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Herbologies/Foraging Networks
Latvia, Kurzeme
The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, explores the cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open information-sharing, biological and hydroponic technologies.
Food / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
"Tired of your Social Network? Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entraped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world.
Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego.
Suicide Machine currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn!"
Anecdote Archive
"The Anecdote Archive is a compilation of short video recordings of word-of-mouth as an alternative to traditional documentation of ephemeral art projects and practices. Focusing on performances, situations, personal encounters, actions and other temporary events, the archive aims to register memorable experiences and their echoes."
Artists / Film / Video / Virtual Soil
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global "biodiversity commons."
Free / Open Source / Virtual Soil
Freedocumentaries.org
"A site where anyone with an internet connection can watch a movie to educate themselves or simply explore another perspective whenever they please. These movies aren't just for education but are also for entertainment.
As a secondary objective freedocumentaires.org allows independent filmmakers to have their message heard by viewers that they may not normally reach."
Free / Virtual Soil
Urban Edibles
A Portland based database of wild food sources.
Sustainability / Urban/City / Virtual Soil
OntheCommons.org is dedicated to exploring ideas and action about the commons—which encompasses natural assets such as oceans and clean air as well as cultural endowments like the Internet, scientific research and the arts.
Art + Activism / Blogs / Virtual Soil
Once again The Journal of Aesthetics and protest Press brings us "an emblematic, ambitious, and inspiring online project": In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements.
Coordinated by the editorial collective Team Colors, Whirlwinds provides a set of useful documents for contemporary radical organizing. Each essay and interview addresses the issues of fulminating power, and gives strategic insight into the strengths and weaknesses of current movement/s in the U.S. Whirlwinds' strategic context is this summer's RNC and DNC protests.
Art + Activism / Free / Virtual Soil
Berkeley Big Bang 08
New Media Symposium and Art Festival
June 1, 2008 - June 3, 2008
Three days of new media and art hosted by BAM/PFA and the Berkeley Center for New Media, timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a new media art biennial taking place June 4–8 in San Jose. Occurring together for the first time, these two events combine to create one of the nation's largest gatherings of new media art, a virtual "big bang" of innovation and creativity.
The Berkeley Big Bang program will include a two-day symposium on new media, art, science, and the body in partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; a campus media lab demonstration and open house; and an alternate reality game. Berkeley Big Bang is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of work by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe.
Artists / Events / Virtual Soil
Freedom Archives
Preserve the past - illuminate the present - shape the future
"The Freedom Archives contains over 8000 hours of audiotapes. These recordings date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements. The collection includes weekly news/ poetry/ music programs broadcast on several educational radio stations; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; diverse activist voices; original and recorded music, poetry, original sound collages; and an extensive La Raza collection.
These materials constitute a compelling record of 30 years of recorded sound and cultural diversity. The music/poetry mixes, production techniques, and sound collages represent an innovative contribution to the art of radio and the cultural ambiance of "the 60s" and subsequent decades."
Public Projects / Quotes / Virtual Soil
Conducting Mobility
"In all parts of the world, city governments struggle to keep pace with the energy and mobility needs of their expanding populations. Tourism, migration, military conflict, and environmental disasters all keep human beings on the move. Many choose their destinations, while others are forced towards them. Our 21st century world may ride the precarious line between the temporary and the permanent, and the ecosystems plundered by our unquenchable energy needs might have the final word. "
Conducting Mobility is an online exhibition Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey collide with a carload of cultural projects, including our own FRUIT, focusing on the problems of mobility and energy.
Art + Activism / Exhibitions / Virtual Soil
"Constant is a non-profit association for art and media, based and active in Brussels since 1997. Constant works in the fields of open source, free software, cyber-feminism, social interaction and participation, copyleft and copyright alternatives, the conditions of cultural work.
Constant develops radio works, electronic music, database projects.Constant functions as a networked laboratory for a group of artists, designers and researchers. We generate reflection on network culture through the creation of art projects, networks, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Networks and links between cultural producers shed new light on the conditions of work, and make analysing the transfer of digital information necessary."
Art + Activism / Open Source / Organizations / Virtual Soil
In Popular Terms
"In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization, created by The Studio for Urban Projects, that tracks the shifting language of ecology. Drawing from both historical sources and contemporary usage on the internet, In Popular Terms maps the catch phrases, scientific terminologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language that we use to describe our relationship to nature."
Organizations / Quotes / Virtual Soil
Wikipediathon
A day for people to collectively drop serious knowledge into Wikipedia about art: from your favorite notable artwork, artist or exhibition, to our soon-to-be-famous peers. "We'll also add structural links to alumni, schools and categories such as collective art groups, non profit orgs, etc."
Events / Virtual Soil
Greenpepper Magazine
The greenpepper is a magazine for social justice and environmental issues, a tool for groups working toward social transformation. It is conceived as an essentially participatory project and only exists through numerous collaborations and support.
Art + Activism / Virtual Soil
Art + Research
A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods
Art & Research is new, artist-led internationally peer assessed journal which welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, academics, critics and curators which seek to engage with all areas of research in Fine Art practice and/or pedagogy.
Art + Activism / Free / Social Practice / Virtual Soil
Superfund 365
A wonderful project in its early stages. Superfund 365 , A Site-A-Day, is an online data visualization application with an accompanying RSS-feed and email alert system. Each day for a year, starting on September 1, 2007, Superfund365 will visit one toxic site currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the end, the archive will consist of 365 visualizations of some of the worst toxic sites in the U.S., roughly a quarter of the total number on the Superfund's National Priorities List (NPL).
Art + Activism / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Disonancias
DISONANCIAS is a platform that liaises and promotes relationships between artists and companies, research centres or public organisations in order to foster innovation in all its aspects and transmit to society the importance of developing creative environments.
Calls / Virtual Soil
Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, one of India's leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia. They are a coalition of researchers and practitioners with a commitment towards developing a model of research-practice that is public and creative, in which multiple voices express and render themselves in a variety of forms.
Education / Organizations / Urban/City / Virtual Soil
Kitchen Budapest
Kitchen Budapest, opening in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
Varient Magazine
A free, online journal aiming to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public particularly by the encouragement of the Arts including (but not limited to) the arts of drama, dance, music, singing, literature and visual arts.
Free / Magazines / Virtual Soil
Ephemera: Theory + Politics in Organization
Ephemera is an electronic forum for developing and extending discussions of critical perspectives on organization. It is transdisciplinary and encourages contributions from a broad spectrum of academics, researchers, activists, practitioners, employees and other members of organizations.
Art + Activism / Magazines / Social Practice / Virtual Soil
Radical Education
RAD. EDU is a multiuser weblog system designed to facilitate the communication, collaboration and exchange between participants. A good collections of texts, articles and interviews!
In conjunction:
Exhibition, workshops, discussions in Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2008.
Concept developed by Bojana Piškur & Marjetica Potr?
Adviser: Marta Gregor?i?
Education / Virtual Soil
EUROPOLY
The European Union Identity Trading Game
"Europoly is a research project starting from a game questioning public and private identity of migrants coming to European countries, analyzing chance and demands coming from European Union laws. The project aim is to enlighten the reflection among the human condition in the European Union, due to the enlargement of borders and many contradictions existing within rules and matters of fact.
It is in the intention of the project to make invisible people among us more visible. Raising questions among the opportunities offered by entering the EU and the struggle to match certain requirements imposed by laws, the project doesn't intend to provide any answer or judgment, rather to remind everyone of us that behind systems of laws there are people living their everyday life."
the encyclopaedia of informal education
infed is an open, independent and not-for-profit site put together by a small group of educators with the aim to provide a space for people to explore A-Z theory and practice of informal education and lifelong learning. They encourage educators to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship.
Education / Social Practice / Virtual Soil
A great collection of "Books, Illustrations, Science, History, Visual Materia Obscura and Eclectic Bookart". This is some serious eye candy. Perfect for the starting of the week.
Blogs / Virtual Soil
Skyfarming
Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University, has developed the idea of "vertical farm" skyscrapers. In his theory he speculates about 30-story towers producing fruit, vegetables, and grains while also generating clean energy and purifying wastewater. Roughly 150 such buildings, Despommier estimates, could feed the entire city of New York for a year.
from New York Magazine
Architecture / Magazines / Sustainability / Urban/City / Virtual Soil
The Encyclopedia of the Earth
A new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.
Free / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
BugMeNot
Bypass Compulsory Registration
.. somehow this URL gives a Error 403 message today 04/11/07, but I will leave the info up anyway.
"BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times, YouTube, .. etc)."
The Next Documenta Should Be Curtaed by an Artist
An older project, but due to be archived.
During a conversation between artist Carsten Höller and Jens Hoffman in Stockholm in 2002, right after the opening of Documenta 11, an idea emerged that was based on a discussion around concepts of some of the previous Documenta exhibitions. Towards the end of the meeting one of Höller's remarks was: "I think that it would be challenging development if an artist would be invited to curate Documenta." Based on Höller's idea and formed by the thoughts expressed during the discussion in Sweden grew The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By an Artist.
Artists / Virtual Soil
ART SINCE 1960 (ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET)
Hanne Mugaas and Cory Arcangel are concerned with the Internet and its possibilities for archiving and distributing information. Art history uploaded to the Internet is certainly an alternative one...Based on user generated content, the Internet has become a unique channel of distribution where the responsibility of interpretation lies in the hands of the receiver and his/her ability to sort out and analyze the given information. For this event, Mugaas and Arcangel will sort and collect images, video, and audio from the Internet in order to discern where art and art history on the web is situated right now.
DIY / Homebrew / Free / Virtual Soil
Spring_Alpha
"spring_alpha" is a networked game system set in an industrialised council estate whose inhabitants are attempting to create their own autonomous society in contrast to that of the regime in which they live. The game serves as a "sketch pad" for testing out alternative forms of social practice at both the "narrative" level, in terms of the game story, and at a "code" level, as players are able to re-write the code that runs the simulated world. The basic aim of the game is to change the rules by which the society in that world runs. This is done through hacking and altering the code that simulates that world, creating new types of behaviour and social interaction. How effective this becomes depends on the players' ability to spread these new ideas into the society.
Art + Activism / Social Practice / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Superuse
As the "greening" business flourishes and people start replacing their non-green products with "green" products, what will happen to the flurry of pre-green consumer waste?
Superuse has some ingenious examples of giving disposed products a second or other life.
DIY / Homebrew / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Earth First! Action Reports
Direct Action for People and Planet
"The general principles behind Earth First! are non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants. EF! is not a cohesive group or campaign, but a convenient banner for people who share similar philosophies to work under."
Sustainability / Virtual Soil
New Climates
New Climates is an online exhibition of new and existing artworks responding to the relationship between art, global climate change and networked culture. New Climates takes the form of a continuously-updated and extensive video weblog.
14 artists have been selected to create short web-videos responding to the pervasive discourse and images of the climate change crisis.
Art + Activism / Exhibitions / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
10 Open Education Resources
"The phrase 'open education resources' encompasses several different types of resources, including learning content, tools and implementation resources; and iCommons has developed a short list that contains the major Open Education Resources on the internet.
Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world."
Education / Free / Organizations / Virtual Soil
Polar Produce
Polar Produce is a multidisciplinary group who create interactive media and live art experiences. Based in Bristol, UK the group's work explores the interface between virtual and real environments with particular emphasis on real-time, site-specific and locative experiences.
Artists / Social Practice / Urban/City / Virtual Soil
Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-Hours a Year
From Treehugger...
A cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page. Worldwide, about 25 percent of the monitors currently in use are CRT, which means that they waste energy displaying white backgrounds. Read the stats.
Death and Taxes: 2007
A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go.
"Death and Taxes" is a representational graph of US federal discretionary budget. The poster shows the amount of money that is spent by Congress and aims to generate questions about why US taxes are being used that way.
Templace
Templace.com is an internet-based system that applies the unique potential of web-based databases to cities. The platform is designed as infrastructure that can support and enable the temporary use of vacant space. A series of forums (Pools) allows all parties interested or involved in temporary use to share relevant information resources.
Architecture / Urban/City / Virtual Soil
Czech Dream
Czech Republik
Just got back from ATA (Artists' Television Access), where i saw this amazing film followed by a Q&A round with one of the directors.
"Czech Dream is a documentary about the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-communist society by setting up a consumer hoax. The filmmakers set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for something that didn't exist.
For two weeks, the streets of Prague were saturated with advertising for the fake hypermarket. The ads proclaimed: "Don't Go, Don't Rush, Don't Spend" drawing over 4,000 people to turn up on the 'opening day'. When they arrived at a green field where, instead of a hypermarket, they found just the dream hypermarket's façade."
A network of couches and houses open to travelers.
When you surf a couch, you are a guest at someone's house. They will provide you with some sort of accommodation, a penthouse apartment or maybe a back yard to pitch your tent in. Stays can be as short as a cup of coffee, one night or a few months. When you offer your couch, you have complete control of who visits.
A "vouching" system signifies an elevated level of trust in the community. I wonder when they will add a roster of "longest surfers"...
100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time
"Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.
Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image."
The right time to migrate.?
Where would you go.?
As the world around us seems more and more disoriented, I tend to daydream more than ever before about relocating. Not sure of where I would go, my brain keeps swirling around these three resources:
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a great book, which still expands thanks to contributing readers. Its extensive descriptions let you envision those places with yourself in it. However, for those who need more visual stimulants, Pruned featured both Strange Maps and Drawings on Geology.
Keep on dreaming.!
Mars Greenhouse: Galaxy Gardening
The Mars Greenhouse project is part of the Advanced Life Support system for the mission to Mars. The Mars Dome Project (MDP) is designed to grow plants in an enclosed structure under reduced pressure.
It reminds me of Ken Goldberg's early work: Telegarden
Underskog
Underskog (Underwood) is a blogging community about (sub)cultural events. The idea is simple; people post events, the posts can be read on the front page sorted by the hour. By combining events and place (in this case mainly Oslo) with social software, community members can see which events others would attend. In this way you find the experimental puppet theater or art show that you would otherwise not have found. Underskog has several thousand participants -you cannot join the community, but you can harvest information. Brilliant idea!
Blogs / Organizations / Virtual Soil
The Virtual Activist 2.0
NetAction's self-guided training course shows you how to strategically use technology to enhance grassroots organizing and outreach efforts related to political campaigns and public policy issues.
Education / Free / Virtual Soil
Radical Software, Now and Then
"Information wants to be Free", Stewart Brand
This exhibition will combine artworks, experimental film and video, documentary material and artifacts that trace the countercultural discourse that made Brand's assertion possible: from its early manifestations in the postwar bohemian underground to its adoption as a basic principle by a new generation of artists, hackers, and activists.
Please visit the ever amazing resource:
Radical Software online
Art + Activism / Exhibitions / Magazines / Virtual Soil
Re:Orient
Migrating architectures.
The project explores the local aspects of China's global significance and increasing influence. It seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products.
Architecture / Artists / Virtual Soil
Danube Panorama Project
What if you would pull Danube to a straight line?
The Danube Panorama Project is an experimental approach to photographic mapping and cartography. It's goal is to produce a full panorama of the Danube's river sides by digitally slit-scanning its coastlines, resulting in a unique 'cross section' of contemporary Europe.
via Nextlab
MITOPENCOURSEWARE: Urban Studies and Planning
A free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Visit the main MITOPENCOURSEWARE for more.
Country X
A virtual country without borders that presents an alternative. A place where value can be described by those who need it, rather than those who need to sell it.
"... we do not profess to have all the answers, but we do possess a passion to organise ourselves differently to the current systems of privilege and handicap assumed at birth."
Quiz time.!
Informal ways to elevate our awareness.
The book 'A Field Guide to Sprawl' by Dolores Hayden Jim Wark (Photographer) is a mix between a series of kooky words and pictures of even crazier things done to the American landscape. From 'theconnection.org' you can download the Quiz .
With The Big Here, Kevin Kelly suggests a way to keep track of where we are and what surrounds us.
In 2000, the Union of Concerned Scientist came up with The Great Green Web Game that lets you test your climate, air, water and habitat knowledge.
Last but not least,Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz from the Sustainable Knowledge Network.
Education / Organizations / Virtual Soil
Irrepressible.Info
An Amnesty International Campaign Against Censorship
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
**Undermine censorship by publishing irrepressible fragments of censored material on your own site. The more people take part, the more we can defeat unwarranted censorship and create an unstoppable network of protest
Interrogating the invisible
The InterRepublic Of Hybridia
Maybe you remember the moment when The District of Leistavia was created for ISEA 2004. While this virtual community has been exhibited at several locations worldwide, a new project called 'Interrogating the invisible' has been created and selected for ISEA 2006 in San Jose. The Leistavian Federal Bureau of Information aims to gather statistics on how it is that people connect to their cultural identity by use of an online survey form. The 'Bureau' is looking for people who identify with either one or two cultures, and is interested to know whether there are any differences between those two groups. The survey will be used as a context for gathering data, and the data will be visualised both as still and moving image.
All information is strictly confidential and your feedback would be welcomed.
Organizations / Public Projects / Virtual Soil
Culiblog
Food, Food Culture and the Cultures that Grow our Food.
From Food Security issues to artistic fasting projects Culiblog refers to itself as "a culinary weblog by Debra Solomon, an artist and designer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Architecture Conjecture :Urban Speculation : Landscape Futures
World Seed bank, Largest Diamond Mine, and a Temporary Park are only a few reasons why to visit this blog-- not to mention the beautiful Soil Maps on Feb. 3rd's entry. Go Now!
Architecture / Blogs / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Strange Weather
A new web resource about climate change for artists, writers and activists. Its mission is to provide access to information, images and data by organizing links in a variety of categories, and by archiving links and posts to artworks, projects, exhibitions and publications pertinent to this topic.
McDonald's Video Game
A digital parody of the corportate ecology of McDonalds!
A refreshing use of the online video game medium! This little gift from the makers of the May Day Net Parade: Molleindustria presents the dirty business of corporate culture!
Art + Activism / Education / Virtual Soil
Ecology of Absence
The Biocultural Geography of Abandonment, Deindustrialization & Transition
This project documents the disease of abandonment of the built environment revealing the odd interaction of social and ecological forces that lead people to build, abandon and reclaim buildings and structures.
Architecture / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Architecture 2030
Combat Global Warming
US, Santa Fe
Architecture 2030 was established to conduct research, and provide information and innovative solutions in the fields of architecture and planning, in an effort to address global climate change.
Their new website is part of an ongoing effort, initiated by architect Edward Mazria, to provide information and innovative solutions in the fields of architecture and planning, in an effort to address and reverse the destructive trend toward global climate change.
Architecture / Organizations / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
FarmSubsidy.org
Who gets what from the Common Agricultural Policy
In its infancy, but a worthy effort nonetheless to quantify farm subsidies in Europe.
"This is a collaborative project bringing together journalists and activists from more than ten European countries. The purpose of the site is to publish data about farm subsidy payments obtained under legislation on public access to information."
Project for Urban Intimacy
Urban Parlour Games
In general, The Project for Urban Intimacy is seeking for ways to 'transgress and counter the rationality and efficiency that infect our cities'.
To encourage more intimate forms of interaction, The Project for Urban Intimacy has recreated a set of street games. From the Urban Games website you are able to download materials that will let you take these games "to the streets".
At the moment, PUI has a call for entries for a new project focussed on particpation and interaction among coworkers in office cubicles.
Calls / Public Projects / Virtual Soil
A SF based blog about food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food. Lots of yummy links.
Blogs / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Zerofootprint
A common ground for sustainable commerce
Reducing our ecological footprint is something that starts at a personal level and will only be effective if we come to a truely green commerce worldwide. Øfootprint acts as a link between millions of people and supports the idea that the small changes we make can lead to large results.
Organizations / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
The Obsolescence and Entropy Mobile Research and Investigation Field Centre Vehicle
Thurrock: A Visionary Brief in the Thames Gateway has redefined what is meant by 'culturally-led regeneration'. It is a major programme of new thinking about Thurrock and the Thames Gateway, bringing an international perspective to local, regional and national policy debates around cultural practice in regeneration.
The programme has set out an innovative process for planning and development in the Thames Gateway. It has demonstrated that if culture is interpreted widely, if regeneration is addressed holistically and if a creative process is embedded in planning and decision-making, then it is possible to create truly sustainable communities.
Public Projects / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Gun Gardens
A small website with some nice projects in allotment gardens in Sweden. Their "Network of Gardens" project lacks content , but it a nice effort.
Contribute now: Network of Gardens
This site was created by Lena Ignestam and Christel Lundberg
Artists / Public Projects / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative
By way of Ryan Griffis and Rhizome here is a short presentation of Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative [AUDC].
It is a non-profit organization dedicated to using the tools of architecture to research the role of the individual and the community in the contemporary urban environment.
Architecture / Public Projects / Virtual Soil
Transsiberia
Capturing the Moving Mind
Starting today a group of artists have set off to map and moove from Moscow to Bejing on the Transsiberian Express. Online conferences and a live mediastream will follow them on the way. I imagine there will be quite some holes in the coverage as wireless networks and mobile networks must be scarse in Siberia, but quite a ride.
Public Projects / Virtual Soil
Free Soil at Garage Festival
For the Garage festival 09 Free Soil conducted a site specific research project investigating the environment of the Baltic Sea.
Free Words, Open Source Audio, and 6
Free Words
FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it. 2500 copies have been distributed worldwide.
Open Source Audio
Free Speech Monument
Free / Public Projects / Virtual Soil
The Science of Gardening
Exploratorium's Garden Research
A wonderful online document of art and science of food.
"Plants are expressive, they are not deceptive."-Bob Cannard.
This site documents community garden projects, immune system of kale, compost tea..
Education / Sustainability / Virtual Soil
NYC OASIS
New York City Open Accessible Space Information System
A community-based undertaking, local organizations design and test the first city wide, web-based, open space mapping resource for NYC.
Community Garden locator
BBBike
Open source cyclists information system in Berlin and Brandenburg
It's simple.! If you have up to date wheather information and detailed maps including altitude, ... you can also have a route-finder that takes wind direction and hills into account. How great is that.!
Test it through this web interface.
suRosa
Cultural Intervention
subRosa is a cyberfeminist cell of artists and activists based in several US cities that "combines art, activism, and politics to explore and critique the effects of the intersections of the new information and biotechnologies on women's bodies, lives, and work."
Artists / Exhibitions / Virtual Soil
Purse Lip Square Jaw
blog on new media and urban space
Urban theory and electronic media, quite alive blog
Soil is the vital system which supports growth of plants which supply food and oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide and nitrogen is a foundation of life, ...
You have the Right to Know!
FRUIT takes up the challenge of elevating the ecological knowledge of consumers and encouraging a way of life that is friendly to the environment. We want consumers to be conscious of the entire life of a product, from production to utilization, and not just what they see in the stores. Consumers must be aware that every phase of a product's life influences the environment and ourselves.
Free Soil has produced a run of FRUIT wrappers, a website, and a traveling installation as part of an initiative to inform people about alternative food systems and local food movements. The wrappers are disseminated throughout the food chain by piggybacking on oranges. Information will be carried through the food system and into the hands of consumers. The wrapper holds information on a variety of aspects concerning food movements, transport and urban farming. Get your daily dose!
Rainwater irrigation system at Can Masdeu, Barcelona, Spain.


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'Flight' Of Money: Govt Mulling Proposal To Make Compensation For Flight Cancellation Optional
by Swarajya Staff - Jan 31, 2019 06:01 PM +05:30 IST
Representative image. (ABHIJIT BHATLEKAR/Mint via Getty Images)
The government is considering a proposal that will make it optional for airlines to pay compensation to passengers in the event of a flight cancellation, reports Business Standard (BS). Domestic carriers may be given the option of providing an alternate flight to the passenger if the scheduled flight is cancelled.
Though the civil aviation ministry had earlier in 2018 proposed increased payout for flight cancellations, airlines had objected to the same, citing financial reasons. Currently, passengers are paid anywhere between Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 on top of the ticket cost by the airline.
"A balanced view must be taken while introducing the regulations. While it is good to safeguard consumer interest the government should also consider airlines' financial health and impact the regulations will have on them," said an airline executive to BS.
The government is also considering to mandate airlines provide a 24-hour lock-in period to customers to allow them to either cancel or revise details without additional charge. The Ministry has sought comments from all the stakeholders and is expected to finalise the norms in the coming weeks.
According to a recently released report by air consultancy firm, OAG, AirAsia India and Indigo Airlines are the only Indian air-carriers to be included in the list of top 20 most punctual airlines in 2018 across various categories. Also Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Delhi airports feature in the top 20 airports in various categories of punctuality.
Also Read: Breaking Records With 'Flying' Colours: In A First, Indian Airlines Add Over 100 Aircraft In A Single Year
Domestic Airlines
Flight Ticket Compensation
Flight Cancellation Policy

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Q: Preposition stranding: is it possible to remove preposition altogether? Here is one phrase:

This mayhem is not something to put up with.

Here "put up with" is a complete expression, so I cannot simply drop "with" or "up" from the end.
How about this one, a title for a UI element:

The list to add items to.

Can I drop "to" from the end? Will it still be valid grammar? Will the meaning still be the same?
Similarly:

The dropdown box to select items from.

Can I drop "from" from the above sentence?
Something from a kitchen:

A tray to put fruits on.

Can I just say "A tray to put fruits"? (Yes, I know, a "fruit tray" or a "tray for fruits" would be better, but this is not my question).
Is there a name for this grammar form, where a dangling preposition is dropped?

A: By removing the preposition you'd be turning an intransitive verb into a transitive verb.  This may work in certain cases, because there are some verbs that can either be transitive or intransitive.  However, the transitive and intransitive versions of verbs often have different meanings.  In that case, removing the preposition may result in a valid sentence with a different meaning.
Examples:
The list to add [transitive] items to -> the list to which items are added
The list to add [intransitive] items -> the list whose purpose is adding items
The dropdown box to select [intransitive] items from -> the list from which items can be selected
The dropdown box to select [transitive] items -> the list whose purpose is selecting items
I need someone to talk [intransitive] to -> I require a conversation partner
I need someone to talk [transitive] -> I require that someone speak
The car must not be jumped [intransitive] on -> Don't climb on the car and jump on it
The car must not be jumped [transitive] -> Don't jump start the car/Don't leap over the car
The climbing wall should not be climbed [intransitive] on -> Don't use your hands and feet to move around on the wall
The climbing wall should not be climbed [transitive] -> Don't use your hands and feet to ascend the wall (hey, this one pretty much works!)
Put does not have a transitive sense, so a tray cannot "put fruits."

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There's always a load of garden tools that are just piled up in the corner of the garage. Not only are they not nice to look at but they can also be dangerous if left in the wrong way. So the best thing to do is to put them on a wall rack. A wall rack is easy to make and makes your garage look much more organized. All you need is two wooden boards and a handsaw. You can simply screw the boards in to the wall and place your tools neatly.
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Cast destruction spells multiple times at once.
No permisson needed. You can do anything you want with it.
This plugin offers an ability that allows the player actor to cast hostile spells(no illusion and alteration ones), shoot arrows and shout 3 more times with one release. Use 'help AAAMulticastAbility' to get the Form ID and use 'player.addspell xx000d73' to add it to player character. When player IsWeaponMagicOut=true, three balls(look the same as those in yngol tomb) will appear to serve as extra casting sources: they shoot spells when player does. If player has a combat target, these balls will move towards it to cast spells more efficiently. You can extend it to other actors without much effort, I suppose.
Spell from these balls may hit the player if they are behind it, so I temporarily set player to ghost for a short time to let projectiles pass through.
When the player actor casts spell while it is rotating rapidly and it has no combat target, projetiles from the balls may not fly towards the crosshair, because I update the target marker of spells from these balls periodically, and the updating process may not catch up(If I prepare the aim when spell is cast, there will be significant delay).
I have difficulty to let these balls move along a smooth trajectory, TranslateTo functions only allows them to move along straight lines. What I want is to let them move along curves, like circles.
I want to let EffectShaders play on those balls when player is preparing to cast, but those shaders won't work on them.
Sometimes the balls will disappear(try walk across doors in qasmoke), I guess this is related to LOD things, but I just don't know how to fix it.
I don't know how to get the number of words used when shouting(there is a conditional function called GetCurrentShoutVariation, but how to use it in script?), so only the first spell is cast by the balls when shouting.
When the balls change position when they are casting Concentration spells with Flame type projectiles(such as Flames and Frostbite), the projectiles will come from their old positions. Those with Beam type projectiles will be fine(such as Sparks). I don't know how to decide the projectile type in Papyrus, so I just let the orbs to stop translating when one of a few predetermined spells(Flames, Wall of Flames, etc.) is being cast.
I would be very grateful if you would provide better ways to implement these.
Remove the ability(player.removespell),save game, replace files,load game,add spell,save again.
A quicker way: you can replace files first, then load game->remove/addspell->save game. I do this all the time.
Smoother movements. The visual effect of the balls will be set to match current selected spells(fire, ice, lightning, etc.). Two balls for each hand. Arrows shot by balls will match current equipped arrows(only for vanilla arrows). No longer invalidates cloak spells.
Thanks for Aydoo's hint, concentration spells will not damage player anymore(but will still be blocked and player will still make groan sounds).
Aiming improved again. Reduced interference between successive casts.
Aiming improved. Add a lesser power(AAAMulticastSwitch) to add/remove the ability. Responds better to shouts(use elapsed time to decide which spell to fire).


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VICE News Daily: Beyond The Headlines – November 10, 2014
Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Protest held in Barcelona against unofficial vote on Catalonia's independence from Spain, protesters burn door of Mexico's National Palace over news that dozens of missing university students were killed, coalition air strikes in Iraq may or may not have injured or killed the Islamic State's top leader, and Syrian children demand to go to school after the Islamic State shut theirs down. SPAIN Catalan Referendum Meets Resistance Far-right protesters burned flags and chanted fascist slogans in Barcelona on Sunday as a million people turned out to participate in the symbolic vote. MEXICO Heightened Tensions Following News of Missing Students' Deaths A group of angry protesters set fire to the wooden door of the National Palace in Mexico City on Saturday. IRAQ Condition of Islamic State Leader Unclear Following Air Strikes Coalition air strikes near the city of Mosul targeted senior members of the group, but details surrounding the fate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are still murky. SYRIA Children Demand Their School is Reopened The Islamic State has reportedly shut down schools to review and amend curriculum to include more religious studies. Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
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Don Broco
[Search & Destroy Records]
Everyone loves a bit of catchy pop-punk from time to time, and Don Broco have offered some of the tastiest tracks of that variety to come from 2012 so far. The album opens up with title track 'Priorities', a great punchy start with lyrics that everyone can relate too… You know that friend that always ditches you as soon as they have a new partner? Well 'Priorities' is a tongue-in –cheek, patronizing outlook on those kinds of people.
In fact, Rob Damiani's lyrics are a very matter of fact interpretation of trivial trials and tribulations that go on in every day life. Despite being so straight forward, the words aren't just brushed away; they are easy to connect with making Don Broco's album more engaging as a whole. However, there are also flashes of maturity with 'Back In The Day' commenting on the London riots. With similar intonation to Lower Than Atlantis's Mike Duce (but with less of the arrogance and greater charm) Rob's vocals add depth to 'Priorities'.
Tracks such as 'In My World' are upbeat and uplifting, the guitar work could be compared to early Kids In Glass Houses whereas songs like 'Actors' sway more towards the punk side of pop and reflect bands like Transit, Title Fight and The Story So Far.
Full credit should be given to Don Broco for producing a truly pleasing album. With forthcoming festival appearances (including Reading & Leeds) and a UK tour with The Dangerous Summer, expect Don Broco to hit the big time right away.
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package net.systran.platform.resources.client.auth;

import java.util.Map;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;

public class HttpBasicAuth implements Authentication {
  private String username;
  private String password;

  public String getUsername() {
    return username;
  }

  public void setUsername(String username) {
    this.username = username;
  }

  public String getPassword() {
    return password;
  }

  public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
  }

  @Override
  public void applyToParams(Map<String, Object> queryParams, Map<String, String> headerParams) {
    String str = (username == null ? "" : username) + ":" + (password == null ? "" : password);
    try {
      headerParams.put("Authorization", "Basic " + DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(str.getBytes("UTF-8")));
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }
}

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PlayGround is the fuel of hip-hop. This musical app enables artists to leverage their fan-base by letting them remix tunes with style and harmony. Behind this relationship where fans and artists interact together, PlayGround disturbs the industry by offering a unique opportunity to create, distribute and consume music. This presentation will demonstrate how PlayGround achieves this goal and will showcase its seamless music engine.


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The Informed Illustrator
Information on Illustration Ideation, Execution, & Publication from an Illustrator's Perspective.
The Digital Illustration Edge
When it comes to creating illustrated imagery, one type of element that is important in every illustration, and is often taken for granted is an edge. In the non-digital illustration world edges are created by the physical use of an art material, but in the digital world, edges must be created in a virtual way to simulate a non-digital visual appearance. Image software programs like Adobe Photoshop provide both automated and user defined ways to manipulate an edge. So, as is the case with every aspect of a digital image, the illustrator has the ability to influence the look of edges in their work. It's helpful to know how digital edges are rendered and displayed.
A good explanation of anti-aliasing begins with a good description of display aliasing. Basically, aliasing is a jagged or stair-step appearance that is caused by a lack of resolution either by restrictions in a hardware device, such as a display, or file size limitations in a raster-based document. Anti-aliasing is the technique software designers have adapted to reduce or eliminate jagged edges by fooling the eye of the viewer. This is done by creating a diminishing series of shading steps between the edges of adjacent colors. See Below. Anti-aliasing is also referred to as "smoothing".
Closeup of aliased stair step in red, anti-aliased smoothing in blue.
Aliased mountain rendering. © 2012 Don Arday.
Anti-aliased mountain rendering. © 2012 Don Arday.
Closeup of the anti-aliased edge of a rose petal.
Anti-aliasing occurs through the interpolation of picture elements, "pixels". Think of interpolation as swapping and sharing. To improve the digital visual appearance of an image on our monitor the technique of interpolation is used. Let's refer to the data in an image as a sample. To make the image display better, the computer converts the image to a higher sample by using filtering techniques like anti-aliasing. It may be no coincidence that the word interpolation bears a resemblance to interpretation, because that is sort of what occurs within anti-aliasing. The software in the case of a document, or the computer video card in the case of the display, interprets the color relationships when attempting to create a smooth transition between one color and another to render edge pixels. This generally occurs automatically, but illustrators can use manual methods to control the appearance of edges within their illustrations.
Dithering is often confused with anti-aliasing, but it is actually something quite different. Dithering most often occurs in color image situations where colors in an image are out of the range of the colors available in an image display or output device. When this occurs the software program creates the unavailable color by mixing other colors that are available. For example, dithering can occurs when a particular web browser does not support a specified color. The browser will then attempt to mix the requested color by "dithering" pixels by using a combination of other colors it can produce. Although usually invisible to the naked eye, dithering is done in the same manner as "noise" is, (see below) and like noise, it can appear slightly grainy in the extreme.
Some Manual Techniques
Feathering
Feathering is the softening of edges of adjacent shapes and colors within an image beyond the standard level of interpolation. Adobe Photoshop gives you the option to feathering selection edges in an image. A feathered edge results in increased edge blurring and a lowering of edge contrast between colors. With feathering, the artist has the ability to control the number of pixels to be included in a feathered edge. The result of feathering is similar to that of Gaussian blur. (See below.)
Using Gaussian blur, or any of the other blur options in raster programs, means to force adjacent colors to drift into one and other creating a smoother edge transition. Colors in a Gaussian blur drift in a randomly distributed, non-linear manner. A motion blur option of the Gaussian blur limits the random color distribution to a particular direction. Blur can be used to redefine edges, and it can also be used to control the amount of focus in an image.
Gaussian blur applied to complimentary colors.
Gaussian blur closeup.
Although a controllable option in Photoshop, and a very useful one, noise, and specifically random pixel noise is not necessarily thought of a s a good thing. Pixel noise is an unnatural, or unwanted, variation of value or color information in an image. Noise has a tendency to degrade sharp edges within an image by producing a scattered effect of random colored pixels. So a yellow flower against a blue sky may end up with blue pixels mixed among the yellow ones. And the flower and the blue sky might both have red pixels scattered in as well. See below. Photographers generally find noise to be very disturbing, however for the illustrator it may help to produce a desired, even naturalistic color effect. Noise is best applied as a final stage before publishing an illustration. And once saved an illustration that has had noise added is permanently altered, so it is always best to save your illustration prior to using noise, then save the noise applied version as a separate file.
Noise applied. Note the addition of other color pixels to the original pair
of complimentary colors.
Noise closeup.
The three techniques discussed above can produce a smoothing appearance to an edge, but they also degrade its sharpness. Using a sharpening filter or "Unsharp Mask" in Photoshop can give the appearance of actually sharpening edges. Sharpen filters identify where dark and light edges meet in an image, and add contrast to those edges. The filter does this by creating an even darker line along the edge of a dark shape, and also a lighter line on the edge of an adjacent light shape. Unsharp Mask tends to move edges away from an anti-aliased appearance, and taken to far, sharpening can produce a very unnatural looking halo around shapes. See below. Sharpening like noise is best applied as a final stage before publishing an illustration.
Edge sharpening applied. Note the increased contrast at the edges of
the two colors.
Edge sharpening closeup.
There are also some techniques in Photoshop for working with edges that rely on methods of selection like "Refine Edge" and "Fringe", but the result of any of those actions uses the above basic methods of rendering.
By understanding how digital image edges are rendered and by using these manual options for refining them, you will have greater control over the appearance of your illustration either in print or on the monitor.
Posted by The Informed Illustrator at 6:46 AM
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Ocean City, Maryland is a prime destination for family friendly fun, and finding a great hotel on a budget is easy. The three-mile boardwalk made The Travel Channel's list of Top 10 Great Boardwalks in America, and beach activities abound from the Family Beach Olympics to Movies on the Beach. Affordable hotels are plentiful, from the Holiday Inn to the Sleep Inn and Suites. Ready to visit Ocean City to see what all the hype is about? Use this guide as your launching point for finding a cheap place to stay and affordable fun in this Maryland gem.
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Further north, guests enjoy serene beach access without the boardwalk bustle. Hotels like the Holiday Inn Ocean City MD and Coastal Palms Inn & Suites put visitors close to this quieter beach area. The Fenwick Inn* is just a short drive from Fenwick Island State Park, a three-mile barrier island that's well-separated from tourist crowds found elsewhere.
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Around a hundred room share and home rental options on Airbnb offer travelers the opportunity to combine the comforts of home with a beachfront vacation. Private rooms are comparable to local hotels in price. Home rentals are just a little more, but offer the added convenience of a private kitchen for preparing cheap meals in. Room shares are not the best option for last-minute hotels in Ocean City, MD, as the best options book up fast. Plan ahead to score spacious homes at unbeatable deals.
For an extra special vacation, book a home that has room for you and your whole family -- plus some friends -- to crash. You can rent a beachside wonder for a few hundred dollars a night and enjoy being steps away from the music of the surf and the sensation of sand between your toes.
Ocean City, Maryland is popular for its beaches, so the summer season from Memorial Day to Labor Day is busy and pricey. Schedule a visit in the shoulder season before or after this period for better prices. In May and October, the average high is near 70, so visitors can still enjoy a stroll on the beach, or lay out on a pool deck and soak up some sun.
Hotels offer their lowest prices during the winter, when visitors can get cheap hotels in Ocean City near the boardwalk at a bargain. While the views are still nice, many shops and attractions close their doors for the winter, so travelers should consider their schedules carefully to determine whether it's worth the deal to brave temperatures ranging from the upper 20s to mid 40s between December and February.
The Salisbury-Ocean City: Wicomico Regional Airport is the closest option for Ocean City visitors. US Airways services this airport, with direct flights to and from the Philadelphia International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Through these major hubs, travelers can connect to points worldwide.
Avis, Enterprise, and Hertz rental car agencies are on hand at the Salisbury-Ocean City airport. Taxi services are available as well. The airport is approximately 40 minutes from Ocean City, Maryland.


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As Vice President and Managing Director of ABC-Amega's International business unit, Riki-Lee is responsible for the development of new business opportunities with prospective and existing international clients and oversees international operations. With 15 years of industry experience, her previous roles at ABC-Amega include time as the Director of Sales and Service and the Director of Global Customer Care. Riki-Lee also manages ABC-Amega's Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. We recently sat down with Riki-Lee to discuss her career.
Q: What is your educational background?
A: I have a B.A. in French from the University at Buffalo, and supporting coursework in international relations. I also have D.E.U.G. from the Université de La Rochelle in France.
Q: How did you get into the credit and collections industry?
A: After I graduated from the University at Buffalo, I was looking for a job where I could use my degree and foreign language skills. At that time, there weren't many opportunities to do that locally unless you were going into the education field. The very first job opening that came up during my search was for a French collections representative at ABC-Amega. I was hired and started my career in the International department here. So, like many people, I came into this field in a roundabout way. I think part two of this question is, "why have you stayed in this industry?" For me, it's specifically because of the opportunities that I've had at ABC-Amega. I've been fortunate to find a great place to work, with incredibly talented, passionate, and hardworking colleagues.
Q: What have you found to be the most rewarding aspect of working in the industry?
A: I've found it really rewarding to work with clients, affiliates, and prospects around the world, from all different backgrounds and cultures. I've come to appreciate and value how people in our industry contribute to fostering a better economy and a better way of life for companies and people that are doing business internationally.
Q: What are the biggest challenges you face as a credit professional?
A: There can be a lot of pressure placed on people in credit – they play a critical role in decisions that directly impact their company's bottom line. People in credit have to bring many skills to the table in order to be successful, consistently finding creative solutions to make sales and customer relationships work. Bringing people together using those skills – diplomacy, negotiation, intuition – can be a challenge, but also very rewarding when your company and your customers succeed together.
Q: What are some of the ways the collections industry has changed over the years?
A: Like many industries, there is a continuing drive to deliver better results, more quickly, for less cost, and with less risk. To do this, we're now relying on complex financial reporting that synthesizes large amounts of data, enabling us to make better decisions. This has removed some of the human components of credit as it used to be – with all the art and instinct behind it – and is increasingly replacing it with the science of AI and big data. In my view, both are equally powerful and necessary for achieving successful outcomes. The implication we see today and in the future is that the business model of successful companies will unify client's needs for increasingly complex analytics, with human-centered customer service and results.
Q: In which ways do you think the industry could or should improve?
A: The workforce in our industry has become more diverse, but we still have more work to do in this area. We need more women and more diversity in our leadership roles. Recruiting and retaining diverse talent will make everyone in our industry better. I would also like to see more formalized education and credentials available as a direct career path to the credit profession.
Q: Since this is International Women's Month, what advice would you give women who are interested in getting into the industry?
A: Find a company that recognizes your value and wants to invest in you. Seek out development opportunities – mentoring, education, industry groups, networking events. Your company should be helping you or encouraging you to find and participate in these opportunities. Look for women leaders that you admire and ask them for advice or to mentor you. They were once new in their careers also and probably had other amazing women help them along their journey. They will be happy to pay it forward to you!
Did you enjoy this interview? Read about other Women In Credit that we have interviewed!
Mary Hotvedt – Credit Manager at Waupaca Foundry
Tina Hoffman – Director of Member Group Services, ABC-Amega, Inc.
More Than a Collector – Gwen Brooks: Manager of North America Customer Financial Services, Federal-Mogul Powertrain
A Bloody Good Career in Credit – Rose Cross: Supervisor, Credit & Collections, STERIS Corporation
ABC-Amega's Vice President of Legal Collections, Tracey Wild is Available to Assist Vice President of Legal Collections, ABC-Amega, Inc.
Driving a Successful Career – Michele Gerst: Vice President of Global Outsourcing, ABC-Amega, Inc.
Learning About a Career in Credit – Ada Zhang: Overseas Operator, Gladtrust Management
Mastering a Career in Credit – Juliana Brownell: International Credit Manager, Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Credit in The City – Krista Cappadocia: Dispute Resolution Specialist, Wave Financial
Defaulting Into a Credit Career – Christine Lipani: Senior Manager of Credit and Collections at Meredith Corporation
Women in Credit – Beatriz Leon
Getting Personal About Credit and Collections – Amanda Cortes: Customer Relations Department Manager, ClaimFox
C'est la vie in Credit – Madeleine Féquière: Corporate Credit Chief, Domtar
The Search Results Led to a Career in Credit – Vanina Negri, Collections Manager, Google
Getting to Know ABC's Tammy Osborne Regional Vice President, Southern
Fashioning a Career in Credit – Sheri Loulache: Collections Supervisor, Optos
Sold on a Career in Credit – Lisa Tanner: Director of Global Credit and Collection, Nidec Motor Corporation
Taking a Mulligan Into Credit – Jackie Mulligan: North American Credit Operations Manager, Procter and Gamble (P&G)
Knowing the Why Behind the How – Virginia Sheflin: Vice President of Outsourcing, ABC-Amega, Inc.
Processing a Career in Credit – Deborah Montgomery: President, Larr & Associates


There are many reasons to install a fence around your property: to mark your boundary, to keep your children and pets in and others' children and pets out, for privacy and for security. Different types of fences offer different levels of security and privacy. Wooden fences are an affordable option that offer high aesthetic appeal and privacy. If you're going to install a wooden fence, the following are important installation, care and maintenance tips you should know.
Your fence must be able to withstand all weather conditions. Your choice of wood and pre-treatment for protection is therefore very important. Pressure-treated pine, redwood and cedar are three woods that provide adequate protection from elemental damage, rotting and insect infestation. Other choices include white oak, black locust and tropical hardwoods.
Wooden fence posts should be installed 6-8 feet apart depending on the design and height of fence. There will be horizontal rails connecting the vertical slats in between posts. The cost of your fence largely depends on the amount of lumber used. Reducing the spaces between posts will increase the projected cost of material purchase and installation. However, it will give better structural integrity and privacy.
Fencing parts should be assembled using weather-resistant fasteners, e.g. stainless steel or hot-dipped and galvanized screws and nails. To reduce how much you have to do, you can get ready-to-install panels from your nearest lumberyard. However, ensure that the prefabricated panels are made of the woods mentioned above, or else be prepared to treat them prior to installation. Also, prefab fences come in a limited number of designs.
You can choose between painting and staining the fence. Painting is both advantageous and disadvantageous: a new coat of paint gives an instant facelift to your property, while an old, peeling coat is unsightly. If you choose to paint, factor in the time and expense related to repainting, which can be as often as annually depending on the type of paint chosen. Before every paint job, you'll need to sand and scrape the old paint off before priming and repainting.Buy the highest-quality paint that you can afford so the job lasts longer.
Semi-transparent staining is an alternative to a full paint job: it is less intensive and easier to maintain. Redwood and cedar fences are rot- and insect-resistant naturally, so they can be left unpainted. Over time, they will weather into a soft, greyish colour. However, applying wood preservative annually will protect posts and slats from cracks and splits.
Outdoor woodwork should not be finished with clear topcoats – exposure to the elements will cause the finish to blister and break in an unsightly way. To redo, you'll have to sand it out and redo everything, including your paint job underneath.
For more information and tips, contact a local fencing company.


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Avoid Victoria Station! That's what Southern is telling Brighton and Hove commuters as they head for home
Posted On 30 Apr 2015 at 6:54 pm
Brighton and Hove commuters are being advised to steer clear of Victoria Station this afternoon (Thursday 30 April).
Passengers look as though they will suffer similar disruption, delays and cancellations in the evening rush hour as they did this morning.
The hold-ups are the result of a power failure in the Clapham Junction area. Train company Southern apologised for the problems that passengers were suffering as a result and said that Network Rail was trying to rectify it as quickly as possible.
Crowd control measures were promised at Victoria.
Many commuters were expected to try setting off for home from London Bridge instead where a modernisation of the station is taking place. This has also led to crowd control measures being brought in over the past few months.
Looks like things are building up at #londonbridge good luck all x #southernrail pic.twitter.com/F3RlsO3gwS
— Sterling Morrison (@I_Hate_Southern) April 30, 2015
Network Rail said: "Due to a power failure between Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction this morning there will be major disruption to Southern and Gatwick Express services to and from Victoria for the rest of the day.
"Services to and from London Bridge will also be impacted.
"Network Rail is in the process of repairing the damaged power supply rail and services will continue to be disrupted while this is taking place.
"We expect there to be disruption to services with delays, cancellations and short-notice alterations during this evening's peak. This is because trains and train crews will be out of place.
"We are sorry for the disruption to your journey.
"At Victoria Station the entrance on to Buckingham Palace Road may be closed and the whole of the station is likely to be very busy with a queuing system in place for services on platforms 15 to 19 and other platforms being busier than usual.
"London Bridge is expected to be very busy this evening.
"Passengers are advised where possible to avoid using London Victoria and use London Blackfriars and London Waterloo.
"Passengers' tickets will be accepted on
Brighton and Hove Buses on any reasonable route
London Buses on any reasonable route
London Overground services on any reasonable route
London Underground services on any reasonable route
Thameslink services between Brighton and London
"Please check nationalrail.co.uk for the latest updates."
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WATCH: Iza Calzado And Ben Wintle's Tear-Jerking Wedding Video
'You and me. Unbreakable' the couple promised to each other
by Khatrina Bonagua | Jan 13, 2019
IMAGE Pat Dy Bob Nicolas
Iza Calzado and Ben Wintle's dreamy nuptials, held on December 19, was immortalized through a wedding video by videographer Bob Nicolas. The video was released Saturday night, January 12.
The 8-minute film, which Nicolas aptly titled "Ben Wintle and Iza Calzado– Wedding In Paradise," features the highlights of the couple's romantic sunset wedding ceremony at Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan. Snapshots from Iza and Ben's fiesta-themed welcome dinner for their guests were also included.
The tear-jerking video started with footage from the ceremony when the officiant asked the crowd to say a prayer for Iza's late parents.
"Before we continue, may I request a moment of silence to pray for the souls of Iza's mother, Mary Ann, and father, Lito, who would have loved to have been here today and are now the couple's allies in heaven," the wedding officiant said.
For those who don't know, Iza's parents, Maria Antonia "Mary Ann" Ussher and director/choreographer Lito Calzado, both succumbed to cancer. Her mom passed away in 2001, while her dad, 2011.
The video also showed Iza walking down the aisle looking radiant in her custom Rajo Laurel gown, Karylle's speech during the pre-wedding party, and Ben's funny moments with his groomsmen. Of course, the couple's sweet vows to each other were also shown.
"I just want to take this time to honor your parents for raising such a wonderful man," Iza began her speech. "I am grateful to be marrying your son, but I am equally grateful that I have now found a new family who has loved and accepted me from day one. I'm so lucky."
"Beautiful, beautiful Iza. It was love at first sight for me." Ben began his vow. "But it has been our strength and grace in tougher times that has made me believe that our relationship is forever."
"You and me. Unbreakable," the couple promised to each other.
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FAQ: What Yoga Pose Addresses Tensor Fascia Latae?
1 How do I stretch my tensor fasciae latae?
2 What is the action of tensor fascia latae TFL )?
3 How do you treat tensor fasciae latae pain?
4 Can you pull your tensor fasciae latae?
5 Does stretching release fascia?
6 Where does the tensor fasciae latae insertion?
7 What is the fascia lata?
8 What does tensor fascia latae mean?
9 How long does it take for TfL to heal?
10 What does hip flexor pain feel like?
11 How is tensor fasciae latae diagnosed?
How do I stretch my tensor fasciae latae?
The most effective stretch for the TFL is in the knee-down hip flexor stretch (see figure 4). If you are stretching the left TFL: Kneel on the left knee with the right leg at 90 degrees hip flexion and knee flexion. Push the left hip forward until the slack is taken up (this takes up the flexion component).
What is the action of tensor fascia latae TFL )?
Though small in size, the TFL works with several muscle groups to assist in movement and stabilization of both the hip and the knee. It works with the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus to internally rotate and abduct the hip and with the gluteus maximus via the IT band to abduct the hip.
How do you treat tensor fasciae latae pain?
TFL stork standing stretch: Then while standing on one leg, slowly bend toward the wall. Keep your leg still and bend the torso. You should feel tension force over your TFL. Hold it for 15 – 20 seconds.
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Can you pull your tensor fasciae latae?
Tensor fascia latae, also known as TFL is found on the outside of the hip running down up to the knee. It is a small muscle that stabilises the hip and pelvis. An injury to the TFL is due to a tear or strain in the muscle.
Does stretching release fascia?
Stretching that elongates your muscles can help you release tension in your muscles, which is one element of fascia, explains Grayson Wickham, physical therapist, DPT, CSCS.
Where does the tensor fasciae latae insertion?
Tensor fasciae latae is found superficial in the anterolateral aspect of the thigh, spanning from the anterior portion of the iliac crest to the superior portion of the tibia, onto which it inserts via the iliotibial tract.
What is the fascia lata?
The fascia lata (FL) is a fascial plane that surrounds the deep tissues of the thigh. It varies in thickness throughout its course from the hip to the leg. It receives fibers from gluteus maximus and tensor fascia lata (TFL) laterally.
What does tensor fascia latae mean?
The Tensor fascia latae (TFL) is a fusiform muscle enclosed between two layers of fascia lata with a length of 15cm approximately and overlying the gluteus minimus and some part of the gluteus medius. It's myotomes is fourth lumbar nerve root (L4).
How long does it take for TfL to heal?
Depending on the severity of the injury, it may take 1-6 weeks for a hip flexor injury to heal. Minor injuries typically require 1-3 weeks of recovery time, while more severe muscle tears can take 4-6 weeks or longer. Untreated severe injuries may take even longer or cause chronic pain.
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What does hip flexor pain feel like?
Symptoms of hip flexor strain sudden, sharp pain in the hip or pelvis after trauma to the area. a cramping or clenching sensation in the muscles of the upper leg area. the upper leg feeling tender and sore. loss of strength in the front of the groin along with a tugging sensation.
How is tensor fasciae latae diagnosed?
The Ober's test evaluates a tight, contracted or inflamed Tensor Fasciae Latae (TFL) and Iliotibial band (ITB). The Ober's test must not be confounded with Noble's test and the Renne test, two other tests that are commonly used to detect iliotibial band syndrome.