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/**
 *
 */
package com.qiyi.usercloud.carve.zk;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.I0Itec.zkclient.IZkChildListener;
import org.I0Itec.zkclient.IZkStateListener;
import org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient;
import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher.Event.KeeperState;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.qiyi.usercloud.carve.config.refer.NotifyListener;
import com.qiyi.usercloud.carve.util.ConcurrentHashSet;

/**
 * @author duxinyun
 *
 */
public class ZookeeperClient extends AbstractZkClient{

	private final ZkClient zkClient;
	private volatile boolean closed = false;
	static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ZookeeperClient.class);
	protected final Set<String> registered = new ConcurrentHashSet<String>();
	protected final Set<String> retryRegistered = new ConcurrentHashSet<String>();
	protected final Set<String> unRegistered = new ConcurrentHashSet<String>();
	private volatile KeeperState state = KeeperState.SyncConnected;

	public ZookeeperClient(String url){
		zkClient = new ZkClient(url);
		zkClient.subscribeStateChanges(new IZkStateListener() {

			@Override
			public void handleStateChanged(KeeperState state) throws Exception {
				ZookeeperClient.this.state = state;
				if(state == KeeperState.Disconnected){

				}
			}

			@Override
			public void handleSessionEstablishmentError(Throwable error)
					throws Exception {
			}

			@Override
			public void handleNewSession() throws Exception {
				recreate();
			}
		});
		logger.info("establish zookeeper connection with address url = {}",url);
	}

	protected void createEphemeral(String path) {
		try {
			zkClient.createEphemeral(path);
		} catch (Exception e) {
		}
	}

	@Override
	protected void createPersistent(String path) {
		try {
			zkClient.createPersistent(path);
		} catch (Exception e) {
		}
	}

	void doSubScrible(final String path,final NotifyListener listener){
		zkClient.subscribeChildChanges(path, new IZkChildListener() {

			@Override
			public void handleChildChange(String parentPath, List<String> currentChilds)
					throws Exception {
					logger.info("service children has chanaged. parentPath={}", path);
					listener.notify(parentPath,currentChilds);
			}
		});
	}

	public boolean exist(String path){
		 try {
			 return zkClient.exists(path);
		 } catch (Exception e) {
			 logger.error("use zookeeper error." , e );
			 throw new IllegalStateException("use zookeeper check path is exist error.", e);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public List<String> getChildren(String path) {
		try {
			return zkClient.getChildren(path);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			logger.error("abort zk childPath error.", e);
			throw new IllegalStateException("abort zk childPath error.", e);
		}
	}

	public boolean isAvailable(){
		return state == KeeperState.SyncConnected;
	}

	protected void recreate() {
		 Set<String> registerUrl = new HashSet<String>(registered);
		 for (String url : registerUrl) {
			  retryRegistered.add(url);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void retry() {
		Set<String> registerUrl = new HashSet<String>(retryRegistered);
		for(String url : registerUrl){
			try {
				createPath(url, true);
				retryRegistered.remove(url);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				logger.error("register service error.", e);
			}
		}

	}

	public void close(){
		if(closed){
			return ;
		}
		if(zkClient != null){
			synchronized (this) {
				zkClient.close();
				closed = true;
			}
		}
	}

}


In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on July 10 that the province of Ontario does not need the federal government's permission to issue industrial logging permits on a First Nation's traditional lands.
"Ontario has the power to take up lands in the Keewatin area under Treaty 3 without federal approval or supervision," Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wrote in the ruling.
The July 10 decision was based on a challenge by Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabauskang First Nation to an Ontario Court of Appeal 2013 decision that determined the province has the right to "take up" Treaty land for industrial projects like forestry and mining.
Grassy Narrows First Nation trapper Shoon Keewatin was disappointed with the outcome, but said he wasn't really expecting any different because "the province will get to do what it wants to do" anyway.
Keewatin has been maintaining his family's trap line for the past two decades or so since his father stopped being able to do so, but says he has memories of being pulled around in a sled on the trap line as a toddler.
And he remembers when logging activity first started to happen on Treaty 3 land.
He says he's not against logging all together, just clear cut logging.
"I always said to Abitibi (now Resolute Forest Products), 'you know exactly how long a tree takes to grow. You know how much it'll grow in 20 years. You don't know what kind of animals will come back in 20 years,'" he added.
For Shoon Keewatin, trapping is not a means of income. He traps because it's crucial to maintaining his Anishinaabe identity. It's a tradition he'd like to pass on to his children.
While the Keewatin trial dealt with forestry, the implications of the court's decision are far-reaching and will affect how other industries like mining and pipelines can be carried out on Treaty land in the province.
Bruce McIvor, Wabauskang First Nation's lawyer on the Keewatin case, weighed in on the decision later in the day on July 10.
Grassy Narrows First Nation Chief Roger Fobister and Wabauskang First Nation Chief Petiquan have both said they intend to continue the fight to protect their Treaty rights and people.
"We expect the government of Ontario and Canada to learn from the last ten years and come to the table ready to deal with the real needs of our people which requires ensuring a sustainable future both environmentally and economically," Chief Fobister said in a statement.
Ontario Minister of Natural Resources and Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro has said his ministry will be looking over the decision to understand its full implications for the province.


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Together, Asigra and Zadara Storage deliver (QoS) Mile and block storage and comprehensive data protection in a pay-as-you-go model to MSPs as a Mlexible, cost effective solution. Asigra software is hardware agnostic and is installed on top of Zadara's unique and patent-protected VPSA™ storage arrays to create SAN and NAS in the cloud solutions. The Asigra software aggregates the data from all machines, drives, applications and systems, with optional offsite replication for additional redundancy and disaster recovery (DR). The Zadara Storage VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. The services can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Mile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift).
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30 percent of likely voters in S.C. like Newt Gingrich. | REUTERS
POLITICO Poll: Newt closing in
By JAMES HOHMANN
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Mitt Romney remains the clear front-runner in South Carolina, but the intensity of Newt Gingrich's support places him within striking distance going into Saturday's Republican primary.
A POLITICO poll of likely voters shows the former Massachusetts governor atop the GOP field with 37 percent and the former House speaker at 30 percent.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul trails with 11 percent, followed by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at 10 percent and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who barely registers at 4 percent. Just 8 percent remain undecided.
"You really have a two-man race, with Paul and Santorum battling back and forth for No. 3 and 4 and Perry out of the mix," said Ed Goeas, a Republican pollster whose firm, the Tarrance Group, conducted the survey on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Gingrich has momentum: When voters are asked to volunteer the name of the candidate they plan to vote for without being prompted by a list of names to choose from, Romney's lead over Gingrich slips to 31 percent to 29 percent. Among those who say they will "definitely" support their candidate of choice, the two are essentially tied, with Romney at 23 percent and Gingrich at 22 percent.
Get the full results here and crosstabs here.
One reason the former House speaker is pressing Romney: his consistently strong debate performances. Among those who claim they've watched all or almost all of the 16 debates so far, 48 percent support Gingrich compared with 22 percent who back Romney. Gingrich ranks fourth, at 9 percent, among Republicans who did not catch any of the debates.
A debate here Thursday night offers him another chance to shine, just 36 hours before polls open.
Romney, however, has a host of underlying strengths that continue to make him the clear favorite to win the first-in the-South primary, where he finished fourth in 2008.
He holds significant leads with the blocs of voters most likely to show up. The more educated and older the voter, the more likely they are to back the former Massachusetts governor. Among voters aged 64 or older, Romney leads Gingrich 35 percent to 29 percent. With college-educated voters, it's 35 percent to 28 percent. For those with only some college, Gingrich has a 6-percent-point edge, 32 to 26.
Voters are most concerned about the issue on which Romney has staked his campaign — the economy. In a state where the unemployment rate is 9.9 percent — significantly higher than in Iowa and New Hampshire — 64 percent say they're most interested in economic issues like taxes, jobs and the deficit. Just 10 percent name moral issues (abortion, gay marriage, family values) as their top concern. Among those who point to economic issues as their top concern, 40 percent back Romney. But among those who name moral issues, Santorum leads Romney 25 percent to 22 percent.
Romney's Mormonism and private equity background do not appear to be significant factors in the race. Seventy percent of voters say Romney's work at Bain Capital makes no difference to the way they'll vote. Eighty-three percent insist Romney's faith makes no difference in the way they'll vote — just 14 percent say his faith makes them less likely to support him.
Of all the candidates, Romney is viewed the most favorably: Sixty-nine percent have a favorable impression of him compared with just 27 percent who view him unfavorably.
Romney is also outperforming expectations in the most socially conservative part of the state. In the Upstate region, which includes Greenville and Spartanburg, Romney trails Gingrich by 2 percentage points, 33 to 31.. Santorum hasn't gotten the kind of traction he needs there to claim the mantle of conservative alternative to Romney, while voters view the former Pennsylvania senator as the most conservative candidate in the field by a narrow margin over Gingrich, it is Paul who is in third place.
Romney has a two-to-one edge (48 percent to 24 percent) in populous Richland County, which includes the state capital of Columbia. In the coastal region, where social conservatism gives way to fiscal conservatism, Romney leads 43 percent to 31 percent.
"The key here is that for Gingrich to come out strong you'd expect him to be much stronger in Greenville and Spartanburg," Goeas said.
One weak spot for Gingrich is his appeal among evangelical women. Among born-again evangelical men, Gingrich leads Romney 40 percent to 32 percent. But with female evangelicals, his t edge shrinks to 26 percent to 25 percent. That gender gap could widen after ABC airs its interview with Marianne Gingrich, his second wife, during "Nightline" on Thursday.
The poll contains some grim numbers for Paul, who finished second in New Hampshire but has not aggressively campaigned here.
A majority of Republican voters — 53 percent — view him unfavorably, by far the highest negative numbers of any candidate. More than a third say they would never vote for the 76-year-old congressman.
"For as much as he's in the mix, the fact that he's upside down with these voters … just shows he's a mile wide and an inch deep in terms of that support," said Goeas.
Surprisingly, 25 percent of those supporting Paul, clearly the most anti-establishment candidate in the race, name Romney, the establishment favorite, as their second choice.
As for Comedy Central television host Stephen Colbert, who is drawing attention for his tongue-in-cheek exploration of a presidential bid, he's not breaking through, either. When voters were asked to name the candidate whom they would probably vote for, only one said Colbert.
The Tarrance Group surveyed 600 likely Republican voters in South Carolina on Tuesday and Wednesday. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4.1 percent.
GOP Presidential Nominations
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Bob Bly, a copywriter, gave a webinar yesterday about making landing pages convert. Thanks to the people at Pinpointe for sponsoring the webinar, which was excellent.
I won't detail everything from the webinar here as they are letting everyone share it on Tuesday. I will share the links with you next week.
But here's a screenshot you'll find valuable if, like me, you're involved in a lot of landing pages.
I receive Craig Huey's email newsletter. Craig runs Creative Direct Marketing Group, a direct response agency near Los Angeles. It's an awesome agency and I've done some work for them. I'D LIKE SOME MORE, PLEASE!
In the newsletter, Craig mentions a landing page his group put together to support a TV campaign.
Here's the landing page. It's for a product that helps young children get a head start on their reading.
In my next few blogs, I'm going to annotate the pages to illustrate what's so superb about this landing page. Everyone can learn from its brilliance—even if you're not selling this type of product.
Click on the thumbnail below for the full size image with comments.
Yes--there's a lot going on here but the graphic designer has kept the page clean and readable.
The image shows that you get a TON of stuff.
The pricing is superb...either get a trial for $14.95 or spend $199.95. Hmmmmmm. Which one will EVERYONE choose? Notice...there's no option NOT to buy.
You can order directly from the page. One less click. NICE.
Excellent social proof at the bottom of the page.
The video does not overwhelm the space above the fold.
A lot of landing pages include video above the fold and I think that's good BUT it should not dominate this vital space.
In tomorrow's blog, we'll scroll down a bit. The page gets better.
In direct response copywriting, it's a mistake to be creative.
I found this blog by Seth Godin about landing pages.
The blog is five years old—an eternity in the world of digital marketing. But the blog provides good advice for everyone who organizes/writes landing pages—and the advice will be salient in several years.
I'm not overly impressed with gurus and celebrities: we're all the same ultimately. But the media needs stars and Seth Godin got to be one of the stars. I'm not sure I really learn a lot from the guy.
But I'm not jealous. I have a lot more hair and somebody recently told me I looked like I'm 34 while I'm a lot older that that. So, Seth Godin, stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!


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Q: Does Cassandra support aggregation function or any other capabilities like Map Reduce? I am new to Cassandra I am  actually doing some investigation and proof of concept to see if it is suitable for our current task.
As I am reading about Cassandra and according to what I understand it does not support Aggregations or Map Reduce framework to accomplish aggregation tasks.
I have checked these question but they are not a concrete answer to my question:
Aggregation queries in Cassandra CQL
For example if I have a table of CDRs (Call Data Record )
+--------------+----------+---------+------------+
| src          | duration | billsec | route_rate |
+--------------+----------+---------+------------+
| 0000FFFF0008 | 37       | 30      | 0.01       |
+--------------+----------+---------+------------+

sotred in Casandra can I execute queries some thing like
SELECT * FROM CDRS GROUP BY src ORDER BY src, billsec

MongoDB, Hadoop, and may others, provide Map Reduce, RDBMS provide GROUP BY.
Does Cassandra provides somethings similar and can you provide some example ?

A: Cassandra is a NoSQL database and doesn't support map reduce aggregations by itself (although you can do a lot with the CQL interface).  On the other hand, it does support the ColumnFamilyInputFormat and ColumnFamilyOutputFormat classes that are used by mapreduce to read and write data respectively from and to Cassandra.  Cassandra also ships with components that let it integrate very nicely with Spark.

A: Cassandra 2.2 includes CASSANDRA-4914 - Aggregate Functions in CQL. This is currently available as a release candidate (2.2-rc1) on the cassandra  downloads page.

A: On MapReduce with Cassandra: You can easily use Apache Hive which will translate your query to a Hadoop Job & provides a JDBC Layer on top of Cassandra or you may opt for Spark too.

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Молдовська прогресивна партія — політична партія в Молдовській Демократичній Республіці, що існувала між 1917 і 1918 роками. Партію заснував Еманоїл Кателлі, віце-президентом був Матей Донічі.

Посилання
 РУМУНИ З БУГЯЦІ Arhivat
 СЛОВНИК ЧЛЕНІВ КРАЇНСЬКОЇ РАДИ ВІД КИШИНЕВА (VI)

Див. також
 Сфатул Церій

Зникли 1918
Засновані 1917

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Chocolate muffin or chocolate mousse? Both, please! Since we need to eat a little bit of everything, why should we choose? This dessert perfectly pairs a smooth cake and a light mousse.
The story of this cake begins in a Spanish restaurant in Seattle: Tango. Their specialty is a dessert called El Diablo: "A Bittersweet cube of sinfully rich dark chocolate graced with cayenne, spicy almonds, cocoa nibs and burnt meringue finished with a tequila caramel sauce". Enough to make me crazy! I loved the mix of cake and mousse textures, and the spicy touch added by the Cayenne pepper is a welcomed surprise. In France, we don't eat much spice, and even fewer spicy desserts! For this reason, every time I add Cayenne in my chocolate mousse, it's a big hit!
Here is my recipe inspired by this cult dessert!
This blog is earning more and more followers on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Thank you so much! You are the lights of my geeky nights and I wish you a lot of blondness & all the best.
Guess what? This is Mickey Mousse favorite dessert!


Wonder if Kelvin is more popular for boys or girls?
This chart illustrates how many Boys were named Kelvin in the U.S. since 1880.
Records indicate that 47,161 boys in the United States have been named Kelvin since 1880.
The greatest number of people were given this name in 1961, when 1,361 people in the U.S. were given the name Kelvin. Those people are now 55 years old.
What do you think about the name Kelvin?


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Yas Crawford
All Modern Photographers
Yas Crawford was born in Pembrokeshire in Wales where the geological landscape and biological make-up have subliminally influenced her work. Yas has had a career in geology, microbiology and life sciences, only later finding her way into photography. She now works in the 'Grey Space' between disciplines, connecting them via internal and external human landscapes often revealing micro and macro environments intertwined. She attempts to explain the emotion, not necessarily the science. She examines the point where science falls short and art steps in. Using digital and analogue photography, Yas's work has naturally developed in a fine art form because this is how she imagines the condition or the situation.
Her multidisciplinary background enables her to explore abstraction, recognise areas of ambiguity often through topographical and geometrical shape. The repetitive nature of Yas's images reveals her scientific thinking: the constant production of sets of images produced as if they are a scientific experiment, carefully catalogued for success or failure and reflected in the images' numbering.
The abstraction in her images gently removes the objectivity, however, and leaves her imagery open to everyone for interpretation, making it a safe place for her audience to absorb the information. Yas's work has been exhibited internationally, won several awards for her work and a finalist at the RPS Science Photographer of the Year 2019 with 'Oxygen Ib'
A Biological Journey
Biology defines us, it's almost rule-less unlike physics and chemistry, which are laden with laws, regulation and procedure, a necessity but limited. The path of the cycle of life remains in the 'Grey Space' that space in-between disciplines and is challenging. The Holocene Epoch; a journey of geological creation, the first life on earth, adapting genetics, human behaviour and interaction, environmental change and viral contamination remains a biological mystery undefined, ambiguous, unknown and often uncontrolled by humankind. Working within the 'Grey Space' I anticipate a journey tracing time, stimulating our senses, finding consciousness in the subconscious and allowing us to live, for a moment, in the present.
www.yascrawford.com
@yascrawfordphotography
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More Great Photographers To Discover
Manjari Sharma is a photographer born and raised in Mumbai, India and based in Brooklyn, New York. Rooted in the study of relationships and personal mythology, since it's inception Manjari's work has been recognized as walking the line of fine art and traditional portraiture. Manjari's work has been showcased in several group and solo exhibitions both in the US and internationally and she's been invited to speak at the School of Visual arts and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. Manjari was chosen as an honorable mention for the Santa Fe Prize in 2012, her work selected by Review Santa Fe and featured by the Critical mass top 50. Manjari has been featured in various magazines print and online. Her works have appeared with Forbes India Magazine, Vogue India, Geo Magazine, America Online. She has been commisioned to work with advertising agencies such as JWT and Contract, India and has had features and interviews with New York Times, lens blog, Wired Raw File Nikon Asia, NPR, Time, PDN, Huffington Post, CNBC, Mumbai, The Times of India group and Leica, China. Before moving to the U.S. in 2001 Manjari worked for the national news daily of her country, The Times of India. Manjari has also worked as a staff photojournalist with the leading south asian photography magazine, Better Photography. She holds a bachelors degree in Visual Communication from S.N.D.T University, Mumbai and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Still Photography from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.
1896 | † 1976
Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. Sudek was originally a bookbinder. During The First World War he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation, he was given a camera. After the war he studied photography for two years in Prague under Jaromir Funke. His Army disability pension gave him leeway to make art, and he worked during the 1920s in the romantic Pictorialist style. Always pushing at the boundaries, a local camera club expelled him for arguing about the need to move forwards from 'painterly' photography. Sudek then founded the progressive Czech Photographic Society in 1924. Despite only having one arm, he used large, bulky cameras with the aid of assistants. Sudek's photography is sometimes said to be modernist. But this is only true of a couple of years in the 1930s, during which he undertook commercial photography and thus worked "in the style of the times". Primarily, his personal photography is neo-romantic. Sudek's restored atelier in Prague – Újezd His early work included many series of light falling in the interior of St. Vitus cathederal. During and after World War II Sudek created haunting night-scapes and panoramas of Prague, photographed the wooded landscape of Bohemia, and the window-glass that led to his garden (the famous The Window of My Atelier series). He went on to photograph the crowded interior of his studio (the Labyrinths series). His first Western show was at George Eastman House in 1974 and he published 16 books during his life. Known as the "Poet of Prague", Sudek never married, and was a shy, retiring person. He never appeared at his exhibit openings and few people appear in his photographs. Despite the privations of the war and Communism, he kept a renowned record collection of classical music. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)
Azim Khan Ronnie
Azim Khan Ronnie was born in Dhaka and brought up in Bogra, Bangladesh. He has an utter passion for photography and photography has been his passion. As a photographer, his essential aim is to capture the moments of life and give them significance by making them static in time. He loves to travel and be in different places, meet new people, and enjoy the experience that photography offers, which is to capture Earth's beautiful and awe-inspiring moments. He also loves to experiment with his photography. He is working news channel as a senior camera person in Bangladesh. More than 15 years Azim Khan Ronnie working in TV Channel back to camera. That's why he was gain lot of photographic knowledge. He is completed foundation course from Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. He has taken part in many National and International Photography contest and till now he has won many national and international photography awards, including HIPA Merit Medal Award 2018, Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest Winner, SIENA International Photography Award 2019, Two awards from Drone photo contest 2019, Asahi Shimbun award from Japan, Winner Agora images, Won Merit Awards from prestigious All About Photo Awards 2020, 2nd prize from HERITAGE for PLANET EARTH® travel photo competition 2018, BBC Wildlife Photo Contest winner 2017, Won the 1st prize in Securing Water For Food Global Water-Agriculture Photo Contest 2017, FIAP Bronze Medal from 15th Adana Rotary Club International Photography Contest. 3rd Place winner from Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 international photo contest organized by Wikipedia. PSS – Dr. Gibson Hill Memorial Gold Medal (Best of Section) from Singapore International Photography Awards (SIPA) 2017, 1st prize winner from COMPAS photo competition 2017, 1st Prize winner from 35AWARDS 2016 Russia, 2nd prize winner from The 4th Student Photography Contest, organized by Global Photography, China, Grand Prize winner of Endless Summer Photo Contest from Skylum, Two times MARUMI Photo Contest Silver Prize winner from Japan, Honorable mention award from ND Awards 2017, Top 10 Winners of Click India Photography Contest 2017, 3 awards winner from "Golden Orchid International Photo Awards" 2017, 1st & 3rd Prize winner from International photo contest & exhibition in China 2015, Achieve 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th & 9th total 5 awards from Bangladesh's Wiki Loves Earth 2017 Photo Contest, Achieve 1st, 2nd & 7th winner from Bangladesh's Wiki loves monuments 2017 photo contest, 3rd Prize from Dhaka-Kolkata International Photo Contest 2017, The Nature Conservancy's 2017 Top 100 Photo Contest, Anjan Kumar Majumder Memorial Trophy for Best Local Nature" from MahfuzUllah Memorial International Photo Contest 2017, Honorable Mention Award from Tokyo International Photo Award (TIFA). Honorable Mention Winner from IPA-The International Photo Awards. Gold Medal Award winners in the San Francisco Bay International Photo Show. Grand prize winner from Chania Photo Festival, Greece. Awards froms VOUBS are: 1st Prize in best Landscape, 1st Prize in best Lifestyle, 1st Prize in best Travel Photo, 1st Prize in best Eyes Photo, 1st Prize in best Pet Photo, 1st Prize in best Reflection Photo, 1st Prize in best Flower Photo, 1st Prize in best Sunrise/Sunset Photo, 1st Prize in best Spring photo, 1st Prize in best Travel photo 2018, 1st Prize in best People Photo, 1st Prize in best Waterfall Photo, 1st Prize in best Baby Photo. Finalist HIPA 2018, Finalist Smithsonian 15th annual photo contest, Finalist Siena International Photography Awards 2017 & 2018, Finalist dotART Urban 2017 photo awards, Hourly Winner of CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year Photo Competition 2018, Landscape Diversity' Expert Judge Winner from Photocrowd, Won Bursa PhotoFest Medal for Contest Special Award Winning Photographs from Bursa International Photo Festival,Turkey, 1st Prize Winner of We Said Go Travel Photo contest 2018, Grand prize winner in Chania Photo Festival, Greece. First place prize in the Social Life category in Ikei Photo Contest, Spain, 2019. Award Highly Commended CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year 2016, one of my photograph has been selected for the 2019 New Internationalist Almanac and many more. His photographs was published Switzerland, France, UK, Russia, Korea, Iran, China and many national & international newspaper & magazine include The Times, The Sun, The Guardian, Daily Mirror, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, New Atlas, BBC Wildlife Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian magazine, F-Stop Magazine (also cover photo), Edge of Humanity Magazine, Swiss newspaper Blickamabend, France daily newspaper (LaDépêche, 20minutes), France magazine Le Figaro, Le Parisien, View magazine in Germany, in China CCTV, Global Times, Beijing Television (BTV), Russian magazine Вокруг света (One of the oldest popular magazines in the world), GEO Magazine, The People, Popular news magazine Newsweek, SangSaeng Magazine, Korea, Canon (France, UK, Europe), Politiko, Iconstyle in Tirana, Albania, The Week Junior etc.
Herb Ritts began his photographic career in the late 70's and gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to producing portraits and editorial fashion for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone, Ritts also created successful advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gap, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Levi's, Pirelli, Polo Ralph Lauren, Valentino among others. Since 1988 he directed numerous influential and award winning music videos and commercials. His fine art photography has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide, with works residing in many significant public and private collections. In his life and work, Herb Ritts was drawn to clean lines and strong forms. This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously. They often challenged conventional notions of gender or race. Social history and fantasy were both captured and created by his memorable photographs of noted individuals in film, fashion, music, politics and society. Ritts was committed to HIV/AIDS related causes, and contributed to many charitable organizations, among them amfAR, Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Project Angel Food, Focus on AIDS, APLA, Best Buddies and Special Olympics . He was also a charter member on the Board of Directors for The Elton John Aids Foundation. Herb Ritts passed away on December 26th, 2002. Source: www.herbritts.com
British b.1966, in Wokingham, Berkshire. Jackson trained as a painter at West Dean College, England. After moving to Wales In 2007 he started work on an extensive study of a single remote beach, Poppit Sands, which lasted for eight years until 2015. Jackson won the Chris Beetles Award in 2013 and became a Hasselblad Masters Award finalist three times in 2008, 2009 and 2012. Now regarded as a leading exponent of the luminogram process, he works with uniquely developed techniques and response mirroring using silver gelatin paper in the darkroom. In 2017 his luminogram work was paired with theologian Edwin A.Abbott in a book published by 21st Editions, titled after Abbott's famous work 'FLATLAND' and premiered at the Grand Palais in Paris. His work is held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the collection of the University of Minnesota. Artist Statement "I am a British photographer based in rural Wales, UK. Born 1966. Studied art at West Dean College then apprenticed under the landscape painter Christopher W. Baker. Since moving to Wales in 2007 I have been photographing a single beach - Poppit Sands. This seems to be something that I am compelled to do as I have not yet tired of it. My goal is to keep on looking harder and hope that through studying a single subject I can find something new. The images have toured with the Hasselblad Masters On Tour twice and have been exhibited in Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, New York, Cardiff, London & Los Angeles as well being featured in magazines such as LENSWORK, SILVERSHOTZ and SHOTS as well as blogs such as LENSCRATCH, CNN & FEATURESHOOT. The images have also reached the Hasselblad Masters Finals three times."Source: www.mgjackson.co.uk
Brigitte Carnochan
Brigitte Carnochan's photographs are represented nationally and collected globally by museums, corporate and private collectors. She has had solo exhibitions in Latvia, Italy, Chile, and Hong Kong as well as in New York, Houston, Boston, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Ketchum, Woodstock, Albuquerque, Carmel and San Francisco. In addition to the publication of three monographs (Bella Figura 2006, Shining Path 2006, Floating World 2012), The German publisher, Edition Galerie Vevais, launched a monograph of her images in 2014 at Paris Photo. For many years she taught workshops and classes through the Extension Program at UC Santa Cruz and Stanford's Continuing Studies Program. She is on the Advisory Councils of Center, in Santa Fe and The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. Statement: Despite the debates over "honesty" and "truth" in photography, it is an intrinsically subjective art and form of communication. The photographer has chosen, from a huge range of images, certain ones - or pieces - from a certain perspective, with the light at a certain angle and at a unique moment in time. And the "story" in the photograph begins with the photographer's decision of when to click the shutter and isn't completed until each viewer interprets that image in his or her own way. The qualities that have fascinated me and led me to make a particular photograph are usually quite intuitive. I generally don't have a completed concept in my mind when I begin--I move things around, change angles, lighting--until everything seems right. To further complicate issues of "truth," I often add color to a black and white image in order to bring out, most convincingly, the impression it has made on me--and I have no concern about whether the colors are the "real" colors. In documentary photography the same subjective issues apply--but realizing and recording the "right" moment requires quicker reflexes and a different kind of intuition. Sensing a moment coming by keenly observing the scene--and always being ready for that moment--is the excitement in that kind of photography. All of my images begin as straight gelatin silver prints, but in my nudes and floral still lifes, I am often drawn to hand coloring on several counts. First in literature and now in photography, I have been interested in the power of the imagination--how it colors everyday life - creates, in fact, private views of experience, whether revealed in words or in images. Even though most people see the world in color, they do not see everything in the same exact colors. From an optical point of view, the colors we see depend on where we stand in relation to the object, where the sun is on the horizon, what color the walls are, or the tint of our glasses (or contact lenses), and so on. From a psychological point of view--everything depends on whether we are worried, elated, anxious, in love, lonely, distracted, or fully alert. For this reason, I often hand color my work, because the process allows me to interpret the essence of my subject according to my own imagination. Whether it is nudes and flowers or the black and white images in my series from Cuba, Africa, or Mexico, imagination colors--literally and figuratively--not only what I see initially, but what the viewer sees, ultimately. And seeing, of course, is everything in photography: seeing--and light and shadow. Beginning in 2007, I am continuing to paint gelatin silver images, but I am also scanning the first copy in each new painted edition (now limited to 25) and creating small limited editions of archival pigment prints* in three sizes. The level of current technology makes me confident that these digitally printed images will not only render the original painted photograph faithfully, but will, like the original, last over time. Discover Brigitte Carnochan's Interview
Mahesh Balasubramanian
Mahesh is an Independent Photographer from Chennai, India. His works are published in various international magazines like National Geographic Traveler US, BLUR, Digital Photo UK, Wanderlust UK, Dodho, etc. He has won many international awards like National Geography Traveler Photo Contest, 1x, PX3, IPA, Siena Photo Awards, Monovisions Photo Awards, etc. Adobe has also chosen one of his photos for Adobe Lightroom as a Splash Screen (startup screen). Marina: Marina is the longest natural urban beach of India, along the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the major attractions in Chennai, India. Marina Beach is full of activity in the early morning hours and in the evenings. If we stroll along the beach, we could see kids playing cricket, volleyball matches, fish markets, flying kites and much more. It is also a pleasant experience to walk along the beach during sunrise and sunset. There is full of life at every corner of this place. I have been taking pictures in and around Marina for the past 8 years. I tried to document, the true essence of people activities in & around the beach in various time periods. I wanted to portray Marina Beach's character and how important it is for people. The following set of pictures is my way of interpretation of Marina Beach, Chennai, India.
Stephen Wicks
Stephen Wicks' attraction to photography began during his childhood. He says he was inspired by the photo essays in LIFE Magazine. Each week when a new issue arrived it seemed like the world beyond his home was in his hands and he had feelings for and wanted to meet the people who appeared in the pictures and visit the places he saw on the pages in the magazine. Wicks has always had a deep interest in all forms of communication. He says his attraction to the visual world and belief in the power of images triggered his imagination, cultivated his intuition, awakened within him a natural curiosity and an instinct to questioning everything. These qualities have been the inspiration for Wicks to follow parallel careers as an imagemaker and visual educator. As an artist Stephen Wicks has been using photography, videography, monologues and soundscapes to tell stories about the things he see's, questions and values. His motivation has been to create picture stories, in print and now also on the screen, to share with others what he has experienced, discovered and captured. During his early career Wicks created traditional B&W photo essays with up close and personal photographs made, often while living with his subjects over a long period of time, and returning many years later to see and capture changes in their lives. More recently, Wicks has been making digital color photographs of landscapes, places and objects found in spaces shared by the natural landscape and built environment. Although these photographs are void of people, he believes a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, he see's his Nature/Culture images as social landscapes. It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks and artifacts left in the environment, he now finds most fascinating. Stephen Wicks is currently developing two presentation/performance/storytelling projects: PICTURE STORIES: a series of live presentations based on thematic video vignettes, photographs and monologues about American people, places, experiences and events; including a dialogue with the audience (in development / launch: September 2019) BEING THERE: his YouTube Channel - a video magazine about American Culture - including picture stories, video journals and commentary on education, art, communication, politics, economy, media (in development / launch: October 2019)
Marco Garabello
No, I haven't been a photographer for all of my life. When I was younger, I worked as a journalist and TV anchorman, then, for another ten years, I worked as a manager for several companies, both Italian and foreign. Then the "fil rouge" of photography, that crossed my whole life, had the upper hand and became a full-time job, that I could enrich with all my previous experiences. More than six hundreds awards in International Photo Contests (among which 120 gold medals), earned during the last years in more than fourty countries, show my passion for all kind of photography, from color to monochrome, from portrait to nature, from photojournalism to "creative" photography, from panoramic pictures to travel photography (another passion, strictly linked to photography, that brought me in 63 countries). ...many photographers are specialized in Nature or in Portrait or in Architecture... I cannot! I do not know if this is a limit. Sure it is neither self-conceit nor indifference, but I am really fond of any kind of photography and I like very much to experiment.
Exclusive Interview with Réhahn
Referred to as someone who "captures the souls of his models", (Wanderlust Travel Magazine, 2018) Réhahn is more than just a man behind a camera. Behind each click is a story. Whether the photograph shows a child with startling blue eyes, a woman pulling a needle through indigo fabric or a man walking alone down a brightly painted street, these are more than just images to Réhahn. They are the culmination of an experience. The stories of his subjects as well as his passion to learn more about their culture, diversity and changing traditions are what drives Réhahn's work.
Craig Varjabedian: Found Horizons
Craig Varjabedian's photographs of the American West illuminate his profound connection with the region and its people. His finely detailed images shine with an authenticity that reveals the ties between identity, place, and the act of perceiving. For Varjabedian, photography is a receptive process driven by openness to the revelation each subject offers, rather than by the desire to manipulate form or to catalog detail. He achieves this vision by capturing and suspending on film those decisive moments in which the elements and the spirit of a moment come together
Exclusive interview with Jacopo Della Valle
Jacopo Maria Della Valle is an Italian travel photographer who fell in love with photography at young age thanks to the influence of his father. Since then he has travelled to Europe, the USA, Cuba, Morocco and all over Asia. He is the winner of AAP Magazine 12 B&W with his project Bull Jumping. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.
Exclusive interview with Giedo Van der Zwan
Giedo van der Zwan is a street photographer, writer and publisher from the Netherlands. He started working on a long-term project 'Pier to Pier' in 2017 and published his book in June 2018. He is the winner of AAP Magazine 8 Street. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.
Exclusive interview with Eli Klein
Eli Klein Gallery has an international reputation as one of the foremost galleries specializing in contemporary Chinese art and continues to advance the careers of its represented artists and hundreds of other Chinese artists with whom it has collaborated. The Gallery has been instrumental in the loan of artworks by Chinese artists to over 100 museum exhibitions throughout the world. It has published 40 books/catalogues and organized more than 75 exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art at our prestigious venues in New York City.
Exclusive interview with Cayetano González
Cayetano González is a talented Spanish photographer and cinematographer who found his calling when his grandfather lend him his Leica. Since then he has directed commercials and shot several covers of major magazines. His work is influenced by the painters he admires like Sorolla, Velázquez, Rembrandt and Delacroix.
Exclusive interview with Mauro De Bettio
Mauro De Bettio is an Italian photographer who lives in Spain. His pictures are a visual story able to highlight unseen or ignored realities. A vital tool that can help bring about social changes. He is the winner of AAP Magazine 11 Travels. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.
Exclusive interview with Stéphane Lavoué
Stéphane Lavoué, is a French portrait photographer born in Mulhouse in 1976. He lives and works between Brittany and Paris. He is the winner of the Niépce Prize 2018. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.
Exclusive Interview With Harvey Stein
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He was the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East Village of Manhattan from 2009 until 2019 when it lost its lease and closed. Stein's photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, 86 one-person and over 165 group shows to date and has published eight books. We asked him a few questions about his life and work


Washington Blvd. just east of Western has experienced an explosion of art, murals and coffee.Property owners Steve Wallis and Eileen Ehmann have partnered with Terry Guy, CEO of Monorex, and with the owners of the newly launched Alibi Coffee Company, Derek Jaeschke and Will Hyndman, to create START Los Angeles.
In just one year, they have hosted a variety of events such as "I Am an Immigrant," multiple fashion launches, soccer events, art exhibitions, school fundraisers, an interactive theater production, and "Time Out," a summer food event.
Monorex, headquartered in this art hub, creates and coordinates street art events and mural installations for corporate and private sponsors around the world. Recently, they hosted a four-day pop-up gallery event for Nike's 2018 Air Max Day featuring a variety of artists (including a remarkable 8-year-old talent) who created images based on the newly released shoe. The closing night party featured a Monorex favorite: a Secret Walls mural battle. Monorex also curates astonishing rotating murals on the fence surrounding their convenient parking lot.
Alibi Coffee recently launched their airy open space, featuring a functioning pool table (not just a nostalgic centerpiece) and their own home-roasted coffee.


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Efficiency, international outlook and brand identity are the foundations of MDF Italia Spa. Since 2000, the company has been working with major international designers to develop new products and designs like the series of chairs and tables called Flow by French designer and architect Jean-Marie Massaud. There is also the Belgian, Xavier Lust, whose innovative authenticity is revealed in the S-table. S for simple or 'Simple is nice'. MDF Italia's design strategy is an end result of a continuous balance between research, development along with a business model worth noting. The technical and R/D departments as well as production and distribution are all centrally located at the corporate headquarters in Mariano Comense where goods are shipped to over 43 countries across the world.


Taking you beyond the original TRITON into new realms of music production power.
The Korg TRITON Extreme 61-Key Workstation is more than meets the eye. Beneath the cool blue exterior lurks a red-hot 160MB of clean, crisp 48kHz wave ROM--5 times the ROM of the classic TRITON! This massive ROM includes sizzling new samples: expressive guitars (both acoustic and electric), woodwind and brass instruments captured with true natural vibratos, stellar organs, authentic choirs, and an all-new concert grand piano are only a few of the highlights. TRITON Extreme also includes the entire sample sets from the best-selling Trance Attack, Orchestral Collection, and Vintage Archives expansion boards; the best material from the Dance Extreme, Studio Essentials, and Pianos/Classic Keyboards collections; and, of course, the complete TRITON Studio sample set.
When it comes to sounds, the TRITON Extreme is a treasure trove, delivering an out-of-the-box palette of sounds that is second to none. The preload data created by the top programmers in the game includes an incredible 1,334 programs and 50 drum kits. Add to that another 1,280 combinations, each composed of up to 8 programs, split, layered, zoned, and velocity-allocated across the keyboard. We're still not done; additional banks of GM level 2 presets contain 256 programs and 9 drum kits. If you wanted to spend a mere 10 seconds checking out each preloaded sound, be prepared to add some overtime to your 8-hour day!
Twin tone generators combine to pump out a generous 120 notes of polyphony. Korg's acclaimed hyper integrated synthesis engine provides breathtaking audio quality and an amazing degree of sound editing control. Each oscillator is processed through a multimode filter and multiple advanced envelope generators for precise sound shaping. Each of the 2 LFOs offers 21 waveforms, and each LFO can be synced to the arpeggiator, sequencer, or to your other MIDI gear. Plus, you can breathe new life into your sounds using 42 alternate modulation source (AMS) types and 51 modulation destinations. Supercharge your TRITON Extreme by adding 6-voices of DSP modeling (stolen from the legendary Korg Z1) with the optional MOSS (EXB-MOSS) and leave everyone else eating dust.
Dual polyphonic arpeggiators can spit out machine-gun cascades of notes, hold down a groove, or generate a simple acoustic guitar picking pattern. 489 arpeggiator patterns come preloaded.
Without equal as a synthesizer, TRITON Extreme is also a robust 16-bit, 48kHz sampler. Korg's exclusive open sampling system unlocks the power and benefits of sampling from every mode. This opens the door to creatively resampling your TRITON Extreme performances including performances enhanced by the sequencer playback and the arpeggiators. Auto-setup functions automatically optimize multiple parameters for a variety of sampling situations. By far, one of the most important features of the TRITON Extreme's sampling engine is in track sampling, where you can sample audio directly into the sequencer as it plays. The possibilities are endless, but now you can add vocal lines, guitar solos, and other audio performances to your sequenced songs! Finally, you can sample or resample directly to CompactFlash or Microdrive media. Resampled songs saved to media can be converted to audio and burned to CD via USB.
Expandable to 96MB, TRITON Extreme ships with 16MB of sample memory, which is conveniently added through a pop-open hatch on the front panel. A complete set of grid-assisted sample editing tools is provided, including time slice, loop, truncate, and time stretch functions. TRITON Extreme is compatible with WAV, AIFF, AKAI S1000/S3000 and KORG format sample data. Advanced conversion load allows AKAI programs to be loaded into a new program or multilevel combination with the filter settings, envelope settings, and velocity switching parameters preserved for enhanced compatibility.
Korg's new tube-driven Valve Force circuitry can be used as an insert effect or on the final outputs, adding just the right amount of warmth or snarl to your sound. You can even sample an external sound through the Valve Force circuit to impart tube quality to the sound. Valve Force has proven itself in the ESX-1 and EMX-1 Electribes. The enhanced version in the TRITON Extreme provides that same fullness of tone and also incorporates an ultra boost element designed to punch up the low end without muddying up the sound. In addition to Valve Force, TRITON Extreme also dishes out a generous serving of 5 Insert effects, 2 stereo master effects as well as a master EQ effect for 8 simultaneous effects. Multiple timbres can be routed to the same insert effect, and you can chain insert effects together to create outrageous custom multi-effects. Master effects can run side by side or in series for maximum flexibility. Effect parameters are freely editable, can be modulated in realtime, and are saved with the sound. Insert effects draw from a deep well of 102 effect types, and there are 89 master effect types. Effects can be applied to both internal and external sounds, even as a sound is being sampled. By resampling an effect-laden performance, you can free up effects and use them over and over.
How do you rein in a beast with this much power? In addition to its mighty and intuitive TouchView display panel, TRITON Extreme provides an array of unique realtime controls, including a joystick, ribbon controller, and 2 assignable switches. 4 realtime control knobs can switch between Valve Force parameters (input trim, ultra boost, tube gain, output level), sound editing functions (cutoff, resonance, EG-intensity and release), or any 4 parameters of your choice, including controlling external MIDI gear. The back panel accommodates multiple pedal types that can be assigned to a variety of functions.
TRITON Extreme is one daring and dangerous performance instrument, and it's also an amazing compositional tool. 16 tracks, 200 songs, and 200,000 notes are just the beginning. Step time, real time, looping, and pattern-based recording modes allow you to capture your musical ideas your way. Sequencing is so much more than just record and playback, and TRITON Extreme delivers the tools you need to polish your songs into gemstones. Quantize functions tighten up your timing or add swing to a steady beat. 24 tone adjust parameters let you quickly edit the timbre assigned to any track without exiting the sequencer, and leave the original program untouched. Sys Ex recording allows you to automate your mix in new and creative ways"muting tracks, soloing others, loading new effect programs during different sections, and more. TRITON Extreme also uses song templates to give you a head start when laying down tracks. Each template assigns timbres to each track, assigns and routes effects, and can even offer up a variety of rhythm patterns to get you going. 16 song templates, each tuned to a different musical style, are preset and you can also create 16 all your own, eliminating repetitive steps when you want to get your ideas down.
If you'd like to work on your masterpiece in smaller chunks, you can compose individual songs for the verse, chorus and bridge etc.; the cue list function allows you to string these individual parts together. Once you have decided on the right order and you can try a number of versions, simply convert the cue list into a single song. You can also create your hits from even smaller building blocks. With Korg's realtime pattern play and record (RPPR) function, short sequenced patterns can be assigned and played back from individual keys on the keyboard.
Its not just what's up front that counts. The TRITON Extreme's back panel is decked out with all the trappings a modern synth should have. In addition to the main left and right outputs, there are 4 assignable individual outputs to send your sound where you want it. 2 audio inputs with adjustable gain and mic/line level switching allow you to sample from a wide range of sources, as well as access the internal effects. Digital in and out is provided in S/PDIF optical format. Here you'll also find the CompactFlash media slot, MIDI connectors, and the damper/footswitch/footpedal jacks.
We saved the best for last. 2 USB connection ports open up a world of possibilities. By connecting a CD-RW drive to USB Port A, completed songs (once they have been resampled as WAV files) can be burned to CD as audio. This connection also allows you to use external USB data storage units with the TRITON Extreme. USB Port B allows an external computer to access the media in the CompactFlash slot, allowing you to share files back and forth.
Dimensions (WxDxH): 43.66" × 14.17" × 4.61"


Traditional CNC equipment was used with a legacy approach: when making a part, material hangs out of the chuck and the tool engages it. The problem with the approach is that when the tool engages the material, the part deflects. There is a tool change involved, moving away from the machining zone and index, to the next tool being used. Moving mechanical parts and motion creates heat; causing the machine and parts to swell. Additionally, with the legacy approach, projects were two (2) operations and included a manual, labor-intensive moving process of parts from one machine to the next. All of this slows cycle time, cut depths, and speed.
APS strives to embrace technology and challenges. "In our efforts to become a manufacturing 4.0 company, it was time to make improvements in-house to stay ahead of the industry. The purchase of the Tsugami and ESPRIT CAD/CAM software would bring change in operations and routine, challenges for our people, as well as a great expense. However, we knew in the long run it would yield vast improvements, making it all worth the while. We are fortunate to have a team of hard workers, not afraid to take on a challenge. After proper training on the equipment, they set goals to get better and discover ways to cut off even more production time" – Mush Khan, CEO.
The manufacturing process of the Tsugami* is a bit different than the legacy approach. The material feeds in and out of the chuck and the tools are stationary. The material is held in guide bushing and feeds past the tool; where there is no longer any deflecting. This alone results in major changes: increase in speed and feed & reduction in cut and overall cycle times.
ESPRIT CAD/CAM allowed us to quickly automate the machine, without several manual programming steps – drastically cutting down on time. The software allows us to import files and drawings to create 3D models. We also used ESPRIT's simulation feature to test the program before making the parts, which reduces the risk of machine damage and scrapped parts. For this process, APS worked with Shape Design Technologies, Inc., the Texas and Louisiana ESPRIT integrator, who helped with the initial setup and will continue to support throughout the transition.
The Tsugami and ESPRIT CAD/CAM software, not only process faster, but also present a significantly better-quality finish. This new approach holds size remarkably well, as the repeatability is great. Consistent results make for happy customers. Using the Tsugami, there is less wasted motion, no issues with heating/cooling, fewer jams and errors, and the entire process is a one (1) production project.
"With the faster process and better-quality finish, APS cut cycle times and got parts out to customers quicker, enabling us to take on more work and be more competitive." Mush Khan, CEO.
The excellent automation and consistency of the new machines and software have freed up the time of our highly skilled machinists, giving them the flexibility to work on various projects and/or high value areas, rather than getting tied into monitoring/managing one project from start to finish. The highly skilled machinists can now begin a project and pass it along to other team members to monitor/manage. The bar feeders even help move parts along, no longer requiring a manual, labor-intensive process.
APS had the privilege to work alongside both Hartwig and REM Sales during the transition process to the new Tsugami machine. They were highly supportive, engaged, resourceful, responsive, and provided beneficial recommendations. Our strong partnership led to the formation of a great team in APS' time of improvements.


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New features editor named at Star-News
Diana D'Abruzzo, an award-winning journalist, has been named features editor of the Star-News.
Ms. D'Abruzzo was assistant editor of the features section for about the past year and a half. She replaces Tracy Ormsbee, who is becoming features editor of the Albany, N.Y., Times Union.
As editor, Ms. D'Abruzzo will supervise the daily
Today section, Currents entertainment magazine, the paper's Neighbors editions and a variety of special sections throughout the year.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ms. D'Abruzzo began her career at the Star-News. She later worked at The (Jacksonville) Daily News and the The State Port Pilot, before returning to Wilmington last year. While at the Pilot, she won North Carolina Press Association first-place honors for feature writing and photo illustration.
"I'm very pleased that in Diana we have such a worthy successor for the feature editor's position," said Allen Parsons, editor and associate publisher. "Diana and
Tracy worked closely together. I know the department is in good hands."


Technology has been spreading throughout the globe like a plague; it's always finding newer and stronger methods to overcome obstacles as well as resistances. Asus and Garmin are partners that deal with technological enhancements. We might think of computers, laptops and equipment in that category when the word Asus comes up. As for Garmin, some among most people may have been, or still are, Garmin GPS navigation system owners. Their partnership introduced the Asus Garminfone A50 on February of 2010. With the knowledge of modern technology, Asus is known to be one of the world's largest vendors for computer equipment whether its big or small, and with a partnership with Garmin, which is one of the most reputable GPS developers in our time, a lot of time and money may be saved.
The TFT capacitive touch screen allows 256k colors on display regardless of the function. It is mounted with a 3.15 mega pixel camera with the ability to auto focus as well as location tagging, or geo-tagging. Video capture is also possible at 24 frames per second and may be instantly shared amongst friends and family. The sensor consists of a proximity, compass and accelerometer. The sensors also come in handy when playing 3D games such as Need for Speed Undercover and many other arcade games as well such as Pac-Man or Asteroids. Amongst countless applications, the A50 is capable of location based applications such as AroundMe which is an application that displays nearby hospitals, restaurants, gas stations, hotels, etc.
Supported by A-GPS, the Garmin navigation system is the most crucial aspect of this phone. It is relentlessly one of the most reliable and precise navigation systems built inside phones even today. Garmin has set this upgraded version of a mobile GPS with stunning features that only an actual GPS can perform. Maps are included and it also supports cityXplorer maps with either text or voice directions promptly. One of the main reasons most of the good GPS systems receive a bad review is because they are being used without the original 3G network. Although this may not be the only issue, there are other concerns for people who travel and mistakes which people may be unaware of leading to failure of satisfaction.
Of course the A50 is still a phone, a smart phone but a phone nonetheless and is able to take on, as well as adjust to, daily activities or routine processes. This includes method of contact, music, video, and so on. The media player for music and video reads MP3, eAAC+, WAV, MP4, H.263 and H.264 type formats to relieve the user of constant conversion. Although a certain company may be dedicated to only one specific type of appliance, it is always great to see major companies join forces to create bigger and better innovations for the future.


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Rígsþula (Rigstula) is in de Edda het Lied van Rig ('Kvädet om Rig'). Het is een relatief jong gedicht (eind 12de eeuw), dat handelt over de schepping der standen. In elk van de drie delen komt de handel en wandel als onderscheiden van die van de andere standen tot uiting. Dit zijn volgens Rig: de knechten ('Thrall', handwerklieden), de boeren ('karl', voedselproducenten), en de edelen ('jarl', bestuurders, beschermers en strijders). Er was geen uitgesproken priesterstand in de Noordse en Germaanse cultuur, aldus Georges Dumézil. Toch waren er de druïden en is er sprake van priesteressen zoals de Völva.

Waar de inkleding van het verhaal vandaan komt is duister, evenals de herkomst van de naam Rig.

Edda
Het is ook een van de rare plaatsen waar het woord Edda voor komt. De naam Edda is door de IJslandse geleerde Snorri Sturluson aan de verzameling liederen en gedichten uit de Europese oudheid gegeven. Het woord betekent eigenlijk overgrootmoeder in het Oudnoords. Dus de verhalen van overgrootmoeder (de voorouders), die zij al doorvertelden, 's avonds rond de vuurplaats 'bij opoe'.

Bij uitbreiding is de betekenis moederschoot of wereldmoeder. Het woord is afgeleid van veda of vidyā (kennis - vid = weten, begrijpen), de heilige geschriften van de hindoes. Denk hierbij ook aan het Duitse wissen, het Zweedse veta en het Oud-Engelse wit.

Stanza 3:
Rig verstond hun
raad te geven;
hij trad naar voren
op 't midden van de vloer,
aan elk van zijn zijden
de echtelieden.

Stanza 4:
Toen bracht Edda
een krachtig brood
zwaar en dik
van zemelen vol
zette het maal
in hun midden,
zette op tafel
gezoden vlees.

Voorouder Rig
Heimdal stelde zich als Rig voor tijdens zijn reis. Bij Ae (overgrootvader) en Edda (overgrootmoeder) bleef hij drie dagen en negen maanden later werd Thrall geboren. Die huwde met Tir en ze kregen twaalf zonen en tien dochters. Rig ging verder.

Bij Afve (grootvader) en Amma (grootmoeder) bleef Rig ook drie dagen en negen maanden later werd Karl geboren. Die huwde met Alert en ze kregen twaalf zonen en tien dochters. Rig reisde verder.

Bij Fader (vader) en Moder (moeder) bleef Rig drie dagen en negen maanden later werd Jarl geboren. die huwde met Härses dochter Ärna en ze kregen kinderen. De jongste zoon was Kon (koning). Kon kreeg van een kraai de raad iets beters te doen dan vogels doden. Later verdiende Kon het zelf Rig te worden genoemd.

Literatuur
  Frederic Amory, "The Historical Worth of Rígsþula," Alvíssmál 10 (2001): 3–20.
  Karl G. Johansson, "Rígsþula och Codex Wormianus: Textens funktion ur ett kompilationsperspektiv," Alvíssmál 8 (1998): 67–84 (English summary, p. 84).
 E.Titchenell, De Maskers van Odin, Theosophical University Press Agency, vertaling 2005, Den Haag, p. 230-237,

Bron
 Edda

Rigsthula


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Kodiak Pink Run Hitting its Stride
The surge of pink salmon to rivers around Kodiak Island has picked up. A week ago the harvest was just 2,200 humpies and yesterday it was just under 300,000. Total pink harvest through Monday is 1.26-million, with an all-species harvest so far this season of 3.37-million..... http://www.kmxt.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3986
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Sarah Palin Turns Heads at NBC Party in Beverly Hills
By BILL CARTER
LOS ANGELES — Sarah Palin was given rock star treatment here Tuesday night at a party thrown by NBC for its roster of fall television shows. She looked like a star, too, in designer sunglasses, green hip-hugging dress, and platform gladiator shoes. Surrounded by packs of reporters around the pool of the Beverly Hilton hotel, which features vintage photos of stars from Hollywood's golden age along all its halls, she seemed to fit right in...........
...............NBC was clearly surprised by Mrs. Palin's accessibility at its event. One executive said while she had mentioned she might attend the news conference about her husband's show, the network did not expect her to join the party for such an extended period of time. But she was clearly having fun. "I would love these folks to all come up to Alaska to go fishing with us," Mrs. Palin said. "We could barbecue some salmon on the grill for everybody. That's how you really get to know people.".... http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/sarah-palin-turns-heads-at-nbc-party-in-beverly-hills/
What's CMZ?
It's Ketchikan's turn.
Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell brings his statewide public hearing tour to the First City on Wednesday. The topic is Ballot Measure 2, which Alaskans will decide during the primary election on Aug. 28. The ballot question is whether to establish an Alaska Coastal Zone Management Program..... http://www.ketchikandailynews.com/free/local-edit-tuesday-CZM-hearing
Bethel Subsistence Fishermen Get 100 Free Nets
By Sophie Evan, KYUK - Bethel | July 23, 2012 - 5:10 pm
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The Community Development Quota (CDQ) program for 20 villages along the Bering Sea recently handed out 100 free nets in Bethel. For most of the summer, subsistence fishermen on the Kuskokwim River have been restricted to smaller nets to protect Chinook salmon. Coastal Villages Region Fund says the nets were gone within an hour, but the nets didn't change hands without some controversy..... http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/07/23/bethel-subsistence-fishermen-get-100-free-nets/
Thousands Attended Fishtival 2012 07/24/12
People throughout Bristol Bay gathered in Naknek and King Salmon over the weekend celebrating the fishing season. KDLG's Ariel Van Cleave attended this year's Fishtival and sent this audio postcard. (5:12).... http://www.kdlg.org/news/archive.php?id=2084
Sockeye Fishery in Togiak Looks Good 07/24/12
The ongoing sockeye fishery in the Togiak District is on track to possibly exceed the preseason forecast. KDLG's Mike Mason has the details. (4:28)..... http://www.kdlg.org/news/archive.php?id=2085
Pinks Salmon Fishery Underway in Nushagak Bay 07/24/12
Hundreds of commercial fishermen are hoping to improve their season by catching pink salmon in the Nushagak District. KDLG's Mike Mason has the story. (4:01)..... http://www.kdlg.org/news/archive.php?id=2086
Nearly one-third of seafood in South Florida mislabelled
Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 00:40 (GMT + 9)
Oceana found that 31 per cent of seafood in South Florida is mislabelled, according to a new report. The green group's DNA testing confirmed that nearly one-third of the 96 seafood samples obtained from 60 retail outlets, including grocery stores, restaurants and sushi venues, were mislabelled based on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines...... http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=&day=25&id=54057&l=e&special=&ndb=1%20target=
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DC: 'Critical Minerals' bill gains support #RareEarth #Tongasstriblive.com/news/2264183-7…
Alaska editorial: Roadless rule fix #RareEarth #Tongassjuneauempire.com/opinion/2012-0…
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NASA: 'Unprecedented' Greenland Ice Sheet Melt - Goddard Space Flight Center scientist:Normal 150 year cycle theblaze.com/stories/freak-…
New pool in Ketchikan! twitter.com/haulinggear/st…
FIS - Worldnews - Climate change directly linked to spikes in bacterial infections fis.com/fis/worldnews/…
Rear Adm. Ostebo and Vice Adm. Zukunft meet with the AWEC in Point Hope to discuss Operation Arctic Shield twitter.com/USCGAlaska/sta…
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Platypus Marine, Inc. : The Adamant skeleton is now being plated... (photo) facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
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Anchor Point Alaska - Boat Launch
Do you suppose these guys with the tractors go through a little bit of Ospho? ;-)


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Bonus Question: What is the one sentence backstory of your character?
Golden Hero: The darkest night requires the brightest heroes! In his mighy golden warstrider Godspeed Vanguard, the heroic northern Shining One known as Golden Hero, once just a humble slave-smith, has sworn to defeat the Realm that brutally murdered his fiancée! He fights for justice, truth, and the New Day!
Brother Alazar: When the new Abbott of the Black Monastery of Leng decided to open the forbidden vaults of that pre-human structure, Brother Alazar objected, but couldn't stop him. Deep in the bowels of the cthonic corridors, the monks accidentally released the Nephwrack known as He Who Shall Not Be Described. Most of the monks immediately went insane, but Alazar resisted and exalted as a Night Caste. He escaped, and went off to learn kung-fu (from another PC, that's why he joined the group) so he could defeat the Nephwrack and get revenge. He's been investigating/battling the Nephwrack's cult with the other PCs, but the Nephwrack is always one step ahead.
Skills: Occult, Investigation, alchemy, Tiger style.
Is no-one else going to post? I'm interested to see what people are playing.
I'm game. Give me a tick to get it together!
Exalted PCs only, or also interesting character ideas that might become seeds in an Exalted scope?
Monsoon Dancer: A god-queen in formation, this rowdy sailor is a creature of excesses and a paragon of bursting vitality, infatuated with life itself. As she strives to live up to her devotion to her pirate company, she charms, taunts, brawls and murders her way into showing the world their lives are only worth what they make of it, and it is their birthright to make the most of it. Don't touch her subjects.
Family tried to rein her wildness with immaculate training, but the immaculates couldn't stand her either.
Kit, the Ethereal Carmine Princess of Eventide - Night Caste - She is a hyperactive teenage ninja, like a cross between A-ko (Athletics Supernal) and Senran Kagura.
Alhambra, the Vigilant Tower - Dawn Caste - This giant of a warmaster leads his cavalry from the front. Riding on Jasomir, his dire badger mount, he gallops into battle wielding Tangled Helix, the seven-plaited braided-glass Direlance; and protected by the Thousand Storms Mantle, a heavy artifact armor. His Anima effect is the quaking and cracking of the ground. His armor resembles that of Ozen the Immovable. He is called the Vigilant Tower because his only fear is that his allies be harmed because something gets past him. His defining Principle is "Like deserves like" so the wise lord will be kind and generous in his looming presence.
Kalifiir Sabra, The Stubborn Tiger - Eclipse Caste - Kalifiir is a slightly-built and bookish young man with the characteristic pale skin and bluish hair of some people from the North. Though all Exalted age gracefully, he looks younger than he actually is. Disappointed with his failure to Exalt as Chosen of Air like his close siblings, his family sent him on an expedition into the Bordermarches, in an attempt to provoke a Second Breath in the otherwise bookish scion ... or to remove a disappointment from the family line. Kalifiir did Exalt, but not into the Air Caste: the expedition was captured by a Raksha raiding party, and while in their clutches, Kalifiir was Chosen to become one of the Eclipse Caste instead.
He didn't come away unharmed - the Raksha had slain many of his family, and in fact had just plucked out his right eye (in front of his surviving, bound siblings) when the Exaltation reached him. In the confusion, he stole away with one of the Raksha's Artifacts - the Unblinking Inward Mirror. This is a crystal ball of sorts that could be worn as gaudy jewelry - or as a false eye. Kalifiir uses it as his Sorcerous Initiation artifact.
Since that time, he has become a skillful negotiator and passable sorcerer. When negotiations fail, he dons a change of outfit and a mask, transforms himself with Wood Dragon's Claws and Invulnerable Skin of Bronze, and stalks the unholy and the criminal as the Stubborn Tiger.
The Marked Wolf tells stories about campfires lit deep in the Threshold keeping lesser Wyld things at bay to pups found and retrieved, to veterans who mouth the words with her, to ghosts who failed to learn their lessons, their numbers uncounted. A survivor of the Balorian Crusade, she uses her No Moon talents to recruit Lunars to fill the ranks of the Swords of Luna. Ranks whose numbers are always in need of replenishing from their constant warring with Raksha, Unshaped, and beings stranger yet in the unsung war at the edge of the world. A sorcerer and necromancer of the lowest order, she tattoos young Lunars through skill instead of deep mystical understanding. All of the Silver Pact know a pup raised by The Marked Wolf, and her version of the Oral History is held in high esteem among retellings.
I wrote up a few more in a fan project called the Lunar Castebooks. If you enjoy reading characters and their backstories, the 1e Castebooks and Aspect books are probably your jam.
I have to respect a Dawn who rides a badger. That's true class.
The Knight Raiton is an Eclipse Caste Solar from Nexus. After a personal tragedy early in his life, the Knight Raiton has devoted himself to improving Nexus, both via civil works projects that raise up the poor (accomplished by his rich socialite persona), and via donning a terrifying black archaeopteryx mask and beating up ne'er-do-wells.
Captain Ahab, expect he's a Water Aspect. And is missing an arm instead of a leg. And instead of a peg or stump, he has a badass jade prosthetic. And he hunts humongous sea monsters, not for revenge, but for fun and profit. And because he is the inheritor of an ancient legacy of similarly one-armed Dragon-bloods that fight to make the seas safe from the beasts of the deep. Nobility and purity of intentions may vary.
Erichthonius, Owl-totem No Moon wise man. He's your archetypal dad figure, always kind and nurturing, always with words of advice gained from his frequent spiritual quests. He likes to play manipulator every once in a while, inserting tidbits of information via infiltration or via his dream-control abilities to push important people in the direction he believes will best serve his charges.
Seeker of Perfect Harmonies - Twilight Lore Supernal who exalted by using Linguistics, Craft, & Performance to create his first symphony in Old realm that he learned from demons he'd learned to summon. He's awfully happy-go-lucky, with an unexplained obsession with the color blue and far to excellent at making and performing music. Now he has followers and a small cult of people he saved from a cruise-gone-wrong following him around, and he's never been more happy.
Got tired of Immaculate parents so he: left home, learned broken old realm, learned to summon demons, abandoned a vacation get-a-way, and accidentally started a cult that he still doesn't know revolves around him; and he's never been happier.
Needles: Small aged Djala who's a little creepy, but the purity of his desire to help *everyone everywhere* outweighs the needles in his fingers by a lot.


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Within the BPO sector, selling the Philippines to Fortune 500 companies requires a high degree of professional honesty coupled with concrete risk assessment and business-readiness solutions for critical scenarios like infrastructure downtime, security breaches, natural calamities, etc.
Most Fortune 200 companies won't outsource unless you've undergone due diligence measures and audits on PCI-DDS, alignment to Sarbanes Oxley 404, and even Dodd Frank. More importantly, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plans boost client-investor confidence. That is why JP Morgan Chase, American Express, Wells Fargo, First Data, Western Union, Thomson Reuters — all have their global shared services hubs in the Philippines.
Now this is not a walk in the park. The BPO sector lobbies and coordinates intensely with the likes of PLDT to secure "right-of-way" infrastructure and linkages with Sprint and AT&T to enable greater connectivity. This is where we seek government intervention as PEZA/BOI certified companies.
Labor background checks are more and more important due to privacy law issues of Western customers whose private information can be outsourced to service centers in the Philippines. This requires collaboration with government agencies in terms of upholding identity and business cyber hacking deterrent laws; better training programs on fraud prevention; as well as ensuring that our HR policies do not put a blind eye on business-related fraud. There has been quite a number of identity theft as well as phishing cases involving Indian-managed centers that places a great deal of risk in outsourcing, so much so that companies penalize outsourcing centers up to 2M USD per breach.
What goes well for the BPO industry though is that when it comes to multi-million investments, the government is particularly generous in terms of taxation. It is not the same for so called "protected businesses" such as telco, mining, real estate, education, etc.
The financial services industry is cautiously optimistic that the recent RA 10641 (allowing full entry & ownership of foreign banks to operate in the country)signed last July is a step in the right direction. Together with the American Chamber of Commerce, the ECCP, and the BPO industry, we are still hoping for an easing of restrictions of the FINL.
On a related note, i would like to disabuse the notion that the outsourcing industry is mainly call centers. BPAP, i believe, sorely needs to educate non-BPO practitioners on this. We have a growing KPO on financial services that delve into investment banking, mortgage banking, auto loans, insurance that are non-voice in nature. Call centers are what i would call "Tier 1″ services.
Selling the Philippines requires a great deal of gravitas, and not one grounded on emotional hype.
A good benchmark is the Singaporean 2-pronged approach: Liberalize regulations on FDIs but ensure that the domestic markets are used by the same foreign owned companies as "source inputs" into their supply chain. This way competition and collaboration exists. Enhancing FDIs only is a shortsighted approach, while growing the domestic market is a long term initiative. In essence, the BPO sector is doing this for supplier inputs for plug and play facilities/real estate services, 24-hour fast food establishments, etc – but it is more of an emergent byproduct than a conscious strategy.


True Fluorescent Skeleton is an hour long exploration of memory, machinery, rust, ghosts, cybernetics, and neon while pushing into the utter sonic horizon of the tenor saxophone. James Young (composer) and Tyrone Page, Jr. (sax), got to know each other through musical projects in and around the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. A couple of degrees later and they began this nearly four year adventure working on the Fluorescent Skeleton. The idea for TFS was sparked through an encounter with Jasper Johns's Regrets (2012), a room-sized art work of false starts and dead ends: paintings, drawings, and prints intermingle with the tools that made them and sketches that preceded them - all pointing to the same subject. This skeleton is similarly arranged. Each track orbits the same single, musical theme, converging narratively and harmonically onto a single melody. Each track is a possibility for development, an abandoned waypoint from a spectral core. Ty is pushed to the extremes of his technique, building grooves of pulsed multi-phonics, marking the limits of breath and endurance, and channeling intense, patient focus into expanding the acoustic universe of the saxophone.
True Fluorescent Skeleton by James Young and Tyrone Page, Jr.