Noted as one of Chinas seven ancient capitals, Hangzhou is also known as a historic city. Hangzhou remained known as Qingtang County until the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 - 589). In 589, during the Sui Dynasty (581-618), it was given the present name Hangzhou, which was recorded in history books for the first time. It roughly meant the city across the river or the city accessible only by boat. The late sixth century, Hangzhou saw the extension of the Grand Canal started from Beijing and end in Hangzhou. The Canal made Hangzhou from a sleepy fishing village to an economic, agricultural and cultural center.
In 907, Hangzhou began to serve as capital of Wuyue after King Qian Liu chose the region to found his kingdom which lasted 79 years. He developed sea transportation and established ties with Japan, Korea, and India.
Hangzhou underwent dramatic development when the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) , pushed by the conquering Jin (Golden Tarta), established its capital there, officially called Linan, which means temporary peace . This was the most glorious period in Hangzhou s history. In the short period of a hundred years, the population increase to 1.24 million and the city was by far the biggest urban concentration in the world at the time. Moreover, its various industries, including porcelain manufacturing, textile, shipbuilding, papermaking and printing, got highly developed.
Under the Yuan Dynasty (1229-1368), the national political center moved north but Hangzhou remained an important city of southeast China as the seat of the provincial government.
During Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Hangzhou was still considered one of the richest and largest in the empire. Emperor Kangqi and Qianling made Hangzhou their vacation home.
Nowadays, Hangzhou still attracts countless foreign tourists every year. They would like to see the Dragon Well Tea plantation and the silk museum and factory. Your visit to Hangzhou will be a memorable one and also a historic one.


Complete all versions of your individual book project and have them ready for final inspection. You should have three new folders when finished: Book Title ePub, Book Title mobi, Book Title iBook. In each of these subfolders, you should put 1) the newly packaged InDesign files, and 2) the corresponding .epub, .mobi, and .ibook and iBooks Author (.iba) files.
Complete revisions on at least four of your techne/design challenges and complete the Google form to provide information to the editorial team.


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Q: Unable to install app using Android Studio I am working on an app which does not have any launcher activity. But when I try to install that app from Android Studio's Run icon, it says, 'Error running XYZApp: Default Activity not found'
I did not see such issue ever in Eclipse.
Can anyone help to fix this issue? How can I install my app in device which doesn't have any Launcher Activity.

A: Edit your configuration, and there in 'Launch' select 'Nothing' (or something else, what you want to run)

A: You must be missing the action and category for your main activity in AndroidManifest file
just add the intent filers in your activity as below :
<activity
        android:name="com.example.MainActivity"
        android:label="XYZApp"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

A: If you are upgrading from Eclipse to Android Studio you might need to refresh the cache for Android Studio and restart IDE.
Follow the following steps:

File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart...

You also need to mention the Activity in the Manifest file of your Android project. You can use following code to do so: Here MainActivity will start when your app launches on the android device.
<context android:name=".MainActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</context>

A: Run -> Edit Configurations.
On 'Launch' select the activity you want to start.

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The Ivor Tupper Fund of the Geologists' Association
Application deadline: 31st January
An award in memory of G. Ivor F. Tupper, CEng, FIEE, (1927-2008). The fund is designed to give financial assistance – a single award normally of £2000 cash annually – to a deserving undergraduate in their second, third or fourth year at a UK university, studying Geology or Earth Sciences. Additional awards can be made of up to £2000, should funds allow.
The award will be made by the Council of the Geologists' Association to the student they feel best demonstrates both a genuine commitment to the discipline and academic excellence. Nominations are made by university departments by invitation.
The deadline for applications is 31st January and awardees will be notified by April of the following year.
Nomination forms should be e-mailed by the deadline to awards@geologistsassociation.org.uk or sent by post to the Geologists' Association, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0DU.
Nomination Details
Letter asking for nominations
Lewis Barwell, Derby
Daisy Jennings-Grey, Imperial College, London
Stella Linnekogel, St Andrews
Elizabeth Bates, Newcastle
2017 Winner Penny Wieser, University of Oxford, £2,000; Runners up – Emily Gusterson, Imperial College, London, £1,000, Bennett Haworth, University of Cambridge, £1,000
2016 Jamie Price (MESci Exploration and Resource Geology Cardiff University), £2,000;
James Williams (MESci Geology (International) Cardiff University) £1000
2015 Allan Hollinsworth Glasgow University, Timothy Gregory (Manchester University), Richard Turley (Cambridge University).
2014 Simon Stephenson (Imperial College London)
2013 Helena Pryer (University College London)
2012 Emma Nicholson (Oxford University) Gemma Kerr (St Andrews University)
2011 Hong Chin Ng (University of Bristol)
2010 Emma Naden (Keele University)

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I'm so late I seriously cannot keep up with all of these shows! I'm going to try to do better but my reality t.v. calendar be poppin these days!
Daniel "Boobie" Gibson is scheduled to see a doctor in Los Angeles and have surgery on his tendon that he injured during his basketball game. While his wife, Keyshia Cole, is there and trying to comfort Boobie, she gets a call from someone saying that her mother, Frankie Lons, is running around Oakland asking people for drugs. I thought Frankie was clean now? That's too bad. Get some help Frankie girl. Keyshia ain't got time for Frankie and her madness because she's married now, y'all! And she isn't leaving Boobie's side for nothing.
During the surgery, Keyshia's adoptive mother ,Yvonne, stops by the hospital and she brings Keyshia's adorable son Daniel Jr. with her. Yvonne is determined to find out what's going on with Frankie so she calls Frankie's sister and what do you know, Frankie is there and she is saying she will go to rehab in Los Angeles but she doesn't want to detox for two months because she has cats to take care of in Atlanta.
Bad news for Boobie, he is going to miss the entire NBA season due to his injury. He soon forgets that his career is on hold when the doctors start to give him pain killers and he starts seeing "five Keyshias".
Frankie flies from Oakland to Los Angeles to go to rehab. But before they drop her off at rehab facility, they have more important things to take care of like...getting their nails did! I'm mad that they didn't explain why Frankie's arm was in a sling though. What had happened, Frankie? Anyway, Frankie really wants to get sober so that she can be healthy and find her a good man. I wonder what happened to the young tender she was dating a couple of years ago?
If you missed episode three, you know I got you! You can watch the episode here online.
What did you think of episode 3 of Keyshia & Daniel: Family First?
That's the problem there, Frankie needs to focus on getting sober and leave these knuckleheads ALONE! It irks me when women feel like they have to hunt for a man. Men are hunters by nature. Let that good man find you. In the meantime work on being the best woman you can be so when he does cross your path you'll be ready for him and he'll know a good woman when he sees you and will do all he can to keep you.


Once a manufacturing organization forms a team that will lead a Business Process Improvement planning process as related to ERP selection, who will serve as owner?
While the make-up of core team members is important, the team needs a designated leader – what we like to call a Chief Process Improvement Officer.
When a process owner directs the initiative, ERP selection will go better, but process improvement doesn't end with ERP implementation.
It's not just about how processes affect business technology systems; it's also how effective the processes are in a manufacturing facility or in a business function, within logistics, shipping, quality and other functional areas.
Production/Operation Manager for scheduling, production, shop floor, etc.
Here's a question our team of independent ERP consultants hears often: What's the best way for your organization to achieve continuous business process improvement?
As manufacturing activity enters into an uptick, how can organizations work more effectively and efficiently to handle new opportunities?
Download a free Ultra white paper that shares five guidelines, including the suggestion for establishing a Chief Process Improvement Officer, for business process improvement planning. The roadmap will help your company achieve true business performance improvement and ROI.
I shared a portion of this article and a link to it on my LinkedIn page. Thank you for a well written description of the PIOs function w/in a business.


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2PM Experience Pueblo's holiday tradition, the Nutcracker Ballet, performed by the Sangre de Cristo Ballet. Based on the original 1816 E. T. A. Hoffman story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, with a bit of a twist and set to the famous score of by P. I. Tchaikovsky. This holiday treat features the stunning battle scene in which Clara and the Nutcracker Prince make their way through a mystical land, and encounter enchanting characters along the way. Tickets $15 / $12 members.


Yesterday, while watching Anthony Bourdain traipse around Spain, we were introduced to the most incredible chocolate eggs by Barcelona-based cocoa artisan, Enric Rovira.
Oh, how we wish that the video were available online for all of you to watch, but it seems to have been yanked from every public site. Please trust us when we say, run to your TiVo and record every upcoming episode of "No Reservations" so that you can one day catch this man's genius in action.
To construct a single egg, Rovira nimbly leaps through innumerable steps to source the chocolate, create a mold, melt said chocolate, mold said chocolate in said mold, temper an exterior, and fasten four perfect pieces together to form a beautiful upright egg. Then - then - he takes the picture-perfect eggs outside to melt in the sunshine, each being pierced by the direct light and ambient heat, and degrading until it nearly crumbles in on its own weight. Thereafter, each egg is brought inside, retempered to hardness, and dusted with a velvety matte coating.
Rovira's energy and genius cannot be contained, and he has produced many collections of incomaprable beauty. The following are some others that we find most elegant.
And remember, they are all meant to be eaten.
Or better yet - netflix! Its Season 4 - disk 3. Such a beautiful episode!


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Canto per un altro Natale (A Carol for Another Christmas) è un film per la televisione del 1964 diretto da Joseph L. Mankiewicz, tratto dal racconto Il canto di Natale di Charles Dickens, adattato e modernizzato da Rod Serling.

Trama
Daniel Grudge, un ricco industriale e feroce misantropo amareggiato per la perdita di suo figlio durante la seconda guerra mondiale, riceve la visita di tre fantasmi alla vigilia di Natale che lo portano a riconsiderare il suo atteggiamento nei confronti dei suoi simili.

Produzione
Canto per un altro Natale fu il primo di una serie di speciali televisivi prodotti per promuovere le Nazioni Unite ed educare il pubblico circa i suoi scopi umanitari. Originariamente trasmesso dal network televisivo American Broadcasting Company (ABC) il 28 dicembre 1964, non andò più in onda per 48 anni, fino alla trasmissione da parte di Turner Classic Movies (TCM) avvenuta il 16 dicembre 2012.

Il film fu l'unica produzione televisiva diretta da Joseph L. Mankiewicz, ed include la prima apparizione di Peter Sellers dopo il periodo di convalescenza dovuto a una serie di infarti quasi mortali che lo avevano colpito nell'aprile 1964. Il film vede la partecipazione anche di Sterling Hayden, che aveva recitato in precedenza con Sellers ne Il dottor Stranamore - Ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba e Britt Ekland, all'epoca moglie di Sellers.

Accoglienza
Dopo la sua trasmissione originale nel 1964, le recensioni furono contrastanti. Mentre alcuni critici ritennero che lo stile didattico del programma fosse appropriato per trasmettere il suo messaggio a un pubblico televisivo di massa, altri lo trovarono presuntuoso, prolisso o noioso. Variety descrisse il programma come "generalizzato all'estremo" e in definitiva "una delusione". Il Los Angeles Times in maniera simile espresse "disappunto per la trama noiosa", lamentandosi che la scena d'apertura tra Grudge e Fred "sembrava una discussione sulla North Hollywood High School" e doveva essere costata allo spettacolo molti spettatori annoiati che spensero la televisione." Jack Gould del The New York Times si spinse anche oltre, definendo il film "un esercizio pretenzioso e logorante di loquace inettitudine, una delle delusioni televisive più sconcertanti di sempre." Dopo aver ricevuto lettere di spettatori in disaccordo con la sua recensione, Gould scrisse un secondo articolo definendo il film "condiscendente, pretenzioso e noioso", "propaganda banale" e "un esercizio di sermoni pesanti sul fatto che le Nazioni Unite fanno del bene a noi tutti." Il The Washington Post recensì favorevolmente il programma, ma scrisse che il film "aveva fallito il suo scopo principale" perché "dalla maggior parte del pubblico... la lezione che veniva sottolineata era già stata appresa". Nonostante abbiano espresso insoddisfazione per il programma in generale, i critici elogiarono comunque le interpretazioni di alcuni attori, in particolare Sellers, Lawrence e Hingle.

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Blastoff for the spacecraft which could one day take humans to Mars is set for the final countdown as Nasa begins assembling the giant rockets that will propel it into orbit.
The huge Delta IV Heavy rocket has been put together for the first time at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ahead of a first test flight of the Orion capsule in December.
It will blast the experimental capsule in orbit - although the rockets are then expected to be replaced by Nasa's even bigger Space Launch system.
The huge Delta IV Heavy rocket has been put together for the first time at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ahead of a first test flight of the Orion capsule in December, a mission known as Exploration Flight Test-1.
During its Dec. 4 test flight, the unmanned capsule will shoot more than 3,600 miles into space.
It will then take two big laps around Earth before re-entering the atmosphere at 20,000 mph and parachuting into the Pacific off the San Diego coast.
The entire mission will last 4½ hours.
The three primary core elements of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket have now been put together, forming the first stage of the launch vehicle that will send Orion far from Earth to allow NASA to evaluate the spacecraft's performance in space.
The three Delta IV Common Booster Cores were attached in ULA's Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF), at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The HIF building is located at Space Launch Complex 37 where the mission will lift off.
The first booster was attached to the center rocket in June with the second one was attached in early August.
Stowe explained that during major testing experts from Nasa's Launch Services Program monitor the work on consoles in Hanger AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Hangar AE is home to the Kennedy Space Center's upgraded Launch Vehicle Data Center.
The facility allows engineers to monitor voice, data, telemetry and video systems that support expendable launch vehicle missions.
In the Horizontal Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, two core elements of a Delta IV Heavy rocket are brought together in preparation for Exploration Flight Test-1.
United Launch Alliance technicians prepare the second stage of a Delta IV Heavy rocket for mating to the central core booster of the three booster stages for the unpiloted Exploration Flight Test-1.
The three common booster cores are 134 feet in length and 17 feet in diameter.
Each has an RS-68 engine that uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant producing 656,000 pounds of thrust.
All totaled, the three Delta IV boosters collectively generate 1.96 million pounds of thrust.
The second stage of the Delta IV rocket is 45 feet in length and 17 feet in diameter.
It uses one RL10-B-2 engine, also burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant creating 25,000 pounds of thrust.
NASA's Florida spaceport is also where Orion was built and is being processed.
The Delta IV rocket stages were assembled at the ULA plant in Decatur, Alabama, about 20 miles west of Huntsville.
After completion, the rocket components were shipped down the Tennessee River and Tombigbee Waterway, a canal, to the Gulf of Mexico.
From there they traveled to Cape Canaveral, arriving on May 6.
The elements of the rocket's first stage were then transported to the HIF for preflight processing.
'After the three core stages went through their initial inspections and processing, the struts were attached, connecting the booster stages with the center core,' Stowe said.
The second stage of the Delta IV rocket is 45 feet in length and 17 feet in diameter. It uses one RL10-B-2 engine, also burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant creating 25,000 pounds of thrust.
The same upper stage will be used on the block 1 version of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). More powerful than any rocket ever built, SLS will be capable of sending humans aboard Orion to deep-space destinations such as an asteroid and Mars.
Once all the launch vehicle stages are mated and thoroughly checked out, the next step is the Test Readiness Review.
'These meetings are held to bring together all the interested parties to be sure the Delta IV rocket is ready for the move to the launch pad where the Orion spacecraft will be mated,' Stowe said.
The upcoming flight test will use the Delta IV Heavy to launch the Orion and send it 3,600 miles in altitude beyond the Earth's surface. During the two-orbit, four-hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The data gathered during the mission will influence design decisions and validate existing computer models. The flight also will reduce overall mission risks and costs for later Orion flights.
The capsule will re-enter Earth's atmosphere at speeds approaching 20,000 mph, generating temperatures as high as 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA's Orion spacecraft departs the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on its way to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Orion is scheduled for a test flight in early December.
The Lockheed Martin-built Orion is designed to take humans farther than ever before. The spacecraft will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry astronauts to space and provide safe re-entry from deep-space missions.
Orion currently is undergoing final assembly in Kennedy's Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.
Stowe is especially invested in a successful outcome for the flight test.
During its Dec. 4 test flight, the unmanned capsule will shoot more than 3,600 miles into space and take two big laps around Earth before re-entering the atmosphere at 20,000 mph and parachuting into the Pacific off the San Diego coast.
The plan is to use Orion for getting humans to asteroids and Mars — no space station ferry trips for Orion.
While Orion may resemble an oversize Apollo capsule on the outside, everything inside and out is modern and top-of-the-line, officials noted Thursday.
'I'm as excited as can be,' said Nasa's Orion production operations manager, Scott Wilson.
For Orion's dry run, the Lockheed Martin Corp.-built capsule will have hunks of aluminum in place of seats for ballast, and simulators instead of actual cockpit displays.
A Delta IV rocket will do the heavy lifting.
It will eventually be launced by Nasa's new Space Launch System 'megarocket'.
For its first flight test, SLS will be configured for a 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit.
In its most powerful configuration, SLS will provide an unprecedented lift capability of 130 metric tons (143 tons), which will enable missions even farther into our solar system, including such destinations as an asteroid and Mars.


SIMPSON BAY, St. Maarten (January 22, 2014) – Members of the Committee for Financial Supervision, CFT, said they were not only well-informed but were also quite impressed with the ongoing developments at the Princess Juliana International Airport, SXM. They expressed this opinion at the end of a presentation given to the Committee by SXM Airport Managing Director, Regina LaBega which was followed by a tour of the airport facilities.
In her presentation, LaBega shared with the CFT ongoing and new initiatives that SXM Airport has embarked on and which can generate revenue for the government. These included but are not limited to inter-island pre-clearance, and a future car park facility.
LaBega, who fielded questions from the members of the CFT, was joined at the presentation by Chief Administrative Officer, Migdala Clarinda, and Corporate Communications Specialist, Kalifa Hickinson. The presentation, at which five of its seven members were present, was given at the request of the CFT.


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1st meeting of the SINAPSE Image Analysis group
PET/MR User's Meeting: Technical challenges Feb 05, 2020 10:30 AM - 03:00 PM — Henry Wellcome Auditorium, 183 Euston Road, London
Scottish Ophthalmic Imaging Society meeting Feb 14, 2020 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM — Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
Scottish+ Radiotherapy Physics Meeting 2020 Feb 21, 2020 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM — Scottish Health Service Centre , Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
2nd Scottish Ultrasound Annual Scientific Meeting Feb 28, 2020 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM — Collins Building, University of Strathclyde
Technology Innovations for Healthcare Mar 12, 2020 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM — Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
SINAPSE experts from around Scotland have developed ten online modules designed to explain medical imaging. They are freely available and are intended for non-specialists.
SINAPSE eLearning website
Edinburgh Imaging Academy at the University of Edinburgh offers the following online programmes through a virtual learning environment:
Neuroimaging for Research MSc/Dip/Cert
Imaging MSc/Dip/Cert
PET-MR Principles & Applications Cert
Applied Medical Image Analysis Cert
2019 ASM: Dundee Summary, photos and presentation slides
More past events...
1st meeting of the SINAPSE Image Analysis group, Dundee, 20 September 2017
Members of the newly-revived SINAPSE Image Analysis topic group gathered at the University of Dundee for an inaugural meeting of researchers from around Scotland presenting and discussing work on the application of image processing and analysis methods in medical research.
Special guests from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine gave keynote talks about their work on diffusion MR analysis and template creation. We were delighted to welcome them to Scotland as part of an international research collaboration led by SINAPSE for which funding was recently awarded.
Deputy Student Lead Shaun Stone prepared the following summary of the meeting:
The first meeting of the SINAPSE Image Analysis group was held at the University of Dundee on the 20th September 2017. Attendees from SINAPSE and the National Taiwan University were welcomed to the Queen Mother Building by Image Analysis group Lead Dr Gordon Waiter and Deputy Lead Dr Islem Rekik, with a friendly tea and coffee morning and great opportunities for the delegates to network.
Dr Ahmed Fetit from the University of Dundee opened the morning session with a talk on his work which used Dundee's own VAMPIRE (Vascular Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina) software for automatic quantification of retinal properties, which not only is cheaper than MR imaging, but can also be used to reveal vascular structure of the brain and discriminate dementias.
Keynote Talks (Guests from the National Taiwan University)
Prof Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng began the keynote talks by introducing work from the Advanced Biomedical MRI Lab on diffusion weighted images, tractography, fast diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) schemes, an image registration technique called large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM), a diffusion template called NTU-DSI-122 and comparisons to the Human Connectome Project (HCP) templates, whole-brain tract analysis called tract-based automatic analysis (TBAA), and more advanced discussions on intricate crossing white matter fibres of the brain. Isaac also talked about how the mentioned advancements in diffusion imaging can be applied for earlier diagnosis of schizophrenia and prediction of treatment response.
Dr Yun-Chin Eric Hsu (Post-doctoral student) discussed his development of the TBAA software, an automated toolkit for whole-brain tractography and a high quality diffusion sensitive template in the ICBM-152 space using the HCP diffusion data.
Yao-Chia Shih (PhD student) continued on HCP-DSI template work where he demonstrated the HCP-DSI template had a lower signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio than the NTU-DSI-122 template, which resolved issues with complicated crossing fibres and gives a more detailed description of fibre tracts throughout the brain.
Afternoon Talks
Dr Islem Rekik (University of Dundee) started the afternoon oral presentations by discussing her exciting work using machine learning in neuroscience. Her work involves individual and population based learning strategies, brain disease evolution and outcome prediction (e.g., brain gliomas), brain disease dynamics (e.g., ischaemic stroke), brain development: modelling and prediction, synthesizing high-quality MRI images and brain connectomics.
Dr Tom MacGillivray (University of Edinburgh) from the Image Analysis Core Laboratory at Edinburgh Imaging spoke about providing specialist support to investigators accessing data from a variety of imaging modalities including MR, CT, PET, ultrasound and retinal images. Tom coordinates the VAMPIRE initiative bringing together 10 international centres to provide semi-automatic analysis of retinal biomarkers. Tom and his lab support researchers through providing expertise in multimodal image analysis.
James Sloan is an IDC student working with industry partners Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, and his project involves registration of medical images. He presented his work which investigated noise removal from images using autoencoders.
Dr Lucia Ballerini (University of Edinburgh) was the final presenter of the day who discussed her algorithm for automatic segmentation and quantification of enlarged perivascular spaces in brain MRI, an imaging feature that has proven notoriously difficult to segment, manually or automatically.
Dr Gordon Waiter (University of Aberdeen) concluded the session by expressing gratitude to all organisers, attendees, presenters and special guests from Taiwan who helped make the first SINAPSE Image Analysis group meeting happen. The image analysis group is a new platform which offers new opportunities to collaborate with like-minded researchers within the network.
The meeting drew to a close with a group discussion of the possibility of launching an Intense Learning Workshop (ILW) that could cover topics such as machine learning, feature extraction, programming, image preprocessing, statistical analysis classes and much more.
All researchers around Scotland who have an interest in medical image analysis are welcomed to join us!
A photo gallery of highlights from the day can be viewed here: http://www.sinapse.ac.uk/event-photo-galleries/sinapse-ia-2017
EngD opportunity in Glasgow with NHS GG&C: Multi-modality image registration Jan 21, 2020
EngD opportunity in Edinburgh with Canon Medical: Answering Questions about Medical Images Jan 21, 2020
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on liver cell therapy preclinical imaging project at University of Edinburgh Jan 20, 2020
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in retinal image processing at University of Edinburgh Jan 17, 2020
SINAPSE Image of the Month: CTPA coronary artery calcification Jan 08, 2020
Vacancy: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at University of Edinburgh Dec 04, 2019
Vacancy: Senior Lecturer / Reader in Medical Sciences at University of Aberdeen Dec 03, 2019
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Ever have a text message that you wanted people connected to the repeater to hear? How about weather warnings and forecasts? The autoresponder for IRLP does that and more.
The IRLP Autoresponder is a DTMF driven collection of add-ons which provide useful value added functionality to your IRLP node. The autoresponder is able to provide node users with uptodate, on demand weather. Also, it permits users to lookup nodes using city name as the key. It also integrates other features which simplify life for the node administrator.
The node administrator uses this feature at system startup time, to send morse based station identification as required by law. The node identification software is easily configurable and can use an external sccw program, or use the internal morse program.
The autoresponder depends on a properly configured IRLP node. In addition to the standard Linux software, it requires festival for text to speech. Optionally, it can make use of a properly tested and configured sccw.
Most versions of Linux that I've tested work fine. Currently it is running on the Red Hat 9 and the Fedora Core 5 IRLP releases.
A USA version has been prototyped.
This could be extended to most other countries, theoretically. What is required is some customization of awk scripts.
Copyright © E. J. Ritzmann.


I work part time. My husband tells me that I need to work full time is that fair? - Marriage :: sidetaker.
I work part time. My husband tells me that I need to work full time is that fair?
I work part time do all the house cleaning laundry taking the kids to sports ect. He tells me that I should be working full time. I did work 32 hours last year till I was laid off from my second job. He still was not happy. I can't seem to make him happy.


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Last time Danny told you a little bit about his school and now it is my turn. Even though Danny and I initially moved to Korea just to get the experience of living in a foreign country and traveling, teaching has become a big part of our lives here. Since neither of us had previous teaching experience, we weren't really sure what we were getting ourselves into and even though there have been some tough times, overall it has been a great experience. It has been interesting to see how differently they do things but I am starting to forget how different it is... "Wait, student's don't brush their teeth multiple times a day in America? Weird." Above is a picture of me teaching my "open class" which you have to do twice a year. The class is opened so other teachers or parents can come watch your class and evaluate you. It sounds scary but it's really not that bad.
I feel lucky to have formed a bond with some students so I will be really sad to say goodbye. These two guys are 3rd graders, and even though I don't teach them, they enjoyed coming to visit me every once in a while. The guy on the right I call "Stevie" because he likes to practice Stevie Wonder songs with me so I can help him with his pronounciation. When you teach, everyday is entertaining in some way.
Almost everything about the Korean school system is different than what I know in America, and that even includes lunch. It is almost "mandatory" to eat the lunch that the school provides in Korea. It would kind of be seen as rude if you don't want to eat their food so you have to get used to it quickly. Actually the healthiness and the quality of food is much better than an American cafeteria's so it's not that bad, but don't be expecting burgers and fries as an option.
You always get in the line and grab yourself a silver tray, chopsticks, and a spoon. The food that is always found on the menu is rice, kimchi, and some sort of soup. Other than that you will usually get various other dishes such as tofu, steamed seaweed, green onion pancake, spicy chicken, fruit salad, shrimp and fish salad, pork cutlet, and so much more.
Here is my tray after I filled it with a Korean lunch. From top right going clockwise you can see spicy pork in sauce, some sort of soup, rice with various greens to mix in, fried tofu with red pepper sauce, kimchi, and steamed sesame spinach. They also occasionally give you a little treat, and today it was a tiny bottled drink that I still don't know what the technical flavor is. Koreans think it is unhealthy to drink while you eat so if you get any liquid at all, it will be about the size of a shot glass.
I've actually started to enjoy lunch, and the fact that you get all of that food for about $2 a day is a pretty good deal if you ask me! Here's a view of the walk up to the school "restuarant" as my Coteacher likes to call it, and the dormitory... the horse kind of reminds me of my high school days at Lewis-Palmer... GO RANGERS... Woop, WOOP!
Here is a lovely view of my office. I think this will be the biggest office I will EVER have, and let's just say that those couches have given me a wonderful place to nap on the occasion. I am actually the only teacher who has their own office, and it's not because I am lucky, but actually because they didn't have room for me anywhere else. I am in an entirely different building than everyone else so it can get lonely, but for the most part I enjoy it.
Here is a picture of me and one of the English teachers in my school who I taught English to about twice a week in a teacher's class. His name is Chu and he is a character. At first I think he didn't really like me, but eventually I won him over by doing what I do best... teasing him. Who knew that these serious and sometimes intimidating Korean men melt as soon as you make them laugh? This picture was take then day I made tacos for some of the teachers. Tragically, Mexican food is not common in Korea so this was the first time that they had tried a taco! How did they survive without tacos?!
I think the most suprising blessing of this whole experience has definitely been the relationship I have built with my Coteacher, Mrs. Byeon. As a foreign teacher, you are automatically assigned a Korean teacher to help you with anything you need. These teachers can either been extremely helpful, which mine is, or not so involved which can make simple things like getting a cell phone or figuring out your school schedule quite difficult. Mrs. Byeon has honestly become like my Korean aunt. She is a believer, which gives us a great connection, and is always willing to help. She brings me vegetables from her garden all the time, she has taught me how to make Dakalbi, and she has taken Danny and I on family trips. I honestly think that Danny and I would have had a very different and not-as-great experience without her. Here I am with another teacher who I teach in my teacher's class, Mrs. Lee (on the left), Mrs. Byeon (in the middle), and me.
Well, that was a way-to-long post about my school, so I won't blame you aren't reading this part at the end. Overall, I have learned a lot through this experience, and I know that it has made me appreciate past teachers a lot more.
I guess in the end, the secret I have learned to being a good teacher is this: bribe people with candy and anybody will like you : ) Good luck to all of you who are forming the minds of the future!
I raise my glass to all those who are shaping the minds of our future. And I raise my glass to you and your courage and sense of humor in a far away land.
Andong Market... a "Foodie's" Heaven!


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A Joseph Campbell Companion
Reflections on the Art of Living (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Robert Walter - editor, David Kudler - editor
Narrated by: Braden Wright, Tom Parks, David deVries
Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
Categories: Teens, Myths & Legends
By: Joseph Campbell,Robert Walter - editor,David Kudler - editor
Narrated by: Braden Wright,Tom Parks,David deVries
Myths to Live By
(The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Johnson E. Fairchild - foreword, David Kudler - editor
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: "a womb with a view." In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, science and religion, East and West, inner space and outer space - Campbell shows how the myths we live by can reconcile all of these pairs of opposites and bring a sense of the whole.
Priceless Text, Joyless Narrator
By Evan on 01-09-19
Pathways to Bliss
Mythology and Personal Transformation (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler
Narrated by: Fred Stella
Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as "other people's religion." But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth.
A very insightful listen!
By Tavan T. on 09-12-19
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell
By: Joseph Campbell, Michael Toms
Narrated by: Joseph Campbell, Michael Toms
Over a span of 12 years (1975 to 1987), New Dimensions Radio host Michael Toms recorded conversations between the late Joseph Campbell (author of The Power of Myth) and himself, during which time they developed a close friendship. In these stimulating conversations, central questions in the search for understanding and knowledge of the spiritual universe in which we live are explored.
Classic Joseph Campbell
Creative Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume IV
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
In this fourth volume in The Masks of God series - Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe beginning in the 12th century AD up through the modernist art of the 20th century. The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell's masterworks.
Oriental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume II
By: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell's masterworks. In this second volume of The Masks of God - Campbell's major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at Asian mythology as it developed over the course of five thousand years into the distinctive religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Japan.
droopy performs Joseph Campbell
By J Dabney on 04-02-19
Thou Art That
Transforming Religious Metaphor (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Eugene Kennedy - editor
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Woven from Joseph Campbell's previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors - and their misinterpretations - with the famed mythologist's characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship. Campbell's insights highlight centuries of confusion between literal and metaphorical interpretations of Western religious symbols that are, he argues, perennially relevant keys to spiritual understanding and mystical revelation.
Occidental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume III
In this third volume of The Masks of God - Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at the pagan religions of Greece, Rome, and the Celts, as well as the Abrahamic religions - Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Exploring the West's shift from female-centered to male-centered mythology, Campbell examines the distinguishing characteristics and the shared root concepts of these mythologies. The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell's masterworks.
Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God Series, Volume I
The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
Epic speculation into the origins of our mythic consciousness
By BGZ on 01-10-19
Myths of Light
Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Campbell explores, with his characteristic clarity and humor, the principle that underlies all the great religions of India and East Asia, from Jainism and Hinduism to Buddhism and Taoism: the transcendent World Soul.
This book is so profound
By W Hill on 05-27-18
Mysteries of the Feminine Devine (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Safron Elsabeth Rossi - editor
Narrated by: Braden Wright
Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics. While Campbell's work reached wide and deep, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs. Editor Safron Rossi collects these lectures for the first time.
By Amber A. on 10-31-18
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, "The Way of Art", in which he demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today's artists are the seeds of tomorrow's mythologies.
By Aamen on 12-10-18
Romance of the Grail
The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Evans Lansing Smith - editor
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. In this new volume of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, editor Evans Lansing Smith collects Campbell's writings and lectures on Arthurian legends, including his never-before-published master's thesis on Arthurian myth, "A Study of the Dolorous Stroke." Campbell's writing captures the incredible stories of such figures as Merlin, Gawain, and Guinevere as well as the larger patterns and meanings revealed in these myths.
Fantastic!!
By K. Jeppson on 08-30-19
Asian Journals
India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
Not what I expected
By S. Stanfield on 06-18-19
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
By: Joseph Campbell, Edmund L. Epstein - editor and foreword
In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce's Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued and confused, as it had many others. Because he was in Paris, he was able to visit the Shakespeare & Company bookstore - the outpost of the original publisher of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach. She gave him "clues" for reading Ulysses, and that, Campbell attested, changed his career.
The brilliance of Joyce and Campbell combined
By Diana_loves_audiobooks on 06-22-18
The Power of Myth: Programs 1-6
By: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
Narrated by: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
An exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of a remarkable man, a legendary teacher, and a masterful storyteller, conducted by TV journalist Bill Moyers for their acclaimed PBS series.
A series that changed my life
By Lucas on 10-03-09
Mythic Imagination
Collected Short Fiction (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Before he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people's living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his now-beloved phrase "follow your bliss" entered the popular lexicon, Joseph Campbell was a young man who tried his hand at writing fiction. After years of Depression-era unemployment, when he lived off money he had earned playing saxophone and read the world's great literature in a syllabus of his own design, Campbell published his first short story.
The Ecstasy of Being
Mythology and Dance (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Narrated by: David de Vries
The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell's previously uncollected articles on dance, along with "Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts," the treatise that he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this new collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as "the funnel through which spirit is poured into life."
The Mythic Dimension
Selected Essays 1959-1987 (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
This work presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life. This second volume of Campbell's essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height of Campbell's career - and showcasing the lively intelligence that made him the twentieth century's premier writer on mythology - these essays investigate links between myth, the individual, and societies ancient and contemporary.
Brilliant book
Find your self in myth
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." -Joseph Campbell
One of Joseph Campbell's most popular, most quoted works, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration, thought-provoking in its depth, poetic in its scope.
Drawn from a month-long workshop at the world-famous Esalen Institute, the Joseph Campbell Companion captures Campbell at his best: wise, funny, intelligent, and inspiring.
©1991 The Joseph Campbell Foundation. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Introduction © Diane K. Osbon.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero's Journey
Seth Speaks
The Curse of Oak Island
The Nature of Personal Reality
Idaho Trojan
I love how Campbell brings together virtually every perspective and uses story and metaphor as evidence.
Yixiao
40-50% contents overlap with Pathways to Bliss
It is a great book because it is Joseph Campbell. three different narrators take turns reading terse short lines. It is annoying. they should have used one narrator.
40-50% contents overlap with Pathways to Bliss exactly, word for word. They are taken from the same source.
Pathways to Bliss is better for my taste because it is coherent and not made up of hundreds of disjoint Nietzsche-ian aphorisms.
If you bought either one, don't buy the other.
I thought this was a well written collection of just the cable material again just another outstanding read


Tulle is so soft and pretty… and inexpensive! It works great for cardmaking. (Check out THIS video I did a few weeks ago.) Today I show how to create soft shaker cards with it.
I first die cut a window on the front of my card with the circle from the Studio Katia Dotted Balloon Die set. I then sandwiched in two pieces of tulle and lots of sequins. I like that the tulle is inexpensive, non-bulky, soft, and sheer!
I white heat embossed the Studio Katia Together We Bloom flowers on watercolor paper before covering it with Distress Ink. (Colors linked in thumbnails below.) I then sprayed it heavily with a Perfect-Pearl-and-water mix and let it dry. It blends on its own! I cut them out and added them to the card along with a gold glitter Studio Katia Dotted Frames bow die cut.
I gold heat embossed the Studio Katia The Fox Says sentiment directly on the card and added more sequins. Oh – that background cardstock is shimmery in real life. I love how classy it looks! It is from the Neenah Metallic Cardstock variety pack.
I created a second card but put the die cut circle on the edge of the card. For this, I folded the tulle in half. I thought a floating-edge shaker card would be fun!
By the way, I used a few different sequins from Studio Katia, including Misty Rose Flowers, Pearl Flower, and Majestic Fusion Sequins. So soft and pretty!
Today I am part of the Studio Katia Birthday Blog Hop. They are celebrating their first birthday! I have enjoyed watching Studio Katia grow and have been cheering them on while I enjoy their fun products.
Studio Katia is offering 15% off all purchases to their online shop using the code "SKTURNS1" through 5/7/17 at midnight EST.
Want more chances to win? Be sure to visit every site on the hop as every blog is giving away a gift certificate. ALSO, Studio Katia is also giving a Simon Says Stamp goody bag and Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Real Watercolor Brush Pens (80 Color) Set. The winners will be chosen from all the comments along the hop. WOW!
Want to find the products I used? To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Compensated affiliate links used at no cost to you. Thank you! Affiliate and product disclosure can be found here. All products were personally purchased except those with an asterisk. As always, this post was NOT paid or sponsored.) Click on the letters below each picture to go to a favorite store: Simon Says Stamp (SSS), Ellen Hutson (EH), Studio Katia (SK), etc.
Thanks for always thinking of new techniques and ideas, this is so fun!! And thanks to Studio Katia for the giveaways!
I've never made one but this has inspired me to have a go!
I love shaker cards but have always been intimidated to make one. Your technique takes the fear out of it. Now I want to try. Your cards are inspiring. Thanks!
I enjoy making shaker cards. Kids love 'em too. I never would have thought of tulle. I would have expected your flower sequins to catch on the material. Love the card!
Beautiful!!! I have never made a shaker card but I am going to try this option…I mail most of my cards so try to keep them flat so they don't require extra postage.
I think shaker cards are so fun! I love how you used the tulle. I'm going to try that for my mother's day card.
I love making shaker cards and love the reactions I get when someone opens one. Never thought about using tulle. Can't wait to try this! Thanks for sharing.
I do like to make shaker cards! They are so fun.
Oh My ! I love shaker cards and love the idea of using tulle. Never thought of it. You are an inspiration.
I love shakers – although it takes me forever to get one made:) Yours are beautiful and I love the idea with the tulle.
So beautiful Jennifer, love the tulle window idea. Where do keep pulling these ideas from… such a creative brain you have! Thanks for sharing so much inspiration to all us newbies!
I do make shaker cards…and I am going to give the "tulletechnique" a try! TY!???
I loooovw making shaker cards. But as you mentioned, it gets bulky. This is the way I'll make my next shaker card! Thanks.
Oh, your cards are always so elegant and beautiful! Thanks for sharing and for detailed explanation! Happy Birthday to Studia Katia!
I do like making shaker cards, but I have the worst habit of leaving oily finger prints on the acetate. Your tulle technique would certainly fix that problem and also save on metres of foam tape. Thank you for this awesome idea.
I do like shaker cards and your idea is fantastic – love the off the edge possibilities!
I've just strated making shaker cards — only 2 really, so I love getting this new idea. The acetate scratches so easily that tulle seems better for that reason as well.
I found you about a year ago. You've really inspired me to get back into card making. I haven't been able to think of much else, but trying this card! Thank you.
Jennifer- these tulle shaker cards are very nice looking, the flower sequins are oh so cute! I have not heard of Studio Kaitia before! I will go on line & check them out. Thank you for sharing this titorial with us!
I have not made any shaker cards…yet, but this looks like a great idea for a Mother's Day card. Thanks for the great ideas.
This card is such a great idea! Love it!
Fantastic card! I love how soft it looks.
Love the card. Those sequins are too beautiful. Lovely..
I really enjoy this technique. I need to try it soon!
Such a cool idea to use tulle!! Love the soft and feminine look that gives.
I LOVE shaker cards, but this is the first time I've seen it using tulle. Great idea. Thanks so much for all your posts and ideas.
Another beautiful card! Definitely want to try this technique soon … maybe for Mother's Day?
Great cards. Love to make shakers.
Love your shaker card. Thank you for showing us how to do this beautiful card.
What a great idea! Love the alternative look of using tulle. I was scared of attempting a shaker card and finally bit the bullet a while ago and made one – and LOVED it! Now I'm always planning them out in my head. Thank you for the chance to win!
I do love making shaker cards but never thought to use tulle for them… thanks for the great technique!
What beautiful cards and such a great idea. I will surely have to give this a try, since I do love making shaker cards. This is wonderful since it is so thin and won't require extra postage and no worry about it getting squashed. Thanks for showing us this great technique.
What gorgeous cards, Jennifer, and I LOVE the tulle shaker card! Beautiful flowers and die! Hugs!
What a cool and unique idea! I'm excited to give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
I've never made shaker card before as it's always been a bit daunting but I think this would be a lot easier. I also love how it's not as bulky as with acetate. Thank you.
Wow, love the folded tulle idea! Brilliant!
I am new to making cards. I thought this would be a great shaker card to begin with. I had a question about the tape you use. I do not have Be Creative tape in my stash (yet) so I tried several double stick tapes. I found that everything I used (including tombow glue) did not have sufficient adhesion after the tulle was applied to keep the edges of the tulle pocket together. I ended up adding another layer of adhesive between the two panels. Have you any recommendations for adhesive akternatives?
I really enjoy your videos and have been learning a lot of new techniques from them.


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Sylvain Richard
war, truth and the
SHADOWS OF MEANING
To them, I said,
the truth would be literally nothing
but the shadows of the images. That is certain.
Plato, The Republic
It is time to look behind the news. Operation Iraqi Freedom is now officially concluded; U.S. operations in Afghanistan are reportedly moving in a similar direction. More generically, however, debate about combat strategy and tactics remains ongoing.
Inevitably, we can assume that similar debates will arise concerning still unforeseen theatres of conflict. To be sure, there is nothing wrong with the prospect of such debates. But, even in our persistently anarchic and self-help system of world politics, it is ultimately important to seek and understand the more underlying and recurring reasons for war.
Freud understood. Whether we will choose to support or oppose any particular conflict, core causes and correctives of all war lie deeply embedded in the largely unchanging nature of humankind. It follows that until we can begin to understand and reform this corrosively destructive nature, our entire species will remain both predatory and imperiled.
At its most basic level, what we have witnessed in Iraq, and what we still see clearly in Afghanistan and other places, especially Syria, Pakistan, Sudan, and North Korea, is the malignant tribalism of a chaotic world order. There exists, also, in several regional theatres, a resultant or at least associated fusion of sectarian violence with various explicit claims of sacredness.
The 19th century German philosopher, Hegel, once commented: "The State is the march of God in the world." This observation now applies equally to certain sub-state, terrorist groups. Faced with the dizzying unreason of both already-sovereign and sovereignty-seeking tribes, states and aspiring states that routinely extend compelling promises of inclusion and immortality in exchange for martyrdom, our global system stands a diminishing chance of permanent survival.
We must also consider another, unprecedented fusion. This is the coming together of atomic capability with possible leadership irrationality. Presently, such an ominous combination is most readily worrisome in Iran, and perhaps North Korea and Pakistan, but there are also many other areas in which decision-making elites could sometime choose to value certain presumed religious obligations more highly than any normal preference for group self-preservation.
As a species, we cannot hope to fix any particular conflicts until we have first understood the underlying human basis of violent world politics. The grinding chaos of Iraq and Afghanistan is better identified as a symptom, than as a disease. Especially noteworthy are the tangible consequences of human death fears, and also the corollary terrors of social or national exclusion.
Global violence and disorder have their deepest roots in the pain of individuals. This primal malady is the ubiquitous incapacity of people to discover meaning and comfort outside the (state or terror) group, and, instead, within themselves. In our own intellectual history, this trenchant observation was already offered in the mid-19th century by the American Transcendentalists, Emerson and Thoreau.
There is always a crucial inner meaning to world order and global civilization. This individual meaning can only be uncovered amid a widening willingness to look beyond assorted group promises of personal salvation in exchange for war or terrorism.
Just wars, as we have long known, do have a correct place in the world. They must, however, be fought only to protect the innocent, never to slaughter anonymous noncombatant others in sordid and bloody bargains for immortality. Often, it is the denial of death by individuals that spawns war and terror.
There is no greater power in world affairs than the power over death. From the beginning, all principal violence in world politics has been driven by a contrived tribal conflict between and within nations, and by a conspicuously sacred promise to reward the faithful with freedom from mortality.
Without an outsider to loathe -- a heathen, an other -- we humans are apt to feel impotent, lonely, and lost. Drawing almost all of our benefits of self-worth from the collective, from what Freud (following Nietzsche and Stirner) had called the "primal horde," we technically superior beings remain unable to satisfy even the most elementary requirements of peaceful coexistence. Ironically, our substantial progress in certain technological and scientific realms has had no counterpart in fostering civilized human relations. We have advanced aircraft and advanced telephones, but we still remain locked into barbaric patterns of social interaction.
In planetary politics, we humans remain dedicated to all conceivable varieties of ritual violence, and to various sacrificial practices that are conveniently disguised as war, politics, or diplomacy. Oddly, perhaps, this grotesque dedication is not necessarily an example of immorality or foolishness. After all, our entire system of international relations, first shaped after the Thirty Years' War at the Peace of Westphalia (1648), remains rooted in a codified pattern of institutional conflict. Usually, we call this the balance of power.
For global civilization hope exists, but it must now sing softly in an undertone. For some, the palpable horror of life on earth may even create a deafening noise, but it will still be possible to listen for faint sounds of grace and harmony. To survive as a species, we must first pay very close attention to our most private states of anxiety, restlessness, and apprehension.
"The man who laughs," understood playwright Bertolt Brecht, "has simply not yet heard the horrible news."
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. are merely current symptoms. The immanent perils of life on earth can never be undone solely by improving global economics, fashioning new international treaties, defeating endless insurgencies, or even by spreading democracy. Rather, we humans now need to acknowledge ourselves as individual persons.
Always, the herd or the mass is the author of suffering.


Commissioned by the celebrated performance art biennial Performa 15 and debuting in November, Work is the first museum presentation of Wyatt Kahn's theatrical puppet show. In this tongue-in-cheek performance, Kahn's paintings come to life and argue with him, rising up against their maker in a comical climax. Manipulated by the artist, these irascible paintings-as-puppets critique Kahn's creations, mimicking the language of daytime talk shows on WNYC that fill his real-life studio, generating a conversation between artist, artwork, and audience about the various stages of artistic production. Each puppet—a, small copy of a large-scale painting—is modular, post-Minimalist, and shifts between illusions of depth and flatness through the sculptural collaging of white panels. Animated, they take on the high-spirited personalities and states of mind that brought them into existence in the first place – complex, humorous, and entirely the product of an irrepressible imagination. Learn more about the performance here. This program contains occasional adult language.


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The Internet has leveled the playing field significantly when it comes to marketing. The reach and visibility that used to only be available to big brands with big budgets are now within the reach of even the smallest businesses.
I want to know: How do you market yourself online? What low-cost strategies do you use to raise awareness of your business and products? Share below.


Although the term "software architecture" is relatively new to the industry, the fundamental principles of the field have been applied sporadically by software engineering pioneers since the mid 1980s.
Early attempts to capture and explain software architecture of a system were imprecise and disorganized, often characterized by a set of box-and-line diagrams. During the 1990s there was a concentrated effort to define and codify fundamental aspects of the discipline. Initial sets of design patterns, styles, best practices, description languages, and formal logic were developed during that time.
The software architecture discipline is centered on the idea of reducing complexity through abstraction and separation of concerns. To date there is still no agreement on the precise definition of the term "software architecture".
As a maturing discipline with no clear rules on the right way to build a system, designing software architecture is still a mix of art and science. The "art" aspect of software architecture is because a commercial software system supports some aspect of a business or a mission. How a system supports key business drivers is described via scenarios as non-functional requirements of a system, also known as quality attributes, determine how a system will behave.
Every system is or was unique due to the nature of the business drivers it supports, as such the degree of quality attributes exhibited by a system such as fault-tolerance, backward compatibility, extensibility, reliability, maintainability, availability, security, usability, and such other –ilities will vary with each implementation.
To bring a software architecture user's perspective into the software architecture, it can be said that software architecture gives the direction to take steps and do the tasks involved in each such user's speciality area and interest e.g. the stakeholders of software systems, the software developer, the software system operational support group, the software maintenance specialists, the deployer, the tester and also the business end user In this sense software architecture is really the amalgamation of the multiple perspectives a system always embodies. The fact that those several different perspectives can be put together into a software architecture stands as the vindication of the need and justification of creation of software architecture before the software development in a project attains maturity.


What does the trigonid crest pattern tell us on the Arago dental sample?
Re-examination of "old fossils". The Mid-Twentieth discovered specimens from the Late Middle Pleistocene Montmaurin caves (South-west of France).


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Pope Adrian VI (Latin: Hadrianus VI), born Adriaan Florensz (Boeyens) (2 March 1459 ‒ 14 September 1523), was Pope of the Catholic Church from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. He was the only Dutchman ever to be Pope.
Pope Adrian VI was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in the Netherlands and was the last non-Italian pope until Pope John Paul II from Poland became pope in 1978. Pope Adrian VI and his eventual successor Pope Marcellus II are the only popes of the modern era to retain their baptismal names after their election.
In November 1506 Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy became Governess of the Habsburg Netherlands and chose Adrian as her advisor. The next year Emperor Maximilian I appointed him also tutor to his seven-year-old grandson, and Margaret's nephew, Charles, who in 1519 would become Emperor Charles V. By 1512 Adrian was Charles's advisor and his court obligations were so time consuming that he quit his positions at the university.
Pope Adrian VI, 1598 engraving by Théodore Galle.
Adrian VI was not successful as a peacemaker among Christian princes, whom he hoped to unite in a war against the Turks. In August 1523 he was forced into an alliance with the Empire, England, and Venice against France; meanwhile, in 1522 the Sultan Suleiman I (1520–66) had conquered Rhodes.
In his reaction to the early stages of the Lutheran revolt, Adrian VI did not completely understand the gravity of the situation. At the Diet of Nuremberg, which opened in December 1522, he was represented by Francesco Chiericati, whose private instructions contain the frank admission that the disorder of the Church was perhaps the fault of the Roman Curia itself, and that it should be reformed. However, the former professor and Inquisitor General was strongly opposed to any change in doctrine and demanded that Luther be punished for teaching heresy.
He made only one cardinal in the course of his pontificate, Willem van Enckevoirt, made a cardinal priest in a consistory held on September 10, 1523.
Gulik, Guilelmus van; Konrad Eubel (1923). L. Schmitz-Kallenberg, ed. Hierarchia catholica medii aevi (in Latin). Volume III (editio altera ed.). Münster: sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae.
Rodocanachi, E. (1931). "La jeunesse d' Adrien VI". Revue historique. 56: 300–307. JSTOR 40944759. (registration required (help)).
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↑ Dedel, according to Collier's Encyclopedia.
1 2 3 Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pope Adrian VI". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
1 2 3 4 Jos Martens, Bio and review of Verweij book at Histoforum Magazine.
↑ Coster. "De Latijnse School te Zwolle". Metamorfoses. pp. 17, 19. Rodocanachi, p. 301-302.
↑ The date was 1 June 1476 according to the Matriculation Register: Rodocanachi, p. 302 and n. 1.
↑ David Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Adrian Florenszoom Dedel. Retrieved: 2016-05-14.
↑ Paolo Giovio, Vita Hadriani VI, p. 119.
↑ Gulik and Eubel, p. 186.
↑ Gulik and Eubel, pp. 16 and 63.
1 2 3 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adrian". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 216.
↑ Adrian VI (1522). Copia Brevis S. D. N. Adriani VI. in summum Pontificem electi, ad sacrosanctum Cardinalium Collegium (in Latin). Caesaraugusta (Saragossa).
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O Sudão competiu nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1968 na Cidade do México, México.

Resultados por Atleta

Atletismo

 Gasmalla Morgan
100m masculino — Eliminatórias: 11.0 s (não avançou)
200m masculino — Eliminatórias: 22.6 s (não avançou)
 Angelo Hussein
400m masculino — Eliminatórias: 47.7 s (não avançou)
800m masculino — Eliminatórias: 1:53.4 s (não avançou)

Boxe

 Hwad Abdel
Peso Pena (57 kg) — Primeira rodada: perdeu para  5:0
 Abdel Sheed
Peso Leve (60 kg)
Primeira rodada: derrotou  5:0
Segunda rodada: perdeu para  5:0
 Abdalla Abdel
Peso Médio-ligeiro (71 kg) — Primeira rodada: perdeu para  4:1

Referências

Sudao
1968