Speaking to Otago farmers in drought affected areas today, Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton encouraged them to take up the Government's offer of funding to improve management of scarce water resources.
The Contestable Water Studies Fund was established to enable water feasibility studies to occur in drought prone areas. AGMARDT and Government have set up the Fund with a $2 million contribution, in partnership with a one-third contribution from community groups.
"Applications are encouraged from community groups consisting of farmers, service agencies, agribusinesses, district and regional councils in Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago and Northern Southland. The main requirement is community backing to promote the better use or development of water resources in the area."
"Applications do not need to be on a grand scale but they do need to show how the information obtained will be made available to the community and how the proposal will be adopted if successful."
Of the 17 applications received so far, two have already been approved and 15 others have been initiated to submit more information. Inquiries have been received from the Hawkdun area of Central Otago, East Otago, North and South Canterbury. The high quality of the two proposals approved, reflects the value of a good consultation process, extensive farmer and community input.
Mr Luxton said he appreciated the drought, accentuated by declining commodity prices, had brought financial difficulty and stress and he hoped communities would be able to overcome those hurdles and make the most of the scheme.
"I encourage those in affected areas to take up the Government's funding offer to mitigate the impacts of drought through careful use of our land and water resources," Mr Luxton said.
Guidelines for making an application to the Fund are available on the website www.agmardt.org.nz, or by contacting Susan Christie, AGMARDT, PO Box 399, Shortland Street, Auckland.


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Class sizes are deliberately kept small with usually only from four to ten students and occasionally to an absolute maximum of twelve. This ensures that in-depth tuition and individual attention is always maintained with the result that no-one will feel left out, lost, out of their depth or struggling alone.
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You are advised to check with your airline as to which items you are allowed to bring, particularly if you wish to bring some as hand luggage. Easels, stools, drawing board and cleaning materials are all provided. You may wish to bring your own personal equipment (i.e. drawing pads, pencils, soft pencils, pastels, charcoal brushes etc.) although sufficient materials to complete the course are all supplied by Dalvaro Art.
Whether you are an experienced artist or just beginning your painting adventure, a Dalvaro Art painting course will give you the individual attention that you deserve. All our tutors are fully experienced in teaching students of different levels in various media. You will be taught in the studio and in situ, at various locations just a short drive from the studio. Each location will be different and will include landscape or architectural views.
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Designed for leader led groups or for the artist who does not wish to be tied to a structured course or timetable, or equally for those, non-painters, who just wish to wind down and relax.
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This 'art break' is an extremely comfortable stay in Dolores's hillside, colonial styled, villa, overlooking the town of Beniganim and the Valle D'Albaida, where the only decisions you have to make are what to do to relax. The opportunity is here for you to practice your own style of art as and when you wish. Talk art or just relax by the pool. Relax, refresh and rejuvenate body and mind with new friends or be alone.
Remember we never have more than twelve people at any one time. Meals are taken as a group, but the rest of the time is yours. You can, as some people do, stay within the confines of the landscaped grounds, there are many secluded seating areas, to read or sketch, or take the occasional stroll down to the town. Excursions to Xativa castle, Valencia City or the surrounding area can sometimes be arranged. You should realize that this area is rural Spain, therefore, totally unspoiled as far as tourism is concerned. So, if you plan to travel around on your own, car hire from the airport is advised.
If you do not like the idea of being 'alone' why not come as a party of friends or part of an art club group and enjoy our substantial group discounts.
The villa is well situated for walking, hiking cycling, photography etc. particularly for any non-painting partners.


Have to disagree with your take on The Great Wall. What you found silly I found visually beautiful. If there is one thing the film does extremely well is represent the scope of its story.
But more than that, I think you are misrepresenting the story. It's actually entrenched in a familiar style of storytelling, and the story itself comes out of ancient Chinese lore. What you found silly actually holds a great deal of importance in that cultural expression and oral tradition, and the way they incorporate Damon actually works to highlight the tradition of the story (rather than treading careful ground in painting him as a hero).
I loved the way the film highlighted a more Eastern interpretation of storytelling, and the way the story itself highlighted the Chinese culture and an important story within their culture.
I have to disagree with your take on The Great Wall.
On one level, what found silly I found beautiful to watch on the big screen. If the film gets one thing right (and I think it gets more), it is scope.
At the same time, I think you are missing the context for the story itself. The film is entrenched in an Eastern style of storytelling, which I found refreshing. Further, the story itself actually comes from an important oral tradition in Chinese culture, and the way it uses this to bring us into this culture's history and expression was quite good. The story would not come across as silly in that context, and in-fact has been told for many years. It was refreshing to listen to a story from a different perspective than the familiar Western tropes, and even though they cast Damon, the film actually uses him to highlight the stories Eastern influences.


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One line that keeps popping up from people who use Swipe is that "you can't make something ugly in Swipe." We're flattered and we definitely think that, by using our Markdown slides, you can forget about designing and just focus on what you want to say.
We've had hundreds of thousands of Markdown slides created or uploaded to Swipe and it's been such a pleasure to see how you're using this specific part of our product. While Markdown might sound intimidating, like you're writing code, it's actually an incredibly simple way to write HTML that anyone can learn in minutes.
On top of that, we've now added the tools that will make it possible to build Markdown slides in Swipe without knowing anything about Markdown.
We've learned a lot about building great text editors while we went through a few iterations of Fiddle. Your feedback on the old Swipe editor and Fiddle really helped shape the new Swipe Markdown editor. It's a lot quicker than before, it's a lot simpler, it feels more natural, and it's designed to let you build beautiful decks in minutes.
One of the big main points in the past iteration was related to how long it took to preview slides, since you had to save a slide and then view your deck to see any changes. You were essentially forced to create and edit blindly.
We're thrilled to release slide previews in the Markdown editor, that show you what changes you've made to the slides in real time. As you type, add slides, or change the color scheme, you'll instantly see the changes reflected in the thumbnails on the right side of the screen.
A big surprise when we released our Markdown slides was to see many of you learn Markdown for the first time just to be able to create your slides in Markdown in Swipe. When we built Fiddle, we experimented with a lot of options for helping you write faster with Markdown and the syntax helper really sped up people's writing.
You'll find the syntax helper in the top toolbar. Please let us know if it helps you build your slides faster and if you have any ideas on how to improve it!
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We've added 6 new templates, inspired by movies we love. We also added a button in the top toolbar called "templates" that puts all of them one click away. Just expand the templates bar and pick your favorite. Copy and paste the codes or press insert. You can always read more about our templates and fonts we support if you want to get a little more creative! Let us know what you think of the new templates and the new templates bar.
If you just logged in, you don't have to click "edit" to change your markdown slides or create new ones. Simply click the thumbnail and click or tap the slide preview that opens up. You'll be taken straight into the edit mode for that slide. If you want to add a new slide right after it, just hit the "slide" button in the toolbar or insert "*" after the current slide you're editing. Once you hit save, the new slide will be added right after the one you're editing. We hope this makes it even quicker to make changes on the go or adding to your deck, please let us know what you think!
We could build a long list of specific changes regarding the new Markdown editor, but there's a few key ones that you've asked for for a long time and we're happy to finally bring them to you.
Once you build a deck, we add the style you declared at the top of the deck on each slide that didn't have a different style declared. A lot of you were disappointed that once you built your deck and went to edit a specific slide, it would lose the colors and fonts that you previously declared. That won't happen anymore as each slide is built to inherit the style initially declared, which makes editing a whole lot more convenient.
The addition of a "More" menu in the toolbar gives you the option to download all your Markdown slides as one Markdown file, access our templates and fonts pages, and the help pages for Markdown.
Centering text has been widely requested by you and we've added the ability to center your text and images with a simple command. You'll find the "center" button in the top toolbar while you're editing or creating. Make sure you selected what you'd like to center to make sure it works.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants the Senate Agriculture Committee to hold a hearing on his livestock marketing bill. Grassley and other senators want to better understand the price collapse for cattle when COVID-19 hit, even though beef prices soared. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called on Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., to hold a hearing on the bill that he and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., have introduced to force changes in cattle pricing, and also said President Donald Trump should muzzle White House aide Peter Navarro, whose comments have caused chaos in the financial markets.
"The concern I hear from Iowa farmers the last couple months is that the coronavirus has put them on the edge of bankruptcy," Grassley told rural reporters in his weekly call on Tuesday. "Beef producers are having trouble getting a bid on their cattle," he added.
Grassley said his bill, which would require that a minimum of 50% of a meat packer's weekly volume of beef slaughter be purchased on the open or spot market, should have a hearing and either be passed out of committee on its own or be added to a bill to reauthorize mandatory livestock price reporting.
But Grassley added that Roberts opposes his bill. Grassley said he believes there is a majority on the committee who would vote in favor of his bill, but that he fears there will be efforts to reauthorize mandatory livestock price reporting through an omnibus bill so there will be opportunity to add his bill as an amendment.
"I am looking for every opportunity to get this done. These farmers are hurting," Grassley said. "There is no reason this should be controversial at all. We've just got to get it moving.
"The opposition is from the big packers," he added.
A spokesperson for Roberts did not respond to a request for comment.
Grassley also said that Trump "ought to put a bunch of cotton" in the mouth of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, adding the president could "put a sock" in Navarro's mouth to keep him "from speaking publicly."
Grassley made the comments after Navarro told Fox News on Monday that the trade deal with China was "over." Navarro later walked back his remarks and Trump tweeted, "The China Trade Deal is fully intact. Hopefully they will continue to live up to the terms of the Agreement!"
Grassley said the China phase one deal "won't fall through because it's critical for the farmers and Trump knows it."
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Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have led a bipartisan letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today asking him to streamline regulations "to remove barriers impeding small and medium-sized meat processors."
The letter was endorsed by the U.S. Cattlemen's Association.
"The U.S. Cattlemen's Association supports increased competition in the meatpacking sector by increasing the opportunities for independent processors to succeed," said Kenny Graner, a North Dakota rancher and USCA past president. "Until we address these arbitrary barriers to entry for new competitors, we will continue to see a meatpacking industry dominated by a handful of foreign-owned companies."
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Superior Court Justice Paul Perell said the issue is the doctor's "abundance of caution and apprehensive misunderstanding" of the medically-assisted dying legislation put in place a year ago.
To be reasonably foreseeable, the person's natural death doesn't have be imminent or within a specific time frame or be the result of a terminal condition, he said.
"The legislation is intended to apply to a person who is "on a trajectory toward death because he or she a) has a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability; b) is in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability; and c) is enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable," he said.
AB's case clearly qualifies as she is an "almost 80-year-old woman in an advanced stated of incurable, irreversible, worsening illness with excruciating pain and no quality of life," he said.
She was diagnosed with osteoarthritis when she was 43 and the pain got progressively worse over her life. By 2015 the pain for which she takes fentanyl and morphine became unbearable — she could not sit up at a table and often woke up screaming in pain.
AB's lawyer Andrew Faith says the court's decision is a relief for his client and hopes her physician will have the reassurance he needs.
He also hopes the decision will bring much-needed clarity for other doctors with patients in similar circumstances.
It is quite clear now that we are not talking about specific time-frames like six months or a year, says Shanaaz Gokool, the CEO of Dying with Dignity.
"The government has said repeatedly you don't have to have to be terminally ill, you don't have to have a time frame, the prognosis that you have doesn't have to be what leads to your natural death,' she said.
Gokool says there remains a shortage of doctors and nurse-practitioners who are involved in medical assistance in dying and hopes this decision will provide some comfort for both patients and doctors.
Gokool has come to know AB over the past few months and says she admires her determination and her perseverance.
In the decision, Perell said that his declaration would not interfere with prosecutorial discretion as argued by the Crown and will not exempt a medical professional from following the criteria laid out in the legislation.


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Paul Kremer, 44, a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Optique, started his career in 1984 in the optronics systems division of French national aerospace research center ONERA. In 1997 he joined the management team at Snecma's rocket engine division, as head of preparation and coordination of strategic initiatives for the space sector. Paul Kremer moved to Hispano-Suiza, another Snecma company (now SAFRAN Group), in 2000, as production manager in the power transmission division. From 2003 to this latest appointment, he was Hispano-Suiza vice president, strategy, research & technology and external communications.
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Can you believe this? A goddamn middle class family moved in down the street. Middle class! They inherited the house from Yule Umlaut, who made his fortune in steel. Having no heirs, Yule deeded the majority of his estate to the G.O.P., the National Rifle Association, and various militias. But in an odd fit of generosity, he left his gorgeous mansion to his very middle class personal secretary and her family. Lucky me.
Don't get me wrong; I hate the middle class. Absolutely despise them. They're dirty, uneducated, have horrible taste, and invariably smell bad. But they are good for two things: being easily duped on election day and a willingness to work their entire lives for men like me, only to wind up with nothing while I retire on the lap of luxury.


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The KARES Network allows people to search for resources available in a community and register to get help.
KARES, an online resource database, now available in Somerset-Pulaski County
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SPEDA and City of Somerset partner on effort to make community's housing, job, childcare and recovery resources easily accessible in one place
A new online resource database connecting people in need to housing, jobs, child care and recovery programs in Somerset-Pulaski County is now available to the community.
The Kentucky Area Resources network — or KARES — is an innovative tool for collecting and searching resources available in a community. The City of Somerset and the Somerset-Pulaski Economic Development Authority (SPEDA) partnered to fund the website in response to conversations with community partners about how to address issues of homelessness and addiction in Somerset-Pulaski County.
KARES will include information about services available for everything from alcohol and drug abuse counseling, school resource, government assistance, transportation, housing, child care and more.
Somerset Mayor Alan Keck said while an online resource database like KARES is only one step in addressing challenges like homelessness and addiction, it is an important one: Being able to quickly and easily find help for someone in need could change the trajectory of someone's life.
"The more we understand about one another and the services we provide, the more effective we can be in working together to tackle homelessness and addiction in our community," Keck said. "We've made some important strides during the last year by bringing community partners to the table to better understand how each of them contributes to the cause. With the KARES network as a tool, we can now pool our resources and have help at our fingertips when we encounter someone in need."
Aaron Poynter, director for reentry programming for the Cumberlands Workforce Development Board, developed the idea for KARES during the COVID-19 pandemic as it became increasingly difficult to keep a current list of resources in the 10-county area he serves.
"We are fortunate in our state and region to have so many resources for individuals that offer a hand up rather than a handout," Poynter said.
But through his work, Poynter soon discovered individuals in need are often unaware of the help available to them. And interestingly, organizations providing resources often don't know about one another.
"And that's a huge problem," Poynter said.
So Poynter contacted a technology company that helped him build KARES, a website that collects information about resources available in a given community and offers a search mechanism for those seeking help. The website's calls to action — explore or get help — give community members an easy way to find resources in the database 24 hours a day.
Organizations interested in being listed on the KARES network should e-mail Poynter at aaron@lcadd.org.
Poynter launched the KARES project in Russell County as a pilot, and it was a huge success for its workforce and community, he said. He has since launched the network in Barren, Hart, Adair, Monroe, and now Pulaski counties, and intends to take the network statewide.
SPEDA President and CEO Chris Girdler said to take a truly holistic approach to economic development, one must support programs for people from every walk of life. SPEDA is committed to doing so in an effort to improve the quality of life and livelihoods of others in Somerset-Pulaski County, he said.
"Whether through our community's inmate reentry training program or now the KARES Network, SPEDA puts a high value on programs that offer support to anyone who wants to improve themselves or the lives of others," Girdler said. "This is how we build a strong workforce and a quality of life that is second to none. I applaud Aaron's efforts to make lending a hand a little easier in our community by collecting all resources in one digital space. SPEDA is proud to be a partner in this effort."
To find or register a resource in Somerset-Pulaski County, visit https://www.kares.us/ and select "Explore resources by county."
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Links on the Lake: Triple Treat in McCormick
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Bob is a former sports writer at Columbia's The State newspaper. He enjoys golf at South Carolina's 350-plus courses, and after a round, sampling craft beers from the Palmetto State's breweries.
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Hickory Knob State Park Golf Course offers golfers a challenging layout on the waters of Lake Thurmond Reservoir.
There's an old saying that fits the small town of McCormick, located on South Carolina's "left coast" of Lake Thurmond: It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. Most travelers don't stumble upon McCormick; you have to be going there.
Now, there's a great reason for golfers to do that - three of them, in fact.
The year-old "Links on the Lake" golf package, which includes rounds of golf each at Hickory Knob State Resort Park's golf course and Savannah Lakes' Tara and Monticello courses, plus two nights' accommodations at Hickory Knob and breakfast both days, is a sweet deal at $199. And individually, the three golf courses are off-the-beaten-path gems, each of which would be worth the trip.
Start with Hickory Knob, a 1982 design by Greenville-based architect Tom Jackson (who also built South Carolina's other state park course at Cheraw). Head professional Mike Tarver, a 23-year veteran at Hickory Knob, has seen annual rounds slip from 30,000 a year to about 17,000 due to the addition of more courses in the area and, of course, the recession. But that means unhurried golf in a beautiful setting along Lake Thurmond.
The two nines are distinctive thanks to a large ridge that runs through the front - especially notable at the severely uphill par-5 second and par-4 fourth holes and the downhill par-3 sixth - while the back nine features more gently rolling terrain. Tarver's favorite hole is the par-4 14th, with its generous fairway and large green, and the course's three-hole finish incorporates the lake on each hole, especially the testing par-4 18th, which demands a precise tee shot followed by a carry over water to the green.
Savannah Lakes, once a private development, is now open for public play. Tara is visually spectacular, starting out with four steeply uphill holes before returning to the double-green ninth (and 18th) holes. A particular challenge is the par-5 16th, sweeping downhill and then climbing a seeming mountain to the bunkered, elevated green. Monticello is longer and tougher, with more lakefront holes, and hosts an annual NGA Tour tournament played immediately following the Masters in Augusta, about 40 miles away.
"We're sort of in the middle of nowhere, but people who play here can't believe it is public," Tarver said. "They tell us, 'If this was in Atlanta, you'd pay $75-$80.'"
Combining with the Savannah Lakes courses has only made Hickory Knob an even better deal, especially for a golf getaway. For information on the "Links on the Lake" package visit SouthCarolinaParks.com.
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w je jeden ze základních příkazů operačního systému Unix. Slouží k zobrazení seznamu přihlášených uživatelů.

Program zobrazí terminál přihlašovacího shellu (TTY), označení počítače, z něhož jsou přihlášeni (jen u vzdálených přihlášení), čas přihlášení (LOGIN@), čas od poslední zaznamenané aktivity uživatele (IDLE) a dva časy (JCPU je čas skutečného běhu všech existujících procesů na dané konzoli, PCPU je čas běhu procesu z posledního sloupce). Všechny časy, není-li určeno jinak, jdou v minutách. Poslední sloupec ukazuje jméno aktuálně prováděného příkazu (běžícího na popředí).

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Příkaz w vznikl v dobách, kdy všechny programy byly textové a uživatelé se systémem komunikovali převážně jen pomocí shellu. Proto program zobrazoval uživatele podle záznamů, jež vytvářejí procesy getty a login v souboru /var/run/utmp a preferuje procesy běžící na popředí (tj. ty které používají terminál pro svůj interaktivní vstup a výstup).

Současnost
V současnosti, kdy většina uživatelů používá graficky orientovaných aplikací na platformě X-Window mohou být některé údaje zavádějící a jiné neúplné. Za prvé je zcela dobrovolné zda proces s funkcí původního přihlašovacího shellu (správce interaktivního terminálu) zaznamená svou existenci do /var/run/utmp, což je soubor, z něhož program w čerpá další informace.

Ukázka
Ukázka výstupu programu w:

 $ w
  11:12am up 608 day(s), 19:56,  6 users,  load average: 0.36, 0.36, 0.37
  User     tty       login@  idle  what
  smithj   pts/5      8:52am       w
  jonesm   pts/23    20Apr06    28 -bash
  harry    pts/18     9:01am     9 pine
  peterb   pts/19    21Apr06       emacs -nw html/index.html
  janetmcq pts/8     10:12am 3days -csh
  singh    pts/12    16Apr06  5:29 /usr/bin/perl -w perl/test/program.pl

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Quick Take for Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings)
ABC spins the numbers for Tuesday, July 22.
ABC Wins Tuesday Among Adults 18-49 and Stands as the Night's No. 1 Net Across All Key Men Demos for the 6th Time in the Last 7 Weeks
"Wipeout" Dominates its 8pm Time Slot in Viewers and Young Adults, Qualifies as Tuesday's No. 1 TV Show in Adults 18-49 and Hits Series Highs in Teens and Kids
"I Survived a Japanese Game Show" Improves ABC's Performance By Nearly 1.0 Million Viewers and by 16% in Adults 18-49 Year to Year
ABC News' "Primetime: Family Secrets" is No. 1 in the 10pm Hour With Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54, Posting Increases Over the Net's Year-Ago Performances
Tuesday Night (8:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC's Tuesday lineup of "Wipeout," "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" and "Primetime: Family Secrets" attracted 7.4 million viewers and a 2.7 rating, 8 share in Adults 18-49, leading the night in the key young adult demographic. The Net also won the night in each of the key Men demographics: Men 18-34 (1.8/7), Men 18-49 (2.3/8) and Men 25-54 (2.7/8). In fact, it was the 6th time in the last 7 weeks that ABC has been No. 1 on Tuesday night across all key men demos.
�	Compared to the same night last year, ABC improved its Tuesday performance by 1.6 million viewers and by 35% in Adults 18-49 (5.8 million & 2.0/7 in Adults 18-49 on 7/24/07).
"Wipeout" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
ABC's "Wipeout" dominated Tuesday's 8 o'clock hour, winning its slot in Viewers, all key Adults and Kids. "Wipeout" outperformed its nearest competitor in the hour by 1.4 million viewers (9.9 million vs. 8.5 million - CBS) and by 100% in Adults 18-49 (3.6/12 vs. 1.8/6 � NBC).
�	"Wipeout" stood as Tuesday's No. 1 TV program among Adults 18-34 (3.0/11) and Adults 18-49 (3.6/12). For the 4th time in its 5 airings, "Wipeout" ranked as the night's No. 1 program among Men 18-49 (3.3/12) and Men 25-54 (3.8/12).
�	"Wipeout" was up week to week by 1.2 million viewers and by 13% in Adults 18-49 (8.7 million and 3.2/11 on 7/15/08). In addition, the new ABC unscripted series hit series highs in Teens 12-17 (2.7/11) and Kids 2-11 (3.4/13).
"I Survived a Japanese Game Show" (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Opposite stiff competition including CBS' "Big Brother" and NBC's "America's Got Talent," ABC's "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" took second place in the 9 o'clock hour among Adults 18-49 (2.2/6) and Adults 18-34 (2.0/7).
�	"I Survived a Japanese Game Show" was up over ABC's performance in the hour over the same night last year (7/24/07 with an original of "Shaq's Big Challenge") by nearly 1.0 million viewers (5.7 million vs. 4.8 million) and by 16% in Adults 18-49 (2.2/6 vs. 1.9/6).
"Primetime: Family Secrets" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
The season's second airing of ABC News' "Primetime: Family Secrets" saw the newsmagazine win the final hour of primetime in Adults 18-49 (2.2/7) and Adults 25-54 (2.8/8).
�	On average in the hour, "Primetime: Family Secrets" is seeing increases of 13% in Total Viewers (6.8 million vs. 6.0 million) and 9% in Adults 18-49 (2.4/7 vs. 2.2/7) over the same nights last year (7/17 � 7/24/07).
A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating trends based on the Live + Same Day data stream may be somewhat distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped from 17% at the same point in 2006-07, up to 25% currently. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.
Source: Nielsen Media Research (Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings), 7/22/08.
[july 2008]
· AMERICA'S GOT TALENT (NBC)
· BIG BROTHER (CBS)
· I SURVIVED A JAPANESE GAME SHOW (ABC)
· PRIMETIME: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? (ABC)
· SHAQ'S BIG CHALLENGE (ABC)
· WIPEOUT (TBS)


Welcome to Dog Law Web site (version 1.0) from Nolo, Justia and Little Sheba the Hug Pug. This first set of resources have been put together by Nolo's Mary Randolph. Sheba and her team will be adding additional information in the coming weeks and months with additional resources and information for pups and peeps.
Dangerous Dogs includes information about - dangerous dog laws, criminal penalties for owners of dangerous dogs, and breed-specific restrictions.


10th_$19,000, mdn cl, 3YO up F&M, 7½f, tf., clear.
Off 6:16. Time 1:29.89. Firm. Scratched_Miss Lady Vargas, Better Vibes, Rate of Return. Also Ran_C C's Freedom, You Cant Catch Her, Allez Allez, J P's Rose, Money Purse, Alexandras Joy, Magna Paciencia, Queen Smart, Damaska. $0.2 Pick 6 Jackpot (4-6-2-2-4-5/10/14/15) 6 Correct Paid $1,484.80. $0.5 Pick 5 (6-2-2-4-5/10/14/15) 5 Correct Paid $234.45, 4 Correct Paid $4.95. $0.5 Pick 4 (2-2-4-5/10/14/15) 4 Correct Paid $62.80. $0.5 Pick 3 (2-4-5/10/14/15) 3 Correct Paid $13.50. Roulette (RED) paid $4.80. $1 Daily Double (4-5) paid $9.50. $1 Exacta (5-7) paid $5.90. $0.1 Superfecta (5-7-8-9) paid $10.04. $0.5 Trifecta (5-7-8) paid $6.55. $6,913,268.35.


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The Anchorage campaign put local transgender people front and center in the campaign, its leadership, its ads — some of the most trans-inclusive ads ever used in a political campaign — and its messaging. We didn't shy away from the other side's focus on "bathroom predator" myths, we confronted them directly.
To stop the horrific attacks on transgender people being launched all across the country, the key is to empower trans leaders and trans voices to tell their stories so that the general public can get to know transgender people. Trans people are our neighbors and our friends. When the public sees that, we win.


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package org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.web;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;

/**
 * Factory for creating a separate management context when the management web server is
 * running on a different port to the main application.
 *
 * @author Andy Wilkinson
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ManagementContextFactory {

	/**
	 * Create the management application context.
	 * @param parent the parent context
	 * @param configurationClasses the configuration classes
	 * @return a configured application context
	 */
	ConfigurableApplicationContext createManagementContext(ApplicationContext parent,
			Class<?>... configurationClasses);

}

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QSS is an interdisciplinary program that provides its students with both technical skills, concentrated in statistics and computing, and a grounding in a social science. Alumni who have studied in QSS, which prior to 2015 was named the Program in Mathematical Social Sciences, have built on their Dartmouth careers with activities that cover the map, ranging from university teaching to research, law, business, medicine, public service, and a variety of individualized careers.
Below you will find narratives from program alumni, describing their post-Dartmouth activities. The variety of these undertakings illustrates the breadth of the QSS curriculum and the creativity of the Dartmouth students who have studied in the program.
I am currently an Associate at L.E.K. Consulting's Boston office, where my colleagues and I collaborate with teams across the country to help companies and non-profits solve their business strategy questions. At work, I use the research skills I developed while working on my QSS thesis to efficiently gather data and understand its implications. So far, I have found the transition into my role much easier than it may have been, since the QSS major's coursework and my thesis had already exposed me to the imprecisions and nuances of data collection.
I am starting in late September as a Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company in Dubai and will then move to the firm's Washington, DC office after one year. At McKinsey, I will be consulting for corporations, governments, and non-profits to help them with tasks such as improving operations, launching new product lines, or completing organizational transformations. I previously worked for McKinsey as a Winter Business Analyst Intern over Winter 2017. During that internship, I used my QSS experience in statistical analysis and data wrangling everyday, and was put in charge of the primary quantitative analysis for a public sector transformational study. With my QSS experience, I conducted my own statistical analyses and effectively communicated the results to my team and to the clients. McKinsey's quantitative focus was a big reason why I chose to return to the firm full-time, and I intend to use the skills I developed through the QSS major in my daily work.
I am working in Boston in the Analyst Development Program at Liberty Mutual Insurance. As an insurance company, Liberty possesses massive amounts of data, and this role gives me the opportunity to apply much of what I learned in QSS including statistical analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization. My work revolves around tackling complex quantitative questions and communicating my results effectively, and the QSS minor played a big part in preparing me for this job.
Since late June, I've been working as a Senior Research Support Associate at the MIT Election and Data Science Lab (MEDSL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The lab focuses on collecting, managing, and disseminating election data at various levels going back decades, as well assessing U.S. election administration. I use my coding and analytical skills learned through the QSS major on a daily basis. For one project, I've been creating a dataset for state office races from the 2016 election, for which I've pulled datasets from state websites, found efficient ways to turn them into usable form, and further cleaned and prepared them for release. In other cases, I've analyzed and visualized data on the quality of state-level maintenance of voter lists, as well as examined over time trends in voting wait times and what might shape these experiences for voters. Lastly, I've begun to take/audit quantitative methods courses at MIT, for which QSS's math, coding, and econometrics requirements have prepared me immensely. Apart from the job, I've continued refining several undergrad research projects in QSS-related areas, and recently presented my QSS honors thesis research at a political science conference.
I am working as a Technical Account Manager at a startup, LinkIt!, in the education technology sector in New York City. The company specializes in data warehousing, assessment solutions, and analytics for K-12 schools and districts made up of schools. Only a few weeks into the job, I am already managing over forty clients, each a New Jersey school district with between hundreds and thousands of students. My job involves providing pre-sale demo and pilot set up, onboarding clients through a customizable integration and implementation process, and serving as a liaison between clients, partners, and our product development and data teams. We use SQL to manage the data, so I spend a lot of time writing and adapting SQL scripts to overcome clients' obstacles as they arise.
QSS endowed me with the social, technical, and organizational skills needed to thrive in a professional role that is both client facing and analytical/technical. I encourage any student with an interest in QSS, startups, or living in the city to reach out to me with questions or just to chat.
I am working as a Database Analyst at Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) in Arlington, Virginia. The company works with major organizations to help them understand their data and, in turn, make data-driven decisions. As an intern at APT last summer, I worked with a leading insurance provider to automate their data feeds. My present role sits between software engineers and consultants; I simultaneously work internally with databases and interface directly with clients. QSS showed me how to handle this hybrid—not only how to ingest sets of big data but also how to communicate the real-world implications of data. This attention to skillsets enabled me to serve as the lone database analyst on a client team last summer, and I look forward to further applying the skills in learned in QSS in my full-time role at APT.
I'm currently working in D.C. as a Business Consultant for Applied Predictive Technologies, a data analytics software company owned by Mastercard, after interning there my junior winter. I also interned in the summer as an Investment Banking Analyst for J.P. Morgan. My role involves a combination of database coding, statistical analysis, and client communication. The skills I gained as a QSS major have been extremely applicable to my current role—having experience working with real data has given me an understanding of the challenges associated with data work and how to think about solving these problems. Studying QSS also provided me with a strong background in statistics, which has helped give me confidence when communicating with clients and answering questions about methodology.
I'm working as an Applied Data Scientist on the health care team at Civis Analytics. I use programming languages that I learned through my QSS minor like R and Python in my everyday work, and I constantly apply the skills I learned from my QSS data visualization class to present data in an understandable format. My work mainly consists of analyzing large amounts of data to answer client questions, such as predicting who is likely to lack health insurance. The work is both challenging and engaging, and I wouldn't be where I am without my QSS minor.
I just started at The Oregonian for the summer as a data reporting intern. I'm still figuring out my exact project assignments, but the first few days I've been looking into government salary data and have felt very prepared thanks to the QSS program. I think the work overall might skew a bit more towards Python and my computer science background, but the ability to think critically about data and how it might answer and reveal certain questions has certainly been an advantage in journalism that I've learned from the minor.
I graduated in 2016 before QSS began to grow. I had a great experience taking Data Visualization (QSS 16) on a whim my senior year with Professor Horiuchi. I took this class because it was recommended to me by a friend, who ad told me that learning R was a great decision she made in college to prepare her for her career in investment banking. The skills I learned in QSS 16 are by far my most used skills in my job as an Associate Consultant at Keystone Strategy, a consulting firm where I started working in 2016 after graduation. Keystone specializes in strategy and economic consulting in the tech industry and my office is in Boston. At Keystone, my role has ranged from valuing the user base of a social media company to analyzing the source code for a videogame publisher. Working with large tech companies in a consulting role, my Keystone colleagues and I are constantly met with the challenge of handling large amounts of data and presenting insights derived from it in a compelling way. The QSS department's focus on these challenges prepared me well to perform in my career after graduating from Dartmouth.
I may be a bit of an outlier here in that I neither majored nor minored in QSS and actually only took one QSS class during my entire time at Dartmouth. That one class was Sports Analytics (the first time it was ever offered), co-taught by Professor Herron and President Hanlon during my senior fall (15F). Personally, I came into the term dabbling with the thought of exploring a career in sports analytics and was hoping that this class would help me decide if that was a path I'd realistically enjoy. The course ended up providing clarity on that front and being more rewarding than I could have ever expected.
While attending the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the end of the term with Professor Herron and President Hanlon, I was fortunate to connect with some representatives from the Cleveland Indians (MLB). After a few conversations and interviews, I was offered a business analytics position working with their Business Strategy team. A year and a half of honing my analytical skills with the Indians (and dealing with the ups and downs of a World Series loss) prepared me to pursue my dream of working for my favorite sports team, the Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL). The foundational knowledge I gained from the Sports Analytics class, coupled with my experience with the Indians, allowed me to land the business analytics job I'd been hoping for. Now working as a Data Systems Analyst with the Lightning, I'm using advanced statistical modelling to aid key business processes, such as dynamic ticket pricing and sales forecasting.
Working for a professional sports team has always been a career dream of mine, but I'd be lying if I said I expected it as my first job out of college. However, I have never felt out of place. Today I'm using the same analytical techniques, probabilistic modelling, and data handling practices that I picked up in QSS. Beyond the content I learned during the ten weeks of Sports Analytics, I'm even more grateful for the doors it has opened for me. Despite having taken only one QSS class, I can safely say that the department has changed my life for the better.
I'm working at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP on their corporate startup team. KTS is mostly known for their IP and patent work, so it's interesting to be on a smaller team within the firm that is doing something different from everyone else. We work with a lot of Bay Area startups, mostly medical device companies that need help with forming a company and finding funding opportunities. So far I'm really enjoying it - the corporate team is pretty small, so I've been given a good bit of responsibility and am definitely learning a lot. I'm mostly doing a lot of formations (which is honestly just a lot of paperwork), but in the end I'm transforming a guy with an idea into an actual company, which I think is pretty cool. We work with a lot of UCSF and Stanford professors and grad students, so a lot of the technology we get to see is pretty amazing.
I did an MA in Statistics at Berkeley and am now working as a Business Analytics Associate at ZS Associates, a sales and marketing consulting firm, in their New York office.
I am currently an MD-PhD student in the MSTP program at Case Western Reserve University. My PhD work is in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics where my research focuses on the association between increased market penetration of novel healthcare delivery systems and changes in population health. The QSS program (or the artist formerly known as MSS) was instrumental in helping me develop both analytical and critical thinking skills. The encouragement to develop a strong foundation in statistical methods while simultaneously pursuing studies in social science theory and application helped prepare me for my graduate school work and for my career moving forward.
The MSS program equipped me with a rigorous data-driven framework to think about exciting yet puzzling empirical questions in the business world. I am currently a PhD student at MIT focusing on venture capital and entrepreneurship — a career path I decided to pursue after doing a fascinating networks-based research project in a MSS class. I'm so thankful for the MSS experience at Dartmouth!
I had the incredible experience of teaching two MSS courses at Dartmouth in the Fall of 2011, and I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I have just started work as a Senior Data Scientist at RedOwl Analytics, a Baltimore-based startup that is developing a software product that performs sophisticated social network analysis for our corporate customers. My focus is on natural language processing, but our core product is very much in line with the social network analysis research and coursework that I completed as part of my MSS degree nearly ten years ago! It's amazing how impactful the MSS curriculum has been on my career thus far.


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Stellar source
House that runs on solar power takes part in international competition
Marcos de Oliveira
Issue # 167
EnergySustainability
Brazil Consortium Architectural illustration showing a side view of the Flex Solar House, designed for Brazil's range of different climatesBrazil Consortium
A hammock on the veranda is to be the most visible Brazilian differential in the Casa Solar Flex [Flex Solar House], a home designed and built by a consortium of six universities that is self-sufficient in terms of electric energy, entirely drawn from sunrays. The house has been entered into the Solar Decathlon Europe to be held next June, in Madrid, Spain, a competition among universities from nine countries that is being held in Europe for the first time. The four preceding competitions, the American Solar Decathlons, were held in the US and organized by the US Department of Energy (DOE), which is also involved with organizing the event in Europe. The Decathlons' aims are to show society that one can live sustainably, to expand knowledge in the field of solar energy, and to train professionals in this type of technology. The competitive show is open to the public and includes visits to the interior of the houses, which helps to disseminate the use of solar power to produce electric energy.
This will be the first time that a team from South America has taken part in the Decathlon. The challenges are huge. As in a sports decathlon, the competitors are put through 10 tests. What guarantees that points are not lost is energy sustainability, which must cover all the lighting and power required for all electronic devices in the house. It is also necessary to maintain thermal comfort inside the house, i.e., a suitable temperature. The Brazilian project has been under development for more than one year and takes into account the competition's rules and requirements.
We were invited to take part in the competition by Professor José Manuel Páez Borrallo, vice-president of the Madrid Polytechnic University, who visited the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in August of 2008. "The group of researchers that was present representing the universities at that time decided to form a consortium to combine their skills and share costs," explains the general coordinator of the project, Professor Adnei Melges de Andrade, deputy director of IEE, the Electrotechnics and Energy Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP). "Afterwards, while still in 2008, we held a competition among architecture students from Brazilian universities to get an autonomous, attractive, functional and sustainable house, suitable for construction in different types of Brazilian climates, ranging from cold to hot, from dry to humid, from Rio Grande do Sul to Ceará," Andrade tells us. The group is hoping that it can be reproduced in the future, possibly by a company, with the aim of having it set up in isolated places, such as the Amazon Region. It would be set aside for sustainable tourism to ensure that the presence of humans in a given locale did not have an impact on the environment.
Seventeen projects were presented in this competition, and a jury comprising three Brazilian architects and two Spanish ones chose four winners. The first and third places went to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) , while the second place went to the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). The third place, however, involved a draw and was shared with a project from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). The winners formed a team that took the best features of each project and prepared a final design. A large multidisciplinary team was then formed, with more than 100 members, including mainly undergraduate architecture students, but also engineering, design, marketing and journalism students, besides two PhD candidates, one in architecture and the other in civil engineering. The students were from the six universities that formed the Brazil Consortium (USP, UFSC, Unicamp, UFRGS, UFRJ and the Federal University of Minas Gerais/UFMG), and were coordinated by one or more professors from these institutions. The construction of the house is to start in January 2010 at USP's Cidade Universitária campus in São Paulo City, within the IEE area, where the house will be assembled and tested. In April, it will be dismantled and shipped by sea to Spain. There, in early June, it is to be put together again over a ten-day span, in preparation for the competition?s opening on the 18th.
Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar DecathlonSolar panels distributed in two different ways: vertically, in such a way that they can be moved, and fixed, on the roofStefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
The Brazilian house has a floor area of 43 sq. m and is to be installed in a 74 sq. m area. It has no foundations and will be anchored at 50 cm from the ground. It is entirely flexible, in the sense that one can easily change the internal area, which has partitions made from reforested timber, this being one of the requirements of the competition regulations, based on sustainable production concepts. It also has interchangeable metal window and door frames. There is only one area reserved for the kitchen and the bathroom. On the outside, the house will have multiple slats that will regulate sunrays and ventilation. One of the house's innovations concerns part of its solar panels. Installed vertically, they can be automatically moved to the three sides of the house where the sun is strongest during the course of the day. On the roof, the panels are horizontal and fixed. One of the competition's rules requires that these devices be acquired in the market, to show the project's feasibility. The Brazilian house is to hold 64 panels, of which 48 will be on its roof. Jointly, they will generate 15 kilowatts (kW) of total installed power when the Sun is at its midday peak. "We're negotiating with the companies that resell these panels in Brazil," says Andrade. To date, there are no manufacturers of this type of equipment in the country.
The European competition is to present an innovation that is a world trend when it comes to solar energy. The electricity of the solar panels will be injected into the power grid of Madrid. Thus, the local power distribution company gets the electricity generated during the course of the day and supplies the house during those hours when it cannot produce any power. "There are two meters, one for the house's energy output and the other for the intake which will keep the house supplied. This energy equilibrium or balance is part of one of the tests, the one that concerns energy sustainability, specifically," explains Lucas Sabino Dias, an architecture student at UFSC. In the US competition, held in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2009, the house was entirely self-sufficient, the solar power that it captured being stored in large batteries, reminiscent of car batteries (which are expensive and take up room) for nighttime use.
Among the tasks related to power consumption, some are odd, such as a dinner party that the team must throw for six guests from the other countries' teams. The menu is yet to be defined. Trivial functions are also covered by the regulations, such as warming 60 liters of water twice a day. This simulates the hygiene needs of the house's theoretical inhabitants. "However, what really counts is innovation and sustainability, which stand for points on almost all the tests," Andrade explains. Another of the Brazilian team's innovations for the house is using a layer of paraffin in the wooden walls to keep the temperature between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius, one of the competition's rules. The paraffin, which is to be encapsulated within microspheres and incorporated into the house's plaster, changes state depending on the temperature. During the day, the sun liquefies it, as a result of which it absorbs heat and keeps the temperature inside the house agreeable. At night, when the temperature is lower, it solidifies, releasing head and warming up the rooms. "We will also use water in the walls, floor and ceiling. Water also absorbs and releases heat, thanks to a process called thermal inertia," explains Professor Roberto Lamberts, from UFSC, the project's technical coordinator. Still, despite all this, the house will also boast an air-conditioning system to regulate the temperature, as determined by the competition's rules.
General control
The house will also have a residential automation system to enable several operations, such as opening and closing the outside slats, controlling via an electronic panel the amount of electricity being drawn in and how much energy has to be used or saved, among other functions. The software for this control system is ready and the group is currently engaged in negotiations with a São Paulo automation firm. The structure of the house also involves an innovation, the use of extended timber, meaning that the beams have a steel cable running through them. This makes it feasible to use less wood, which counts for points when it comes to sustainability.
Readymade solutions are also included in the design of the house, such as dry bathrooms, in which excrement is heated and transformed into powder. This equipment is Swedish and accepted by the European Union. Home appliances such as a TV set, air conditioner, refrigerator, cooker, washing machine and dishwasher will also be purchased in the market. "The lighting will rely on LEDs, which use less power," says Lamberts. The hammock to relax in is to be purchased from an NGO or a community that produces such materials manually.
Jim Tetro/U.S. Department of EnergyFrom the University of Wisconsin, USAJim Tetro/U.S. Department of Energy
Fundamental support
19 teams from 9 countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia have already registered for the Madrid competition. The country with the largest number of representatives is Spain, with 6 teams, followed by Germany, with 4, France and the US, with 2 each, and Brazil, Mexico, China, Finland and England with one each. In the last two competitions in the US, in 2007 and 2009, the winner was the University of Darmstadt in Germany, which is not competing this year. For the European competition, each team gets a grant of – 100 thousand (roughly equal to R$255 thousand), from the Spanish Ministry of Housing to cover part of their expenses. The total cost of the undertaking is substantial: R$3.5 million to R$4 million.
By December, in addition to the Spanish grant, the Brazilian project found funding in the amount of R$1.5 million from Eletrobras and R$500 from Petrobras. Therefore, half of the funds required for the house to make it all the way to Madrid. "The shortage of cash limits a lot of things and we need to get further aid in a very soon. I compare the Decathlon with a Formula 1 Grand Prix car, rather than with a regular car," comments Professor Roberto Lamberts. "We're still running the risk of not making it to Madrid," he says. Just transporting the house by sea and the delivery truck to the Spanish capital, which is in the interior of the country, costs some US$200 thousand, or almost 20% of the entire budget.
One cannot rely on the support of the research foundations or science and technology promotion agencies because this type of event cannot be made to fit any of their programs. Therefore, the group will have to resort to support from companies and from other levels of the federal and state administration. "We have already got help for the trips from Capes, the Coordinating Office for the Training of Personnel with Higher Education, as well as from the Foreign Ministry, which is providing logistical support and putting people up at Casa do Brasil [Brazil House] in Madrid for the preparatory meetings," Andrade tells us. In May 2009, nine students and three professors went to Spain to settle the details of the project and to become acquainted with the site of the event. "This support will also be fundamental to export the house and to bring it back later." Capes is considering a support project to pay the expenses of the 36 Brazilians (students and professors) that are to attend the competition in Spain.
Vila Solar, the site of the exhibition and competition, will be in a park near the headquarters of the Spanish government. "During the days of the competition, from June 18 to 27 of 2010, a meeting of the prime ministers of the EU is scheduled to take place in Madrid, and they are expected to visit the solar houses," says Professor Adnei Andrade. "The Spanish government is hoping to exceed the 100 thousand visitor mark achieved at the last Decathlon in Washington, USA."
Another aspect of the large team that has formed around the Flex Solar House project is the academic mobility of the 11 undergraduate students (7 from UFSC, 2 from UFRGS and 2 from Unicamp). As they have to focus on the project, which is based in São Paulo, these architecture students are taking their courses at USP, attending classes, preparing papers and taking exams, all of which are equivalent to their regular university courses back home. "There are agreements concerning this among the São Paulo universities and we had cooperation from the heads of the federal and state universities," says Adnei Andrade. "We must train professionals that can design and assemble solar power equipment that is integrated into the architecture."
The Flex Solar House is not merely a didactic product; it should also help to expand the solar energy culture in Brazil. "It reflects the maturing of a new style of living. But this isn't just technology, it changes people's habits," says Professor Lamberts. "We imagine that after the Madrid competition this house might travel around the country. It would be great if it could be set up next to the Unicamp Science Museum," says Professor Lucila Labaki from the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and coordinator of the Flex Solar House at Unicamp.
Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar DecathlonGeneral view of the houses in the competition in downtown Washington last yearStefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Confusion and outlook
The layman normally gets the most common solar energy systems confused. There are solar collectors to warm up water for the shower, which typically consist of a large black panel that the liquid travels through to warm up. And there are the photovoltaic panels, also black or dark blue, which are made of purified silica. This is the technology that is more widely used and on which the hopes of a universal energy source currently lie, when it comes to generating power cleanly, with no waste being left behind. Their chief limitation is the cost of the equipment itself and of installing it. "However, the cost is dropping from 5 to 7 percent a year, as panel production grows," says Professor Ricardo Rüther, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The technology has evolved and the panels now last for more than 20 years. "The worldwide production of photovoltaic panels and cells grew by 82% from 2007 to 2008," says Professor Roberto Zilles, from USP's Electrotechnics and Energy Institute (IEE). In Brazil, these systems are still limited to sectors that are not served by the conventional power grid, such as rural areas, remote telecom stations and water pumping systems. It is estimated that a total of 20 megawatts (MW) is installed in the country, of which only some 170 kilowatts (kW) have interchange with the power distribution grid and run without a battery. Most of this is at universities and power distribution enterprises. One example is the IEE administration building, where half the power consumption is supplied by photovoltaic panels. Germany, the country that is the solar power leader, has 6.5 thousand installed MW, equivalent to almost half of the power produced by the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Station.
"The connection with the grid is not regulated in Brazil when it comes to small generation units. This should change, thanks to a federal government bill (PL630) currently being evaluated by Congress. If passed, it will benefit microgeneration among small producers of photovoltaic power," Zilles informs us. "It should also make it cheaper to provide incentive mechanisms and to oblige the power concessionaires to pay a higher rate than the conventional one for those who inject solar energy into the grid," says Rüther. This will help to offset the cost of buying and installing the panels and the solar power equipment, which currently cost more than R$10 thousand per installed kW in Brazil (a house needs 3 to 5 kW). In order to disseminate solar generation further, taxes must also drop or be eliminated. These actions should encourage the establishment of equipment production companies, especially of photovoltaic panels, a type of industry that is non existent here. "I believe that in 5 to 10 years tariff parity between solar power and power supplied by the grid will be achieved, because the former is dropping while that latter is rising. So it will become attractive for people to draw money from their savings, buy the equipment and put it on their roof," Professor Rüther forecasts.

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Brazil Consortium Architectural illustration showing a side view of the Flex Solar House, designed for Brazil's range of different climatesBrazil Consortium A hammock on the veranda is to be the most visible Brazilian differential in the Casa Solar Flex [Flex Solar House], a home designed and built by a consortium of six universities that is self-sufficient in terms of electric energy, entirely drawn from sunrays. The house has been entered into the Solar Decathlon Europe to be held next June, in Madrid, Spain, a competition among universities from nine countries that is being held in Europe for the first time. The four preceding competitions, the American Solar Decathlons, were held in the US and organized by the US Department of Energy (DOE), which is also involved with organizing the event in Europe. The Decathlons' aims are to show society that one can live sustainably, to expand knowledge in the field of solar energy, and to train professionals in this type of technology. The competitive show is open to the public and includes visits to the interior of the houses, which helps to disseminate the use of solar power to produce electric energy. This will be the first time that a team from South America has taken part in the Decathlon. The challenges are huge. As in a sports decathlon, the competitors are put through 10 tests. What guarantees that points are not lost is energy sustainability, which must cover all the lighting and power required for all electronic devices in the house. It is also necessary to maintain thermal comfort inside the house, i.e., a suitable temperature. The Brazilian project has been under development for more than one year and takes into account the competition's rules and requirements. We were invited to take part in the competition by Professor José Manuel Páez Borrallo, vice-president of the Madrid Polytechnic University, who visited the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in August of 2008. "The group of researchers that was present representing the universities at that time decided to form a consortium to combine their skills and share costs," explains the general coordinator of the project, Professor Adnei Melges de Andrade, deputy director of IEE, the Electrotechnics and Energy Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP). "Afterwards, while still in 2008, we held a competition among architecture students from Brazilian universities to get an autonomous, attractive, functional and sustainable house, suitable for construction in different types of Brazilian climates, ranging from cold to hot, from dry to humid, from Rio Grande do Sul to Ceará," Andrade tells us. The group is hoping that it can be reproduced in the future, possibly by a company, with the aim of having it set up in isolated places, such as the Amazon Region. It would be set aside for sustainable tourism to ensure that the presence of humans in a given locale did not have an impact on the environment. Seventeen projects were presented in this competition, and a jury comprising three Brazilian architects and two Spanish ones chose four winners. The first and third places went to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) , while the second place went to the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). The third place, however, involved a draw and was shared with a project from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). The winners formed a team that took the best features of each project and prepared a final design. A large multidisciplinary team was then formed, with more than 100 members, including mainly undergraduate architecture students, but also engineering, design, marketing and journalism students, besides two PhD candidates, one in architecture and the other in civil engineering. The students were from the six universities that formed the Brazil Consortium (USP, UFSC, Unicamp, UFRGS, UFRJ and the Federal University of Minas Gerais/UFMG), and were coordinated by one or more professors from these institutions. The construction of the house is to start in January 2010 at USP's Cidade Universitária campus in São Paulo City, within the IEE area, where the house will be assembled and tested. In April, it will be dismantled and shipped by sea to Spain. There, in early June, it is to be put together again over a ten-day span, in preparation for the competition?s opening on the 18th. Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar DecathlonSolar panels distributed in two different ways: vertically, in such a way that they can be moved, and fixed, on the roofStefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Inside space The Brazilian house has a floor area of 43 sq. m and is to be installed in a 74 sq. m area. It has no foundations and will be anchored at 50 cm from the ground. It is entirely flexible, in the sense that one can easily change the internal area, which has partitions made from reforested timber, this being one of the requirements of the competition regulations, based on sustainable production concepts. It also has interchangeable metal window and door frames. There is only one area reserved for the kitchen and the bathroom. On the outside, the house will have multiple slats that will regulate sunrays and ventilation. One of the house's innovations concerns part of its solar panels. Installed vertically, they can be automatically moved to the three sides of the house where the sun is strongest during the course of the day. On the roof, the panels are horizontal and fixed. One of the competition's rules requires that these devices be acquired in the market, to show the project's feasibility. The Brazilian house is to hold 64 panels, of which 48 will be on its roof. Jointly, they will generate 15 kilowatts (kW) of total installed power when the Sun is at its midday peak. "We're negotiating with the companies that resell these panels in Brazil," says Andrade. To date, there are no manufacturers of this type of equipment in the country. The European competition is to present an innovation that is a world trend when it comes to solar energy. The electricity of the solar panels will be injected into the power grid of Madrid. Thus, the local power distribution company gets the electricity generated during the course of the day and supplies the house during those hours when it cannot produce any power. "There are two meters, one for the house's energy output and the other for the intake which will keep the house supplied. This energy equilibrium or balance is part of one of the tests, the one that concerns energy sustainability, specifically," explains Lucas Sabino Dias, an architecture student at UFSC. In the US competition, held in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2009, the house was entirely self-sufficient, the solar power that it captured being stored in large batteries, reminiscent of car batteries (which are expensive and take up room) for nighttime use. Among the tasks related to power consumption, some are odd, such as a dinner party that the team must throw for six guests from the other countries' teams. The menu is yet to be defined. Trivial functions are also covered by the regulations, such as warming 60 liters of water twice a day. This simulates the hygiene needs of the house's theoretical inhabitants. "However, what really counts is innovation and sustainability, which stand for points on almost all the tests," Andrade explains. Another of the Brazilian team's innovations for the house is using a layer of paraffin in the wooden walls to keep the temperature between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius, one of the competition's rules. The paraffin, which is to be encapsulated within microspheres and incorporated into the house's plaster, changes state depending on the temperature. During the day, the sun liquefies it, as a result of which it absorbs heat and keeps the temperature inside the house agreeable. At night, when the temperature is lower, it solidifies, releasing head and warming up the rooms. "We will also use water in the walls, floor and ceiling. Water also absorbs and releases heat, thanks to a process called thermal inertia," explains Professor Roberto Lamberts, from UFSC, the project's technical coordinator. Still, despite all this, the house will also boast an air-conditioning system to regulate the temperature, as determined by the competition's rules. General control The house will also have a residential automation system to enable several operations, such as opening and closing the outside slats, controlling via an electronic panel the amount of electricity being drawn in and how much energy has to be used or saved, among other functions. The software for this control system is ready and the group is currently engaged in negotiations with a São Paulo automation firm. The structure of the house also involves an innovation, the use of extended timber, meaning that the beams have a steel cable running through them. This makes it feasible to use less wood, which counts for points when it comes to sustainability. Readymade solutions are also included in the design of the house, such as dry bathrooms, in which excrement is heated and transformed into powder. This equipment is Swedish and accepted by the European Union. Home appliances such as a TV set, air conditioner, refrigerator, cooker, washing machine and dishwasher will also be purchased in the market. "The lighting will rely on LEDs, which use less power," says Lamberts. The hammock to relax in is to be purchased from an NGO or a community that produces such materials manually. Jim Tetro/U.S. Department of EnergyFrom the University of Wisconsin, USAJim Tetro/U.S. Department of Energy Fundamental support 19 teams from 9 countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia have already registered for the Madrid competition. The country with the largest number of representatives is Spain, with 6 teams, followed by Germany, with 4, France and the US, with 2 each, and Brazil, Mexico, China, Finland and England with one each. In the last two competitions in the US, in 2007 and 2009, the winner was the University of Darmstadt in Germany, which is not competing this year. For the European competition, each team gets a grant of – 100 thousand (roughly equal to R$255 thousand), from the Spanish Ministry of Housing to cover part of their expenses. The total cost of the undertaking is substantial: R$3.5 million to R$4 million. By December, in addition to the Spanish grant, the Brazilian project found funding in the amount of R$1.5 million from Eletrobras and R$500 from Petrobras. Therefore, half of the funds required for the house to make it all the way to Madrid. "The shortage of cash limits a lot of things and we need to get further aid in a very soon. I compare the Decathlon with a Formula 1 Grand Prix car, rather than with a regular car," comments Professor Roberto Lamberts. "We're still running the risk of not making it to Madrid," he says. Just transporting the house by sea and the delivery truck to the Spanish capital, which is in the interior of the country, costs some US$200 thousand, or almost 20% of the entire budget. One cannot rely on the support of the research foundations or science and technology promotion agencies because this type of event cannot be made to fit any of their programs. Therefore, the group will have to resort to support from companies and from other levels of the federal and state administration. "We have already got help for the trips from Capes, the Coordinating Office for the Training of Personnel with Higher Education, as well as from the Foreign Ministry, which is providing logistical support and putting people up at Casa do Brasil [Brazil House] in Madrid for the preparatory meetings," Andrade tells us. In May 2009, nine students and three professors went to Spain to settle the details of the project and to become acquainted with the site of the event. "This support will also be fundamental to export the house and to bring it back later." Capes is considering a support project to pay the expenses of the 36 Brazilians (students and professors) that are to attend the competition in Spain. Vila Solar, the site of the exhibition and competition, will be in a park near the headquarters of the Spanish government. "During the days of the competition, from June 18 to 27 of 2010, a meeting of the prime ministers of the EU is scheduled to take place in Madrid, and they are expected to visit the solar houses," says Professor Adnei Andrade. "The Spanish government is hoping to exceed the 100 thousand visitor mark achieved at the last Decathlon in Washington, USA." Another aspect of the large team that has formed around the Flex Solar House project is the academic mobility of the 11 undergraduate students (7 from UFSC, 2 from UFRGS and 2 from Unicamp). As they have to focus on the project, which is based in São Paulo, these architecture students are taking their courses at USP, attending classes, preparing papers and taking exams, all of which are equivalent to their regular university courses back home. "There are agreements concerning this among the São Paulo universities and we had cooperation from the heads of the federal and state universities," says Adnei Andrade. "We must train professionals that can design and assemble solar power equipment that is integrated into the architecture." The Flex Solar House is not merely a didactic product; it should also help to expand the solar energy culture in Brazil. "It reflects the maturing of a new style of living. But this isn't just technology, it changes people's habits," says Professor Lamberts. "We imagine that after the Madrid competition this house might travel around the country. It would be great if it could be set up next to the Unicamp Science Museum," says Professor Lucila Labaki from the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and coordinator of the Flex Solar House at Unicamp. Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar DecathlonGeneral view of the houses in the competition in downtown Washington last yearStefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Confusion and outlook The layman normally gets the most common solar energy systems confused. There are solar collectors to warm up water for the shower, which typically consist of a large black panel that the liquid travels through to warm up. And there are the photovoltaic panels, also black or dark blue, which are made of purified silica. This is the technology that is more widely used and on which the hopes of a universal energy source currently lie, when it comes to generating power cleanly, with no waste being left behind. Their chief limitation is the cost of the equipment itself and of installing it. "However, the cost is dropping from 5 to 7 percent a year, as panel production grows," says Professor Ricardo Rüther, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The technology has evolved and the panels now last for more than 20 years. "The worldwide production of photovoltaic panels and cells grew by 82% from 2007 to 2008," says Professor Roberto Zilles, from USP's Electrotechnics and Energy Institute (IEE). In Brazil, these systems are still limited to sectors that are not served by the conventional power grid, such as rural areas, remote telecom stations and water pumping systems. It is estimated that a total of 20 megawatts (MW) is installed in the country, of which only some 170 kilowatts (kW) have interchange with the power distribution grid and run without a battery. Most of this is at universities and power distribution enterprises. One example is the IEE administration building, where half the power consumption is supplied by photovoltaic panels. Germany, the country that is the solar power leader, has 6.5 thousand installed MW, equivalent to almost half of the power produced by the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Station. "The connection with the grid is not regulated in Brazil when it comes to small generation units. This should change, thanks to a federal government bill (PL630) currently being evaluated by Congress. If passed, it will benefit microgeneration among small producers of photovoltaic power," Zilles informs us. "It should also make it cheaper to provide incentive mechanisms and to oblige the power concessionaires to pay a higher rate than the conventional one for those who inject solar energy into the grid," says Rüther. This will help to offset the cost of buying and installing the panels and the solar power equipment, which currently cost more than R$10 thousand per installed kW in Brazil (a house needs 3 to 5 kW). In order to disseminate solar generation further, taxes must also drop or be eliminated. These actions should encourage the establishment of equipment production companies, especially of photovoltaic panels, a type of industry that is non existent here. "I believe that in 5 to 10 years tariff parity between solar power and power supplied by the grid will be achieved, because the former is dropping while that latter is rising. So it will become attractive for people to draw money from their savings, buy the equipment and put it on their roof," Professor Rüther forecasts.


Turn old thrift store spoons into these adorable Vintage Spoon Pendants. These cute DIY pendants are great to give as gifts and are a fun way to play around with all your favorite beads, baubles, odds, and ends. The great thing about vintage jewelry patterns like this is that no one is like the other, so you can create original pieces for all your friends and family members. This pendant is truly one of a kind, and is a great way to reuse grandma's old jewelry or an old spoon that you stumble upon in your junk drawer.
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I always use E-6000 glue for such projects. The proper way to use E-6000 is to apply the glue to the area, then slide your item onto the glued area. It creates a better bond to slide the item rather than simply placing it onto the glued area.
Some of the items I glued into the spoons were earrings with the backs removed. Some of the other bits were small brooches. The pinbacks can be easily removed with wire clippers.
The pendants would look fine on a simple black cord or silver ball chain. A more elaborate beaded chain could be used too. The possibilities are endless!
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I am probably telling my age but I remember when there were jewelry items made from spoons. I do not recall ever owing a piece but for a while they were a thing. This is a cool idea and I just love them in a grouping as shown here displayed. I guess to get the full effect it would be best just to wear one on a chain at a time.
What a great idea to use some of those vintage spoons that can be found in your local thrift store. I think that if you are lucky enough to find some in baby versions you will really have something very special.
I love vintage crafts because you almost always end up using some of your old jewelry. if you have shiny jewelry but want that rustic look, you can fade that shine using some hard boiled york. The best part about this craft is you can get these spoons from the dollar store.
Again, we have this draw to all things vintage. I think it is because it feels familiar and comforting in a way. I would have a ball going to the thrift store, rifling through old jewelry boxes with bits of junk in there. Each mismatched piece is a treasure to be had. This is the kind of stuff you see all the time at the street art fairs.
Once you make the handle into a ring, you have a matching two piece set. This is great!
These are lovely and very ingenious. Great job! Love 'em!!
E6000 glue can be found at any craft store. I see it at a lot of other stores too. Look in the glue section or in hardware too.
I like the look of the finished pendants. What would be the best way to keep them clean? It looks like it might be difficult to get around/in between some of the attached items.
R there any pictures of the project, all I see are video advertisements.
Several years ago, I made angels out of the spoon handles, using the handle for the body, and adding wings and halos from a jewelry craft site. I put a pin on the back.
where does one find E600 glue?
Walmart carries it in a 2 oz. tube or a package with 3 smaller tubes.
I have a spoon handle keychain fob as a leftover from a spoon. The ring idea sounds great! I love the pendant idea too. It looks very creative and simple at the same time.
What a great idea for the bowl of the spoon. We used to make rings out of the handles. This was in the '70's. We called them spoon rings.
Love this idea! And we have a hack saw....and lots of other tools! I love tools! And i love E-6000!! Thanks for sharing!
Many years ago my mother and I made rings using the handle end of spoons. There was some sanding involved to the cut end. We used a piece of pluming pipe and a small hammer to shape the handle into a ring shape letting the end be the decorative top of the ring. The ring was adjustable to fit. This could go good with the pendents!
Neat idea. But I would also like to see some ideas for using the cut-off part (handles) of the old spoons. Sometimes they have very decorative patterns.
A great idea but I don't know too many people that have a hacksaw that they can just whip out and use for such a purpose. I'd be more likely to do this craft if it were based on standard jewelry-making tools.
Don't let the lack of a tool stop you from doing this craft if it appeals to you. A hacksaw need not be expensive; you can purchase one for under $10. For about $15, you can get 10 replacement blades, which you will want if you start using a hacksaw on a regular basis. In fact, I would buy the saw and the extra blades at the same time, so when the blade is worn enough to no longer be useful, I could replace it immediately. The saw blades do bend, break and just plain wear out, which should be expected. Yes, there are more expensive saws, but you don't need the more expensive tool for this purpose.
swjo75 8647670 - if you bought a cheap little dremmel tool it has various ends that will smooth the spoons sharp edge.
I like this very much and would like to make some of these. After you used a hacksaw to cut off the excess spoon handle, how did you smooth the cut area?
This is something that I will have to try..I have some silver vintage spoons.