What is the shelf life, at room temp, of bottles filled from carbed kegs... I am wondering, because I have some leftover bottles I filled for comps, and would like to keep them a while to compare to future batches of the same recipe... do I need to keep them refrigerated, or is 60F or so fine for them? My beers are pretty fully attenuated and force carbed as well as fined in the keg with Biofine so I am pretty sure there is no viable yeast in there.
I imagine that careful filling with a counterpressure filler and CO2 purging would extend the shelf life and prevent oxidation, but these bottles are just filled from a keg with a piece of hose stuck over a pony tap.
Less than around 50 ppm TDS is a decent starting point. As an example, Pilsen water typically has a TDS of around 30 ppm. So ultra low TDS is definitely not necessary or desirable. In most cases, a home RO system will produce much lower TDS than that. An important factor for success is occasionally monitoring the TDS content of your system to tell when the membrane is going south.
With regard to treated water quality from a system, its unnecessary to seek zero on any of them. Even with the single digit value you can obtain for most ions in a RO system, you are likely to want more of some ions in a quest to improve the flavor of the water and the resulting beer.
Say NO to zero...when it comes to brewing water quality.
We're going forward on this and getting firm quotes on RO systems... so Martin, if I spec something like <50ppm TDS, and single digits on all ions like Ca, Na, Mg, Cl, SO4, etc, that would be reasonable?
And what about alkalinity and bicarbs?
And what about pH, do I need to worry that the pH of RO water is slightly acidic?
Is the AAU on the package of the hops around the same number as what you normally buy? Some crops are higher in alpha and that could easily produce a beer with more bitterness.
I tapped my most recent beer a few days ago, a Schwarzbier that has been lagering for a little over 4 weeks. I've brewed this recipe every year for 5 years and never had a problem with it; it's very close to Kostritzer (I lived a few km from the Kostritzer Brauerei in Germany a few years back, biked past it a lot, and it's a top-ten beer for me). Anyways... I sample it, and there is this same weird lingering tannic bitterness and astringency that I had in the Pilsner this spring. Fairly unpleasant... with the Pils, it reduced a little after about 8 weeks in the keg but not very much.
Of course I've brewed a bunch of other beers in between the Pils and the Schwarz and none of them exhibit this odd taste. So part B of the theory is that the excessive hop matter used to bitter these two beers is somehow involved. See, these two beers are the only two that I've bittered with large amounts (>4 oz) of low alpha (4-5%) hops for 60+ mins. Other lagers I've brewed this spring/summer were bittered with hi-alpha magnum, in <2oz amounts. (All 10-gal batches, BTW). In both beers, there was over 6oz of low alpha hops in total.
So question is, is there something in my brewing process that is creating tannins, astringency, or whatever, with large amounts of low alpha hops, and then was gelatin somehow able to clean that up but Bionfine can't clean it up?
Adding to the mystery is that these two beers were brewed with the exact same pound of Mittelfruh pellets from HopsDirect, and I haven't used those hops in any other beer. So perhaps it's just a wacky bag of hops?
Anyways, one idea is to mix up a little gelatin and dump it in the keg (it's carbed, but apparently one can still do that) and see what happens in a few days. I will try this if no one has other suggestions.
Of course I guess long term I should somehow fix my recipes or process to avoid the creating of these flavor compounds.
So what would be an acceptable TDS... less than 25ppm? Or what numbers should I be saying I want out of my system: zero alkalinity? zero bicarbs? zero total hardness? or all those "as low as possible"?
Thinking about getting an RO system for my brewing needs as I blow through a lot of distilled water at $1 a gallon.... I have a very mechanically minded friend helping out, he works with a lot of contractors and knows some companies that install RO systems. I know next to nothing about RO systems and he knows nothing about brewing. He told me to price out a system they need to know what end result of water I want coming out of the system. I said, as close to distilled as possible, but apparently that is not the answer they are looking for. What water specs should I be telling them I need? Ideally I'd like very close to distilled, and then add gypsum and CaCl and epsom, etc, back in to brew pale beers... any suggestions from folks who have RO systems?
Thinking about doing some 20 or 30 gal batches instead of 10gal. I have an immersion chiller than handles 10 gal fine but thinking about trying a plate chiller for larger batches. I have 45F water in the winter but 65F in the summer. What is the best practice if I'm trying to make a lager in this weather? Obviously a plate chiller can't get colder than the feed water, so could I chill as much as I can, then let the wort sit in the fermenter under temp control for 24 hours or whatever it takes until I can get it down to 48-50F, then pitch yeast? Or am I asking for infection trouble?
A second question would be how I might need to adjust my hopping schedule... I am getting 10 gal below 100F in the first 4 minutes of chill time, usually... but with a larger boil and with a plate chiller, I will have much of the wort at a much higher temp for longer. What will that do to my various hop additions?
I had the Niles SSVC-4 (http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Hw7UxBxAcqH/p_190SSVC4/Niles-SSVC-4.html) recommended to me by a big acoustic consulting firm in New York City last year, when I was working on installing PA in an old Catholic monastery chapel that is now a private high school. (We needed to control 4 pairs of speakers spaced equidistant down the chapel walls, to increase near-field sound to the audience and mitigate the crazy reverb from the vaults.) It's a $400 unit that does exactly what you want, I think... we never bought it though, so I have no first-hand experience. In the end we went with a QSC amp (http://www.amazon.com/QSC-CX168-Amplifier-Detachable-Blocks-Variable-Speed-Fan/dp/B003BQ97LS) which was more pricey but of course obviated the need for a separate amp.
All Grain Brewing / Re: how big and in what geometry can you batch sparge?
Does efficiency decrease as you scale up?
All Grain Brewing / how big and in what geometry can you batch sparge?
I'm thinking about upgrading from doing 10-gal Denny-style batch-sparge brews in a big cooler chest, to doing 30-gal batches in a big 40+ gal stainless mash tun (maybe from Stout Tanks, or Psychobrew, or a Blichmann Boilermaker setup, etc).
Most of these seem to come with fancy things like "rotating sparge arms", etc, which I don't really even understand. So I'm wondering if I need to ditch my years of experience and comfort level with batch sparging and learn about fly sparging, which I've never done or even really thought about?
Or do you think with a system like that, you could still just drain off the first runnings, then add some sparge water, and drain again, just I've been doing. In other words, what does the increased mash volume and changed geometry (from a rectangular, relatively shallow grain bed to a more cylindrical and deeper bed) do? Will efficiency be effected? Any advice accepted.
Yeast and Fermentation / thinking about getting back into liquid yeast: starter/no starter?
After brewing exclusively with dry yeast for the last 4-5 years (10 gals every 2 weeks) and feeling pretty comfortable with my process and results, I'm think about trying some liquid yeasts from Wyeast or White Labs for some styles like Alts and Bohemian Pils that might benefit from a more specialized yeast than just US-05 or W-34/70.
But having not thought at all about liquid yeast for these last years I need to get a couple simple questions answered. I hope to NOT start a huge discussion about the pros and cons of starters etc, I just want practical advice from anyone who has done a lot with liquid yeasts.
#1) Have either White Labs or Wyeast made a product that is truly pitchable into 5 gallons of wort? I know their websites say their products are, but I seem to remember a lot of guys saying that that is marketing BS and a starter is highly recommended. But that was a while ago and maybe things have changed, so I need to know: in real life scenarios, are they telling the truth or not? If not, I can't see myself getting into making starters as my brewing schedule has to remain flexible.
I'll post again if/when I need specific recommendations for specific styles.
OK I think I'll use the Centennial at 40 and 20, and finish with the Amarillo late in the boil and as a dry hop, to get that great aroma.
I have a basic IPA recipe that I throw different hops into. 24# Pale Malt, 2# C-40 for a 10 gallon batch. I've had good luck hitting it with all-Centennial at 60, 40, 20, 5 and dry hopping (Tinseth of around 50IBUs altogether). Also I've done Magnum at 60min (to about 30IBUs) and then Amarillo at 40, 20, 5, and dry.
All Grain Brewing / Re: Am i thinking right, mash PH?
Equipment and Software / Re: Thermapen or MW101 PH meter?
There is no way I would spend the $$ on a Therapen when they make the RT600c. I have two of the RTs and they are nice. Now I need an extra one for other duties.
Same here. RT600C is excellent.
I have used the RT600C and a Thermapen. The RT606 is almost as fast BUT the one major drawback is that it does not have auto power off and I've drained the battery in 48 hours a couple of times. The RT616 does have an auto shutoff, however the probe is more like 4" long instead of 6". So beware of that. I have one of those now as well.
But I gotta say the $ spent on my MW101 was well worth it too.


If the hype wasn't enough to grab my attention, the unique premise would have: a girl cruelly stolen from the mortal world and raised among Fae, always on the periphery of truly belonging and wanting nothing more than to feel like she does — but in the high Court of Faerie, nothing comes without a price.
From page one, Holly Black's The Cruel Prince immersed me in a vivid and complex fantasy world, and then yanked me along for a wild ride. Much of the beginning of the book is dedicated to introducing not only the intricate lore and politics of Faerie, but also the key characters and their dynamics. There's a lot of ground to cover, but I love how it's all woven tightly together and exposed bit by bit as it becomes relevant to the narration. We learn about the malicious nature inherent to the Fae, how a human's ability to lie can be their greatest asset, and the complicated plot for the crown that has been simmering behind the scenes — all while accompanying Jude to her lessons, terse family dinners, and escapades to the mortal world. I was charmed by this first half of the novel, moving along at a leisurely pace to take in all of the world-building.
As soon as I hit the second half, though, I couldn't put the book down. The mid-way twist blindsided me, and I loved the drastic pivot in mood and pacing that followed and persisted through the very end. It's such a stark contrast to the beginning, which made me appreciate the initial naïvety and innocence only after the façade crumbled away. Dark, political, and deceptive, the remainder of the book is filled to the brim with all of the tropey goodness I live for: multi-faceted scheming, moral grey areas, fragile alliances, anti-heroes, and more.
Jude is a phenomenal multilayered protagonist. There are several clear themes that string the novel together, and I love how effortlessly yet thoroughly they get explored through her character growth. Cast since her childhood as the weak outsider, she's grown up with a desire for power and a sense of belonging. But when she comes face-to-face with what she thought she wanted, over and over again, she realizes that true power and belonging are nuanced ideals and attaining them doesn't come without plenty of sacrifices. The real question is, what sacrifices is she willing to make? When you turn that final page, remind yourself that at the beginning, the extent of "power" that Jude sought was the ability to evade the glamours of other faeries and control her own fate. Her character development is truly staggering, and I loved every bit of watching this pithy, intelligent, and downright dark and cunning girl come into her own.
So much is jam-packed into this powerhouse of a series starter, yet it's all strung together seamlessly. From its unique premise through plenty of twists and turns and an ominously fitting conclusion that will leave you wanting so much more of this deliciously dark world, The Cruel Prince took my breath away. I can't recommend it enough.
I just finished reading this book last week and I loved it so much! I'm dying to see what will happen in the sequel—why is 2019 so far away???
Thanks so much, Keri! I know, I need The Wicked King in my hands, like, yesterday!!!
Yes!! So glad you loved it. I loved it so much! I cannot wait for the next one!
Me neither! I need it!!!
Amazing review!! How crazy was that ending though?! I was not expecting it at all and it completely blew my mind! + I can't believe we have to wait so long for the sequel…I need it ASAP!
I'm pretty sure my jaw hit the floor. I *loved* it. Um, so when is it appropriate to start the countdown to next January? 'Cause I need The Wicked King in my hands, like, yesterday!?!!
I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL! A bunch of authors already have an ARC and I am sooooo jealous!


Invitations to the workshop will be extended to all G-SIBs identified in November 2012 as well as to national and international banking federations that responded to the earlier FSB consultation exercise.
The FSB identifies the first group of 9 global systemically important insurers (G-SIIs) and the policy measures that apply to them.
This consultative document provides guidance on the key elements contained in an effective risk appetite framework. Comments should be sent to fsb@bis.org by Monday 30 September 2013.
This guidance focuses on two specific aspects of recovery plans: the design and nature of criteria triggering senior management consideration of recovery actions, and the severity of hypothetical stress scenarios and the design of stress scenarios more generally.
This guidance should assist authorities and CMGs in their evaluation of the criticality of functions that firms provide to the real economy and financial markets.
This guidance aims to assist authorities and firms in implementing the recovery and resolution planning requirements under the Key Attributes. The guidance was revised in light of comments received during the public consultation.


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Arts & Entertainment / Civil Liberties / Photos / Politics
Musical but not comedy in English jails — Straw
by Brian · 16 March, 2009
Last autumn our most debased and shameless tabloid newspaper, Murdoch's Sun, denounced with its usual fake indignation a 'comedy workshop' at an English prison, attended by a convicted Muslim terrorist and other assorted evil-doers. Did the minister responsible, the so-called 'Justice Secretary' patiently explain to The Sun the reasons for restoring prisoners' self-respect by teaching them valued skills that would reduce the chances of their re-offending after their release? Here's a clue: the Justice Secretary is one Jack Straw, former Home Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Secretary, and half a dozen other exes. Now read on:
By JOHN KAY, Chief Reporter
AN al-Qaeda terrorist involved in a plot to bomb London was taught how to be a stand-up COMIC at his top-security prison, The Sun can reveal. Evil Zia Ul Haq was enrolled on an eight-day "comedy workshop" at Whitemoor jail, along with murderers and rapists.
An inquiry was launched today by the director of high security prisons to consider whether further action was needed, the Ministry of Justice said. A spokeswoman added: "The director general of the National Offender Management Service is personally briefing governors from all prisons on the need to take account of the public acceptability test in relation to prison classes." Once they "graduated" they were due to get a certificate and display their new talents with a comedy show for fellow lags and guards.
Last night Justice Secretary Jack Straw canned the "totally unacceptable" course after The Sun alerted him. He also vetoed a plan by the Category A Cambridgeshire prison to set up its own comedy club.
[The Sun, 21 November 2008 (emphasis added)]
The Daily Telegraph helpfully expanded on the Justice Secretary's prompt remedial action:
…[J]ustice secretary Jack Straw stepped in and closed the course after three days, The Sun reported. "As soon as I heard about it, I instructed it must be immediately cancelled," he said. "It is totally unacceptable." Senior managers in the Prison Service, who were also unaware of it, take the same view. "Prisons should be places of punishment and reform. Providing educational and constructive pursuits is essential but the types of courses and the manner in which they are delivered must be appropriate." … A spokeswoman added: "The director general of the National Offender Management Service is personally briefing governors from all prisons on the need to take account of the public acceptability test [in relation to prison classes]."
[Daily Telegraph, 21 November 2008 (emphasis added)]
This was too much even for Mr Murdoch's down-market Times, whose columnist Libby Purves wrote:
A month ago … I recorded the dismay spreading through the UK Prison Service as a result of Jack Straw's banning of a well-established comedy course at Whitemoor Prison. Some nasty little toe-rag outed it to indignant tabloids looking for something to get cross about.
The result, you may recall, was the Justice Secretary's ruling that comedy in prison is "totally unacceptable", "not a constructive pursuit", and that all inmate activities – even if not funded by taxpayers – "must be justified to the community". Comedy sounded too much like fun…
A PSI – Prison Service instruction – followed this, laying down formally that all activities must now be judged not only by whether they do any good but by how they "might be perceived by the public". Sir David Ramsbotham, the former Chief Inspector of Prisons and patron of several prison arts projects, robustly described the PSI as "lunacy". Organisations that take arts into prison … were scared, disheartened and in some cases had projects abruptly cancelled by understandably nervous governors. Nobody, after all, has defined the parameters of a "public acceptability test"… Even obviously humane projects bringing together prisoners and families found themselves threatened. It has been a difficult time. It still is. And it shouldn't be. Prisons should be free to do whatever contributes to rehabilitation, purpose and human connection. The "public acceptability test" still needs harpooning. [The Times, March 2, 2009 (emphasis added)]
Ms Purves's column went on to praise, in moving terms, a production of the great musical West Side Story by a mixture of prisoners, prison officers and a few professional actors from Pimlico Opera, in Wandsworth prison, the biggest in the country. The production, said Ms Purves, sent two vital messages. The first and most obvious one was about the futility and cruelty of street gang violence:
That second message is about work: co-operation, learning, taking direction and how it takes the sweated patience of theatre to create, in a live moment, a magical emotional unity between audience and performers.
Similar praise for what was evidently an outstanding and deeply moving production came from Fiona Maddocks in The Observer on 15 March:
Rejoice in these jailhouse blues
Jack Straw is clamping down on arts inside prisons. If he'd been at HMP Wandsworth last week, he might just change his mind …
Between his Wagner performances at the Royal Opera House last week Bryn Terfel slipped into Wandsworth prison in south-west London. He had a free afternoon and responded to an impromptu invitation. After visiting a few cells, the world's most famous bass-baritone volunteered to join a group of inmates in a song…
Together they sang "Somewhere", the yearning ballad from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. For anyone incarcerated in one of the largest prisons in western Europe together with 1,643 other male offenders, the lyrics have unbearable poignancy: "Peace and quiet and open air/ Wait for us/ Somewhere…/We'll find a new way of living/ We'll find a way of forgiving/ Somewhere."
Even the austere Financial Times was moved, Peter Aspden writing:
We were, of course, all expecting the barnstorming "Officer Krupke" to be rich in dramatic irony ("Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset; We never had the love that ev'ry child oughta get. We ain't no delinquents, We're misunderstood. Deep down inside us there is good!") and so it proved, especially when the last verse was sung extra-lustily to the prison project's patron, former cabinet minister Michael Portillo, smiling sheepishly in the stalls.
There was still more poignancy in store when the entire male chorus, inmates every one, sang the lyrics of West Side Story's loveliest melody: "Some day, somewhere, we'll find a new way of living…" It can't be often that the mise-en-scène of this particular musical is as moving as its substance, but that was certainly the case here, where its theme of redemption passed for much more than mere romantic conceit. [FT, 6 March 2009]
A friend who works as a volunteer at Wandsworth prison was also there:
[L]ike Libby Purves, I was at the opening night of this amazing show last Friday … Those of us who work as volunteers (monitoring day-to-day conditions and events in prisoners' lives in HMP Wandsworth), know … about the inestimable value of drama and the other arts in prisons … And [Libby Purves is] absolutely right too about the quality of the production — the audience wouldn't stop applauding at times — and what it must be doing for the prisoners taking part. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry much of the time — so, like many other people, I did both. Just imagine prisoners singing: Gee Officer Krupke….We never had the love every child oughta get…We ain't no delinquents, we're misunderstood.. Deep down inside us there is good…! And: He don't need a judge he needs an analyst's care…It's just his neurosis that oughta be curbed… He's psychologic'ly disturbed…! And so on. Hilarious stuff. But I wondered about the men singing it. Did they sense the irony? What did they feel? Learn?
I'll try to find out from some of them in the near future when reality re-imposes itself.
Jack Straw's ignorant, cowardly fiat, surrendering instantly to The Sun's bullying, very nearly caused the abandonment of this hugely worth-while project. He didn't, you'll notice, attempt to defend the ban on 'inappropriate' courses such as training in comedian's skills in prisons, nor to deny their potential value as rehabilitation tools, boosters of morale and self-respect, bonding and community spirit. His sole concern is whether any activity is publicly "acceptable" — acceptability, it seems, defined not by what is acceptable to Lord Ramsbotham or to others who understand that the punishment of being sent to prison is the withdrawal of liberty, not ill-treatment and mindless deprivations while behind bars: acceptability defined purely, or impurely, by what is acceptable to The Sun newspaper. How low can a minister entrusted with 'justice' sink?
The Justice Secretary
But what should we expect of Mr Straw, Justice Secretary — indeed also Lord Chancellor in his spare time? He was the Foreign Secretary at the time of the Blair government's illegal attack on Iraq, the senior minister whose own department's legal advisers had warned him in writing that an attack on Iraq would constitute the crime of aggression, but who apparently had not had the courage to relay that warning to his Cabinet colleagues (we would have heard about it by now if he had) nor to resign when it was brushed impatiently aside by Mr Blair. He was the home secretary who, as recorded by Wikipedia, "brought forward the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, increased police powers against terrorism and proposed a reduction in the right to trial by jury. These policies won praise from Margaret Thatcher who once declared 'I trust Jack Straw. He is a very fair man.' They were deemed excessively authoritarian by his former students' union, which in 2000 banned him from the building…" He was was responsible for allowing General Augusto Pinochet to return to Chile. In 2000 he turned down an asylum request from a man fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime, saying "we have faith in the integrity of the Iraqi judicial process and that you should have no concerns if you haven't done anything wrong." Only Gordon Brown, Alastair Darling and Jack Straw have served continuously in every Labour cabinet since Labour's triumph in 1997. We have accumulated ample evidence by now of what kind of politician the Justice Secretary is. Nothing that he does should surprise us.
Truly disgusting. I was speculating in a lecture this morning about whether the punitive moralism of Blair's New Labour might be on the wane under Brown. Perhaps we shouldn't get our hopes up while the likes of Straw are still hanging on.
Those of my generation remember a Stalinist thug called Jack Straw who was the President of NUS in the early 70s. Oddly, Straw doesn't seem to mind this, as is shown in this letter published in the Independent on 16 November 2004:
'Dear Comrade Editor: In his report on President Arafat's funeral ceremony in Cairo (13 November), Robert Fisk uttered such a malicious libel against me that I am certain that even the late George Carman QC would have taken my case without fee.
'Mr Fisk called me an "old Trot". There is a very long list of old Trots who really were Trots who will be as outraged as me by this calumny. (These types can usually now be found in the City, appearing on quiz shows or ranting in certain national newspapers.)
'Whatever other frailties I may have (many), I have been consistent in my opposition to Trotskyism and the false consciousness it engenders. (I was first taught to spot a Trot at 50 yards in 1965 by Mr Bert Ramelson, Yorkshire industrial organiser of the Communist Party.)
'Yours fraternally,
' JACK STRAW
'Foreign Secretary
'House of Commons
'PS. Further reading. Isaac Deutscher: Trotsky (3 vols). Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder, V I Lenin 1919 (a prescient warning about Trotskyist adventurism).'
We, especially those who were at Cambridge, also remember another Stalinist thug called Charles Clarke, who led SocSoc and the Cambridge Students Union (not the Union Society). We also seem to remember that Clarke spent some time in Cuba helping Castro gather in his sugar and learning how to create and run a Socialist paradise — but as Clarke's Wikipedia entry makes no mention of this, our memories are obviously at fault and in need of reeducation.
Thanks for drawing our attention to this latest ministerial act of cowardice. It exemplifies why I expressed my doubts, in a comment last week, as to whether those politicians who currently denounce the surveillance state would sing the same tune if they ever found themselves in office.
A post-script to the Pimlico/West Side Story saga: last Wednesday Kevin Wood, the prisoner whom everyone who saw the show singled out as being particularly special, was released from court, a free man. Wasfi Kani's letter, amounting to an offer of a contract for the Grange Park summer season, was read out. A number of the West Side Story cast had gone along to court to support Kevin. (Well, not the prisoners, obviously.) As the Judge released Kevin, he added: "And Mr Wood, may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your review in the Financial Times?". Kevin now has a contract for 3 shows at Grange Park and another company has offered him a job in the West End later in the year.
You couldn't make it up, or rather, you wouldn't — it's too much of a fairy story. Please could everyone cross everything that this man makes a safe transition into his new life?
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Have you ever felt powerless in a closet full of mountains but still have a "nothing to wear" situation? If the answer is "yes" , see more the "Lean Wardrobe" concept in the following article to be able to see the art of building a proper wardrobe!
Building a reasonable wardrobe is a very important thing. Owning an efficient cabinet will save you time, effort and money and still look fashionable, trendy. Perhaps so, the Lean Wardrobe was born as a necessity. Find out what this method is special for people to "go crazy" for it!
As its name suggests, the Lean Wardrobe (sometimes called the Minimal Wardrobe) is a minimalist-style wardrobe. A reasonable Lean Wardrobe only includes basic outfits with minimal quantities but still flexible enough; help you get rid of the frenzy when choosing a dress style every day.
What should be in a Lean Wardrobe?
It is true that the Lean Wardrobe should only include simple outfits. However, sometimes we will need more than the basic day style. For events with different properties will require different clothing and accessories. Therefore, we should have a reasonable allocation in the possession of each type of costume. To make it easier to imagine your wardrobe is a model tower consisting of 3 different parts, in order of priority descending from low to high.
The first part is the "background". This is the place to help you start building your style. Put in here all that is really needed, both in terms of materials and colors. For example, you should have a navy blue suit, a dark denim suit, some chinos, some T-shirts with white and blue shirts. These are basic items, deep and / or neutral colors. They are extremely easy to wear and can be easily combined with anything. Note that this is also the largest part of the pyramid model, so don't hesitate to store them in large numbers.
The second part includes all kinds of difficult mix clothes to match each other. For example, colorful long-sleeved shirt, plum-colored t-shirt or green chinos. These are items that can be easily combined with the basic outfit above. However, you need to have a certain understanding of colors and materials before combining them together.
The last part is the least, you should leave the most special outfits, the styles you want to change and want to try. Ivory fedora hats, colorful cravats or light colored blazer are all in this section.
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What is a business push notification service and how can it change the way you do business?
How would you like to be able to reach out to the people that visit your website. I know you probably already have a mail list, but engagement in mailing lists is not that great. How many visitors to your site just slip past?
What if you could reach out to these targeted customers that already are aware of your business and maybe are just waiting for the "right time" to buy?
What if you could send them notifications on their desktop or their mobile device to let them know about your offers?
Restaurant owners… what if you could whisper in the ear of people that have visited your webpage at 10:30 or 11AM… wouldn't seafood be good for lunch today?
This is cutting edge. Not many are yet taking advantage of this fantastic opportunity to niche advertise and connect to your customers in such a direct way. User engagement with push notifications is higher than any other communication method. Higher than email, higher than social media. Studies show that there is a 90% open rate for push notifications. THIS is amazing. If you run a business you owe it to yourself to look at a demo of this. This could forever change the way you communicate with your customers.
The best thing is, there's no need for an expensive app.
How does it work? A user visits your page and there's a prompt to subscribe to updates from this site, or a notification icon that when clicked asks you to subscribe to updates. Visitors subscribe to receive notifications and then you are able to instantly send messages to either their mobile device or their desktop. Imagine being able to get your message out to your targeted customers instantly. Ok, so let's say your a nail salon that's having a really slow day. So, you send out a message announcing a 20% special today only. Or maybe your a florist and you want to send one more reminder about the order cutoff for Valentines Day, or Mothers Day. The possibilities for push notifications are numerous.
We offer several different packages for push notification services.
Exclusivity. There is an additional fee of $2000 per year to be an exclusive business with us in your niche and your local area. For instance, you would be the only pizza restaurant in Naples to use our service, or the only florist, only plumber, etc. We would not contract our push notification service with other businesses in your niche within 50 miles for the duration of your exclusivity agreement.


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namespace blink {

namespace {

// The number of child elements the shadow DOM should have.
const unsigned kExpectedElementCount = 6;

}  // namespace

class MediaControlScrubbingMessageElementTest : public PageTestBase {
 public:
  void SetUp() final {
    // Create page and add a video element with controls.
    PageTestBase::SetUp();
    media_element_ = MakeGarbageCollected<HTMLVideoElement>(GetDocument());
    media_element_->SetBooleanAttribute(html_names::kControlsAttr, true);
    GetDocument().body()->AppendChild(media_element_);

    // Create instance of MediaControlScrubbingMessageElement to run tests on.
    media_controls_ =
        static_cast<MediaControlsImpl*>(media_element_->GetMediaControls());
    ASSERT_NE(nullptr, media_controls_);
    message_element_ =
        MakeGarbageCollected<MediaControlScrubbingMessageElement>(
            *media_controls_);
  }

 protected:
  void SetIsWanted(bool wanted) { message_element_->SetIsWanted(wanted); }

  unsigned CountChildren() const {
    return message_element_->GetShadowRoot()->CountChildren();
  }

 private:
  Persistent<HTMLMediaElement> media_element_;
  Persistent<MediaControlsImpl> media_controls_;
  Persistent<MediaControlScrubbingMessageElement> message_element_;
};

TEST_F(MediaControlScrubbingMessageElementTest, PopulateShadowDOM) {
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A review copy was not provided by Nintendo.
Before I start this review off I would like to start with a little back story. When I was about eight years old my parents bought me a Nintendo GameCube. I loved that thing to death. It was my first video game console. In about fourth grade I made a really cool friend who also had a GameCube and loved it too. He let me borrow two games from him. Mario Party 4 and Animal Crossing. Mario Party 4 was so much fun when I had friends over, the mini games were all creative and the cut throat competitiveness of stealing stars from each other brought out all of our dark sides. On the other side there was Animal Crossing, a whimsical game that allowed me to live a life I never thought I would.
I played Animal Crossing religiously for almost two years straight. At the time I was going through a lot of stuff with my family, so this game was seen an escape from reality. It allowed me to live a second life. From there I grew to love the series as a staple in my gaming career. My parents bought me a DS with Animal Crossing Wild World and I played that game everywhere I went. When City Folk came out I thought the game was a bit stale but the series charm was still there, and when New Leaf hit I thought it was finally a game to almost top the awesomeness that was the GameCube version. I grew up with Animal Crossing, the series made me appreciate slower paced games as a way to unwind and relax. So why am I telling you all this first? I just want you to know where I am coming from as I write this review. The Animal Crossing series has been a part of my life since I started gaming as a child. So, with that out of the way let's get into the actual review.
With the recent hit of Animal Crossing New Leaf in Japan and around the world, Nintendo wanted to try and ride the success as much as they could by announcing two brand new spin off games. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, a game that focuses only on the customization aspects of Animal Crossing, and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, a party game made by the current Mario Party and Wii Party developers. On paper you would think the happy go lucky life sim game would actually fit well in a board game environment, similar to that of a video game version of the Game of Life. You would think this game would take a lot of the Animal Crossing staples established throughout the years and put it into a competent board game environment. And to be fair they kind of do, and at the same time they completely miss the mark.
The object of the game is to have the most happiness points by the end of month, and to gain happiness points you have to land on different spaces that will either give or take happiness points, and or give or take your money.Each time you land on one of these spaces you get an interesting scenario that appears where you get to see what exactly caused your fortune or misfortune to happen. While reading these were a good chuckle, and different characters had different scenarios, I soon got repeats and reading some of the cards became more mundane than enjoyable. On top of that, the scenario you get is completely random, and the effect said scenario has on you is also completely random.
One time I landed on the money space and I magically got 40,000 bells, and basically took the lead and the game half way in. No matter what happened after that my friend had no real way of catching up with me. And, unlike other party games, there were no ways to set traps and no ways to screw your friends over so you can have a chance to mount a comeback. The best you could really do is just hope that luck was on your side when you rolled the dice. This leads into the main problem this game: it is all luck based.
What I love about the Mario Party series is that you needed the right mix of skill and luck to come out on top over your friends. And, to be honest, that's not a bad thing. A little bit of RNG (Random Number Generator) mixed with skill and planning is never a bad thing. However, this game relies 99% on RNG, with the extent of the skill you will use is in how you want to go about the map, and how you invest in the stock market. There were many times that, out of the blue, the game would throw in "Opposite Day!" making your characters walk backwards, and making changing up how spaces are affected, and the inability to check what the stocks were.
There were many times I was making a strategic plan to get to the nearest Gyroid to get my stamp card punched, only for opposite day to be invoked, sending me back several spaces, and sometimes having me land on a space I was trying my hardest to avoid. This aspect of the game makes every victory seem unrewarding because I come out of the game feeling like, did I really win? Or were the RNG gods in my favor this round? And every loss left me sitting there thinking wow, I had no chance to win after a certain point in that game.
Now, this game also has a lot of things for you to unlock while playing. However, to unlock any of these things you need to use Happy Points. Happy Points are basically this game's version of currency, and the only way to get this currency is to play through the board game mode. This was a major turnoff for me. I wanted a break from the board game after having to play through the same board two or three times. While the different month events mix up the game a little bit, it's not enough to prevent it from getting mundane to play through.
Once you have managed to get enough happiness points to unlock some of the mini games, you are only met with more disappointment. The only memorable mini game was the island one where it is the closest thing this game has to a different game mode. The fortune telling mini game tried too hard to be a game that makes use of the Amiibo cards, couple this with unclear instructions and you have even more missed opportunities. The other mini games ranging from a weird version of centipede and The Price is Right, just seem unmemorable. This made the time it takes to unlock these games seem pointless. The only real purpose they have is to grind happy points, and, honestly, you are better off trudging through the board game aspect of the game than this.
I should probably mention that even though this game is called Amiibo Festival, amiibos are not really used all too well. The extent of their use is utilizing them to allow your character to roll the dice, and to store happiness points to unlock customizations for your character. Now, in practice this could be good if you were to take this to friends house and you can continue to grind for points with your amiibo, but outside of using it to start the game (yes you have to tap the amiibo to get past the start screen, so good luck buying this game pre-owned without an amiibo.) they have no real purpose. At least the Amiibo cards allow you to scan in animals to come move into your town map, and are used in some of the mini games, but they still feel just as forced as the amiibo themselves.
The last problem I have with this game is the lack of online multiplayer. I was lucky to have a friend who was willing to stay up till about two in the morning to play this game with me. And, to be honest, the first time we played through we had some fun, we found the game quirky, but when we started playing a second time we slowly began to realize a lot of the flaws this game has that we mentioned in this review. Now that he has left I am by myself forcing myself to play this game with computers. It's just dreadfully boring. I think I would have had more fun watching paint dry. I actually would rather have watched Bob Ross paint for several hours than continue to play this game any longer. With friends this game can be enjoyable in a "so bad it's good" kind of sense, but when playing by yourself? Good night, this game is torture.
Overall Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival is just a very cheap way for Nintendo sell amiibos. The game strays away from everything that makes an Animal Crossing game Animal Crossing, and it fails as an interesting party game. Nintendo, I am saying this with love: this game was bad. You drove the Animal Crossing name through the mud with this game. I can understand why you would make spin offs, but this just seems so lazily done with no effort put into it. As a person who grew up with Animal Crossing, this game was nothing but heartbreak seeing what one of my most favorite video game franchises of all time has become.
Posted on November 14, 2015, in Reviews and tagged Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, Nintendo, Review, Wii U. Bookmark the permalink.	10 Comments.
Why am I not surprised at your impressions of the game? Looks no different than Candy Land, a game based on 100% luck. That's why 2 year olds play it.
Best part about the game is probably your review.
…that you can actually earn Happy Tickets by playing the mini-games, too.
"The only real purpose they have[mini games] is to grind happy points, and, honestly, you are better off trudging through the board game aspect of the game than this." I should probably have made that more clear, thanks for the heads up!
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wumpus-core: Pure Haskell PostScript and SVG generation.
Wumpus - (W)riter (M)onad (P)ost (S)cript.
Wumpus is a library for generating 2D vector pictures, its salient feature is portability due to no FFI dependencies. It can generate PostScript (EPS) files and SVG files. The generated PostScript code is plain  and quite efficient (no unnecessary stack operations).
Pictures in Wumpus are made from paths and text labels. Paths themselves are made from points. The usual affine transformations (rotations, scaling, translations) can be applied to all geometric objects. Unlike PostScript there is no notion of a current point, Wumpus builds pictures in a coordinate-free style. There is a set of combinators for composing pictures (more-or-less similar to the usual pretty printing combinators).
For actually drawing pictures, diagrams, etc. Wumpus is very low level. I am working on a complementary package wumpus-extra with higher-level stuff (polygons, arrows etc.) but it is too unstable for Hackage. Preview releases can be found at http://code.google.com/p/copperbox/ though.
Wumpus-core should be fairly stable from now on. There may be some name changes etc. that will change interfaces, but Wumpus has been carefully implemented. Some of the design decisions are not sophisticated (e.g. how attributes like colour are handled, and how the bounding boxes of text labels are calculated), so Wumpus might be limited compared to other systems. However its design permits a simple implementation - which is a priority. Text encoding an exception, I'm not sure how reasonable the design is. The current implementation appears okay for Latin 1 but I'm not sure about other character sets, and I may have to revise it significantly.
There is no documentation - the graphics model used by Wumpus is different to PostScript or SVG, and Wumpus really needs a manual. Unfortunately there isn't one yet, and I will be focusing on wumpus-extra for the foreseeable future; so a manual won't be written soon. If you want FFI-free vector graphics and Wumpus seems to otherwise fit the task, please email me and I will try to help.
\[1\] Because the output is simple, straight-line PostScript code, it is possible to use GraphicsMagick or a similar tool to convert Wumpus's EPS files to many other formats (bitmaps).
Wumpus.Core.SVG changed path_s to path_c - 'S' was the wrongSVG command to match PostScript's curveto.


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JPMorgan warns equities investors face a high danger of being 'whipsawed' because they are misjudging the risk of a recession — and the bank tips 4 sectors to crush the rest of the stock market
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The bulls and bears have both got solid cases, making market direction exceptionally hard to call.
JPMorgan's equity strategy team is of course wrestling with this issue, like all banks and investors.
They have concluded the risk of recession can easily be misjudged, resulting in investors getting 'whipsawed.'
Markets are always beset by uncertainty to some degree but the situation appears particularly acute right now.
The bulls and bears have both got solid cases. On one hand, there's strength to the argument that the bad news is priced in. Above-target inflation and the Federal Reserve's rate-rise cycle in response to it has been evident for months.
While the Ukraine conflict remains unpredictable, it has been running close to month now and investors have had significant time to assess the implications, so it is arguable the related sell-off has played itself out.
The bears' argument seems to largely rest on the risk of a global recession, or the dreaded arrival of stagflation, where economic growth grinds to a halt, but inflation persists.
JPMorgan's equity strategy team is of course wrestling with this issue, and they have adjudged the bearish scenario of recession is being overplayed. The team comprising Mislav Matejka, Prabhav Bhadani, Nitya Saldanha and Karishma Manpuria explained geopolitical turmoil does not mean earnings have no more room to grow.
"The recent moves in a range of commodity prices are extreme, and if these moves hold for a prolonged period of time, the economic damage would be significant, but we still do not believe recession needs to be the base outcome, and do not see equities falling from current levels, especially not on anything longer than a 1-month horizon, the risk of being whipsawed remains high," they said in a note to clients.
Whipsawed refers to a situation where markets appear to be trending in one direction, an investor piles in, and then prices reverse to an extreme degree.
"While geopolitics is in the driving seat in the near term, we believe that equities still offer supportive risk-reward over the medium term, and that the cycle is not over. We look for more gains in earnings, bottoming out in China activity, after being cautious on the space last year, and expect the Fed not to turn ever more hawkish, relative to what is currently priced in," they said.
"We think it is wrong to position for a recession given still extremely favourable financing conditions, very strong labour markets, under-leveraged consumer, strong corporate cash flows and banks' strong balance sheets. The sector leadership remains risk-on, and it is not consistent with a continued slowdown," they added.
The strategists also noted that stocks have already dipped significantly from their local highs, particularly in the most frothy parts of the market, and said the bond market may provide the crucial clues for future market moves.
"There was a very significant selloff in a number of high-multiple growth areas, with fintech down 35% to recent lows, non-profitable tech down 40%. The question is whether one should buy back quality, especially if one sees a potential peak in inflation.
"In our view the key is the direction of bond yields – we expect them to continue moving higher, and that was always consistent with cyclical leadership. Regionally, we reiterate our upgrade of UK to overweight, after six years of a cautious stance," they said.
The JPM team also pointed to the "key offset" for recession risk stemming from fuel price rises.
Namely, that the duration of dislocation might not be prolonged and consumers are going to be "shielded aggressively" from commodity price spikes by fiscal stimulus, which could be "far greater than what is currently envisaged."
"We also note that the sensitivity of oil use for GDP has been falling steadily over time, and that at least for the developed market consumer the share of food and energy in the consumption basket is lower now than historically, in addition to record strong labour markets entering this exogenous shock," they said.
Stagflation is a buzzword around the markets at the moment, and again the JPM team sees that being overplayed.
"The focus by many is on the 70s stagflation episode, and on the view that central banks and governments might be constrained in what they can do to support the economy now, as indeed the energy, and other commodities, supply shock has similarities to then," they said.
The team noted that in the 1970s, commodities and industrials tended to outperform, while consumer discretionary, defensive bond proxies and financials lagged. Banks in particular were weak during the recessions in 1973 and 1980, although they recovered in between.
"In our view, even if the stagflation backdrop were to fully take hold, and last, with sustained high inflation, similar to the 70s, we do not see this time around the corresponding move up in bond yields, not anything on the scale seen then. Developed market central banks have in the meantime perfected the tools to manage bond yields in order not to hurt financing conditions much," the team said.
For investors who feel emboldened to stay in the market or even deploy fresh cash, the JPM team identified four sectors which offer the best opportunity right now. The bank is recommending overweights in financials, communication services, energy and materials stocks.
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Orit Raff
Born 1970, Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
2000-02 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY
1998-99 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1994-96 BFA (cum laude), School of Visual Arts, New York
1992-94 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Priming, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Priming, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Priming, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue)
2011 Shangri-La, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2009 All Those Wonderful Places, Kiryat Tivon Art Gallery, Kiryat Tivon
2007 Blink, The New Gallery, Beit Gabriel on the Kinneret
2006 Insatiable, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York
2005 Insatiable, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Insatiable, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2004 Hunt-the-Slipper, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Insatiable, Cutting Edge Project at ARCO'03, Madrid, Spain
2002 Dynamic Equilibrium, SITE Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico (catalogue)
Hunt-the-Slipper, Paula Boettcher Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hunt-the-Slipper, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (catalogue)
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Hunt-the-Slipper, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Thirty Times The Length Of My Breath, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baumgartner Gallery, curator Professor Dr. Rainer Crone, New York, NY (catalogue)
Innen Zeichnung, The LISTE '00 Young Art Fair Basel, Basel
Approaching Saturation, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
Inside Drawing, Julie Saul Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Innen Zeichnung, Paula Bottcher Gallery, Berlin (catalogue)
1999 Geometry of Echoes, The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Silverstein Gallery, New York
1998 The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 Food Weave, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art Artist Residency, Jaffa
2021 Frost, Artspace, Tel Aviv
2021 AIRSPACE, The Ramat Hasharon Trilogy: Beyond the Local, The New Municipal Gallery for
Contemporary Art Ramat Hasharon (catalogue)
2020 Specters, Ashdod Art Museum (catalogue)
2019 Your Very Own Paradise, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
Hotel Utopia, Fresh Paint Art Fair 2019 Satellite Exhibition, LightHouse Hotel, Tel Aviv
Kitchen, Fresh Paint Art Fair 2019 Satellite Exhibition, The Print House, Tel Aviv
2018 Butterflies: Last Chance to See exhibition, Villa Tamaris Centre d'Art, Toulon
Butterflies: Last Chance to See exhibition, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art (catalogue)
Flood: Contemporary Israeli Photography, Ashdod Art Museum (catalogue)
To The End of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, India (catalogue)
2017 Room 404, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv
No Place, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai
2016 Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Fact / Fiction: The 9th Jeonju International Photo Festival, South Korea (catalogue)
Visions of Place, Towson University, Towson, Maryland (catalogue)
Art Speaks Out:Till It's Gone Exhibition, Istanbul Modern
2015 Art Speaks Out, Ikono TV's official ArtCop21 event
Visions of Place, Steadman Gallery at Rutgers University's Camden Center for the Arts (catalogue)
Disrupted Spaces, The Rose Art Gallery at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
2013 Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Ikono On Air Festival, Berlin
2011 Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY
2009 Rupture and Repair, The Jerusalem Artists' House in cooperation with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue)
2008 True North, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (catalogue)
2007 Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, Berlin & The Jewish Museum, New York (catalogue)
2006 Glasskultur: What became of Transparence? La Panera, Lerida, Spain & Koldo Mitxelena Museum, San Sebastian, Spain (catalogue)
Bread, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue)
In relation to the Body, The Photography Gallery at the MIDRASHA Academy for the Arts, Beit Berl, Israel
2005 Traces and Omens, The Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands (catalogue)
The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Staging Reality, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Time Depot, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel (catalogue)
In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Able was I ere I saw Elba - Palindrome, Heimspiel, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Staging Reality, Rutgers University, New Jersey & The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Prague Biennale 1 - 2003: "Peripheries Become the Centre", Prague (catalogue)
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Berkeley Art Museum, CA (catalogue)
2002 Multitude, Artists Space, New York, New York (catalogue)
Marshim-Identitasok, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (catalogue)
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
2001 Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors, SF CameraWork, San Francisco, CA
Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, ICA San Jose, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
RE-LOCATION: on moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2000 A shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery, London
Architectural Constructs in contemporary photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Looking Ahead - Visions of Israel, ICA San Jose, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
1999 The Wight Biennial UCLA, The New Wight Gallery, Los-Angeles (catalogue)
Mediterranean Encounters 3, The '99 Croatia Biennial, Dubrovnik, Croatia (catalogue)
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
New In The Nineties II, The Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York
1998 Under Construction, GEN ART New Visions, New York
1996 A Strategy Hinted at: New Conceptual Artists, Artists Space, New York
Awards and Scholarships:
2018 Outset Israel supported project Butterflies, first presented in the exhibition "Last Chance to See",
The Petach Tikva Museum of Art and at Villa Tamaris centre d'art, France
2005 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts
2005 MIFAL HAPAIS - Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts Grant
2002 Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship
2001 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts
2000 The International Studio Program, New York
1999 Special Award for Originality & Innovation, The '99 Croatia Biennial, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1997 America Israel Cultural Foundation Fellowship, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1995 Award of Excellence, School of Visual Arts Mentor Program, New York
1994 Student Exchange Scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Special Presidential Grant for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Public Collections:
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston
Progressive Cooperation, Cleveland, Ohio


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From Europe to China: Learning a New Scientific Culture w...
I arrived in China in 2014. At the time, I was just finishing my thesis, in Marseille, France, in the field of integrative neurosciences, on the theme of optical imaging recording of the primary visual cortex in awake primate.
Like any fresh graduate, I was looking for a post-doc to continue my scientific career, although it must be admitted that at the time I was still asking myself many questions: Where to go? Should I continue in academia or in a company? It should be noted that the competition for a permanent position in Europe was extremely tough at the time, and is even tougher now.
Finding a good lab was essential. The overwhelming majority of young doctors therefore went on to do a post-doc in another European country, the United States or Japan. Yet, I told myself, China was a country experiencing rapid growth in quality research, a country with which there were more and more international collaborations.
By becoming one of the first European researchers to work in China, I wanted to build strong bridges between China and Europe. It is with this in mind that I sent an unsolicited application to Prof. WANG Liping at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. WANG kindly agreed to take me on as a post-doc.
Quentin is giving a lecture to the research scholars in SIAT. (Image by SIAT)
That was six years ago, and since then I have seen with my own eyes that research in China is at an excellent level, with a plethora of resources and opportunities. In the laboratory I was able to learn optogenetics and calcium imaging, two methods I now use daily. I also discovered the neurosciences of behavior and emotions, main thematic of the team where I was welcomed, and which I particularly like.
Obviously, I was able to acquire a lot of data from SIAT and more particularly from BCBDI (Brain Cognition and Brain Disorder Institute of SIAT ), data that were subject to publication, many of which are in the process of being written. I also learned a lot, especially by discovering other working methods and ways of thinking than those I learned in France.
Quentin standing in the front of the gate of SIAT. (Image by SIAT)
At the same time, it should be noted that it is difficult for a foreigner to come and work in China. Everything can be summed up in a few words: the language barrier, and culture shock. Fortunately, I was able to meet friends at SIAT who helped me to get by and better understand the Chinese organization. They are real friends, with whom I like to work, debate science, and spend time.
At the restaurant. (Image by SIAT)
In short, these years in China have served as an introduction to a different and high-quality scientific culture, a renewal of my scientific approach: this Sino-European hybridization has made me a perfect link between these two parts of the world.
Thus, after a few years, I was able to begin to play the role I had set for myself: that of helping to build strong bridges between the scientific institutions of several countries. Obviously, this was the case with France and its prestigious institutions, the CNRS and INRA, and also with Australia.
I have had the pleasure of participating in the development of ambitious collaboration projects, and humbly helping to foster mutual understanding between the institutions and teams of the two countries.
It is a flexible and efficient organization, in which I'm very pleasant to work and to try doing ambitious things. I look forward to seeing where these exchanges between SIAT and these foreign institutions will lead, and to continuing my work with the CAS.
Quentin (first from left) and Prof. WANG Liping (third from left)'s team of the Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute. (Image by SIAT)


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Q: neural network training stopping so soon My feed forward neural network has 150 input neurons, 25 hidden neurons, and 3 output neurons. My training dataset has 43104 samples and my validation and testing datasets contain 9237 samples each.
I am using validation check to stop training. the validation check is set to 6. However, my neural network stop training in 11 iterations! isnt that too early?
Thank you.

A: No its not too early. The training loop finishes based on an exit strategy. Its likely to be when the error on the validation set goes below a set threshold, although it can be set to various other parameters.
Once your network tests accurately on the test dataset, the number of  training iterations is not important.

A: You can look at your goal value.
If there is huge gap, then you should increase the value of validation check.
Validation check can be increased by that function.
net.trainParam.max_fail = 8;

Here validation check is set to 8.

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Typhoon: N.V. Handelsmaatschappij A. Knibbe, Amersfoort, later C.S. Olthof, Geleen.

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Eind jaren vijftig van de 20e eeuw ging men ook de Italiaanse Giulietta-bromfietsen onder de merknaam Typhoon verkopen. In oktober 1968 ging Knibbe failliet, maar de naam Typhoon werd in 1969 verkocht aan C.S. Olthof in Geleen, die opnieuw Giulietta-bromfietsen als Typhoon ging verkopen.

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Q: Prevent kill from outputting message I have a shell script that involves creating a background process and then killing it at some point. A stripped-down version of the strip is:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 100 &
# do something
kill $!
sleep 0

When I run this script, it produces some (undesired) output
> ./script.sh
./script.sh: line 5: 99515 Terminated: 15          sleep 100

This output happens even if I pipe the kill line's stdout and stderr to /dev/null. But for some reason it doesn't happen when I omit the last line. Why is the output being generated and how can I prevent it?

A: You could send a SIGINT (or a SIGQUIT) (instead of a SIGTERM); change
kill $!

to
kill -n 2 $!

or
kill -n 3 $!

A: Use trap:
sleep 100 &
sleep_pid=$!

# Ignore SIGTERM
trap "" TERM

kill -TERM $sleep_pid
sleep 0

See man 1p trap:

If action is null (""), the shell shall ignore each specified
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Fuller and the Fuller Youth Institute's commitment to learning, resourcing, and networking has placed us as one (if not the) most significant schools dedicated to youth and young adult ministry. Our work regularly taps into the expertise of Fuller's School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy and the School of Mission and Theology faculty. Those who seek to develop their skills and knowledge in youth and young adult ministry look to Fuller and the Fuller Youth Institute.
Students in this concentration will benefit from a supportive community, training to handle ministry in an ever-changing world, and preparation for youth ministry and beyond.
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