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Transamerica Institute, in collaboration with the University of Iowa College of Public Health, is seeking Colorado business participation in a survey to identify best practices for recruiting and retaining age 50+ workers. Grant funding for this research has been provided by the Colorado-based NextFifty Initiative.
Transamerica Institute's Catherine Collinson Named an Influencer in Aging by PBS Next Avenue
Transamerica Institute congratulates our very own, Catherine Collinson, who has been named Influencer in Aging by PBS Next Avenue for her work in pushing traditional boundaries and changing our society's understanding of what it means to grow older.
Transamerica Institute Releases The Many Faces of Caregivers: A Close-Up Look at Caregiving and Its Impacts
Transamerica Institute releases a national survey of 3,000+ non-professional caregivers, the largest of its kind. The survey examines caregivers' duties and highlights the impact caregiving has on personal health and well-being, employment, finances and retirement preparations. The report offers an in-depth analysis and demographic portraits of caregivers by employment status, gender, generation, household income, ethnicity, and whether they are the primary caregiver and became a caregiver voluntarily or not. The report also offers detailed findings about care recipients, including their health status and financial situation.
Transamerica Institute Announces "Improving Women's Retirement Security"
Transamerica Institute announces a special one-hour edition of ClearPath – Your Roadmap to Health & Wealth, highlighting women's retirement issues and featuring experts, Cindy Huensell of WISER and Mary Beth Franklin. Airing Sunday, March 26 on WYPR 88.1 FM, Baltimore's NPR news station. The podcast will be available here following the airing of the show.
Transamerica Institute Applauds the White House Conference on Aging
Transamerica Institute congratulates the White House Conference on Aging for convening members of the public, government officials, and business and community leaders in an insightful discussion of issues and solutions that will shape the lives of older Americans in the next decade. In an effort to increase understanding and raise awareness of the issues Americans face, Transamerica Institute will be conducting research into how unpaid family caregiving is impacting American workers, as part of its commitment and support of the five-year research agenda of Respect a Caregiver's Time (ReACT), a coalition focusing on key areas of critical importance in caregiving.
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To mention the word Druid is to evoke images of ancient wizards and wonder-workers from old Irish sagas or Welsh legends. The Druids have been credited as engineers of Stonehenge, as the priests of the Lost Tribes of ancient Israel, and as shamans of pre-Celtic Western Europe. They have been credited with Pythagorean philosophy, Cabala, mysteries of the Goddess, Buddhism, Runes and Wicca.
The ancient Druids were probably the the most learned of all men of their time. Druids were not simply masters of religion. They were also not, as Christianity has painted them, a barbaric bizarre priesthood practicing macabre sacrifices, cutting out the hearts of their victims.
The Druids were accounted philosophers, natural scientists, physicians, astronomers, mathematicians, musicians, poets, legislators, judges, and teachers of religion and education. They were trained in 'international law' as well as tribal law.
"Dru" refers to truth - making a "Dru-id" a truth-knower. It is said that the Druids could walk between two armies waged in war and dispel the hostilities causing them to discontinue the fight.
In the matters of learning, religion, and government their word was absolute. The Druids served as the spiritual link between the Celts and the Gods. The Druids taught their philosophy to the Celts who did not have any organized religion. Their education was so rigorous that at the end of it they were virtually walking encyclopedias. Druidry was not the sole province of men, as historical sources show that women were Druids also.
Diodorus Siculus: [The Druids are] philosophers and theologians... skilled in the divine nature.
Ammianus: [Druids investigate] problems of things secret and sublime.
Diogenes Laertius wrote that Druids had three main ideals: ...to revere Divine Being, to abstain from evil, and to live with courage." and again [attributes to Druids]: "...riddles and dark sayings; teachings that the gods must be worshipped, and no evil done, and manly behavior maintained."
Strabo: "Among all the tribes, generally speaking, there are three classes of men held in special honor: The Bards, the Vates, and the Druids" and again "The Bards are singers and poets; the Vates, interpreters of sacrifice and natural philosophers; while the Druids, in addition to the science of nature, study also moral philosophy."
Julius Caesar: [they have] much knowledge of the stars and their motion, of the size of the world and of the earth, of natural philosophy [physics].
"The Druids officiate at the worship of the Gods, regulate public and private sacrifices, and give rulings on all religious questions" and "they act as judges in practically all disputes whether between tribes or between individuals,..."
The Druids also setup "colleges" to which the nobles and those wishing to become druids would go to study. Caesar informs us: "The Druidic doctrine is believed to have been found existing in Britain and thence imported to Gaul; even today those who want to make a profound study of it generally go to Britain for the purpose."
pupils from relying on the written word and neglecting to train their memories; for it is usually found that when people have the help of texts, they are less diligent in learning by heart, and let their memories rust."
These Irish monks were intrigued and captivated by Celtic Oral traditions and recorded a vast amount of Celtic lore. There may have been some books and manuscripts before then, but these are lost to us, if they existed at all.
We have some written records from Ireland and Wales that can help us see into the druid mind. This great body of lore was recorded by Christian scribes who were not bound by the Druid prohibition against writing. They contain a Christian outlook and veneer thus the Druids role in Irish mythology appear mainly as wizards, masters of the supernatural arts, instead of merely learned men. Though these medieval manuscripts were written and edited by Christian monks, much wisdom yet remains there.
It is through poetry and Song that much Druidic wisdom is communicated, it is well to examine the poems that the Old Celts used to make. The magic poetry of the Druids was so inseparable from the narrative of their stories that many fragments have survived the translation simply because the wisdom and mysteries were "encoded" within.
Celtic Christianity is a unique and beautiful blend of Christianity and Druidism formed during the Dark Ages. Saint Columba is said to have first spoken the famous prayer "Mo Drui, Mac De", My Druid, Son of God, as if identifying rather than contrasting the old and the new religions.
One unique feature of the Celtic church was the cut of the tonsure, which was bald in the front and long in the back, unlike the Benedictine tonsure, which is short all around with a bald spot in the center.
The Celtic Christian art of illuminated manuscripts, such as the beautiful Book of Kells, is another uniquely Celtic contribution to Christianity. Its symbol is the Celtic Cross, a cross with a circle around its center.
The Druids who converted to Christianity believed that both they and their tradition were redeemed and fulfilled within Christianity. The whole person was addressed, the rational being and the intuitive being. The Christ was seen as the meaning and fulfillment of history and mythology.


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The Wing Chun system allows smaller exponents to easily overcome larger and stronger attackers through its non reliance on physical size or strength. When striking, the Wing Chun exponent strives to relax and maximise the amount of body weight in their strikes, instead of tensing up and holding their weight back. When defending, the Wing Chun exponent relaxes and uses structure, leverage and redirection to overcome their attacker, rather than hard blocking.
By using a double bong sau movement, Len redirects the downward force of the first attacker's stab and then takes him down him with a palm strike and hook kick. When engaging his second attacker, Len shifts his entire bodyweight with a chit sau to the attacker's stabbing arm to deflect the stab. He then follows up with a latch and knee strike to the attacker's solar plexus.
In a real-life attack, your attacker is likely to be larger or stronger than you. No matter what form of self defence you use, if you rely on your own physical strength to defend yourself, a stronger attacker will always be able to strike through your defence. You cannot always rely on being faster than your attacker and landing the first punch or dodging your attacker's strike - particularly when the attack is unexpected.
Wing Chun's non-reliance on brute strength allows the Wing Chun exponent to overcome larger and stronger opponents with relative ease. It also teaches them to maximise their body weight in all movements, which allows the Wing Chun exponent to generate greater striking power than their muscles alone could ever generate.


A few weeks ago, at Target, I spotted Merona's new spring collection of very Kate Spade-like designs and bold colors and patterns. Back at Target this past weekend, with more time - I tried on Caroline Shirt Dress.
I really liked it - it's comfy and cute, but it would definitely need to be hemmed (easy to get done). It went to my mid-shins. I think it'd be a bit younger looking if it went just above the knees.
Looks cute just worn like that too, for a different look. With a $40 price tag, plus some hemming to be done, I still think this dress is worth it. I haven't gotten it (yet?), but going to keep my eye on it!
Has anyone else tried this dress on? What do you all think? Worth it?


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Collected Stories Janette Turner Hospital
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
AUD $ 24.95
The internationally acclaimed stories from Dislocations and Isobars are presented here with seven previously uncollected stories, four of which were included in the twenty-five "Best Short Stories in English" in their year of publication.
Janette Turner Hospital's sensuous prose reveals the inner lives of a fascinating gallery of characters caught between cultures. Some cross borders of class, gender and race, dislocated in unfamiliar and unpredictable physical worlds; others cross borders between the past and the present, blurring memory and perception in moments of crisis and illumination.
OTHER TITLES BY HOSPITAL, JANETTE TURNER
North Of Nowhere S...
by Janette Turner Ho...
Price: AUD $ 24.00
"Hospital goes from strength to literary strength ever brilliant in ideas, graceful in expression, resourceful in story." Fay Weldon 'Her stories are like brief cyclones wrapped around an unexpected ...
The Ivory Swing
Juliet yearns for the "ebb and flow of life lived avidly", for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of husband and children and her own passionate need for expression i ...
The Tiger In The T...
Like the rare Blue Wanderer butterfly, Emily Carpenter is never still for long. She flees emotional commitment, despite the longing of her eight-year-old son for family and for the easygoing sheepfarm ...
Janette Turner Hos...
This collection brings together in one distinguished volume a range of stories written over twenty-five years by this internationally acclaimed author.
Stunningly original, Charades has stood the test of time as a major Australian work.

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"We can no longer take risks..."
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Its the same as if you went into Mcdonalds headquarters and tried to push "your" new hamburger idea on them!! Even if you could supply Filet Mignon's for cheaper than what they get meat for now, and ask to take a ridiculously low cut of profits- they would still tell you fuck off!!!! As long as they control the distribution channels, they control the game!!
Sure we have ways of doing self promotion these days, but its still like trying to compete with Mcdonalds with 30 Hamburger stands in their sea of 100,000 locations. Musicians are like super models now, they just so happen to be a pretty face, sound good, and follow directions well- they are all industry trash from stage moms/dads!! Isn't technology awesome?!?!?
"When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point." -Alan Watts
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Fletcher wrote on Sat, 11 December 2010 14:23
This link was sent to me by my entertainment attorney...
"As your (entertainment) attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won't need much, just a tiny taste."
Richard Horner
Unaffiliated knob twiddler.
"Nietzsche played the piano endlessly in his eleven years of madness.Once,at least,with his elbows."
Fenris Wulf
Tomas Danko wrote on Sun, 12 December 2010 11:52
Fenris Wulf wrote on Sun, 12 December 2010 07:20
And has anyone noticed that digital speech synthesis doesn't sound any more natural than it did 25 years ago?
This is totally not true.
Check out Phonetic Arts and some of their tech-demo.
I found it. Now I'm frightened. Wait until ClearChannel gets hold of this. They've already replaced local DJ's with pre-recorded DJ's, now they can replace pre-recorded DJ's with computers. They can even use computer-generated text and replace political commentators. Nobody will notice the difference.
RESIST THE CYBERNETIC OVERLORDS
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Tomas Danko
MagnetoSound wrote on Sun, 12 December 2010 12:01
it sounds like Bill Clinton telling you where to go and what to do.
Ooh ... just the way I like it.
Well, it was a tech demo where you walked around in a 3D town and the VO told you hints about where places were and so on. I figure they used his voice because 1. there is a lot of recorded material to use in order to train the engine, 2. his voice is very unique and 3. his voice is very well known.
I can only imagine what other stuff they did with the engine and his character, that never made it outside the lab.
-:Let's see if the engine matches up well with some TV recordings, so enter these words: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...""
"T(Z)= (n1+n2*Z^-1+n2*Z^-2)/(1+d1*z^-1+d2*z^-2)" - Mr. Dan Lavry
"Shaw baa laa raaw, sidle' yaa doot in dee splaa" . Mr Shooby Taylor
Fenris Wulf wrote on Wed, 15 December 2010 16:55
Yes, and they've just been acquired by Google. Now we're really screwed!
Keith Banning
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Spindrift wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 19:38
DON'T BE EVIL!
Anyway, we bought like ten licenses and we're about to look into getting a deal on a huge license pool (hundreds and hundreds). Perhaps this won't be possible with the new owner, as opposed to a small private company.
Geoff Emerick de Fake
Wireline wrote on Sat, 11 December 2010 08:12
Not a rant - a question, because I honestly do not understand the thought processes behind racing down the proven highway to obsolescence.
You are not allowed to put "thought process" and "record company" in the same sentence...
mgod
Tim Halligan wrote on Sat, 11 December 2010 09:50
What is holding them back from changing the way they conduct business?
Fear.
Of what - being successful?
Of failing to justify their bonuses before failing upwards to their next career.
"There IS no Coolometer." - Larry Janus
wwittman
There is absolutely nothing about the music business of 1985 or so that wasn't better for musicians, producers, engineers, songwriters, and the listening public than what we have now
Say whatever you want about record labels...
William Wittman
Producer/Engineer
(Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, The Fixx, The Outfield, Hooters...)
bob ebeling
Same as it ever was?
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wwittman wrote on Fri, 24 December 2010 10:17
1985 is another century - to some extent just before Wall Street discovered that records were a better risk than movies.
jrmintz
And shortly after Reagan ended the record master tax shelter.
Hank Alrich
A good buddy of mine is head of A&R for a minor major label. 2009 was the first year in memory that this label has lost money. The head honcho, who essentially inherited the label, is freaking out - he tells A&R "Only bring me artists with name recoginition". So my buddy does that and it's the biggest seller for them for 2010.
In conversation about the present attitude my pal says, "I guess rich people just aren't that hungry".
Amen. What's the new label development paradigm? Don't plow the field, nor plant the seeds, nor water the crop and tend to the weeds, just show up for the harvest.
Yeah, that'll be the ticket... to irrelevant oblivion.
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Willis is a small town in Texas' Montgomery County. It was originally settled in 1870 when the Union Pacific Railroad built a line through the area. Before Willis, residents lived in Danville, just north of where Willis would be located; upon the railroad's completion, many people moved from Danville and other nearby towns to Willis. In 1874, Willis applied to replace Montgomery as the new county seat but lost; legal challenges were made but were unsuccessful, until the city of Conroe was named the new county seat.
Book an RV in Montgomery County and set your sights on a vacation as limitless as the highway in front of you. The warm Texas weather makes outdoor recreation a great choice, but there's more to this area than parks and farmland. It's well worth a detour to explore cities like Conroe and Montgomery. Your best RV rental in Willis puts all of these within your reach.
The Sam Houston National Forest is a 163,000 acre reserve, nestled amongst private timber reserves and small local farms. Start here with your motorhome rental in Willis and you can store your groceries as you explore both the forest and neighboring farms. Spread out amongst four counties, it is managed as a multi-use park, allowing for both recreational and commercial use. Permitted activities include hiking, along with swimming. Canoeing, kayaking and fishing are always popular thanks to the abundant waterways. Motorized boats are allowed provided they use small electric motors (not gas). Visitors can go birding, hunting and camping, and your luxury RV rental Willis makes the perfect bird blind. Hunting in the forest requires a permit, also available from the forestry service.
Lake Conroe – Houston North KOA is a 239 site RV park 16 miles west, in West Montgomery. Each site has a concrete pad, with grassy areas between. The sites have full hookups (water, sewer and 30/50 amp electricity), wifi, picnic tables and fire rings; some sites are pull through. The campground is big rig friendly, and has restrooms and showers. Plus, there are laundry facilities, an enclosed swimming pool and hot tub, and an area for dogs. Propane can be purchased on site and guests can go swimming and fishing in the nearby lake.
Peaceful Pines RV Resort is a relatively new campground with 150 sites. Each site has full hookups (water, sewer and 30/50 amp electricity), wifi and cement pads. Some sites have shade from trees and some are big rig friendly. The campground has restrooms and showers, laundry facilities, a swimming pool and a doggie area. At around 20 miles away, this could be a useful option to park your RV rental near Willis.
There is no shortage of things to occupy your attention in Willis, and even more offerings further out. Visitors here can start with a visit to the local auto race tracks, to take in some stock car action; those who prefer their adventure to be hands on can rent boats or seadoos to get their thrill out on Lake Conroe. Canoes and kayaks are also available to rent and take for a spin, or guests can take a steamboat tour of the lake. There are also fishing tours available for those who like hands on fun with a bit of guidance.
A local library in Willis offers activities and programs for young kids, and a place for adults to unwind and spend some time reading. And golfers will be glad to know that there are four courses in nearby Conroe.
It's dinner time and time to decide, what will it be tonight? Texas is the land of barbecue and Willis has its fair share of restaurants serving up this southern staple. Diners can also feast on Mexican, Chinese, Italian and pizza, and even seafood. There is, of course, always the option of getting some groceries and throwing together a meal in your RV trailer rental in Willis, too. But if vacation to you means a vacation from cooking, Willis can keep you fed and happy.
Willis, TX is the perfect spot to start your next road trip.
There are many popular rentals in Willis. Outdoorsy's Willis RV rental marketplace allows renters to choose from rental options from professional RV rental agencies as well as RVs for rent by owner.
Nearby to Willis are a number of National, State and Local parks. Travelers can easily rent RVs and motorhomes near Barton Creek Greenbelt, Tom Hughes Park, Marion Sansom Park, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Big Thicket National Preserve, and McKinney Falls State Park. Renters also want to search these zip codes for RV rentals: 75001, Texas, 75002, Texas, 75006, Texas, 75007, Texas, 75023, Texas, and 75024, Texas.
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Waterside locations tend to be popular places to park up, and Lake Conroe RV Resort in Conroe, Texas is no exception. This lovely site has great amenities, and is ideally placed to enjoy the lake itself, as well as to visit local restaurants, the factory outlet at Conroe, a range of boutiques, and to play golf at a number of local clubs. Bigger attractions to be found nearby include the NASA Space Center. Big rigs are welcome at Lake Conroe RV Resort, and there is pull-thru access, sewer, electric and water, as well as picnic tables, fire rings, bathhouses and a laundry. This is a good site if you are looking for a secluded, natural setting, and want to take advantage of the fishing and boating opportunities the lake offers, or if you are keen to enter a local fishing tournament.
The Lazy G RV Park is located in College Station, Texas. The staff welcomes guests for camping excursions of a day, a week, or a month. This location is a great place for a getaway with the entire family. The weather is usually excellent, so you will enjoy the beauty of time in Texas. The evenings usually have a gentle breeze for a quiet time away from ordinary activities. There is often wonderful wildlife that guests see from their campsites. There are cottontails, roadrunners, and the brilliant but elusive Painted Bunting. Although the campsite is in a quiet, rural setting, there are many attractions close by. There are 35 RV sites with full hookups. The 13 pull-thru sites have 30/50 amp electric facilities. The 22 spacious back-in sites also have 30/50 amp electric facilities. Internet and cable TV is available at every site. The bathhouse and restrooms are always clean and available for residents. The laundry room provides excellent services for campers.


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Blaauw Lecture 2015
Infoversum
Vrydemalaan 2
The Birth of Suns
Mark Krumholz
What do and don't we currently know about the birth of new Suns?
We've all learned that space is an empty vacuum, but it's not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on average, about 1 atom per cubic centimeter. That's a better vacuum than the best vacuum chamber we know how to make, but there are a lot of cubic centimeters in interstellar space, so the mass of all the gas between the stars adds up to about 10% of the mass of all the stars put together. The temperature of this gas varies enormously from place to place in the Galaxy, with temperatures as high as millions of degrees and as low as a few degrees above absolute zero. In the coldest regions of interstellar space, over millions of years gravity is able to draw the atoms together into immense clouds that ultimately condense into clusters of new stars. In our Galaxy, this process produces stars at a rate of about 1 new Sun per year, the stars it makes are typically the size of the Sun or a little smaller. While we understand how this happens in general outline, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. What sets the rate at which stars form? What determines the final sizes of the individual stars? Where did our Sun form, and what happened to its siblings, the stars that formed out of the same cloud? In this talk I will describe what we currently know, and what we don't, about the birth of new Suns.
Mark Krumholz received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by postdoctoral work at Princeton University. Since 2008 he has been a professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in December 2015 he will move to a new position at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University.
Blaauw Lecture
The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute organizes the yearly Blaauw lecture, this year it is organized in collaboration with Studium Generale. This is a lecture by an internationally renowned astronomer which everyone, including the general public, can attend. The Blaauw chair and Blaauw lecture were initiated in 1997 as one of six visiting professorships in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Dark Forces in the Invisible Universe
Anna Scaife
Magnetic fields are one of the most crucial components of the Universe. We know that magnetic fields are present everywhere.
Ziekmakers en betermakers
Marjolein Knoester, Toos Daemen e.a.
Het woord 'virus' kwam nog nooit zo vaak ter sprake als in de afgelopen jaren. Toch blijft het ingewikkeld om te begrijpen wat een virus nou precies is.
woensdag 14 november 2012
Het seniorenbrein
André Aleman
De ontwikkeling van onze hersenen na ons vijftigste
We maken ons allemaal wel eens zorgen over ons geheugen en ons verstand. Maar wat gebeurt er eigenlijk in ons hoofd als we ouder worden?


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I had to do this! It's going to be a really short post, but well, this is so funny that I just had to share it with you!
As you know I've been wanting to start a Twitch and decided that I would go and play any game that came out in PS PLus. Since in July one of the games is Heavy Rain, which I've played and reviewed here I decided to go with the other free game – Absolver.
So I came back home from work, installed the game, started broadcasting and tweeted about it! The stream was only for 1 hour, so of course it wasn't really that much time to have many people. Nevertheless, there I was talking alone and playing a game that is really not my thing and I don't know how to play it even if my life depended on it. This, of course being super uncomfortable, but trying to be funny at the same time!
The result? 2 people entered and I scared them right away because they left really quickly and then I had ONE viewer staying and I gave it my all! The thing is… I was using my account in the computer to watch the stream and see if everything was ok, so I don't even know if that one person was not really myself! ahahah Basically I was explaining everything, trying to be funny and so on, but I'm almost certain no-one there!
Nevertheless, I'll be back at it tomorrow! I'll start the stream around 7p.m. British Summer Time if you are eager to cringe while watching me doing my best and failing xD You check my Twitch here!
I've always wanted to try streaming, but I've never been brave enough to actually do it, so well done for trying it out! I finish work around 6pm (GMT), so I maybe pushing it to catch the start of your stream, but I'll definitely try and catch some of it tomorrow!
You're welcome! If you're doing it until 8, I should be able to catch some of it :). Teaming up together might be fun, especially if we don't know what we are doing!
Oh cool! Now that I know the time I will definitely check it out (I have a Twitch account).
Use to do livestreams with my younger sister (she's does this on a daily basis and her boyfriend makes a living from livestreaming. So I guess they know what they are doing 😂).
Awesome that you started it! In the beginning it takes time but don't worry. Soon you will have loads of people watching!
Hope you are right! XD Although I would prefer that it takes some time so I can get used to it!
Oh, I can imagine this in my head. 😂 Well, if I remember it and figure out the time (it should be like 8 here? Or is it 6? Who knows. Google it! someone just shouted at me. Yes yes.) Anyway, I loved watching you do push ups because you are very entertaining to listen to so who cares if you don't know how to play the game. Just talk and all's well.
That one person is most likely lurking, but it still counts to the analytics. As to what Flow said, you need to have gained a certain number of followers to be an affiliate with twitch.
Oh (Ahhh sorry!), I didn't watch your stream (also I realized that would be 3am my time, which I probably would miss it and the tweet notification both).
Are your videos saved after streaming?
Yup, that one person is yourself.
But you did your best, brave child.
*Promote yourself on discord in the future when you stream so I can join if I can….


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1.1 Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 Results
1.2 Upgradation of Wikimedia India Server
1.3 Wikipedia Asian Month 2016
1.4 Other news
1.4.1 WikiSangamotsavam`2016
1.4.2 Raju Suthar Infrastructure Scholarship
2 Featured Wikimedia of the Month for November
3 Other Wikimedia news in India
3.1 Open Con 2016 Ranchi
3.2 Indic Wikisource Update
Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 Results
After going through more than 37,000 images, the results for Wiki Loves Monuments have finally been announced. To summarise, we received 37,000+ images images in this edition from 1784 participants. 1500+ participants contributed to the movement for the first time during the contest. From the 37,000+ images we received, 1300 images are already been used in Wikipedia and it sister projects. Inspite of the contest ending, the flow of knowledge doesn't end here, there are plenty of unused ASI monument images which is now available to utilize them across the movement. The WLM India core team which comprised of Abhinav Srivastava,Kiran RaviKumar,Karthik Nadar,Naveen Francis,Sanket Oswal,Santosh Shringare and Yohann Thomas show their gratitude to the jury members, the volunteers & the participants who made this successful. Also, the organizers want to thank Wikimedia Foundation for funding, Wikimedia India Chapter for joining hands and WLM International team for the support received throughout the competition.
You can find the winners here-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India/Winners
Upgradation of Wikimedia India Server
Wikimedia India's website layout has remained the same since its inception in 2011 With an outdated server & firmware, and the website facing downtime with periodic snags, a decision was made to upgrade the server & also the interface of the Wikimedia India website In the months of October & November, the software was upgraded & migrated to the new software. With a new interface & updated layout, the website of Wikimedia India is now better than ever.
Wikimedia India would want to thank Naveen Francis & Ranjith Siji for all their help in this exercise.
Wikipedia Asian Month 2016
With the 2016's iteration of the online edit-a-thon,taking place in November 2016, the purpose of Asian Month on the English Wikipedia is to improve the quantity and quality of articles relating to Asian countries. Last year, over 7,000 articles were contributed in 43 languages in Wikipedia Asian Month.
This year too, more than 500 users have enrolled themselves to contribute to this online edit-a-thon.
As a symbol of friendship between Wikipedia's Asian communities, each participant who creates at least four (4) articles that fulfill the criteria will receive a specially designed Wikipedia postcard from other participating countries. Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors".
WikiSangamotsavam`2016
Wikisangamotsavam-2016, the fifth annual gathering of users and well wishers of Malayalam Wikimedia projects, will take place from 26,27,28 December, 2016 in Kanjangad,Kasargod Kerala. Wikimedia India helped the organizers of WikiSangamotsavam`2016 to apply for a Rapid grant to the WMF which was successfully approved.
Raju Suthar Infrastructure Scholarship
Wikimedia India helped Raju Suthar to apply for a Rapid grant to the WMF which was successfully approved. Raju Suthar is one of the most active Wikipedians on the Hindi Wikipedia with almost 750+ articles to his name. In July 2016, he was also featured on the Wikimedia India website as the Featured Wikimedian of the month.
Featured Wikimedia of the Month for November
Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana is a Kannada Professor at the Prestigious St. Aloysius College in Mangalore.He started editing Kannada Wikipedia in Septmeber,2014 & Tulu in January,2015 as part of Wikipedia Education Programme run in his Institute. He was part of a small team of editors who worked & finally brought Tulu Wikipedia out of incubator recently. Dr Vishwanatha mainly write articles on folklore & has written close to 100+ articles in Tulu Wikipedia. He currently working on a unique project where he is writing articles on all the Alphabets of Tulu. Since Tulu is spoken over a small region of across Karnataka & Kerala,he believes that these articles will be useful for students to learn & speak Tulu which will lead to growth of the language.
Other Wikimedia news in India
Open Con 2016 Ranchi
The OpenCon 2016 Ranchi was hosted at Dept. of Zoology, Ranchi University was jointly organized by the Open Access India and the Dept. of Zoology, Ranchi University in partnership with OpenCon on 12 November 2016 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The OpenCon is a conference for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action towards a more open system of research and education organized by SPARC, the Right to Research Coalition, and a Organizing Committee of students and early career academic professionals from around the world. The OpenCon 2016 Ranchi is a satellite event of the main OpenCon 2016 which was hosted for the first time in Ranchi, Jharkhand and is the only second satellite event to be held in India this year. First being the OpenCon 2016 Chandigarh which was organized as a parallel event along side of the Wiki Conference India held at Chandigarh in August 2016. Previously OpenCon 2015 Kolkata satellite event was organized in December 2015 at Kolkata by the Open Access India community of practice consisting of students, researchers, librarians, professors advocating for Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education in India. Approximately 2000 people have attended various satellite events around the world in the past 2014 and 2015.
Indic Wikisource Update
After the implementation of the Google OCR script to all the Indic Wikisource projects, there is an accelerated increase in the statitics.The Wikisource community has published the following updates for Indic Wikisource
Retrieved from "http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Reports/Nov%26Dec_2016&oldid=37039"


HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) - The start of fall means gas prices have begun falling.
Even better news for Tennessee Valley drivers? Some of the lowest prices in the country can be found in Alabama and Tennessee.
AAA, the largest leisure travel organization in North America, tracks gas prices through a daily fuel gauge report. On Monday, the report showed the statewide average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Alabama was $3.01. Tennessee was at $2.99. Both were far below the national average of $3.19.
However, a number of stations are still selling gas well above the $3 mark. Clay Ingram, a spokesman for AAA Alabama, says some variation may be attributed to local tax structures. Where a large discrepancy exists in the same city or town, Ingram says it's more likely the station is trying to make a higher profit off fuel.
Ingram explains that the widespread introduction of pay-at-the pump means fewer drivers now go inside the station and pick up a snack. As convenience store profits fall, some stations have raised prices at the pump to make up the difference.
For drivers who want a good deal, though, there are plenty of deals to be found. Even with Alabama's average at $3.01, many stations in and around Huntsville were selling Monday for $2.95 and below.
Ingram says, "we've got a lot of stations out there that are below the $3 mark, and I think we'll see more and more as the weeks go by."
The time of year typically brings a decrease in prices, as demand drops and refineries switch to a winter-blend gasoline, which is less expensive to produce. Most industry analysts expect the downward trend to continue until the holidays, before leveling off.
America is producing so much oil today that we are partly responsible for the creation of a world-wide oil glut — thanks Obama!
Always fact challenged, always comical, eh say what? What does Obama have to do with all the American petroleum produced on PRIVATE land? Answer for your addled brain: NOTHING.
Blanko, you are always intelligence challenged! I love it when people like you blame our first black president for not having policies that encourage more domestic oil drilling and than also criticism him when he oversees the creation of the largest domestic oil drilling in recent history! People like you make me think you are focused on some race thing!
Oh wait until the republicans say it is so bad. Stock market DOW over 17,000, unemployment below 6%, gas prices below $3.00. I am sure the world will end soon. Lying hypocrites if the would help any the economy would boom. That is what they are afraid of so they vote NO on everything. That is ok Hillary will beat them again in 2016.
What's that about the stock market again? Are we talking about the market that rose on the back of easy money rather than corporate earnings? That market? How's it doing these days now that QE3 is over?
Do you have any idea what the REAL unemployment rate is? You know, not the numbers that government propagandists spew but rather the numbers that include ALL working age Americans? Do you have an answer or just lies?
Dim-O-Craps will be gone in November!! Obama Regime will follow!! Impeachment the BUM!!!
Gas prices always miraculously seem to fall in an election year !


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Taking a Page from Wonder: Books that Choose Kindness
Kindness. It's something I think everyone would agree this world could use a lot more of. Most of us wish the world would be kinder. So why isn't it?
I am not equipped to answer that question. In truth, there's a complex mix of psycho-social reasons at work. But when recently reading the book Wonder, it started to make me think more about kindness.
The book Wonder is a lauded, award-winning middle-grade novel and one I've always wanted to read. My daughter recommended it to me years ago when she first read it. I shouldn't have waited so long.
From the switching perspectives and well-developed characters to the concept that people and things aren't always what they seem, it's much more than a story about a boy with a genetic disorder that required multiple surgeries on his face. It's a story, at its core, about kindness.
There is one line in particular I decided will be my new mantra. I think if everyone followed this advice, it would push us toward a kinder world.
"Be kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed."
I love this line. It's so simple. Why aren't we all kinder than we need to be? Maybe sometimes we just need a reminder. Wonder certainly helped remind me of this.
So, in light of that, here are some books in which the characters and stories highlight the importance of kindness and may remind you of an important concept: people may forget what you did and said, but they'll never forget how you made them feel. (Note: I did not come up with this. It's a famous quote attributed to many different people, but no one knows who actually said it first.)
Some of these are children's books. But, trust me, adults can learn from them too.
Books Celebrating Human Kindness
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
What you need to know: I have to start with Wonder. This list wouldn't be a list about kindness books without it.
The title of the book, Wonder, is extremely clever. On the one hand, it refers to August, the main character and what a wonder he is as a human being. It also represents the wonder of humanity and how most people are essentially good, even if they don't always do good things. (Something I wholeheartedly believe.) But it's also a book that makes you wonder: If people are essentially good, why do we act so cruel to each other? Why aren't people kinder? And then proceeds to show you what kindness really means.
Notable quote: "When given the choice between being right or being kind choose kind." -Dr. Wayne Dyer, quoted in Wonder
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson (Author), E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
What you need to know: Jacqueline Woodson is an incredible author who has won many awards. This book is about kindness and regret. The story revolves around Chloe and her friends who won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually, Maya stops coming to school.
When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.
Notable quote: "This is what kindness does, Ms. Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world."
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig (Author), Patrice Barton (Illustrator)
What you need to know: According to the book description, a simple act of kindness can transform an invisible boy into a friend… In the book, Brian, the invisible boy who no one notices, is never invited to play with the other kids at school. Until Justin, the new boy, arrives.
Brian is the first to make Justin feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a class project together, Brian finds a way to shine. It's a story of how one person can make a difference in someone else's life with a little bit of kindness. Sometimes that act of kindness is just saying the word "hi."
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight by His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins
What you need to know: Let's face it, no matter your religious affiliation or lack thereof, we could all learn something about kindness from the Dalai Lama. According to the description, the book is drawn from the lectures the Dalai Lama gave during his first three visits to North America.
The chapters are arranged developmentally from simple to complex topics, which include the luminous nature of the mind, the four noble truths, karma, the common goals of the world's religions, meditation, deities, and selflessness. Central to all these teachings is the necessity of compassion—which the Dalai Lama says is "the essence of religion" and "the most precious thing there is."
Notable quote: "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
The Kindness Diaries: One Man's Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World by Leon Logothetis
What you need to know: Read it first before you see it on Netflix. According to the description, this is the journey of one man who sets out to circumnavigate the globe on a vintage motorbike fueled by kindness. A former stockbroker, Logothetis, leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. To do this he sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness of strangers.
Incredibly, he makes his way across the U.S., through Europe, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and finally to Canada and back to the Hollywood sign, by asking strangers for shelter, food, and gas. Again and again, he's won over by the generosity of humanity. The Kindness Diaries may just "renew your faith in the bonds that connect people and inspire you to accept and generate kindness in your own life."
Notable quote: "Because kindness is more than just medicine. The act of giving and receiving is where the real magic of human connection occurs."
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
What you need to know: This has been described as Russia's War and Peace. It weaves together the account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia. It's supposed to be a difficult read. (I have not yet read it). One blogger stated, "It took me three weeks to read it and three weeks to recover."
In reading about this book, I was struck by how many bloggers and reviewers wrote about its representation of innate human kindness in the face of atrocities. The one most noted is the story of a woman who goes with a child to the gas chamber so he does not have to die alone. It brings me to tears just writing that sentence. This book can teach us that in the face of the worst parts of humanity, humans still have the capacity for great kindness.
Notable quote: "Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer."
Anyone else have recommendations for books about kindness?
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UK: Two arrested under investigation for kidnapping incident in synagogue in Texas
The kidnapping incident in the Texas synagogue continues: British police arrested two men today (Thursday) as part of an investigation into the incident in which a British citizen broke into the Beit Yisrael synagogue in Coville, Texas, and held the synagogue rabbi and three other people hostage for about 11 hours, until released by U.S. security forces. The kidnapper. "Two men were arrested this morning in Birmingham and Manchester," the British counter-terrorism police said of their arrest.
The arrest comes after it was reported in the UK yesterday that Malik Faisal Akram, the kidnapper killed at the end of the incident, was known to the British intelligence agency (MI5) and previously investigated by it. Malik, a resident of Blackburn in the north of England with a criminal record, will be questioned by the agency late last year, but until his flight to the US it was decided that he posed no danger.
Meanwhile, NBC reported that two teens were arrested as part of an investigation into the Texas hostage-taking incident. The suspects are the sons of Malik. According to the report, Akram was in contact with his two sons during the incident. The two were arrested by police from the UK Anti-Terrorism Department as part of an investigation into the case. Also, according to sources involved in the investigation, at this stage there are no other suspects involved in the act.
The FBI reported that Malik arrived in the U.S. about two weeks ago and landed at New York's JFK Airport and upon arriving in the country spent the first night in a homeless shelter. Malik's brother, Golber Akram, shared on social media that Malik was suffering from mental health problems. I'm confirming my brother Faisal passed away in Texas. The family is completely devastated. We can not say much, because the FBI investigation is underway. We would like to apologize to all the victims and those involved in the unfortunate incident. "
Tonight, a recording of a conversation between the kidnapper and his family was published in The Jewish Chronicle. Listen to the conversation:
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How is green energy driving business growth?
By Dave Roos
Dave Rooshttp://www.cdxxoo.com
"Green Science Image Gallery Wind power is one of the fastest-growing energy sources around. See more green science pictures.©iStockphoto.com/chromatika
The global financial crisis that took hold in 2008 was a wake-up call for business and government leaders worldwide. It's no longer realistic to pursue a business model that promotes growth at all costs. Unsustainable growth, after all, was at the heart of the U.S. real estate bubble that triggered the collapse. Unfettered expansion, scientists also warn, only increases our appetite for oil and other fossil fuels that contribute to global climate change. In the post-crisis economy, business and government leaders around the world have rallied around a new flag: sustainability.
By now, you've certainly heard of "going green." Well, green energy is sustainable energy. Also known as clean energy or renewable energy, green energy refers to electricity or fuel that is derived from renewable sources like the sun, wind, water, geothermal energy and biomass. Green energy, unlike fossil fuels, does not damage the environment to capture it or use it [source: ACORE]. But green energy is more than just a feel-good environmental movement. It is also widely viewed as the best prospect for business and job growth over the next decade.
U.S. President Barack Obama has identified the green energy sector — he calls it "clean technology" — as the catalyst for domestic job creation and long-term economic growth. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has also stated that sustainable energy will drive global economic growth in the near future. Even if investors don't buy the hype, they can't ignore the headlines. Oil prices are skyrocketing, thanks in part to Middle East unrest, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the near meltdown of several Japanese nuclear reactors have further soured investors on the safety and viability of conventional energy production [source: Shell].
As a result, money is pouring into the green energy sector from governments, institutional investors and individual investors worldwide.
Global investment in green energy in 2010 totaled $243 billion, an increase of 30 percent over 2009 [source: Pew Charitable Trusts]
In the first quarter of 2010, venture capital investment in clean technology, which includes green energy, was up 68 percent from the previous year [source: Zwilling]
In the first quarter of 2011, stock market funds tied to green energy rose almost 14 percent [source: Shell]
While the United States government has promised $172 billion in green energy investments over the next five years, those numbers are eclipsed by China, which plans to invest $397 billion over that same period [source: Jenkins].
Where, exactly, is all of this money going? On the next page, we'll talk about the major green energy industries that are expected to carry the economy of the future.
Green Energy Industries
According to global investment numbers from 2010, wind power is the green energy industry garnering the most attention from investors [source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance]. New turbine technology, coupled with a more efficient supply chain for producing and installing the sleek towering windmills, makes wind power cost-competitive with conventional energy sources like coal and natural gas [source: Zwilling].
Solar power is another huge driver of global business growth. Decades of research and development in photovoltaic (PV) cell technology has increased the efficiency of solar panels by five times their 1980s strength and new manufacturing techniques promise to lower the production costs of PV cells by 50 percent [source: EERE]. China has leapt headlong into the solar market, producing more than half of the world's solar panels. Since the Chinese government heavily subsidizes its solar industry, the price of solar panels has fallen by two-thirds over the past three years, driving some American solar companies to move production overseas [source: Bradsher].
Geothermal energy holds significant potential for U.S. power generation. An enhanced geothermal system taps underground pockets of superheated rock and uses the Earth's inexhaustible energy to boil water, which then creates steam to power turbines. There are vast fields of potential geothermal sites in the western U.S., but concerns over safety (critics say that tinkering with geological hotspots can trigger earthquakes) require more investment into research and development. Google invested $10.25 million in enhanced geothermal systems technology in 2008 [source: Rubens].
Biomass energy is a broad category that includes any fuel course derived from plants. Ethanol is the most widely known example of biomass energy. In the U.S., it's made from corn, but it can be derived from any plant material, such as sugar cane. While ethanol has run into some strong opposition (too much land and water used to grow corn, too many tax credits for the oil industries,), there is increased investor interest in biodiesel, a cleaner-burning fuel derived from any number of vegetable-based oils, including recycled cooking oil.
Other green energy industries include hydropower, ocean energy captured with tidal generators, landfill gas and hydrogen fuel cells.
The rise in green energy investment has led to the promise of more green-collar jobs. On the next page, we'll see how green energy is fueling job growth.
Green Energy Jobs
"Solar power is quickly becoming a mainstream energy source.©iStockphoto.com/diego_cervo
A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that green jobs in the U.S. grew 9.1 percent from 1998 to 2007, while job growth in the economy as a whole only grew 3.7 percent over that same period [source: Galbraith]. And that was before the economic collapse sent investors flocking to green energy. Green jobs, including green energy jobs, are now being listed among the fastest-growing careers of the next decade.
The only question is: What exactly is a green job? Luckily, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is on the case. The BLS received funding in 2010 to begin tracking the growth of the green jobs sector, but to do so it had to come up with a clear definition. According to the BLS, your job qualifies as "green" if you work for a company that directly supplies environmentally friendly products and services (like a solar panel manufacturer) or a company that consciously institutes environmentally friendly practices (like powering its assembly line with rooftop solar panels). The BLS is sending out employer surveys to further determine which job titles are most closely related to the green aspects of the business. For example, does the janitor who cleans the factory with the rooftop solar panels count as a green job? Probably not.
Another upshot of investing in green energy is that the green energy sector is much more labor intensive than fossil fuel energy. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst found that for every $1 million invested in green energy, an average of 17 new jobs are created on average, while the same investment in fossil fuel energy only creates five jobs [source: Durning].
One concern to green energy investors is whether there are enough qualified American workers to respond to the imminent demand for solar panel installers, wind turbine welders, and every flavor of engineer. The Green Jobs Act of 2007 authorized $125 million a year to create something called the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program. The actual funding for the program didn't arrive until 2009, when $500 million of stimulus fund money was earmarked for training the American workforce for the impending green economy. In recent years, the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy have used the funding to create programs like the Energy Training Partnership Grants, the Pathways Out of Poverty program, and the Solar Instructor Training Network, all of which give lower-income workers the job skills to thrive in the green workforce.
For lots more information about green energy, alternative fuels and clean technology, head to the links on the next page.
How Geothermal Energy Works
How Hydropower Plants Work
How Solar Cells Work
How Power Grids Work
5 Green Cities of the Future
5 Wacky Forms of Alternative Energy
5 Myths About Renewable Energy
American Council on Renewable Energy. "What is renewable energy?" (Accessed April 19, 2011.)http://www.acore.org/what-is-renewable-energy
Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "Global Trends in Clean Energy Investment: Q1 2011 Fact Pack." April 15, 2011 (Accessed April 19, 2011.)http://www.bnef.com/free-publications/presentations/
Bradsher, Keith. The New York Times. "Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China." January 14, 2011 (Accessed April 20, 2011.)http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/business/energy-environment/15solar.html
Durning, Alan and Langston, Jennifer et al. Sightline Institute. "Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise." October 2009 (Accessed April 19, 2011.)http://www.sightline.org/research/jobs/green-jobs-primer/green-jobs-primer-pdf/view
Galbraith, Kate. The New York Times. "Study Cites Strong Green Job Growth." June 10, 2009 (Accessed April 20, 2011.)http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/study-cites-strong-green-job-growth/
Jenkins, Jesse. Breakthrough Institute. "'Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant' Report Overview." November 18, 2009 (Accessed April 21, 2011.)http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2009/11/rising_tigers_sleeping_giant_o.shtml
Pew Charitable Trusts. "Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?" 2010 Edition (Accessed April 19, 2011.)http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedFiles/PEG/Publications/Report/G-20Report-LOWRes-FINAL.pdf
Rubens, Craig. Gigaom. "Google Drills $10.25 Million into Geothermal." April 19, 2008 (Accessed April 21, 2011.)http://gigaom.com/cleantech/google-drills-1025m-into-geothermal/
Shell, Adam. USA Today. "Chaos in energy sector drives gains in clean energy." April 6, 2011. (Accessed April 21, 2011.)http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/funds/2011-04-05-natural-resources-funds.htm
U.S .Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "Photovoltaics." (Accessed April 21, 2011.)http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/pdfs/46660.pdf
Zwilling, Martin. Business Insider. "Renewable Energy Will Be the Hottest Sector to Invest In This Year." January 12, 2011 (Accessed April 20, 2011.)http://www.businessinsider.com/the-renewable-energy-sector-is-fundable-in-2011-2011-1#ixzz1KAYrrGVN
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Quantum Effect Devices fue una compañía denominada inicialmente Quantum Effect Design y fundada en 1991. Sus tres fundadores, Tom Riordan, Earl Killian y Ray Kunita eran directivos de MIPS Computer Systems Inc.. Dejaron MIPS cuando la compañía comenzó a tener problemas para vender sistemas completos en lugar de microprocesadores. Poco después, SGI se hizo con MIPS. QED comenzó como una empresa de diseño de microprocesadores. IDT fue fuente de fondos e importante cliente en los primeros momentos de QED.

El plan de producción original de QED se centraba en la construcción de un procesador MIPS para portátiles, y esto fue así mientras Microsoft mantuvo su iniciativa Advanced Computing Environment para dar soporte a que múltiples arquitecturas RISC pudiesen correr el sistema operativo Windows NT. Compañías de sistemas como DeskStation Technology y otras de placas como ShaBLAMM desarrollaron ciertos productos con la esperanza de que el ordenador personal de procesador RISC se hiciese popular. Como quiera que dicho mercado no llegó a materializarse, el primer producto, el microprocesador R4600, funcionó con éxito en varios sistemas integrados como routers o máquinas recreativas. Los siguientes proyectos fueron diseñados para compañías como Toshiba o IDT (R4700), IDT & NKK (R4650), SGI y NEC (R5000), etc.

El 603Q fue un microprocesador PowerPC diseñado por Motorola como base de videoconsolas y PC domésticos de Apple. Ninguno de los proyectos se materializó, de forma que el 603Q nunca fue producido a pleno rendimiento.

Varios años después, en un intento por aumentar las ganancias, la compañía se reconvirtió pasando a vender su propia línea de microprocesadores MIPS. En ese momento la compañía cambió su nombre a Quantum Effect Devices. Tras ciertos proyectos exitosos como el RM5200 o el RM7000 bajo la nueva marca propia "RISCMark", la compañía lanzó una Oferta Pública Inicial de acciones el 1 de febrero de 2000. La empresa fue comprada por PMC-Sierra en octubre de 2000, pasando a ser su división de microprocesadores. Gran parte del equipo de desarrollo de núcleos procedente de QED dejó en bloque la empresa en junio de 2005, haciéndolo los pocos restantes en enero de 2006.

El nombre de la compañía es atribuido a Tom Riordan; se piensa que porque él creía que la empresa sobreviviría a la etapa en que las dimensiones de los chips semiconductores serían tan reducidas que los efectos cuánticos serían la base del comportamiento de los circuitos.

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Police have arrested two people after a man died when a car left the road and hit a lamppost on Teesside.
The crash happened early on Sunday morning (April 15th) on Wolviston Road in Billingham.
The front seat passenger of a Ford Focus, a man in his 20s from North Yorkshire, was pronounced dead in hospital.
Two people were arrested on suspicion of drink driving and causing death by dangerous driving.


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package com.javarush.test.level03.lesson08.task02;

/* Зарплата через 5 лет
Ввести с клавиатуры Имя и два числа, вывести надпись:
name1 получает «число1» через «число2» лет.
Пример: Коля получает 3000 через 5 лет.
*/

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Solution
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
        String name = s.nextLine();
        int num1 = s.nextInt();
        int num2 = s.nextInt();
        System.out.println(name+" получает "+num1+" через "+num2+" лет.");
    }
}

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If you have not yet been over to Holly's new blog... then you need to go over and check it out! She is doing a GIVEAWAY and a way to help little doggies in need. So go on over and help her support AKC and in return you could win some fabric from the Oh My Dog! collection by Lori Gardner for Moda Fabrics.
Every night this week I have been staying up literally until the next day (12-1 am) working on Christmas gifts and other little projects I just want to get done. I am telling you... sewing for me has become a serious stress reliever. Even when I am not stressed, it just makes me feel relaxed and have that feeling that I have accomplished something outside of my daily tasks. So, everyday at 5pm, I stop working (I had to set a schedule for myself so I am not working all night... easy to do when you work from home.) and start on a project for about an hour. Then I stop and fix dinner and spend some time with the family. When they go to bed around 9ish, then I start working on my projects again until I am at a good stopping point or finished. I am actually really enjoying this new schedule I set for myself. Something about the humm of the sewing machine just calms me. Believe it or not, I have even had a more restful sleep lately going to bed at 12 and waking up around 7... strange.
Anyway... here are a couple of the projects I accomplished this week in my night hours.
You know in school they teach you how to "follow the directions". Apparently I never followed the directions very well because for some reason I am always trying to alter the directions. Not on purpose, just happens... it's like a sickness I have. Why can't I just make something exactly like it shows? Well, I bought this skirt pattern, the Girly Stripwork Skirt by Pink Fig. I think it is sooo cute with all the stripwork.
I decided to make a Christmas-y skirt for Paige with this pattern and wanted to use a Jelly Roll of the "mother" colorway of Cotton Blossoms by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Fabrics. I thought it would be perfect to use on this skirt since it had the colors that remind me of Christmas. As you know the Jelly Rolls are 2.5" wide strips. This particular pattern called for 5 1/2" strips.... so here goes the start of my altering. I did the math and figured up the total finished length with the 5 1/2" strips, then divided that by 2 since that would be the finished width of each strip once sewn. At least my math skills paid off from school, because this skirt turned out ADORABLE!
I used a coordinating brown silk for the waist band and skirt hem and added a little bit of crochet trim just along the bottom seam.
If you look really close at Paige's legs, you can see a faint red color... yep... that would be a sharpie marker once again. She had the marker all up her legs... luckily the skirt covers most of it. She has taken 3 baths scrubbing her legs and you can still see how much fun she had.
After several pictures, she started to get a bit silly on me. Gotta love her.
This one is just for fun... had to squeeze my little man in here.
Tonight, I finished up a Bistro Wrap from the pattern Hip Wraps by Vanilla House. Very cute pattern. This wrap I made as a Birthday present for a good friend of mine. She is working on starting up her own business and thought this might help out when she is working her booth. I used a dark denim and an ivory damask print called Lost Horizon from the Shangri La fabric collection by 3 Sisters. I also decided to personalize it a bit by adding her first initial on the attached pocket. The letter applique is just a flocked iron-on by s-e-i I got at Hobby Lobby.
I will be giving her this apron on Sunday and sure hope she likes it.
WOO HOO!!! How exciting is this... it is a GIVE-AWAY DAY on so many blogs! And guess what!? I am participating in it too! So here it is..... I will be giving away a Moda Sampler Pack. Need I say more? Basically it will be an assortment of different items produced by Moda.
All YOU have to do is come up with a Christmas themed song/poem about Moda. It can be anything to do with our products, the Moda name, etc. Simply type the lyrics in your comment to me and tell me what Christmas song/poem it goes with. It does not have to be the whole song or poem, just a portion will do. You better hurry... the Contest ends at Midnight December 3rd.
UPDATE: Okay... you guys are seriously making me cry I am laughing so hard at some of these songs... they are GREAT!!!! Keep them coming! This is truly going to be a tough decision.
Another UPDATE: There are so many fun and exciting entries! I will announce the winner on Monday, December 8th. Good Luck!
Happy CYBER DAY! Hope everyone had a wonderful and Thankful Thanksgiving! I know I had a great time seeing all of the Yosten's (Richie has a BIG family). The food was YUMMY and now I think I need to lose 10 pounds....hmmm. Anyway... we got a lot done over our holiday weekend and I am feeling refreshed and ready to take on the world... okay not really, but it sounded good, right?
The day after Thanksgiving, I moved my home office to another location in the house. Richie used to work from home a lot like I do and now he is actually going into the office now that he has a workspace there of his own. SOOO... we decided it was time the kids get a playroom and I move my office into the study where Richie's office used to be. I am really digging my new room. Lots more desk space and I can now have my sewing machine and my computer all on the desk.
Saturday, we put up our Christmas decorations and it looks like Christmas in our house now... I love Christmas time. All the joy and happiness that surrounds this time of year is just so refreshing!
I also got a blast from the past today. I finally received this toy sewing machine that I won on Ebay. My sister and I had a sewing machine just like this when we were little and really wanted Paige to be able to learn on one like this as well. I was so excited when I finally found it on Ebay and quickly put in my bid for it and WON! It uses yarn and punches through foam pads so there are no needles to worry about. I can't wait until Paige gets it on Christmas morning! I think I may be more excited about it than she will be.


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Q: pygame dragging a background image This is a follow up question to the code below.
I commented out the y imgPos so the image can only be dragged left or right.  But you can drag the image forever in either direction.  How can you put a stopping point so you can not drag it any further left and right.
I have tried imgPos.clamp_ip(screen)
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

pygame.display.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))
img = pygame.image.load('sky.png')

imgPos = pygame.Rect((0, 0), (0, 0))

LeftButton = 0
while 1:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == QUIT: exit(0)
        if e.type == MOUSEMOTION:
            if e.buttons[LeftButton]:
                # clicked and moving
                rel = e.rel
                imgPos.x += rel[0]
                #imgPos.y += rel[1]
    screen.fill(0)
    screen.blit(img, imgPos)
    pygame.display.flip()
    pygame.time.delay(30)

A: Why not just do this
if e.type == MOUSEMOTION:
    if e.buttons[LeftButton]:
        # clicked and moving
        rel = e.rel
        imgPos.x += rel[0]
        if imgPos.x < MIN_X:
            imgPos.x = MIN_X
        elif imgPos.x > MAX_X:
            imgPos.x = MAX_X

If you want to make this a little neater, you could wrap it up in a pygame.Rect object, which would also make it easier to add the same functionality to the imgPos.y
border = pygame.Rect(MIN_X, MIN_Y, WIDTH, HEIGHT)

if e.type == MOUSEMOTION:
    if e.buttons[LeftButton]:
        # clicked and moving
        rel = e.rel
        imgPos.x += rel[0]
        if imgPos.left < border.left:
            imgPos.left = border.left
        elif imgPos.right > border.right:
            imgPos.right = border.right

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Hi Rising Waters Confab participants! I am very excited that this week the confluence at the Rauschenberg Residency will begin. I will be joining you on May 11th, and will be staying until the end of the residency, but hope that along with this blog we might have some opportunities for video chat meetings in the afternoons.
Ideas that I would like to pursue at Rising Waters include:flows of time, energy, oxygen, carbon, and belief in the face of the anthropocene.
I have been thinking a great deal about time and relationships between nano and macro in my work lately, especially since I work as the Exhibition and Program Manager at the Art|Sci Center at the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA, where many researchers are now looking at the microbiome and the nanobiome in the ocean and earth.
So I have been thinking about the ecologies, especially microbial, that have been involved in the creation of the atmosphere that sustains life on earth, including Oxygen rich atmosphere, which was first created by unicellular cyanobacteria and phytoplankton at least 2 billion years ago. Today we are faced with rapid climate change as many ancient bacteria and plants that were compressed into oil and coal are still being burned at a literally breathtaking pace, releasing ancient carbon stores into the air. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis uses the atmosphere as the main indicator of the earth's homeostasis as a giant organism. How might we as humans collaborate with the omnipresent microbiome (microbies in earth, air, water) and nanobiome (even smaller organisms) to help regain an atmospheric balance? What mythological constructs might help us make this paradigm shift?
The quickly melting ice caps, releasing trapped methane that further accelerates the greenhouse effect and warms the atmosphere even more.
Stromatolites: slow growing ancient middens of cyanobacteria that helped create the Oxygen in the atmosphere billions of years ago Stromatolites off of Western Australia, Shark Bay, from this site. They can also be found off of the Bahamas, in Exuma Sound (which RIBS is studying). Turns out that Stromatolites are our earliest reef formations, and only now can be found in places with high mineral contents that drive out plants and animals that might feed on their microbial mats. With all of the ocean acidification from global warming and toxic chemicals that human industry has been dumping into the oceans, I wonder if stromatolites made of extremophile bacteria and cyanobacteria will become more prevalent again.
In response to all the Oxygen in the atmosphere, some cells invented the technology of respiration to metabolize or "burn" food with Oxygen instead of getting killed by it, and some of those bacteria eventually became inhabitants in the ancestors of our own cells (mitochondria).
What are life's current and future inventions in reaction to climate change, changing atmosphere (increasing CO2 and decreasing O2), ocean acidification, and rapidly changing ecosystems?
There are connections to be made between the macro and micro biomes, inside and outside. I've been thinking about how dandelions function as such a connector – doing work inside bodies, and across species.


A gable roof, also known as a pitched or peaked roof, is an inverted 'V'. This roof design is common in the villages produced by Minecraft's terrain generator, and is useful for small buildings.... Then use a different color stairs and place them on the outside edge of the house. After that place any block on the inside of the stairs.
A flat roof might be easy but it looks very ugly . If its night , you can either make a little dirt shelter to survive and continue building , or go inside your house and put doors and windows .


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Naurangabass Jattan is a small village in Charkhi Dadri of Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana.  It is surrounded by hills of Aravali.

Census
According to census of India 2011 it had a total population of 1,647 out of which 860 were male and 787 female.  The literacy rate is 66.47% out of which 77% male and 54% female are literate.

Main caste is Jat along with 3-4% Scheduled Castes.  Dhindhwal, Malik, Ahlawat, Gajraj, Sangwan, Sheoran and Jakhar are major Jat clans present here.

Agriculture is the main profession, although about 65% of youth are providing their services in the defence sector.

The Dada Ramsar ji temple is a place of worship which is located in the lap of Aravali mountains surrounding the village.

A very big fair is organized on the occasion of Holi (the Indian colour festival) at Dada Ramsar Ji Temple where people from different regions come to worship. The fair consists of many cultural and sports activities.

The place has peaceful & healthy environment and greenery at the mountains enhances its aesthetics. You can observe clouds touching mountain peaks from closely during monsoon.

Cattle farming is also done at a large scale, every household in the village owns at least 5 cattle.

The dairy business is also a main business for the household ladies.

Education
The village has a high school and a primary school while 3 senior secondary schools are at just 3 km from it.  This village has given armymen, teachers, doctors and many other professionals.

Transport
It is well connected to cities and villages through roads.  Nearest railway station is 7 km away at Nawan.

References

External links
 http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=63098

Villages in Bhiwani district


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Papa John's new logo and name change gets mixed thoughts on Twitter
Who is Isabel Oakeshott? Stanley Johnson drama stirred by "handsy" tweet
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Stanley Johnson, the Prime Minister's father, has denied accusations by two women this month (including a Conservative MP) who claimed that he touched them inappropriately
Johnson denied the claims stating that he has "no recollection" of Caroline Nokes (the first women to make a claim) at all. Following his response, political correspondent Ailbhe Rea tweeted claims that she had also been groped by Johnson, to which SJ also denied.
Now, in the midst of the situation, political journalist Isabel Oakeshott took to Twitter to share her view on Stanley Johnson…
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Who is Isabel Oakeshott?
Isabel Oakeshott is a 47-year-old British political journalist and broadcaster. She was born in Westminster, London, and graduated from the University of Bristol with a bachelor's degree in history.
In 2006, Oakeshott became the deputy political editor at The Sunday Times before becoming political editor in 2010. A year later, in 2011, she was awarded the title of "Political Journalist of the Year" at The Press Awards.
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Oakeshott shares three children with ex-husband Nigel Rosser, from whom she split in 2018.
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What did Isabel Oakeshott say about Stanley Johnson?
Following the recent allegations made against Stanley Johnson, Isabel Oakeshott took to Twitter to share her views on the situation.
In a tweet posted on November 17th, Oakeshott stated that while "the charming Stanley Johnson can be a little over-friendly-indeed handsy," she does not believe that it is a police matter.
Oakeshott continued on to state that "officers should focus their limited resources on investigating real crimes."
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The charming Stanley Johnson can be a little over-friendly -indeed handsy – but I don't believe this is one for the police. Officers should focus their limited resources on investigating real crimes. pic.twitter.com/oZaZtLHigg
— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) November 17, 2021
Isabel Oakeshott responds to backlash over tweet
Political correspondent Kate McCann responded to Oakeshott's tweet explaining that while she may be "OK with someone being handsy" other women may not be.
McCann called Oakeshott out and stated that her tweet suggests that women "ought to just ignore" harassment, and her take on the situation "diminishes" the women who have spoken out.
Oakeshott replied to McCann with another tweet and said: "Nope, I'm not "okay" with it. What I've said is that in this case, it's not worthy of a criminal investigation. That's all."


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Dusty The Show Charing Cross Theatre
Enjoy Celebrity Radio's New Dusty Springfield Musical London…
DUSTY THE SHOW follows the path of Dusty's career through the eyes of Nancy Jones, a childhood friend & confidante.
This show has great heart and portrays Dusty as a vocal genius & true Star who is ultimately shrouded in insecurity, paranoia and unhappiness driven by ego, pressure, alcohol and drugs.
You get an insight into her true character & fight for human rights, through the controversy of her cancelled South Africa appearance.
We get to enjoy a Live band recreating the sounds of Dusty to digitally re-mastered vocals from the lady herself.
Unlike previous shows, the real Dusty drives the show – not an imitator.
DUSTY has the newest 3D technology which brings Ms. Springfield back to life on the stage. Hugely impressive.
The 'live' duet moments in the show are terrifically moving between Dusty & the cast. Huge emotion with some of her most moving hits.
Some of the lighting, staging & dance numbers are exciting, exhilarating and hugely impressive.
Dusty & her sensational music is absolutely the Star of this 2015 celebration of one of best voices in British history!
Enjoy an Exclusive interview with the Stars of 'Dusty' – Ellie Ann Lowe & Francesca Jackson:
The Charing Cross Theatre is an intimate space within 'The Arcade' next to Charing Cross Station.
This show has an energetic cast Starring Ellie Ann Lowe as Mary O'Brien / Dusty.
Francesca Jackson does a masterful job setting the scene for Dusty's life as her best friend Nancy.
This show how the soundtrack to our lives With all of Dusty's hits including 'I close my eyes and count to ten', 'Wishin and hoping', 'I only want to be with you', 'Goin Back' & my personal favourite 'All I See Is You'.
Ellie graduated in 2014 and has since appeared in Saturday Night Fever & Love Story.
On TV you may have seen Ellie on Pride & Prejudice: Having a Ball for the BBC.
Duncan Sibbald is the Producer and co-writer of Dusty.
He's produced numerous DVD and TV programmes including England's Story, a film about the 2003 Rugby World Cup winning team.
In 2004 he was co-producer of The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas programme, filmed at the Strand Theatre and shown on NBC in America and PBS in Canada.
Francesca has Starred in Million Dollar Quartet, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Rent & Oliver! at The London Palladium.
On television you may have seen Francesca as a finalist on the BBC's I'd Do Anything, Cheryl in Boyfriend Material (E4 Pilot) The House and Refresh (S4C).
Don't miss DUSTY now playing at the Charing Cross Theatre. GET TICKETS HERE!
Review and Interview by Alex Belfield @ www.celebrityradio.biz 9th July 2015.
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After years of duct taping circuit boards and praying to a variety of gods, U.S. carriers need to take time out to invest in updating their systems. It will likely be a big hit to quarterly results, but it will pay off in the long term. Which airline is brave enough to make the first move?
Delta Air Lines Inc.'s grounding of U.S. flights was lifted after almost two and a half hours, ending the second disruption among major U.S. domestic airlines in just one week.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which said "automation issues" at Delta were to blame, in a later statement said the grounding was canceled. Delta's international flights were exempt from the problem.
Delta's computer outage prompted stranded passengers from Houston to Atlanta to take to social media as flights stayed grounded at airports. United Continental Holdings Inc. last week had to ground its U.S. flights following a computer failure. While that outage resulted in relatively few cancellations, it lasted about two and a half hours.
Atlanta-based Delta, the second-largest U.S. airline, operates almost 6,000 flights a day during peak summer months, according to a Delta release from August. The airline operates more than 800 aircraft and flies almost 180 million passengers a year.
The latest problem at Delta struck just as airlines struggled to comply with new travel restrictions following President Donald Trump's executive order blocking travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Parts of the order were temporarily blocked by judges.
Last year, a rash of computer failures disrupted flight operations at U.S. airlines. Thousands of passengers were stranded as carriers struggled to keep older information systems working.
Ground stops, as the FAA calls them, are relatively common reactions to thunderstorms and other disruptions in the U.S. aviation system. They are typically short-lived and narrowly drawn, such as halting departures to a congested airport for an hour or two.