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Longing for the Writer's Space
Lives & Histories
How should readers and scholars look on the tangible traces writers leave behind?
By Deborah Lutz
Call me romantic, but I have always been curious about writers' houses and their belongings, especially desks, pens, and manuscripts. As a fan, I relish stepping into that room where an author wrote, standing in front of her desk, gazing on the same view she did as she formulated her sentences or just daydreamed. Dwelling in these domestic spaces, even if only for the length of a museum visit, somehow inspires me.
Some of my favorite 19th-century writers felt this way too. George Eliot cherished rose leaves purloined from Wordsworth's garden, and after she visited Goethe's house with her partner, George Henry Lewes, she confessed in her journal: "We wrote our names near one of the windows."1 A devout secularist, she saw possessions as material witnesses to one's experience, as daily allies that spoke feelingly of the past.
Writers become sacralized through the rooms that once held them, as Nicola J. Watson discusses in her new book, The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums. However, the afterlives of their libraries, particularly if they are women, can be considerably less stable, as Sheila Liming observes in What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books. To assay a great author's library is to see her placed in an intellectual tradition, to figure her as a participant in an ongoing conversation with communities of writers. Yet women's libraries have always been more ephemeral than those of men, for "catalogues and indexes tend to be organized by surname," as Renaissance scholar William Sherman explains. "Books purchased by or given to women tended to disappear behind the surname they adopted when they married and to be subsumed into their husband's estate."2
Take George Eliot as an example. A confirmed bibliophile, the writer owned about 10,000 volumes when she died.3 Most are now missing. Yet we know that books, for Eliot, held a special place in the pantheon: her copy of Wordsworth's The Prelude, which she owned for at least 13 years and read aloud with two partners, contains records of the author's ardor on its leaves, in her hand and in Lewes's.4 In The Mill on the Floss, volumes one has loved for years are the "daily companions" most yearned for when they are gone.5
How should readers and scholars look upon the tangible traces writers leave behind—those dresses, walking sticks, and rings? If you are at all like Eliot (or me), you may recoil at Watson's skeptical view of the relics and rooms of writers. In contrast to Watson, Liming holds on to—and nurtures—a sophisticated delight in the leavings of beloved writers. Liming uses Edith Wharton as a departure point for an engrossing study of how books and reading form the self. Her revelations allow us to see how Watson may be too quick to undermine the painstaking historical work of reconstructing an author's writing life through her tools—objects that can elicit an emotional and visceral connection in literary pilgrims, and that can form an important and often overlooked part of women writers' legacies.
Is Handwriting History?
By Deidre Lynch
A cynical vein runs through Watson's book. She dwells on the amusing frauds, such as Petrarch's mummified cat behind glass at his house museum in Arquà Petrarca, in northern Italy, though it was never his cat and began as a practical joke by an early owner of the museum. A stuffed raven called Grip that once belonged to Dickens slowly became associated instead with Poe through a complicated process of de- and recontextualization. (Watson doesn't mention an even starker illustration of Victorian sensibilities that now feel distant: the letter opener Dickens had made of the paw of his cat Bob, inscribed, "C.D. in memory of Bob 1862," now part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.) At least four chairs have been desired to be Shakespeare's chair, without any of them being so.
Writers' bodies had rich afterlives too, Watson shows. A drunken monk rifled Petrarch's corpse to sell his bones, and Schiller's friends and acquaintances attempted to identify his skull from a pile of many, buried communally. Goethe insisted he recognized the "peculiar beauty and evenness of the teeth." Descartes's bones were set into jewelry, his skull inscribed with the names of successive owners and with a poem in Latin. The fantasies, rumors, and hoaxes surrounding the exhumation of Shakespeare, which never actually happened, bewilder in their number and knotty strangeness.
Moving beyond pets, furniture, and corpses, The Author's Effects tours house museums, asking why writers' rooms become part of their legacies, and why readers go to these spaces curated "for no-one to live in," which keep alive the fiction that "the writer has just left the room." And yet this felt absence leads to the most evocative moments (for the unrepentant fan) in the book, offering a lingering "sense of the fabric of the writer's house as simultaneously material and immaterial, real and ideal."
The tale of Edith Wharton's library is one of movement, loss, and dispersal.
For Liming, books "emerge as objects that appear heavy with history and laden with a curious and irresistible sort of timelessness." What's more, they feel like extensions of the embodied author—in Wharton's case, containing scraps of her daily life: sprigs of pressed clover, pink ribbon, raffle tickets, stamps, receipts, and dog fur, not to mention mold colonies and worms. Liming ponders Wharton's reading habits through marginalia, uncut pages, packing lists, and other material and local evidence.
The tale of Wharton's library is one of movement, loss, and dispersal. While not exactly a bibliophile, Wharton amassed around five thousand books throughout her lifetime, and about half of them still exist as a group, now housed at the Mount, Wharton's house in Lenox, Massachusetts, turned into the sort of museum Watson writes about. Wharton's three different bookplates6—one for the books at her house in the Paris suburbs; another for those kept at her château (once a medieval convent) on the French Riviera; and the third for the volumes at the mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, that she shared briefly with her husband—enabled collectors to later reassemble them as a library.
No bookplate was made for the Mount, however, because Wharton considered it her main home and assumed the books there would never leave. When her husband sold the property in 1911, her books came to function, as Liming puts it, "as ambulatory homes or vessels for the housing of the self." Liming details Wharton's creation of the Mount and its library as a "layering of elsewheres," based as it was on other famous houses; her use of the space for social gatherings, not writing (she did that in bed); and how the collection built on the library she inherited from her father. Using inscriptions found in the books themselves, Liming traces a social network of over a hundred people, all of whom had previously possessed at least one of the volumes in Wharton's library. By buying up the books of acquaintances or friends when they died—such as a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that had once belonged to her friend Walter Berry—Wharton kept the group together, with books standing in for people, small monuments to friendship and love.
All the World's a Page
By Gill Partington
For Wharton, a book collection was as much a social assemblage as a storehouse of intellectual influence. So what of Eliot, whose library has survived in such a diminished form? While Petrarch's mummified cat and Dickens's stuffed raven have been meticulously preserved and displayed, we must look to Eliot's letters—and to belated attempts to reconstruct her library—for ghostly remnants of the objects she held so dear.
In an edition of Ann Taylor's The Linnet's Life, given to her by her father, whose hair she wore in a gold brooch after his death, Eliot wrote, "Let any one who thinks of me with some tenderness after I am dead, take care of this book for my sake."7 Her love of personal relics, which echoed the belief that saints' relics bring miracles, grew from her ethical plan to "unceasingly aspire to unclothe all around me of its conventional, human, temporary dress, to look at it in its essence and in its relation to eternity."8
Eliot's book collection eventually did receive a small part of the attention it deserved. The largest surviving group, approximately 2,500 volumes inherited by Lewes's son Charles, was donated in the 1880s to the Dr. Williams's Library in London, to be "kept as a separate little library—called the George Henry Lewes Library—on distinct shelves."9 It wasn't until 1977 that the first serious catalogue of this collection was printed, by William Baker, who called it The George Eliot−George Henry Lewes Library, finally making legible Eliot's books, full of her marginalia, the material remains of one of the most brilliant minds of her time—or of any time.
This article was commissioned by Leah Price.
The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon Haight, vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 1954), p. 99. Eliot's journal, 1854–61, is at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 963, Box 15, and is transcribed in The Journals of George Eliot, edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston (Cambridge University Press, 1998). ↩
William Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), p. 56. ↩
William Baker, The Libraries of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes (University of Victoria, 1981), p. 11. ↩
Eliot's copy of Wordsworth's The Prelude (Moxon, 1851) is at the Beinecke, GEN MSS 963, Box 56. ↩
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (Norton, 1994), p. 214. ↩
A bookplate is a printed, personalized label of ownership pasted inside a book. ↩
The gold brooch detail comes from Letters, vol. 2, p. 120. The Linnet's Life (G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822), Beinecke, GEN MSS 963, Box 56. ↩
Letters, vol. 1, p. 170. ↩
William Baker, The George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Library: An Annotated Catalogue of Their Books at Dr. Williams's Library, London (Garland, 1977), p. xiii. ↩
Featured image: The Mount, Lenox, MA. Edith Wharton's bedroom (detail) (2013). Photograph by Magicpiano / Wikimedia Commons
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Safe Baby Toothpaste Guide - Most Baby Toothpastes Are Toxic!
Safe Baby Toothpaste Guide – Most Baby Toothpastes Are Toxic!
Not all baby toothpastes are safe including organic or natural baby toothpastes.
So what harmful ingredients does baby toothpaste have and how toxic are they? Let's look at common toxic chemical ingredients in baby toothpaste.
Saccharin is an artificial sweetener made from coal tar. It is 300 times sweeter than sugar. In the rodent studies, Saccharin was linked to cause bladder cancer. Saccharin also causes diarrhea, allergic reactions, skin rashes, headaches and breathing issues. (read Saccharin: Avoid This Artificial Sweetener.) However, the study of saccharin was done again and it concluded that Saccharin does cause bladder cancer in rats but not in humans. So this artificial sweetener which was almost banned by FDA in 1972, is now considered to be safe again. However, there has been long debate if Saccharin can cause cancer in humans or not. Saccharin is made by combining anthranilic acid with sulfur dioxide, nitrous acid, chlorine, and ammonia. Chlorine and ammonia are known to be toxic. I believe it is best to avoid this ingredient and not take any chances.
Diethanolamine (DEA) is a foaming agent in toothpaste. It is hormone disrupting chemical and it can react with other ingredients to form carcinogenic nitrosamines. It is linked with liver organ toxicity, cancer, stomach cancer, and bladder cancer. It is ranked with the most toxic score 10 by The Environmental Working Group (EWG). Also The California Environmental Protection Agency says Diethanolamine (DEA) is a possible human carcinogen.
So which toothpastes are safe for your baby? If you look at the ingredient list in toothpastes, you will find that it is very hard to find safe toothpastes. So many toothpastes have several toxic ingredients. That is why some people make their own toothpaste. Here are some baby toothpastes that I feel safe.
Redmond Earthpaste is made from only five natural ingredients. There are no toxic ingredients such as fluoride, carrageenan, SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) or other foaming agents, glycerine, parabens and many other.
Both children or adults can use this toothpaste.
Ingredients: water, Redmond Clay, Real Salt, xylitol (non-GMO certified xylitol ), and essential oils (Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Lemon, Tangerine, Lime, or Peppermint).
Jack N' Jill Natural toothpaste uses Xylitol instead of Fluoride. Xylitol helps keep a neutral PH level in the mouth. It also prevents bacteria from sticking to the teeth and protects teeth from tooth decay.
Jack N' Jill Natural toothpaste also uses organic ingredients: organic Calendula to soothe gums, organic natural blueberry for flavor. There is no fluoride, SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) or other foaming agents, sugar, carrageenan, artificial colors & flavors, preservatives and other toxic ingredients.
*This toothpaste doesn't contain the most of the toxic ingredients that can cause severe health effects. However, it contains glycerin which some people believe it prevents re-mineralization process of teeth. However, some people are not convinced that glycerin based toothpaste can do that. (Read Glycerin and Remineralization of Teeth.) If you are worried about glycerin, you can go for the Earthpaste toothpaste.
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Home Article South Beach Classics' star Couple Ted Vernon and wife Robin Vernon Facing Trouble In Their Marriage: As per rumors, Robin has left the show: Fans are shocked
South Beach Classics' star Couple Ted Vernon and wife Robin Vernon Facing Trouble In Their Marriage: As per rumors, Robin has left the show: Fans are shocked
Updated On 31 Mar, 2019 Published On 06 Jul, 2017
We all know Ted Vernon and Robin Vernon from the popular show South Beach Classics (SBC). They were one of the most powerful couples around and their partnership together was very much appreciated.
The show aired its third season in 2017, and the show gained much popularity until Robin stopped appearing on the show. All of their fans of the show left to wonder what must have happened behind the scenes. Did they split?
Well, Marriedwiki has come across news that will shock all of you!!
Robin Vernon, Ted Vernon's Wife Will Not Appear On SBC, Which Left All Of Us In Dark!
The sudden disappearance of Robin from the show has left all the fan in rage and curiosity. They just cannot stop wondering about why Robin stopped appearing in the show South Beach Classics?
The reason behind all this mess is that Ted and Robin were rumored to be involved in some kind of verbal and physical backlash.
Ted Vernon with Robin Vernon
According to a customer who went to their workplace to buy his daughter a Volkswagen beetle on her 20th birthday, Ted and Robin were not paying attention to their work.
Though Ted was involved in the conversation, he was not giving a straight answer about how much will the car cost and all that things.
Ted called the customer after 2 days and when the customer came it was all the same story but this time it was very intense as the couple was fighting with verbal and physical abuse.
Ted Vernon with wife Robin Vernon: The couple is expected to be divorced soon
Source: Celebrity Net Worth
According to the client, Robin was shouting on top of her lungs and was saying that she does not care if Ted is dead or alive. Ted then rushed towards her and started to choke her. It took two men to separate them and the incident was very chaotic.
After researching on many websites we came across more information about this incident and it proved that something is going on between the couple. It seems that they are heading towards a divorce.
Although, many of Ted's fans in the social networking sites are saying that Robin was cheating on Ted but she has said that it is just slander on her name.
And Robin's fan is claiming that Ted is allegedly getting close to their ad agency girl. There is even speculation that they will file for divorce.
When she faced the first punch from her husband, the former boxer, she ran towards the door and tried to call 911. It was Robin Ziel who first disappeared from the show when the fourth season aired in 2017.
Robin Vernon accused of domestic violence by his wife
Source: Miami New Times
Velocity yanked the show when the New York Times reported that Vernon was accused of domestic violence and child abuse many times. His 29-year-old daughter from his former wife addressed that she's worried about the safety of her stepmother and minor brother.
"Ted is a monstrous man who has continued to lie and cheat his way through the political justice system."
"This is not a man that should be able to continuously be invincible and to continuously walk free and put other humans in danger. This is a man that deserves jail time; this is a man that needs to pay for the wrongs he has done."
You are definitely thinking whether the two are still together or not. Only Time will tell about the future of this couple!
Marriage Turned Into A Business Partnership
The love story of Ted and Robin takes us back to 1998. Ted went on a blind date with Robin Vernon for the first time and fell in love. They married within two years following their official relationship.
The couple has one son named Ted Vernon Jr. He took his family to different places like Niagra Falls, Ontario and so on.
Robin Vernon and Ted Vernon's only son Ted Verno Jr.
His wife Robin is a renowned model and actress who has worked in various Hollywood Horror movies like Bikini Swamp Girl Massacre and Hell Glades.
If you want to watch that movie then you can see the trailer and decide for yourself.
She is also the partner of Ted and she oversees the day-to-day running of the business and also creates the majority of internet content like handling their business's social networking pages.
Before Ted became a businessman he has played many roles in multiple Hollywood ventures including Miami 7, which he co-starred with Paul Cattermole and Rachel Stevens.
He has also starred in movie Village of the Damned which he co-starred with Christopher Reeve and Kristy Allen.
Ted Vernon: Quick facts
Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Ted Vernon is a famous TV personality, popular for his show, South Beach Classics.
He's also known by his name WolfMan.
Started off his career as an amateur boxer in his late 20's.
In Miami Beach Convention Center, he was knocked out by his opponent Kent Baker which was his ultimate loss.
He got a chance to star in popular reality series along with his wife, Robin Vernon, entitled South Beach Classics where they buy and sell antique and custom-made cars.
He has produced his first screenplay Hammerhead Jones. He was the producer of motion image of John Carpenter's Village of the Damned with University Films.
He is currently producing a new horror film called Angel of Dying.
He received three years of probation and a $2000 fine for gun violations.
He is the executive producer of the 1988 movie Scarecrows starring himself with Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn, David James Campbell, and Victoria Christian.
He has an estimated net worth of about $15 million.
Well, until now they have not confirmed their separation but we really hope that they will mend their relationship soon.
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Understanding and responding to complex global environmental changes is a major challenge for policymakers and academic researchers alike. Modeling is a useful tool to tackle these complex issues and study coupled human and natural systems at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Existing curricular structures emphasize disciplinary approaches resulting in a tendency to view analytical and computational modeling techniques as domain-specific, however. As a result, students are often unaware of the diversity of modeling tools available and how to utilize them to address environmental issues, which limits their ability to apply the most appropriate methodology to a given problem. To address these challenges, a core group of faculty in the Environment and Science Policy Program (ESPP) at Michigan State University (MSU) has established a new educational cluster around modeling techniques for addressing socio-environmental issues in complex systems. This module of courses exposes students to cutting-edge techniques, including agent-based modeling, system dynamics modeling, participatory model-building, hierarchical linear modeling, and structural equation modeling. Our objective is to build a solid foundation in the theory of models and complex systems and provide hands-on experience with model design, development, and evaluation geared toward specific research topics across disciplines. The coursework culminates in an interdisciplinary team-taught capstone seminar on case-based group research that will address a selected practical policy problem using an ensemble of appropriate modeling tools.
The Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Social Systems Modeling is designed for students who desire to understand a variety of modeling techniques used to address environmental problems that span human and natural systems. The certificate program exposes students to a range of state-of-the-art techniques including agent-based modeling, systems dynamics modeling, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling.
ESP 850 provides students with the theoretical background to understand the diversity of modeling problems arising from coupled human and natural systems. Through exposure to diverse modeling approaches, students learn to discern which modeling tool is most appropriate in a variety of contexts. ESP 890 is a capstone course that involves a modeling project addressing a real-world environmental problem, supervised by one or more of the coordinating faculty. Its aim is to teach students how to apply the theories and methodologies from previous modeling courses to practical policy problems.
Between completion of ESP 850 and ESP 890 are three possible elective courses, CSUS 836, GEO 869, and SOC 883. Students complete two of these modeling electives. Relying heavily on systems-dynamics modeling, CSUS 836 introduces quantitative modeling approaches as tools for students interested in addressing real-world problems in complex environmental systems. Students learn to identify the characteristics and behavior of complex systems, articulate the steps involved in formulating a research question and building a model to address it, and construct quantitative, dynamic models with appropriate, data-derived relations between variables. GEO 869 focuses on theoretical concepts related to simulating dynamic geographic phenomena that emerge on the intersection between human and natural systems. The course provides hands-on experience on agent-based modeling, with a special emphasis on modeling human decision making and its impact on natural environment. SOC 883 covers hierarchical linear modeling and structural equation modeling, providing necessary skills for critically evaluate contemporary research and utilizing these techniques in independent research. Students learn to effectively communicate advanced statistical concepts and understand and evaluate the application of these methods to a variety of social and environmental issues and behavior across multiple spatial scales.
Given multiple aspects of spatial and temporal variation in addressing coupled human and natural systems, we depict synergies across the courses in Figures 2 and 3. Figure 2 shows how the three courses address complexity pertaining to spatial scale or the level of aggregation of the phenomena of interest. Briefly, environment-society relations can be described across a number of units of analysis including individuals, groups, communities, regions, and nations and also those of international and global scope. A suite of modeling techniques is also available to address pressing issues that include computational, numerical, and statistical approaches. Synergies across the modeling courses are shown in Figure 3.


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Second churches ban for Asbo breach man
A HOMELESS man has been given a second Asbo banning him from Godalming town centre, or any place of worship, for the next three years.
Jennifer Morris
A HOMELESS man has been given a second antisocial behaviour order banning him from entering Godalming town centre, or any place of worship, for the next three years.
Raymond Woods, 56, breached his original four-year Asbo, with the same conditions, more than 50 times and has been in prison on multiple occasions.
The wide-ranging breaches took place in towns and villages across Surrey including Godalming, Wonersh and Cranleigh.
The latest order was granted at South West Surrey Magistrates' Court, Guildford, on Thursday April 18.
Woods was also sentenced to 16 weeks in prison after pleading guilty to burglary following a break-in last month at St John the Baptist Church in Wonersh, where £300 worth of damage was caused.
Under the conditions of his Asbo, Woods is prohibited from entering any church or place of worship, associated outbuildings or their grounds, in England and Wales, unless for the sole purpose of attending a religious service or if invited by a church representative.
He is not permitted to enter a specified area of Godalming, which includes Farncombe and Godalming's railway stations.
A breach of the order can result in a prison sentence or fine or both.
A Surrey Police spokesman said: "Mr Woods is quite a well-known figure in the area, particularly in Godalming.
"At the end of last year he went up to Yorkshire for a while, where he got a separate Asbo but returned to the area at the beginning of this year.
"We started receiving reports of him being in Godalming but we had to tell residents that his Asbo had expired in November last year, which was quite awkward.
"More poignantly, we started getting calls from Lloyds TSB in the High Street. Its lobby is open 24-hours-a-day and Mr Woods was sleeping there and making a mess, leaving rubbish and vomit.
"They had CCTV cameras so we knew it was him.
"After this, we received further reports of break-ins at churches.
"He was not taking high-value items and sometimes would attend the services but he was behaving in an antisocial manner and intimidating the congregation.
"The neighbourhood team took statements from vicars and residents.
"Mr Woods was offered help with finding housing and a job but for him, it is a lifestyle choice. He does not want to engage.
"Eventually a post-conviction Asbo was secured against him.
"The community needs to be protected from his behaviour, people should not have to feel intimidated.
"He is currently in custody and it will be interesting to see what happens when he comes out.
"He does seem to adhere to Asbos."
Asked whether anything could be done to curb Woods' cycle of offending and short-term prison stays, the force spokesman said: "It is difficult because of the level of offending, it is fairly low. For Mr Woods, it is a means to an end.
"The criminal activity does not seem to have been stepped up. We have to go on what is put before us."
Woods' original Asbo, which began in 2008, was given by magistrates at the same court.
It was deemed that his behaviour had attracted a disproportionate amount of police resources and time during the preceding years, while having a significant impact on members of the public.
Woods has a string of convictions for public order offences in Godalming town centre.
He has intimidated shopkeepers in the High Street, and been abusive to people in the GP surgery, Waitrose, Lloyds and at the railway station.
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To continue our celebratory series of Restless Women for International Woman's Day, ICS volunteer and Youth Reporter Angella shares the story of an inspiring woman she met whilst on placement.
Prossy is one of the Restless Development host parents, housing volunteers on their placements with International Citizen Service.
In places like Kitimbwa, Uganda, women are mainly known as housewives, but not Prossy.
Prossy is famous in the Kitimbwa region for her Green corner restaurant and butcher shop. Her nickname is "Mama Muzeyi".
She was brought up by her relatives, along with her 13 brothers and sisters because their dad was mentally unwell and couldn't take care of them. She then dropped out of secondary school when she became pregnant as a teenager. This did not stop her from building a successful career.
Prossy, her husband and grandchild in front of her green corner restaurant.
With a dream and a vision, Prossy was determined to become successful in her home town. She began by renting her restaurant using money she had saved up. She attracted a few customers at first, but as the business grew so did the crowds. Now she is well known in the town of Kitimbwa for her delicious food.
Prossy serving food at her restaurant.
From the success of her business, Mama Muzeyi has been able to build a home where she hosts Restless Development volunteers. "I have developed a lot from this restaurant" she says.
Prossy is seen as a hardworking woman in town. In addition to her well renowned restaurant, she also owns a butcher shop, decorating company, and a farm distributing food to her restaurant and others in the community. She also invites people from nearby farming companies to her farm to learn from her and improve on their farming skills.
Prossy is also a member of the Kitimbwa Women's Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCO). , whose all female members agree to save money and offer loans to support each other.
Prossy has a vision for her town and is determined to build and contribute to the success of Kitimbwa.
"In future i wanted to host Radio Simba to speak to my community and give advice to my people in Kitimbwa".


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Home Alternative Investments Hunter Point Capital Sees Opportunities in Private Equity
Hunter Point Capital Sees Opportunities in Private Equity
The 'everything bubble' is deflating. Stocks, bonds, real estate, and even commodities are seeing a pullback this year. Some believe it's only a matter of time before the correction spills over into the private market. That could create opportunities for investors who bankroll private equity firms.
New York-based Hunter Point Capital ("HPC") is one such investor. The team seeks out minority investments in alternative asset managers. In other words, HPC buys a portion of the general partner firm itself, a strategy it calls "GP stake investing."
CEO Avi Kalichstein claims the strategy has downside protection because GPs earn cash flow in predictable ways. Their income is generated through management fees, carried interest, and steady appreciation in the GP firm's book value. This makes GP firms ideal targets for long-term investors seeking steady returns.
The performance of publicly-traded GPs seems to confirm this thesis. Brookfield Asset Management, the world's largest alternative asset manager, has delivered an 11 percent compounded annual growth in stock price over the past ten years. Cash flows have expanded by 14 percent annually over 35 years. Those figures are both higher than the S&P 500 over the same period.
KKR, Carlyle Group, Apollo Management, and Blackstone have all outperformed the S&P 500 over the past five years. Along the way, these stocks have also delivered lucrative dividends and buybacks, boosting total returns for shareholders.
However, HPC doesn't target publicly-traded GPs. The firm believes private middle-market GPs have lower valuations and better prospects. Earlier this year, HPC made a strategic investment in credit investor Iron Park Capital ("IPC"). IPC had just $4 billion in assets under management as of March 2022, putting it firmly in the middle market category.
Middle-market private equity funds generated net IRRs that were 90 basis points higher than those of large-cap private equity funds since the end of the global financial crisis, according to data published by Pinebridge.
This is "the most attractive sector in today's environment," according to HPC's Kalichstein. He believes middle-market firms are also better positioned for the economic headwinds ahead. "GP fundraising will become more challenging, going forward, given the economic climate. As a result, GPs will seek to partner with GP stakes firms who can provide strategic value and help them to achieve their fundraising initiatives faster and with greater certainty."
Not everyone shares this optimism. Short-seller Jim Chanos recently said the private equity industry "could have the same wake-up call that hedge funds had after the Global Financial Crisis," Chanos said on a recent Bloomberg OddLots podcast. He said some private equity firms may find it difficult to justify their relatively "pedestrian returns," in an environment where interest rates are higher and liquidity is more scarce.
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After thinking a lot about something innovative for the JFI-rice event hosted by Sharmi of Neivedyam, I decided to make this carrot-mint rice. This dish is made from the second batch of carrots that I planted and also uses mint that I grow in pots. It is a very easy and healthy recipe. This rice can be had with raitha and pickle or stuffed into a tortilla along with freshly chopped tomatoes, onions, lettuce and salsa for an Indianized burrito. This is also my third entry for GBP – Summer 2007. It turned out to be colorful and tasty.
Heat oil in a wide pan and add mustard seeds. When it starts to splutter add jeera, onions and green chillies. Wait till the onions turn translucent and then add grated carrots. Cook till the carrots turn soft and then add cashews, mint, curry leaves, garam masala, turmeric and salt. Fry for 5 min and then add cooked rice and mix well. Keep on low flame for 10min till the rice is coated completely. Remove from fire, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve with raitha. This is a whole complete meal by itself.
wow! carrots from ur own garden.. i am sure they would taste doubly sweet.. nice dish!
wow....home grown carrots must b heavenly in taste. This is perfect dish for some home-produce or garden-produce event. Just loved this.
Great recipe...and great blog, nice to have found it :) I love carrots, and the ones grown from your own garden are always tastiest!
sorry for the delay in my comments. loved the fresh carrots. lovely mint plant too.
hey deeps....carrots look great.....awesome work girl!
very good recipe! the pictures too are great.
Deepz, i have sent you an entry for the GBP Summer 2007 event. hope you received it. please send me an email regarding it.
Thanks Rajitha, Sreelu, Pooja, Meeso, Sharmi and Ams. I go agree that home grown carrots are the tastiest and makes your gardening efforts worthwhile.
Lissie: Thanks. I did receive your entry. See you at the roundup.
Thanks Meera. Yes its pretty easy to make.
wow.its look nice..the picture itself made me to cook..i going to prepare now itself..


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Q: Regex/PHP Replace any repeating word group How can match
$string = "Foo Bar (Any Group - ANY GROUP Baz)";

Should return as "Foo Bar (Any Group - Baz)"
Is it possible without bruteforce as here Replace repeating strings in a string ?
Edit:
* The group could consist of 1-4 words while each word could match [A-Za-z0-9\/\(\)]{1,30}
* The separator would always be -

A: Leaving the space out of the list of allowed "word" characters, the following works for your example:
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    '%
    (                 # Match and capture
     (?:              # the following:...
      [\w/()]{1,30}   # 1-30 "word" characters
      [^\w/()]+       # 1 or more non-word characters
     ){1,4}           # 1 to 4 times
    )                 # End of capturing group 1
    ([ -]*)           # Match any number of intervening characters (space/dash)
    \1                # Match the same as the first group
    %ix',             # Case-insensitive, verbose regex
    '\1\2', $subject);

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The following is a guest post by Joseph Rogina on the upcoming Tahoe Tech Talk Conference September 30th – October 1st at Harrah's.
The Tahoe Tech Talk Conference is less than a month away now and I want to make sure I'm prepared to get the most out of it. Thanks to @JenPwns for turning me onto the article "Things to Pack for a Conference" by Shawn Collins. The article was written back on August 5, 2009 and was a checklist for organizing and getting packed for the Affiliate Summit East 2009. A good read with most everything you would need for that conference, but we're not going to that conference.
Together, we added some other things you may want to prep beforehand, as well as some questions we still had. Hopefully, this will help others, and if you have anything to add, please add it to the comments below as others may find it useful. This may seem a little over the top, but we wanted to get the most out of this experience. A simplified version of the checklist can be found here in PDF format.
If you haven't already, these are the things you may want to do right away. Even though the conference isn't for a couple of weeks, these items can be done now, so you do not have to worry about them last minute.
The first thing we did was to follow the speakers on Twitter. I only know about half of them, so I wanted to learn about who I was going to be listening to. I also browsed over their sites and read a few of the articles they have posted.
Shawn Collins recommended making preparations to put your day-to-day on hold. (Auto reply emails, voicemail, etc.) As this is only a short conference, I will just deal with emails/etc. after the conference and before the casino.
We also decided that we didn't want to pitch one thing, just to have something else live on our sites. I recommend going through and updating all your personal sites, Facebook, Twitter, or anything else you can think of with current, professional information. Try and Google your name/product/idea to make sure you haven't missed something. (I completely forgot I had a LinkedIn account, for example.) Update avatars, designs, contact information, etc. Especially on your site that you are pitching if it exists. Have your 15 second elevator pitch ready to go. Don't leave this until the last minute. You may even want to have some business cards made up, if you don't already have some.
These are a few items you will want to grab before you leave. Many of these may seem obvious, but they can easily be forgotten.
You may also want to bring a laptop for use in the room, an external hard drive for storage, and some way to take notes in the conference. (I'd recommend Dropbox for backup and a notebook like in this Lifehacker article.)Remember an Ethernet cable, cable to transfer pictures from camera/phone, and maybe even a power strip. The hotel only has wireless available in the rooms, and that goes for $10.95 for 24 hours, so bring an air card if you have one.
You will also want to grab all your important ID's, credit cards, and documents such as your hotel/flight confirmations. Many of you will have access to these on your phone, but this is Tahoe, not Vegas. Don't be surprised if they require a hard copy. Shawn also recommends in his article, to remember extra paper and pens for notes. Even though I have not stayed in this hotel before I've found all hotels to be rather generous with these items, as long as you don't mind the hotel logo on them. If you wait, it's less you will have to pack with you.
When you first arrive and check in, you may want to prep your room a bit before hitting up registration and the cocktail reception. Cash for drinks, snacks for the room, water, and your hangover cure of choice are a good idea. Pain killers, mints, and maybe even energy drinks. I like to confirm there is coffee in the room, as well as a nearby Starbucks or something.
You will also want to get the conference agenda, which will be available at the registration I'm sure or you can view it at http://tahoetechtalkconf.com. At the registration, you will want to remember any new people you meet. Speakers or otherwise. Lifehacker posted a good article on this. Shawn's article also talks about planning out your goals, who you want to meet, and where you want to go. I'm not sure how this is accomplished, as I know who I would like to meet, but I don't know the conference protocol for such things. He also talks of bringing courage. That's what the cocktails are for, right?
Remember, you're in Tahoe at a casino. No need to wall off yourself in your room. Have fun and relax. Even if I don't get anything out of this conference, I intend to make the best of it and have a good time. You will want to check into the night life around the area. If nothing else, a good place to eat dinner afterwards. The obvious choice is the casino, but that may not be for everyone. The hotel also offers the Vex night club and the Cliché bar and grill. What will you be doing?
Some questions I personally still have, that some of you may be able to answer.
What if you have multiple projects/startup ideas? Should you concentrate on just one, or put together a 15 second pitch for each?
What expectations should you have going into this? Should you expect to get a chance to present your idea, or just gather information on how to take your next steps?
The original post, Preparing for Tahoe Tech Talk – Complete with PDF Checklist, can be found on Joseph Rogina's Blog.


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Q: SharePoint add Javascript event to a editForm.aspx page I have a Sharepoint list where I want to customize the editForm.aspx page with Javascript.
The problem is that I can't manage to add any events to the controls in that page. I am able to get a reference to my control with this code:
var textarea1;
var objForm = document.forms[0];
function FindField() {
    var title;
    title= $().SPServices.SPGetDisplayFromStatic({ listName: "MyList", columnStaticName: "mycolumn" });
    textarea1 = ChooseFieldByTitle("TextField", title);
}

function ChooseFieldByTitle(TypeField, title) {
    var elem;
    for (idx = 0; idx < objForm.elements.length; idx++) {
        elem = objForm.elements[idx];

        if (elem.id.indexOf(TypeField) != -1 &&
        elem.title == title) {
            return elem;
        }
    }

    return null;
};

This runs fine but I can't attach any event on this control. I have tried the following code (Field is a textArea):
 Field.attachEvent("onchange", myFunction);
 Field.addEventListener("onchange", myFunction, false);
Field.onchange = myFunction() {};

When I change the content of the textArea nothings happen. When I debug with IE developers tools "myFunction" is never called. What am I doing wrong? I have look at SPServices JQuery library but nothing seems to be related to Javascript events.
Does anyone have a clue?

A: Try to use Jquery, this is a Javascript library that is used a lot. It makes for instance selecting objects easier. If you want to combine it with spservices (or another library), add the following lines in your aspx page under the PlaceHolderMain:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/SiteAssets/js/jquery-1.9.0.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/SiteAssets/js/jquery.SPServices-0.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/SiteAssets/js/myjavascriptfile.js"></script>

You can then select objects on your page via jquery and immediately tie to the events e.g.:
$(":input[title$='atitleofsomefield']").keyup(function() {
                  // do stuff
            })

Here is a list of Jquery events: http://api.jquery.com/category/events/

A: The "onchange" event is fired by a dropdown box when you select a new value. It won't fire for a Textarea. In your case you may want to check the KeyUp event for example, or the Blur event.
Also, you may want to use jQuery or another library to handle the events.

A: The only way that I have found to accomplish this is via a timer.  Look at something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
    var initialValue = undefined;
    Field.on('change', function(){
        //If the value has changed, run the function
        if(initialValue==undefined || Field.val()!=initialValue){
            initialValue = Field.val();
            myFunction();
        });
    //Reinitialize the timer
    checkForChange();
});
//Timer function to throw the 'changed' event
function checkForChange() {
    setTimeout(triggerChange, 1500);
}
//Send the changed event for Field
function triggerChange(){
    Field.trigger('change');
}

And then within your function you do your regular logic.


We have yet to find a more inspiring location for chic hedonism than Lake Como, and the regal Villa d'Este takes pride of place on these shores. A former 16th century princely residence, this grand 5-star hotel oozes Italian charm with 25 acres of manicured gardens and luxurious rooms draped in the finest silks and furnished with antiques.
Villa d'Este occupies a prime position outside Cernobbio, not far from Como, and commands unequalled views of the lake. This is a grand and elegant Italian 5-star hotel with a noble tradition, having opened in 1873. but originally built in the 16th century and previously owned by Caroline of Brunswick, later wife of George IV of England.
Its imposing architecture features two principle buildings, the main Cardinal's 'palace', and the Queen's Pavilion, added in the 19th century. A huge terrazza extends across the front of the main building, with stunning views of the lake. Towards the Queen's building is the hotel's iconic floating swimming pool, and beyond is a harbour for the hotel's and visitor's boats.
Inside, the elegant interiors are traditionally furnished with acres of marble, antiques, oil paintings and gilded mirrors, with a grand sweeping staircase and a cornucopia of classical sculptures along its grand hallways. The sense of regal calm is also conveyed by the experienced staff, many of whom have worked here for decades and welcome returning guests with old school warmth.
While the gardens are formal and gorgeous, we would always recommend a lake-view room or suite. Views are why you come to Lake Como, so you would regret missing out. Rooms are in the grand Italian tradition, as you would expect, with antiques, oils and rare velvets and silks and when you open your heavy brocade curtains in the morning, the views, with light dancing off the lake, are spectacular, especially if you can step out onto your private terrace or balcony.
Villa d'Este also offers four private villas in its gardens for exclusive use. Villa Cima is a favourite of ours, partly because of its magnificent position on the lake's shore, but also because of its charming architecture and history. Villa Cima offers exquisite accomodation in 4 bedrooms with its own private terrace on the lakeside. Villa Malakoff has 4 bedrooms on three floors with lovely views of the lake and Villa Garrovo, completely renovated in 2015, is located within the park, just a few steps from the Cardinal's Building, offers 6 bedrooms for larger parties. The most recently restored villa is the intimate one-bedroom Mosaic House, situated in a spectacular position in the gardens, with its own private courtyard. All villas benefit from the hotel's 5-star service and access to all facilities.
There are three bars; one on the gorgeous terrace under chestnut trees, one by the pool and Bar Canova, inside, where music is played most evenings.
Dining choices are between Il Platano, where simple, classic Italian cuisine can be enjoyed inside or on the beautiful terrazza; The Grill, again inside or in the gardens under 100 year-old plane trees, and the more formal haute cuisine Veranda, which overlooks the lake. Here the glazed windows magically disappear when the weather is warm to provide lake-side al fresco dining accompanied by the finest Italian wines. Breakfast and lunch on the terrazza are experiences you will get addicted to and there is also a Sundeck pool bar where light lunches and snacks are served.
With a decadent array of wellness rituals at the Beauty Center spa as well as a full fitness center and range of outdoor sports and activities to enjoy, Villa d'Este knows how to entertain. The heated floating pool, with its own jacuzzi, is a must, but there is also an indoor pool and a kids' pool in the Sporting Club, where you will also find tennis, squash and the Villa d'Este Golf Club. Running along the lakeside jogging path is popular with guests, as are the many watersports, including waterskiing, canoeing and sailing. Hop aboard a sailboat at sunset and cruise Lake Como, or take a private launch to one of the lake's many charming towns. We cannot think of a better way to toast the very best of Italy.
We will be re-visiting Villa d'Este when it re-opens in March this year and will follow with a full updated review.


As a new member of the Excel Consulting Solutions Team, I wanted to gauge my knowledge of Excel.
I began my Excel learning journey by taking the online Skills Test. First of all by, clicking on the cartoon figure in the top right corner of the website (the figure who looks like he has just aced the skills test).
The test was helpful because although I knew the answers to some of the questions.
There were some topics that I wasn't familiar with.
After completing the test you're given a score and a suggested course that your skill level would be suited to. I landed in the intermediate range.
To ensure my base knowledge was up to scratch I still wanted to complete a Beginner course. So, I completed the Beginner Online Training Course. It was handy because it can be done outside of work hours and it can be completed at your own pace. The topics that were covered were familiar but I definitely picked up some new tips and shortcuts that help navigate the essential everyday aspects of Excel. There is also a voice-over person whose encouraging tone helps you along the learning journey.
Following the completion of the course material you can test your knowledge by completing the assessment.
It has live Excel Spreadsheets that you need to modify to test your learning journey. When you finish the course material you can test your knowledge by completing the assessment. It has live Excel Spreadsheets that you need to modify to test your learning. It was more interactive than I expected, unlike the multiple choice answers on the online skills test. Definitely happy I completed the Beginner course to cement my basic knowledge of Excel.
The next adventure in my learning journey was to participate in one of Excel Consulting Solutions 'Public Group Classes'. Training was held in a modern and comfortable conference space in the Brisbane CBD at the Christie Offices Building, 320 Adelaide St. Very close to public transport and only a short walk from Central Station. Tea, coffee and water were provided to keep you extra sharp and hydrated. Laptops were fast and had the latest software. A manual was provided to take home and has been helpful to go over and refresh my learning. My trainer was Jason. Warm, friendly and importantly – very knowledgeable. He took us through the necessary course content and highlighted what pages in the manual we were to refer back to. He also explained in more depth certain topics the attendees had questions about.
I was able to get so much out of the face to face training.
Therefore, I can definitely see the benefit of knowing how to correctly use formulae to sort data and help data become more meaningful. I feel a lot more capable of professionally expressing content in spreadsheets but more practically it makes my everyday work so much easier!
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Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects. Arduino senses the environment by receiving inputs from many sensors, and affects its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. You can tell your Arduino what to do by writing code in the Arduino programming language and using the Arduino development environment.
Banana Pro is an excellent educational learning tool that can be used for many projects including: building Multimedia projects,Robots, Arduino applications or Computer Programming with many popular programming languages available including Scratch (a drag and drop programming language for people beginning to learn how to code).
Bee-Bot is an exciting new robot designed for use by young children. This colorful, easy-to-operate, and friendly little robot is a perfect tool for teaching sequencing, estimation, problem-solving, and just having fun.
The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. It has support for over a dozen programming languages and environments, including several environments appropriate for students as young as eight years old. The Finch was designed to allow students to write richly interactive programs. On-board features include: Light, temperature, and obstacle sensors; Accelerometers; Motors; Buzzer; Full-color beak LED; Pen mount for drawing capability; Plugs into USB port – no batteries required.
Build your own computer. Comes with Raspberry Pi 2, speaker and keyboard.
This core set is optimized for classroom use and contains all you need to teach using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3. It enables students to build, program, and test their solutions based on real-life robotics technology.
The MOSS Exofabulatronixx 5200 kit includes 52 MOSS blocks and 140 Carbon Steel Spheres . A rechargeable LiPo battery with an included Micro-USB cable powers the kit. The Exofabulatronixx 5200 includes a Battery, 2 Motors, 2 Pivots, 2 Flashlights, 2 Light Sensors, 2 Distance Sensors, Microphone Sensor, and a load of connection and support pieces. The most unique block in this kit is the Double Brain block, which lets you connect to your iOS or Android devices using Bluetooth® so you can play with your robots using a suite of free apps.
Provides kids and techies an expressive way to learn and play with robotics in a variety of social and interactive settings. Comes to life when you create mazes, tracks and playgrounds on paper, game boards and digital screens. Also comes with free downloadable apps and can become your physical avatar for some truly one of a kind augmented reality games.
Meet Sphero – the app-controlled ball that does it all. Intelligent and well-rounded, Sphero lets you play, learn, and explore. Create obstacle courses, turn your living room into a video game with augmented reality apps, and upgrade family game night with multiplayer fun. Take crash courses in programming with free SPRK lessons. Ollie is even faster.
We have developed the VEX IQ Curriculum as a completely FREE companion to the VEX IQ platform for elementary and middle school students. Aimed at grades 2-8, the curriculum offers twelve flexible units of instruction that can be used in sequence, in chunks, or as standalone lessons.


Azonprinter, a worldwide manufacturer of digital inkjet solutions and Modico US, a leader in production and distribution of stamping and marking products, expanded their cooperation and strengthened their presence in the US market. After years of collaboration in Europe, Azon and modico US began demonstrating the Matrix series wide format flatbed digital inkjet printers at trade shows in North America starting the fall of 2017.
Everything from full featured Azon RIP software to new revolutionary Azon TurboJet inks is in service of reliable and productive printing and new innovative ideas and business approaches. The versatility of white ink as a base for high-density CMYK layer delivers unusual and creative textures on all materials. Azon Rotax adapter for cylindrical printing doubles the possibilities of digital printing while enhanced media presets included for added convenience will open doors to endless business areas.
Azonprinter has been named a National Champion for Croatia in The European Business Awards, sponsored by RSM; Europe's largest business competition set up to celebrate business excellence and best practice in the European business community.
The Awards, now in its 10th year, is supported by business leaders, academics and political representatives from across Europe, and this year engaged with over 33,000 businesses from 34 countries. Azonprinter has been chosen after the first phase of judging by an independent panel. They were evaluated on the core EBA values of innovation, ethics and success.
Azonprinter is an international company with headquarters in Croatia, with more than 25 years long tradition in developing, designing and building the latest, most competitive innovation technologies in the digital printing industry. Stepping forward to lead the changes in the industry, Azonprinter follows the unique business approach by giving ideas of final product solution and opening new markets to its customers. In 2016. Azonprinter has successfully launched most versatile and competitive UV LED ink jet product range on the market.
Azonprinter is very proud to be selected to represent Croatia as a National Champion in The UKTI Award for Innovation category. The European Business Awards is widely recognised as the showcase for Europe's most dynamic companies.
Enforcing innovative way of thinking that has brought business success and progress to Azonprinter, we approach to the European Business Awards with the same to inspire, progress and exchange new innovative business ideas.
The new Azon innovation enables 360 degree printing on a wide range of materials. The possibilities of digital printing have now been doubled with specially designed rotary adapter. Rotax allows printing on a vast range of cylindrical objects with diameter ranging from 41 mm to 127 mm and height up to 279 mm.
With new rotary adapter, it is possible to print more varied print applications. Print on cylindrical and cone objects such as beer and wine glasses, cups, candles, tube, cans, tanks, vases, awards and much more. Rotax makes cylindrical printing efficient and precise by delivering both white and full color prints.
Rotax attachment is easy to install, quick to mount and smooth to operate. It takes only two minutes to plug and play. Simply mount the adapter on the printer and insert a connector. User friendly settings and functions, simple installation steps, intuitive and user-friendly operation are only some of the features which will satisfy our customers' needs.
Azonprinter, the leading manufacturer of Direct to Garment, Direct to Substrate and UV LED flatbed printers will showcase the latest digital technology at Jordan Third International Exhibition of Printing and Packaging. The exhibition will be held at Zara Expo Halls in Amman, from August 17th until August 20 th 2015.
Visit us at Hall B, booths B39, B40, B49 and B50 where you will have the possibility to experience Azon's world of digital technology. For the first time on Asian market we will present our new Azon Razor which is considered to be the most competitive and versatile machine on the market.
Azon machines in A1, A2, A3 and B0 format are targeted at short run digital print applications and personalize usage. Azon UV printers are equipped with various enhanced features aiming at maximum efficiency and accuracy. The machines deliver high quality, full color prints which will completely satisfy customer needs.
Azonprinter company together with Igs Graphic Brasil Ltda will exhibit its best UV flatbed and Direct to Garment printers in Sao Paolo from July 21st untill July 24th. Visit us at Parque de Exposiçao in Anhembi pavillon, booth 125 and indulge in amazing Azon world of digital technology.
Azon will showcase its wide textile product range and present a vast range of materials the machines can print on. Visitors will be able to see for themselves beautiful, full-color and highly waterproof prints.
Alongside with the Direct to Garment printers, Azon will also show the newest and the most competitive printer on the market – Azon Razor. 13 inches wide RAZOR can now print directly onto PET, ABS, polycarbonate, TPU, wood, leather and other soft materials up to 20 cm height.
Azon machines will downsize your printing cost, increase productivity and efficiency by offering countless applications which will fullfil all of its customers' needs.


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The CWRU Vice President for Research and Technology Management is pleased to announce a campus-wide internal grant competition to promote research, scholarship, and creative endeavors.
Intended to foster the incubation of new ideas and their cultivation for production of knowledge, this program will provide faculty the freedom to address new and expanding areas of research, scholarship, and creative endeavor, and will serve as a catalyst for major breakthroughs.
The CWRU VPR Catalyst Awards will be divided into three funding categories.
Track 1: Research Travel
These awards may be used for travel, lodging, and food (up to per diem).
Up to $3,000 will be awarded per project with the expectation of 1-1 match from the Faculty member's discretionary funds, her Department, her Dean, or other institutional resources (such as the Baker-Nord Center).
To plan or conduct research, including trips to bidders' conferences and meetings with program officers; travel to collections such as libraries, museums or other archives with materials not otherwise available; and travel to a study center or research institute. Travel may be domestic or international and is subject to the University's travel policies. All funds must be spent within 12 months of the award. Unspent funds will be pulled back.
Track 2: Publication Subvention
These awards may be used for copyright fees, cover art, illustrations, permissions, journal publication, or other publication-related expenses.
To help cover the costs associated with publishing books, plays, journal articles, or other means of scholarly or creative production. All funds must be spent within 12 months. Unspent funds will be pulled back.
Track 3: Seed Funds
These grants support early-stage program development and research, and often set the stage for successful pursuit of large-scale funding from sources such as NIH, NSF, NEA, or NEH as projects evolve.
Up to $10,000 will be awarded per project with the expectation of 1-1 match from the Faculty member's discretionary funds, her Department, her Dean, or other institutional resources (such as the Baker-Nord Center).
To help cover a variety of research activities, including but not limited to: pilot and feasibility studies, secondary analyses of existing data to test a new hypothesis, activities in the digital humanities and arts, development of research methodology, and planning for development of large, interdisciplinary proposals for external funding. All funds must be spent within 12 months. Unspent funds will be pulled back.
Principal Investigators/Scholars must hold faculty appointments at CWRU. All full-time CWRU faculty are eligible to apply. Although there is no limit on the number of proposals a faculty member may submit, only one award will be made to any faculty member in a given cycle.
Proposals for all three categories are due Friday, March 30, 2018.
Proposals and match commitment letters should be submitted as PDF attachments by email to Dr. Suzanne Rivera at suzanne.rivera@case.edu no later than 11:59 pm on Friday, March 30.
Proposals should be no more than three pages in length and must include:
Identification of funding category: Research Travel, Publication Subvention, Seed Funds,
Faculty member name, department, school/college, and title/rank,
Title of project for which funding is sought,
Narrative description of proposed activities to be funded, including:
Clear explanation of problem/hypothesis/phenomenon/activity,
Concise description of planned strategy/procedures, Compelling rationale for using institutional resources,
Degree to which activity/product will be novel and/or interdisciplinary,
Expected outcome of efforts, with a deliverable and timeline (less than 12 months), and,
Detailed budget* with narrative justification for each line item and identification of source of matching funds
In addition, the match commitment letters accompanying the proposals must be signed by the individual responsible for the speedtype (account number) that will be the source of the match (whether a Chair, Dean, or Director of a campus entity such as the Baker-Nord Center), and should state clearly that if a Catalyst award is made to the Faculty member, matching funds equivalent to the award amount will be made available for spending within the 12-month award period.
*Note: Faculty time is not an allowable cost for Track 1 or Track 2.
Proposals will be reviewed by a selection committee empaneled by the VPR. The following criteria will be considered:
The significance of the research problem, scholarship or creative endeavor
The novelty of the proposed project or activity
The application of interdisciplinary and convergent approaches
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If you're having issues pairing your UA Sport Wireless Heart Rate™ headphones to your MapMy app, please review the following troubleshooting tips.
Power cycle your mobile device by turning it off/on. This can clear out your Bluetooth tray and improve connectivity.
If you still cannot connect, we recommend resetting the UA Sport Wireless Heart Rate™ headphones. Instructions for resetting are found below. This resolves most instances of Bluetooth failure.
Press and hold on both the up and down volume buttons simultaneously for 5-10 seconds until the blinking lights turn off.
The heart rate sensor will go to sleep after 3 minutes to preserve battery if you have not yet begun a workout with a fitness tracking app. It can be woken up again by pressing on the right ear bud for 3-5 seconds when you are ready to begin a workout.
Lastly, please try uninstalling and reinstalling the MapMy app to see if this resolves the connection issue.
Note: If you have an Android device running Android Nougat 7.0, please try updating your OS to 7.1. This should resolve any Bluetooth connectivity issues you are experiencing with the UA Sport Wireless Heart Rate™.
If you are still unable to get the UA Sport Wireless Heart Rate™ headphones to connect to your MapMy app after following all the troubleshooting tips above, submit a support request here and one of our agents will be glad to assist you.
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Evolutionary Language Understanding
Product Description: This book records a unique attempt over a ten-year period to use stochastic optimization in the natural language processing domain. Setting the work against the background of the logical rule-based approach, the author provides a context for understanding the differences in assumptions about the nature of language and cognition...read more
By Geoffrey Sampson
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Hardcover:
9781474246446 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 17, 2015, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: This book records a unique attempt over a ten-year period to use stochastic optimization in the natural language processing domain.
9780304336500 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 1, 1996, cover price $125.00
The Eclair Vendor
Product Description: Grandpa Al gets ready to put his grandson Anthony to bed when Anthony asks him to tell him a story. Grandpa Al makes up a rather silly story about a little boy and an eclair vendor. Anthony doesn't like it and asks Grandpa Al to tell him another one...read more
By Stu Cassell
9780470211878, titled "Computational Lexicography for Natural Language Processing" | Longman Sc & Tech, February 1, 1989, cover price $67.95 | also contains Computational Lexicography for Natural Language Processing
9781508512943 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 16, 2015, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: Grandpa Al gets ready to put his grandson Anthony to bed when Anthony asks him to tell him a story.
La Nina Que Poncho a Babe Ruth/The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth
A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees' best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.
By Jean L. S. Patrick and Jeni Reeves (illustrator)
9780127597508, titled "Understanding Natural Language" | Academic Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $44.00 | also contains Understanding Natural Language | About this edition: Understanding Natural Language
9780822577881 | Ediciones Lerner, September 24, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees' best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.
9780822577850 | Ediciones Lerner, November 1, 2007, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees' best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.
An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
The use of large, computerized bodies of text for linguistic analysis and description has emerged in recent years as one of the most significant and rapidly-developing fields of activity in the study of language. This book provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to Corpus Linguistics. All aspects of the field are explored, from the various types of electronic corpora that are available to instructions on how to design and compile a corpus. Graeme Kennedy surveys the development of corpora for use in linguistic research, looking back to the pre-electronic age as well as to the massive growth of computer corpora in the electronic age. (view table of contents)
By Graeme D. Kennedy
9780582231535 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1998, cover price $81.33
9780582231542 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1998, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The use of large, computerized bodies of text for linguistic analysis and description has emerged in recent years as one of the most significant and rapidly-developing fields of activity in the study of language.
Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Product Description: WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design isinspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory;version 1.6 is the most up-to-date version of the system.WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christiane Fellbaum (editor)
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9780262061971 | Bradford Books, May 15, 1998, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design isinspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory;version 1.
Constraint Grammar: A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text
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By Arto Anttila (editor), Juha Heikkila, Fred Karlsson and Atro Voutilainen
9783110141795 | Mouton De Gruyter, December 1, 1994, cover price $321.00 | About this edition: Book by
Planning English Sentences
Product Description: This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language...read more
By Douglas E. Appelt
9780521301152 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind.
9780521438032 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1992), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind.
Computational Lexicography for Natural Language Processing
By Bran Boguraev and Ted Briscoe (editor)
9780470211878 | Longman Sc & Tech, February 1, 1989, cover price $67.95 | also contains The Eclair Vendor
Newcat: Parsing Natural Language Using Left-Associative Grammar
By Roland R. Hausser
9780387167817 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 1986, cover price $82.95
Computations from the English: A Procedural Logic Approach for Representing and Understanding English Texts
Product Description: Hardcover, 1983
By Robert F. Simmons
9780131646407 | Prentice Hall, September 1, 1983, cover price $53.40 | About this edition: Hardcover, 1983
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammar of English and Its Applications
Product Description: Book
By Naomi Sager
9780201067699 | Addison-Wesley, October 1, 1980, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Book
Understanding Natural Language
Product Description: Understanding Natural Language
By Terry Winograd
9780127597508 | Academic Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $44.00 | also contains La Nina Que Poncho a Babe Ruth/The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth | About this edition: Understanding Natural Language


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Q: Hard time understanding Cauchy criterion and the convergence criterion using a Cauchy series as an example $$b_n=\frac{x}{1}+\frac{x+1}{3}+\frac{x+2}{5}+\frac{x+3}{7}...+\frac{x+n}{2n+1}$$
$$n>1$$
I have this series and I have no idea how to solve it.I have seen the formula but I don't understand it completely:$$|a_n-l|\leqε$$
I guess that module |  | represents the fact that every constant that has a negative value is changed into a positive value???Is that what it means?
So,if $a_n$ is a function and is far away from the position of the limit L and is negative that means the values plugged into the module are changed into positive?
I looked at the Cauchy definition of the series and it showed me the same module
but with different terms $|a_{n+1}+a_{n+2}+a_{n+3}...+a_{n+p}|<ε$.

A: You have the infinite series $$b_n=\frac{x}{1}+\frac{x+1}{3}+\frac{x+2}{5}+\frac{x+3}{7}...+\frac{x+n}{2n+1}$$
You  are looking for an answer about the convergence of your series.
There is  a divergence test which applies to your series
The series $$\sum _1^\infty a_n$$ diverges if the term $a_n$ does not tend to zero as $n$ goes to infinity.
Since $$\lim _{n\to \infty} \frac {x+n}{2n+1} = \frac {1}{2} \ne 0$$
Your series diverges.
The Cauchy Criterion does not apply here for this series.

A: $|A|$ denotes the absolute value of $A$. It does not change $A$ into  $|A|$. Numbers do not change into other numbers. If you write $-3$ and then you put $|\,|$ around it then you have only changed what you have written but you have not changed the number $-3$ into the number $3.$
Definition.
$|A|=A$ if $A\ge 0.$
$|A|=-A$ if $|A|<0.$
It  helps to imagine  this geometrically, with numbers represented as locations on a line, with $|A|$ as the distance from $A$ to $0.$ And $|x-y|$ is the distance from $x$ to $y$, which is the same as the distance from $y$ to $x$, which is also the distance from $0$ to the number $y-x.$
In this subject there are short forms and figures of speech  that are often used among those who understand what the literal meanings are, but to learn it you must adhere to the literal meanings. Which is sometimes disappointing because sometimes there's not much to it, as in the above definition of $|A|$. It means what it says, and no more.

A: I think that the OP is mixing up the definition of convergence with the Cauchy criterion. I will write a description of both.
Convergence
Definition: The sequence $x_n$ converges to $X$ when this holds: for any $\epsilon > 0$ there exists $K$ such that $|x_n − X| < \epsilon$ for all $n > K$.
Informally, this says that as $n$ gets larger and larger the numbers $x_n$ get closer and closer to $X$.
Cauchy's criterion
Definition: The sequence $x_n$ converges to something if and only if this holds: for every $\epsilon > 0$ there exists $K$ such that $|x_n − x_m| < \epsilon$ whenever $n, m > K$.
Informally, this says that as $n,m$ get larger and larger the numbers $x_n$ and $x_m$ get closer and closer to each other.
In terms of your example, I tried to show that the sequence was Cauchy by writing
$$x_n = \frac{x+n}{2n+1}$$
$$x_m = \frac{x+m}{2m+1}$$
then for $n,m$ large enough we have
\begin{align}|x_n - x_m| &= \Big|\frac{x+n}{2n+1} - \frac{x+m}{2m+1}\Big| \\&= \Big|\frac{(x+n)(2m+1) - (x+m)(2n+1)}{(2n+1)(2m+1)}\Big|
\\&= \Big|\frac{2mx - m - 2nx + n}{(2n+1)(2m+1)}\Big| \\&\leq
 \Big|\frac{2mx+ n }{(2n+1)(2m+1)}\Big| \\&\leq
 \Big|\frac{2mx}{(2n+1)(2m+1)}\Big| + \Big|\frac{n}{(2n+1)(2m+1)}\Big|\\&\leq
 \Big|\frac{2mx}{4mn}\Big| + \Big|\frac{n}{4mn}\Big|\\&=
\Big|\frac{x}{2n}\Big|+\Big|\frac{1}{4m}\Big|\\& \leq
\Big|\frac{x}{2}\Big|+\Big|\frac{1}{4m}\Big|
\end{align}
Since $x$ can be made arbitrarily large, the Cauchy criterion isn't satisfied  (we cannot show that $|x_n - x_m| < \epsilon$).


On the 20th November 1998 Roscosmos launched the Zarya module, the first element of the International Space Station. A few days later on the 4th December NASA launched the Unity module and the Space Shuttle crew connected the two main part of the station. I think the rest is history.
Here is my small contribution to pay respect to this amazing project! You will see six of my own photographs taken with amateur equipment from London, UK. I put a circle on every photo to mark the famous Zarya-Unity pair. Take a look how big the ISS grew in a few years time. The International Space Station became the symbol of international cooperation, all the research has been done since for the benefit all mankind. This video is about the STS-88 Endeavour mission, the assembly of the first two major component of the Space Station.
The bottom row on my photo is dedicated to the cargo side of the supply chain, the workhorses of the station. They keep sending vital food supply, replacement components and cool scientific equipment to and from the station with these vessels. This is my personal achievement on taking photos of these tiny spacecrafts.
Is not it amazing to live in times, when anyone can buy telescopic equipments, high frame rate cameras and take photos like this from Earth!
We don't know, for how long can we enjoy the presence of this marvellous machine, so enjoy whilst we can. Download the ISS Detector app (or any app, there are many luckily) and watch it form your location crossing the morning/evening sky. More information about ISS related websites and apps in Guide to find ISS section.
Happy Birthday ISS! We owe a huge thank you to all the women and men who designed the station, built on Earth, launched to space, assembled, maintained, looked after it and lived on it. The perfect example how far we get if we work together.
We are one species and we get further together!


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FictionAlley has been a longtime member of iGive, a program that gives a percentage of purchases from stores like VistaPrint, The Gap and more to FictionAlley.
They just made a nifty offer for us - but there's only six hours left for us to take advantage of it.
For each person who joins iGive using the special link below and does just one qualified web search on our site between now and noon. Thursday, September 30, 2010 (Chicago time), we'll give FA a dollar.
If these new members search more (or buy something at an iGive store) they'll earn even more money for FAWC. Right now, we're donating a $.01 per search and a bonus $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage.
Link: http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=476021
As you know, FictionAlley has server expenses this year for the first time in over five years, and they came out of the blue - there's more info at http://tinyurl.com/FAServer - so if you could do this today, that dollar would be merged with the other dollars from other FA users, and could be a massive amount of support for the site.
Thanks in advance for your time and your help!
Server Fundraiser-a-Thon!
It's September 1 - and that generally means we're all heading back to Hogwarts, even if it's only virtually. We're celebrating at FictionAlley, and also commemorating the major milestone that we reached this summer - our ninth anniversary! Unfortunately, we were still suffering from the unexpected and prolonged downtime so we couldn't celebrate - but as you know, we're back now, and it looks like things are stabilized!
Alas, we are not sure whether our current ISP/server situation will allow us to make it to our tenth anniversary.
The company that had graciously and wonderfully hosted FictionAlley for years, allowing us to be mostly ad-free and enabling us to focus our fundraising efforts on projects like the Katie O'Brien Memorial Scholarship, has been purchased by a larger company, and while they are able to give us a discount on hosting fees, we've gone from paying nothing to paying about two hundred dollars a month.
The staff of FictionAlley has been able to underwrite this for the last few months, but we can't continue doing so without two changes, a request, a question and a project.
First, the changes:
1. There will be more ads on FictionAlley - Google ads on the front page and what we hope will be unobtrusive and noninvasive ads in FictionAlley Park. We will, at this point, not put banner ads on pages with fics, although if we don't get enough donations, that may have to change later on. If you see an ad that you're interested in, please click on it!
2. We are going to send occasional emails reminding our registered users to purchase iTunes downloads and apps via our iTunes link, and to purchase items on Amazon - if you want to buy the new Harry Potter LEGO game, for example, or pre-order the next series of GLEE or get Naomi Novik's new novel, it would benefit FictionAlley and all of us if you did so using our links. When the Deathly Hallows films are released, you'll be able to buy tickets via our links, and support FictionAlley while enjoying the films.
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Please, donate to support FictionAlley. Anything donated above and beyond our immediate needs for hosting fees will go into our Buy Our Own Servers fund, which will give us more control over our servers and lower prices for monthly hosting costs.
Donate via RAZOO and help us get $1000 in matching funds by December 31, 2010:
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To many Americans, Memorial Day is just a U.S. holiday that takes place every year on the last Monday of May, it is just another excuse for a three-day weekend or that first trip to the beach.
It may also be known as the day that marks the "official" start of summer or a day to get deal on a new car or mattress. The true meaning of Memorial Day goes far beyond the picnics, barbecues and sales that we all attend.
The "holiday" – if you can call it that – began after the Civil War, and at that time was known as "Decoration Day." Even though it was originally created to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War – today Memorial Day is a day to honor all of the Americans who have served and died in military service for freedoms we enjoy as the United States of America.
All Americans should be required to take just a few moments out their day off and the celebration and leisure we enjoy as a result of the sacrifices of those who have given their lives for this great nation and reflect on the freedoms we have because of those who have paid the ultimate price for our liberty.


Nowadays, homework is a controversial issue, especially as children's lives are getting busier and busier. Nevertheless, having to do a certain amount of schoolwork at home does actually benefit children. This article sets about dispelling some of the popular myths about the supposed harm caused to children by doing homework.
The belief that homework serves no purpose is just not based on fact. If the correct type of after-school work is assigned to children, it serves the very important purpose of cementing in their minds the work that they learn in the classroom. Revising work is known to be the best way to learn it. So, if children revise work done in class by doing assignments after school, they actually learn that work properly. However, this does mean that teachers need to give children after-school assignments that cover the work they do at school, and not send them home with unrelated assignments.
Another popular myth about homework is that it doesn't teach children anything. As discussed above, children can cement the learning of their schoolwork by doing extra work at home. In addition to cementing what they learn at school, after-school assignments teach children self-discipline. By making themselves do something they'd rather not be doing, children can learn how to control their impulses, which improves their self-discipline. After-school assignments also teach children vital time management skills, as they need to properly divide their time amongst all their activities, including their leisure activities.
The popular belief that homework overwhelms children can be a bit trickier, because when there's too much homework it does overwhelm them. But this does not have to be the case. If teachers assign reasonable amounts of after-school work to children, they can get the benefit of it without being overwhelmed by it. The trick is simply in the amount of after-school work assigned by teachers. If children get appropriate amounts of extra assignments, but are still overwhelmed, parents should consider how many extra curricular activities their children take part in, as well as how much rest they get.
The myth that homework does not improve children's grades is simply false. Numerous studies have shown that when teachers assign the correct type of work in appropriate amounts, children's grades do actually improve. Obviously, this is vitally important for children's futures.


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Considered by most to be a father of the field of synthetic biology, Tom Knight co-launched the Registry of Standard Biological Parts and the iGEM competition. He also invented the BioBrick™ standard for physical composition of genetic parts that underpins the Registry and iGEM competition. He now works at the synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks, which he cofounded in 2008.


Bräuning, A. Tree-ring studies in the Dolpo-Himalya (western Nepal).
Gärtner, H. & Bräker, O.U. Roots – the hidden key players in estimating the potential of Swiss forests to act as carbon sinks.
Wegst, M. & Bräuning, A. Dendroecological analysis of vegetation dynamics on abandoned heath lands in the Svabian Jura, southern Germany.
Bollschweiler, M. & Ehmisch, M. Past debris-flow activity from tree-ring analysis at the Bruchji torrent, Valais, Switzerland.
Gussenstätter, F. & Bräuning, A. Changes in growth rates and wood anatomy of broad-leaved and coniferous tree species after a landslide event in the Remstal Valley (Southern Germany).
Weiss, E. & Wils, T. Tree rings and geomorphological processes in a mountainous region (French Alps).
Block, J., Magda, V.N. & Vaganov, E.A. Temporal and spatial variability of tree-growth in mountain forest steppe in Central Asia.
Frank, D., Esper, J., Büntgen, U. & Treydte, K. The first principal component of a high-elevation ring-width network from the western and central Alps.
Neuwirth, B. & Winiger, M. NAO and Tree Rings – a dendroclimatological network analyses of Central European chronologies.
Sass-Klaassen, U. Exploring oaks in modern wetland woods in Europe to trace the climate signal in tree-ring series of sub-fossil bog oaks.
Treter, U. & Block, J. Frost-ring distribution at the upper tree line in Mongolia.
Verstege, A., Esper, J., Neuwirth, B., Alifriqui, M. & Frank, D. On the potential of cedar forest in the Middle Atlas (Morocco) for climate reconstructions.
Büntgen, U., Esper, J., Schmidhalter, M., Frank, D., Treydte, K., Neuwirth, B. & Winiger, M. Using recent and historical larch wood to build a 1300-year Valais-chronology.
Poole, I., Sass-Klaassen, U., Wils, T., Helle, G., Schleser, G.H. & van Bergen, P.F. The use of stable-isotope dendrochronology for environmental interpretations from tree-ring patterns in sub-fossil bog oaks.
Treydte, K., Welscher, C., Schleser, G.H., Helle, G., Esper, J. & Winiger, M., Frank, D. & Büntgen, U. The climatic signal in oxygen isotopes of junipers at the lower timberline in the Karakorum, Pakistan.
Helle, G., Treydte, K. & Verheyden, A. Tropical Swietenia macrophylla wood reveals a systematic recurring carbon isotope pattern.
Sass-Klaassen, U., Kooistra, M., Kooistra, L., Hanraets, E., van Rijn, P. & Leuschner, H.-H. How did bog oaks grow? Excavation of a past woodland at Zwolle-Stadshagen, The Netherlands.
Bleicher, N. Great efforts on small woods. Analysis of short ring-series from the neolithic lake-shore settlement of Homstaad-Hornle I A.
van Daalen, S. & van der Beek, J. Dendroprovenancing ship's timbers. A pilot study on a Dutch 18th century 'ventjager'.
Jansma, E. & Hanraets, E. Dating Flanders – towards a Flemish tree-ring chronology of oak.
Jansma, E., Hanraets, E. & Vernimmen, T. Tree-ring research on Dutch and Flemish art and furniture.
Vernimmen, T. & Sass-Klaassen, U. The role of dendrochronology in the protection of cultural heritage in The Netherlands.
Witbaard, R., Jansma, E. & Sass-Klaassen, U. Malacochronology – the application of dendrochronological methods on marine bivalve (shell) growth.