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The Grace and Griffin on Spring
Salwa Osman
Holland Partner group - Long beach
The Grace on Spring consists of a 24-story tower that features 300apartments, 7,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and numerous amenities. It follows its sister project across the street at 755 Spring Street, which houses 275 luxury apartments. The set of 24-story mixed-use development includes the following Luxury amenities for residents:
Observatory rooftop lounge
Two-story fitness center
Business center conference rooms
Resort-style swimming pool
An entertainment lounge
tk1sc provided LEED consulting services and comprehensive energy modeling and analysis services and achieved The level of LEED Silver Certified.
Lighting Design Solutions: Located at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles's Historic Core and Fashion District, this 24-story mixed-use high-rise design had to blend old with new and reinterpret historic, Art-Deco elements with simpler contemporary lines. Lighting challenges included re-enforcing these design influences, aiding the nighttime revitalization efforts of the historic area while maintaining a calm, oasis-like modern environment for residents – all within a limited budget.
The prominent corner façade is uplit with precision, using miniature 4", 1100-lumen 7-degree spot luminaires for a uniform 40-ft high throw that repeats several times up the 150-ft tall gfrc panels, re-enforcing the vertical lines of the architecture. The simple cubic geometry of the luminaires allows them to integrate into the façade visually. Smaller,2.9" 7-watt 7-degree beam luminaries accentuate more minor façade details on the south and east for a sharp 20ft high throw. This vertical articulation is "crowned" at the top with a "color-splash" of RGB lighting accenting the mechanical roof-screen.
Using a modern interpretation of custom Art-Deco sconces, fitted with discreet up/down LED modules that subtly highlight architectural trims, as they create a safe nighttime environment, the south façade lighting engages the busy pedestrian sidewalk and retail activity at 8th street. This lighting addresses well-known safety concerns in the area and is a significant aspect of the revitalization efforts. By contrast, the private terraces on the 7th, 9th& roof levels provide a serene atmosphere that transports residents from the bustle of the city below. Paths, decks, and planting are all softly illuminated with minimum uplight glare for residents as they enjoy the views below.
Architectural lighting is more subtle in the main lobby, providing an ambient light as the decorative interior elements play a feature role. Lamping for all the decorative luminaires was selected. All the different diffuser materials "glowed" at the same apparent color temperature; We fitted stark white opal diffusers with warmer 2500K LED lamps to match the2700K sources used on other luminaires. The vaulted ceiling in the elevator lobby is uplit by a meticulously detailed cove light, with the luminaires angled within the tight shelf to avoid excessive brightness on the walls. We carefully designed the decorative metal trim height to avoid intercepting the main beam of the cove light and risk creating harsh shadows. This diffused, indirect lighting helps minimize reflections on the specular stone surfaces of the lobby while enlivening the modern re-interpretation of historic architecture.
We addressed project budget concerns throughout the design process. For façade lighting, we tackled this using a limited quantity of high-performance luminaires, strategically placed for maximum effect (for the money). Improvised installation techniques were another way budget concerns were addressed: in place of costly handrail-integrated egress illumination systems at terraces, budget-friendly bollards were custom-integrated into the storefront system for significant cost savings.
Maximum energy savings and light pollution concerns are simultaneously addressed by the exterior lighting control system, which offers a late-night "curfew" mode where all upper façade lighting systems are shut off. The roof-level programmable RGB luminaires are also dimmed during this scheduled "curfew" mode.
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Villas Fashion Island
A multi-family residential community strives to bring five-star resort elegance to its residents. The 500-unit development has amenities and finishes that place it in a rarified tier of rental housing. The challenge was to provide a level of detail and integration to the lighting that would match the finish and harmonize with the Palladian architectural motifs while creating a serene, visually comfortable, yet safe nighttime environment. To do this, we tightly controlled the color temperature of all luminaires to a warm, residential 2700K, and we took care to accentuate key elements while providing sufficient contrast between lit and unlit surfaces to create dramatic interest. Hewing to the country's most stringent energy code, with maintainability a priority, every luminaire on the project is LED. The entry drive and gatehouse are lit to provide a sense of warmth and welcome using 2700K sources while preserving a formal symmetry. The gatehouse is uplit with LED in-grade luminaires to provide a focal point, while decorative poles provide sparkle and a formal rhythm along the walkways. Custom pendants provide a sense of elegance, while uplit columns allow for silhouetting the cypress trees, using light and shadow for dramatic effect. Custom pendants mounted to trellis structures enhance the formality of the walkways, while discreet step lights and vertical illumination on the foliage ensure safe light levels. Double height breezeways have their verticality accentuated with decorative backlit panels. Elegantly ornate armatures on decorative sconces provide a sense of architectural detail. Internally illuminated columns support a canopy structure next to one of the five pool decks, while integrated miniature LED downlights provide task lighting. The central pool deck is elegant in its formal simplicity while providing owner-mandated light levels for safety. A dramatic colonnade of uplit palms provides a central spine to the property and provides visually comfortable illumination of the main pathway. Luminaires integrated into the walls of the bocce court allow for nighttime play.
Park Place Apartments
Park Place Apartments is a 980 unit luxury apartment community adjacent to mixed-use development and part of an overall master-planned community by The Irvine Company. The community features an array of amenities that includes three saltwater pools, a cardio theatre fitness center, and outdoor courtyards with barbecue areas and fireplaces. The Architecture was done by MVE+Partners, with landscape architecture by EPT Design and lighting design by tk1sc's StudioK1.
Crescent Village Apartments
This master-planned apartment community in San Jose encompasses over six city blocks, with almost 1,800 units of residential luxury, a large community park, swimming pools, and retail. The project included roughly 26,000 square feet of retail space-oriented along North First Street, Lyster said. A five-acre city park is also part of the community. Faced with the sustainability measures set forth by Build it Green standards, Crescent Village is among the first Northern California communities to implement the state-wide stormwater treatment requirements while using recycled water to irrigate the landscape. tk1sc provided electrical engineering and architectural lighting design services for all phases of this project.
Pacific City Apartments
Pacific City Apartments is a new high-end LEED-registered residential apartment community located on 14 acres with a design inspired by the crashing waves of the nearby ocean. The project consists of six buildings sitting atop a two-level continuous underground parking garage. Residents can see our lighting design team's work throughout the property, which includes 516 units with resort-style amenities such as a 5,000 square foot outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and conference facilities, with cohesive landscape architectural features throughout the 17-acre site. This project also includes a two-acre public park. The team was challenged with making the many areas sexy, hip, and inviting while adhering to a strict energy code and appeasing a client who wanted the world but didn't want to spend too much money. The entire property uses LED sources, standardizing at 3000K or warmer. Simple dusk to dawn photocells controls the lighting. The pool deck is the focus of the property, while multiple courtyards spread throughout the property between the apartment buildings bring interest while keeping light focused on those spaces as not to impede on the tenant's private spaces. Coordination with the architect and landscape architect was essential to gracefully incorporate the lighting into the fun while bringing the project at thirty percent under California's Title 24 Energy Code.
BLVD63 Apartments
tk1sc's boutique lighting design team, studioK1, provided architectural lighting design services on this new, mixed-use project. This development is comprised of 332 apartments, amenity spaces, and 10,000 square feet of retail. The apartments are geared towards the student population at SDSU. The complex consists of a 4-story contemporary building arranged in courtyard configurations. Connections from the pedestrian spine to the internal courtyard spaces link the community gathering spaces with the more passive courtyard spaces. Internally, the project provides a variety of amenities and spaces that enhance the user's experience. Amenities include a clubhouse, pools, a social lounge, a chill zone, and plenty of outdoor recreation areas for residents to gather for a game of sand volleyball, bocce, or picnicking.
Potters Lane Transitional Housing
Midway City, CA
The Potter's Lane transitional housing development is a unique solution to help address the continuing homeless crisis in Southern California. The first project of its kind in California, the units are comprised of single-use commercial shipping containers. Each 480-sf studio-style unit is constructed from three 20-ft containers. The development features 15residences, one manager's unit, a community room, courtyard with BBQ area, laundry facilities and a community garden. Potter's Lane development was specifically built to provide housing for homeless veterans.
Pacific Gate
This mixed-use development is a 41-story apartment tower with a four-story retail and restaurant podium. The building features a pool deck, spa, and fitness center on level 4 and an amenity deck at the roof. A three-story podium linking the development's south side houses double-height commercial spaces on the ground level and residential units and amenity spaces on the floors above. The public plaza along Broadway consists of landscape features, such as a water jet fountain and reflecting pool. Our in-house lighting studio, StudioK1, provided lighting design. The project won an IES Award of Merit for Exterior Lighting Design. The vision for Pacific Gate was to indulge residents in an upscale lifestyle with both oceanfront and urban offerings. Lighting the project's residential portion was executed with hospitality-like refinement, while the exterior podium and retail plaza engaged the vibrant downtown setting. High-end finish selections provide the elevated aesthetic but also tie the building to its core ocean-inspired concepts. The light "stripe" delineates the ellipsoidal building form, effectively redefining the San Diego skyline. The lighting composition reinforces the curved building inspired by sea waves and interlocking arcs of a seashell. The golden earth-toned curved wall at the porte-cochère is highlighted from underwater accents drawing visitors into the lobby where the undulating curved glass walls are grazed to simulate waves. The concave wood-paneled walls on the opposite side are softly uplit by inground recessed luminaires – the walls metal trim catching this subtle illumination creating balance in the space. Brass circles embedded in the terrazzo floor mirror three large interlocking rings of light draw eyes to the high ceiling. Miniature downlights discretely provide ambient illumination throughout the lobby. Various lighting techniques tastefully highlight the elegant natural finish selections that make the project rich with textures and colors from the exterior through the lobby and amenities. The budget was a major concern for the client – the project design being far from simple; the lighting team worked closely with the design-build contractor, the owner, and the architect. By procuring value-engineered alternatives and improvising on installation ultimately lowered costs and maintained the effects. The façade's soon-to-be iconic stripe is an evolutionary fruit of this collaboration, starting as an architectural story, turning into a custom metal detail by the window contractor. Corridor lighting is another result of this effort: the intent was to indirectly illuminate the residential corridors by washing the core walls instead of traditional downlighting. The cost of perimeter lighting on all 41 levels was virtually prohibitive. However, using a value-engineered surface luminaire installed in a cost-effectively built architectural ceiling slot, we achieved the desired results with almost 50% savings. The 41-story glass tower is more than just a visual marvel on the waterfront. The building is an enormous architectural mass on San Diego's Pacific Coast Highway. With such size comes much responsibility to neighbors and the environment. We finely selected the architectural lighting to minimize impacts on both city and neighboring natural habitats. The building's lighting is controlled through a central dimming system allowing for programs to lessen the nighttime effects. This includes the stripe along the architectural edges, which can dim variably along its length to avoid impacting neighboring San Diego Airport residents.
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6 lbs of oranges...need recipe ideas!
Discussion in 'Egg, Chicken, & Other Favorite Recipes' started by Parson's Wife, Apr 2, 2008.
ANY Recipe Ideas for oranges?
Add it as a little zest in pie recipes or make a ton of orange juice. even garnish it on top of ham.
dont forget to zest them before you use them, you can freeze it to use in ice cream, cream pies, fish or chicken. How about an orange granita? Like flavored ice. I have a recipe from a Fanny Farmer baking book that uses whole slices for a pie, if i can find it after bed time I will post it.
If you like a really spicy hot BBQ sauce that is EXCELLENT for pork and chicken (think hot wings and baby backs), I have a recipe that would use a bunch of them. I can't get it to you until I get home, though. I should be there in less than an hour. Let me know.
I second the marmalade. I make it then later put it in pound cakes and it is awesome!!!! The marmalade makes great christmas presents too!!!
Here's the BBQ sauce recipe: it is really good and makes the whole house smell good while cooking down.
Put all ingredients except oranges in blender, and blend until well combined. Transfer to pan, add oranges, and simmer uncovered until desired consistency, stirring occasionally. It takes a while.
We usually double the recipe, cook it down, and can it in pints. Process it for 15 min. in a boiling water bath.
Ams3651- I'm certainly interested in the orange granita..I love slushies!
Quote:This is what i found on food network, I have seen it made but never made it myself. This recipe calls for orange liquor in addition to the juice but you could probably use an extract or flavoring instead.
Clean and wash the oranges. Cut off the top 1/4 of the oranges and shave a small slice off the bottom so it stands easily.
Using a grapefruit knife, cut out the flesh of the oranges and place in a strainer set over a bowl. Be careful not to cut through the bottom. Stand the oranges on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer and freeze until solid.
Press the flesh of the oranges through the strainer to extract all of the juice. You should end up with about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups of orange juice. Add the extra 4 cups orange juice. Stir in sugar, a tablespoon at a time, until the mixture is of desired sweetness. Add the basil and orange-flavored liqueur and let sit for 15 minutes.
Strain the mixture into a roasting pan or baking dish. The dish should be large enough so the liquid is not more than 1-inch deep. Freeze the mixture for 1 hour. Remove from the freezer and scrape with 2 forks to break up ice. Return to the freezer and freeze until solid, about 2 to 3 hours, scraping with forks every hour or so.
When the granite is frozen, scoop it into the orange shells and serve immediately.
if you go to www.foodnetwork.com and in the search box type in orange, it comes up with so much. Drinks, desserts, meats, etc.


Iceland Foods have been fined £2.5m having been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws when a fatal accident occurred at its store in Rotherham.
Iceland had previously been found guilty of breaching Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 following a three-week trial held at Sheffield Crown Court in July 2017.
The charges were brought by Rotherham Council following a fatal accident at the Eastwood store on October 28 2013. A contractor had visited the store to replace filters within an air conditioning unit which was located on a plant platform above a suspended ceiling in the store's warehouse.
The contract worker fell almost three metres from the platform and through the suspended ceiling, sustaining fatal injuries.
An investigation by Adrian Monkhouse, principal environmental health officer at the Council, revealed that there were no barriers in place to prevent falls from the platform, the area of the platform immediately in front of the access ladder was restricted (just 45cm in width) and there were several tripping hazards in this area, including cabling and the fixing points for the ladder itself.
Iceland Foods Limited was instructed to take this area out of use until suitable protective measures had been installed on the plant platform. Once this work was carried out to the satisfaction of the investigating officer, the plant platform was put back into use in March 2014.
Further investigations revealed that Iceland Foods Limited had not carried out a risk assessment to consider access to the plant platform either by contractors or their own employees. Iceland argued that they had intended for a guardrail to be installed around the plant platform and had in fact paid for one during refurbishment of the store.
In court Iceland contended that they were entitled to rely on the specialist contractors who carried out work on the plant platform to identify the missing handrail. These claims were rejected by the prosecution and the court.
At a sentencing hearing at Grimsby Crown Court this week, the company was fined £1.25m for each offence and ordered to pay the full costs of £65,019.64 to Rotherham Council.
Karen Hanson, assistant director for Community Safety and Street Scene at Rotherham Council, said that the case highlighted the importance of companies considering not only their own employees but the work of contractors as part of their health and safety arrangements.
She said: "All businesses should be aware of the importance of health and safety – particularly for high-risk activities such as working from heights."


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Even experienced public space observers might be forgiven for assuming that the through-block corridor inside this office tower is a public space. To begin with, similarly configured through-block connections have been encouraged, even required, elsewhere in the city. Another misleading clue is the existence of a through block arcade directly to the north across East 52nd Street at Park Avenue Plaza, connecting to East 53rd Street, which, together with this corridor, would create a two-block mid-block pedestrian pathway. However, the interior corridor here is a private lobby, and the only public space is the urban plaza on the north side of East 51st Street between Park and Madison Avenues.
Because other buildings along the north side of East 51st Street hug their lot line, this plaza's existence is hard to discern from either avenue. Street trees along the public sidewalk thus become an important signal for passersby that this frontage is different. Like the nearby urban plazas at Park Avenue Tower four blocks north on East 55th Street and Tower 49 several blocks southeast on East 48th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues, the space is wide and shallow rather than narrow and deep. Like the urban plaza at the Deutsche Bank building several blocks to the west on West 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the space adopts granite as its material of choice for all surfaces. None of this is to say that this urban plaza is especially derivative of others, but simply to suggest that plaza designers rely on a common vocabulary and can end up saying many of the same things.
The openness of the design is moderated by a small round planter with four trees and flowers in the middle. Seating is provided in three configurations and locations: a ledge encircling the planter, a linear bench along the western wall, and a ledge surrounding the water sculpture to the east. Entitled Water Trilogy (1986), by sculptor Ron Mehlman, this granite-and-glass abstract work is composed of a tall, narrow trough, set vertically, flanked by slabs and cascading cubes. Water traverses various parts of the trilogy, and the effect is most pronounced when lit at night.
Space Type: Urban Plaza
Required Size: Urban Plaza: 4,125 sf
Building Location: South side of East 52nd Street between Park and Madison Avenues
Space Designer: The Eggers Group
Building Architect: The Eggers Group
Building Owner: 40 East 52nd Street LP, c/o Rudin Management Co., 345 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10154, (212) 407-2400
Managing Agent: Rudin Management Co., 345 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10154, (212) 407-2400
Litter Receptacles, Urban Plaza: 2 cubic feet
Plaque/Sign, Urban Plaza: 2 entry, 2 information
Seating, Urban Plaza: 138 linear feet including 7 lf with backs required, 154.5 lf including 35 lf with backs provided
Trees on Street, Urban Plaza: 10
Trees within Space, Urban Plaza: 4
Water Feature, Urban Plaza: pool and fountain

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Lidziya Marozava, née le  à Minsk, est une joueuse de tennis biélorusse, professionnelle depuis 2008.

Carrière
Évoluant principalement sur le circuit ITF, elle y a remporté 1 titre en simple et 21 en double.

En 2017, elle remporte son premier titre en double sur le circuit WTA à Luxembourg, associée à Lesley Kerkhove.

Palmarès

Titre en simple dames
Aucun

Finale en simple dames
Aucune

Titres en double dames

Finales en double dames

Titres en double en WTA 125

Parcours en Grand Chelem

En simple dames
N'a jamais participé à un tableau final.

En double dames

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2018 in Review: Top Trends of the Year
2018 was a big year. It brought with it everything from the Royal Wedding to the Thai cave rescue. As 2018 comes to a close, we look back at some of the top trends of 2018, from the most searched terms to the top hashtags of the year.
Most searched Google topics
Google has released its top search trends for 2018. The top news event that was searched in 2018 was the Royal Wedding which took place back in May of 2018. This was followed by Thai Cave Rescue and Wentworth By-election to round out the top three.
The top 10 most searched for news items include:
1. Royal Wedding
2. Thai cave rescue
3. Wentworth by-election
4. My Health Record
5. Beaumont children
6. Hawaii volcano
7. California fires
8. Listeria
9. US midterm elections
10. Blood moon
The most searched Australian people all featured Australian politicians, with Barnaby Joyce the most searched for Australian followed by Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton.
The most globally googled topics include:
1. World Cup
2. Avicii
3. Mac Miller
4. Stan Lee
5. Black Panther
6. Meghan Markle
7. Anthony Bourdain
8. XXXTentacion
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Kate Spade
A year of population milestones
2018 was a big year of population milestones, with Australia reaching a national population of 25 million people, and Melbourne's population also reaching a population of 5 million people.
Oxford Word of the Year is 'toxic'
Every year, the English Oxford Living Dictionaries releases its 'Word of the Year', a word or expression 'that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have lasting potential as a term of cultural significance.'
In 2018 'toxic' was selected as the word of the year, as one of the most talked about topics. The Oxford Living Dictionaries states 'it is the sheer scope of its application that made toxic the stand-out choice for the Word of the Year title', and stands to encapsulate toxic chemicals, masculinity, substance, gas, environment, relationships, culture, waste, algae and air.
According to the Oxford Living Dictionaries, their 'data shows that, along with a 45% rise in the number of times it has been looked up on oxforddictionaries.com, over the last year the word toxic has been used in an array of contexts, both in its literal and more metaphorical senses'. Other words that made the 2018 shortlist include 'gaslighting', 'incel', 'techlash' and 'gammon'.
From the #metoo campaign to toxic workplaces and the importance being placed on wellbeing, the 2018 Word of the Year shows us that we are engaging with an empowered consumer, customer and employee who is demanding greater transparency and who are more willing and empowered to speak out against such issues. We have a generation coming through who are more socially aware and responsible, and who are asking and campaigning for a better and less 'toxic' world.
Viral social trends and memes
In 2018, notable trends and memes that have gone viral include the Yanny vs Laurel video, Fortnite dances and, much to parents around the world dismay – baby shark.
The influence of technology and social media today is such that trends can be amplified very quickly, and sometimes seemingly at random times. When we look at Baby Shark and Fortnite, which both became overwhelmingly popular in 2018, we know their origins date back to 2016 and 2017 respectively. That is the nature of social media – all it can take is the right combination of factors for a song or dance to go viral.
Most downloaded app is 'Tik Tok'
Topping the list above YouTube, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram is the music video and social media app Tik Tok, which allows the user to shoot and edit short clips, then add music and special effects to them. The app was downloaded more than 45 million times this year, almost double Facebook's numbers.
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Q: OpenLayers map with custom projection not showing WMS Trying to add to my map an WMS layer with custom projection
When executing, the map does not show any layer.
Custom projection:
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WMS Layer:
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Map:
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What's wrong here?

A: The map iis currently centered to default EPSG:3857 coordinates, it should be center: fromLonLat([-1.629950,42.63], customproj),

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LEGAL SEAFOOD and a very tacky trophy. It is actually made from a scallop shell.
Congrats! That trophy is a keeper!
Do you share your recipe?
We could use some nice hot "chowda" right about now.
Wednesday will be a balmy 19.
That trophy is so bad it's cool. Congrats.
That trophy is so bad you need to build a disply case for it.
I was going to be out of town for work today, however the snow was so bad at our earth station that the local people couldn't make it into work today, so I'll go tomorrow.....Rod.
That makes you the chief chowda head.
Proper chowda is clear, with chopped Quahogs.
What they serve in W. Boiledstones - that's for chum.
I don't know about the "clear", but definitely with quahogs. I have even gone out into the local waters this winter and scratched some quahogs and cherrystones a few times. Once, I broke the ice open to get out into the water a ways, and was able to set my basket on the ice beside me. It reduced bending some, but it didn't make it any warmer. I even throw in some sea clams once in a while as a sweetener..... and maybe some linguica.
This CHOWDA contained 4 pounds of FRESH sea clam meat, shucked by me, and was not even close to clear.
White/Say no to red CHOWDA!
has a tooth ache they send a check along, no questions asked. No the cure for cancer but that's all I got.
Is that a 'selfie', Jim?
My, how you have changed :eek: .
Never had 'clear' chowda. Doesn't sound appealing in the least. I love the white chowda though!
Around heah we have two kinds of clam chowdah. Thin (but still white) and thick and creamy. The main difference is milk vs heavy cream though the thick and creamy tends also to have more potato and onions. That red abomination whose name I won't even mention is not chowdah. If I am in a polite mood I might acknowledge that it is "clam and tomato soup". If I am in normal mode I would refer to it as Yorker ---------.
Thin (but still white) and thick and creamy. The main difference is milk vs heavy cream though the thick and creamy tends also to have more potato and onions. That red abomination whose name I won't even mention is not chowdah.
Neither Tomatoes nor Cow Juice will ever touch my clams.
And yes, that's what I look like in the photograph.


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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . . If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. . .. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. . . . If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others. (Frederick Douglass, 1857)
Show #50: Globalization, #YesAllWomen, Male/White privilege, … CHAOS!?
Posted: 2014/05/30 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Podcasts
Tags: #yesallwomen, feminism, globalization, gun controls, violence
https://punkonomicsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/punkonomics2014-5-28privilage.mp3
Right-click and select "save link as" to download a copy: Punkonomics2014-5-28privilage
Topic starts with the global economy and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with guest Mitch Koebke (my student) and my son Felix. Then we will be joined by the rest of my family (Charlotte and Thalia) and a friend of Thalia's (Sophia) to discuss growing up a female these days and male/white privilege #yesallwomen
Oh yeah: our 2 dogs will be there too! All that's missing then is our 3 cats and snake.
https://punkonomics.org/2013/11/05/17-deplorable-examples-of-white-privilege/
By The Numbers: How The Santa Barbara Shooting Reflects A Culture Of Violence Against Women
Tags: misogyny, violence
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/26/3441555/santa-barbara-shooting-violence-women/
BY BRYCE COVERT AND ADAM PECK MAY 26, 2014 AT 12:18 PM UPDATED: MAY 26, 2014 AT 12:29 PM
Lots of interesting links embedded in this excellent short article.
Media Coverage of Venezuela (Lee Salter on venezuelanalysis.com)
Tags: Bolivarian revolution, Chavista, conspiracy, democracy, denial, Foreign Policy, fraud, history, justice, media, propaganda, protests, Venezuela, violence
Excellent analysis from http://venezuelanalysis.com/ specifically addressing the media coverage:
What's going on in Venezuela?
By LEE SALTER, PHD, February 21st 2014
TAGS: 2014 opposition violence Media Coverage
UK academic Lee Salter, an expert on media coverage of Venezuela, gives his view on the reasons behind and aims of the current opposition protests.
It's difficult to briefly explain the situation in Venezuela right now. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is complicated, like most things. No matter how various political protagonists, human rights groups and news media would like to paint things as simple, black and white, they are not. To understand one has to dig down, deep.
A particularly galling video on YouTube explains that millions of students took to the street to protest about crime and the security situation. The comments by Venezuelans on said video are telling. In fact, what English-speakers hear about Venezuela is one of the biggest problems – if a Venezuelan speaks English, chances are that they are part of the small minority of the (relatively) ultra-rich who've been fighting to overthrow democracy since 1998. The curious thing about them is that they know what to say to whom and when.
They know to say "communism", "Cuba", "democracy" and "human rights". They know when to say these words and they know who to say them to. Crucially their cultural networks of communicative power allow them to do so. On one level it is as simple as this – the Venezuelan news media has traditionally been controlled by the ultra-rich minority (of around 5-10% of the population). Traditionally there has been no real alternative to this media dominance, beside the odd under-funded community radio station. Moreover, in order to become a journalist one needs the sort of training and contacts afforded only to the ultra-rich, alongside the cultural associations and linguistic ability.
As the U.S. political scientists Ronald Sylvia and Constantine Danopoulos explain, the availability of such cultural capital is restricted: 'Weekend shopping trips to Miami were the order of the day for the bourgeois classes. The oil riches, however, did not trickle down to the bottom of Venezuelan society. A sizeable portion of Venezuela's population remained desperately poor'.
The ultra-rich have historically been well connected to Miami, the US more generally as well as to the international jet-set. They have media interests and media contacts and they dominate international communications about Venezuela. So, when a story needs to get out about the dramatic abuse of journalists (in one occasion I noted a human rights group release a story about such an abuse, which I investigated to find the original footage of a camera operator being jostled on a picket line), the lines of communication are open, and a primed international media is ready to accept anything that conforms to expectations.
The international diaspora of Venezuelans is largely on message. To be in another country, chances are they are part of the ultra-rich, or at least the middle class. Given the on-going relative poverty experienced by the majority of Venezuelans (which means they can't afford the expensive plane tickets out), you're not likely to ever hear the "other side". It is thus that I heard from an "exile", a really cool, funky hippie-type whose plight had caught the sympathy of everyone in her wide network of English friends: (paraphrased) "Chavez hates the people, he hates anyone with money. He is trying to stop the dams from producing electricity so that rich people can't have televisions and things. In Caracas they only have 4 hours of electricity per day". My response: I've just come back from ten days in Venezuela, and there was one power cut of about 20 minutes.
Another time I was stuck with rather scary English-speaking Venezuelan in a cable car in Caracas. She and her partner began talking to me and my friend about lightbulbs: "you know anything about Venezuela, about Chavez? He's a communist you know? He's trying to destroy the country. He's trying to force everybody to have energy saving lightbulbs…but this isn't Cuba". After 5 minutes of ranting, my friend in his inimitable Irish accent gently explained that they have energy saving lightbulbs in Ireland and he doesn't feel particularly oppressed by them.
I was baffled by the aggression and fury about electricity and lightbulbs. To a reasonable mind the explanation is as follows: Venezuela was experiencing a long, extended drought. Because of this, water levels in the hydro-electric dams were low so power generation was low. At the same time there were not enough engineers with the right expertise working on the dams and rivers for proper maintenance. The big problem, however, was the increase in the sales of consumer electrical items, such as refrigerators, encouraged by the government to improve the quality of life. So, drought + lack of care for hydroelectric plants + increase demand on electricity = power cuts. The short-term solution: energy saving items.
When quizzing Thomas Muhr, a researcher on Venezuela at the University of Bristol, about the mania over lightbulbs, he told me that it was all led by a rumour that Chavez was placing video cameras in in them so he could spy on them in their homes. Quite.
<EDIT: I'll add this as it came through as a comment: " there is not even food and if, you got killed trying to buy it milk on the corner of you house". So here we have it – the Venezuelan government kills people for buying milk too>
The stories go on and on and on. One of the most striking things, however, is that when one gets to corruption and crime there is general agreement among most Venezuelans. Almost everyone I've ever spoken to in and around the Venezuelan government says the same – there's too much corruption, we don't seem to be able to do anything about crime, the revolution isn't fast enough, the people don't seem to realise what they can do and so on. That is to say, there's no apparent wall of agreement around the government or the Bolivarian movement more generally that blinds them or others to shortcomings.
The other big problem is the one that is certainly not shared by the ultra-rich: how to stop the CIA and reactionary forces inside Venezuela from overthrowing the democratically elected government. This is the story through which the situation in Venezuela must be understood.
Most of the coverage of Venezuela in the Western corporate media plays on what is called the "exceptionalism thesis". This is the idea that Venezuela is historically different to the rest of Latin America, insofar as it was stable and democratic. The thesis has been challenged by Steve Ellner and Miguel Salas, who, alongside an array of Latin American scholars point to the fact that prior to Chavez 'Venezuela marked by extreme poverty set against a narrowly constituted elite of 5-10% of the population' according to Princeton University's Kelly Hoffman and Miguel Centeno. According to Julia Buxton of Bradford University, between 1975 and 1995 poverty increased dramatically, with the percentage of persons living in poverty rising from 33% to 70% during that period, the number of households in poverty increased from 15% to 45% between 1975 and 1995, by 2000 wages had dropped 40% from their 1980 levels, and by 1997 67% of Venezuelans earned less than $2 a day. There's very little in the data that distinguishes Venezuela. Add to that the historically airbrushed atrocity of the Caracazo Massacre, where thousands of poor people were slaughtered in the same year as Tiananmen Square, for protesting IMF dictats, and there's very little if anything for the poor to hark back to.
Such an understanding is lost on the international media who are more than encouraged to reflect back on an imagined era prior to Chavez, when the country was "unified" (one presumes happy in poverty and oppression) and "stable". For example, my own research has outlined the narrative that the BBC inadvertently plays on (I say "inadvertently" because one of the correspondents whose work makes up the bulk of the sample we analysed is a committed Chavista), which masks the history of the majority.
The BBC's narrative begins way back in 1998, before Chavez had been able to do anything. In December 1998 it told us that "Venezuela is proud of its democratic record", that "many" see Chavez as a kind of autocratic military leader (remember he'd hardly done anything by then), and that in the good old days a high proportion of government spending went on social programmes. Amazing, really, that so many were still in poverty or voted for this demon from hell.
It took less than a year for the Beeb to mind us that "There is a dictatorship" in Venezuela. And for those idiots who think the fact that he was elected gives him legitimacy, remember that "Adolph Hitler was elected too".
This framing of Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution went on for the next ten years – Chavez came from nowhere, he's a grave danger for Venezuela and the world, and … oh wow, how did he get elected again?!
By 2002 the emboldened "opposition", a term which cannot but bestow legitimacy, had used the vast private media to launch a bloody coup. That they did this with their allies in the private media is incontestable given the arrogance of right-wing reactionaries in Venezuela – they told us so on air.
Yet for the BBC Chavez had "quit" due to his "mishandling" of "strikes" (actually a management lockout) and a demonstration in which Chavez decide to murder his own supporters. Fortunately "Venezuela … looked not to an existing politician but to the head of the business leaders' association", Pedro Carmona. In the world of the BBC (which, to be fair to the BBC was dependent on the international news agencies, which in turn depended on local journalists, who in the main work for the private media that helped launch the coup… and so on), the coup was actually "Venezuela" forming a transitional government and "restoring democracy". On this account, democracy appears to be something that involves the ultra-rich shooting people and seizing power.
The situation never changed. No matter how many democratic elections Chavez, the movement he led or the party he helped form won, no matter what level of electoral legitimacy Venezuelans (rather than the BBC's "Venezuela") bestowed on Chavez, the government could not stand, and the implacable reactionaries would not cease until the Old Order was restored (unless they are talking to the rest of the world, in which case the line tends to be, "oh I'm sure they're well-meaning and the social programmes are good, but there are too many bad people around and too much mismanagement").
The most recent protests are indeed about a lot of things, and no doubt reflect a plethora of voices, just as there's a variety of voices within the movement. Indeed, Venezuela still has problems, a lot of problems. Yet the "opposition" is as concerned with poverty as its leaders were when they presided over massive levels of poverty. They are as concerned with human rights as they were during the Caracazo Massacre. They are as concerned with democracy as they were when there was de facto exclusion of most of the population from political life. The big fear is the change in this latter. And it is this fear of the "plebs" that drives the "opposition".
There's a familiar story about states that sit outside the sphere of US hegemony – they tend to face campaigns of destabilisation, coups and invasions where necessary. The invariable response to such threats is to "clamp down" on previously enjoyed freedoms. The notion of a "strategy of tension" demands that a government is put in a defensive position, a "state of emergency" as it's called in a friendly state. It is also this reaction, the context of which is rarely mediated, that motivates a number of the protesters.
It is worth reflecting how other states of emergency are mediated. After the 2011 riots in the UK, 3000 young people were swept up in a dragnet and sent to kangaroo courts for what would no doubt be called in Venezuela, a protest against an out of touch and corrupt government. The repressive clampdown was cheered on by the British media. Yet if the current President Maduro or Chavez before him had received as small a proportion of the vote as Cameron, Venezuela would probably have been invaded by now.
Contrast the conduct of broadcast media in the UK with that of Venezuela. It's not simply that the private media in Venezuela have been "biased" in their coverage of politics, which British broadcasters are forbidden by law to be, it's that they actively initiated an coup against democracy in 2002 that lead to the deaths of hundreds. Should Trevor Phillips appear on ITV News and council the army and navy to rise up against the government he'd be gone in the blink of an eye. Should his bosses support his position and continue to encourage such action on a daily basis for years it's hardly outlandish to suggest that the ITV licence would not be renewed, as happened in Venezuela
In a sense the Venezuelan government is playing into the hands of the reactionaries and their supporters in the US. Some of the measures taken to ward off coup threats and enable a government that's never garnered less than 50% of the vote to carry out its mandate have been clunky to put it mildly. Yet at the same time, it is difficult to see how else, other than emergency measures, the will of the people could be fulfilled.
Indeed, it is this that is the crux of the situation in Venezuela. It is not about a sudden emergence of economic problems, corruption or crime. It is about the ultra-rich and their supporters, especially among the middle class who for 15 years have spent their time, energy and resources trying every measure possible to overthrow the will of the people. Again, there are problems a plenty in Venezuela but the trick is to understand these in the context of the bigger picture.
Source: Lee Salter
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A balanced discussion about current events in Venezuela (Al Jazeera)
Posted: 2014/02/18 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video, Podcasts
Tags: Cavismo, Foreign Policy, George Ciccariello-Maher, Latin America, Nicolás Maduro, propaganda, South America, uprising, Venezuela, violence
Former interviewee participates in a very balanced discussion about current events in Venezuela.
Punkonomics is proud to remind everybody that we were one of the first to interview George at some length on Venezuela and we're very happy his voice has become so prominent :)
Here's the interview podcast from 2013-7-8
https://punkonomicsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/punkonomics2013-7-8-ciccariello.mp3
FUCK THE POLICE FUCK THE POLICE FUCK THE POLICE
Tags: justice, police brutality, prison-industrial-complex, racism, stop and frisk, violence
http://politicalblindspot.com/stop-and-frisk-of-african-american-teen/
A 16-yr-old African American boy was sexually assaulted by a police officer during a "stop and frisk" pat-down. The assault was committed with such violence that the youth's testicles were literally ruptured.
Now, Darrin Manning of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania may never be able to father children, according to thedoctors who performed surgery on his virtually destroyed testicles.
Darrin was a star basketball player with no criminal history to speak of. He was a straight-A student who never got into any sort of trouble. He was with his teammates heading to a game right after school when he encountered an officer who decided he was "suspicious" and needed to be subjected to local "stop and frisk" procedures.
All of the boys with Darrin had scarves covering the lower parts of their faces. But this was simply due to the extreme cold weather that had swept the region, with record-low temperatures that day.
Veronica Joyner, the Principal of the high school the teens attended, said that she herself had given the boys scarves to wear to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. Twenty minutes later, she was informed of Darrin's "arrest."
Darrin was put in handcuffs. When the officer began "frisking" him, they grabbed hold of Darrin's genitals so hard, pulled and twisted, that the teen's genitals literally tore off.
"I felt the officer reach and grab my butt. Then the officer grabbed my testicles and squeezed again and pulled down. And that's when I heard something pop, like I felt it POP," Manning said.
Keon Gerow, Pastor of Catalyst for Change Church, said "We want to have some questions answered and some accountability. We want the entire public to be aware, not only of the Darrin Manning situation, but the entire issue of police brutality."
This story is without question one of the most severe cases of documented police abuses of power, brutality and sexual assault. Watch the video below and SPREAD THE WORD! There is no excuse for staying silent about this!
WTF shooting women who won't sleep with you is also legal now: Jury Acquits Texas Man For Murder Of Escort Who Refused Sex
Posted: 2013/07/15 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Uncategorized
Tags: crime, culture, feminism, legal system, violence
What's next?!
"I bought her a drink and she wouldn't fuck me so I shot her your honor" WTF!?!
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/06/2117161/jury-acquits-texas-man-for-murder-of-escort-who-refused-sex/


Has Noam Chomsky Been a Controlled Opposition?
Back when I was a young anti-war, anti-establishment activist, I used to hold the utmost respect and admiration for Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). To me, he was a firm pillar and one of the brightest minds out there: ever wise, poised, articulate, and correct on many different issues, especially those pertaining to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Many years later and wiser, I find myself having substantial differences of opinion with this esteemed octogenarian fellow professor. For starters, there is much hypocrisy in his assertions and behavior now. For example, he seems to oppose the corporate oligarchy system until every two or four years when the elections arrive during which he parrots the "lesser-evil-ism" mantra ad nauseam.
And what about the fact that Chomsky has managed to keep his employment with MIT all along, tenured and now emeritus? It is a known fact that MIT is one of the most closely-related research universities affiliated with the Military Industrial Complex. If one is a true anti-war academic and what's more a celebrity activist, could he ever really get tenured at such a college, especially at the height of the Vietnam War when Chomsky's career was taking off at MIT?
1) Professor Chomsky supports the existence of the belligerent Jewish state.
2) Professor Chomsky opposes the principles of the gradually-supposed-to-be-effective Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.
3) Professor Chomsky supported the "no fly zone" and the subsequent utter destruction of Libya – a country that was the most prosperous African nation under the leadership of the crazy-yet-brilliant Mu'ammar Qaddafi which thanks to NATO is now a failed state run by ISIS savage gangsters and Al-Qaeda terrorist thugs.
4) Professor Chomsky considers President Basher Assad "an autocrat" and is somewhat comfortable with the continuous bombing of the great and resisting Syrian nation. The professor recently told Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Program: "Syria is a horrible catastrophe. The Assad regime is a moral disgrace. They're carrying out horrendous acts, the Russians with them." Democracy Now! begins with the leading statement of "worldwide outrage mounts over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Idlib province, which was reportedly carried out by the Assad government…" No evidence is presented to support the accusation, and the accusers are also unnamed. What kind of journalism is this, Amy Goodman?! Are you another Zionist shill? One would have hoped that a media outlet like Democracy Now! Which claims to be "independent" of the state and corporate sponsors would apply a higher journalistic standard. I guess not. It is now crystal clear that Democracy Now! Is in fact pushing the imperialist agenda for regime change in Syria.
5) Professor Chomsky supported the US-led coup in Ukraine and the illegitimate installment of a corrupt Neo-Nazi/ NATO nurtured government in Ukraine.
6) Professor Chomsky acknowledges the one-party corporate oligarchy, but then urges everyone to vote for the lesser of two evils – just like he did in 2008, 2012, 2016, and just about every election before that. Let us keep in mind that any endorsement of "lesser evil-ism" is in essence an endorsement to maintain the status-quo and hence a system of injustice that he claims to oppose.
Naturally expected, Professor Chomsky tends to run interference for the Democrats as always. He talks like an anarchist during off years, tucks tail and comes slinking back to the Democrat wing of the corrupt establishment during election years. This is the utter hypocrisy that Professor Chomsky is used to, but one which is now coming to full surface.
But then again, to survive at the right-wing MIT for all those years and get tenured (and now emeritus) could in-and-out-of-itself be an alarming indicator that he is yet another deeply well-positioned Zionist Mossad shill and a controlled opposition, a pro-establishment sell-out with a subtle narrative that serves the evil Anglo-Washingtonian Empire's interests and commitment to perpetuate the status quo.
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Let there be light! Signify releases Li-Fi networking systems
Tom Li
@itworldca
Published: June 21st, 2019
Signify, Philip's lighting division formerly known as Philips Lighting, released Trulifi, one of the first commercial LiFi networking systems.
What is LiFi?
Whereas modern wireless systems — Wi-Fi, cellular, and others — use electromagnetic waves as a medium to transfer data, Li-Fi uses infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light. It sends signals by quickly strobing LED lights; far too quickly for the human eye to detect.
Passing data through light has existed as a technology for almost 10 years now, but it's only been an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) wireless standard since May 2018, formalized as the 802.11bb standard. The Trulifi system uses the G.9991 Li-Fi standard established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which defines the lower level connection compatibility.
Li-Fi's strength isn't wide-area coverage as light waves can't penetrate opaque objects. This characteristic, however, also makes Li-Fi ideal for high-security environments like government facilities, corporate, and hospitals since its signals can be easily contained.
Furthermore, Li-Fi systems could be deployed where traditional radios cannot. Certain areas in the aerospace, healthcare, and education sectors may need to limit the use of radio equipment to prevent interference. Visible light has wavelengths in the nanometers, completely isolated from even the wavelength of the highest frequencies currently used in the industry. Since Li-Fi operates on completely different spectrums, it can act as a safe alternative.
The greatest source of interference for Li-Fi are other light sources like the sun, but as long as the work area is properly covered, advanced filtering algorithms render this a non-issue. Li-Fi systems can also capture signals reflected from other surfaces so it can function even without a direct line of sight between the transmitter and receiver.
Signify's Trulifi
The Trulifi system comes in two configurations. The 6002 series has a net data rate of up to 150Mbps and works with the light on, off, or dimmed. The 6013 fixed point-to-point system has a guaranteed 250Mbps data rate and is available in blue, red, and green light.
Trulifi 6002 fixed point-to-point system.
Transmission is encrypted using 128-bit AES encryption and requires a USB access key, which doubles as the transceiver on the end devices. The system also supports seamless handoff, meaning the end device won't lose connection moving between lights.
Trulifi USB transceiver
Light fixtures with Philip's LED light bulbs are already compatible with Trulifi. The system can also be retrofitted onto existing LED light fixtures.
Trulifi light fixture attachment piece
All systems are available globally now. No pricing information has been announced.
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CBPS organised a film screening for the media titled 'Conversation Among Equals: A Film Screening' on 27 February 2018
CBPS organised a film screening for the media titled 'Conversation Among Equals: A Film Screening' on 27 February 2018 at St. Marks Hotel, Bangalore. Conversation Among Equals was a screening of 10 short films about the Mahila Samakhya progamme in Bihar and Karnataka. The films are part of a larger research study conducted by CBPS with fund support from IDRC, Canada titled "Together We Can: Assessing the Impact of Women's Action Groups on Social Change in India". The three-year study on Mahila Samakhya evaluated the programme's impact on women's economic empowerment in two Indian states: Bihar and Karnataka.
The Mahila Samakhya programme is one of the world's largest government programmes to empower women. The programme focuses on education and collective action for women's equality. More than 1.2 million poor women from 45,000 villages in 11 Indian states were part of this programme.
The short films showcase the lived realities of Mahila Samakhya women and the transformation experienced through the programme. Some of the clips focus on themes of political participation of women, the creation of Nari Adalat (women's court) and health awareness while other clips are narratives of women breaking stereotypes by questioning gender norms and power structures.
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Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, announced the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Google Cloud, allowing customers to get positive business results fast with instant access to quality data on a scalable, open source, enterprise data cloud platform.
CDP is a hybrid and multi-cloud data and analytics platform that offers unparalleled security and governance for the world's largest enterprises.
"We are committed to delivering the technology and partnerships to support businesses' data-driven digital transformations and to help them put data in the hands of every team," said Sudhir Hasbe, senior director, product management at Google Cloud. "Bringing Cloudera to Google Cloud enables customers to rapidly deploy and manage its platform and applications at global scale."
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Battlecade, the online "beat your friends in mini-games" game is not available in the Google Play Store! Battlecade will be available in the Apple app store eventually as well.
Etherient now has a new web site! We hope you like the new design.
Engineer, our exciting new brain-challenging action-puzzler game is now available in the Google Play Store!
Battle friends, family or enemies online in furious mini-game action!
Battlecade is the battle arcade (Get it? Aren't we clever?!) where you have the chance to prove your superiority over your friends, family or total strangers if you prefer, it's all good with us!
In Battlecade, you'll play a series of mini-games in rounds of play with the goal of getting a higher total score than your opponent. Some of the games will look familiar, others not so much, but all will be fun for sure!
Looking for a brain-rupturing good time? Not anymore- meet Engineer!
In Engineer it's your job to direct particles generated by the station's fusion generators into the correct particle ports to distribute power throughout the station. It's a seemingly simple task: the particles and ports are color-coded and you manipulate diverters to keep them moving on the right path.
Of course, nothing in life is ever as simple as it first appears!
K&G Arcade is unlike any other PocketPC game out there!
Imagine being beamed aboard an alien spacecraft by two wise-cracking aliens from the future. Further imagine being forced to try and escape their ship by exploring five maze-like levels and playing 25 mini-games throughout, all the while avoiding deadly robots and conversing with strange fellow captives. Sound like a good time? You bet it is! That's K&G Arcade in a nutshell!
And best of all, this game is totally, completely, 100% FREE!!
This isn't your parents' Trivial Pursuit, this is trivia, with a very sick twist!
Earth is threatened by two wise-cracking aliens and you are choosen to defend your world in a contest of knoweldge! Krelmac and Gentoo invite you to fight for the survival of your world in a game of knowledge and wits. DIMWITS that is!
Electro is the premiere electronics reference and tool collection for the PocketPC platform.
With numerous calculators, reference tables and other tools for the electronics technician as well as the electrical engineer, Electro is one PocketPC program you cannot do without!
And best of all, this application is totally, completely, 100% FREE!!
Eliminator is a fun little game that will keep you challenged for a while!
Remember sitting in Friendly's waiting for your food, with that little puzzle game sitting there? You know, the one where you have to jump the pegs to clear all but one peg at the end? Well, that in a nutshell describes Eliminator.
As with most things in life, it's not quite as simmple as it seems!
Please select the application you need support for. If you can't find the answer you need here then please contact us directly by eMail.
There are currently no known issues with Engineer.
The problem manifests itself by a message which states something to the effect of "if this program does not appear in the list, it may not be for your device".
A work-around exists that should allow you to install the game anyway. After downloading the Zip archive, unzip it as usual. In the directory you unzipped it to, you will find a file with a .CAB extension. Copy that .CAB file to your device wherever you choose using Windows Explorer as you would any other file. Once it is on your device, run File Explorer on your device and navigate to the folder you copied the file to. Double-click it to execute it, and installation should proceed normally.
This game is rather sensitive to low memory conditions, especially during startup. The game will not run if there is less than 14M of free memory (total memory, i.e., program and storage memory combined).
If during loading, the game simply exits with no message, this is almost certainly due to not enough memory. Please free up 14M of free memory total and try again.
Note that the 14M can be distributed between program RAM and storage RAM in any way, the game should function properly as long as there is a total of 14M free memory.
There are currently no known issues with Eliminator.
Etherient is a small company that has been developing software for the mobile age for over ten years. We began by introducing a number of apps for the PocketPC platform, Microsoft's first forray into the world of mobile devices. We are now focused on the latest-and-greatest platforms including Google Android and Apple iOS, and niche platforms such as Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook devices. We also engineer software that "lives in the cloud", enabling you to access your data and activies on-the-go from any devices with an Internet connection.
Please direct all eMail communications to etherient@etherient.com.


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Prof. Mike Mazzeo interviewed business leaders from more than 120 small and midsize companies to develop guidelines for middle-market companies pursuing growth.
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Four guidelines for middle-market companies and growth
9/10/2013 - In the first installment of the Kellogg-Chase "Growth in Middle-Market Companies" series, Kellogg Professor Mike Mazzeo highlights four guidelines that can help executives develop effective strategies to scale their business.
All small and middle-market businesses strive to identify avenues for growth, but the best path is often far from clear. Executives face the common challenges of trying to monitor industry trends, make strategic investments, and take advantage of emerging opportunities. The Kellogg School of Management and Chase both understand the importance of middle-market companies to the economy as well as the special skills that executives must have to be successful. As no playbook currently exists to help these businesses, Kellogg and Chase have partnered to present "Growth in Middle-Market Companies." This four-part series brings together Kellogg faculty, Chase experts, and business practitioners for presentations and panel discussions.
In the first session of the series, Kellogg Professor Mike Mazzeo discussed insights from the Roadside MBA Project, which visited more than 120 small and midsize businesses across a range of industries. Mazzeo and his colleagues, University of Utah's Scott Schaefer and Stanford's Paul Oyer, interviewed business leaders about their company's operations, markets, and plans for expansion. Based on this research, Mazzeo shared several guidelines that middle-market companies should keep in mind when pursuing growth:
1. Find opportunities to increase quantity without incurring additional fixed costs.
Large investments—for instance, in enhanced production capacity or cutting-edge technology—can hold significant risk for middle-market companies. The loss of several major customers, for instance, can turn a potential competitive advantage into a long-term burden. To reduce the likelihood of this outcome, the best starting point for growth is to identify areas of the business where a product can be designed or produced just once to serve an expanding customer base—essentially achieving economies of scale with limited additional investment.
Learfield Communications, a midsize media company based in Jefferson City, Missouri, succeeded using a classic growth strategy built on economies of scale. First, they identified an under-served market: local radio stations in the Midwest whose listeners rely on daily farm reports. Since small individual stations couldn't afford to offer this content themselves, Learfield developed a model to produce reports and then distribute them throughout the region. Since the cost to create content for 1 station was virtually the same as the cost to create it for 100 stations, Learfield expanded their profitability considerably as more and more radio stations joined their network of affiliates.
This lesson has applications across a number of industries, not only for digital start-ups and software as a service (SaaS) companies, but also for manufacturers considering technology improvements and transport and logistics businesses with the potential to offer proprietary solutions.
2. Verify that sufficient demand exists before investing in fixed costs.
Before making strategic decisions about products or services, executives must first confirm that a customer base exists. Previously, companies often had to take a leap of faith. Today, however, market data―courtesy of industry organizations, federal agencies, and consumer groups―has never been more accessible. By conducting rigorous analysis of information on specific markets, companies can have greater confidence that demand exists to support large-scale investments in production or new-product development.
Steele Rubber, based in Hickory, North Carolina, manufactures rubber parts for classic automobiles that are restored by collectors all over the country and the world. Individual rubber parts are produced from molds that are expensive for Steele Rubber to construct, so the company must carefully evaluate which cars it includes in its catalog. To be profitable, Steele needs to assess whether sufficient demand exists for the parts of a particular car model to justify the fixed costs of crafting molds. The company's leadership draws information from each state's Department of Motor Vehicles and collector clubs, among other sources, to estimate how many cars of a certain model have potential for restoration―and a return on investment.
The greater availability of information means that companies in any industry should make market research and analysis a regular component of strategic planning.
3. Ensure that growth is built on superior resources and capabilities.
Many companies approach growth with an attitude of, "How could we sell the same product we're selling to more people?" or "What's the next adjacent product to our flagship offerings?" These strategies can deliver value but may be somewhat limiting. Middle-market companies should also think hard about opportunities to identify new applications for their core knowledge, skills, or processes.
TiLite, a company located in Pasca, Washington, offers one example. Titanium is an important element in the production of nuclear materials because of its specific physical properties, and TiLite developed expertise in welding and shaping titanium during their years providing parts for nuclear-power companies. Executives identified an opportunity to expand into wheelchair manufacturing and developed a design that used titanium as its frame. Moreover, the company's superior welding and shaping capabilities enable it to offer wheelchairs customized to an individual user's height and size—a competitive advantage over many other wheelchair manufacturers.
As TiLite's experience illustrates, successful companies can develop new markets and extend their reach significantly. This strategy requires executives to look beyond their original industries and geographies by thinking creatively about the applications of their expertise.
4. Recognize the areas of the business that are not scalable.
Sometimes when companies grow, they lose the distinctive characteristics―such as efficiency or a unified vision―that made them successful in the first place. If a business's success is based on its deep knowledge of local markets, for example, expansion into new geographies would effectively put it on even footing with the competition. Similarly, growth can often create additional layers within an organization—rigid infrastructure or an authority hierarchy—that effectively impede innovation and responsiveness to changing market conditions.
GPS Source of Pueblo, Colorado, builds systems that allow the GPS signal to function within buildings or other structures. As GPS technology has become more pervasive, applications have expanded into new industries. GPS Source recently beat out established defense contractors to win a major contract to help the U.S. military utilize GPS in transport planes. An important component in the company's success was that, as a relatively small organization, GPS Source's marketing and engineering groups shared information regularly. This exchange of knowledge helped the company to anticipate customer needs and develop new products faster than the competition. As GPS Source embarked on expansion to meet growing demand, its leaders recognized that it might be challenging to maintain the same level of communication with a larger sales force and expanded engineering team.
Business leaders must resist the temptation to grow at any cost—a strategy that can lead to investments that are counterproductive in the long term. Instead, companies that identify the organizational structure, functions, or processes that contribute to its competitive advantage will be better able to retain those aspects as the business grows.
Mike Mazzeo is an associate professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management. For more on the Roadside MBA project, visit roadside-mba.com.
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NASA = NAZI ?
'What Goes Around
Comes Around
George Bush!'
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John F Kennedy and his brother were playboys, disrespecting Jackie by shagging Marilyn Monroe. Monroe was heartbroken, she could not get John and his brother was not so nice or was not so faithful or was a second best. She had a notebook full of info apparently on what the President had said about 'aliens'. It went missing after her strange death by enima. JFK's head exploded from within by an implanted device in 1963. Jackie was comforting him at the time presumably because he was complaining of headache. His body was seized at gunpoint, bullet trajectory and bullets were not found and his brain was 'missing'.
He was followed by a great humanitarian Lyndon Johnson who found he had to resign after getting mixed up with Vietnam's underground 'gooks', so that he could pursue his mission for world peace.
Trickie Dickie followed in 1969 with the 'moon landings' escapade and various dodgy things, getting increasingly dodgy into 1974, when he was followed by Gerald Ford:
"When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."
It was indeed an unprecedented time. He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.
Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace."
Watergate. Makes you wonder what Stargate is.
Nixon managed to make quite a mess of things and he began with the 'moon landings' which was probably a hoax.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4127998.stm
"The actress died of barbiturate poisoning in August 1962, aged 36. Her death was ruled a probable suicide.
Miner claims he took "extensive" and "nearly verbatim" notes from tapes that were played for him by Monroe's therapist, Dr Ralph Greenson.
Yet questions have been raised as to the authenticity of the transcripts.
Miner, 86, maintains the original tapes have probably been destroyed, which means his claims cannot be verified.
The former prosecutor was interviewed when prosecutors re-examined Monroe's death in 1982, but did not reveal he had the transcripts because of promises to Dr Greenson.
At the time, prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to warrant a new criminal investigation.
The Los Angeles Times, which published excerpts from the tapes on Friday, said Miner was allowed to hear the tapes on condition he never revealed their contents.
He broke his promise after Dr Greenson's death, when some Monroe biographers suggested the doctor might be considered a suspect in her death.
I feel certain I'll win an Oscar for one or more of my Shakespeare women
Conspiracy theorists continue to dispute the circumstances of Monroe's tragic death.
Miner claims there was "no possible way" the actress could have killed herself, adding she had "very specific plans for her future". "
Marilyn came from nowhere or an orphange as Norma Jean Mortenson apparently and her mother was called Baker, her half sister Miracle. Possibly like the Piano Man, she had a craving for classical culture and desired to play Shakespeare, allegedly, she worked hard at being desireable and married an old git who died at age 84, this was the first of many doomed marriages and miscarriages which did not lead to motherdom. Her ambitions for genuine theatrical excellence were thwarted by Hollywood's insistence on contemporary sexual roles, like westerns about brothel chicks and glamourous diamond films about catching husbands. Bumping up against the President's brother she quickly met her downfall, possibly because she had sung 'happy birthday mr president' and caused jealousy. It seems clear to me that she is the woman depicted in Mars Attacks. A gorgeous glamourous blonde who walks her way into the Whitehouse by looks alone and whose motives are unclear and who causes the destruction which ensues. She died one year into his presidency. JFK began 1961 and Marilyn died 1962. In 1947 she was Artichoke Queen of California. So she had been around in 1952 when President Harry S Truman was in power: "During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."." http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html
It is Truman who Santilli was told was in the Alien Autopsy Footage (though the film may have disintegrated, been stolen, not existed, or been held back) which is allegedly from 1947.
Also there have only been white male Presidents, which is not democratically representative of their nation.
Also a NASA spokesman says "there is nothing our computers cannot do"
Also they have masses of desert wasteland which has been severly nuked, so it is not as if they do not have 'alien landscapes' to play with. Before attempting to terraform Mars, perhaps they should try terraforming america's own inhospitable desert regions.
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$21.3B renovation seeks to transform Kipling Station into major transit hub
Kipling Station will be transformed into a major transit hub with a single station connecting the subway, rail and bus services all under one roof. (http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/improve/projects/kipling/)
To make commuting easier for families living around the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario is investing $21.3 billion to redevelop the Kipling GO Station into a major transit hub that will connect subway, regional rail, and inter-regional bus services under a single station.
With the close of the request for design and construction proposals, the project is ready to proceed into the next phase, as announced by Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca on Oct. 31. During the event, he was joined by MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore Peter Milczyn and MPP for Etobicoke Centre Yvan Baker.
"With this next step, we are closer to providing an important mobility hub that will benefit commuters and get people where they are going sooner," said Del Duca, adding that the renovation serves as proof of the government's commitment to strengthening transit networks in order to enhance quality of life for Ontario residents.
The Kipling Station renovation includes construction of new structures such as an elevated pedestrian bridge, pedestrian underground tunnel, entrance, bus terminal building for MiWay and GO Transit, and a new extension of Acorn Ave. south of Dundas St. W. with vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian access and traffic signals.
Meanwhile, improvements will be made on the existing Kipling GO Station building and the TTC pedestrian pickup and drop off building.
In April 2017, three teams were invited to respond to a request for proposals: Bird/Kiewit Joint Venture, EllisDon Infrastructure Transit, and Kipling Infrastructure Partnership. All three submitted their proposals, which will be evaluated by Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx in the next several months. The successful proponent will be announced in 2018.
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Q: How to get bundles and jars depended by Eclipse plugin project I am using maven to build my Eclipse RCP applications. I got confused by how to resolve dependencies. I read the documentation of Tycho. It just explain how to build but no much about how to resolve dependencies. How to use maven download bundles to my target platform folder? And how to import ordinary jar packages such as thumbnailator which is not packaged to OSGi bundle? I added dependency in pom.xml, but can not import package in my MANIFEST.MF.

A: Everything you use in a RCP must be in packaged in a plugin.
You may have to write a simple plug-in to include any jars you have which are not plug-ins.