnationally in both worlds. I remember the tension building as we talked, as our minds scrambled for answers to what we thought were new questions. "The problem," I said, "is that there are no maps."
Exactly one year later, I gave birth to my daughter. Motherhood is all and more that I ever dreamed it could be, but tension I felt that March morning remains. Motherhood and academics and writing don't always meld. It's hard to transition from diaper changes to dissertating on the dynamics of spiritual formation. It's a strange, foreign, and sometimes stark borderland where I often check and recheck the path I have chosen. (Did I really invest 13 years for a PhD to spend copious amounts of time every single day force-feeding my daughter-with-no-appetite?) But fortunately, Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira, in her recent book, Mama's Got a Fake ID, has provided me with a map. In a chatty, friendly way, Caryn addresses the identity crisis that many (if not all) women face when they become mothers.
Caryn's book contains three main parts. In Part One, she unpacks all the various reasons that women lose their identities when becoming mothers including stereotypes that society place on mothers and losing sight of who God designed us to be, as human beings with individual giftedness that reaches beyond our roles as mothers. In Part Two, Caryn looks at seven ways to uncover—or rediscover—our core identity: overcoming false guilt about our gifts, finding and rooting your identity in Christ, discovering who you are in God's eyes (your God-given likes, dislikes, passions, interests), learning to describe and introduce yourself to others in ways that acknowledge both your giftedness and how God knows you, acknowledging, accepting, and even treasuring your limitations, and admitting that you're not perfect. In the final portion of the book, Caryn advises her readers to look beyond themselves to see how they can be a blessing to other moms.
Mama's Got a Fake I.D. is a candid, thoughtful, and fun meditation on the tensions mothers face when their passions and giftedness extend beyond the home. She provides questions to help those women whose identities were buried long ago under piles of grocery lists and laundry baskets and family schedules. One of the most profound and moving chapters for me personally was the chapter on treasuring limitations. As a person with high achievement standards, accepting the limitations imposed by motherhood is a tremendous effort, but Caryn's book gave me freedom to not only accept these limitations but embrace them. But probably the best thing about the book is its balance: Caryn denigrates neither motherhood nor giftedness outside the home, but rather brings the honor due to them both. A highly recommended read for new and more seasoned moms.