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Determining the advantages of Choinomics
Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan on Monday announces the government's economic policy direction for next year, calling for structural reforms in the labor market, financial sector and education, at a joint press conference with other ministers held at the Central Government Complex in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul. [NEWSIS]
"I will take a route that doesn't exist on the map," was among the remarks made by Choi Kyung-hwan, deputy prime minister for the economy and finance minister, that impressed market observers when he took office on July 16. "Aggressive" is another mantra that Choi has used almost every day since his inauguration.
Using his firm belief that "the economy is all about sentiment," the Korean financial chief has done his best over the past six months to stimulate the market and get the anemic economy back on track. And his efforts are being felt in the market. With Choi leading the government's economic policies, Korea's main bourse hit a new high for the year, reflecting the high expectations that his leadership will bring positive results. With the finance minister's direction, the second economic team of the Park Geun-hye administration came up with aggressive economic measures, including fiscal stimulus worth 41 trillion won ($37 billion).
But it is hard to see any tangible outcomes of the measures or positive progress of economic recovery yet. Major economic indicators blatantly tell that the economy is still mired in severe stagnation. The country's gross domestic product (GDP) grew less than 1 percent for the past four quarters. The inflation rate rose less than 2 percent in the past 25 months, raising worries about deflation.
Strong leadership
Economic analysts have given Choi high scores for his willingness to boost the economy. Soon after his inauguration, the minister announced expansionary fiscal policies, eased real estate measures and created plans to help raise household income and boost the service industry. The plans were aimed at breaking the vicious cycle of low inflation and low growth by releasing money into the market, encouraging consumption and reviving the real estate market.
"After Choi's inauguration, the authority's policy-making momentum has been stronger," said Ohn Ki-un, an economics professor at Soongsil University. "The government's willingness shows that it has accurately read the market. It is clearly aware that the current economic situation is dragging on, and has shown strong determination to stimulate the market."
The current economic team has been the most successful at improving market sentiment about a recovery, analysts say.
At an investor relations meeting in New York in October, Choi made a presentation on his stimulus package in front of about 200 American investors. The minister's assertiveness was received positively in the United States.
"I wish the U.S. could borrow Mr. Choi and do the same for the U.S. economy," said one of the investment bankers who attended the talk. "It seemed to me he knows what he is doing, and I think he is on the right track."
For the first three months, Choi's team impressed the market by quickly laying out its plans.
On July 24, just eight days after his inauguration, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced a 41 trillion won package of fiscal measures.
It was dubbed Choinomics, comparing the stimulus package to Japan's Abenomics, because Choi emphasized that failure to overcome the current economic problems might send Korea on a path similar to Japan's lost two decades.
The main force behind Choinomics was an additional 11.7 trillion won worth of fiscal support and 29 trillion won worth of policy-support funding from the Bank of Korea and state-run institutions for the rest of this year.
In order to liven up the real estate market, Choi played another surprising card: loosening the debt-to-income (DTI) and loan-to-value (LTV) regulations. Before taking up his post, Choi had criticized the former economic team's real estate policy, saying: "The property market is like wearing short pants in a cold winter." The LTV was raised to 70 percent for all financial institutions, while the DTI was fixed at 60 percent regardless of region, age or income.
The following month, the ministry came up with a plan to boost the services industry. Concluding that manufacturing alone can't pull the economy out of its low growth, the government decided to relax a range of regulations in the services sector. It came up with 135 measures to improve demand in seven major service industries: medicine, education, tourism, content, finance, logistics and software.
But the move that got the most attention from the market was the Bank of Korea's first cut in the benchmark interest rate on Aug. 14, from 2.5 percent to 2.25 percent. Long before the BOK's decision, Choi had publicly said on several occasions that he would collaborate with the central bank to boost the economy. Despite some subtle tension, the minister and central bank governor said they share a common view of the economy's current state. But the market knew that Choi had played a major role in convincing the central bank to lower the key rate. Some in the market called it "Choi's cut." The BOK then made another cut to 2 percent in October.
Another key part of Choinomics was to increase household income. To do that, the economics team created a tax code revision plan with two primary goals: making excess corporate cash reserves flow into households and reducing the tax burden on the middle class. Part of the plan was to offer 10 percent and 5 percent tax breaks for small businesses and conglomerates that raise the average annual salary of their workers above its median for the past three years.
For the real estate market, Choi announced on Sept. 1 that the time period for reconstructing apartments would be lowered from 40 years to 30 years to revitalize the frozen property market, which quickly led to a slight increase in housing transactions.
No outcome yet
Although the plans unveiled by Choi's team have brought positive reactions from experts and the market, there has been disappointment over the results of the policies, as most macroeconomic indicators still show poor growth performances.
GDP growth posted 0.9 percent in the third quarter, following 0.5 percent growth in the second quarter, according to data by the BOK. Private consumption rose by barely 1 percent in the third quarter, rebounding from a 0.3 percent drop in the second quarter. The inflation rate has been hovering just above 1 percent for the whole year.
A report by the BOK on Wednesday showed that consumer sentiment was worse in December, with the index falling to 102, down one point from November. The index was at 109 in January, but has hovered around 100 since the Sewol ferry sinking in April.
"Consumer sentiment has been severely contracted, while businesses aren't making enough investments, leading to a frozen domestic market," said Seo Dae-il, a researcher at Daewoo Securities.
The ambitious taxation of internal corporate cash was considered when it was announced, but it is now being pointed to as one reason for reduced business investments.
It turns out that Choinomics has also not been successful at encouraging ordinary consumers to open their wallets, while those of corporations are now tightly closed.
Even though the government notified the business community that the tax will be imposed from 2017, local companies didn't move to make more investment this year.
According to data from Statistics Korea, businesses' facility investment tumbled 8.8 percent in October compared to the same month last year. On a quarterly basis, facility investment dipped 1.9 percent in the first quarter from the previous quarter, rose 1.1 percent in the second quarter, and dropped back 0.5 percent in the third quarter.
The government emphasized that its plan was not a tax but an incentive, because if companies meet the guidelines, they will receive tax deductions. But that still didn't win over corporations.
Because of concerns about the plan, companies have scaled back their investments. A survey by CEO Score, a private business information website, showed that 254 local businesses made investments worth a total of 91.8 trillion won in facility investment and R&D in the third quarter, down 5.8 percent from the same period last year. The total facility investment of the surveyed businesses plunged 9.9 percent from a year earlier.
Another policy that has been questioned is the LTV and DTI easing, which did not increase housing transactions as much as the government had expected, and instead led to higher rents and higher overall household debt.
"The government lowered the barriers for loans, but people didn't use them to buy houses and instead looked for other spending, which means the policy wasn't effective," said Kim Kyung-soo, an economics professor at Sungkyunkwan University. "If they let it go, it is only a matter of time until the household debt bomb will explode."
"Mortgage issuances skyrocketed after the LTV and DTI ratios were eased, but most of them are being spent as general living costs," said an official at a commercial bank. "Because the interest rate has gone down, demand for mortgages surged."
"Choi's measures would have been more effective if they were implemented at a time when the economy had hit rock bottom," said Song Doo-han, the director at Nonghyup Economic Research Institute. "Because the economy has been in an indefinite situation [recovering somewhat slowly while deflation worries are rising], the measures didn't have the effect of improving domestic demand."
By Song Su-hyun [ssh@joongang.co.kr]
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Satellite Sentinel Project Releases New Visual Evidence of Government of Sudan War Crimes in Abyei
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has released new visual evidence that the Government of Sudan has committed grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and other war crimes, some of which may also constitute crimes against humanity. The totality of evidence from satellites and ground sources points to state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of much of the contested Abyei region, says SSP. The evidence is being conveyed to the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council.
Board Members George Clooney and John Prendergast Joint Op-Ed: "Dancing with a Dictator in Sudan"
As far as the eye could see, thousands of displaced people were scattered, accompanied by what little they had left in the world.This surreal vista, which we saw visiting Abyei in January, had no shelters but had big beds and suitcases and dresser drawers sitting in the open or under trees.After years of displacement, thanks to the north-south war that raged in Sudan from 1983 to 2005, thousands of Sudanese had begun the long journey home. They hoped to vote that month in the referendum on southern independence.
But they never voted, because the government in Khartoum wouldn't allow the plebescite to take place in Abyei, and they never resettled, because they had no support to return after so long. So thousands hunkered down in this Connecticut-size region between North and South Sudan, two historically separate territories that were lumped together at independence in 1956 and whose racial and religious divides have chafed since. Last week the long history of tensions ignited when Khartoum sent its army and allied militias to forcibly occupy the area. The regime engaged in aerial bombing, tank and artillery attacks. Its militias looted and burned villages.
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As 2009 draws to its end and we all begin to lean back a bit and reflect on another year's passing, all of us at Jolie Vue send our very best wishes to you and yours for a faithful holiday and a happy new year. We have all survived what has been called the worst recession since the Great Depression. While it's not over yet, I think that makes us survivors, don't you? Congratulations - let's say the same at the end of 2010.
See you in '10, and thank you. We'll never forget that you make it happen for us, and so we'll never take you for granted.
Glen, HoniAnn, Clay and Julia Gay, and the whole family and crew of Jolie Vue Farms, deep in the bluebonnet hills of Washington County, Texas.


The Nydalen location of Bølgen and Moi´s restaurant is characterized by its signature red. The exterior of the existing red brick building forms the frame around the main room in the restaurant, contrasting the large glass surfaces that form the new addition and provide restaurant guests with wide views of the surroundings. A forecourt features a riverside patio for outdoor dining and drinking.
To underline the contrast between the traditional brick building and the modern, open, light glass facades, Snøhetta furnished the premises with natural and sturdy materials such as steel-coloured polished concrete, rough black acoustic ceiling plates mounted directly beneath the corrugated metal plate cover, untreated dressed brick wall surfaces where the openings in the bricks have been sealed and the bricks themselves have been freshened up by only a wash. The open food preparation and serving area is framed by high glazed black tiles. All built-in and specially designed fixtures have been done in Bølgen and Moi's signature red.


You don't have to look very hard to find out why swimming is not a popular spectator sport. Go to a local club meet and scan the crowd. You will see bored parents, mostly, reading their phones. Oh sure, they're engaged for 58.1 seconds it takes Mia to swim here 100 butterfly. "Nice job honey, you qualified for sectionals, another meet which I can waste a ton of time coming only to see you swim for a few moments" they will think to themselves.
Meanwhile, there exists a form of swimming competition that is universally regarded as fun for both the competitors and spectators that exists nevertheless on the fringes of the sport. I'm talking about the dual meet.
Want to see screaming, engaged fans? Go to a competition between two rival country club teams. You'll find a better atmosphere than many national level USA Swimming events. I think I swam a meet in a pond once that had more spectator noise than a typical US Open.
Swimming has never had a chance to go mainstream because of it's insistence on strangling all the fun for everyone involved with terrible competitions. Now, you may counter with the fact that many college dual meets, the top end of this type of competition, are poorly attended. But should we expect that fans suddenly appear out of nowhere?
Imagine what March Madness in NCAA basketball would look like if the biggest form of competition at the youth and high school level consisted of six hour long days in a gym where even the best players only touched the ball for minutes at a time. Would there still be a lot of basketball fans out there? Or basketball players?
Now, I will acknowledge that there are some times when the dual meet format just doesn't cut it. Olympic Trials can stay, although the prelims could use some serious improvement. Likewise, college league championships can stay as well, the accrued goodwill from a season of dual meets often mean these meets have a great atmosphere. Club teams will have to form some leagues of their own, find competitive match-ups and emulate the college model.
Why won't this happen? Because change is hard in swimming. The business model of club swimming is built in some part on the horrible competitions, all the way up to the national level. We're conceding ahead of time that our sport is "boring" and therefore we might as well find a different way to make money from it than having entertaining competitions and charging money for them.


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You are inspirational as well as grounded and practical the truth is also always crystal clear to you. You sometimes have to reserve your judgement though, as there is a lot of emotion invested in your big projects. You may have to learn to quietly stand aside and observe without expressing your opinion.
Your feelings today may be complicated and intense. You may benefit from arranging internal order and letting your intuition guide you. With courage and inner resolve you can overcome great obstacles and have a huge impact, inspiring many.
Today is an exciting day, a day when you feel inspired, energised and determined to bring about peace. There may be frustrations and obstacles, but you have such energy you feel a part of something unstoppable. There is great wisdom from your emotion and your intuition, be guided by this.
You may feel turned inside out and upside down, to make the magic happen. In your struggle to be independent and self confident you may find great inner resource. By becoming happy yourself the magic will happen and many will be inspired.
Determine to make your dreams happen and uplift those around you. Sustained effort will be required as well as wisdom from experience and understanding. But most important you have to believe you can do it.
Your friends mean a great deal to you, with their help and your flair for business you have the potential to help many. You need your efforts to be appreciated and for them to be on your own terms. You have the potential to move from out of your comfort zone, to a place where you can inspire many.
Pushed to the edge, you need to stay centred so that you can find your place in amongst great transience and change. Try to get a handle on your reactions, allow yourself to stand back and see a bigger picture. Make plans to teach from your experience and understanding as well as to heal.
Pulled in different directions today, you want to take care of others and at the same time you are fighting for survival. You want fighting for survival to unite you with others not to keep you isolated.
Rigid ideas may be knocked out of you today leaving you feeling frustrated and sceptical. It is important you still value who you are. Remain emotionally in control and try not to hurt others with your tongue.
Today you may find that you combine being sensitive and caring for others with fighting for survival. You may have to control your emotions and your volatile side.
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This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen! I've met teenagers who want to be ballerinas - but never on bikes. At least, that's what this reminds me of. Totally worth watching.
AMAZING!!!!! I'm speechless. I can't even imagine the balance and concentration it takes to do that. Great Post.
Oh my stars! They are fantastic. Thanks for posting this.
Very cool. I wonder who even came up with the idea for that routine.
Wow that's awesome! How on earth- I have no idea... but that was awesome.
I can't believe that they could do that on bikes! Very cool.
A Clean Sweep - Catching up!


Bernard Tschumi, in writings between 1975 and 1991, articulated what he called a disjunction in the field of architecture between the form of buildings and the events that take place within them. This contradiction might be substituted by any from a set of related contradictions (theory/practice, ideal space/ real space, object/ subject), including one that in a certain sense suggests each of the others between the visual and the aural.
The purpose of this essay is to move beyond such facile (and misleading) oppositions by applying three writings on vision or listening that explicitly or implicitly open one up onto the other: Don Ihde's Listening and Voice; 'The Element of Voluminousness': Depth and Place Re-examined by Edward Casey; and Norman Bryson's The Gaze in the Expanded Field. My goal is not to reduce the particularities of seeing and hearing to an indistinguishable sameness, but rather, to use the spirit of the aforementioned writings to discuss several examples that bring the act of listening into focus. The necessary obverse of this inquiry is to also describe what happens to the act of seeing.
One of these examples is my own and it is most likely the reason that I am now writing on this theme. Nearly two years ago, a friend and I decided to begin producing a radio show that would explore radio as a medium for architectural representation. In other words, it would be a radio show about architecture that would not be the in the generic host-guest interview format, but instead would be architectural itself. From the very beginning, we were thrown into the fundamental disjunction that opened this essay. By working with sounds - as opposed to photographs, renderings, drawings, models, or sketches it was practically impossible to represent architecture as purely formal and timeless. Instead, architecture was opened up to the ongoing flow of events, to the uses and abuses of its inhabitants, and to the irreducible presentness of situated experience. Ultimately, I am interested in space, and the other examples that I will address in this essay have been selected as variations of how sound might affect one's experience of space. Because space is a theme that cuts across disciplines, these examples represent a range of interests and address very different audiences.
What exactly does it mean when I write that I selected examples that bring the act of listening into focus? This is an intentional attempt to set this investigation off in a phenomenological direction. In a certain sense, this is exactly what Don Ihde seeks to at the beginning of Listening and Voice, when he transitions from a cursory description of experimental phenomenology, which he illustrates with a diagram representing the structure of vision, to the beginning of a description of The Auditory Dimension. He fixes his gaze on a box of paperclips, such that they are held in the center of his vision, in the focal core. The stationary box is, of course, mute. Suddenly, a common housefly buzzes across his field of vision. For a moment, the self-same object (the fly) exists within both the visual and aural horizon. It is seen and heard. The box of paperclips, on the other hand, stands beyond the horizon of sound (Ihde, 50) even while it stands within the horizon of vision. In the instance of the fly, sound and the moving object overlap with one another. Ihde eventually arrives at two diagrams, side-by-side: one shows the region of sight, bounded by the horizon of invisibility; and the other depicts the region of sound, which is circumscribed by a horizon of silence. The paperclip box is represented in the first diagram, but not the second. The fly, on the other hand, is shown as an arching vector in both diagrams (although it is shaped differently and not located in the same part of the region). A third example, the wind, is shown only in the region of sound presences. The passage culminates with the two regions literally overlapping, like a Venn diagram.
Although Ihde's approach is quite clear and logical, intended to ease the reader into a fuller description of the act of listening by departing from what is known (that is, the structure of the visual field), the idea of bringing listening itself into focus might suggest an integrated field, rather than two discrete but intersecting fields. Ihde himself makes this move in Experimental Phenomenology when he writes that he, rather than attend[ing] solely to vision (56), is able to concentrate... attention upon the visual dimension. The other phenomena do not disappear, their recalcitrant presence remains, but they recede to the fringe of awareness. (56-57) In these introductory texts, however, the other phenomena remain at the fringe of awareness, while Ihde continues to concentrate on the focus (be it visual perception or listening and voice) to such a degree that the focus itself becomes a field. By discussing examples that bring the act of listening into focus, I will try not simply to be mindful that this concentration is not exclusive and does not abolish the full range of global presence (Experimental Phenomenology, 57), but to continue to describe what happens to vision even as it recedes. Although my analysis does not claim to represent the full range of global presence, it does attempt to concentrate on the combination of listening and vision, and posit the structure of an aural-visual field.
My first example is deceptively simple - I have chosen it because it aspires to an experience of pure listening. In Disney-MGM Studios, a theme park adjacent to Walt Disney World, the reality of Hollywood blends into Disney fantasy. There, Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard intersect near Echo Lake where, just past a giant dinosaur, one finds Sounds Dangerous at the ABC Sound Studios. This amusement provides visitors with an experience of three-dimensional sound featuring the comedian Drew Carey. Visitors file into a dimly lit theater, finding a pair of headphones on each seat. The attraction begins with a short video that introduces the narrative: Drew Carey plays a hapless undercover detective named Charlie Foster who promptly damages the camera that is hidden in his necktie. At this moment, the projection (which is understood to be the video from Foster's spycam) cuts out and the theater is left in complete darkness and, for most of the remaining ten minutes or so, the audience only has access to the audio from the headphones.
Similar to Lady in the Lake and Dark Passage, Sounds Dangerous uses the subjective camera technique to let the audience see from the point-of-view of the main character. Unlike these two films, however, the Disney attraction employs an analogous 'subjective microphone' so that each audience member will see and hear everything the talent sees and hears, as though you were right there with him when it happens. (Quoted from the Sounds Dangerous script) To push the illusion one step further, Sounds Dangerous creates an elaborate contrivance wherein the action is happening in real-time, at that moment. Before the video, a Production Team Member in the theater instructs the audience about how to position their headphones and promises, We're going to put you in the middle of the action... live. Upon receiving word that the director and Drew Carey are ready, he instructs, Cue the opening, and the director appears on screen to address the audience, once again insisting that this is live television and nobody knows what will happen. Finally, the screen is given over to Detective Foster's spycam.
Of course, excepting the roles played by Disney cast members in the theater, none of the action is live. In only 12 minutes, Charlie Foster infiltrates a snow globe company, escapes a swarm of killer bees, drives across town, gets a haircut, crosses the street to a circus, survives a knife thrower and a urinating elephant, and finally cracks the case of the diamond smuggler. This compression in time is the likely byproduct of a tension between the purpose of Sounds Dangerous - to showcase a variety of sound effects and the demands of competing attractions within the Disney parks, which help produce the normative preference for narrative within them. But perhaps this explanation proceeds too quickly and gets in the way of finding something interesting about sound and darkness.
Reading the online reviews (from epinions.com) of the Sounds Dangerous attraction, I am struck by the ambivalence of opinions: while many visitors found the experience literally intense and entertaining, a substantial number of the reviews called it boring and a waste of time. Most, following the description of the theme park, warned that the attraction should not be visited by those who are afraid of, or bothered by, the dark. Every single one of the reviews made reference to the darkness, calling it complete, pitch black, or total. Generally, the darkness was not commented upon beyond a description, except by those who had a negative experience. One seemed annoyed that when the lights went out, the children in the audience began screaming (perhaps in genuine fear or, as is very likely, as a playful response to an unusual situation). Recalling my own childhood, I probably would have been one of the children that reacted with exhilaration, apprehending a kind of freedom and anonymity in the suddenly transformed environment. Nevertheless, as a self-described mature adult, I can now sympathize with the aggravated reviewer I expect an immersive, aural experience from the attraction and the drastic change in lighting resonates with my sympathetic attitude. The giddy screams of children come to me through the headphones, puncturing the artificial horizon that was constructed by device of the headphones (and reinforced by my willingness to participate in the fantasy). In a sense, the real world intrudes on my intimate experience.
I can begin to define an unusual audible field, introduced by the artifice of the headphones. Earlier, I summarized Don Ihde's diagram of the region of sound presences that was bounded by a horizon of silence, beyond which existed the realm of objects that are silent-for-us. When I put on a pair of headphones to listen to music, for example, this horizon is disrupted, contracting in towards me. Sounds that had previously barely audible suddenly lie outside of this horizon, silent. And as I adjust the volume, making the music louder and then softer, the horizon shrinks and then expands. But isn't there a second horizon, implied by the music I am listening to, which also changes in size with volume level? When the music is very soft, much of it is effectively absent for me and I am still able to hear sounds from the outside world. But if the volume is very loud, I can hear nearly every note (excluding some of the higher and lower frequencies) while the sounds from my immediate surroundings, even a shouting neighbor, fall silent. Because music is typically not a single frequency at a fixed volume - but instead an ongoing rush of sound, rising, falling, and pausing over time the horizon of silence for the outside world is put into a constant flux. Through my visual perception, I can be aware of the sounds I am missing by comparing it to my visual experience; for example, I can reasonably assume that I am not-hearing a voice when I see my neighbors animated mouth. To a certain extent, I am aware of the world beyond my horizon of silence, a horizon that has been actually and momentarily compressed by the expansion of the horizon of silence produced by my headphones and music.
What is the use of insisting on two coexisting horizons, when the experience could be represented by only one? Certainly, the sounds from my headphones could exist in the same region, bounded by the same horizon (that is a singular silence). Although this is true, the model I propose does not represent pure hearing, but instead a combination of the aural and visual. The headphones introduce a kind of intermediary space between the horizon of what-is-heard and the horizon of what-could-be-heard. I can lose myself in the intimate world of my headphones, but beyond the horizon that they produce is a world that I continue to sense as present (if not immediate).
Sounds Dangerous introduces a simple, but powerful, twist on this model that can be approximated by closing one's eyes. The intermediate objects that could-be-heard disappear. As reasonable people, we will not spontaneously forget our surroundings, but as surrounding elements fail to register in our senses, we begin to lose touch with reality. This can be a more or less successful departure, depending on the context. For example, if I am standing on a busy sidewalk, listening to music through my headphones with eyes closed, I remain conscious of (and perhaps nervous about) the people walking past me. In the comfortable, spacious theater, however, I am more relaxed and the intermediate objects slip away more easily. Of course, if audience members were to begin screaming as the lights went out, those objects that could-be-heard do not disappear, but intrude on the intimate experience, reinscribing the outside world in the space of the attraction.
This immediately brings to mind John Cage's notorious piece 4'33, which was a composition of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, in three movements. Not surprisingly, the audience reaction ranged from bemusement to anger, including (I will project) feelings of being stuck. If I consider how the piece might conform to the model presented earlier: the live music performance differs from the experience of listening to music through headphones; nonetheless, in a cursory way, I can still diagram the experience in terms of two horizons for the sounds from the musical instruments and for the rest of the world as well as a field of effectively silent, but visually apparent objects. Cage's composition equalizes the horizons of silence so that those intermediary objects are drawn into the piece. The visually present, but silent physical movements of the performer at the times determined for the compositional movements of the work reinforce the horizons as equal, yet distinct. Although there is nothing being played, 4'33 is a piece, an identifiable event. As a further analogy to the personal, embodied experience of darkness mentioned above, Cage cited a visit to an anechoic chamber as an influence of his work. There, rather than hearing silence as he expected (because the room was designed to absorb all sounds instead of bouncing them back as echoes), Cage simultaneously heard one low sound and one high sound an engineer informed him that these were his circulatory system and nervous system in operation. Between the noises of the perceiving body and the horizon of silence lies the depth of sound-in-the-world, a place for sounds (appropriating Edward Casey's visual concept in his essay, The Element of Voluminousness, 17). In this sense, the idea of silence is as nonsensical as being without being in a place. Disney-MGM was not attempting anything as radically open as John Cage's work, yet each used a kind of contextual emptiness to produce a singular horizon for each audience member Cage expanded the inner horizon of the performance to the limits of the outer horizon of the world, so their contained sounds perfectly coincide; and Disney pushes the sounds of the outside world to the fringes of perception and beyond, such that the sounds of the attraction become the totality of aural experience.
Another reviewer of Sounds Dangerous reacted negatively to the darkness, not because it instigated responses that undermined its intended effect, but because it gave the person a sense that their time was spent with nothing to show (my italics) and ended up feeling gypped. This feeling that the attraction was an underwhelming waste of time was quite common amongst those who expressed dislike for it. These are, perhaps, predictable responses, particularly considering the cultural preference for that which is visual. But if this is the case, why did so many people like it? Why is this boring, non-visual attraction sometimes called the hidden gem of Disney-MGM Studios?
The most common observation made by the enthusiastic reviewers (as well as some of the unhappy ones) is the sensation that they could literally feel the sounds. One person swore that they could feel warm air from the barber's blow drier; another said, you actually get the ticklish feeling of having the back of your neck shaved; and one described the feeling as more immediate, you can feel the blades snipping away right next to your ears. Regarding the killer bees, reviewers commented that you will actually be swatting at the buzzing bees; that it feels like there are bees buzzing right next to your ears; and you hear the buzzing sound so clearly that it feels as though the bees are right near the back of your neck (this from the same person who felt ticklish at the back of the neck during the barbershop scene). These were by no means unusual or passing remarks. In fact, one person actually titled their review, You can feel the sounds.
Is it possible that the large majority of people who reviewed Sounds Dangerous actually felt something that wasn't there? This would certainly be a powerful experience that would justify support the warning offered by one visitor who said that children might find the realistic audio too intense. If, however, I choose to disregard the practical unanimity of this description and consider it merely colorful language, it is still interesting that very few visitors made the expected claim that they could see the things that weren't there (for an example, one person wrote that the amazing audio effects painted a vivid picture of what Drew was seeing, which doesn't seem to describe immediate experience so much as explain what was supposed to be happening). Alternatively, these observations might be something more than inaccurate descriptive language, but reactions to an actual, common synesthetic experience. Perhaps we should take the reviews at face value and accept that audience members really felt a sensation when stimulated aurally. If this is true, then the portion of the program where water was sprayed on the audience, at the moment that an elephant was heard urinating, is redundant. Curiously, this gag was mentioned in only one review, suggesting that the sounds alone were found more compelling than sound combined with water. Like the screaming children in the audience, the tactile stimulus - rather than augmenting the experience, immersing the visitor deeper in Drew Carey's world undermined the effect, intruding on the intimate experience.
The three-dimensionality and realism of the sounds is a product of the binaural recording method. At a superficial level, binaural is similar to common stereo recording - they each create a sense of spatiality and of surrounding the listener. In the case of studio music, the stereo recordings are usually made with the microphones spread several feet or more apart from one another. As a result, these don't sound correct when one listens through headphones. Although listening to the same recording through speakers better approximates the recording conditions, the acoustics of the room will destroy some of the realism, particularly as sounds from the left channel reach the right ear and vice-versa. Binaural recordings, on the other hand, are typically unencumbered by the latter problem of simple stereo because they are meant to be listened to with headphones. Furthermore, these recordings are done with two microphones placed in the ears of a real or dummy head, such that sounds from the surroundings reach the microphones at slightly different times and with transformations based on the physicality of the head and pinna. The result is a recording in which listeners are able to locate the sounds they hear spatially and based on the reviews of Sounds Dangerous, some sounds take on a real tactility.
Drew Carey wore special microphones in his ears which supposedly were capable of detecting a mere change in pressure in the room - for the audio component to Sounds Dangerous. In the context of the narrative, the audience is told that the undercover detective is wearing a surreptitious camera and microphone. The camera, which is primarily not functional, has an aestheticized low- quality that one might expect for an undercover detective plot. At times throughout the show, the audience is made aware of the hidden camera: when Carey brings a snowglobe close to his body; when he looks at his reflection in the mirror; and especially, when he places the camera in his mouth, damaging it. The hidden microphone, on the other hand, is only referred to in the introduction and is neither shown nor manipulated by Carey, and the sounds produced by this microphone do not draw attention to the mediating technology (as the unnaturalness of the spycam does). Instead, one has a very real, clear aural experience, which would be impossible if Detective Foster really was an undercover spy wearing undercover equipment binaural microphones are quite conspicuous. Nevertheless, this suggests and interesting possibility: if the experience of watching the projected image gives one the dual sense that they are looking through the screen as well as looking at the screen, then is there something about the projected mono-image (which is already associated with a particular miniature device) that might undermine the very immersive sense that the audio gives?
My second example follows obliquely from this question. How does sound figure in immersive facilities like virtual reality rooms? Might these facilities - which can provide active stereo images (for a deeper sense of three dimensions) and a camera free from the material limitations of an optical video camera (including the capability to move responsively in real-time) take Sounds Dangerous out of darkness? It should be noted that sound usually does not figure into virtual reality simulations and where it does, the audio rendering quality is significantly less mature than the graphics rendering. At the UCLA Visualization Portal, the site of my own limited experience with these technologies, most of the models were silent, and for the one that wasn't, the sound seemed to be an afterthought, or an appendage.
This particular model was an approach and walk through the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. My initial reactions to the sound were: first, that it was muddy and flat; second, I couldn't get any real sense of directionality; and finally, it seemed somehow detached from the images, as if it wasn't stuck enough. Supposedly, as the camera moved through the digital model, sounds (which had an actual location in the space of the model) were increased or decreased in volume, so that through motion one would be able to discern the location of the sound sources. Perhaps this works better with synthetic sound sources (which I have yet to experience, but may still be subject to parts of the following analysis) than with field recordings deployed in digital space, as in the Santiago de Compostela walkthrough.
As the camera (and by extension, we) moved through the space of the model, we hear the sounds of a place filled with people; yet, there are only a handful of people in the entire model - people who are static and flat. Visually, the structures and ground of the model also seem somehow flat. Although the buildings seem geometrically accurate, occluding one another believably in tandem with our motion, the texture-mapped surfaces seem to be lacking a certain density or substance. Is this a property of the rendering techniques? Might they be advanced to the level that the simulation is as substantial and dense as a filmic image digitally projected? Perhaps. In contemporary popular cinema, computer simulations regularly produce images that are as realistic as images of real space. Then what is particular to this experience of wandering through the fictional space of a digital simulation that contributed to my feelings of flatness and a detachment of what is heard from what is seen?
In spite of my slight disappointment with the immersiveness of my visual experience (part of which might be a symptom of only two-thirds of the screen being available for our demonstration), I perceived more depth in the images than in the sounds. And at the same time, however, the sounds were recorded in real places, with their unique acoustics and reverberations. In a certain way, they were fuller and more real, if not as clear, as the visual model. But two adequately immersive simulations one produced visually by a digital model, and the other aurally by field recordings processed by the same model failed to add up to something even more immersive. Rather than giving the audience two conduits for perceiving the same space, the simulation offered two different spaces the space of the forms (comprised of surfaces and light) and the space of events (made of movement, action, use, noise, and the sonic play of materials) one static and timeless, the other animated and timeful.
The intentional viewpoint (camera and, by extension, microphone) of the simulation is programmed to integrate these two spaces into a unified, whole experience. With every move, a new visual perspective is calculated in relation to the forms, light, and shadows. Similarly, a sonic perspective, based on the Cartesian position, is used to adjust amplitudes and panning on a database of sounds. Nevertheless, there isn't a sense that the sounds interact with the surfaces, that the visual model produces those reverberations in the audio. Furthermore, a rotation of the viewpoint to the left, doesn't create as strong of a change in the field of sound presences (and a corresponding reorientation of the horizon of silence) as one would expect, leaving one feeling out of the world of the sounds, rather than immersed in it. Perhaps the model itself must be enhanced for simulating sound: assigning acoustic materiality to surfaces; modeling the life of a place (its people, the wind, the vegetation, animals and machines). And maybe the viewpoint, if it is to be the opening for an immersive experience, must be modeled as a body rather than simply a point.


Dec. 13, 2012 John Daniel Utley, 64, of Honolulu, a retired Army master sergeant who served in the Vietnam War, a Purple Heart recipient, Chaminade University professor and Bobby Benson Center program director, died in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Laramie, Wyo. He is survived by daughter Tara Arriola; mother Ada; brother Tom Jr.; sisters Diana Colbert, Ada Terrell, Jacque Dupree, Lilly Saucier and Rose Vance; and three grandchildren. Graveside services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Valley of the Temples.


Confession: before last month, I'd never watched A Different World. Go ahead, take away my Black Card. It's been revoked on occasion before. When I was young the show wasn't syndicated yet. I remember seeing a couple of episodes as I got older. But all I could remember is that Dwayne Wayne wound up with this crazy chick named Whitley Gilbert, Sinbad was in it and Mr. Gaines ran a restaurant at the college (yes, the college, I didn't even know the name of the school). Because I'm not a big TV watcher, I didn't place any importance on watching this or any other show.


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Robert Rico, né le  à Agadir (Maroc), est un footballeur français. Il évolue au poste d'attaquant dans les années 1960 et 1970.

Biographie

Joueur de petit gabarit ( pour ), il joue au poste de milieu offensif ou d'attaquant, principalement au Stade rennais.

Il est le frère de Jocelyn Rico qui joue également au Stade rennais.

En , il devient superviseur de l'école de football de l'ALSS Trélat-Taden dans les Côtes d'Armor.

Carrière de joueur
 1965-1971 :  Stade rennais UC
 1971-1973 :  Stade de Reims
 1973-1974 :  Girondins de Bordeaux
 1974-1975 :  AS Nancy-Lorraine
 1976-1978 :  SR Saint Dié

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 International A en 1970 (1 sélection)
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de France en 1971 avec le Stade rennais
 Champion de France de D2 en 1975 avec l'AS Nancy

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Footballeur international français
Joueur du Stade rennais
Joueur du Stade de Reims
Joueur des Girondins de Bordeaux
Joueur de l'AS Nancy-Lorraine
Joueur du SR Saint-Dié
Naissance en mars 1945
Naissance à Agadir

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2. Now if you look at the toolbar on W32Dasm you will see a button called str references with a green light. Now if you click this you will get a list box full of different names.
3. Now for this example we are going to freeze the hunger bar. So if you look in your list box scroll down to Hunger Decrement Ratio and if you double click this. It will take you to the part of the code that this is referring to. Now you should have something that looks like this.
Now to understand a bit more of this you will need to know a bit of basic asm code. But for now if we look at the addy�s on the fourth line take notice of: Fstp dword ptr [00609F68]. The values that we want to take notice of are the hex addresses in the brackets. This is the hex address that controls you Hunger bar. Now this is fstp so this is a float value.
00414AC2 D91D689F6000 Fstp dword ptr [00609F68]?
Run the game and then press Alt Then Tab and open T-search. Click on open process and select the sims.exe.
Now if we add the hex address we found to our cheat table. Do this by clicking on the icon that looks like a piece of paper. Now add the address 00609F68 and make it a float type and name whatever you want I call it hunger hack and then click add. Now the value that t-search will tell you that it is will be something like 3.e00e0e0. Now if we freeze this value it does nothing but if we freeze and make it -100 and go in game you will notice that your hunger bar has gone full and will not decrease.
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Condemnations Pour in After Author Gunter Grass Admits SS Past
Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass' admission that he was an SS member has drawn both rage and defenses of the writer. While some say the revelation devalues his life's work, others are showing more understanding for the pressures faced by the teenager who later would write such modern German classics as "The Tin Drum."
Grass, 78, whose autobiography is due out this fall, told the Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung in an interview published last Friday that he was drafted into the Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.
The Waffen SS was the elite fighting force of the SS, the Nazi Party's quasi-military unit, and was declared part of a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials. Grass was interned briefly in a POW camp in Bavaria after the war.
Literary critic Helmuth Karasek told the radio program BDR that Grass should have revealed the truth sooner, and suggested that the Nobel Prize committee might not have wanted to honor someone "whom they knew had been a member of the Waffen SS and had long denied it." Grass won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
Grass biographer Michael Juergs said he was "personally disappointed," and has called into question the validity of Grass' life work. But German writer Erich Loest told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that Grass' admission should be "accepted without condemnation. He was very young and there was no one to influence him in the opposite direction," he said.
German writer Ralph Giordano, who survived the war in hiding with his Jewish mother, told the radio program WDR2 that he praised Grass.
"Good that you have done this, Gunter Grass," he said.
Grass told the Frankfurt paper he was drafted as a 17-year-old following a stint in a support unit for the German air force, and was brought to serve in a Waffen SS tank division in Dresden. In the forthcoming autobiography, "While Skinning an Onion," he writes that the past had "oppressed him. My suppression of this through the years was among the reasons why I have written this book. It had to come out, finally."
Grass said he originally had volunteered to serve in a Nazi submarine unit, which was "just as crazy."
Until now, his biography has shown that Grass was drafted in the support unit for the air force in 1944, then served as a soldier.
In the new book, he writes about how he was 15 when he tried to volunteer with the submarine corps and was rejected because of his age. He was called up in 1944, as were all boys born in 1927.
He was assigned to the Waffen SS, which "in the final year of the war took draftees, not only volunteers," he said in an interview with the German Press Agency.
Grass said he never had tried to hide the fact that as a youth he was vulnerable to Nazi propaganda. He also told the Frankfurt paper that he never actually served in the Waffen SS division to which he had been assigned. He ended up behind the Russian front on reconnaissance patrols, witnessing what he described as gruesome scenes and surviving by pure chance. During his brief internment as a POW, Grass says he met the similarly interned Joseph Ratzinger, who now is Pope Benedict XVI.
In an essay for the German Internet news agency Netzeitung, Israeli-born historian Michael Wolffsohn, who teaches at the University of the German Army in Munich, said Grass' "persistent silence would devalue his moralizing works, but not his novelistic works."
Further, Wolffsohn said Grass had lost a "golden opportunity" to come clean on the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II, when many were upset by the visit of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Reagan to a military cemetery in Bitburg that contained SS graves.
Grass "should have stood up and said: ' I was there, too,' " Wolffsohn said. "It would have brought objectivity and realism to the discussion."


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Lehigh University Bans Alpha Chi Omega Chapter for Two Years
Following a hazing investigation.
By Araceli Cruz
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A sorority at Lehigh University has been banned for two years after an investigation concluded that they violated the university's Code of Conduct, according to CBS News. In December, according to the Lehigh Greek Community blog, on a post confirmed by ABC News to be accurate , the Alpha Chi Omega Theta Chi chapter at the Pennsylvania university is said to have hosted a scavenger hunt called Road Rally, which reportedly included "sexual activity, the use of drugs and alcohol, ingesting foods and other liquids," which violates university policy, according to the blog. Shortly after the event, the sorority was put on interim suspension by the school in December, according to ABC News, and on March 5 the University Committee on Discipline released their findings.
The activities during their scavenger hunt constitute a form of hazing, the University Committee on Discipline stated, adding that they have credible information to indicate that this is not the first time the sorority has conducted this form of activity. According to the CBS News report, the sorority and its leadership endorsed the activity and said this event has been taking place for years.
The Lehigh Greek blog originally posted on December 8, 2017) "...The current conduct history of AXO does not lead the panel to have confidence in the chapter's ability to act and demonstrate care and concern for its members, particularly related to health and safety concerns. This type of behavior is simply unacceptable considering the current climate on college campuses."
Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity, Inc. released a statement to Teen Vogue in an email, saying they are cooperating with the university investigation and conducting their own internal investigation.
"The allegations of outrageous conduct by our members in this incident led our national organization to undertake an immediate and extensive internal investigation. Following that process, we immediately rescinded the membership of nearly one-third of the chapter – the women who were most directly involved with this incident. Furthermore, we continued to cooperate fully with Lehigh's investigation and judicial processes. Pursuant to the university judicial process, the National Council has closed our Lehigh chapter effective immediately. Our mission of empowering collegiate women demands a positive and supportive culture – and when our chapters fall short of that objective, we have an obligation to hold our individual members and chapters accountable."
In an email to Teen Vogue, Lehigh University released the following statement: "Lehigh University expects all students to uphold community standards and act in a manner that reflects the university's Code of Conduct. Violations of these expectations, which are in place to foster a safe, respectful environment for all members of the Lehigh community, will result in consequences. The scavenger hunt held by the Theta Chi chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority at Lehigh University involved the use of drugs and alcohol, sexual activity, and other activities which failed to meet these standards. Like many institutions nationwide, Lehigh University works tirelessly to address hazing and safety among Greek organizations. This is a pervasive issue on college campuses across the country and though unfortunate, when circumstances like this arise, it is an opportunity to reaffirm our expectations and address the issues in effective ways."
Related: What It's Like to Pledge a Sorority, From Hazing to Hell Week
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Q: Asynchronous listening of JMS Message from Oracle AQ - Buffered Queue not working I've written a sample application for a producer and consumer scenario using an Oracle AQ "buffered" queue. From the producer I am able to send the message to the buffered queue. I have registered the message listener (which implements javax.jms.MessageListener) for the respective queue. My listener is not able to process the message. Do I need to do anything specific in order to make it work for the "buffered" queue?
Note: I am able to see this message in the AQ $My_QueueTable_Name with msg_state as MEMORY. Also the same listener is working fine if I send the message to normal queue.
Below method is registering the MessageListener during Spring Boot application startup.
@PostConstruct
public void registerEndPoints() {
    try {
        JmsListenerEndpointRegistry registry = new JmsListenerEndpointRegistry();
        SimpleJmsListenerEndpoint endPoint = null;
        ConnectionFactory cf = null;

        for (String queueName : queueNames) {
            cf = connectionFactory();
            endPoint = new SimpleJmsListenerEndpoint();
            endPoint.setId(queueName);
            endPoint.setDestination(queueName);
            endPoint.setConcurrency(concurrencyLimit);
            endPoint.setMessageListener(new JmsMessageListener(cf, sleepTimeInMillis));

            registry.registerListenerContainer(endPoint, defaultJmsListenerContainerFactory(cf));
        }

        registry.start();
        System.out.println("JMS Listener registered for " + queueNames.length
                + " Request Queues for the Messaging Server : " + messagingServerName);

    } catch (JMSException e) {
        System.out.println("JMS Listener registration failed : validate before proceed test");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

For those unfamiliar with Oracle AQ a "buffered" queue will keep messages in memory while a normal queue which will store the messages in the database irrespective of delivery mode (i.e. persistent / non-persistent). In my case, a huge volume of message processing will happen, and that's the reason going with the buffered queue.

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Long-term insurance products, which include life assurance, disability assurance and funeral cover, can be complicated. When disputes arise between assurers and consumers, it is almost always when policyholders want to claim their benefits. Here's how you can seek redress if you have a dispute with a life assurance company.
If you have a dispute with a life assurance company, resorting to the courts to protect your rights can be expensive and time consuming. You could wait for two or more years after a summons has been served before your case is heard, Brian Galgut, the ombudsman for long-term insurance, says.
The Office of the Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance was established to provide policyholders with a means of resolving disputes without having to turn to the courts. The Long-Term Insurance Ombudsman's office is one of six ombuds offices in the financial services sector [in 2008], of which four are voluntary and two are statutory. A voluntary scheme is one that is established by the relevant industry and to which virtually all industry players belong, although they are not obliged to do so. Statutory schemes are established by law and automatically cover all industry players.
Although the specific complaint resolution processes adopted by each of the six schemes differs, all of them aim to make rulings that are fair and equitable. The office of the long-term insurance ombudsman does not require you to fill in a form when you complain, but your complaint must be in writing – an email, fax or letter. The office will assist you if you are unable to write up your complaint yourself.
Both parties to a dispute are given an opportunity to respond to the factual and legal submissions of the other party. So, once you submit a complaint to the ombudsman, it is forwarded to the assurer concerned. The assurer's response is then forwarded to you.
"This exchange goes on until both parties have had the full opportunity to respond to all the allegations and submissions by the opposing party," Galgut says. During the course of the exchanges, either you or the assurer may be called on to produce relevant documents or statements from witnesses.
Galgut says if his office feels a settlement is possible, it will invite the assurer to make an offer, at the same time suggesting the terms that his office considers suitable. "Ninety-five per cent of cases in which the complainant succeeds are settled this way," he says. The remaining complaints require a determination or ruling.
"We never make a final ruling without first making a provisional ruling," Galgut says. In a provisional ruling, the ombudsman provides comprehensive reasons for his determination but gives the consumer and the assurer a final opportunity to furnish new facts or submissions that might throw a different light on the matter.
If there are no new facts or submissions, the provisional ruling is accepted as the final ruling. If, based on the written material before the ombudsman, a vital dispute of fact arises that cannot be resolved, he may (where possible) hold a hearing so that the relevant witnesses can "testify" and be questioned by him.
Galgut says it is important to remember that although the final ruling by the ombudsman is binding and legally enforceable on the assurer, it is not binding on the consumer. Even once a final ruling has been made against you, you retain the right to sue the assurer in court.
If you are unhappy with a ruling and you don't want to go to court, the ombudsman's office has an appeal process in terms of which it appoints a retired judge to re-hear your case. An appeal against a determination is not an appeal in court, so there are no legal fees because parties usually represent themselves. If you choose to have legal representation, you would have to pay their fees.
However, the retired judge charges a fee, which could be up to R20 000 for a case that takes the judge two months to review. The judge can call for new evidence, conduct a full hearing or correspond with those involved. The party that brings the appeal has to pay about R10 000 into a trust account. If the appeal is successful, the money is paid back. If the appeal is unsuccessful, the money is used to defray the judge's costs.
However, you will only pay a maximum of R10 000, regardless of what the judge's costs amount to. The rest of the judge's costs are paid for by the ombud's office. If your appeal is unsuccessful, you can still take the assurer to court if you wish to do so. Galgut says that in the past four years there has been an average of two appeals a year.
Most of the complaints received by Galgut's office last year related to claims that were declined because policyholders had either failed to meet their policy conditions or did not understand those conditions correctly. The next highest category of complaints related to poor communication from life assurers.
Galgut says the definition of disabilities and the exclusions related to disabilities are a common cause for complaint. "The average man may not understand the true implication of the disability benefit being offered to him," the ombud says.
The claim should have been lodged with the assurers within six months of the death. But because of the protracted court case, the claim was only lodged two years after the man's death.
This article was first published in Personal Finance newspaper on 4 October 2008.


1. Preheat oven to 180oC/ 350oF.
2. Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin liners.
3. Squeeze shredded zucchini of excess moisture with a paper towel.
4. Combine coconut flour, almond flour, baking soda and salt.
5. Beat the eggs, vanilla, maple syrup and oil until well combined in a food processor.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and pulse to combine.
7. Allow the mixture to sit for 5 minutes until the coconut flour absorbs the liquids.
8. Add zucchini, banana, vinegar and the melted chocolate and pulse to combine.
9. Mix until smooth and well combined.
10. Divide batter evenly between 12 muffin cups.
11. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean and the tops of the muffins are just slightly golden brown.


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More of Wes?
Matthew Slater. Sept. 7, 2008. Week 1 vs. Kansas CityMade 2 special teams tackles.
INDIANAPOLIS – More than a few eyebrows were raised last week when reports indicated that Wes Welker wished to return after suffering three documented concussions during his two seasons with the Broncos. The pending Broncos free agent spoke recently with new coach Gary Kubiak and the feeling appears to be mutual.
"I've spoken to every player since I was named head coach over the past month," Kubiak said. "I had a good conversations with Wes and I would love to have him back. Hopefully I get an opportunity to coach him.
"I have great respect for what he's done. He's been very positive with me."
The Broncos have a number of high-caliber free agents to deal with including Demaryius Thomas, Julius Thomas and Terrance Knighton, so even if Welker is healthy enough to return there's no guarantee that will take place in Denver.
With the East-West Shrine Game and NFL Scouting Combine shifting to accommodate COVID-19, the Senior Bowl will press on and become even more important to draft scouting.
Three Patriots were honored by the Pro Football Writers Association's end-of-year awards.
The NFL is down to the final four, but all eyes will be on Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes.
Richard Seymour's talent and versatility were major factors in the New England Patriots winning their first three Super Bowl championships. A gold jacket would cement that legacy.
Two Patriots coaches will participate in this year's East-West Shrine Bowl as part of a professional development opportunity.
The Patriots offense coordinator will reportedly interview with the Eagles regarding their open head coach position.
Almost by accident, NFL Films created custom crowd noises for all 32 teams, including the Patriots.
The veteran Patriots player and coach will get his first crack at a head coaching gig after two seasons on the sidelines of New England.
The Patriots have plenty of questions to answer this offseason and plenty of ammunition to make some big splashes.
Two Patriots from the past were named to the College Football Hall of Fame's class of 2021.
With six games to follow there was plenty to make note of as the playoffs got underway.
Looking back at the best, worst and most memorable moments from the 2020 Patriots season.


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I can remember when I was in high school taking a career aptitude test and thinking, "What the heck is this test going to tell me about what I should be doing with my life??" However, when I think back to my results, it was pretty SPOT ON! Sometimes checking in with a personality quiz or a career survey can make you really think about not only what you'd like to do, but what career path might best suit you!
This Career Quiz from the Princeton Review was one that I came across one day while doing some online research for recruiting and it gave me some pretty interesting results. The Quiz is 24 questions and pretty simple to complete. I actually took it a couple of times and got the same results! For a little insight, take it and see what your outcome may be…Who knows, you might think about making that career move a little sooner than later!


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//! \file mgdrawparallel.h
//! \brief 定义平行四边形绘图命令类 MgCmdParallel
// Copyright (c) 2004-2015, https://github.com/rhcad/vgcore, BSD License

#ifndef TOUCHVG_CMD_DRAW_PARALLEL_H_
#define TOUCHVG_CMD_DRAW_PARALLEL_H_

#include "mgcmddraw.h"

//! 平行四边形绘图命令类
/*! \ingroup CORE_COMMAND
    \see MgParallel
*/
class MgCmdParallel : public MgCommandDraw
{
public:
    static const char* Name() { return "parallel"; }
    static MgCommand* Create() { return new MgCmdParallel; }
private:
    MgCmdParallel() : MgCommandDraw(Name()) {}
    virtual void release() { delete this; }
    virtual bool initialize(const MgMotion* sender, MgStorage* s);
    virtual bool touchBegan(const MgMotion* sender) { return touchBeganStep(sender); }
    virtual bool touchMoved(const MgMotion* sender) { return touchMovedStep(sender); }
    virtual bool touchEnded(const MgMotion* sender) { return touchEndedStep(sender); }
};

#endif // TOUCHVG_CMD_DRAW_PARALLEL_H_

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Claremont McKenna government professor Charles Kesler recently received the 2018 Bradley Prize, which includes a $250,000 stipend.
Kesler was one of three recipients of the award, out of an application pool of nearly 200.
Recipients of the award are honored for "advancing the ideals of freedom in both academia and public policy," a CMC press release said.
Pomona College is forming a new committee on sexual violence intervention and prevention, President G. Gabrielle Starr announced in an email to students April 3.
"Pomona College is committed to providing a safe and nondiscriminatory educational, working and residential environment for all," Starr wrote.
The committee will evaluate current policies and the culture surrounding them, increase support for survivors, and monitor reports of sexual misconduct, among other responsibilities.
The task force will also be "promoting a climate of safety and awareness," her email read.
Jad Abumrad, host and creator of acclaimed podcasts "Radiolab" and "More Perfect," visited Pomona College Thursday.
In a conversation moderated by Pomona politics professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Abumrad talked about the trajectory of his career and the benefits of a liberal arts education.
Prior to the official talk, Abumrad met with selected students for a Q&A including specifics about the inner workings of his podcasts and challenges he faced as a journalist.
At the April 1 ASCMC meeting, senators suggested a wellness vending machine that would dispense products such as Plan B One-Step contraceptive, tampons, pregnancy tests, and condoms, according to The CMC Forum.
This initiative follows a similar SAS proposal from earlier this year and an ASPC initiative completed in 2014.
The machine would be located on CMC's campus, but would be available to all 5C students.
Pitzer College Student Senate introduced a bill last Sunday to enact a permanent Student Initiative Fund. Through this bill, the SIF will receive $15,000 of the Senate's annual budget.
The Senate will likely vote on the bill this Sunday.
The first SIF this year paid for a hammock structure and numerous other projects.
Three senators and a Senate chairperson will compose the Student Initiative Committee, which will oversee the SIF, the Pitzer Student Senate minutes said.
The SIF will be "allocated exclusively toward student-organized one-time projects that enhance the student experience at Pitzer College," the minutes said.
As with this year, students will be able to vote on which student initiatives will receive SIF funds through an online election.


This syntax is supported but deprecated. Use the new GRANT syntax for granting roles and privileges instead.
When you grant authorities using the old deprecated GRANT syntax, the database server converts the authority to its equivalent compatibility roles. No capabilities are lost for the user being granted the compatibility role equivalent.
BACKUP authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE compatibility role.
DBA authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_DBA_ROLE, SYS_AUTH_SA_ROLE, and SYS_AUTH_SSO_ROLE compatibility roles.
PROFILE authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_PROFILE_ROLE compatibility role.
READ CLIENT FILE privilege Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_READCLIENTFILE_ROLE compatibility role.
READ FILE privilege Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_READFILE_ROLE compatibility role.
RESOURCE or ALL authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_RESOURCE_ROLE compatibility role.
VALIDATE authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_VALIDATE_ROLE compatibility role.
WRITECLIENTFILE authority Converted to granting the SYS_AUTH_WRITECLIENTFILE_ROLE compatibility role.
GROUP clause Granting this now converts the user to a user-extended role that can be granted to others.
MEMBERSHIP IN GROUP clause Granting this gives the grantee all the roles and privileges of the user-extended role (group) they are being granted.
The syntax for granting authorities is deprecated but supported for backwards compatibility. Granting an authority results in granting its equivalent compatibility role that is provided in version 16.0 and up. However, if you have migrated your compatibility roles, granting an authority using the deprecated syntax will fail. For example, if you migrate your SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE compatibility role to a user-defined role (which drops the compatibility role when it finishes the migration), and then execute GRANT BACKUP TO UserA, the statement fails because the SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE compatibility role no longer exists in the database. You can resolve this issue by restoring the compatibility role (CREATE ROLE SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE), or by changing your applications to use the new syntax and reference the new user-defined role you created by migrating.
In pre-16.0 databases, DBA, REMOTE DBA, BACKUP, RESOURCE, and VALIDATE authorities were non-inheritable in the case where they were assigned to a user acting as a group. Members of that group did not inherit the capabilities of the authority.
When you upgrade a pre-16.0 database, the equivalent role is automatically granted (for example, SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE is granted instead of BACKUP authority), and the WITH NO SYSTEM PRIVILEGE INHERITANCE clause is specified to ensure that inheritance behavior remains consistent with previous releases. Members of the group do not inherit the privileges that the role provides.
Likewise, if you continue to use the deprecated grant syntax to grant DBA, REMOTE DBA, BACKUP, RESOURCE, and VALIDATE, the old behavior of non-inheritance is maintained. That is, the equivalent role is granted and the WITH NO SYSTEM PRIVILEGE INHERITANCE clause is specified. This is done automatically.
You must have administrative rights for the equivalent role you are granting. For example, if you are granting the ability to backup databases, and are using the GRANT BACKUP syntax, you must have administration rights on the SYS_AUTH_BACKUP_ROLE compatibility role.
To view the new GRANT statement syntax, see GRANT statement.
To view the mapping of authorities to compatibility roles, see Compatibility roles.
To determine what roles you have administrative rights for, see Viewing the roles and privileges for a user or role (Sybase Central), or Viewing the roles and privileges for a user or role (SQL).
To review the SQL Anywhere 12.0.1 GRANT statement syntax, see http://dcx.sybase.com/index.html#1201/en/dbreference/grant-statement.html.


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French UAVs Pass 10,000th Flight Hours
10,000 Flight Hours for the Harfang Drone
(Source: French air force; issued Feb 24, 2014)
(Issued in French only; unofficial translation by Defense-Aerospace.com)
Deployed to support French operational in Mali since January 17, 2013, the French air force's 1/33 "Belfort" UAV squadron reached the milestone of 10,000 flight hours with the Harfang unmanned aircraft during the night of Feb 15-16 2014. The Harfang is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV designated Système Intérimaire de Drone MALE (SIDM) by the French military.
This is a major milestone in the history of the French air force's unmanned aircraft, and more particularly for the 1/33 squadron. The aircraft which passed the 10,000 hour mark belongs to the "escadrille" SAL-33, the same unit to which belonged famed aviator and author Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and which marked its centenary this year.
These 10,000 flight hours constitute a significant experience and knowledge accrued during several foreign deployments in recent years. This milestone coincides with another, the 3,000th flight hour in support of Operation Serval in Mali.
Since their initial operational deployment in 2009, French air force SIDM Harfang drones have flown over 900 operational reconnaissance and intelligence missions, as well as surveillance and designation of targets for precision-guided weapons launched by other aircraft.
With the arrival of the Reaper, which has already been cleared for operations, the French air force has reinforced its support capabilities in the Sahel-Saharan region, thanks to these ISR (Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) unmanned aircraft.