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NCAA's March Madness Brand to Include Women in 2022 Basketball Tournament
Dean Golembeski
Following his experience as a journalist — including 10 years with the Associated Press — Dean Golembeski managed communication departments at public and private colleges. Dean has written about higher education, politics, sports, and more, and has b...
The NCAA will use March Madness branding for both men's and women's tournaments.
The change comes after an independent report criticized the NCAA's diversity commitments.
The NCAA will also change how the men's and women's tournaments are funded.
March Madness is no longer just for men.
The NCAA announced Wednesday it will use the longstanding marking and branding to promote both the men's and women's 2022 Division I basketball tournaments. In a separate announcement Thursday, the organization said it is also exploring the possibility of holding the Final Fours for both men and women in the same city, possibly as soon as 2027.
The announcements arrive some six months after the NCAA was sharply criticized for its botched handling of the 2021 women's basketball tournament. Back in March, the University of Oregon's Sedona Prince made national news with a Tweet showing inadequate weightlifting equipment provided to the women's teams for their tournament in San Antonio. She compared that to what the NCAA provided to the men's teams for their tournament in Indianapolis.
The Tweet set off a storm of criticism about gender equity in college sports. NCAA President Mark Emmert later acknowledged that the organization had botched its handling of the women's tournament. He also agreed to an external gender equity review of all championships by the Kaplan Hecker & Fink law firm, which released a report in August.
The NCAA has not lived up to its stated commitment to 'diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches and administrators.'
The report not only supported Prince's complaint, it also found differences such as the gift bags provided to the players and the quality of food. The report also made several recommendations to reduce the gender divide that exists between men's and women's sports.
"With respect to women's basketball, the NCAA has not lived up to its stated commitment to 'diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches and administrators,'" the report said.
"The primary reason, we believe, is that the gender inequities at the NCAA — and specifically within the NCAA Division I basketball championships — stem from the structure and systems of the NCAA itself, which are designed to maximize the value of and support to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship as the primary source of funding for the NCAA and its membership."
The report recommended that the NCAA include the women's tournament as part of the March Madness brand to ensure equal treatment of players and to help grow women's basketball. The next Women's Final Four will be held from April 1-3, 2022 in Minneapolis. While agreeing to add the women's tournament to the March Madness program, the NCAA said they still need to work out the details of how that will be done.
Adding the March Madness trademark to the Division I Women's Basketball Championship will enhance the development and public perception of the sport.
"This is just the start when it comes to improving gender equity in the way the two Division I basketball championships are conducted," Lisa Campos, chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Oversight Committee and director of athletics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said in Wednesday's announcement.
"Adding the March Madness trademark to the Division I Women's Basketball Championship will enhance the development and public perception of the sport," Campos said.
The organization also said it intends to change how the tournaments are funded. Instead of working off budgets from previous years, the NCAA will now start from scratch to determine budget expenses. The goal is to increase equity by making sure any funding differences between the two tournaments are justified.
The NCAA further reported that committees representing both men's and women's basketball will continue to meet regularly to "ensure alignment" between the two championships.
Feature Image: Icon Sportswire / Contributor / Getty Images
Inside the NCAA's Name, Image, Likeness Madness
by Dean Golembeski
Companies Rush to Make Name, Image, Likeness Deals With College Athletes
NCAA Struggles to Keep Its Hold on College Sports


Ok, it's an occupational hazzard, but from a curious browse through the guestbook at a Bed and Breakfast there were some pretty clear patterns emerging.
This was a pro-active B&B owner who understood and served his guests well, but customer facing staff in larger organisations are confronted by valuable user feedback on an hourly basis and are seldomly in a position to analyse and convert this feedback into improvements in customer experience, let alone to measure changing attitudes and expectations over time.
In this case, it's a humble visitors book, and more than likely the quality of feedback is biased towards the positive but this is a great example of how some basic research at the front lines of a business or service can help shape a proposition to best meet customer needs. …or perhaps exceed them by leaving a chocolate on the pillow.
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This is the last outfit I designed and sewed, my first summer outfit of the year. It's made up of a cognac brown leather jacket and an army green playsuit. I drafted and sewed this outfit as a year-end project at school, over the professional Pattern Making classes I've been attending at Afol Moda in Milan. And I have to admit that I adore it… I think it's my best memade outfit experiment so far!
I was inspired by different leather jackets with a collar, I came across online or while I was reading magazines over the last months (among these there were a Valentino, a Salvatore Ferragamo and a Hermès jacket). I chose to make a short jacket, some centimetres below the waistline only, because I needed a short jacket to match with a lot of summer dresses I already had in my wardrobe. Moreover it perfectly matches with this summer playsuit.
Given that the jacket I wanted to design had a very simple line, I played with the pockets/darts position, designing them asymmetrically. I added a zip placket on the sleeves. The back is very simple, with a yoke and a back central seam.
I chose a beautiful, soft ,thin Nappa leather and a retro pattern lining (I bought it as a viscose fabric at the shop, but I found out it was polyester when I burnt it…it hate when these things happen! Anyway I liked the pattern very much, it matched with everything, both the leather and the playsuit, and I had no time to change it, so I kept it in the end).
I made a toile to test the fit and then I sewed the jacket at school, using an industrial linear sewing machine. I have to say that sewing this jacket took me a long time because I had to be very precise, but it wasn't as difficult as I imagined (thanks also to my teacher's super-precious suggestions).
Sewing leather has to be a "one shot deal", so I was extra-careful in sewing it in a perfect way. And obviously I can't use pins because they leave holes in the leather (you can use them only inside the seam allowance if your jacket is lined, so you can't see the holes outside and inside).
I used paper tape instead of pins both when I cut and sewed it (I tested the paper tape on a scrap of leather before using it on my jacket to see if it would have damaged the leather I had bought) and I used it only inside the seam allowance to be sure. I used the Gutermann textile glue too, especially for the sleeve placket and the pockets. Be careful because both the paper tape and the glue can dirty the needle, so don't stitch over them.
I used a thick thread (such as thread for jeans) and a Teflon presser foot. I used a top stitch foot to topstitch (for pockets and zippers I used the Teflon foot instead and I tried to make the seam as straight as I can). I made samples with some leather scraps to understand how to sew pockets and zippers in the right way before sewing them on my jacket.
Hemwise, I managed to press it slightly to keep it in shape (be careful because you can both burn and stain leather).
I have to say that every time I had to stitch a seam on my jacket I had a cold sweat. Anyway, I managed to get my jacket done without too much noticeable damage. Using an industrial sewing machine has helped me to sew it well for sure. I'd like to try to sew something similar with my domestic machine. I still have two pieces of this leather…let's see what I come up with!
The dress is in a beautiful army green viscose fabric that I bought second hand from Giulia (she used this fabric a while back for one of her collections at MOKU Lab in Milan). It's perfect for summer because it's very cool and light.
I designed the central draping on the waistline using a draping scheme I found in Pattern Magic Vol. I by Tomoko Nakamichi (pg. 62-67), mixing it with short culottes.
I wanted to try a low neckline on the back, so I designed a drop opening.
I lined the bodice (the most complex step was to understand how to line the bodice, seen that it has a central draping). The culottes have a facing sewed with the bodice lining on the waistline instead.
Sewing this playsuit has been much more fun and faster than sewing the leather jacket. I still have about 2 mt of this viscose fabric and I'm gonna sew another version of this garment, a maxidress for a wedding in June. To match with my brand new leather jacket obviously!
Hey! You always look gorgeous and hot Stylo girl !
wow they both look great, that jacket is fantastic and the playsuit is adorable. and great fit too.
So awesome! I loved reading all about the process and they both look great!


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Did Kylie Name Her Baby Girl Butterfly? Here's Why It's Unlikely
By Isabel Jones Updated Feb 05, 2018 @ 10:45 am
If you've been trolling the web for Kylie Jenner baby stories for the past day, there's a good chance you're familiar with the running theory that the 20-year-old named her daughter Butterfly.
And OK, it mostly makes sense … Kylie and Travis Scott have matching butterfly tattoos, the latter has a song called "Butterfly Effect," in Ky's nostalgic birth story video she wears a butterfly necklace … I'll admit, the evidence is convincing.
But here's where things get confusing: KYLIE IS TERRIFIED OF BUTTERFLIES.
During the first season of Life of Kylie, the titular reality star and her bestie Jordyn Woods visit a butterfly sanctuary in London, wherein Ms. Jenner reveals her secret fear of the fluttering creature. "I'm scared if one lands on me!" she shrieks as they tour the premises.
"Butterflies are just part of the secrets of Kylie," Jenner explains. "It's kind of just ironic because I'm terrified, terrified of butterflies. All butterflies. This is how I think of them: cut the wings off and if you just look at their bodies, they're not that pretty. It's literally a bug."
If Ky still harbors these feelings toward butterflies, it would be really weird if she named her daughter after one, no?

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The Geomblog
Ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms, theoretical computer science and life
The Job Search: A series of posts
Clustering: A conceptual approach
Undergrads and arXiv ?
Via Daniel Lemire, this prediction:
Today's undergrads have never thought about the world any differently – they've never functioned without IM and Wikipedia and arXiv, and they're going to demand different kinds of review for different kinds of papers.
< snarky researcher on>
If you are an undergrad who's never functioned without the arXiv, please please pretty please apply for a summer job at AT&T, and request me as your mentor.
I shall now wait for a deluge of applications to clog my mailbox.
< snarky researcher off>
Posted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at 8/31/2006 12:07:00 AM 1 comments
Planar graphs and Steinitz's theorem
One way of representing a 3-connected planar graph is as the 1-skeleton (i.e the vertices and edges) of a convex polytope. A neat way of visualizing this is by shining a light above one face of the polytope and looking at the shadow formed (see David Eppstein's beautiful picture). Steinitz's theorem says that in fact this is an exact characterization: convex polytopes are exactly those polytopes whose edge graphs are planar.
There are different ways this convex polytope can be constructed, and it can be made to take various forms. Oded Schramm, in a paper titled 'How to Cage an Egg' that should go on my list of cool paper titles, shows that given any convex polytope and any smooth strictly convex body in R3, there is a combinatorially equivalent convex polytope that can be embedded such that each edge touches the surface of the convex body (in particular, we could use a sphere). There are many other results of this flavor; Ziegler's book on polytopes has more, as does Jeff Erickson's page on constructing convex polytopes.
But the question that puzzles me is this. Steinitz's original proof yields a polytope with rational coordinates (and thus integer coordinates). However, the values involved are doubly exponential in the number of vertices. Subsequently, Onn and Sturmfels showed that a "mere" single exponential suffices (specifically, their bound is of the form n169n3). It is open whether a polynomial (quadratic?) bound suffices.
Enter László Lovász, and the Colin de Verdière number of a graph. It would take too long to explain this number here (van der Holst, Lovász and Schrijver have a survey); basically it's the second eigenvalue of an associated matrix and has the interesting property of correlating with planarity, outer planarity and linkless embeddability for different values of the number. Lovász and Schrijver showed that a Colin de Verdière matrix (a matrix achieving the number) can be used to embed a planar graph on the sphere (using the geodesics as edges) so that each face is the intersection of the sphere with a convex polyhedral cone.
Lovász, in later work, then showed that this matrix can be used to generate a Steinitz representation of a planar graph as well. Which finally brings me to the question I wanted to ask:
Is there anything known about the size complexity of the Steinitz representation that the Lovász construction generates ? My references for the size of the Steinitz representation are quite old (the Ziegler book and the Onn/Sturmfels paper) and maybe there is a known polynomial upper bound ? If not, could the Lovász construction be a good candidate ?
It's worth noting that for higher dimensional polytopes, it is known that a doubly exponential representation is the best one can hope for. As often happens, the 3D case is special in this regard.
Update: David Eppstein points out that Chrobak, Goodrich and Tamassia showed a bound of O(n log n) bits per vertex (instead of n3) in SoCG 1996 (they apparently weren't aware of the Onn/Sturmfels result though).
Update II: Isn't the internet great ! Another commenter points out a monograph by
Jürgen Richter-Gebert on the realization of polytopes. Here's where things get interesting. The monograph (dated 1996) has two Steinitz realizations. One is a general bound that uses 18n2 bits per vertex (better than Onn/Sturmfels) and the other, which applies to simplicial polytopes (specifically realizations of the 3-connected planar graphs that Chrobak et al consider), uses linear number of bits per vertex (something like n * log 43) ! So this work improves on the Chrobak et al work, while being roughly concurrent (Both author groups are unaware of each other's work).
Of course all of this predates the Lovász construction, so the possibility of further improvement still exists.
Posted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at 8/30/2006 11:20:00 PM 3 comments
Mathematics and Wikipedia
From yet more ink spilled over l'affaire Perelman, a description of mathematics apropos for these modern times:
Mathematics is supposed to be a Wikipedia-like undertaking, with thousands of self-effacing scriveners quietly laboring over a great self-correcting text.
A language for computational topology
sigfpe makes a case for Haskell, using simple Haskell code to compute Betti numbers.
TWA: Travelling while Asian
So let me get this straight:
You can't talk in Arabic
You can't fidget with a cell phone
You can't wear a T-shirt with Arabic writing
You can't pray
I suspect you also can't have brown skin, but naah: that would just make me paranoid...
habeas
The "I-Team" vs the A-Team.
From Terence Tao's Field's medal announcement:
He did this work in collaboration with four other mathematicians, James Colliander, Markus Keel, Gigliola Staffilani, and Hideo Takaoka. Together they have become known as the "I-team", where "I" denotes many different things, including "interaction"... The word "interaction" also refers to interactions among the team members, and indeed collaboration is a hallmark of Tao's work.
Consider this, from the A-Team:
I like mathematical progressions, but we're really picky about whom we work for.
Given one of the things Tao won the Fields Medal for, this is strangely appropriate.
Replacing impossibility by infeasibility
One of the great conceptual breakthroughs in cryptography was the idea that an impossibility - this code cannot be cracked - can be replaced by infeasibility - this code is computationally hard to crack - with great success. Indeed, the notion that all you need to do is fool a computationally bounded adversary is at the core of derandomization.
It's an idea that transcends theoryCS - that you can model entities by computationally bounded objects, and can then prove interesting things about them that you couldn't have done if the entity was all powerful. And it's realistic ! As long as you're willing to believe in the effective variant of the Church-Turing thesis (all effective computations are in BPP; we'll pretent quantum computing doesn't exist for now), then it accurately models any computational entity you can choose to build.
Which brings us to social choice and voting theory. As you may well be aware, Arrow's theorem is a rather depressing impossibility result for designing a "fair" election. Either you lose some nice property (no dictatorship!), or some adversary can find a way to beat the system another way. But given all of the above, a more plausible question one might ask is: can a computationally bounded adversary crack an election ? (Disclaimer: I have no evidence that Diebold is a computationally bounded adversary; it certainly has no resource constraints)
What got my attention were two new papers on the arxiv, one by Faliszewski, Hemaspaandra, and Hemaspaandra, and the other by Hemaspaandra, Hemaspaandra, and Rothe.
The first paper asks the question that Katherine Harris must have surely wondered about, "How Hard Is Bribery in Elections?". The short answer is, "It depends", and the long answer is that depending on the type of voting scheme and who's doing the rigging (a briber or the voters themselves), the problem goes between being in P and being NP-Complete.
The second paper studies the problem of when the organizer of an election seeks to rig it:
Electoral control refers to attempts by an election's organizer (``the chair'') to influence the outcome by adding/deleting/partitioning voters or candidates.
In some circles, this is also known as the venue selection process for SODA. What the authors show is that by combining elections in a certain way, the overall election can be made resistant (i.e NP-hard) to control by the organizer.
Originality vs understanding, and the nature of creativity.
One of the comments in the SIGGRAPH forum I talked about earlier was about the (mistaken) emphasis on original trivial contributions versus "incremental" but more profound contributions. The statement is of course stacked (who would argue in favor of "trivial" contributions !), but it brings up a point worth noting.
You can be creative while being original, and indeed this is the standard way one thinks about creativity. But solely emphasizing originality misses a deeper truth about why we do research, which is the acquiring of wisdom and understanding. Indeed, it takes a certain, different kind of creativity to deeply understand certain concepts, often by establishing connections between known areas or making subtle observations about the relationships between entities. Indeed, in computational geometry, we have a name for one such kind of creativity: "Chan's method" :)
Originality and understanding are part of the larger process of acquiring knowledge and wisdom about a domain. A new area of knowledge profits from originality because problems start blossoming forth, and ideas come fast and furious. Over time, deep understanding leads to the building of connections among known concepts, and this further strengthens the area. Mature areas like mathematics find great value in the establishing of connections; the whole of category theory can be viewed as one gigantic connection generator.
Computer science is a young discipline; like all young disciplines, new ideas are valued, and they come so fast that there is often little time to reflect and make connections. My personal belief (your mileage may vary) is that at least in the realm of algorithms and geometry we've reached a kind of consolidation limit point, where more and more often we are running up against problems that call for brand new ways of thinking, and where "more of the same" kinds of results seem less interesting. In such a setting, results that prove less, but connect more, seem more valuable to me.
SIGGRAPH, hiring, and peer review.
There's been an interesting flareup in the graphics community prompted by the posting of a note by Michael Ashikhmin on his web page. Ashikhmin is a known graphics researcher (with SIGGRAPH papers to his credit) who recently (June this year) proclaimed his desire to leave the graphics community because of
my deep disgust for the state of affairs within computer graphics research community and my inability to fit well within existing system
His grievances are many, and appear to be a direct consequence of the hegemonic nature of SIGGRAPH, by far the most prestigious conference in graphics. Specifically, he argues that all the usual problems with conference reviewing (extreme subjectiveness, poor quality of the reviews, clique-formation) are exacerbated by the overwhelming influence SIGGRAPH papers have on one's career (being hired, advancing in one's career, getting tenure, etc).
None of the objections are particularly novel; indeed, I have yet to go to a theory conference where people have NOT complained about the reviewers. However, what takes this beyond just your ordinary embittered-researcher-rant is that many prominent researchers in graphics appear to publicly both agree with him.
Michael says in his letter that senior graphics researchers recommended that he host a forum devoted to discussing this issue, and once he set the forum up, many well known and respected graphics researchers (John Hart, Marc Levoy, and Jonathan Shewchuk among others), commented publicly on the matter. In fact, Marc Levoy (who's the papers chair for SIGGRAPH 2007) went further and organized a town hall meeting at SIGGRAPH 2006 to discuss paper reviewing procedures (I don't know what transpired there).
There are many comments on the forum from anonymous commenters who claim to be published authors at SIGGRAPH. As far as I can tell, not one person disagrees with the primary claims that Michael makes, although Marc does attempt to mount a defense of the paper review process, while still acknowledging the main problems, and outlining strategies that he will employ in 2007 to fix some of them.
Many good suggestions were made. One of the primary ones was to add a new SIGGRAPH-like conference so that one venue didn't have to take all the load (STOC and FOCS were cited favorably here). Prohibiting committee members from submitting was another idea (again, the theory community was cited), although this was frowned upon by Marc Levoy, who complained that he wouldn't be able to find people for a committee (he did aver that he wouldn't be submitting anything).
This is probably the first time I've seen this kind of discussion take place (partly) on the record without dismissing the complaint as sour grapes. The question of course is whether anything will come of it in the long term. It's worth mentioning that even in our conservative (by nature, not by politics) research world, change can happen, and can often happen rapidly. Witness the collective revolt by academicians of all stripes against Elsevier, and closer to home, consider the split in ICRA (one of the main robotics conferences) to form RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems).
Poincare's conjecture
Dennis Overbye has a great article in the NYT today about the resolution(?) of Poincare's conjecture. He does an excellent job describing both the conjecture itself and the main line of attack that Perelman follows, while narrating the history of the proof both accurately and without unnecessary romanticization of the mathematicians involved.
For a more detailed nontechnical survey that goes more into the roles of the different players, see Allyn Jackson's article on the latest Notices of the AMS. A more technical account is presented in a manuscript by Shing-Tung Yau.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
I was watching CNN, and a talking head (who happened to be a former Somebody in Israeli aviation) was making a point that I thought was quite reasonable. He said that it's too hard to focus on the method of making explosives, since explosives sufficient to destroy a plane in mid-air can be made from a variety of chemicals. It was more important, in his view, to focus on the people executing the missions; it was much harder to hide oneself from an acute observer than it was to hide chemicals.
Israeli immigration is notorious for doing exactly this; I've never been to Israel, but colleagues tell me of being interrogated to within an inch of their lives about the details of theorems in the papers they were presenting. After 9/11, I remember similar arguments being made in the US, but they quickly got bogged down in issues of racial profiling, and we quickly found that randomly pulling out gentle Caucasian grandmothers from Iowa was a reasonable thing to do.
So what's the computer science angle here ? If we think of computer security, I'd argue that many of the discussions revolve around blocking techniques: this attack on that cryptosystem, that weakness in this OS, and so on. It seems like the security precautions being put into place on the airlines now are just like that: a weakness is revealed, a (usually overblown) patch is put in place, and so on.
This approach appears completely unsuited for protecting against "real" security hacks though ! The much-derided 'humint' approach appears to be far more effective (and far less overtly intrusive to the population at large).
Precision, recall, and bottles of water.
The latest airline explosion plot has sparked a predictable overreaction by the much-beloved TSA, which once again demonstrates that it lacks a basic understanding of precision and recall.
Let's recap, shall we ? Suppose you're trying to find all elements of a subset S in a universe U, and return as an answer the set H.
Precision measures the quality of your answer; what fraction of the elements of H are indeed in S ? The higher the precision, the lower the false-positive rate.
Recall measures the efficacy of the procedure; what fraction of the elements of S did you actually find ? The higher the recall, the lower the false-negative rate.
As any statistician will tell you, false-positives and false-negatives are complementary; increase one, and the other decreases. Search engines need high precision, (they also need good ranking, but that's a different story).
The TSA is clearly going for high recall. Banning bottles of water will surely eliminate any future plans for liquid explosives that use water, but it also eliminates the many (how shall I say) *innocent* uses of water ?
p.s I don't mind the short term enforcement of stricer guidelines while law enforcement attempts to figure out what kinds of explosives were being designed. I just have no faith that the new draconian regulations will be relaxed any time soon, considering how long it took to allow us to carry nail clippers on board flights again.
Timestamping using the arXiv...
When is it appropriate to post an article to the arXiv ? You could opt to post when
A journal /conference accepts the paper. You could also just post it on your website at that point, although the arXiv does allow for better dissemination.
You submit to a journal/conference. I'm told that this is often the model in areas of physics. Seems reasonable enough, although at least in CS, the fear of being "scooped" might prevent you from doing so, not to mention the often-byzantine "double-blind" policies of some conferences.
You've dried yourself off from the shower you were taking when inspiration struck. Ok, so maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but...
Can the arXiv be a valid reference for time-stamping ? In other words, can you use a document posted on the arXiv as proof of 'prior art' ? Consider the following scenario: Santa and Banta* are both working furiously (and independently) on a brand new result in synthetic polymorphic differential logic. Santa submits his paper to the ACM Symp. on SPDL, while Banta misses the deadline. Banta, smartly enough, posts his manuscript on the arXiv, while Santa's paper is deemed not algorithmic enough and is rejected summarily from SPDL.
When IEEE SPDL comes along, who claims precedence ? Certainly not Santa, since he has no document to be cited ? But can Banta claim precedence merely by posting on the arXiv ? there has been no peer review after all, and his proof could be full of holes.
It would be easy enough to declare that Banta has no claim to precedence, since there is no peer-reviewed cited work available. But there are two problems with this:
It negates the value of the arxiv ! After all, if I cannot claim any kind of precedence, but can have someone pick over my result and improve it, what incentive do I have for posting anything ? One answer to this could be that my result is cast-iron, and can't be improved, but this happens far less often, and cannot be a useful answer in all situations.
It ignores common practice within the community ! People will often talk about new results they have, and if the result is important enough, word will spread, and ownership will be (informally) established.
People cite technical reports all the time ! One of the founding papers of streaming algorithms was (and has remained) a DEC technical report.
Personally, I'd still like to use the "peer-reviewed publication" as the best model for timestamping. But this also explains why the arXiv appears more popular among physicists and mathematicians, who publish primarily in journals. After all, the likelihood of a paper getting rejected by a journal can be reduced to a far lower number than the corresponding number for a conference, and so publishing on the arXiv is a relatively risk-free venture. I also suspect that people hold off on more controversial work, sending it out to the arXiv only when already accepted to a peer-reviewed venue.
As my Indian readers will know, Santa and Banta often star in jokes making fun of the lack of intelligence of a particular ethnic community in India. At least in this anecdote, they are both smart researchers; consider it my contribution to ethnic amity. :)
Musings on the arXiv.
Things that make you go 'hmmmm', or why arXiv can't replace peer review:
The polynomial solution of graph isomorphism problem is obtained by consideration symmetry properties of regular $k$-partitions that, on one hand, generalize automorphic $k$-partitions (=systems of $k$-orbits of permutation groups), and, on other hand, schemes of relations (strongly regular 2-partitions or regular 3-partitions), that are a subject of the algebraic combinatorics.
Although I appreciate the value of the arXiv, there are some things about it that I still don't get.
Take the paper excerpted above. It claims to solve graph isomorphism in polynomial time, a result that if true would be quite momentous. The abstract already warns me that the technical material would be complex, and (call me parochial, shallow, what-have-you) the complete absence of grammatical structure does raise some tiny red flags.
So where does this leave me ? I'd like to know whether there is any merit to this paper. In the absence of peer review, I'd have to wade through it myself, or hope that someone with more technical expertise in the material does it for me, and announces their verdict in a forum where I can hear about it.
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The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing this week on "The Evolution of Wired Communications Networks." The major focus of the hearing was on the transition to IP and the deployment of advanced high-speed broadband networks, investment and innovation, and competition. The hearing's panel of witnesses included Jim Cicconi (AT&T), Harold Feld (Public Knowledge) John Burke (Vermont PSC Commissioner), Randy May (Free State Foundation), and Mark Iannuzzi (TelNet Worldwide).
AT&T's Cicconi spoke about the IP transition and the need for trials to determine what problems need to be resolved. Several House Members agreed, with Representative Dingell encouraging the FCC to work with AT&T to set IP trials in motion, as an important case study for businesses, government and consumers. Harold Feld, Public Knowledge, spoke about the importance of public participation in the design of the trials, and a need for the trials to be well constructed. Both Feld and Cicconi recognized the critical importance of public safety: emergency services have to work regardless of the IP transition.
Randy May, Free State Foundation, wants the FCC to move more quickly to get the trials in motion so that useful information can be collected to help with the IP transition. The hearing also raised issues related to competitors with business customers. I thought it was an interesting hearing, with answers to some questions about the IP transition, and some new issues to consider.
I attended an interesting program at the Brookings Center for Technology Innovation this week. The topic was, "Improving Health Care through Mobile Medical Devices and Senors." It's an important issue that I have been following in order to continue to see how technology innovations are improving health care.
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We are really becoming a "mobile" society. Mobile devices, that is. I just read an article online on Tech Crunch that said 40% of YouTube traffic is now on mobile devices, up from 25% just last year. The growth in mobile YouTube traffic is not alone: Facebook users have increasingly used their mobile devices to access the social network. Now, 73% of Facebook users are monthly mobile users, up from 56% in the second quarter of 2012.
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This week, I viewed the Digital Policy Institute's (DPI) webinar, "Consumer Effects of the Upcoming Spectrum Auctions." DPI's Barry Umansky hosted a panel of experts on the topic, including: Anna-Maria Kovacs, Ph.D., Visiting Senior Policy Scholar, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy; Stephen Pociask, President, American Consumer Institute; and Thomas W. Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University School of Law.
The three panelists all agreed that the spectrum auctions should result in tremendous benefits for consumers. Anna Maria Kovacs reminded us that the spectrum auction is important to consumers because so many rely on wireless for their communications services: today, 38% of households are wireless only. Research shows that minorities in particular rely on wireless, with many using smartphone to access the Internet. Steve Pociask talked about the overwhelming need for more spectrum due to increasing consumer demand and not enough supply.
The panelists also spoke about the need to maximize revenues raised in the auction and addressed the question about whether the two largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon should be barred from participating in the spectrum auction. Kovacs just released a new study that makes the case for how important it is to have an open auction that doesn't limit any carrier from participating. Hazlett said there are already two regulatory layers to protect against any anti-competitive issues and therefore no need to bar anyone from participating. Pociask agreed there are already protections in place to prevent market failure.
The important message at the end of the panel is one I that I certainly agree with: it's important that this auction is a great success – so that all consumers will benefit.
The Technology Policy Institute (TPI) held an interesting session this week that I was able to attend, "Competition, Net Neutrality and Other Issues Facing the New FCC." AT&T's Jim Cicconi and Reed Hundt, former FCC Chairman, were on the first panel.
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Playmobil Made the Best Back to the Future Toys You Can Buy
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Toys and CollectiblesAction figures, statues, exclusives, and other merchandise. Beware: if you look here, you're probably going to spend some money afterwards.
Despite what Star Wars and George Lucas taught the industry about how to properly market a summer blockbuster, when Back to the Future hit theaters in 1985, there was a dismal amount of movie merchandise in stores. But 35 years later, an avalanche of BttF collectibles is en route, including some new sets from Playmobil that include a surprising level of detail for toys designed for six-year-olds.
In its defense, Back to the Future wasn't exactly a movie targeted at kids when it was released, so Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment probably didn't see a reason to fill toy stores with action figures and collectibles at the time. But now that the kids who grew up with the films are introducing their own kids to the trilogy, it's as good a time as any to crank the merchandising machine to 11.
It's only recently that Playmobil, a toy company that's been selling its own claw-handed figures and playsets for over 40 years, has branched out with licensed properties, including Ghostbusters and How to Train Your Dragon. But despite being late to the game, the toymaker's themed playsets have included an attention to detail that rivals pricier collectibles.
Playmobil's Marty McFly sports his 1985 costume from the film and includes his present-day skateboard. But we would have really liked to see his hoverboard from 2015 included as well.
Not even a time machine can prevent Doc Emmett Brown's hairline from receding.
For an extra $8 Playmobil also sells a two-pack of Doc and Marty wearing their 1955 outfits.
Just keep in mind that Playmobil figures feature minimal articulation, so recreating iconic scenes and poses isn't easy.
Playmobil's new Back to the Future sets focus on the first film in the trilogy, and the two main characters: Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown. They don't include the same level of detail that companies like Hot Toys put into their $300 collectibles, but unless you're lacking a soul, it's impossible not to find the Playmobil versions of Doc and Marty incredibly charming. Both of their costumes have been recreated as well as they can be, including Marty's puffy red vest and Doc's jumpsuit, plus you get a handful of accessories like a tiny '80s-era camcorder, a skateboard, and the DeLorean's remote control.
For an extra $8 (the main BttF set is $50), Playmobil also sells an additional two-pack of Marty and Doc figures featuring the outfits they wore back in 1955, including a guitar accessory and a "Save the Clock Tower" flyer. Unfortunately, neither set includes Marty's 2015 pink hoverboard from the sequel, but here's to hoping Playmobil eventually expands this line with sets based on the other two films in the trilogy.
Shouldn't Einstein be wearing a protective suit?
However, just try and name a toy line that includes an adorable sheepdog named Einstein guarding a miniature case full of radioactive plutonium. Go ahead, I'll wait…
As charming as the figures are, the real reason collectors will be shelling out $50 for this new Back to the Future playset is the time-traveling DeLorean toy. Playmobil could have really phoned this one in, but instead—despite being an all plastic affair so it can survive playtime with a six-year-old—it's one of the most detailed BttF DeLoreans I've ever seen.
Despite being made of plastic and designed to survive playtime with a six-year-old, Playmobil's Back to the Future DeLorean is wonderfully detailed.
Inside you'll find almost all the controls featured in the film version, including the time circuits set to 1955.
A pair of AAA batteries power a set of LEDs that help bring the DeLorean to life, recreating the light show that appears before the vehicle travels through time.
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The DeLorean's gull-wing doors actually work, allowing figures to be seated inside, and the set even includes the conduit Doc Brown designed to channel the clock tower lightning strike.
No Mr. Fusion? This version of the BttF DeLorean still features the plutonium chamber for power.
You'll need to slog through some self-assembly which includes a bunch of stickers you'll really want to take some effort to carefully apply, but the model is relatively easy to put together. It includes features like working gull-wing doors, a plutonium chamber, time circuits on the dashboard, the California OUTATIME license plate, and the iconic DMC badge on the front grill.
Flux capacitor… fluxxing…
A set of two AAA batteries installed under the model power a set of LEDs and light channels that help bring the toy to life, recreating the animated light show that appears just before the DeLorean travels through time. It also illuminates a tiny version of the flux capacitor found inside the vehicle, which might be one of this toy's best features.
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
This version of the DeLorean doesn't include all of the upgrades Doc made when he visited 2015—there's no Mr. Fusion on the back to make powering the time circuits easier. But it does include the Goldie Wilson hover conversion complete with wheels that fold down allowing the DeLorean to fly. You have to flip over each wheel manually, there's no lever to automatically do all four of them at the same time, but they lock into place with a satisfying click. The last thing you want is to display a BttF DeLorean in hover mode with saggy wheels, right?
For $50 Playmobil has raised the bar on Back to the Future toys. You don't need kids to justify this splurge.
If you're a stickler for hyper-real figures with likenesses that look like you've shrunk and trapped a real person on your toy shelf, the simple but iconic smiles of Playmobil's Back to the Future figures probably aren't for you. (Trying to pose a figure with just six points of articulation is an act of frustration.) But where its figures might be lacking for some collectors, Playmobil's new time-traveling DeLorean toy is a fantastic addition to any Back to the Future collection. Even if you do have a six-year-old at home, you'll probably find yourself playing with it more than they do.
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On this Mother's Day Sunday John Alley poses the question – "What is it that every Christian mother wants?" The answer, of course, is that her children grow to the fullness of being a whole man or woman, walking with God. John recounts the story of St Francis of Assisi, who began his adult life as a wealthy young wastrel, engaging in wild living. However, his mother, a Christian woman, prayed for her son without giving up and one night Francis had a revelation of the love of God revealed in all of creation. Francis eschewed wealth and lived simply, owing nothing and drawing many thousands of people to the knowledge of God. John goes on to discuss the stories of Hannah, King David, Elizabeth and Mary, emphasizing the high level of importance that each of these people placed on praise and worship. Worship, says John, is the currency of Heaven. When we worship God, something from the heavens comes to us and we are enriched. John closes with a quote from Psalm 100: 4-5, which teaches that thanksgiving and praise is the appropriate way in which to approach God.


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Hugh Mulligan Visits Ireland's premier retreat For artists and finds a workplace without a time clock.
Guthrie's maternal great-grandfather, the 19th-century Irish actor and play-wright Tyrone Power, was also the great-grandfather of Tyrone Power, the American matinee idol.
As a boy Guthrie spent his Christmas and summer holidays in the rambling manor house. When his mother died in 1956, he made the house his home. In the morning room overlooking the lake he blocked out plays for the Old Vic, Sadler's Wells, Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera, and organized season programs for the Shakespeare Festival he founded in Stratford, Ontario and the theater named in his honor in Minneapolis.
Always the genial host, "Tony," as he preferred to be called even after his knighthood in 1961, played host to the likes of Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Flora Robson and others who journeyed here, sometimes by Dublin bus, to rehearse for West End openings. Guthrie liked to entertain his theatrical boarders by playing Tom Moore ballads on the Bluthner piano in the music room after dinner.
A trifle yellowing at the keyboard, the instrument is still kept in tune. World class Irish-born pianist John O'Conor loves the resonance of its mellow wood and has practiced here for concerts.
Farmyard houses with plaque commemorating a grant from Guinness.
Residents are free to roam the house, build a fire in any of the many ornate fireplaces and work in any room they choose without bothering anyone except the center's directress Sheila Pratschke. In her three years here she has grown wise to the wants and whims of itinerant artists. "I'm neither writer, poet nor artist, I'm a manager," admits Sheila, who ran the Irish Film Centre in Dublin before taking over the care of a dozen or more fragile egos in residence here for anywhere from a week to a year.
The decor of my own farmyard digs featured colorful African masks, a collage of brass and scrap iron signed "L. O'Neill," and a large moody landscape of the lake and main house signed "Patricia Jorgensen '87." On my rickety pine bed table I found and read "The Pressed Melodean" essays on modern Irish authors by Ben Howard, who teaches literature at Alfred University in New York State. He occupied these quarters in 1990.
The Guthrie Centre can accommodate 16 guests between the main house and the farm buildings. Chicago portrait artist Marian Quinn is the current occupant of a studio with an attic bedroom reachable by a perilous parody of a staircase of five-inch-wide half steps, alternating left and right, like rungs on a telegraph pole.
Paco Taylor, a travel writer based in Dublin and sometimes Switzerland, is busy writing three books at once on a tiny laptop in a top-floor room. He is certain the long corridor is haunted by a ghost named "Bunty," a fearsome harridan of enduring legend, who was Guthrie's nanny.
In a farmyard studio, painter Lynne Fitzgerald, from Rathdrum, County Wicklow, diligently covers enormous canvases with flamboyant brush strokes of neon-bright colors, while in a nearby studio, fashioned from what had been a carriage house, young Fergal McCarthy toils for hours turning out exquisite pastel miniatures, wondering all the while whether he should go back to teaching the Irish language for a living. Meanwhile Amanda Davis, a novelist from Brooklyn, frantically fights the Irish telephone system trying to transmit revisions to a book weeks overdue at her publisher.
After half a century of covering hard news as a globe-trotting reporter for Associated Press, I had come to Annaghmakerrig for a career turnabout from fact to fiction. I was six chapters into my first mystery novel, A Christmas to Forget at 221B, since completed and now in the bookstores.
All residents are honor bound to respect the creative privacy of others, but one chilly morning Jeremiah Cullinane, a film writer from Howth on the Irish Sea, appeared at the door of my barnyard writing den to beg a cuppa tea. He proceeded to build a fire of "Monaghan sticks" — stunted logs — in the wood stove and asked if we could chat a moment or two about, of all things, the Berlin Wall, which I had visited on a final AP assignment before retiring.
During my two-week tenure, my fellow artisans occasionally shared their creative efforts by reading aloud a chapter or a poem after dinner, and a few even shared their procrastinations.
The place is quiet all right, deliberately so. No television, stereos or VCRs, and just two pay phones, one hung in a dimly lit cubbyhole beneath the ornate staircase, the other in the glassed-in conservatory was out of order the entire time I'm there. An essayist named Celia from College Station, Texas was greatly embarrassed at breakfast one morning when the cell phone concealed in her Aran knit jumper suddenly jangled.
"It's only for incoming calls," she guiltily apologized.
A single copy of the Irish Times arrived each day at whatever hour the mail van ventures up the winding road, and we took turns catching up on the outside world. The crossword puzzle is a communal activity.
Sheep grazing on the farm.
According to various local legends, Tyrone Guthrie died at his desk before the tall bay windows in the morning room while either working on a play by Jack White for the Abbey Theatre, organizing a theater festival for Australia or wincing at the electric bill. The latter, according to Sheila, can be quite shocking.
It costs about a half million dollars a year to operate the center, which is administered by a board appointed by the arts councils of both the Republic and Northern Ireland.
His will also made another stipulation that adds immeasurably to the joy of staying here and in a subtle way spurs creative productivity.
View from the attic window.
Promptly at 7 p.m. we are summoned to the long pine table in the dining room by the striking of a brass gong that might have heralded a J. Arthur Rank comedy — a zany, unscripted comedy at that. Every night there are more laughs, more genuine witticism from that odd mix of different disciplines than from any other group — college, military or media — that I have ever encountered at table.
The writers disdain talk about their genre or oeuvre. The painters don't mention their milieu or discuss works in progress. Poets like pretty Leontia Flyn (sic) from the Mountains of Mourne refrain from sharing lines whispered by the muses on her daily three-mile hike around the lake. On sunny afternoons, like John Updike, P.G. Wodehouse and Somerset Maugham, I sometimes sought inspiration at nearby golf links but kept mum about my writing progress as well as my scorecard, which was even more discouraging.
Ecologist Valerie Waters, an on-camera reporter for Irish Television, detailed her frustrations at trying to restore the estate's classic herb and vegetable garden near the old water tower with apprentice laborers. The memory of this prompted her to keen a melancholy lament in Irish, which provoked a general sing-along.
Brigid Mulligan chats with ecologist Valerie Waters.
I don't recall why — there being no cocktail hour and only Australian wine at dinner — but one night I recited "The Cremation of Sam McGee" without provocation. And Brigid, my Irish-born wife (South Armagh), read fortunes in tea leaves.
In the dear bygone days, Tyrone Guthrie loved to lead his guests in charades after dinner, raiding the steamer trunks in the attic for Victorian plumed hats and period costumes. In this same spirit, after everyone helped clear the table, we sometimes played board games like Scrabble, with double-value tiles for inserting a word in Irish. One evening the game of choice was Pictionary, where the odds favored the artists over the authors. When the fire in the hearth burned low, ghost stories gathered from all ends of the table. All of them true.
Guthrie's fond hope was that Annaghmakerrig would one day produce "a new breed of playwrights to astonish us in the morning." In the two decades since the Centre opened on Oct. 10, 1981, more than 2,000 artists from 53 countries have brought their dreams to his dream factory. The roster includes poets, playwrights, choreographers, composers, photographers, story tellers, interpretive dancers, weavers, sculptors, set designers, mask makers, rock, jazz and classical musicians, even translators and kung fu practitioners.


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An Unsolved Murder Propelled A Career Path
Charlie Webb Posted On June 9, 2015
Julian Brown
Julian Brown's interest in law enforcement began with a friend's unsolved murder. The incident and its aftermath propelled her toward that career path, and in 2012 she graduated from The University of Findlay with a degree in social work and criminal justice.
She is now a general probation officer and treatment court officer for the Hardin County Juvenile Court. There, she supervises 40 juvenile offenders between the ages of 12 and 21 who have been through court for charges ranging from rape, murder, assault, drugs, breaking and entering, truancy and more.
A normal day for Julian can consist of conducting drug screenings; giving updates on case notes; meeting with families, counselors or school staff; collecting attendance/grade/behavior reports or medication; home searches with K9 units; performing assessments; and assisting teachers in the classroom when the offenders behave poorly.
Julian's 4H students created art work that will be on display at the Hardin County Fair.
In addition to her already busy life, she is the soccer coach and 4H Club coordinator at Hardin Community Juvenile Court School (a court-supervised school where her office is located), a car teen's facilitator for Hardin County Traffic Court, and the H.A.Y (Horses and Youth) coordinator.
Julian's interest in attending The University of Findlay started when her high school guidance counselor, Tiffany Hamilton, also a UF alumna, took Julian for a visit. She was offered a scholarship to play for the girls' soccer team and accepted. Julian was introduced to Lisa Snyder, a financial aid specialist at The University of Findlay, where she took the time to make attending UF financially possible. Her next meeting was with admissions counselor, Charlie Webb, whom she described as "amazing, friendly, and sincere." It was that visit where Julian realized that UF was perfect for her. Division II soccer, the size of the campus and the faculty-to-student ratio also appealed to her.
The people she met are the reason Findlay was such a great choice, she said. The social work internship program helped her gain career confidence, and she heaped praise program instructors, whom she said wanted her to succeed just as much as she did. As she entered the workforce, the note-taking skills and professionalism she had gained at UF were vital, she said.
One of Julian's most memorable college experiences was being involved in multiple events and student organizations such as being a part of the social work club and getting to meet spoken word poet, Carlos Robson as well as Author of "Turning Away From Hate", T.J. Leyden. She also enjoyed working with the mobile food pantry outside of Winebrenner Theological Seminary and helped to provided food for community members in need.
Julian started at UF as a criminal justice and psychology major. She wanted to be a part of the punitive system that puts criminals, especially those who are violent, behind bars. Then she met Robin Walters-Powell, assistant professor and Social Work Program chair, who introduced her to "all the aspects of what social work was and could be." Walters-Powell, with the "love, encouragement and support" she offered throughout Julian's classes, "changed my life," Julian said.
Her classes, which she enjoyed, prepared her well for the hectic situations she now encounters on the job. Her most memorable by far: while walking out of the courthouse one day, an inmate in her custody slipped out of her handcuffs and ran in front of oncoming traffic. Julian chased her three blocks before recapturing her.
In her work, Julian said she has learned that she herself can't change people. "You can only help guide them and make them realize that there are always other choices rather than drugs and crime," she said.
Julian has a love for helping young children and adults make better choices and create better lives for themselves. "I love the positive impact that I have on the people and their families. I love that I have the ability to start any sort of program I want to better these kids and get them more positively involved with their families and the community," she said.
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Jaded Blossom: Guest Designer, Brigit!
Hi everyone, this is Brigit from Brigit's Scraps.
I'm so excited to be guest designing this month for Jaded Blossom. Release week was such a blast, I had so much fun working with this month's new stamps and dies!!
I hope you enjoyed my project, thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Brigit these favor boxes are beautiful. Love it!!


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SCMC – SM City Daet – Marketing Officer
Daet, Camarines Norte
Requirements At least 3 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position. Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree on Advertising/Media, Creative Multimedia, Marketing. Preferably Junior Associate (1-4 yrs experience) specializing in Marketing / Brand Management or equivalent. Responsibilities The Marketing Officer assists in the implementation of system-wide mall marketing requirements for marketing, promotions and advertising campaigns; manage and maintain relationships with sponsors and business partners and the media; committed to support other special retail sales campaigns such as the 3-day week-end sale and other requirements. Additional Requirements Applicants must be willing to work in SM City Daet Additional Info Location: Camarines Norte, Bicol Region. Full Time position(s) are available. Number of vacancies: 1. Social Media Footer About Us SM Prime Holdings Inc. SM Prime Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in the Philippines in 1994. They started as a mall developer and operator and grew to be the biggest retail shopping center developer and operator in the Philippines. Currently, it has 72 malls in and outside Metro Manila and 7 shopping malls in China, totaling 9.5 million square meters of Gross Floor Area (GFA). In the Philippines, they have a total of 18,475 tenants and 1,885 tenants in China. SM Prime goes beyond mall development and management through its units and subsidiaries. SM Development Corporation (SMDC) is the residential business component that sells affordable condominium units. SM Prime's commercial business units, the Commercial Property Group (CPG) is engaged in the development and leasing of office buildings in Metro Manila. Its Hotels and Convention Centers business unit develops and manages various hotel and convention centers across the country. SM Supermalls (Shopping Center Management Inc.) With a history spanning 60 years in the retail industry and over two decades in the shopping center business, SM Supermalls is a multi-faceted institution consisting of stores, malls, banks, residences, resorts, hotels, and business establishments. Beyond business, SM Supermalls also aims to encourage unity in the Filipino family by providing a world-class yet wholesome experience that the whole family can enjoy. Alongside the core business areas of the SM Group, SM Supermalls is one of the most well-known divisions of the Group. SM Supermalls is the Philippines' retail and mall giant because of its one-stop shopping concept. With more than 70 malls in the Philippines and abroad, it has become an engine for economic growth, providing jobs for Filipinos. New jobs are created wherever SM goes. SM Supermalls jumpstarts careers, helps small businesses grow, and creates dynamism in the localities its malls operate in. With continuous expansion that includes building up to five new malls each year for the next five years, SM Supermalls aims to provide more jobs and seeks growth opportunities in international locations. The phenomenal growth of SM Supermalls is attributed not only to the guiding vision and inspiring courage of Mr. Henry Sy, Sr., but also to its great resource of employees who have steadfastly delivered exceptional service and additional value to SM Supermalls customers and the communities where its malls are located. Throughout the years, SM Supermalls takes great pride to have employed the best and highly talented individuals that have enabled it to attain milestone after milestone. SM Lifestyle Inc. SM Lifestyle Incorporated or SMLI is the lifestyle and entertainment solutions company of SM Prime Holdings Inc. that offers the best in movies, events, and leisure. Starting with SM Cinema, the largest cinema exhibitor in the country, as its sole marque, the company has now grown 15 major brands which include: SM Cinema, Director's Club Cinema, IMAX Theatre, XD: 4D Theatre, Mega Screen, WM Cinemas, SM Skating Rink, SM Bowling and Leisure Center, Exploreum, Snack Time, e-PLUS Tap to Pay, Galeón, Mall of Asia Arena, SM Tickets, and Blink. SMLI aims to promote bonding activities among Filipino families and friends, through entertainment and leisure facilities, while advocating the ease of use and personalized service created to complement the Filipino lifestyle. Family Entertainment Center Inc. Family Entertainment Center, Inc. is one of the managing companies of SM Prime Holdings Inc. that manages the leisure and amusement parks. We have outdoor parks (Sky Ranch), indoor parks (Storyland) and the amusement rides inside the mall (Amusement rides). We are present in almost all malls of SM. SM Engineering Design and Development SM Engineering Design and Development is the architectural and engineering arm of the Group's Retail and Mall properties, responsible for the development and modernization.
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The Way Nature Does It
Biological Sewage Treatment
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Cradle of Humankind
Customer Background
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site is a scientific treasure chest of evidence of human and cultural evolution. The Sterkfontein Caves, situated some 50 kilometres north-west of Johannesburg, is the most famous of the 13 excavated fossil sites in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and contains a superbly preserved record of the stages in the evolution of humankind over the past four million years.
The Sterkfontein and Environs 47,000 hectare site, in near pristine condition, is also home to a diversity of birds, animals and plants – some of which are rare or endangered. The Sterkfontein Visitor Centre, designed to blend into the unspoilt natural landscape, is situated among indigenous grassland which gives way to plants and trees concentrated towards the top of the koppie where the main cave lies. The cave-like complex is signposted with a 20 metre tall concrete monolith, the visitors centre houses an extraordinary hominin exhibition hall with highly informative displays, a 128-seat auditorium, a charming souvenir shop and a restaurant offering spectacular views of the surrounding countryside.
For a memorable and informative experience, you can also take in a guided tour of the caves themselves, which descend 60 metres below the ground. For further tourism information on the Sterkfontein Caves go to www.maropeng.co.za
(courtesy of www.cradleofhumankind.co.za)
Waste Water Challenge
The original designed reed bed for the Sterkfontein Visitor Centre was not functioning, resulting in sewage seeping through the surface of the soil and slowly making its way into the underground water aqueduct, which has a negative impact on the caves.
Sewage Treatment Solution
Designed, manufactured and installed a 20-cube Waste Water Treatment (WWT) plant at the Sterkfontein Visitor Centre, where the effluent is used to irrigate the lawns and gardens. Leon and his team are proud to have been part of this solution.
Mares Shopping Centre
Customer Background The Mares (translation means "tides") Mall opened in November 2011. It includes a mix of Mozambican traders, local banks and stores with well-known
Wilderness Safaris
Customer Background Wilderness Safaris describe themselves as a responsible ecotourism and conservation company". They state that "the reason we exist is to protect pristine wilderness
Morupule Coal Mine
Customer Background The Morupule Colliery is a coal mine located in Palapye, Botswana, and owned and operated by Debswana, a partnership between the government of Botswana and De Beers. Founded in 1973
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Self-driving cars will improve our cities. If they don't destroy them.
January 14, 2021 by keibacsupperUser
(Courtesy of International transport forumI am not asking us to let go of the workers trapped by the transition. Immediately, we will support and assist workers who do nothing that could cause loss of income and their careers. I'm not an expert in labor theory, but I do know that in a future where all kinds of automation will replace jobs, we need to make it easy and safe to have one. Diverse income streams, a key to personal resilience. Easy: hire and work part time. Safety: all benefits – social security, paid vacation, disaster insurance, health care – keep track of a worker regardless of the number of hours he or she works. And we must eliminate loopholes that allow employers to pretend that those benefits apply only to full-time employees, regardless of configuration.
A Do-Over Capitalism. Productivity gains were once a sign of improved living standards and improved quality of life, but automation leads to increased productivity without jobs. Self-driving cars will be the ultimate example of this: AV will likely be used effectively and generate revenue about 65% of the time, compared with 5% of our personal cars. No one can deny that the productivity is being enjoyed greatly. But with so few associated workers, who gets it?
As an entrepreneur, I appreciate the hours and years of effort spent building these AVs: new IPs, years and huge costs without any sales to show for. it. But I also understand that this is a huge market (trillions of dollars worldwide seems reasonable), and that the marginal cost of running the software for each of those trips will be close to zero. We need to ensure that we deliver this new wealth, by closing loopholes on corporate taxes and taxing assets and platforms more efficiently.
As we lose more jobs, the need to change opens the possibility of a more equitable system, one that minimizes income inequality. A Bureau of Labor Statistics Research predicted the probability of losing an automated job to be 83% for workers earning less than $ 20 an hour and 34% for an hourly job of 20–40 dollars. In the new world of automation, is labor tax really justified? It makes a lot more sense to tax new technology platforms that are making profits and tax the wealth of the few talented and lucky ones who have founded and financed feats. This new unemployment.
In a world where machines do most of the work, it's time general basic income. This will distribute the returns from productivity and give more people the opportunity to focus on purposeful work, following passion, allowing the next generation of ideas and technologies to emerge faster.
How we deal with AV-induced job loss will be a paradigm for how we respond to automation throughout the economy. It could even be that the flood wiped out a system that no longer served people.
Remember, This will happen. While a city, state, or country may try to slow it down, many other cities will move forward to lead the way. No matter how long the war and the transition, we will eventually choose to self-drive cars that can avoid 38,000 traffic deaths in the US, 1.25 million deaths worldwide. and tens of millions of people were seriously injured, with all their associated suffering and medical expenses. That in itself is a worthy reason to apply. But with the right plan, we will expand that downside to include better cities, a livable planet and a future that serves us all. In the future, as some business people look out for the city of Dearborn, Michigan or New York, I want them to happily reflect on how a hundred years ago people seized the opportunities brought on by self-driving cars to curb the tyranny of single-person vehicles and the domination of cars in cities, to distribute the fruits of automation and to tackle climate change.
All by keeping our hands off the wheel.
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Home › Australian #25 Knotty Pine Stabilized blue PEN blanks- Sold in packs
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Australian #25 Knotty Pine Stabilized blue PEN blanks
Blanks size of approx. 20mm square x 130mm long
Please select the number of packs you want otherwise, the packs supplied will be in descending alphabetical order as per availability.
These blanks were made using locally sourced Knotty Pine trees, cut and stored in 2006. For years, this wood was only used to make bow blanks and vases, and other pieces done in general woodturning. This wood species, marked with #25 on my "timbers list", has been part of the large mix packs I make and sell where, one blank of each listed species are bundled together, to make the mix packs.
As pen blanks, they never seemed to appeal to penmakers, mostly because of their aversion to any Pine woods, and its natural characteristics. While I'm certainly not one of those people, as I have grown around Pine forests and used Pine wood for most of my woodwork projects, I decided that was time to make some experimentations with some of the equipment that I didn't have a few years ago, I'm referring to the wood stabilization system I put together in 2012.
This particular Pine species, has a knot structure similar to Norfolk Pine, slightly smaller knots but located in general in groups of 5 to 10 knots all around the tree and in a "ring" formation (all around its circumference) every few feet appart. The wood is quite weight and soft, its has lots of colours from yellows to greys within close proximity to those knots that also vary in size and shape. There are curls, swirls and cross shades that created very interesting effects but that, may be difficult to see in the raw wood so, I consider its suitability for dying while stabilizing it at the same time and make this blanks a lot more work/handling friendly.
The colour blue was what I tested first and the one I decided in produce a small quantity of blanks (42) that I also decided to offer free of charge to a number of IAP (International Association of Penturners), in a contest where they were given 2 blanks to make a pen and show it for judging., where the winner would win a prize. There was also a similar prize for the contester that would provided the correct name of the wood in those 2 blanks, that at the time, was unknown to them. The whole story and contest in here
The second batch (the one listed here at the moment) was dye with slightly darker blue that I believe, may give a better definition of the colour blue as with the first batch, many of the blanks did endup looking more "greyish" than blue, they were pretty nevertheless...!


Thread type casing head housing design features a 45 degree landing shoulder. This design avoids damage to sealing areas by drilling tools and prevents test plug and blow protector wedging problems when pressure is applied. This design also allows for accurate vertical positioning of annular seals, control line ports and test ports.
A landing base plate is an option at marshy site or offshore platform.
Slip type casing head eliminates post heating, save time and quick to install. It can be moved from well to well when exploratory drilling, eliminating extra transportation and repair charges associated with conventional welded heads. Installation is simple.


Steve Neville designed the Snag Ears to fit most alarms with 3/8" thread and particularly his own. Perfect for snag fishing and lateral runs. Supplied with detachable 2BA thread, double ended screw for use with hanger kits. Available in two sizes, 5" and short 3.5" for ATTs alarms.


For many Double Wing or Single Wing Coaches, one of the staples of their offense is the Mighty Wedge Play. While it seems to be more popular at the youth level than in High School, I feel safe in saying that it belongs in the playbook of any offense that utilizes zero to six inch splits along their offensive line. I know we used it to great effect when I was coaching at the HS level a few years ago and it has always been a big part of our offense when I coach youth teams.


The eggs are coming fast and steady now. We're getting 5-6 a day, and I'm thinking there's still 2 hens yet to start laying. I think they're all still learning to some degree, though, as evidenced by the varied sizes of eggs we find. (The ones to the sides of the carton are close to store-bought "large" eggs.) We've also found a few eggs that have only a soft membrane around them, which are pretty gross, and some that look like an egg had been cracked right into the laying box, with no signs of any shells. I think their bodies are still just figuring out how to produce and eject an oversized, hard, protein-bomb every day. We'd like to invite anyone in the area who wants some of these protein bombs to let us know. There's plenty, and the mini ones make the cutest little fried eggs you've ever seen.
I just love your guys' blog! And I thought buying a house in town was a lot of work…ha!


It is with a heavy heart that this web reports the retirement of Linda Hixson, Director of the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
On Tuesday evening at the regular scheduled meeting of the Chamber Board of Directors, I submitted my resignation as Executive Director of the Paris Area Chamber of Commerce.
I am RETIRING from Public Service effective November 8, 2013. I will see the Chamber through some of the upcoming events (Commissioners meeting & Banquet on November 13 and the Christmas Lighting Ceremony and Entertainment on Saturday, November 30) as I feel it would be very difficult for an interim or a new director or the Board members to complete those events. I will not, however, be in the office on a full time basis after November 8.
I want to thank the Executive Board and Board Members as well as the general membership, the City of Paris and Logan County officials for the wonderful years of support everyone has given to me since I took the Directorship in July of 2007. The Chamber has accomplished many good things during this time, and I am proud to have had a small part in those good things.
Our community is well served by the Chamber, its members and Board of Directors. Our Chamber does as much, if not more, than most of the larger Chambers of Commerce in the state and certainly in our Region, and I know that the future will hold many more successes as you all continue to build on the foundation that has been laid during the past 68 years of its existence here in Paris!
Thanks to all of you for giving me the opportunity to play a small part in the successes that have been realized in the past 6 years!
My very best and warmest regards to you all.
We shall miss her vitality, enthusiasm and energy in the promotion of Paris, Arkansas. I have always enjoyed visiting with Linda and learning from her immeasurable guidance.


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