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Q: Android: Change parent layout of a button with animation I am writing my first android application using Eclipse. The screen of my application shows a 2x4 table of buttons (made using 4 linear layouts) and I have a method which shuffles the buttons by removing them from one linear layout and adding them to another. I have used android:animateLayoutChanges="true" in my xml but that just caused some of the buttons to blank-out before reappearing in their new spots. Is there any way to get a smooth transition? Thanks.
My xml:

<TableLayout
    android:id="@+id/table"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_margin="0dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/ll1"
        android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnorange"
            android:text="" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnyellow"
            android:text="" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/ll2"
        android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button3"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnblue"
            android:text="" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button4"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btngreen"
            android:text="" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/ll3"
        android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button5"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnpink" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button6"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btncyan"
            android:text="" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/ll4"
        android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button7"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnred"
            android:text="" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button8"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="2dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="@drawable/btnviolet"
            android:text="" />
    </LinearLayout>

</TableLayout>

My Activity class:
    public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

Button b1;
Button b2;
Button b3;
Button b4;
Button b5;
Button b6;
Button b7;
Button b8;
Button redo;

TableLayout t1;

LinearLayout l1;
LinearLayout l2;
LinearLayout l3;
LinearLayout l4;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    t1= (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.table);

    l1= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.ll1);
    l2= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.ll2);
    l3= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.ll3);
    l4= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.ll4);

    b1= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    b2= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
    b3= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button3);
    b4= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button4);
    b5= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button5);
    b6= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button6);
    b7= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button7);
    b8= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button8);

    ....

}

public void shuffle(){

    l1.removeAllViews();
    l2.removeAllViews();
    l3.removeAllViews();
    l4.removeAllViews();

    ArrayList<Button> a=new ArrayList<Button>(8);
    a.add(b1);
    a.add(b2);
    a.add(b3);
    a.add(b4);
    a.add(b5);
    a.add(b6);
    a.add(b7);
    a.add(b8);

    l1.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*8)));
    l1.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*7)));
    l2.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*6)));
    l2.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*5)));
    l3.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*4)));
    l3.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*3)));
    l4.addView(a.remove((int)(Math.random()*2)));
    l4.addView(a.remove(0));

}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

}

A: *

*Create "anim" folder in res directory

*Create xml file named push_left.xml

*Copy following code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shareInterpolator="false" >

    <translate
        android:duration="700"
        android:fromXDelta="0%"
        android:fromYDelta="0%"
        android:toXDelta="-100%"
        android:toYDelta="0%" />

</set>

*Instead of calling removeAllViews() method
Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.push_left);
animation.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
        l1.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }
});


It is a long book- so many characters that it can be hard to keep track of them. There are a number of good characters and villainous characters.
Great reads, Melinda! I have always been curious about Les Mis, and now you've given me strong reason to read it myself. Thanks for sharing the Campbell quote, as well (I tried reading it cover to cover, but ended up just watching the PBS series with Bill Moyers instead, lol). That quote is a great one and full of fascinating stuff; I can't help but get inspired by Campbell. I'm glad to hear that the last colour is going onto the shawl, too. I wish you Yarnspeed!
Haha! That's funny about Campbell, and I totally get it. My insistence on reading all of it was probably a little perverse, but once I'd decided to do it, it became a thing. LOL He takes a lot of hits, but there is definitely something exhilarating in Campbell's ideas, especially if you don't look too closely. Thanks for the good wishes on my Fade! It's been the perfect project for this crazy summer.
YAY! You're going to join me with Tecumseh! I get you with the time and start of school but I'm trying my best to get it together so I can start this one.
I love your Fade!! Just the perfect thing to have as the weather cools and the leaves begin to turn.
I admire your reading list. Me, I'm immersed in murder mysteries and science fiction books. You've inspired me to start highlighting some of the good quotes and to think a little more reflectively about what I'm reading. I'm in the middle of Sweet Little (Caz Frear) which is really holding my interest and I'm dying for the next Michael Connelly book to arrive.
I looked at Tecumseh, but I had already stashed the yarn for Guthrie (Caitlin Hunter) and since it has stolen my heart it will be fall knitting sweater. I still have two more to knock out before it… must knit faster!!
Be careful… it's hard to stop with only one fade. I really like my What the Fade?! as it is the perfect shawl for snuggling while knitting and is a good choice for travel.
This is Caz's first book; I'm reading it for my reading group. I binge watch British murder mysteries on NetFlix, and this book is like one of them with the psychological suspense of a Ruth Ware book thrown in. I'm hooked and reading into the wee hours of the morning. I'm also listening to an audio book while knitting (Maggie Hope spy thriller) and so far haven't gotten them mixed up.


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What is imposter syndrome?
Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon that affects many people. It essentially means that people may question their abilities or may feel fraudulent, as if they do not deserve to be in the role that they are in. They may also feel as though they do not deserve the praise they receive for the work that they do. There are many reasons and factors that contribute to someone's imposter syndrome. Generalized anxiety, low self-esteem, and social comparison can be some of the main reasons for people to experience imposter syndrome. Further, there are certain groups of people who may be more susceptible to imposter syndrome than others. These groups of people include: women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ people. This is because of social and historical forms of oppression which have marginalized these communities in academia and the workforce.
How does imposter syndrome affect me?
Imposter syndrome is unfortunately very common, and anyone who has ever experienced it can attest to how debilitating it can be. People experiencing imposter syndrome often experience excessive self-doubt, which can lead to anxiety, persistent psychological distress, and depression. These people will not only feel like a fraud or ill-deserving of their successes, but they also tend to become debilitated at work. They may begin to perform poorly, avoid taking on responsibility, develop a sense of shame, and avoid seeking promotions. In turn, these individuals may develop a sense of job dissatisfaction which can lead to cynicism and burnout.
How can I combat imposter syndrome?
Imposter syndrome is a cognitive distortion that is rooted in historical oppression. Some of the best ways to deal with imposter syndrome is to start challenging these negative thoughts: seek the evidence that disproves the doubt you are feeling. Talking to others you trust about how you may be feeling can be helpful as well, as we may all need and benefit from reassurance every now and then. Journaling about how you have been feeling and acknowledging and validating your fears may be helpful as well. Finally, if you find that you cannot unlearn these cognitions on your own, therapy is a great and safe space to work through symptoms of imposter syndrome.

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In an interview with detectives, Lance Taylor was asked if he had anything to do with the 45-year-old woman's death. He said he didn't.
In an interview with detectives, Lance Taylor — charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Noemi Villarreal — was asked if he had anything to do with the 45-year-old woman's death.
That interview was played before a Nueces County jury Tuesday. In it detectives told Taylor that Villarreal was dead, and Taylor maintained he didn't know.
"Come on man, are you serious?" he said.
It has been more than two weeks since jurors were vetted to deliberate on the case. Opening arguments and state witness testimony began May 22, but the trial was delayed later that week. It resumed May 29 and has been ongoing since.
During that time, proceedings have been marked by sometimes-heated hearings outside the presence of the jury on subjects like whether pieces of evidence or witnesses should be permitted. The state has presented witnesseswho knew Villarreal as well as law enforcement and other officials.
Jurors haven't heard evidence about Villarreal accusing Taylor of beating and kidnapping her days before she was killed.
She told police on June 2, 2016 that Taylor had held her captive for two weeks beginning in mid-May and that he beat her and watched over her at a Corpus Christi apartment. He would suffocate her to muffle her cries as he hit her, according to a police report.
The defense contends that Villarreal lied to police about Taylor attacking her. In an email, defense attorney Eric Perkins told the Caller-Times on Wednesday Villarreal was seen coming and going from her apartment by multiple witnesses during the time period she alleged she was held hostage.
Villarreal's body was discovered near Oso Bay on June 8, 2016.
The possible causes of Villarreal's death include Taylor striking Villarreal with his hand or an unknown object, strangling her, setting her on fire or placing her in a container, causing her to suffocate, along with any combination of the above, according to an indictment.
Taylor has pleaded not guilty.
In the interview with detectives, Taylor described Villarreal as "aggressive." He said they were friends and had known each other for years and that she's close to his family. He also told detectives that he's not a violent person.
Villarreal's sister Nydia Villarreal previously told the Caller-Times her sister had known Taylor for several years but started dating him about three months ago.
When asked about his whereabouts that June 8 night, Taylor told detectives he'd watched a game and then met up with some girls before getting back to his mom's house, where Taylor said he was living, late at night.
Taylor also told detectives that Villarreal worked as a prostitute, though Detective David Perez, who was on the stand when the video was played, said he did not find any evidence of that in his investigation.
"Regardless of her flaws or attitude or lifestyle, she don't deserve to die," Taylor told authorities.
When asked if he knew of anyone who would want to hurt Villarreal, Taylor replied, "There's just so many people that she gets into it with."
Taylor's defense attorneys have promoted the idea that Taylor is not the actual perpetrator. During opening statements, Perkins suggested there were roads police did not follow that would lead to that person.
When asked by First Assistant Matt Manning if there was any "credible evidence at any point" in his investigation that led to a suspect besides Taylor, Perez said there was not.
The detective was still on the stand at the end of the day Tuesday. He is expected to be cross-examined by Taylor's attorneys Wednesday.


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April 26, 2013 Awards Faculty News Releases
Two Journalism Professors Elected to Serve on Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Standing Committees
Columbia, Mo. (April 26, 2013) — Two Missouri School of Journalism professors have been elected to serve on standing committees for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
AEJMC is a major international membership organization for academics in the field. The association has 3,700 members from 50 countries that affiliate among 18 divisions, 10 interest groups and two commissions.
Maria Len-Rios
Associate Professor María E. Len-Ríos will serve a three-year term on the publications committee. The group is responsible for the oversight of three association-wide, flagship journals: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and Journalism and Communication Monographs.
Len-Ríos serves as an editorial board member for three top journals in her specialty area of public relations: Journal of Public Relations Research (since 2009), Public Relations Review (since 2008), and the International Journal of Strategic Communication (since 2005). In addition, she performs reviews as an editorial board member of the Howard Journal of Communications (since 2012) and the Communication Yearbook of the International Communication Association (since 2012). For five years she was an editorial board member of the Journal of Web Site Promotion (2003-08). Additionally, Len-Ríos frequently serves as a specialty area reviewer for health journals, i.e., Journal of Health Communication.
Len-Ríos' research addresses women, underserved audiences and marginalized groups with regard to health reporting, health communication campaigns and crisis communication. She is a former division head of AEJMC's Communication Theory and Methodology Division (2007-08). In the past five years, Len-Ríos' research, conducted with MU colleagues and students, has been recognized with three top paper award honors at AEJMC's national conferences. Len-Ríos' joined the School's strategic communication faculty in 2004.
Charles N. Davis
Professor Charles Davis will serve a three-year term on the teaching standards committee, which is concerned with standards relating to the academic and professional issues for teachers in the field.
Davis' scholarly research focuses on access to governmental information and media law. He has published in law reviews and scholarly journals on issues ranging from federal and state freedom of information laws to libel law, privacy and broadcast regulation. He has earned a Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work in furthering freedom of information and the University of Missouri Provost's Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching, as well as the Faculty-Alumni Award. In 2008, Davis was named the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Teacher of the Year.
Davis is a member of the School's journalism studies faculty. He also serves as facilitator for the University of Missouri's Media of the Future Initiative for Mizzou Advantage. Davis will become dean of the University of Georgia Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.
Jun 21, 2022 Doctoral student wins AEJMC top paper award for media ethics, embarks on new career path at Missouri School of Journalism
Jul 24, 2014 Missouri School of Journalism Faculty, Students and Alumni to Present 100-Plus Papers at International Conference; 18 Earn Top Paper Awards
Aug 14, 2013 A Record Breaker: Missouri School of Journalism Faculty, Students and Alumni Present 114 Papers at International Conference; 11 Earn Top Paper Awards
Apr 26, 2013 Two Journalism Professors Elected to Serve on Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Standing Committees
Aug 14, 2012 Missouri Journalism Faculty, Students and Alumni Earn 19 Top Paper Awards for Peer-Reviewed Research
Aug 14, 2012 Missouri School of Journalism Recognized as Founding Member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Aug 14, 2012 Article by Missouri Journalism Professor Cited as One of the Top 50 Classics in Journalism and Mass Communication Scholarship
Jul 25, 2012 The AEJMC Newspaper and Online News Division Names Brian Brooks Its Educator of the Year for 2012
May 16, 2012 Missouri School of Journalism Scholars to Participate in Global Research Conference
Sep 08, 2011 Journalism Faculty, Students and Alumni Receive 18 Awards for Outstanding Peer-Reviewed Research Papers at AEJMC
Sep 08, 2011 Missouri Journalism Faculty, Students and Alumni Present 94 Papers at International Research Conference
Jul 30, 2010 Faculty, Students to Serve as Moderators, Discussants and Panelists for 21 Sessions at AEJMC
Jul 29, 2010 Missouri Journalism Students, Faculty to Present 44 Papers at International Research Conference
Apr 13, 2010 Two Missouri Journalism Faculty Elected to Key AEJMC Committees


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In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman's value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made great strides in leadership over the past few decades, the United States is still 90th in the world for women in national legislatures, women hold only 3% of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors. Read more about the film at www.missrepresentation.org.
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David Schwimmer Calls For 'All-Black' Reboot Of 'Friends'; Erika Alexander Responds: 'Heard Of #LivingSingle?'
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Actor David Schwimmer is catching heat on Twitter from both Black and white folks after he proposed an all-black version of his hit NBC sitcom "Friends."
Twitter users have been flooding the comments of his account, noting that "Friends" is basically the all-white reboot of the Fox sitcom "Living Single."
"Living Single" aired for five seasons from August 22, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends living in a Brooklyn brownstone.
"Friends" aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. The show revolved around six friends in their 20s and 30s who lived in Manhattan, New York City.
"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends," Schwimmer told The Guardian in an interview, in response to criticism about the show's all-white cast. "But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."
Twitter users reminded Schwimmer that "Living Single" came before "Friends, and that his show is a rip-off of the beloved all-female comedy series.
Some folks even shared a video of Queen Latifah talking about how "Living Single" inspired "Friends" on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
Erika Alexander, who co-starred with Latifah on the show, responded to the actor directly on Twitter, writing: . "Hey David Schwimmer, r u seriously telling me you've never heard of Living Single? We invented the template! [You're] welcome bro."
Meanwhile, as reported by Complex, "Living Single" star Kim Fields previously told Tamron Hall in an interview that the cast has talked about reuniting for a reboot.
"We have talked about it a little bit, the six of us and Yvette," Fields said, speaking of the show's creator, Yvette Lee Bowser. "A lot of it deals with our schedule, because, praise God, everyone is working, everybody is busy, everybody's got stuff to do."
"When Yvette asked, I said I would definitely be interested in seeing what that conversation is and being able to do it," she added. "But here's the thing, with reboots you got to be careful because these characters are beloved and those storylines really meant something and they still resonate now. So don't mess around, you got to get it right."
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(formerly ) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Nintendo that develops "visual content" using Nintendo properties.

History
The company was founded by Hiroshi Hirokawa on March 18, 2011, in Tokyo, Japan under the name of Dynamo Pictures.

Nintendo announced their intent to acquire Dynamo Pictures and change its name to Nintendo Pictures on July 14, 2022, citing the focus of the company to strengthen the planning and production structure of visual content. The deal closed on October 3, with the company becoming a full subsidiary of Nintendo, as well as adopting its new name. Many fans of the 2006 video game Elite Beat Agents noticed that a mission in the game references a fictional company called Nintendo Pictures.

The company announced that they are currently looking for new employees.

Works
The company has worked on CG production for Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Garo: Divine Flame, TsukiPro the Animation, and Yuri on Ice. The company has also worked on motion capture for Persona 5, Monster Hunter Stories, and Nier Replicant. It was also involved with anime titles such as Earwig and the Witch, Macross Delta Absolute Live!!!!!!, and the Pikmin short films, CGs in games such as Metroid: Other M and overall work for many different anime, games and products over the years using computer-generated imagery.

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Bent Left's liberal-leaning moniker seems apt, given the group's self-proclaimed goal of "doing our best to change the world." However, the Kansas City trio grew into its name's political implications. Formed in 2002, when its members were in their early teens, Bent Left originally offered a more sophomoric explanation. "When we were in high school, slanted penises were really funny," bassist William Malott sheepishly explains. Bent Left's travels (booking treks to Alaska and Japan) and college classes informed more recent records, such as 2004's Steal Back the Government and 2005's Skeletons in Your Closet. The band's sound has evolved as well: Initially almost as happy and hook-driven as fellow phallus-obsessives blink-182, Bent Left is now grittier, with rugged street-punk vocals and rowdy, "whoa-oh" sing-alongs.


"Dr. Ali el-Sheikh Abu Bakr has been replaced by Sheikh Othman Ahmed Ibrahim," the group, known as the Islamic Movement in the Horn of Africa, said in a statement obtained by IslamOnline.net. The decision came at the conclusion of an extraordinary five-day meeting, held in an undisclosed location, that brought together senior members of the group. Sheikh Ibrahim, the former dean of the Shari`ah College in Mogadishu University, will serve as leader of the group for only two years until the 2010 general congress. The meeting also decided to disband all the bodies of the movement, including its Shura and executive councils, and amending its bylaw to separate the posts of leader and chaiman of the Shura council. Senior leaders were for years critical of the fact that outgoing Abu Bakr held both positions, undermining any chance for self-criticism and improving within the group….The group statement particularly criticized the sacked leadership over its position with regard to the Ethiopian deployment in Somalia."Instead of standing firmly against this brazen aggression and mobilizing the people against it, the leadership continued to work with the proxy interim government that invited the occupiers," said the statement. The group accused its outgoing leadership of justifying the Ethiopian "invasion" and thus discouraging many from joining the "jihad" against the Ethiopian troops.
Somalia's wing of the Muslim Brotherhood is locally known as the Reform Movement. It was formed in 1978 and slowly grew in the 1980s. The group became a key player after the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in 1991. During the 1990s, the movement devoted much effort to humanitarian efforts and providing free basic social services. It contributed to educating the Somali people and the establishment of Mogadishu University.
Somalian-born individuals are also active in Muslim Brotherhood organizations in Europe, most noticeably in the U.K. and Finland.


Ready to break the Internet, are they?
Besides all the other speculations around this couple's alleged engagement, the other news that has taken over the Internet RN is that Nick and Priyanka might collaborate for a single.
Few years ago. Nick had also released a single titled Jealous that was dedicated to his now ex and American model Olivia Culpo.
After Priyanka Chopra's super-hit single Exotic topping the Billboard charts and all, we can't imagine what this video would do.
Here's a li'l throwback to the video which now has 149M views!!!


If Donald Trump is so interested in birth certificates, he should ask Republican rival Mitt Romney to produce his.
That could finally solve the mild Mitt-stery surrounding Romney's given name.
His first name is "Willard,'' after the hotel magnate J. Willard Marriott, his father's best friend.
His middle name comes from his father's cousin, who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to 1929. That cousin's name was "Milton'' and his nickname was "Mitt'' — a totally understandable preference for a football player or a presidential candidate. But what does the birth certificate belonging to the presidential candidate actually state?
Four years ago, I asked Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom to settle the matter.
"It's Willard Mitt Romney on the birth certificate,'' he replied, via e-mail.
Could I see it? I asked. "Sure. He was born in Detroit. City Hall should have it,'' he e-mailed back.


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A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps
Araza, A., de Bruin, S., Herold, M., Quegan, S., Labriere, N., Rodriguez-Veiga, P., Avitabile, V., Santoro, M., et al. (2022). A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps. Remote Sensing of Environment 272 e112917. 10.1016/j.rse.2022.112917.
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Project: Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases (VERIFY, H2020 776810)
Over the past decade, several global maps of above-ground biomass (AGB) have been produced, but they exhibit significant differences that reduce their value for climate and carbon cycle modelling, and also for national estimates of forest carbon stocks and their changes. The number of such maps is anticipated to increase because of new satellite missions dedicated to measuring AGB. Objective and consistent methods to estimate the accuracy and uncertainty of AGB maps are therefore urgently needed. This paper develops and demonstrates a framework aimed at achieving this. The framework provides a means to compare AGB maps with AGB estimates from a global collection of National Forest Inventories and research plots that accounts for the uncertainty of plot AGB errors. This uncertainty depends strongly on plot size, and is dominated by the combined errors from tree measurements and allometric models (inter-quartile range of their standard deviation (SD) = 30–151 Mg ha−1). Estimates of sampling errors are also important, especially in the most common case where plots are smaller than map pixels (SD = 16–44 Mg ha−1). Plot uncertainty estimates are used to calculate the minimum-variance linear unbiased estimates of the mean forest AGB when averaged to 0.1∘. These are used to assess four AGB maps: Baccini (2000), GEOCARBON (2008), GlobBiomass (2010) and CCI Biomass (2017). Map bias, estimated using the differences between the plot and 0.1∘ map averages, is modelled using random forest regression driven by variables shown to affect the map estimates. The bias model is particularly sensitive to the map estimate of AGB and tree cover, and exhibits strong regional biases. Variograms indicate that AGB map errors have map-specific spatial correlation up to a range of 50–104 km, which increases the variance of spatially aggregated AGB map estimates compared to when pixel errors are independent. After bias adjustment, total pantropical AGB and its associated SD are derived for the four map epochs. This total becomes closer to the value estimated by the Forest Resources Assessment after every epoch and shows a similar decrease. The framework is applicable to both local and global-scale analysis, and is available at https://github.com/arnanaraza/PlotToMap. Our study therefore constitutes a major step towards improved AGB map validation and improvement.
AGB; Carbon cycle; Map validation; Uncertainty assessment; Remote sensing
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) > Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)


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SNOWPIERCER —-as dystopian future sagas go, this stunningly inventive 2013 hurtler can give any other in the burgeoning subgenre a run for the money. Our artists have been telling us for some time that we're headed to a cliff, and whether it's hovering space stations, banned children, hunger games or zombies, the message is—the Have's have us, and we're going down. Might as well give 'em the finger as we fall, and in this bleak but whipsmart international production, we get 126 minutes to battle Fate for Freedom, and maybe drop a few underlings on the way. Why not?
Miscalculated atmospheric fiddling has led to the planet freezing, with the only life left coursing around the globe on a Supertrain, where a perpetual motion machine replaces God and class divisions are strictly according to car, those closer to the caboose getting quite a bit less to exist on or for than those closest to The Divine Engine.
Chris Evans leads fellow peasants John Hurt, Song Kang-Ho, Jamie Bell and Octavia Spencer in a car-by-car fight-to-the-finish with the favored ones, led by Ed Harris (in his best calm-insane mode) and Tilda Swinton (raving brilliantly–talk about cheated of an Oscar nom!).
Acting is splendid, the art direction, effects, interior design, gizmos, sound, costumes, makeup, editing, fighting, camera— all get solid A's. The director is Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho, who co-wrote the witty screenplay with Kelly Masterson. This Bong is loaded with imagination to burn. Shot mostly in Czech Republic and Austria, with a budget that rang up $40,000,000 but was used so adroitly it looks like a lot more. Box-office amounted to an okay $87,000,000, as it seems to be collecting fans more by word-of-mouth. This will be a cult classic, bet on it. Critics were wowed, and award-givers missed the boat—er… train. All aboard!
dang! now we have to see it!


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Un motore Hemi è un motore a combustione interna alimentato a benzina in cui la testa di ciascun cilindro di combustione è di forma semisferica. Il termine deriva è l'abbreviazione dell'inglese hemisphere (letteralmente in italiano "semisfera").

Storia
Le camere di combustione semisferiche, già in uso per secoli nei mortai e nei cannoni, vennero introdotte in alcuni dei primi motori automobilistici, poco dopo che venne mostrato il concetto di motore a combustione interna stesso.

I motori con testata emisferica sono in uso almeno dal 1901; utilizzati dalla casa automobilistica belga Pipe nel 1905 e nella vettura da corsa Fiat 130 HP del 1907. Anche la Peugeot da Formula Grand Prix del 1912 e l'Alfa Romeo Grand Prix del 1914 montavano motori a quattro valvole, ed anche la Daimler e la Riley usarono motori con camere di combustione emisferiche. La Stutz, a partire dal 1912, usò motori a quattro valvole, anticipando concettualmente i moderni motori per le autovetture. Altri esempi ne sono, il Motore bialbero Alfa Romeo già di serie dal 1950, il BMW 6 cilindri in linea introdotto nel 1936 (progetto adottato poi da Bristol Cars), il Peugeot 403,i vari Renault 8 Gordini, il motore Toyota T e i motori da competizione "Miller".

Tecnologia e miglioramento

Nei sistemi a camera di combustione emisferica, le valvole di aspirazione e di scarico sono poste sui lati opposti della camera, facendo sì che il flusso di miscela aria-benzina scorra direttamente nella camera. Questa soluzione viene chiamata "testata a flusso incrociato".

Una delle sfide principali nella commercializzazione di motori che utilizzano camere emisferiche ruotava intorno alla progettazione di un sistema di distribuzione che rendesse il movimento delle valvole efficace, efficiente, affidabile e realizzabile ad un costo accettabile. A questa complessità faceva riferimento la Chrysler negli anni cinquanta durante lo sviluppo dei primi motori Hemi: nelle pubblicità, le testate venivano chiamate "Double Rocker" (letteralmente "Doppio bilanciere").

Note

Altri progetti

Motori a combustione interna


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Monthly Archives : August 2014
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Fun Office Furniture Content from Around the Web
27 August 2014Mark Canavarroworkplace cultureworkplace culture No comment
It's the end of the month, and that's a good excuse to enjoy some fun office furniture blogs. Here are a few favorites that should be on your list to read or watch before we say goodbye to August.
Sit or Stand, You're Still Doomed to Work!
Nikil Saval at n+1 magazine offers no mercy in this satirical review of the current sit-to-stand trend. He touts the well-known statistics about the harm of prolonged sitting and comes to a grim conclusion. "Over months or years spent in a chair, robust human substance dissipates into muck, and the longer you sit, the sooner you die." At the same time, he ridicules the cult of the standing desk, poking fun at the tendency to glamorize it. "…people regularly invoke the examples of Hemingway, Churchill, Nabokov: figures who famously tended to stand while they wrote or read. None of them was an especially healthy individual; more to the point, none was an office worker."
Don't Put in a Work Order to Fix That Chair…
Enjoy the Darwin Awards of office furniture repair at "thereifixedit". These DIY jobs are proof that anything can be put back together with duct tape and a little wishful thinking. Castors seem to be a favorite fixer upper, but one inventive worker actually repurposed the bucket seat from a car as a task chair. Sadly, the cup holder wasn't left intact.
The Virtual Conference Room
This popular YouTube video reposted at neousa.com is a reenactment of what a tele-conference call would be like if it took place in an actual conference room with everyone present. Perhaps you've learned to tune out all these annoyances in the past. Be warned, now you will start noticing all the things you hate about conference calls again. On the plus side, you may get some ideas for how to get out of the next call without anyone being the wiser.
Office Furniture Motivational Speaker
Jack McCracken gives a crackerjack presentation about how office furniture can change your life. Watch him mesmerize a room full of first graders with his flow charts and graphs. He inspires with words of wisdom about how "office chairs raise you up to a higher plane." If you don't think this is the kind of motivational speech that kids need to hear, think again. In the immortal words of Jack, "If a kid doesn't care about a credenza now, what happens when she's 35 and stuck in a soul-sucking middle management job?" What indeed.
More about Government Workspace Design Trends
20 August 2014Mark Canavarrooffice designworkplace design No comment
Last week, we explored the topic of hoteling or desk sharing in government workspace design. This week, let's take a look at how mobility is changing the work environment for federal agencies. According to the GSA paper on workspace utilization, the public sector is tracking the private sector pretty closely in terms of lower usage of physical office workspace. They credit changes in technology, workforce demographics, and sustainability initiatives as the guiding forces behind this shift.
Avoiding the Office Is the New Rule
Government mandates to increase telework and reduce office real estate costs are driving a significant change in the footprint of many agencies. In fact, government organizations outstrip the private sector in telework according to the GSA survey. A full 77% of government organizations reported using telework, while that was true for only 68% of private industry organizations surveyed.
While security concerns still hamper efforts to go wireless and paperless, these hurdles are being overcome one by one. In particular, the advent of programs like FedRamp that help agencies securely transition to cloud storage and computing are creating the necessary environment to untether workers from their desks.
Where Are Employees Going to Work?
Heads down work is still occurring, but it isn't necessarily taking place at a regularly assigned desk. Instead, employees are completing their duties wherever they find themselves. While private industry workers might have to make do with home offices and coffee shops while away from the office, government employees are often deployed to field offices or partner agencies. It might be considered a form of desk sharing that spans multiple facilities. Either way, this leaves a huge volume of workstations empty on a regular basis. In fact, between 8 AM and 5 PM on weekdays, only 35 to 50% of desks are occupied. That's a level of waste that is difficult to ignore.
The GSA Leads the Way
The GSA took its own advice during a recent remodel of its headquarters. The agency now affords employees only half the amount of space they enjoyed before—but they have more freedom to work elsewhere if they wish.
The savings of $24 million dollars on the six leases that were eliminated in the consolidation effort is certainly a testament to thrift. Even the head of the GSA gave up his 1600 square foot office to sit at an open desk amidst his employees. Of course, his home office is probably a lot nicer. One more reason to telecommute!
If you are a government agency looking for ways to improve space utilization, The Office Planning Group can help. We can even procure GSA approved office furniture for your remodeled space. Contact us today for a consultation.
Office Space Planning in Government Part 1
13 August 2014Mark CanavarroUncategorized No comment
Governments are well known for being late adopters of popular trends. As entrenched bureaucracies with thick layers of rules, they must proceed with caution in making changes. This is no different in the office space planning arena than it is elsewhere. The upside is that, once a government agency finds an approach that works, they can proliferate it throughout many organizations to achieve efficiency on a massive scale. This is likely to happen in the space planning sphere soon.
Right now, federal and state governments seem to be in the midst of an ongoing experimental phase. They are juggling factors such as space availability, energy and maintenance costs, and security concerns while evaluating new choices such as mobile and alternative work environments. Federal agencies, in particular have a strict set of mandates to follow in determining how to design and utilize workspaces:
Preserving the value of the real estate
Meeting the needs of employees
Promoting maximum utilization of the space
Improving the productivity of workers to meet mission requirements
Hoteling and desk sharing are some of the techniques on the table as they seek to modernize the office while achieving all the objectives above.
Using Fewer Workstations in Government Spaces
The practice of reducing the number of available workstations below the number of employees is one way to capture real estate savings. Since not all workers are at their desks 100% of the time, it makes sense to provision only as many workstations as are really needed. Workers can reserve the type of workstation they need in advance or simply choose an available space when they arrive at the office. These practices and similar variations are called hoteling and desk sharing.
According to the Workspace Utilization Benchmark publication from 2012, "Alternative work environments including telework, hoteling stations, and desk sharing, are a major trend in today's real estate marketplace, and offer organizations flexibility and optimal workspace usage. Additionally, organizations have noted an increase of quantitative benefits with the use of alternative work environments such as increased productivity and enhanced associate morale."
Giving Hot Desking a Second Chance
The paper goes on to note that, while hoteling and desk sharing were tried in the 1990's, the result was abject failure. The technology available at the time simply made it too difficult to stay productive in a constantly shifting office environment. Trying to force hoteling didn't work. However, this way of working has begun to arise spontaneously today in response to mobile technology and a more collaborative work style. Still, hoteling and desk sharing are much less common in public sector workspaces compared to the private sector (16% vs. 48%).
According to an article by Lisa Rein in the Washington Post, it simply takes time to make the switch. The GSA itself is a good example: "With 3,300 headquarters employees, the GSA represents just a small fraction of the federal workforce. Even so, it took a full year to train everyone to electronically reserve desks and meeting rooms and give up the paper that still dominates most government work." With the GSA leading the way, other agencies are sure to follow. Getting employees on board with a more flexible federal workspace is just a matter of time.
Stay tuned next week for more about mobile work in the Government workspace.
Privacy in Coworking Spaces
6 August 2014Mark Canavarroworkplace culture, workplace distractions, workplace privacyworkplace distractions, workplace noise, workplace privacy No comment
Coworking is a burgeoning trend among entrepreneurs, freelancers, and remote workers who can't commute to a corporate office on a regular basis. Today, we're seeing more and more spaces being created to meet the demands for flexible, occasional office space. Facilities that offer coworking space do have a number of benefits:
Helping people be more productive by offering a work-like atmosphere
Facilitating networking and creative brainstorming across industries
Granting access to infrastructure and technology that would be cost-prohibitive for small business owners or startups
Keeping costs low with flexibility in short term or pay-as-you-go pricing
But not everyone is sold on the benefits of surrounding oneself with other people in a setting that's meant to mimic a regular office. In fact, the best work often gets done in a solitary setting–without interruptions from office mates.
Noise Levels Range from Busy to Bothersome
Eli at Become Nomad bills himself as a fan of coworking (since he never stays in one place long). But even he takes issue with some of the less pleasant aspects of the faux office. "Coworking places can be noisy, and this is hard if you're easily distracted. Noise is part and parcel of coworking places. People will make calls, talk to each other, move around and sometimes distract you, although most coworkers are quite aware and respectful in the working environment."
Rebekah Campbell at "You're the Boss" was less tolerant of the buzz during her startup's experiment with coworking environments. She bemoaned lost productivity from poor focus. Even though there were designated quiet areas, most coworkers ignored the rules. There was certainly no safe haven from obnoxious behavior. "Some people appeared to show off their important phone conversations by speaking as loudly as possible. Even those who thought they were sharing an idea with their small teams managed to broadcast across the whole room."
Some Coworking Spaces Seek to Provide More Privacy
As the problems that can arise with shared workspaces become more evident, some purveyors of coworking space are finding new ways to cope. For example, the Regus chain of business centers has installed "Thinkpods" that are like tiny round cubicles with space for a chair and a worksurface to hold a laptop. Kimberly Lilley, General Manager at a DFW area Regus, says people can choose to pop into a pod to focus on preparing a presentation. Others might choose to spend most of a workday in these cocoons of quiet.
In contrast, the formal coworking spaces at a Regus feature little privacy, with desks positioned in an open layout with no desktop divider screens. However, in this instance shared space doesn't mean shared schedules. According to Kimberly, the sales people who lease her site's coworking offices don't rub elbows that often. "It's not really an issue. They aren't all in the office at the same time." Sometimes, the answer to the noise question really is about timing. The flexibility of the coworking culture allows workers to come and go as their need for privacy changes.


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We've calculated that the average salary at Virginia Tech is $30K based on 419 user-submitted salaries A total of 52 Virginia Tech employees gave Virginia Tech an average happiness rating of 4.0 out of 5.0.
78 Graduate Research Assistants from Virginia Tech submitted salaries.
1.9 Virginia Tech has a lot of desirability in name and, sadly, in name alone. Working for various sections of the Virginia Tech organization is underwhelming, poorly managed, and they don't, as they claim, offer competitive salaries. They treat their employees as expendable, useless resources, and they follow by making it clear that they do not have any sympathy. And this is from someone who voluntarily left them on good terms, I was not fired, I was not laid off.
1.2 I would make this place more about substance than about style.
Virginia Tech is a higher learning institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school is formally known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. It was founded in 1872 as a land grant college and was known as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Virginia Tech is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and School Commission on Colleges. The school offers 65 bachelors degree programs and 150 masters and doctoral programs and has an enrollment of over 31,000 full-time students.
Virginia Tech is one of the few universities that maintain a corp of cadets, which is a military unit within the university. The corp of cadets march to duty stations in formation, wears a uniform, and receives a military and leadership educational experience.
Virginia tech has an academic staff of nearly 1,400 faculty members and 3,500 non-academic employees. Non-academic positions include administrative assistants, custodial, lab technicians, trade workers, and entry-level professionals. Full-time employees receive a benefit package including healthcare, flexible reimbursement, short and long-term disability, and employee wellness. The university also provides a choice of two retirement plans under the Virginia Retirement System, life insurance, and other investment opportunities. Virginia Tech also offers Tuition Assistance to its employees, both full-time and part-time.


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Spike VGX falls flat as awards show
by Evan Conley · Dec 13, 2013 Share Tweet
For years, the Spike Video Game Awards have been the most visible of all award shows in the video game industry. Alongside that distinction, however, have come waves of criticism; among these include putting up truckloads of B-List celebrities that quite obviously don't want to be there, skimping on the actual awards and perpetuating the worst of mainstream gamer stereotypes. In response, for this year's event which took place Saturday, Spike revamped the entire format of the event and rebranded it as "VGX."
Alongside the name change, the event was only broadcast through streaming on several major game consoles, mobile devices, as well as several Viacom-owned sites such as GameTrailers.com, Spike, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2 and BET. Instead of a featuring a live audience, the event took place in a small studio setting, avoiding the glitz and glamour of past events that drew criticism for trying too hard to be like the Hollywood-based award shows.
Like most years, the event featured a multitude of trailers and announcements, such as the reveal of Cranky Kong as a playable character in the upcoming WiiU title, "Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze," and new versions of Titans for the upcoming Xbox One game, "Titanfall." The most intriguing announcement, however, may have come from the small, four-man team at "Joe Danger" developer Hello Games. "No Man's Sky" is a space-exploration game featuring procedurally generated planets, which the developer promises will mean no planets that players explore will be the same as any planet another player discovers.
Alongside the usual run of trailers and announcements, the show also featured segments from YouTube personalities such as Smosh or PewDiePie, and the Adult Swim troupe Loiter Squad," all three of whom several journalists, such as Gameinformer's Mike Futter, had never heard of. Hosting alongside GameTrailer's own Geoff Keighley were several other celebrities such as Joel McHale, who appeared to spend the majority of the show making jokes about how he was forced into being there and mocking the show itself. Deservedly, these segments and celebrity appearances received as much criticism as previous years, many questioning what demographic Spike was even attempting to target with the event.
However, the biggest criticisms of the show revolved around the awards themselves. Namely: there weren't many. Between all of the reveal trailers, announcements, and possibly comedic segments, very few of the awards were actually broadcast, leaving many developers scrambling to figure out if they'd won.
But between all of the dysfunctionality of the event, there were clear winners Saturday night. "Grand Theft Auto V" walked away with Game of the Year, beating out such titles as "Bioshock Infinite" and "The Last of Us" for the uncannily named trophy, the "Vector Monkey." The developer of the latter game, Naughty Dog, walked away with the award for Developer of the Year.
The award for Best Shooter went to "Bioshock Infinite." Best Action-Adventure Game was won by "Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag," while NBA 2K14 walked away with Best Sports Game. Of the most intriguing category, Best Independent Title, Studio of the Year nominee Company's "Gone Home" beat out "Paper's Please" and "The Stanley Parable." Studio Ghibli co-developed "Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch" won Best Role-Playing Game and Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: New Leaf" won Best Casual Game. DC Comics superhero brawler "Injustice: Gods Among Us" won Best Fighting Game and the brand new Xbox One game "Forza Motorsports 5" won Best Driving Game.
The award for best piece of Downloadable Content, or DLC, was taken by the '70s sci-fi action flick-inspired game from Ubisoft, "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon." For each gaming system, "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" won best Xbox game, "The Last of Us" won best PlayStation game, "Super Mario 3D World" won best Nintendo game, Gone Home won best PC game and "The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds" won for best handheld game.
Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson won the awards for best male and female voice actors for their portrayals of Joel and Ellie in "The Last of Us." "Grand Theft Auto V" won the award for best soundtrack and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" performed by Courtney Draper and Troy Baker for "Bioshock Infinite" won the award for Best Song.
Alongside these awards, which were all decided by an "advisory council" of journalists from several well-respected gaming outlets such as Giant Bomb, Gameinformer and Polygon, three awards were decided completely by fan vote. Of those, "Titanfall" was voted most anticipated game, the Lutece twins from "Bioshock Infinite" were voted as the best characters and "Plants vs. Zombies 2" was voted as the best mobile game.
With all the criticism revolving around the VGX, up to and including the change in name from the VGAs to VGX (what does the 'X' even stand for?), for another year, the relevancy of the awards show has come into question. Of the exceedingly hyped "World Premiers" most were either minor announcements or games everyone had already seen much of. Certainly no announcement topped the reveal of "Dark Souls 2" or "The Phantom Pain" (later revealed to be "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain"). The fact that an award show that is supposed to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year in the industry would put more focus and time towards these reveals of future games than actually present the awards on the show (only five were shown) is well near insulting towards the community and industry it's trying to play to.
This article was published Dec 13, 2013 at 3:25 pm and last updated Dec 13, 2013 at 3:25 pm
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B1G 2012 // Tomorrow is about Hate, Today is about a Phone Call in 1994
By Jesse Collins Jun 7, 2012, 12:00pm CDT
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Last evening, I was joking around with the other OTE writers. To this point in the week, we have been pretty good to the Penn State contingent. By generally talking around obvious issues and employing our very own Paterno Ave. to give good insight on the new coach, scheme, and general outlook in State College, we have given the Penn State masses a nice respite from an otherwise crazy week. While that is all fine and good, I find myself wishing we could do just a little... more. I did not volunteer to write a bunch of hate towards Penn State (coming tomorrow), and since Nebraska had the honor to do so last year, I was more or less content to sit this week out, minus some musings in the potluck.
Then I read this little gem in the Lincoln Journal-Star:
"I thought, 'Well, if Joe kicked up a fuss and said, 'We deserve to play Nebraska,' somebody would've relented," Osborne recalled Tuesday during his radio show on the Husker Sports Network. "But (Paterno) said we were bound to this (Bowl Coalition) contract, and that's the way it was."
I'm not sure if Osborne, before Tuesday, had ever discussed publicly his conversation with Paterno. Anybody else know?
Yeah, it's sort of amazing. Osborne tried to go the renegade route to create a de facto national championship game. That's interesting on a lot of levels.
"We would've given anything to play Penn State at a neutral site rather than (go to Miami to play Miami)," Osborne said Tuesday.
I had to reread this a few times before it really sank in. Eighteen years ago, we could of had ourselves the first, "real," national championship game. Instead, JoePa chickened out, Nebraska came back and beat Miami in their own backyard, and the voters crowned Nebraska champion. So who is at fault for Nebraska getting the nod? It is your beloved JoePa. Joe Paterno was a chicken. That's right. I said it. What are you going to do about it Mr. Penn State fan?
Now, before you get the pitchforks and torches out, let's remember that I am a Nebraska blogger and by contract, I am obligated to put a whole bunch of caveats in any negative pieces towards major football powers. Unless your name is Northwestern, I'm not exactly Mr. Meanie Face. In general, I have always really respected Paterno. He coached football the right way, he gave more to philanthropic endeavors than any coach that I can remember and he really just did his own thing while the game turned to full-speed Capitalism. All of the craziness that went down in State College notwithstanding, I think JoePa deserves quite a bit of respect from college football in general. He made it a better place for all of us and hopefully one day we will be able to say that.
With that said, I still cannot get over this little sound byte from Osborne. See, I remember 1994 vividly. I remember wishing Nebraska was playing Penn State as opposed to big bad Miami in Miami where Nebraska was not exactly batting 1.000. Even so, can you imagine the way football would have changed if Paterno steps back and says, "You know what, why the hell aren't we playing Nebraska for all the marbles?" Osborne, to this point, was just a good coach, but he did not have a crystal football in the trophy case and his biggest moment was actually watching his team lose two heartbreaking National Championships. Let's just say that he did not have the same platform that Paterno would have had. When he put that call out to Paterno, I'm sure T.O. was just hoping beyond hope that something good could come of the conversation. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the cards (you know, because Paterno was chicken, right).
Fast forward to today. We are embarking on a new(ish) era of college football. The days of two major conference undefeated teams missing the chance to play for the title are over. Whether the model is a Plus 1, Playoff, BCS Retread, or the Status Quo, we're probably going to never run into the same thing that happened in 1994 (or 1997 for that matter), but that was 18 years ago. We are still fighting the same fights we did then about how we should decide who plays who. One phone call could have changed the way this all went down. Two teams and one goal: deciding on the field who was best. Talk about a novel idea.
Paterno and Osborne are legends in college football. Their titles, records, philosophies and philanthropic endeavors have cemented that. How much more important are both men if that game gets played in 1994? Osborne may have made that call hoping to get out of another trip to Miami, especially because he was sick of playing Florida teams on their home turf, but I truly believe he also hoped he could play the best. Paterno, in what was most likely a wise move, decided he would no have part of it. That's why I am calling him chicken. The best want to play the best, right? Of course, maybe that's not being fair to Paterno. Maybe it was the Big Ten powers conspiring against the Nittany Lions to make them suffer for being so good so early on in their conference affiliation. Joe actually called them and they said no because they didn't want him to win the title outright. Yeah, I'm sure this is how it went down. The most controversial and convoluted answer is always the best, right? Um, sure.
Oh, and one last thing... Nebraska was not going to lose 1994.


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Protecting bees and their keepers in Minnesota
09 Jun Protecting bees and their keepers in Minnesota
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Erin Rupp is the founder and executive director of Pollinate Minnesota, an education and advocacy organization working toward a better Minnesota for pollinators and people. PAN Organizer Willa Childress recently chatted with Erin about the challenges beekeepers face in our current farming system and the exciting pollinator work progressing in the state.
What is Pollinate MN? How did you get into beekeeping, education and advocacy?
I started beekeeping in 2007 with a background in informal science education. Working with bees is a tangible — and magical — learning experience, so I set out with the goal of making this something that teachers can access. I then started Pollinate MN in 2015. I have between eight and 25 hives at different schools and parks and community gardens, and we teach classes with everyone in beekeeping suits, hanging out with the bees.
Advocacy-wise, I had been looking for how to find my voice around food justice and food systems reform when I experienced a pesticide kill at one of my hives in Minneapolis. Two other beekeepers and a number of concerned citizens joined me in heading straight to the capitol to ask for protections.
What's the most important thing for people to understand about pollinators and their role in agriculture?
Seeds and fruits come to us mostly through flowering plants. And whether you're growing a garden at home or over a million acres of almonds in Northern California, those are all still flowers that need somebody to move pollen. Pollinators need pollen and nectar year-round in order to eat, pollinate and reproduce — something they find on diverse farms and ecosystems. But in monocultures, we have to pay beekeepers to transport millions of honey bees to do that pollination service work. The way the conventional monoculture farming system is set up has honey bees and beekeepers as an integral piece — we couldn't do this without having beekeepers working tirelessly to manage bees.
Humans have been moving honey bees for a long time, but the scale of that movement has changed a lot. In this structure of monocultures and their rapid expansion, there was a conscious choice that went something like this: "Hey, insect pollinators are necessary, but the insecticides that are also necessary to the way monocultures function are going to kill those insect pollinators. So we'll just pay beekeepers to bring honey bees in." I guess people thought that because honey bees live in a hive with so many individuals they weren't going to die or struggle from these chemicals the way wild pollinators do. But they are dying. Beekeepers now have to put in months of extra labor to keep their hives healthy.
What are key barriers or challenges that beekeepers face today?
The reasons bees are struggling are well known. There are viruses and diseases specific to honey bees, and pesticide exposures and lack of food are also factors in pollinator decline. These all compound — if you have a mite population living in your hive and it's then exposed to pesticides, both hit the hive harder. In terms of pesticide exposure, it's often not worth the time it takes for a large-scale beekeeper to sample dying bees in their 500+ hives, so they never find out what killed their bees.
A complicating factor is that many pesticide kills happen on the farms where beekeepers are being paid to provide pollination services, and long-standing, good relationships with growers are foundational to beekeeping. If a farmer is growing in monocultures, there are different reasons why they might use chemicals on their farm. But they do have an impact on the other things in that ecosystem, including the managed honey bees they're paying to have there. The honey bees just take all this damage, and the system is functioning exactly how it was designed to. Those who profit are not the farmers or beekeepers, it's the agribusiness corporations who make the seed and pesticide inputs for the monoculture. Yet they hold none of the risks.
What progress on pollinator issues are you most excited about right now in Minnesota?
We're leading the nation in the number of policies we have to protect pollinators. The importance of bees and pollinators are a shared talking point for almost everyone — no one says I hate bees, or I hate beekeepers. It's a very tangible and direct issue, it can crawl on your hand! There are a lot of ways we're chipping away at the pesticide piece of the puzzle and reducing pesticide exposure for pollinators. One of the most exciting things is we're leading in the country on pesticide preemption policy. We have a local control bill moving through the House this year that would allow pollinator-friendly cities to control bees' exposure to pollinator lethal pesticides within their communities.
We also have a lot of great policy progress at levels of government smaller than the state. We have more communities that are pollinator-friendly than any other state in the country — 44 plus three colleges! And all of that has happened just since 2014.
How can folks in Minnesota and beyond help support pollinator and beekeeper education and advocacy work?
The pollinator-friendly communities we have here in Minnesota came about because everyday constituents raised the issue with their elected officials. Patricia Hauser from Humming for Bees watched a bee decline movie and brought it to her city council, asked if they would watch it with her and then discuss what they could do to help.
PAN is great to connect with for resources on policy work and ways to get engaged. We have an intentionally intimidating and convoluted system, and people think they can't be experts on farm and pesticide policy but there are ways to increase education little by little. And if you look at the pesticide industry's testimony on things like local control, they are not experts on policy at all! A number of other great groups and resources out there are the American Beekeeping Federation who sued EPA on the pollinator-harming pesticide sulfoxaflor, and the Pollinator Stewardship Council who does great organizing for beekeepers around honey bee health.
What is your ideal vision of a just, healthy food and farming system?
Farmers around the world, for millennia, have been farming regeneratively and in a way that supports pollinators and ecosystems. The expertise exists, and we have the tools and relationships to make this happen. Industry's 4.42 billion dollars annually in neonic pesticide sales is very different than Pollinate MN's annual budget, but farming isn't going to change unless we make it change. There is real interest and passion behind this issue, a lot of public support, and people's knowledge is just deepening and growing. We're seeing that reflected in policy and it's exciting!
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One of the best ways to make necklaced bracelets is to combine your favorite things and make them look more unique.
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Save that tiger - Texas A&M vets set first-ever surgery
COLLEGE STATION - In a first-of-its kind surgical procedure, surgeons from Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and the Texas Children's Hospital will perform a heart operation to save the life of Karma, a five-month-old Bengal tiger from the Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge in Tyler, Texas.
The surgery, scheduled for Saturday (Dec. 9) at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, will be performed by Dr. Theresa Fossum, a veterinary surgeon at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M, and by Dr. Charles Fraser Jr., a pediatric cardiac surgeon at the Texas Children's Hospital. Both surgical teams are donating their time and expertise in an effort to save the tiger's life.
At only 45 pounds, the tiger cub has failed to thrive because of his condition and is at least 20 pounds underweight. Dr. Sonya Gordon, a veterinary cardiologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has determined the tiger suffers from Tetralogy of Fallot, a life-threatening heart condition that can only be corrected by surgery.
Although routine on children, the surgical procedure to be performed on the tiger may create some unique challenges since it has never before been attempted. Following the surgery in Houston, the tiger will be in recovery at a hospital research facility and later will be transported to the intensive care unit at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M.
"If everything goes well and no complications arise, the tiger is expected to remain in intensive care for at least three to five days," says Fossum.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that bypass surgery to correct a complex congenital heart defect has been done on a tiger," Fossum adds. The procedure to correct this defect is considered routine in children and Texas Children's Hospital is one of the leading institutions for this type of surgery.
"Our chances for a successful outcome are greatly increased with Dr. Fraser and his medical team co
Contact: Diane Oswald
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