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About Vocations
What is a Vocation?
Lay Vocations
Formation and Education
Consecrated Laypeople
Consecrated Virginity
How do I Recognise God's Call?
Christianity in the workplace
Sanctification of work
Expression of human dignity
The service of others
Bringing Up Children
The Vocation to Marriage
How do I Know God is Calling Me?
Prayers for the Family
Why Choose NFP?
Why Not Contraception?
Marriage Preparation Courses
Vocation to the Permanent Diaconate
Praying for Vocations
Prayers for Vocations
The Call to Priesthood
How do I Know God Wants Me to be a Priest?
What the saints say
Vocations intercessions
Shrewsbury Quo Vadis Group
Quo Vadis Group
Vocation to the Single Life
What Does it Mean to be Single?
How Do I Make a Decision?
Becoming Who God Wants Me to Be
Men's Discernment
Steps in Discernment
Women's Discernment
A Specific Grace
The permanent deacon, who may be single or married, dedicates his life to serving others.
His ministry of service focuses on three areas: assisting at the altar in the celebration of the sacraments; preaching the Word of God and leading people in prayer; and reaching out in loving service to the practical and spiritual needs of others, especially of the poor and those outside the normal confines of the Church.
Traditionally the permanent deacon works closely with his diocesan bishop. Most permanent deacons, in practice, serve the greater part of their time within their home parish.
But there are many who work as chaplains in schools, prisons, hospitals, etc. Others are in full-time employment where their work is itself 'diaconal': teachers, social workers, nurses, doctors, etc.
Their ordination brings a specific grace that allows their life of service to be consecrated in a special way.
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Many years ago when I was living in New York City, I went on a date with a man that I had a crush on for a long time. He was a musician. I was a dancer. After many nights of exchanging energy with him playing his instrument and me dancing in sync to each note, we exchanged phone numbers and went out on a date. On a warm autumn evening on a street corner in Brooklyn, under a flickering lamppost, I stood one step above him on the staircase of a brownstone building and we kissed. We kissed passionately, like enthusiastic teenagers who revel in the freedom of being adults and as the weight shifted and swayed between us, we lost our balance and we fell. He had a tear in his jeans, blood gushing from the cement rubbing against his knee and he got up with a little bit of a limp. I felt horrible and asked, "Are you ok?" He had the best response ever. He looked at me and said, "It's ok, we were made to heal."
Ramana Maharishi was a guru and teacher from India who taught the path to enlightenment by asking the question over and over again, "Who Am I?" More than reading books, learning mantras or spiritual pilgrimage, he believed the way in was this question. I went to the particular cave that he meditated in in Tiruvannamali, India in 2007 and when I sat there a great peace came over me where I felt that I too, could sit in meditation and solely connect with the etheric energetic magnificence that is the life force and essence of this world. I felt myself inspired to drift off into the ether and explore how much eternity I could experience beyond my senses. Until... I heard a message that said, "No. Your job this lifetime is not to sit still but to dance. The path of enlightenment through meditation and stillness is well documented, but the path of liberation through movement has been lost. Go dance and teach people how to find the divine within them that way."
If you follow this blog, you may have read my last couple posts Break On Through To the Other Side and Remembering Darkness as the Precursor to Creation. You may have gathered that I have been going through a hard time, heart break and another surrendering into the unknown. I feel perfectly in sync with the seasons, the days of summer, before beginning the process of autumn, of leaves falling from the trees, of remembering that life is a series of letting go. In the midst of this more challenging and initiatory time, I have come back to the words of my date that night and remembered that yes, we were made to heal and that one of the most powerful, healing, transformative ways I know to come back to what is beautiful, true, loving and joyous about life is movement and gratitude.
Movement: We've got you covered. Qoya is based on the idea that through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Wise, wild and free also draw reference to the movement forms that we practice. Wise- calling on the wisdom of yoga. Wild- the creative expression in dance. Free- expanding our capacity to enjoy being in our bodies through sensual movement. Remembering that there is no way you can do it wrong and the way you know that you're doing it right, is that it feels good.
Gratitude: Did you know that Sunday, September 21st is not only the most perfect day to put on the song "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire and sing out loud, "Do you remember, the 21st night of September?" It's also International Gratitude Day AND it's the first day of the free offering by Dr. Lauren Tober of amazing interviews, an online community and a way to bring more gratitude into your life! Sign up here.
My favorite thing about gratitude is knowing that what you look for is what you see, if you look for gratitude, you will surely find it. The pain of wishing things were different than they are is healed by the gratitude for what is. And in the shamanic tradition of healing the first step to heal is when you can receive the gift of what has been. By looking for gratitude and expressing it, you begin the first step of your journey.
The two main take aways here are: #dancingmakeseverythingbetter and #gratitudeisasuperpower. Is that true for you too?
We would love to hear your stories of how this is true for you and if you would like some more support on integrating and incorporating this energy and these practices into your daily life, please check out our free videos online and the description on how to do a despacho ceremony with a new 11 minute instructional video!
We can't always choose what we need to heal, but we can choose how to engage the healing and use the balm of gratitude and call on the wisdom, wildness and freedom of our essence to help guide our way back to that eternal knowing that everything is going to be ok, because like a teacher of mine would say, "It's never what you think, it's always better."
We were made to heal.
And we were also made to dance.
Questions? Reach out at info@loveqoya.com! We'd love to hear from you!


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The Role of Qatari Media Al-Jazeera, Qatar's mouthpiece in the Middle East
Cairo – No one can deny the vital role played by Al-Jazeera satellite channels during the Arab Spring revolutions, especially in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Therefore, it was only natural that Al-Jazeera, which is owned by the Qatari ruling royal family, was merely an effective tool for implementing the foreign policy of Qatar as vested in its Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani. Al-Jazeera Network was established in April 1996, with the support of the Government of Qatar, with a budget exceeding 150 million riyals.
It is relevant and necessary to talk here, in some detail, about Al-Jazeera, as a model of the great overlap and confusion between the state and media apparatus. Several experts have posited that Al-Jazeera stands in a cloudy and dodgy area in between state-run media and independent media, which necessarily reflects and influences the manner of dealing with terrorism-related issues and the kind of stances on other issues.
The Boston-based Christian Science Monitor (CSM) once published an interesting investigative report focusing on the role played by the State of Qatar and Al-Jazeera, and how the small Gulf State resorted to using clerics for executing its foreign policy.
The report shows that Qatar's interest in media has grown following the palace coup d'état staged by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to overthrow his father Sheikh Khalifa, who ruled the country since 1972.
In fact, it is an old story. After dislodging his father from power, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani seized power in what is described as "bloodless palace coup d'état" in 1995.
Immediately after, the Emir of Qatar, Bin Khalifa had founded the news media group, Al Jazeera. He also made Qatar a safe haven for some Salafist hardline preachers, showering them with generous funding through newly-minted credit cards. His main target was that those preachers would reach out to the 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide as they had all the resources at their disposal such as the media platform and the money. However, one might ask what was the price for that? The price was "silence." While those preachers were free to talk about the situations in the Middle East in general, particularly provoking popular outrage in Egypt and Libya, they had a role to play, that is, to keep the revolutionary tide outside the borders of Qatar. Otherwise, the media platform would stop, and financial support would be cut off immediately. In other words, either toe the line, or suffer the consequences.
One of the first decisions taken by the new Emir [(now former) Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani], at the state affairs level, was the cancellation of the Ministry of Information on the pretext that the government should not own or manage the media; as put by Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem, who became the star of the new political phase in Hamad's government. However, it is strange that two years after the decision to literally liberate the Qatari media from the grip of the state, no governmental media outlet has been practically liberated. Rather, Qatar expanded its authority, specifically that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which extended its role and was tasked with running the Qatar News Agency (QNA). Additionally, a new license was given for the publication of a newspaper called Al-Watan, a new television station called Al-Jazeera, and a number of media outlets wholly or partly owned by the ministry abroad, including the daily Al-Quds and the weekly "Al-Mushahid Assiyasi", both are London-based.
The new Emir's attention to the foreign media resulted in a sharp dispute with his poor neighbor, Bahrain, over Al-Jazeera. In May 2000, Bahrain banned Al Jazeera broadcast due to the channel's comments about Bahrain's municipal elections, labeling it as "serving Zionism". This dispute almost reached the stage of military confrontation and the Qatari-Bahrini relationship was almost a political rupture. The two countries launched media counter-campaigns against each other, in which Qatar used its new weapon, the nascent station "Al Jazeera", to defame and disgrace the Kingdom of Bahrain.
It is of paramount importance to understand the nature of the relationship between the owner, the Qatari government, and the owned, i.e. Al Jazeera Media Network is wholly and officially owned by the Qatari government and is funded by an annual budget of more than $100 million dollars. In early 2006, the Qatari government announced that it would sell shares of the channel in the international stock market; however, it later retracted the idea and kept it as part of its Foreign Ministry.
The role played by "Al Jazeera" has sparked controversy about the real ulterior motives of the channel and the nature of its political leanings and orientations. Officially, the channel has been the enemy of most Arab governments, accused of encouraging opposition, on the one hand, and offending rulers and leaders, on the other. Some Al-Jazeera bureaus in a number of Arab capitals were temporarily shut down on charges of broadcasting malicious information or spreading false news.
Notably, Al-Jazeera's policy of opening up to Israel, which indirectly served to achieve a degree of the popularly-rejected notion of normalization with Israel, has also emerged as one of its salient hallmarks over the course of its operation. The fact of the matter is that Al-Jazeera is no more than a propaganda tool to promote the Qatari government's domestic and foreign policy as well as to "gild" its image abroad in line with the desire of Qatari leaders to play a role in the regional and international political arena outside its limited borders.
Qatar's government manipulates Al-Jazeera coverage to suit political interests. This was best substantiated by one of Al-Jazeera's media moguls who spoke of the reasons why it was called as "Al-Jazeera". The name was given to confirm that the "station manifests in itself the state-let of Qatar, in miniature." When this was adopted as a name for the station, it surprised its managers, who came all the way from London after the closure of the BBC Arabic (1996), since the name does not reflect any media sense.
At the end of the day, Al-Jazeera's media role has always been closely related to the political ends of its owner. It is not possible to understand Al-Jazeera's scope of work without knowing the political background of its sole owner, i.e. the Qatari government. It is clear to everyone that by dint of Al-Jazeera, Qatar just wants to play a role in the region, and has harnessed it to settle scores with its adversaries, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, and in favor of shifting alliances with Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas.
This is exactly what Egyptian-born American scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy said in his article: "Please Do Not Call!" (Released in Arabic[1]), in which he questions the credibility and fairness of Al-Jazeera channel and accuses it of promoting and hawking the illusion. He says: "Those who buy and defend the so-called project of freedom and democracy in Qatar are naïve. They are living in an absolutist state where one person would determines who should or should not appear on Al-Jazeera."
Fandy adds: "You [Al-Jazeera folks] are operating a satellite channel that does not bring news to viewers, but it broadcast "the news and videotapes," I mean, video messages of terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah, and Hamas's pre-prepared videotapes."
Similarly, in his 2007 book (Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World, Fandy called Al-Jazeera "the Muslim Brotherhood channel," noting that it glorified Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan El-Banna in a two-part documentary in 2006.
In fact, the accelerated evolution of Al-Jazeera's media policy which has been characterized by disseminating and promoting radical and extremist ideas and its absolute support to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has emerged clearly after the so-called "Arab spring" uprisings.
Egyptian Journalist and Member of Parliament, Dr. Abdel Rehim Ali is an expert on Islamist Movements and political Islam. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book "Qatar: The Destabilizer of the Middle East: The Full Story of Grand Conspiracy," which will be published later this month.
[1] . http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2006/08/21/26781.html Retrieved on June 19, 2017.

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Das ewige Spiel ist ein Spielfilm von František Čáp aus dem Jahr 1951.

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Marie Campenhausen fühlt sich von ihrem Mann Ulrich, der ständig auf Geschäftsreisen ist, vernachlässigt und hat daher schon längere Zeit eine Affäre mit dem Architekten Werner Donatus. Als sie mit Werner auf eine gemeinsame Auslandsreise gehen will, kommt plötzlich Ulrich unerwartet von einer Geschäftsreise heim und vermutet im kurz darauf erscheinenden Werner einen Nebenbuhler. Das Gespräch der Männer, das Marie als Arbeitsbesprechungszusammenkunft darzustellen versucht, verläuft eisig. Ulrich sagt durch die Blume, dass er von dem Verhältnis weiß, kann Marie nach dem Gehen Werners aber keine Liebe zeigen, und flieht hinaus in den Winter Regensburgs. An einer Straßenecke, die wie durch Zauberhand zur Sackgasse wird, trifft sie auf eine alte Frau, die ihr in einer Glasscherbe drei Versionen ihres Schicksals zeigt.

Version 1 – Die Glockengießerlegende um 1500
Marie ist mit dem angesehenen Glockengießer Werner Donatus verheiratet. Er soll in den nächsten Tagen die große Glocke für den Regensburger Dom gießen und gibt sich den Vorbereitungen dafür hin. Marie hingegen tut ähnliches mit dem Ratsherrn Ulrich Campenhausen, der sich des Nachts in ihr Zimmer zu schleichen pflegt, weiß er doch den Hausherrn bei der Glockengießerarbeit. Die abergläubische Bevölkerung, die von Zeit zu Zeit einen Mann mit purpurroter Kleidung im Haus des Werner Donatus verschwinden sieht, glaubt an eine Verbindung Maries mit dem Teufel. Werner Donatus kommt hinter das Verhältnis der beiden und tötet Ulrich in der Nacht, in der Ulrich dem Glockengießen beiwohnen will. Den Leichnam verbrennt Werner in der glühenden Glockenspeise. Das Volk jedoch glaubt an eine Verzauberung Ulrichs durch Marie, die schließlich als Hexe verbrannt wird.

Version 2 – Kruzifix-Legende 1661
Marie ist die Tochter einer reichen Patrizierin und soll nach dem Willen der Mutter den ebenso reichen Kaufmann Ulrich Campenhausen ehelichen. Ihr Herz gehört jedoch dem Bildhauer Werner Donatus, dem sie für eine Heiligenfigur Modell stand. Als ihre Mutter Marie den Umgang mit Werner verbietet, erscheint der betrunken zur Einweihung der Heiligenfigur im Dom. Die öffentliche Schande kann auch Marie nicht übersehen. Auf Druck ihrer Familie verlobt sie sich mit Ulrich. Werner verkommt immer mehr, bis ihn eines Tages sein alter Lehrer Martin betrunken auf der Straße liegend findet. Er versucht, seinem Schützling wieder Lebensmut zu geben, indem er bei ihm einen angeblich an ihn selbst gerichteten Auftrag weitergibt, für das Mittelschiff des Domes eine Figur des Jesus am Kreuz zu schaffen. Über der Arbeit, die in Wirklichkeit keinem Auftrag entsprungen ist, erkrankt Werner schwer. Marie erfährt von seinem Zustand und verlässt Verlobten und Familie, um ihn gesund zu pflegen. Doch die Medikamente sind teuer und das Geld nur durch ein Darlehen bei Ulrich zu erhalten. Das Pfand ist sie selbst und so willigt sie in ihrer Not in eine erneute Verlobung ein. Mit den lebensrettenden Medikamenten eilt sie zu Werner zurück, den sie jedoch nur noch tot auffindet.

Version 3 – Duell-Legende 1850
Marie ist eine einfache Wäscherin, das schon seit längerer Zeit vom Premier-Leutnant Werner von Donatus verfolgt wird. Immer schreckhafter wird Marie, bis sie sich eines Tages vor ihm in eine Kirche flüchtet und dort in ihrer Panik den Glockenturm ersteigt. Oben geht es nicht weiter, doch der, der ihr bis hierhin gefolgt ist, ist nicht Werner, sondern der Rittmeister Ulrich Graf Campenhausen, der ihr seine Liebe gesteht und sie bittet, seine Frau zu werden. Sie willigt ein, wird von seiner Familie und seinen Angestellten zuerst jedoch misstrauisch empfangen, muss Ulrich doch wegen seiner Heirat den Dienst als Offizier quittieren und auf das Majorat verzichten. Doch schon bald schafft es Marie, mit ihrer Art die Herzen der Familie zu erobern. Werner von Donatus jedoch kann seinen Misserfolg nicht verwinden und so folgt auf eine abfällige Bemerkung über Marie prompt Ulrichs Aufforderung zum Duell. Ulrich wird dabei getötet. Marie, die zu den Männern aufs Feld gelaufen kam, verfällt nach der Tat dem Wahnsinn.

Sie wird älter und am Ende zu jener alten Frau, die der "heutigen" Marie das Schicksal der Generationen vor ihr gezeigt hat. Marie kehrt nach Hause zurück und weiß nun, dass sie ihre Liebe nur noch Ulrich schenken wird.

Produktion
Als Filmstudio diente das Bavaria-Atelier München-Geiselgasteig. Die Außendrehs und Teile der Innendrehs fanden bis Februar 1951 in Regensburg statt. "Daß […] ein großer Spielfilm, der seine Handlung in drei verschiedene Jahrhunderte verlegt, für seine historischen Szenen in einer einzigen Stadt alles findet, was er dazu an Gebäuden, Gassen und Innenräumen braucht, ist wohl einmalig in der deutschen Filmgeschichte", so die Kritik. Szenen der Glockengießer-Legende wurden im Regensburger Reichssaal aufgenommen, darunter die Szene, in der Ratsherr Ulrich Campenhausen den Guss einer neuen Domglocke in Auftrag gibt. In den gotischen Gewölben des Rathauses wurde zudem eine "in allen Einzelheiten echte und naturgetreue Glockengießerei aufgebaut", in der weitere Szenen entstanden. Ebenfalls in den Rathausgewölben entstanden Gasthausszenen der Kruzifix-Legende. Ein weiterer Drehort war der Regensburger Dom, in dem Teile der Kruzifix-Legende gedreht wurden. Die Hexenverbrennung (Glockengießerlegende) wurde vor dem Westportal des Doms gedreht, während eine Schlittenfahrt im Schnee auf der Baumhackergasse in Regensburg entstand. Der Schnee wurde dabei extra per Lastwagen angefahren. Einzelszenen wurden zudem in Ramspau gedreht. Die im Film zu hörenden Orgel-Aufnahmen entstanden im Passauer Dom. Am Beispiel des Films werde "deutlich, welch atmosphärische Bedeutung die Kulisse auch im Film hat, denn die starke Wirkung dieses Streifens ist nicht zuletzt darin begründet, daß er das Atelier gemieden hat, wo es nur irgend ging."

Als Komparsen traten Einwohner von Regensburg auf; insgesamt wirkten rund 2000 Personen am Film mit. Während der Prozession (Kruzifix-Legende) begleiteten die echten Seminaristen des Doms die Statue; als Wirt in den Gasthausszenen sprang der Verkehrsdirektor von Regensburg ein, als der eigentliche Darsteller nicht am Set erschien.

Die Uraufführung fand am 22. März 1951 in den Regensburger Kammer-Lichtspielen und im Bavaria-Filmtheater statt.

Kritik
Die zeitgenössische Kritik nannte Das ewige Spiel einen "beglückende[n], verheißungsvolle[n] Auftakt für eine bessere Filmkunst". "Wenn man den Streifen gesehen hat, glaubt man wieder an einen noch nicht gebrochenen Mut deutscher Produzenten und an die Kraft der deutschen Filmleute schlechthin, sich aus der abgleitenden Bahn zu befreien und dort wieder anzuknüpfen, wo der letzte Markstein des deutschen Films stand", so ein Kritiker in der Mittelbayerischen Zeitung. "[M]an vermerkt es mit ehrlicher Genugtuung, daß hier ein Film es versucht, mit Ernst und Haltung für den Bestand der Ehe einzutreten", schrieb ein Kritiker 1951. "Der Film ist ein außergewöhnliches und überaus erfreuliches Ereignis im heutigen deutschen Filmschaffen."

Das Lexikon des Internationalen Films bewertete Das ewige Spiel als "optisch anspruchsvolles, aber verquastes Schicksalsdrama."

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This pages contains a list of NSF Expeditions projects that were started in 2007 to 2012.
Expedition to Understand, Cope with, and Benefit From Intractability
Lead PI: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Collaborators: Rutgers University, New York University and the Institute for Advanced Study
In their Expedition to Understand, Cope with, and Benefit From Intractability, Sanjeev Arora and his collaborators at Princeton University, Rutgers University, New York University and the Institute for Advanced Study will attack some of the deepest and hardest problems in computer science, striving to bridge fundamental gaps in our understanding about the power and limits of efficient algorithms. Computational intractability, a concept that permeates science, mathematics and engineering, limits our ability to understand nature or to design systems. The PIs hope to better understand the boundary between the tractable and the intractable. This has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of algorithmic processes in a host of disciplines and to cast new light on fields such as quantum computing, secure cryptography and pseudorandomness. The research team plans to draw on ideas from diverse fields including algorithms, complexity, cryptography, analysis, geometry, combinatorics and quantum mechanics.
Expedition Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society
Lead PI: Carla Gomes (Cornell)
Collaborators: Bowdoin College, the Conservation Fund, Howard University, Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In the Expedition Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society, Carla Gomes and her colleagues at Cornell University, Bowdoin College, the Conservation Fund, Howard University, Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will explore the development and application of computational methods to enable a sustainable environment, economy and society. By tackling challenges that have not traditionally been addressed by computational approaches, Gomes and her team hope to create a new field of computational sustainability--much like computational biology has arisen in past decades--that will stimulate new research synergies across the areas of constraint optimization, dynamical systems, and machine learning. The research team is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together computer scientists, applied mathematicians, economists, biologists and environmental scientists.
Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020
Lead PI: Nick McKeown (Stanford)
In the Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020 project, Nick McKeown and his colleages at Stanford University address fundamental issues emerging in the forthcoming broadband wireless mobile revolution. It aims to create an "open" alternative to mobile ubiquitous computing and communication that can spur innovations, which will have a dramatic impact on the choices users will have in the way their data and information is computed, stored and communicated. Their architecture will enable: identity-based computing that frees us from managing a large number of physical and digital keys and enables the development of an integrated security infrastructure; a fluid computing experience that provides seamless access to data and applications anywhere and on any available network; an open, programmable and secure environment, where it is easy both to write and deploy applications on devices that are secure and to enable remote services and backup storage in the cloud; and fast radio access networks where new radio technology mitigates interference, exploits diversity at all levels and improves transmit channel knowledge.
Molecular Programming Project
Lead PI: Eric Winfree (Caltech)
Collaborators: U. Washington
In the Molecular Programming Project, Erik Winfree and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology and University of Washington will develop fundamental computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules like DNA and RNA polymers and demonstrate their application experimentally. Inspired by the biomolecular programs of life--from the low-level operating system controlling cell metabolism to the high-level code for development, the process by which a single cell becomes an entire organism--Winfree and his colleagues are working to create analogous molecular programs using non-living chemistry. The objects of their study, molecular programs, are collections of molecules that may perform a computation, fabricate an object or control a system of molecular sensors and actuators. The project aims to develop tools and theories for molecular programming--such as programming languages and compilers--that will enable systematic design and implementation of technological and biotechnological applications that require information processing and decision-making to be embedded within and carried out by chemical processes.
Next-Generation Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation with a Focus on Embedded Control and Systems Biology
Lead PI: Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie-Mellon University
Collaborators: CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook, University of Maryland, Cornell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Computer hardware and software systems can be found in almost all aspects of modern life. While most of us think of computers as the machines on our desks, hardware and software systems embedded in a multiplicity of complex physical systems perform a growing number of important societal functions. For example, embedded computers make our airplanes and cars safer and more efficient, they make our national power grid more reliable, and they provide new diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities in healthcare, ranging from medical imaging systems to implantable heart devices. As these tightly integrated cyber-physical systems perform increasingly complex and important functions, we must engineer them in a way that ensures we can bet our lives on them. This Expedition seeks to explore the use of model checking and abstraction interpretation to analyze and predict the behavior of complex embedded and dynamical cyber-physical systems. The research team will develop the next generation of tools and technologies necessary to enable exhaustive analysis of the behavior of increasingly complex systems, promising safer, more secure embedded cyber-physical systems such as those found in automotive and aerospace applications. Furthermore, the researchers participating in this Expedition intend to use these new tools and technologies to develop transformative systems biology models, promising a deeper understanding of complex biological systems such as inter- and intra-cellular signaling in pancreatic cancer.
Customizable Domain-Specific Computing
Lead PI: Jason Cong, UCLA
Collaborators: Rice, UC Santa Barbara, Ohio State University
Sometimes one-size solutions just don't meet all our needs. Human civilization has made great advances through specialization, yet most computer users have limited choices when it comes to the type of hardware and software systems they can use to solve a problem in a particular area. The researchers involved in this Expedition believe customized computing has the potential to deliver order-of-magnitude improvements in energy efficiency, development effort, time-to-solution, cost, and overall productivity by crafting computing tools tailored to specific applications and needs. The key to the team's success is a customizable heterogeneous platform that includes a wide range of customizable computing elements, customizable and scalable high-performance interconnects based on RF-interconnect technologies; highly automated compilation tools and runtime management systems to enable rapid development and deployment of domain-specific computing systems, and a general, reusable methodology for replicating success in different application domains. In the spirit of hardware-software co-design, the research team will balance software and hardware considerations to better expose opportunities for order-of-magnitude improvements in computing efficiency, while using a software approach that supports automation and reuse and is accessible to domain experts. To demonstrate the power of their approach, the team will apply their domain-specific computing design techniques to revolutionize the role of medical imaging and hemodynamic modeling in healthcare, promising cost-effective, yet convenient solutions for preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
RoboBees: A Convergence of Body, Brain and Colony
Lead PI: Robert Wood, Harvard University
Collaborators: Northeastern University
Busy as a bee. A hive of activity. Bees and bee colonies have long been held up as models of efficiency and coordination. Using a host of different sensors, unique communication protocols, and a precise hierarchy of task delegation, thousands of bees can work independently on different tasks while all working toward a common goal--keeping their colony alive. Researchers in this Expedition will create robotic bees that fly autonomously and coordinate activities amongst themselves and the hive, much like real bees. The research team aims to drive research in compact high-energy power sources, ultra-low-power computing, and the design of distributed algorithms for multi-agent systems. Furthermore, the RoboBees created will provide unique insights into how Mother Nature conjures such elegant solutions to solve complex problems.
Computational Behavioral Science: Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Social and Communicative Behavior
Lead PI: James Rehg, Georgia Tech
Collaborators: USC, Boston University, UIUC, CMU, MIT
It is well-known that the social and communicative behavior of children as young as 12-24 months contains important clues about their risk for a variety of developmental disorders, such as autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Moreover, the ability to identify and treat such disorders at an early age has been shown to significantly improve outcomes. Autism represents a particularly compelling need in the US, since it affects one child in 110 with a lifetime cost of care at $3.2 million per person. This Expeditions project aims to develop novel techniques for measuring and analyzing the behavior exhibited by children and adults during face-to-face social interactions, including interactions between caregivers and children, children playing and socializing in a daycare environment, and clinicians interacting with children during individual therapy sessions. By developing methods to automatically collect fine-grained behavioral data, this project will enable large-scale objective screening and more effective therapy delivery and assessment to those in need, including socio-economically disadvantaged populations. More generally, this new computational technology will make it possible to automatically measure the behavior of large numbers of individuals in a wide range of settings over long periods of time. Other disciplines, such as education, marketing, and customer relations, could benefit from a more objective data-driven approach to behavioral assessment. The long-term goal of this project is the creation of a new scientific discipline of computational behavioral science, which draws equally from computer science and psychology in order to transform the study of human behavior.
Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach
Lead PI: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Collaborators: North Carolina A & T University, North Carolina State University, Northwestern University, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Climate change is the defining environmental challenge facing our planet. Yet, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the social and environmental impact due to the limited capabilities of existing physics-based models of the Earth system. Consequently, important questions relating to food security, water resources, biodiversity, and other socio-economic issues over relevant temporal and spatial scales remain unresolved. A new and transformative approach is required to understand the potential impact of climate change. Data driven approaches that have been highly successful in other scientific disciplines hold significant potential for application in environmental sciences. This Expeditions project aims to address key challenges in the science of climate change by developing methods that take advantage of the wealth of climate and ecosystem data available from satellite and ground-based sensors, the observational record for atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes, and physics-based climate model simulations. These innovative approaches will help provide new understanding of the complex nature of the Earth system and the mechanisms contributing to the adverse consequences of climate change, such as increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes, precipitation regime shifts, and the propensity for extreme weather events that result in environmental disasters. Methodologies developed as part of this project will be used to gain actionable insights and to inform policymakers.
Variability-Aware Software for Efficient Computing with Nanoscale Devices
Lead PI: Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego
Collaborators: Stanford, UC Irvine, UCLA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan
As semiconductor manufacturers build ever smaller circuits and chips, they become less reliable and more expensive to produce--no longer behaving like precisely chiseled machines with tight tolerances. Understanding the variability in their behavior from device-to-device and over their lifetimes--due to manufacturing, aging, and different operating environments--becomes increasingly critical. This project fundamentally rethinks the hardware-software interface and proposes a new class of computing machines that are not only adaptive but also highly energy efficient. It envisions a computing system where components--led by proactive software--routinely monitor, predict and adapt to the variability of the manufactured systems in which they are placed. These machines will be able to discover the nature and extent of variation in hardware, develop abstractions to capture these variations, and drive adaptations in the software stack from compilers to runtime to applications. The resulting computer systems will work while using components that vary in performance or grow less reliable over time and across technology generations. A fluid software-hardware interface will thus mitigate the variability of manufactured systems and make machines robust, reliable and responsive to the changing operating conditions. Changing the way software interacts with hardware offers the best hope for perpetuating the fundamental gains of the past 40 years in computing performance at a lower cost. In addition to plans for involving graduate and undergraduate students in the research, the team has built strong industrial ties and is committed to outreach to community high-school students through a combination of tutoring and summer school programs.
An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Functional Physical Machines
Lead PI: Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Collaborators: University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University
This project envisions a future where 3-D robotic systems can be produced and designed using 2-D desktop technology fabrication methods. If this feat is achieved, it would be possible for the average person to design, customize and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours. Currently, it takes years and many resources to produce, program and design a functioning robot. This new project would completely automate the process, from sketches on-demand, anywhere, and with the skill of a team of professional engineers, leading to potential transformations in advanced manufacturing.
Making Sense at Scale with Algorithms, Machines and People (AMP)
Lead PI: Michael Franklin, University of California (UC) Berkeley
AMP will tackle the challenge known as the Big Data problem, in which current data analytics fall short in making sense of the volume, diversity and complexity of data being generated by computers, sensors and scientific instruments; media such as images and video; and free-form tweets, text messages, blogs and documents. AMP seeks to turn this knowledge into insight, to uncover the keys to solving huge societal problems, from improving productivity and efficiency and creating new economic opportunities, to unlocking discoveries in medicine, science and the humanities. The team will focus on key societal applications, including: cancer genomics and personalized medicine; large-scale sensing for traffic prediction, environmental monitoring, and urban planning; and network security.
ExCAPE: Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering
Lead PI: Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
Collaborators: Cornell, MIT, University of California Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Rice University
ExCAPE aims to change computer programming from the tedious, error-prone, purely manual task it has always been to one in which a programmer and an "automated program synthesis tool" collaborate to generate software that meets its specifications. Computers have revolutionized daily life, and yet the way computers are programmed has changed little in the last several decades. The ExCAPE team brings together expertise in theoretical foundations (computer-aided verification, control theory, program analysis), design methodology (human-computer interaction, model-based design, programming environments), and applications (concurrent programming, network protocols, robotics, system architecture) to pursue research focused on developing new computational engines for transformation and integration of synthesis artifacts, and effective methods for programmer interaction and feedback.
Making Socially Assistive Robots
Lead PI: Brian Scassellati, Yale University
Collaborators: MIT, University of Southern California, Stanford University
This Expedition will develop the fundamental computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation and evaluation of robots that encourage social, emotional and cognitive growth in children. Critical societal problems require sustained, personalized support that supplements the efforts of educators, parents and clinicians. For example, clinicians and families struggle to provide individualized educational services to children with social and cognitive deficits, whose numbers have quadrupled in the U.S. in the last decade alone. In many schools, educators struggle to provide language instruction for children raised in homes where a language other than English is spoken, the fastest-growing segment of the school-age population. This Expedition aims to support the individual needs of these children with socially assistive robots that help to guide the children toward long-term behavioral goals that are customized to the particular needs of each child and that develop and change as the child does.
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Adoptive parents and adoptees share their favorite adoption memories from the past year, including first Mother's Days, finalizing adoptions, and gaining access to open records.
Near-strangers feel compelled to tell me about friends who got pregnant after adopting and say, "There's still hope…." But I don't hope for a biological child; I hope for a healthy relationship with my two kids.
"Moments after bringing our new puppy home, I understood that raising this dog would begin to create a history for our new daughter, would lodge her firmly within our family. A family pet conjures notions of family ties, of belonging."


Hot Yoga…good for the mind, body and soul!
I have been into fitness since I was a young teenager. Exercise is a huge part of my life. Endorphin release during exercise becomes addictive; one of the few healthy addictions! It is also an excellent tool for releasing stress, and, of course, staying fit!
The first class was ok. I thought "I can do this once or twice a week". Good stretch, great detoxifying sweat, and some intense isometric exercise.
I am now in week 3 and finding myself arranging my schedule so I can get there at least 3 times a week. I am addicted! There is no other exercise regime, that I have found, that achieves such full benefit; mind, body AND soul!!
I highly recommend Hot yoga…for anyone!
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'Tis the season of over-indulgence in rich, delicious and, sad to say, generally unhealthy food. But panic not. You can still enjoy all the goodies of the season, interweaved with some sensible eating, and not put on ten pounds and spend the next three months regretting everything.
Feast for a couple of days, then return to normal. Buy less, and don't let the holiday season turn into an excuse for a month of bingeing.
Watch what you drink. Five or more drinks of alcohol at a time is more then enough. It's okay to have an extra glass or three if it's just once a year – and you're not likely to do anything more regrettable than wake up with a headache. But for the rest of the year, spread drinking out over the week, and have one alcohol-free day in every seven, minimum.
Don't keep celery just as an accompaniment for rich cheeses. Cut up a box of mini-sticks of celery, and nibble on them when you need a snack. Celery keeps blood pressure low, and helps lower cholesterol too.
Keep reading the labels, but don't be fooled. Are 'lite' potato chips or crisps really a great health option? Yes, you could save a worthwhile 20 calories on a packet – but they're still a high-fat food, so not really worth it!
Out of sight is out of mouth. Hide away indulgent foods, cream and other temptations in the salad drawer, so they don't beckon every time you open the fridge door.
Brazil nuts are rich in selenium, which improves mood and reduces anxiety. Eat just 3 a day. Watch ALL nuts. Although they are healthy, they are high in fat!.
Fill up on before a meal with a Virgin Mary or Caesar – tomato or clamato juice, lemon, ice, Worcester sauce. You'll be less ravenous when you reach the table.
If you're used to working out, have a vigorous session the day before a feast, and you'll burn extra calories more efficiently. This is not the time to embark on a new exercise regime, though, if your body isn't accustomed to so much exertion. Save it until the New Year, and start gently.
Cinnamon balances blood sugar and reduces ill effects of sweet foods. Stir a little into tea or coffee.
Watch portion sizes like a hawk. Forego the extra spoonful, the second mince pie, never pile food high… do it all in moderation.
At the supermarket, avoid huge 'bargain' packs of special nuts, biscuits etc. Buy smaller sizes and cut the temptation.
Serve two vegetables with each meal (try not to smother them in cream sauce), and put salad greens in everything possible.
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Climate movement labeled as extremism
CZECH REPUBLIC/2017
PHOTO: Majda Slamova
In 2015, the government of the Czech Republic decided to break the coal mining limits in the northern part of the country, which were set right after the Velvet Revolution. The limits were aimed at the protection of villages from the brown coal mining, which peaked during the Communist era in several villages in the region. Mining limits also include a small promise to environmental governance in the Czech Republic, more towards renewable sources of energy and away from fossil fuels, which is a major step in the global climate change. However, the economic reasons mentioned in the decision of 2015, which are the limits on the Bilina Mine and the prolonged period of fossil fuel use, have won over the environmental arguments.
The informal non-hierarchical organization We are the Limits!, the people who joined the Czech NGO Hnuti Duha, the Czech branch of Greenpeace, and students of ecology and several other fields, mainly at Masaryk University in Brno. It was the beginning of a new ecological movement, which is organized from the bottom, mainly by students and young people, and open to everybody.
The fossil fuels burst at the fossil fear point. The aim is formulated in the manifesto; it is the termination of the mining and burning of coal and other fossil fuels. The other goals mentioned are climate justice and a fair transition to a carbon-free economy. Significant emphasis is placed on the social aspect of climate change and worldwide environmental problems. The movement puts emphasis on solidarity with the people most affected by problems, which-- in the words of the movement-- replicates the distribution of power in society and deepens inequality on many levels. Therefore, the decision-making will be based on non-hierarchical, open, and inclusive members. The movement stresses non-violence in its goals, but as condition mentions, the use of direct action was a useful tool in the past that aided women in securing their right to vote, work eight-hour shifts, and abolish racial segregation and slavery. Climate justice and the right to a healthy environment are also one of the basic human rights which has been widely adopted, not only in the discourse of ecological activism, but also in the worldwide political debate.
Breaking mining limits
Even before the final decision of the Czech government about breaking the limits of mining on the Bilina mine, the members of We are the Limits! started an informational campaign on coal mining in the Czech Republic and the global consequences of the use of fossil fuels. With the gradual activation of people, the movement was able to organize several demonstrations against the breaking of mining limits in different cities in 2015. In 2016, the big trip from the Czech Republic was organized by one of the biggest direct action events in Europe, Ende Gelände in Germany. About 4000 activists attended a week-long camp full of lectures and workshops. The final event of the camp was a mass blockade of one of Europe's biggest lignite mines. Members of We are the Limits! are mentioning this experience as one of their biggest influences-- after coming back to the Czech Republic, they started to organize the first Czech climate camp, in the heart of the brown coal mining region in Horni Jiretin.
The "Klimakemp" took place in June 2017 with its peak in direct action at Bilina Mine, where the mining limits were broken. About 150 activists entered the mine and blocked one of the excavators until the police intervened. But the climate camp did not focus only on one act of civil disobedience; the aim was broader-- to connect people with similar interests, connect local communities, and educate participants about various topics connected to climate change and environmental justice. The event, following long-term preparations, connected with various support events, such as benefit concerts or seminars, and the systematic activation of people who may be interested.
Beginning of repression - state report on extremism
In the spring of 2017, the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic released a report on extremism which also mentioned the preparations for the first Czech climate camp. With just one document, ecology suddenly became a threat. The release of the report brought quite a broad response from environmental NGOs, academics, and public personalities, who asked for the removal of the event from the list. Even the political science argument that there is no equivalent to the term "extremism" in Czech law, and the definition of extremism is mainly about movements whose activities are against the Czech constitution (which cannot be said about We are the Limits!), didn't work. The members of We are the Limits! reported attempts to infiltrate their organizational meetings. The head of the movement's media group, Radek Kubala, received a call from the chief of the regional police asking for detailed information about the event. The police knew his private email address, and there is plenty more evidence of a bigger police investigation of the movement's members. Eventually, the activists decided to cooperate with the police at a meeting where they were promised that the climate camp would take place without any dramatic police measures against its participants.
Massive police maneuvers during the Klimakemp
However, from the beginning of the camp, they faced serious police interventions and bullying. One member of the movement, Jana Pravdova, was arrested even before the event when filming a coal mine from a public road. She reported that the police received considerable support and accommodation facilities directly from the mining company. Basically, all the participants coming to the camp were stopped by the police and checked. Two buses carrying activists were stopped for several hours, the reason being that the police were searching for illegal immigrants. The shelves are confiscated materials from work on the camp site, and many attendees reported they stood by the shelves of cars or even the helicopter on their way to or from the camp.
After the direct action at Bilina Mine, the shelf held 144 activists and sorted them based on their citizenship. The non-Czech citizens were the last ones to be taken away by bus. They remained without any water in the hot sun, with their hands tied for up to 10 hours. The last non-Czech citizen was released after 48 hours. On the buses, in which the non-Czech citizens were transported, the police reported bullying, offensive language, threats, and humiliation. These activists weren't allowed to communicate with each other, and they weren't provided with a lawyer, or even allowed to communicate with one. These activists also reported humiliation at the police station where they ended up at around 4 in the morning, according to Silvia Pezzato, an activist with Italian citizenship.
Problematic steps on the shelf were reported even during the intervention. One of the activists, Vojtěch Boháč, was kicked in the kidneys and urinated blood for several days. Other activists reported that the police grabbed their testicles during the intervention and shouted at them using rude and offensive language.
Despite all the police failures, the "Klimakemp" was one of the most successful environmental events in decades. As the movement is gathering to organize the next event in 2018, the police are continuing with their repressive steps. In the report on extremism for the second quarter of 2017, the Klimakemp was considered the biggest extremist event in the Czech Republic.
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Did Powell tell Clinton to use private email?
Clinton supposedly told the FBI she set up a private email account on his advice, but Powell says he doesn't remember saying that. He does remember sending her an email on that topic, saying he used personal email for unclassified messages and a separate system for classified messages, but she was using the private server before then.
This doesn't excuse anything Clinton was doing, but it does need some context in order to understand it.
Colin Powell was appointed secretary of state in 2001. Believe it or not that was relatively early in the days of email. Small businesses might not have email at all, especially if they weren't focused on technology. Large organizations would often have an internal mail system, but those internal mail systems weren't necessarily email as we know it today and wouldn't necessarily talk to other mail systems. If a particular worker had a computer on his desk in his office, he wouldn't necessarily have access to a company network, much less the internet.
This is in the United States. Imagine how bad things could be in the hundreds of embassies the State Department maintains all over the world.
When Powell was advocated for the use of a private email account, he was advocating for its use compared to nothing at all.
He left office in 2005, and Hillary was named SecState in 2009. Those 8 years made a big difference in terms of technology and expectations.
UPDATE: I was mostly speculating in the above post, but the Washington Examiner found support for that speculation in the original documents. Powell asked (and received) permission to use private email, because the State Department's email system did not allow contact with those outside the government at the time.
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Those very same mistakes which in other people seem glaring and intolerable appear unimportant in ourselves; we are barely aware of them. Some of us, in referring to someone else and painting a really black picture of them, are not aware that we are talking about ourselves.
people are criticized for not saying enough.


In March 2011, Idealspain went to see this fiesta in Denia (Alicante), within the Valencia region. This is a wonderful fiesta, filled with music and colour.
The costumes are absolutely stunning.
Flowers are carried through the streets towards the church where they are pinned onto a large wooden image of the Lady of the Forsaken. Every agegroup takes part and it lasts most of the day.
There's a service at the church beforehand.


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Author: Clifford Sheckter, MD
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Cliff was born and raised in California's Eastern Sierra. His passions included motocross and ski racing in his hometown of Mammoth Lakes. He attended college at UCLA where he majored in anthropology and excavated pre-contact Guaymi burials on remote Panamanian shores. After graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA, he went to USC for medical school on an academic scholarship. His research focused on surgical education in designing perfused cadaver models, and cost-effective means of delivering burn care. He graduated AOA and valedictorian, and matched into Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford. Cliff completed a postdoc fellowship at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center learning value-based care, studying health policy, and getting a foundation in health services research. His current investigations include cost-effective delivery systems for burn patients, understanding the effects of reimbursement variation on surgeon decision making, and improving resident physician performance through targeting variation. Cliff aspires to be a burn surgeon with the goal of improving outcomes following reconstructive surgery. He also aims to improve shared-decision making when undergoing reconstructive burn surgery. More than anything, Cliff loves spending time with his wife Cassandra, who is a patent litigator in Palo Alto. They are raising twin boys, Jake and Charlie, who have quickly become their raison-d'etre. The family of four loves traveling.
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Memorable Manitobans: Sveinn Brynjolfsson (1856-1930)
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Born in Iceland on 3 October 1856, he came to Winnipeg with his family in the 1890s and worked as a building contractor. In 1910, he was appointed Vice-Consul for Denmark at Winnipeg. He and wife Thordis (1860-?) had four sons: Sigfus Brynjolfsson (1881-?), Ingi Brynjolfsson (1882-?), Brynjolfur Brynjolfsson (1887-?), and Burgur Brynjolfsson (1889-?). He moved to Surrey, British Columbia around 1924 and died there on 28 June 1930.
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Aspect Software Welcomes Laura Clayton McDonnell as Senior Vice President of North American Sales
Date: 5/15/2014, Phoenix, Arizona
Clayton McDonnell brings over 25 years of technology and communications industry leadership and experience from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco
Charged with driving growth for Aspect's North American sales operations and accelerating the company's cloud initiatives
Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce optimization, back-office and award-winning cloud solutions, today announced the appointment of Laura Clayton McDonnell to senior vice president of North American sales. Clayton McDonnell, a technology industry veteran, is tasked with driving growth in Aspect's fundamental sales agenda for the company's SaaS, cloud, hybrid, and on-premise customer experience solutions.
Coming to Aspect from IBM where she served as vice president of strategic services, Clayton McDonnell was responsible for large-scale sales programs in US enterprise accounts and selected LATAM markets over her 11 year tenure. She was responsible for the healthcare, life sciences, education and public sector vertical industries. Prior to IBM, Clayton McDonnell was vice president of business development for Rational Software (acquired by IBM), senior director of market development & strategic planning for Sun Microsystems, managing attorney for North American sales operations at Cisco Systems and Senior Counsel for Apple Computer.
"Laura's transformational leadership experience further strengthens Aspect's North America sales team and will be a critical asset to our success in this region," said Chris Koziol, Aspect President and General Manager, Interaction Management. "Laura will play a vital role for the company as we deepen our customer relationships and build on the market momentum brought on by the availability of Aspect's fully-integrated solution suite and industry-leading deployment flexibility. As we create cloud migration paths for our customers that deliver better business returns, her leadership and focus will be essential for the success of this initiative."
"Aspect's evolution from a traditional contact center software provider to leading the industry in cloud deployment solutions and flexibility has been an impressive transformation," says Clayton McDonnell. "I'm excited to join an innovative organization that understands the shifts in our industry and I'm eager to start enabling our organization to create deeper customer relationships and build on the momentum we've created in order to continue delivering remarkable experiences for our customers' customers."
Clayton McDonnell holds an MBA from Haas School of Business Administration and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Aspect's fully-integrated solution unifies the three most important facets of modern contact center management: customer interaction management, workforce optimization, and back office. Through a full suite of cloud, hosted and hybrid deployment options, we help the world's most demanding contact centers seamlessly align their people, processes and touch points to deliver remarkable customer experiences. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.
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Born: April 5, 1947
Nationality: Filipino
Occupation: Statesman
Biography: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga. She was the country's second female president, and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.
"It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change."
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together."
"I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution."
"In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'"
"The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people."
"It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that."
"On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them."
"I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me."
"We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding."
"In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field."
"Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people."
"Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy."
"The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state."
"I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino."


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Aberdeen may be associated with oil today but in the not so different past it was a centre of the flax industry. That industry is now gone but the buildings remain, begging the question whether today's oil headquarters will boast the staying power of Broadford Works.
Amidst the hullabaloo surrounding Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens Halliday Fraser Munro's submission of a mixed use regeneration of Aberdeen's Broadford Works passed with nary a whimper. Yet this ambitious scheme holds promise of rejuvenating the largest collection of A listed buildings at risk in Scotland and will, arguably, make more of an impact on the vitality of Aberdeen's city centre than its much hyped neighbour - prompting Urban Realm to travel north to take a closer look.
Plans entail a complementary mix of housing, retail, restaurant spaces and a nursery across the crumbling site, with access to the city opened up by a series of new public spaces. These will be peppered throughout the sprawling 3.5 acre compound which comprises some 100 separate buildings that together constitute an arresting landscape of granite and brick chimneys and mills.
Hangovers from Aberdeen's early nineteenth century flax industry, these industrial relics have somehow survived unscathed at the heart of the city and include such architectural wonders as Grey Mill. Built in 1808, it is the fourth oldest iron framed mill in the world, but has fallen into a scandalous state of disrepair.
A phased programme driven by the Prince's Regeneration Trust is planned to realise these ambitions with close collaboration between Ian Suttie (the site owner), Aberdeen City Council, Historic Scotland and the Tenant First House Co-operative.
Bemoaning the "fast and furious money" which has thus far categorised Aberdeen's oil boom, contributing precious little if not nothing to the city's present day built environment, Ian Fraser of Halliday Fraser Munro told Urban Realm: "With the price per barrel of oil just now we're almost inundated with companies looking for new headquarters office space, but they want them tomorrow and that's it, quality architecture? Probably not.
Railing against the 'iconitis' afflicting Glasgow's waterfront Fraser continued: "It's funny. If you look at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, three amazingly different cities and what Glasgow has done on the waterfront which is scary in many ways. One iconic building is great but thirty iconic buildings all lined up against each other is just overload – so at least we didn't go down that road."
Broadford Works is equally close to the retail heart of Aberdeen, yet because of its nature very few people actually know about it, its isolation almost rendering it as a Scottish Forbidden City. This out-of-the-wayness has spared the site from the ravages of development up till now but is slowly being wrecked by vandals with only the robust, fire proof nature of the warehousing sparing it from destruction. "I was last in at the beginning of last year and even in that time it has deteriorated markedly," Fraser laments.
Despite these problems Broadford holds promise of taking a closed, walled in industrial site and opening it up to the rest of the city whilst retaining its character through selective demolition, conversion and new build. "It's really difficult to get right especially with all the other constraints. Everyone from Historic Scotland to the Princes Trust is involved; you're on a hiding to nothing with that one." But Fraser adds: "There's nothing worse than no brief because then you just don't go anywhere, you do need constraints and barriers pushing you in the right direction.
"The biggest problem that we had with it was that it was completely filled in with buildings which needed to keep workers in and people out so there are only two gates. Now if you're going to turn that into 350 residential units plus shops you wanted to start connecting with the rest of the city – but the minute you started making big breaches in this it start losing the character of what it is. You can keep the chimneys but that's not really the essence of what Broadford is about."
"It's like going to a European medieval city, Italy for example, where there are very, very narrow streets and high buildings, little squares and lots of little spaces where you can always go somewhere but it's not big wide vistas."
For so long cast in the shadow of its southern peers Aberdeen looks to be belatedly set on carving out a 21st century niche for itself now that its post-oil future can no longer be ignored. If it can learn from the mistakes and successes of the Central Belt Aberdeen could just get the best of the new whilst retaining the best of the old with City Gardens and Broadford Works.
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Dan Flavin (1933–1996) works in the medium of light. In 1963, his discovery of the commercial fluorescent tube as a material with which to structure walls and – later – entire rooms marked the birth of Minimal Art. The artist used white and coloured fluorescent tubes in the standard sizes at that time available everywhere. He positioned their fixtures in geometrically clear forms, first of all like "pictures" on walls and then also diagonally across corners of rooms and inside rooms. The effect created by his works thereby derives just as much from the respective arrangement of the fluorescent tubes as from the lighting itself and its radiation beyond its physical source. Flavin's installations are equally capable of dissolving architecture as of emphasizing it. Another form of emphasis can be seen in the personal dedications with which Flavin furnished his works, and which are contained in their title: these dedications establish an additional, separate level of relationship between work and viewer.
Dan Flavin is represented in the Raussmüller Collection by wall and corner pieces, including art-historically significant early works such as "The Diagonal of May 25, 1963" (1963), "The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham)" (1963) and "Monument I for V. Tatlin" (1964).
Film about the exhibition
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Publications on Jannis Kounellis
New Film on Works by Mario Merz
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Blisspop Disco Fest — Artist Interview | Cerrone
From the hazy but bright lights of the 70's disco-era, Cerrone rose to international fame with Kongas, a group well-recieved for their appreciation of Afro-Funk rhythms. His rise as a solo artist has led him to be one of the most influential disco producers in not only Europe, but also most of the world. Known for his extravagant videos, which still get tens of thousands of views today even though
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Blisspop Disco Fest — Artist Interview | Rose Corps
Aeron Premo is not just Blisspop's Managing Editor with a super cool name. She's also one of DC's up-and-coming DJ's known by the name Rose Corps, and this weekend she will be making her Blisspop Disco Fest debut as one of the local DJ's supporting Chromeo, DāM Funk, RAC and Robotaki. Big things are in store for Rose Corps so take a minute to get to know her better in
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Interview | Looking back on Bliss with Will Eastman
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Blisspop Disco Fest — Artist Interview: Fady D and Noce
For the past couple of years, Fady Rizk (Fady D) and Michael Nociolo (Noce) have been spreading their disco vibes throughout Washington, DC, both individually and as the duo behind the fledgling party, Discobolo. We caught up with them to find out more about their collaboration and how they plan to make a mark on the city's scene. Tell us about how Discobolo got started. We have slightly different styles
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Disco in the District: The Best Disco Tracks from Washington, DC
Washington, DC has produced artists that record in many genres, but most denizens don't think of disco when thinking of 'DC music.' We at Blisspop are here to prove that theory wrong — from classic disco to boogie, let's take a look at some fantastic disco tracks that have come from The Capital. At the end, find out which one of these artists is performing at this year's Blisspop Disco
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Riding a camel in Eilat is a fun, traditional way to explore the landscape, but daytime trips into the desert can mean intense sun and heat. Enjoy milder temperatures and gorgeous light for photography on a sunset camel ride through Wadi Shlomo and Tzfachot, then relax in a Bedouin tent as you sip a cup of tea and eat a light dinner.
Get way off the beaten track on this ninety-minute camel ride through Eilat Mountains Reserve. Take a trek through Bedouin territory, and discover panoramic vistas of rolling desert hills and sandy terrains. Tours include a traditional, shared Bedouin-style meal with local flatbreads, freshly brewed tea, and leben cheese.
Taking a camel ride is a classic part of the Eilat experience. So make sure you don't miss out with this camel safari and Bedouin meal experience from in Eilat. enjoy a ride on one of these hardy herbivores — the trusty transport of the Bedouin peoples. Afterward, relax with a cup of Bedouin tea made with 'habak,' a local mint-like herb. and taste a delicious Bedouin meal in the ranch.
"The secret of the beauty of the desert is that it holds a source of living water ..." As the little prince says, the desert is magical and hides many opportunities. As someone who lives and breathes the desert, I invite you to break away from the familiar and go out with me on a social and cultural journey. The desert tours that I offer are suitable for every group and offer an encounterment of nature and local cultures - desert towns, remoted settlements, Bedouin villages and more.


From summary: In this report the area studied is referred to as the "wilderness study area" or the "study area". Investigations of mineral occurrences in and near the wilderness study area during 1984 and 1985 indicated high mineral resource potential for undiscovered deposits of coal, moderate potential of oil shale and natural gas, low potential for oil, and identified resources of claystone, shale, and sand.
v, 18 p. : ill., maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
Merewether, E. A.; Kulik, D. M. & Ryan, George S. 1987.
Geology -- Wyoming -- Sand Dunes Wilderness.
Mines and mineral resources -- Wyoming -- Sand Dunes Wilderness.
Merewether, E. A.; Kulik, D. M. & Ryan, George S. Mineral Resources of the Sand Dunes Wilderness Study Area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, report, 1987; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc304437/: accessed April 18, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.


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Category Archives: Chicago White Sox
Adam Dunn, Anthony Rizzo, Bryan LaHair, Chicago, Chicago White Sox, Cubs, Gio Gonzalez, Nationals, Stephen Strasburg
A number of players quietly putting up big years
Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez, in the shadow of phenom Stephen Strasburg, is putting up a Cy Young-like season in the early going.
McGILLIGAN: Despite being less than 50 games into the season, there's no shortage of craziness, stupidity and life-altering occurrences – here's to you Baltimore Orioles fans – taking place.
Here are a few of less talked about stories:
Resurgence of Adam Dunn
After playing like something even the scrap heap wouldn't want to be associated with in 2011, Dunn has found his stroke again. He was tied for third in homeruns in Major League Baseball with 12 heading into play Tuesday and sixth in RBI. After a disastrous 2011 where he hit fewer homeruns (11) than millions he was paid by the White Sox (12), Dunn's future was in doubt. Credit him for turning it around and producing a solid stat line so far this season.
Quiet Cy Young Performance
If you're talking about a Cy Young candidate on the Washington Nationals, the first name that comes to mind is Stephen Strasburg. The young ace has been nothing short of spectacular for the upstart Nationals. However, Gio Gonzalez has been tremendous in a Washington uniform as well. With a record of 4-1, 1.94 ERA and second in strikeouts in the National League, Gonzalez and Strasburg give the Nationals perhaps the best one-two punch in the league.
Slugger struggles while another emerges
Much like Gonzalez is excelling in the shadow of Strasburg, Edwin Encarnacion is in a similar albeit different position. Until recently, reigning homerun king and Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista has struggled to regain his form, however, the team was getting its power hitting from Encarnacion. With 11 homeruns, he's making people think he's finally living up to his expectations and helping Jays fan forget about Bautista's early season swoon.
Grantland's Derek Jeter diary
Written by Mark Lisanti, this fake journal of Jeter's innermost thoughts is ridiculous. If it doesn't make you laugh three of four times out loud then you have no sense of humour. Here's an excerpt regarding Jered Weaver's no-hitter: "That's a fantastic accomplishment for him, even if it carries an asterisk because he did it against the Twins. I don't agree with the asterisk thing, they're a major league team, but that's just the way they officially record it. I always get Jered mixed up with his brother Jeff, who is now probably a surfboard mechanic in Escondido. Who knows? We don't keep in touch because he lost us the World Series against the Marlins in '03."
Bryan LaHair is off to a blazing start for the Chicago Cubs, hitting .356 with an OPS of 1.154 while putting up nine doubles, nine dingers and 20 RBI.
LIVINGSTONE: I was going to write a separate post on Chicago Cubs Bryan LaHair, but I figure he fits well into one of the big surprises of the season less than 50 games in.
LaHair, who was named the starting first baseman for the Cubbies this year after spending much of the last four years in the minor league system – outside of 45 games with the Mariners in 2008 and 20 with the Cubs last season – wasn't expected to be the machine he has been to start the year.
Lets look at what he's done so far:
LaHair has more homeruns (eight) than Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder, combined (Pujols has ONE and Fielder has FIVE). He also makes $483,000 this year – about the same amount that Fielder will get for those five homeruns he's hit.
Combined, the entire Cubs team has 13 homeruns – LaHair's eight make up more than 50 per cent of the entire team's round trippers.
Drafted in 2002 by the Mariners in the 39th round, LaHair has toiled away in the minor leagues, waiting to get his chance to do what he now currently doing – putting up All-Star-like numbers. What makes it more impressive is the fact a superstar in the making in Anthony Rizzo is waiting in the wings to come up and take first base from him. Being able to produce under that kind of pressure – especially in a city just itching for Rizzo to get called up – is nothing short of remarkable. The way LaHair is playing, and if he keeps it up through the season, it's going to be tough for the Cubs to move LaHair into the outfield (he can play there, too) to make room for Rizzo.
For a team that sits at the bottom of the Central division (as of Tuesday morning the Cubs are in a three-way tie with the Brewers and Pirates for third – and last – with a 15-20 record) and has little to be excited about so far this season, outside of Starlin Castro (.333, 1 HR, 21 RBI) and pitcher Jeff Samardzija (4-1/2.89 ERA), LaHair is putting on a show for a city dying to see its Cubs compete.
If he can establish himself as one of the premier first basemen in the National League – or outfielder, depending on what the Cubs do with Rizzo – the Cubs could find themselves in the thick of a wild card race sooner rather than later.
Tagged Adam Dunn, cubbies, Cubs, Gio Gonzalez, LaHair, Nationals, Rizzo, Stephen Strasburg, White Sox


Florida Gov. Rick Scott stated that emergencies for all 67 counties in his state and Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant authorized the use of the National Guard, his office said.
Alabama governor Kay Ivey declared the state of emergency for 40 counties, CNN reported, adding that Ivey activated the state's emergency operations center while the Alabama National Guard activated its flood evacuation teams.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 6 pm ET Monday that Alberto was centered about five miles west-northwest of Panama City, Florida. With maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, the storm moved north at 9 mph.
Harsh conditions lashed large waves from the eastern and northern Gulf Coast and the authorities warned swimmers to stay out of the surf for life-threatening waves and torrential currents.
Four to eight inches of rain could beat the Florida Panhandle, eastern and central Alabama, and western Georgia before the storm moves on. Isolated floods of 12 inches were also possible, as the storm leads inland and threatens heavy rainfall in the southeast in the coming hours and days.
Forecasters warned of life-threatening surfing conditions when Alberto landed late at Laguna Beach on the Florida Panhandle Monday afternoon. A few short tornadoes were available across much of Florida and parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. But meteorologists said torrential rains were the biggest threat to most areas.
As the center of Alberto moved further inland – without the warm waters fueled by the tropical weather systems – the storm was steadily weakening. A subtropical storm like Alberto has a less defined and cooler center than a tropical storm, and its strongest winds are farther from its center.
Last slideNext item  Lifeguards posted red flags on the white sandy beach of Pensacola Beach, where swimming and wading were prohibited.
Some tourists said the rainy weather would not dampen their vacation.
Jason Powell said he wants to entertain his children Alberto blows through his Florida resort Panhandle.
"So far we have seen a lot of wind and the ocean is really high and covers the whole beach," Powell said. "We will not ruin our holiday … we'll see some movies inside and a bit of TV and hopefully even in the pool" despite the rain.
Janet Rhumes said her group of friends from Kansas had been planning their Memorial Day weekend at Navarre Beach since October and no tropical storm could stop them. They bought food and planned to play card games.
"We've never seen one before and celebrate a friend's 20th birthday," Rhumes told the Northwest Florida Daily News . "How many times can you say you've ridden a storm?" Rhumes said. She told her group.
The Orange Beach Mayor on the Gulf Coast of Alabama said Alberto had brought rain and trouble – destroying hopes for record levels. Red flags fluttered on Alabama beaches and officers patrolled, making sure no one stepped on the water.
Elsewhere, Florida's department of emergency management said about 2600 customers were out of energy on Monday morning in northwest Florida.
Scarlett Rustemeyer, a Baristi at Fosko Coffee Barre, Pensacola Beach, said she was always upset over blackouts when storms hit Florida.
"My friend and I usually try to go to the store and get plenty of water and canned food that does not turn bad when our energy runs out," she said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a hurricane season forecast on Thursday calling for 10 to 16 named storms involving five to nine hurricanes. One to four hurricanes could be "significant" with sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour.
If this prognosis holds, it would provide for a near-normal or over-normal season. An average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, of which six are hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.
Meanwhile, the storm forced some honors on Memorial Day, which had to be canceled in Florandas Panhandle. Safety was the priority, but the decision was still a "heartbreaker," said Tom Rice, a 29-year-old Army veteran who runs the organizations that planned a ceremony at the Beal Memorial Cemetery on Fort Walton Beach.
Some stragglers, however, still went through the rain to pay tribute to the graveyard's Veterans Tribute Tower. Rice said American flags were laid on Saturday on the graves of all 1700 veterans who were buried in the cemetery.
"We've got the flags out," Rice told the Northwest Florida Daily News flag fliers at halftime staff. "This is important."


Piemonte: chocolate and wine, of course!
caught by fishermen as their ancestors had for centuries.
classic Piemonte cuisine, the birthplace of the Slow-Food movement.
gastronomic pleasures, you will certainly enjoy the wines of the region.