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Opinion articles archive
2009 Opinion Articles
Keeping Tabs on Infrastructure Effort
By Rod Pearse
BCA Sustainable Growth Task Force
The Business Council of Australia identified the problems with our economic infrastructure four years ago. That report in 2005 highlighted bottlenecks at our bulk container ports and at our intermodal hubs, inadequate rail systems, straining electricity networks, overallocated rural water systems, looming water shortages in our cities, congested roads and struggling urban public transport.
The BCA argued then that one step to solving these problems was for governments to be clear about and to prioritise the returns from their infrastructure investments.
In 2009, we are still discussing many of the same infrastructure bottlenecks. We are still discussing the limited progress made by governments in addressing state and national infrastructure issues and by the Council of Australian Governments in overseeing and co-ordinating an appropriate policy framework. And we are still not clear that Australia is investing in its highest-priority infrastructure projects.
One important reason for this lack of progress is that there is still no clear public rationale against which we can assess the infrastructure investments that are being identified and prioritised by government. We cannot be confident that infrastructure investment is going to best address infrastructure problems and priorities.
Another impediment is that we have no clear pipeline of future projects that have met rigorous assessment tests and for which adequate funding through the economic cycle has been appropriated. Such forward planning is essential to breaking the "stop/start" cycle of infrastructure investment in Australia.
The 2009–10 federal budget provides an example. In that budget, the government announced that it would invest in eight of the infrastructure projects considered by Infrastructure Australia. But it announced no rationale for the choice of these projects relative to others that had been proposed, and announced no clear measure against which the success of the chosen infrastructure proposals could be appraised.
In short, the public will not be able to hold government accountable for its infrastructure decision making. There is no doubt that Infrastructure Australia undertook a rigorous assessment of the projects before it recommended them to the government. And in the limited time frame available, Infrastructure Australia has made some effort to explain the rationale it used to establish this priority list.
But more can be done to deliver public confidence that the projects recommended will make a specific and sufficient contribution to national productivity.
And the next step can be taken without exposing the sensitive commercial-in-confidence information that underlies the recommendations.
This next step is to set target service levels for these and other new infrastructure projects – markers against which the success of the chosen infrastructure projects can be assessed and outcomes measured.
Such service levels should be based on a realistic appraisal of where the gaps in Australia's infrastructure are. This cannot happen without sound and transparent audits of Australia's infrastructure on a regular basis. These are now missing from the infrastructure policy and investment process.
Appropriate service levels would include transparent targets for measures that people and businesses care most about, measures such as:
The maximum road congestion levels in our cities expressed, for example, in terms of average vehicle travel speeds, or vehicle hours spent in congested traffic.
On-time running and passenger congestion on public transport.
Access to public transport of a set standard for all citizens within a certain population density.
The frequency of different levels of water restrictions, and current and forecast water usage levels as a percentage of sustainable supply.
The percentage of rural water surface and groundwater systems that are under stress.
Road and rail travel times between the main intercity destinations.
Infrastructure Australia could provide a framework for these target service levels and then, within this framework, leave each state and territory to set their individual targets.
By creating accountability, this approach improves our chances of getting a true assessment of the potential productivity benefits from governments' infrastructure investment choices. By setting target service levels for infrastructure projects, and making them public, we can take the next step to making governments more accountable for their infrastructure policies and for their financial contributions to infrastructure projects.
That will not guarantee that projects are worthwhile investments. But it will certainly improve the likelihood that they are.
How We Can Use Technology to Improve Productivity
www.nationaltimes.com.auBy Katie Lahey Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia Treasury Secretary Ken Henry has identified the information and communication technologies (ICT) revolution as one of the four long-term forces affecting...
Stronger Plans Are Needed to Ensure Gender Parity
The Australian Financial Review By Katie Lahey Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has sounded a clear warning to the male dominated boardrooms and executive...
APEC Should Heed Signs of the Changing Times
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When you use mapping software for directions, the app typically gives you two trip times: how long it would take to reach your destination driving the speed limit or a couple of miles per hour faster (a traffic-free utopia, of sorts) and the time it would take in current traffic. But wait a minute - how does a computer, which has never been stuck behind a jackknifed semi on the highway, know what traffic is like?
Historical data are important because it's hard to acquire enough real-time information to make traffic forecasts. Think of the complications involved. There aren't that many people with smartphones driving any given block at a given moment, and not all of them will have enabled their data-sharing software. In addition, some of the phones will be red herrings with respect to traffic. Some, for example, will be in the pockets of walkers or in the baskets of bicycles. Others might be in a car that has pulled over or is looking for a parking spot.
When you plug a destination into your smartphone, the program's first estimate of travel time is based on this historical information. Only then does it begin to add in information from users traveling your route right now. Different programs use different methods to combine the data that hundreds or thousands of phones are transmitting. Unfortunately, the algorithms are tightly held secrets. Just as search engine companies won't talk much about how they analyze a query, traffic mapping companies won't say how they integrate real-time traffic data into their software.
Waze has some additional features. (Waze was purchased by Google last June but continues to operate an independent app.) Through the app, users can inform other Waze users whenever they see something notable - debris in the right lane, a crash slowing traffic, etc. - on a stretch of road. When other users travel the same road segment, the app asks them to confirm the earlier report.The whole thing may seem a bit old school - like calling in a car accident to the local television station - but it improves traffic forecasts in two ways.
Traffic mapping has made substantial progress in recent years, moving from one guy in a helicopter to a crowdsourcing network, but no company has entirely figured out a way to get precise or real-time information to frustrated drivers sitting in traffic. So for now, be patient and keep your eyes on the road.


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use WellCommerce\Bundle\CoreBundle\Entity\TimestampableInterface;
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 * @author  Adam Piotrowski <adam@wellcommerce.org>
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Андрей Рублёв / Andrey Rublyov
Criterion | 1966 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 205 min | Not rated | Sep 25, 2018
Russian: LPCM Mono
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Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)(1966) Blu-ray
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity. Appearing here in the director's preferred 185-minute cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork Andrei Rublev is one of Tarkovsky's most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers: Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Irma Raush, Nikolay Burlyaev, Yuri Nikulin, Rolan Bykov
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The actress stars tonight on Starz Edge in The Lookout.
Washington, D.C. (July 29, 2008) — Following our extremely popular contest, 'HD Hottie Hysteria,' we've started a new feature in which we will highlight a top female star every day. The gorgeous female will come from a program that can be seen in gorgeous high-def that very day.
Today's 'HD Hottie' is Isla Fisher, who stars tonight in high-def in The Lookout on Starz Edge at 9 p.m.
The 32-year-old actress, who was born in Australia, started as a soap opera actress in her native country. But her first big break was landing the role of Vince Vaughn's girlfriend in the smash 2005 comedy, Wedding Crashers.
Since then, Isla has starred in The Lookout, London, Wedding Daze and Hot Rod. Her most recent film was Definitely, Maybe with Ryan Reynolds. Her next movie will be Confessions of a Shopaholic, due out in 2009.
Isla is also well known for being the fiance of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, a.k.a. Borat.
It's finally here!! It's something for now until I organize and put up all new site content, and work on the gallery! I really hope you all like it! A new layout for the gallery is currently in works, and be sure to watch out for later as I have screen captures of Isla in "Definitely, Maybe"!
Also, we're looking for affiliates! Elites, tops, & regulars! If interested please email me at islafisheronline@gmail.com!
THEY have already had the baby and their commitment is as enduring as any wedding ring, but Aussie actress Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen have again postponed their nuptials due to heavy work schedules.
The Hollywood-based couple, who welcomed their first-born daughter Olive last year, originally planned to tie the knot later this year.
But their stellar careers are keeping them from saying "I do", with both stars in constant demand for big screen projects.
While Cohen is channelling all his energy into the hugely anticipated Borat follow-up film Bruno, Fisher has spent the past four months shooting Confessions of a Shopaholic in New York.
"It's going to happen, it's just hard for them to find the time at the moment," a source close to Fisher told Confidential.
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Amrit undertook his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at St. John's College. After qualifying as a solicitor he joined the merchant bank Samuel Montagu in London, which was followed by a number of investment banking roles with HSBC and Bank of America. Amrit is currently a corporate finance adviser with 333 Capital in Sydney. He is also on the committee of the Cambridge Society of NSW.
Roderic Broadhurst (BA, B.Ed, PhD, (W. Aust.) M.Phil. (Cambridge)) is Professor of Criminology, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Research interests include: crime and modernization, homicide, comparative studies of crime, recidivism, criminal behaviour, crime victims, organized crime in China and Asia, and crime in cyberspace. His career as a practitioner and researcher has included work in prisons, remote area public health, and homicide investigation. He helped establish the Crime Research Centre at UWA and has led research on recidivism, cybercrime, organised crime and crime victims in Cambodia and China. He currently directs the ANU Cybercrime Observatory, and focuses on problems of victim and offender risk.
Taruna completed an LLM at Gonville and Caius College in 2007, supported by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Taruna is at the South Australian Bar, where she practices in commercial litigation and public law.
Lindsay holds a Master of Philosophy (International Relations) from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Prior to this he completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) at the University of Technology, Sydney. Lindsay has worked with Macquarie Bank in Australia, McKinsey & Company in the UK, France and Southeast Asia, and several international investment management businesses in Europe and Asia. Lindsay is now an early-stage investor in startup businesses as well as an entrepreneur.
Philip Pope read for an M.Phil in Polar Studies at Darwin College in 1996-97, after graduating from the University of Nottingham with a BA (Hons) in Political Science. He received a B.B. Roberts Fund award from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge to assist a period of study at the US State Department Archive in Washington DC, as part of his thesis research. Philip has held senior communications roles at the British Olympic Association, Cricket Australia and is currently General Manager, Communications at the Queensland Rugby Union. He was previously a staff reporter at the Daily Mirror in London.


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Kuba Szymanski, August 31, 2016 August 31, 2016
1. Inevitable Demise Arrives
Hanjin Shipping today became the most high profile casualty of the container shipping downturn with management opting for court receivership after its creditors had decided to end support for the ailing line. Compatriot line Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is now likely to buy Hanjin's "good" assets, South Korea's financial regulator said today. HMM's shares soared in trading, up 24% by the early afternoon. Meanwhile, the "Hanjin Rome", a 3,700 teu ship belonging to the beleaguered line, was arrested in Singapore by a creditor yesterday while another ship, Hanjin Sooho, was denied entry to the port of Shanghai.
http://goo.gl/JwXIya
2. Tankers Facing Insurance Hike
Tankers moving through the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa are paying additional insurance premiums compared with relatively safer sea lanes due to escalation of piracy incidents and sea robberies in the region, and there will be serious concerns if these criminal activities become enmeshed with political disputes, a senior industry official said Tuesday. Additional premiums have to be paid by shipowners if their ships move through, load or discharge cargoes from this region, Intertanko's London-based Marine Director, Phillip Belcher, said on the sidelines of the International 'Safety at Sea' conference in Singapore.
http://goo.gl/j8Xefp
3. Singapore Kicks Off Safety Campaign
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has kicked off a new international safety initiative meant to reduce marine casualties in Singapore's waters, which are among the busiest in the world. The announcement of the authority's "community of practice" industry initiative coincides with the nation's Safety@Sea Week 2016, which runs until September 2. This year, MPA has organized a two-day safety conference featuring addresses by IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim and Singapore's Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan.
http://goo.gl/QUGdHQ
4. Libya Battles Charity Ships
Libyan navy spokesman Ayoub Qassem acknowledged that one of the force's patrol boats had opened fire in the direction of the chartered anchor handler "Bourbon Argos". He asserted that the patrol believed the Argos was involved in smuggling, and that when pursued, the Argos failed to respond to radio calls and altered her heading, prompting the forces to fire warning shots. "The boat was spotted in international waters and it's known to be an oil smuggling route, so that's why our coastal guards had to intercept it," Qassam told Reuters. "The guards shot in the air to warn them but…might have been a hit to their boat."
http://goo.gl/nm7TkC
5. Shipbuilder in the Dock
Han Yew Kwang, former chief operating officer and deputy president of Singapore shipbuilder ST Marine, has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $80,000 by a local court. Han was the second of seven former ST Marine senior executives sentenced in the graft scandal and the first to be given a jail term. He had earlier pleaded guilty to 50 out of 407 charges, including one corruption charge and 49 charges of conspiring to use false entries to mask bribes. In 2015, Patrick Lee Swee Ching, ST Marine's former financial controller was fined S$210,000 for helping falsify documents to cover up alleged corrupt payments.
http://goo.gl/89zFlk
6. Iraqis in Oil Standoff
Iraqi state oil firm SOMO has blacklisted three tankers involved in shipping crude from Kurdistan, stepping up pressure on the semi-autonomous region amid tense talks on sharing oil revenue. Kurdistan has been exporting crude independently via Turkey since mid-2015 after saying Baghdad had failed to respect an oil revenue-sharing deal. Baghdad, which exports most of its oil from the Gulf, has said Erbil was not exporting enough crude under the deal. A letter said it would no longer allow the ships "Maran Centaurus", "Four Smile" and "SN Olivia", which had been shipping Kurdish oil, to enter Iraqi ports or export its crude.
http://goo.gl/1vC41p
7. Cruise Passengers Smuggling Drugs
Authorities seized some 95 kilograms of cocaine from a cruise ship in Sydney, Australia during a search aboard the vessel on August 28, and arrested three Canadian nationals on drug importation charges. Namely, Australian Border Force (ABF) officers boarded the vessel when it berthed in Sydney Harbour, and with the assistance of detector dogs, searched a number of passenger cabins on the ship, and found the cocaine which was packed in suitcases. The illegal cargo, reportedly found aboard the Princess Cruises-operated MS Sea Princess, is worth some AUD 23 million, according to Associated Press.
http://goo.gl/2jozyk
8. Good Gesture by Trainers
Stream Marine Training has pledged to donate £1 of every Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) training course booking it receives to international maritime welfare charity, Sailors' Society. After launching in January 2014 with its first STCW-approved course in personal survival techniques, Stream Marine Training now processes 700 course bookings on average each month. It is anticipated that donations will exceed £5,000 in its first year. Perhaps they can also teach seafarers to avoid bad companies? Or maybe that is too much to expect…
http://goo.gl/g5JRAc
9. Insurance Revolution or Evolution
Charles Darwin said that a man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. However, if you run a business that requires insurance it will not be a waste of your time to make yourself aware of the Insurance Act 2015 which came into force this month. The Insurance Act came into force on 12th August 2016 and is arguably the single most important piece of insurance legislation in the past 100 years. It is intended to create a fairer balance between policyholders and insurers. If you buy insurance to protect your business, you need to understand the changes in law.
http://goo.gl/VmXRbn
10. Cruise Ship Destroys Marina
On departure from its berth in Messina, Sicily on Sunday, the Carnival Vista – Carnival Cruise Line's newest ship – destroyed a concrete boat pier with prop wash from its thrusters, sinking several small craft. Video shows the "Marina del Nettuno" pier swamped, overturned and finally torn free by the wave of water from the Vista's props as she passed close aboard. The imagery also shows calm, clear weather conditions. Italian media report that the port authority has opened an investigation into the incident. It is the only cruise ship with a full IMAX movie theater and an aerial cycling track, which sounds nice.
http://goo.gl/2wD8wY
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Q: How do I align a search bar and search button in HTML? I would like to align search button next to search bar but I don't know how to do it.
HTML :

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A: Use CSS style "display:inline"

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A: You can easy add style display:inline-block to the form element.
like this
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or you can add it by id
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A: You could set the style of the form in CSS:
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Or embedded the style in the form tag:
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Joseph Griffin Mulbarger (March 2, 1895October 31, 1951) was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for seven seasons for the Columbus Panhandles/Tigers.

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Beautiful handmade wedding flower wand, created using an artificial orchid. Featuring in this wand is an apple green silk Cymbidium orchid and a lush green ficsus leaf. Underneath the faux orchid is Ivory organza bows with a neatly covered handle in matching ribbon. Perfect for young bridesmaids, they are easy to hold and lightweight.
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What 10 Unforgettable 'Real World' Alums Are Doing Now (PHOTOS)
Laura Anastasia | Oct 2, 2015 TV
The Real World may have been one of TV's first reality shows, but it sure produced some real characters. Even though the show's 30 seasons have featured more than 200 people, some cast members' larger-than-life personalities and can-you-believe-that-just-happened behavior have made them live in viewers' memories long after they left the show — and sometimes not in a good way.
Where are they now? Click through to find out what happened when the most memorable Real World alums stopped being taped and started really getting real.
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Then: Jacinda Barrett, London
Image © MTV
The Australian model livened up the show's first season filmed outside the United States, in 1995, by streaking, prank-calling strangers, adopting a pup that wasn't housebroken, and pinching random men's butts on the London Underground. Her stunning looks didn't hurt her popularity either.
Now: Jacinda Barrett, London
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Ms. Mischief is now more famous for her serious side. The model-turned-actress has starred in multiple movies, including The Human Stain, The Namesake, and Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. Barrett is married to actor Gabriel Macht and they have two children.
Then: Danny Roberts, New Orleans
Roberts was one of the few openly gay people on TV in 2000 when he appeared on The Real World: New Orleans. The handsome Southerner was comfortable in his own skin and dated a U.S. Army officer whose face was blurred on camera because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Neil Patrick Harris, who came out in 2006, has said Roberts was an inspiration to him.
Now: Danny Roberts, New Orleans
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Since leaving New Orleans, Roberts has mostly stayed out of the spotlight, except for a stint on The Challenge and acting in a few episodes of DTLA. Now a recruiter, Roberts last popped up in 2013 on Watch What Happens Live with his former castmates.
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Then: David "Puck" Rainey, San Francisco
Rainey's bad-boy antics have yet to be topped. The obnoxious bike messenger with questionable hygiene clashed early and often with his roommates, especially HIV-positive Pedro Zamora. They evicted Rainey in episode 11 of the 1994 season.
Now: David "Puck" Rainey, Now
Rainey's had several run-ins with the law, including doing time for stalking in 2012 and facing domestic violence charges in 2011 and 2013. The ex-con may have changed his ways, however. Rainey recently joined former castmate Rachel Campos-Duffy in Washington, D.C., for the launch of a program for ovarian cancer.
Then: Tami Roman, Los Angeles
On the Real World: Los Angeles in 1992, Roman, then Tami Akbar, had an abortion, sang with her R&B group, and went on the dating show Studs. She also evicted roommate David Edwards after he pulled back her blanket and revealed her underwear-clad body to the cameras.
Now: Tami Roman, Los Angeles
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The stunning mother of three has modelled and acted on TV and in movies, including a stint on Basketball Wives from 2010 to 2013 with her now ex-husband, former NBA star Kenny Anderson.
More from The Stir: 15 Celebrity BFFs On TV & In Real Life (PHOTOS)
Then: Ruthie Alcaide, Hawaii
In the first episode of The Real World: Hawaii, Alcaide drank herself unconscious and wound up in the hospital. That troubling start was soon followed by her driving drunk, shattering a glass, and giving a drunken lap dance to her boss's wife. Her roommates eventually gave Alcaide an ultimatum — go to an alcohol treatment program or get evicted.
Now: Ruthie Alcaide, Hawaii
Image via Instagram/@ruthiealcaide
The Hawaiian native is a changed woman. Alcaide now works as a public speaker to raise awareness of alcohol addiction. She also took part in MTV's The Challenge on and off from 2003 to 2009.
Then: Trishelle Cannatella, Las Vegas
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas — unless you're on The Real World. That didn't stop Cannatella. The racy roommate kicked off the show's 2002 season by having sex in the second episode and a threesome in the third. A pregnancy scare followed midseason.
Now: Trishelle Cannatella, Las Vegas
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Cannatella has posed for Playboy and tackled the Lingerie Bowl, but she also pulls in dough as as a professional poker player. She finished third in the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in 2010. Cannatella has acted in movies including Ninja Cheerleaders.
More from The Stir: 38 TV BFFs Who Don't Really Like Each Other in Real Life (PHOTOS)
Then: Mike Mizanin, Back to New York
The Ohio frat boy hadn't encountered much diversity before The Real World: Back to New York in 2001. Mizanin quickly became known for heated debates with his roommates over race, not to mention his wrestling alter ego, "The Miz."
Now: Mike Mizanin, Back to New York
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Mizanin is a WWE superstar nicknamed "The Awesome One," with multiple championships under his (title) belt and even commentator credits to his name. The Miz has also dabbled in traditional acting, including 2015's Santa's Little Helper. He is married to fellow WWE star Maryse Ouellet Mizanin.
Then: Irene McGee, Seattle
McGee was the first cast member to willingly leave the show early, and the only one who got "the slap heard round the world" on her way out. The quirky brunette was known for telling it like it was during The Real World: Seattle, including telling roommate Stephen Williams he was a homosexual as she was leaving the house, resulting in the slap. McGee left the 1998 show in part because she was suffering from Lyme disease.
Now: Irene McGee, Seattle
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McGee started the "No One's Listening" podcast in 2005, attracting well-known guests including famed linguist Noam Chomsky. The New York native is now a comedian and has a one-woman show, "Me, Myself, and Irene."
More from The Stir: 20 Surprising Celebrity BFFs (PHOTOS)
Then: Sean Duffy, Boston
The Real World: Boston's most conservative alum wasn't afraid to clash with his more liberal roommates, including Kameelah Phillips. An aspiring lawyer, Duffy showed off his super strength and skill in lumber jack competitions and exhibitions.
Now: Sean Duffy, Boston
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Duffy traded his Real World digs for a more prestigious residence. The Wisconsin native has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011. It's also a good thing he practiced living with a lot of roommates. He and his wife, Real World: San Francisco alum Rachel Campos-Duffy, have seven children.
Then: Judd Winick, San Francisco
Winick spent much of 1994's The Real World: San Francisco looking for love in all the wrong places. Fans rooted for the super likable animator and cartoonist, who became close with roommates Pam Ling, a medical student, and Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive AIDs educator.
Now: Judd Winick, San Francisco
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Winick ended up marrying his Real World roommate Pam Ling, now a doctor. The two were at former castmate Pedro Zamora's bedside when he died from AIDS in November 1994. Winick has carried on Zamora's legacy of educating people about AIDS. The talented illustrator's other accomplishments include publishing three graphic novels and creating his own animated TV show for the Cartoon Network. He and Ling have two children.
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reacted to allegations by the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) against President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, describing the allegations as baseless, unfounded and ridiculous.
This is contained in a statement signed in Lagos on Monday by Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director, MURIC in reaction to some allegations by NCEF, under the chairmanship of Solomon Asemota on Friday.
It claimed further that the recent award of national hounour to late MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe was part of plan to make Nigeria an Islamic country.
The group also claimed that the government, which has a pastor as Vice President, is conducting an anti-christian agenda which may ensure that Christians cease to exist in Nigeria in the next 25 years.
MURIC however described members of the group as suffering from intellectual poverty and warped thinking.
It said that the country must be allowed to move forward and not be tied to mediocrity and religious bigotry.
"We should let integrity supplant mediocrity as the criterion and accept credibility as the yardstick instead of ethnicity while antecedence replaces religion and all other primordial sentiments.
"We should liberalise our thinking, Nigerianise our orientation and stop seeing religious colouring in everything, the earlier it faces reality, the better.
"How can anyone just jump to the conclusion that the present administration which merely yielded to persistent agitations over the June 12 saga was engaging in jihad because all the June 12 awardees are Muslims,''he said.
Akintola said that the facts on ground also rubbish NCEF's allegation that the Buhari administration is pursuing an anti-Christian agenda.
"Christians have more cabinet positions in this regime. Christians and Muslims have 18 ministers each, but both the Secretary to the Government of the Federation as well as the Head of Service are Christians.
"This gives Christians 20 positions while Muslims remain 18. Yet Muslims have not started complaining.
MURIC director said that President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and Hameed Ali have become reference points in integrity.
"Religion and other sentiments apart, Nigerians see them as models. These three men have set standards, not for religion or for Muslims alone, but for all Nigerians.
He said that Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) needs to undertake urgent re-engineering of the perception of its flock.
"In particular, CAN should fumigate its immediate environment in order to rid it of this notorious NCEF Islamisation virus.
"CAN should also beware of dissidence in the body of Christ in Nigeria as we suspect open rebellion in NCEF's statement. CAN is therefore advised to call NCEF to order, " the statement reads in part.


From parking to food to street closures, here's how to navigate downtown Detroit during the 2018 Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon.
Gearing up for the upcoming 2018 Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon?
While you're busy training, testing your endurance, getting pumped up to traverse a scenic, but challenging, international course, don't sweat any of the small stuff.
Whether you're from the city or the suburbs, in-state or out, things like parking, transit, where to stay, where to eat and where exactly everything is can be a massive headache on race day.
Here's a look at what traveling to and from downtown Detroit will look like Oct. 20-21.
The international marathon may have gotten all the buzz as the weekend's marquee event, but there are a number of other events for many different kinds of racers.
All racers must stop into Cobo Center and pick up their race packets at the Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Health & Fitness Expo, which will kick off Friday and continue Saturday.
Over 100 exhibitors will be on hand with discounted merchandise, the latest in fitness equipment and official race merchandise. In addition, registration for the 1-mile, 5K, Kids Fun Run will be open on Friday. Registration for the U.S.-Only Half Marathon is available both Friday and Saturday.
Registered racers will soon receive an email containing a link to retrieve their race number, required for picking up packets. .
Expo hours are 2-8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m .to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
Competitive 1-Mile is a new, and timed, 2018 event. Racers will start near the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center and speed down a course with four turns and sprint down a straight-away to finish. 9 a.m.
5K runners will begin near the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center and William G. Milliken State Park, then race along the Detroit Riverwalk, past Chene Park, and through the Rivertown Warehouse District and finish where they started. 9:30 a.m.
Meijer Kids Fun Run is an untimed event for kids ages 4-12 that will start around the Outdoor Adventure Center and William G. Milliken State Park. Each participant will receive a medal, and one parent/guardian can accompany their child on the course. 11 a.m.
Disabilities Division. Racers using hand cycles and push rims to complete the full marathon marathon course. 6:58 a.m.
Marathon. Runners will cross the Ambassador Bridge, go through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and run through historic Detroit neighborhoods, Belle Isle and the Riverwalk. The race starts and ends at West Fort Street, west of Cass Avenue. 7 a.m.
Marathon relay will be run by teams of 2 to 5 people covering the marathon route. Each runner will race one leg of 3-7 miles — someone running multiple legs must run them consecutively. 7 a.m.
International half-marathon runners will cross the border between downtown Detroit and Windsor, Ontario at the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. 7 a.m.
U.S.-only Half-Marathon runners will stay stateside and kick off their race at Cadillac Square, east of Bates Street, and finish up at W. Fort Street at 10:30 a.m.
View the complete map of the events and routes here.
If you're fretting about where to park, there are a number of lots available. However, it's best to park outside of the course route to keep from getting stuck afterward.
Congestion and traffic may also be a factor as race crews begin closing roads at 4 a.m., so get ready and get parked as early as possible.
Saturday only: Chene Parking Lot (2241 Atwater Street) is free for all race participants, but will close at 8:45 a.m. to secure the course.
Saturday only: Renaissance Center Parking/GM Lot (SE Corner of Atwater and St. Antoine) is $7, and anyone parking can enter and exit throughout the event.
Sunday: The city of Detroit and Olympia entertainment also have parking lots available. Olympia Parking has recommended 151 W. Adams and 205 W. Adams, as well as the lots on Cass going North.
Race day parking can also be reserved ahead of time using the reservation app, SpotHero (available for both the iPhone and Android). The Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon SpotHero Parking Page offers rates up to 50 percent off.
As crews work to set up the course, there will be multiple road closures downtown throughout the weekend and race day.
The Ambassador Bridge will have restricted traffic from 5:45 a.m .to 9 a.m.
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel will be closed between 6:45 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The southbound Lodge will begin closing around 4 a.m. at the I-75 Interchange.
Looking to use public transit instead of a personal vehicle. There are transit options for navigating both downtown Detroit and Windsor.
For those exploring the downtown Detroit area, the Detroit People Mover will be in full operation on Friday to Sunday evening — with extended hours beginning on Sunday at 5 a.m. The Michigan Avenue station will close from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.
The Mover costs 75 cents each way, and the closest stops to the start/finish line are the Fort-Cass Station and Cobo Center.
The QLINE can also be used to get from Midtown to Downtown. The streetcar stops at 12 stations. A single pass, which lets you ride for 3 hours costs $1.50, and a day pass costs $3. Sunday hours are 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Bus service will be available on Sunday, but riders are required to have necessary travel documentation with them. It will depart from the Windsor Bus Terminal at 5:30 a.m. and 5:45 a.m., then drop riders off at Cobo Center.
Return trips to Windsor from Cobo are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., more information can be found here.
Once the race is run and done, an official Conquered Afterparty is scheduled for Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the surface parking lot on the corner of Lafayette Boulevard and Third Street.
Beer will be available and all proceeds will be donated to charity. More than $5,000 worth of prizes, including 2019 race registrations, will be given away throughout the day to attendees – you must be present to win. Additionally, local food trucks Mac Shack and El Guapo will be serving up some food while Collision Six plays live music.


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A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Europe
A proposal to ban nuclear weapons of all kinds from a strip of land on both sides of the East- West boundary in central Europe is viewed as a politically feasible approach to reducing the risk of nuclear war...
By Mark R. Moore and Barry M. Blechman
Silicon Micromechanical Devices
Tiny valves, nozzles, pressure sensors and other mechanical systems can be chemically etched in a wafer of single-crystal silicon. Such devices can be mass-produced much as microelectronic circuits are...
By James B. Angell, Stephen C. Terry and Phillip W. Barth
The Structure of Quarks and Leptons
They have been considered the elementary particles of matter, but instead they may consist of still smaller entities confined within a volume less than a thousandth the size of a proton...
By Haim Harari
Hot Springs on the Ocean Floor
A sign of the volcanic activity that mints new oceanic crust, they nourish strange forms of life and lay down great deposits of ore. They also help to explain the chemical content of the sea...
By Karen Von Damm and John M. Edmond
A Window on the Sleeping Brain
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the phase of sleep when vivid dreams occur, is normally accompanied by paralysis. The paralysis can now be turned off in animals, making it possible to explore the REM phase...
By Adrian R. Morrison
Early Farmers of the North European Plain
Excavations in Poland have revealed the remains of the people who farmed, herded and hunted in the area some 7,000 years ago. It was a time of transition, but in the end agriculture had come to stay...
By Ryszard Grygiel and Peter Bogucki
Chemical Signals of Social Amoebae
Two cellular slime molds can coexist in the same sail and yet maintain their identity. They do so by emitting and responding to different chemicals, both of which have now been identified...
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Saints Coach Defends Signing Of Wyoming DE Carl Granderson
Rick Roddam
Rick Roddam Published: May 13, 2019
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Carl Granderson is the most controversial undrafted free agent in the NFL. After signing the embattled former Wyoming defensive end, who faces sexual assault and battery charges in Laramie this summer, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton addressed the issue at a press conference on Friday.
"We felt real comfortable with everything we knew, and so far he's done a good job here," Payton told reporters following the second day of Saints rookie minicamp.
New Orleans felt comfortable enough with Granderson to give him a guaranteed contract worth $70,000, along with a $15,000 signing bonus, the richest deal they've ever offered an undrafted free agent.
Granderson pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual battery and another count of third-degree sexual assault following an incident in November where two women alleged he inappropriately touched them without their consent.
Granderson's trial is scheduled to begin at the Albany County District Court on July 15th, just ten days before Saints players report to training camp. If convicted on both charges, he could face a maximum sentence of 16 years in prison, according to the Casper Star-Tribune.
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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, center, sits in the courtroom during a discussion about a note from the jury, during her sex trafficking trial, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)
NEW YORK — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein's palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
Maxwell, who turned 60 on Christmas, vehemently denied the charges through her lawyers.
Still, she declined to take the risk of testifying, telling the judge: "The government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt so there is no reason for me to testify."
Maxwell still awaits trial on two counts of perjury.
MINNEAPOLIS — A timeline of key events that began with George Floyd's arrest on May 25, 2020, by four police officers in Minneapolis.
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Henry St. George Tucker
Henry St. George Tucker, who served as University of Virginia law professor from 1841 to 1845, entered this role after a distinguished career as a member of Congress, state senator, superior court judge in Winchester and Clarksburg, organizer of a private law school in Winchester, and President of the Virginia Court of Appeals. He resigned from the latter position in order to teach law at the University, having declined the position in 1825. At the same meeting during which he was elected professor of law, he was also appointed chairman of the faculty. Tucker, like Lomax and Davis, had a keen sense of the responsibility that rested on his shoulders in teaching future members of the profession. In his attempts to best educate them he based his law course and his publication, Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia (1831) on Blackstone's Commentaries. During his tenure, the University began awarding graduates in the School of Law, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). The LL.B. remained in place until 1970 when the school conferred, in its place, the J.D.
Although he taught at UVA for only four years before resigning due to poor health, he left a major mark on the university by introducing the moot court system, advocating the abolishment of the mandatory uniform and early rising ordinances, as well as the introduction of the Honor System in examinations. Tucker recommended a course of study which began with natural law, followed by the law of nations, principles of government and constitutional law, and finally municipal law. Reflecting on his first year, Tucker wrote, "I have this year been very fortunate, a large proportion of my class being far above the ordinary character and talent of our young men. I am most happy in finding the greater part very diligent and attentive, and the whole very respectful, and indeed, devoted to me." Tucker died in 1848.
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The ultimate test of trust in god. I struggle with this myself. It is heart breaking when evil seems to prevail.
Many of us have suffered unthinkable acts at the hands of people who would be considered criminals if the world at large knew what they had done.
Their activities were never exposed, or if they were, had been quickly dismissed by people who should have protected us. In some cases, their turning away allowed the perpetrator to continue to dismantle our bodies, our hearts, and our minds.
There are several such people in my history. In the quiet times of their lives, do they ever think about the damage they've done? Do they even give me a second thought? For all intents and purposes, I would have to say that they do not. They go on about their happy lives, unaffected by my pain.


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A LaTeX based template for FH Vorarlberg students writing their thesis.

I've took the official layout and adapted it to my needs. This mainly
includes a purpose-driven folder structure.

This version should be used if you intend to write your thesis in `German`.
There is also an `English` version: https://github.com/lumannnn/FHV-Thesis-LaTeX-ENG

Structure
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The main layout can be changed by altering the layout/structure of
``main.tex``.

I like to have many smaller files. Therefore, I create a file for each
chapter, and name the file accordingly. Such files would be located in the
``content`` folder. ``main.tex`` includes ``content/_content`` as a  'place
holder'. ``content/_content.tex`` includes the actual smaller chapters.
This worked out pretty well since you do not have to manage one big file.
Additionally, a subfolder ``content/image`` could contain all images.
Of course, you can alter the structure as you like.

How To
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A little script helps you to build and compile the thesis. Currently, PDF
as output is supported.

This project/template is optimised for *nix systems. If you do write your
thesis on Windows, please consider to contribute (contributions are
appreciated by everyone :)).

Requirements
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The Makefile can help you to compile the thesis and create a PDF.
By default, you need to have the following software installed:

 - pdflatex
 - bibtex
 - biber

Compile your thesis
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To compile your thesis and generate a PDF, simply run:

    make pdf

This creates (if not exists) a folder ``./pdf`` and moves the PDF into that
folder. The generated PDF name and location can be change in the
``Makefile`` by changing `PROJECTNAME` or `OUT_DIR` respectively.

Any questions?
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Cosmo Sheldrake – The Moss / Solar (single) (paradYse / Transgressive Records)
Now, here's a unique little record.
The Moss, along with b-side Solar, is the forthcoming debut single from 24 year-old London-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Cosmo Sheldrake. And what a quirky little thing it is.
Topping Hype Machine late last month, The Moss had 170,000 plays in just over three weeks.
It comes as no surprise to read that over the past year Cosmo has composed music for film and theatre. The Moss has such a theatrical (read: musical theatre) feel, and fittingly Cosmo describes the track as "an ode to nonsense for its own sake".
An odd but extremely interesting little pop number, The Moss is a hard one to pigeonhole. In fact, in this one swashbuckling little ditty, you'll hear electronica, alt-folk, and Sherman Brothers-style musical theatre with some barbershop-quartet-style vocals. Yes, it's that quirky. Yet, somehow, it all fits and flows perfectly. Seafarers and non-seafarers alike, take note: this may just be one of the catchiest tunes you hear all year.
B-side, Solar is slightly less quirky. Per the press release, on Solar, Cosmo recites a verse from a William Blake poem titled I Rose Up At The Dawn Of Day. Described by Cosmo as a "hymn to the Sun", Solar is composed from recordings of the sun, taped using a technique called 'Stellar Seismology'. Other sounds featured include field recordings of Ecuadorian flutes and singing from the Central African Aka Pigmies.
Solar mixes glitchy-electronica with Bombay Bicycle Club style indie (who, incidentally, Sheldrake has shared stages with). Bizarrely, its bopping vocal melodies somehow recall Willy Wonka! Brilliant!
Though it's way to early to call, in several ways Cosmo reminds us of the eccentricity and unpredictability of Damon Albarn, who, similarly, fuses together many seemingly odd-end influences but, in the process, makes something unique and entirely his own. Cosmo Sheldrake is certainly a talent to keep an eye on.
'The Moss / Solar' will be released on 21 April, 2014 digitally as well as limited edition 7" vinyl. Pre-order the vinyl now.
Listen to The Moss below:
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Update – 28 April, 2014: watch the video for The Moss below:
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Germans salvage draw but World Cup hopes in the balance
Niclas Fullkrug's goal rescued a point against Spain but Germany's fate will be decided in the last round of group games in Qatar
Germany salvaged a late draw against Spain in their World Cup Group E clash in Qatar on Sunday, but Hansi Flick's men must now beat Costa Rica to stand any chance of reaching the knockout stages of the tournament.
Germany had appeared on course for a second successive defeat in Qatar when Alvaro Morata's smart finish at the front post on 62 minutes gave Spain the lead at Al Bayt Stadium.
But Germany roused themselves, finding the equalizer when substitute Niclas Fullkrug lashed home from inside the box with seven minutes of normal time left on the clock.
Werder Bremen striker Fullkrug, 29, only made his national team debut on the eve of the tournament, but emerged as his country's savior as Germany avoided suffering another defeat after their shock opening game loss to Japan.
Japan's own surprise defeat against Costa Rica earlier on Sunday means Group E is finely poised heading into the last round of games on Thursday.
Luis Enrique's Spain, who hammered Costa Rica 7-0 to open their campaign, top the group on four points, with Japan and Costa Rica on three, and Germany with a solitary point.
To secure passage to the last 16, the Germans must beat Costa Rica on Thursday and hope that Japan don't overcome Spain in their game.
Should Germany win and Japan draw, it would all come down to goal difference.
Germany thought they had taken the lead against Spain when Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger powered in a first-half header from a free-kick, but he was ruled offside following a VAR check.
Spain then struck 17 minutes into the second half as Morata raced onto a cross from Jordi Alba, deftly flicking the ball beyond Manuel Neuer in the German goal with the outside of his boot.
Fullkrug was introduced for the ineffective Thomas Muller in the 70th minute, and went on to make the difference, storming into the box and taking the ball from teammate Jamal Musiala before hammering it high beyond Unai Simon and into the far corner.
Germany have won just one of their five World Cup matches since lifting a fourth title in Brazil in 2014, but they can at least breathe a sigh of relief that their chances are still alive in Qatar - only just.


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According to court documents, Google sent more than $23 million (€20.3 million) and Facebook nearly $100 million (€88m) to bank accounts he controlled.


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Display things that occur over time. Show how your resources (people or things) are being used over time.
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Vary the size and color of the squares. Using a measure on the size or color of the squares will add more depth to your visualization.
Use other shapes. Change things up on your visualization. Sometimes shapes other than squares can be more meaningful to your audience.
Figure 2: On this dashboard we can see the sales and profit of our Member Types by Age. The size of each box represents the totals sales. The color and the intensity represents the profit, with shades of red indicating losses. We can see we have a large amount of sales and profit coming from our 65+ age group. At the same time, we can see that sales to members aged 26-35 are unprofitable across all member types. This is a great starting point for further analysis on the health and performance of membership programs.
In the next installment, we'll discuss some additional advanced visualizations – the highlight table and tree map.


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Sculpture 3D printed from natural materials invites sleepovers in Frankfurt
By Bridget Borgobello
Sculpture 3D printed from natu...
"The House of Dust" will be one of 10 temporary livable sculptures featured at the Museum Wiesbaden's tinyBE exhibition in Frankfurt
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"The House of Dust" utilizes WASP's advanced 3D-printing crane technology
3D-printing company WASP, in collaboration with artist Alison Knowles, has completed the printing stage of the world's first 3D-printed livable sculpture
The artwork involved 50 hours of printing, 500 lines of machine code and using 165 layers of natural material
The 16-sq-m (172-sq-ft) sculpture will measure 2.5 m (8.2 ft) high and is designed for two occupants to sleep overnight
The natural materials used to complete the structure include waste from the agri-food chain and raw earth
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Italian 3D-printing company WASP, in collaboration with artist Alison Knowles, has completed the printing stage of the world's first 3D-printed livable sculpture. Utilizing WASP's advanced 3D-printing crane technology, which was behind the TECLA 3D-printed eco-home, the artwork entitled "The House of Dust" will be one of 10 temporary sculptures featured at the Museum of Wiesbaden's tinyBE : Living in a sculpture exhibition, which will run until late September.
The House of Dust is an evolving artwork that was initiated by Knowles in 1967, when she put a Siemens 4004 computer to work writing its own poem by "working through iterations of verses with words changing from a finite word list." The computer-generated poem was subsequently realized as a physical structure in 1968, first in Chelsea, New York, and later at Cal Arts in Burbank, California.
Knowles has chosen to repurpose her masterpiece by making use of 3D-printing technology to construct a new physical sculpture made from natural materials. The 16-sq-m (172-sq-ft) sculpture will measure 2.5 m (8.2 ft) high and is designed for two occupants to sleep overnight.
The artwork involved 50 hours of printing and 500 lines of machine code, and some 15 km (9.3 miles) or 8 cubic meters (282.5 cu ft) of extruded natural material over 165 layers at 15 mm (0.6 in) thick. That natural material is made up from waste from the agri-food chain and raw earth.
"My sculpture is the most contemporary iteration of The House of Dust," says artist Alison Knowles. "Generated by a computer as a poem in 1967, it was coded in Fortran IV on a mainframe computer as one of the first computer-generated poems and an early form of artificial intelligence… The building process is an opportunity to realize the structure in an on-site intermedia-action-event. While the poem is printed and read, it meets up with a three-dimensional structure also being printed by computer. The House of Dust has been waiting for this technical breakthrough implied by poem's focus."
An additional nine temporary livable sculptures by international artists will also be on display in the Frankfurt metropolitan region during the tinyBE exhibition, which runs until September 26.
Guests have the option of booking either a day or night experience within the sculptures through the tinyBE website. The day experiences can accommodate a maximum of two people per structure from 2 pm to 4 pm, at a ticket price of €166 (~US$195) per couple. The overnight experiences are available from 7 pm to 10 am, costing €364 ($430) per couple.
"The transformation of ways of living and working in a world influenced by globalization, digitization and climate change is one of the central themes of our time," says WASP. "Sleeping one night inside the The House of Dust sculpture opens the mind to new forms of living."
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"Sleeping one night...opens the mind..." At $29/hr for only a bed? $97.50/hr what? It sure opens the wallet of suckers.
What was the formula for the building material? The insulation value, energy and sound? The oder? Why wasn't the foundation of the same material?
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Great tips, Laurie! I stretch in my swim-spa. I have some nerve damage in my pelvis, so the water really helps with getting exercise that doesn't hurt, and the stretches are easier in the water, too!
Until we do it again, it is so easy to forget how nice it feels to soak in Epson salts! I always have a bag on hand to soothe those aches and pains we can get so easily as we mature!!
I think one of the very best things we can do for our body, skin, and overall health is drink water, water, water!! I always have a big mug of water with me (and next to me) day and night! I often use the giant mugs you get as a patient at a hospital! They have a cover, a straw (smile when you sip — helps with those lip lines), and a handle [I have tiny little hands, so I have to have a handle otherwise I'd have to use 2 hands to hold a big mug, just like a little kid!!].
I actually set z glass of lemon water at my bedside in the evening and drink it the nest morning.
Going gluten free has but an end to our leaky gut and has changed my husbands lupus inflammation like crazy. He's doing so much better since going GF. I take magnesium every day and that helps me. I get it that way instead of Epsom salts. I don't like baths. I'll think about dry brushing. I had a bad arm burn and I can't scrub that arm until,the dermis gets thicker. Oh and also probiotics.
Thank you for the information! I got a good laugh out of your exercising with your husband. Our family tried doing Pilates in our living room. Lol!! My husband and daughter were behind me making noises like they were working out, but when I looked back they weren't. My husband tried to stretch his legs and I went over to help him open up. He let out a hell and said that I almost broke him apart!! We all laughed more than working out!!
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Q: Change items on  tag after a change on input. with javascript (innerhtml) and innerhtml with php I have this part of my page.
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The selectbox(GROUPS)has more options under it. It has a query that depends on a field(grpID) with prefixes of A.Y. For example:
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yeah this is quite a long kind of ID but please excuse me for that (school kind of project, so needs academic year for primary key purposes). The problem here is that when the yr1 changes its value, I want the select box to change as well. I want it to requery like "Select * from table1 where ID like '%'.$yr1.$yr2.'%'"
yeah its a php code but I am currently under a javascript function(when yr1 changes) where I go like:
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Revered and reviled German media tycoon Axel Springer, whose empire encompasses major opinion-making papers Bild and Die Welt, would have turned 100 on Wednesday, prompting praise and condemnation.
As one of his biggest rivals, Der Spiegel publisher Rudolf Augstein, once said, "No other man in Germany, before Hitler or since Hitler, has accumulated so much power, with the exception of Bismarck and the two Kaisers."
That might be why major politicians queued up on Wednesday to pay tribute to - or condemn - the huge influence that Springer has exerted on Germany's post-war media landscape, even after his death in 1985.
A number of leading German politicians, business people and celebrities were expected to join celebrations at his publishing house headquarters on Wednesday.
"In Axel Springer, the basic values of the young democracy – freedom, the rule of law, the rejection of any form of totalitarianism, and the social market economy – had a staunch defender," Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote in an official statement.
Springer was born in Hamburg, starting as an apprentice publisher and compositor at his father's small publishing house, before working as a journalist for the local Altonaer Nachrichten from 1934.
The foundation for his German media empire was laid after the war, when he published the lifestyle and listings magazine Hörzu in 1946. His first daily newspaper was the Hamburger Abendblatt, followed by his flagship Bild in 1952.
It was this paper, which outstripped the British dailies it was modelled on and now has the world's biggest newspaper circulation outside Japan, that earned him both the greatest success and the most enemies.
Bild became a focus of animosity during the students' movement in the 1960s, when critics accused Springer of deliberately steering public opinion against the opposition movement.
Both Springer House buildings and his private homes became the target of bomb and arson attacks. Tensions rose further when student leader Rudi Dutschke was assassinated, and many still believe his killer was incited by Springer's portrayal of the left-wing activist.
Green Party parliamentarian Hans-Christian Ströbele, veteran of the 1968 movement, told German broadcaster Deutschlandradio on Wednesday that Springer was responsible for making the opposition movement hated throughout the country. "When I think back now, the old anger and outrage rises in me," he said.
But in paying tribute, Merkel was joined by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who honoured Springer's "commitment" to German reunification. Israeli President Shimon Peres also chimed in, saying that Israel saw Springer as a "friend and champion."


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Fire Make Thunder
OSI are extremely tough to nail down, and that's not just because they seem to have ins with every major progressive band in the books. Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore, the only two actual members of the band, come from such Fates Warning and Dream Theater respectively, and their guest musicians over their career have included names like Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree), and Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) to name a few. With talents like that behind the music, you'd probably expect their work on 2012's Fire Make Thunder to be almost impenetrably complex.
And that's what's most surprising (and rewarding) about OSI: they're musically interesting while still being accessibly easy to listen to. In fact, Matheos and Moore seem to shy away from superfluous displays of musicianship almost entirely. As a result, the progressive elements on Fire Make Thunder are very subdued; you wouldn't even be able to tell they're jamming out in 7/4 on "Guards" and "Enemy Prayers" unless you were paying close attention. It gives the album an unexpectedly chilled-out and laid-back sound. It doesn't sound like the band are restraining anything or are playing sloppily, though. What it does sound like they're purposefully trying to keep everything unnecessary out of the music in favour of artful simplicity and sleekness.
And let me tell you, the music is very, very slick. The main riffs to "Big Chief II" and the instrumental "Enemy Prayers" in particular are perfect examples of how to make a very simple melodic idea go a long way stylistically, and the epic closer "Invisible Men" also has some pretty righteous jams in its ten-minute span (yes, I still use 'righteous' unironically). And these aren't the only moments; every song on the album has something rewarding to offer, without exception. There are no weak tracks.
Speaking of weaknesses, it is clear from listening to the album Kevin Moore's vocal ability and range is limited. However, it seems he's not only aware of the fact, but that he also makes the best possible use of it he can while knowing his own limitations. As a result, the vocals on Fire Make Thunder are almost monotone, but artfully so; rather than trying to force himself into wild expressive ranges, he pulls off this cool, nonchalant variety of singing that sounds apropriate with the rest of the album's slick polish. Some of the lighter pieces like "Indian Curse", "For Nothing" and "Wind Won't Howl" do feel like they could use some vocals with more expressive ability to match their delicate natures, but that's a somewhat minor complaint. In addition, the lyrics aren't particularly interesting, but they fit the generally understated tone of the album with their simplicity quite well.
And, naturally, given the calibre of the talent behind this album, there are naturally a few spontaneous displays of musicianship peppered sporadically throughout the album. Matheos in particular makes his moment on "Enemy Prayers" worth it by busting out into one of his best solos, and Harrison's guest drumming also has some subtle flair to it on tracks like "Guards".
Basically, this album is the perfect example of how to do a lot with a little. Everything about Fire Make Thunder is extremely minimalist but with artful intention, and the result is surprisingly satisfying. Definitely give this a listen.
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The other thing I'm loving about the plan is the variety of treatments available to me. I've now tried microdermabrasion, and as of this week – sonophoresis infusion.
Caci's website bills sonophoresis as a safe non-invasive treatment, which is suitable for almost all skin types. Resulting in reduced redness, smoother skin tone and texture. The treatment uses sound waves (ultrasound) to infuse active skincare ingredients deeper into the skin.
The science behind it is really fascinating! The sound waves 'open up' the tiny channels in your skin, allowing the active ingredients in a high potency serum to penetrate more deeply and do their work. In fact, I read somewhere that sonophoresis can increase penetration by 800%. Sheesh! Impressive.
Georgia then used the sonophoresis machine on my face along with the serum she had picked out for me. This, my friends, was an interesting experience.
Imagine R2D2 inside your head. That's pretty much what the machine feels/sounds like! It's pretty weird. However it's not painful in any way, and I'm down with doing some pretty weird stuff to my face in the pursuit of nice skin! (Peel off charcoal masks that make me look like an insane devil – I'm looking at you).
The whole process only took half an hour and was very relaxing overall. I liked that I didn't leave the clinic looking reddish like I do when I've had a microdermabrasion. I just looked refreshed, and a bit like 'a lady who lunches' – or as I like to call it 'the rich person glow'. Haha!
Initially, my skin felt super soft and plump – which is always a great thing! However, the biggest results came a few days later. I found that after about two or three days, my skin looked a lot clearer and brighter. But the BEST thing I noticed was my acne scarring and clogged chin pores are looking so much better! This is actually huge for me – my chin area is something I'm most self-conscious about, so this is a big win for me. I am very much looking forward to another sonophoresis infusion in the near future!
Can I believe in feminist values and still love makeup?
Thanks Marie! It's a pretty weird thing, but it does seem to work!


"August 22-31, 2012 -- Boochbeard the Pirate makes a special appearance in the Pirate101 Beta and offers a quest to advance characters to level 15 automatically, so our players could get a jump start on testing higher level content."... I would cry as we sailed the skies in the Tierra Primata skyway, home of Monquista City. Little did I know when the Monquistadors sent me on a mission outside their home skies, they would present me with my own galleon with which to undertake!
The infamous prison of Zenda stands on a barren rock hanging in Tierra Primata Skyway the heartlands of Monquista.
"August 22-31, 2012 -- Boochbeard the Pirate makes a special appearance in the Pirate101 Beta and offers a quest to advance characters to level 15 automatically, so our players could get a jump start on testing higher level content."
Two weeks in to Pirate101′s launch, my character is level 15 (swashbuckler) and has completed the Skull Island Skyway, the Flotsam Skyway, most of the Tradewinds Skyway and most of the Tierra Primata Skyway. The Skyways are the individual zones of Pirate101.
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