May, R.M. (1976) Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics. Nature, 261, 459-467.
摘要: 在生物系统和生命活动中,酶都发挥着非常重要的作用,并且参与了几乎所有的化学反应。因此,酶动力学的分析对化学反应的研究至关重要。所以从二十世纪早期就有许多专家学者致力于对酶促系统进行动力学分析,并且做出了许多杰出的贡献。酶动力学的分析对于研究如何控制酶的活性,如何利用药物控制酶,以及酶在代谢中的作用等均有重要作用。本文通过严格的数学分析基础的酶动力学模型,即包含单一底物被酶催化转化为单一产物的反应模型,基于计算机代数技术和动力系统的定性理论。本文的方法是在没有任何假设的情况下提出的并且得到了模型的解析解。在文章的最后给出了一些例子来验证该方法并给出曲线表示。此外,该方法也可以用于研究其它学科,例如生物物理等。 Enzyme plays an important role in the living system as well as life process, and is involved in almost every chemical reaction; thus the enzyme kinetics is fundamental to the research of the chemical reactions. Therefore, from the early part of twentieth century, many researchers were dedicated to the study of the analysis of kinetics of enzymatic system, and a lot of excellent work has been done, because the analysis of the enzyme kinetics can help us find how the activity of enzyme is controlled, how the drug inhibits the enzyme, its role in metabolism, and so on. In this paper, we present a method by rigorous mathematics to analyze the general enzyme kinetics model, which is concerned with a single substrate catalyzed by enzyme and transformed into a single product, and it is based on computer algebra technique and the qualitative theory of dynamical system. Our method does not need any assumption and all the solutions here are analytical. Finally, some examples are given to test this method and make it readable by simulated progress curves, so that almost everyone may understand it. Furthermore, the techniques in this study can be used to the research of other disciplines, such as biophysics, and so on.


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Ka`u News Briefs Thursday, March 27, 2014
Aloha Bluegrass Band, with Keoki Kahumoku and friends, raised money last night for their children's education workshops with a
concert at Pahala Plantation Manager's House. Photo by Julia Neal
AN ASPIRING KA`U CHAPTER of Hawai'i Farmers Union United invites the public to a meeting on Saturday, April 19 at 5 p.m. at Pāhala Community Center. Speakers include Vincent Mina, President of the state board of Hawai`i Farmers Union United. Also on the agenda is Bob Shaffer, a coffee farmer and agronomist with Soil Culture Consulting. One of the organizers of the new chapter, Malian Lahey, said all farmers and others interested in the future of agriculture in Ka`u are invited to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring potluck items made from local ingredients.
Hawai`i Farmers Union United's mission statement says the organization "advocates for the sovereign right of farmers to create and sustain vibrant and prosperous agricultural communities for the benefit of all Hawai`i through cooperation, education and legislation." It says the Hawai`i division of the Farmers Union is "recognized and respected in representing a family of farmers here in Hawai`i. Hawai`i Farmers Union empowers island farmers to earn a prosperous living through regenerative stewardship of our lands, waters and communities. Hawai`i Farmers Union serves as a bridge between farmers and consumers through vibrant, local, community Farmers Union chapters in all districts on all islands."
Vincent Mina will be a keynote speaker at the first Hawai`i Farmers Union United
meeting in Ka`u next month. Photo from Vincent Mina
Keynote speaker Mina is co-owner/operator of a family farm Kahanu `Aina Greens on Maui with his wife Irene and two children. Making a living on 2,000 square feet producing baby greens in plant-based compost, he has been advocating for small farmers' rights since being President of Hawai`i Organic Farmers Association in 1997, according to a statement from HFUU. Mina also served as secretary for the Maui County Farm Bureau from 2005 to 2008, President of the Maui Chapter of Hawai`i Farmers Union United from 2011 to 2013 and the state President of Hawai`i Farmers Union United from 2012 to the present. Along with Irene Mina, he co-founded in 2001 Maui Aloha `Aina Association, a nonprofit organization "that promotes life-nurturing practices for the body and the soil through education outreach services," HFUU notes. Mina has produced 11 conferences since 2001.
Mina said, "We are on the threshold of our islands becoming a leader in producing a majority of our food, fiber and fuel through the use of regenerative and restorative practices done with a whole systems approach in ecological agriculture. "
According to HFUU, as state president, "Vincent has focused on the issues and needs of our small family farmers, building chapter strength and consistency of chapter meetings on each island along with surveying the membership to find out what direction our members want us to go in advocating for programs that serve the interest of our small ecological farmers."
The second keynote speaker, Shaffer, said that "the foundation of sustainability begins with respect for nature and feeding the soil." He is a horticulturist, agronomist and viticulturist for Soil Culture Consulting. He has been consulting and training farmers in sustainable, science-based farming systems in subtropical and temperate environments for 35 years. He is a regular presenter at ACRES USA conferences.
Shaffer has expertise in development and management of cover-crop systems for farms, orchards and vineyards. He "looks at cover crops from a whole-farm perspective including soil biology," the HFUU statement says, including "soil physics and how the cover crop interrelates with food production and quality."
According to the HFUU statement, the organization "works closely with farmers to develop policy that will then be brought to legislators on the national and state level. At the April 19 meeting, we will hold a World Café session, where anyone who attends can talk about what their priorities are for agriculture-related policy."
HFUU also plans a legislative retreat on Maui June 22-23 to develop strategy for the 2015 legislative session.
Specific help for Ka`u Farmers, according to the statement, involves supporting tax exemptions and deductions for farmers; support for small and medium family farmers and growers using regenerative techniques; and support for various food security task forces and help guide strategy on Hawai`i's food production into the future."
For more information, contact Lahey at 503-575-9098 or malian@kauspecialtycoffee.com.
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Jade Tredinnick, of Volcano School of Arts and Sciences,
and Keoni Taylor, of Ka`u High School, are regulars at
Keoki Kahumoku workshops. Photo by Julia Neal
A CONCERT AND FUNDRAISER for the educational programs of the Aloha Bluegrass Band drew about 85 people to Pahala Plantation
Managers House last night. The group, which plays Bluegrass and Piligrass music, features stand-up bass, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar and `ukulele with Keoki Kahumoku. The band plays at Blue Dragon Restaurant in Kawaihae tonight and at the Palace Theatre on Friday. The musicians teach music at children's workshops on the Big Island, Maui and on the mainland with a concert each year in Pahala.
DANIEL MORIARTY IS RECOVERING from being shot at his home in Ocean View two weeks ago, reports Chelsea Jensen in West Hawai`i Today. He is receiving treatment at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific on O`ahu. "I am doing exceptionally well. Everybody is saying I am doing good, and I feel I'm at 150 percent," he told Jensen. "It's looking like I will walk again at some point — but the extent of that is impossible to say."
Moriarty said he expects to be back home in a couple of weeks. He said friends and family are getting the house ready to accommodate him.
Moriarty told Jensen he attributes his recovery to a combination of "using every possible tool we can," including modern medicine and energy prayer.
Regarding his assailant, longtime friend Clyde Hawse "Cris" Criswell, Moriarty said he forgave him "when I was still laying on the floor. I knew in his right mind he would never do something like that and he could never see himself doing something like that." He said Criswell had "too much alcohol, and something snapped in his brain."
A fundraising account to help the family with mounting bills has been set up under the name of Brooke Moriarty at HFS Federal Credit Union. Call Ray Henderson at 929-9693 for more information.
Ka`u's U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Donation jars have also been placed in Ka`u businesses. In Na`alehu, jars are at Hana Hou Restaurant and Island Market. In Ocean View, jars are at Rancho Ace Hardware, Ocean View Pizzeria, Kahuku Country Store, Replay, Ka`u Business Services, Coffee Grinds Restaurant, DJ's Pizza and Bakeshop, Ocean View Auto Parts, L&L Hawaiian Barbecue and Spin Zone Wash.
See westhawaiitoday.com.
"I WELCOME THE NEWS OF THE PRESIDENT moving toward ending the sweeping collection of our personal data, and look forward to reviewing the President's legislative proposal," said Ka`u's U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. The President's proposal to overhaul its surveillance programs includes ending bulk collection and storage of phone records.
Gabbard said, "For years, millions of Americans have been kept in the dark about the collection of their personal data by their own government, in the name of national security, without any evidence that such intrusive actions were effective in preventing attacks on our country. I will continue working toward bringing about reforms that strike the necessary balance of protecting our constitutional right to privacy and maintaining strong national security. The American people should not have to choose between the two." To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar.
Mother and father nene seen on O`ahu are from Hawai`i Island.
Image from Hawai`i News Now
NEW PARENTS OF THREE NENE GOSLINGS on O`ahu are from Hawai`i Island, according to a story in Honolulu Star-Advertiser. They are the first nene to be seen on O`ahu since the 1700s. Scientists suspect the birds were on their way to Kaua`i for the nesting season when they stopped in Kahuku. Originally from Kaua`i, the birds, tagged K59 and K60, were previously moved to Maui and then Hawai`i Island.
TONIGHT IS KARAOKE NIGHT at Kilauea Military Camp's Lava Lounge in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Beginning at 7 p.m., the activity is open to authorized patrons and sponsored guests. Park entrance fees apply.
VOLCANO ART CENTER GALLERY in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park presents Aloha Friday on the porch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with variable hula art offerings of hula lessons, lei making, storytelling, lauhala weaving or `ukulele lessons. Everyone is welcome to this free event. Donations are welcome, and park entrance fees apply.
KILAUEA LU`AU BUFFET TOMORROW from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. features a free hula show at 7 p.m. At Kilauea Military Camp's Crater Rim Café in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, the menu includes kalua pork and cabbage, shoyu chicken, breaded ono, chicken long rice and more. Adults $15.25; $8 children 6-11 years old. The event is open to authorized patrons and sponsored guests. Park entrance fees apply. For more information, call 967-8356.
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Minione – wspólny album polskiej piosenkarki Anny Marii Jopek i kubańskiego pianisty - improwizatora Gonzala Rubalcaby, wydany 3 lutego 2017 przez Universal Music. Tytuł nawiązuje do zawartości płyty, tj. przedwojennych tang i boler z lat 30. XX wieku, które duet opracował we współczesnej stylistyce fusion, mieszance muzyki świata i jazzu.

Album, który ukazał się w wersji standardowej (CD), rozszerzonej (CD + DVD) oraz winylowej i cyfrowej, uzyskał status podwójnej platynowej płyty. Do promocji wybrano następujące single: "Twe usta kłamią", "Kogo nasza miłość obchodzi" i "To ostatnia niedziela".

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 Początek (Trailer 1)
 Tango w Miami (Trailer 2)
 Spotkanie (Trailer 3)
 Twe usta kłamią (Klip)

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Legal Updates for Real Estate
2019 Real Estate Legal Updates
Property Owners Affected by Local Government Takings Can Sue in Federal Court
After the Supreme Court's decision in Knick, federal courts will play a more central role in resolving disputes over property takings by state and local governments
In Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania (2019), the U.S. Supreme Court changed an important doctrine within American property law, addressing a violation of the Constitution's Takings Clause.
Under the Takings Clause, a government entity must pay individuals "just compensation" for taking their property. In a reversal of prior precedent, the Supreme Court held that individuals can challenge Takings Clause violations directly in federal court.
Who Is Knick, Anyway?
Rose Mary Knick, who brought this lawsuit, owned a graveyard on her 90-acre rural property.
Then the Township of Scott, Pennsylvania, passed a local ordinance mandating that all cemeteries "be kept open and accessible to the general public during daylight hours."
Upon being notified that she was violating the ordinance by keeping the graveyard private, Knick sued in state court. She asked for what's called declaratory relief, or for the judge to state that the government's action constituted a "taking" under the U.S. Constitution.
The Takings Clause is found within the various rights enumerated in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. It states, in relevant part, that no "private property [shall] be taken for public use, without just compensation."
In other words, if a local, state or federal government wants to take a person's property for "public use"—such as a building a roadway through someone's backyard—it may do so, but only if the government pays "just compensation" for that taking. "Just compensation" essentially means the fair market value of whatever is taken.
Knick tried to have the state courts in Pennsylvania declare the Township's actions to be a taking. In response, the Township decided to withdraw its violation notice, no longer enforcing it against her. Because the Township was no longer actively enforcing the ordinance against her, she could not establish a taking before the state court.
That left Knick uncertain of whether her rights were permanently protected. So she filed a separate action in federal court, asserting the same Takings Clause violation.
However, the federal trial court—and later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit—dismissed her lawsuit, noting that they were bound by the Supreme Court's precedent in Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank (1985). There, the Court held that a property owner who argues that the government has "taken" his property within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment could only file a claim in federal court after he has first obtained a "final decision" from the relevant state regulatory agency and "exhausted" all possible remedies in state court. In other words, federal courts could not get involved in policing state or local governmental takings until the state courts had the opportunity to fully address the issue.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the decision from the Third Circuit on Knick's request.
What Supreme Court Said in Knick Case
In a close 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court held that a property owner can sue directly in federal court under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever a state or local government violates the Takings Clause.
In so holding, the Court explicitly overturned the requirement from Williamson County that property owners must first sue in state court before beginning federal litigation.
Justice Roberts reasoned that the requirement of exhausting remedies in state court can lead to tremendous burden on plaintiffs, and can also lead to situations where obtaining a "final decision" from the state courts is impossible, as was the case with Knick and her graveyard ordinance.
"We now conclude that the state-litigation requirement imposes an unjustifiable burden on takings plaintiffs...," he wrote. "A property owner has an actionable Fifth Amendment takings claim when the government takes his property without paying for it...."
Justice Elena Kagan penned a scathing dissent, which argued that the Court's majority had drastically deviated from "an understanding of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause stretching back to the late 1800s." By overturning Williamson County, the majority "smashes a hundred-plus years of legal rulings to smithereens." Justice Kagan's dissent was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, indicating that the decision fell along traditional ideological lines.
How Knick Case Impacts Property Owners Going Forward
The Court's decision in Knick is likely to have dramatic impacts on property law. Federal courts will now play a more central role in resolving disputes over property takings by state and local governments in the first instance—a role that was formerly played by state courts.
The decision also shows the willingness of the Court's majority to overturn longstanding precedent.


In the realm of graphics performance and gaming on Android, the next big thing is Vulkan, more specifically the Vulkan API, which will allow game developers to take advantage of some better visuals and performance thanks to speed boosts that are afforded due to the way that Vulkan allows games to make use of all the cores in a CPU. Today, Unity which is one of the leading graphics engines across multiple platforms and is currently working with Google on Daydream, has just announced that as of right now anyone looking to get their hands dirty and begin doing some work with Unity and Vulkan can do so through the very first developer preview of the Vulkan Renderer for Unity.
Initially, the Vulkan Renderer for Unity was announced back at Google I/O during the Summer, and although this is not a fully fledged product yet, a Developer Preview does at least give those with the knowledge and the desire to dig in and start checking things out, which, ultimately gives them more preparation for when things are finalized. Naturally, Unity wanted to get the ball rolling on their support for the Vulkan Renderer on Android as Google announced that Android Nougat would be introducing native support for the Vulkan API, and since many mobile games are based on Unity, it only seemed fitting that Unity should start this process.
For anyone looking to get started with the Developer Preview, Unity lays out a nice list of steps needed to begin, and of course they highly recommend that people remember to back up any projects before they start testing. The Developer Preview is based on a 4th beta release of Unity 5.5, and accessing Vulkan support can be done by navigating to the Player Settings menu, then Other Settings, and finally by unchecking the "Auto Graphics API" box. Once this is unchecked which should clear whatever was being used, the list should expand and Vulkan should be an available option. If not, Unity states that users can add it by simply clicking on the "+" symbol. Unity's Developer Preview of the Vulkan Renderer for Android is supported on a few different platforms which includes Linux, Android, and Windows Standalone, although there is currently no support for the editor. Unity also mentions that the Developer Preview is experimental so developers should proceed with caution. The preview has been tested on a few different Android devices including the European model of the Samsung Galaxy S7, both versions of the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet, as well as the Google Nexus 6P and Google Nexus 5X.


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Smartphone maker Xiaomi says legal complaint against U.S. to protect its interests
(Reuters) Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp said on Sunday that its legal complaint against the U.S. Department of Defense and the Treasury Department was to protect the company's interests, in a notice on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The company filed a complaint in a Washington district court on Friday against the U.S. Defense and Treasury Departments, seeking to remove the Chinese smartphone maker from an official list of companies with ties to China's military.
Xiaomi said the U.S. decision to include the company as a "communist Chinese military company" was "factually incorrect" and said it had asked the courts to declare the decision illegal.
The Defense Department, under the Trump administration in mid-January, added Xiaomi and eight other companies to the list, which requires American investors to divest their holdings in the firms by a set deadline.
Xiaomi has said that 75% of the company's voting rights, under a weighted structure, were held by co-founders Lin Bin and Lei Jun, with no ownership or control from an individual or entity affiliated with the military.
Source: Reuters; Reporting by Farah Master; Editing by Frances Kerry and Catherine Evans
Smartphone maker Xiaomi says legal complaint against U.S. to protect its interests Reviewed by TechCO on 1/31/2021 Rating: 5


Bring Your Own Device – or BYOD – is a hot topic in enterprise mobility . It means that workers can bring their own smartphones, tablets and other devices into work and/or use them for professional activities. One of BYOD's main benefits is a considerable increase in productivity. And that makes sense. Just think of your own tennis racket or set of golf clubs vs. borrowed gear – tools that you know improve performance. But is that a realistic expectation in a business environment? And, if so, how does it work?
BYOD is not going away anytime soon – that much is clear – but how can you take advantage of the business opportunities it offers and increase productivity at the same time?
It's important to keep in mind that today's workforce is pretty tech-savvy – they know their own devices better than anyone. As a result, less training is required and they can get work done faster than with a company-owned device. Faster turnaround, happy customers, more revenue – easy.
A solid BYOD policy opens up superior access to information, wherever your employees are. Mobilizing your workforce offers its own set of advantages – and has fundamentally changed many companies' core-structure. If we only consider productivity gains, study by Dell Software shows that BYOD programs induced more flexible schedules, heightened creativity, innovation and better workplace collaboration.
Employee satisfaction is the most crucial factor to productivity. And employees who operate under a BYOD umbrella are happier than those who have to rely on enterprise devices. Even if they have to pay for it themselves. People replace their devices at a faster speed than you ever could. Essentially allowing your organization to profit from the latest technologies, without any of the costs.
In short? Your employees work longer, faster and happier with their own devices. And it costs less too.
The biggest risk associated with BYOD-policies is cyber security. IT departments have a hard time remaining in control of sensitive data due to employees' increased access. These concerns have diminished thanks to a large variety of Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that can encrypt, containerize and erase enterprise data.
Balancing security and privacy is BYOD's second largest challenge. Organizations can track and store users' activities with most MDM-solutions. 4 out of 5 employees consider this a serious breach of their privacy. Not merely a morale downer, but a legitimate legal challenge.
Organizations like their employees to use the same system to make sure there are no compatibility issues such as version mismatches, wrong configurations or inadequate access rights. Nowadays, however, most mainstream operating systems support all your favorite software.
Will BYOD boost or hurt your (team's) productivity? In theory, BYOD dramatically increases productivity. Without a solid mobile policy, however, you run the risk of achieving the exact opposite effect. A good way to protect your business – and your employees – from BYOD-blunders is to adopt a well-devised mobile policy or outsource MDM entirely.
Securing sensitive data is a big challenge for BYOD. A well-devised MDM policy can help. Do you need help with your MDM strategy? Our experts are glad to assist you.


Alona from LoneTester blog has offered us this fun "When I was young" geneameme and it's been a pleasure reflecting on the answers.
Do you (or your parents) have any memorabilia from when you were a baby? (ie. baby book, lock of hair, first shoes etc.) Yes, I am lucky to have a baby book, baby photos, bracelet and other odds and ends.
Do you know if you were named after anyone? Quite the opposite – I was named so none of my name included any of my paternal grandmother's…hence the "een" ending. Ironically Catherine is a name I now know to be threaded through generations of my Irish, German and Scots ancestry.
And do you know of any other names your parents might have named you? Paul, because I was supposed to be a boy.
What is your earliest memory? Hard to say, I have vague memories of my maternal grandmother who died before I was four and used to bring biscuits when she visited. No specific memory other than that.
Did your parent/s (or older siblings) read, sing or tell stories to you? Do you remember any of these? Yes both read to me. Mum liked fairy tales and Dad would buy me religious comics when I was sick (odd because Mum was the religious one). Mum used to sing around the house and at night would sing "turaluralura", an Irish lullaby.
When you were young, do you remember what it was that you wanted to grow up to be? I wanted to be a marine biologist until 2nd year uni…just as well it didn't work out as I get claustrophobic with snorkel masks, let alone scuba diving gear.
Did you have a favourite teacher at school? Sr Gemma in Grade 8 and Sr Mary Benedict for Years 11-12. Both made an enormous difference to my eduction.
How did you get to school? Primary School: Walking – it wasn't far and we didn't own a car. Secondary school: bus to Fortitude Valley. University: Bus and tram.
What games did playtime involve? Skipping, tiggy, elastics….??? At home, dolls and dress-ups or guns and cowboys.
Did you have a cubby house? Not a fancy one, but a special play space under the house (remember Qld houses are on stilts), and I'd sometimes build one with old sheets etc under the steps etc.
Cousin Jimmy, me Aunty Mary, Mum and Dad in Cairns.
What was something you remember from an early family holiday? The 2.5 day train ride on the Sunlander from Brisbane to Townsville for holidays on Magnetic Island. Throwing newspapers to the railway gangers in their tents by the line. Buying fish, chips and (potato) scallops in Rockhampton. Meeting up with Mum's childhood friend and her family, and a couple of aunts.
What is a memory from one of your childhood birthdays or Christmas? The smell of the small gum tree that dad would cut from down the creek bank. I remember that my friends were often away for my birthday as it was school holidays…poor me, boo hoo.
Our gum tree Christmas tree when I was a child.
What childhood injuries do you remember? I was lucky to have no broken bones etc (touch wood!) so one stands out….I cut my left calf on a sticky-out bit on a bike pedal. The family friend in the next street carried me home with it bleeding everywhere then we went to the hospital – strangely I don't remember how, given we didn't have a car. I still have the faded scar as a memento.
What was your first pet? Cats, cats and more cats.
Did your grandparents, or older relatives tell you stories of "when I was young ..?" Not really. My paternal grandparents lived next door but they didn't tell those sorts of stories. Instead my grandmother introduced me to Scottish music, bagpipes and dancing.
What was entertainment when you were young? The radio I guess, though I don't remember listening to it a lot until I was a teenager. My grandmother had a gramophone which I've inherited (currently being minded by my friend in Brisbane) and I loved checking the needle, winding it up, and playing those heavy old records. Sometimes if you visited a home where they had a piano there might be singalongs but my family didn't do this much, perhaps because of Dad's shift work. Otherwise entertainment was books, hence my addiction, one I shared with Dad. Sometimes we'd go to the neighbourhood picture theatre for the movies. I remember seeing Fantasia in the city with Mum and Aunty Emily and being scared silly by all those marauding brooms.
Do you remember what it was it like when your family got a new fangled invention? (ie. telephone, TV, VCR, microwave, computer?) Heck, I even remember when we first got some colour camera film when a "rich" relation brought some back from the USA for us. Until we got a telephone when I was in my mid-late teens I used to have to sit nearby while Mum rang her friend from a public phone box…man they could talk! We bought a Commodore computer for our own family in the late 1980s and a VCR in the mid-1980s.
One of our first colour photos – Dad among his roses.
Did your family have a TV? Was it b&w or colour? And how many channels did you get? I remember the neighbours down the next street getting a black and white TV – maybe because they had several children? We got a B&W one when I was in my teens – probably a good thing because we didn't have any in PNG after we were married. Channels – no idea.Two or three I think.
Did your family move house when you were young? Do you remember it? No, I lived in the same house until I married and Dad lived on the same block his whole life.
Was your family involved in any natural disasters happening during your childhood (ie.fire, flood, cyclone, earthquake etc) I remember an early trip to Magnetic Island when there was a cyclone and the palm trees seemed to touch their toes. Despite this Dad took me up the back to go to the toilet….probably I was scared….it's a wonder he didn't say to use a bucket! We got taken off the island by army duck then a couple of days later we took the ferry to Green Island and as Mum always says "were green on the way over, and green on the way back". I still remember the boat dipping from side to side, just touching the water. Dad was one of the few who didn't get sick, but put him on a mill-pond and he'd be violently ill.
One of my favourite photos – Dad, me and the kittens at the holiday flat at Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island, where we stayed during the cyclone.
Is there any particular music that when you hear it, sparks a childhood memory? Tura lura lura, Bing Crosby, Oh Tannenbaum, certain hymns. My daughter still sings turalura to her children. I wonder who Mum learnt it from – perhaps her Irish father.
What is something that an older family member taught you to do? Mum taught me to sew, and must have taught me some crocheting too I think.Dad's mother had been a dressmaker but as she was already in her late 70s when I was a child, she never bothered sewing any more, though I did enjoy playing with the buttons she had in a jar.
What are brands that you remember from when you were a kid? TAA, Ansett (thanks Alona!), Waltons, McWhirter, TC Beirne's, those heart-shaped lollies with writing on them (and yes, fags lollies), Persil washing powder, Reckitt's blue bags, Lux flakes. I'm sure there are many I've forgotten.
Some of the lovely shells I still have in my collection.
Did you used to collect anything? (ie. rocks, shells, stickers … etc.) Shells and books. (see above) Now I feel very guilty about the environmental impact of shell collecting. Like Dad I still have a partiality for collecting the odd stone that takes my fancy.
An Easter gift from Aunty Emily.
this is a tough one. We'd sometimes go to a highpoint nearby and admire the city lights or the stars….one of Mum's much-loved things to do. Or, at Easter, getting to eat all the lollies one had given up for Lent but kept stored in a jar….time for a pig-out. Getting special treats like tiny cups and saucers from my maternal great-aunt. Visiting New Farm Park with her and Mum and seeing the beautiful roses there. Helping Mum with the cake and biscuit baking on Saturdays….and licking the bowl. School fetes etc etc.
Sport: I was pretty rubbish at sport though I enjoyed informal sprints down the streets with the neighbourhood kids. I also learned to play tennis which I can't say that I loved…or was very good at. Ditto swimming classes and swimming club at the Valley Pool….ugh.
Music: I learned to play the piano for a while with the nuns at my primary school. I remember playing chopsticks or Elvis Presley's Wooden Heart on our neighbour's piano with my friend. We would race to complete it in the shortest time possible -it's a wonder her parents didn't throw us out.
Games: Who remembers this game…it seems to be having a resurgence as we saw some in Sydney. http://youtu.be/X1DArckNWdM And then there was the introduction of hula hoops and yo-yos. And what about board games like snakes and ladders or Chinese chequers?
.Thanks Alona for this trip down memory lane. And thanks Mum for all the photos I have and my own love of photography.


Welcome To BLOGMAS Day 4!
My relationship with movies has always been quite moody. I am not one of those who would have a movie's back when I am bored or would hit the theatres because it has set some sort of record (my mother is just that :p). I am more of a word of mouth person. For me to actually spend 2-3 hours watching a movie must really mean something. That exactly is the reason why I have still not watched quite a few known and 'must watch' ones according to everyone around.
It is a short but an exciting list. Please share with me your movie bucket list and if you have any other recommendations. I shall be delighted to watch a couple of extras! Thank you so much for reading through the post:-) See you tomorrow with BLOGMAS Day 5!


The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is pleased to announce that the Cambodia Peace Museum will open on October 23, 2018.
CPCS has chosen this date of the 27th anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements in line with our aim to celebrate Cambodia's journey from war to peace, with the agreements as a major moment in this journey. The museum will open with exhibits that focus on peacebuilding initiatives that helped to move the country beyond its turbulent past, and mechanisms for healing and reconciliation that contribute to the resilience of Cambodians.
The mark the occasion of the museum's opening CPCS will host a week of events in Battambang. More details to be announced as we move closer to opening the Cambodia Peace Museum!


3 Ways to Engage in the Story – Please Say More.
Next time you've got birthday presents to choose, groceries to buy, or even just time to kill, skip the superstores and seek out a culturally diverse shopping center, then strike up a conversation during your trip.
If you live in Minnesota, stop by the Hmong marketplace in St. Paul or the Somali market in Minneapolis. If you live elsewhere, let Google by your guide.
If you live near the Twin Cities, consider checking out the 9th Annual Cuban Film Festival at St. Anthony Theatre on Main, or locate a venue near you. If you don't want to physically make the trip, browse foreign language films on your favorite streaming service.
You could also visit a museum or cultural center featuring multicultural art and history. In Minnesota, the Minneapolis Institute of Art features exhibitions from a myriad of international sources, while institutions like the Hmong Cultural Center and the American Swedish Institute are more specific.
If you're up for something a little more active, you can join a diverse community at the vibrant May Day Parade, or even join in the festivities yourself.
Seek out forums, articles, and other online spaces where people share their experiences of life and culture and community. Share your own story, ask questions, and listen on purpose.
But beware: social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have mechanisms basing the content they show us next on what we've looked at previously. This is good for marketing, but bad for our perspectives, resulting in an echo chamber effect where we only see what we want to see. Subvert this by seeking out content from people of different backgrounds and viewpoints you don't necessarily share, and listen to what they have to say.
Thank you for talking about the echo chamber effect and, in particular, for linking to the NPR piece.


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Who Made Facebook First - On the 4th February Facebook transformed 14 years of ages. Now one of the biggest companies worldwide, it's become an everyday component of countless lives everywhere.
Businesses, as well, have found their place from market titans to the enchanting cafe in a small community of a couple of hundred people.
So exactly how did one young US trainee go from coding in his dormitory to the head of one of the most important and also influential technology firms in history?
Who Made Facebook First
Zuckerberg starts
Mark Zuckerberg took the initial steps of his course at an early age. Plainly understanding the value of coding, Zuckerberg's papa Edward educated him Atari BASIC computer shows. It didn't take wish for his skills to become noticeable. When he was 11, his moms and dads worked with a software designer called David Newman to tutor him. Newman to today calls Zuckerberg a "natural born player".
Within a couple of years, Zuckerberg created an exceptionally functional programme: ZuckNet. His father ran a dentists out of the house and wanted a straightforward way for the assistant to contact him without shouting with their residence. ZuckNet, which functioned like an internal immediate messaging system, did simply that.
While attending Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite boarding school, his drive to produce did not moderate. He attracted passion from AOL and also Microsoft. The wanted to buy Synapse, an item of software program that discovered a user's songs preference with AI and paying attention routines he created with a buddy, and give him a task.
Ultimately, he transformed it down and establish his sites on Harvard. It's below where the origins of Facebook can be located. It's a choice he not likely regrets currently.
Having actually refused two of the greatest technology business on the planet, Zuckerberg headed off to Harvard in 2002. Plainly he had larger strategies. He decided to major in psychology, but took lots of computer technology courses along with it. Initially the psychology selection appears weird. Why not major in programming or something similar?
But when you think about Facebook's nature, the intended 'addictive' nature of the likes, remarks, as well as jabs, the psychology part ends up being more clear. Facebook from the off pulls you into share individual details as well as look for communication from other people. Being able to develop something such as this needs to entail some understanding of the human mind.
Zukerberg attracts his initial huge controversy in October, 2003. He creates and also published Facemash, a web site that lets Harvard trainees evaluate the attractiveness of each other to produce rankings (similar to the Hot or otherwise site that introduced in 2000). As he really did not actually get authorization to make use of pupil images, unsurprisingly lots of were not pleased with his job.
Within a few hrs the site had actually seen 22k image views, but within a couple of days it was shut down. He was taken front of the Harvard Administration Board. With the threat of expulsion on the table, the board ultimately decided to allow him stay. After a public apology he went on from his initial brush with authority as well as established his sights on his next task.
After that, ultimately, in December, 2009, Facebook hits a significant turning point. With 350m signed up users and also 132m unique monthly customers, it becomes one of the most prominent social platform on the planet. Certainly, the business had not been planning to leave it at that.
The following year saw lots extra tweaking and modifications, such as the capacity to such as comments and also renovations to photo tagging. July saw the number of registered individuals hit 500m, while completion of the year saw a big valuation of the company.
In November, 2010 Facebook was valued at a huge $41bn. At the same time it became the 3rd largest web firm in the US, resting behind Google and also Amazon.com. Every one of this being achieved in under five years without indicator of development slowing.
Another big turning point was gotten to the following year. June, 2011 saw Facebook get to 1 trillion web page views, inning accordance with a study by DoubleClick. Then, for the year on the whole, Nielsen discovered the site was the Second most seen in the United States.
August additionally saw the launch of Facebook Messenger as a standalone app. This came after the business got Beluga, a team messaging solution, back in March.
Facebook had currently become a significant name, an internationally utilized website, and ahead of the social media sites revolution. Not too shabby from somebody who was still in institution simply a couple of years prior.
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Idiom I at Pierogi
IDIOM I
Opening Reception:
Friday 10 Jan (7-9pm)
Kirsten Deirup
J. Fiber
Darina Karpov
Johan Nobell
Ryan Mrozowski
Lynn Talbot
Id•i•om (noun)
•an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words but that has a separate meaning of its own
•a form of language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations
•a style or form of expression that is characteristic of a particular person, type of art, etc.
Pierogi is pleased to present Idiom I and Idiom II, two consecutive exhibitions, each including work having a related visual language. "Idiom" typically refers to the written word, meaning either, a characteristic vocabulary or usage of a particular group or, an expression whose meaning as a whole is not inferred by the typical meanings of the individual words making up the phrase. In other words, when combined the individual parts create something unexpected, such as "the devil's in the details" or "waste not want not." In this case it is a visual language and transformance which is referenced.
Idiom I is developed around the concept of "willing suspension of disbelief," the notion proposed in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Each of these artists' takes on this notion in their own idiosyncratic manner. There is a sense of suggested narrative which is nonethless implausible.
Idiom II will include the work of Justin Amrhein, Beth Campbell, Jonathan Herder, Mark Lombardi, William Powhida, and Ward Shelley. The exhibition dates will be 14 February through 16 March, 2014, with an opening on Friday, 14 February (7-9pm).


Ceiling completed in light green and color brought down one inch onto walls to create a straight line. Walls coated with two coats of oil-based enamel basecoat. Walls were glazed with oil-based materials to match colors in a large rug. Finish was applied over a texture known as Spanish lace. Cracks and bleeding added in to give aged effect, then coated with two applications of semigloss spar varnish so finish will yellow with age.


Get into the festive spirit this Halloween and enjoy playing Dragoborne with a twist to the game, Trick or Treat!
The rules are simple. At the start of a player�s turn, the turn player will provide the choice of �Trick or Treat� to his/her opponent.
-If Trick was chosen, the turn player will get to discard 1 card at random from his/her opponent�s hand.
-If Treat was chosen, the turn player will get to draw 1 card. This Halloween themed rule is aimed to help game stores attract both current and new players to play Dragoborne at their stores during the holiday.
Stores are encouraged to host tournaments using the above rules during the Halloween week to help generate awareness for Dragoborne.


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module Qpid::Proton
  # Allow a {Receiver} to indicate the status of a received message to the {Sender}
  class Delivery < Transfer
    def initialize(*args) super; @message = nil; end

    # @return [Receiver] The parent {Receiver} link.
    def receiver() link; end

    # Accept the receiveed message.
    def accept() settle ACCEPTED; end

    # Reject a message, indicating to the sender that is invalid and should
    # never be delivered again to this or any other receiver.
    def reject() settle REJECTED; end

    # Release a message, indicating to the sender that it was not processed
    # but may be delivered again to this or another receiver.
    #
    # @param opts [Hash] Instructions to the sender to modify re-delivery.
    #  To allow re-delivery with no modifications at all use +release(nil)+
    #
    # @option opts [Boolean] :failed (true) Instruct the sender to increase
    #  {Message#delivery_count} so future receivers will know there was a
    #  previous failed delivery.
    #
    # @option opts [Boolean] :undeliverable (false) Instruct the sender that this
    #  message should never be re-delivered to this receiver, although it may be
    #  delivered other receivers.
    #
    # @option opts [Hash] :annotations Instruct the sender to update the
    #  {Message#annotations} with these +key=>value+ pairs before re-delivery,
    #  replacing existing entries in {Message#annotations} with the same key.
    def release(opts = nil)
      opts = { :failed => false } if (opts == false) # deprecated
      failed = !opts || opts.fetch(:failed, true)
      undeliverable = opts && opts[:undeliverable]
      annotations = opts && opts[:annotations]
      annotations = nil if annotations && annotations.empty?
      if failed || undeliverable || annotations
        d = Cproton.pn_delivery_local(@impl)
        Cproton.pn_disposition_set_failed(d, true) if failed
        Cproton.pn_disposition_set_undeliverable(d, true) if undeliverable
        Codec::Data.from_object(Cproton.pn_disposition_annotations(d), annotations) if annotations
        settle(MODIFIED)
      else
        settle(RELEASED)
      end
    end

    # @deprecated use {#release} with modification options
    def modify()
      deprecated __method__, "release(modification_options)"
      release failed=>true
    end

    # @return [Boolean] True if the transfer was aborted by the sender.
    proton_caller :aborted?

    # @return true if the incoming message is complete, call {#message} to retrieve it.
    def complete?() readable? && !aborted? && !partial?; end

    # Get the message from the delivery.
    # @return [Message] The message
    # @raise [AbortedError] if the message has been aborted (check with {#aborted?}
    # @raise [UnderflowError] if the message is incomplete (check with {#complete?}
    # @raise [::ArgumentError] if the delivery is not the current delivery on a receiving link.
    def message
      unless @message
        raise AbortedError, "message aborted by sender" if aborted?
        raise UnderflowError, "incoming message incomplete" if partial?
        raise ArgumentError, "no incoming message" unless readable?
        @message = Message.new
        @message.decode(link.receive(pending))
        link.advance
      end
      @message
    end
  end
end

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Stars: Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Adams
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Stars: Susie Dent, Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley, John Pohlhammer
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The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.
Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
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Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Howard Stern, Mary McCormack, Robin Quivers, Fred Norris
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44. Man on the Moon (1999)
The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry
45. Winter Sleep (2014)
Not Rated | 196 min | Drama
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan
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25 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
In this weekly show, the former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj brings his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to explore the larger grim trends shaping our fragmented world.
Stars: Hasan Minhaj, Joyelle Johnson, Arnab Goswami, Andrew Yang
47. In Living Color (1990–1994)
The Wayans siblings present an African-American focused sketch comedy show.
Stars: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey, Kelly Coffield Park, David Alan Grier
48. Little Britain (2003–2006)
Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad, quirky and generally bonkers about the people and places of Britain.
Stars: Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Tom Baker, Paul Putner
49. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967–1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Music
The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.
Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Ruth Buzzi, Gary Owens
50. Lenny (1974)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck


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About Cliff
Cliff Goldmacher
In the music business for over twenty-five years, Cliff Goldmacher is a GRAMMY-recognized, #1 hit songwriter, music producer and educator.
A GRAMMY-recognized, #1 hit songwriter, Cliff has built a catalog of over a thousand songs. He's worked as a staff songwriter for a Nashville publisher and his songs have been cut by major label artists across genres from country, pop and jazz to classical crossover. Cliff's songwriting collaborators include Keb' Mo' (with whom he co-wrote on the GRAMMY-winning album "Oklahoma"), multi-platinum selling artists Ke$ha, Lisa Loeb, Chris Barron (Lead singer of the Spin Doctors) and Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart. His music has been used on NPR's "This American Life" and in national advertising campaigns. Cliff's co-write with artist, Spencer Day, "Till You Come To Me" went to #1 on the jazz charts.
A multi-instrumentalist, Cliff has recorded, played on and produced thousands of recordings and album projects for major and independent music publishers and record labels. His client list ranges from brand new songwriters to GRAMMY winners. The recordings Cliff has engineered and produced have ended up as major label cuts, national advertising campaigns, in feature films and on television.
An experienced educator, Cliff has taught songwriting and music business workshops for BMI, ASCAP, NARAS, The Stanford Jazz Workshop, The Songwriter's Guild of America, the Nashville Songwriter's Association International, Taxi and The Durango Songwriter's Expo. Cliff is also a contributing author at LinkedInLearning.com and has spoken on songwriting for TEDx. Cliff is an author and freelance journalist as well contributing articles to EQ, Recording and ProSound News magazines along with numerous music websites and blogs. His eBook, The Songwriter's Guide to Recording Professional Demos, has sold over 6,000 copies.
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Video: Former WHITE ZOMBIE Bassist SEAN YSEULT Talks Inspiration For First Solo Exhibition In New York City
Sean Yseult, best known as the bass player from the multi-platinum and twice Grammy-nominated band WHITE ZOMBIE, spoke to Artisan News about her first solo exhibition in New York City. A clip of her talking about her inspiration and expecations for the exhibition can be seen below.
"Retrospective" — a love letter to her longtime muse, New Orleans — is a collection of early work from 2004, "Sex & Death & Rock & Roll" (2012), "Mississippi Mermaids" (2013) and her current show, still on partial view at the Scott Edwards Gallery through October 2015, "Soirée D'Evolution: Tableaux Vivants Et Nature Mortes".
This exhibition brings Yseult full circle, having lived in New York City from 1982 to 1991, during which time she co-founded WHITE ZOMBIE while attending Parsons The New School For Design in Manhattan's West Village, before moving to New Orleans in 1996 with nothing more than a single suitcase, a guitar, a banjo, and a Polaroid Land Camera.
Yseult's love for The Crescent City is most obvious in her current exhibition, "Soirée D'Evolution", in which she presents a series of tableaux vivants documenting the soiree of a historically inspired secret society set in a lavish Garden District mansion, circa 1873. Each print is a storyboard for a narrative of murder, mayhem, and excess in which The Omniscient Oracles of the Occult revel in the decay and decadence of celebration for the Greek philosopher and Deteriorationist, Hesiod. Each four-by-six-foot print exhibits an intimate knowledge of New Orleans' history and flirtations with the romantic occult, as seen in such details as three absinthe bottles in "The Absinthe Drinkers Or The Killing Of The King", an homage to New Orleans own three absinthe distilleries. Though inspired by a mix of the large scale, black backgrounds, and grisly depictions of the 17th century Dutch Masters and the high society culture of 19th century New Orleans, "Soirée D'Evolution" is firmly rooted in the present through its use of macabre humor and vibrant colors.
"Mississippi Mermaids", again exhibiting Yseult's love of New Orleans, is inspired by childhood memories of collecting treasures from the remote coastal islands of North Carolina with her father. Valued over the fresh scallop shells and rabbit skeletons what stood out as the most valued treasure were the blue, barnacle-covered glass bottles that washed ashore. The standard message cast adrift in a bottle has been here replaced by girls, some resting, some daydreaming, some slightly troubled or even annoyed, but all of whom have become themselves the treasure, the message, the story sent floating through waves. Yseult shot each photograph in black and white before toning each image in cyan — this transformation itself inspired by her time studying photography at Parsons when she would spend many hours toning photographs as cyanotypes. Each image of this series is printed on silver paper which further accentuates the imagery of water that carries each bottle.
"Sex & Death & Rock & Roll" showcases what Yseult described as "loose women, unkempt graveyards, and musicians in various states of cognizance" — a subject matter to which she admits being constantly drawn to for the beauty of these people and places. Shot in black in white to obfuscate the era of each image, one photograph inspired an octogenarian to untruthfully claim she was the subject, a young girl in a St. Louis cemetery. Yseult's fascination with women from eras past can be seen in her earlier work of 2004 as well. Here, light boxes were built with black and white ethereal Polaroids, complete with tasseled pull switches and velvet curtains.
Commenting on the inspiration for these pieces, Yseult has said: "Sometimes I just have a vision in my head and have to execute it."
Sacred Gallery NYC was established in December of 2009 by gallery director Kevin Wilson. The gallery has for over five years exhibited the work of graffiti artists, painters, photographers, print makers, comic book artists, and documenters, utilizing a variety of mediums, including blood and live performance graffiti. The gallery prides itself on the accommodations that are provided to the diverse communities of artists that New York City and the world have to offer.
Sacred Gallery NYC is conveniently located in Manhattan's SoHo district at 424 Broadway on the northeast corner of Broadway and Canal. Take the N, Q, R, or J subway train to Canal Street.
Sacred Gallery is open daily from noon until 7 p.m.
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You could be the proud owner of this vintage Radio Flyer Scooter. This is a cool old scooter that has a few battle scars but still has a long life ahead. It has a nice scrub brake for safety and a drop stand for parking. The paint has been touched up in areas and the bars are a little bent but should be fixable.
The scooter is in good original shape. The tires have wear and the grips have holes in the ends. The paint has been touched up. The bars have a slight bend to them. This bicycle is being sold as is, please see photographs for details.


As the vehicle industry shifts towards autonomous vehicles, technology must develop to meet the sector expectations. Ricardo recognises the requirements of producing autonomous vehicles, and is expertly positioned to support clients with ambitious autonomous projects.
Ricardo demonstrated this technology on the SARTRE project, which was shown to offer a number of benefits to vehicles within the road train: reduced fuel consumption, improved traffic flow and journey times, reduced accidents and increased driver convenience.
Ricardo is working on a number of new platooning projects in the both EU and US to help drive the technology through the early TRL stages and towards market adoption.
The use of advanced connectivity can help car manufacturers increase the fuel efficiency by optimising the route and drive-cycle of the vehicle over the whole projected journey.
The Ricardo Sentience project achieved this by using telematics to look beyond the line of sight and adjust the vehicle speed to align with upcoming road topology and conditions. In addition to adjusting the vehicle speed, ancillaries such as the air-conditioning can be optimized in order to predict temporary stops, and manage the load accordingly.
Connected and autonomous vehicles will bring advanced communications, self-driving and significantly improved mobility for people and transported goods.
Vehicle intelligence and networking are part of an emerging solution to our global transportation challenges, and are advancing quickly to deliver highly automated and even partially autonomous vehicles, which already operate on some of our roads today.
As the transportation marketplace percolates with new ideas and ways of delivering intelligent multi-modal mobility, it remains to be seen who will own future vehicles, who will develop them and which types of services and infrastructures will become commonplace. Behind the scenes is an innovative arena – a matrix of evolving technologies and services that include sensors, software, chips and boards, integration and vehicle builds, data management, connectivity and security. The vehicle value chain is expected to be driven by software feature sets, low system costs and high-performance hardware.
Ricardo shares a vision to continue to advance technology, replicate successful models and establish standards, practices and legislation that drive successful autonomous vehicle growth. As a leader in providing strategy and engineering services in the connected and autonomous vehicle market, we are currently focused on leading algorithm development, sensor fusion and hardware integration technologies through our client program successes.
Autonomous and connected vehicles will provide significant social, industrial, economic and environmental benefits in the future. Large investments in research and development are being made globally to ensure we bring these solutions to market as soon as possible.
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This article reviews the current body of research on adult ADHD and hypersexual behavior. Drawing on perspectives from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, several suggestions are offered to explain why individuals with ADHD may be vulnerable to engaging in hypersexual behavior. Assessment guidelines are provided to help clinicians differentiate characteristics of hypersexuality from adult ADHD. Finally, recommendations are made for the treatment of adult ADHD in hypersexual patients.


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Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden in Ghosts at Trafalgar Studios, photo: Tristram Kenton
Ghosts haunts Trafalgar Studios with tragic sincerity
By Rebekah Ellerby
Posted in Arts
The heartbreaking performances at the core of the Almeida's production of Ghosts have created a production that pairs emotional suffering with intimate scrutiny. It is the only production in the current repertoire to have received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award last week; Lesley Manville won the award for Best Actress for her role as Helene Alving. The show also recently announced it would be extending its transfer run at Trafalgar Studios until 22 March 2014.
Even as the audience took to its seats, arranged close together in the tight rows at Trafalgar Studios, the stage felt oppressively small and close to the audience. The set, beautifully designed by Tim Hatley, is layered three spaces deep, divided by glass screen walls. A living room is exposed downstage, with the tarnished glass wall partially obscuring a dining room behind and another wall that looks beyond to the outside; to the village; to everywhere beyond this claustrophobic, private sphere. These semi-transparent walls allow the audience a perspective denied to the characters on stage. Even the furniture, which leaves little space to move about, is dark hardwood and made up with saturated olive green upholstery. Everything about the set is intense in the way it regulates the characters' behaviour in the space. Significantly, the only props to move about repeatedly are the books that Helene Alving (Lesley Manville) has begun to conceive her own ideas by, the books that prompt the Adam Kotz's hilarious but pitiful assertion as the Pastor that everything he says is what someone else has said first.
In Ghosts, Ibsen considers the legacy of the late Mr Alving's debauchery, both on the ten years of isolation and suffering experienced by his wife, Helene, and in the inheritance of his son (Jack Lowden), who had held his father high in a position of esteem. The first performances were deemed obscene and revolting; today they continue to challenge. Richard Eyre's modern adaptation has been almost unanimously praised and something profound happens to your conception of humanity, suffering and art, in relation to this play.
Lesley Manville plays Helene with extraordinarily bold inner strength that has produced a defiance against her own vulnerability. At times, she is strong in being flippant, as she signs deeds to the orphanage, chucking her writing implements into the draw and shoving her chair under the table with terrifying assurance. She is strong in her challenge to the Pastor's moral goodness, in upholding the sanctity of a marriage that in fact built a facade around her suffering. But yet it is as she struggles and fights this inner strength, while the world she has built up – and it is her world, we believe with all certainty that this Helene maintained the estate through her husband's sustained drunken debauchery – breaks down. This struggle produces our utter sympathy for her, in the strength it takes to confess her years of pain. Her self-effacing sacrifice for a son she sent away, towards a husband she couldn't love and against herself, is upheld by Manville in a performance that is difficult to give justice to.
Even as the lights came down and the audience began to pay their respects in applause, I felt unbearably unable to participate as Manville's tears pooled down her cheeks while the cast took their bow. At the same time, heartfelt respect for the cast and the vision that made a production so terribly exhilarating made applause the only expression possible in response to it.
Richard Eyre, who has adapted Ghosts for the modern stage, writes in the production's programme notes that the play faces the greatest of life's enemies, which are not only 'social repression and superstition' but 'to be bored with life and indifferent to its suffering'. Eyre forces this on us in a very real way, with the cathartic genesis of a blood red dawn concluding the play. Red and orange suffuse up the backdrop, like a perverted tequila sunrise, which recalls the destructive glow of the fire, as part of Peter Mumford's elegant lighting design. This vivid sunrise is attended simultaneously with bird song heralding a new beginning. But a new beginning of what? We are suspended in a final moment on the edge of destruction with the rest of Helene's life indeterminably ahead of her. In response to the production, it feels impossible to be bored with life, having been confronted with the possibility of such emotional suffering and perhaps redemption.
The publicity shows Lesley Manville in a solarised photograph like a Man Ray portrait, her ghostly, black and white dress fading into the title: Ghosts. And like the ghosts of Helene's stifling past and the effects carried through into the life of her son, this production affects you with haunting sincerity.
Ghosts is an Almeida Theatre production and its West End run at Trafalgar Studios ends 22 March 2014.
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For years, residents of Morris Park tried to get unsightly graffiti removed from their apartment building at 1541-51 Williamsbridge Road. Finally, on July 28th, the happy tenants watched as the graffiti was power-washed off their building by employees of Wildcat's Neighborhood Improvement Program (NIP). Wildcat is a division of Fedcap.
Council Member James Vacca, who represents the 13th District, funds the neighborhood cleanup and beautification services provided by Fedcap. The services – which include trash and graffiti removal, landscaping, street cleaning, pest management, snow removal and more - are greatly appreciated by residents, who in the case of 1541-51 Williamsbridge Road had been waiting a long time for the landlord to remove the graffiti, to no avail.
"It takes the management two to three years to get around to doing something, and when they do, they just paint over with any color that is available," Paulette Sorg, leader of the building's tenant association told the Bronx Times.
David Saturn, director of facilities for Wildcat, said that Fedcap has been working with New York City Council members for over five years, and that 2015 is shaping up to be the busiest year yet, with NIP projects undertaken in at least six of the City's council districts.
Fedcap and Council Member Vacca have also partnered to clean up properties at McOwen Avenue, Van Nest Avenue, the corner of East 197th Street and Hutchinson River Parkway East, the corner of Continental Avenue and Pelham Parkway South, Pennyfield Avenue, Throgs Neck Expressway and Schley Avenue. Working with the NYC Department of Sanitation, Fedcap crews removed close to 150 bags of garbage and weeds from the six properties.
The crews also cleaned up an abandoned property at 3011 Schley Avenue, which since 2010 had cause neighbors to complain about bad odors and flooding at the property.
On the same day as the cleanup in Morris Park, a Fedcap crew was cutting grass, removing weeds, and cleaning a two-story building at 1515 Waring Avenue in Pelham Gardens that had once served as a doctor's office but is now in foreclosure. The effort underscored the problem of neglected foreclosed properties in the 13th District and throughout the city, and served as a backdrop for an APRIL press conference called by Senator Jeffrey Klein (D), 34th Senate District, to call attention to the problem.
"Cleaning up our neighborhoods and ensuring they remain a safe place to live and raise a family is critically important and that's why I sponsored legislation in the state Senate aimed at stemming the tide of abandoned homes and holding lenders responsible for maintaining properties," Klein told reporters.


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Cheers everybody, it's Friday!
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Orange is the New Black – Posters & third season
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The second season of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" is coming and they decided to published some posters for the new season of the show. Four posters have been created by now and I think that they are genial and funny. In the meanwhile, Laura Prepon posted this on Instagram:
Orange is the New Black – Laura Prepon for the third season
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The second season of Orange is the New Black has not been broadcast yet, but they have already begun to talk about a possible third season. The third season is not confirm at the moment but Laura Prepon, alias Alex Vause, has talked about her future. The actress, who will appear just for 4 episodes in the second season of the show, has revealed that she will return full time for a possible third season. The actress decided that becasue all the show's fan wanted her back in the game so she announced that she will return if the show will be renewed.
Orange is the New Black – This is like, next level crazy
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Finally after some teaser trailers, the first long trailer for the second season of "Orange is the New Black", has been revealed. I just watched this video about 100 times because it's amazing, this new season will be epic and all our favourite characters are in there, with the new ones. My only question is, where is Tiffany? I know that she will return in this new season, but where is she in this video? Hope to see her soon but, in the meanwhile, enjoy this video and feel free to return in the world of Litchfield prison.
Orange is The New Black – First look at the second season
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Finally the first images for the second season of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" has been revealed. The magazine "Entertainment Weekly" published, some days ago, the first three pictures for this upcoming new season of the show.
Orange is the New Black – Season 2 Teaser
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Finally we have the first official teaser from "Orange is the New Black". This is the first official video for the second season of this show and "Netflix" has also revealed that the new season will be premiering on June 6, 2014.
Orange is the New Black meets Elle
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The cast of "Orange is the New Black" meets Elle. This photos are simply incredbile and I think that this is a great shooting. Congrats to the girls and to Elle for this amazing pictures.
Taylor Schilling is the new black
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Blonde, sexy, smart and funny, these are some of the adjectives that we could use to describe Taylor Schilling. She is, unquestionably, one of the most popular actress of this 2013 thanks to her contribution to "Orange is the New Black".
She was born in 1984 in Boston, Massachusetts, and she srtated study acting very soon. In 2007 she made her first appearance in the independent movie "Dark Matter".
The movie, directed by Chen Shi-zheng, told the story of a young scientist whose rising star must confront the dark forces of politics, ego, and cultural insensitivity. Taylor played a supporting role, Jackie, but she had the opportunity to work next to Meryl Streep and Aidan Quinn, the main protagonists. The movie won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.
Tiffany Dogget "I'm not crazy, I'm chosen"
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One of the best series of 2013 is, without a doubt, "Orange is the new Black". Produced by Netflix and broadcast the 11th of July, the series, created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds), is based on the memoir "Orange is the new Black" by Piper Kerman which tells of her one year experience in prison.
The drama is simply one of the best show ever made because it shows the life in a prison without a sick point of view but with realistic and, in some way, comic, aspect. The cast is brilliant and full of great actress: Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Kate Mulgrew, Michael J. Harney, Uzo Aduba (she is one of my favorite), Laverne Cox, Jason Biggs and Natasha Lyonne are some of them but one of these actress, in my opinion, is the best.


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case class B56R(value: Int) extends CtBoxIdentifier("Tax rounded") with CtInteger

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}


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