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South Whidbey Fire/EMS Evolves to Meet New Demands
South Whidbey Fire/EMS first responders are facing another record year. So far through September, staff and volunteers have responded to 1930 calls from the community requesting assistance for fires and medical emergencies. At the same time last September, the number was 1,739, with total calls for the entire year reaching 2,380. End of year totals were 2,274 in 2014, 2,062 in 2013, and 1,867 in 2012. The number of calls in 2016 is predicted to reach 2,500.
The increased work load was the primary reason the department added paid professional part time first responders this summer. "The five new hires are helping share the load that volunteers have been carrying. We still have three more to hire." said Chief H.L. "Rusty" Palmer. "We still need more volunteers to ensure we remain responsive. The demands of our community are increasing at an unprecedented rate."
The five new part time firefighters are Travis Zimmerman, Jeff Hanes, William Piepenbrink, Robert Husom and Alex MacMahon. Testing is complete for the remaining positions. Deputy Chief Jason Laughren announced he will be leaving the department to relocate to a warmer climate. His last day is October 14. His departure created an opportunity to reshuffle the staff to play to the strengths of the team, according to Palmer. Division Chief Wendy Moffatt will be promoted to Deputy Chief to oversee training of both firefighters and EMTs. Deputy Chief Mike Cotton will move to operations, and continues to oversee safety and IT. Deputy Chief Jon Beck remains responsible for equipment. The Division Chief, EMS position will remain vacant for the time being.
The deadline to apply for the next volunteer fire academy is October 31. Applications may be found online at www.swfe.org.
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Everyone needs some refreshing. Lemonade on a hot afternoon, mint tea in drizzly April, a reminder that God loves you when all goes wrong.
Writing has blessed me in that I can process life by confining thoughts and emotions to words and sentence structure. It helps me in the moment. It encourages me when I read it later. Now, I pass it on, hoping what God has used to grow me can touch you.
What can you expect? A lot about God's working in my life, a little about teaching, friendship, family, music, and nature.
Drink deep. The journey gets long.


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Q: What is the best way to distribute .Net binaries and PDBs? We altready have a similar question here but the discussion do not cover all the aspect, so I'm asking again:
What is the best way to distribute a .Net application considering build mode (release vs. debug) and distribution of PDB files? Having a good reference to an article covering these aspects would be great.
Consider also the distribution of web application vs. the distribution of windows form applications.
Thanks in advance
Massimo

A: Debug builds should not be distributed, they're really for your own private viewing. However, once you build a release build with symbols and generate .pdbs from them, you can keep the pdbs and happily ship the dlls.
If you store the .pdbs in a symbol server (see this excellent bugslayer article) then you do not need to worry about which symbols match which version of the dll as the debugger handles that for you.
If your app crashes, get DrWatson to generate a minidump (run DrWtsn32.exe check the minidump checkbox), get that dump sent to you, and then load it up in windbg. It'll show you the exception, stack trace, variables, registers, threads, the lot (well, not the lot, for that you need a full crashdump but they are reasonably large, minidumps have all useful information at a fraction of the size).

A: Debug builds should not be distributed - you likely do not have the rights to do so. PDBs are most easily distribute using a Symbol Server.

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ADDF Launches New Cognitive Vitality Site to Meet Critical Need in Alzheimer's Prevention
Category: Initiatives
Resource Will Provide Comprehensive Overview of the Science for Prevention Therapies
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced today the launch of Cognitive Vitality, a new online resource developed to provide a comprehensive and credible overview and analysis of the science for specific strategies to prevent Alzheimer's and related dementias. The resource showcases the strength of the science for and against prevention strategies related to nutrition and the management of other diseases, to enable people to make informed decisions in protecting their brain from cognitive decline, Alzheimer's and other dementias.
"Although there has been significant research in animals and humans that indicate ways to prevent dementia, it is difficult for people to understand and interpret the evidence," said Howard Fillit, MD, executive director and chief science officer for ADDF. "We developed Cognitive Vitality to address this critical unmet need by providing simple tools and resources for people to better understand the research, helping them to navigate through the latest findings."
Cognitive Vitality aims to empower people to protect their aging brains by providing access to clear and credible interpretations of the scientific evidence and the gaps in that evidence for many potential prevention strategies. These include nutrition and natural products like coffee or vitamin D as well as drugs for health management like hypertension treatments and hormone replacement therapies. The site offers information to help people make educated decisions on nutrition and drugs in addition to useful resources that can help improve brain function.
"We know that people are interested in Alzheimer's prevention and memory conservation, as showcased by the billions of dollars spent every year on supplements and alternative medicines, but there is confusion as to what might work and what doesn't, what's safe and what's dangerous, and how confident experts are in the science behind those answers," said Penny Dacks, PhD, assistant director for Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention for ADDF. "Cognitive Vitality was developed to provide evidence-based answers to people's questions about healthy brain aging and the prevention of Alzheimer's and related dementias."
As part of the online resource, Cognitive Vitality will also include ratings of the scientific evidence for and against suggested prevention strategies; practical information on safety, efficacy and dosing of therapeutic approaches; and clear, digestible translations of findings, all developed by ADDF scientists with input from leading researchers and clinicians in the field of Alzheimer's and dementia.

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It's perfectly normal for your heart rate to quicken before an important meeting. Being completely paralyzed by anxiety and incapable of attending that meeting is not. Anxiety disorder refers to an anxiety level that is disproportionate to the situation, that doesn't go away even when the situation returns to normal, and that causes such a high degree of distress that the person has trouble functioning normally.
If you suffer from anxiety disorder, your pharmacist can help you get the most out of your treatment.
Treatment for anxiety disorder can include psychotherapy, medication, or both. The goal of psychotherapy is to provide you with tools to better identify and manage anxiety-inducing situations.
Since anxiety disorder is associated with a chemical imbalance in the brain similar to that occurring in cases of depression, it may be treated using an antidepressant. Your doctor may also prescribe an anxiolytic to help temporarily relieve the physical manifestations of anxiety.
Antidepressants act slowly. It can take several weeks before you feel the full effect. At the beginning of the treatment you will likely start out on a reduced dose that will be gradually increased to the optimal dose. This helps reduce the risk of adverse side effects, which tend to appear in the early days of treatment before the beneficial effects are felt. Your pharmacist will provide you precise instructions on how to proceed.
Consult your pharmacist without delay if you experience an adverse side effect. He or she will give you advice on how to mitigate such symptoms. If the adverse side effect is very bothersome or doesn't improve over time, you may need to switch to another treatment, in which case your pharmacist will talk with your doctor to find a more suitable option for you.
Throughout your treatment, your pharmacist will monitor your symptoms. If your symptoms do not improve enough, he or she may recommend making adjustments to your treatment, in collaboration with your doctor.
Treatment duration varies from one person to another, and can depend on the severity of their symptoms and their response to treatment. For some people, treatment may be stopped after a certain time while others may need to continue for the long term. Your doctor and pharmacist will work with you on a treatment plan best suited for you.
Anxiolytic drugs can be useful in some circumstances, but they are also associated with a risk of substance abuse and addiction. As a result, they must be taken at the lowest possible dose and for short periods only, for example, in the early days of antidepressant treatment, before the medication begins to take effect.
If your doctor prescribes you an anxiolytic, it is essential that you don't take it in a higher dose or more frequently than he or she recommends. You must also follow the instructions related to anxiolytics, such as avoiding alcohol and avoiding driving until you know how the medication affects you. Your pharmacist is there to help you take your medication safely. Ask for advice whenever you feel unsure.
Antidepressants and anxiolytics can interact with other prescription and over-the-counter medications, as well as with certain natural products. Your pharmacist will ensure that all your medications (prescription and otherwise) are compatible.
Managing mental health conditions is challenging. It's already hard enough to remember to take the medication on a regular basis on top of everything else. Let the pharmacist help you manage prescription renewals by synchronizing the refill dates.


"Who's There?" is a highly personalized course that provides eye-opening lessons to help sketch and improv students/players conceive, create and develop original characters through a series of systematic, yet interactive exercises.
Students have the option of taking an on-site class or on a private coaching basis online via Skype or Facetime.
Option 1: Onsite at the OC Crazies theater for 8 consecutive weeks for two hours nightly.
How to write monologues or sketches for your characters.
Each lesson includes a writing and/or videotaped assignment that will be submitted electronically.Each assignment will receive customized feedback. Students may engage the instructor with follow-up questions to gain a full understanding of the critiques.
Students who satisfactorily complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion.
Optional: Students may bring their characters on stage to the De Pietro Performance Center in Santa Ana, California, where they will have the opportunity to "present" them in a showcase performance.
Interactive, you say, online? All assignments will be personally critiqued to help students better define and refine their characters, through writing tasks and private video postings that demonstrate characters "in action." By receiving personalized feedback every step of the way, each student will feel as though he/she is the only student being mentored by a private coach through this highly collaborative exchange. In the end, the student will learn to build his/her characters from the inside out!
Over the course of 16 intensive lessons that must be completed within a six-month period, students will be given the opportunity to create and develop four distinct characters. At the completion of each semester, students will have the option to bring their characters to the De Pietro Performance Center in Santa Ana, California, where they will have the opportunity to "present" them in a showcase.
This course is taught by Cherie Kerr, a founding member of the L.A. Groundlings (Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Will Farrell, Lisa Kudrow, Chris Kattan, Cheryl Hines, Kathy Griffin, Kristen Wiig and many, many others). Kerr also is the mother of Drake Doremus (winner of the 2011 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for "Like Crazy"). Kerr taught and directed Doremus (from the age of six to 19 years of age) and many others, on the art of developing original characters. Her book, "Who's There?" is used by many at The Second City in Chicago and also by members of the L.A. Groundlings and her troupe, the Orange County Crazies. She has been a writer/performer/director for more than 38 years. Kerr also starred in her own one-woman show, Out of Her Mind,which featured a number of original characters.
Enrollment: Complete application below and submit via mail or email, along with payment to reserve spot. Applications can be emailed to cherie@occrazies.com.
To pay by credit card, please call 714-550-9890. Bank service charge applied to all tuitions.


It's Mardis Gras, and you know what that means. Dance like our favorite crazy Cajun! DANCE I SAID!
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Nuno: "It's not a party, it's a football game."
Nuno Espirito Santo believes that his players have the ability to cause Birmingham City problems, but he called for concentration as Wolves prepare to face their local rivals on Sunday at Molineux (12pm).
On the back of Wednesday's 2-0 victory over Derby County, Wolves will confirm promotion to the Premier League should they pick up a win against Birmingham, regardless of any other results in the Sky Bet Championship.
Speaking ahead of the game, Nuno called for focus from his players as expects a tough test from Birmingham who are fighting at the opposite end of the table.
"The players have had the ability to know what they can control is inside the pitch," he said.
"They know what they do on the pitch will impact what is happening in the stands.
"It's not a party, it's a football game.
"We know that Birmingham are fighting for their lives, it means that we have to fight also at the same intensity they're going to.
"We have the talent to create things that breaks them down but first we have to be intense, organised, stay in shape, discipline - all these things that I'm always saying because this is the way we see football.
"The players are ready - more important is not what people say around us, it's about the way we think and we know that we have a job to do on Sunday.
"We are ready, we have no problems or injuries, players have been recovering. ]
"Two days ago we had a match, we know that in two days we have another match so it is the moment to recover well and prepare well for Sunday's game, Saturday is a very important day for us."
Throughout the season, Nuno has been keen not to single out individual's impact on games and emphasised the importance of the squad.
He says that the characteristics of the players as well as the bonds between them are crucial to the success of the team.
Nuno continued, "the team is always on my mind from the beginning and it will stick until the end because nothing is achieved individually.
"Football is about the squad, about the players that don't play, about the players that do play.
"More times, the spirit between them, the bonds they create and the friendship - this is the most important thing.
"One of our things is to be brave and stay humble, it's all about the team - they are all words that means a lot to us. One of them is being brave."
Nuno pleased with second-half improvements
Nuno calls for improvements after Watford loss
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Is There a Word for That?
We have long invented language to fill gaps in our vocabulary, but not all coinages are created equal
By Ralph Keyes | September 5, 2013
Barney Google (King Features Syndicate, World Rights Reserved/Photoillustration by David Herbick)
Soon after they arrived in America, British settlers got busy with an important task: reinventing their language. This called for repurposing old words and coining new ones. Colonists called the plump, smelly rodents they encountered in swamps muske rats. Other forms of wildlife were named katydids, bobcats, catfish, and whippoorwills. To these settlers, sleigh improved on sledge, and the help reflected their values better than servants. "The new circumstances under which we are placed," observed Thomas Jefferson, "call for new words, new phrases, and for the transfer of old words to new objects."
"Necessity," he concluded, "obliges us to neologize." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Jefferson is the first person known to have used the term neologize, in an 1813 letter. It is one of 110 words whose earliest use the OED credits to him. Others include indescribable, pedicure, and electioneer.
Once they caught wind of all the new words being coined across the Atlantic, self-appointed guardians of the King's English were rather cross. When Jefferson used the new word belittle in his 1781 book Notes on the State of Virginia, a British critic exclaimed, "It may be an elegant [word] in Virginia, and even perfectly intelligible; but for our part, all we can do is to guess at its meaning. For shame, Mr. Jefferson!" Undaunted, the third president proceeded to coin Anglophobia.
Contempt for the New World's neologisms continued unabated in the old one. Historically, the British have looked upon American word inventions with all the enthusiasm of an art museum curator examining Elvis-on-velvet paintings. In a famous exchange with American lexicographer Noah Webster, an English naval officer named Basil Hall expressed dismay about the many new words he heard while visiting America in the late 1820s. Webster defended the verbal creativity of his countrymen. If a new word proved useful, he asked, why not add it to the vocabulary? "Because there are words enough already," responded Hall.
What were language purists to do? Despite the best efforts of Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Swift, et al., there has never been a governing body that approves "correct" English. Unlike French, say, or Japanese, English is an open-source language. Anyone is free to suggest new words or phrases. The only criterion for their success is that users adopt them.
This openness has led to a lexical free market in which the demand for coined words to fill gaps in our vocabulary is met with a constant supply. Just as we have had to create words to discuss computers and other new technology, post-Revolutionary Americans needed neologisms to talk about their new political system. When, in 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry presided over an artistic redrawing of his state's congressional districts that favored his party, a cartoon in the Boston Gazette portrayed one of the newly tailored districts as being shaped like a dragon-salamander. This caricature was headed "The Gerry-mander: A New Species of Monster." In a 19th-century version of going viral, the Gazette's cartoon was reprinted in many other newspapers. Not just its eye-catching graphic but the fanciful caption struck readers' fancy. In time "Gerry-mander" was converted to a verb, lowercased, and shorn of its hyphen. Because no better term has been coined since then, two centuries later gerrymander is still what we call the tortured redrawing of electoral districts.
The demand for new words to fit a constantly changing environment has led to open casting for homemade neologisms, with no shortage of aspirants. What literate person hasn't dreamed of staking a claim to verbal posterity by coining a word? Some, such as Gelett Burgess, become virtual mints of coined words. Though little remembered today, the early-20th-century San Francisco humorist and folk lexicographer was a prolific generator of neologisms. In a 1906 article, Burgess repurposed the chemical term bromide to refer to clichés. The cover of his 1907 book Are You a Bromide ? featured an effusive woman named Miss Belinda Blurb, whose surname Burgess suggested we use for book endorsements, ones "abounding in agile adjectives and adverbs, attesting that this book is the 'sensation of the year.' " Blurb caught on and stuck around, partly because it named a new phenomenon heretofore unnamed, partly because it felt good in the mouth. So did another Burgessism: goop. These neology hits were the exception, however. Most of Burgess's verbal inventions were misses. Like all determined word coiners, Burgess had far more splooches than successes. (Splooch was his word for "a failure.") Among the humorist's many creations that died with him were huzzlecoo ("an intimate talk"), igmoil ("a sordid quarrel over money matters"), and wox ("a state of placid, satisfied contentment").
Coining words is a tough racket. Many audition; few are cast. But the odds against winning a lexicological Oscar don't deter those who are determined to insert new words into the language. The stakes are too high, the potential reward too great. "In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it," New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has explained of his own insistent word coining. Despite this determination to create lasting neologisms (electronic herd, Fayyadism, petro-authoritarianism), Friedman has succeeded only with flat world, and even that success proved fleeting. Friedman's colleague David Brooks had a similar experience with bobo. After Brooks's book Bobos in Paradise was published in 2000, this nickname for bourgeois bohemians enjoyed a brief vogue but ended up being used primarily by its coiner.
Attracting favorable attention at birth says little about the likelihood that a newly minted word will reach adulthood. Reviewing past "words-of-the-year" lists is instructive. One of them, metrosexual, gradually faded from use after enjoying a vogue last decade. Another—plutoed ("demoted or devalued")—didn't survive the brief hubbub over that planet's demotion to "dwarf planet" in 2006. Many neologisms acclaimed in their time fade fast: infobahn, hypermiling, Y2K. Terms tied to current events such as Iraqnophobia, Clintern, or Romnesia rarely outlive their news cycle. When former New York congressman Anthony Weiner was caught with his pants down in pictures sent to a tweetheart, this cute word creation enjoyed barely 15 seconds of fame. More recently, Frankenstorm, which was coined by weather forecaster James Cisco as Hurricane Sandy approached land, quickly gave way to Superstorm Sandy after it hit.
A handful of coined words don't just catch on but stick around. In the current argot they are "sticky." What makes a coined word sticky? Need, mainly. Need and usefulness. Changing circumstances call for new words to help us discuss them. Even then they must strike a chord, capture a widespread sensibility with a word or phrase, preferably one that's vivid. A neologism is most likely to take hold if it fills some verbal void in a way that pleases the ear.
Maury Maverick discovered this nearly seven decades ago. While heading a government office in the mid-1940s, the former Texas congressman grew weary of the inflated verbiage he confronted daily among the many bureaucrats who had flocked to Washington during World War II. What to call their windy rhetoric? As Maverick later recalled in a New York Times article, it reminded him of "the old bearded turkey gobbler back in Texas who was always gobbledygobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity. At the end of his gobble there was a sort of gook." Maverick had his word. In a memo he advised staff members to "stay off the gobbledygook language," which he defined as "talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words." The Texan's coinage quickly wended its way into the national vocabulary, where it has remained ever since. (Maverick's origin story may have been a bit disingenuous. In his time gobbledygoo was slang for fellatio.)
Gobbledygook passed what linguist Allan Metcalf considers the acid test of a successful neologism: to remain in widespread use for at least two generations. In his thoughtful book Predicting New Words, Metcalf suggests several criteria that indicate whether a neologism is likely to pass this test. They include: diversity of users, frequency of use, and unobtrusiveness. I would add that good harmonics are nearly always a virtue (blurb), as is vivid imagery (fiscal cliff).
Striking a chord in the public consciousness may be the most important consideration of all, and the hardest to anticipate. Who could have predicted that pink slime—the coinage first used in a 2002 email by onetime Agriculture Department scientist Gerald Zirnstein—would become the preferred synonym for beef trimmings treated with ammonia (which meat processors would rather we call "lean finely textured beef")? Zirnstein says these two words came to him on the spur of the moment after he toured a meat-processing plant and saw the product. As he later told a reporter, "It's pink. It's pasty. And it's slimy looking. So I called it 'pink slime.' It resonates, doesn't it?" After Zirnstein's email was made public in 2009 (thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by The New York Times), the lean-finely-textured-beef industry went into a tailspin that it blamed partly on his coinage. In 2012 South Dakota's Beef Products Inc. sued Zirnstein. The case is still pending.
Since pink slime occurred in what he considered a confidential email, Gerald Zirnstein was an unintentional word-coining whistleblower. Not that he regrets his coinage, as some coiners do. Coinage remorse happens. When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan used the phrase irrational exuberance in a 1996 speech to characterize an overvalued stock market, those two words caused that bipolar market to dip. Yet irrational exuberance suited the investment bubble so well that it stuck. When Fresh Air 's Terry Gross asked Greenspan a decade later how he'd come up with the phrase, he sighed and said, "I wish I hadn't."
Like irrational exuberance, some coined terms catch on quickly because they so aptly fill a gap in our discourse. Others lie dormant for a time, then spring to life when needed. In another context I called these cicada terms. Since that coinage didn't catch on, let me try Van Winkle words. Fiscal cliff is one. Etymologist Ben Zimmer found this phrase in a 1957 New York Times article on home buying. Credit crunch dates back to at least 1966, when it was used by a Los Angeles Times reporter. There was no great demand for either until the economic hijinks of the aughts, however, when they became an essential part of public discourse.
As concern grows not just about the fate of the economy but about the fate of the planet, useful terms with a longer pedigree than we may realize have taken on new currency. More than a century ago, for example, the neologism smog blended "Fog and Smoke"—the title of a paper given to the Public Health Congress in 1905 by H. A. des Voeux. According to a press account at the time, des Voeux expressed concern that our cities were being blanketed with "smoky fog, or what was known as 'smog.' " Two years later, English physicist John Henry Poynting noted one possible consequence of such air pollutants: "the 'blanketing effect' or, as I prefer to call it, the 'greenhouse effect' of the atmosphere." Alexander Graham Bell was an early adopter of Poynting's vivid phrase. In 1917 the telephone's inventor took a prophetic interest in the danger that burning fossil fuels would trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. "We would have a sort of a greenhouse effect," Bell warned.
Global warming is a consequence of this phenomenon, of course. Where did that phrase come from? Credit is usually given to Columbia University geochemist Wallace Broecker, who in 1975 published a paper in Science magazine titled "Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" As a result of this article, Broecker is assumed to have coined global warming. Broecker himself hopes he didn't. The 81-year-old author of hundreds of papers and books is so dismayed by being known primarily for these two words that in 2010 he offered $250 to any student of his who could find an earlier instance of their use. A graduate student named David McGee won the prize by locating a 1957 editorial in Indiana's Hammond Times that warned of possible "wide scale global warming." "I was happy when David found it," Broecker later told a reporter, "because people think that this is the only thing I did in my life." But even his student's discovery wasn't the earliest known use of this phrase. Five years before the Hammond Times editorial, a 1952 San Antonio Express article referred to "scientists who are studying global warming trends."
Another successful eco-coinage was put in play by environmentalist Amory Lovins after he came upon it by accident. As Lovins and a colleague perused a report on electricity from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission more than two decades ago, one word got their attention: negawatt. It was a typographical error. The report writer meant to say "megawatt." But the more Lovins thought about it, the more sense this typo made. Why not call units of electricity that are saved rather than consumed negawatts? This was just the word the environmental activist had been looking for to point out that conserving units of carbon-generating energy made it less necessary to produce them. He floated the neologism in a 1984 Business Week interview, then used it in a 1989 speech titled "The Negawatt Revolution." It has been part of the alternative energy lexicon ever since.
As negawatt suggests, among the various sources of new words, one seldom receives its due: happenstance. Typos. Slips of the tongue. Offhand remarks. It's ironic that even though Thomas Friedman can get hardly any of his many self-conscious coinages to stick, Justin Timberlake unintentionally gave us a lasting euphemism for flashing when he explained that his exposure of Janet Jackson's breast during halftime at Super Bowl xxxviii was due to a "wardrobe malfunction."
Although it's unlikely that Timberlake thought he was neologizing when he concocted this explanation, wardrobe malfunction caught on as a way to refer to public exposure of skin. By contrast, despite being named the word of the year for 2010 by the New Oxford American Dictionary, Sarah Palin's accidental coinage of refudiate has disappeared. It added nothing to our vocabulary. Nor did Palin's malaproppish reference to the verbage of political discourse. More recently, Alaska's former governor railed against faint-hearted Republicans whom she considered wobbly on the issue of tax hikes. Wobbly, in the sense that Sarah Palin used this term, refers to a throwaway phrase spoken by Margaret Thatcher. As she and George H. W. Bush prepared to oust Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1990, Britain's prime minister worried that America's president might lose his nerve. "This is no time to go wobbly, George," she warned him. More than two decades later, that vivid phrase still refers to losing one's nerve, as when an op-ed commentator warned Florida's governor not to "go wobbly on education."
Google is another term whose origins can be traced to a spontaneous remark, in this case by a nine-year-old boy named Milton Sirotta, the nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. While the two strolled on the New Jersey Palisades in 1920, Kasner wondered out loud what one might call 10 to the 100th power (the number 10 followed by 100 zeroes). "A googol!" suggested Milton. Kasner had his word, one we still use for this huge number.
Milton's suggestion may have been inspired by the pop-eyed comic strip character Barney Google, who was popular at the time. That would make Barney Google's creator, Billy DeBeck, indirectly responsible for creating the name of today's cyber behemoth (which is based on googol ). Cartoonists like DeBeck are unsung heroes of neology. A remarkable number of terms we use today originated in the speech bubbles and captions of cartoonists such as Al Capp (double whammy), Elzie Segar (goon), and Harold Webster (milquetoast). Nineteen-fifty was an unusually good year for coinage-by-caricature, one in which Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) introduced the term nerd in his book If I Ran the Zoo and syndicated political cartoonist Herblock (Herbert Block) put McCarthyism on the political map in a Washington Post cartoon that ridiculed Sen. Joseph McCarthy's tactics.
Mockery turns out to be a first-rate incubator for lasting neologisms, usually to the amazement of their creators, such as British astronomer Fred Hoyle. During BBC broadcasts in 1949 and 1950, Hoyle dismissed the notion that our universe resulted from a cataclysmic explosion as "this big bang idea." To his dismay, big bang is what the theory has been called ever since. Four decades after Hoyle's sarcastic coinage became part of the lexicon, Sky & Telescope magazine sponsored a contest to replace big bang with a better term. This 1993 contest attracted more than 13,000 entries. None improved on the original, however, so big bang it remains. As Carl Sagan, one of the contest's judges, explained at the time, no alternative "even approaches the phrase 'big bang' in felicity."
That isn't the only pejorative term to enter the mainstream with its sharp point blunted. Just as Obamacare was embraced by the very person it was meant to taunt, totalitarian was originally a weapon of a word that was adopted by its target. According to Abbott Gleason's book Totalitarianism, the term was coined in 1923 by anti-Fascist journalist Giovanni Amendola to warn Italians about the all-encompassing sistema totalitaria that Benito Mussolini wanted to impose on them. Other anti-Fascists soon began using Amendola's coinage to condemn Mussolini's dictatorial ambitions. Within two years, however, Mussolini himself was bragging about "our fierce totalitarian will."
A similar fate befell meritocracy. In 1958 British sociologist Michael Young published a dystopian novel called The Rise of the Meritocracy. His intent was to satirize the assessment of "merit" by credentials rather than by performance. In his book's initial edition the author wrote of meritocracy, "The origin of this unpleasant term … is still obscure. It seems to have been first generally used in the sixties of the last century in small-circulation journals attached to the Labour Party, and gained wide currency much later on." But in his introduction to a 1994 reprint, Young admitted that he'd coined meritocracy himself. Why had he been so cagey originally? Because when he was coming up with his book's title, a classicist had warned him that mixing Greek and Latin roots would break the rules of good usage and subject him to ridicule. As it turned out, even though the book itself was controversial, its title wasn't ("rather the opposite I would say"). Therefore Young now felt free to step forward and claim authorship of meritocracy. "The twentieth century had room for the word," he realized, even one its coiner meant to be pejorative.
Coining words to use as weapons is a risky business. So is whimsical neologizing. Many a new word has been coined in jest, especially in the cybersphere, which is chockablock with terminology that resulted from word play among self-described propeller heads. On his website, pioneer programmer Paul Niquette says he coined software six decades ago, "more or less as a prank." At first his new word evoked shrugs and smirks among colleagues. "Software." Get it? Kind of a fun antonym to "hardware." Niquette says he and fellow programmers used this coinage for years, but only among themselves. He never put it on the record. Why not? Because, Niquette explains, he'd always thought of software as a term better suited to idle banter than to serious discourse. Before Princeton statistician John Tukey referred to "software" in a 1958 paper—the first recorded use of this term—Niquette says it hadn't occurred to him that his facetious word for the amusement of computer geeks would eventually go viral.
If Niquette's origin story is accurate, software is just one of many whimsical cyberterms-among-friends to achieve widespread use. Blog is another. In 1997, website host Jorn Barger began calling his regular online posts a web log. Others quickly compressed Barger's coinage into weblog. Web logger Peter Merholz mused that this condensation could be compressed still further. In early 1999 Merholz posted a message on his web log saying, "I've decided to pronounce the word 'weblog' as wee'-blog. Or 'blog' for short." Since web logs constituted a kind of "information upchucking," Merholz recalls telling a friend at the time, why not give them a name that was "roughly onomatopoeic of vomiting." Merholz thought he was just being goofy when coining blog. He had no intention of contributing a new word to the lexicon, let alone one so tongue-in-cheek. But virtually overnight blog became the go-to term for web logs, online and off. (It was Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2004.) After Merholz's coinage became commonplace, blogger Brad Graham speculated facetiously about other words that this one might spawn: blogiverse, say, blogmos, or blogosphere. We fancied the last one and—to Graham's astonishment—went with it.
One reason so many fanciful word creations catch on is that their creators think the terms are so absurd that no one will adopt them, little realizing that this is just the type of neologism we covet. Earnestly coined terms, by contrast, can be too self-conscious, too obscure, too intent on making the coiner look clever or erudite. Most of us prefer terse, earthy, descriptive terms; propriety be damned. Blog. Pink slime. Fiscal cliff. Since it takes two to create a new term—one to invent it, the other to use it—many unintended coinages succeed because those who adopt them become co-coiners, in a sense, who are invested in the word's success.
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The subject of eggs has been on my mind today. I can't imagine why, but I'm just going to go with the flow.
Speaking of eggs, let me point out this recipe for Tea Eggs from About.com's Chinese Cuisine area.
Looking for something more pungent? See my earlier post on Century Eggs, a stinky Asian delicacy.
Oh, and here's the Easter Bunny teapot.


Poll – which Tank would you like to see on the new 2016 coin?
On September 15th 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, the British used tanks for the very first time in the history of warfare.
Now, on the 100th anniversary, a brand new coin is to be issued to mark the occasion. After special permission from the minting authorities, we're giving YOU the opportunity to choose which tank will be the subject of this historic new coin.
Tank experts and enthusiasts often differ in their opinion of what best represents this most iconic of fighting vehicles. Is it the fearsome Tiger from WWII? Or the very first tank used in battle 100 years ago – the British Mark I? Or the mainstay of our current armoured divisions, the Challenger 2?
Vote now on the poll below. The winning tank will be announced on these pages shortly where you'll also have the chance to see the new coin unveiled for the first time and the opportunity to become one of the first collectors in the world to own one. Thanks for voting!
The winner of the poll was the Mark I WWI tank.
You can now own this impressive new coin featuring this iconic tank which has been issued to mark the 100th anniversary.
Hint: please make plans for celebrating 100 years of the Battle of Cambrai. The first successful mass tank attack in history.
I'm confused now. What I see on this page above is (a) The Tiger (with a long "snout"). Is this tank correctly titled Tiger Tank? I voted (c) – whichever tank it is because it is the latest and should appear in the latest coin.
Hi Delysia, really sorry I had the captions on the pictures the wrong way round at the very beginning. Don't worry I've got your vote though. Thanks! Robin.
The British Mk 1 is what its all about.
Why would you put a tiger ( GERMAN ) TANK ON a coin commemorating the British use of tanks inthe first world war.


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The Herbal Hub has been created to bring those who have set standards of excellence for herbal medicine to help you make your best health care decisions. This site is their forum to share their passion, commitment and knowledge with as many as possible.
With the increasing cost and medicalisation of health care the best prospects for herbal medicine will be as part of a wider move to self care – where we are all encouraged to take on more of our own health care. Plant remedies can be ideal for this. The Herbal Hub pilots and links to a wider initiative to offer good self care tools which is being developed by the Sustaincare Community Interest Company, registered in England to trade in the public interest. Sustaincare's mission is to provide 'health care that anyone can do'. Under the OurMedicine brand it is building a new evidence-base and educational programme for community approaches to health care. Sustaincare has recently taken management of the impressive Self Care Library, created with the support of the UK Department of Health, and which is featured on this site.
Lead developer of the Herbal Hub is Simon Mills. Simon has worked in the premiere herbal league for 35 years. He is Cambridge University graduate in medical sciences who has seen thousands of patients as a herbal practitioner in Exeter England since 1977. He has led the main professional and trade organizations for herbal medicine in the UK (featured below) and served on Government and House of Lords committees. He has long been involved in academic work: in Exeter he co-founded the first University centre for complementary health studies in 1987, the first integrated health programme at a UK medical school i n 2003, and from 2002 the first Masters Programme in herbal medicine in the USA. Since 1997 he has been Secretary of a European network of experts in herbal medicine (ESCOP – see below) and on its behalf from 1994-97 led the first major EU-wide scientific project in herbal medicines. From 1993 he created, and led the development of EXTRACT, a powerful database tool to help those using herbal medicines in practice: the Herbal Hub will be the platform for this facility. Simon is Managing Director of Sustaincare.
The British Herbal Medicine Association has represented the responsible herbal medicine sector in the UK since 1964 and now speaks for those producing registered and licensed herbal medicines. It has published some of the leading reference textbooks for those producing and using herbal medicines.
The European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy ( ESCOP) is a leading European network of specialists in herbal medicine. Since its founding in 1989 ESCOP has produced formal monographs on the main herbal medicines in Europe in conventional medicine dossier format for the European Medicines Agency. These monographs are available, as textbooks and increasingly as downloadable pdfs from its website.
The ESCOP Herb Reference is an app that lists over 100 herbs and their uses for a range of everyday conditions. It is distilled from ESCOP's reference texts. You can search for the condition that most interests you. In each case there will be a list of herbs that are appropriate, by either English or scientific name. When you choose a herb you will see from its lists of uses how it matches your personal needs. For each herb there is also useful information on minimum quality standards and relevant safety and dosage information. This is particularly useful when so many herbal products are sold without quality standards and clear information to users.
Graduates and faculty of the masters degree programme in herbal medicine at the Tai Sophia Institute have uniquely well-grounded experience in the real life effects of herbs and are well placed to help people make an informed choice of indigenous North American and European plant remedies. Many helped with the production of the EXTRACT database and all now form a powerful community of specialists across the USA.
Kerry Bone is Founder and Principal of the Australian College of Phytotherapy and has with Simon co-written the standard textbooks used by trainee and experienced herbal practitioners around the world.
He also writes other seminal texts for practitioners that are featured in the Herbal Hub bookstore.
Members of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy are specialists in the practice of western herbal medicine in the UK. Two Council members, Peter Conway and Alex Laird are Directors with Simon of Sustaincare and lead the way in steering herbal medicine to new roles in the community and health care.
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There have been fantastic comments on both UL Beginners Guide articles (1 & 2) so far, for which I would like to thank all my readers - you're great and keep me writing better and better with every comment!
A point which slipped my mind, which I wanted to mention already in the first article, is that if you decide to go UL try to buy 2nd hand. Its not only cheaper but also better environmentally, as less stuff is thrown away and hence less garbage is produced. I bought for example my Scarp 1 used, and it was over 100€ cheaper as if I would have bought it directly from Tarptent. Also my NeoAir was bought 2nd hand, and saved me over 40€. Both items are in perfect condition, like new to be exact.
The best spot for buying UL 2nd hand gear is backpackinglight.com 's Gear Swap Forum, where you find almost everything you might need - be quick though, good offers are usually fast gone! Signing up at BPL.com is for free for a normal account, so no worries. Also check your national selling & buying forums, and see what you can find. and if you can't find it, post a "WTB" (Want To Buy) thread where you say what you want!
Finally, because I will be off till Monday, have a look at Brad Groves' Ultralight Economies of Scale: Budgeting for Your Pack & Wallet article, its for free (no Membership needed). He writes beautifully about how he started with UL backpacking and how he thought about the purchases he needed to make to lighten his load, balancing money vs. lost weight.


So, a dozen or so emails later we have an almost finished pipe.
Here's some of the many work in progress pics she was gracious enough to send me (so as to keep me salivating, I'm sure).
The details are: Scottie series. 7" oal. 1.5" x .75" Chamber. Dark, dark sandblast/yellow swirl Bakelite ring/denim blue ebonite stem.
The shape I wanted was a minimally tapered brandy or like..a billiard/egg hybrid. Luckily, Ladybriar knew where I was going and did a helluva job rendering what I was trying to communicate.
Only a few finishing touches left.
I should be puffing along merrily by the end of the week.
Beautiful pipe. I love seeing the pics of the process.
I've been an ardent knife collector for many years, so custom knife commissions are nothing new to me.
Pipe-wise, this is my first. Very similar procedures. Worrisome too, because I know this won't be my last. I already have another idea planned for Scottie to bring to life.
Wow congrats. That's a beautiful pipe.
Scottie never disappoints. Gorgeous pipe.
I can assure you the bug will bite you again... I know from experience.
Looks to be a great hand filler, and a wonderful texture. Have never seen blue ebonite before, and it compliments the yellow Bakelite very well. Next year will be my seventh Bruce Weaver commission, so from experience, you're screwed. Once that bug bites, it don't let go.
Very nice pipe. Scottie can really carve.
Inaugural smoke will definitely be from another Kansas City Pipe Club member..
Either McClelland St James Woods or Blackwoods. Both are staples in my tobacco rotation, and both are "oily" flakes that make tremendous cakes.
Oh, my that's one gorgeous piece! I got a Scottie at the LV show, and will post pix when I get a chance. I am still in LV, home tomorrow.
Scottie DOES know how to carve a great pipe! Congratulations!
And by handling one in person, you understand that photos don't do justice to her work. Delicate, elegant, wonderful stuff. A bucket lister, for sure.
Man that has my PAD itching!
And one more highlighting the lovely chamfered rim.
I just love a woman who knows how to use a vernier caliper - and who creates beautiful pipes!
There's a lot to like there! The stem work/color and that beveled bowl top are really great details that make it sing.
Yes, that's a splendid piece!
Scottie has a video clip on her instagram and fb where she shows how to hold her pipes to remove the stem, fyi.
I would also add that the stainless steel tenon will get dirty over time. To keep the fit of the stem as it should be just give the tenon a bit of a buff when you clean the pipe.
@jpmcwjr- I sent you a pm regarding your pipe.
Thanks, Scottie. A quick perusal didn't reveal a video for the how to correctly remove the stem. Have you a direct link, please? I don't really need to take her apart for sometime, just wanted to see the excellent construction!
Nice !! I love that pencil shank and that stem !!
Hey jpmcwjr, go to the "Piersel Pipes" fb page. The video is on there.
Thanks, Brian. Did hit the FB page, just didn't look long enough.
Well bigpond, there are few dummies as big as me.
Oops! I just reread what I wrote and I think it's easy to misconstrue. Just to clarify I meant a mannequin head.
Scotties Pipes give me brain boners !!


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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend (2020)
Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's evil plot. It's your move: What should Kimmy do next?
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ABC of Civil Services | It's a level playing field
Diversity is the hallmark of UPSC civil service examination where the path to success will be different for various people. Photo: iStock
Remya Roshni
Published: April 17, 2019 05:09 PM IST Updated: April 17, 2019 06:43 PM IST
There are others who like to create sympathy during the interview process itself. Once I witnessed a person responding to a tricky question by saying "Sorry sir, my knowledge is limited; I am a poor fisherman". This obviously did not create a favourable impression.
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Another story I heard was about a candidate getting good marks in interview just because he cried! This story is surely exaggerated because nobody is going to award marks to a candidate on the basis of emotional outburst.
Another candidate whom I met was actually working in a restaurant in Chennai. But he neither showed any kind of embarrassment nor tried to take advantage of his situation. He behaved with a calm dignity. His making into the service was a story worth telling and the media did full justice to it.
Even chance
At this point, I would like you to pay attention to an interesting fact about civil service examination. In the notification, there are only two criteria of eligibility. The candidates should be of a certain age and should have a degree from any recognised university. The stream of graduation and marks are nowhere specified. A person who has done his graduation through distance education is also eligible to apply. This very idea, which does not discriminate a medical graduate of AIIMS from a literature student who has done his/her studies through correspondence, makes the whole process an interestingly level playing field.
Another peculiar factor is that one need not be an expert in English language to be a part of the coveted service. People can choose any official language as the medium of examination as well as personality test though the question papers will be only in English and Hindi. So, a person who studied in a vernacular medium can compete with another from the public-school background.
Before the digital era, there were still hindrances for candidates from small towns. The availability of proper study materials and personal guidance were only there in big cities. So, one need to be in places like New Delhi for coaching which was quite expensive. In later period, many state governments started their own training institutes with accommodation which eased the burden for many in terms of expenses. Now with the information revolution, a person with a proper internet connection can access any information any time. The field has become quite egalitarian now.
Of course, people with academic brilliance have an edge in this examination where massive data analysis is involved. But it is not a monopoly of people from prestigious institutions or those who are rich. As beautifully put by a winner this year, "Once the competition starts, it is hardship for everyone irrespective of economic background". So, if you have a supporting family and a will to work as per the requirements of this examination, nobody is going to stop you.
(The author is a former IPS officer and a trainer for civil service aspirants)
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Homegrown Player
Staying in Seattle: Sounders Academy alum Dylan Teves joins the club as Homegrown Player
By Joseph Mondello
Dylan Teves is staying is coming home.
The Seattle Sounders on Tuesday announced the signing of Homegrown Player Dylan Teves out of the University of Washington. Teves, 21, spent four years in the Sounders Academy before joining the Huskies program. A standout in the Rave Green youth system, Teves made 12 appearances for Sounders 2 in the USL Championship, including several starts, before heading off to college.
Hailing from Hawaii, Teves becomes the second Academy graduate to sign with the First Team from the club's Homegrown Territory. He joins a rich lineage of players to join from Hawaii across the organization's history.
"We have been really fortunate to have strong ties to Hawaii for a long time," Sounders FC General Manager & President of Soccer Garth Lagerwey told MLSsoccer.com during the league's livestream for the 2022 MLS SuperDraft. "Two famous players that most of the folks listening to this will probably know are Brian Ching and Zach Scott… I am pleased to announce that we have signed Dylan Teves, so we have our newest Hawaiian joining the Sounders for the 2022 season."
On the back of his excellent performances at the USSDA and USL level with the Sounders, Teves hit the ground running at the University of Washington as a freshman in 2018. Across four years, he notched 25 goals and 23 assists from 69 appearance, earning consecutive berths on the All Pac-12 first team in his final two season.
A salute to Dylan Teves, who gave us all a 2021 season to remember.
☔ Only player in NCAA history with back-to-back NCAA Tournament hat tricks
☔ Became UW's all-time leader in postseason goals and points
☔ 32 points: 12 Goals, 8 Assists#GoHuskies🐺 pic.twitter.com/siML4eF7eC
— Washington Men's Soccer (@UW_MSoccer) January 8, 2022
Teves finished up his glittering collegiate career as finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy – the annual award for the best player in college soccer – after leading the UW to the NCAA College Cup final for the first time in program history. The Huskies' run to the national title game was fueled in large part by Teves, who bagged back-to-back hat tricks in the Second and Third Rounds.
"Dylan has done so much for Husky Soccer, and I am excited to now see him take the next step in his career," said UW Men's Soccer Head Coach Jamie Clarke. "He has the mindset and ability to make it at the next level, and I am so happy the Sounders have decided to invest in his future. His legend will remain at UW, but now to write new chapters as a professional."
While this will mark his first season as fully-fledged professional, Teves is no stranger to the top tier of American soccer.
A technical and cerebral player capable of lining up in numerous spots across the midfield, Teves regularly trained and played matches with S2 against professionals during his time in the Academy. He also trained with the First Team on a regular basis, including a stint with the team during the 2018 MLS preseason where he played in friendlies against the Portland Timbers and Columbus Crew.
Much like fellow UW product and new teammate Cristian Roldan, Teves joins the Sounders as a rookie surrounded by a a veteran midfield corps. As he transitions into life as full-time professional, he'll be able to learn from some of the best midfielders in MLS like João Paulo and Roldan.
"Any time you can get a top three player in college, you do it," Senior VP of Soccer & Sporting Director Craig Waibel told SoundersFC.com. "I think Dylan is a player that's really comfortable on the ball. His acceleration is good. He finds pockets [of space]. He likes to play the game, and I mean that in the simplest form. He's not a guy that hides from the ball."
The Sounders will commence the 2022 campaign on February 17 (7:00 p.m. PT) as they travel to Honduras for the first leg of their Round One Concacaf Champions League match against F.C. Motagua, with the return fixture set for Seattle on February 24 (7:45 p.m. PT).
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Aim Spike at your first target and hold it steady. Spike will be ready to capture the first point when the border changes from red to green and the "Hold Steady" message goes away.
Smoothly rotate from Point A to Point B, without moving your feet.


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Stage one of Rothwell Edge development sold for $6.975 million
Stage one of the Rothwell Edge development has sold for almost $7 million.
The first stage of the three stage mixed-use development, undertaken by private company Wentworth Group Properties (WGP) involving a single-level, purpose-built childcare centre and swim school, has sold for $6.975 million reflecting a yield of 5 per cent.
The three-stage project known as Rothwell Edge is located on a high profile site at 560 Anzac Avenue, Rothwell, with stage one fully pre-leased to Lead Childcare on a 15-year lease with options.
The site benefits from a 160m frontage to Anzac Avenue which has traffic counts in excess of 40,000 cars daily.
The property was brought to market by Ray White Commercial QLD father and son team Stephen and Elliot Kidd, selling via an expressions of interest campaign.
"The campaign was incredibly successful with our print and online advertising campaign receiving well over 200 inquiries and 25 offers," Stephen Kidd said.
"It's not every day you can secure a well-leased asset on a long-term lease, in such a high profile location that already benefits from one additional stage of development completed (stage 2) and one more (Stage 3) to commence shortly.
"The end product will provide a truly high quality mixed-use development where each stage is connected and interacts with each other."
The buyer was a Brisbane investor who has considerable investment in the asset class, was impressed with the design and location, and is confident of the continuing high growth being experienced throughout the Moreton Bay region.
"Childcare centres remain one of the hottest asset classes we are dealing with in the current market," Elliot Kidd said.
"We have so many buyers looking to buy off-market centres at the moment – up and down the eastern sea-board with the importance of childcare centres being reinforced nationally during COVID – with childcare one of the first sectors to receive funding to ensure parents could remain in work."
Stage 2 of Rothwell Edge includes a Pearl Energy fuel station and very popular Greek food outlet The Yiros Shop with drive-thru, both of which are trading strongly.
WGP are due to commence stage 3 of Rothwell Edge in Q3 this year with completion due mid-2023.
Stage 3 will include 1,000sqm of laneway-style dining to be known as 'The Courtyard' which will be anchored by one of Queensland's favourite food and beverage outlets, Café 63.
In addition there will be a 430sqm health hub to compliment the overall mix. This will complete the circa $30m project.
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Natural-Based Urban Development for Post-Industrial Regions
You Are Here:Natural-Based Urban Development for Post-Industrial Regions
The Aachen Institute of Landscape Architecture is coordinating a Horizon 2020 project. RWTH researchers are developing a living lab with fish and urban farming in the Ruhr region.
Axel Timpe
Using fish farming to cultivate vegetables in the middle of Dortmund? At first that might sound like a shot in the dark for the industrial wastelands in the district of Huckarde. But when Dr. Axel Timpe explains the idea, it quickly becomes clear and obvious. The approach used by the landscape architects at the RWTH Aachen Institute of Landscape Architecture headed by Dr. Frank Lohrberg is called aquaponics. The nutrient-rich water from the fish farm is purified in a way so that the fish excretion can directly be used as fertilizer for the plants. The principle is urban farming, where farmland grows even in cities, namely upwards and not outwards.
The Aachen plan for Dortmund-Huckarde is one of three primary components of the Horizon 2020 project "productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration" or proGIreg. The project aims to establish living labs in urban areas facing the challenge of post-industrial regeneration. Dortmund is one of the frontrunner cities along with Turin – with old automotive factories – and Zagreb – with a decommissioned slaughterhouse and sausage factory, in which similar projects are being started.
The project's participants include six universities, seven other municipalities aside from the three frontrunner cities, which are to imitate the projects, eight small and mid-sized companies, and seven NGOs. The Aachen institute is coordinating the entire project, which the European Union is funding with more than ten million euros. "It's an unusually large project that's being started," says Timpe. The project will be kicked off in September at a conference held at the Alte Schmiede in Dortmund-Huckarde.
Copyright: FH Südwestfalen/Pösentrup
EU Framework Research Program
Horizon 2020 is an EU framework research program with 75 billion euros being invested in research projects between 2014 and 2020. The project led by the Aachen architects is among those projects selected thus far. "This project is of the utmost importance to the RWTH Aachen Faculty of Architecture. Not only due the extensive external funding that is actually outstanding for the faculty, but also for its content: International collaboration and the project's character are important to us as the applied innovation action practices allow the the faculty to function as a link between science, small and mid-sized companies, civil society, and planning practice in cities," explains dean of the faculty, Alexander Markschies.
It is certainly not a coincidence that the Aachen Institute of Landscape Architecture is coordinating such a project – and, even in Dortmund, is working with people on site to realize the idea of fish and vegetable farming with a living lab and is developing joint strategies to implement the idea. In the project CoProGrün, Co-Produced Greenways as Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure, the Aachen architects and their research partners have already been active with the financial support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In that case, the project focused on urban farming and gardening in Dortmund and the neighboring cities of Waltrip, Castrop-Rauxel, and Lünen. "We will be able to build on our relationships there," says Timpe.
Not a Clinically-Sterile Lab Environment
The aquaponic approach, which will be tracked by citizens on site, cannot just build on the existing relationships. Initial drafts for testing facilities for the fish farming have been drawn up. Initial testing facilities for fish farming already exist at FH Südwestfalen, one of the project partners. "This shouldn't be a clinically-sterile lab environment. The approach is intentionally low-tech, so that the facility can be operated by assocations and people there, thus creating an employment opportunity," explains Timpe. Other building blocks of the Dortmund project include measures for promoting insect diversity and turning the former Deusenberg dumpsite into a sports facility with solar fields.
The work in the cities, planned to take place through summer 2023, is accompanied by teaching and learning modules on edX, a platform for massive open online courses. The free access to knowledge generated through the project is an elementary component of the Horizon 2020 project. Corresponding modules on nature-based solutions are currently being prepared.
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Andrea Brookhart is best known for the quiet feeling of her photographs. With the goal of sustaining some combination of deliberation and spontaneity, taking pictures becomes an active meditation for finding balance. Sometimes the subject is the play of light; sometimes it's the dynamic tension between shapes or ideas, but Andrea is always attempting to capture her curiosity about the scene in front of her to share with the viewer.


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		tab.innerHTML =
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Materials - Reflections
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		var tab = JA.menu.appendChild( document.createElement( 'div' ) );
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				'Material: <select id=selMaterial title="Select type" >' +
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					'<option>Phong</option>' +
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				'Shading:  <select id=selShading title="Select type" >' +
					'<option>None</option>' +
					'<option>Flat</option>' +
					'<option selected>Smooth</option>' +
				'<select>
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				'Side:     <select id=selSide title="Select sides" >' +
					'<option>Front</option>' +
					'<option>Back</option>' +
					'<option selected>Both</option>' +
				'<select>
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				if ( m.ambient ) txt += 'Ambient:  <input type=color id=inpAmbient value=#' + m.ambient.getHexString() + ' > <output id=outAmbient >#' + m.ambient.getHexString() + '</output>
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				if ( m.color ) txt += 'Color:    <input type=color id=inpColor value=#' + m.color.getHexString() + '> <output id=outColor >#' + m.color.getHexString() + '</output>
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				if ( m.emissive ) txt += 'Emissive: <input type=color id=inpEmissive value=#' + m.emissive.getHexString() + '> <output id=outEmissive >#' + m.emissive.getHexString() + '</output>
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				if ( m.specular ) txt += 'Specular: <input type=color id=inpSpecular value=#' + m.specular.getHexString() + '> <output id=outSpecular >#' + m.specular.getHexString() + '</output>
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				txt +=
				'Metal:    <input type=checkbox id=inpMetal >
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				'Wireframe:<input type=checkbox id=inpWireframe value=' + m.wireframe + ' >
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				'Opacity:  <input type=range id=inpOpacity title="0 to 1" min=0 max=1 step=0.01 value=' + m.opacity + ' >' +
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				'Shininess:<input type=range id=inpShininess title="0 to 300" min=0 max=300 step=5 value=' + m.shininess + ' >' +
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		selMaterial.onchange = function() {
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				JATH.selectedObject.material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0x000000 } );
				JATH.selectedObject.material.type = 1;
			} else if ( selMaterial.selectedIndex === 2 ) {
				JATH.selectedObject.material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial( { color: 0x000000 } );
				JATH.selectedObject.material.type = 2;
			} else {
				JATH.selectedObject.material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0x000000 } );
				JATH.selectedObject.material.type = 3;
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			JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox();
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		selShading.onchange = function() { m.shading = selShading.selectedIndex; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };

		selSide.selectedIndex = m.side;
		selSide.onchange = function() { m.side = selSide.selectedIndex; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };

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		if ( m.color ) inpColor.onchange = function() { m.color.setHex( this.value.replace("#", "0x") ); JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };
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		inpMetal.onchange = function() { m.metal = this.checked; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };
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		inpWireframe.onchange = function() { m.wireframe = inpWireframe.checked; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };

		inpOpacity.onchange = function() {  m.opacity = parseFloat( this.value ); m.transparent = true; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };
		inpShininess.onchange = function() { m.shininess = this.value; JAMA.updateMaterialEditorBox(); };
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http://mrdoob.github.io/three.js/docs/#Reference/Materials/MeshPhongMaterial
materials.push( new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { ambient: 0x030303, color: 0xdddddd, specular: 0x009900, shininess: 30, shading: THREE.FlatShading } ) );

*/

	JAMA.materials.PhongRandom = function() {
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial();
		material.ambient.setHex( 0xffffff * Math.random() );
		material.color.setHex( 0xffffff * Math.random() );
		material.emissive.setHex( 0x333333 * Math.random() );
		material.metal = Math.floor( 2 * Math.random() );
		material.opacity = Math.random().toFixed(2);
		material.side = 2;
		material.shininess = (100 * Math.random()).toFixed(0);
		material.specular.setHex( 0x888888 * Math.random() );
		material.transparent = true;
		material.wireframe = Math.floor( 1.3 * Math.random() );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.NormalSmooth = function() {
		var material = new THREE.MeshNormalMaterial();
		material.type = 0;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.BasicFlatRed = function() {
		material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0xff0000, shading: THREE.FlatShading });
		material.type = 1;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.LambertSmoothRandom = function() {
		material = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial( { color: Math.random() * 0xffffff, shading: THREE.SmoothShading });
		material.type = 2;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongPlastic = function() {
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0xff0000, specular: 0x888888, ambient: 0xff0000, shininess: 250 } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongFlat = function() {
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0x0000ff, specular: 0x111111, shininess: 1, shading: THREE.FlatShading } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongFlat2 = function() {
		var material =  new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { ambient: 0x888800, color: 0xdd00ff, specular: 0x009900, shininess: 30, shading: THREE.FlatShading });
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongSmooth = function() {
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { ambient: 0x030303, color: 0xdddddd, specular: 0x009900, shininess: 30, shading: THREE.SmoothShading });
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

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		var geom = JATH.selectedObject.geometry;
		//geom.computeBoundingBox();
		//yMin = geom.boundingBox.min.y;
		//yMax = geom.boundingBox.max.y;
		yRange = scale; // yMax - yMin;
		var color, point, face, numberOfSides, vertexIndex;

		for ( var i = 0; i < geom.vertices.length; i++ ) {
			point = geom.vertices[ i ];
			color = new THREE.Color( 0x0000ff );
			color.setHSL( 0.7 * (scale - point.y) / scale, 1, 0.5 );
			geom.colors[i] = color; // use this array for convenience
		}

		var faceIndices = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ];
		for ( i = 0; i < geom.faces.length; i++ ) {
			face = geom.faces[ i ];
			numberOfSides = ( face instanceof THREE.Face3 ) ? 3 : 4;
			for ( var j = 0; j < numberOfSides; j++ ) {
				vertexIndex = face[ faceIndices[ j ] ];
				face.vertexColors[ j ] = geom.colors[ vertexIndex ];
			}
		}

		var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0xff0000, vertexColors: THREE.VertexColors  } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

// textures

	JAMA.materials.PhongPureWhite = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/pure-white.png' );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0xffffff, map: texture, opacity: 1, transparent: true } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongGridded = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/square.png' );
		texture.wrapS = texture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
		texture.repeat.set( 30, 30 );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { map: texture, opacity: 0.5, transparent: true } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongUVGrid = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/ash_uvgrid01.jpg' );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { map: texture } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongLavatile = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/lavatile.jpg' );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { map: texture } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongDisturb = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/disturb.jpg' );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0xffffff, map: texture } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongCar = function() {
		var texture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture( '../textures/im5.jpg' );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { map: texture } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

// Reflections

	JAMA.materials.PhongChrome = function() {
		var path = '../textures/cube/SwedishRoyalCastle/';
		var format = '.jpg';
		var urls = [
			path + 'px' + format, path + 'nx' + format,
			path + 'py' + format, path + 'ny' + format,
			path + 'pz' + format, path + 'nz' + format
		];
		var texture = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTextureCube( urls, new THREE.CubeRefractionMapping() );
		var material = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial( { color: 0xccddff, envMap: texture, refractionRatio: 0.98, reflectivity:0.9 } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

	JAMA.materials.PhongShiny = function() {
		var path = '../textures/cube/pisa/';
		var format = '.png';
		var urls = [
			path + 'px' + format, path + 'nx' + format,
			path + 'py' + format, path + 'ny' + format,
			path + 'pz' + format, path + 'nz' + format
		];
		var texture = THREE.ImageUtils.loadTextureCube( urls, new THREE.CubeRefractionMapping() );
		var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { color: 0xffffff, envMap: texture, refractionRatio: 0.95 } );
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

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	JAMA.materials. = function() {
		var material =
		material.type = 3;
		return material;
	};

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Free forum : Inside the Hammock, is a forum for rat lovers to discuss rat health, breeding, rescuing, share pictures, diet, and really anything that is at all related to pet rats. Enjoy the forum.
These sweet little guys deserve their own forum! Don't you think? Join our community of cockatiel lovers, owners, enthusiasts, experts, breeders and exhibitors!
Find help and support for managing your BreederZOO Pro or Server Dog breeding software database.
Pokémon Islanders - Breeding and Battling for the Best!
Discuss the upcoming breeding game Felisfire.
A place for battles, trading, and tons more!
A dog forum for all breeds and their owners. Please stay for as long as you like!
The Breeding Squad is property of Failkarp, Rondoudou and Iggy Azalea. Enter at your peril.
Hi and welcome to The Crested Gecko Forum, a place to discuss morphs, breeding, care and everything in between.
Top Marwari Breeding group on Howrse.com.
Barking Mad - forum for dog lovers.
Barkingmad. Forum for all dog lovers, breeders, trainers, and those who just generally love to talk about dogs. If that's you, then this is the place for you!
A place to get real information about Sugar Gliders without the Sugar Coating.
A multi-gaming website which has everything you need!
Trading, Breeding and lots more!
A forum is for fans of the incredible Blood and Short-tailed Pythons.
A free Australian horse forum for open discussion. We are a horsey bunch, of great diversity, who have met on other forums or facebook. This is our place to catch up. If you like talking horses and meeting new people then this is the place for you.
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