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National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) officials announced Dec. 13, that Summit Racing Equipment has been named the title sponsor of the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League, an entry-level series for kids ages 8 to 17.
In the multi-year agreement, Summit Racing Equipment, a national leader in direct marketing of auto racing parts and equipment, will have the exclusive right to market and promote the NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League, effective immediately.
"We've watched the Jr. Drag Racing League program grow over the last several years and felt it was time to get involved and support these young racers and their families," said Jim Greenleaf, Summit Racing motorsports and event manager. "The NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League is a terrific program for developing the professional drag racers of tomorrow. It is also an excellent addition to Summit Racing's current NHRA programs, including the Summit Racing Series, three NHRA national events, and the King of the Track program."
The NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League consists of weekly racing at many of NHRA's 130 member tracks and will also be showcased during two regional championship events: The NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals and NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Western Conference Finals. The dates and locations for the two Finals events will be announced at a later date.
"The NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League is a very unique program and unparalleled in the world of motorsports," said Gary Darcy, senior vice president of sales and marketing, NHRA. "It provides the ultimate opportunity for young racing enthusiasts to participate in NHRA Drag Racing in a controlled and safer environment. By becoming the title sponsor of the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League, Summit Racing is solidifying its role in helping to develop the next generation of NHRA stars."
Founded in 1992, more than 4,000 kids compete in the NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League. Jr. Dragsters are half-scale replicas powered by five-horsepower engines that produce speeds up to 85 mph in the eighth-mile distance. Notable NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League alumni who now compete in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series include Erica Enders, Shawn Langdon, Vincent Nobile, Spencer Massey, J.R. Todd and Richie Stevens.
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Home McCormick - International Harvester Collection page 2
The Harvester World: Volume 2, number 11, August 1911
Hard and Easy Deals
THIS   IS AN   OPEN   COLUMN   FOR  THE   MEN  WHO    DO  THINGS.
EVERY   CONTRIBUTION   WILL   BE   WELCOME
ADDRESS THE ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
LOCATING OR CHASING SKIPPERS
By E. E. Field, Collection Agent, Minneapolis, Minn.
The writer has read in The Harvester World a number of write-ups on chasing skippers, all of which were very good, and a little out of the ordinary. It may be interesting to collectors to read of some of the
writer's experiences locat¬ ing or chasing skippers in the early 90's.
I was then with the McCormick company with headquarters at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. Legge, who was in charge of col¬ lections, called me in from the northwestern part of Nebraska to persuade me to take a territory in west- ern Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and eastern Wyoming, which was then known as the high line or arid country—and arid it was. In looking back upon the scene, I do not feel that it would be putting it too strong to say that a prairie fire could have practically   any   month   of   the
E. E. Field
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I equipped myself with the proper authority and the necessary supplies for a summer campaign and left Council Bluffs early in March, making my first stop at Kearney, Neb., where my new territory began, then continued westward to Julesburg, Colorado, and Chey¬ enne, Wyo., with the necessary side trips by stage, etc. At Kearney, and vicinity, the conditions were not too bad and I had fair success collecting, as I had by that time acquired some little ability in the work and felt that I was at least entitled to the right to call myself a collector; but I soon found that this acquired ability was of practically no value to me, for the reason that as I worked west, and got farther into the arid lands I found but few, and I may say, exceptionally few, people to collect from; and to collect from the debtors that I did find was entirely out of the question as they had raised no crops for from three to four years, conse¬ quently had become so poor that they could not get out of the country. This was the only excuse they had to offer for being there.
I feel safe in saying that at least seventy-five per cent of our debtors had left the country. This caused me to realize that I was up against an entirely new propo¬ sition, for up to this time I had acquired practically no ability as a skipper chaser. At first I did not realize the size of the new proposition that had been allotted to me, but after making a few trips into the country and  accomplishing   nothing,   I  began to  realize  that
results could be obtained only by working out some thorough system for locating our debtors.
This was no easy task for a beginner, or one inex¬ perienced in chasing skippers, but having fresh in mind the unsuccessful trips that I had just made, I decided that too much information as to a skipper's present location was impossible to obtain; therefore, from that date on, I began to acquire some ability as a "skipper chaser," and when gathering information as to a debt¬ or's present location, I never ceased until I was satisfied that there was absolutely nothing moi-e to be learned. Many times I called on a dozen or more of the debtor's old neighbors, each of whom named a different place to which the man had moved, and each of whom was absolutely sure that he was right, giving reasons in detail. Also, in getting names aud addresses of the relatives of the debtor, and his wife, each inquiry would add to my list a different address, so I came to the con¬ clusion that there was but one sure course to pursue, and that was to make a note of each and all of the different postoffice addresses that I obtained, as well as each and all of the names and addresses of the rela¬ tives of both the debtor and his wife.
After possessing myself of this information, and returning in the evening to our lodging place (we made a practice of going to our room early after the evening meal) we proceeded with the clerical work necessarily connected with the work of successfully chasing skip¬ pers. This was no little task, as I often obtained a hundred or more names and postoffices in one day's drive. A personal letter had to be written to each post¬ master, and each relative, inquiring as to the present address of the debtor.
Writing this number of letters and addressing two envelopes for each (we always enclosed a stamped, ad¬ dressed envelope for reply) required considerable time and work, considering that it all had to be done in the old fashioned way—with pen and ink. This work kept us late in the evening, and sometimes until early in the morning, but this was never allowed to interfere with our getting an early start the next morning on another extended tour for more information. After covering our territory and completing the work, thus trying out our system thoroughly, we were very much surprised to learn that we had succeeded in locating about ninety- nine per cent of our skippers.
But even with the above success, those were certainly dreary days for the traveling collector, or skipper chaser. The conditions of living for thu traveler were on a par with the collection conditions of the country. In the early morning the balmy air was not filled with that most acceptable fragrance coming from the native flowers, but instead with the odors coming from the chimneys of cook stoves which were being overheated with a fuel called buffalo chips, which, by the way, was the only kind of fuel used in that country iu those days; but as "Chasing Skippers" is the subject, I will con¬ clude by saying that in recent years, being in a position to watch the tactics and the system used by our field
Title The Harvester World: Volume 2, number 11, August 1911
Physical Description 7.25 x 10 inches
Series The Harvester World ; v. 2, no. 11
Full Text Hard and Easy Deals
THIS IS AN OPEN COLUMN FOR THE MEN WHO DO THINGS.
EVERY CONTRIBUTION WILL BE WELCOME
By E. E. Field, Collection Agent, Minneapolis, Minn. The writer has read in The Harvester World a number of write-ups on chasing skippers, all of which were very good, and a little out of the ordinary. It may be interesting to collectors to read of some of the writer's experiences locat¬ ing or chasing skippers in the early 90's. I was then with the McCormick company with headquarters at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. Legge, who was in charge of col¬ lections, called me in from the northwestern part of Nebraska to persuade me to take a territory in west- ern Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and eastern Wyoming, which was then known as the high line or arid country—and arid it was. In looking back upon the scene, I do not feel that it would be putting it too strong to say that a prairie fire could have practically any month of the E. E. Field started there been year. I equipped myself with the proper authority and the necessary supplies for a summer campaign and left Council Bluffs early in March, making my first stop at Kearney, Neb., where my new territory began, then continued westward to Julesburg, Colorado, and Chey¬ enne, Wyo., with the necessary side trips by stage, etc. At Kearney, and vicinity, the conditions were not too bad and I had fair success collecting, as I had by that time acquired some little ability in the work and felt that I was at least entitled to the right to call myself a collector; but I soon found that this acquired ability was of practically no value to me, for the reason that as I worked west, and got farther into the arid lands I found but few, and I may say, exceptionally few, people to collect from; and to collect from the debtors that I did find was entirely out of the question as they had raised no crops for from three to four years, conse¬ quently had become so poor that they could not get out of the country. This was the only excuse they had to offer for being there. I feel safe in saying that at least seventy-five per cent of our debtors had left the country. This caused me to realize that I was up against an entirely new propo¬ sition, for up to this time I had acquired practically no ability as a skipper chaser. At first I did not realize the size of the new proposition that had been allotted to me, but after making a few trips into the country and accomplishing nothing, I began to realize that results could be obtained only by working out some thorough system for locating our debtors. This was no easy task for a beginner, or one inex¬ perienced in chasing skippers, but having fresh in mind the unsuccessful trips that I had just made, I decided that too much information as to a skipper's present location was impossible to obtain; therefore, from that date on, I began to acquire some ability as a "skipper chaser" and when gathering information as to a debt¬ or's present location, I never ceased until I was satisfied that there was absolutely nothing moi-e to be learned. Many times I called on a dozen or more of the debtor's old neighbors, each of whom named a different place to which the man had moved, and each of whom was absolutely sure that he was right, giving reasons in detail. Also, in getting names aud addresses of the relatives of the debtor, and his wife, each inquiry would add to my list a different address, so I came to the con¬ clusion that there was but one sure course to pursue, and that was to make a note of each and all of the different postoffice addresses that I obtained, as well as each and all of the names and addresses of the rela¬ tives of both the debtor and his wife. After possessing myself of this information, and returning in the evening to our lodging place (we made a practice of going to our room early after the evening meal) we proceeded with the clerical work necessarily connected with the work of successfully chasing skip¬ pers. This was no little task, as I often obtained a hundred or more names and postoffices in one day's drive. A personal letter had to be written to each post¬ master, and each relative, inquiring as to the present address of the debtor. Writing this number of letters and addressing two envelopes for each (we always enclosed a stamped, ad¬ dressed envelope for reply) required considerable time and work, considering that it all had to be done in the old fashioned way—with pen and ink. This work kept us late in the evening, and sometimes until early in the morning, but this was never allowed to interfere with our getting an early start the next morning on another extended tour for more information. After covering our territory and completing the work, thus trying out our system thoroughly, we were very much surprised to learn that we had succeeded in locating about ninety- nine per cent of our skippers. But even with the above success, those were certainly dreary days for the traveling collector, or skipper chaser. The conditions of living for thu traveler were on a par with the collection conditions of the country. In the early morning the balmy air was not filled with that most acceptable fragrance coming from the native flowers, but instead with the odors coming from the chimneys of cook stoves which were being overheated with a fuel called buffalo chips, which, by the way, was the only kind of fuel used in that country iu those days; but as "Chasing Skippers" is the subject, I will con¬ clude by saying that in recent years, being in a position to watch the tactics and the system used by our field

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Sam Lloyd (November 12, 1963 – April 30, 2020) was an American actor and singer, best known for his portrayal of lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy-drama series Scrubs and the sitcom Cougar Town.

Early life
Lloyd was born in Springfield, Vermont, on November 12, 1963, the son of Marianna McGuffin and Samuel Lloyd Sr., an actor. One of five siblings—which included Laurel, Robin, Sandra, and Jackson—he was the nephew of actor Christopher Lloyd.

He attended Syracuse University in the 1980s. There he starred in friend Paul Perry's student film Fan Mail, which Lloyd described as a "clever, fun, kind of homage to silent films".

Career
Lloyd is best known for his portrayal of lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy-drama series Scrubs and the sitcom Cougar Town. He and his uncle both guest-starred on Malcolm in the Middle: Lloyd as a housing lawyer, and his uncle as Hal's father. The two also guested on The West Wing: Lloyd requesting the White House to release information about UFOs, and his uncle as a constitutional law expert. He also appeared in Desperate Housewives as Albert Goldfine. Aside from acting, Lloyd was an accomplished singer with the a cappella group the Blanks, who made many appearances on Scrubs under the name The Worthless Peons (also known as Ted's Band). He also played the bass guitar in a Beatles tribute group called the Butties; although right-handed, he learned to play bass left-handed like Beatles bassist Paul McCartney to maintain authenticity.

Illness and death
In January 2019, Lloyd was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, which was subsequently revealed to be metastatic lung cancer that had spread to his liver, spine, and jaw. His wife Vanessa had given birth to their son, Weston, around the time Lloyd received his diagnosis. He died in Los Angeles on April 30, 2020, at the age of 56.

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2020 deaths
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
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Male actors from Vermont
Syracuse University alumni
People from Weston, Vermont
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I am not a frugal expert, but looking at your menu.lst it looks completely different from the one found in the doc.
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Next mission to the moon to be a testing ground for Mars, says NASA
"We are building for the long term, going to the Moon to stay, and moving beyond to Mars," said Jim Bridenstine, administrator of the U.S. space agency on Wednesday.
The U.S. agency, NASA is currently working on a programme that will use the moon as a stepping stone to reach a bigger goal -Mars.
Even though it Saturday July 20 will mark 50 years since humankind first landed on the moon, no one has returned to the lunar landscape since 1972. NASA is aiming to return to the earth's satellite, however, with an accelerated programme dubbed Artemis aiming to put humankind back on the moon by 2024.
"NASA is working to build a sustainable, open architecture that returns humanity to our nearest neighbour," said Bridenstine.
Officials at the agency say that exploration of the moon and Nasa is intertwined. NASA sees the moon as an ideal testing spot for Mars, demonstrating new technologies and building extra-terrestrial outposts.
A mission to Mars could come as early as 2033, Bridenstine told reporters on Monday.
"We are working right now, in fact, to put together a comprehensive plan on how we would conduct a Mars mission using the technologies that we will be proving at the moon."
Technologies that can be tested on the moon, like mining the lunar terrain's subsurface water ice could be crucial for missions to Mars. Accomplishing this would have a range of potential benefits, from sustaining crew members to breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen to use as rocket propellant.
At its closest orbit point to Earth, Mars is still 58 million km away.
Comparing the original Apollo 11 mission with today's Artemis one, roboticist William Whittaker said it's an issue of "utilisation versus curiosity."
This comparison is fitting in more ways than one. In Greek mythology, Apollo and Artemis were twins, children of Zeus and symbolising similar ideas as iterated by Whittaker. Apollo was the god of truth, light, and medicine, with Artemis the goddess of the moon, childbirth and the wilderness.
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1st presidential debate held, Nov. 4, 1956
By ANDREW GLASS
Ask a political aficionado when the first nationally televised presidential campaign debates occurred and you're likely to be told it was in 1960, when Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) faced off against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican candidate.
But, in fact, it occurred on this day four years earlier, when Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the nation's 32nd president, debated Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Trailing in the polls, Adlai Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, had challenged Dwight D. Eisenhower, the incumbent Republican president who was seeking a second term, to a televised debate. But he had to settle for a Sunday event featuring two female surrogates: the former first lady, an iconic figure among party stalwarts, and the senior GOP senator from Maine.
Smith, who was serving her second Senate term, had known Eleanor Roosevelt for two decades. They both wrote daily newspaper columns and regularly appeared on lists of the nation's most admired women.
At the time, "Face the Nation" was well into its second season, having premiered on Nov. 7, 1954. Neither woman had appeared on the program before their path-breaking debate. The show originally aired on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 Eastern time. Its first host was Ted Koop, CBS's Washington bureau chief, whose initial interview guest had been Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Until the closing statements, the former first lady dominated the debate. Then, as Smith later recalled, she engaged in an "abrupt change in delivery," coming on strong. Smith's altered demeanor upset Roosevelt, who refused to shake hands with her after the show.
Smith, who died in 1995 at age 97, remains the longest-serving female GOP senator in history. In 1964, she also became the first woman to be nominated for the presidency at a major party's convention.
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Technologies of virtual and augmented reality are demonstrating better and better results every year. The devices are getting more accessible and the technology enjoys widespread adoption.
This trend stimulated us to work in this area.
The main directions of our work in VR are the development and implementation of tracking systems, the development of tools for creating, protecting and distributing video in 360 format.
In AR we are complementing the real world picture with creating explanations/cues for users - in our educational projects and simulations.
Recently we have been working in partnership with Total Interactive, engaged in the production of virtual reality rides. Together we solved the problem of determining the speed and direction of a person's movement, placed in a three-meter sphere, rotating in an arbitrary direction.
To do this, we used a gyroscope and accelerometers, coupled with a bluetooth transmitter. By placing the device in the sphere body and applying special processing algorithms based on applying the Madgwick filter - to filter data from the gyroscope and the accelerometer and quaternions to determine the position of the sensor in real time. From the data obtained, the linear velocity and the direction of rotation of the sphere are easily determined.
Another problem we are working on now is the creation of a cross-platform video player in the 360 format, which ensures content protection and synchronous launch on many devices.
The product is designed to work in a chain of 360-format videos cinemas. One of the major performance problems we faced was the speed of unpacking/rendering the high resolution videos (4K, 8K) in H264 and H265 formats. We also implement the encryption for videostreaming and integration with various tracking systems, including the system of tracking virtual reality glasses TotalVR, developed by the partner.
We use Windows Media SDK library as well as FFMPEG и Intel Media SDK to work with the 360 videos.
For video encryption we used OpenSSL. For the 360 player implementation we relied on Unity together with C# and C++ (and Qt, and OpenGL) to implement the player for different platforms. We used Open VR SDK and HidApi to work with different tracking systems.
For AR we used OpenCV together with Google Tensor Flow and Open GL to render the augmented reality.


Views from the top of the Exit 9 footbridge at Avenida Brazil. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
The challenge of an education and art project: to spread radiant energy.
How do you produce a magnetic field capable of attracting the attention of a group of adolescents for a conversation about art on a sweltering afternoon?
The way: make your field an antenna, a radiant body.
Both institutions were located on opposite sides of the city. I started my action in Maré.
Exit 9 at Avenida Brazil, arrival at the Complexo da Maré, Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art of MAM Rio. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
I soon learned that in order to work in that complex with an irradiant group of young people a triple dose of electromagnetism would be required.
Receptive, I arrived and demonstrated my curiosity about what was constant and what was new in the place. We introduced ourselves and started asking questions about what each person had seen on the way there, on the streets. I tried to imagine the paths that these young authors had walked prior to our encounter. I retraced from memory my own journey through a street full of makeshift structures, shelters, hacked-up things, inventions and pieces of all kinds. In that vast [chaotic world], I saw the extraordinary in precarious objects and my goal was to irradiate this aptitude as a poetics of insignificance, a practice I had learned from the poet Manoel de Barros.
Powerful for me is not the one who discovers gold.
Bodybuilding billboard in the Complexo da Maré. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
The idea of "walking to and fro without linearity" and the possibility to "poetize the urban" were already present in Delirium Ambulatorium proposed by Hélio Oiticica for the performance event Mitos Vadios organized by Ivald Granato in 1978.
From 1998 to 2006, my pleasure in the delirium of the streets uncovered objects without names in the dictionary, so I built an inventory of inventions. I had to flee bullets; I met many great people and learned on the street corners what no formal education teaches. All my life, an umbrella covering a wobbly stool hits me like a poem.
Vacant land where paths and reflections were made during the Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
– He pointed a gun at you? And what did you do?
After this I walked off thinking. I didn't look at another door or stare at anyone for a long time after that. It's a question of respect.
– A bunch of chickens in the middle of the street.
– I saw a footbridge, a little hut, a market stall, a DVD on the footbridge, lots of things.
– I saw the ground, a square, the church, the battalion, chickens.
– Didn't you see any houses?
– No, I didn't look.
– Did you see any signs?
– Didn't you see any trash?
– No, I don't notice those things.
– We should have more freedom.
– Freedom to come and go without anyone becoming suspicious, because there's the sewer over there, and there's a rival gang.
– We used to be able to walk around there but today we're scared to.
The lack of freedom, the presence of the sewer that limits space, the desire to circulate without fear were all referred to directly as they talked about their pathways. I wrote down the phrases I heard to record the process and to get to know people. As they spoke, I wrote: peace, ability, force of will, hope, leadership, respect, honesty, sincerity, strength, equality, love, dream, God, fellowship, unity, affection, freedom, justice, wisdom, compassion.
There was only one verb there: to dream. I thought the near absence of action words significant. Many of the words represented somehow an ideal without the movement that leads to its conquest. Asked what they liked to do, several said they could not think of anything that they really liked to do.
My curiosity increased as I learned about the internal journeys of each one, and then the process was already on the course of collective therapy. I smiled at a moment when everyone was talking at once and stopped taking notes. The mix of voices led me to a parallel inner dialogue: reflections on the project, the community, the place of education within the museum, the fear of being shot, the role of the artwork, role of the alleyways, art in the alleyways, Avenida Brazil, the young people's expectations, and mine.
Amidst the hubbub, I started a delirious and silent prose. Thoughts flew. I imagined receiving a call from Lady Art History. Speaking in silence with this ruling entity, I saw that my footsteps there in Maré played in the astral footsteps of concepts and actions of some of the extemporaneous that I most admire: Estamira, Stela do Patrocíno, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Michel de Certeau, João Paixão, Jean Michel Basquiat, Hélio Oiticica, Manoel de Barros, Guy Debord, Dona Pequena, João do Rio, Profeta Gentileza, and Chacrinha.
I hold dear the words of the old warrior TV presenter Abelardo Barbosa and think quietly for only Lady Art History to hear. I haven't come to explain and I follow as a wanderer in search of extemporaneity5 that I offer here as the dimension in which beings of different ages can encounter one another and get in tune with irradiating ideas that touch us on an interpersonal level, convey feelings, share wonderment, spread poetry, expand concepts, and contagiously empathize.
This line of association stayed with me throughout the Irradiations project and I rigorously followed this free method of producing collective experiences: Contagious Empathy.
With a breath, the internal dialogue was switched off, and I turned my attention to the voices that spoke of their pathways. What was said, the forgotten steps, the winds of recollection and their invention, the time passing and the experience of listening brought clarity to the process.
Contagious empathy is the path toward a collective creative act with a group of young people on a sweltering afternoon.
Faced with a moment of general chaos, I took out my book of Rua dos inventos and started talking about the seemingly lame structures that [for me rather] make me recognize that territory as an irradiating system. What attracts me in that busy street is not a visual illusion of enchantment for the exotic. What intrigues me is the high coefficient of transformation that is spread there. Something transforms in me when two objects that might be in the trash become a third thing. Something transforms in me when I get out of my comfort zone and walk down an alleyway where I recognize a degree of energy deposited in the making of each object with no monetary value.
At that moment, my challenge was to bring about a transformation in those young eyes through contagious empathy. We went outside to the street observing space with new and curious eyes. Many wanted to talk about what they saw, to propose a path and take a photo. The camera was in the hands of Sandro, who made discrete and accurate records because we knew how delicate photographing is in the area.
Complexo da Maré, Contagious Empathy pathway, Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photos: Sandro Paz, 2010.
There was a general desire expressed to shoot more freely, and the day of the fair, Sunday, was pointed out as the most tranquil for that, especially if there was a pre-warning that it was a project involving a group of community youth.
The awaited encounter took place on a rainy Sunday morning that first forced us to seek shelter in a covered space where we spent an hour in a free wordplay of sentences based on the universal vocabulary of Maré.
– Garbage is a path for the study of the world.
– To dream is to create a world without proportion, without faction, where the only goal is to be happy.
– Of my strength I make my freedom, respect, wisdom to share, of my trash, my museum.
– To share makes the ground smile.
– Freedom is painting the wall of life, creating a path to discover.
– I make of life a wall of opportunities.
– Ice cream makes people happy.
– Share ice cream and popsicle sticks, the opportunity to create, dream and discover a new world.
– The things of the world walk on the footbridge.
Ad hoc cooking fire using coconuts. Record at the fair on Sunday, Complexo da Maré. Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photo: Jaqueline Paz, 2010.
Detail of a tent with guavas. Record at the fair on Sunday, Complexo da Maré. Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photo: Jaqueline Paz, 2010.
With the assembled group we went out into the fair with the freedom to (discreetly) shoot photographs. We spent two hours observing and recording. The feeling was that just 10 minutes had passed (a clock without hands).
When we left the fair, we went to the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.
Complexo da Maré seen from the bus window on the Red Line on the way to the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
Bringing with us the chaos of the fair, the attention to the collective was renewed at MAM, discovered like the sound of rain mixed with birdsong. The group guided themselves through the visit to the collection. They were comfortable and didn't want to leave. What excited me most in this contact was that we managed to positively walk through the fair with the attention of someone who walks in an art space, attentively observing the elements present in the environment, talking about color, analyzing the structures of the tents, valuing the space, criticizing or praising the forms of objects. Later, we walked through the museum with the naturalness of one who walks at the fair where works of art are shown and reveal themselves unceremoniously, allowing spontaneous speech and a keen perception of the relationship between concepts and images. It was a spontaneous dialectical exercise.
We finished up the day with a picnic under MAM's pilotis [architectural pillars], where we made a plan that it was important to define a particular action for the last encounter.
That same week, when we met again in Maré, we assessed the previous encounters, reread our wordplay phrases and chose one as the synthesis of the experience. So we asked ourselves: what do we do with the idea elected by the majority? How do we print the phrase in the world? Where? On a wall? Of course, all that remained was to find the wall. Each person gave a suggestion until the idea was presented to take advantage of the wall of the soccer field that sits behind Luta Pela Paz. Being an open place with many passer-bys – it was soon accepted by all. Once agreed, they left in search of paint, buckets, brushes, and brooms. The process culminated in a collective action on the football field, where today it reads: FREEDOM IS PAINTING THE WALL OF LIFE.
Collective action, wall painting behind the wasteland. Complexo da Maré Irradiations Project, Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art, MAM Rio. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
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Stephen Lynch Says He'd Still Vote To Ban Sex-Selective Abortion
By Tom Joyce | August 31, 2021, 20:37 EDT
Printed from: https://newbostonpost.com/2021/08/31/stephen-lynch-says-hed-still-vote-to-ban-sex-selective-abortion/
U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) entered Congress 20 years ago as a pro-lifer.
The last vote to restrict abortion he took came in 2012. He supported a ban on sex-selective abortion.
While Lynch has reversed many of his anti-abortion positions, including supporting a federal budget that would repeal the Hyde Amendment earlier this year, Lynch told NewBostonPost that if the sex-selective abortion issue came up again, he'd take the same vote.
"Oh yeah," Lynch said, during an event in Scituate late Tuesday morning. "Selective abortion. That's not right. I understand when someone's jammed up and in dire situations, but that's a whole different. You know, we criticize China for that, so I think it wouldn't be consistent if we weren't opposed to that practice."
Sex-selective abortions are more common in other parts of the world than they are in the United States. In the United States they tend to occur among certain first-generation immigrant groups where there is cultural pressure on women to have a boy, as The New York Times pointed out in 2012.
Politicians in other first-world countries like Canada and the United Kingdom — which don't have any major pro-life parties — have spoken out against the practice occurring in immigrant communities in their countries, as well. However, sex-selective abortion is most prevalent in places like China, India, and South Korea, among others.
China is the most prominent example of it. As of 2019, there had been about 23.1 million sex-selective abortions in China over the previous half-century and 20.7 million sex-selective abortions in India out of 45 million worldwide, as the scientific journal Nature reported.
Lynch, when asked Tuesday what he thinks the United States should do to mitigate sex-selective abortion worldwide, said the country should lead by example by ending the practice here. He also said that the United Nations, which condemns the practice, should be a leader in the effort.
"I think you have to respect the sovereignty of other nations and that is a matter for individual countries," Lynch said. "I think we have to use institutions like the UN to adopt global standards that we encourage other people to adhere to, but we've got enough on our plate around the world right now with existential threats that I think we have to try diplomacy as much as possible and to be an example ourselves."
When Lynch voted to ban sex-selective abortion in 2012, the bill failed, 246-168. He was one of 20 Democrats and the only member of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to vote for the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2012 (H. R. 3541). Although a majority voted for the bill, it needed a two-thirds vote to pass because House Republicans called for a suspension of House rules — a procedure typically used to fast-track bills viewed as uncontroversial.
A 2012 Charlotte Lozier Institute poll found that 77 percent of Americans support banning sex-selective abortion.
Sex-selective abortion is legal in 39 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute; only 11 have banned it.
Banning sex-selective abortion was one of many pro-life votes that Lynch has taken in Congress. Notably, in 2003, he voted in favor of banning partial-birth abortion, and in 2009, he supported the Stupak Amendment to the Affordable Care Act. Except for cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother, the proposed amendment would have prohibited "any coverage of abortion in the public option and prohibits anyone receiving a federal subsidy from purchasing a health insurance plan that includes abortion," according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
When he first ran for Congress in 2001, Lynch told The Boston Globe that he was pro-life and that it was an important issue to him.
"Unlike some people, I'm not sure precisely when life begins, or whether a fetus is a legal person," Lynch said at the time. "But I believe strongly that this is at least the potential of human life and that it is the most special and precious gift and must be protected."
However, Lynch started opposing restrictions on abortion in 2013. That's the year he ran for U.S. Senate.
That year, he said that he supported Roe v. Wade during a Democratic primary debate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell with Ed Markey, who went on to win the election and is currently a U.S. senator.
"Overturning Roe v. Wade doesn't end abortion," Lynch said. "What it will do, however, is change the options for women from a clinical setting to one that is much more dangerous for women in crisis."
Additionally, Lynch expressed opposition to abortion restrictions passed in states like Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and Ohio in an opinion piece for The Boston Globe in 2019. In it, he said: "Simply opposing abortion does not make you pro-life."
This Is No Time For The Supreme Court To Go Wobbly…


The carrier is outpacing its national wireless rivals in subscriber growth. It also swings to a profit, but not by as much as Wall Street was expecting.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere at one of the company's "Uncarrier" events.
The momentum of T-Mobile can't be denied.
For months, the Bellevue, Washington, company has been gaining more mobile phone customers than its three rivals combined. It has struck a chord with consumers through pocketbook-friendly features under the "Uncarrier" banner, including monthly rollovers of unused data and free data roaming in Canada and Mexico. A dash of marketing flash and a pinch of profanity courtesy of CEO John Legere also helped turn heads.
That trend continued in the third quarter. The nation's third-largest wireless carrier said Tuesday that it added 2.3 million customers in the period. Out of that total, 843,000 opted to pay at the end of the month, and are a lucrative base referred to as postpaid customers.
By comparison, Verizon signed up little more than half that number of net new postpaid phone customers during the quarter, while AT&T lost such customers. Sprint hasn't reported yet, but would have to add close to three quarters of a million customers to keep T-Mobile from once again outstripping the trio of national carriers in terms of growth in the critical postpaid segment.
The two-and-a-half-year-old Uncarrier campaign is starting to pay off on the bottom line, too. T-Mobile swung to a profit for a second consecutive quarter, earning $138 million, or 15 cents a share, on revenue of $7.8 billion. Still, the profit was half of analyst forecasts.
The company said it expects to post positive earnings in the fourth quarter and for the full year.
T-Mobile customers apparently like the service. The turnover rate, which measures how many customers leave T-Mobile each quarter, fell to 1.46 percent from 1.64 percent a year ago.
The company ended the quarter on a high note, analysts believe, thanks to the debut of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, which came toward the end of the period.
As the last carrier to get the iPhone, T-Mobile has the smallest base of customers using Apple's iconic device. Legere said that preorders for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus were up 30 percent from advance iPhone sales a year ago, when the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus debuted.
The carrier has also excelled in prepaid plans, which allow customers who typically have lower credit scores to pay at the beginning of each month. The company added 595,000 such customers in the period.


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A visit from Sage Marlowe
Sage Marlowe's First Anniversary Blog Tour & Giveaway
Hello and welcome to the latest stop of my 1st Anniversary Blog Tour & Giveaway. Thanks for hosting me, Raven!
One year has passed since my successful debut novel, Sub-Mission, was released on May 14, 2012. A lot has happened during those twelve months. I'm taking the chance to look back and tell you a bit about the background of the books I've published, but also about things that happened in my life or that are on my mind. There's one stop for every book, and of course, there are prizes waiting for you, because as always, good things for me mean good things for you, my dear friends and readers. Please read the "Giveaway" section below for details.
Today, I'd like to talk to you about families. Traditionally, a family consists of a mother, a father and any number of children, right? Right, but well, times are changing. If possible, I stay away from discussing political issues and I don't want to look at political, let alone religious aspects of marriage equality and LGBT rights. Instead, I want to look at a family.
Meet Harley, a hunky pilot who is confident with his sexuality and likes his life as he does his (male) sex partners—easy. Harley is in no particular hurry to find Mr Right and starting a family has never even crossed his mind. Along comes Quinn, an outwardly conservative lawyer who, although he is attracted to men, rarely allows himself to give in to this desire and instead keeps up the façade of a happily married, successful career man.
Despite their opposing attitudes, the sex between them is hot and they even engage in a ménage with Quinn's wife, Miranda. So far, so good. But when Miranda gets pregnant and dies, the two men find themselves in a prickly situation – they have each fathered a twin boy and while they agree that the kids should grow up together, neither of them is willing to give up his son.
Add to that the fact that Quinn is about as deeply in the closet as he and Harley are in love with each other, and you have the premise for Harlequin. But wait, why am I telling you this? Because I'm trying to promote my book, you probably think, and yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I'd love you to go and buy it but there's more to this story, so bear with me.
Harlequin is probably the most controversial book I've written so far. The MF and ménage elements it contains are awkward rather than titillating because Harley is essentially gay and curious about sex with women at best. There's the issue with the twins and their different dads, both Harley and Quinn have (off-page) sex with secondary characters and oh, of course, there's a lot of angst due to Quinn's being closeted which results in him not being the most loyal of partners to Harley. Harlequin was rejected by two publishers for those very reasons and because it required too much suspension of disbelief in the acquisition editors' eyes. Especially the twins being fathered by two men was stretching it too far. (Hey, the chance for that to happen is a lot higher than that for winning the lottery…)
And I agree, Harlequin is not your typical romance novel. It is a book that mainly deals with the reality of a same-sex couple that is trying to make their relationship work and raise children in a society that struggles to accept them for who they are. Without this external conflict, their lives would be a lot easier—in fact, their lives would be a lot more like the typical romance novel most people are looking for and that is where this story would require suspension of disbelief, because really, how many gay people do you know that have never faced discrimination?
There was a lot on the news just a few weeks ago about marriage equality. I think society is still far away from accepting alternate lifestyles as equal, but it's an important first step in the right direction. If all of us take that step and keep walking, chances are that one day it will indeed be normal to have families that consist of any number of children and a mum and a dad or two mums, two dads, three dads, a mum and two dads, three mums…any combination, really, because all that should matter is that the family members are happy with each other, their lives and themselves. And when that time has come, it will no longer require suspension of disbelief for people like Quinn to accept themselves for who they are and live their very own romance.
If you're interested in Harley and Quinn's story, here it is:
How can you become a family when you can't admit to being a couple in the first place?
They're an unlikely couple—Harley Sinclair, pilot and openly gay, likes fast cars, easy boys, and late nights. Quinn Lancaster, lawyer and deep in the closet, likes his life quiet with just that little bit of extra spice that engaging in a ménage with his wife, Miranda, and Harley adds. Neither of them can admit that there might be more to this affair than just indecently hot sex.
A lie soon breaks them apart, but when Miranda dies in an accident, Harley and Quinn are reunited by an even more unlikely couple—twin sons with different fathers. While Harley is willing to commit to the responsibility of having a family, Quinn's fear that accepting Harley at his side will destroy everything he has worked for keeps them apart. But when Harley makes the ultimate sacrifice, Quinn realizes that sometimes, what appears to be the worst case isn't quite so bad after all…
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00913OYW2
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00913OYW2
Amazon Ca: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00913OYW2
BookStrand: www.bookstrand.com/harlequin-sage-marlowe
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harlequin-sage-marlowe/1112678005?ean=9781622417650
Giveaway—Here's what you can win:
#1 - Sage's Goodie Package:
Contains a signed copy of Sub-Culture, a set of signed book cover photographs and some surprise goodies to spoil you
#2 - Create a character
Here's your chance to create your very own fictional character that will be featured in one of my next books. The winner gets to pick the name and distinct features like hair / eye colour, height and a few personality quirks of a hero (male characters only, and please keep it doable…). Depending on the specification, I will either include him in a current WIP or use him as inspiration for a brand new story. The winner will also receive a free e-copy of this story once it's published.
Leave a comment in the comment section asking to be entered in the giveaway. The winner will be picked at random and announced on my blog on May 20th. Multiple entries are allowed and will increase your chances to win. For additional terms and conditions, please go to http://www.sage-marlowe.com/p/contests.html
You can find the full tour schedule here: http://www.sage-marlowe.com/p/blog-tour-may-2013.html
About Sage Marlowe
Sage is a multi-published author of MM erotic romance novels and novellas and loves exploring the flavours of gay erotic fiction.
A willing slave to all the fascinating guys who keep queuing up and want their stories told, Sage can almost always be found cooking up the next hot story or daydreaming about new ways of rubbing sexy male bodies together to make the sparks fly.
Contact and buy links
Sage's website & blog: www.sage-marlowe.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sage.marlowe0
e-mail: marlowe.sage@yahoo.co.uk
Twitter: @SageMarlowe
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/SageMarlowe
Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/sagemarlowe
For all books published with Total-E-Bound, go to: http://www.total-e-bound.com/authordetail.asp?A_ID=224
For all books published with Siren-BookStrand, go to: www.bookstrand.com/sage-marlowe
Suester 7 May 2013 at 09:47
This is wonderful, Sage. I look forward to getting to know your writing, characters, and the story. Thank you for sharing!!
Brain Tumor Girl 7 May 2013 at 21:39
I can't wait to read Harlequin. Keep up the good work
Debby 8 May 2013 at 01:41
Harlequin sounds quite intriguing. I can't wait to read it.
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It's Gayls day...
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Wet and Wild blog hop is here...
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Act on IMPULSE...
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Q: My project doesn't work for simulator iPhone 6.1 Symptom

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*If I run with simulator 6.1 the project start and then "finish". That's it. No error message. Nothing.

*I put breakpoint at - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions it's never called

*Clean the project doesn't solve the issue

I don't know what else I can do.
Because of this I cannot take screen shot of 4 inch. It seems that the 4 inch retina screenshot can only be done with simulator 6.1

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Dubai Airports and Disney Middle East team up to create their own Toy Story
DUBAI, UAE, Dubai Airports and Disney Middle East are teaming up to raise awareness of recycling and the need to eliminate single-use plastics this July at the world's busiest international airport with a little help from Forky, the unlikely hero from Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 4′.
Starting this weekend and continuing for the busy month of July at DXB, Toy Story 4 activity stations will be dotted around each of the airport's four concourses where some of the 8 million expected passengers will be shown how to transform recyclable materials into toys by making their own Forky. There will also be a competition to Find Forky and win a magical family trip to Paris.
This summer we are making the topic of recycling fun for children and the young at heart with some of the much-loved characters from Toy Story 4, by inviting them to bring their single-use plastics to our craft stations and helping them turn it into their own toy, said Matt Horobin, Director of Brand Engagement at Dubai Airports. Last month we announced our intention to eliminate single-use plastics from all customer areas of our two airports and this is an interesting way of bringing our younger customers on the journey with us by showing them how important it is to be mindful of what we consider trash.
As an airport operator welcoming over 90million passengers per year in DXB and DWC, Dubai Airports has already taken responsibility for its environmental impact and actively recycles at every opportunity. Annually over 43,000 tonnes of paper, glass and other waste collected from the airports passenger spaces is recycled and in the past six months alone, 16 tonnes of single use plastic bottles and bottle caps have been collected and disposed of.
Further educational activations and initiatives will be supported over the coming months as Dubai Airports' food, beverage and retail outlets reduce and ultimately eliminate single-use plastics.
Source: Dubai Airports
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The ATO has issued an information sheet setting out new requirements for taxpayers claiming phone and internet expenses.
Where taxpayers use their own phone or internet for work purposes and paid these costs themselves, they may be able to claim a deduction for the cost, providing they have the necessary records to substantiate those claims.
Starting from next year (2016), all taxpayers making a claim for phone and internet expenses will need to keep a 4 week diary every year.
Evidence that their employer expects them to work at home or to make work related calls from their own phones.
$0.10 for a text message sent from a mobile.
Amount of data downloaded for work purposes as a percentage of total downloads.
Where taxpayers do not have an itemised bill they should keep a record of all their calls over a 4 week period and they apply the reasons basis to their claim.
Where phone and internet have been bundled and taxpayers wish to make a claim for one or more of these services they need to apportion their costs based on the usage of each service. Taxpayers will need to identify their work related usage over a 4 week period for each service and they apply the reasonable basis to calculate their claim.
Additional costs incurred where work usage results in exceeding monthly cap.
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I've been intending to finish the Grand Foyer for several months. But the idea of pulling down the wall paper and working on getting rid of the poopy brown trim and all the priming involved was a real deterrent.
The good news is all the priming and wall paper removal is finally done! It took me two days, half a gallon of primer and a ruined manicure..but it's DONE!
This is an OK before shot. I remember to take a picture after I started priming the risers. I still have to strip the poopy paint off the steps. I did one so far and it revealed a beautiful original stain. There is something to be said for people not doing proper prep...it makes undoing the ugly paint a lot easier.
And to keep it real, here's what the room looks like as I'm working. That coffee table belongs in the living room, but Punky Brewster decided she wanted to mop the living room floor...and let's face it, when your kid volunteers to mop, you don't exactly say no.
The plan is to start painting for real Monday. D is going to take the kids swimming and I should be able to finishing the walls and trim work while they are gone.
Hopefully, I'll have internet Monday and will be able to do a great before/after!
So...if you were without internet for a week...what kind of work would you get done?


Since then, Julien has been drawing and designing a whole menagerie of colorful animal characters. They are on whimsical greeting cards, on cheerful glasses and cups and on small, cute objects ranging from buttons to magnets. Illustrator, graphic designer, artist and cartoonist, Julien doesn't bark, doesn't bite nor does he chew on bones. But like his first dog character, he observes and contemplates these strange two-legged animals who often seem to live a dog's life.


We are delighted to be back in Connecticut as part of the Acoustic Celebration Folk Music series.
The Acoustic Celebration is a series of once or twice monthly Sunday afternoon concerts that run from September through May. These performances feature some of the English speaking world's finest contemporary acoustic singer/songwriters.


Both capacities deliver sequential write performance that is at or above factory spec. The 2TB model delivers better performance than the 1TB model. Both capacities display an excellent performance curve on the low-end where it matters most.
Both capacity points achieve their rated sequential performance. The performance curve of both capacities is similar. The MX300 is a write-centric SSD as we can clearly see from the results of this test. The majority of the competing SSDs in our test pool outperform the MX300 when reading sequential data.
Anvil's scoring typically provides us with a good indication of a drive's overall synthetic performance. When evaluating TLC-based SSDs, we are looking for a minimum score of 4,500. Both capacity points give us what we are looking for; and then some.
We are hitting factory spec at QD32 even when the drives are 75% full.
The MX300 runs at the low-end of the test pool when reading data at lower queue depths. This is as expected for a write-centric SSD. At higher queue depths, the MX300 comes on strong.
Low queue depth performance is what we are looking for, and this is where we find the MX300 delivering excellent performance. In fact, at QD2 the MX300 at both capacity points is leading all contenders in our test pool.


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import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.TypedStringValue;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParser;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.ParserContext;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;

/**
 * A {@link BeanDefinitionParser} for use when loading scripting XML.
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 * @author Mark Fisher
 * @since 2.5
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class ScriptingDefaultsParser implements BeanDefinitionParser {

	private static final String REFRESH_CHECK_DELAY_ATTRIBUTE = "refresh-check-delay";

	private static final String PROXY_TARGET_CLASS_ATTRIBUTE = "proxy-target-class";

	@Override
	public BeanDefinition parse(Element element, ParserContext parserContext) {
		BeanDefinition bd =
				LangNamespaceUtils.registerScriptFactoryPostProcessorIfNecessary(parserContext.getRegistry());
		String refreshCheckDelay = element.getAttribute(REFRESH_CHECK_DELAY_ATTRIBUTE);
		if (StringUtils.hasText(refreshCheckDelay)) {
			bd.getPropertyValues().add("defaultRefreshCheckDelay", Long.valueOf(refreshCheckDelay));
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A Deep Dive into the Finnish Business Culture
Startup Call is like a shortcut to networking in a new business environment, says entrepreneur Samat Serimbetov.
Business is business anywhere in the world, but there are always new things to learn when establishing a company in a new country and a new market. Therefore, Samat Serimbetov applied for Startup Call, a program aimed at international talents planning to start a business in the Turku region.
– It has been a great opportunity to network with people and to experience the local culture and startups, Serimbetov comments in an interview half-way through the program.
His startup ModularGreen focuses on solving problems of food insecurity in the Nordic Countries. Serimbetov has developed self-sustained modular greenhouses, which will enable year-round production of fresh fruit, vegetables, and fish using an aquaponics system, pyrolysis heater, and solar energy.
With ModularGreen, Serimbetov expands his modular fabrication business into agriculture. He already runs a company in his home country Kazakhstan, which builds offshore modules for companies in oil and gas business. In addition, his Turku-based company KRB Rakennus Oy provides outfitting and cabins installations services for companies operating at the Meyer Turku shipyard.
– I am an entrepreneur 24/7, he laughs.
Samat Serimbetov heard about the Startup Call program when he attended the events in the local business community and decided to apply.
A Compact Introduction into the Local Culture
Serimbetov moved to Turku with his family in 2021. He attended events in the local business community, found out about the new Startup Call program and became the first entrepreneur to attend.
Startup Call is a cost-free, three-month program run by the regional development company Turku Science Park Ltd. It includes the BusinessUp accelerator programme, useful lectures for entrepreneurs, startup and networking events, and the use of co-working space Werstas Turku.
To Serimbetov, the program has been a deep dive into the Finnish particularities of for instance taxation, legislation, accounting, and the local business culture in general.
– It has been very intense, but also a good opportunity to ask and clarify things.
In the program, Serimbetov has a business mentor, who knows the local business culture. The mentor helps him in solving various problems and in finding useful contacts. Serimbetov finds this extremely helpful.
– This is like a shortcut to me. Otherwise, I would spend years networking to the right people, he says.
Crystallising the Business Idea
In the programme, Serimbetov is also learning the latest tricks of pitching. This helps him in presenting his idea to for instance banks, partners, and clients.
He thinks the programme has helped him to crystallise ModularGreen's business idea. He has also learned the dos and don'ts of pitching in the Finnish business environment.
– For me as an experienced entrepreneur, this program gives a refreshed, updated view on the new approached, tools, and techniques available.
Serimbetov finds the local startup community attractive and the people friendly. He praises Turku for its good location, with easy access to the other Nordic countries.
Intensive Research and Development Ahead
The future for ModularGreen looks busy and exciting. Serimbetov is looking for a place to set up a pilot project to demonstrate how a self-sustained, modular greenhouse works in practise.
For the next three to four years, his focus will be on research and development. Serimbetov stresses that the product is easy to build but detailed and carefully constructed research data brings added value to the product.
Serimbetov thinks that Turku region is great also from the R&D perspective with its several universities. He has noticed that Finnish governmental institutions, like Natural Resources Institute Finland, are also willing to engage in pilot projects with startups.
– I am very confident that I will find suitable partners, he says.
At the moment, Serimbetov is not looking for investors but wants to build up the company himself. Once switched to commercial phase, he is expecting a million-euro turnover to start with.
After a year, Turku already feels like home for Samat Serimbetov.
Nice and Peaceful Family Life
To Serimbetov, Finland feels peaceful after Malaysia, where the family last lived. After a year in Turku, the city already feels like home. Grown up in Kazakhstan, among a variety of different cultures and nationalities, Serimbetov finds it easy to adapt to new countries and cultures.
– This year I started learning Finnish, he says.
He has a long-term commitment in staying in the Turku area. He is dreaming of building a modern house for his family by using new materials rarely seen in the Finnish construction business.
And however business-oriented Serimbetov might be, when deciding on a place to stay, his priorities lie with the family. His three daughters have settled in Turku International School, and his wife studies in Novia University of Applied Sciences. They all feel like staying.
– Once your family is happy, what else do you need, Serimbetov says, with a smile.
Text and photos by Heidi Pelander


Dolorously is an acceptable word in Scrabble with 14 points. Dolorously is an accepted word in Word with Friends having 16 points. Dolorously is a 10 letter long Word starting with D and ending with Y. Below are Total 110 words made out of this word.
Note There are 4 vowel letters and 6 consonant letters in the word dolorously. D is 4th, O is 15th, L is 12th, R is 18th, U is 21th, S is 19th, Y is 25th, Letter of Alphabet series.


The Micro Monitor Panel system will read the levels in the fresh water, grey water and black water tanks. It also will show the battery reading and has a lighted pump switch. The compact 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 size allows easy mounting. Tank wire harness included. Monitor Panel.


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Bits2Blogs 2013
Today I'm blogging at Bits2Blogs, a conference showcasing how the cultural sector can use new technologies to engage audiences. I'll be updating this as the day goes on, but also keeping information going with twitter and storify.
As the attendees swarmed into the faraday cage-like Great North Museum (something of an irony given the theme, and to the consternation of those who had issues with the wifi), John Coburn of Tyne and Wear Museums welcomed the group to the event. This is the 8th (?) annual Bits 2 Blogs, with the first taking place in Teeside in 2006.
'What's the next step for mobile media in museums and galleries?'
Jason DaPonte (Managing Director & Executive Producer, The Swarm) @jasondaponte
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DaPonte discussed the ways museums need to consider the futures relating to mobile media. Or more importantly, beyond that to the world of subphones (a phrase I hadn't heard of) or Internet of Things (one I had). For example, instead of the unnatural action of holding up your phone for AR, how about playing tag with hoodies, as the Neighbourhoodies project does? As useful as an app that lets you get refunds for your tube being late is, why doesn't your Oyster card do this anyway?
He challenged museums to think about how they can use their information—"your collections are a lot more interesting than most information from sensors"—and to think about how to create a 'virtuous cycle' between your connections and your users. Good exemplars include COSM (which shows how to make apps with data) and UK based Tales of Things (recording memories relating to things such as the recent Oxfam Curiosity shop which included Annie Lennox talking about her clothes). As it turned out, ToT creator Claire Ross was in the audience:
Memories are valuable. Museums can harness them. #bits2blogs check out @talesofthings spin off http://t.co/nbEHFKuJ1b for museum specifics!
— Claire Ross (@clairey_ross) March 19, 2013
'Press Play: Making the best of your online sound recordings'
Ian Rawes (Founder, London Sound Survey) @LondonSounds
People whistle less due to not owning birds anymore? Lavender sellers would be considered noise pollution? These were the type of insights that Ian Rawes showed you could pull out of what would otherwise 'humdrum' sound samples. He reflected on what he's learned from his London Sound Survey website collection and provided useful tips for those interested in online sound archives.
Stuff for #bits2blogs includes useful audio info from @londonsounds pic.twitter.com/GibVZ4tChr
— Vicky Teinaki (@vickytnz) March 19, 2013
He made a key point in the presentation of sound data. While a good content description is essential for sound archivists (and obviously valuable in its own right as sound archives are difficult to parse otherwise), they're not particularly attractive to the casual listener. Rawes describes the different ways people can explore his sound information (by topic, location map, tube map, accent etc). He also pointed to what other leading sites do to make listening inviting for people browsing: the Beeb provides journalistic teasers, photos and other extras on their pages, as does the NPR, and other artists.
Those wanting practical information were also in for a treat, as he gave information about platforms (Soundcloud is now the standard, but don't just store your data there as any service may go down), recording platforms (there are a number of good devices available for less than £200), and content strategy (he provided a means of understanding your collection as an ecosystem.
And for those that were curious about his collection? He says his most popular sounds items are people (particularly street preachers) and animals.
'Digital Media at the V&A'
Andrew Lewis (Digital Content Delivery Manager, Victoria & Albert Museum) @rosemarybeetle
While his talk was about the V&A work, Lewis started on a more personal note. Riffing off the earlier comment from Jason DaPonte about 'hackers doing weird stuff with data' to show his personal project @twitr_janus. (He admitted, "this may not improve my personal standing".
Personals projects, aside, he discussed the ways that the V&A has attempted to not be a 'giant ship that's hard to turn' and adapt to the changing needs relating to digital.
Digital Media at the V&A, Bits2Blogs, Newcastle, 2013 from Andrew Lewis
'Digital Curation and the Virtual Audience: the challenge of engagement'
Sarah Cole (Founding Director, Time/image) @time_image and @irny
In what was arguably the most takeaway-driven (as in ideas, not food) talk of the day, Sarah Cole gave examples of the good, the bad, and the useless when it came to engaging virtual audiences.
The useless? Social media. Andrew Lewis of the V&A had admitted that they don't get much traffic from social media, and Cole suggested that this is probably the rule rather than the exception. Anyway, it's hard to hear cultural institutions on twitter when there's @grumpyycat, @lord_voldermort7 and even @big_ben_clock! Furthermore, she argues that any good conversations that might happen on social media are likely to be lost in the ephemerality of the medium, and should take place in a forum that your site can hold on to the information. Though this last point was somewhat controversial:
Controversial point by @time_image #bits2blogs collaborate with your audience. Give them a platform which isn't social media. Really?
The bad? Using the ("a little out of date, but still useful) Arts Council 2010 Digital Audiences Engagement guide as a reference, she notes that people want to find out information before they get to the exhibition. Doing this badly is a page on the Tate, that gives some interesting information about some paintings, which doesn't lead to anything. She also suggests that organisations work with others to provide a wider picture on their collections.
The good? The examples she showed either helped provide narrative and context, or allow users to engage with the content.
'Flip-flopping: What is it and why should you care?'
Dominic Smith (Digital Media Projects Manager, Tyneside Cinema) @dominicsmith
Smith's 'blogified' talk
Having recently finished a PhD in art—"my daughter asked me 'does that mean you can make art better?'"—Dominic Smith is well versed in the way of the word. And he brought it: 'flip-flop', 'hypecycle', 'crapjet', 'kibble'. All will be revealed.
'Flip-flop' is a term used by Robin Sloan to discuss the translation between digital and physical manifestations. And when it comes to 3D printing, we're in part of a hype cycle where we don't quite know what to do with it. For all of the potentials of 3D printing, we're not there yet. Yes, we can make a 3D record that plays Nirvana, but it sounds terrible. (Or even more terrible if you don't like Nirvana). In other words, right now we potentially have 'crapjets' (things that make crap') or even worse, 'kibble' (rubbish that replicates).
However, we are starting to see flip-flopping in regards to making. Artists can flip-flop between digital and real sculpture:
and we're starting to see a marketplace for 3D objects (Shapeways, Ponoko etc). However, where there's a market, there's a potential for pirating. Already there's a physicals market on The Pirate Bay, and museums need to consider a future where someone can snap a picture and make a replica. Smith also argues that, much like crapjets, the real issue with piracy isn't about IP (though that is an issue) as much as fidelity: people put up with a huge lack of quality in order for access Think of those horribly pixellated mp4s and avis that people get from torrents etc. Or, something straight from the uncanny valley, fake Disneyland.
What are the choices: Smith offers two:
1. Make it painfully easy to see (as per former Megaupload founder Kimdotcom)
How to stop piracy: 1 Create great stuff 2 Make it easy to buy 3 Same day worldwide release 4 Fair price 5 Works on any device
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 7, 2013
2. Use Creative Commons and give it away so that it can be remixed and enjoyed at proper fidelity rather than crapware.
'Compelling Objects: Exploring the qualities of digital representation through sensory and aesthetic experiences of objects'
Rachel Clarke (Culture Lab, Newcastle University) @racheleclarke
In a '"perfect but entirely accidental" segue from the previous talk, Clarke discussed projects that, rather than looking at technology, celebrated objects (as the anthropologist Sherry Turkle often discusses). Works she highlighted included:
"Reminisce", capturing memories from visitors to Bunratty Folk Park in Ireland
The Whispering Table, which is notable for the way it was created, "the technology wasn't retrofitted onto the objects, instead the objects were carefully designed around the technology, which is something that designers—particularly critical designers—are now doing more often."
She also discussed a number of Culturelab (or Culturelab related) projects
Personhood in Dementia project by Jayne Wallace which uses jewellery as a means of capturing memories
Talking Memory boxes: "not so much about family trees as family hedges"
'Unlock the Archive! 3 ways digital innovation can liberate your content'
Ben Templeton (Thought Den) @thoughtben of @thoughtden
Templeton finished the day with practical thoughts on three projects he has been involved in as part of Thought Den: Arkive's Survival app, Tate's Magic Tate Ball, and Brighton Zoo's be an animal installation.
Recurring themes of all the projects were:
Content needs to lead. In each case it was important to think about what was being promoted.
A good partnership is key. In Arkive the marketing team really helped promote it, with the Tate they were allowed a lot of freedom, and Brighton Zoo was also supportive.
Test, test, test. Admittedly, this is hard, particularly with small budgets. More testing may have shown with the Survival app that they needed to stagger their rewards better, while with the Brighton Zoo one it was important to see how people actually made the shapes as they might not be what you expected. (In the latter case, as money was tight, the old 'use family members for testing' strategy was used).
Simplicity is hard. (Also related to test, test, test). The seemingly simple idea of bopping objects for Survival required a lot of thought for the actions, and the locations for Magic Tate ball required manually trawling through papers for headlines. And the making shapes for Brighton Zoo was full of potential issues. It is worth it though.
Some more specific points that came out were:
HTML/JS is hard. The team used it for the Magic Tate app, which made it easier to port, but the wide range of devices out there mean there are innumerable cases to consider.
WordPress is easy … for collecting data. For the Brighton Zoo app, they created a site for the researchers to populate, and then ported the database to the Kinnect app.
Unlocking
Launching can take a while. The Tate app took a while—6 months in fact—to take off, until resource were poured into it (favours pulled and money paid for PR companies). They also had to get permission from Magic 8 legal team before Apple would even let it be on the app store.
If I were to sum up the overall themes of the day, they would be:
Finding—and then testing!—interesting and engaging ways for users to interact with your collections, be it online or in installations.
Being aware of the technical limitations involved with project works (also as above)—but carefully selecting content, delivery formats, and designs to make it work.
Acknowledging that social media does not engagement make
Allowing ways for people to share their own stories relating to collections
Celebrating that while we may appear to be moving into the world of the digital, the signs suggest that what can be considered authentic and physical objects will still have value.
For those interested in continuing the conversation (or interested in what they've read), there is a Newcastle Digital Culture Group that meets semi-regularly. For more information, contact John Coburn of the Tyne and Wear Museums.


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Comprised of about 1,800 students and 250 employees, the district encompasses 222 square miles, covering Rush Township and Philipsburg borough in Centre County, along with Wallaceton and Decatur townships and the boroughs of Chester Hill and Osceola Mills in Clearfield County. It served a resident population of 15,410 in 2010, and operates four schools: a high school, a middle school and two elementary schools.
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A warm tropical night, a lush island setting, and death on all sides! The team of human hunters is looking for a single Predator when they find out the hard way that there are four of the monsters lurking about. Yet, unbelievably, that's not the worst of their problems!
Writer Chris Warner opens the fourth instalment with a hurry of action, keeping his finger on the trigger for the first few pages. The crackly dialogue between the ship Durga and the strike team on the island flies by, but before silence can take hold, we hear the tell-tale sound of predators approaching. And once the firefight starts, it swallows the issue as much as the jungle does our characters.
Perhaps the main strength of Predator: Hunters, however, lies in the nostalgic art and robust colour scheme. While the plot seems a cut n' paste job from the original Predator film and Peter Jackson's King Kong, the artwork manages to act as a homage without really ever spilling over. The blue-grey wash artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco chooses for his lush tropical jungle is mirrored in the shade he gives the predators themselves. The human characters, on the other hand, are fleshed out with the pen far ore, marking the gulf between the world of predator and prey. Doug Wheatley is on covers for the series, with too-big fonts overlaying put-it-on-a-poster-images that would feel at home in an 80's movie theatre. The covers are a fitting tribute to the Predator world, each of them so visceral we can almost hear Schwarzenegger yelling for us to get to the chopper at first glance.
Overall, issue #4 packs the punch the Predator: Hunters series needs, if only by the character development and action sequences alone. But it's a punch that may have landed too late to really hallmark this as one of the memorable fights in the Predator story.


ITC Ltd has extended its e-choupal initiative to Rajasthan and has added two more commodities, pulses and mustard, to its trading basket.
Thus, ITC has extended its network to six states covering more than 21,200 villages through 4,100 e-choupals, providing access to over 2.4 million farmers.
"Rajasthan has become the sixth state in our network, and the choupals are trading in soya, wheat, mustard and pulses", S Sivakumar, chief executive, agri business group, said.
The e-choupal initiative bagged the 'World Business award', instituted by the International Chamber of Commerce and the United Nations Development Programme on May 18 in Paris.
The e-choupals in Rajasthan have been set up at Kota, Bundi and Jhlalwar and are being rolled out elsewhere in the state.
In addition, the network is being extended in Maharashtra with the Vidharba area being covered as of now. In Andhra Pradesh, the company had been negotiating with the state for extension of its basket of products beyond the existing aquaculture products.
"In view of the elections, negotiations were stalled and will be resumed soon with the new government", Sivakumar said.
ITC would like to take up trade in chillies and turmeric in collaboration with government agencies in Andhra.
Sivakumar said the e-choupal system was running ahead of expectation in terms of number of transactions. Despite the seasonal nature of trade based on crop cycles and harvesting seasons, the network was doing trades in excess of Rs 1.5 crore a day.
Farmers using e-choupals were able to align farming to domestic and international market trends because the system provided advance information on demand besides expertise on crop quality and productivity.
Higher quality farming inputs were also delivered through the system, Sivakumar said.
The company was able to generate savings in purchase of agricultural commodities, particularly for high-quality agricultural products.
In addition, the e-choupals yielded revenue in the form of trading profits of commodities sold through the systems.
Products being distributed or promoted through the system now covered 70 companies in sectors such as agricultural inputs, FMCG, consumer durables and services.
Products being only promoted through the system on payment basis, included farming equipment and tools, harvesters and tractors and related consumables such as lubricants. Distribution and promotion charges on a per-choupal basis generated additional revenues, Sivakumar added.


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El tuco-tuco arribeño o tuco-tuco de Vipos (Ctenomys viperinus) es una especie de roedor del género Ctenomys de la familia Ctenomyidae. Habita en el noroeste del Cono Sur de Sudamérica.

Taxonomía

Esta especie fue descrita originalmente en el año 1926 por el zoólogo británico Oldfield Thomas.

 Localidad tipo
La localidad tipo referida es: "Ñorcos, cerca de Vipos, provincia de Tucumán, Argentina".

 Caracterización y relaciones filogenéticas

En el año 1961, Cabrera lo sinonimizó con Ctenomys knighti, sin embargo posteriormente otros autores la elevaron nuevamente a la condición de especie plena.

Distribución geográfica y hábitat
Esta especie se distribuye de manera endémica en el norte de la provincia de Tucumán, noroeste de la Argentina.

Conservación

Según la organización internacional dedicada a la conservación de los recursos naturales Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN), al tener una distribución poco extendida y sufrir algunas amenazas, la clasificó como una especie "casi amenazada" en su obra: Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas.

Referencias

Animales descritos en 1926
viperinus
Mamíferos endémicos de Argentina
Roedores de Argentina
Taxones descritos por Oldfield Thomas


I recently contributed to work of a learned colleague at Kings College London to produce materials for staff outlining copyright good practice for staff, researchers and students. The materials are now available as e copies here.
There have been a number of thought provoking pieces in the press and on blogs recently around common intellectual property (IP) violations, which appear to be becoming endemic online. See here and here for some really interesting blog posts and here and here for a couple of articles raising the issue in The Guardian.
This is becoming quite a hot topic, and I just submitted a piece for a journal on the subject. I see it as an essential digital literacy and a key part of Digital Professionalism. There is some really useful information on Creative Commons Licenses here and naturally, Jisc have created a useful resource on Copyright and IP law too. Ian Calder (a recently escaped to Aberdeen, eLearning Technology and Moodle Guru) and I produced the infographic below, specifically for staff at King's College London. The article I have written for publication will include a generic version of this King's specific material, but in the mean time, there is some useful material in this illustration below on resources that may be of use to academics and students who would like to use material such as photographs, illustrations and music to embellish their work and are not sure of how to source it. Many of the resources listed here are accessible to those outside Kings College London. If you work at a university, chances are, you will also have access to an internal library of resources and they will also have an NLA license to use material for teaching too.
I was delighted to present at the 109th annual ETBI (Education and Training Boards Ireland) which was held this year at Killashee House Hotel in Kildare, Ireland. It is always valuable to network and I wasn't at all suprised to find educators and employers who are concerned by the same issues we currently encounter in the rest of Europe and the USA. The internet has made the world such a small place.
Internationally, awareness is rising around how a digital footprint can impact on employability. The slides I used for the presentation are here, although I have removed some of the material I used as it was licensed for live presentation only.
However, I was not prepared at all for the amount of press attention I received immediately after my presentation – I was contacted by three radio stations for interviews, but I found the first interview so nerve wracking that I couldn't bring myself to speak to Radio Ulster or the BBC. I have already signed up for media training at work, I will hold back until after that. There were a number of national press articles about my presentation too.
There were two articles in The Independent, here and here.
This article doesn't bear much resemblance to what I actually said, which is quite disappointing.


Concordia Hospice of Washington's educational website, offering caregiver support to help the seriously ill and their families learn how to live as comfortably as they can within the context of their disease. The website offers tips and suggestions on handling the medical and physical aspects of care, emotional or spiritual needs and advice in a number of related areas.
Donnell House is a stand-alone inpatient hospice facility - the only one in Washington County - that aggressively treats symptoms. Located at 10 Leet Street in Washington, the Donnell House is a 20,000 square foot residence designed in the style of an English country home.