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Cartagena celebrates the first ever beach wedding
The mayoress of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, had the honor of officiating the first wedding held on a beach outside the summer season, after approving the ordinance that regulates the use of beaches in the municipality of Cartagena. The happy couple, Domingo and Sofía have been the first people to contract a civil marriage on the beach outside the summer season, in an intimate ceremony which was held on the Levante beach in Cabo de Palos. The new ordinance for the use and enjoyment of the beaches and facilities was definitively approved in July and allows the possibility of celebrating weddings and events of interest on any of the 16 beaches in La Manga, Mar Menor, La Azohía and Cala Cortina This has also had a significant positive impact on the economy of the tourism sector.
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New high speed AVE service from Murcia to Madrid
The brand new Murcia to Madrid AVE is now in service, with a high speed connection between Murcia and Madrid from 2 hours and 45 minutes. The four trains, 2 in each direction, start at the Murcia del Carmen station and end at the Madrid Chamartín Clara Campoamor station with intermediate stops in Orihuela and Elche. King Felipe VI presented the inauguration at the Madrid station in the company of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, the President of Murcia, Fernando López Miras and the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig. Renfe will use the S-112 model for the Madrid-Murcia AVE service, one of the most technologically advanced trains, with 12 cars, 353 seats, and disabled access throughout. Travelling at a maximum speed of 300 kilometers, the seats are very comfortable, with footrests, an individual light and a folding table.
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The 12th Chanukia lighting in the Synagogue of Lorca
The lighting of the new Chanukia was carried out by a representative of the Jewish community of Malaga and the Rabbi of Alicante, followed by a concert "La Luz de Sefarad" by the Séfora group and a tasting of the traditional sufganiots made by the Federation of Women's Organizations of Lorca. Francisco Morales indicated that this festival commemoration aims to transmit our Sephardic legacy and publicize this tradition of the Jewish religion, which was historically celebrated in the Middle Ages in the Synagogue located in the Jewish quarter of the castle of Lorca.
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Where Is SI 7 ?
5 cun proximal to the dorsal crease of the wrist on the SI 5 to SI 8 line.
What Is SI 7 Used For?
Local point for pain and/or strength/control issues in the elbow, arm, and fingers. May be helpful for weakness of all the limbs as well.
Stiff neck, headaches, vision issues - blurry, obstructed.
Useful with onset of exterior wind-heat conditions such as colds/flus that start with neck and/or back pain.
Calms the spirit - manic behavior, anxiety, panic attacks, fear.
How Is SI 7 Categorized?
What Diagnostic Patterns May Use SI 7 ?
What Conditions May Use SI 7 ?
What Points Are Near SI 7 ?
Xi Cleft Point useful for pain due to stagnation along the meridian in the shoulders, elbows and wrist.
Classically noted with LI 5 for "seeing ghosts," may be useful in manic conditions.
Acute heat in the Blood, coughing or vomiting of Blood, bleeding hemorrhoids.
Spirit disorders typically due to Blood stasis, yin spirit problems, depression, fear of people, grief.


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Purpose The goal of this study is to present the Discovery NM 530c (DNM), a cardiac SPECT camera, interfacing multi-pinhole collimators with solid-state modules, aiming at slashing acquisition time without jeopardizing quality. DNM resembles PET since it enables 3-D SPECT without detector motion. We further envision how these novel capabilities may help with current and future challenges of cardiac imaging. Methods DNM sensitivity, spatial resolution (SR) and energy resolution (ER), count rate response, cardiac uniformity and cardiac defect contrast were measured and compared to a dedicated cardiac, dual-head standard SPECT (S-SPECT) camera. Results DNM sensitivity was more than threefold higher while SR was notably better. Significantly, SR was the same for 99mTc and 201Tl. ER was improved on DNM and allowed good separation of 99mTc and 123I spectral peaks. Count rate remained linear on DNM up to 612 kcps, while S-SPECT showed severe dead time limitations. Phantom studies revealed comparable uniformity and defect contrast, notwithstanding significantly shorter acquisition time for the DNM. First patient images, including dynamic SPECT, are also presented. Conclusion DNM is raising the bar for expedition and upgrade of practice. It features high sensitivity as well as improved SR, temporal resolution and ER. It enables reduction of acquisition time and fast protocols. Importantly, it is potentially capable of dynamic 3-D acquisition. The new technology is potentially upgradeable and may become a milestone in the evolution of nuclear cardiology as it assumes its key role in molecular imaging of the heart.
Advances in technical aspects of myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging.


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Before We Cared: GOTYE
August 29, 2012 by Stefan Blitz
Wally de Backer doesn't need another hit to cement his place in pop music history.
If he never releases another piece of music for as long as he lives, he'll still be the guy who made "Somebody That I Used To Know."
Released under the stage-name Gotye, this song is head-spin-ingly popular.
It is, if you'll forgive me for saying so, a bona-fide, worldwide phenomenon.
In America alone, it has spent nearly eight months on the charts, which is to say nothing of the nine Platinum certifications it has received in Backer's home county of Australia, the million copies it sold in the UK, and the fact that it is the most downloaded song ever in Belgium.
Belgium!
But you don't need statistics to prove that this song has struck a chord with people; all you need to do is check YouTube.
Covers of "Somebody That I Used To Know" are something of a cottage industry online. There are a capella covers, heavy metal covers, even a cover performed by five people using a single guitar… which, in turn, has spawned its own sub-genre of covers.
The enormity of this song's popularity is best represented by "Somebodies: A Youtube Orchestra," a video mash-up that takes elements from hundreds of different covers and combines them into one incredible piece of music. Aside from demonstrating the insane numbers of people who have put their own spin on the song, it's just a downright cool piece of music and video editing, made even cooler by the fact that Backer himself put it together.
The song's bewildering success notwithstanding, the fact that "Somebody That I Used To Know" even got played on the radio at all is pretty amazing. Built around a brief sample of jazz guitarist Luis Bonfá's song "Seville" and featuring an xylophone as one of its most prominent instruments, "Somebody" sounds like nothing else on the radio right now. In fact, it sounds like nothing I've ever heard on the radio in my lifetime.
Making Mirrors, the album that spawned "Somebody," mostly sounds like what you'd expect.
Backer has a strong pop sensibility that is enhanced, not obscured, by his idiosyncratic musical sensibility. Making Mirrors takes a few turns into the bizarre, such as the vocoder-heavy "State of the Art," but it also contains a few songs that would actually make more sense as singles than the one we got.
With that in mind, and with my mind set on the musical betterment of you, dear reader, I plunged headfirst into the previous two albums that Wally de Backer has released as Gotye: 2003's Boardface and 2006's Like Drawing Blood.
My heart aches for the young girl who, having survived her sophomore-year breakup only by listening to "Somebody That I Used To Know" on repeat for a week straight, picks up the first two Gotye albums. Starting up Boardface, she expects to hear the soothing voice of Backer over strange yet melodic music. Instead she is greeted with ominous strings, dusty samples, trip-hop beats and distorted vocals. Confused and agitated, she shuts off the record, rips her Gotye poster off the wall and swears to never again fall victim to the charms of an Australian singer-songwriter.
Make no mistake: these albums are weird, and if you enjoy Making Mirrors, you're probably not going to find much in them to enjoy. You'll have better luck with Like Drawing Blood, though; most of the tracks are anchored by Backer's skillful use of melody, and the song "Learnalilgivinanlovin" is actually one of the most pop-friendly things he's ever made. It doesn't feel like a song that Backer produced with the intention of getting on the radio, though. It seems more likely that Backer decided out of the blue that, yeah, it might be cool to do a Motown-inspired song with funk guitar and a horn section, let's just throw it in the middle of the album!
Backer's voice, possibly the best of the many instruments he commands, has a much smaller presence on Boardface. Four of the album's twelve tracks are given over to guest vocalists, and on the tracks where he does sing, Backer's vocals are either delivered in a whisper or they're buried so deep in the mix that they fade into a low, droning sound.
I found plenty to like on the first two Gotye albums, even though it's not my preferred genre of music. Still, something didn't seem right: where did this man, who spent the first seven years of his career making weird, hook-less music learn to write pop songs so well?
The answer: in his band, The Basics.
Maybe I was the last person on Earth to find out, but it wasn't until I began my research for this article that I even knew Backer was in a band. Like their name implies, The Basics are all about straightforward, no-frills rock and roll. Each of the band's three members contributes vocals and each of them plays a single instrument: drums, guitar and bass.
Now it all made sense! When I only knew about Backer from his pop hit, the early Gotye albums were shocking in how full-on weird they were. But when I found out that he was in an old-fashioned Australian rock band known for its energetic live shows and traditional musicianship, everything clicked. Originally, Gotye was just a side project, and as we all know, the entire point of a side project is to contain whatever weirdness the artist needs to get out of his system so that the band can keep making music people want to hear.
The Basics were so committed to re-producing the feel of classic rock and roll that they actually named their first album Get Back, and yes, it does show a heavy Beatles influence, how did you know? As they went on to produce two more full-length records and a couple of EPs, they added a few flourishes to their sound that would land them squarely in the "indie-rock" category, but they never moved away from being a straight-up rock band.
And a good one, at that. I'm not fully qualified to recommend Gotye's first two albums, but I can say without a doubt that all of the albums by The Basics are awesome and you should listen to them. They're on hiatus right now, but there's plenty here to keep you occupied until they get back together… though, given the success that Backer is currently experiencing, who knows when that will be?
At the beginning of his career, Backer was in two musical projects: one was the absolute definition of catchy, unpretentious rock music, the other was abstract, ornate and semi-impenetrable… but by the time he made Making Mirrors, he had reached an almost perfect fusion of his two sensibilities.
But you don't need to take my word for it. Ask anyone!
I'm serious. You can ask literally anyone. I doubt there's a single person alive who hasn't heard "Somebody That I Used To Know."
On the incredibly low chance that you find someone who hasn't heard this song, please direct him or her to YouTube (or this very post) so they can join the rest of humanity.
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Cole Pletcher had two of those hits for Northwest Cabarrus, and both he and Caden Grider scored two runs. Sam Yelton had three hits for Central Cabarrus, which outhit Northwest Cabarrus 10-4.
Meanwhile, Cox Mill downed Kannapolis Brown 6-3, as winning pitcher Zach Zedalis pitched a complete game and fanned eight. Antonio Knight hit a two-run double for A.L. Brown.
In the other South Piedmont 3A game, Concord edged visiting Concord Jay M. Robinson 3-2. Ray Beaver and Addison Long each had two hits for Concord.
Noah Chapman (Rock Hill): Chapman had four hits and scored three times in the Bearcats' 13-1 rout of Sumter Lakewood.
Bo Davidson (South Mecklenburg): Davidson went 3-for-4, with a home run and four RBI as the Sabres blanked Indian Trail Sun Valley 10-0.
Ivan Huffman (Catawba Bandys): Huffman, a senior, slammed a double and two home runs in his team's 8-1 victory at Lake Norman Charter.
Charlotte Country Day 6, Charlotte Latin 1: The host Buccaneers scored five times in the bottom of the first and never trailed. Winning pitcher Henry Merchant went 5.1 innings, allowing five hits and striking out eight. Carter Demordaunt went the final 1.2 innings, tossing no-hit ball. Cameron Greene tripled and scored twice.
Covenant Day 6, Concord Cannon School 0: Robert Stone fired a two-hitter for Covenant Day, and Jackson Bertelsen smacked two hits.
North Iredell 12, Statesville 6: The victorious Raiders scored five runs in the top of the seventh, blowing open a tight game.
West Rowan 6, South Iredell 3: The Falcons scored three times in the bottom of the sixth for the victory., J.T. Fecteau went 3-for-4 with four RBI.
Catawba Bandys 8, Lake Norman Charter 1: Ivan Hoffman doubled and homered twice, scoring twice and driving in four runs. Winning pitcher Cy Spencer went six innings, scattering four hits.
Black Mountain Owen 10, Avery County 9 (8 innings): Ty Smith had a single and two doubles for Avery County, and Austin Waldroop drove in two runs.
Mount Holly Mountain Island Charter 6, Concord Carolina International 1: Grant Snelson pitched four innings of three-hit ball, striking out eight, and Scottie England tossed the final three innings, allowing no hits and fanning seven.
Gastonia Ashbrook 20, Gastonia Piedmont Community 5 (5 innings): Chandler Meeks had three hits and four RBI, and Josh Bradshaw added three hits for Ashbrook. The Green Wave belted out 20 hits.
Hickory Grove Christian 8, Fort Mill Walnut Grove Christian 3: Jake Auten and Tate Sigmon each had two hits for Hickory Grove, which led only 4-3 before scoring four runs in the top of the seventh.
Hickory Grove Christian 6, Concord First Assembly 2: Trey Hager had three hits, and Jordan Little homered and knocked in three runs for the victors.
High Point Christian 8, Providence Day 1: High Point Christian scored six times in the bottom of the second and held Providence Day to five hits.
North Mecklenburg 14, West Mecklenburg 0 (4 innings): Ernesto Torres went 3-for-3 and drove in five runs.
Orion (ILL) 10, Southlake Christian 5: The Eagles fell in the Mingo Bay Classic at Myrtle Beach.
Rock Hill 13, Sumter (SC) Lakewood 1 (6 innings): Rock Hill broke it open with eight runs in the bottom of the sixth. Noah Chapman had four hits and scored three times, and Dylan King homered for the Bearcats.
South Mecklenburg 10, Indian Trail Sun Valley 0: The Sabres' Bo Davidson went 3-for-4, with a home run and four RBI. Thomas Umphlett went 4-for-4 and scored twice.


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Pact spares Saudis from nuke review
By - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 16, 2005
VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. atomic agency yesterday signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that exempts the kingdom from inspections of its nuclear facilities, a move that the United States, the European Union and Australia had resisted, agency officials said.
The signing at a meeting of the 35-nation board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ends months of haggling over Saudi Arabia's signing a Small Quantities Protocol (SQP), an arrangement in effect since 1971 to reduce inspections in nations with small nuclear programs.
Saudi Arabia, a key state in the tense Middle East, is not thought to be a direct nuclear proliferation threat, but diplomats were seeking to calm fears amid a major test of wills with nearby Iran, which U.S. officials suspect of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
There also have been reports — denied by the Saudis — that in a crisis, they could use their financial clout to get nuclear technology, or even weapons, from nuclear-armed countries such as Pakistan.
The SQP allows countries to be exempted from requirements to notify IAEA of stocks of natural uranium of up to 10 tons.
This means that once the states — Saudi Arabia is the 87th to sign the protocol — provide inventory statements making them eligible for the SQP, inspections are "held in abeyance," an IAEA official said.
But 10 tons of natural uranium can still make enough enriched uranium to produce at least one atomic bomb.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday that the SQP had been identified "as a weakness of the safeguards system" of agency inspections.
The IAEA board debated yesterday the possibility of rescinding the SQP, but put off any action until at least the next board meeting in September.
U.S. representative George Glass told the board that the United States had no desire to "single out" Saudi Arabia and was disappointed about press reports implying this, a diplomat who attended the closed-door meeting said.
Mr. Glass said the IAEA had "pointed out earlier this year that the current SQP suffers from serious weaknesses that need to be corrected."
"We are therefore somewhat reluctant to approve additional SQPs that contain this flaw," Mr. Glass said, adding that Washington felt however that states that have negotiated in good faith "should not be penalized for the fact that their SQP came to us for approval at this time."
But Mr. Glass warned: "We cannot continue to approve such flawed SQPs indefinitely."
Saudi Arabia has signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that mandates IAEA safeguards inspections but had resisted signing a safeguards agreement.
Egyptian ambassador Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy said, "I wish countries would be as enthusiastic about requiring the Israelis to sign the NPT as they are about getting more [inspections] from the Saudis."
Israel, which is thought to have about 200 atomic bombs, refuses to sign the NPT.
Saudi Arabia last weekend turned down an EU request to allow full IAEA inspections, saying it would only agree if other countries exempted under the SQP did the same, EU diplomats said.


The mission of New Student Orientation (NSO), aligning with the institutional mission, is to holistically address the developmental needs of new Reinhardt students and families in transition within the Reinhardt University community. NSO and its related programs (SOAR and EagleBound) are designed and implemented to offer a comprehensive student and parent experience that introduce educational, social, and personal resources to facilitate the success of new students. NSO focuses on innovative collaborations with Reinhardt departments, and aims to develop skilled and confident Orientation leaders in order to meet the changing needs of our diverse community.
Understand the academic and social expectations of their students at Reinhardt University.
Contribute to their student's success and support their education by becoming involved at Reinhardt University.
Develop a connection to the Reinhardt community through interacting with fellow parents, administration, faculty, staff, and student leaders.
Become aware of campus resources, services and programs.
Inform parents and guests about the history, traditions, campus cultures, and engagement opportunities to facilitate identification with and integration into the institution.
Demonstrate knowledge on how to appropriately access campus information and resources, especially those that ease new student transitions and effectively communicate this information to NSO participants.
Develop positive relationships with program participants, peers, faculty, and staff in order to establish a safe, inclusive and supportive community.
Develop an understanding of the transitions and changes associated with the collegiate experience and an ability to convey that information to new students and their family members.
Develop problem solving, conflict management, and organizational skills in relation to effectively managing events and interpersonal issues.
Gain an understanding and appreciation of Reinhardt University's history and traditions and portray spirit and pride in Reinhardt to program participants.


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Nine New Years for Russia
Fireworks explode over St. Basil cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (AFP Photo / DMITRY KOSTYUKOV) © AFP
Russia has celebrated its biggest festivity as New Year 2012 was being making its way through the world's largest country's nine time zones bringing joy, fireworks and music.
Russia's Far East was the first to cross into 2012 – with inhabitants of Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Sakhalin Island raising a glass of champagne at the same time as Australia and New Zealand. The locals celebrated with fireworks, jazz bands and other celebratory events held on central squares.The New Year then made its way across Siberia, through the cities of Chita and Yakutsk at the same time as it reached Papua New Guinea and Guam. Next with the toasts were the residents of cities of Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, who fall in the same time zone as Japan and the Koreas.
After three hours, New Year reached the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Kyzyl, along with Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.As 2012 continued to march across Siberia, it reached such cities as Omsk and Novosibirsk which share time zone with Thailand and Vietnam.Next midnight reached the cities of Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, just an hour before Muscovites celebrated the beginning of 2012. The westernmost point of Russia, Kaliningrad, embraced 2012 one hour after Moscow.
Celebration in the heart of Russia
The highlight of the country's nine-part New Year celebration came with the festivities in the Russian capital. A jubilant crowd on Moscow's Red Square bid farewell to 2011 and welcomed the New Year as the landmark Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin struck twelve.During his New Year address to the nation, President Dmitry Medvedev said: "It was not an easy year but its outcome for our country has been positive. This is the result of our joint efforts, and what next year will bring also depends on us."
He then also posted greetings on his Twitter account, wishing Russians love, happiness, health, while underlining the importance of national unity.As Moscow was saying goodbye to the outgoing year, a group of opposition activists staged an unsanctioned rally in support of the 31st article of the Constitution that secures the freedom of assembly. Some 60 protesters have been detained.
Tracking-all-the-way: NORAD keeps Santa under surveillance
'Santa Claus' fireball over Europe was from Russia
New Year countdown: World celebrates arrival of 2012


In the backdrop of growing competition and the need to deliver value at an optimized-cost, Corporations world over are on a high on-going demand for improving operational efficiency, response-times and productivity. To stay competitive, businesses have to make their systems more responsive by investing in time and cost-effective applications that help them achieve business goals. Businesses do require custom-built solutions to suit their unique business needs and operational requirements.
Synergy is a value-added Professional Services partner for businesses looking beyond mere cost savings. Being into the second decade of experience in servicing customers, Synergy's Application Development practice offers a suite of methodologies and frameworks, combined with technical expertise provides the best balance in terms of cost, agility, and quality for building applications that meet business requirements.
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The fantastic marquise shape emerald in this necklace is a beautiful gem with very dark green tone, strong color saturation and moderately included clarity. The deep green color of the stone is beautifully embraced by a wonderful 18K white gold design. The curvy lines around the emerald keep the flow of the marquise form of the emerald, and give a very elegant and unique look to the whole piece.


If you want to grow your own veggies but have little space to work with, a vertical garden could be the perfect solution.
Call it an extension of the local food movement, but more and more city dwellers are growing their own food. Urban gardening is popular because it's sustainable, environmentally sound, and easy on the pocketbook. And it's super satisfying!
For many of us living in urban spaces with little to no yard, traditional flat bed gardening may not be an option. So while we would like to have a garden like that, we don't all have the luxury of space. For anyone whose backyard is just a small patio or balcony, a vertical garden is the way to go. The good news is not only do vertical gardens take up less space, they are also easier to harvest and maintain.
Some vegetables are better suited than others for growing in small spaces. Root vegetables such as carrots and onions are probably not the best choice, since they need lots of room to establish those deep roots.
Instead, choose veggies that grow more in compact form and have shorter harvest cycles, such as lettuce, spinach, radishes, or peas. Bell peppers, hot peppers, eggplants, squash, and all kinds of herbs work well in container gardens too.
There are some seriously awesome DIY ideas out there for growing your own food and herbs with limited space. All you need is a sunny wall space or bare fence, some creativity, and a little elbow grease.
Only make the structure as tall as you can reach. You need to be able to easily water and harvest the top level.
Make sure the support system is strong enough to handle the weight of everything.
The supporting wall will need to withstand plenty of moisture. If this is a concern, use a polyethylene cloth along the back of your garden wall to create a barrier from moisture.
A gutter garden system uses sections of old rain gutters installed horizontally along a wall to grow lettuces and greens. Installing them at an angle allows for drainage from top to bottom. You can also put drainage holes in the bottom of gutters to prevent the plants from becoming waterlogged. Make sure there is enough room between levels for sunlight to get through.
The soda bottle garden is fun, funky, and makes great use of your old plastic bottles. It uses two-liter bottles suspended from strings to create an easy to maintain herb garden. To avoid the string slipping, tie the knot around a washer at the bottom. Don't forget drainage holes!
The shipping pallet garden is one of our favorites because it's super easy and looks great. To find a used pallet, hit up a local nursery, construction site or retail store, or ask a friend — they'll probably be thrilled for you to take it off their hands. A pallet garden can lean against a wall or mounted. If mounting, make sure the wall can handle at least 100 pounds of weight.
Get the full tutorial at ModernFarmer.com.
This option is less DIY and a little more expensive, but they don't call it the "ultimate patio farm" for nothing. The Garden Tower can grow up to 50 plants in four square feet. It's easy to use, with a rotating base for optimal sunlight and plant access. Plus it's incredibly water and nutrient efficient, and has a built in composting system that turns kitchen scraps into organic fertilizer. Perfect for porches, balconies, and rooftops.
If you'd like to try your hand at growing tomatoes but you're short on space, the mesh and frame garden is for you. Using just a wooden frame and a metal grid, (sometimes called hardware cloth), you can create a sturdy trellis for tomatoes to grow upward. You can get the full tutorial here.
Rebecca Rosenberg is a freelance copywriter and digital media consultant who loves writing about design and real estate. She is also an intrepid solo traveler and avid hiker and is always on the lookout for the next big challenge.


One night in 1980 my friend John Steinmetz couldn't sleep. Instead, he drew pictures of blenders, those friendly, familiar kitchen companions. But these blenders came with unexpected labels on their buttons in place of the boring Whip, Frappe or Liquify.
Soon John shared his ideas with me and together we created The Blender Book, a xeroxed holiday greeting for our friends and families. The reactions ranged from baffled amusement to confused bemusement.
The back cover of The Blender Book showed a blender with four buttons marked Push, Poke, Prod and Press. We thought "What a good name for a publishing company." and so the imaginary Push Poke Prod Press was born. John and I hired each other as "Assistants to the President" and we awarded ourselves fictional startup grants from General Malaise, makers of the Electric Bowl, and the National Appliance Foundation.
Saving the World , billed as "A FULL LENGTH Push Poke Prod Press ADVENTURE, starring BENNY the BLENDER! and featuring The LITTLE SHIM", was a comic book.
Our hero, Benny the Blender, is featured in the masthead of this very blog, look at the top on the right. He was a blender of few words but with a good heart and bad eyesight (notice the thick glasses) who should never have been given a license to drive an air car. The Little Shim, Benny's sidekick, was an early personal computer - some sort of sentient, mobile Apple III or Commodore 64 with two floppy disc drives for eyes and a penchant for getting into trouble he can't get out of.
Here's a sample page from Saving the World. Click on it (or any illustration) for enlargements.
You can download the entire Saving the World in PDF format here. Happy Holidays, everybody - even if is a bit late.
The two books which featured John's stories about Sideman, a mysterious super-hero L.A. studio musician, were the most popular. John wanted the stories published under the pseudonym T. Simpson Parker, ostensibly an old studio musician himself, now retired to Palm Desert where he raised succulents.
Imagine my surprise to discover T. Simpson Parker listed in an online library catalog. Click here to see that. Four of the six PPPP books made it into a certain university library under the category Nonsense Literature, American.
Finally, here's a clipping from a Los Angeles Weekly of February 1986, written by Jonathan Gold. Yes, the same Jonathan Gold who went on to win some very important journalism prize or other and will surely be mortified to read this bit of doggerel online. Marvel at just how deeply a tongue can push into a cheek; probably the sign of a good food critic, huh?
Thanks for posting these, David. I think the world may finally be ready for a tale about a sentient blender. Certainly the world still needs saving.
Mr JG, back in the day when he was critic at large. Now it's all about fine foods and private schools.


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Project Title: Continued Monitoring of Florida�s Main Adult Green Turtle Foraging Site
Project Manager: Ryan Welsh
Summary: In the course of ongoing work in the Key West National Wildlife Refuge, Inwater Research Group (IRG) has identified areas adjacent to the refuge near the Marquesas Keys containing foraging sub-adult and non-nesting adult green turtles. This area, known as The Quicksands, is the only published foraging grounds for green turtles of these size classes in the southeastern United States. IRG has been returning to these grounds annually to perform vessel-based transects and capture-mark-recapture activities since its discovery in 2005, creating a decade-long monitoring database. Distance sampling analyses have shown that densities of these size classes on this foraging ground are among the highest in the world. Tag returns of captured animals have established connectivity to nesting beaches in the Caribbean Basin, and recapture data provides evidence of long term residency on the foraging grounds. IRG considers these foraging grounds to be regionally important and has committed to continuing long term monitoring in this area. IRG will return to this remarkable green turtle foraging ground in 2017 for 10 days to continue the following activities: collect and analyze data on size frequencies, sex ratios, and prevalence of disease; perform fixed repeatable surveys to determine density and abundance of turtles observed on the foraging grounds; collect samples from captured green turtles for genetic and stable isotope analysis.
Results: During this project we conducted 76.4 km of visual transects in the Marquesas region of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge, including 36 kilometers of our fixed grid west of the Marquesas Keys. We observed 88 green turtles (25 adults, 62 sub-adults and 1 juvenile) and 2 adult Loggerheads. The Sighting Per Unit Effort (SPUE) for our standardized transect was 0.4 turtles per transect kilometer. Analysis of this transect data through the population modelling Program Distance indicates that the 30 km2 foraging grounds had approximately 4967 green turtles present, or 165 turtles per km2. The ratio of subadults to adults was approximately 75:25, with 3638 (121 turtles per km2) subadults and 1329 (44 turtles per km2) adults being estimated in the area. We also performed 40.4 km of HUNTs (Haphazard Unmarked Nonlinear Transects). During these HUNTs we observed 41 Green turtles (33 Subadults and 8 Adults) and 4 Loggerheads (2 Adults and 2 Subadults). We captured a total of 12 sea turtles during these sampling trips, including 9 green turtles, 2 loggerheads and 1 hawksbill. All turtles were measured, tagged and photographed before release and blood/tissue samples were collected for genetics, sex determination and stable isotopes. All samples have been sent to their respective labs (Dr. Brian Shamblin, Dr. Roldan Valverde and Dr. Simona Ceriani), where we are still awaiting results. A majority of our capture effort focused on the foraging grounds west of the Marquesas Keys where we captured a total of 9 large green turtles that ranged from 68.5 � 97.8 cm straight carapace length (SCL, mean=83.7, SD=11.4). Of the green turtles captured on the foraging grounds 3 were females, 2 were males and 4 were sub-adults with undetermined gender. Captures in the refuge also included 2 loggerheads ranging from 63.7 � 81.3 cm SCL (mean=72.5, SD=6.5) and one hawksbill (23.9 cm SCL).


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— друга частина франшизи JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, створена Хірохіко Аракі і що складається з 69 розділів, що випускалися в журналі Weekly Shōnen Jump з 1987 по 1989 рік. Пізніше манґа була зібрана у 7 томів. Дія манґи відбувається після Phantom Blood і до Stardust Crusaders. У 2012 році за мотивами манґи було випущено аніме-серіал, який випускався японським телеканалом з 5 жовтня 2012 року по 5 квітня 2013 року.

Спочатку манґа була відома як .

Сюжет
1938 рік. Під час експедиції нацистів у Мексиці в ацтекських руїнах було виявлено безліч «вампірських масок», здатних перетворювати людей на вампірів, а також скам'яніла людина, «вмурована» в колону. Дія переноситься до Нью-Йорка. Лабораторію виявляє вже постарілий Спідвагон, і виявляється схопленим. Його вирушає шукати Джозеф Джостар, онук Джонатана, і, виявивши лабораторію, бачить у них , яких нацисти пробуджують за допомогою крові в'язнів. Пробуджена істота вбиває всіх працівників лабораторії, проте зазнає поразки від Джозефа. Тим часом прокидаються ще три давні Людини-з-колон, які мають намір знайти стародавній  для того, щоб стати досконалими істотами і повернути панування над людством. Джозефу доведеться боротися проти них, а також познайомитися зі своєю матір'ю, яка, як думав Джозеф, уже давно померла.

Персонажі
 — головний герой другої частини історії, онук Джонатана Джостара, який, як і дід, володіє силою Хамона, яку використовує, щоб боротися проти людей-з-колони. На відміну від Джонатана, він хитрий і не дотримується кодексу джентльмена.

 Сейю: Томокадзу Сугіта

  — онук Вілла Цеппелі, володіє хамоном на найвищому рівні, як і дід. Вирішує супроводжувати Джозефа у боротьбі проти Людей-з-Колон і гине під час однієї з битв.

 Сейю: Такуя Сато

 — мільярдер, засновник компанії Спідвагон. Літня людина, колись знайома з Джонатаном Джостаром, дідом Джозефа. Він має на меті знищити всі кам'яні маски вампіра і допомагає родині Джостарів.

 Сейю: Йодзі Уеда

 — матір Джозефа Джостара. Володіє хамоном на найвищому рівні. Довгий час приховувала свою особистість, змусивши решту думати, що вона померла. Під ім'ям «Ліза Ліза» виступала як наставник Цезаря Цеппелі і таємно допомагає у боротьбі проти людей з колон.

 Сейю: Ацуко Танака

Манґа

Створення
Battle Tendency мала стати частиною спочатку задуманої трилогії. Джозеф Джостар, головний герой Battle Tendency, має явну зовнішню схожість з Джонатаном Джостаром, героєм першої частини Phantom Blood. Хірохіко Аракі, автор цієї манґи, зауважив, що «вбив» героя першої частини, і це було безпрецедентною подією в історії сейнен-манґи, де герої завжди «безсмертні». Такий сміливий крок зустрів неоднозначну реакцію у читачів манґи, тому Аракі навмисно наділив Джозефа схожими зовнішніми якостями та кровною спорідненістю, щоб читачам було легше прийняти нового героя і щоб вони не мали почуття, ніби вони почали читати зовсім нову манґу. Однак характер Джозефа Аракі зробив зовсім іншим. Джонатан, як зізнався автор, вийшов надто «правильним» героєм і з-за цього нудним. Джозеф замислювався як авантюрист, здатний краще контролювати хід розвитку сюжету: він постійно шукає різні способи перемоги в битвах, навіть якщо для цього йому треба піти на неблагородні і навіть божевільні вчинки. Джозеф здатний мислити як шахрай, йому не важливо дотримуватися будь-яких правил або принципів під час бою. Аракі не задумував Джозефа як персонажа, яким рухає хоробрість чи наполегливість, але хитрість та логіка . Прагнення автора наділити героя ексцентричними рисами пояснювалося також тим, щоб Джозеф не мав зайвої схожості з Кенсіро, протагоніста манґи Fist of the North Star, також у другій частині манґи простежується значний вплив творів про Індіана Джонса. Аракі зізнався, що не любить популярну концепцію в сейнен-манґі, коли головний герой наділений таємничою і могутньою силою або отримує могутній артефакт, воліючи створювати персонажа зі своїми слабкостями і здатного робити помилки і перемогти в бою, застосовуючи логіку.

Аракі хотів у кращому образі зобразити суперницькі та одночасно товариські відносини, які не так добре вдалися в Phantom Blood; для Джонатана Діо був ворогом, Цеппелі - наставником, а Спідвагон - союзником. І для цього було введено персонажа на ім'я Цезар Цеппелі, який є нащадком Антоніо Цеппелі з першої частини. Аракі зізнався, що йому особливо подобалося працювати над візуальним стилем Цезаря та поєднувати акварельні кольори блакитного, рожевого та білого під час створення його костюма. Аракі задумував пов'язати здатність використовувати силу хамона з родоводом Джозефа і Цезаря. Манґака відразу задумував смерть персонажа в середині історії оповідання. Хамон Цезаря має форму мильних бульбашок. За словами Аракі, бульбашки символізують скороминущість і пророкують долю персонажа і той тягар, якому йому належить нести. Також на долю Цезаря вказувала його характерна поза, що нагадує розп'яття.

Створення Лізи Лізи виходило з ідеї Аракі під час роботи над Phantom Blood: «А як виглядатиме жінка, яка володіє силою хамон, і яка буде її роль у сюжеті?». Манґака зауважив, що традиційніший образ старого просто підходив гірше для ролі наставника Джозефа, а образ молодої жінки надавав сюжету динамічності. Аракі створював Лізу Лізу за образом своєї колишньої старшої подруги, яка допомагала вивчати матеріали молодшої школи маленькому Аракі. Манґака описав її як добру, неймовірно розумну, але вперту жінку і часом із садистськими нахилами. Такими ж властивостями автор наділив і Лізу. Манґака зауважив, що у 1980-ті роки у манґі було неприйнятно зображати сильних жінок, як у японському суспільстві образ жінки асоціювався з ніжністю і смиренністю. Цьому образу цілком відповідає Еріна Пендлетон із першої частини. Цей факт змушував нервувати манґаку під час роботи над «жінкою-наставником». Врешті-решт автор зауважив, що було цікаво кидати виклик очікуванням представників Weekly Shonen Jump, показуючи жінку-наставника головного героя, яка допомагає стати йому сильнішою. Також зі слів автора, у бою, де вирішальним елементом виступає надприродна сила, фізичні дані не такі важливі, а значить, у бою можуть брати участь противники з абсолютно різними фізичними характеристиками, жінка може компенсувати свою фізичну слабкість потужнішою енергетичною силою.

Працюючи над головними лиходіями — «людьми-з-колони», Аракі надихався римськими скульптурами, сфінксом та японськими статуями ніо. Кам'яні форми лиходіїв нагадують скульптури з храмів, або капищах, і вони наділені міфічною аурою. Працюючи над головними лиходіями, Аракі хотів зобразити, як вони далеко перевершили лиходія з першої частини Діо Брандо. «Якщо одягнувший кам'яну маску стає вампіром і перевершує людство, потрібно придумати щось, що перевершує вампірів, досконалих божеств». З цієї причини ж «люди-з-колони» наділені дивною фізичною красою, немов вони божественні фігури в тілесній формі. Манґака хотів передати почуття, що перемогти таких ворогів було б неможливо. Одночасно Аракі хотів поєднати міфічні елементи та наукову теорію, припускаючи, що «люди-з-колони» є втіленням біологічної еволюції, яка далеко перевершила людей. Манґака не задумував ідею повернення їхнього лідера Карса, помітивши, що він «приречений поневірятися вічно в темному космосі, що є ідеальним покаранням для вищої істоти». Карс не зможе повернутися на Землю, якщо Аракі не задумає створити сюжет, де люди здатні мандрувати в космосі. У такому разі нова сюжетна частина з персонажем буде для нього остаточно заключною.

Випуск
Перший том манґи було випущено у 1987 році. Всього манґа зібрана в 7 танкобонів, які випускалися з 1988 по 1989 рік. У 2012 році перші розділи манґи були випущені в кольоровому та цифровому вигляді для читання на смартфонах та планшетах.

Сама манґа разом з Phantom Blood була перевидана і випускалася з 1 грудня 2013 по 4 січня 2014 у вигляді томів у твердих обкладинках. Зображення для обкладинок малював Хірохіко Аракі відповідно до свого нового художнього стилю. Нові видання манґи також були ліцензовані компанією Viz Media для випуску на території США.

Аніме-серіал
За мотивами манґи було випущено аніме-серіал, який почав транслюватися телеканалом Tokyo Metropolitan Television з 5 жовтня 2012 року. Остання серія вийшла 6 квітня 2013 року. Саме аніме охоплює сюжет Phantom Blood та Battle Tendency, другій частині манґи присвячено 17 останніх серій. Спочатку студія планувала створити 24 серії, проте цього виявилося недостатньо, щоб вмістити сюжет другої частини манги Battle Tendency, тому було додано ще 2 серії. Так як у другій частині манґи значну роль відіграють німецькі нацисти, аніме-адаптація зазнала значної цензури: були прибрані нацистські символіки, фрази та скорочені діалоги. Нацистські вітання ховалися затемненням на екрані.

Опенінг до другої частини першого сезону, екранізації манґи Battle Tendency — BLOODY STREAM була випущена 30 січня, текст написаний Саорі Содамою, а музика створена Тосіюкі Оморі. За перший тиждень після випуску було продано більше 21.000 копій синглу, що підняло його на 4 місце у щотижневих топ-чартах за версією Oricon, а також на 7 місце у списку хіт-парад синглів Японії за версією Billboard. Закриваюча тема є відомим синглом Roundabout 1971 випуску.

29 березня 2013 року лейблом Warner Bros було випущено альбом , що включає в себе саундтреки з другої частини першого сезону аніме-серіалу. Альбом був випущений разом з Blu-Ray-виданням аніме-серіалу і включав 22 саундтреки. Другий альбом під назвою  був випущений 26 квітня 2013 року разом з обмеженим четвертим виданням Blu-Ray-диска з аніме-серіалом і включав 26 саундтреків. Автором саундтреків є Таку Івасакі, які використовувалися в аніме-екранізації другої частини манґи Battle Tendency.

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На думку критиків, друга частина Battle Tendency має складніший і вдалий сюжет, ніж Phantom Blood, а новий персонаж Джозеф Джостар не є втіленням ідеальної людини, як Джонатан: він розкриває різні сторони своєї особистості, і тому вийшов цікавішим і сильнішим персонажем, ніж Джонатан. Журналіст сайту Anime Planet зауважує, що якщо в першій частині головними дійовими особами є, безумовно, добрий Джонатан і лиходій Діо, то сюжет другої частини представляє героя-шахрая, готового навіть співпрацювати з нацистами для досягнення своєї мети, але водночас не позбавленого благородства, а також таємничих лиходіїв, кожен із яких має свою мораль. Завдяки цьому результат битви стає більш непередбачуваним та захоплюючим. Сюжет вийшов динамічним, що нагадує фільми про Індіана Джонса. З одного боку, Battle Tendency можна визнати добротним бойовиком, важливою опорою для інших частин манґи JoJo. Друга частина Battle Tendency визнається критиками вже більш цікавою і динамічною, що встає на один рівень з рештою бойових сейнен-манґ. Проте вона визнана однією з найслабших арок серії JoJo. Критик сайту ootb-media, навпаки, назвав Battle Tendency однією з найяскравіших і найвдаліших частин франшизи JoJo: особливо вражаюче виглядають пози, які приймають персонажі.

Представник сайту Nihonreview назвав аніме екранізацію класичним сейненом у сучасній інтерпретації та похвалив серіал за чітке дотримання сюжету манґи, насичений колір картинки та звукові ефекти. Водночас він відзначив і відносну слабку якість графіки. За версією американського журналу Otaku USA, аніме-серіал став одним із найкращих аніме 2012 року, в той самий час була відзначена малобюджетна графіка, через що візуальний стиль персонажів часом може виглядати смішним. Інший представник сайту kotaku зазначив, що аніме-серіал прагне у всіх своїх аспектах наблизитися до манґо-оригіналу, починаючи з сюжету та закінчуючи діями та промальовуванням персонажів. З іншого боку, це дуже псує серіал, оскільки сюжет рясніє коментарями, які походять від оповідача або персонажів-спостерігачів, особливо під час битв; він також вийшов дуже стислим та коротким з погляду аніме. Серед переваг критик відзначив, що серіал насичений незвичайними і яскравими кольорами, а сцени битв практично завжди відбуваються вночі або в темному приміщенні. Сюжетна частина Battle Tendency, на думку критика, вийшла загалом більш вдалою, ніж Phantom Blood. Сюжет стає складнішим і захоплюючим, нова концепція вампірів — цікавішою, а й головне — це привабливий герой, що відрізняється дотепністю і хитрістю. Незвичайна особливість сюжету у тому, що з його розвитку німецькі нацисти стають новими союзниками головних героїв, і це цілком виправдано, щоб зупинити давнє зло вампірів-ацтеків. З іншого боку, нові лиходії не дотягують до такого пафосу, як Діо Брандо.

Awaken, My Masters
В Інтернеті широкою популярністю користується інтернет-мем — Awaken, My Masters (). Його основою стала сцена з 64 глави манґи (1988 рік), де показано пробудження «людей-з-колон», головних лиходіїв частини Battle Tendency. Персонажі, які мають вкрай мускулисті тіла, приймають «викликаючі», еротичні пози. Цей факт підриває серйозність атмосфери появи ворогів. Мем з'явився ще в 2008 році, але був відомий лише у вузькому колі фанатів манґи. Після екранізації манґи у 2013 році популярність мема зросла у багато разів, а випущені ремікси у 2014 році на Youtube набрали мільйони переглядів. Музика «Awaken» (Таку Івасакі), що супроводжує сцену аніме-екранізації, також стала частиною мема.

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Helge Røstad (29 December 1923 – 23 October 1994) was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Kristiansand. He worked in the Norwegian Prosecuting Authority from 1968, as deputy under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1970, and as a Supreme Court Justice from 1976 to 1993. In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of
Law at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Home > Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors > 1765
Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors
TRF3, a TATA-box-binding protein-related factor, is vertebrate-specific and widely expressed
Stephan P. Persengiev
Xiaochun Zhu, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Bharat L. Dixit, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Glenn A. Maston, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Ellen L. W. Kittler, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Michael R. Green, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Program in Molecular Medicine; Program in Gene Function and Expression
Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell Line; Cell Nucleus; Chromatography, Gel; Ciona intestinalis; Computational Biology; DNA; Drosophila melanogaster; Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; Hela Cells; Humans; Mice; Mitosis; Molecular Sequence Data; Nuclear Proteins; Phylogeny; Protein Biosynthesis; Protein Structure, Tertiary; RNA Polymerase II; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; TATA Box Binding Protein-Like Proteins; Tissue Distribution; Transcription Factor TFIID; Transcription Factors; Transcription, Genetic
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) is a highly conserved RNA polymerase II general transcription factor that binds to the core promoter and initiates assembly of the preinitiation complex. Two proteins with high homology to TBP have been found: TBP-related factor 1 (TRF1), described only in Drosophila melanogaster, and TRF2, which is broadly distributed in metazoans. Here, we report the identification and characterization of an additional TBP-related factor, TRF3. TRF3 is virtually identical to TBP in the C-terminal core domain, including all residues involved in DNA binding and interaction with other general transcription factors. Like other TBP family members, the N-terminal region of TRF3 is divergent. The TRF3 gene is present and expressed in vertebrates, from fish through humans, but absent from the genomes of the urochordate Ciona intestinalis and the lower eukaryotes D. melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. TRF3 is a nuclear protein that is present in all human and mouse tissues and cell lines examined. Despite the highly homologous TBP-like C-terminal core domain, gel filtration analysis indicates that the native molecular weight of TRF3 is substantially less than that of TFIID. Interestingly, after mitosis, reimport of TRF3 into the nucleus occurs subsequent to TBP and other basal transcription factors. In summary, TRF3 is a highly conserved vertebrate-specific TRF whose phylogenetic conservation, expression pattern, and other properties are distinct from those of TBP and all other TRFs.
10.1073/pnas.2036440100
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Dec 9;100(25):14887-91. Epub 2003 Nov 21. Link to article on publisher's site
Link to Article in PubMed
Persengiev SP, Zhu X, Dixit BL, Maston GA, Kittler EL, Green MR. (2003). TRF3, a TATA-box-binding protein-related factor, is vertebrate-specific and widely expressed. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2036440100. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/1765
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In 2015, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) conducted research on the future of growth in business and found the key was to apply and leverage best practices….
There has been an incorrect assumption among businesses around the availability of digital best practices to leverage.
Now 20 years on there are best practice methodologies, principles and processes for eCommerce, digital strategy, and digital conduct. Like in the traditional business world, businesses utilise and rely on best practices to shape their conduct.
Digital should not be treated differently. Best practice expedites a retailer's digital evolution.
The process of translating amazing online experiences from the planning stage to the screens is done through wireframes. Wireframes are ugly plain boxes guiding page element placement for all pages of a site across digital touchpoints.
Wireframes ensure the integrity of the online experience strategy by eliminating the subjective (decisions made by personal tastes and opinions) and emotional influences of look and feel.
The impacts of subjective and emotional influences can be felt if businesses translate their online experience strategy directly to designed visual mock ups.
Wireframes (Figure 1) provide design teams the context they need to visually represent the brand's DNA and bring the plan to life.
The design process does not begin until wireframes are approved by stakeholders. Once approved, the overlaying of brand, look and feel and content (placeholders) becomes easier to digest. The cyclical black-hole of design amendments disappears .
When designing for the consumer (not the screen type) the retailer has the ability to leverage varying screen sizes to improve experiences.
Consumer shopping habits are constantly evolving and given we now see more than 50% of our online traffic coming from mobile devices, we have changed our design strategy to ensure we provide the best possible experience for our online customers .
Their page element and content treatment on mobile is exceptional, however, House of Fraser loses impact when their design translates to desktop screens (Figure 2). The desktop design would be better suited to display main categories horizontally to capitalise on this common navigation convention. This one change would reduce interaction cost.
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Pernice and Budiu clarify it is the uncompromising mobile first approach which makes the other screens an afterthought.
A recent study was completed by Baymard Institute specifically analysing the different ways consumers use navigation across devices . They tested online retailers who use hidden menu systems on the mobile site and standard horizontal main navigation systems with mega menus ("mega menus" are menus which appear when consumers mouse over main categories in the horizontal main navigation) on their desktop site.
Use the main navigation and the mega menu on desktop screens.
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package recfun

import org.scalatest.FunSuite
import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.scalatest.junit.JUnitRunner

@RunWith(classOf[JUnitRunner])
class CountChangeSuite extends FunSuite {
  import Main.countChange
  test("countChange: example given in instructions") {
    assert(countChange(4,List(1,2)) === 3)
  }

  test("countChange: sorted CHF") {
    assert(countChange(300,List(5,10,20,50,100,200,500)) === 1022)
  }

  test("countChange: no pennies") {
    assert(countChange(301,List(5,10,20,50,100,200,500)) === 0)
  }

  test("countChange: unsorted CHF") {
    assert(countChange(300,List(500,5,50,100,20,200,10)) === 1022)
  }

//
//  test("countChange: negative money") {
//    intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException] {
//      countChange(-10, List(1, 2, 3))
//    }
//  }

  test("countChange: no coins") {
    assert(countChange(10, List()) === 0)
  }

  test("countChange: coin of value 0") {
    intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException] {
      countChange(10, List(0))
    }
  }

  test("countChange: coins of value 0") {
    intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException] {
      countChange(10, List(0, 0, 0, 1))
    }
  }

  test("countChange: coins with a negative value") {
    intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException] {
      countChange(10, List(-1, 2, 3))
    }
  }

}

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Q: Rails 4 Ecommerce App using collection_select/select: how to correctly implement? I have a Product model with the following columns:
name:string
price:integer

I also have a cart model, line_item model, an orders controller: pretty basic but you get the idea.
What I need to do (and have done) is add size (since it's for tshirts) and color to the Product model. Fair enough,
rails g migration AddSizeToProducts size:string

works just fine and similarly for color.
The way the buying process is set up is as follows:

*

*select shirt (one page)

*after selecting shirt, takes you to next page

*on this page, you will select both the color and size for the shirt.
From what I've gathered, using select will not be tied to the database, so I suppose collection_select would be more appropriate here? Or would something like this be OK?
<%= select @product, :id, [ ["Small",1], ["Medium",2], ["Large",3]] %>

Also, how would I "prepopulate" these fields with sizes ie small/med/large and colors ie black/blue/white without having them associated to a particular product before a product is selected (from step 1 above)?
Any input on the matter is appreciated.

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without having them associated to a particular product

This confused me - surely you'd want to associate the select box with a particular product's options?

I would personally make sure the "buy process" is set up to pass the product ID throughout. I'd do this by using a nested resource in the routes:
#config/routes.rb
resources :products do
    get :step2 #-> /products/1/step2
end

This will pass params[:product_id] through the process, allowing you to use it on your next step:
#app/controllers/products_controller.rb
def step2
    @product = Product.find(params[:product_id])
end

#app/views/products/step2.html.erb
<%= collection_select(:product, :size_id, @product.size, :id, :name, prompt: true) %>

Having looked at it, I think your real problem is storing your size as a string inside your Product model. I'd make a separate model called sizes, and then use a join model called products_sizes to allow you to associate as many sizes as you need with each product. You'd then be able to call the associative data

Why not do this:
#app/models/product.rb
Class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :product_sizes
    has_many :sizes, through: :product_sizes
end

#app/models/size.rb
Class Size < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :product_sizes
    has_many :products, through: :product_sizes
end

#app/models/product_size.rb
Class ProductSize < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :product
    belongs_to :size
end

This allows you to store sizes for many different products, allowing you to pick ID's from the ProductSize model, referencing them directly in your cart model:
#app/models/cart.rb
Class Cart < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :product
    belongs_to :product_size
end

#carts
id | user_id | product_id | product_size_id | created_at | updated_at

This means if you create a new cart item, you'll be able to assign a product's size to the record directly:
<%= collection_select(:product, :product_size_id, @product.sizes, :id, :name, prompt: true) %>

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Reprinted from Future Directions International, Strategic Weekly Analysis, 1 February 2012. Read the full story.
The move by the Sri Lankan Government to order a group of 161 foreign Islamic clerics to leave the country by 31 January highlights the role of a global Islamic group that is challenging the more moderate indigenous form of Sufi Islam in Sri Lanka.
According to the Controller of Immigration and Emigration, Chulananda Perera, the clerics belonged to the Tablighi Jamaat group. They had entered the country on tourism visas in small batches, without officially applying for permission to preach. The clandestine nature of their arrival brings to light the activities of the largest Muslim proselytising organisation in the world. It is estimated to have between 80-150 million followers.


Saturday: I woke up without any significant pain or discomfort so I decided to stick with ibuprofen and avoid any further vicodin grogginess. There was only a very minor feeling like wearing a contact lens too long — which is basically what it was. I had a 5 pm followup appt with Dr. Todd to remove the clear "bandage" contact lenses from both eyes, which I looked forward to eagerly all day.
She said the right eye was looking great and the left eye was almost there. She took out both lenses and said I would probably be fine, but if I started to have discomfort I could call her and get a new lens put in the left eye. Right eye is about 20/70 but left is still 20/150. I can see great for walking around the house but reading text is not easy, I think mainly due to the difference in focus. Sounds like the left eye should start catching up though. The main annoyance at this point is I'm extremely light sensitive. I definitely can't drive yet but since I work from home that's no problem.
Compared to PRK stories I read online beforehand I feel like I really sailed through this. I know to expect a few more days or even weeks before getting sharp 20/20 vision. But I did not have days of severe pain like I had been worried about. I attribute this to choosing a very well-regarded surgeon, whose team has provided great follow-up care.
The latest Doctor Who episode will be available on iTunes tomorrow morning — I'm crossing my fingers that I'll feel up to watching it.


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Q: The expected time until reaching a specified set in a Markov chain I am reading an article in which they discuss a specific Markov chain in an example, and it turns out I need to sharpen up my Markov knowledge.
First the setup.
I have a continuous time Markov chain $(Y(t))_{t\geq 0}$ with discrete state space $S$. I have some subset $B\subset S$, and I have a point $x_0\not\in B$, such that the chain $Y$ starts at $x_0$.
Let $0\leq T_1\leq T_2\leq\cdots$ be the jump times of this Markov chain, and let $T_0=0$. Define the discrete skeleton Markov chain $(X_j)_{j\in\mathbb{N}}$ by $X_j=Y(T_j)$, and define then the stopping time $\tau_B$ by
$$\tau_B = \inf\{j>0\ |\ X_j\in B\},$$
so that $\tau_B$ is the first index of $X$ for which $X$ enters the set $B$. Define also the time $\widetilde{\tau}_B$ until we reach the set $B$ as
$$\widetilde{\tau}_B = \sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}(T_{j+1}-T_j) = T_{\tau_B}.$$
Now, let $\Delta_j = \mathbb{E}[T_{j+1}-T_j|X_j]$, so that $\Delta_j$ is the expected time in state $X_j$. Notice that this is a random variable.
My first question is the following. The article notes that $\Delta_j$ is the inverse of the jump rate out of the state $X_j$, but I don't know what this means. Perhaps if $T_{j+1}-T_j|X_j=x$ has an exponential distribution with distribution function $F(t) = 1-\exp{(-\lambda_x)}$, I get something that has mean value equal to $\frac{1}{\lambda_x}$, and if $\lambda_x$ qualifies as the "jump rate", I guess I am done. But what is really the jump rate of a Markov chain, and why (if true) is the difference $T_{j+1}-T_j$ exponentially distributed given $X_j$? Do I need extra assumptions on the chain for this to be true?
Furthermore, the article gives the following expression for the mean value until first reaching $B$:
$$\mathbb{E}[\widetilde{\tau}_B]=\mathbb{E}\left[\sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}\Delta_j\right].$$
My second question is, how did this equality occur?
My thoughts so far are:
$$\mathbb{E}[\widetilde{\tau}_B] = \mathbb{E}\left[\sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}T_{j+1}-T_j\right]=\mathbb{E}\left[\mathbb{E}\left[\sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}T_{j+1}-T_j\ |\ X_0,X_1,\ldots,X_{\tau_B}\right]\right].$$
Since $\tau_B$ is determined by the chain up until time $\tau_B$, I can move the sum outside of the inner expectation, so that
$$\mathbb{E}\left[\mathbb{E}\left[\sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}T_{j+1}-T_j\ |\ X_0,X_1,\ldots,X_{\tau_B}\right]\right]=\mathbb{E}\left[\sum_{j=0}^{\tau_B-1}\mathbb{E}\left[T_{j+1}-T_j\ |\ X_0,X_1,\ldots,X_{\tau_B}\right]\right].$$
Now, if I could remove every step of the chain except for the $j$th one in this last expression, I would be done. Can I do this, and why? I can probably remove the past steps $X_0,X_1,\ldots,X_{j-1}$ (why? this is not precisely the Markov condition), but can I also remove the future steps $X_{j+1},\ldots$?
EDIT: It is example 1 on page 3 of this article: http://www.irisa.fr/armor/Rare/Publis/split.pdf
Best regards.

A: 1) Yes, you are correctly interpreting the "jump rate out."
If we are in state 1 and there are two arrows pointing out to states 2 and 3, they are labeled with "transition rates" $q_{12}$ and $q_{13}$.  This means there are two independent racing exponential random variables $Z_{12}$ and $Z_{13}$ with rates $q_{12}$, $q_{13}$, respectively.  We transition according to which one "wins" (meaning which one comes first).  The winning time is $\min[Z_{12},Z_{13}]$, which is again exponentially distributed with rate $q_{12} + q_{13}$ and mean $1/(q_{12} + q_{13})$.
So, if we are in state $j$, we can define $v_j$ as the sum of transition rates out:
$$ v_j = \sum_{k\neq j} q_{jk} $$
and the time to transition out is exponential with rate $v_j$ and mean $1/v_j$ (recall that an exponential random variable with rate $\lambda$ has mean $1/\lambda$).
You can prove that the minimum of independent exponential random variables $Z_1, \ldots, Z_n$ with rates $\mu_1, \ldots, \mu_n$ is again exponential with rate $\mu_1+\ldots+\mu_n$ by:
\begin{align}
Pr[\min[Z_1,\ldots, Z_n]>z]  &=Pr[Z_1>z,Z_2>z, \ldots, Z_n>z] \\
&= Pr[Z_1>z]Pr[Z_2>z]\ldots Pr[Z_n>z] \\
&= e^{-\mu_1 z} e^{-\mu_2 z} \ldots e^{-\mu_n z} \\
&= e^{-(\mu_1+\ldots+\mu_n)z}
\end{align}
2) The sum of already-conditioned random variables was more tricky than I first thought and the basic law of iterated expectations I gave in my comments is true but doesn't seem to help.  I like your derivation as is.  You can indeed say:
$$ E[T_{j+1}-T_j|X_0, \ldots, X_{\tau_B}] = E[T_{j+1}-T_j|X_j, \ldots, X_{\tau_B}] $$
by the standard Markov properties.  You can also say:
$$ E[T_{j+1}-T_j|X_j, \ldots, X_{\tau_B}] = E[T_{j+1}-T_j|X_j,X_{j+1}] $$
since future events after we transition to $j+1$ are independent of the transition time from $X_j$ to $X_{j+1}$.  To remove the $X_{j+1}$ conditioning, you need another fact of continuous time Markov chains that the transition time is in fact independent of the state that we visit next (the "winning time" is independent of the state that wins).

I could not easily find online links anywhere, so here is one way to prove that the winning time is independent of who wins: Let $X$ and $Y$ be independent exponential random variables with rates $\lambda$ and $\mu$, respectively.  Define $T=\min[X,Y]$.  Recall that $T$ is exponential with rate $\lambda + \mu$.
Claim: For all $t>0$:
$$ Pr[X<Y|T=t] =  Pr[X<Y] = \frac{\lambda}{\lambda+ \mu} $$
Proof:  Fix $\delta>0$.  Then for small $\delta$:
\begin{align}
Pr[X<Y|T=t] &\approx Pr[X<Y | T \in [t, t+\delta]] \\
&= \frac{Pr[X<Y, T \in [t, t+\delta]]}{Pr[T \in [t, t+\delta]]} \\
& = \frac{Pr[X<Y, X \in [t, t+\delta]]}{Pr[T \in [t, t+\delta]]} \\
&= \frac{\int_{x=t}^{t+\delta} f_X(x)e^{-\mu x}dx}{\int_{x=t}^{t+\delta} f_T(x)dx}
\end{align}
Taking a limit as $\delta \rightarrow 0$ and using L'Hopital's rule for $0/0$ gives:
\begin{align}
\lim_{\delta\rightarrow 0}   \frac{\int_{x=t}^{t+\delta} f_X(x)e^{-\mu x}dx}{\int_{x=t}^{t+\delta} f_T(x)dx} &= \lim_{\delta\rightarrow 0}  \frac{f_X(t+\delta)e^{-\mu(t+\delta)}}{f_T(t+\delta)}  \\
&=\lim_{\delta\rightarrow 0} \frac{\lambda e^{-\lambda (t+\delta)}e^{-\mu(t+\delta)}}{(\lambda + \mu)e^{-(\lambda + \mu)(t+\delta)}}\\
&=\frac{\lambda}{\lambda + \mu}
\end{align}


I would like to you wish a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
I sincerely hope 2016 will be kind to you and your loved ones.
2015 has been a really good year for Nick Cave fans with the release of The Sick Bag Song book as well a fantastic European tour. We also saw the release of official Nick Cave dolls by artist Plasticgod and I hear there might be more soon! (Shameless plug: I am desperately missing the Red Right Hand one! Feel free to contact me if you can help me out! ^^) And one of the major news, many of us have been waiting for, the adaptation of The Death of Bunny Munro.
Let's see what 2016 will bring us!


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October 2013 | Rebecca Rego Barry
50 Prized Books and Manuscripts from Yale's Beinecke Library
Carried along by medieval readers like a purse on a string, this vade mecum was created in Paris c. 1290-1300. It is a rare survivor from the medieval period, particularly in such good condition--it has its original twenty-seven leaves, textile cover, and leather case--and was likely carried by a merchant during his daily travels. (You can see it from all angles on Yale's Flickr page.) The little folding calendar noting local fair dates in Champagne is one of the fifty treasures featured in a new book about the Beinecke Library's collection.
To celebrate the library's 50th anniversary this month, Yale University Press has published An Inspiration to All Who Enter: Fifty Works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (paperback, $25). Edited by Kathryn James, curator of early modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke, the book also contains contributions by Raymond Clemens, Nancy Kuhl, George Miles, Kevin Repp, Edwin C. Schroeder, and Timothy Young. With full-color photography of these fifty incredible objects--the young John Hancock's penmanship workbook, Siegfried Sassoon's annotated first edition of Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, and drafts and typescript of Langston Hughes' "Montage of a Dream Deferred," to name a few--this slim volume is eye candy for bibliophiles. There are brief notes for each entry, and one of the most enjoyable relates how the eminent bookseller William Reese sold one of the oldest maps of Mexico City to the library while still an undergraduate at Yale.
The Voynich Manuscript (seen above) is another one of the featured items -- in this book it is called one of the Beinecke's "most famous, even notorious" manuscripts. The indecipherable manuscript was presented to the library in 1969 by H.P. Kraus, and while it does have a long paper trail, it remains a mystery.
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