This morning I opened Kris Carr's blog and was surprised to see an article about "Iodine – The Universal & Holistic Super Mineral" she condensed from another post by Gabriel Cousens MD on July 6, 2012. Now I am found of Kris' ideals of "peace and veggies" and Dr. Cousens, if read carefully, has a lot of good to say too. However, what amazed me was the topic of Iodine. Here is my own personal iodine journey and information I have gathered from a number of sources.
I had been reading Drs. Abraham and Brownstein work on Iodine and was almost sure a year ago, (in the middle of my two years "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"), that the lack of Iodine was a part of my problems, perhaps a major part. Like doctor Cousens, I was unsure why there was such a big discrepancy among doctors as to how much was needed.
Last May, a post I read about a doctor who had given a cancer patient 100 mg a day. She had been told she only had days or weeks to live. She lived 7 more years with an improved quality of life. He recommended 25-50 mg a day for most patients. However, he said he regretted not giving the cancer lady a dose of 150 mg a day as he believes it would have helped her.
When I read about the 100-150 mg dose, I realized the 300 mcg dose I was contemplating was just not enough. This doctor said even the common two drops (12.5-13 mg) of Lugol's is not enough for most people to recover on. Standard Lugol's iodine, also known as Lugol's solution, is 5% iodine (I2) and 10% potassium iodide (KI).
Caution: Some countries (like the USA) have weaker solutions they still call Lugol's. And there is different ways of measuring. Standard Lugol's is called 5% usually. That is to represent the amount of I2 Iodine. However, I have seen some call it 15% (5% I2 PLUS 10% KI). They still call it Lugol's! In other places I have seen 1% (also called 3%) that was still called Lugol's too! So be sure of what you are buying! All of these will work, but you need to adjust the dose.
A month a go I took the plunge. First day, 4 drops in 500 ml of water, I didn't like the taste. The next day 8 drops and the following day 12 drops, always mixed in 500 ml water per 4 drops. Although I did not like the taste (it taste like metal to me), I did notice some real improvements, almost from the first day.
Now I am just filling up one "00" cap and taking that. That would give me about 75 to 84.5 mg of Iodine, depending on small differences that are really too hard to measure (12 drops or 13, 6.25 mg per drop or 6.5 mg).
Your symptoms will likely be different. It is said 96% of the world is lacking Iodine! I had real signs of hypothyroidism (such as fatigue, headaches, weight gain (35kg!), weakness (often felt faint) and dry skin), but because I maintain normal T3 (though low) T3 level, the doctor was reluctant to do anything. Then there was the so very cold feet (I live in the tropics just 10 degrees north of the equator!). Some people lose hair, but I don't have much of that!
For two years, I have been complaining about a lump in my throat that makes it more difficult to swallow. Not impossible, just not fun. It is right where the thyroid is, but the doctor said it is just lymph nodes that are swollen or infected. Three rounds of antibiotics seemed to do nothing about it.
The fourth day, I had an idea! I had some empty "00" I put in 12 drops and noticed it was within a drop of filling the cap full! These are much easier to take as I do not get the bad taste in my mouth. I usually have something on hand as a "chaser" to eat right afterwards.
Caution: You should be ready to take the cap as soon as you fill it. I filled one, set it on my bed and got distracted. About five minutes later is exploded and shot iodine in about a six inch stripe on my sheet (made a real mess of that!).
Well, you mileage may vary, but I know I will NEVER stop using this! For one, my painfully cold feet are now no colder than the rest of me. I suffered with that pain for more than a decade! Truly my skin is less scaly. No more crocodile flakes! My Honeybun and I were just talking that I don't get so faint and don't seem to be running into walls now too. As I said, you may not have these symptoms.
I am hoping as I become more stable, I will be able to exercise more and start reversing this weight gain. One more thing, the lump in my throat is a lot less after a month of this.
My belief is that I was either suffering from hypothyroidism, or at least borderline. This was at least a contributor to a number of symptoms I was having. I also believe my thyroid was growing a small goitre that was growing inward and pressing on my throat, making it difficult to both swallow and to breath at times. After a month of Lugol's Iodine I can feel a very significantly decrease in the pressure on my throat.
Recently, a popular authority on nutrition and alternative health publicly stated that the highest amount of daily iodine intake should be no more than 400 micrograms. That really surprised me. For the sake of my friends, I would like to suggest a variety of scientific and holistic reasons that a significantly higher amount of iodine should be used, even 50 to 100 times higher (Lan: I am taking 200 times as much! 80,000 micrograms). This doctor's recommendation is only slightly higher than the FDA recommendation, which is 150 to 290 micrograms daily, dependent upon age, gender and life cycle. This is dramatically less than most of the leading iodine medical experts suggest, which is closer to, at least, 12 to 18 milligrams daily 12,000-18,000 micrograms), which is approximately 45 times higher.
Drs. Abraham and Brownstein, real experts on iodine, suggest 12 to 50 milligrams daily and up to 100 milligrams per day for diabetics. Why is there this discrepancy?
There is some marginally relevant data supporting common concerns about excess iodine; namely, that there may be a transient (26 to 40 hours) hypothyroidism as detailed by Dr. Brownstein in his book, "Iodine: Why You Need It. Why You Can't Live Without It." However, a couple day transient decrease in thyroid function is physiologically irrelevant and not a sign of hypothyroidism in the bigger holistic health picture. There is also an increase in thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) with increased iodine, which may last anywhere up to six months. This, again, is not really a sign of hypothyroidism. This is related to the fact that the whole body is really deficient in iodine, and TSH stimulates the production of sodium-iodide-symporter (NIS). Without adequate NIS, iodine could not be transported to and enter the cells and be used. NIS is a carrier system into all the cells, and when this system becomes deficient, then the whole body becomes deficient. The key is that people who increase their iodine intake do not have signs of hypothyroidism (such as fatigue, hair loss, headaches, weight gain, cold extremities, weakness and dry skin) and they maintain normal T3 and T4 levels in blood tests.
By looking at the overall holistic iodine health story, we can create a fuller, more accurate understanding of this discussion. Iodine is found in each and every single one of our body's hundred trillion cells. Without adequate iodine levels in our blood, life is impossible. Iodine is the universal health nutrient that brings health on many levels, and without it we have no health.
It is interesting, when addressing the question of a safe dosage, that higher iodine levels have been used in studies since the early 1900s. For example, from 1917 to 1922, Dr. David Marine proved that iodine reversed goitres in a study that saw 2,000 schoolgirls given an equivalent of 18.6 milligrams daily (18,600 micrograms/day) for 2.5 years with a dramatic success rate!
In 2003, Dr. Zhang showed that potassium iodide (KI) reversed lung cancer tumours in mice. The total amount administered was 100 milligrams (100,000 micrograms) daily for 20 days, and this is approximately fifty times more than the amount Wolff–Chaikoff recommended in 1948. The study lasted for 60 days: 34 days to grow five mm tumors and approximately 26 days for the lung cancer tumors to significantly decrease.
Dr. Ghent, in 1993, administered to 1,368 patients five milligrams (5,000 micrograms) daily with no evidence of the Wolf-Chaikoff theoretical problem of hypothyroidism. At this dosage, Dr. Ghent reversed fibrocystic breast disease with great rates of healing. Iodine deficiency is not only associated with fibrocystic breast disease, but also higher rates of breast cancer.
From 1997 through 2005, a most significant study called the Iodine Project was done. Dr. Guy Abraham, Dr. David Brownstein, and Dr. Jorge Flechas followed 4,000 patients and administered 12.5 to 100 milligrams daily, with 100 milligrams administered to diabetics primarily, because low thyroid function is also associated with type 2 diabetes. They had amazingly positive results with only three adverse reactions out of 4,000 people (likely allergic reactions to the binding agents, excipients, fillers, preservatives and/or synthetics commonly found in tablets, capsules and even liquids as opposed to the bioavailable form of iodine itself). This research group theorized that, because in Japan the average intake was 13.8 milligrams, and Japan had significantly less breast and prostate cancer, as well as better health and longevity than in the US, higher doses of iodine (than used in the USA) could safely be used. In this seven-year study, they observed reversed fibrocystic breast disease, decreased insulin requirements in diabetics, significantly less need for medication for hypothyroidism, resolution for fibromyalgia and resolution of migraine headaches as well as eliminating a number of lesser complaints. In the study by Dr. Abraham, et al, the iodine ranges were somewhere between 12,500 and 100,000 micrograms daily (up to 100 milligrams/day) and were considered safe dosages.
From a worldwide perspective, the current level of iodine deficiency is actually pandemic. Over one-third of the global population (1.5 billion people) is living on iodine-deficient soils and are subject to significant iodine deficiency. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a full 72 percent of the global population is iodine deficient. According to the more recent Dr. Abraham, et al, study, in the USA 96 percent of the people are iodine deficient. This is a significant problem with significant consequences, as iodine deficiency is among the top two causes of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Associated with this increased iodine deficiency is a 690 percent increase in cretinism, Intellectual Disabilities and ADHD in the last several decades.
From a larger physiological perspective, it is very important to realize that the thyroid is only one gland of many glands and tissues that need iodine. A list of other glands/organs/systems with high iodine uptake would include the breasts, ovaries, cervix, blood, lymph, bones, gastric mucosal, salivary, adrenal, prostate, colon, thymus, lungs, bladder, kidney and skin. Putting this into perspective, the thyroid holds 50 milligrams of iodine, the breasts hold 200 milligrams, the skin holds 400 milligrams of iodine, and the whole body holds 2,000 milligrams, and possibly much more, depending our our size. We know how important hormones are to our daily health, so just consider that iodine is found and used in every hormonal receptor in the body.
In 1911, 900 milligrams daily (900,000 micrograms/day!) was considered usual and safe doses for iodine. In 1950, the Japanese had 100 times more iodine in their diet than the average Americans. However, by 2001, they had 202 times more iodine than Americans and were using up to 13.8 milligrams daily as opposed to the average US intake of 425 micrograms daily. Unfortunately, there has never been a real study of the optimal safe daily dosage of iodine. Be that as it may, no one has ever died from iodine overdose or allergic reactions with a dose of 150 milligrams of less. It is safe to suggest the guidelines given by Drs. Abraham and Brownstein, or the use of 12 to 50 milligrams of iodine daily for overall sufficiency and well-being, and up to 100 milligrams/day for diabetics or most cancer is reasonable, doing much more for our health than to prevent cretinism, intellectual disabilities and goiter.
Moreover, iodine is a universal health mineral having 22 separate major health and well-being benefits for humans (see here), most of which are commonly unknown to this day. My prudent suggestion is that as we follow these recommendations to increase our iodine consumption. It is important to move forward carefully as we treat this whopping pandemic level of 72 percent iodine deficiency in the world and a totally shocking 96 percent deficiency in Americans, affecting the minds of truly billions of people. I strongly recommend that people reevaluate and increase the amounts of iodine they consume. I recommend that children under 6 years of age take half the adult dose, children 0 to 2 years take one-quarter of the adult dose, pregnant women take 47 percent more than the adult dose (current FDA ratio), and lactating women take 93 percent more than the adult dose (current FDA ratio), as iodine is very important for brain development from a holistic health perspective. In the larger humanitarian context, the risk-to-benefit ratio of these recommended doses is extremely safe for healing the planetary population and for healing ourselves.
For more by Dr. Gabriel Cousens, visit www.treeoflife.nu.
For the post of Kris Carr I was inspired by, visit crazysexylife.com.
(Health and Beauty) Severe iodine deficiency is a pandemic in this country as well as others. Nearly all of the illness of modern era, especially the last 60 years, have their roots deeply entrenched primarily in iodine deficiency, due to sullying of our agricultural soil and reduction of this mineral, polluting our water with fluoride and chlorine.
The thyroid, an organ that has a very inner role in immunity, all hormone production and regulation, and body temperature control. We just cannot gathering properly without replenishing lost capital and a excellent maintenance dose of this constituent (15-20mg/day).
Therefore signs of severe lack of this mineral will result in recurrent and resistant infections such as UTIs, candida, other fungal infections, parasitic, and bacterial infections, all sorts of cancers, cysts, benign or cruel resulting from chronic cellular injury and inflammation from these systemic infections.
Iodine/iodide , in the right amounts and treatment time, will heal all eczemas, acne, skin tags, moles, and other long standing skin problems you may have that are of unknown produce. Look into remedial dosages (in mg not drops) used by Dr. Lugol, Dr. Brownstein, and Dr. Tether, for guidance (their remedial doses ranged anywhere from 150mg to 1g+ per day).
The Lugol's key should be at least 7%, 10 or 12% is best. Lugol's key, as a part of a dramatic large scale lifestyle change, has healed me from a recurrent UTI problem I had my whole life, and has also healed my Interstitial Cystitis.
I hope you are able to be open-minded enough to educate yourself on the dangers and ignorance of modern health care providers, and the drive behind promoting synthetic and inefficient Rx drugs, that only treat the symptoms of a deficiency based problem.


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Asia, Hydroelectric, Renewables, Solar, Strategic Development
Report: Drop in Asia-Pacific renewable tech tender activity in Q3 2019
According to GlobalData's power industry tenders database, Asia-Pacific solar technology tenders in Q3 2019 saw 243 tenders announced, marking a drop of 16 per cent over the last four-quarter average of 290.
More specifically, solar technology tenders in September 2019 saw 51 tenders announced, marking a drop of 46 per cent over the last 12-month average of 94.
In terms of hydro technology tenders, Q3 2019 saw 33 tenders announced, marking a drop of 57 per cent over the last four-quarter average of 77, according to GlobalData's database.
Solar technology tenders
India was the top country in the Asia-Pacific region for solar technology tenders recorded in Q3 2019 with 174 tenders and a 71.6 per cent share, followed by Australia with 25 tenders and a 10.3 per cent share and the Philippines with 23 tenders and a 9.5 per cent share.
The proportion of solar technology tenders by category tracked by GlobalData in the quarter was as follows:
Project Implementation with 211 tenders and an 86.8 per cent share
Supply & Erection: 14 tenders and a 5.8 per cent share
Repair, Maintenance, Upgrade & Others: nine tenders and a 3.7 per cent share
Power Purchase Agreement: five tenders and a 2.1 per cent share
Consulting & Similar Services: four tenders and a 1.6 per cent share
The top issuers of tenders for the quarter in terms of power capacity involved in Asia-Pacific were:
Solar Energy Corporation of India (India): 3,072.52 MW from five tenders
NHPC (India): 2,000 MW from one tender
Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution (India): 1,880 MW capacity from 30 tenders.
The proportion of solar technology tenders by category tracked by GlobalData in the month was as follows:
Project Implementation with 47 tenders and a 92.2 per cent share
Repair, Maintenance, Upgrade & Others: two tenders and a 3.9 per cent share
Supply & Erection: one tender and a 2 per cent share
Power Purchase Agreement: one tender and a 2 per cent share.
The top issuers of tenders for the month in terms of power capacity involved in Asia-Pacific were:
Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (India): 500 MW from one tender
Rajasthan Renewable Energy (India): 163.5 MW capacity from two tenders.
Hydro technology tenders
India was the top country in the Asia-Pacific region for hydro technology tenders recorded in Q3 2019 with 15 tenders and a 45.5 per cent share, followed by Pakistan with seven tenders and a 21.2 per cent share and the Philippines with six tenders and an 18.2 per cent share.
The proportion of hydro technology tenders by category tracked by GlobalData in the quarter was as follows:
Supply & Erection with 15 tenders and a 45.5 per cent share
Repair, Maintenance, Upgrade & Others: ten tenders and a 30.3 per cent share
Consulting & Similar Services: five tenders and a 15.2 per cent share
Project Implementation: three tenders and a 9.1 per cent share
Jammu & Kashmir Power Development Department (India): 12 MW from one tender
United Nations Development Programme (United States): 0.4 MW from one tender
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Yes, my favorite of them all that comes in a diversified group of flavors. I recall being back in the south in Thailand where pre-workouts were obsolete. Going to the gym without energy is a great way for your workout to fail before it even begins.
Thankfully, my friend from Australia sent me three boxes of it from Melbourne to Nakhon Si Thammarat and BOY! Were these the difference makers!
What's so great about this is the incredible about of B Vitamins you get just in one tablet. These vitamins help the process your body uses to get or make energy from the food you eat. They also help form red blood cells. You can also get B vitamins from proteins such as fish, meat, eggs, and dairy products. Leafy green vegetables, beans, and peas also have B vitamins.
In my opinion, when you're in need of a desperate boost. Most Asian countries live on rice; therefore, there's a good chance you'll have a high carb lunch in the middle of the day, which will end up putting you to sleep within 30 minutes. Am I right? Try me.
Dropping a tablet into a water when you're getting drowsy is my suggestion. Does this give you an amazing amount of energy before a workout? Unfortunately, no. On the other hand, you can just take this as you go, by a water and watch it dissolve for a few minutes before consumption. On top of that, this is actually healthy compared to the massive amounts of caffeine stuff into pre workouts. Try it out!


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'Dawson's Creek' Cast: Where Are they Now As Show Hits Netflix
By Samuel Spencer On 11/2/20 at 9:34 AM EST
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Dawson's Creek is the latest big show from the 1990s to head to Netflix, 22 years since the teen drama first aired on The WB. Since the show ended in 2003, some of its cast have gone on to bigger things and been nominated for Oscars, while others became tabloid fodder and others continued appearing on some big-name TV shows.
While viewers relive the stories of Dawson Leery (played by James Van Der Beek), Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) and Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson), here's what the actors who played them are up to
Where are the Dawson's Creek cast now?
James Van Der Beek - Dawson Leery
James Van Der Beek in January 2020. Getty
Van Der Beek is now 43, and is married with five children. From 2003, the year that Dawson's Creek came to an end, until 2010, he was married to another '90s TV icon, Party of Five's Heather McComb. In 2010, he married business consultant Kimberly Brook, with whom he had children Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, and Gwendolyn.
Since he stopped playing Dawson, Van Der Beek's biggest roles included One Tree Hill, Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (where he played a version of himself), CSI: Cyber and Pose. He also placed fifth in a recent season of Dancing with the Stars. This year, he stars in the Hulu horror Bad Hair, and appeared in Quibi's all-star cast retelling of The Princess Bride. He also voices a character in the Disney animated series Vampirina.
Katie Holmes - Joey Potter
Katie Holmes in October 2020. Getty
Now 41, Holmes is still probably best known for her marriage to actor Tom Cruise, which lasted from 2006 to 2012. The pair had daughter Suri together, who is now 14. The pair were huge tabloid stars at the time, with column inches filled with speculation about Katie's conversion to scientology and rumors about their marriage.
In a court deposition in 2013, we learned that Holmes left Cruise to protect her daughter from the church. Since then, she has put that time behind her. The actor dated singer and actor Jamie Foxx for six years. She is currently believed to be dating chef Emilio Vitolo Jr.
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In between finishing Dawson's Creek and marrying Cruise, the actor appeared in films like Batman Begins, Thank You For Smoking and First Daughter. More recently, she has appeared in Roy Donovan, The Kennedys and 2020 movies Brahms: The Boy II and The Secret: Dare to Dream.
Michelle Williams - Jen Lindley
Michelle Williams at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2020. Getty
Undoubtedly the most successful actor from the cast post-Dawson's, Michelle Williams, 40, has been nominated for four Oscars: For 2006's Brokeback Mountain, 2011's Blue Valentine, 2012's My Week with Marilyn and 2017's Manchester by the Sea. She has also won two Golden Globes (for Manchester and Fosse/Verdon) and an Emmy (for Fosse/Verdon).
In her personal life, she dated actor Heath Ledger from 2004 to 2007, the year before his death. They had a child together named Matilda, who is now 15. She later married musician Phil Elverum from 2018 to 2019 and then theater director Thomas Kail, with whom she had a baby girl earlier this year.
Joshua Jackson - Pacey Witter
Joshua Jackson in October 2019 Getty
The Canadian actor, 42, has recently become an in-demand actor in prestige TV projects, appearing in Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, Showtime's The Affair and Netflix's When They See Us. Prior to that, he spent five years on J.J. Abrams' series Fringe. He is also soon to play the lead role in Dr. Death, Peacock's upcoming true crime drama.
From 2006 to 2016, he was in a relationship with the German actor Diane Kruger. In 2019, he married British actor Jodie Turner-Smith, with whom he had baby Janie earlier in 2020.
Mary Beth Peil - Evelyn Ryan
Mary Beth Peil in October 2019. Getty
After playing Jen's maternal grandmother throughout Dawson's Creek, Mary Beth Peil, 80, was best known for playing another imperious grandmother – Jackie, the mother of Peter Florrick (Chris Noth) in The Good Wife.
Since Dawson's, she has also starred in The Stepford Wives, Collateral Beauty and the recent CW show Katy Keene. Though she has been nominated for many awards in the theater (including two Tonys), she received her first Daytime Emmy nomination in 2020.
Kerr Smith - Jack McPhee
Kerr Smith in 'Riverdale' Season 4. The CW
As Jack, Kerr Smith broke ground as one of the first gay characters to be a series regular on a primetime drama. After that ground-breaking role, Smith, 48, has starred in Charmed, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Fosters and, most recently, Riverdale, where he played the principle of the local school before meeting a grisly end.
In his personal life, he married Canadian actor Harmoni Everett in 2003 and divorced with her in 2009. Eight years later, he married current wife Lisa, with whom he runs a wellness company.
Mary-Margaret Humes - Gail Leery
Mary-Margaret Humes in November 2018. Getty
Before playing Dawson's mother on the show, Mary-Margaret Humes had been a beauty queen, who won Miss Florida USA in the '70s and then placed third in Miss USA.
The 66-year-old actor nowadays is a regular in Hallmark Channel TV movies. She has been married to boom operator Raul A. Bruce since the '90s.
Audrey Liddell - Busy Philipps
Busy Philipps in March 2020. Getty
A late addition to the show, Busy Philipps soon became a fan favorite. Now, the 41-year-old is as much known as a talk show and podcast host as she is as an actor. Her post-Dawson's work includes ER, Cougar Town and her E! show Busy Tonight.
She has also become an activist for abortion rights and women's equality on sets after she claimed in her autobiography that she was attacked by James Franco on set on Freaks and Geeks—and incident for which she has since claimed he has "really apologized" for.
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Let It Be Roberta - Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles (Bonus Version + Digital Booklet)
Editors' Notes The gifted soul legend Roberta Flack takes a gusty, rewarding approach to this set of Beatles classics. Knowing how universally etched into the public consciousness these songs are, Flack finds new angles to explore. "In My Life" emphasizes a lithe, playful melody. "Hey Jude" is mercifully kept compact. It shouldn't be a surprise that it's largely Paul McCartney's richly melodic works that are brought to the front. George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity" from his solo career also fits neatly, with his evergreen "Here Comes the Sun" being the album's bonus track. "We Can Work It Out" sports a hip-hop groove that brightens Flack's vocal. Though Flack takes on such chestnuts as "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road," she imbues them with a sassy optimism that makes their well-known melodies sound shockingly fresh. To hear the brash mop-top power pop of "I Should Have Known Better" turned into a dance number may divide the purists from the thrillseekers, but for an artist it's invaluable to take these chances.
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If I Fell
And I Love Him
Here Comes the Sun (Bonus Track)
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When a virus causes amnesia in everyone except Teyla and Ronon, the Atlantis team must work together to find a cure before their memories fade entirely.
Attack of the Show's Zach Selwyn makes a cameo appearance as a scientist in this episode, having been invited by the studio to appear after creating a rap video for the G4 cable show about wanting to be on Stargate Atlantis.
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History of DISP
The intellectual background of the research project can be traced back to David Brady's graduate school experience at the California Institute of Technology in the 1980s. Under the direction of Demitri Psaltis, Brady explored the use of volume holography to mimick the neural processes of the human brain creating an optical perceptron - or an artificial neural network. The photo at right shows an optical neural network from Brady's work at that time. The construction of multiple grating holograms enabled the implementation of large-scale linear transformations on distributed optical fields, an advance that broke through the historical barriers holding back the potential of optical networks.
Photonic Systems Group
In 1990, David Brady accepted a position with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was at UIUC that the immediate predecessor of DISP came into being, namely, the Photonic Systems Group. Over time, the new group represented a change of emphasis from Brady's interests at CIT. Whereas his original research focused on the possibilities of optical computing, the new group turned its attention toward optical communication, studying ways to better collect, manage and traffic light-borne information. Over the course of the 1990s, the focus of the Photonic Systems Group underwent further development transitioning from an interest in optical means of storing information to photonic sensing and perception.
The group's initial work built on the importance of holography as a means of computer storage. In 1994, the group received a patent for its development of multilayered optical memory with means for recording and reading information. The group continued to work on optical storage, experimenting with different dyes and mediums for holography. The picture on the right is an example of a planar holographic interconnect that the group developed by the middle of the decade.
Holographic Pulse Shapers
The Photonic Systems Group continued to focus on reflection volume holograms, now using them to encode complex time domain optical fields. In 1994, the group demonstrated that volume holography could be used to encode ultra-fast three dimensional pulsed images. The spatial and temporal degrees of freedom in these images will allow direct control of space-time pattern formation in quantum dynamical processes. For example, this brief videoclip demonstrating experimental pulsed images consists of 128 frames reconstructed from repetitively sampled pulsed light scattered by a volume hologram recorded in lithium niobate. The movie spells the words "GO ILLINI". Each letter is separated from the previous one by 1 picosecond. The spatial scale of the letters is approximately 1 millimeter. The burst data rate of the image in this movie is approximately equivalent to one hundred billion parallel video channels.
In 1996, the group discovered a new approach in the fabrication of micropolarizers. These thin films contained arrays of polarizing elements that varied the polarization from pixel to pixel, a significant advance that aided the development of 3-D imaging, vision and display systems. This development also signified a new phase of cooperation between the University based research group and outside companies, in this case, the Equinox Corporation which funded the project through a sponsored research agreement with the University of Illinois.
Superresolved Optical Microscopy
Superresolved optical microscopy using polychromatic interferometric imaging is a way to collect more information about an object than a classical imaging system could. As a feature of an object becomes small compared to the wavelength of light used to view the feature, any information regarding this feature will not propagate with the field in the normal sense. In other words you will no longer be able to view this feature with your microscope no matter how strong the magnification is. However, when a person views an object with their eyes or with a camera for that matter, it is just the intensity of the field we perceive. This leaves a vital part of the information, the phase of the optical field, untouched.
The Photonic Systems Group demonstrated that the extra information provided by such a system can be used to resolve subwavelength features of an object. One use for this added information comes about when considering form dispersion. Form dispersion is the ability for a subwavelength structure to encode information in the phase of an optical field. More specifically, the subwavelength structure imparts relative phase shifts among the different spectral components of the field. Conventionally, any information associated with feature sizes smaller than one half the wavelength of the probing light decay exponentially fast with distance from the scattering feature. Thus after a short distance no feature information exists in the magnitude of the field. However, if one had access to the phase of the spectral components making up the optical field, it is possible to gain some knowledge about the scattering structure even though conventionally this is not possible. We accomplished this goal by illuminating an object with polychromatic light and extracting the relative phase shifts between the different spectral components using an interferometer.
In 1996 the group received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project to study "Spatial Parallelism and Ultra-Fast Dynamics in Tunneling Microscope-Surface and Adsorbate-Surface Interactions." Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is a scanning probe technique that allows the details of a surface to be determined at a distance scale of an individual atom. Unlike a regular microscope, which collects light from different points of a surface, and uses the number of photons of light collected from each point to map surface features, the STM collects electrons from points on a surface, and similarly uses the number of electrons collected to determine the shape of surface features. A conducting tip, with a single atom at the end, is scanned over the surface, recording the electric current at each point to reconstruct the locations of atoms and electrons on the surface. The high degree of localization provided by STM provides an opportunity to study the dynamics of individual atoms on surfaces. This project represented a significant step in the development of nanotechnology - the science of engineering and constructing devices consisting of individual atoms. For nanotechnology to become a reality, scientists needed to understand how to manipulate individual atoms on surfaces and how to control of quantum mechanical systems with light.
In an STM, a computer typically is sending instructions to move the tip over the surface of the sample. By scanning the tip over the surface in rows and columns, like the scanning beam inside a television, a complete image of the surface is produced, by measuring the distance from the surface the tip is when a certain number of electrons are collected. Because the movements are so fine, the instrument must be isolated from the vibrations produced by the environment. While these vibrations are tiny compared to human scale, they are enormous on the atomic scale. In addition, the tip can move atoms around if the attractive force between the tip and surface is great enough. An atom may be extracted from the surface and stuck to the tip, moved by the tip, and redeposited by charging a repulsive force between the tip and atom. This way, atoms can be arranged in various patterns. On the right is an example of nanograffiti created using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. The image depicts a scan of individual hydrogen atoms patterned on to a Silicon [100] surface by an STM. These words are approximately ten million times smaller than the words "Beckman Institute" that you see in this sentence. Our interest is in investigating chemical processes by using the STM to image the surface, while employing light to encourage chemical reactions to occur.
Sampling Field Sensors
In the middle of the 1990s, the Photonic Systems Group began exploring issues of imaging including novel sensors and data inversion algorithms for these sensors. In 1996, group members developed the Sampling Field Sensor - an instrument that uses interference between fields drawn from different sample points to determine the phase and amplitude of an electromagnetic field. The measured field can be used to image objects and map their spatial distributions. These sensors represented a radical improvement on conventional imaging systems, which measured the intensity of a field rather than the field itself.
The Sampling Field Sensor works by applying the principles of digital sampling to optical fields. Sampling theory has been employed in engineering to create many of the modern miracles enabled by digital signal processing: high-fidelity digital music and video, wired and wireless communications, and medical imaging. These applications work because they can transform a difficult to handle analog signal into a digital form that can be transformed in nearly arbitrary ways. Once an accurate digital representation is created, the data can be efficiently decoded. However, the field of optics has not benefited nearly as much from these advances because of the relative inflexibility of optical components relative to electronic circuits. Bridging the gap between the optical and electronic representations of data would allow the best of both to be applied.
The SFS works by filtering out samples of the field, and combining these samples of the field in specific, highly controllable ways that yield the phase information in the field with a high degree of accuracy. Figure 1 shows a diagram of this principle. An optical field is incident on a "sampling stage" which selects representative portions, or samples, of the optical field to be measured. While selecting portions of the field excludes others, the samples can be processed more thoroughly by the succeeding stages. These stages are combined together using a "fan out" mechanism. The combinations of the samples produce the phase information that can not otherwise be directly detected by the receiver plane. The fan out is designed so that even if the instrument is perturbed, the effect on the measurement is minimized. These combinations of data are detected by the receiver plane, where they are converted to digital electrical signals.
Interferometric Digital Imaging
A major breakthrough in the development of these computational sensors came with the development of a tomography-based algorithm that computes a three-dimensional model from images of an object from multiple viewpoints. This method utilized cone-beam algorithms already like those used in X-ray Computed Tomography, and shows much promise for providing reliable and robust three-dimensional imaging of complex objects.
In 1998 the Photonic System Group received a grant from the Army Research Office (ARO) to create the Illinois Interferometric Imaging Initiative (4Is) - a cross-disciplinary effort building interferometric imaging systems that yield novel images for applications in 3D imaging, target acquisition, adaptive optics, and wavefront capture. Digital imaging -- images produced from computational analysis, rather than direct capture of a physical field -- while then common in radar and medicine, was less utilized in the optical, infrared and microwave ranges. Interferometry -- the method for detecting phase in the high frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum -- had generally utilized low spatial frequency devices comparing relatively few samples. Through this project the group developed highly parallel imaging interferometers that combine interferometric measurements with digital analysis to yield images which capture all the information in the field and which contain more useful object information than conventional systems.
One aspect of the program that received widespread attention was the lensless capture of three dimensional objects. Science magazine in June 1999 featured the research with full color illustrations of the toy dinosaur reconstructed by the inferometry. Two brief movies display the possibilities of this technology. The first is a three dimensional reconstruction of a dinosaur which is rotated to demonstrate all angles of the image capture. The second depicts a toy moon man being similarly rotated.
An additional breakthrough came with the invention of the Quantum Dot Spectrometer - an instrument that replicates the function of interferometric spectrometers in a point detector. This invention joined the spectroscopic sensitivity of optical absorption in quantum dots with electrical readout to produce spectrally sensitive detectors. In contrast to conventional electronic detectors, which produce signals proportional to the intensity of an optical signal, the invention produces signals proportional to the power spectral density of the signal.
This interest in three-dimensional imaging stimulated the development of the Argus project -- a parallel computer that can acquire real-time data from a large number of cameras situated at multiple viewpoints, and compute in parallel the three-dimensional reconstruction from these viewpoints using the developed cone-beam algorithms. Situated in a special room in which all of the cameras viewed a central subject, Argus demonstrated the feasibility of real-time three-dimensional reconstruction optimizing the quality of the reconstructed data. The project made use of Beowulf clusters, a unique network of Linux-based PCs connected by a high-speed network as a parallel computer, providing parallel data acquisition that would be difficult with a conventional computing system.
The Argus system was designed to produce a telepresence that combines computer imaging and visualization technologies to produce highly interactive virtual environments. This technology allows remote users to interact and experience local events as if they were physically located in the environment through the use of a dense camera array, which is capable of capturing information from all angles around the imaging space. Each camera is attached to a node in a computational cluster, effectively producing an array of sensor-processors. The group developed two distinct approaches to achieve the goal of telepresence. In our model-based approach we used a tomographic algorithm to generate complete three-dimensional models of the physical environment. Remote users can experience the imaging space by viewing these models. In the view-based approach, the remote user interacts directly with the Argus imaging environment. Instead of generating views based on a representation of the space, we have developed algorithms that generate only the requested view for the user. An example of Argus' capabilities can be viewed in two short movies. The first depicts a dancer using the model-based approach. The second is a view-based representation of the photonics group.
Distant Focus
In 1997, the Photonic Systems group received its first corporate expression with the founding of Distant Focus, a company specializing in optical systems, computer automation, specialty optical sensors and sensor networks, and distributed processing environments. In 2001, Distant Focus subcontracted with UIUC to complete the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded study "Tomographic Imaging on Distributed Unattended Ground Sensor Arrays". This research was proposed and directed by Dr. David Brady and was initially carried out by the Photonic Systems group at the Beckman Institute whose core members later formed Distant Focus. The project was nicknamed MEDUSA, which stands for "Mobile Distributed Unattended Sensor Arrays". The goal of this program was to develop unattended sensors and sensor arrays that accurately and robustly track targets using 3-D tomographic techniques. An early example of this type of sensor, dubbed Morpheus, can be seen to the left. In principle, the more information -- acoustic, optical, magnetic and seismic -- the sensor array detects, the easier this task becomes.
Fitzpatrick Center
Distant Focus took over the Medusa program because the Photonic System Group was on the move. In December of 2000, a generous gift from Michael and Patty Fitzpatrick funded a new interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry at Duke University called the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems. David Brady accepted the invitation to become the director of this new center and moved to the Research Triangle in 2001. Many members of the Illinois research team came with him and the Photonic System Group became DISP.
The change in physical location offered the opportunity to take old research interests into new directions. An original goal of the Argus project to relay the three-dimensional data to the CAVE virtual reality environment at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. This relay would allow a CAVE user to view a real-time three-dimensional reconstruction of a scene at a remote location, with the ability to view from all angles and positions. The new building constructed at Duke called the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) contained its own CAVE environment to facilitate the interdisciplinary research.
Optopo/Centice
In 2004, group members, David Brady, Mike Sullivan and Prasant Potuluri won the $50,000 top prize and a $5,000 People's Choice award in the Duke Startup Challenge for their new computational optical sensors company dubbed Optopo. Now called Centice, this start-up represents a new means of marketing and commercializing the spectrometer and sensor discoveries originally developed by the DISP group. Centice has taken its place in the growing photonics industry alongside other prominent corporations in the Research Triangle of North Carolina.
Telescope Interferometry
DISP developed an array of rotational shear interferometers attached to telescopes for joint target triangulation and estimation from spatio-spectral tracking. Conventional telescopes have limited power to resolve small objects in orbit due to atmospheric aberrations. Systems with adaptive optics can correct for atmospheric aberrations, but are generally very expensive. We constructed an alternative system based on coherence imaging for tracking and identification of objects in orbit. The system uses coherence imaging to track and identify objects in orbit spectrally. Rather than imaging the structure of the object in orbit, our system measures the object's spectral signature while simultaneously providing location information for the object.
The archived Telescope Interferometry project page has more information.
Biometric Sensing
DISP constructed a distributed sensor detection system that used a combination of video cameras and infrared point detectors to detect the position and pose of a human subject. Video sensors are bandwidth hogs, and were only used to calibrate the infrared system. Also using RST technology, we were able to determine human pose with only a hundred distributed IR sensors, rather than the millions of pixels used in conventional systems.
The DISP group used motion sensing pyroelectric detectors along with Fresnel lens arrays which are commonly found in home/office security systems. The detectors detect motion within its field-of-view by detecting changes in the heat distribution that occurs when a person moves. The group developed custom sensor platforms having multiple sensing channels, each channel having a unique modulation code through the Fresnel lens arrays, as well as a wire/wireless communication system to stream out the sensor data. A network of these sensor platforms were deployed in the specially developed Sensor Studio in the CIEMAS building. The amount of data being produced from a sensor platform was in kilobytes; a small fraction of the megabytes or gigabytes of data from video based systems. Telepresence was demonstrated by tracking the motion of a person in the studio and relaying the coordinates to the DIVE that displayed a mock-up of the sensor studio and the current location of the person being tracked. Another extension to this program was biometric identification which relied on the unique gait (or heat signatures) of different individuals. By training the system to recognize certain features in the temporal signals from the sensors, our group demonstrated tracking and identification of people with very high accuracy.
The archived Biometric Sensing project page has more information.
Spectroscopy Project
In this project the DISP group developed diffuse source spectrometers for biological sensors for both the detection of dangerous chemical and biological substances and the non-invasive detection of chemical elements in the human bloodstream. Putting the methodology of Raman Spectroscopy into action, this work was a step towards developing a sensor to detect alcohol in the bloodstream without requiring sophisticated, but invasive, blood examinations or less reliable breathalyzer tests.
The archived Spectroscopy project page has more information.
COMP-I Initiative
COMP-I (Compressive Optical MONTAGE Photography Initiative) was a project funded by DARPA's MONTAGE program. The goal of COMP-I was to dramatically reduce the volume and form factor of visible and infrared imaging systems without loss of resolution. The COMP-I approach also yields substantial advantages in color and data management in imaging systems. A prototype camera from the COMP-I project is shown in the picture on the right.
The archived COMP-I project page has more information.
Multi-aperture Imaging Systems
Evolving from the COMP-I (Compressive Optical MONTAGE Photography Initiative), the DISP Multi-Aperture Imaging Project focused on new applications for these systems. Initially, thin imaging was the primary motivator, and arrays of short focal length lenses were used to miniaturize cameras. This work led to the exploriation of the use of multi-aperture imaging for extended depth of field and increased FOV (field of view). A shorter focal length lens will inherently have a greater depth of field. We also examined more advanced designs such as combining lenses of differing focal lengths on a single array and orienting lenses to point in different directions to increased system FOV to improve the limited FOV of conventional cameras.
The archived Multi-aperture project page has more information.
Tissue Spectroscopy
This project involved using aperture coded systems for to improvde the photon collection efficiency of conventional Raman spesctroscopy systems. The systems developed for this project differ from conventional slit-based spectrometers by replacing the input slit with a mathematically well-defined code. The binary-valued codes, such as the Hadamard matrices, have a higher throughput in comparison to conventional systems without sacrificing resolution. Since at the focal plane of a computational sensor, we measure a convolution between the source and input aperture, inversion becomes a computational problem. Some inversion techniques have included iterative algorithms such as nonnegative least squares (NNLS), expectation maximization and principle component analysis (PCA) and multiple linear regression (MLR) for concentration estimation of target Raman active signals in tissue phantoms. The Hadamard-mask multiple-channel Raman spectrometer can be used as a portable, low-cost, and non-invasive solution for biomedical diagnostics.
The archived Tissue Spectroscopy page has more information.
The compressive holograph project was able to demonstrate that decompressive inference enables 3D tomography from a single 2D monochromatic digital hologram. In compressive sensing, sparse signals in some basis, sampled by multiplex encodings, may be accurately infered with high probability using many fewer measurements than suggested by Shannons sampling theorem. Holography has general advantages in compressive optical imaging since it is an interferometric modality in which both the amplitude and the phase of a field can be obtained. The complex-valued encodings may provide a more direct application of compressive sensing.
The archived Compressive Holography page has more information.
We have extended the use of high throughput spectrometers to spectral microscopy applications. A pushbroom scanned high-throughput spectrometer on the back-end of a microscope creates a three dimensional cube (2D spatial, 1D spectral) from a fluorescent fixed-cellular assay. Current system designs include a snapshot dual disperser (DD-CASSI) architecture. Our goal includes imaging dynamic cellular events using fluorescence microscopy as a tool. The benefits of these computational spectral imagers applied to microscopy include high throughput analysis and a higher spectral measurement when compared to conventional spectral imaging systems.
Ths archived Computational Spectral Microscopy page has more information.
AWARE WIDE FIELD OF VIEW IMAGING
The AWARE Wide Field of View Imaging Project uses a multi-scale design technique to develop large format imaging systems that significantly exceed the SWAP constraints of conventional imaging systems. Through the use of mononcentric optical designs and using microcameras as a general optical processing unit, we are developing designs that scale from one gigapixel to 40 gigapixels and greater.
Multiframe Coded Aperture Spectral Imagers are based off the CASSI system, but modulate the coded aperture between every snapshot to increase the rank of the system matrix. For static scenes, this greatly enhances the reconstruction quality with only slight computational and acquistion overhead
Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Imaging is of great interest for its large penetration depth at non-ionizing energy levels. Current projects in millimeter wave consist of compressive holography and interferometric synthetic aperture imaging.
CODED APERTURE X-RAY IMAGING
Coded aperture x-ray imaging enables molecular specificity and measurement efficiency in x-ray tomography systems.
COMPUTATIONAL MASS SPECTROSCOPY
As described in US Patent 7,399,957, DISP is building compressive mass spectroscopy systems.
KNOWLEDGE ENHANCED EXAPIXEL PHOTOGRAPHY
Under the DARPA Knowledge Enhanced Compressive Measurement (KECoM) program, DISP is developing image space coding strategies to radically reduce electronic power cost in high pixel count cameras. Preliminary results under this program are described in Coding for Compressive Focal Tomography by D. J. Brady and D. L. Marks
The Future of DISP?
When David Brady arrived at UIUC in 1990, the Chicago Tribune featured him in article that touted the possibility of optical computing, but his subsequent research with the Photonic Systems Group took him in a very different direction. The future of DISP is similarly hard to predict. The research projects currently being conducted have the potential of expanding into multiple, but presently undiscovered directions. What does the future hold for the group? Only time and the talented minds of the DISP can tell...


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The Pakubuwono View Redwood Tower
Overview About
© Davy Sukamta & Partners Structural Engineers
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Height 125.0 m / 410 ft
The Pakubuwono Development
JL Teuku Nyak Arif No. 12
The Pakubuwono View
125.0 m / 410 ft
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About The Pakubuwono View Redwood Tower
Responding to the historic colonial and Art Deco architecture that is prevalent in south
Jakarta, the Pakubuwono View towers reference this history while creating modern residential living spaces. As part of a larger master plan for the area, the towers are sited within a complex that has large open green areas as well as outdoor recreational amenities. The orientation of the towers was influenced by the intense east and west sun exposure of the area, so they were placed to reduce solar gain.
The overall design aesthetic of the complex and the new towers alike was influenced by local Indonesian culture; the sandstone cladding at the base of the towers relates to the pedestrian experience and recalls the area's history, while the decorative elements of the higher levels and spire are directly inspired by the traditional "candi," or Buddhist temple that is well known in Indonesia. The two towers fit in with the other five towers of the development, creating a unified complex of residences for the neighborhood.


Official music video for the russian group TattooIN for the song " On the Airplane".
The colors are vivid and striking. The animation is crisp and all the images are all very detailed. The wild west backdrop was interesting. Adding subtitles would be a nice improvement.
Awesome art and animation here.
This was so wonderfully animated! I just wish there were subtitles. Wait, there's tons of popular foreign language movies on the Internet with no subtitles! Why should I care? You don't see a lot of Old West stuff anymore. I admit it was never my thing.
Okay, there's many that are absolute classics. I liked all the action in this. I thought Tattooin was that planet from "Star Wars". You know, the prequels? It's a good beat.
The music video for the group TattooIN.


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Q: Getting object assignment error when attempting to create a dictionary (Robot Framework) I am attempting to create a dictionary based upon data in an xls spreadsheet. Below is my code. However, when performing the "set to dictionary" (last line of the code snippet below), I'm getting the following error: TypeError: 'unicode' object does not support item assignment. Any ideas as to what I'm missing?
*** Settings ***
Library  ExcelLibrary
Library  Collections

*** Variables ***
${PageSheetName} =  Welcome Page
${WelcomeDict} =  Create Dictionary

*** Test Cases ***
Excel Sandbox Test
    Get Values from Spreadsheet
    #Print out the Dictionary

*** Keywords ***
Get Values from Spreadsheet
   # Open the file
   Open Excel Current Directory  ${Excel_File_Path}DataExtract.xls
   # Get the number of rows
   ${iTotalRows} =  Get Row Count  ${PageSheetName}
   # Loop through each row to get the data. Only need data from Columns A & B
   : FOR  ${iRowNum}  IN RANGE  1  ${iTotalRows}+1
   \  ${KeyVal} =  Read Cell Data By Name  ${PageSheetName}  A${iRowNum}
   \  ${Value} =  Read Cell Data By Name  ${PageSheetName}  B${iRowNum}
   \  Create the Welcome Page Dictionary  ${KeyVal}  ${Value}

Create the Welcome Page Dictionary
    [Arguments]  ${key}  ${val}
    Set To Dictionary  ${WelcomeDict}  ${key}  ${val}

A: Consider this block of code:
*** Variables ***
${WelcomeDict} =  Create Dictionary

It is creating a string variable with the value "Create Dictionary". You cannot call keywords in the *** Variables *** section.
From the robot framework user guide:

Variable tables are convenient, because they allow creating variables in the same place as the rest of the test data, and the needed syntax is very simple. Their main disadvantages are that values are always strings and they cannot be created dynamically.

If you want to initialize a dictionary, use &, and just don't provide any values:
*** Variables ***
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


UPDATE: the changes have now been implemented. Please see the Affiliate FAQs for further information.
Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who contributed their feedback via email for the initial draft of the OIO affiliate proposal. Please bear in mind that whilst all feedback was considered, not all of it could be used.
1.) Instead of rewarding active affiliates with increased coupon discounts (the original plan), the focus will instead be on commission. The more sales an affiliate brings in during one month, the higher their commission rate will be the next month.
2.) An affiliate will be able to create a unique affiliate code every month. The code will last for one month, then expire. Discount rates will be the same for all affiliates (but vary between $5 and $10 off per month). The other purpose of the code will be to ensure that the right affiliate gets the sale – if your unique coupon is used, you get the commission.
3.) If the affiliate has purchased the product themselves, then any coupon discount will be matched by OIO. For example, if the coupon value is $10 in total, $5 would be taken from the affiliate commission and $5 from OIOpublisher.com.
Another good idea raised by a couple of users was the issue of split commission. Imagine a scenario where a user signs up via affiliate A, then several days later the sale is closed by affiliate B (using their affiliate code). Should the commission be split 50 / 50, or just awarded to one of them?
As ever, all thoughts are welcome and appreciated.
I understand that you're interested in YOUR products affiliate program… but I'd really like to see 2-tier program for the affiliate program!
If you visit http://www.VotedGreen.com, you see that I'm offering a Green affiliate banner. It would be GREAT if that affiliate banner could sign-up affiliates under that persons id!!!
I know others could really use this to attract more people and it would also grow the people who find out about your company as well.
Hehe, yes I know you'd like such a feature.
I'm considering the possibility of a customisation service for the product, to accommodate requests such as this one. We get a lot of feature requests, and they can't all be realistically dealt with during the normal development process.
50/50 commission split is nice idea. It will do good for all. I hope it is implemented soon enough.
It won't be introduced in this phase, as the other changes that should go live this weekend (affiliate coupon codes, commission level rewards etc) are a big enough step in themselves.
Once people are used to how the coupons work, I can start to get feedback on whether they think a 50/50 split might further improve things.


The benefits of exposure to professional practitioners has long been recognised by the LSAD Ceramics programme. In 2015 an innovative, formal Residency for practitioners was established within the programme as a staple part of artistic investigation, dialogue and educational practice.
We believe that students observing the practice and discipline of resident artists and interacting with them over a continuous period will provide invaluable insights to practice outside of education. In turn we offer emerging makers time, space, facilities and materials within our dynamic studios to develop their studio practice.
Artists begin their residency in mid-September. Over the course of their residency, participants make a number of presentations on their practice and give a demonstration of skills that are specific to their making processes. The residency culminates in an exhibition of new works completed by participants during their time within the ceramics programme. This is accompanied by an exhibition of process, demonstrating both the creative process and the technical development of the work. We welcome applicants from the breadth of ceramic practice, selecting two annually to work within the ceramics facilities for six months. The residency benefits both practitioner and students through an exchange of experience, skills, materials and facilities and affords students a valuable opportunity to work alongside and engage with professionals in practice.
Designated space to work in.
Full use of all communal ceramics workspaces.
Access to appropriate college equipment and facilities in line with postgraduate student access.
A reasonable quantity of materials as costed during the application process.
Opportunities for peer discussion where desired with Programme staff.
Where possible ceramics staff will negotiate access to other courses/technical areas of interest to the Resident in advance of commencement, or to areas of interest that emerge over the course of the Residency.
Access to a well-equipped library on campus.
An induction to the Clare Street Campus and the ceramics facilities.
Health and Safety induction specific to machinery/equipment being used.
Insurance cover for the participant in keeping with current student cover.
Provide an exhibition opportunity within LIT on completion of the residency.
Applicants must have completed a relevant BA Degree or show evidence of relevant experience. (This may include an apprenticeship, completion of relevant ceramics training or postgraduate studies). They must have spent at least 2 years developing professionally since completion. A panel of the programme staff will review all applications.
A professional CV outlining experience, exhibitions or relevant professional practice.
A statement of intent outlining their proposed activity over the residency period.
An itemised costing of materials necessary to complete their intended outcome for the residency. (The institution is supplied by Scarva Pottery Supplies (www.scarva.com/en/ie/Home.aspx). Please calculate your budget using their website. Total cost excluding VAT.
A selected (digital) portfolio of professional images of work.
A brief account of how their specific skills or approach to practice could contribute to the course over the residency period.
Applications will be accepted throughout the year. Final date for submission is 20th May and notification of the outcome will be sent out at the end of May. We will then contact the successful applicants to discuss the starting date for their residency. Residencies normally run from mid-September to the end of March. The LSAD Ceramics Residency is coordinated by Fiona Bourke and Owen Quinlan, staff of the Ceramics Programme.


also accessible in user mode if the CD bit is clear. See Jazelle Operating System Control Register.
Figure 4.22 shows the JIDR bit assignments.
Table 4.35 shows the JIDR bit assignments.
[31:28] Arch This uses the same architecture code that appears in the Main ID register.
[27:20] Design Contains the implementor code of the designer of the subarchitecture.
[19:12] SArchMajor The subarchitecture code.
[11:8] SArchMinor The subarchitecture minor code.
 TrTbleFrm Indicates the format of the Jazelle Configurable Opcode Translation Table Register.
[5:0] TrTbleSz Indicates the size of the Jazelle Configurable Opcode Translation Table Register.
A write to the JIDR clears the translation table. This has the effect of making all configurable opcodes executed in software only. See Jazelle Configurable Opcode Translation Table Register.


In an act to make another happy, you get inspiration of contentment and at the same time cheer your inner soul for being the reason for someone else smile. If there is a single candle lightning in the corner, you can take its inspiration to light the remaining one. In this, neither the life of candle gets shortened nor its light gets diminished. Instead it glows brighter. You can gain enough lesson from this example as it will allow you to carefully think over how happiness gets enhanced when shared with others.
Happiness can be spread to an infinite number of people, and you will find that it will not get diminished even by the slightest bit. The encouragement you get creates even more happiness in your path. It has an incredible tendency to proliferate when it is shared.
There are many people who often tend to hold things back. You may have the same tendency to internalize things rather than going out and sharing them with others. At many times you forget that there are others around you who upkeep about the same things you do, who get ardent about the things you are, who get thrilled about the feelings for the things you are excited for.
To learn to share and increase happiness, first you need to find a suitable source of your inspiration and then continue. For this, in initial stage you may begin by offering help to others the way you can and share happiness among people who are of same interest as yours. Develop the habit to encourage and inspire them to be the reason of self and other's happiness too. You can then make effort with people of diverse interest, motivation to spread your happiness. Continue to share your thoughts and insights and little help to spread smile on their faces. Sharing of excitement can also bring the happiness in face of Thrill's around you. You can stay connected and be motivated with people around you to continue spreading the feeling of happiness. At present you may have no idea of multiplier influence that sharing things with others can have. You will gradually find that none will benefit and motivated more than yourself by sharing it.
The moment you were born you started spreading happiness. It suggests that each individual has some quality and influences to maintain and spread happiness ongoing till the end of life. Never interfering and hurting others, spreading of happiness should be the motto of your life to bring cheer and contentment within and around you. You can also adopt a very simple approach to spread more happiness in your own little world through sympathy, kind and healing words. You can try getting deeply happy around your loved ones, consociate or stranger being the cause of their happiness. Let your thoughts and feelings come out and reach to people around you. For this, first it is prominent that you alter your thinking and develop motivation in direction of targeting the feeling of cheer and satisfaction. Developing behaviour of sympathetic, motivation and politeness will lead you closer in settling goal of learning to spread happiness.
If you are selfish, you just try to accomplish to manage your needs. Selfishness will keep you away from being kind, sympathetic and considering about others needs. If you have become selfish in your society or acquaintance, you may have influenced by the thoughts of abandonment or reshuffle of roles or being opportunistic and seeking excuses. If you have already become selfish, you will find yourself only self-conscious and notice that other's feelings are inappropriate. Getting out of this feeling is the fundamentals of spiritual development and good relationships for the concept of sharing happiness.
Bringing cheer in life of others along with you is utmost essential to create the feeling of happiness and bringing colors to life. Try out and spread the inspiration of enlightening the path of others life through happiness.


This is a new recording of stellar bluegrass artists Tony Trischka (banjo) and Beppe Gambetta (guitar). As they perform both alone and together, this CD is quite aptly named. This is a compilation of mostly live recordings from their May and June, 1991 U.S. tour.
Tony and Beppe play great together. Tunes like "Black Mountain Rag", a medley of "Red-Haired Boy", "Crazy Fingers", Bill Monroe's "Roanoke", "Lonesome Road Blues" and "Dear Old Dixie" are done really well. "West Bank of Eno" is a Trischka original as is "Solar Energy" with its intriguing melody with lots of unison banjo and guitar.
I am not a big fan of solo banjo, but Tony's medley of "Reuben's Train" and "Soldier's Joy" is nicely done in a special tuning with some great drone character. "My Country 'Tis of Thee" is quite melodic and has great well-thought out multiple harmonies. "Lake Flora", another Tony solo piece, has a haunting minor melody with dissonances that grab your attention. "Perriopolis" wasn't one of my favorites. It has some interesting concepts, but isn't strung together well.
Beppe solos on "Maibaum", an Irish-like tune. "Highway 80" lacks a definable melody line. "Family Whistle" is a catchy tune. "Pagannini's Perpetual Motion", another Beppe original, is accompanied by mandolin and bass. Classical fans will be amused and bluegrass fans will admire his technical abilities.
This first recording effort by the folk club's own Sharyn Dimmick features several of the traditional a capella ballads we associate with Sharyn and her singing friends (such as Arlene Immerman, Phillip Garrison and Lyn Wolz, all of whom are on the album). It also offers some very fine original writing. Some of the song writing emulates traditional styles (such as the solo women's shanty, "Morning Shanty", and the love ballad, "I Am Your Winter Lover"). Other original songs are contemporary, such as "This Love Was On Landfill". Especially fine in this latter category is "Wallflower Waltz", a very telling song about wanting to be asked to dance in spite of shyness and physical difficulties.
Since I was about 6 years old I've been a sucker for novelty tunes. If Spike Jones recorded it, I bought it. I recently found a CD of the entire canon of Red Ingles. You get the picture. Now if Bob Wills had known Spike Jones or Tom Lehrer, we might have had the Austin Lounge Lizards a generation ago. But the wait was worth it.
The Lone Star Reptiles have a wicked sense of humor, they're industrial-strength pickers, and their vocal harmonizing is first-rate. We saw them in June at Freight and Salvage. My first impression was that they might have day jobs writing software or maybe selling copiers.
The "Employee of the Month" album cover shows a rat in an exercise wheel. They sell tee shirts with that design. Pat and I were especially tickled by "Hey, Little Minivan". The premise is that the teenager of 50s doo-wop nasal celebration, who had the hot rod, grows up and needs to drive the girls to gymnastics class and the grocery store and must settle for a different sort of transport. "Another Stupid Song About Texas" is a case where the title says it all. But of all the songs of love gone bad, I can't think of one that reaches the pathos depicted in "The Dogs Really Miss You".
When a close family member's life hangs by a thread, the family hovers nearby and gives support. In the song "Last Words", they cut to the bottom line by asking the question: "Can I have all your stuff when you're dead?" In a similar vein, have you ever wondered what your final reward will be? How about if everything you ever had was waiting for you on "The Other Shore"? That includes missing socks, lost earring backs, and jeans that are too small to wear.
Produced by Todd Phillips (with Todd on bass) and featuring a strong lineup of support musicians that include Good Ol' Persons alumni John Reischman and Sally Van Meter on mandolin and dobro respectively, this album also features some of the hottest names in contemporary bluegrass-Stuart Duncan, Alan O'Bryant, Lynn Morris, Tim O'Bryan, and Laurie Lewis, among others.
by N.J. Groce. Schirmer Books, $8.95 paper. ISBN Number 0-02-86480-0.
How many altos does it take to screw in a light bulb? None; they can't get up that high.
How many tenors does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. He simply holds it up and the world revolves around him.
Why did the accordion player get fired from the M&M factory? He kept eating all the Ws.
This is a nice collection of musical humor on a variety of topics: conductors, composers, singers, folk, traditional and country music, rock and jazz, bluegrass, banjos, and other instruments we love to pick on (pun intended). There are funny definitions of musical terms, amusing and historical drawings and photos, and much interesting discussion about musical humor. The book is recommended as a good bedside book, to be savored a few pages at a time.


Trung Hoa Bamboo Rattan & Art Export Import Company Limited was established at the beginning of 2007. The forerunner of the Company was a production complex of Bamboo Rattan and Fine Arts established in 1988 in a famous traditional trade village for bamboo rattan and art production in Chuong My – Ha Tay (currently in Hanoi city).
Trung Hoa is professional in producing the fine art products including those from bamboo, rattan, lacquer, wood items … Over 20 years of business production, until now Trung Hoa has become a prestigious company in the country and set up the relationship with a lot of partners in the world such as Japan, Taiwan, Poland and the United States… We not only promote traditional quintessence but also continue to improve, create many various styles and designs as well as products' quality aiming at meeting the demand of customers.
Guideline of the Company is to expand the production and business, expand the relationship with business partners in fields of handicrafts inside and outside the country.
With target: Quality and price will be the most suitable to customers.