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ASC's new consumer label for responsibly farmed fish – Fishupdate.com
ASC's new consumer label for responsibly farmed fish Published: 17 April, 2012
ASC's new consumer label for responsibly farmed fish.
The ASC's consumer label for responsibly farmed seafood has today been presented. The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) manages standards for responsible aquaculture. Products bearing the ASC label come from fish farms that have met these standards.
The on-pack label demonstrates to consumers that their seafood comes from farms that limit their impacts on the environment and the community. Consumers can from now on easily make a conscious choice to purchase responsibly farmed seafood.
The ASC label is complimentary to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label; which is used on certified and sustainably wild caught fish. With the introduction of the ASC certification program for farmed seafood, an important step is made towards being able to credibly demonstrate to consumers that all fish sold comes from producers who have worked to limit their impact on the environment. And for ASC products, producers have also demonstrated social responsibility towards their workforce. At present, half of all the seafood consumed is farmed and often more farmed seafood is sold through retail than wild caught.
The first species to be awarded the ASC label will very likely be tilapia and audits are already planned for farms in Indonesia and Honduras. Later in the summer, the ASC label will be present on the packaging of tilapia in various supermarkets in Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Sweden, Denmark and England.
Recognisable logo for responsible purchasing
In the development of its label logo, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council has drawn on the lessons and experiences gained from certification marks globally. "In terms of recognition, it is important that consumers see their choices confirmed by a logo that communicates this positively. We have opted for a colour scheme that fits with the specifics of fish farming, which often involves a combination of water and land. A friendly fish with a 'bold' checkmark shows very clearly that the purchase of the seafood product is a positive choice," says Chris Ninnes, CEO of ASC. "The language used 'certified' and 'responsible' reinforces these visual cues", he added.
Jose Villalon, Chairman of the ASC Board, recognised the design work contributed by Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) from their London offices. "JKR is one of the foremost packaging design agencies globally and without their pro bono efforts, the ASC would not have been able to develop such a positive and powerful communication tool. With this logo, consumers will now be able to make mindful, responsible choices when it comes to farmed seafood." Villalon also recognised the contribution of Birds Eye Iglo in supporting this process through commercial and consumer testing.
Next ASC to start with presentation of ICES draft Science Plan - Fishupdate.com Previous ASC labelled responsibly farmed fish introduced in the Finnish Fish Guide - Fishupdate.com


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How a $100 Gadget Can Hijack GM Cars
By Paul Wagenseil 30 July 2015
A white-hat hacker has built a $100 computer that exploits flaws in GM's OnStar app to take control of vehicles.
Samy Kamkar has struck again.
The Los Angeles-based white-hat hacker, whom we last encountered when he used a child's toy to open garage doors, has built a $100 device that intercepts the signals from a driver's smartphone and uses them to unlock the doors, honk the horn or even start the engine of the victim's General Motors vehicle.
MORE: How to Patch Your Fiat Chrysler Vehicle Against Hackers
This isn't as serious as the flaw revealed last week in Fiat Chrysler vehicles, which let hackers remotely cut the brakes or disable the transmission of cars and trucks equipped with Chrysler's Uconnect service. (Under pressure from government regulators, Fiat Chrysler issued a recall of 1.4 million vehicles last Friday.) But it once again demonstrates the risks inherent in connecting cars to the Internet — risks that car makers often don't fully consider.
"Fortunately, the issue [with the OnStar hack] lies with the mobile software, and is not a problem with the vehicles themselves," Kamkar said in a YouTube video he posted today (July 30). "GM and OnStar have so far been receptive to me, and are already working on a resolution to protect consumers."
A GM spokesperson told Wired News earlier today that the problem had already been fixed, but Kamkar tweeted that it hadn't.
The problem lies in GM's OnStar RemoteLink app, which has encryption flaws that allow malicious Wi-Fi hotspots to intercept its signals and steal the user's username and password. Kamkar built a small battery-powered computer that does just that, using parts that add up to about $100.
The catch is that the computer, which Kamkar cheekily dubbed "OwnStar," has to be within Wi-Fi range of a specific vehicle's driver's phone — say, for example, under the seat or strapped to a bumper.
It captures the credentials for the driver's OnStar connection by pretending to be a "known" Wi-Fi hotspot, such as "attwifi," then sends the credentials via cellular network to the attacker's own phone.
The attacker then uses his own OnStar RemoteLink app to connect to the victim's car over a cellular network. Just like the true owner, the attacker can unlock the doors, turn on the lights, honk the horn, locate the vehicle or even start the engine. He can't drive away, however — that requires an actual key or keyfob.
"To prevent this kind of attack," Kamkar says in the video, "I suggest not opening the RemoteLink app up until an update has been provided from OnStar."
Another way to reduce the chances of an attack would be for users of the OnStar app to turn off Wi-Fi on their phones when they leave the house. They'll still be able to use the OnStar app without Wi-Fi.
Kamkar plans to provide further details on OwnStar next weekend at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas.
How the Internet of Things Could Kill You
7 Scariest Security Threats Headed Your Way
Meet the Hackers Making Your Connected Car Safer
Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom's Guide focused on security and gaming. Follow him at @snd_wagenseil. Follow Tom's Guide at @tomsguide, on Facebook and on Google+.

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Q: R: why cannot find variables I am new to R and I think I missed something fundamentally. Why can't R find the variable which I supplied and didn't change? In another words, I cannot use my variable at all.
> dat = read_sas("e:/Users/mhollifi/Desktop/cps/ex1_1/jan00pub.sas7bdat", "e:/Users/mhollifi/Desktop/cps/ex1_1/formats.sas7bcat")
> summary(PENATVTY)
Error in summary(PENATVTY) : object 'PENATVTY' not found
> names(dat)
[1] "PEEDUCA"     "PENATVTY"    "cntryorigin"
> print(dat)
# A tibble: 96,589 x 3
   PEEDUCA PENATVTY cntryorigin
     <dbl>    <dbl>       <dbl>
 1    34.0     57.0           0
 2    40.0     57.0           0
 3    37.0     57.0           0
 4    37.0     57.0           0
 5    40.0     57.0           0
 6    39.0     57.0           0
 7    39.0     57.0           0
 8    39.0     57.0           0
 9    39.0     57.0           0
10    43.0     57.0           0
# ... with 96,579 more rows
> exists("PENATVTY")
[1] FALSE
> summary(PENATVTY)
Error in summary(PENATVTY) : object 'PENATVTY' not found
>   lapply(PENATVTY, mean, na.rm = TRUE)
Error in lapply(PENATVTY, mean, na.rm = TRUE) :
  object 'PENATVTY' not found

A: PENATVTY isn't an object in your R session. dat is and has a column named PENATVTY.
All of dat$PENATVTY , dat[[PENATVTY]] and dat[,"PENATVTY"] will return what you're looking for. If you want to use summary, you can do:
PENATVTY <- dat$PENATVTY #creates a vector named PENATVTY containing the column from dat
summary(PENATVTY)

You can also manipulate dat$PENATVTY directly:
summary(dat$PENATVTY)

If you want the mean of PENATVTY, you don't need lapply
mean(dat$PENATVTY,na.rm=TRUE)

will give the mean.

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worst collapse in baseball history. Really? The worst ever?!?! I still tend to think that 2004 represents the worst collapse in not only baseball, but sports history… though our friends from the Big Apple seem to forget that little blip on their otherwise joyous baseball past.
True, the Red Sox blew a 9 game lead in September, something that had never before been done, and something which most "experts" thought could not be done… ah, but wait, those experts forgot they were dealing with the Sox. Once again the Red Sox prove that nothing is impossible. And though the Sox may not be in the playoffs, this is still my favorite time of year as there is nothing quite like October baseball.
So, does 2011 belong in the conversation with 1946? How about 1967? Maybe 1975 or 1978? It can't possibly compare to 1986 could it? I know I don't have the same feelings of despair I had in 2003 as I saw Aaron Boone's homer sale over the left field fence in Yankee Stadium. Oh well… here's to a not so great season, and hopes for next year!
Now… bring on the playoffs!
Officials in Bay Minette, Alabama have created a program which gives non-violent, first time convicts the option of attending weekly church services instead of serving time in jail. With the expensive cost of providing services to convicts in the custody of the state, this program could save the State of Alabama thousands, if not millions of dollars. So, what's the problem?... the program may not be completely legal.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a cease-and-desist letter on Monday claiming the program violates the basic laws of Separation of Church and State. According to the ACLU, the government cannot coerce people to attend any religious services or ceremonies, "The government is not supposed to serve as a conduit for church recruitment." The government's position is that they are not trying to "save" anyone, the program is meant to provide access to community service. But the ACLU maintains that in the United States people have the right to chose whether or not they attend any sort religious services, and the when Church or Jail are the options, this isn't really a choice at all.
The program has been suspended until the matter can be debated in court.
News is coming out of China that two Buddhist Monks set themselves on fire in protest of the government's actions in the ongoing dispute of the status of Tibet as well as the treatment of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok, both believed to be in their late teens, allegedly poured gasoline on themselves, proclaimed "long live the Dalai Lama," then self-immolated. Reports from the group Free Tibet are unclear as to whether or not the Monks died… some reports claim that bystanders rushed to them and put out the flames, other reports are claiming that the two monks were shot by police after setting themselves on fire.
This is not the first time people have used self-immolation as a method of protest, in fact the practice is somewhat common for this branch of Buddhism. The most famous example of self-immolation occurred in Saigon in 1963.
In a protest against the Catholic Church's persecution of Buddhists and the policies of South Vietnam, Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in a busy intersection. The act was made famous by the photograph taken by Malcolm Browne.
Closer to home, in 1965, a Baltimore Quaker named Norman Morrison protested against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War by dousing himself in Kerosene then setting himself on fire beneath the office widow of the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
The Board of Governors for High Education is set to extend in-state tuition to undocumented students in Rhode Island. According to Governor Chafee's office, the law would make in-state tuition available to all undocumented students who have attended a Rhode Island high school for at least three years. They need to have graduated from that high school in order to be eligible for the in-state college tuition. In addition, students wishing to take advantage of the new law will need to sign an affidavit promising to seek legal status.
Supporters of the measure claim that more students will be given access to higher education as well as encourage illegal undocumented residents to legalize their status. Critics claim the law will help make Rhode Island a destination for more undocumented illegal residents and that according to State Law, all students of legal resident status in the United States must first be offered in-state tuition before it is given to undocumented residents.
Isis Brantly, a hair dresser traveling through Atlanta says airport security embarrassed her by checking her hair for explosives. Why her hair? She has a pretty significant afro, and authorities were concerned that unlawful items could be hidden in her hair.
room for the search, she refused, so security did the search in the terminal.
Ms. Brantly says that her rights were violated, that she was humiliated, and no is afraid to fly for fear of harassment because of her 'signature'hair cut.
Wednesday, a powerful car bomb exploded on a street in southern Michigan. No one was killed, but three people were transported to the hospital and are all listed in critical condition. Authorities, including agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are investigating the explosion.
Police are trying to figure out if the bombing was random, or if the victims were specifically targeted for some reason. So far, authorities have no clear leads and are asking the public for any help or information they may have. A $10,000 reward is being offered for any information which leads to an arrest in the case.
Palestinian independence he could be seen as weak in his support to the United States' key ally in the Middle East, Israel.
In what is being celebrated as a victory for gay rights in the United States, the 18-year-old ban against having homosexuals serve in the United States military, known as "don't ask, don't tell", will be officially repealed at 12:01 pm on Tuesday. As soon as the ban is lifted, the Defense Department will publish revised regulations which reflect the new law allowing gays to serve openly in the United States military.
In addition to allowing openly gay men and women to serve, the lifting of the Clinton-era law also puts a halt to all pending investigations, discharges, and other administrative proceedings that were begun under the policy. According to the Defense Department, existing standards of personal conduct, such as "those pertaining to public displays of affection, will continue regardless of sexual orientation."Service members who were discharged based on their sexual orientation may re-enlist as soon as the law is lifted.
that having gays serve in the military will in no way effect discipline and they plan to hold "Repeal Day" celebrations across the country on Tuesday.
stomach. In the image you can see most of the seventy-two bags of cocaine that he swallowed!!! Seventy-two bags totaling almost two pounds!!! Apparently your stomach has a pretty impressive ability to expand.
Apparently the man swallowed each bag, one at a time, and planned to take a laxative when he reached his destination in order to… get the drugs out of his system. He was caughtwhen authorities noticed he was acting nervous and jumpy, and when theyquestioned him he admitted to having the drugs in his stomach.
This type of smuggling is not uncommon as "mules" are coming up with new and innovative ways to get drugs across international borders. Something else that is not uncommon… deaths from overdoses.
If those little bags rupture sending huge amounts of drugs into the "mule's" system… it's all over.
Yesterday, threats of a "columbine" style shooting were reported to police and school officials at Plymouth North High School in Massachusetts. What started as an apparent disagreement on FaceBook between several girls, turned into a barrage of threats and the eventual threat of massive school violence.
The four girls who posted the threatening messages were quickly identified sending authorities into action.
Have the girls already committed a crime? That depends on how serious authorizes feel the threats were.
and threatening to use deadly weapons.


The first bank of ideas for organizations.
Creativicon is the new way for your team to collaborate in organizational and business creativity based on the production of ideas and motivational challenges that allow to generate value to your organization.
Creativicon, is a colaborative project which involves many different sections, the project started with the Creativicon book written by Sergio Melnick and Jose Miguel Barraza.
They started the requeriment asking for a software which they can sell offline, and of course the idea was changed for an online platform where the common user can see what is the project, and the companies that buy the product can log in in the same page.
The concept of Creativicon is on the basis that every idea is different from each other, and that is the main objective of Creativicon: create a online library of diverse ideas in one place. This ideas come from each employee in a company, comes from the bosses of the company, and anyone can participate.
The logotype was created under this concept of diversity of ideas. The main logotype represents a house which all the universe of ideas is contained, then the next logos represent the variety of ideas.
Creativicon concept also includes a meeting room where you can make a brainstorming and create new concepts.


This coffee has been processed at the Iriga Wet Mill situated in the Nyambene Hills in Meru County. Two crucial rainy seasons provide an average 1000mm annual rainfall. The rich red murram earth with its volcanic composition and high acidity levels is perfect for coffee.
The Iriga co-op draws off farms in the Mukui, Kioja, Weru areas. With 320 members, each growing coffee on an average of 30 hectares, availability of this line is very limited but in high demand.
The main crop in Kenya harvests between September to December with a fly crop or mitaca harvesting in June through August. The coffee is fully washed, fully fermented and sun dried on raised beds.
This coffee is perfect in a plunger/pour over or cold drip.


Communication skills are important not only for a job offer but for success in life. Many people have the misconception that communication is all about sharing your views and the ability to strike a conversation.
This is not true. Communication is a two-way street where you not only convey your thoughts and ideas to another individual but you also understand the views of others. This is extremely important in a workplace where the success of an organisation is dependent on the interaction among the employees and their ability to work together on various tasks. This is the reason why employers stress the importance of communication skills and ensure that candidates whom they are employing have strong communication skills.
A person with strong communication skills is able to delegate work to his subordinates and ensure that projects are running smoothly. In addition, trust and rapport increase with communication and this enhances the productivity of an organisation.
Rollo May, an American existential psychologist, once said, "Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing". This is completely true. Microsoft, Infosys, Samsung, and Apple have managed to make it to the list of successful companies because of their leaders, who are effective communicators.
These leaders communicate the vision and mission of the organisation to their employees and ensure that the tasks are in line with the goals of the organisation. Effective communicators also ensure that the voices of the employees are heard. To be an effective communicator, you should be a good listener and understand the requirements of the clients and the problems of the employees.
Students who graduate with an MBA degree will eventually move into leadership positions, where communication skills are extremely important. This is the reason why communication skills are prerequisite for a job offer. However, it would be incorrect to say that communication skills are the only prerequisite for a job offer.
To secure a job, you need to have an MBA degree from a reputed college or university, be academically bright, possess leadership skills and of course, good communication skills. And it is the candidate who is an all-rounder who will eventually secure a job.
Communication skills are definitely important in securing a job because they demonstrate your ability to understand the needs of the people around you and convey your thoughts effectively. In addition, communication skills help one to strengthen relationships in the workplace, which are important for corporate success.
However, to secure a job, you need to convince the interviewer that you have the necessary skills and qualifications, apart from communication skills, that will be an asset to the organisation.


Holy Trinity Cathedral invites children grades K-6 to attend Vacation Church School. This will be an awesome week of faith, worship, fun, athletics, arts & crafts, music, and more!
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"Model-based Optimal Control of Variable Air Volume Terminal Box" by Fuxin Niu, Zheng O'Neill et al.
In the U.S. A Variable Air Volume (VAV) system is one of most commonly used air system for multiple-zone commercial buildings due to its capability to meet the varying heating and cooling loads of different building thermal zones. One of key component of VAV system is the terminal VAV box. There are an air damper and a reheat coil in the box. How to effectively and efficiently control the VAV box plays a significant role to reduce energy consumption and maintain acceptable indoor environment in buildings. Currently, there are two control logics used for controlling VAV box, namely, single maximum and dual maximum control logics. The single maximum logic is the most common, where the room temperature setpoint is maintained by only adjusting the reheat coil valve position in the heating model. The damper position is kept as the minimal to satisfy the ventilation requirement only. On the other hand, the more advanced dual maximum control logic realizes the room air temperature control by adjusting both damper position and reheat coil valve position in the heating model. For the cooling model, both control logics have the same action to maintain room air temperature setpoint through adjusting the damper position. Â In this study, a model-based optimal control is explored to minimize the energy consumption of the VAV box with a hot water reheat coil. Data driven approach based on an Autoregressive exogenous (ARX) model is investigated to represent dynamics of the room thermal response. The similar data-driven approach is used to develop an energy consumption model of the VAV box. Measured data for the VAV box from a real building is used to train and test data-driven model. Such data includes room air temperature, outdoor air temperature, supply air temperature, supply air flow rate, damper position, reheat coil valve position and VAV box energy consumption. A platform of AMPL (A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming) is used to for mathematical modeling and links to different optimization solvers. Â In addition, uncertainty analysis and sensitivity analysis are conducted to help understand the model behaviors and performance. In this study, the Monte Carlo sampling method is applied to generate samples for model inputs including supply air temperature, outdoor conditions, etc. A quantified sensitivity index of Sobol is calculated to indicate the impact level from different inputs or disturbances.


Heat kills an average of 658 people every year in the U.S., according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that tracked heat-related deaths from 1999 to 2009.
The weather doesn't have to be super-hot to create the conditions for heat stroke. People who play or work in direct sunlight as well as those who engage in physical activity outdoors can begin to experience symptoms of heat stroke while temperatures are in the 80s and humidity is 80 percent or more, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Even if you're physically active, you can still be at an increased risk for heat stroke. People who are elderly or very young aren't able to regulate temperatures as well as others, making them more susceptible to heat stroke. Those who are overweight or obese as well as those who have chronic diseases also stand at elevated risk, as do those who aren't used to high temperatures.
Some medications can increase your risk for heat stroke, including blood pressure medications, antidepressants and ADHD medications.
Feeling hot isn't always the primary symptom of heat stroke. In fact, some people first develop headache or light-headedness as the key symptoms. As heat stroke progresses, it can cause nausea and muscle cramps.
While it may seem logical to sweat more when you're hot, in heat stroke, you actually stop sweating as your body's temperature regulation controls shut down.
Once symptoms set in, it can be difficult to "restart" the body's natural temperature regulation system. Getting medical help is critical to avoid seizures and even death.
If you need smart insight into a potential case, please contact our D.C. medical malpractice attorneys for a consultation.


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José Ribamar de Oliveira, mais conhecido como Canhoteiro (Coroatá, 24 de setembro de 1932 — São Paulo,16 de agosto de 1974), foi um futebolista brasileiro.

Pelé costuma dizer que o tinha como um de seus dois maiores ídolos, ao lado de Zizinho.

Canhoteiro media 1,68 metro e era um ponta esquerda extremamente habilidoso. Era veloz, e seu drible costumava entortar os adversários. Talvez seu único ponto fraco em campo fosse a marcação. É um dos maiores ídolos do São Paulo de todos os tempos e foi também um dos primeiros jogadores de futebol a ter fã-clube organizado.

Carreira
O maranhense Canhoteiro iniciou sua carreira profissional atuando pelo América de Fortaleza em 1949, chegando pouco depois à seleção cearense. Foi para o São Paulo em abril de 1954, onde se projetou para o futebol, comprado por cem mil cruzeiros. Sua estréia foi contra o Corinthians, time do zagueiro Idário, que foi talvez quem mais sofreu com seus dribles. Canhoteiro chegou para substituir Teixeirinha e foi campeão do Torneio Jarrito, no México em 1955, da Pequena Taça do Mundo, na Venezuela, e Paulista, em 1957, ao lado de Zizinho. Esteve três vezes na seleção brasileira: no Sul-Americano Extra de Lima, na Taça Oswaldo Cruz e na excursão preparatória para a Copa do Mundo de 1958.

Ele disputou 415 partidas pelo Tricolor paulista e marcou 103 gols. Tomou parte no jogo de inauguração do Morumbi em 1960, contra o Sporting de Lisboa. Sofreu uma séria contusão em um lance casual com o jogador Homero, do Corinthians. Após a contusão seu futebol não era mais o mesmo. Foi vendido ao futebol mexicano em 1963 para jogar no Nacional e no Toluca. Ficou lá por três anos e voltou para o Brasil, já fora de suas melhores condições físicas, para encerrar a carreira no Nacional, de São Paulo, e no Saad, de São Caetano do Sul. Depois de aposentado do futebol, foi funcionário do Banespa onde servia cafezinho, sempre sorrindo.

Seleção brasileira
Pela seleção brasileira Canhoteiro participou de dezesseis partidas, marcando apenas um gol, justamente na sua estréia contra o Paraguai no Pacaembu, em 17 de novembro de 1955. Supostamente devido ao seu estilo de vida boêmio  também por um medo estrondoso de avião, não foi convocado para a Copa do Mundo de 1958 as vésperas do embarque para a Suécia. Para o seu lugar foi chamado Zagallo. Canhoteiro até então era titular absoluto da seleção que disputaria a Copa. Depois disso, ele nunca mais foi convocado para defender a seleção brasileira.

Canhoteiro foi cortado (e não convocado) às vésperas do embarque para a Suécia, perdendo a posição para seus até então reservas Pepe e Zagalo, que haviam sido convocados juntamente com ele. Canhoteiro foi convocado e jogou outras vezes, como contra a Inglaterra, em 13 de maio de 1959, quando o Brasil venceu por 2 a 0, com gols de Julinho Botelho e Henrique Frade. Garrincha não pôde jogar e em seu lugar entrou Julinho (Júlio Botelho), que recebeu uma das mais ruidosas vaias da história do Maracanã, que minutos depois se curvava a Julinho, aplaudindo-o por sua magnífica exibição, aberta por dribles e fintas desconcertantes em ingleses, por um gol, aos sete minutos e, depois de entortar seus marcadores, aos 12 minutos dar o passe para Henrique fazer o segundo. O Brasil jogou com Gilmar, Djalma Santos, Belini, Orlando e Nilton Santos; Dino Sani e Didi; Julinho, Henrique, Pelé e Canhoteiro. Técnico Vicente Feola.

Homenagens
 A canção "Futebol", de Chico Buarque, homenageia Canhoteiro e diversos outros futebolistas.
 Em 2003, o cantor Zeca Baleiro também homenageou o jogador, através de uma música, intitulada "Canhoteiro". "Descobri que o jogador Canhoteiro era meu xará, José Ribamar e, além disso, um símbolo, pois era maranhense, revelado no Ceará e que foi para São Paulo fazer carreira. É uma homenagem ao futebol malandro, de várzea, que está em extinção", explica o autor. A música está presente no álbum Raimundo Fagner & Zeca Baleiro.
 O complexo esportivo que abriga o Estádio do Castelão, Ginásio Castelinho, entre outras praças de esportes de São Luís, tem o nome do jogador.
 Seus lances receberam homenagem no Esporte Fantástico da TV Record.

Títulos
 São Paulo
 Campeonato Paulista: 1957
 Taça dos Campeões Estaduais de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro: 1958
 Pequena Taça do Mundo: 1955

Bibliografia
 POMPEU, Renato. Canhoteiro. Rio de Janeiro: Ediouro Publicações, 2003. ISBN 85-00-01422-9

Naturais de Coroatá
Futebolistas do Maranhão
Futebolistas do São Paulo Futebol Clube
Futebolistas do Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club
Futebolistas do Nacional Atlético Clube (São Paulo)
Jogadores da Seleção Brasileira de Futebol

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A Luther Vandross Tribute at Annual New Years Eve Gala!
Weeper's Friends proudly present it's 3rd Annual New Year's Eve Gala with a "rousing" Luther Vandross tribute at the historic Mission Inn Hotel's Music Room, featuring Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Terry Steele, and Jazz Guitarist, Ray Fuller with special guest artists and an all-star band. Dancing and DJ throughout the evening! All guests will receive party favors and champagne toast. Preferred guests will enjoy pre-event mixer, hors d'oeuvres, silent auction, raffle prizes and a scrumptious gourmet dinner. Limited seating available, so don't delay, have your holiday party with us! RSVP required...909-697-9565.
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The 2nd Society of Texas Film Critics Awards were given by the Society of Texas Film Critics (STFC) on December 28, 1995. The list of winners was announced by STFC president, Joe Leydon. Founded in 1994, the Society of Texas Film Critics members included 18 film critics working for print and broadcast outlets across the state of Texas. The Usual Suspects received four awards, more than any other film.

Winners
 Best Film:
 The Usual Suspects
 Best Director:
 Bryan Singer – The Usual Suspects
 Best Actor:
 Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
 Best Actress:
 Emma Thompson – Carrington and Sense and Sensibility
 Best Supporting Actor:
 Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects, Se7en, and Outbreak
 Best Supporting Actress:
 Joan Allen – Nixon
 Best Original Screenplay:
 Christopher McQuarrie – The Usual Suspects
 Best Adapted Screenplay:
 Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
 Best Foreign Language Film:
 Il Postino (The Postman) – Italy
 Best Documentary Film:
 Crumb
 Lone Star Award (for a motion picture filmed in part and/or set in Texas):
 Apollo 13

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Former SAIC Student and Playboy Art Director to Have Exhibition at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Art Paul in his studio
DNAinfo Chicago speaks with 90-year-old Art Paul, Creative Director of Playboy for 29 years. Paul will exhibit the paintings and drawings he has worked on since leaving the magazine in 1982. Paul attended SAIC on scholarship until he joined the Air Force in WWII, after which he continued his education at the Institute of Design. Paul, creator of the Playboy rabbit-head, is credited with bringing graphic design to the masses.
Image from article: Alisa Hauser
Ayesha Singh receives 'Emerging Artist of the Year' award (Sculpture MFA '18)
The India Today Art Awards 2020 honoured Ayesha Singh with the 'Emerging Artist of the Year' award for her solo exhibition 'It Was Never Concrete'. Visit India Today for more information.
Michael Zapata and Gabriel Bump Included on Tribune's List of New Writers to Know
Michael Zapata, SAIC academic advisor, and alum Gabriel Bump (BFA 2015) are two new Chicago writers to know according to the Chicago Tribune.
Julie Curtiss' Rapid Rise to Fame
Julie Curtiss (SAIC 2005) was recently featured in Artnet News about her success and new representation with the London-based gallery, White Cube.


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Former MLS star Javi Morales contributing to league's future as Inter Miami academy coach
Real Salt Lake legend is back in Chester this weekend coaching in his first Generation adidas Cup as the Inter Miami U17 head coach
By Matthew Ralph@MattRalph_tBG Oct 14, 2019, 8:47am EDT
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Javier Morales looks on during an Inter Miami U17 game in the Generation adidas Cup on October 11, 2019
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During his playing days, Javi Morales played four times at Talen Energy Stadium during his tenure with Real Salt Lake, but the former MLS star's return this weekend to Chester was in a more low key capacity.
Morales is the head coach of the Inter Miami U17 team, which is part of the Generation adidas Cup for the first time and is here playing in the first leg of qualifiers at the Power Training Complex.
"I grew up with this league, I know how it was in the past and now I'm really excited to be part of the youth program," Morales said after coaching his boys to a 3-1 win over New England Revolution in their first game on Friday. "It's growing and growing every year and I'm happy to help kids to follow their dreams."
Inter Miami's first team officially begins play in 2020, but the academy was launched in August with teams at the five age groups in the Development Academy.
"Even if the first team is not here we're working with young talent," Morales said. "I think it's important because we're starting to build in South Florida the passion for the club."
Morales retired after the 2017 season and started coaching with the FC Dallas U13 team before taking the job with Inter Miami.
During his team's game on Friday, an RSL U15 team was playing the Union on the field behind him.
"That was a little bit awkward," said Morales, who made 240 appearances for RSL over his decade in Utah and finished his career a member of the 50-50 club with 50 career goals and 50 career assists in the league.
During his playing days, Morales faced Philadelphia Union head coach Jim Curtin both when he was still playing in the league and as a head coach.
"I don't miss playing this guy," Curtin said after saying hello to Morales at Power Training Complex on Friday. "It was tough."
Curtin also got his start coaching in the youth ranks, leading the Union U17s to the GA Cup trophy in 2012.


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In total, ~17% of all loci were identified as differentially expressed (DEGs) between the diploid and autopolyploid species. The per‐transcriptome normalization, the method researchers typically use, captured the fewest DEGs (58% of total DEGs) and failed to detect any DEGs not found by the alternative normalizations. When transcript abundance was normalized per biomass and per cell, ~66% and ~82% of the total DEGs were recovered, respectively. The discrepancy between per‐transcriptome and per‐cell recovery of DEGs occurs because per‐transcriptome normalizations are concentration‐based and therefore blind to differences in transcriptome size.
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Volvo Car Open finals: Madison Keys vs. Caroline Wozniacki
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Caroline Wozniacki and Madison Keys are only four years apart in age, but that can be a lifetime in women's professional tennis.
Wozniacki, 28 and a former No. 1 who's won 30 WTA Tour titles and $33 million in prize money, and the 24-year-old Keys — still young enough to be considered a rising American star — will clash at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Volvo Car Open final on Daniel Island.
It's a generational matchup that's as glamorous a championship pairing as the VCO has had since Serena Williams played anybody in her title runs of 2008, 2012 and 2013. As far as having two household names in the final, it might be the most attractive title match since WTA legend Justine Henin beat a young Serena in 2003.
Both Wozniacki and Keys won in impressive fashion in Saturday's semifinals, with the No. 5 seed Woz taking out No. 16 Petra Martic 6-3, 6-4. Keys, seeded No. 8, dismissed 2016 Olympic gold medalist Monica Puig 6-4, 6-0 in a rain-interrupted match.
Wozniacki has won both her previous meetings with Keys, both times on hard courts at Indian Wells in 2017 and at the U.S. Open in 2016. Wozniacki is in her third VCO final, having won in 2011; Keys is making her second appearance in the final, having lost to Angelique Kerber in 2015.
Wozniacki has one Grand Slam title, the 2018 Australian Open, and has been ranked as high as No. 1; Keys' best Grand Slam performance was a loss in the finals to good friend Sloane Stephens at the 2017 U.S. Open; she's been ranked as high as No. 7 in 2016.
The final will pit Wozniacki's relentless defending and superior conditioning against the firepower of Keys.
"I felt I was close, but I think many players feel this against Caroline, and then they end up losing," said Martic after her loss to Wozniacki. "Physically, I was struggling a little bit (with a leg issue), but that's probably the strongest suit of her game, her legs.
"She just doesn't give you anything for free, and you have to work so hard. Today, it was just not possible for me."
Keys was reminded Saturday of her 0-2 record against Wozniacki.
"Real confidence booster there," she joked. "I feel super awesome about it, can't wait! But I'm definitely going to look at how she's been playing and just try to have a really great game plan. But more that that, I'm just focused on myself."
On the other hand, Wozniacki will have to deal with the power of Keys, who belted a 128 mph ace in her quarterfinal win over Stephens and has a tournament-best 21 aces in four matches here, including nine against Puig on Saturday.
"Madison has a big serve and looks to run around that forehand a lot," Wozniacki said. "I need to be ready from the start."
Puig saw that power firsthand on Saturday.
"She really kept me pressed back behind the baseline and didn't really let me hit my shots," Puig said. "She hits a really big ball, there's no doubt about that. But I felt like I gave her the chance to do that. A lot of my shots went short."
Wozniacki, who went for a 5-mile run in downtown Charleston earlier this week with boyfriend and former NBA player David Lee, has had to work hard to cope with rheumatoid arthritis and the aftereffects of a viral illness that kept her out of action earlier this season.
"Oh, 100 percent," she said. "I need to put in the work. I need to be out there. I need to be focused ... When you're not feeling well, you cannot really be out there on court, and you haven't practiced and the conditioning goes down.
"It's not a great combination for my game. I need to be out there, and then the results come."
Keys' challenges have been more with wavering confidence after second-round exits at Indian Wells and Miami.
"I think just having a really good understanding of how I want to play," she said. "... And feeling like I don't have to play out of my mind or do anything amazing to win."
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Q: Why is this C code throwing expected error I have been having problem with this c code -
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

struct dict
{
    char **inputs;
    char *outputs;
};

int main(){

    struct dict d;
    d.inputs = {"hello","hi"};
    d.outputs = "Hi!";
    return 0;
}

when i run the code it shows this
main.c: In function 'main':
main.c:14:16: error: expected expression before '{' token
   14 |     d.inputs = {"hello","hi"};
      |                ^

why is this happening theres nothing wrong with this code?

A: The data member inputs
char **inputs;

is a scalar object. So it may be initialized using braces with only one expression.
And moreover you may not assign a braced list to an object as you are trying to do
d.inputs = {"hello","hi"};

Instead you could write for example
struct dict
{
    char *inputs[2];
    char *outputs;
};

int main( void ){

    struct dict d = { .inputs = {"hello","hi"}, .outputs = "Hi!" };
    return 0;
}

Another approach is the following
struct dict
{
    char **inputs;
    char *outputs;
};

int main( void ){

    struct dict d;
    char *s[] = {"hello","hi"};
    d.inputs = s;
    d.outputs = "Hi!";
    return 0;
}

Or you could use a compound literal like
struct dict
{
    char **inputs;
    char *outputs;
};

int main( void ){

    struct dict d;
    d.inputs = ( char *[] ){"hello","hi"};
    d.outputs = "Hi!";
    return 0;
}


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Topics: American College of Cardiology, american heart association, cholesterol, cholesterol medicine, diet, Dr. Sara Caceres-Cantu, exercise, Kaiser Permanente, meatless diet, statins, vegan
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Cholesterol medications to become more accessible, but doctor says eat greens instead
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New guidelines released this week for cholesterol-lowering medicines could mean many more people will be prescribed the statin medicines given to a quarter of Americans over 40.
Those guidelines, released this week by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, also mean a change in the decades-old practice of patients on statins no longer needing to lower their cholesterol levels to specific numerical targets.
The changes, based on a four-year study, could particularly affect Latinos who have high cholesterol at significantly higher rates _ 14.5 percent compared to 13.4 percent of all other Americans.
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"Right now we don't have a number that tells people this is what your cholesterol needs to be, according to the new guidelines," says Dr. Sara Caceres, a family medicine physician who works with Kaiser Permanente to address the specific needs of the Hispanic community.
According to the old guidelines, Caceres says the LDL, or "bad cholesterol," for someone young and healthy was supposed to be less than 160 and preferably less than 130. For somebody that has risk factors for heart disease, it had to be less than 100.
"The issue with that is that there is no significant evidence as to why those numbers were chosen," says Caceres. "The evidence showed that the lower the cholesterol, the better. The key is to not get hung up on a number."
Caceres explains statins _ medications that decrease the production of cholesterol in the liver _ can have a variety of potential side effects, including muscle pain and liver inflammation.
"This is not a mandate, these are guidelines and it's a decision between you and your doctor," says Caceres about whether or not taking statins are right for you. "Get the information from the right sources, and you can make your decision."
The first thing patients should try, she says, is to improve their diet and exercise.
"I've seen it work much better than any medication," says Caceres. "We know for a fact that works the best."
She explains that statins act on the liver where we produce cholesterol. Our bodies make cholesterol, and we also eat cholesterol in foods, like meat.
"Statins don't do anything to the cholesterol that we eat," she says. "If you change the way you eat to a plant-based diet, there will be no need to take the medication … The majority of people that have high cholesterol, it's not genetics, it's their lifestyle. It's up to the patient to take care of themselves."
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She's seen the proof happen in front of her eyes.
"I had a patient whose total cholesterol was 330, and she did a vegan challenge for 21 days, and this lady went from 330 to 175 with no medicine in three weeks _ that shows how powerful diet is," says Caceres. "There is significant evidence mounting that that's the way our bodies need to eat."
It's hard, she admits, to change one's lifestyle, but if one is willing to exercise 150 minutes a week (and it can be broken down to 30 minutes, five times a week or 10 minutes every morning, afternoon and evening) _ and eat a whole grain, plant-based diet, it can make all the difference.
"The less meat the better, because plants don't have cholesterol," says the doctor, originally from Puerto Rico, who understands it's especially hard for Latinos to change their highly meat-based diets strongly rooted in their culture. "The problem you see in Latinos is lack of information. There are certainly disparities because of that … it's not that Latinos don't care about their health, a lot of times its lack of education and know how. Risks start to decrease with more education."


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UXnet Local Ambassadors: Building a Global Community One Locale at a Time
By John Ferrara, Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Louis Rosenfeld
The goal of the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative is to foster the growth of UX communities around the world and facilitate networking among them.
Over the past few decades, we have seen a steady expansion in the number of people who design or evaluate the quality of the user experience of digital products. The popularization of the personal computer in business and at home, the explosion of the Web and Internet applications, and the sudden presence of computer interfaces in everything from medical systems to voting stations to home entertainment centers has greatly accelerated the growth of the user experience (UX) movement.
The swelling ranks among professionals, academics, and students in user experience provide the potential for a large and diverse global community. However, collaboration among these various constituencies within user experience is neither as widespread nor as easy as it should be. Professional associations, their local chapters, and ad hoc local groups have done much to bring these people together, but the specter of competition among these associations and groups threatens the emergence of a true UX community.
The goal of the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative is to foster the growth of UX communities around the world and facilitate networking among them. In this article, we will look at how UXnet local ambassadors are working within specific geographic locales—cities, regions, or countries—with a mandate to find ways to enable connections and encourage collaboration among like-minded people in user experience. We will also see how local ambassadors are addressing important deficiencies in the status quo and working worldwide to bring the potential benefits of UX-centered communities into fruition.
The Role of Local Ambassadors
Our goal with the Local Ambassadors Initiative is not to replace emergent efforts to build local UX communities, but simply to help them evolve more quickly and more consciously.
Though some might disagree about what user experience is, most would agree that it's synergistic. A UX community can draw strength from its multidisciplinary roots. UX practitioners have backgrounds in many disciplines and combine methods from a multidisciplinary palette. UX teams share vocabularies and concepts that allow them to communicate and collaborate regardless of their disciplinary roots. And in specific locales, UXnet local ambassadors are helping to bring together and synergize UX communities that comprise disparate sets of professionals, organizations, and events.
Of course, there are already individuals serving as informal hubs within local UX networks. However, they have little support or encouragement, and overall, their efforts are uneven—wildly impressive and ground breaking in some locales, but fragmented, slow to progress, and incomplete in others. Our goal with the Local Ambassadors Initiative is not to replace emergent efforts to build local UX communities, but simply to help them evolve more quickly and more consciously. By doing so, we hope to help ensure that, in defining and building a global user experience community, we listen not just to a few dominant voices at conferences and on discussion lists, but also to practitioners participating in discussions at local chapter meetings and industry cocktail hours.
The four goals of the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative are simple and straightforward:
Recognize and empower those who are already serving as de facto ambassadors in their own locales. Many people serve as natural hubs in local UX networks by organizing and publicizing events, coordinating local groups, and answering questions about their local UX landscape. They are altruistic networkers whose motivation is their interest in UX. They are willing to take on this role with or without UXnet's support. But when they move away or burn out, their local networks fall apart, and the next altruist to tackle this role must rebuild them from scratch. The Local Ambassadors Initiative will provide infrastructure to capture ambassadors' local knowledge and make it available to the next generation of ambassadors and the communities they serve.
Encourage others to tackle this role in underserved locales. As UX communities take root in new locales, new local ambassadors will identify themselves, and UXnet will be ready to support them. In large locales where there is no local ambassador, UXnet may actively solicit volunteers.
Provide resources and infrastructure to enable local ambassadors to better serve their locales. UXnet volunteers are compiling information resources for local ambassadors serving local UX communities, ranging from guidance on how to identify appropriate event venues to involving local academics and businesses in UX-related organizations and events. Other UXnet initiatives will provide critical infrastructure for use by local ambassadors, including a global calendar for UX-related events and a directory of local UX organizations.
Help all local ambassadors to be more effective by facilitating ambassadors' sharing their experiences with one another. Local ambassadors serve as liaisons between locales within our global UX community. For example, the Singapore local ambassador's success story will be interesting and educational for local ambassadors in Vancouver and Santiago. The Local Ambassadors Initiative provides a discussion list and wiki space for local ambassadors to share questions, answers, experiences, and successes.
Problems Local Ambassadors Are Working to Resolve
There is a lack of connection among people in different user experience specialties.
The Local Ambassadors Initiative addresses various impediments that currently hamper the growth of collaboration among the practitioners, researchers, students, and organizations specializing in the various disciplines of UX. There are two classes of common problems that local ambassadors are working to resolve: lack of connection among people with compatible interests and impediments to the success of existing efforts.
There is a lack of connection among people in different user experience specialties. Collaboration suffers because people aren't able to make the connections that would provide them channels for communication. Local ambassadors help to establish such connections and open up those channels. There are several common patterns of disconnection where local ambassadors can make a difference:
Practitioners and researchers aren't collaborating. Local ambassadors bring practitioners and researchers together, enabling practitioners to make decisions with the backing of research, while helping to bring research into practice.
Practitioners and students aren't collaborating. Local ambassadors encourage outreach from professionals to schools, helping schools to better prepare students for the roles they will fill. Practitioners benefit, too, because students enter the workforce better prepared to assist in the resolution of real-world problems.
Experienced practitioners aren't communicating with new entrants into UX professions, who often find it difficult to find their niche. Organizations may draw newcomers in incompatible directions or pigeonhole them in groups that don't match their ambitions. Local ambassadors can connect new practitioners with established colleagues who have backgrounds that match their interests, affording newcomers better opportunities for obtaining the information and guidance they need.
Businesses aren't collaborating with each other. Because of competition between their companies, professionals may feel disinclined to collaborate with each other and share best practices. Local ambassadors seek to open professionals to the potential for personal growth, career development, and business expansion that their participation in a diverse UX-centered community can offer.
UX professionals aren't communicating with business leaders. Far too often, businesses fail to give priority to their products' user experiences and don't give UX professionals responsibility for and ownership of product design. Local ambassadors establish connections between business leaders and UX professionals to encourage understanding of the value of user experience.
UX professionals aren't communicating with the general public. Users still blame themselves for poor user experiences instead of recognizing that usability is a result of good design. Local ambassadors work to spread awareness of the value of user experience among the general public and encourage users to hold us accountable for their experience of the products we design.
Logistical or organizational problems can also hinder good efforts at collaboration, limiting the extent to which collaboration can succeed.
Logistical or organizational problems can also hinder good efforts at collaboration, limiting the extent to which collaboration can succeed. Local ambassadors seek ways to make collaborations more effective by removing impediments:
User experience organizations fragment local populations, forming islands of collaboration. People are collaborating effectively within each island, but not across organizations. Local ambassadors work to ensure that communication is equally free-flowing among all members of a local UX community.
Conflicting meeting schedules of local organizations sometimes force people to choose between concurrent events. Local ambassadors seek to maximize participation in all organizations' events by establishing connections between leaders of those organizations and helping them to resolve logistical conflicts.
Membership dues impede collaboration. Local ambassadors can provide alternative forums for people who don't attend the meetings of established local organizations, while working with organizational leaders to build their memberships.
People from the same locale may attend different conferences, missing opportunities to connect with one another, while failing to share what they learn with one another. Local ambassadors connect conference attendees with others from their locales, encouraging dialogue among them. They also facilitate the dissemination of conference attendees' acquired learning among others who have limited opportunities for travel.
UXnet Local Ambassador Success Stories
Our network of local ambassadors is growing rapidly. UXnet has local ambassadors on every continent except Antarctica. There are currently 68 local ambassadors in 21 countries and 55 locales worldwide, as Table 1 shows.
Table 1—UXnet local ambassadors around the world
Australia Murrumbateman, New South Wales Donna Maurer
Michael Zobel
Konrad Baumann
Canada Calgary , Alberta Scott Weisbrod
Montreal , Quebec Barry Welford
St. John's , Newfoundland John Sheridan
Toronto , Ontario Matthew Milan
Vancouver , British Columbia Dmitry Nekrasovski
Chile Santiago Javier Velasco
England London Joshua Kaufman
Manchester David Hawdale
France Paris Frederic Gaillard
Germany Wedel Karen Lindemann
India Bangalore, Karnataka Amit Deshpande
Gurgaon, New Delhi Ashish Chopra
Italy Milan
Matteo Penzo
Japan Tokyo Nobuya Sato
Netherlands Zoetermeer Oskar van Rijswijk
New Zealand Auckland
Suzanne Currie
Justine Sanderson
Michael Andrews
Nigeria Lagos Sam (Tolu) Koyejo
Norway Oslo
Are Halland
Jostein Magnussen
Philippines Manila Jesse Hernandez Liwang
Poland Warsaw Marcin Bober
Singapore Singapore Maish Nichani
South Africa Johannesburg Jason Hobbs
Spain Barcelona Ariel Guersenzvaig
Bilbao Alberto Lacalle
Switzerland Geneva Florian Egger
Sam Rossetti
Noemie Oulevay
United States Albuquerque, New Mexico Christopher Rivard
Ann Arbor, Michigan Louis Rosenfeld
Atlanta, Georgia Paul Sherman
Austin, Texas Russell Wilson
Bob Goodman
Christopher Cummings
Chicago, Illinois Joel Grossman
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas John Martin
Dayton, Ohio Peter Jones
Denver/Boulder, Colorado
Laurie Lamar
Karyn Young
Detroit, Michigan Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus
Kansas City, Missouri Dave Nelson
Jessyca Frederick
David Hoard
Milwaukee/Madison, Wisconsin Rob Conley
New York City, New York Laura Lee
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John Ferrara
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mark Bosco
Portland, Oregon Bill DeRouchey
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Rick Cecil
Richmond, Virginia Joe Sokohl
St. Louis, Missouri Eric Svoboda
Jack Carlson
John Trenouth
Sean Van Tyne
San Francisco Bay Area, California
BayDUX
Pabini Gabriel-Petit
Fred Sampson
Mike Van Riper
Seattle, Washington Nick Finck
Spokane, Washington Andy Walker
Toledo, Ohio Keith Instone
Bilen Aynu
Olga Howard
Lisa Saavedra
The locales in which our local ambassadors have been working include
large cities with active UX communities— These locales are metropolitan areas in which there are already active UX communities such as Silicon Valley. See the sidebar on BayDUX.
less active, smaller cities—These locales include smaller cities that don't offer UX professionals many options for collaboration or networking, such as Toledo, Ohio. See the sidebar on what Keith Instone has accomplished in Toledo.
regions—Some locales are wide-ranging regions that include multiple states, such as the Pacific Northwest in the United States. See the sidebar about how Nick Finck has fostered a growing UX community in the Pacific Northwest and recruited other local ambassadors.
countries—Some locales are countries such as Italy. See the sidebar about the events Matteo Penzo is organizing in Italy.
There are many other success stories we could tell you about what our local ambassadors are doing in locales around the world.
By Matteo Penzo
When I first became a UXnet local ambassador, I contacted all the local representatives of the various UX organizations—just to let them know what UXnet is and what we could achieve together. Although we don't have a lot of organizations here in Italy, those I contacted included the UPA, SIGCHI, International Webmasters Association (IWA), and IAI.
I've introduced UXnet and its philosophy of cooperation and collaboration in various public speeches, including those I gave at the international consumer electronics exposition Smau 2004 and at a Macromedia event in Italy, From A to Web. I had an opportunity to talk about UXnet with Jang F.M. Graat, the President of the STC TransAlpine Chapter (TAC), when he was in Italy for a seminar, which also led to a nice talk with Dr. Bill Gribbons of the Design and Usability Center at Bentley College in Boston. I had Bob Goodman, the UXnet local ambassador for Boston, contact Dr. Gribbons to strengthen the link.
All this promotion of UXnet led to my organizing the first big UXnet event in Italy, Le Frontiere dell'Interazione (The Frontiers of Interaction), which took place on July 11, 2005 in the computer science department at the Milano Bicocca University. This event benefited from the presence of some highly polished presenters such as keynote speaker Dirk Knemeyer, Giorgio De Michelis, Leandro Agrò, Giovanni Bellocchio, Marco Loregian, and—well—myself. For more information about this event, including many of the speakers' slides, go to the Frontiers of Interaction Web site.
The Frontiers of Interaction was the first in a planned series of events related to user experience and declares the strong link we'd like to have with the academic world. Apart from this collaboration with the Milano Bicocca University, we're starting a series of talks with the psychology department of the University of Padua, which has established the first Italian masters program in human factors.
For 2006, I'm now planning a mid-February event for the leaders of all the UX-related organizations in Italy as well as some user groups—including those for Java and Macromedia/Adobe—and online magazines such as Idearium.org, which hosts our Frontiers of Interaction Web site. I'm also preparing the ground for an even better Frontiers of Interaction event later this spring. Stay tuned.
Looking Toward a Bright Future
UXnet sees the rapid expansion of the UX movement as a great asset, because it fosters more diversified multidisciplinary collaboration.
For UX professionals and their organizations, specialization is a natural consequence of the growth that the UX movement has experienced worldwide. To overcome our tendency toward fragmentation and increase the potential for collaborative efforts, local ambassadors are building connections across job title, role, professional association, business organization, and academic institution. Local ambassadors encourage discussion among researchers, students, and practitioners and foster collaboration among designers, information architects, usability professionals, engineers, and business management.
UXnet sees the rapid expansion of the UX movement as a great asset, because it fosters more diversified multidisciplinary collaboration. The local ambassadors' mission is to seize the opportunity this growth affords.
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
By Pabini Gabriel-Petit, with assistance from my co-ambassadors and BayDUX co-chairs Fred Sampson and Mike Van Riper
San Francisco Bay Area Local Ambassadors—Pabini, Fred, and Van, pictured in order from top to bottom.
During DUX2003, Mike Van Riper—better known as "Van" and then chair of BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of SIGCHI—and Fred Sampson—who at that time was President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of STC—organized a meeting of representatives from all the UX organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including local chapters of ACM, AIGA, IDSA, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, STC, and the Web3D Consortium. Van dubbed this coalition of local UX organizations BayDUX. Subsequently, they brought together representatives of these organizations for quarterly meetings, in an endeavor to foster collaboration and cooperation among them.
When UXnet put out its call for people to serve as UXnet local ambassadors, the three of us volunteered. Because UXnet and BayDUX share a common purpose, BayDUX became its local presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we three local ambassadors became its co-chairs.
In addition to its founding members, BayDUX now includes organization liaisons from HFES, IAI, IxDA, on whose Board of Directors I serve, and the UPA. Each participating organization has from one to three liaisons who represent the organization at our quarterly BayDUX Council meetings. We communicate with one another through our Yahoo! Group email address, and BayCHI hosts our Web presence on their site.
The first big event in which BayDUX participated after joining UXnet was the BayCHI monthly program meeting "User Experience: Why Do So Many Organizations Believe They Own It?," which took place in October of 2004 at Stanford University. BayDUX organized the special networking hour that preceded the meeting, where all of our participating organizations had the opportunity to communicate the advantages of membership to attendees. The meeting began with Terry Winograd welcoming everyone on behalf of the Stanford d.school. Then Richard Anderson interviewed Don Norman—who originally coined the term user experience. Don talked about the need for multidisciplinary product teams who share responsibility for user experience. Finally, Rashmi Sinha presented a brief history of UX organizations and moderated a panel comprising representatives of ten UX organizations, who spoke about their organizations, then answered the audience's questions about user experience. I spoke about IxDG (now IxDA). Approximately 500 people attended this event.
In December of 2004, we organized an event that was co-sponsored by AIGA and IxDG and hosted by Yahoo! I had encouraged Dirk Knemeyer, who was then leader of the local ambassadors and is still on the UXnet Executive Council, to develop a presentation on "The Future of Digital Product Design." Following Dirk's excellent talk, a panel including Sarah Allen, Neil Day, James Leftwich, Luke Wroblewski, and myself discussed digital product design. The presentation is available on Peter J. Bogaards' InfoDesign site. Dirk has since given this presentation at several other events, including a DevGroup NW meeting in Portland and The Frontiers of Interaction in Italy.
In the spirit of cross-organization collaboration, Van and I facilitated IxDA and BayCHI's joining forces to sponsor quarterly IxDA / BayCHI Interaction Design Birds of a Feather meetings, which Yahoo! now hosts. Speakers have included Kim Goodwin, who spoke about "Getting Your Design Built," and Luke Wroblewski, who gave a presentation on "Visual Communication Principles for Web Application Interface Design."
In November 2005, BayDUX and its participating organizations sponsored the opening reception at DUX2005, which was the closing event of World Usability Day. During DUX, Van also organized a dinner where members of the BayDUX Council met UXnet local ambassadors who were attending DUX. For more details, read "DUX2005: One Person's Journey" and "Another Perspective on DUX2005."
Van and I have also worked to establish resources that all local ambassadors can use. Van set up a LinkedIn account for UXnet. I contributed to the design of the Web pages for UXnet locales and created a test page with BayDUX data, using the newly implemented template. We're currently trying to recruit university liaisons to BayDUX.
Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, USA
By Nick Finck
The UXnet initiative has really taken off in the Pacific Northwest over the last year. Originally, I covered both Seattle and Portland. We went from one local ambassador covering the whole region in the Spring of 2005 to having Bill DeRouchey take over the Portland area, Andy Walker in Spokane, and myself remaining the local ambassador in Seattle. We hope to have another local ambassador in the Redmond/Bellevue area soon as well.
In 2005, the first UXnet Local Leadership Summits took place in Seattle on March 29th and in Portland on April 2nd, just before CHI 2005. I had prepared a PowerPoint presentation about our UXnet mission, what organizations need and don't need, the benefits of local organizations cooperating with one another, and the services UXnet will provide. Other local ambassadors have since used this presentation as a model when preparing for similar meetings in their locales. Pabini Gabriel-Petit, San Francisco Bay Area local ambassador, attended the Portland Summit and helped answer the many questions representatives of local organizations asked about UXnet.
At the CHI 2005 Development Consortium, Dirk Knemeyer, Matteo Penzo, and I gave a presentation called "Local Ambassadors: Local Action/Global Impact," which described the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative and its vision for international collaboration among UX professionals from various disciplines, uniting in a shared effort to develop a productive UX community.
We have had a lot of support from various local chapters and organizations. Participating organizations in Seattle now include AIGA, AMA, Graphic Artists Guild (GAG/SPGA), Idea Day, Seattle Bloggers, Seattle Mobile, SIGCHI, and STC. Those in Portland include University of Portland ACM, AIGA, AMA, DevGroup NW (Macromedia MUG), Goto+Play Network, Internet Professionals Network (IPN), STC, and CHIFOO, the Oregon chapter of SIGCHI.
Other activities and events of the last year include five social events, three workshops, and assisting in the promotion of three conferences—the STC Conference in Seattle, AIGA Currents 9 in Seattle, and WebVisions 2005 in Portland. By far the most exciting thing that's happening is our creation of Web sites and calendars for local UX related events. While these sites and calendars haven't launched yet, we are pretty confident that they will become an invaluable resource for the whole UX community in the Pacific Northwest.
Over the next few months, we hope to organize regular monthly social gatherings that will be free to everyone in the UX community. We also hope to secure support from a few of the more elusive local organizations and local chapters of national organizations.
Toledo, Ohio, USA
By Keith Instone
In Toledo, Ohio, we have no local chapters for SIGGRAPH, STC, UPA, HFES, AIGA, or any other core user experience group. Our closest organization is MOCHI , in Ann Arbor, Michigan—1 hour away. The O in MOCHI is for Ohio, so at least we are in their locale. There are only three SIGCHI members that I know of here in Toledo, and that is not enough to actually do anything. There aren't enough members of any single organization to warrant establishing a local chapter here. This reality has led me to take a different approach as UXnet local ambassador for Toledo—one with 3 prongs:
Focusing on the topic of UX and getting together informally with anyone who is interested in the topic. We include people who do not consider themselves user experience professionals, but realize its importance such as Webmasters, small business owners, and database programmers. We do not meet often, but we have a mailing list for sharing information. This informal network paid off recently when one member heard about a CD-ROM project that needed a usability evaluation, and we were able to quickly hook them up with the right company.
Creating broader-based communities and "baking in" user experience as a core topic. Instead of creating a stand-alone UX community, I have helped form a local Macromedia Users Group and re-establish our local ACM professional chapter, after 20 years of dormancy. In both cases, UX is a core part of the community, and we address the topic within the context of other issues the community is addressing. I spoke on UX issues at the first MMUG and since then I can see others thinking from a UX perspective. "Yes, this is a nice new product from Macromedia, but how easy is it to use, and how does it help me enable better experiences for my users?" In the local ACM chapter, about a third of the meeting topics are related to UX, with the other two-thirds on more typical computer science topics. There is also a local Internet Professionals Society in formation. In all of these organizations, in addition to making sure that user experience is a key topic, I have also introduced the networking aspect of UXnet. "Leverage as much existing infrastructure as you can." With so few local resources, all of these organizations have embraced this idea and are working with other existing local groups.
Thinking regionally instead of locally. As I mentioned before, MOCHI is one hour away, and BuckCHI, in Columbus, Ohio, is two hours away. There are UPA chapters one hour away in Detroit and two hours away in Cleveland. ASIS&T chapters in Michigan and Dayton are both two hours away. There's an AIGA chapter in Cleveland. Within a three-hour drive, there is a large and active UX community in which I can participate. So I track all of their events on my Web site. I drive to their meetings when I can. I speak at their events. I help out local ambassadors in those areas—like Peter Jones in Dayton and Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus in Detroit. For example, Dave organized a great full-day event in Ann Arbor where I helped out and encouraged Toledoans to attend.
So what works here is to think of user experience as a broad topic in which all sorts of people are interested, to adopt other people's communities and carry the UX banner, and to think regionally rather than locally.
UXnet Leaders and the Authors
Dirk Knemeyer
Thanks to Dirk Knemeyer—who until late in 2005 led the UXnet local ambassadors—for his assistance in preparing this article.
Lou Rosenfeld
Our co-author Lou Rosenfeld now leads the local ambassadors.
John Ferrara
John Ferrara is the UXnet local ambassador for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the US.
Pabini Gabriel-Petit is a UXnet local ambassador for the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and is a BayDUX co-chair.
In Professional Organizations | UX News
Senior User Experience Designer at Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
As an information architect at Unisys, John worked on a team that comprised designers, programmers, and content editors who were responsible for Unisys.com, the corporation's global Web presence. Before joining Unisys, he was an information architect at the Web consultancies Breakaway Solutions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and iXL in New York City. He holds a B.A. in Communication Arts from Hofstra University and an M.A. in Communication Studies from West Chester University. John is the UXnet Local Ambassador for Philadelphia, is active in PHICHI, the Philadelphia region chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, for which he presented a talk on "HCI Documentation for Web Sites," and has contributed articles to Interactions and The UPA Voice. In 2005, John organized a major World Usability Day event in Philadelphia, which featured Tom Tullis as its keynote speaker, a demonstration of best practices in usability testing, instant usability reviews of attendees' Web sites, and a usability museum. Read More
Principal Consultant at Strategic UX
Founder, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of UXmatters
Silicon Valley, California, USA
With more than 20 years working in User Experience at companies such as Google, Cisco, WebEx, Apple, and many startups, Pabini now provides UX strategy and design consulting services through her Silicon Valley company, Strategic UX. Her past UX leadership roles include Head of UX for Sales & Marketing IT at Intel, Senior Director of UX and Design at Apttus, Principal UX Architect at BMC Software, VP of User Experience at scanR, and Manager of User Experience at WebEx. Pabini has led UX strategy, design, and user research for Web, mobile, and desktop applications for consumers, small businesses, and enterprises, in diverse product domains. Working collaboratively with business executives, multidisciplinary product teams, and UX teams, she has envisioned and realized holistic UX design solutions for innovative, award-winning products that delighted users, achieved success in the marketplace, and delivered business value. As a UX leader, she has facilitated conceptual modeling and ideation sessions; written user stories; prioritized product and usability requirements; established corporate design frameworks, standards, and guidelines; and integrated lean UX activities into agile development processes. Pabini is a strategic thinker, and the diversity of her experience enables her to synthesize innovative solutions for challenging strategy and design problems. She is passionate about creating great user experiences that meet users' needs and get business results. A thought leader in the UX community, Pabini was a Founding Director of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Read More
Louis Rosenfeld
Publisher at Rosenfeld Media
Lou is an independent consultant and entrepreneur, whose latest startup, Rosenfeld Media, will publish books for UX professionals. He holds a Masters in Information and Library Studies and was instrumental in establishing the field of information architecture. At Argus Associates, a stellar IA consulting firm Lou co-founded in 1991, he was president and lead information architect on projects for such clients as AT&T, Borders Books & Music, Chrysler Corporation, Dow Chemical, and SIGGRAPH. With Peter Morville, Lou co-authored the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which has become a standard text for many graduate-level classes. In 1993, he founded the Argus Clearinghouse, a popular Internet research service. Lou is a popular speaker and writer who has presented at CHI, COMDEX, Intranets, and various Web design conferences, done speaking tours, and contributed columns to CIO, Internet World, and Web Review magazines. Lou is co-founder and past board member of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI). He played a leading role in organizing and programming the first three IA conferences—the 2000 and 2001 ASIS&T Summits and ACIA 2000—and still serves on the Summit's program committee. Lou is a co-founder of UXnet and leads its Local Ambassadors and has served on the advisory boards for Content Management Professionals, AIGA ED, and IxDA. Read Lou's Bloug. Read More
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Punk always has been and always will be a huge inspiration to my beauty and fashion regimes. Siouxsie Sioux, Nancy Spungen, Jordan and pretty much every figure in punk who took time to express themselves through their hair and make up continuously find themselves on my inspo board. The basics: Mascara, Eyeliner, Dark Shadows & Black nail varnish. If I really feel like going super there, Manic Panic hair color. If I only looked good with Raven Black hair, that would be my winter color. Watch the video for my favorite takes on Luxe Punk beauty. And shop my fave beauty items for Luxe Punk below.


Hello! Its been three weeks since we first arrived in The Hague and I'm starting to get the hang of it. The city is beautiful, friendly, and even though it is pretty big it has a small town feel. We live right by campus in the same building as many of the other exchange students so we've had plenty of opportunities to learn about many different cultures. The school is also very diversified, so even though we are learning the Dutch culture we can't help but to pick up on other European lifestyles such as French, German, and Spanish. The school has helped a lot in getting us familar with our surroundings and the students in the same position as us by taking us on a trip around the city, a trip to Amsterdam, and hosting a dinner with all of exchange students.
In Kentucky you would never have the opportunity to get up and go see the queen before class started (mainly because we don't have a queen)! Thats what I got to do on Tuesday morning, September 22 for the annual Budget Day. The queen and her family ride through the town center in a golden carriage followed by soldiers, bands, and other people of authority on horses. We didn't know what a big deal it was until we got there. Many of the local people were there taking pictures and all of the schools were closed for the children to be able to attend. People love to see their Queen, even if it happens every year! After her ride through the streets she opens Parliament and they start the budgeting and planning for the next year.
Our first trip out of the country was to Germany to the town of Hagen and then Hamburg. Both cities were very beautiful and full of places to see. The German people were very nice and very helpful. Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and has some of the nicest churches I have ever seen. A lot of Hamburg has been rebuilt due to a fire that spread across the city, and if anything happened to be standing after that it was distroyed by bombings of WWII. As you can imagine the city is full of history. Hamburg also has many memorials or plaques  for Hollocaust victims embedded in there buildings, sidewalks, and streets. Those themselves made me realize how much history was arround me.
There is still so much I want to see around the Netherlands and in other countries. This weekend all of the U of L students are taking a trip to Ireland, so we will see how that goes!


Contact Jenny at Riverina and District Animal Rescue Inc to express your interest.
Hi my name is Marcus.
If you want a sweet, gentle, cuddly, and soft puppy then you want me!
I am quiet in nature and pretty chilled out and love hanging about. I dont need as much running as my border collie foster siblings because I am half mastiff - I'm built like a tank! And I face-plant like a tank too. But that's funny :) I do love going for lots of walks though but I am more likely to be found by your side than running far ahead of you.
I am a total water baby so if you love the beach or the river we'd have an awesome time! I also love playing in my paddle pool. Did you know water bowls also make good paddle pools?
I am not much of a barker but I love to "talk". When my foster parents come home I love to "rooooroooo roooo" at them to tell them how happy I am to see them. I have a whole repertoir of adorable noises to to warm your heart.
I'm good at sitting for pats and food and sitting on command. I am also good at going in the car, sleeping and travelling in a crate, and helping excavate the garden. I am still working on my toilet training.
I will require ongoing training and daily exercise and will be ready to go to my new family once I have been desexed soon. I should be ready for my new family around the end of April or so.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9bvo4dio1wkf36/07%20Adoption%20Application.doc and emailing it to allyeska@gmail.com.
The expression of interest/application to adopt in no way commits you to adopt.
4. Marcus may be adopted when his vet work is completed and he has found his perfect match.
Still in need of final vax and desexing. Ready for adoption approx end April..


This topic explains, with a code example how to create a basic instance of the IGBulletGraphView™ control and display it on a view.
This code example illustrates how to create a linear gauge in the default horizontal orientation with the properties of the targetValue set to 75 and the value set to 82 and adds it to a view.
To start, initialize a frame to serve as the bullet graph's dimensions and position.
Next, create an instance of the bullet graph that uses the same dimensions as the frame.
Next, set the auto-resizing mask to allow the bullet graph to float in the center of the current device orientation without requiring a size adjustment.
Set the targetValue property of the bullet graph to 75.
Set the value property of the bullet graph to 82.
Finally, add the bullet graph to the view.
This topic provides a conceptual overview of the IGBulletGraphView control and its key features.